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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1894. 3 WANT A PEST HOUSE The Board of Trade Governors Urge Its Immediate Necessity. Partial Report of the Delegates to the Recent Meeting of the National Board -The Belt Railway Bonds. The Board of Trade governors met in regular monthly session last night, the first business of evening being the report of the committee on membership. The deaths of Joseph H.

Shreve, of Indianapolis, and John Higgens, of Thorntown, were reported and an assessment of $4 was ordered against each surviving member as a mortuary benefit. The applications of Thomas H. McLean, E. W. Bassett and Fred J.

Meyer were reponted upon and the gentlemen were duly members of the body. The special committee appointed to secure the circulation of catalogues advertising the business interests of Indianapolis announced that the work had been completed by the printer. Twelve thousand of circulars are in the hands of the secretary for distribution. The form of circular is similar to that gotten out by the Board of Trade in 1889. On motion of George W.

Sloan the following resolution was prepared and adopted relative to the establishment of a pest house: Whereas, health commissioners of this city and "the physicians of Marion county have requested the County Commissioners to make an appropriation of sufficient sum to build a suitable hospital for contagious diseases, and Whereas, There is urgent demand by the public and a necessity for the erection of such a building, therefore be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this Board of Trade that the request be at once complied with. The members of the organization present warmly advocated the plan as proposed in the resolution. Mayor Denny stated that the city had already agreed to manage the hospital if the county would provide it. It was thought that the building ought to be erected on the site of the old pest house. A copy of the resolution will be forwarded to the commissioners at once The secretary was in receipt of a communication from the secretary of the Westchester Hospital of New York, asking the co-operation of the Indianapolis Board of Trade in pushing the "Cummings bill," now before Congress, to a speedy passage.

The bill provides for a prohibitory measure affecting the treatment of live stock while being transported across the sea. It was charged in the communication that dumb brutes brought from England to the United States are subjected to neglect and abuse. The scheme of the writer was to establish a quarantine congress, for which an appropriation of $50,000 was recently made. The matter was discussed, but not disposed of, several members of the board suggesting that the plan was doubtless being agitated for the purpose of creating some new and profitable government offices. Mayor Denny, who with D.

P. Erwin attended the meeting of the National Board of Trade, which convened in Washington last month, made a partial report of the deliberations of that body. The IndianapoIs delegates fought the bankruptcy bill, and, in fact, opposed all such legislation except that which applied to debts owing at the date of the passage of the act. Mr. Erwin was elected one of the vice presidents of the national organization.

The question of the disposition of the Belt railway bonds, $500,000 worth of which are owned by the city, was brought up. One or two of the members proposed that the bonds be sold at a sum sufficient to retire the city bonds. The plan was declared untenable by the Mayor and one or two attorneys present. AMUSEMENTS. Albini Entertainers." There will be a splendid opportunity for the public to obtain a fair idea at popular prices of what a first-class variety show is by going to see the collection of specialists, all good in their way, that opened the Grand last night for a week's engagement.

On account of the temporary injunction granted yesterday prohibiting the company from giving a performance under the name of "Williams's Meteors," it was somewhat of a surprise to see the house almost packed. The promise of a pleasing vaudeville show, pruned objectionable features, was evidently the drawing power. There were eleven separate acts on the programme, and all were presented in a way that none could take offense. There was applause until the interior of the Grand rang with the echoes, which is, perhaps, evidence that the entertainers were giving "value received." The American jaggler, De Camo, led off with a number of confusing tricks that were entirely new here and would puzzle the best to explain. Minnie McEvoy, called the "Celtic Queen" followed with songs in a rich native voice that demanded encores.

The Australian, Horwitz, had an original and captivating act of singing and recitation that stamped him another favorite. The twin Gloss brothers gave a brilliant series of statuary poses of ancient and modern athletes, ending with a daring performance on the parallel bars that gave them an opportunity of showing great feats of strength and agility. Nellie Maguire, the next performer, displayed no little ability in rendering characteristic London Music Hall songs of the costermenger variety. Her take-off on the "London tough" was greatly appreciated. Those society women who have recently been making a fad of the costermonger songs could gain valuable points from Miss Maguire's selections.

John Thorne and Grace Carleton had a dual act of songs and badinage of distinctly vaudeville flavor, that proved highly entertaining without being coarse. Later they gave a roaring skit, entitled "The Senator," that was almost one continuous laugh. MoEvory and Doyle gave a specialty in fresh Irish comedy and dancing, followed by Albini, with his celebrated card tricks, more novel than anything Herman ever did in that line. The McCoy sisters, lately of Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown," are called "juvenile rivals of the only Lottie Collins. They sustained their woll-earned reputation.

The performance closed with acrobatic feats of the Bedouin Arabs, who were seen with Buffalo Bill's Wild West.at Chicago. Black Flag." The two big audiences at the Park Thea- ter yesterday afternoon and last night furnished ample evidence that Petit's sensational melodrama, "The Black Flag," has not lost any of its popularity in this city. The house was full to the doors both performances and the play was received with enthusiastic demonstrations of favor. The drama is admirably staged, and the company presenting it is a superior one in every respect. Mr.

Robert Wayne, as Harry Glyndon, the victim of his wicked brother, plays the part in a manly and intelligent manner, especially in the heroic scenes, while Mrs. Wayne, as Naomi Bradford, the hero's sweetheart, displays considerable talent in a rather difficult character. Charles Harn, as Sam Lazarus, a role once played by Nat Goodwin, is particularly clever as a rough comedian and kept the audience in a Jolly good humor by his work. W. F.

Canfield, as the villain, John Glyndon, did his part in capital style and won the hearty dislike of the the audience at once. did The what other was required members of company them in a satisfactory manner. The specialties introduced were good, and, as a whole, the performance of "The Black Flag" is about the best that has been given of it since it was played in the high-priced houses. The engagement will continue until to-morrow night. "The Diamond Break- er" will follow.

The First Montefore Lecture. Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia, will lecture to-night at Plymouth Church, his subject being "Only a Jew." This is the first number of the Monteflore lecture course, the earnings, of which will be devoted to charity. Dr. Krauskopf is one of the most. prominent of American rabbis, an eloquent speaker and a broad-minded man.

His lecture has been received elsewhere with much favor, and his hearers have expressed their gratitude for the new information received. The reserve sale is now on at Baldwin's music store. Admission. including reserved seats, 25 cents. Amusement Notes.

One of Carl Rosenfeld's mechanical inventions that will be introduced in the Liliputians' production of their new spectacular piece, "A Trip to Mars," at English's Thursdav night and for the remainder of the week, created something of a sensation when it was first used. It is called the "flying heads," and is a very perfect illusion. The magic surprise occurs when all the Liliputians are on the stage. Suddenly they disappear and a moment later the real heads of will be seen flying through the air singing a topical song. Apparently the heads will not be supported and the effect is said to be a remarkable one.

The sale of seats began yesterday and was good. W. E. Wheeler, manager of "A Flag of which comes to English's Monday night, is in the city. A THEATRICAL "SCRAP." Judge Bartholomew Enjoins the Use of the Name "Meteors." Late yesterday evening Judge Bartholomew was called upon to issue a temporary order restraining Herbert L.

Albini, manager of Albini's "London Empire Entertainers," from appearing at the Grand Opera House. The suit was filed by attorney Pierce Norton and Rankin D. Jones, of Cincinnati, who represented Harry W. Williams. The latter has a theatrical attraction, known as Williams's "Meteors," which is to appear at the Empire Theater in April.

Williams's attorneys alleged that Albini has been using the name of their client in advertising his attraction. The defendant denied the allegation, but admitted that he had posted the word "meteors" by the consent of Williams. Judge Bartholomew heard the evidence in the case, and announced that he would temporarily enjoin the defendant from giving his entertainment under the advertising line complained of. There was no attempt to interfere with the performance, the injunction having reference name of the attraction. The objectionabie name has not been used for several days and the performance has been given under a different one.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. It Will Probably Be Held Before the State Gathering. Chairman Moores will to-day or to-morrow issue a call for a meeting of the Itepublican county committee next Saturday evening. The chief business of the meeting will be to fix a date for the county convention, and as the sentiment of the committee is said to be decidedly in favor of having it before the State, convention, it is quite likely that an date will be set, probably about April 20. Last.

Saturday afternoon the candidates for county offices held a consultation to express their sentiment on the question, and by a slight majority voted in favor of having the county before the State convention. Republican Clubs. The East-end Republican Club will meet at East Washington street, over Austin's grocery, this evening. The club is increasing its membership at a rapid rate, and before another month the list is expected to reach two hundred. Candidates are cordially invited to attend the meetings.

Ninth ward Republicans will meet tostreet, between English avenue and Fletchmorrow evening, at 7:30 o'clock, on Dillon er, to organize a Lincoln League, at 1 the old carpenter shop. Candidate for Commissioner. Mr. C. H.

Minnemeyer, a prominent and well-known farmer of Wayne township, is a candidate for County Commissioner on the Republican ticket. The Republicans of Wayne township are well organized and enthusiastic, and will make a good showing in the coming election. CITY NEWS NOTES. new horses will be purchased Thursday for use in the fire department. A building permit was issued yesterday to the Home Lumber Company for an addition to 460 East Michigan street to cost $100.

The ladies afothe W. C. T. U. will open the Rescue at No.

57 East South street to-morrow afternoon to the friends of the institution. The Society of Hygiene holds a parlor talk on the first Wednesday in each month, at 3 at the residence of Dr. Rachel Swain, No. 334 North New Jersey street. Subject for to-morrow: "Physical Hygiene." The report in yesterday's edition of the Journal that a number of pairs of trousers had been stolen from the Bethany M.

E. Church (colored) during the baptism proves erroneous. Several pairs had been misplaced, and this grew into the story that they had been stolen. The clothing was all found in the course of time. The Stone Masons' Helpers' Union was organized at the Labor Signal office Sunday evening by T.

M. Gruelle, general organizer of the American Federation. All the helpers in the city are members of the new union. John McGregor and William Langstaff addressed the meeting on the subject of organization, and contractor Webb gave them wholesome advice. The union starts out in splendid condition.

Will He Get the Money? Within a few days the Supreme Court will settle once and for all the question as to whether 'the Attorney-general shall receive from funds appropriated for school purposes between $20,000 and $30,000 for collecting the same from the school trustees to be turned back into the treasury for redistribution. The act, the validity of which is in dispute, is one enacted by the last Legislature requiring school corporations which do not expend the total amount of the tuition revenue apportioned to them to turn back to the county treasurer all of the unexpended sum over $100. After the enactment of the law the Attorney-general began sending out collectors to collect this money, and it then developed that under the general laws the Attorney-general was entitled to a commission of per cent. on all moneys collected. The amount of this unexpected balance in tne tuition revenue throughout the State amounts to many thousands of dollars, and the revenue to be derived by the Attorney-general upon its collection amounts to a snug little sum.

The act which is now being contested passed both Houses by a large vote, but under the subsequent development many of the rural members are inclined to believe that they were victimized into making a law for the benefit of Greene Smith. Fifteen Pensioners Arrested. Pension day causes extra work not alone for Pension Agent Ensley and his assistants but for the police as well. There are a certain number of pensioners who after drawing their money insist on seeing the town, during which time great quantities of stimulants are taken. This.

therefore, causes a large amount of extra. work on the part of the police. All yesterday afternoon and up to midnight last night the wagon was continually in demand. In all, there were just fifteen of the pensioners who were given the protection of the sheltering walls of the police station last night. Most of them when arrested had not a penny.

The money had all been spent for liquor. Several persons were arrested on suspicion of having tried to work "games" on the pensioners, Important Fence Decision. A. decision given by the general term of the Superior Court in the case of W. P.

Maine vs. the Cleaveland Fence Company involves some important questions. The Cleaveland Fence Company filed a lien on the property of W. P. Maine at Lincoln Park to recover $36.60, the contract price of a fence erected.

When suit was brought to enforce the lien Judge Taylor held good 3. demurrer. Yesterday the general term reversed the decision. Judge Bartholomew, in writing the opinion, concludes that a fence is a structure under the mechanic's lein law of the State, and that a mechanic, contractor or laborer who furnishes the material or does labor in the erection thereof is entitled to the benefit of the provisions of the law. Held Them Equally Liable.

The general term of the Superior Court yesterday affirmed the decision of the lower courts in the suits of Williams vs. Center township, Adam vs. Gold and the Board of School Commissioners vs. Center township. The court held that the school corporation was equally liable for the debts upon three schoolhouses built by the township, and to which the city had acquired title by annexation.

Provided Quarters for Them. Col. A. D. Shaw has granted te the Republicans of the First and Second wards the use of a large storeroom at No.

460 Massachusetts avenue, rent free, for two months. The storeroom is sixty by twenty feet, and furnishes commodious quarters for the Republican clubs recently organized in these wards. The prudent always have Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup on hand. It is invaluable.

HAS SOLD ITS BONDS West Indianapolis Gets a Healthy Premium for Them. Will Have the $20,000 Within Two Weeks--The Citizens Determined to Change the Town to a City. At the meeting of the West Indianapolis Town Board last night bids were read and discussed for the furnishing of $20,000 to the town to be issued in bonds. The board is noted for its capacity for doing nothing in an all-night session, and the meeting last night was no exception. Bids were read from twelve different companies, some of whom are located in New York, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago.

The bids were read shortly after 8 o'clock, and three hours were then consumed by the board in deciding whose bid to accept. During this period of thinking, someone turned on the gas and disappeared with the key. Then an unfeeling wretch, unnoticed, put some red pepper on the stove. The result can be imagined. The board was so incensed by this that they ordered the marshal to investigate the matter, arrest the offender and the town would prosecute him.

Between 11 and 12 o'clock the board announced that they had decided to accept the bid of Gay Stanwood. This company offered a premium of $1,591, and its representative will deposit $1,000 to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with the town officials as an evidence of good faith on the part of his company. The chief point was the question of allowing the condition as to the legality of the bonds to remain in the bids. After much discussion this condition was allowed to he included in the accepted bid. Gay Star wood guarantee that it will not be two weeks before the money will have been handed over to the town's treasurer, and after that time the board meetings will be spent in receiving and allowing bills of several months' accumulation.

A petition was presented to the board asking that necessary steps be taken to incorporate the town into a city. At the head of this movement are Si Clark and W. J. Shinn, both representative of the two political parties. These gentlemen have seen that the petition was made known to the voters of the town, and 570 names have been signed.

The law requires that onethird of the voters shall sign a petition before presenting it to the Town Board. There are but a small number over 1,100 voters in the suburb, and the board was so impressed by the great number that signed the petition that a special meeting will be held this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, to consider the matter. Another phase of the question is that a number of citizens of Haughville and Mount Jackson have been agitating the question of forming one city of the three suburbs west of the river. This would make a city with a population of over twelve thousand inhabitants. If the Town Board fails to place the petition on file there is no doubt but that this lastnamed proposition will receive hearty approval at the hands of West Indianapolis citizens who are determined to drop the life of a town for that of a city, no matter what the cost may be.

FURY OF A MOB. (Concluded from First Page.) terian Church, mounted a wagon bed on the public square and talked to the mob for some time, counseling forbearance on their part, and advising them of their duties as good citizens to see the law carried out. Although the mob respected the minister, the members were still in little mood to give heed to his words. The sentiment for lynching was too strong. BACK TO INDIANAPOLIS.

The information was not given out concerning the exact hour of Hall's departure for the penitentiary, although the impression was allowed to spread that he would be taken in the evening by way of the Monon route. The real intent of the sheriff was to take him to Indianapolis, keep him in jail over night, and send him with a deputy to Michigan 'City next day. Officers of the court were sent out among the leading business men of the place, asking that they come to the court room and be sworn in as special deputies to guard the prisoner to the train. Twenty or thirty responded, and ten minutes before 5 o'clock the new posse started for the Eig Four station. The mob had not dispersed, nor had it diminished in numbers, aid when the posse left the courthouse excitement began to run high again.

The little group of men, forming a holiow square, with linked arms keep the square intact, was followed to the station by a jeering crowd of fully one thousand. The square swayed several times, and, bad it broken, there is no doubt that Hall would have been the center of anther scramble and fight for his life. The train had not pulled up to the station when the thousand or more people gathered about the little orange-colored structure, and cries of "Hang him" began to go up again. A few had taken occasion to brace themselves with liquor, and the liquor was responsible for a great deal of wild talk. Suddenly there was a commotion in the center of the crowd, and an effort was made to break through to the prisoner, but the good business men of Lebanon held fast, determined that their town should not be disgraced by further riotous proceedings.

This attempt to secure Hall was abortive. The cry of "Hang him" was changed to "Here she comes," and the tiny light of the locomotive was seen far down the track to the westward. It was the train for Indianapolis. The engineer slacked the speed of the train considerably before approaching the station, so dense was the crowd on the track. It had been decided to send the entire posse as far as Zionsville, for it had been currently reported in Lebanon that should an attempt be made to take Hall to Indianapolis the train would be stopped at Whitestown, the negro taken from it and strung up to the nearest tree.

The train, as it left Lebanon, was jeered. There was no exciting incidents during the trip to Indianapolis further than at Whitestown a few roughs attempted to force open a door of the car. Meeting resistance, they backed off the car platform. Shortly after 6 o'clock the train reached Indianapolis, and the sheriff and his prisoner took a carriage for the jail. At midnight Sheriff Troutman returned to Lebanon.

Hall will be taken north 1 -morrow from the Marion county jail by a Boone county deputy sheriff. HALL IDENTIFIED. Pointed Out by Mrs. Akers and Her Son-Scenes During the Morning. Sheriff Trautman and his prisoner left Indianapolis at 7:10 yesterday morning for Lebanon.

A Journal reporter accompanied them. The negro did not seem to realize the heinousness of the crime with which he was charged, and he displayed no nervousness at being taken back to the Lebanon jail, from whence he had been removed for fear of mob violence. The sheriff was the more apprehensive of the two, and he glanced out of the car window with much concern when the train drew up at Lebanon a few minutes after 8 o'clock. It was too early, he thought, for any demonstrations, but he swiftly crossed tue station platform with his prisoner and jumped into a hack that was in waiting. The hack was rapidly 'driven to the jail, and Hall was placed in the cell room with the other prisoners.

The farmers had not yet come to town. Bv 9 o'clock the big farm wagons began to appear in line about the public square, and little groups began to form on the corners. There was not much talk about the assault on Mrs. Akers. At half-past 9 o'clock Mrs.

Akers, with her brothers, William and John Eisenhauer, came in to attend the preliminary hearing, which was to have been held before Mayor J. O. Pedigo in a little one-story frame that answered for a city building. At that hour Prosecuting Attorney Dutch did not think there re was much danger of a lynching, and the examination would have been held then before the Mayor had it not been necessary for Marshal Odin to go out near the scene of Saturday night's crime and bring in Levi Hall, the stepfather of the prisoner. When the marshal drove back to town a big crowd of farmers followed him, and at 11 o'clock there were six hundred or more standing around threatening to storm the jail and kill the man who had committed so villainous a crime.

Mrs. Akers, with her brothers and bi were giving evidence in Mr. Dutch's office. The prosecuting attorney, desiring to have the man thoroughly identified, asked that four or five of the town negroes be placed in the same cell with Hall. Mr.

Dutch proposed to take Mrs. Akers's little son to the jail to see if he could identify the man who assaulted his mother. The boy was somewhat timid, but finally consented to go to the jail, which is at the corner of Meridian and Washington streets, and which locality is as central in Lebanon as the correspondingly-named intersection is in Indianapolis. The boy walked down the corridor of the jail till he came to the cell in which Hall was crouching on a bunk. The boy refused to go further, and when questioned, said that Hall was the man who SO grievously wronged his mother.

There were no other negroes in the cell. Afterwards Mrs. Akers went over and identified the man, remarking: "That is the scoundrel who did it." Mr. Dutch now thought it inadvisable to hold the preliminary examination in any place other than in the jail, but Mrs. Akers insisted that Hall be brought out for preliminary hearing.

Her neighbors said she would not go to the jail, and added that Mrs. Akers wanted the negro to be taken through the streets in order that the farmers might have an opportunity to hang him. James Williams, a well-to-do farmer, and a relative of Mrs. Akers, was making speeches to the crowd down on the corner near the city building. He urged the men to go with him to the jail.

Tears came to his eyes as he related the wrong to which Mrs. Akers had been subjected. "That woman," said he, "has been a patient little woman, and she has had a heap of trouble. She has been living on that place with her five children and bothering no one. After her first husband died she went to work and earned enough money to pay the expenses of his funeral.

You men who have wives and sisters ought to know what a terrible thing it is to have a woman assaulted in this way. And now they want to drag her into court and make her tell over again that story, which no woman wants to tell before a whole lot of people." His hearers all agreed with him. There seemed to be but one sentiment, and that was for lynching the negro. It was not the young men who were urging this lawless course, but rather the elderly men, whose hair was gray and white. The young men stood more in the background, ready to follow instead of lead.

Before noon a march was made to the jail, but at the jail fence the crowd halted. The sheriff came out of one of the entrances and locked the door behind him. A man was about to take a spring mattress into the jail, but the sheriff headed him off, telling him that the jail was to be closed for the day. The marshal and one of the night watchmen came over and joined the crowd. The threats became loud and numerous.

All the mob needed was a leader; no one apparently wanted to be the first to demand the keys from the sheriff. Mr. Dutch saw the trend of affairs, and from the jail steps he made a speech asking that the mob disperse, as the family of the sheriff and the family living on the opposite corner were ill, and the noise and excitement might bring about serious results to some of those who were not well. The mob fell back, but did not disperse. Very few of the farmers ate dinner at the noon hour, preferring to stand about the corners to discuss the prospects of an assault on the jail.

The morning had been bitterly cold, but the sun shone brightly at noon, and there was a faint warmth in the air. Mr. Dutch decided to file an affidavit against Hall in the Circuit Court, and have him arraigned at 2 o'clock. About half past 12 Hall admitted to the prosecuting attorney that he had assaulted Mrs. Akers.

He also expressed a willingness, so Mr. Dutch states, to enter a plea of guilty and take the maximum penalty of the law for such -twenty-one years in prison. He was afraid that he would be taken from jail and summarily executed. PUBLIC SENTIMENT. Judge Lynch Encouraged by Light Punishment of Crimes.

excitement. Hall's Crime. The crime for which Hall was sentenced A visitor to Lebanon during the excitement would have readily concluded that there was no opposition whatever to the lawless course proposed. There is an opinion among no inconsiderable number of good people in Lebanon that the administration of justice in criminal cases is by no means what it should be. It is clained that a younger man would be much better for the bench, Judge Neal's opponents claiming that the sentiment in favor of lynch law in Hall's case was largely augmented by the trend of opinion and decisions from the Circuit Court in criminal cases.

It is claimed that one man was recently given one day in jail, fined 1 cent and disfranchised for thirty days (no election occurring during that time) for beg stealing, while a man who stole a turkey was given thirty days in jail. The men were of opposite political faith. There has never been a hanging in Boone county. A number of criminal cases have been carried in the last few years to Boone county from Marion county by changes of venue. In these cases, it is insisted, the punishment has been light.

It is further reported that the court takes too much of a part in interfering with the prosecuting attorney's proper performance of duty. A few of the people thought it was a travesty on American justice to "yank" 2 man out of the hands of a mob and sentence him within two minutes after he had been rescued, when the prisoner knew tha: If he did not plead guilty he would be strung up by the mob. It was a case of self-preservation with him to plead guilty. although it is conceded that the evidence against him is very strong, and, as Mr. Dutch states, he confessed the crime.

was very glad to escape with his life. The trial of special officer John D. Oaks, who is charged with killing James Pitts, during the boiler makers' strike at Indianola, last year, comes up to-day before Judge Neal. Oaks has been given extra quarters at the jail, and from his col! window saw the entire proceedings in the courthouse yard. Mr.

Urmston, of Indianapolis, was petitioning for a receivership before Judge Neal when the shouts on the outside announced that the mob had Hall. Court was promptly adjourned, but later in the day his petition was granted. Several Indianapolis traveling men were in Lebanon during the mob's fury, and they had to content themselves with watching the movements of the crowd, it being impossible to solicit business with all the was committed before midnight last Saturday, four east of Lebanon. Mrs. Akers as awakened about that time by a negro, who told her that he had brought out one of her nieces from town in a hack.

She was suspicious and refused to open the door wide. He forced the door open, assaulted her, and then left the house. She dressed herself and then ran over to the home of a relative, a mile away, and informed him of what been done by the negro. She said the negro was Frank Hall, who lived a short distance from her house. She knew Hall, and had recognized him by the light of the lamp.

A crowd was organized and a call made upon Hall. While Mrs. Akers was on her way to her relatives, Hall returned to the house for his gloves, which he had left on the bed. Tracks were found leading from Mrs. Akers's house to Hall's house.

Hall denied the charge against him. He said he had reached his home at 7 o'clock in the evening after attending a raffle at Lebanon. His step-father, however, stated that it was midnight or later when he came home. The mittens and the cap that Hall wore were identified at Lebanon by Mrs. Akers and her little boy.

Hall had two brothers in the penitentiary, one of whom is there now. The man sentenced for the assault on Mrs. Akers is married and has children. G. L.

P. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to George W. Arnold and Cora M. Cale, William E.

Shove and Catherine T. Campbell, William E. McCarty and Marie Riley, John F. Kahn and Anna P. Balfour, Frank M.

Palmerton and Winnie Williams, Plummer E. Gastinean and Agnes Cronin. Found Dead. David Lawrence, an aged inmate of the county infirmary, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. He was eightythree years of age, and was one of the first school teachers in Marion county.

His relatives are unknown. Plenty of Glass Smashed. Last night a number of frequenters of the saloon, No. 309 East Washington street, grew quarrelsome and indulged in a sinall fight, in which windows were broken and wine and beer bottles smashed without discrimination. The police were notified, but on going there it was found that the disturbers disappeared.

YOUNG BENHAM PARDONED. The Governor's Clemency Reaches the Well-Known Richmond Doctor. Governor Matthews yesterday afternoon pardoned Dr. Frank Benham, of Richmond, who was sent to the Prison South last March for two years for seduction. This case attracted widespread attention at the time and caused much comment, both in Richmond and in this city.

Benham had hardly reached the prison before letters and telegrams began to pour in upon the Governor requesting his pardon. The victim, Annie Fuller, a girl whose reputation before the charge was made against Benham was good, the Governor thought entitled to reparation. She is poor and now has a child to support, and until reparation was made which would enable her to support herself and the child the Governor did not regard the matter as satisfactorily adjusted. Such reparation has now been made, and all the parties interested appear to be satisfied. There no longer remaining any objection to the pardon and the Governor thinking the young man sufficiently punished, he directed his release.

It will be recalled that Benham's wife, who was formerly a teacher at the Institution for the Blind in this city, and who is well connected and highly respected, married him while he was in jail awaiting sentence. Benham is about twenty-five years old, and, counting the good time he gained, had served about one-half of his sentence. His full name, as it appears on the pardon, is John Frank Benham. JOHN C. BLACK'S BRUTALITY.

His Attitude to Workingmen Like That Toward Veterans. Letter in New York Press. I desire to say a few words in relation to those uttered by John C. Black in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1894: "If I were certain that wages were higher here, I would seek to repeal these laws which make wages higher, and would let wages have their natural place all over the world." Quoting from your editorial of Jan.

13: "The workingmen of this country have reason to thank Representative Black for his outspoken brutality." The soldiers and sailors of the late war have not forgotten his brutality in rulings while Commissioner of Pensions, and his in relation to the wages of workingmen are perfectly in accord with his acts toward the veteran. John C. Black draws the largest pension paid by the government to any soldier-. $100 per month- as "a total wreck." Will Black show his consistency by asking Congress to pass an act whereby the pension laws "will have their natural place all over" the United States, and so reduce his large pension to the common level of a private soldier or sailor, who, with his small pension and what little he may be able to earn as a workingman, is scarcely able to keep soul and body together in these times of depression and want? Yet this Representative, drawing as he does from the government the salary of a Congressman and $1,200 pension (and who is said once to have said to a soldier applying for an increase of pension that this government keeps no man and his family), stands up in the House and Seeks by his voice and stands ready by his vote to place the workingman, the soldier and sailor in a more degraded position than they now occupy should the worse than infamous Wilson bill become a law. "Kill the bill!" A WORKINGMAN AND OLD SOLDIER.

(Not a Pensioner.) Finis. The end draws near. By Fates unseen directed Our lives diverging tend. To lives monotonous the Unexpected Comes as a friend, While for a moment joyous smiles of meet- The gathering shades dispel. Vale!" Lo! the ancient greeting, Hale, and Farewell! A moment more! And sadness follows after, In bursts of keen regret That put to silence all the nappy laughter Wherewith we met: The past is dead, the present swiftly fading, And in the future dwell Hopes faint and few, our longing glance evading.

Hail, and Farewell! The time has come! 'Mid alien scenes and faces Our lessening lives must lie, And pass henceforth through solitary places Beneath a stormy sky. Clasp hands, old friend! Again our best endeavor The tides of Memory swell. Part we as those who part indeed forever. Hail, and Farewell! -All the Year Round. Profesor John Tyndall.

Grant Allen, in Review of Reviews. Now Tyndall was one of those men who bear a large share in the actual technical work of such great discoveries. But it is hard to put one's finger upon any single point easily to be apprehended by the ordinary intelligence. He taught us much, for example, about the way radiant heat is propagated through the atmosphere; about the objects which are, so to speak, opaque or transparent to it; about the effects it produces on the surface of our planet. He taught us much about how glaciers are formed, move, and are retarded, break into crevasses and freeze togetner again, compress themselves through gorges, or spread themselves, though solid, into lake-like expansions; and he did more towards explaining these singular phenomena than any other observer.

His contributions to the sciences of light, of sound, of electricity, of magnetism, of heat, and even of biology (so far as regards the diffusion of the germs of minute organisms), are all of them most valuable. He was fellow-worker in the triumph of evolutionism and of just and sound views about energy. But for the most part he led up towards these great developments in physical and electrical knowledge which have not yet been made, and towards practical inventions which have not yet been invented. This sort of work is the most valuable of all, but it is often the most inglorious. So it comes about that Tyndall, who was himself a most careful, accurate and patient investigator, was best known as a popular expounder and an almost sensational orator.

He would not have been so famous if he had not superadded Belfast addresses and Royal Institution lectures to his real work in the laboratory and on the mountain. Unnatural and Improbable. Washington Star. "That clock," said the man who was looking through the Senate chamber, "don't call out the hour no way, does it?" "No." replied the guide. "Whose property it "Why.

it belongs to" the Union." Which "To the Union." "An' don't strike? No siree. Ye, can't fool me." Very Few. Pittsburg Dispatch. Ex-President Harrison will soon be engaged in expounding constitutnonal law to the students of Stanford University. It can be stated with perfect safety that few men in this country are better qualified for such a position than this distinguished son of Indiana.

Chemical analysis shows that "Old Process" whisky is absolutely pure. Take Our Pleasures Sadly. New York Tribune. It has been that the American people take their pleasures sadly, and it looks as if it were so. In 1892 it was their pleasure to put the Democratic party in power, and they have been taking it sadly ever since.

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Maj. A. L. Varney will go to Alliance, to-day. Mr.

Brenneke's Thursday evening class will give a party at the academy Thursday evening. Miss Essie Mills, of Sandusky, is visiting Mrs. Hill Biates House for a days. Mr. William T.

Barnes will leave next week a visit to Florida. He will be absent several weeks. Miss Daisy Avery, of Frankfort, will come to-day to visit Miss Harriet Cleland on West St. Clair street. Jernest Durham, of t'e Russellville Bank, dropped counties the Capital National on business yesterday.

Mr. Parker Boice is home from Princeton to spend a week with his parents at No. 275 North Delaware street. Mrs. Charles Thor will entertain a few friends Pin afternoon in honor of her guest, Miss Havens, of Ohio.

The Americus Club will give a yellow domino dance at the clubhouse on North Alabama street Wednesday evening Mr. Arthur Moore will leave Saturday for New York, and next Wednesday he will sail for Ireland, to be absent some time. Mrs. Leopold Stiefel, of Angola, formerly Miss Edith Kahn, of this city, will come Friday to visit her mother on East Market street. Mr.

and Mrs. E. C. Rumpler will hold their first reception this afternoon and evening at their home, No. 331 Bellefontaine street.

Miss Brant, who has been the guest of Misses Wiegand for the past two weeks, has returned to her home in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Miss Bertha Grant, who graduated from the High School here last June, second in a class of eighty-four members, is completing her education at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Mrs. James W.

Morris entertained a few ladies informally, yesterday afternoon, at her home, on North Meridian street. Those invited were members of the What Is It Club of last season. The cards read "fancy work and There will be a meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Meridianstreet Church this afternoon in the church parlors. Mrs. C.

C. Williams will read a paper on Bishop Hurst's new book, "Indika," and it will be followed by a general conversation. Rev. Charles Greig, of Paris, France, who visits the city in the interest of the MacAll mission, will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs.

Cornelius, No. 521 North Meridian street. All who desire to meet him will be welcomed between the hours 4:30 and 6 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Rev. Graham Lee, who was married last month to Miss Blanche, Webb, of Evansville, who is well known to a large circle of friends in this city, will be here the 21st, and will address the members of the Ladies' Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church the evening of that date.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Foster, who have been giving a series of informal gatherings at their home on Park avenue durIng the season, held their last one last night. Each evening has been marked by the presence of a number of musicians who have presented selections, much to the pleasure of those assembled.

A number of friends assisted at the gathering last evening, and Mrs. Barry, Mr. Sterne and others contributed to the programme. At the Gentlemen's Club, last night, Maj. A.

L. Varney read a paper about the explorations of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century in the Southwest. Dr. J. L.

Thompson led the conversation in a ludicrous description of the search for modern the "golden times. fleece" and the crazes of Mr. Beveridge followed in a resume of the great nations of the world and what had been accomplished by the Spaniards in that century. Both paper and conversation were much enjoyed by the members and ladies, it being guests' evening. Mrs.

Bement Lyman entertained a number of friends very handsomely yesterday afternoon with a at her home, on North Tennessee Mrs. Lyman was assisted by Mrs. Charles Lilly, Mrs. James M. Winters, Mrs.

Eugene Baum of Brooklyn, Mrs. James R. Lilley, Jane Mrs. John and P. Frenzel, Miss Roach, Miss Roach Miss Helen Walker.

The reception room was embellished with flowers in handsome vases, and in the second parlor the mantel was filled with maiden-hair ferns and scarlet and white azaleas. During the afternoon musical numbers were given by Mrs. Frenzel, Mrs. J. R.

Lilley and Miss Walker. Later the guests were seated at small tables, and coffee was served. The assisting ladies and a few gentlemen remained for dinner in the evening. Want More Men Put to Work. The Commercial Club relief committee informed the Board of Public Works last night that the credit accounts on their list of the needy were increasing rapidly, and to avoid this and to decrease them they asked the board to furnish tools and facilities to a force of between 250 and 300 men, who will be given work at Garfield Park as soon as this request is complied with.

The committee also claims that there is not proper provision at the park for getting steady labor out of the men. During last week there were given rations to 4,865 persons. Of course, a great many more subsisted on these rations, for more than half of these are married men, some of whom have large families. Police Court Cases. In the Police Court, yesterday morning, George F.

Yeager, the Virginia-avenue druggist, was arraigned on the double charge against him, and the case continued till Wednesday, The three peddlers arrested Saturday night for selling by station were discharged. Superintendent Powell says it is useless to make arrests under the present ordinance, and he will instruct his men not to make arrests until a new ordinance is passed. After the Fish Killers. The grand Jury convened yesterday and was busy all day, adjourning at a late hour. Judge Cox, in his instructions to the body yesterday morning, said that he wanted a full and complete investigation made of the alleged violations of the fish law.

ParticuJar attention is to be given to those persons who have been employing the seine and dynamite in White river as a means of securing fish. The Banks All Busy, Yesterday being pension day it was the "busy day" at all the banks. All day long a stream of pensioners passed in and out at the various banks receiving the cash for the checks issued at the pension office. Though the stream of pensioners stopped at 3 o'clock, the hour closing, it was several hours later before the work of the bank employes was at an end. Must Not Haul Freight There.

The Board of Public Safety has authorized Superintendent of Police Powell to serve notice that after next Wednesday all persons violating the sidewalk ordinance in hauling freight to the Big Four freight house on South Delaware street will be arrested and prosecuted. Hood's and Only Hood's. Hood's Sarsaparilla is carefully, prepared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Pipsissewa, Juniper berries and other well-known remedies, by a peculiar combination, proportion and process, giving to Hood's Sarsaparilla curative powers not possessed by other medicines. It effects remarkable cures when other preparations fall. Hood's Pills cure billousness, NOBLE ADVICE FROM A GREAT MAN.

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Joseph Gold, of Northfield, whose experience is certainly most interesting. "Five years ago," said Mr. Gold, "I had a severe case of typhoid fever which prostrated me terribly. My limbs swelled to twice their natural size, and nobody thought I would recover. I got through it, but was left in a very bad condition; weak, nervous and debilitated.

I was determined to get well, however, if possible, and I used Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. MR. JOSEPH GOLD. "I received great benefit from Its use immediately.

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"We can truly say that Dr. Greene' Nervura blood and nerve remedy is the best medicine we ever used." A well-known lady, Mrs. L. E. Waterman, says: "I am a neighbor of Mr.

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