Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1896 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 185JG.

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Established H. Everything FOR Here ToDay The Right Sort A T The Right Sort of Prices. Pettis Dry Goods Co. Geo. E. Collin J. Freni Wilson Dentists JnTentorsof "Chlrinola." the wontierfal pain obtunder for extVacttue. Artificial Teth, with or without Lines, fine (ioul ami Com position I'IUIdz Crown and Bride Work. Vitalize! Air given. Onu-e Lfenlfon llouae; entrance, Oslo mtntU The famon DOVK Hotter XXXX Cracker locks like thU: TT Jnlt On bawinjf the rrnulne. Nothing finer In fancy Imcult. At jour Uroccr'i. r Home Cracker Co. 2 Indianapolis. DENTIST, 32 and 33 When Block. Cpp. Postoffice, THE best is not always ' low In price. Experienced housekeepers certify that PRINCESS -flour produces :" superior results. AFRAID OF THE GOVERNOR. Wew Orleans Horsemen Will 'KotrShlp Stable to Itob. ; Y An Associated Press dispatch, from Xew Orleacs S3ys; A fecdre of horsemen.who had made final arrangements to ship their, horses from that city to tho , Indiana tracks", changed their plan3 on receipt of the following tflegram to the Daily Item from Governor Iatthew", of Indiana, In- reply to an Inquiry: J "I believe the proposed racing will, be; in vlolr.tlon of tie law. Will use every means at my command to uphold the law." ; The tracks to which reference was made are those at or near Roby. The Indianapolis running1 meeting In May will be strictly le gitimate, and will set many or the nnest torses in the country. ; PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. . -Mr. J. C. Sine will ppend Sunday In Chicago visiting hla brother. - Mrs. William Whoatly. cf Chicago, is visiting her fatber, Mr. Itocky. Mrs. Katherine Bullard, formerly of thU city, will come roon to visit .V.m. A. 11. Wells. Mrs. Thornburjr, of lf?rtlnsville, la vlsltlnsr Mrs. Parker, lli I: ,rth Illinois street, this week. i Miss Verna Lance, cf South Bend, who has been the guest of Miss Kieanor Smith, has returned home. 1 Miss Marsraret Ge-lKer. of Louisville, who has been visiting Mrs. Charles L. Holsteln, haa returned home. Miss Dr. S. P. Collins, of Hot Springs, Ark., is visitlncr her brother, A. M. Louden, at 2J2 Xortn West street. Mrs. David J. Klein, of Brooklyn. N. Y.. la visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Orvllle Gross, at loJ Cornell avenue. . Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Miller, of Can ton, O., are expected next week to visit' Miss Sarah Kinder, on Lockerbie street. Mrs. James Macfarlane and daughter, who have been the guests of Mrs. LI. F. Hodges end family, will return to their home in Pittsburg Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reynolds and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Krag have taken noesesFioa of th-ir new home, 621 North Penn sylvania street. Mr. Georce O. Estabrook and Mr. M. A. G. Ehert. ,cf Denver, Col., are expected this evening. Mr. Khrt will act as best man at Mr. Estabrook's wedding next weeK. Miss LJIHe Calahan, cf Dayton, who has teen the guest of friends here, ind Is known to a large circle of young people, will go to Europe next month to rvmsln until fall. . Mrs. D. A. Chenoweth. 411 North Dolaware street, Is critically 111 with pleuritic pneumonia. Grave apprehensions are feared as to her recovery. She is the daughter of John T. Presaley, former sheriff cf Marlon county, and has a wide circle of trie n;s. M133 Fannie Taylor and her aunt, Mrs. Stanley, of Memphis, will be the guests oi airs, ana miss jiesse, on Ash street, until the marriage of Misa Taylor next week. leaterday afternoon Mrs. Sidney M.-Dyer eniertamea a numoer or rnends ior Miss Taylor, and this afternoon Miss Jeffcry win give a caru party ior ner. The clas of of the Girls Classical School, following a custom long established. will give a play at the Propylaeum on Saturday evening. April 11. Preceding classes have given "Twelfth Night," "As Vou Like It." 'Merchant of Venice" and Midsummer Night's Dream." The clas oZ wlil present "Love Labor Lost." The play is given for the benent or tne Ramabai funJ. the school having maintained a scholarship hi i'oor.a since ine xounaation there of itamabars school. lAst April the members of one of the kindergarten sections adopted a method of raising money. Twelve ladies were select ed to represent the months, others were elected Ior weeks and still others for days. Boxes were distributed with the reQuest that they be returned at the end of the year, each one containing a dollar. Yesterday Mr. John W. Kern held an informal reception to gather In the boxes. Hiie was assisted 1y the months, Mrs. George E. Townley, Mrs. E. S. IL Seguln, Mrs. Frederick C. Gardner. Mrs. J. W. Sawyer. Mrs. Ilurton Parrott. Mrs. Alfred Purdso.1. Mrs. O. N. Catterson. Mrs. Pauline IvtPtner. Mrs. Frank A an damp. Mrs. W. O. DeVay and Mrs. L. II. Levey. Of the 220 boxes out zu were returned with the re quire! sum. This will make $n3 for tho benent of kindergarten work. Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Hendricks, of P23 rvorta senate avenue, celebrated the sec ond anniversary of their marriage last evening with a paper wedding. Mrs. Hendricks wore her wedding gown of ashes of .roses eiik. ara carrtea a bouquet of La France roses. The house was decorated throughout with paper flowers and tissue draperies. Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks were assisted in dispensing their -hospitalities by air. aaa Mrs., James K. Twlname, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds. Mr. and MrsFrank Swain. Mr. and Mrs. William Boat, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas liornaday and MrsAnna Woollen. A large number of friends accepted the invitations, and among those from out of town were Mrs. Lowder and cau-rhter. Mn. Anna Bowman, Mr. and iir. waiter uowrnan, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Pfaff. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Baker, Mr. FranK prarr. of West Held; Mr. Lee Crawford, of Cenfld: Mrs. Catte-raon. of Xoblirtvll!e; JIIm Mangle Twlname, of wnue Jiaven. Kmriana: Mr. nnl Mm Charles Hendricks, of Princeton: Mr. John Webber, Mi Amelia V"etber, of Terre iiauts: Mr. irgii c. Rutherford, of I)ulsvl:'3; Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Harding, of Tor luin.; Mr. and Mr. .Frederick O. 0-rtl3, cf Dover, III., and Mr. Elsier West-

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DAVIS FORGERY CASE

judge nuowx decides agaixst Tiin mox lixLi EX-svmcMcn. Mortnce "Which He Claimed He raid "Will Be Foreclosed The Alleged necelpt. The suit of the Union Trust Company against Mark C. Davis to foreclose a mortgage for Jl.GOO, held by the estate of John Lehman, of which the trust company is administrator, was concluded In the Circuit Court yesterday. Judge Brown finding in fa vor of the plaintiff. The court ordered the mortgage foreclosed. The case presents, fea tures out of the ordinary run of foreclosure suits. Mark C. Davis, the defendant, was the su preme cashier of the lamented Iron Hall. In 1SD0 and 1S31 he borrowed $1,600 of John Lehman, a porter employed at the Jewelry store of Bingham & Walk. Davis gave his note for the amount, secured by mortgage on city property. Lehman died about two years ago and the Union Trust Company -was made the administrator of his estate. In set tling up' the estate the trust company found memoranda of tho Davis 'mortgage and sought to have it satisfied. DavU claimed that the debt had been paid and the trust company brought a suit to foreclose. Whk the case came ud. three weeks ago. Davis anneared with a recelDt showing that the in debtedness had been satisnea in run. lie ajso had in his Dosseas.on the note and mort cage. On the intimation or tne attorney ior the trust company that the receipt was .not entirely cenuine. Judxe Brown placed the in strument in. the hands or an omciai or me court with Instructions to have it photo graphed. The order of Ihe court was car ried out and the result In a measure sup ported the charge of the trust company that a. forarerv Jiad been committed. -Drs. Hurty and Jameson testltted as expert witnesses that the analysis of the receipt showed con cluslvely that it .had been cnangea airer it left the hands or tho maicer. lioin witnesses were of the opinion that words "and sixteen hundred dollars principal" had been added to the receipt. . The defendant, Davis, asserted on tne wi; ness stand that he had paid the money to Ihman. and that Lehman, not Deing ante to cet hold of the note and mortgage at the time, executed the receipt, subsequently tne note and mortsraxe were turned over to him. It was shown in evidence that Lehman lived at Davis 8 house some time berore nis deatn. and that his. trunks were there part of the time. Jud2 Brown. In deciding the case. commented upon this feature of the evidence. "Kut," said he, "the court wm not 6ay that a theft was committed. I believe It is the duty of the court to find that this note has never been pa a"d that the mortgage should be foreclosed. I am convinced mat the receipt given by Lehman was for $96 In terest, and that the words referring to the DrtnciDal were not genuine. The teats have shown that the receipt was written in two different inks. Mr. Davis, In his original testimony, said that It had been written with one Ink, but he afterward testifled that Jie was not positive about this." Attorney Smiley .Chambers, counsel ror Davis, asked leave to file a motion for a new trial, which wa3 granted oy tne court. A LI GO TO THE GRAND JURY. Union and Nonunion Men Bound Over In Police Court. Joseph Blanchfleld, John Perdue and S. E. Johlic, nonunlonists, with Thomas Long, Henry Miller and "William Barcu3, union ptriker?, were bound over to the grand jury by Police Judge Cox yerterlay for participation In the recent riot growing out ci the mclders trouble at Chandler & Taylor' r. Each cf the men was placed under a bond of $300, the charge be!ng In each cats one cf asiault and battery with Intent to kill. James Lee, John Hartluff and Joseph Heimba were discharged. Judge Cox gave hi3 findinar after a nirht of deliberation. In m.ik!n? h!a announcement he said the evi dence was not altogether satisfactory, but sufficient to show that there dad been a cress violation of-the law. He said tne law must be upheli against violence and diaorrfpr. In considering the evidence he said: "iiprp bodies ox mm nave aone tnis wri- tiin-. Thf one. bv onenlv as wen as tecretly. carrying deadly weapons In time ct naoe. .Thft nther. bv thrtfttening and violent acts. Beta are cuipaDie. tioi.i b.icuiu bn punished. The threat and violent acisoi ilUler, I-iOng ana naruiw prrciuainu trouble, but it would not have been serious if the Chandler & Taylor men naa not Deen (.4rrvin? weanoas. Tne evlrtence snow3 tnat 4hm nniv neonla sht were shot by them. I wrf I i tlimk it sncuia go w me ki.u jui. DR. BICIIANAX SETTLES. id. will o Loncer Be Perntiitett to VlHit Hln Child. ' Judge Harvey, of the Superior Court, has rescinded the order made two years ago in the divorce suit of Nellie Buchanan against Dr. Albert E. Buchanan. The court, in granting tho divorce, decreed that the detcnAnnt nnid nav Into court the sum or a week for the beneflt of his child, Julia Buchanan, tne nrst payment to ue maue m Anril. 1&&4. and to continue until the child reached the ane of ten years. By agreement of tho parents this order was vacated yes terday by the court, tne tamer raying over IG) in full of all claim. The original order rr th. prturt nermuieu me lamer io visit the child twice each week, but under the modification of the decree ne no longer nas the right to visit the child. This action was taken at tne instance or Doin parties, wno had. reached a mutual agreement. A Bria-htwood Liquor Caae. Judge McCray, of the Criminal Court, has taken under advisement the case of Lon Seidensticker, the Brightwood saloon keeper. charged with violating a section of the Nkh olson law. Seldenstlcker was arrested for maintaining 'ai partition In his saloon. He was fined by Justice Nicholson and appealed to the higher court. John Huggler, barUnder for Seidensticker, was acquitted of the charge of selling llauor to a minor on riundav. Two of the State's witnesses test! tted that they were both in the saloon at the time named and saw no liquor sold The-court sentenced George Taylor, aged twelve years, and Ed Mulvaney, aged fourteen, to the Reform School for Boys at "PlalnfielJ. A letter received from the super intendent of the school yesterday announced that boys who have not been exposed to scarlet fever would be admitted to the In atltuticn. Mr. Fierce- Una the Fixtures. The replevin suit of the Brunswick-Balk eCollender Company against Harry D. Fierce .Is on trial in Room 2, Superior Court. The suit Is to recover possession of the fixtures used by Dan Smith In the Monumental Pal ace saloon, on Uast -Market street. Mr. Pierce owns the building, and when the ten ant vacated the premises It is charged that the landlord tocK possesion or the fixtures and stored them away. Court INotea. Gustave C. Schmidt gave a one-thousand-dollar- bond yesterday aa administrator of the estate, of Carrie acnmiat. Bessie Brown wants a divorce from Jacob Brown on the grounds of cruel and inhu man treatment. She says she had to leave the defendant on account of his abuse. He had a habit of swearing at her. and would lose his temper at ' the' slightest domestic Jar. THE COIRT TIECORD. Supreme Court. 1SS74. Blough vs. Parry. Elkhart C. C. Petition for rehearing overruled. McCabe. J. l. A question cannot be raised and pre sented for rehearing. 2. The credibility of expert wi;neses ana tne wcignt or their tes timony is as much subject to the scrutlnv and determination of the jury as that of any other class of witnesses that mav come be fore them. 3. Testamentary incapacity is never preiumed. and in an action to contest a win tne burden is on tne plaintiff to prove sucn cnarKe 1737S. Town of Troy vs. Eb!e. Spencer C c i'etmon ior reneanr? overruled. 17611. Tate vs. Hamlin. Marlon S. C. Mo tion to dismiss deferred. 177S6. Moore vs. Franklin. Monroe C. C Motion to dismiss dererred. Appellate Court. 1771. Street-railway Company vs. Hobbs. Marlon S. C. Affirmed. Belnhard. J. 1. In ordw to overcome tne strong presumptions In favor of the action of the trial court. th appellant must present a record, showing runy ana cieany ir.e error or tne trial court. J. After the negligence of the defendant has te-n estaoiisnea. tne buraen is on him to show that the injury compiaiiHi of was ag gravated by the failure of the plaintiff to ecu re proper treatment. 3. The trial court may, without committing any reversible er ror, refuse to glre Instructions requested If they are not signed by the party requesting m,m,.or nia attorney. nil. Clmcns vs. Beaver. Allen C. C. Re verstd. uavin. C. J- L. special answers

control the general verdict only when the antagonism is so great that It could not bt-

reraoved by any evidence admissible unaer the isup 2. Where the general verdict finds a certain sum in favor of the plaintiff as to any further sum by him claimed to be due the general verdict Is by Implication in favor of the defendant. 173J. Campbell vs. Conner. Fayette c. j. Petition far rehearlnc overruled. Davl3. J. 1. When evidence is admitted without obJectlon In response to a question that Indi cates the nature or the answer, a suDsequem motion to strike out will not avail. 2. A party canno; be heard to object to the an swer to questions asked by tne opposite sine when his own questions and answers were subject to the same objection. lv5. Btuckey vs. Hardy, cass u. u. .pe tition for rehearing overruled. loot). Johnson vs. uauard. urange "Petition for rehearlnir overruled. Newman vs. llallwav Omciais' Asso ciation. Marion S. C. Tetitlon for rehearing overruled. Superior, Court Room 2 Lawson M. Harvey, Judge. Brunswlrfc-Balke-Oolender Company et al. vs. Harry D. Pierce; replevin. Oa trial by court. Room 3 Pliny "W. Bartholomew, Judge. John T. Dujran vs. C. C C. & St. L, Rail way Company; damages. Ontrlal by Jury. Circuit Court. Edgar A. Brown, Judge. Union Trust Company vs. Mark C. Davis; on note. Trial by court; finding In favor of rlalntlff; decree foreclosing mortgage. Dr. W. li. Iutz vs. will rantzers estate. Claim allowed by administrator for 5373.13 and costs. J. D. Rutledge vs. Mrs. J. lAntry; on account. Trial by court; finding In favor of defendant. New Suits FIlel. William B. Fette vs. Charles T. Lee et al.: suit to foreclose mortgage. Circuit tVinrt. William Xoble vs. Union National Sav in and I?n Association; suit on account; demand. EDO. SuDerior Court, lloom l. Bessie Brown vs. Jacob Brown; suit ior divorce. Superior Court. Room 3. William V. Hooker va. Thomas Kirk et al.: suit -to foreclose mortgage. Circuit Court. CONTRACTS FOH IMPROVEMENTS. 3fot of Those Let Yenterdny Were for Gravel. The Board of Works yesterday received - nr,raf. fft Q rI1mhi rf -.. . street improvements. Bids were received as follows: For gravel roadway and sidewalks and stone curb on Frank street, from Jefferson street to Lexington avenue: -Henry T. Noiting. J1.S7; P. E. Phillips. $1.68; Daniel Foley, 51.45: Ueorge W. McCray & Co.. J1.S7: J. Mam $1.34; J. H. Roberts, " $1.30; Dunn & Mankedick. $1.18; Thomas J. Faurot, $1.16. The contract was awarded to the lowest Didder. For cement sidewalks on Delaware street. from Tentn to Fourteenth street: F. M. Sny der & Co., 88 cents: Julius Keller. 85 cents; Henry T. Noltlng, 74 cents; Henry Maag-. 65 cen:s; Dunn & Mankedick, 6L'v cents; uavldson & Lingenfelter. cents. The con tract waa awarded to Davidson & Lingen felter. For gravel roadway and sidewalks ana stone curb on Bell street, from Michigan street to Campbell avenue, the bids were as follows: George W. McCray & Co.. $1.47: P. E. Phillips, $1.43. The contract was not awarded. For gravel roadway and sidewalks on Orange street, from State to Villa avenue, the bids were: Henry T. No! ting. $1.23; P. K. Phillips. & cents: Daniel Foley. 73 cents; J. H. Roberts. 68 cents: J. E. Mann. 67 cents; George . McCray & Co.. 67 cents; Tnomas J. Farout. 48 cents; Dunn & Mankedick, 46 cents. The contract was awarded to the last bidder. For gravel roadway ana siaewaiks on Orange street, from Villa to Pleasant avonue. the bids were: Henry T. Noltlng. $1.05; P. E. Phillips, 79 cents; Daniel Foley, 73 cents; George W. McCray & Co.. 59 cents: J. E. Mann. 59 cents: J. II. Itoberts, &S cents; Dunn & Mankedick, 41 cents; Thomas J. Farout, 42 cents. The contract was awarded to the lowest bidder. For brick pavement on Alabama street. from Maryland street to the Union tracks. the bids were as follows: Indiana Bermudez Asphalt Company, $7.1o; Frank Kenvon. $5.96; Carltol Paving and construction company. Jfi.SS to $t99. according to brick used; Daniel Foley, $6.y5. The awarding of the contract was deferred. Xew Resolutions. The following improvement resolutions were adopted yesterday by the Board of Works: For "wooden "block pavement on Vermont street, from East to west street, except the square between? Meridian and Pennsyl vania streets. For asphalting Alabama street, from Morrison to Seventh street. For cement sidewalks on Lexington ave nue, from state avenue to urariK street. For opening Meridian street, from a point 233 feet north of the Belt railroad to Ray mond street. For the vacation of the first alley west of High street, from Bickling to Wyoming street. i Brick on West Court Street. Final action was taken on the following resolutions: For brick roadway and eiaewaiks on Court street, from Senate avenue to Cali fornia street. For brick roadway on Columbia alley. from Ohio to Michigan street. All action on the resolution Tor cement sidewalks on Thirteenth street, from Talbott to Central avenue, was rescinded yes terday by the Board of W orks. Asphalt for East New York Street. The Board of Works granted a petition yesterday for asphalting the roadway of New York street, from East street to Noble Ftreet. Tho c!ty engineer was in structed to prepare the papers. A petition was filed ror brick pavements and stone curbing on singleton street, irom Morton to Raymond street. It was re ferreJ to the city engineer. CITY NEWS NOTES. . J. W. Cosby, of Stockwell, Ind., was In the city yesterday. CaDt. C. J. Murphy and wife, of Evansville, were, in tne city yesteraay. The Marlon County Agricultural Society will meet next Saturday afternoon. I jnj Fletcher avenue, wa3 destroyed by lire last nizht. The cause of the tire is unknown. The loss Is estimated by the fire department at about $200. Yesterday the Indiana Bicycle Company bought a lot, 90 by 200 feet, at the northeast ccrner of Georgia and Eaet .streets, paying J10.000 for. it. The company will erect an addition to its factory on the place. The Butler College Oratorical Association has decided to hold the college primaries for the selection of a representative to tne State contest during the commencement week In the future. This change was made because the State contest will be held in January in the future instead of March, as in the past. An Old German Wnmlering Aliont. A homeless old German, harmlessly insane, was locked up in the station house last night. he has been at the station house asking for shelter several times recently. Last night he was found by patrolmen' Cronin and Miller w&ndering aimlessly about on South Illinois trv-et. The old man said that his came was Peter Bender, and that he was sixty-five years old.- He was unable to give any Intelligible information concerning himself. A telegram was found in a little bundle of papers he carried, dated at St. Joe. Mo., signed "Dot." and addressed to W. H. Kekar, No. 901 Baltimor avenue, Kanis City. Mo. An envelope addressed to W. II. Kekar, Zioasvllle, Ind., and a receipt for taxes glvea to John F. Lemon, of Zionsville, were also found among his effects. An old prayer book, printed in German, had the name of Margaret Ben3er on one of the margins. The police are anxious to locate the man's friends. They are uncertain whether his name is Bender, Lemon or Kekar. Amusements. The Grand has ,,The Old Homestead" the last half of next week, wltli a Saturday matinee. James Reilly changes his bill at the Park to-day, r.ivlng The Broom Maker." Xext week Howard Hall comes for a week 'in drama. James Heme, who comes to the Grand the firs: half of next week inj "Shore Acres," is dramatizing Helen Gardiner's novel, "An Unofficial Patriot." "Zero," which has had a suceeFiful week at the Empire, closes to-day with two performances. Next week will be dark at thL hcupe, Reilly 6c Woods following the week after. , i f Waller Comlnjr Home. DENVER. Col.. April x.Col. E. G. Woodford has received a cablegram from exConsul Waller, of Madagascar, sayinar he will leave London for America to-morrow and will be In Denver Inside of two weeks; Colonel Woodford was at Tamatave when the ex-Consul waa arrested by the French government about eighteen months ago. 1 Tile Floors, special designs. Jno. li. Lilly.

BREAKS THE RECORD

MOIIE IXDIAXA TBACIIERS AT 3IAJUO.V THAN WEHB AT SOUTH BEXD. Sensational Development In the Llspenurd Disappearance Expected KokOmo Explosion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., April 3.The fourteenth annual session of the Northern ' Indiana Teachers Association was called to order in the First M. E. Church, in this city, last evening, by retiring President Moody, of Kokomo. The address of welcome was made by W. II. Sanders, of the Chronicle, and was responded to. by Superintendent W7. P. Burris, of Bluffton. Calvin Moon, superin tendent of the South .Bend public schools, the new president of the association, was introduced and made his inaugural address. This morning's eession was addressed by A. W. Edson, agent of the State Board of Education, and in the discussion that followed State Superintendent D.. M. Geeting, W. A. Bell, of Indianapolis, W. A. Millis, of Attica, and E. B. McCracken took part. This afternoon the five sections art, music, graded, high' t school " and country schoolsmet separately and. interesting papers were read and discussed. When the meeting was called to order last evening. 77S teachers had enrolled and many visitors were present who did not enroll. Long before noon to-day the fact was clear that the Marlon meeting of the association had -gone far ahead of ail others in point of- members in attendance. Every train brought in big delegations of pedagogues and at noon the number of arrivals was over twelve .hundred. Col. Fran cis Parker, of the Cook County Normal, Chicago, lectured to-night at the First M. E. Church. There was such a large number of visitors and teachers in the city that an overflow meeting was arranged for In the Christian . Temple .this evening, at which Mrs. Emma Mont McRea and A. W. Edson spoke. The attendance is much larger than at the meeting at South Bend last year. W. A. Bell, or the Indiana school Journal, says it Is the largest gathering of teachers ever held in Indiana. LISPE.VARD'S "Nil ADO W Said to Have Been Followed ly a Man Bent on Killing- Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, ilnd., April 2. The mystery sur rounding the 'disappearance of Charles F. Llspenard has taken a new turn, and It is now stated that for several months Llspen ard has been closely ; followed and watched by a person connected with the Cox-Myers mystery, whose name is not given. This man is alleged to 'have closely followed Lls penard for some purpose, and It is believed with the intention of putting him out cf the way, as Llspenard. is said to have been pos sessed of information which would have in criminated this man had it been used. He is alleged to have followed Uspenard to Vlncennes. and from there to Cairo, 111., where Llspenard had gone! on the track of the murderer of young (Lsttz. When Llspenard left Cairo In a skiff Tor Memphis, Tenn., this man Is alleged to ;havc followed half an hour later In another sklffV and Uspenard's friends fear foul play. Llspenard organized the For esters here, and was here when the famous Cox-Myers empty coffin mystery came up. ne was detailed to clear up the mystery, and had warrants sworn out charging Dr. Cox and four others with the murder of. vouner Thomaa Myers, but . they were not served. aiyers was round to be alive. When Cox died, at Marietta, O., on Dec. 3, 1896, Thomas Myers was in attendance at the-funeral two days later, and Llspenard left Vlncennes for Cairo a few days prior to the event. He left tne impression Here and at Logansport that ne was going to silt tne tJox-aiyers mystery to the bottom, and. being a detective, he en gaged on the Latta murder mystery and beKan working it up. Airs. Uspenard Is firm in, the belief that some one who feared. his Investigations in oncf these bases has mur dered him. .and she never expects to ee 'him alive again. Meanwhile the Forester are conducting a searching investigation by means of the courts of Foresters all over the country, and the failure to find any trace of him lends color to the belief that he has been murdered. His many friends in this city will not believe that it is eimply a case of wife desertion, as hia home relations were of the most pleasant nature. -When Llspenard was, two years old he was Q S1 it r i aA fmrn Hia mrontc at Trnu 'M V and not until he was a man did he find trace cf his parents or relatives. lie has been connected with the Foresters clnce the start of that order in this State, and his prominence renders his disappearance a matter of more than ordinary interest. The search for Llspenard will continue t until tho matter has been cleared up, and should it appear that he has been the victim i foul play some sensational developments that have something to do with the Cox-Myers case may be expected, ! RECORD OF KIC1IOLSOX LAW. Said to De a Reductlu of 2S9 Saloons In Mne .Monihu. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO Ind., April S. S. E. Nicholson, father of the Nicholson temperance law, who has Just been renominated to the Legislature iby the Republicans of this county, has been gathering Statistics of the results of nine months of the, law and the figures are surprising. Mr. Nicholson gave the following statement: '. , "We have been collecting statistics recently and have returns from sixty-three of1 he ninety-two counties of the State. From the reports it appears that there were In those sixty-three counties las-t June 2,222 saloons: now there are 1.933, a reduction of i2). As very few of these reports show what was done at the present March term of Commissioners Court it Is safe to say that there, are nearly six hundred fewer saloons in the ninety-two counties than there were nine months ago. I give you here the falling off hi several of the counties: Fulton county 3: Tippecanoe. 11; Spencer, 2: Huntington, ; Floyd, 1; Lake, GJ; Miami, 8; Franklin, 1; Johnson, 7; Drown, 2: Switzerland, 1: Lagrange. 8; -Boone, 2; Wayne, 7; Decatur, 2; Wells, 3; Knox, 7; Benton, 4; Bartholomew, 2; Jackson, C; Jay, 7: Tipton. 11; Delaware, 9; Randolph, no change; Fayette. 2; Jefferson. 17; Dubois, 18 more (compelled to take out license because agitation); Clinton, 14 less; Posey, 11; White, 2; Martin. 1; Union, 1; Jennings, no change; Blackford, 3; Steuben, 7; Clark, 6; Pike, 3; Monroe, 4; Parke, 5; Montgomery, 9: Shelby, 2; Washington, 3 Kaclosko, 9; Adams, 2 more: Putnam, 4 less: Morgan, 4; Jasper, 1; Warren, 13 (no saloons now); Ohio, no change; Hendricks, no saloons; Henry 2 less; Porter, 6; Harrison, 4; Hancock, ,2 more; Scott, no change; Crawford, no change; Orange, no change; Carroll, 6 less; Howard, 5; Newton, 5; Lawrence, 6; Clay. 1 more: Perry, 7 less; Sulllvan, 7; Green, 7; Marion SO. "Out of the S4 townships reported, 2C7 now have saloons and 417 have none. Many places report fewer caf-es In Police Court, in some of them the number is reduced onehalf, mainly due to the removal of. games from the saloons. It Is said that there are fewer convicts in one of the (State prison, which may be attributed to the new temperance law, although It has been in force but a short time." . , A SIICIDR CONFESSES. Cln r leu Cantle Left a Letter Ad nil tiltifc the Murder of Jacob Foster. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. - VALPARAISO. Ind.. April 3. Word was received here to-day that Charles Castle, formerly a resident of Chesterton, this county, committed suicide by shooting ; himself, Thursday, at Laplata, Mo. About, four years ago Castle, his mother and sister, moved to Three Oaks, ilch.. While there Castle's sister, Esther, had an Intrigue with Jacob Foster, an old soldier. After getting all Foster's money they left .Michigan, came back to Chesterton and then went to Missouri. Tho sister met J. P. Herryford and they became quite intimate, when Foster appeared. He vtelted the family a few days, then suddenly disappeared. No one heard of Foster afterwards, the Indianapolis pension agency lost all track of him and the Castles were suspected of retting away with him. Charles heard that an effort was being1 made to trace Foster and, fearlnjj discovery, committed suicide, leaving a letter in which he confessed killing Foster, but did not say where or how the body was disposed of. Twenty-eight years . ago Alfred Castle, father of the murderer, became jealous of "William Odell, of this county, ctelrr.lr.j he was too Intimate with lira. C;ttl. and threatened to fciU O-til. A tcrt Uri citcr

that Odell was found dead, shot through tha heart. Castle left and, after a long time, returned and was tried and acquitted. IXDIANA OniTUAJlY.

Thomas B. Walker, Grandfather of John 11. Stetson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. OKLtLVNS, Ind., April 3. Thomas B. Walker, a retired merchant of this city, died this morning of 'asthma, aged ninety years. Mr. Walker was sheriff of t Floyd county two terms, from 1SU to 1SD. He was engaged in the mercantile business in this city for thirty-one years. He had been a member of the Baptist Church seventy-five years. Mr. Walker was the srandfather of John B. StetRon. the millionaire hat manufacturer of Philadelphia. George O'Hara. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. April 3. Mr. George O'Hara, a young business man of Anderson, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Dr. B. F. Spann, in this city, last night. Mr. O'Hara has leen traveling for a number of years for a Chicago wholesale company, and prior to tnat was engaged in tne arug ousiness here. He came home a few weeks ago and died of hasty consumption. He died while sitting in his chair, and those sitting In the room thought he was but sleeping. The fu neral will take place Sunday afternoon, and the remains, be taken to Richmond, his rormer home. , Other Deaths In the State. WLCHE5TER. Ind.. ADril S.Anna J. Ray. of thia clty. widow of the late John Ray, of this county, died suddenly, Wednesday evening, while sitting chatting and laughing with the family of her son-in-law. with whom she made her home. The cause of her death was apoplexy. Deceased was born Oct. 22, near Hartford City. She was a sister of the late Andrew Sharon, of Richmond, who for almost forty years was foreman of tha portable sawmill department cf the large machine shops and foundry of Gaar, Scott & Co., and was the designer of a number of valuable Inventions which have helped to make the Gaar, Scott & Co. ma chinery famous the world over. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., April 3. The death of Dr. David Coombs, a pioneer physician and surgeon, occurred suddenly, last nisrht. at his home. In cnarlestown. In for mer days Dr. Coombs was one of the noted surgeons in southern Indiana. Death re sulted from grip. JEFFERSONVTLLE. Ind.. April 3. Mrs. Mary Duffy, aged sixty-three, died of heartdisease last nifiht at the family residence on the Bethlehem road. Mrs. Duffy was widely known through the county. Sho leaves no children. GAS BUILDING BLOWN UP. One Thousand Families In Kokomo Without Fires. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., April 3. Shortly after nocn to-day this city was shaken by the worst natural gas explosion ever occurring here. The regulating station of the Kokomo Natural Gas and Oil Company, consisting of four Iron and brick buildings, situated near the Main-street bridge, in-the central part of town, disappeared In short order, the ex plosion ruining the structures and damag ing adjacent buildings. Including the county Jail. At the time,. Joseph Lindley. the superintendent, waa sitting In the office. He was blown about forty feet, but not seriously hurt. So great was the force of the explo sion that men and horses passing along the street were hurled to the ground and nurt. One of the two horses in the stable part was killed, the other escaping. The pipes and -apparatus of the reducing station did not give way, so the damage is confined to the buildings and temporary discomfort of the patrons of the company, which supplies. fuel to one thousand families. All the win dows of the Jail were demolished and much other damage waa done. The company ex pects to supply its patrons regularly after making the needed repairs to the regulating apparatus. The explosion was caused by an accumulation of gas in the buildings. The buildings were totally destroyed in the fire following the explosion. MINERS COYPEREXCE TO-DAY. Operators Decide to Meet -with. Block Coal Digger. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. the BRAZIL, Ind., April 3. Operators .in the block coal field of this district met In the parlors of the First National Bank here yes terday, to discuss the mining, scale .'and appoint a committee to confer with a committee of the block coal miners Saturday. Colonel Zimmerman, H. M. Johnson and J. A. Mc Clelland were chosen. The joint meeting of operators and miners to-morrow is for the purpose of arranging a scale for the mining or iock coal ror tne year, beginning May l. The miners In a delegate meeting held last Saturday arranged a scale which demands 11 cents advance from operators owning com pany stores and 5 cents advance from opera tors who have no stores. This, the miners claim. Is in keeping with the scale recently made in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The operators here claim that they have for the past lew years been paying the miners more than was paid in competing fields, and, as a con sequuence, have been working at great dlsad vantage, being unable to compete with Ohio and Pennsylvania in the sale of coal, as the freight rates are as cheap from either of these points to Chicago as It is from this city to Chicago. Strike Impending. PITTSBURG, April 3. Word has reached the coal mine officials here that a strike is threatened in the central district, which Includes Dubois, Clearfield, Punxsutawney, Reynoldsvllle, etc. The trouble arises from the fact that 70 cents Is being paid In this district, against 40 in that. Two years ago it was agreed by all concerned that the difference in the price for mining in the two veins should be 20 cents in favor of the Pittsburg district. The miners, who have Deen well organized in tne central district lately, are now urging the carrying out of the equalization agreement, and the matter will be presented to the operators. If nothing is done to correct the trouble a strike will probably follow.- As five of the largest coal companies in this district com pete with those in the central, the men are directly interested. . GVAXGELiaiL COM'ERKXCE. Minister at I'rbana Decide to Sleet Next Year In Wnbash, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., April 3. The second days session of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Conference opened at Urbana this morning, Bishop 1 Breyfogle presiding. Rev. It. Thiersch was granted credentials to the Erie Conference. Rev. C. D. Rarey, of the United Brethern Churth, was received as a minister into the Evangelical Church, and Rev. C. F. Hansing was appointed presiding cider. Elders were stationed as follows: Elkhart d Lstrlct, D. S. Oakes; Kendallville, D. Olartz; Fort Wayne, J. M. Evans; Indianapolis, J. M. Ilaug; Louisville. C. F. Hansing. DevotlonaJs were conducted by the bLshop and Revs. Braeckiey and Martz. Rev. Mygrant waa chosen to preach to-night. Rochester, Kendallvllle, Portland, Wabash and Wolcottvllle asked for the net conference and Wabash was successful. The conference will meet here next April. Tha resolution favoring lay- representation In the General Conference was defeated. Addresses were made by ministers representing the various church publications. The bishop conferred elders' orders on R. F. Jameson. B. Schuermeler. C. Ehargler and C. Pierce, and deacons' orders on S. Zeklel, J. Wise, W. Snyder and D. Koenig. Rev. Hernberg was received as an advLsory member. BLOODIIOIAD TRAILS INCENDIARIES. Tiro Tramps Caught and Confess Darning? a Residence at CrlQth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CROWX POINT. Ind., April 2. Early this morning two tramps giving their names as Robert Blasch and Mike Scheveitzer, of Chicago, set fire to the residence of George Kelfer, a car Inspector of the Chicago & Erie railroad at GrifH;h, causing a low of $2000. They ran to the woods and Mr. Kelfer telegraphed Sheriff Hayes, who immediately left with his bloodhound "Jim" and placed him on their trail, then ten hours old. "Jim" quickly found it and In thirty minutes the two Incendiaries were cornered 'by the dog four miles from the burned building. Sheriff Hayes followed on behind and when he approached the men both made a confeslqn and asked that the do? be chained. The route taken by the tramps was through heavy timber and swamp. ' Ealcldc of John.nyker. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, MAimX)NT, Ind., April J.-In West Madlson, this mornins at 8 o'clock, John F. Ryker ccrzrr-itjed ruiciis ty cuttlr.;; his threat rrlth o r rrr. Cr - i i!r cr Cz -: r : 1 -1

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Hose, Gas, THE the suicide took olace Uvea the divorced wife of Amos Patrick, and the lattor's young daughter Is a boarder there, while Patrick lives at the Soldiers Home, Ryker was a frequent visitor at the widow's home, anl neighbors say he had fallen in love with her. The divorced husband, who sometimes comes to visit his daughter, put In his appearance yesterday rather unexpectedly, but no disturbance resulted. They all too sup per together, Ryker, who was a good Itapust, -saying grace ' at the table, as was bis custom. After ucDer Ryker went away, and Patrick says he saw nothing more of him until this morning Just before 8 o'clock, when he came Into the yard and kiUed himself. John F. Ryker was a son of Abraham Ryker, or ltykers Ridge, and, ilka all of the name, had always borne a good character. He was unmarried. A Kevr Old Soldiers Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., April 3.-everal old soldiers of this city who were with General Sherman on his famous march from "At lanta to the Sea," have organized a so ciety, which they have named "Sherman's March-to-the-sea Social Club." They have selected as officers the following well-known old soldiers, of this city: Ex-Sheriff Ben Hawthorne, president; George T. Benson, vice president: l;. A. Tnomas. treasurer. and "William H. Relnhelmer. secretary. All comrades in Randolph county who made the trip with Sherman to the sea are eligible t3 merribership. There are already a good rell of names of those who will help to keep green the memory of that famous march and to enliven the declining years of those who, w m jiaae a thoroughfare Por Freedom and her train. Sixty miles in latitude , Three hundred to the main' Jackson County-Seat Cane Decided. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., April 3. In the Scott Circuit Court, at Scottsburg, to-day, Judge WHlard New rendered his decision in the Jackson county-seat removal case. The de cision was favorable and the County Commissioners were mandated to call an rfectlon on June 3. This is the second trial of tho case, both of which! proved favorable to Seymour. There Is no doubt but what 'there will be an appeal taken to the SupremeCourt and an injunction filed against holding an electlqr to decide the matter of the relocating of "the county scat. Those who have charge of the Seymour end of tho fight are Jubilant over the victory to-day. and say that it Is only a matter of a sbort time until the fight will be settled by the Supreme Court. Death Ends n. 10,000 Dannge St.lt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. " ANDERSON. Ind., April 3. A bitter liti gation was headed off In tho Circuit Court oi' Madison county by the death oCWilliam R. King In Indianapolis yesterday, A year ago King brought a tenrthousand-dollar damage suit against B. F. McCarty, one of the promi nent citizens of Anderson, and alleging as a basis for his complaint the alienation of hi wife's affections. Shortly after the suit wia filed King removed to Indianapolis. Mr. Mc- , Carty had. made arrangements to defend the 1 case. Arcanum Grand Council Adjourn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., April 3. Last evening the session of the Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum of ,Indiana came to an end with a reception tendered to the visitors by the local council, which has a membership of nearly two hundred. Supreme Orator N. P. Charlock, of New Jersey, and the pH grand regent, J. P. Rucker, of EvansUil', spoke. The evening closed with a banqu't and dance. The next meeting of the Grr.il Council goes to Indianapolis by default. -- v Rev. Alexander' Promotion. . Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 3. The "Pev. A. J. Alexander, who has Just reo - : a call to the Central Presbyterian Chm-civ..i! Crawfordsvllle, will probably acceyV. !5r. Alexander has been here several yea . in charge of the Washington-avenue PrJ.yterian Church, and has made many fren.'.s who will be sorry to see him leave, but who will be glad of his advancement which the change to the Crawfordsvllle church would be. Suicide Rather than Prison.' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. 1A PORTE, Ind., April 3. Leon Kelsey, of Michigan City, a prisoner In the county Jail here, committed suicide in his cell last night by hanging. Kelsey was In Jail for shooting officer Gasper at Michigan City last Sunday night. While In the lockup there last Tuesday he made an unsuccessful attempt to hang himself with his handkerchief. Fear of the penitentiary caused him to do the act. He was well connected In his home city. Dnnclnff Master Layton Paraly zed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., April 3. R. B. Layton, the well-known dancing master, of. Anderson, was stricken with paralysis of the left slid in his room at his hotel here last night at 1 o'clock, and his condition was not discovered until late to-day, when hla nonappearance caused a search to be made. He was found In hl3 bed and unable to move his left side. He is in a serious condition, and may never recover the use of himself again. . Terre Haute Stay Music Festival. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 3. The Gcrmanla Society has decided to hold a music festival Jn May, probably at the fair grounds. It Is expected to make it something more than a local affair And to attract many persons to the city from other parts of the State and fro-m Illinois. Frei.bt'Wreck on the II. A O. S. AV. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind.. April 3. Two coal tialns met at full speed on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern to-day at Wheatland. Both engines were demolished and several freight cars piled up. The wreck was caused by the switch target having been left open. Indlunn .o(i. Tcrre Haute Populists have decided to place a councilmanlc ticket In the field this spring. The board of prison directors. In session at Jeffersonvllle. adjourned yesterday after holding its regular monthly mcctm?. Nothing but routine business was transacted. Miss Jessie Bowman, a well-known vocalist of Jeffersonvill?, waa struck In the face and her nce mashed by a large plar.k on a lumber wagon in Louisville yesterday . B. B. Johnson, editor anJ iproprietor cf the Richmond Dally and Seml-vre.kiy Item, has sold a half Interest in the plant to Jonn W. Barnes, who for the just two years has been his bu?lnesa manager." Mr. Itamra came here from Kokomo. anj was for thirteen years superintendent of the schools cf Hov;ird ccuaty. Tie luni to a a Independent paper. -

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