Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 340, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1902 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER ß. 1902.

MISHAPS AT RICHMOND

FOL R ME n JtREU. TWO OF THKI tBU III M l NC. Jadgr Robert S. Taylor, of Fort Wayne. ( onflard to Iii Bil an the Result of a Repeat Fall. SUICIDES OF INDIANA FARMERS SHIS FILED TO Ol ST DEMOCRATIC JISTK US OF THE PBACE Odd Fellows Dilemma at Madison Lark of Fuel for lataail Ltubtinu I'lnnta Other State etrs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Dec. 5.-A aeries of serious accidents was reported to-day. Leonard Hiatt while hunting was shot in the right forearm. His shotgun was discharged while he was climbing a fence. He almost bled to death. James W. Henry fell thirty feet from the Panhandle bridge. He had a narrow escape from Instant death. He was a roommate of Fred Bradt, who met his death on the bridge last week. Frank Walters, employed In the Nixon paper mill, was struck on the head by a pulley and received an ugly wound. Frits Suders while hunting was shot by a companion, but is not seriously hurt. Judge R. S. Taylor's Injury. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 5. Judge Robert 8. Taylor is confined to his house with a broken rib. the result of slipping off a doorstep after attending the wedding of his nephew a few nights ago. He also suffered a severe wrench of the left shoulder and the end of the spine. Having an Important appointment in a case in Chicago he went there on Monday and argued the case, though suffering great pain. He returned last night nearly prostrated and was not able to leave the house to-day. The injured rib waa one of the floating ribs. It was torn from its fastening, and owing to the heart s pulsation cannot be Bet or restrained, thus protracting the pain and recovery. He is sixty-five years old. DieI from Gonnhot Wound. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Dec. 5. Nathan Campbell, a wealthy farmer of Grant county, who was accidentally shot on Thanksgiving day by a neighbor while hunting, died to-night from his wounds. He was forty-four years old and left a family. Fell Forty Feet from a Tree. fepecial to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD. Ind.. Dec. 5. Arthur Stipp. aged twenty-four, was probably fatally hurt by falling from a tree, eight miles from this city, early to-day while trying to get a coon out of a hollow forty feet above the ground. SHIPMENTS F EED Kl S. Oll Stock of Indiana Heavily Drawn on by the Pipe Lines. BpscDl to the Indianapolis Journal. MUKTPSL1ER. Ind.. Dec. 5. -The large lumber of wells completed in the "greater Indiana" oil field for the month of November failed to keep up the average production of October. The total output of the wells for November was 733,573 barrels and for October 866,9o4 barrels, by far the largest production of any month in the year. Ine market price of the product made four advances during the month, and now stands at $1.01. For months the Indiana producers h ive hoped for dollar oil, and they now have it, and will have still more, for the present conditions warrant it. For :he first eleven mouths of the present year the output of the wells amounts to 7,906,3)1 barrels, with a valuation to the operator and farmer of 96,fie,2B.a& Thi.-: amount of money has been widely circulated throughout the State. The shipments of oil for the eleven months were lo.61u.471 barrels, valued at So.H35.s91. 94. When the year's report of the pipe lines is compiled it will show that an enormous amount of money has been handled throughout the oil region of Indiana. The rapid advances in the price of the oil should stimulate operations and create a boom in all the fields of the State. Well la Dolnm Seventy-Five Barrels. fascial to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. 5. Pyle & Juday have drilled a well in Section 7, Wabash township, which la showing seventy-five barrels daily. The Warren and Indiana Oil Company has a good prospect in Bearcreek township, and the Standard OH Company Is Grilling a well on the N. R. Hawkins farm, in Jackson township. SHORTAGES OF FIEL Slakes Trouble for Municipalities Owning Eleetrle Lighting Plants. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELlER, Ind., Dec. 5.-The city Is having its share of trouble at present. The water and electric light plant is owned by the town, and about two weeks ago the Fort Wayne Gas Company shut on the gas. and now the Council is having a time to get fuel. The railroad refuses to put in a witch unless the eity furnishes everything except the rails and workmen. This will cost the city about $s"0. not counting the cost of coal and two extra men to shovel It into the furnaces. The form, r cost of fuel was only about $175 per month, and now it is estimated that the cost will be not leas than $35) per month for fuel, counting fretght and extra work. Thomas Bradstreet, who has just completed a gas well on the Miller farm at the edge of the city, made the Council a proposition to furnish gas at 14 cents a thousand and th cit accepted the offer, but aftr burning the gas for a short time th ssure went down and again the Council is figuring on a fuel. PORTLAND, Ind.. Dec. 5 A shortage of fuel Is reported at the electric lighting plant, and fears are being expressed that unless It can be in some way overcome by the reception of timNr from the surrounding country or the shipping in of coal a shut-down may r.eeessary. The present supply is very short HAYES'S MARROW ESCAPE. Experiences of a Fnlrnioiiitt Mnn at the Lincoln Hotel Fire. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. FAIRMOFNT. Ind.. Dec. 5.-A. T. Hanes. the merchant of this city who was supposed to have been badly injured in the Lincoln Hotel fire In Chlcay . yesterday morning, arrived home thia afternoon, none the worse for his experience except a broken toe on his left foot. Hanes had a narrow escape from death. He was a roommate of Woods, the Lebanon farmer who perished. He says he was awakened at ten minutes before 6 o'clock by some woman yelling fire." and. going to a door, saw that tin- only hope he bad to escape was by the window. Wood was not In favor of this, but finally said he would follow, provided Hanes would make the attempt first. Tying the sheets Of the bed together, wadding the bed clothing up and throwing it to the ground In the hope of having a soft spot on which to alight. Hanes. after throwing out his vest, which contained his watch and $50. launched Moaaelf into space at the end of his Impro

vised rope. Arriving at th - end. he let go and fell two stories to the roof of a smaller building. The fall broke his toe. but other than this and the severe bruises which he suffered, he was uninjured. He did not see Woods again until the body was taken to the morgue. His courage evidently failed him, and he perished. Hanes unconsciously played the part of the hero when he caught the Sheppard child, thrown from the third story. This occurred immediately after he jumped. He found his vest intact lying beside the building, with nothing gone from the pockets. Fifty people had walked over the garment, but had failed to see it. as their eyes were riveted to the windows of the building, where the helpless victims were crying for some means of escape. Hanes says one experience of this kind in a lifetime is enough for him. a WATSO MICH PLEASED.

President's Message a Strong Document Views on the Statehood Bill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Rl'SHVI LLE. Ind.. Dec. 5 Representative Watson will return to Washington on Monday. He has been very busy here with legal matters for the ;t week. Mr. WatSon is much pleased with President R' velt's message. In that connection, to-day. he said: "The message is a very strong document, and sets out in full the numerous duties of Congress. He deals squarely and opportunely with the trust question. In my opinion there will have to be a constitutional amendment If the trusts are regulated properly and at the same time Juctice done to all concerned. The Sherman law will never remedy the existing evils." On the statehood bill he said: "I believe Oklahoma and Indian Territory should be admitted as one State, although there is one serious objection against it. The lands of the Indian Territory belong almost absolutely to the Indians, and that would tie them up so it would almost be impossible to tax the lands of both Territories for educational purposes." !OT OUIDBD BY POLITICS. Hartford City's Democratic Mayor Retains Republican Employes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Dec. 5. The new Democratic mayor, Jam. Lucas, was called on at last night's session for the first time to choose between a Democratic aspirant for office and a Republican. Two engineers for the waterworks plant were to be employed, and the result of the vote was 4 and 4. In both instances the mayor decided in favor of the Republicans, who were already in the positions. In the local papers to-day he says: "I never allow politics to Interfere In any way with my decision. We have a water plant here that cost a large sum of money, and to put a new man there to run it. who might make a mistake and cost the city and some private individuals a few thousand dollars, would be a mistake, and I should feel badly about it. We can't run any risks." The Democratic leaders are indignant at the mayor's action, and threaten revenge. e CUT OFF HIS CHILDREN. Cass County Man Left His Fortune to His Son-in-Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT. Ind., Dec. 5. According to the will of James Creason, of Young America, which has been filed for probate in the Cass Circuit Court. Charles W. Miller, son-in-law of the deceased, is to receive nearly all of the $50.000 estate recently left to the deceased by his sister, Mrs. Catherine McGulre, of Galveston. His sons, Clark Creason and Tarks Creason, of Howard county, receive only $50 each, while the rest of the children and heirs are to get nothing. In explanation of his bequest the testator says that he gives his property to his son-in-law because the latter cared for him during his sickness and disinherits the ethers because they did not care for him. The other relatives have declared that they would contest the will and a hard-fought legal battle is promised. Creason was eighty-five years old at the time of his death. WRITS OF Ot STER SOUGHT. Snits Against Allen County Justices Who Refuse to Vacate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Dec. 5. The State of Indiana, on the relation of B. W. Skelton and Emanuel Strass, the newly-elected Republican justices of the peace, began suit of ouster in the Superior Court to-day against Harry F. France and Michael Taney, who claim to be qualified justices, although both were defeated at the recent election. France holds that his term expires In November of next year, but Skelton, the relator, avers that as the corporation for which he was elected was absorbed by Fort Wayne, he was unlawfully declared elected in 1898 and has never been anything more than de facto justice. Taney claims authority on the assumption that this township Is entitled to three Justices, and he stood third in the recent election. The attorneys for the relator are James B. Harper, T. W. Wilson and Judge Walter Olds. EAST WEXT WEST. He la Said to Have Rohhed a Man Before Changing Directions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Dec. 5. Albert Davis, a member in good standing of Decatur Lodge, No. 103, L O. O. F., arrived here to-day from Greensburg, with his horse and buggy, accompanied by Bud East, whom he met at New Marion, and to whom he had given $5 to show him the way to Madison. Davis formerly lived at Crab Orchard, Ky., where he has two brothers whom he wanted to visit. Arriving here, Davis showed signs of dementia, aggravated by drink, and was taken charge of by local Odd Fellows. East deserted him here and fled, after stealing his watch and vainly trying to cash ;i draft, signed by Davis, for $52. and also to sell his horse and buggy. OAeats are on the alert for East, who went est. Kicked a Defenceless Woman. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KI, K HART, Ind.. Dec. 5. Frank Fleming, aged twenty-seven, and Arthur Griffith, aged twenty, of this place, went to Niles, Mich.. Tuesday night, and early Wednesday morning entered the house of Isaac Murphy, where they secured $2 and some articles of minor value. They were disturbed in their operation by tin appearance of Mrs. Claypool, housekeeper for Murphy, and they Kicked and beat bar before taking flight. Her injuries have proved to be serious, a kick in the abdomen having caused an alarming condition, and the physician says she may not recover. The men, who wars arrested on suspicion, pleaded guilty to the robbery and are in the county jail in default of $6u0 bond. i. A. R. Encampment Plans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDKRSf.V. Ind.. Dec. 5. -The members of the G. A. R. in Anderson, together with a citisens" committee, are working out the arrangements for the entertainme nt of the State Encampment, which will be held here next year. The finance committee, headed by J. E. Hennings, has pledged UJBM for the entertainment of the visitors. The following have been placed at the hi id of ooflsintttees : C. L Henrv. M. M Dunlap. S. L. Van Petlen. J. A. Van Osdol, ; A I'ark-r. J. K V venter. H. J. Bteln, J. J. Mi'sser. A.I. Makepeace. F M Van Pelt. J. L. Forkner. D. J. CHcksnherder. J. P. Sears. B. H. Perce. K R. uey. I). F. Mustard. R. P. Grim. m and A. Lambert. II lew Out HIm RriliiM. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BROWNSTOWN. Ind.. Dec. 5.-Abraham Fountain committed suicide at his home in Pleasant vllle this morning by blowing out his bruins with a shotgun. He left the family In the sitting room, saying he was going upstairs. Soon after the report of a gun was heard and his wife rushed upstairs to find him dead. Mo cause can bo

assigned for the act. He was a farmer, aged forty, and left a widow and several children.

Industry for Laporte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFORTE, Ind.. Dec. 5. Contracts have been signed by the Laporte Land Company and the Planet Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, manufacturers of picture moldings, whereby the latter concern will remove its plant to Laporte as soon as buildings, containing lOo.öOO square feet of floor space, have been erected, at a cost of $50.000. The money for the erection of buildings was raised within ten dtys by the sale of 250 lots near the proposed plant, which will be located at the junction of the Lake Erie and Lake Shore roads. The factory will begin operations In February with two hundred men. Rody Found In White River. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MÜNCn, Ind.. Dec. 5.-A ghastly discovery was made by Carl Lyklns. a boy. east of Daleville, this afternoon, when he found the body of a man lying face downward in White river. letters found on the body identified him as Henry Lans. They were addressed to 2235 West Ninth street. Marion. They are supposed to have been written in Muncie. Coroner Poland was calleo. He has not returned his verdict, but it is thoimht death was caused by drowning. The body was badly decomposed and probably had been in the water for two or three weeks. The police are investigating. Lost Somewhere in the West. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind.. Dec. 5. Roy Fldler, aged nineteen years, last heard from at Reno, New, seven weeks ago, on the eve of his departure for Goshen, has not since been heard from, and all sources of information as to his whereabouts have been invoked by his brother, Richard Fldler, of this city. His trunk arrived three weeks ago. Eighteen months ago he left his home at Clarendon. Mich., for California, to engage in gold mining, and recently went to Nevada. His relatives have learned that before leaving California he suffered hemorrhages of the lungs, and fear he is ill somewhere. Verdict for g.1,000 Damages. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Dec. 5. One of the heaviest verdicts for damages awarded by a Jury in the Delaware Circuit Court was given to-day in the case of Mrs. Sarah E. Carey vs. the Big Four Railroad, She was given judgment in the amount of $5.000. About one year ago Mrs. Carey was given a verdict of $4.000, but this was set aside on account of the Jury basing its decision on the fact that the plaintiff's life had been shortened by the injuries sustained. The court held that this could not be done unless death resulted. The plaintiff asked for $10,000. Good ThinK for Taxpayers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Dec. 5. W. H. Wlnship, who was awarded $15) by the Grant county Circuit Court, for services as a superintendent of the electric light plant which the city here has repudiated, is not elated over the result. Winship was hired for a year by the old Council and discharged by the new one after about a month's work. He brought suit for $1.100. The taxpayers who are fighting the case and the electric light deal feel good over the result, and say they are satisfied. Further litigation Is probable. Rnrned Maiy Buildings. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 5. The mystery surrounding numerous barn and residence fires in this vicinity for months past was cleared to-day by a confession made by William Olmstead, eighteen years old. He was arrested on suspicion and confessed burning two residences and four large barns. A mania prompted these acts. He is well connected and was not suspected until the footprints made by the pointed shoes of the incendiary were traced to his home. The aggregate losses caused by these fires is fully $10,000. Postofflce Robber Caught. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., Dec. 5. A United States detective was here last evening and arrested Elmer Landis, a laborer at the shovel works, on the charge of breaking in and robbing the North Manchester, Ind., postofflce a year ago. Landis had two associates, and they were caught soon after the burglary and sentenced to prison for terms of seven years. Landis has been evading the officers ever since, and he would not have been captured this time had not the government officer followed his wife to this city, after shadowing her for a long time. Hill Is I nder Dond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG. Ind., Dec. 5. James Elmer Hill has finally been brought to this city to answer to the charge of aiding and abetting larceny. Hill was arrested in Chicago on Thanksgiving day and officers from this city have been there fighting for him ever since. Hill's friends made a great struggle to keep him from being returned to Indiana, but finally lost. He was taken before Justice Creath this morning and his bond fixed at $&,000 for his appearance at the preliminary trial on Dec. IL'. Tried to Cut It Out. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind... Dec. 5. Word has been received from Gentry ville. Spencer county, to the effect that James Riley, eighty years of age, temporarily insane, stabbed himself with a knife, inflicting a wound that is likely to prove fatal. He imagined a demon had entered his body and he was trying to cut it out. Carnegie Library Dedicated. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., Dec. 5. The new Carnegie Library was formally dedicated and opened to the public to-night. A programme of addresses and music was given. The building was erejted at a cost of $50.000. given by Andrew Carnegie. Blnffton Elevator Hum. Special tS the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON. Ind.. Dec. 5.-Fire originating in the engine room destroyed C. F. Davison's elevator early this morning. The loss is $3,x4i, with Insurance of $1,300. Indiana Obituary. SUKI.HYVII.LK, Ind.. Dec. 5. PeVr Welsh died at his residence in this city yesterday al the ace of sixty-five. He was born in County Galway, Ireland, and came to this country at the age of seventeen, locating in Iuisvillc. Ky., and later removed to that city. He left a widow and five children, among th m being Mrs. Maggie Sweeney and atlas Mary Welsh, of Indianapolis. RICHMOND. Ind.. Dec. 5 News from Andrus county. Missouri, announces the death of nor. W. II. Bulla, who was born in Richmond in 1S:). He helped lay out the town of Emporia. Kan. He served In the Second Iowa Cavalry and was a prisoner at Andersonville. He served through two sessions of the General AsseflBbty of Missouri. A widow and two sons survive. GREENSIU'IU;. Ind.. Pec. a. Mrs, Agnes Greene, aged seventy-five, died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Jacob Theis. this afternoon. She had been an invalid for years, but her death was unexpected. Her only other child. Mrs. J. C. Slaughter, lives at Louisville. Ky. Funeral services will be held on Sunday. CONNER8VILXJB, Ind.. Dec. 5.-Dr. Andrew V. Daum died last night after several weeks' illness, with liver complaint. He recently moved here from Tipton, and had secured a most lucrative practice. He affiliated with the Christian Church and was one of its most active members. BEDFORD, Ind.. DSC, a, Newton E Ennls. a local photographer, who suffered from a stroke of paralysis yesterday, died at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. Indiana Notes. MOMTPCLICR. The Jackson Shovel and Tool Works Company will soon have its large plant ready to run. as work is being pushed. Serai carloads of heavy machinery have arrived and now the workmen are busy putting it in position. The first to be completed will be the machine shop department, and then the hammer room machinery will be set. The work has been pushed very rapidly and ou Monday

the boilers were fired up and the whistle blown for a short time. EVANSVILLE The State Board of Health some time ago laid down rules governing dairies, regarding sanitary matters, and on Friday William Cheaney. a dairyman, was in the City Court on a charge of keeping an unsanitary place, the affidavit having been filed according to the rules laid down by the State Health Board. Judge Curry decided that the state board had acted beyond Its authority and discharged the defendant. SHELBY VILLE. The last star mail route in Shelby county was displaced this week by the rur l route in Rush and Shelby counties. This route delivered the mail Irom the Shelby ville office to the offices at Blue Ridge, Bhelbv county; Moscow and Gowdy..Rush county, and had been In existence forty years. RICHMOND Because of inability to get boys who will do the work satisfactorily, the Western Cnion Telegraph Company has employed girls as messengers. The change, if it proves satisfactory, will be permanent. LA FAYETTE. -Frank I. Grubbs. recently appointed deputy secretary of state, by Becretary-eiecl Daniel E. Storms, is ill at his home here, He was seized with an attack of grip two days ago. BB1 rrRl. Judge Wilson on Friday sentenced John Sllnkard, aged twenty-one, to the Jeffer i nville Reformatory for from two to fourteen vears, for assault with intent to kill. BLUFFTON Bert Hoopcngardner. aged twenty-three, had his right hand torn oft in a corn shredder on Friday. MAI !S N The Madison Council has reduced the city tax rate to $1 on the hundred.

FIREMEN CRUSHED. One Killed and Others Injured by a Falling Wall. CLEVELAND. Dec. 5. At 4 o'clock this morning, while members of the flre department were still fighting the flames in the ruins of the Likly & Rocket factory, at the corner of Cass and Hamilton streets, a portion of the wall fell in upon members of engine company No. 14, burying them in the debris. Those who were thus caught were Capt. Daniel Finuchan, James I Osburger and Arthur Garner, who were working just outside the wall; Lieut. Robert M Kenna. Hosomen Samuel Jones, Charles Nieding and Patrick H. Joyce, who were on the inside. Ambulances were hurriedly called and the firemen hrought from the ruins. Joyce was dead. The injuries of McKenna. Jones and Nieding are severe, while the others arc slightly injured. All will recover. Dr. Henry S. Cntler. SWAMPSCOTT. Mass.. Dec. 5 Dr. Henry S. Cutler, composer and musical conductor, credited with introducing vested male choirs In this country, died here today. Dr. Cutler formerly was organist and choirmaster of Trinity Church in New York city. When the Prince of Wales, now King Edward VII, visited this country, in 1S60, Dr. Cutler conceived the idea of having a vested choir in Trinity similar to those In the English churches, because the Prince of Wales ha'd decided to attend the service there. The Idea was at once taken up in this country and became general. Dr. Cutler's setting -to the hvmn, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," is the best known of his compositions. Cigarette Causes Flre at Princeton. PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 5. Dickinson Hall, the big recitation building of the academic department of the university, narrowly escaped being burned to the ground to-day. Fire broke out in the third story, between the hallway ard examination hall at 10 o'clock while Prof. J. Mark Baldwin's junior class In psychology was in session. A bucket brigade was formed by the students and the local fire department was summoned. After a hard fight the blaze was smothered before it reached the main part of the examination hall. It Is thought that some one dropped a lighted cigarette in the hallway and that the woodwork took lire. The loss is $3.000. Other Fires. CK'ICAGO. Dec. 5.-Franklin MacVoagh's palatial residence at 103 Lake Shore drive w .s damaged $10.000 by flre early to-day. Two maid servants jumped from a secondstory window, suffering serious injuries and several others nearly suffocated were rescued by firemen. Mr. MacVeagh and family were uninjured. An overheated furnace was the cause of the fire. STILLWATER. Minn.. Dec. 5-Flre that broke out under the stage in the Grand Opera House from an unknown cause at 3 o'clock this morning caused a loss of $175,"0. The opera house block was destroved, with a loss of $75,000, insurance $21.000. Adjoining property was damaged. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 5 The passenger and freight steamer Saxon of the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Company was burned at her docks at midnight. The loss is unknown. The vessel was 1,290 tons register, and plied between this city and Boston. ROCK FORD, III.. Dec. 5. -The Mead building, a five-story briek structure, was destroyed by flre last night. It was occupied by the Wortham Bros. & Co., department store, and the Rockford business college. The loss is $275,000; insurance, $250.000. MINISTER BUCK'S DEATH. He Was Setting; a. Bird Xet When Seised with Paralysis of the Heart. YOKOHAMA. Dec. 5. Paralysis of the heart caused the death of United States Minister Albert E. Buck, which occurred yesterday. The end was tragically sudden. Mr. Buck was the guest of the Emperor in a duck hunt on the Shinhama preserves. A bird had been netted, and the minister, with a jocular remark, started to reset the net. Suddenly he fell, and without a word or groan expired instantaneously. He had suffered from a weak heart for some time. Mrs. Buck was not with the party. Minister Buck was held in high esteem in Japan, and the flags on government buildings have been placed at half-mast. The funeral has been set for Monday next. Other Deaths. LOS ANGELES, Cal,. Dec. 5,-Charles B. Harton, a newspaper man. who died at San Bernardino yesterday of consumption. was born at Seymour. Ind.. forty-eight years ago. He began his newspaper career as a reporter on the Chicago Tribune. He removed to the coast In 1KS6 and in 1897 he founded the Fresno Republican. CHICAGO. Dec. 5. Chales T. Messinger. president of the Messinger Hardwood Lumber Company, died this morning at the Evanston Hospital as the result of injuries received last Friday In a runaway accident. Mr. Messinger resided in Glencoe. OWEGO. N. Y., Dec. 5. B. W. Lorlng, first lieutenant. U. S. N.. retired, died today at his home. He witnessed the assassination of President Lincoln and was one of the first to reach the stricken man and help carry him to the house where he died. LONDON. Dec. 5 Mrs. W. L. Croll. a native of Chicago, best known in musical circles by her maiden name. Alice Maude Whatacre. is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Croll had long been residents of London. NOOALES. A. T.. Dec. 5. Frank L. Doane. collector of United States customs at the port of Nogales. died tc-day of typhoid pneumonia. Doane was a son of ex-Congressman Doane. of Ohio. LA CON I A. N H . Dec. 6. -The Masonic Temple was burned this morning, following a terrific explosion which first entirely wrecked the structure. The loss is $125.0ou. Social Center of Vwst York. NEW YORK. Dae. 5. A periodical devoted to the doings of society people has discovered that the social center of this city la moving uptown at the rate of a block a year. The center of population so far as the consequential people are concerned is this year at Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue. Two years ago it was at Fiftieth st n et and in 1S it was at Thirty-eighth street. It cures "dizziness" Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge. Collmtae of n Hotel. BALTIMORE, Md.. Dec. 5.-Hotel Windsor, a small hostelry, collapsed late tonight. None of the forty guests was Injured. Owing to a small crack in a wall Building Inspector Preston to-day condemned the building and ordered it vacated. The guests moved into what was considered a safe portion of the building. At midnight the guests, scantily clad, sought other sleeping quarters. Laxative Bromo-Quinlne

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FlD FOR WMW STIDEM Bill. DIM. IS ABOIT COMPLETED. Plans for Pnrdue's Football Banquet Election of Football CaptainsFranklin and Wabiinh Note. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind . Dec. 5. The initial number of the Indiana University Lecture Association s course, the recital of Jessie Bartlett Davis, the famous contralto, took place at the gymnasium to-night. The course of lectures and entertainments to be offered this year is exceptionally good. Early next term Charles Emory Smith will ! lure here and he will be followed by General Baliir.gton Booth. The funds for the new student building are now within $5.000 of the amount to be raised, which is $60,000. half of which was Riwn by Mr. Rockefeller on condition the other $30,000 be subscribed by Jan. 1. 1903. It is now an assured thing that by that date the full $30,000 will have been raised. Already some $2,500 has been subscribed by the student body and only half of the students have as yet been solicited. The foundation day committee is very busy arranging for foundation day exercises, which will be held on Jan. 20. The occasion will be made one of the most interesting in the history of the institution and a trlplj programme will be given, which will include, besides observing founder's day, the formal inauguration of Dr. Bryan as president of Indiana University, and the dedication of the new Science Hali, which is now about completed. The Whole affair is to be simple and inexpensive. Judge G. L. Reinhard, dean of the department of law, is on a two weeks' leave of absence and Is spending the time In visiting the law schools of the East. He will make special observations of the methods employed In teaching some of the branches of law in Eastern universities, and his study will be to introduce certain reforms in the department of law here. Zora Clevenger, of Muncie, was elected captain of the Indiana football team for next year. Clevenger has just finished his third year on the Indiana team, having made left half back In his freshman year. Clevenger will also be captain of the 03 baseball team. He played a brilliant game this year on the 'varsity and was easily considered the best ground-gainer and surest tackle on the team. The board of control of athletics at Indiana University granted twenty "I. 's" to the football men. This wholesale granting of IV is causing much discussion. Last spring no "I. 's" were granted to the baseball team because It was contended that the men on the team were not members of a representative Indiana team. However, the record this fall in football has been the worst record ever credited to an Indiana team and yet more 11" were granted than ever before. Basketball at I. U. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 5. Basketball season opened at Indiana University this week with two class games juniors vs. freshmen and the seniors vs sophomores. The juniors and sophomores won, the scores being as follows: Juniors 24, freshmen 10; sophomores 24, seniors 4. The final between the juniors and sophomores will be played Wednesday night. The prospects for Indiana In basketball are very good at present, and from the winners of the final class game a good strong team can easily be picked. With a single exception all of last year's men are back, and some good material has come in this year that can be put to splendid use. Coach Howe intends to have one of the strongest teams ever turned out and is much pleased with the showing the men are making. The schedule is being arranged and will include some big games with the leading colleges of the middle West. FRANKLIN COLLEGE. Webb Re-Eleeted Football Captain Debating Society Reorganized. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN. Ind., Dec. 5 The Franklin College Athletic Association met yesterday. Manager Jordan, of the football team, made his final report, which showed the receipts to be $410.90 and the expenses $386.88, leaving a surplus of $24.02. Manager Jordan is the first Franklin manager to close the season with a surplus, and a vote of thanks was given him by the students. The coach committee has not reported, but Chairman Sellers said that if it collected all the money subscribed it could meet all its expenses. Mark Webb was re-elected captain of the fotball team for 1903. Webb has played on the team for three years, filling the positions of right half and right end. He is a member of the present junior class and an active member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The Debating Club has been reorganized under the direction of Prof. A. E. Bestor. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at which it was decided to accept the challenge for a debate with Kalamazoo College of Michigan. The debate will be held here on Feb. 27, Franklin choosing the question and Kalamazoo the side, each college being allowed three speakers. Franklin debated with Kalamazoo last year and was defeated by a vote of 2 to L The freshman class organized yesterday and elected the following officers: President, Charles Jewett; vice president, L. D. Webb; secretary, Mabel Atwood; treasurer, Grace Bryan: historian. Ivy Caldwell; orator, A. O. Washburn; poet. Belle Parks; seargeant-at-arms, A. F. Thompson; prosecutor, Elza Silver; yell master, Byron Deming; artist. Rüssel Schüler. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has issued invitations for a reception to be given In its chapter rooms on Tuesday evening. Dec. 9. The first lecture of the gymnasium lecture course was given last night by Dr. Hurty. secretarv of the State Board of Health, Ids subject being "A Healthy Home." e WABASH COLLEGE. Marshall Elected Football CaptainPersonal and Fraternity Votes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 5. Th alumni and trustees of Wabash College are showing considerable Interest In the movement looking to the unveiling of a statue of Prof. Caleb Mills at Indianapolis. Professor Mills was one of the foremost men In all the history of the college and, In addition, he has been called the father of the common-school system of the State of Indiana. The Indiana Club of Chicago, which includes many Wabash men, is preparing to take some steps toward the presentation of plans. An effort will be made to intertst the new State Legislature in the project, and to that end information concerning Professor little's work has already been msiltd to each of the Hoosier statesmen. Manager Eller has abandoned the idea of arranging a post-season football game with the University of Indianapolls. Clinton B. Marshall has been elected captain of the team for next year. This was his third season on the Wabash varsity, and he has always been one of the most reliable men on the team. Marshall is 6 feet and 1 Inch In height and is, by test, one of the two strongest men in the college. His position has been at left half back, and his linebucking has always h. n a feature of the game. The n v. i; tain is already on the lookout for material, and he is sure that the conditions next n will be favor able to the best team since 95. Only three men on this year s 'varsity will not return to college. An arrangement has not yet been made with Coach Wilson for next season, but it is probable that he will be signed for football coach in the college and physical director at the city Y. M. C A. A majority of the chapters of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity of the Indiana colleges have united in recommending Will H. Hays, of Sullivan, a Wabash man of

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Pnrdne's Football Banquet. Special tD the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Dec. 5 Preparations for the annual banquet for the Purdue football team arc now reaching their conclusion and the affair promises to be the most successful one of the kind ever held here. Manager Grant and Coach Best will be the guests of honor. Prof. T. F. Moran will be toastmaster. The banquet will be held in the Hotel Lahr dining room. Prestdiat W. Stone will address those present on "The University and Footbali." Coach Best will talk on "Why Don't We Learn More Football?' president and manager of the Athletic Association. L. M. Grant s, subj ct will be "Poor Ball;" exCaptain Harry Leslie will speak on "The Season of l:1.:" Captain I. S. Osborn on "Our Prospects;" Long John Miller. "The All Around Athlete." Others who will speak include Captain Ira L. Reeves and Professors Severance. Burrage and S. M. Wilson. The toasts will be followed by the awarding of "P. 's" to those entitled to them. Effective Fire Drill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG. Ind., Dec. 5 -To test the efficiency of the fire drill in the west end school building, an alarm of fire was turned in by the janitor at 2:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon. In exactly one minute and thirty-eight seconds the 750 pupils and their teachers were standing outside the building with their wraps in their hands. No one in the building except Professor Geeting, Janitor Thomas and a reporter knew the report was false. Their exit was made without the least trace of a panic. 0 Teaehers' Excursion Abandoned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 5.-The City School Board to-night declared off the proposed two days' excursion to Chicago for the public tchool teachers to visit thv schools and art galleries in that city. The teachers, who had been practically unanimous In favor of the excursion, voted by 134 to 6S against the excursion after the local merchants raised the objection that public servants should not do anything that would divert Christmas trade from the home stores. Notes of Colleare Sports. The Wisconsin-Minnesota football game next year will be played at Madison on Thanksgiving day. The Wisconsin-Chicago game will be played at Milwaukee about Nov. 1, and the Wisconsin-Michigan game at Ann Arbor about the middle of November. The Yale University Track Athletic Association last night announced plans for a track athletic meet embracing about 2fio college preparatory schools, academies and high schools in the Eastern and Middle Western States to be held on Yale Field on May 16, 1903. The Illinois athletic board of control granted the following men football letters: Diener, C. Fairweather, Stahl. Cook. McKnight, Bronson, Bundy. Rothgeb. Wilson, Kasten, Ca pen, Beers. Huntoon, Parker, McKinley. Pitts and Stone. Rounds was given an Illinois cap. Coach Stagg, of Chicago University, has put his track team in winter training quarters, and has laid down the following rules for requirements from candidates for the team: First, no smoking; second, uniform early hours for retiring; third, proper choice in regard to food; fourth, willingness to conform to any other reasonable rules which the athletic department may see fit to make. Arrangements were concluded yesterday between Managers Roe and Riser, representing the Wisconsin and Utah University football teams, to play at Pasadena, Cal... on New Year's day. The Wisconsin eleven will leave for the coast about Dec. 18 and will be Joined at Salt Lake by the Utah eleven. On Christmas day the Wisconsin eleven will meet the Penis Indians at San Francisco. John De Witt has been elected captain of the Princeton football team for next season. Davis, the captain this year, was unanimously elected on the first ballot, but he refused to accept. The resignation was accepted and De Witt was put up and received a unanimous choice. De Witt has played on the varsity team for three years. Last year he played tackle and this year guard on the team. He is a graduate of Iawrenceville, where he captained the football team In his senior year. Baseball preliminaries opened at Notre Dame yesterday and twenty-six men answered Captain Stephen's call for candidates. The work was light and the players were busy stopping grounders. There were many of the old men who did not come out and who will do little training until after vacation. The object of the call so shortly before Christmas is to get a line on the baseball timber and enable the coach to quickly weed out the less likely candidates when they report after Christmas. , Athletic representatives from the universities from Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Northwestern met In Chicago yesterday and arranged what practically will be intercollegiate baseball. A schedule was adopted, subject to ratification by the athletic board of each college. Each team will play three games with each of the others In the combination, the season beginning April 11 with Michigan at Chicago, and ending June 13 with Northwestern at Chicago. Dual track games also were arranged as follows: May 9. Illinois at Chicago: May 16, Wisconsin at Champaign; May 23, Chicago at Madison; May 30, conference meet (probable.) SUFFOCATED IN A TRUNK. Slx-Year-Old Boy Who Was Playing; with His Sister In an Attle. ANCHORAGE, Ky., Dec. 5.-As the result of an attempt to go to sleep in a trunk. John Allen, jr., the six-year-old son of John Allen, a resident of this place, Is dead, and his eight-year-old sister is In a very serious condition, though she will recover. The children, according to the girl's story, were playing in the attic of their home, when the boy proposed that thev get Into a trunk and rest. After they had done so the boy pulled the Ud down, and thev wer unable to open it again. Their cries for help were not heard, and when their mother found them, about an hour later, the boy was dead and the girl was unconscious. The family is at a loss to understand why the children could not raise the lid, as it had neither lock nor clasp. BURIED BY WOMEN. o Men AüslMted In the Funeral Servlees of Mrs. Monahnn. CHICAGO, Dec. 5. A ceremony unique among funeral services was performed at Rosehill to-day when the body of a woman was laid to rest by a party of her womni friends. A woman said the prayer, a woman spoke the words of eulogy over the body and consigned "dust to dust" at the open grave. Only one man stood in the throng of mourners. He was the son of the woman in the casket, but he took no part in th simple rites. It was the funeral of Mrs. Eliza Jane Oliver M nahan. dead at ninety years of age. the daughter of Captain Joseph Oliver, of the Continental army in the revolutionary war. Following her last wish, she was buried by her fellow-members of the Daughters of the Revolution. BEES KILLED A CH1CKEV Insects Objeet to Black, and to Blaek Gameeoeks In Particular. Denver Times. Baea are opposed to black as a color. Whether this is because they dislike a symbol of mourning, think black typifies a cloud or consider It the emblem of death is not known, but the fact remains that bees do not hesitate to display their hatred foi things black upon th1 slightest provocation. I. L. Richards, proprietor of the Acme apiaries at Littleton, can testify to this with regret Richards is a chicken fancier as well as a bee expert. He has some of the tmest chickens in Colorado and not long ago made up his mind to have more. He bought some Imported chickens from Hong-Kong and paid a fancy price for thern. One gi beruffied cock cost him and was us black as a piece of coal save for one red mark on Its back. Richards proudly took the big foreigner from its box and showed It to his friends with exultation. Then he set it free in the chicken yard. The bsehives occupy a corner of this yard and have never caused any trouble. But with the advent of the black rooster the living emblems of industry rebelled. Rich went back to see his new pet half an hour later and was amazed to see the yard in a

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