Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1903 — Page 7

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TTIE INITANAPOI,tS JOÜKNAL.' FRTDAT, IIARCH 27, 1903.

CLOSE OF THE INQUEST

Bin DICK CISC -TAKES l'XDEIl AD- j VISE5IEXT BY JIDGC 3IIIUIIY, Who Will Not Return a Verdict Possibly Until Clove of the Pennell Inquest. ITEW WITNESSES EXAMINED PREACHER AXD TWO DETECTIVES 02f THE STAND THURSDAY. Mrs. Hall Aliio Examined Again and Part of Her Testimony ContradictedThe Chemist Report. . BUFFALO, N. T.. March 26. The Inquest Into the death of Edwin L, Burdlck, who was murdered just a month ago to-day In his home In Ashland avenue, ended this evening. At the close of the Inquest Judge Murphy announced that an official inquiry Into the death of Arthur It. Tennell, who has figured prominently in the Burdlck Inquest, would be begun on Monday. Th3 Burdlck Inquest has served to develop several theories relative to the crime, but the Investigation has not added anything more than an appearance of reasonability to any of these theories.- Aside from the falfure of the authorities to secure evidence bearing directly upon the commission of the crime or to establish the identity of the murderer, there Is a feeling of satisfaction that the name of Mr. Burdlck has been lifted from the mire In which it was first dragged and that his character has been shown In its true light. The evidence brought out under the examination of witnesses by District Attorney Coatsworth has shown Burdlck to have been a loving father, always willing to sacrifice his own happintsa and pride for the sake of his children, that he was the victim of false friendship, broken pledges, and, in face of It all, a forgiving, indulgent husband. The efforts of the authorities to fix the crime tipon ßome one will not end with the inquest. At the same time there is now little hope of success in this undertaking. Judge Murphy said after court adjourned this afternoon that his Judgment in the rAs.pt 'xnwXA not h handed down until Mon day or t)rhars later in the week. It is. possible that he may issue warrants for the arrest of "John Doe" and MJane Roe." If Judge Murphy sees fit to take such action the district attorney wfll be obliged to submit the whole case to the grand Jury. THREE NEW WITNESSES. Three new witnesses appeared on the stand to-day. They were Rev. L. M. Powers, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, where the Burdlck family and Mrs. Hull were regular attendants, and Detectives Cornish and Coughlin, who were the first policemen to arrive at the Burdlck home when the crime was discovered. Mrs Hull, Carol Burdlck and Maggie Murray, the Burdlck cook, were recalled to straighten out If possible conflicting testimony given by them while on the witness stand. The report of City Chemist Hill was read hv the district attorney. It stated that no poison was found In the cocktail bottle or in the stomach of the dead man, thus disposing of the theory that Burdlck- was poisoned, and also that there were no blood stains on the golf stick taken from the Burdlck home after the murder, which eliminates the golf stick as the possible weapon with which Burdlck was killed. The Rev. M. L. Powers was the first witness. He said that Mrs. Hull and the Burdlcks were members of his church congregation. On two separate occasions he had talks with Burdlck concerning the latter's domestic affairs. The first one was at Burdick's office about three weeks prior to the murder. He called voluntarily to talk with Burdlck about the matter, which, the witness said, "had become common talk at that time." Mrs. Hull also has discussed it with him once during a call the minister made at the house. Asked to repeat the conversation with Mrs. Hull. Mr. Powers said: 'She told me her daughter had left home and that a suit for divorce was pending. She said her daughter was not without fault, but that she was not alone to blame either; that If I knew the whole thing I would not believe that the fault was all her daughter's." Mrs. Hull, he said, did not ask him to speak to Burdlck about ' withdrawing the divorce suit. On the first occasion that he visited Burdlck he walked vp home with him so that he was with him about an hour. Burdlck told him about everything that has come out In this examination. "What did he tell you that has not come outr THREATENED SUICIDE. "He told me that Pennell had threatened to commit suicide If the divorce suit was not withdrawn, and that Pennell had succeeded In Impressing the sincerity of his threat upon Mrs. Burdlck to such an extent that she had believed him and Induced Burdlck to go to Pennell and tell him that If he would go out of town he would call everything square. I think he said Pennell had given a written promise to leave town. "He told me that he l:ad made up his fiind to make public all the letters that ennell had written to Mrs. Burdlck, and he Impressed upon me how ridiculous It would make Pennell appear." The witness said he asked Burdlck to withdraw the divorce suit and to take his wlfe back, but he concluded from the man's reply that he would not do so under any circumstances. Burdlck. Mr. Powers said, had a very kindly feeling for Mrs. Hull. He thought a good deal of her. "He told me she was not well and that he had offered to send her to Florida or California," continued the witness, "and that she should always have a home with him. One reason Burdlck gave me for not taking Mrs. Burdlck back was that Mrs, Hull always had had the chief care of the children and thev would continue to be under her car?." Mr. Powers said his second call upon Mr. Burdlck was mainly regarding a business matter. "Do you know whether Pennell ever made any threat against Burdlck?" asked Mr. Coatsworth. "No. All I know Is that I have an Impression that Pennell said to some one that If the divorce 3uit was not withdrawn something would happen. I would not care to swear that anybody ever told me that. It Is simply an Impression which I have." Mr. Powers was then excused. CAROL ÖURDICK RECALLED. Carol Burdlck, the thirteen-year-old daughter of the murdered man. was recalled. Replying to the district attorney's questions she said she arose about 7:C0 on the morning following the murder. The first person she saw was her grandmother going down stairs. The latter had her skirt on. The Voting witness said first that she reached the hall through the door of her own room. Then she admitted it was through the door of her father's room. Bhe went out that way because the door of aer father's room was open and it was easier to get out that way. Continuing, the witness said that when she came out Into the hall she heard her grandma and Maggie Murray talking. At first rhe could not remember what they were talking about, but being questioned she said she heard them nay: "Why, he ruu not been In his bed all night." and "his den door is closod." Alice said: "Why. I heard papa go down ftalrs a little while ago." The witness said It wuj Alico and not she (Carol) who said this. Asked as to whether anybody had talked to her since her father's death, as to hew he was killed, the witness said: "No. I do not know how he was killed. She did not hear that there was anything the matter with her father until after Dr. Marcy came. Grandma told her he was ill. She could not recall who slept with grandma the right before the murder. N Attovrey Hartzell objected to the district attorney pressing the witness, when the court said: "We don't care for any suggestions from you. You are here only through courtesy. When we third: the district attorney is going too far, I shall stop him. I don't see, anyway, why you should fear to have the witness pressed." Hull was recalled and the district

attorney pointed out that when on the ! stand before she had testified that she was in the bathroom when Maggie Murray told her the den door was closed and the kitchen window was open, while Maggie Murray testified that they were In Mrs. Hull, room at the time. MRS. HULL'S MOVEMENTS. Witness was sure they were not in her room at the time. She did not remember having seen the children that morning before she went down stairs, nor having heard the remark: "Why, I Just heard papa go down stairs." Mrs. Hull reiterated that she went to St. John's Church on Ash Wednesday morning. She usually went to the Church of the Messiah, but once or twice had dropped In at St. John's Church. She was not on Elmwood avenue that morning. (Pennell was seen on Elmwood avenue near the Burdlck home that morning.) Since last on the stand she had been reminded that on the following afternoon, the afternoon of the night on which Burdlck was killed, she went' to a dentist on Elmwood avenue. In the morning she went to St. John's Church, but no services were held there. She then got on a car and went to St. Paul's Church, Witness remembered Burdlck having forced his wife to give him the key to her letter box. She had never seen the contents of the box. She knew while Mrs. Burdlck was in Atlantic City and at Niagara Falls that Pennell was there too. There was a lock on the den door, but she did not know whether there was a key to it. Witness said she was not in the cellar on the morning when the murder was discovered, either before or after the discovery. "What were your relations with Mr. Pennell?" asked Attorney Hubbell. "Not any. He was a man I did not like." "Did you ever appeal to him to let Mrs. Burdick alone?" "Yes, on two occasions. The first time I wrote him a very earnest letter. I appealed to his pride, telling him that any one who had been a guest in the house should be above making trouble in our home. I am sure if the man had had any heart or decency that appeal would havo been sufficient." Mrs. Hull testified that she wrote Pennell again last May. "He sent a very cold reply," she said, "in which he said he would not be driven out of Buffalo; that there was a better way to settle the matter." "Did you ever meet him after that?" "Yes, I met him once. He tried to raise his hat to me. but I looked the other way." "Then your feelings, toward him were those of resentment?" "They were." "And what were his feelings toward you?" "I do not know." Mrs. Hull made a more favorable Impression while on the witness stand to-day than she did during her first examination. The lines of her resolute face were relaxed. She gave more evidence of feeling and Interest and her voice was that of a woman who had become weary of it all. She looked older and there was something more venerable and kindly in her refined face. THE SERVANT'S TESTIMONY. Maggie Murray, the servant, was reCalled. She repeated her story that she went up stairs to Mrs. Hull's room to tell her about finding the kitchen window open and the den door closed. She said she was not down stairs when she gave Mrs. Hull that information. , "While you were in the hall up stairs did Carol say: Why, I Just heard papa go down stairs?" "Yes, sfr.7 - "Where. was she at that time?" " "Standing In the doorway of her father's room." "You are sure It was Carol?" "Yes. sir." The object in bringing out this testimony, apparently, was to show that somebody had been moving about the house that morning:. N . . "Do you know who it was Carol heard going down stairs?" asked the court. "No, I do not." Judge Murphy here ordered a recess until 2 o clockWhen the hearing was resumed after recess Judge Murphy said: ' "The Pennell Inquest will be begun at 10 o'clock Monday

mummg ana win oe a separate and distinct Investigation." Mr. Coatsworth then read the report of Chemist Hill on the examination of Burdick's stomach, a golf stick and the contents of the bottle found on the table in the den. The report on the contents of the bottle was to the effect that it contained no traces of drugs or poisons. No blood or any traces of blood were found on the golf stick. In the stomach somo alcohol was found. In addition there were particles of fat having the smell of butter. Everything In the stomach was thoroughly digested. No trace of blood or poison were found in the stomach. Detective Cornish was called to the stand as the final witness to testify concerning the shirt found on Burdlck's body. Mr. Coatsworth produced the undershirt, which Cornish Identified as the one removed from Burdlck's body. He also identified the underdrawers which were found lying across the calves of the murdered man's legs. The only blood stain on them was a spot about two inches long and an inch wide directly back of the right knee. Cornish said he noticed what resembled bloody finger marks on the dead man's legs. "Did you notice the crackers, the tarts and a piece of cheese on the table In the den?" he was asked. "Yes, sir." "What do you say as to whether there were any crumbs on the plate?" "There were no cracker crumbs whatever on the plate or table or floor. The crackers had not been eaten In the den." "Did you notice whether the cocktail glass on the table had been used?" "I noticed that it was very sticky on the outside. Even the stem and base of the glass were coated with a sticky substance as if the contents of the glass had ran over." ' Detective Coughlin,' one of the first of the police officials to reach the Burdick home after the murder, was the next witness. lie said that he examined Burdlck's bedroom and found a vest on the sofa In tho bedroom. In one of the pockets was a roll of bills containing 144. There was no watch or any other article In the vest. It will be remembered that Burdlck's coat and trousers were found in his den. "So far as we know no other witnesses will be called Ifi this case," said Justice Murphy after Detective Coughlin had been excused. Thls closes the Burdick inquest." Judge Murphy said after adjournment that the statement .which he will deliver, embodying his opinion on the evidence submitted, will not be given out until next week. It was learned to-night that former Dis trict Attorney Penney entered a protest to Judge Murphy to-day against merging the Burdlck and Pennell inquests and handing down Judgment on both cases at the same time. Mr. Penney was a former partner of Pennell, and since Pennell's death has been acting as legal adviser for the Pennell family. Judge Murphy, in announcing that an official inquiry would be made into the Pennell tragedy, said the Pennell Inquest would be entirely independent of the Burdlck case. AGED TOBACCO CHEWEB. Isaac B. Price, 101 Years Old, tint Has Used the Weed Only One Way. NEW YORK, March 26.-Born in 1S02 in this city, Isaac B. Price to-day celebrated his one-hundred-and-first birthday. During his life Mr. Price has only once been outside the city limits; he hastiever been out of the State; he has never ridden on a trolley car, and, although he has crossed the East river many times, he has never been over the Brooklyn bridge. He takes great pride in his long life. "I think it is due." said he, "to the fact that I thoroughly masticate my food and that I have never drunk liquor or smoked. I have chewed tobacco, however, since I was a boy. I have always taken a full hour to each meal, sometimes more. If people nowadays would only take time to masticate their food properly there would hot be ho much trpuble from indigestion and dyspepsia, and they would live longer." Mr. Price cast his vote in 1S32 for John Qulncy Adam? for President and has. voted at every presidential election slrfe. 1X0 CBOSS MARRIED. Girl Who Trnvelcd to Slaiilln Found Her Lover to Be True. CA R BO N DA LE, III., March 26. Relatives of Prof. John V. Barrow, who last night was said to have failed to wed Miss Flo Cross after she had gone to Manila unattended to marry him. said to-day that a cable dispatch had be.en received announcing their wadding. Last night Miss Cross's parents said they had received a letter written by their daughter on Jan. 28, saying that Professor Barrow had written to her that it was impossible for them to wed.

LIABILITY OF DEFENDANTS

POIXTS OP LAW IS WILLIAM CAULEY'S SUIT FOR DAM AG CS. Attorneys for Street-Car Company and City 3Iove to Instrnct the Jury Court Grist. Judge Leathers has been called upon to decide a point of law In the damage suit of William Cauley against the city of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Streetrailway Company which has not been submitted to a court before and no precedents have been furnished the Judge to assist him in arriving at a conclusion. The attorneys representing the city and street car company Deputy City Attorney Lynn Hay and Will II. Latta at the announcement that all of the testimony in support of the suit had been submitted; moved that the Jury be instructed to return a verdict for the defendants and argued in support of their motions. Mr. Latta's argument was on the theory that the street-car company, although the' tmployer of Cauley and responsible In a measure for hhf safety while engaged at work on one of Its vehicles, could not be held responsible for the condition of Its right of way when It was laid on a bridge maintained by municipality. Mr. Latta argued that the company could not be held to have known the true condition of the bridge; could not be held responsible after the city government had declared the bridge safe for traffic and permitted the operation of cars over it, and could nxt be held responsible for the injuries of its passengers or employes when the accident was not directly chargeable to either its carelessnets or neglect of equipment. Mr. Hay, for the city, contended inai the accident was an unavoidable one and that the city, not knowing of the likelihood of the bridge falling, could not be charged with negligence and, therefore, is not liable for damages. The arguments of the attorneys were partly substantiated by the precedents in law and decisions cited, but none of them were based on anything like the present case. The city was defeated In Its defense of a similar suit and damages awarded the claimant in a case taken from the Marion county courts for trial, but the street-car company was not a defendant in the suit. VERDICT FOR $ 7,500. Superior Court Jury Awards Josephine Stephens that Amount. Josephine Stevens was given a verdict for $7,500 against the Tacoma laundry, Jesse W. Sligar and others yesterday by the Jury which heard her claim for damages in Room 3, Superior Court. Miss Stevens sued for damages because of the loss of her hair and scalp in an accident in the laundry several months ago. She was employed as a laundress, and In reaching over her wash tub to pick up a sock which had fallen her hair became entagled in the shafting of the machinery and. before she could loosen It she was whirled through the air to a pulley at the roof and her hair and scalp torn from her head. The injury was a painful one and the wound has not yet healed. A process of grafting skin on her head to replace the scalp Is being used by her physicians and eventually she will have a new scalp but will be baldheaded. The defense of the damage suit was that Miss Stevens was careless in her wqQk and that the accident was due to her Indifference to the danger In the shafting, which she was well aware of. One of the owners of the laundry had told her explicitly, the defense theory was, that she should not work near the shafting unless she was at least the distance of the width of her bench from it. The Jury answered a long list of Interrogatories in support of its verdict. THOMAS FELL IX A DITCH. He Snea Plninblnjs? Company to Recover $5,000 Damages. George Thomas's claim for $3,000 damages from Clinton T. Hayes, Frank J. Hayes and Joseph G. Hayes, the members of the partnership of Hayes Bros., plumbers, for Injuries consequent to falling in a ditch left unguarded by the plumbers on North Pennsylvania street, Is being heard by a Jury In Room 3, Superior Court. According to Thomas's complaint he was riding his bicycle on North Pennsylvania street on the night of Sept. IS, 1902, when he fell into a ditch opened by the plumbers in making a water connection at a dwelling house at No. 1S23 North Pennsylvania street. Thomas suffered severe body bruises, in addition to having several of his ribs crushed in. The plumbers are held to be liable for damages because they failed to properly warn passers on the street of the presence of the ditch. Thomas says that no red lantern or barricade was placed at the ditch to warn him of the danger and for this reason he rode blindly Into it. Way of the Transgressor. Cassie Clark received a fine of $00 and costs and Virgil Barrlngton a fine of $1 and costs for their free-for-all fight and disturbance of the peace la the neighborhood of Blake street and Indiana avenue last January, in the Criminal Court yesterday. The Clark woman, a colored woman of wonderful vitality, according to the testimony In her trial, was the aggressor in the trouble. She had a quarrel with Virgil while she was drunk and abused her after trowing a rock through the saloon window. She also drew a revolver and threatened to use it, but satisfied herself with knocking her opponent down and sitting on her, at the same time doing her utmost to disarrange the facial construction of the Barrlngton woman. The under woman in the fight resented the treatment and pulled a razor from under her skirt, and w4th it did enough execution to put Miss Clark In the hands of a physician. Both women were arrested and Indicted by the grand Jury for assault and battery with Intent to kill, and their trials yesterday morning showed both of them to have been at fault to some extent. . Judge Alford, in assessing the fine against Virgil Barrlngton, said he thought the woman was Justified in fighting with the other woman, but that she deserved a fine for being in a saloon and for becoming embroiled with the other woman, who was drunk. Cassie Clark was loud In her protestation of hvr Innocence of heart and in her avowals that she was not the aggressor but the Injured in the fight. Location of Juvenile Court. The location of the newly instituted Juvenile Court In the courthouse is still undecided. All of the rooms suggested for tho courtroom up to date have disagreeable features, and the County Commissioners have not definitely decided where to establish the court. It is more than likely that the original Intention of putting the Juvenile Court on the fourth or attic lloor will be abandoned, and the room now occupied by Thomas Palmer, a draughtsman, prepared for the court. The .County Council will meet in special session Wednesday to appropriate money for the purchase of furniture for the court room, and the commissioners will have to come to a decision soon in order to be able to order the furniture and carpet for the courtroom. Pennerley' Grocery Hill. An order for the arrest of J. C. Pennerley was issued by Judge Pro Tern. Merle Walker In the Circuit Court yesterday on the affidavit of J. C. Perry & Co.. wholesale grocers, that Pennerley is about to leave the city, taking his property with him. The wholesale grocers yesterday riled a suit for the recovery of H'so.tiD from Pennerley on account, alleging that this much of his bill of Kroceries from them is untiAlrt- The nlalntift alieeed thnt Innor. ley's property Is sufficient to satisfy the claim and the order for his arrest was asked that he might be prevented from disposing of It. When Pennerley Is arrest- - , lit v : . , a . i i . ea ne wm ie permiiieu 10 iurnisn a oond fnr hlo release and the orripr of nrrcat win work no greater hardship than compelling mul iu ueiv.uu iiiu euii. Charles II. Erwin the Guardian. The Central Trust Company,, Instead of being appointed the guardian cC David P.

Erwin, as erroneously published, signed the bond of Charles H. Erwin, an uncle of the child, who was appointed Its guardian by the probate commissioner, as surety of the

$5,000 bond. THE COURT RECORD. SUPERIOR COURT. Rpom 1 John L. McMaster, Judge. The City Bond Company vs. Susan Har vey et al.; improvement lien. Defendants defaulted. Submitted to court. Evidence heard. Finding there Is due plaintiff against Lot 254 as described in complaint the sum of $01.91. The City Bond Company vs. Bettle Gilek et al.; improvement lien. Dismissed by plaintiff. Costs paid. Room 2 James M. Leathers, Judge. William Cauley vs. City of Indianapolis et al.; damages. On trial by Jury. Room 3 Vinson Carter, Judge. Josephine Stephens vs. Jesse W. Sligar et al.; damages. Jury returns verdict for plaintiff for $7.500. George Thomas vs. Clinton T. Haves et al.; damages. On trial by Jury. CRIMINAL COURT. Fremont Alford, Judge. Cassie Clark; assault to kill. On trial bycourt. Evidence heard. Finding of guilty as charged. Fined $50 and costs. Virgil Barrlngton; assault and battery with intent to kill. On trial by court. Finding of guilty. Fined $1 and costs. CIRCUIT COURT. Merle N. A. Walker, Judge Pro Tem. Cynthia Rogers V3. A. Metzger Agency. Trial resumed. William Brown vs. Harry Trout: suit to recover money. Defendant defaulted. Sub mitted to court. Finding for plaintiff. Judgment against defendant for $57.20 and costs without relief. NEW SUITS. J. C. Perry & Co. vs. James H. Kennedy: suit on account. Circuit Court. The City Bond Company vs. William Meyer et al.: complaint on improvement lien. Superior Court, Room 1. Nana Stevenson vs. Scott S. Stevenson; divorce. Circuit Court. Philip Lendorml vs. Sadie G. Lendorml. Superior Court, Room 3. HIGHER COURTS RECORD. SUPREME COURT. New Suits. 20109. Frank H. Keiser et al. vs. William A. Mills et al. Hamilton C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. amo. Hugh G. Kugan vs. Hamilton National Bank. Allen C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Notice. Minute. 20003. Indianapolis Street-railway Company vs. Katie Whltaker. Morgan C. C. Appellee's waiver. APPELLATE COURT. New Suit. 47Gfl. Jacob Boos vs. Carl Läng. Wabash C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. TCotlce to clerk and attorney of record served (2.) jsotice to coparties (3) served. Declination of coparties (3) to Join. Minutes. 4530. American Plate Glass Company vs. Lemuel C. NIchoson et al. Madison S. C. Appellant's petition for oral argument. 4G58. The City of Mishawaka vs. Augustus Kirby. St. Joseph C. C. Appellant's brief (8.) 4243. John Tives vs. Louis Hammersmith. Clark. C. C. Appellant's petition and brief (8) for rehearing. PURITYOF WATER SUPPLY DR. WILLIAM CHARLES WHITE HAS MADE NO REPORT. City Board of Health Will Investigate a "Lenk" Statement by Dr. House. Reports of the progress of Dr. William Charles White, the bacteriologist appointed by the Board of Health to make a survey of the city water supply and analysis of the water, have been gaining publicity In a way that has led Dr. White to transfer the scene of his labors from the Health Board laboratory to his own private laboratory. These reports, made highly sensational In print, were to the effect that he had discovered colon bacilli, recognized as Indicative of typhoid germs, lh samples of water taken by him from the reservoir at the north pumping station of the Indianapolis Water Company. These reports added that Dr. White had found a strange current of water In the reservoir, which might indicate that water from the river gained access to the reservoir. Dr. White declined to discuss the reports last night. He said his work was for the Board of Health, and that he would report to It only. He had made no report, he said, nor had he talked to any one as to the development of his cultures. Dr. White said his work was done at the city laboratory, which adjoins the ofllce of the Board of Health. He says he shall do nothing more there. When Dr. White was appointed it was understood that he would develop the water cultures In his private laboratory. ' Dr. White has worked in the laboratory with A. R. Moffatt, the chemist who, about six weeks ago, announced analysis, which City Sanitarian Buehler indorsed, showing that city water coiltalned typhoid disease germs. The Board of Health declined to recognize Moffatt's analysis as official and eliminated the title "city chemist." which was given to him. He has, however, continued to use the city laboratory. A "LEAK" SOMEWHERE. President House, of the Board of Health, said last night that he was unable to understand how Dr. White's report could be anticipated unless some one had access to his data. Dr. House said the board had specially cautioned Dr. White to preserve secrecy as to his work until his report was acted on by the board. Dr. House said he had, been assured by Moffatt and City Sanitarian Buehler that they had given nothing out about it. Dr. House said the board would investigate the "leak." The unofficial and unverified report as to Dr White's findings may have a serious effect on his work. It Was the board's idea to permit him to make his investigation secretly and base action on the result. Divulging what has been accomplished in one step may thwart plans which the board had. It is understood that Dr. White took samples from the reservoir March 17. It is the cultures developed from these samples, it is reported, that showed disease germs? The water company now has two experts engaged constantly in testing the water supply. During January last the company, not understanding that Dr. Gkis was to quit, permitted the month to pass without chemical analysis. After Moffatt's analyses were printed the company engaged Dr. Edmund D. Clark, former city sanitarian, and Dr. John F. Geis, deputy coroner, to make analyses. Dr. Clark's work is exclusively bacteriological and Dr. Geis's chemical. Dr. Clark said last night that his cultures had all shown that the water was potable. Dr. Gcls's chemical analyses L have also sustained the potability of the water. Officials of the water company say they cannot understand why the Health Board, if it dvsires to test the purity of the water, does not have the analytical work done elsewhere than in the city laboratory, where it I open to discovery as well as possible contamination. They also say they are still ready to select a competent bacteriologist or chemist and let the board select another the two to investigate the whole question as provided for in the water contract. Death of Mrs. Jeane W. SU&rar. Mrs. Jesse W. Sligar, wife of J. W.. Sugar, proprietor of the Tacoma laundry, on North Senate avenue, died last night at the. home of her mother, Mrs. George Crowe, in May wood. Mrs. Sligar had been a sufferer from tuberculosis for more than two years. One year ago she went to Las Vegas. N. M., in the hope of regaining her falling health. She was unsuccessful and returned to this city recently. She was twenty-tight years old. She leaves no children. Mrs. Sligar was a member of the Ladles' Auxiliary, Order Railway Conductors. Her husband was secretary and treasurer of the latter organization.

SPRING CLASS INITIATED

THIRTY-SECOND DEGREE WORK OF SCOTTISH RITE COMPLETED. Shrlners Will Lead Candidates Over the Hot Sands To-Dny Xew Scottish Rite Masons. The thirty-second degree work of the Scottish Rite Masons for the March class of 1903 was completed yesterday. The largest list of candidates for any March class In the history of the Scottish Rite Masons in Indiana received the initiation. The class was composed mostly of candidates from other cities, there being only nine Indianapolis men In the class. Many men prominent In public and private life in the State were members of the class, among them being Thomas Edwin Bell, of Hammond, a member of the State Senate. The Shrlners will initiate a large class to-day and the spring conclave will end with a banquet at the Scottish Rite building to-night. Several of the classes of the Scottish Rite attended the spring meeting, and the members will hold reunions to-day. The members of the March class are as follows: Harry C. Adams, Muncle. John C. Altman, Huntington. Harry A. Axtell. BloomingtoA. Leland S. Ay Is worth, Hartford City. James T. Bell, Covington. Thomas E. Bell, Hammond. Edgar A. Binford, Greenfield. Thomas O. Blyth. Fort Wayne. Benjamin C. Booher, ZIonsvllle. Walter G. Bowlby, Indianapolis. Michael Brayer, Fort Wayne. James A. Breedlove, Kokomo. Edward Bridges, Wabash. Harry Bridges. Franklin. Benjamin P. Brown, Franklin. William J. Buckingham. Franklin. Arnott M. Cleveland. Plymouth. Mark T. Cocherl, Fort Wayne. Eugene O. Collins, Franklin. Fred D. Collett, Newport. Milton M. Cook, Kokomo. Edgar G. Cottingham. Montpeller. William H. Cox. Hartford City. William G. Coxon, Kokomo. Alvie C. Crimmel. Hartford City. Alexander Cunnison, Fort Wayne. Charles G. Davis, Indianapolis. Charles L. Davis, Shelbyville. Casslus W. Davis, Edinburg. Ira L. De Bolt, Peru. Jacob H. Deitzer, Shelbyville. Jacob P. De Prez, Shelbyville. Henry W. Deuker, Richmond. William Edwin Deupree, Franklin. John Ferguson, Fort Wayne, C. Carey Furgason, Indianapolis. Andrew J. Foust, Geneva. Willy G. Gaston, Sardinia. Martin T. Geake, Fort Wayne. Frank H. Gentry, Bloomington. Oscar A. Gilchrist, El wood. William T. Gibson. Morgantown. John P. Goodwin, Brookville. Elijah V. Green, Martinsville. Benjamin E. Gregory, Zlonsville. Henry B. Hardman, Elkhart Morse Harrod, Fort Wayne. - Ell P. Haymaker, Franklin. Absolom K. Helton, Bloomington. John A. Hlte. Franklin. Leddra W. Holt, Geneva. Charles R. Hudson, . Franklin. Lewis C. Hunter. Fort Wayne. Valentine R. Hay, Peru. John B. Heaton Bloomfleld. Alfred Johnson, Hartford City. Edgar Johnson, Marlon. Roy C. Jfanouse, St. Paul. John A. Kassalbaum. Chalmers. Hubert II. Keller, Indianapolis. Edgar B. A. Keilum, Anderson. Joseph E. Kelly, Evansville. Frederick W. Kennedy, Shelbyville. Charles B. Kerlln, Franklin. Charles F. Koontz, Muncle. Claude Legate, Edinburg. Andrew J. Loughery, Edinburg. Francis M. McCallum, Indianapolis. Robert G. McClure, Indianapolis. Valentine A. Magenheimer, Waverly. Claude Maley, Evansville. Laughlln O. Malsbury, Peru. William D. Mason, Bluflton. John M. Moulder, Kokomo. John R. Mutz, Edinburg. James M. Motsenbocker, Eaton. Jacob M. Neely, Martinsville. , William H. Newbury, West Baden. Elder F. Obenchaln, Logansport. Brod F. Petrie, Marion. John W. Ragsdale, Franklin. Charles J. Raub, Chalmers. Joseph R. Raub, Chalmers. James D. Reld, Michigan City. Thomas M. Reid, Decatur. Burke Richards, Richmond. Joseph W. Ridgeway, Indianapolis. William Ritchie, Indianapolis. Jacob S. Rizor, Peru. George H. Rohrs, Muncle. Robert L. Romy, Fort Wayne. H. Jay Root, Shelbyville. Albert F. Rost, Richmond. Otto Rutt, Bloomington. Byron R. Russell, Kokomo. Frederick J. Schafer, Franklin. Adolph F. Schulz, Fort Wayne. William P.Schrock, Decatur. Clarence C. Shopbell, Evansville. William E. Showers, Bloomington. Lv E. Slack, Franklin. Alexander W. Snider. Marlon. Charles A. Spiegel, Shelbyville. Charles A. Spry, Logansport. Claude Steele, Bloomington. "Robert W. Stelner, Gas City. Anthony J. Sigworth. Gas City. James C. Stockton, Montlcello. Ferdinand R. Strickler, Franklin. Burton F. Swain, Shelbyville. John W. Terman, Franklin. Sanford F. Teter, Bloomington. , Isaac C. Thompson, Edinburg. Otho W. Tingle, Greenwood. De Grand A. Tuttie, Montpeller. Elmore Uhl, Logansport. Ära V. Vandiver, Franklin. Frank S. Webster, Monroevllle. Jesse D. Wesner, Hartford City. Lord B. Whitesldes, Franklin. Marcus D. Wiley, Greenwood. William E. Williams, Kokomo. James Wilsonj Wabash. John W. Wilson. Montpeller. Carl E. Wood, Seymour. James C. Wood, Indianapolls. Hubert H. Woodsmall, Bloomfleld. James R. Woodward, Wabash. William A. Yarllng, Shelbyville, Henry C. Zollinger, Fort Wayne. Mac A. St. John. Seymour. Noah R. Wenger, Fort Wayne. Emerson E. McGrlff, Portland. , Frank X. Schwartz, Marlon. . . . RESTRAINING ORDER SEEVED. Ten Coal Companies Enjoined from Continuing: Combination. Restraining orders received from Chicago by United States Marshal Pettlt were yesterday served on ten Indiana coal companies and as many individual operators, enjoining them from continuing their combination for the regulation of coal prices and output. These orders were issued in the United States Court at Chicago and were served on the following defendants: The Crescent Coal and Mining Company, Bruillette Creek. Coal Company, Wabash Valley Coal Company. Oak Hill Coal Company, Coal Bluff Mining Company, Parke County Coal Company, Glen Oak Coal and Mining Company, Nevins Coal Company, Indiana Fuel ComDany, McClellan Sons & Co., Jane Shlrkie, Walter S. Bogle, Hugh Shlrkic. Max Elchberg. J. J. Higgins, J. Smith Talley. Joseph Martin. Edward Shlrkie, H. R. McClellan and John Shirkle. Dally Echo Excnnlon. Everything Is In readiness for the departure of the Dally Echo excursion to Washington, D. C, and other points of Interest East. The special train will leave at 6:30 this evening and will be-on the track half an hour before time to go. About 300 will comprise the party, which will go over the Big Four to Cincinnati, arriving at the capital at 3:19 to-morrow afternoon. Louisville Shrlners Comlig, A party of about eighty Shrlners will start from Louisville in a special car over the Big Four to-morrow to be the guests of Murat -Temple of this city. Col. S. J. Gates, of Louisville, will have charge of the delegation. The Louisville Shrlners have organized a "rube" band, which Is expected to afford a great deal of amusement. Darber Missed Ills Aim. Daisy Howard, living at 214 West New York street, and Bud Gibson, living at 1248 North West street, tell the police that while they were walking west on St. Clair street last night about 9 o'clock a barber named Fleming passed them. Fleming, the girl said, stopped a few feet away and pulled

a revolver from his pocked and Immediately opened fire on Gibson. He missed his aim. the bullet going wild. Fleming, after firing the shot, ran east to an alley, where he disappeared. Neither Gibson nor the girl gave a reason for the conduct of Fleming. HEW HORSE DOCTORS.

They Will Receive Their Diplomas This Evening. The eleventh annual commencement of the Indiana Veterinary College will be held at the German House this evening, the public being Invited. The programme Includes several musical numbers and addresses by Dr. S. A. Jaeger, president of the college, and by the Hon. George H. Giftord, of Tipton. Degrees will be conferred on the following members of the graduating class: Clarence Edwin Baker. Clay City, Ind.; Curtis Alfred Clarke, College Corner, O.; Frank C. Collings, Bellmore, Ind.; Albert Nutter Gurley, Martinsville, Ind.; Thomas M. Hall. Thorntown. Ind.; John Logan Hiday, Fortville, Ind.; Edward Harrison Holder, Oaktown, Ind.; Daniel R. Leap, Sharpsville, Ind.; Louis H. Mathers, Indianapolis, Ind.; Ottaway Clark Newgent, Russellville, Ind.; Henry Pielemeier, Freelandvllle, Ind.; Stewart A. Rldgway, Oaktown, Ind.; Claude E. Rose, Linton, Ind.; Reuben Sprunger, Berne, Ind.; Rome Columbus Vermillion, Greencastle, Ind. CITY NEWS ITEMS. The Monday Conversation Club will hold its next meeting March 30 with Mrs. Rice, 1809 North Alabama street. Dr. C. I. Fletcher will lecture on the Island of Martinique at the Third Christian Church, corner Ashland avenue and Thirteenth street, to-night. The views used are those taken by him on his visits to the island. The second quarterly tea of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Roberts Park Church will be held at the home of Mrs. Nimal, 919 East Market street, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. A paper on "Oriental Countries" will be read by Mrs. Woodward. Illustrated Bird Lecture. To-night the Rev. 11. W. Kellogg, pastor of the Central-avenue M. E. Church, will deliver an Illustrated lecture on 'Blrd Photography"" at the Shortridge High School assembly room, under the auspices of the Indiana Audubon Society. Dr. Kellogg Is an ardent student of nature and the pictures illustrating his lecture are those taken by himself when afield studying the birds. 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