Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1903 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1903

speeches, would make It better by visiting the Somh. knowing something of the conditions of their people and preaching to them a gospel of peace." SHOWERS AND COOLER.

Fourth of Jul. Weather May Be Moist, bat - in o Warm. WASHINGTON. July 3. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: Indiana Showers and cooler on Saturday. Sunday showers; fresh south winds, becoming northwest. Illinois Showers and cooler on Saturday. Sunday fair, except showers in extreme south portion; fresh south winds, becoming northwest. Kntucky Showers and cooler on Saturday; Sunday showers. Ohio Showers and not so warm on Saturday; Sunday showers, variable winds. Tennessee Showers on Saturday, with cooler lu west portion; Sunday fair in west, Showers in east portion. Lower Michigan -Showers on Saturday, cooler in west portion; Sunday showers, fresh east to northeast winds, becoming variable. Iowa Showers and cooler op Saturday; Sunday fair, warmer in west portion. Minnesota Showers on Saturday. Sunday fair; fresh northeast winds, becoming northwest. Kansas Showers and cooler in east portion; fair in west Saturday. Sunday fair and warmer. North Dakota Fair and warmer on Saturday and Sundny. South Dakota Fair on Saturday; warmer In west portion. Sunday fair and warmer. Nebraska Fair on Saturday; probably showers in southeast portion. Sunday fair and warmer. Wisconsin Showers and cooler on Saturday; Sunday fair, except showers in east portion; fresh northeast to north winds. Local Observations on Friday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 3i). 02 7s 75 South. Pt.cldy. 0.00 7 p. m..Ä ')5 88 48 S'west. Pt.cldy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 92; minimum temperature, 74. f Comparative statement of jnean temperature and total precipitation on July 3: Temp. Pre. N irmal 7t .14 Mean 84 .00 Departure 8 .14 Departure since July 1 17 .42 Depurture since Jan. 1 51 4.20 Ilus. V. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. Abilene, Tex 76 94 90 Amarillo, Tex 64 90 88 Antonio. Tex 7; 90 M Atlanta, Ga 7u 90 74 Bismarck. N. D f t 70 68 Buffalo, N. V G4 SJ 66 Cairo. Ill 74 90 86 Cslgsry. N. W. T 4 SJ 66 Chattanooga. Tenn 70 90 76 Cheyenne, W'yo 46 50 48 Chicago, 111 74 90 88 Cincinnati. 0 74 9 90 ( leveland. 0 72 88 74 Concordia. Kan 68 S2 78 Davenport. la 7i s 84 Denver. Col 46 56 54 Dodge City. Kan 68 88 66 Dubuque. la 72 86 Duluth. Minn 4 f 48 El Paso, Tex .70 94 12 Galveston. Tex 78 82 80 Grand Junction. Col 54 82 68 Grand Rapids.. Mich 72 ', 84 Havre, Mont 56 64 64 Huron, S. D 66 74 64 Helena. Mont 42 62 54 Jsclcsonvllle, Fla 72 m go Kansas City. Mo 72 78 76 Little lock. Ark 72 88 86 Louisville, Ky 72 98 M Marquette. Mich 50 58 58 Memphis, Tenn 74 j) Modena, Utah 42 72 72 Montgomery, Ala 73 92 go Nashville. Tenn 72 94 76 New Orleans. La 76 86 go New York, N. Y 70 88 74 Norfolk. Va 76 96 86 North Platte, Neb 58 58 54 Oklahoma, O. T 70 v; 34 Omaha. Neb 8 80 78 Palestine. Tex 74 90 s Parkersburg, W. Va 72 92 90 Phils del ph la. Pa. 78 92 72 Plttaburg, Pa 74 92 86 Pueblo. Col 54 72 60 Qu Appelle, Assin 50 58 6 Rapid City. S. D 46 62 56 St. Louis, Mo 76 92 86 St. Paul. Minn 64 72 68 Balf Lake City. Utah 46 68 68 Santa Fe, N. Mex 56 74 68 Shreveport, La 74 92 84 Springfield. Ill 72 M 86 Springfield, Mo 70 82 Valentine, Neb M 64 58 Vicksburg, Miss Tl 90 Washington. D. C 74 : 78 Wichita, Kan 70 s4 82 WANTS MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Mrs. Wakefield Seeking Divorce from the -lloy Financier." , NEW YORK. July 3. Mrs. William Curlis Wakefield, of Philadelphia, has begun suit for the annullment of her marriage, by filing papers here in the Supreme Court. Wakefield, the defendant, is the twenty-two-year-old Massachusetts financier, whose operations not long ago startled bankers here and in Europe. He organized many large concerns, principally mining companies In the West, and floated the stocks in this country and abroad. Mrs. Wakefield met him in Switzerland. He followed her across the Atlantic and they were married by a New York alderman. Wakefield was subsequently arrested and sentenced to a term In the State Reformatory at Concord. . Mass.. for perjury in swearing that a copper mining company, which he had organized, had a paid-in capital of SSO.uoo. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. QUEENSTOWN, July 3. Arrived: Ultonla. from Boston, for Liverpool, and proceeded; Campania, from New York. Sailed: Mayflower, from Liverpool, for Boston. LIVERPOOL, July J. Arrived: Aurania. from New York. Sailed: Cedric and Victorian, for New York. SOUTHAMPTON. July 3. -Sailed: Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg, for New York, via Cherbourg. NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP. July 3-Lu-canla. from Liverpool, twenty miles east at 5:46 p. m. I.IZARD. July 4. 12:35 s. m Passed: Friedrich der Grosse, from New York, for Bremen. BROWHEAD. July 4. 2 a. m. -Passed: Celtic and Civic, from New York, for Liverpool. MOVILLE, July 3 Sailed: Bavarian, for Montreal; Ethiopia, from Glasgow, for New York. 1 "HOOK HAVEN, July 3.-Passed: Campania, from New York, for Liverpool. PLYMOUTH. July 8. -Arrived; Bluecher from New York. HAVRE, July 3.-Arrived: La Gascogne from New York. GENOA. July J.-Arrlved: Koenlg Albert from New York NEW YORK. July J. -Sailed: Cymric, for Liverpool. A Gaaraateed Care for Plies. Itching. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding FT.es. Your druggist will refund your mot.ey if PAZo OINTMENT fail to curs you. 60 cents

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MORE SALOONS PUT OUT

KOKONO TEMIERACE CRISAOERS WII A ROTABLE VICTORY. Tippecanoe's Anti-Saloon Tight Urs. Dnhme's Northern Indlat.-a LandsProtest Against a Street Fair. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., July 3-The July fight against the Kokomo saloons by the crusaders led by Miss Carrie 8tyr, closed tonight with the filing of two blanket remonstrances that will knock eight of the nine applicants In the 8econd, Third and Fourth wards. In the Second ward Thomas Fisher wns put out by a majority of seven voters and the Third ward applicants. W. W. 8ewe!l. Charles Weser, Frank Kirby. Harry Jacks, Thomas Kane. William Hancock and G. Vanderbush were defeated by eight voters. In the Tourth ward, where the remonstrants won last month, the saloons won this time. The Fifth ward has been dry two years. The remonstrance was not filed In the First ward. The big fight was In the Third, and the temperance people won by a close margin. In all. since the fight began in February, the blanket has smothered about thirty applicants. The antis will have a big celebration at the city park to-morrow over their victory. The Rev. G-org- K. Stewart, of Tennessee, will be chief orator. Marion's Anti-Saloon War. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., July 3. The fight between the saloon men and the remonstrators in the Fourth ward is again on In force and both sides are extremely active. To-day the power of attorney vested in those who signed the remonstrance which knocked John Beggerly out of a liquor license was withdrawn by over two hundred of those whose names were attached to that paper, leaving about five hundred of the original signers. It Is stated that only 176 nam. s are required to be withdrawn In order to render that remonstrance useless as against others who might apply. The liquor dealers now claim an advantage, but the remonstrators say before another day is over th. ir paper will be filed with the county auditor and that it will contain enough addKlonal names to make up the difference. Many Xauies Withdrawn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. July 3. Continuing their determined crusade against liquor in Tippecanoe county Harry Shafer's band of temperance workers this afternoon filed two remonstrances against saloon proprietors in Washington and Randolph townships. The Randolph remonstrant SI against Monte C. Weaver, of Ruck Creek, and the one from Washington is against John Wells, of Romney. Later ihis afternoon thirty-one names were withdrawn from the Buck Creek remonstrance, which will leave it without a majority. The other remonstrance has enough names to defeat the application. The commissioners will meet Monday to decide the contest. North Manchester Remonstrances. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., July 3.-B!anket remonstrances were filed to-day against A. M. Parmenter, J. W. Slsk and Oustav Pupke, of North Manchester, who are applying for license to sell liquor at that place. Though Chester Is second in the county only to this township in population, a majority of the signatures of voters have been secured to a blanket remonstrance, and the indications are all three of the applications will be defeated in Commissioners' Court next Monday. WILL XOT SERVE SETEfE. Yoima Englishman Permitted to Return to His Foreign Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. July 3. Louis Osterman, the young Englishman, who has been awaiting the action of Judge McClure pending a plea of guilty to a charge of larceny, will be permitted to return to England without serving sentence In America. Osterman become despondent and thought his mother had deserted him. He stole a small amount from a fellow-workman in a restaurant hye, and was on the point of committing suicide when arrested. His mother had been In the custom of sending him monthly allowances, but for three months money had failed to arrive. Osterman was arraigned before Judge McClure and told his story. The court deferred Judgment. A few minutes after he was taken to jail a cablegram came from his mother, authorizing a local bank to pay $250 to her son and begging him to "come home." The matter was brought before Judge Meciure, who permitted him to go to his mother. The sheriff has purchased a ticket direct to London, and the young man started homeward to-night. - PRESIDENT STO.E PROTESTS. Street Fair, He Says, Interferes with Work of Purdue Students. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 3 At the meeting last night of the Retail Merchants' Association, held to decide whether to hold the annual carnival this fall, President W. E. Stone, of Purdue University, registered a protest against the scheme. He said that the students attended the carnival more than they did their classes, and that it interfered with the college work. In concluding his protest he said that the opening of the university might be postponed should the carnival be held early in September, when work generally will be begun. The association, however, is strongly in favor of holding the carnival, and a committee was appointed to feel the pulse of merchants and decide whether it would be best to hold the festival. May Be Forced to Sell. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 3.-When Mrs. Charles H. Duhme is compelled to account for the money of Moses Fowler Chase now in her possession, as ordered by the Federal Court, she may be forced to sell sdme of her valuable land in Benton county. Such a proceeding would be welcomed by the renters there and would be a boon to hundreds in Fowler and Benton county in general. Her holdings of about 4.500 acres of grain land might then be divided into small farms of eighty. 160 ami 320-acre plats and a race of Independent land owners take the place of those who now pay rent. It Is argued that the Independent farmer would take a greater interest in the land and work it to a greater advantage. The Duhme tract remains intact as inherited from the estate of Moses Fowler. Valnable Collie Poisoned. Special to the In. Hann 1 oils Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. July 3. - Jack, the prize-winning Scotch collie owned by J. Kirby Bisk, former city clerk and now one of the proprietors of the Democrat, was poisoned last night and a large reward has been offered for the apprehension of the culprit. The dog was a thoroughbred, valued at $500, said to be the most perfect nednaa in the State, and was given to Mr. Risk by Dr. Oronlyattekha. of Toronto, Canada, who secured the animal from the Ewing kennels, the most celebrated in Canada. The handsome animal was a year old and had taken several premiums. Will Redeem Robert M. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind.. July 3. J. Walter Baker, of Greenville, O., arrived here tonight and immediately made arrangements tof secure possu-ssion of his race horse. Robert M. The horse was attached and la advertised at constable's sale to satisfy the claim of his trainer. Jesse Palmer. Fight Over a Gravel Road. Special to the. Inltanapolla Journal. I I.WOOD, Ind.. July 3. One of the bitterest fights in the history of the county courts ended last night when the County Commissioners, after being in session all

week, overruled the remonstrance which had been filed against the construction of toe Madison-Tipton county line gravel road. Just southwest of this city, and ordered the work to proceed. Th road will be a mile and a half long and will cost $6.000. including a bridge. Some of the wealthiest farmers in the county were arrayed against each other In the case.

Converse Will Celebrate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CONVER3E.. Ind., July 3. The Converse Fair Association and the citizens have combined forces to celebrate Independence day elaborately. An extensive programme, a baseball game, band concerts and several hundred dollars worth of fireworks are Eoraf of th- features. About fifty head of racing stock are at the grounds now and mnrp are expected. The races are to be half-mile beats and the purses amount to over $500. Township Subsidy Voted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON. Ind.. July 3. Center township of Ripley county to-day voted by 1W majority in favor of a subsidy in aid of the Madison, Greensburg & Indianapolis slectric line. This was the last township voting and the promoters say it insures the building of the. road. Wabash Bottoms Flooded. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. July 3. Heavy rains have forced the Wabash river out of its banks. Hundreds of acres of corn and oats arc covered with from one to six feet of water. The river has ris- n fifteen feet during the last twenty-four hours. Indluna Obituary. RICHMOND, Ind., July 3 Coroner 8. C. Markley was called to .Milton, this county, t'-iay to investigate the death of Anton Reers, who was found dead in bed this morning. He was sixty-eight years old and had been almost a life-long resident of Wayne county. The coroner found death due to paralysis of the heart superinduced by mental depression ovir Uta loss of money in the Milton Bank and to heat prostration. Mr. Reers sold his farm a short time before the bank failed and had put the purchase money, $1,400, in the bank for safekeeping. MONON, Ind.. July 3. Mrs. Christina Goble, aged seventy-nine, is dead. She was born near Marlon, O., and came to this vicinity in 1863. In 1M0 she married Horace Newberry and the five children by this marriage survive. In 1884 she married Jonathan Goble. She was a member of the Methodist church for fifty-seven years and for thirty years was a leader in church work hre. DELPHI. Ind., July 3. -John C. Gregg died on Thursday at Memphis. Tenn.. where he had been visiting for several months. The body was brought to this city and was interred in the Gregg Cemetery, east of this city, this afternoon. Mr. Gregg had lived in Carroll county nearly all his life of sixty-five years. He left a widow and three children. MUNCIE. Ind.. July 3.-Mrs. Henry Fogle. aged sixty-st ven. died last night at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Fogle was born in Muncie and was well-known among the oldT citizens. She left one daughter, Mrs. Peter Fay. GENERAL INDIANA NEWS HRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL. OVER HOOS1ERDOM. Onttng of a Rod and Gnn ( lub avnl Recruiting Station Closed An Arrest for Criminal Assault. SHELBYVILLE.-In trying to drive a I Wat BS of bees into their hive Friday afternoon, Raymond Gore was attacked by them and stung in forty or fifty places on the face and hands. The injury is very painful, but will not result seriously. The Indianapolis, Shelbyville A Southeastern Traction Company will make the final survey on the eastern extension of the line to Greensburg next week, and work on the construction of the road will be begun about July 15. GREENSBURG. Ed Gaston, of Newpoint, is in jail, charged with criminal assault on Mrs. Wilds Bradley, while her husband was confined In jail on a charge of intoxication. The Bradleys are also residents of Newpoint. Prof. D. M. Geeting has resigned his position as superintendent of the public schools in this city, and will devote his time to his business interests. Ex-County Superintendent Elmer C. Jerman has been appointed to fill the vacancy. MCNCIE T. B. Parks, twenty-nine, conductor on the C. C. & L. Railroad, was almost instantly killed by a cut of cars while his train was switching on the Belt line. It was Parka's first run as a conductor, as he had just been promoted from a brakeman. He had stepped between the cars to make a coupling and was caught by the recoll. He lived an hour. His home was In Richmond, where he left a widow and one child. ANDERSON. The only celebration of the Fourth in Anderson will be at the Country Club. Arrangements have been made for a display of fireworks at night and a championship golf contest will be played on the links during the afternoon. There will be dancing If the weather permits. Fullerton, of Indianapolis, and Collis, of Fort Wayne, are matched for play at golf. RICHMOND. One of the oldest postoffices in the State has been done away with. Jacksonburg, Wayne county, just abolished, was established in 1820. The Dayton & Western Traction Company is now operating cars to within four miles of Richmond. Professor G. C. Powers, who was principal of the Centerville schools the past year, has accepted the princlpalishlp of the Dunkirk schools. WABASH. A two weeks' camp meeting bv the Union Holiness Association began Friday night at the City Park. Wabash, where the tents are pitched. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Rawley, of Toledo, O., and the Rev. J. A. Glascock, of Cincinnati, will have chargi of the services. Night meetings only will be held this week, but morning, afternoon and evening services will be held next week and the week following. TERRE HAUTE. The naval recruiting station has been closed after twe weeks' effort to obtain seamen, with a net result Of seven recruits out of seventeen applicants. The explanation made for the small number is that where work is plentiful, as It is here, It is difficult to persuade young men to enter the navy. EL.WOOD. The Sturgeon Rod and Gun Club, composed of fifty of the leading chimney makers of this city, left on Friday on its annual outing to Crooked lake, mar Angola, and will remain in camp until the factories start the middle of August. NEW CASTLE. The Krell-French Piano Company, reorganized one years ago and located here, has declared a dividend of 6 per cent, on all preferred stock. STUDENTS ACT AS "BUMS," Then Apply for Work in the Harrest Fields of Kansas. KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 3When the doors of the State Free Labor Bureau office were opened for business yesterday the van of the crowd of applicants was made up of a party of college athletes. They came with a rush in mass formation, and tackled the man who gives the application blanks. They were all Bostonians, students at Harvard, and sons of wealthy men. They were traveling incognito, and wore rough clothes and battered hats. They had bummed their way to Kansas City with plenty of money in their pockets. They spoke freely of everything except their Identities. On this subject they kept mum. "We harvest wheat, drive wagons, carry water, cat bacon and corn bread with the rest of thn. We beat our way here on freights, leaving Boston early last week. We have had a pretty good trip. We got put off the trains once or twice, but usually the "brakies' permitted us to ride on condition that we help load coal into the box. This was easy. You see. we have never hi en out West before, and when we saw that Kansas was howling for men we got up a party and decided to come out here. We shall not stay in the wheat fields all the time, but shall rove around a bit and M what the beautiful West looks like." When the college boys had left Superintendent Jamison was called out of the office by a woman. She wanted to go to the harvest district as a cook and had a letter of recommendation from a banker at learned, Kan. Mr. Jamison had to refuse her.

ELECTRICAL PLANT SOLD

Kit II MOM) LIGHT, HEAT AM) POWER IM HASDS OF XEW YORKERS. Big Deal In Oil Lands Near Montpeller Phases of the Lahor Situation Wabash Postal Receipts. Special to the Indiana: oils Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. July 3. -The deal for the transfer of the property of the Richmond Light. Heat aud Power Company to Bertrom & Storrs, of New York, has been completed. The New York firm owns peril Bps a score of light plants in various parts of the country, that at Tcrre Haute being one. The deal was made on the basis of fifty cents on the dollar for the bonds, with the stock thrown in. The bonds amount to IBMsSj which would make the purchase price half that amount with the amount of gas deposits, $6.000 or $7,000, for which the purchasers assumed responsibility, added. The reason the bonds of the company would not bring more was that the business had got into a rather undesirable shape and that the street lighting contract expires next year and cannot be renewed owing to the city having built a plant of its own. Bertrom & Storrs announce that they will bring the Richmond plant up to the highest Mate of efficiency and it is expected they will offer the city strong competition. s BIG DEAL IN OIL LANDS. Leases Near Montpeller Bring fl,100 Per Barrel of Prodnetlon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., July 3. On Thursday evening another big oil deal was closed up whereby Indiana oil property lying in Blackford county, four miles west of Montpeller, brought $1,100 per barrel production, which is said to be the highest price paid for Hoosier production. The sale was made by the Huron Oil Company, composed of Huron (O.) men, to Kelley, Kline & Moore, of Cambridge Springs, Pa. The sale included 643 acres of. leases, with thirty wells producing fifty-four barrels per diem. The new company will drill several wells. Besides this purchase Kelley, Kline & Moore have bought property near Warren for $210,01)0, making their total Investment in the Indiana oil field $270,000 within the last six months. The Pennsylvania company also owns leases near Sclo and Warren, O. Harry Mount, of this place, drilled in a hundred-barrel well at Parker on Thursday. Tne well was dry when drilled in the sand ninety-five feet, but Mount insisted on shooting it. and after 400 quarts of glycerin had been exploded the well showed up for one hundred barrels. National Bank at Dillsboro. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAWRENCEBCRG, Ind., July 3. The First National Bank of Dillsboro, which succeeds the Bank of Dillsboro, a private Institution controlled for many years by William C. Wulber, of that place, has been organized with a capital stock of $25,000. divided amor g forty stockholders, comprising the most successful business men and farmers of Deirborn and Ripley counties. The stockholders elected the following directors: W. C. Wulber. William J. Gray, Daniel Borders, Henry Schulte, Louis Hanforth, William Ohlemanseik, Frank Kaman and Henry Marlman. Dandridge W. Cole, William J. Gray and William C. Wulber were elected to the offices of president, first vice president and second vice president, respectively. The cashier will be selected at the next meeting, which will be hela on July 11. Plant Will Be Enlarged. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELW'OOD, Ind.. July 3. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Central Bottle and Supply Company, a $50,000 home company engaged in the manufacture of bottles and flasks, was held last evening. The following directors were chosen: C. N. Suttner, R. L. Leeson, jr., M. J. Ward, B. R. Call. W. R. Fitrwilliam. Henry Jordan and Henry Allenberg. They elected the following, officers: President, R. L. Leeson, jr.; vice president, W. R. Fitzwilliam; treasurer. C. N. Suttner; secretary, Henry Allenberg: manager, M. J. Ward; superintendent, H. A. Mascollette, of Marion. The board also ordered work to be begun at once on Improvements costing $5.000, which will double the capacity of the plant, and give employment to nearly a hundred additional men. Tool Industry to Be Abandoned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July 3. The sale of the local tool works to the Ames Company of Massachusetts, leaves the ground and building to the Terre Haute men who have been struggling with the industry for fifteen years and who are glad to be rid of it. It is paid that for a year or two it had lost nothing, but the original stockholders lost all their investment. The price paid by the Ames people was $80.000. It is also said that for some time the works will be used for the manufacture of shovel handles, but the tool industry is to be abandoned. Wabash Postal Receipts. Special to the Indianarolls Journal. WABASH, Ind., July 3. The receipts of the Wabash postofflce for the fiscal year were the largest in the history of the office, amounting to $18,808.83. The revenue bv quarters for the twelve months was: First quarter, $4.4H9; second quarter, $6.rt6; third quarter, $4,673; fourth quarter, $4,565. The Increase In revenue over la. t year was practically $1.000. James Duugherty, deputy postmaster, to-day received notice of Qn advance of $100 in his salary, it now being $1,000. strike: at foht waye. Holders and Coremakers Want Hiarher Wages Many Men Affected. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind., July 3. Ninety molders, coremakers and helpers at the Western Gas Construction Company went on a strike this morning for higher wage. The men a few months ago demanded $J.5 a day, but compromised on $2. Yesterday they demanded an increase of 25 cents a day. to be effective at once. The company wanted to wait until Aug. 1 and the men struck. National Officer Custer, of Indianapolis, of the Iron Molders' Union, has taken charge of the molders' case. More than 400 mn are employed, and all will be involved if the strike Is prolonged. Answered Mr. Parry. Special to the Indianapolls Journal. SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. July 3. The trade unions of this city held a public meeting here on the square last night, which was attended by several hundred people. L. E. Burkett. superintendent of the El wood Furniture Company, of Elwood, Ind.. addressed the crowd, moat of hi? remarks being a refutation of the arguments of D. M. Parry in his speech here last week. Steel Strike Settled. INDIANA HARBOR. Ind., July 3. The strike at the Inland Steel Company's plant at Indiana Harbor has ben settled, and six hundred men will return to work on Monday, according to an announcement mad' by G. Herbert Jones, president of the company, to-day. The men are granted a slight advance in wages. Stole Flowers from Graves. DOYLESTOWN. Pa.. July 3-Lewls N. Blank, of Richboro, Pa., who was arrested on Tuesday charged with stealing flowers from graves, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Worry over his arrest prompted the act. President Enjoys a Clant Rake. OYSTER BAY. N. Y., July 3.-Presldent Roosevelt enjoyed to-day his first clambake of the year. It was preceded by au Invigorating row of seversl miles in a small boat, aud both the President and his family and

friends were quite ready for the feast when it was ready for them.

FATE OF WILLIAM ODE. Sailor Dies After Being Foar Months Alone on an Island. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., July 3. The fate of William Ode, who was left behind as watchman on the wreck of the schooner Courtney Ford, which ran ashore on Isenbeck island on Sept. 30, 1302. is told with dramatic realism in the log kept by the unfortunate man, which has just reached here. It was found beside his dead body by revenue cutter officers and covers a period of four months from Oct. 4, 1902. down to the following February, when In pencil, faintly tracd, opposite the entries of Feb. 3 and 4 are the words: "Death at last. Four months alone.'' io had set down the happenlngs of that quart r, giving a complete calendar of events, all loading to one end the extinguishment of William Ode, sailor. When the Courtney Ford was wrecked the captain and surviving members of the crew w. ro picked up and landed at Seattle, leaving Ode behind until relief was sent to him. This only happened a few days ago, when the schooner Carrie and Annie, with wrecking apparatus on board, left for Izenbeck, too late, however, to be of service to the sailor who had watched in vain for nelief. TOWN TERROR ARRESTED JOHN Ml'XDY, WHO DEFIED CAPTIRE FOR THREE DAYS. Onktown Ofllecrs Tried to Take Him Wednesday, bat He Held Them at Bay I mil Latit Mght. Special to the Indlanapolin JournaC VINCENNES, Ind., July 3,-Oaktown, a thriving village of Busseron township, sent up a sigh of relief to-night when Vincennes officers arrested Johrj Mundy. who held the whole town at bay for seventy-two hours. Mundy is an ex-convict and a desperate man. Six years ago he completed a term for manslaughter at Michigan City prison, where he was sent for killing a man in his saloon at Oaktown. Mundy owned the only saloon in town and in a general melee killed an antagonist. On his return home Mundy again took charge of the saloon and was in frequent brawls. He is a desperate fighter when drunk, and when Oaktown officers tried to arrest him during one of his rampages on Wednesday, Mundy cowed them and their reinforcements with guns. Barricading himself in the upper rooms of his building, he threatened to kill any man who tried to enter. Deputies were sworn in and several times the officers tried to dislodge him, without success. Several fusillades were fired, but nobody was Injured. Prosecuting Attorney Emison issued the warrant with which Vincennes officers went to the scene to-day on appeal from citizens from Oaktown. Officers stole up to Mundy's house to-night and to one of their numoer, thinking it was a friend, Mundy opened the door. He was heavily armed, but was overpowered instantly and shackeled. He was taken before Squire Gabriel Funk, at Oaktown. and put under heavy bond to the Circuit Court on charges of provoke and assault and battery with intent to kill. MAN AND MONEY MISSING MANAGER OF A HCMTIXGTOX NOVELTY COMPANY HAS DISAPPEARED. Many Thousand of Dollars, Recently Collected, Are Gone- Rankrnptcy Proceedings Will Re Instituted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HUNTINGTON. Ind., July 3. B. A. Conv stock, ex-township trustee and head of the Comstock Novelty Company, is believed to be an absconder by the men with whom he is associated in business. He left Wednesday for an unknown destination and took with him all the available cash he could secure. On petition of Clarence M. Pierce, Ernest E. Jordan and Arthur H. Kelley, principal creditors of the Comftock Novelty Company, proceedings in bankruptcy will be instituted next week in the Cnited States District Court by S. M. Sayler. The liabilities are scheduled at $45,000 and the assets are placed at $15.000. It is now known positively that Comstock has been working quietly for a long time in collecting all cash he could g t hold of and appropriating It to his own use Instead of applying it to the business. He did nothing- elae all of last week but collect, besides disposing of stuck for which he received cash. He also had the company's dray loaded with goods and hauled to Logansport, where Comstock disposed of them for a money consideration. The Comstock Novelty Company had several thousand dollars' worth of security notes in the various banks, which were signed by the petition creditors. Comstock represented to them that these notes were due and that he would renew them. Instead of the notes being due Comstock used them to secure more money. The amount of paper in the banks Is estimated at about $17.000. Comstock also placed a mortgage on his own home for Its full value and added this to the sum already on hand. Only last week he negotiated a loan of $10,0) from the Farmers' Bank at Swayzee. Ind., and Is supposed to have pocketed the money. NEW TRIAL FOR A W0MAH . Lulu Prince Kennedy to Hare Another Chance for Freedom. KANSAS CITY, July 3. Lulu Prince Kennedy, under sentence of ten years for the murder of her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, local agent of the Merchants' Dispatch Transportation Company, in January, 1901. was to-day granted a new trial by the state Supreme Court. Mrs. Kennedy shot her husband a month after thy were married and two days after he had brought suit to have their marriage, which, he asserted, had been forced, set aide. Charles W. Prim -e, the woman's father, and her two brothers. William and Albert Prince, were charged with being accomplices. William was convicted and the others are yet to be tried. MUSIC KILLS " SKEETERS. Xcw Scheme for Exterminating- Pestiferous Insects. BOSTON, Mass., July 3.-The Brookliney Board of Health, which is systematically exterminating mosquitoes by means of kerosene oil, is now about to take up a suggestion calling attention to a new process for lessening the evil by means of musical sounds. The discoverer of th- new process says: "It has been found that practical application has ben effected by raising to a great number of vibrations per second the particular note to which the mosquito Is most sensitively attuned. This Intensified not, produced by sudden electrical impulse upon a musical instrument causes every mosquito near to plunge headlong to the in.-trument and die." HANNA REQUIRES AID. Families off Dead Miners Said to Be la Sore Need of Assistance. HANNA, Wyo., July 3. Or eat destitution prevails among the families of the 236 men who lost their lives in the iine disaster on Tuesday. Charitable people In the Western States are urged to send liberal assistance to the mayor o' Hanna without delay. Everything possiole Is being done to recover the bodies f 230 miners still entombed, but Are, smoke and gas make progress very slow. It may be Monday or later before any mors corpses shall be removed.

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XEW ALBANY GIRL BADLY 111 RT IX A PR EM ATI RE ELEBR TIO . Toy Pistol Accident Results Fatally Man Hurt on a HIk Four TrainOther Casualties In Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. 0 NEW ALBANY. Ind.. July 3. Miss Virginia Rice, a young society girl of this city, suffered a double fracture of the bones in the leg below the knee last night by being struck by a rocket. The rocket was laid on a brick pavement and ignited. She tried to dodge from the uncertsin path of the missile, but was knocked to the ground. Her dress was ignited by sparks from the rocket, which exploded after striking her. Chief of Police Shutt ha& filed complaints against a number of young men who were in the crowd when the rocket was ixnited. Miss Rice is a daughter of ihe late Joseph P. Rice, who was in the government depot at Jeffersonville. for a number of years. Another Toy Pistol Fatality. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MCNCIE, Ind., July 3. The first death in Muncie from the deadly toy pistol resulted this morning. Myrton, the lifteen-year-old son of Mr. aud Mrs. Henry Dick, died of lockjaw, caused by a small wound inflict by a toy pistol a few days ago. Mayor Sherritt and Chief ..i Colic rashmore have renewed their orders against the use of explosives in the city to-morrow. LEASED Ol'T OF THE WINDOW. Stilesvllle Man truek by a Freight Car and Bndly Injured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBCRG. Ind., July S. A man named Baker, whose home Is supposed to be in Stilesville, Hendricks county, was hurt on a Big Four train to-night as he was en route from Cincinnati to Greencastle. He leaned out of the car window at V isburg and his head was struck by a freight car. He was unconscious when removed from the train here. He was taken to the hotel, where eight stltche were put in his scalp. The doctors say they must await developments before passlug on the criticalness of his condition. Both Feet Cut Off. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINAMAC, Ind., July 3.-The six-year-old son of Charles Davidson, a farmer, six miles east of this place, fell in front of a mowing machine drven by his brother this forenoon and both feet were cut off. The little boy was chasing butterflies through the clover and fell so close In front of the knives that, his brother had no time to stop the machine. His feet were amputated at the ankles. Injury Resulted Fatally. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 3. John Sattely, of Attica, who was seriously Injured In a runaway on the main street of that town on Tuesday, died at his home to-day frjm the effects of his wounds. He suffered greatly. His widow, who was also badly hurt, is prostrated by the news of her husbands death and may not recover. Drowned While Swimming. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., June 3.-David Minor, aged nine years, son of Charles Minor, drowned to-day in Muddy Fork creek, near Haussdale. The boy went swimming with an older brother, but got beyond his depth snd sank before his brother could rescue him. Kicked to Death by a Horse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind.. July 3 Charles Hourman, sixty-five years old, a soldier in a Kentucky colored regiment during the civil war, was knicked to death by a horse tonight. anauusBaBSBasBSBSBBssssBSMBBSBsssasBnsssBsssssssssssnssssnas FIFTEEN PERSONS INJURED. Victims of a Collision Between Two Street-Halfway Cars. 8T. LOUIS, July S. Fifteen persons were Injured to-day in a collision between two street cars at the intersection of Oliv street and Jefferson avenue. A. G. Killu, motorman on the Olive-street car, is not expected to recover, but most of the others will, it is believed. Both cars were filled with passengers. The Olive-street car has the right of way, but the Jefferson-avenue car, instead of slackening speed at the crossing, sped on and crashed into the other car. When It was s n that collision was imminent the passengers became panic stricken. The impact was so violent that the Olive-street car wai hurled completely over on its side and all the passengers were piled in a heap. All the Injured were taken In ambulances to their homes or to the City Hospital. CLEVELAND TO TAMMANY. Former President CHves Brief Fourth of July Advice. NEW YORK. July 3.-For the first time in ten years former President Cleveland has written an Independence day letter to Tammany. In It he says: "The Tammany Society, as a political organization of vaFt influence, cannot escape the responsibility which it? powers and its glorious traditions saeate. As in the past, it -hould continue jk advocat the rinnt of the peopk. ;;ninBs it celebrate Independence day agAln it should renew Its determination to serve the people well by contributtog all its power and Influence to the Cause of good government." BROWNING RECEIVED $34,000. Doctor Who Claimed 190,000 for Attending the Late C. L. Magee. PITTSBCBG, July 3.-Sxecutors of the estate of the late C. L. Magee have settled the fight with Dr. Walter 8. Browning, of Philadelphia, over fees for services rendered the sick politician by paying Attorney William B. Rodgers. couusel for the doctor, a warrant for $34,000, the amount of the recent award of the Allegheny Countj Orphans' Court Judges. The amount settles the original claim of Dr. Browning that the estate nf Mr. M'lgee owed him $1:.0UU for medical services he had rendered. The fight has been under way for two years. WAS OFFERED BRIBES. Former Governor Stephens, of Missouri. Was Asked to Take 9120.000. ST. LOCIS. July Evidence gathered by District Attorney F)lk in the txtodle Inquiry to-day discloses that while Governor of Missouri Lon V. Stephens, now vice president of tho Missouri Trust Company, of St. Louis, was offered $100.000 of transit stock after he signed the hill which legalised the consolidation of all St. Louis street rallwsvs. with the exception of the Suburban, and the further sum of $20,000 If he would appoint James J. Butler, son of "Colonel" Ed Butler, excise commissioner at St. Louis. Former Governor Stephens declared that both proposals were refused. Araerleaa Sailors Left at Kiel. t BERLIN. June 5. The Kleines Journal, in a dispatch from Kiel, says since the departure of the American leet it has been ascertained that 106 American sailors failed to report for duty, and it is supposed they have deserted. Bryan Opens His New Home. LINCOLN, Neb.. July 3.-W. J. Brvan formally opened his new home st Fairview this evening. About SOD of his friends called, the attendance being reduced by threatening weather.

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DIED. rsiDT t CG vi. Usllis P fnrliit widow of rf. C. T Corlt. slutrr of Mrs N R. RucSSSB 12 X. July 4 Funrrsl notice Ister. OFFICER AND NEGRO SHOT DOUBLE AFFRAY CROWIM1 Ol'T OF EFFORT TO MAKE AX ARREST. Beth Mfi Probably Will Die Satcl of Despondeat Thorataws Mho Woman Swallows Poison. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLK. Ind.. July 3 In a duel this evening Patrolman Louis Mass ay and Robert Lee. a negTo. were each probably fatally shot. Lee was drunk and had threatened the lives of several people. Mas s. w nt to arrest him and the nearo lred at close range. His first shot strm-k the officer In the stomach. As the latter fell he drew his revolver and fired. Lee ran half way across the street and turned, and the two men then fired several shots at each other. The negro was) shot in the breast. He escaped but mas tracked by a trail of blood and captured. Held for Attempted Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. July 3. Alvln Garrison is in jail here accused of assault to murder James H. McCain. Garrison snd McCain were engaged In digging the excavation for the Masonic Temple to be erected nt Waldron. Yesterday afternoon they engaged in a quarrel and McCain discharged Garrison. Garrison retaTUsd in tho evening and the quarrel whs renewed. As a means of ending the controve-sy they began hurling stones at each otner and McCain wss struck and knocked senseless to the ground. At times to-day he passed into unconsciousness and his death may y.t result from the injury. e HAGIXG IX THE BAR. Body of a Thoratown Man Foand by His Little DanRhtfr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. THORNTOWN. Ind.. July 3. C. C. Morris, a well-to-do resident of this place, hanged himself some time during this forenoon. He was last seen alive as he entered his barn, about the middle of the morning. The act is supposed to have been due to recent financial reverses. About 5:30 o'clock this afternoon his little daughter returned with the cows from pasture. She opened the barn to let the animals in and found the body of her father hanging in the first stall. He had been dead several hours. Mr. Morris had been active In local affairs and was prominent in ecret society and church work. He was about fifty-tfve years old and left a widow and several children. He Blamed a Woman. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., July 3. "A woman la the cause of all this," rudely penciled on a note found in his pocket tells the motive of the suicide of Jack Millspaugh early this morning. Millspaugh was discovered in his room at the Becker Hotel unconscious about 3 o'clock this morning. He could not be revived. He had been in charge of the bar at the Park Theater for a long time and was well known over the Bute on account of his feats of strength with his arms. The woman in the cane could not be discovered. Took Polsoa with Fatal Effect. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOOOOOTEE. Ind.. July 3. Mrs. Thomaa Crane, wife of a wealthy farmer seven miles north of this place, committed suicide by taking poison. She took a large dose of the drug yesterday afternoon and, despite all medical aid, died late this afternoun in grest agony. Just one year ago to the hour she tried t-i end her life by taking laudanum, but was prevented. She had been In poor health for some years snd frequently suffered temporary mental aberration. She was the mother of five children. RADIUM RAYS CURE CANCER. Vienna Physicians Report a Remedy for a Dread Disease. VIENNA, July 3. Medical circles here ars greatly Interested in a report, communicated to the Viennese Society of Physicians and read at a recent meeting of th Imperial Academy of Science, to the effect that a long-atanding case of cancer was cured by radium rays st the clinic of the late Professor Gussenbauer. The patient, who waa sixty-one years of age, had long suffered from cancer of the palate and Hp and had repeatedly been operated upon fruitlessly. In the autumn of 1903, when the physicians of the Viennese hospital declared it was absolutely useless to operats again, one physician determined as a last resort to try radium rays and treated tha afflicted parts by exposing them to the light of radium bromide, the strongest radium preparation in existence. He was rewarded by a gradual and complete disappearance of the tumors. Physicians at the same meeting reported that radium rays had cured a case or melanosarcoma (a tumor containing a black or other dark-colored matter), and several casea of red mole. CLAY ERRATIC AS EVER. Saaje of Whitehall Sends for Duct and Thea Bars Them Out. LEXINGTON. Ky.. July 3 Gen. Csssiua M. Clsy is believed to be hopelessly insane in his flfty-eight-room mansion Whitehall, In Madison county. Yesterday Drs. Thomas S. Bullock, of Louisville, snd W. O. Bullock, of this dty. were sent to Whitehall at the request of General Clay, who stated that he needed medical attention, but they were not permitted to enter the mansion, and after sending In a number of messages and receiving no satisfaction through General Clay a body guard, Joe Perkins, the physicians came back tc Lexlglnton without aeetng General Clay The message came to Mal R. S. Bullock, an old friend of General Clay, in this city who is the cashier of the Fayette National Bank. It was a telephone message through Perkins. General Clays' body guard who it the only person who has been permitted tc entfr eGneral Clay's btdroom for ten month! The famous statesman and dueMat is said to be in a precarious c--pit0n. Green Qoodloe. his nephew, was summoned by letter from Washington rr.cently. and wh-c he arrived General Clay refused to tee htm. bss cm JBj al 1CF. PITTfiBI RG. July I.-The trial oi Waltet P Kounts. who was charged with the mur. der of Contractor Walsh, resulted to-day ifi a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. Shot at Chicken Thieves. Two negro chicken thieves gmre ttrt South Side patrolmen a merry chase es Bradshaw street, near Virginia events esrly this morning. The officers thini they shot one of the thieves. Both thievet sii ceeded In making their escape. It ts no! known where the thieves made thttr haul