Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 192, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1903 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOÜBNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1903.

SHOWERS PROBABLE.

Rain May Fall Tn-Dny and To-Mr-row Throujtliout Indiana. WASHINGTON, Juiy l-j.-ruiet for Saturday and Sunday: Indiana Showers n Saturday and Sunday; light to fresh east wind. Ohio Occasional showers and thunderatorms on Saturday and probably Sunday, fresh west to southwest winds. Kentucky and West Virginia Scattered showers and thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday. Illinois Scattered showers and thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday; variable Winds, mostly fresh east to northeast. Lower Michigan Fair on Saturday and Sunday; light to fresh west winds. Iowa and North Dakota Fair and warmer on Saturday. Sunday fair. South Dakota Showers on Saturday. Sunday fair and warmer. Minnesota Fair Saturday and Sunday; light variable winds. Wisconsin Fair in north, showers in south portion on Saturday. Sunday fair; light to fresh southwest winds. Kansas Showers and not so warm on Saturday. Sunday fair and warmer. Nebraska Showers on Saturday; cooler in southeast portion. Sunday fair and warmer. t 1 Lor d Observation on Friday. Bär. TVm. R H. Wind. Weather. Pree. fa. rn.. 30.03 7 T5 South. PC cldy. 0.00 T p.m.. .91 82 m East. Pt. cldy. Trace Maximum temperature. 4; minimum temperature. 76. Comparative statement of the mean temperature-end total precipitation on July 10: Tem. Pree. Normal Mf M'-an 5 Trace Departure t.ll peparture for month ts 1.21 departure since Jan. 1. &4 - uä Plus. W. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. Yesterday's Tens perat awes.

Stations. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p.m. Abilene. Tex 72 9 Amanl'o, Tex . 68 94 Atlanta. On. 70 88 72 glamarck. N D M 78 W uffalo. N. Y ... 74 78 76 Cairo. Ill 76 M 86 Calgary. Alberta 42 7 J 70 Chattanooga. Tenn S 0 Cheyenne. Wyo 50 84 7s Chicago. Ill - 74) 7 72 Cincinnati O 71 16 80 Cleveland. O 7 84 80 C lurabuf. i) 72 82 T4 Corioosdaa, Kan 74 94 Davenport, la S8 Denver, Col ...l 6 74 Badge City. Kan M 92 Dubuque. Ia . H 82 68 DuJuth. Mann 43 7 U XI Paso. Tex 70 luO ! Oalvestnn. Tex 78 82 Grand Junction, Col M 84 80 Orand Rapids. Mich 74 72 Srt. Mont 58 74 74 aron, B. D a. 82 N) Selena. Mont 46 76 74 icKfouvill.-. Fla TS 90 T4 Kansas City. Ho 7 98 82 Lanier. Wyo 46 84 82 1 -j Rock. Ark 74 84 82 ..sville, Ky 74 86 Marquette, Mich 52 6S 68 M-nii hM, Tenn - 74 88 afodena. t'tah 02 90 88 lectgoniery. Ala TS M 7 Nashville Tenn 72 86 Kew Orleans. La 76 :m 7 Ktw York. N. T 7 94 82 Norfolk. Va 72 92 84 North Platte. Neb 6S ) 78 Oklahoma. O. T 72 92 vs Omaha. Neb 74 S2 84 Palestine. Tex 74 90 86 Parkersburg. W. Va 72 !J 80 JhiUdfiphia, Pa 7 y 86 Pitti-burg. Pa 74 76 Ilieblo. Col 88 96 78 Qu' Appelle. Assin 48 Hapld City. S. L 84 74 gt. Louis. Mo 72 'Ji RS t. Paal. Minn 78 7x a It Lake City, rtah 54 atn Antonio, Tex 72 s-i Sinta Fe. N. M 88 84 82 S-ireveport. La 70 84 80 prlnneld. 1U 76 84 Sa prlntcneld. Mo 72 2 Valentine. Neb 6 76 74 Washington. D. C 81 88 88 nrtehlta, Kan 74 88 82

DEATH AT TERR E HATTE. A Laborer Saceamhs to tbe HeatMany Otbera Prostrated, ffjpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July lO.John Montgomery, aged thirty-six, an unmarried laborer, died to-night from beat prostration, the first case of the year. Tbe temperature of the last three days 1 responsible for at least twenty cases of prostrations. The mercury to-day registered 96. Hottest of the Season. Jbpeclal to tbe Indianapolis Journal. MADISON. Ind.. July 10. Standard thermometers registered 100 in the shade to-day. It was the hottest day of tin eason. Woman Milled by Heat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFKRSON VII. LE, Ind.. July 10. Mrs. Flora Coots, wife of Deputy Coroner Frotnan Coots, died this morning of heart failure, superinduced by heat prostration. She bad been 111 for several days, but was apparently doing nicely until last night, when she suddenly became worse. Besides a husband, she leaves a daughter four years old. Thirty-Six Deaths. NEW YORK, July 10 Thirty-six deaths and eighty-three prostrations in and around New York and Brooklyn tell the Btory of to-day's heat. Tha temperaturo was M degrees and the humidity 46 per ccnL Prostrated by the Heat. As a result of the excessive heat Harold O. Curtis, living at No, 1012 North New Jersey atreet. was prostrated on Illinois, near "Washington street, yesterday afternoon. Be a - immediately taken to his home. His condition is not considered serious. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. N KW YORK, July 1 - Arrived: Fuerst Bismarck, from Hambur?; Island, from Copenhagen; Sylvania. from Liverpool. Bailed: Arabic, for Liverpool NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP. July 10 Passed: l'hlladelphia. from Southampton and Cherbourg faff New York, at 9 p. m. QtnUBNSTOWN. July 10.-Arrived: Commonwealth, from .Boston for Liverpool, and pro. eedt d. SOUTHAMPTON. July 10. -Sailed: Blücher, from Hamburg for New York, via h-r-bourg. PRAWLE POINT. July 10.-Pasaed: Ststtidam. from New York for Rotterdam. GLASGOW. July R-8ailod: Siberian, for ßt. John s, N. F., and Philadelphia. KIN8ALK. July 10. Passed: Armenian, from N- w Tork fr Liverpool. 1IOVILLK. July 10-Siled: Ionian, from Uverpool for Montreal. LIVERPOOL, July la.-8ailed: Celtic, for New York. Alfred Knapp's Trial. HAMILTON. July 10 The morning fl the Knapp murder trial was occupied by unimportant testimony in rebuttal of Xnapp s insanity claim. YV J nine. Mary Oriiin and other acquaintances testified that they regarded Knapp as sane and ever heard him complain of psins In the tiuad. The remainder of the day was taken ua with rebututi testimony.

TO SAVE CASS HAYDEN

HIS BROTHERS PAY 12.000 TO HIS WEST LAFAYETTE BOXDSMEX. Xfgro Swindler's Activity Ilaanted Hoste at Snnasnit vllle (iravel Road Election Trouble Xecrologlcnl. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. July W.-By the payment of $12,000 to-night Cass Hayden, of Grant Park. 111., saved his brother. Hilton Hoyden, the defaulting town treasurer of West Lafayette, from prison. Hayden's defalcation amounted to tli.500 and had not the settlement with the bondsmen been made he would have been arrested in Chicago, to which city he fled after his deed was discovered. The embezzlement was discovered several months ago when an investigation showed that he had misappropriated school funds and othgr moneys in his care. The town board at once sued his bondsmen for $12,000 for which amount they arc liable, the statute of limitation preventing the recovery of the rest. This case is now in the courts. Detectives have been searching for Hayden for weeks and requisition papers had bcea aj. plied for. Hnyden'se two brothers mortgaged their property to raise the necessary sum to prevent prosecution. The seven bondsmen accepted the offer of $12.0u0 and it will be paid Into the bank tomorrow. Hayden will not now be prosecuted. Fixing n Discrepancy. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 10 An agreement has been reached between James Trant and George W. Hutchinson, experts representing the city, and R. L. Manor, ex-city clerk, and J. R. Huffman, ex-city treasurer, fixing the amount of Huffman's discrepancy at Il,o49.09 and Manor's at $75. The ex-officials have been working on the books for nearly to months since the experts made their report to the Council, and discovered and placed on record a number of receipts, bonds, coupons and other evidences of expenditures that the experts were unable to account for because no records were kept by either officer from May 1, 1901, to May 1. 1902. Huffman has already paid into the city treasury $l.UuU and has a balance of $m09 yet to pay. a IM DEFENSE OF MRS. BROCK. Caleb Powers Write to Mr. Mick 111- ' beck, of Terre Haute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 10.-Caleb Powers, one of the accused Goebel murderers, has written a letter to Mr. Nick Filbeck in regard to a rep--t that Mrs. Clay Brock, who collected money in ludiana for his defense fund, was not in fact his friend, and was an impostor. Some days ago a Terre Haute newspaper printed a story to the effect that Mrs. Brock was the wife of a man of that name who was killed by the cars somewhere in Illinois, and that her representations in Indiana that she was an old school teacher of Powers's were false. The man who told the story had confused the Mrs. Dora Clay Brock. Caasius M Clay's former child-wife, with Mrs. Luella Clay Brock. Powers writes that he received the $2U0 collected by Mrs. Luella Clay Brock in Terre Haute. He says: "She Is among many Democrats In Kentucky who know that the trials of those accused have been mockeries of justice." BORROWED MOEY FREELY. Colored Man Who Represented Himself to Be Very Wealthy. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. LOGAN SPORT, Ind.. July 10.-A dozen Logansport colored citizens are anxiously awaiting the return of one George Adams, an alleged colored confidence man. who represented himself as a wealthy property owner of Richmond, Va., and who succeeded In borrowing various sums, ranging from $1 up to $75 from his colored brethren here. Adams came to Logansport several weeks ago und made a very favorable impression among the colored citizens by his representations of wealth and his princely liberality. He delivered an address at a meeting of the Waymen's Literary Socltty, a colored organization; he also dropped $5 gold pieces into penny slot machines and passed around expensive cigar. 1 He claimed to own business blocks In Cal ifornia and Salt Lake City and a farm of 300 acres on the outskirts of Richmond, Va. He proposed to buy a $5,000 piece of ground at Kenneth, a small station on the western edge of Logansport, where many colored men are employed in the Casparis stone quarries and said he would erect fifteen cottages which he would rent to the colored people and build a livery stable for the exclusive use of the colored people of the community. He delivered a voluminous quantity of hot air. which easily deceived a number cf his race, and after borrowing several hundred dollars disappeared. Investigation has proved that his claims were false and his local victims have no hope of ever recovering their money. THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTED. SnmsnltTille Will Keep Cool with a System of Snperstitiona (hills. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SUMMITV1LLE, Ind., July 10. Superstitious and nervous people are being alarmed at ghost stories emanating from an empty house in the central residence portion, from which three families have removed without apparent cause in rapid succession. An unknown burglar was killed there two years ago and never identified and superstitious people believe he has come back to annoy the residents. Charles Riggs, the last tenant to move out of the house, asserts that the doors will not stay shut, despite locks and bolts, and others say they have seen mysterious-looking personages about the porch of the house at latehours. New Jefferaonvllle Dally. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON V1LLE, Ind., July 10. The Clark County Republican, published at Charlestown and owned by W. E. Robinson, was sold to-day to the Jeffersonville Publishing Company. The plant will be moved here next week and a daily paper, the Evening Star, will be started. The weekly will be continued. The company ateo purchased to-day a business block wherein the paper will be located. The daily will be issued Just as soon as a linotype and other modern machinery which the company has purchased arrives. The paper will be in ch.irge of Charles L, Patchell. formerly of Indiana, but recently connected with the Evening Tflegram at Kn Claire. Wis He is one of the new owners of the plant. The new sheet will bo Republican in politics. Lrnvel Road Election Trouble. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind.. Juiy 10 -Wilham H. Walker, trustee of Northeast township. Grange county, reported to the Board of Commissioners that the gravel road election to hav been h-M on July 2 was not held for the reason, as he said, that h-- could not organize the election board. W'.ilk r w-s not in favor of the road, and because both of the election judges were favorable to the road he took the ballots anil ballot boxes and went bom. . The report was rejected by the board because it did not corr apond to the previous order of (he board. There is intense feeling Ofl both sides, and trouble was narrowly averted in the courtroom by the intervention of the sheriff. It is feared that the end W net yet in sight. Concert for orphan hlldren. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. ANORKSON. Ind.. July 10. The children of Madison county's orphan home are to be treated to a concert. The Elks of this city have arranged for a special sacred concert to be given on Sunday afternoon. The children will be the special care that day of the Elks and a dinner will be served for

them. In the afternoon they will be taken to the grounds, where the tent of the Cornell Concert Company is pitched. The Tl etton Company has u greed to provide a special car for the forty-five children and the matron of the home. It is the intention tp spare no efforts whatever to make the day an enjoyable one for tbe orphans. Pleaded Statute of Limitations. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN. Ind.. July 10. The work of recovering for city school boards from township trustees the dog tax which should have gone to schools in cities, under an act repealed in 15. was effectually checked to-day by a legal opinion, on which Trustee George S. Cobb, of this township, refused to pay $1.116. He pleaded the statute of limitation.-. Had the trustee been compeiied to py this amount it would have taken all his tuition fund. Willis Nusbaum, of Warsaw, and V. P. Kenworthy, of Lebanon, had the contract here. They were to r etve 25 per cent. They yesterday collected for Nappaneo, and expected to collect to-morrow for Elkhart.

Divlnloa Will Pay Half. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TKXBM HALTE. Ind., July 10.-Presldent Shuttleworth, of the Indiana division of the Travelers' Protective Association, is sending out notices that half the cost of the solid gold rings to be awarded to each member for bringing five new members into his :ocal port will he paid out of the state funds. The purpose is to start a force of volunteer solicitors throughout the State. Th offer by the state organization is conditional on tbt sec retary of the local post notifying the state secretary, W. D. Chambers, of this city, that his post accepts the conditions. Will Be Stocked with Fish. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., July 10.-The government fisheries department has notified Anderson men that the Larmore reservoir will be stocked with fish. The application was made several months ago and had the indorsement of Fish Commissioner Sweeney, of this State. The reservoir is fed by springs and a flowing well that was drilled about four years ago. The water is like lake water and fills the bed of the old hydraulic canal, it is a mlie long and from twenty to one hundred feet wide and from four to ten feet deep. The fish will be protected. DcHfcain "Mny Lose a Hand. B 'Mai to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 10. Hector Desgain, the window glass blower end athlete and recently candidate for the presidency of L. A. 300, will have to submit to the amputation of a portion of his hand and may possibly lose his arm from an inJury received in a fight, from which blood poison developed. He is now in the hospital at Fort Wayne. In a fight in this city with an oil worker he struca his fist against a briek wall and crushed and shattered the bones. Wheatfleld Is Destroyed by Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. July 10. Sparks from the engine drawing the Continental limited on the Wabash Railway set fire to a large wheat field owned by W. H. McMillin. on Greenbush street, in the outskirts of the city. While the fire department was fighting the fire a train came along and cut the fire hose. The wheat, covering about five acres of ground, was totally destroyed. The McMillin residence was saved with difficulty. Indiana Obituary. WINCHESTER, Ind., July W.-The funeral of Eliza Beverly, widow of Dr. John E. Beverly, who died yesterday, will be held from the Methodist Church. Mrs. Beverly was almost eighty years old and bad jived here since she was a little girl. She was a graduate of what in eaxly days was known here as the "Old Seminary." and was a woman of rare mental qualities. She was a sister of John Goodrich and aunt of State Chairman James P. Goodrich. She Ml an only daughter. Miss Reba G. Beverly, who served the past year as president of the Woman's Club heie. SALEM. Ind., July 10 Capt. Jasper N. Rodman died at his home near Fnrrabee yt sterday afternoon of a complication of diseases. He was captain of Company J3, Sixty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, in the civil war. He was a cousin of General Rodman, the inventor of the Rodman gun. and was seventy-one years old. He was a stanch Republican and member of the Baptist Church. RISING BUN, Ind., July 10. William Dorrel, aged eighty-live, a farmer of this county, died yesterday. He was prominently known as one of the litigants In the famous Dorrel-Ricketts ease, so frequently mentioned in the reports of the Supreme Court of this State. He spfnt many thousands of dollars litigating over a few rods of old rail fence and a disputed boundary line. MARTINSVILLE. Ind.. July 10.' Mrs. Emily F. Smith was found dead in her bed at Morgan town this morning. When discovered she was lying on her face and it is supposed that she died of epilepsy, to which she was subject. She left her husband and two children. LEBANON. Ind., July 30. Charles F. Butner, of this city, died suddenly at the heme of his son-in-law, Ben Cross, near Holmes's Station, this morning. The cause of his death aas neuralgia. He left a widow and four children. NEW CASTLE, Ind., July 10. Benjamin Stuart, aged seventy-five, one of the old and respected citisens of the county, died at his home in Franklin township Tuesday night. VALPARAISO, Ind., July 10 John Bowers, aged sixty-five, a prominent citizen and member of the G. A. R., died here this morning. MBS. BLAINE MAY DIE. Widow of the Maine Statesman Is in a Critical Condition. AUGUSTA, Me., July 10. Mrs. Blaine, widow of James G. Blaine, lies in the Blaine mansion in a critical condition, and while the attending physicians decline to discuss her illness. It is reported by a relative that there is no hope of her recovery. Mrs. Blaine, who is nearly seventy-five years old. has been In failing health for three years. During the past six months she has failed rapidly. There is no apparent disease, and the physicians attribute her delicate condition to old age and a general breaking down of the system. Some months ago she realized her condition, and at her request was taken to her old home, there to pass her declining days. Since her return home she has gradually weakened, and the approaching end has beea apparent for many days. Her children, Mrs. Real, Mrs. Damroseh and James G. Blaine. Jr.. are at her bedside, ministering so far as possible to her comfort. Mrs. Blaine is said to still retain her consciousness and fully realizes her condition. Obltaary. POTTSVILI.E. Pa., July 10.-Charles F. Toungling. prominently identified with brewing interests in Pennsylvania and New York, is dead at his home here from diabte?. Be wa sixty-eight years old. He had accumulated a large fortune. HELENA, Mont., July 10. John Griffith?, aged eighty-one years, a noted Montana pioneer, is dead here. He was a native of St. Louis and came to Helena with the discovery of gold in 1882. DULUTH. Minn.. July 10. Levi A. Barber, of the firm of Peyton. Kimball & Barber, died to-day aged sixty-seven. He was a prominent lumberman and haves a large estate. Raanlna- Deer Kills Kills Twice. HELENA. Mont.. July 10. Running Deer, a Sioux Indian woman, seventy years old, la in the Helena jail chargvd with the murder of Kills Twice, i I'r.-w woman, with whom she lived for many years at the Pine Ridge agency. She plunged a knife into the stomach f Kills Twice, at the same time slashed another squaw, seriously Injuring her. Kills Twice died the following day. 4 Inbi to C lose Their Bara. CHICAGO. Jnly 10-Arcording to city offleisls the Standard und the Lakeside, two of the most prominent clubs in Chicago, must close their bars. They come under the decision of the Supremo Court that clubs dispensing liquors must have licenses. As both these organisations are in prohibition territory no license can be granted by the city. A Guaranteed Cnre for Piles. Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund your money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure you. 50 cents.

TERRITORY WAS DIVIDED

GRAVE ROBBERS MADE AX EQIITABLE ASSIGXME.NT OF TRADE. West Operated in Hamilton and Iadlson, Cantrell In Marlon CountyTestimony at Xohlesville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLES VILLE, Ind., July 10. Th State occupied all to-day in the Hampton West grave robbery case. B. F. Bracken, of Indianapolis, brother to Newton Bracken, whose body West is accused of having taken from the Beaver cemetery, testified as to his brother's death, the place of burial and the examination of the grave when he learned the remains were missing. Mrs. Bracken denied tha she had given her consent to have her husband's body removed and sold to a medical college. Ruf us Cantrell and Samuel Martin, who are serving sentences in the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville were on the stand. Martin said he was with the crowd on the night Bracken's body 'was stolen. He remained in the wagon outside the cemetery and could not positively identify est, but he saw an old man In the gang. Cantrell testified that he, Martin, Hubbard, McAndree, West and L. R. Stout robbed the grave and sold the body to the Indiana Medical College. Cantrell said that by agreement he and West had divided the territory in which the robberies were to be committed. West had Hamilton and Madison counties and Cantrell Marion county. The witness testified to having worked with West in Fairview, Round Hill, Oaklandon, Moont Jackson. Beaver, White Chapel and other cemeteries. Detectives Asche and Manning, of Indianapols, were on the stand this afternoon and testified to Cantrell identifying West after the latter had stated repeatedly that he had never sen Cantrell. Court adjourned late this evening until Monday morning. CRASHED INTO A FREIGHT EXPRESS TRAIN IM COLLISION ON A HILL NEAR LOGAXSPORT. No One Hurt Drownings in tbe State Casualties Due to Falls Fftcmer Gored by a Bull. Special to tha Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind.. July 10. Coming down the Clymer's hill at terrific saced and beyond the control of Engineer Irish, the Wabash Kastern Exnress. duo here from the west at 3:42 o'clock, crashed into the first section of Pennsylvania freight train No. S4 at the Berkley-street crossing, plowing a full car length through the freight, demolishing three box cars and derailing two others. Fortunately the Wabash engine did not leave the track and but for the fact that a number of passengers were jarred out of their seats they would scarcely have known that a collision had occurred. No one was hurt. The freight train had been given the right of way and was moving slowly, but the engineer of the passenger evidently miscalculated the distance and did not put on the air soon enough. Both the local Pennsylvania wreck crew and the Wabash wreck train from Peru were sent to the scene of the wreck and had the track clearad In less than two hours. The express was one hour and thirty minutes late in leaving the station, the only damage bring a broken pilot and a few scratched cars. The Berkley-street crossing is one of the roost dangerous in the State on account of the hill west of it and many wrecks have occurred at this point. Man and Horse Killed. Sreclal to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, lr.d., July 10. William Wolf, aged seventy-three years, was instantly killed by the afternoon Lake Erie & Western train from Indianapolis at a crossing near his home at the south edge of the city. He was trying to save his horse, but it too was killed. TWO BOYS DROWN. Fatalities on tfce Water at Rising; Sun and Near Lanorte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RISING SUN, Ind., July 10 -Russell Gibson, the ten-year-old son of Mr. Charles W. Gibson, hardware merchant of this city, drowned in the Ohio river here this morning. Gasoline launches and a fleet of skiffs are dredging the river in hopes of recovering the body. LAPORTE, Ind., July 10. Edmund Brenn, eleven-year-old son of Henry Brenn, of Chicago, while swimming in Stone lake late last night with a number of companions, went beyond his depth and drowned. More than fifty persons were in the water in the vicinity at the time, but no cry for help was heard, nor was the accident noticed until half an hour later, when the boy was missed. Searching parties spent all night hunting for the body, but it was not recovered until this morning. The boy made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Schweitzer, of this city. INJIRIES Dt'E TO PALLS. One Farmer Is Paralysed and Another Permanently Crippled. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind.. July 10. While Thomas Splllman, a farmer living near here, was assisting in putting away hay at Thomas Cook's farm he fell through the hatchway on his head and shoulders, causing paralysis. He cannot recover. VINCENNES. Ind., July 10.-A fall from a hay stack on his farm near Bridgeport, PL. to-day, will permanently cripple A. T. Warner, a traveling salesman of Evansville. Took Eye Lotion by Accident. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 10. Dr. James E. Clark, a veteran of the civil war, has been sick for several weeks from an affliction that has caused almost total blindness at times. His physician has been treating both his mm and other troubles. Last night lr. ('lark thought he would take his medicine without disturbing his wife and took the medicine that was intended for his eyes, which is very poisonous, my mistake. Re knew he had made a mistake as soon as he swallowed It and immediate steps were taken to counteract the poison. It was thought for a time that he could not live and the danger is yet not entirely over. Gored by an Angry Roll. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL. Ind.. July 10. Albert Stltchler was probably fatally injured this morning by an angry bull. He is employed on the farm of Frank Shattuck. a dairyman north of the city, and was passing the bull in the barn when the animal attacked him. throwing him through the side of the barn and goring him viciously. Another Victim of tbe Foarth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. July 10. Albert Wanski, son of Oscar Wanski, a Mainstreet fruit dealer, is at the point of death from lockjaw, as the result of shooting himself with a toy pistol on the Fourth. It was a slight wound in the hand and gave him no trouble until last evening. Col. Fred Ames Takes to Prison. 8T. PAUL. July i0. The Supreme Court to-day formally entered an order sustaining the verdict of the lower court declaring former Superintendent f Police CoL Fred

Ames, of Minneapolis, guilty of receiving money for "protection.' The announcement that tbe court hud reached ueh an agreement mas made publb yesterday and Colonel Ames was taken in custody on the order of County Attorney Bardman, of Hennepin county. Ames was taken to the 8tilwater prison to-day to begin his sentence of six years imprisonment. RUSSIA'S OPPORTUNITY.

Persecution of Negroes an Offset for Oppression of the Jews. LONDON. July 10. The Russian ambassador in London, according to the Catholic Herald, has refused to receive a petition relative to the treatment of negroes in the United States and forward it to the Czar, as requested by the Catholic Herald. The petition draws atu ntton to the "increasing outrages on negroes, accompanied by appalling brutality," and urges the Russian government to make representations to Washington, asking the authorities there "to take steps in the interests of civilization and humanity to suppress, the growing evil." The ambassador i-ays the matter is outside his puirview and that he cannot, therefore, move therein. The Catholic Herald says the petition will be sent direct to St. Petersburg. ' PURDUE BARN BURNED LARGE BUILDING l'SED RY THE AGHit I LT I It L DEPARTMENT. Loss of aiO.QOO landed by Llffht nineMan Killed Near Mnncic Mail Carrier Hurt Otaer Storms. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 10. Lightning struck the huge Purdue University stock barn late this afternoon and the structure was soon entirely destroyed, together with all its contents. The building was used by the agricultural department and in it was stored forty-nine tons of hay just cut and some valuable harvesting machinery. These were a stationary thresher, sheller and grinder, with a new electric motor. Tbe total loss is estimated at $10,000. Two large silos near the building also burned. Valuable cattle were taken out a few minuteti before the fire started. The city fire department assisted tht West Lafayette firemen but could not save the barn. Their efforts, however, prevented the destruction of other barns and the house occupied by Prof. John Skinner. President Stone said the insurance would cover half the loss and that the building would be replaced immediately. The structure destroyed was built in lSi9. Fires Caused by Lightning. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, lad.. July M). puring a severe electrical storm last night a schoolhouse, four barns and a farmhouse were struck by lightning and considerable stock killed. The schoolhouse and two barns burned. MAIL CARRIER HXRT. Storm Does Much DauiaRe in the Vicinity of Union City. SpeciaJ to tbe Indianapolis Journal. UNION CITY, Ind., July 10. A severe windstorm did much damage three miles south of this city this evening. A new barn belonging to J. J. Downing was demolished, the large timbers being broken and twisted and thrown over the field. Rural Route Mail Driver John Tambert, of this city, who had driven into the barn for shelter," was caught under a falling beam and crushed. He is dangerously injured, aud his recovery is doubtful. The Kerr brothers, of this city, and a colored boy were also in the barn, and their escape was remarkable. Several other barns and farm buildings were damaged. Damage Around Winchester. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER. Ind.. July W. This city and vicinity was visited this afternoon by one of the severest storms experienced here for years. Rain fell in torrents for some time, and for a few seconds wind was terrific, rsnlngs were wrenched from their fastenings and limbs torn from shade trees and hurled, in many instances, for long distances. Some hail fell, but not enough to do any great damage here. The house of Charles Coats, in the west part of the city, was fired by lightning, but the damage, was Slight. Mach Damage nt Bateavllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BATESVILLE. Ind.. July 10.-An electrical storm passed through this vicinity about 3 o'clock this afternoon, doing considerable damage to growing crops and fruit trees. The entire roof was blown off the Adams & Curtis Shoe Company's factory, a large three-story building. ONE MAN KILLED. Severe Electrical Storm Passes Over Mnnele nnd Vicinity. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNC1E, Ind., July 10. -A severe electrical storm passed over Muncle and vicinity this afternoon. It resulted in one death, extensive damage to machinery in the oil fields and other and slighter loss. William Myers, a farmer six miles east of Muncle, was struck by lightning and instantly killed while unloading hay. In the oil field about Selma and Parker many rigs were torn down. In Muncle the McCulloch and Hall buildings were struck, but the damage was slight. At the home of Attorney C. A. McGonagle the lightning ran down a gas pipe, burned a hole and lighted the gas. The flames were put out before further damage resulted. a WOMAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Her House Straek Twice In Leas Than Five Minutes. SPRINGFIELD. O., July DO. That lightning does strike twice in the same place was proved this afternoon by the death of Maud Hawk. The house was struck and she began to remove clothing from the building. Within four minutes a second stroke came and the bolt penetrated the closet in uhich she was standing, killing her instantly. Man and Team Killed. Special to th Indianaiolis Journal. UNION CITY, Ind., July 10 A hired man in the employ of Irvin Thompson and the latter's team of horses were killed by lightning this afternoon seven miles north of this city. IN H0N0B OF JOHN MITCHELL Twenty Thousand Persons PartlclIt In n Labor Demonstration. PITTSBTRG, Kan., July 10.-8ome 20,000 persons to-day participated In a labor demonstration in honor of President John Mitchell of the United Mine .Workers. Eight thousand coal miners. itr fifteen bands. paraded. Mr. Mitchell responded to an address of welcome by Mayor Price. The subjects to be discussed by the interstate convntlon at its session will be opposition to injunction; the proposal of affiliating a coal holsters' union with the United Mine Workers of America; against boy labor In mines; opposition to buiidinK coal camps; favoring the selling of lots to the miners, and in regard to the color line. President Mitt-hell ays there shall be no color line drawn eapt socially, and that the coal holsters' union is not necessary as a side issue of tbe United Mine Workers of America.

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Ml HOE It EH MALLORY WILL APPEAL TO THE M Pit KM K COl RT. Disagreement in the Drake Case New Feature In the Seward Murder Salcide of a Publican. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind.. July 10. The motion for a new trial In the case against Joseph Mallory, vtho was convicted of the murder of Groeeryman John M. Koonsman. of ßouth Bend, and sentenced to prison for life, was to-day overruled by Judge Richter in the Lanorte Circuit Court. Notice of an appeal tc the State Supreme Court aas given. Boone, who tired the shot that killed Koonsman, was convicted at South Bend and sentenced to a life term. He died this week in prison, having served just three months. Mallory was aJVged to have been the chief conspirator and planner of the robbery, which resulted in the murder. Rankin, the third man in the party, has not yet been tried. Drake Jury Dianareea. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON. Ind.. July 10.-The Jury In the Drake case disagreed and was discharged, after being out from 4:30 yesterday afternoon to 2 o'clock this afternoon. Tho members stood six for conviction and six for aciuittaL WRITER OF LETTER. He la Wanted to Throw l ight on the Seward Murder. Special to the Indtaaapi .s Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. July W. -Sheriff Cooper, of Greencaatle, and Detective Cassidy, of St. Louis, were here to-day trying to find the writer of a letter to William Seward warning him that his wife would be murdered. He claims to have received the letter a few days before she was found murdered in her home near GreeucasUe. Seward showed this letter immediatelyafter the murder and made a trip to Terre Haute to find the writer, who signed the name "Frank Wilson." In Greeneastle he was suspected of having written it himself and it was compared with his writing. It is now said that it Is not his handwitting. Wanted for Shooting His Wife. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 10. Bruce Kelly, who was born and reared in this city. Is wanted by the authorities of St. Louis for shooting his wife. Kelly, about ten years ago. married Miss Stella Westrich, daughter of a local publican, and later they moved to 8t. Louis. Domestic troubles began a short time ago nnd the wife left her husband. On June 24 he went to the rear of the restaurant where she was working and shot her three times, in the breast, tht back and one hand.- The mother of the injured girl i nt to SL Louie to care for her daughter, who is still in a serious condition. Suicide of Publican. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 10. Joseph Chermal, an Italian publican at Dunkirk, a Logansport suburb, committed suicide this afternoon by taking poison. Family trouble is given as the cause. GENERAL INDIANA NEWS BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER HOOMEHDOM. Subsidy Election Ordered In a r rollRunaway Boy Found Civic Leugue to Beautify Elwowd. EL WOOD. Plans are on foot for the formation of a civic league In EJwood. the cardinal principle of which will be the beautiheation of the city and its public grounds. The degree team of Harmony Temple of Rathbone Bisters, of Elwood. has accepted an Invitation to exemplify the work of the order before the Supreme Temple on the occasion of Its meeting at Indianapolis in October. The team, which is under the din ctioa of H. D. Beyersdorfer, has the reputation of being the test in the State. ANDERSON. Wheat in Madison county is pronounced of a much better grade than usual, which will make up in a measure for the shortage in the crop. The conservative estimate of this season's yield is from 250,000 to 300,000 bushels. The fame ri as a rule are slow in bringing their crop to elevators. This Is true in all parts of the county. Farmers are storing their wheat more thawever before. The Anderson elevators contain only about 12.000 bushels. LAFAYETTE. J. Kirby Risk, former city clerk and one of the proprietors of the Daily Democrat, Is critically sick at his hom on Ou'en street. On Thursday he was attacked with gastritis and his physician says his condition is very serious. The Tippecanoe Board of Appraisers has added about $2,000.000 to the tax duplicate of the county, but has reduced the city taxables somewhat. NEW CASTLE. Several loads of newly threshed wheat have been brought to mar ket here. E. M. Carr, superintendent of the city water works, an accomplished electrician, has about completed a new Invention which he calls a secondary transformer, to be used especially for gaa engines. It will greatly economise the current to be used for making the spark. 8UMMITVILLE. A revival of unusual results Is being held at the Baptist Church in this city, despite the hot weather, led by Mrs. Leslie, a local evangelist. The church has had a number of accessions, and a debt, which for a long time has hung over the edifice, has not only been raised, but sufficient additional to remove the church to a more suitable location. WINDFALL The annual reunion of the soldiers and sailors of Tipton county In all wars will be held here in September of this year. Preparations are well under way for the entertainment of the hundreds of exfected visitors under the management of Tesident George Bragg and Secretary Jame? Gard of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Association. SHELBYVILLE. A lsrge number of families are gathering at amp Actnn th.s year earlier than usual. Fifty famill are already on the ground, and by July 22, t'ie time that camp-meeting begins, every entage in the park will doubtless be tah 'n. The Interurban line makes it convenient for all cottagers from Indianapolis and Shelbyville. LOGANSPORT. Len Porter, the runaway boy who went to the Boer war. and whom the government authorities at Washington tried to intercept at Cape Town, has bean heard from by his father. Frank Porter, who received a letter from him dated Clinton, DL where the boy Is working on a farm. He is expected home soon. WINAMAC. John Allen, at one time a prominent resident here, the brother-in-law of Senator N. 8. Aj new of Valparaiso, was found dead, lying face downward. In a pool of water near thi place, on Friday. Ib a victim rf alcoholism, and having fallen in the pool, was too feehle. owing to age and dissipation, to save himself. DELPHI. The County Commissioners of this county have granted a petition by ?hresidents of Carrolton and Waaalagton townships, asking for a special election to vote on the question of a $15.000 subsidy in each township to th- Frankfort & Logansport electric road. The election was ordered for Tuesday. Aug. 18. ''ROTIIKRSVILLK.-Dr. Ira Nelson has Just purchased the Park Hotel building in this place and will convert it into a sanatorium. He gave In exchange for tbe place one hundred acres of farm land south of town and H.000 in cash. There is an artesian well, with a tine flow of mineral water, on the hotel property. LAWRENCEBI RO. - Affidavits have been filed In Circuit Court by Mrs. Laura Lampkins. keeper of the Aurora and lMllsboro turnpike tollgate at Cochran, chargingGeorge Kerr and Charles Miller, of Cochran, with injuring the tullgate on June 30 and July C respectivel' JOKK8BORO.-WIII 8 ha f er. a hod carrier employed on the schovlhoose In course of

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erection here, fell eighteen feet through tbe elevator abaft and aas hu. t intem.Uly. He is In a serious condition. VALPARAISO.-Tbe Valparaiso district Christian Endeavor Society closed a three days' session at Hammond on Thursday. The next meeting will be held In this city on June 18 and 19. 1S04. SHIRLEY Two Rig Four freights were lllfion here FTidiy n-n i. Bh were derailed and damaged somewhat, but no one was hurt. WRITERS ELECT OFFICERS AM) CLOSE THEIR EIGHTEENTH AS. AVAL MKKT1G AT W ISO A. Charles Eugene Banks Chosen Pr ident The Executive Committee Teplea of the Last Dar Special to the Iodtanspona Journal WARSAW. Ind.. July M). The Western Association of Writers closed its eighteenth annual meeting at Winona lake to-day. In the morning J. C. Ochiltree read a paper on "Literature and Journalism." and a discussion of tbe subject by the organisation followed. "The New Harmony Movement" was discussed by George B. Lockwuod and "Body and Brain" by Dr. T. S. Lowden. of De Pauw University. In the afternon ITof. Ernest FenoUosa lectured in the auditorium on "Contributions of the Eastern Mind." John McGvern, of Chicago, was the principal speaker In the evening, and gave an interesting lecture on "Andrec." The following officers were elected: President, Charles Eugene Banks, Chicago; vice presidents, James Whitcomb Riley aud Amos W. Butler; Ohio. John James Piatt; Kentucky. Madisou Ca wein; Illinois, Dr. Hubert M. Skinner; Michigan. Dr. Alira Bartlett; Nebraska, Mi. Elisabeth Richie; Kansas, Eugene Ware; Alabama. Mrs. Martina Swafford; treasurer, Mrs. L. N. Davis, Farmland; secretaries. Bdward B. Heiny, Huntington; Miss Esther Griffin White, Richmond; executive committee. Miss Miiietta T. Taylor, chairman. Greeneastle; Edward J. Becker, Irvington; Mnrk L. Demorest. Valparaiso; Mrs. Mary H. Planner)-, Indianapolis; Will Cum back. Greensburg; W. P. Breck. Columbus; F. F. Oldham, Washington. D. C; John Tri Lloyd. Cincinnati; Mrs. E. 8. L. Thompson. Muncle; Mary KV 'ardwill. New Albany; John McGovera. Chicago; Mrs. Anuie Payne. Greeneastle; Mrs. J. V. H. Kons. Muncle; Dr. W. H. Venable. Cincinnati; W. W. Pfrimmer. Kenton; John C. Calmer, Spencer; Dr. J. N. Mutthews. Mason, DL H. B. Howland. Indianapolis, and the officers of the association. The regular annual banquet was held on Thursday, instead of Friday evening, as intended, and covers were laid for sixty at Ha Winnnn Hotel The meetings this week i have been the most interesting ones the writers have ever held, and as tne regular assembly programme has been inven during the week, in addition to the a-riters' programme, the entertainments were more numerous than heretofore and the attendance much larger. Wayae Coaaty Medicos. Bpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. July 10 The Warn County Medical Society held ita annual meeting here and elected the following officers: President, Dr. L S. Sweeny, of Milton; vice president, Dr. J. E. King, of Hit hmond; censors. Dr. Charles Marvel and Dr. M. F. Jobnpton. Richmond, and Dr. Boyd. Cambridge City. The doctors are very enthusiastic over the new hospital to be built In Riehmond and voted a contribution. DANGER IN HATCHES. Illinois Girl stepped an One In tha Street nnd Was Badly Bnrned. DENVER. July M. Miss Marie Murphy, of Pontiac. 111., to-day stepped on a match In the street, and It ignited her clothing. Several men ran to her assistance, but she was so severely burned before the flames were extinguished that she may die. Given fSOO Instead of fl.OOO.OOO. ST. PACT.. Minn., July 10.-The State Supreme Court, in an opinion handed down today, upholds the verc' si af a lower court, which has awarded Harber I W. Pearson, of Iuluth, 1500 for sen I af rendered the Grent Northern Railway in the location of coal mines In Montana. Pearson sued for SI.OOO.OOO, alleging that by following an original theory nf geological formation, he succeeded In finding vast coal fields for tha railroad company.

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