Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 345, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1903,

SNOW MAY FALL TO-DAY, TO-MORROW MAY BE FAIR

WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Forecast for Friday and Saturday: Indiana Snow on Friday. Saturday fair; fresh west to north winds. Illinois- Snow on Friday In south; generally fair in north portion.". Saturday fair; fresh west t north winds. Ohio Partly cloudy on Fridny: fresh west Winds; snow at night or Saturday. Kentucky Snow on Friday, with Saturday fair. Lower Michigan 4 Tloudy on Friday and Saturday, with snow in west find north portions; fresh west to north win1?. Tennessee Fair on Friday, warmer in west portion; rain or snow at night or Saturday. North Dakota Snow on Friday. Saturday probahly fair South Dakota Snow on Friday, with colder in extr dm west portion. Saturday probably fair. Nebraska Cloudiness ii Friday; probably pnow in west portion. Saturday fair. Wisconsin Fair In southwest, snow in north and west portion on Friday. Saturday fair; fresh nortfewest to north winds. Iowa Generally fair on Friday and Saturday. Minnesota Fair in west, snow In east portion on Friday. Saturday fair; fresh north to northwest winds. Kansas Generally fair on Friday and Saturday; colder Saturday. Local Observations on Thursday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. W ther. Pre. 7 a. m. .29.48 20 94 S'west. Lt snow. 0.04 7 p.m.. 30.00 18 88 S'west. Cloudy. 0.02 Maximum temperature. 22; minimum temperature, is. Comparative statement of mean temperature and total precipitation on Dec. 10: Temp. Pre. Norma! 35 0.10 Mean 21 0.06 Departure for day 15 0.04 Departure for month 31 0.98 Departure since Jan. 1 127 8.89 W. T. BLYTH K, Section Director. Yesterday 'a Temperatures. Stations. 7 a. m. Abilene. Tex 30 Amarlllo, Tex 28 Atlanta, Ga 34 Bismarck. N. D 8 Buffalo, NY 22 Cairo. Ill 24 Calgary. Jt. W. T 88 Chattanooga, Tenn 30 Cheyen-.--. Wyo 28 Chicago, in 14 Cincinnati. O 24 Cleveland. O 26 Columbus, O 86 Concordia, Kan 18 Davenport. Ia 10 Denver. Col 28 Dodgf City. Kan 20 Dtibuoue. Ia 14 Max. 7 p. m. 64 54 56 40 28 26 30 30 34 46 24 24 24 30 50 18 54 52 i 12 60 58 46 30 36 26 32 62 36 46 46 24 22 40 44 46 30 56 36 46 46 62 52 60 32 40 34 58 44 34 20 26 30 26 32 36 16 20 28 24 36 14 46 44 12 12 50 56 36 23 34 22 30 52 36 34 42 22 22 38 32 42 26 52 M 36 36 54 22 56 n 36 26 42 6 34 2 14 34 60 S2 50 IS 32 32 30 46 Duluth. Minn 4 El Paso, Tex 22 Galveston, Tex 48 Grand Junction. Co! 14 Grand Rapids. Mich 24 Havre, Mont 34 Huron. S. D 0 Helena.. Mont 24 Jacksonville. Fla 40 Kansas City. Mo 14 Lander. Wyo 16 Little Rock. Ark 30 lA.uisville. Ky 24 Marquftt;. Mi h 22 Memphis, Tcnn 2S Mouena, 1'tah 3 Montgomery, Ala 36 Nashville. Tenn 28 New Orleans. La 44 New York. N. Y 34 Norfolk. Va 34 Vorth Platte. Neb 22 Oklahoma, O. T 24 Omaha. Neb 8 Palestine Ttx 34 Parkersburg. W. Va 28 Philadelphia. Ta 9 Pittsburg. Pa 26 . Pueblo. Col 18 Qu' Appelle, N. W. T 20 Rapid City. S. D 28 8t. Louis, Mo 1? St. Paul, Minn 2 Seit Lake City. Utah ... 3 .. San Antonio. Tex 38 Santa Fe. N. M 20 Shreveport, La 38 Spring-held. Ill 16 Springtleld, Mo 1 Valentine. Neb 12 Washington. D. C 28 Wichita. Km 20 14 a i 44 56 20 36 40 58 DRAMATIC SOLUTION OF AN UNUSUAL CRIME Organizer of Sporting Shows Schemes for a Fortune and Commits Suicide. ROME. Dec. 10. One of the strangest of crimes had a most dramatic solution to-day. A young man named Beretta, a millionaire, of Milan, and a famous yportsman, was Invited by the Chevalier Angelo Vecchio, an organizer of sporting shows, to his villa outside of Milan on the pretext that Beretta examine some old pictures. Once there Beretta was seised and bound and obliged, with a revolver pointed at his head, to make a will leaving his fortune to Yecchlo, besides writing a letter saying he had committed suicide. Vecchio then left the villa, after instructiug an accomplice to drown Beretta the next day In a bath and carry the body far away from the villa so as to give Vecchio a chance to prove an alibi. But the heart of Vecchlo's accomplice softened and he set Beretta at liberty and Vecchio. who read In the newspapers tbat his plot had bi'vn discovered, disappeared. The police thought he had gone to America. To-day. however, tt was learned that Vesshio had committed suicide by shooting while driving in an open carriage oo the famous Monte Pinrheo drive. STRENUOUS POLITICS. Three Duels Fought in Island of Miquclon on Election Day. ST. JOHX. N. F.. Dec. 10. -Three duels were fought In St. Pierre. Miouelon. during the past fortnight as a result of the issues la the compalgn for the election of a representative from the colony to the French Chamber of Deputies. This election will take place on Dec. 27. Notwithstanding th. denial by the French government that the Inlands were to be sold to the United State. the report to this affect forms one of the campaign Issues. COST OF A LEAD PENCIL Refunded by Woman Who Took It Twenty Years Agi . DANVILLE. 111., Dc. . Mrs. Hannah Ptarks. of WestvIHe, to-day received a letter from Mrs. Mary Rice, of Rockville. Ind.. Inclosing 10 cents in payment for a lead pencil the writer aays ah took from Mrs. Stark when thy were schoolmates twenty years ago. Mrs. Bice says she wants a clear conscience and begs her friend's foregtveness for the wrong done her.

GREAT BRITAIN'S QUEEN SAIilYjSCAPES EIRE Her Secretary Is Awakened by Smoke and Hastily Gives an Alarm.

AROUSES HER MAJESTY And Both Get Out of the Place as the Floor of the Queen's Bedroom Gives Way. LONDON, Dec. 10. A Are occurred to-day at Sandringham and Queen Alexandra and her secretary. Miss Knollys, had narrow escapes. It broke out at 5 o'clock this morning in Miss Knollys's bedroom, in the chimney flue, where a beam is supposed to have been smoldering for some days, and spread to the bedroom of the Queen, who was asleep at the time. She was awakened by Miss Knollys. who also raised an alarm, but the flames obtained a good hold of both I rooms and considerable damage was done U-fnre the Are was extinguished. The outbreak caused a great deal of excitement at Sandringham, where a number of guests are stnying at present. King Edward is enj ing the shooting on Lord Iveagh's estate at Elveden, Suffolk. The reticence customary at Sandringham was observed In connection with the Are. From later information, however, it apjx ars that Queen Alexandra had a narrower escape than the flfSt accounts of the N indicated. Miss Charlotte Knollys was fortunately awakened by the smoke in her bedroom, whlfch is immediately below the chamber occupied by her Majesty. MISS Knollys rushed upstairs to the Queen's apartment and aroused her Majesty. Both the Queen and ht-r secretary, who were lad nly in dressing gowns, escaped from the burning room not a moment too soon, as the tloor of the Queen' apartment collapsed almost Immediately, carrying with It her Majesty's bed. Only a few hundred pounds' damage was done by the Are, which was confined to the two bedrooms. It is now stated that the blaze was caused by an imperfectly insulated electric light wire. which set Are to a beam between the celling of Miss Knollys's bedroom and the Aoor of her Majesty's apartment. Tbl alarm raised by Miss Knollys soon brought the household Uro brigade, which quickly began the work of extinguishing the Iir Sir Dlghton MacNaghten Probyn, keeper of the privy purse and extra equerry to the King, took charge of the operations. Qweea Alexandra, who displayed the utmost composure, remained with Miss Knollys near the scene until she was assured that there was no further danger of the Are spreading. An examination of the apartments shows that more damage was done by wattr than by fire. A large number of the Queen's treasured knick knacks rand some of her charming furniture were sponed. King Edward was immediately notifled of the occurrence and later In the day a special messenger was sent to Suffolk with a reassuring message from Queen Alexandra. MISS GILLESPIE DIES, HER BROTHER'S SHOTGUN TAKEN BY OFFICERS (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) aged mother. It Is stated that the evidence was to the effect that none of the relatives living directly across the street came to the home of the victim after the tragedy. Mrs. Bourbour is a close neighbor of the victim. Recently a man was seen at a rear window of the home of Elizabeth and her mother. The community is almost a unit in believing the suspect to be the criminal. The finding of a sixteeu-gauge shot shell receutly exploded In the vicinity of the Gillespie home, together with some remarks alleged to have been made Immediately after the shooting, are clews that are being worked by the investigators, and it is believed will result lu fixing the crime upon the perpetrator soon. JAMES WILL BE DEFENDED. It has developed that the murdered girl has been for some time on unfriendly terms with other members of her family, and especially her brother James. It is alleged that the members of the Gillespie famllv are very much opposed to the crime being investigated. They will protect their brother to the end and have already employed able counsel to defend him. Physicians who attended Miss Gillespie after she was shot have removed from the wound in the side of her head two wads in perfect condition and one badly torn and ragged. It is alleged that these wads exactly fit the sixteen-gauge shot shell found. The public feeling Is still running high and farmers and citizens generally throughout the surrounding country freely express their opinions as to the punishment that should be meted out to the guilty person, but lt is not believed there Is any danger of mob law, as the people have great confidence In the court and officials and anticipate speedy justice when the time arrives The Gillespie family was one of the most prominent in Ohio county. The victim nas a woman Of literary and musical attain ments. Her grandfather, father and brother were eminent physicians. Her father was mayor of Rising Sun many years after service as surgeon In the civil war. Miss Elizabeth Gillespie was thirty-eight years old and lived alone with kef mother, Margaret Gillespie, aged seventy-niiu. Across the street from them lived the victim s twin brother James and her sister, Mrs. V. R. Seward, a widow. Members of these two households were not on speaking terms. After the death of the father, Dr. William Gillespie, they quarreled over the estate. Two years ago James left his mother and Elizabeth to live with Mrs. Seward. Recently the mother deeded fcer property to Elizabeth. Since then tho relations between the twins became more strenuous. Two other brothers are Dr. William Gillespie, of Cincinnati, and Robert Gillespie, a farmer rt siding near Rising Sun. Dr. Gillespie arrived here from Cincinnati the night his sister was shot and was constantly by her bedside until she died. She never regained consciousness. Meantime, Dr. Gillespie does not believe the story that is on the lips of everybody In Rising Sun Before going into the grand Jury room Pros cutor Davis advised him of the State s information, when the brother replied: "On that suspicion you are wrong. 1 will fight to the bitter end to prove that it is untrue." CANADA'S CRITICAL HOUR. Charlton Says the Dominion Is at Parting of the Ways. BOSTON, Dec. 10. John Charlton, member of the Canadian Parliament, delivered a forceful address upon the subject of "Reciprocity with Canada," before the Boston Chamber of Commerce to-day. Mr. Charlton is also a member of the I'ulted States and British joint commission, created in lyT. In conclusion, he said: "The critlcai hour is at hand when Canada will have arrived at the parting of the ways, and will Ide whether he shall c ultivate the Intiin.tt. and natural relations with the Cnlted States, or whether she shall put her tariff wall against that country and become a cotnpou lit part of a great imperial trade federation. The United States can decide that the latter shall be the case by maintaining its present tariff policy." TO CI HE A COLD IM ONE DAY Take Laxativ Bromo Quinine Tablets. AH druggists refund the money If It falls to cure L W. Grove's signature is on each box. Sc'

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i QUEEN AI.KXANDRA. Who Had a Narrow Escape from Death Yesterday. ALFONSO STRAYS AWAY FROM flBMI FIELDS King of Spain Crosses Into Portugal and Is Given a Warm Reception. LISBON, Dec. 10. King Alfonso of Spain arrived here to-day and was welcomed at the railroad station by King Carlos and a striking gathering of princes, ministers, peers, deputies and naval and military officers. The monarchs cordially embraced and the official introductions followed. The procession to the Beiern Palace was most picturesque. It consisted of eight cars emblematic of the history of Portugal. The two Kings and the crown prince of Portugal followed in a carriage, escorted by troops. Bands of music stationed at intervals along the route played the Spanish national anthem. King Alfonso was accorded a cordial reception by the great crowds lining the streets. After his arrivai at the palace King Alfonso visited Queen Amelia at the Necessidades Palace and the dowager Queen .M.cri i Pia at the Ajuda Palace. A state banquet was held in the Ajuda Palace to-night, which was attended by 700 guests, including King Alfonso, King Carlos, Queen Amelia and all the members of the Portuguese royal family, with their suites. The city was brilliantly illuminated to-night. MINERS AND OWNERS TO DISCUSS WAGE CUT Operators Say Output Must Be Curtailed if the Employes Refuse to Accept a Cut in Pay. CLEVELAND, Dec. 10. A meeting of the coal operators and coal miners of all the districts of Ohio, Pittsburg district. West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois will be held in Cleveland early next week. The meeting will be to learn if some method cannot be devised whereby the output of coal need f not be curtailed. It is understood that the miners will be asked to accept a reduction in wages so that the price of coal may be reduced and the demand stimulated. The miners will be represented by their national and district leaders. The operators are said to have outlined a plan to submit to the workmen. If the men "accept the proposition of a reduction in wages without protest the operators will endeavor to con tinue running their mines at full capacity. If the proposition is not accepted It Is said that the operators will reduce the output equal to a month's production from all the mines in the district named. A local coal operator acquainted with the situation states that the mine owners have been contending against adverse conditions because .of the curtailment In manufactories, the introduction of electric power and other causes which reduced the consumption of coal GLASS SELLING AGENCY. Window Glass Makers Perfect an Organization at Pittsburg. PITTSBURG. Dec. 10. At a meeting of the window glass manufacturers of the United States to-day 1,200 pots subscribed to the proposed organization of a selling agency to be known as the Manufacturers' Window Glass Company. J. R. Johnston, president of the Johnston Window Glass Company, of Hartford City, Ind., said tonight that the organization has been practically perfected. A committee was appointed to apply for a charter under the New Jersey laws and another meeting will be held to-morrow to receive subscriptions to stock of the new company. The manufacturers signed scales with both the Denny and Burns factions of the workers, with the understanding they would be canceled should the new company not be perfected. BARON ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Notorious Character Tries to Kill Himself Near Fiancee's Home. PARIS, Dec. 10. It is announced in a telegram from Mulhouse, Alsace-Lcrralne, that the so-called Baron Do Adelsward, who, with Count De Warren, was found guilty here on Dec. 3 of exciting minors to debauchery, attempted suicide there to-day, dangerously injuring himself. The attmp was made near the residence of the girl to whom Adelsward was engaged before the scandal. In which he was involved, became public. Adelsward was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the trial here, but was immediately released, as he had already been Imprisoned for five months. Following his release he suddenly disappeared from home, leaving letters which were enigmas to those to whom they were addressed. College Men to Raise Bananas. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 10. The Hoosler Tropical Fruit Company has been organised here with a capital stock of $30,000. It is the purpose of the company to engage in tho raising of bananas in Honduras. The company is made up of prominent citizens of Franklin, including, among others, President Stott. of Franklin College, and Superintendent Wilson, of the city schools. Prof. F. W. Brown, of Franklin College, Is president of the company, and W. S. Young is sA-retary and treasurer. These men and Professor Crowell. Charles Kerlin and E. O. Collins are the directors. Acquittal in a Shooting: Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PROWNSTOWN. Ind., Dec. 10. The case of he State against Al Mills for attempt to murder Uaughmau and Bennett, policemen of Seymour, resulted in a verdict of acquittal at 11 o'clock last night. Mills is ex-mayor of Seymour. A few months ago he and the policemen engaged In an altercation in. which all three were wounued by pis tut m'w

RUSSIA IS NOT TRYING TO INTIMIDATE KOREA Denial of the Report that a Squadron of Ships Has Arrived at Chemulpo, NO REPLY YET TO JAPAN ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 10.-The dispatch from Tokio yesterday announcing th it a Russian squadron of eight ships had arrived off Chemulpo, Korea, to support Russia's opposition to the proposed opening of Yongampho, on the Yalu river, to the commerce of the world, and that Ru.-i.t threatened to land 3,000 men and march on Seoul should Korea disregard their warning, is utterly discredited here. The Foreign Office has no confirmation of the report, and is inclined to class It with other sensational rumors from the far East, which later have proved to be baseless. In the first place it is denied that M. Pauloff, the Russian minister at Seoul has served a warning or. Korea. According to the latest Information received here he asked whether and on what condition Yongampho would be op.-ned and Korea returned an evasive reply. Then it is not likely that Admiral Alexieff, the Russian viceroy of the far East, notwithstanding the great powers with which he is clothed, would take such a serious step without consultation with the St. Petersburg authorities. The report is equally discredited in diplomatic circles, where it is pointed out that such a move at this stage by inflaming- Japanese sentiment, might force what both powers are anxious to avoid. No word has yrt been received from Baron De Rosen, the Russian minister to Japan, or Admiral Alexieff, who are exchanging views on the modifications, but it is expected that this will not require more than a few days. When the formal reply is sent to Japan it may be that Baron De Rosen and Admiral Alexieff will decide not to sumblt matters Informally to the Japanese negotiators. The tone of the papers here continues pacific, the NovoeVremya saying that In spite of the alarming reports from the East "a settlement will be reached which will not hurt the Japanese pride." Opening of the Japanese Diet. TOKIO, Japan, Dec. 10. The Emperor opened the Diet this morning. In referring to the situation with regard to Russia he only said that his ministers are now conducting with prudence and circumspection important negotiations for the preservance of peace in the far East and of Japan's rights and interests.

BRIEF Bf GRIGGS IN PACIFIUIOAOS CASE He Says Purpose of Northern Securities Organization Was Not Restrictive, but Beneficial. WOULD PREVENT RAIDING WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Former Attorney General Griggs, counsel for the Northern Securitiese Company, to-day filed a brief in the Supreme Court in regard to the pending case. Mr. Griggs declares that In the sale to the Securities company there was no thought of merger or pooling, but says that the purpose was to prevent stock "raids" like that of 1901, and adds: "The objects, motives and purposes of the parties were entirely different from the criminal ones charged by the government. Those motives and purposes are reasonable, intelligent, creditable to the hearts and consciences of the actors, and in no wise injurious to the public. They did not change in any practical way the situation so far as competition between the two companies was concerned. They did not change the legal status of one company toward the other, nor in any wise interfere with the Internal organization, rights, privileges or duties of either company." He declares that the object was to strengthen and extend the business of the two roads in a transcontinental and worldwide sense and not to monopolize trade. "The result," he declares, "is not pernicious, but beneficial, and should be marked with public approval rather than by legislative and governmental obstruction." Mr. Griggs also discusses the scope of the power of Congress in the matter of regulating commerce between the States, and says that this regulative power is confined to the actual conduct of interstate business to commerce itself. He continues: "It will be going a much longer way than any federal court has ever gone before to adjudge that Congress, under its power to regulate commerce, can regulate the ownership of the instrumentalities of commerce, prescribing that one company, or one person, may own but one road or one line of vessels operating between the same points." NO DEATHS AT BUTLER, BUT SIX NEW CASES This Is the Statistical Record of the Past Twenty-Four Hours Summary of Conditions. BUTLER, Pa., Dec. 10. Not a single death from typhoid fever, or any other cause, has occurred in Butler during the past twenty-four hours, and only six new cases of fever, which is the best record for a single day during the past six weeks. This is the substance of the report of the ward committeemen to the executive committee this evening. The total number of cases to date reported to the committee is 1,306 and deaths 51. Dr. W. R. Batt, State quarantine officer, who is making a house-to-house canvass distributing disinfectants, is of the opinion that the total numoer of fever cases in the city at present will exceed the number reported to the committee as having been treated since the beginning of the outbreak. Until his canvass is completed he will not give out more definite statistics. At the committee meeting this evening Treasurer Thomas Shufflin reported $1,861 received to-day in subscriptions. NEGRO DELEGATIONS. Committee Named to Prevent Reduction in Republican Convention. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-The subcommittee of the executive committee of the National Airo-Amerlcan Council to-day decided to hold the next meeting of the council at St. Louis on Sept. 4. 1904. and appointed a committee of five to appear betöre the platform committee of the next national Republican convention to urge it to take vigorous action in reference to the practical denial in a number of States of suffrage to the negro The resolutions adopted state the opposition of the association "to the unrepubllcan principle of drawing the color fine in the Republican party, which has been inaugurated in certain States, to the detriment of the party, and the injury of some of the most uncompromising supporters of its policy in the past, and we believe that the proposed reduction of representation in the national convention would be an injustice which the party should not perpetrate." Charged With Abducting a Girl. LONDON, Dec. 10. Solomon Segal, of Chicago, was arrested here to-day on an extradition warrant charged with the abduction of a young girl. The police took a small sum of money from the prisoner and Save it to the girl, who will remain in Ionon. Last October Segal, whose wife conducted an employment bureau, eloped with his niece, Sophina Corngold. The charge of abduction is made by a brother of the girl.

OP TELEPHONE COMPANIES) BE MADE Plans Completed at Convention of Independent Companies Which Ended Yesterday at Chicago, LINES IX ELEVEN STATES Four Thousand Companies, with Over Two Hundred Millions of Real Property. CHICAGO, Dec. 10. Final arrangements were made to-day for the incorporation of the Interstate Telephone Association into one company. This means the amalgamation of over 4.000 independent telephone companies in Illinois, Wisconsin. Kentucky, Ml IWI I. Iowa. Indiana, Pennsylvania. Nebraska. Minnesota, Ohio and Michigan, involving property valued at more than $200.000,000. This action was taken at the closing sessions here to-day of the association. A permanent committee was appointed to work on njans of action for the new company. "One of the first things to be done by the new company will be to form a connection with the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company's lines in Chicago, bringing our company in direct competition with the Bell lints in Chicago," said President rlull, of the association. "The Illinois Telegraph and Telephone Company, which is now operating lines in the down-town district in Chicago, will connect its wires with those of our company at Hyde Park early in the spring. The two companies will then build lines to the Chicago city limits, where they will bo connected with those of the inde pendent telephone companies. When this work is completed we will have accomplished what we have been endeavoring to do for many years that is, to connect Chicago with the iudependeut compauies operated throughout Illinois and adjoining States. The result of this move on the part of the independent companies will be farreaching, and as soon as our lines are ready to compete with the present system in Chicago there will be a decided reduction in the present telephone rates." The place and time of the next meeting of the association has not yet been decided, but it probably will be held in St. Louis. Five hundred delegates to the convention Were thrown into consternation to-day when it was announced that a hundred tickets to the banquet, with which the association closed its convention to-night, had been stolen. The sale of tickets was immediately ordered stopped and directions were given for inspectors to bo stationed at the doors of the banquet hall to bar holders of stolen tickets. The following officers were elected: President, Henry A. Barnhart, Rochester, Ind.; vice president. E. H. Moulton, Minneapolis; secretary, E. M. Coleman, Louisville; treasurer, A. B. Conklin, Aurora, 111. A committee was directed to go to Washington to protest to President Roosevelt against a recent order, said to have been subsequently rescinded, that no telephones of independent systems be installed in postoffices. NEW COMPANY IS IN THE BIG TELEPHONE MERGER Purpose Is to Bring Independent Organizations Throughout the Country Together. The movement which has been launched at the meeting of the Independent Telephone Association In Chicago looking to the merging of all tho telephone companies affiliated with the association has attracted general interest among the telephone companies of the country. It is not believed, however, that the merger pertains to the formation of one large company, but simply seeks to bring the companies affiliated with the Independent Telephone Association into closer relationship with each other for the perfecting of their long distance telephone service. The New Telephone Company is the only company of Indianapolis that is affiliated with the association. Simon P. Sheerin, manager of' the company, said yesterday that he did not know the facts of the plan, but that as he understood it the association wants to bring the companies closer together in order to better their systems. "Such a movement," said Mr. Sheerin, "I do not think aims at the transfer of any property or the bringing into play of any money, but has in view rather a community of interests in order to obtain better service. Although the corporation would embrace millions of dollars worth of property as a whole, I think the respective companies will operate separately, as they are doing at the present time." FERRYBOAT HELPLESS AMID GRINDING ICE Lives of Sixty Passengers Periled for Three Hours in the Mississippi River. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 10. Surrounded by grinding ice, its coai bunkers empty and its engines dead, the ferryboat Alonzo Church, with sixty passengers aboard, lay helpless in the river for three hours to-day, 800 yards from the Illinois shore. Among the passengers were six members of the Merchants' Exchange on their way to East St. Louis. Fifteen vehicles, transfer wagons and buggies were also on board the boat. Finally everybody was taken off by a tug after suffering In the cold for three hours. CUMMINS ON RECIPROCITY Iowa Governor's Address Before Business Men of Boston. BOSTON, Dec. 10. The opinions of men of national reputation upon important questions of the day were laid before the business men of Boston to-night at the annual banquet of the Merchants' Association. Senator John A. Daniel, of Virginia, spoke on the negro question, Senator Joseph V. Quarles, of Wisconsin, on "Chamberlain's Revolution," while the speech of Governor A. B. Cummins, of Iowa, on "Reciprocity with Canada," was read by Hon. Charles S. Hamlin, as the Governor was obliged to return home this morning. Other speakers were Congressman Sumuol W. McCall, of Massachusetts, and President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The keynote of Governor Cummlns's address was as follows: "It goes without saying that we ought to, if we can. secure treaties that will hurt nobody, but to allow an interest that puts a million dollars of goods annually into our markets to stand in the way of a series of interests putting ten millions of dollars of goods into a foreign market, is turning the doctrine of protecttoa from a beniflcent iolicy, which bestows its largess upon the country as a unit, into an instrument of avarice and selfishness. It must not be understood that I am for any trade arrangement that would strike down any industry whose existence 1b necessary to make us independent of other nations in so far as our natural resources can make us independent. Here again the principle which I invoke sways the situation the good of the people." Aalt for an Extension. NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-Membera of the s miicate which underwrote 35.Oft0,0O0 of 4 per cent, bonds and J5.000.Uw stock of the Atlantic Coast-line Railroad at the time that company asquired control of the Louisville & Nashville road, have asked for a fourteen months' extension of the syndicate agreement to Feb. 2s, 1905. J. P. Morgan & Co.. syndicate managers, will agree to the extension providing a majority of the parties to the syndicate agreement assent. It is understood that i he request for ho extensiorH due to adverse market conditions.

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NEW PLAN FORMULATED TO NJIITK PUBLIC Building Contractors to Form Alliance with Labor Unions to Bar Small Competitors. TO SECURE UNIFORMITY CHICAGO, Dec. 10. Uniform agreements between building contractors and trades unions In the principal cities of the United States, that competition from "the small contractor" may be eradicated and activity in construction work continue evenly throughout the year, proved to be the favored idea among the delegates to the national contractors' conference, which opened here to-day. The delegates came to Chicago, it was said, to form a national organization, which will include the strongest councils of contractors in the country. While this was the ostensible object, the policy of the proposed association will be as stated unless a radical change in sentiment among the delegates takes place. According to present plans the policy of the new organization will be openly conciliatory to labor unions, but no cast-iron rule as to open or closed shops will be adopted. The net result of to-day's two executive sessions was the seating of delegates by the approval of the credentials committee and the appointment of two committees, one to draft a constitution and by-laws and the other to frame resolutions. W. D. O'Brien, cf Chicago, was elected chairman of the meeting, and E- M. Craig, secretary of the Chicago Contractors' Council, was made secretary. Delegates from forty-seven cities throughout the United States, and representing 135 associations, were present. ROOT AND DORLAN TAKEN OUT OF RACE NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Root and Dorian were officially declared out of the six-day bicycle race at 11:30 o'clock to-night, after having made 1,626 miles and 7 laps. Dorian was found physically unable to ride as the result of a fall on Monday. At 12 o'clock midnight Contenent and Breton, Deander and Butler, Krebs and Peterson. Newkirk and Jacobson, John and M. Bedell, Bowles and Fisher and Waithour and Munroe were tied at 1,633 miles and I laps. Moran and Keegan had 1.633 miles and 1 lap to their credit, while the others stood: Samson and Vanderstuft, 1,681 miles and 6 laps; Krebs and Gougoltz, 1,629 miles and 2 laps; Dove and Hedspeth, 1,617 miles and 1 lap. To-night Prank Kramer, the world's champion unpaced rider, broke the Indoor unpaced record for a half mile, making the distance in 53 2-5 seconds. FOR ANOTHER RECEIVER. Suit Entered bv New Yorkers Against Shipbuilding Trust. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. A complaint was filed in the office of the county clerk to-day in which John A. C. Norris, Cyrus B. Dewis, James C. Mills, James J. McGurk. John Young and Adolph Seeling appear as plaintiffs in a suit to have the United States Shipbuilding Company declared insolvent, a receiver appointed and an injunction granted restraining any interference with the assets of the corporation or any disbursements by its officials. The complaint, which contains a long history of the formation and subsequent transactions of the company, says the plaintiffs are owners of stock and bonds amounting to 175,000, and is based on the alleged receipt by Charles M. 8chwab of $20,000.000 of stock without valuable consideration therefor. AID FOR BALTIMORE BANK Clearing House Association Agrees to Advance Funds. BALTIMORE, Dec. 10. The membership of the Baltimore Clearing House Association, late this afternoon, agreed to advance any necessary funds, in the shape of certificates, to tide over the financial affairs of the Commercial and Farmers' National Bank of this city, a member of the Clearing House Association. Inability to realise upon paper held by the bank is believed to be the cause of the temporary embarrassment of the Institution. The last statement submitted to the controller of the currency, on Sep. 9, showed assets of $7,114, -569.61, with liabilities (secured) of a similar amount. The bank will open for business to-morrow morning. Sought Kevenge by Shooting. NEW YORK. Dec. 10. Harry McCaulev. a seventeen-year-old boy. to-day shot and probably fatally wounded Willlara Morrissey, aged twenty-two, the head bell man at the Hotel Martha Washington. Two shots took effect In Morrissey's body, one entering close to the heart. He was taken to New York Hospital in a dying condition. McCauley had been an elevator boy at the hotel, and was discharged this morning. Anti-Huloon League Officers. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. The American Anti-saloon League to-day re-elected President Luther B. Wilson, of this city, and sJJ the present officers except general superintendent and corresponding secretary, H v. P. A. Baker, of Ohio, being elected to the former ofhee and Prof. C. M. Barker, of Boston, to the latter. r. UlHe, of Pittsburg, was the ouly new member of the executive committee ejected. Harvard's Bequest to Be untested. BOSTON, Dec. 10. Notice that the will of the late Gordon McKay, of New York, which bequeathed several millions to Harvard University, will be contested was nied in the Suffolk County Probate Court here to-day. Nettle S. Abbott, a distant relative and a resident of New Hampshire, is the contestant. Commander Abel Dead. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10.-Commander August Abel. U. S. N.. retired, died at his home here to-night of paralysis. Commander Abel entered the navy In 1861. and served throughout the civil war. In 1864 he became a chief engineer and was retired a few days ago. Dooth-Turkrr Hi-tnrna. NEW YORK. Dec. 10. -Henry Phlpps. Sir Horace Plunkett and Commander HoothTucker, of the Salvation Army, arrived on the Oceanic to-day from Liverpool. The commander went abroad soon after the death of his wife to visit with his fataer-io-law, Qen. Booth, hvad of the army.

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Ml NT YET FOUND. IS WEOJHJIS FATHER Father of the Missing Youth Denounces Reports Spread by a 4,Crack-Brained Fellow.'' PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10. Dr. J. H. Wentz. father of E. L. Went, said to-day that he had no knowledge of the rescue of his son from bandits, as reported in sensational dispatches. Dr. Wentz characterised the rumors that have from time to time been published, since the disappearance of his son, as the work of some crack-brainod fellow in Bristol, Tenn. "I wish." said Dr. Wentz, "that the newspapers would refrain from publishing these reports. They are very annoying and disturbing to my family. I know nothing more than I did on Oct. 16, and if I hear anything definite I will give it to the papers." CINCINNATI, Dec. 10 Every sanatorium and hotel in this city has been searched in vain to-day for Kdward L. Wents. Newspaper men were in waiting for every train from the South until 10 a. m.. when it was evident that Wentz had not been Drought from Bristol. Tenn.. to Cincinnati, and it was generally believed that the story about Wentz starting for Cincinnati, as telegraphed from Bristol, was untrue. BRI8TOL, Teun., Dec. 10. K. L.. WVntr. brother of the missing man, laid to-day there was nothing in the story of a reeu and no development of any kind is the case. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. -The World this evening prints the following from Chief of Police Wents at Bristol: "There is no foundation for the report that Wentz has been rescued from bandits in the mountains near this city." WANT OLD POSTOFFICE, AND NOT RURAL ROUTE First Report of Kind Comes from Marble Hill, Jefferson County. V i Patrons of the postofflce of Marble Hill. in Jefferson county, have forwarded to Senator Beveridge petitions asking that the postofflce be not discontinued, as contemplated by the Postofflce Department at Washington, along with the establishment of a new rural route from Nobbs Station, Clarke county, to Marble Hill. The petitioners ask that their postofflce be continued, and that the star route from Nobbs Station to Marble Hill be undisturbed, and that, If necessary to grant their request, the proposed rural ro:ue be abandoned. This Is one of the first cases reported In which residents of country districts have objected to the establishment of a rural route if it will interfere with the old system of handling the mails, but the situation of the patrons of the Marble Hill office is out of the ordinary. The postofflce is located on the top of a very high hill and most of the patrons are on the hiU. The proposed rural route will merely skirt the foot of the hill, and if it Is established and the postofflce Is discontinued the petitioners will be forced to make kng. wearisometrips up and down the hill to get their matt. CLEVELAND CLUB DOES NOT COMMEND MAYOR Fails, However, to Take Action Antagonistic to the Administration. About 300 Democrats attended the smoker of the revivified Cleveland Club, given In the club's room on West Washington street, last evening. Although word had been passed around before the meeting that some action would be taken antagonistic to the present city administration, nothing of the sort developed. There was a marked lack of enthusiastle commendation of the "powers that be" in talks given by various Democratic speakers, but this feeling was given no definite expression. The Cleveland Club has been recently reorganised, and new temporary officers have been elected. The regular annual election of the club will be held Jan. s. Speakers at last evening's meeting cheered the halting brothers on, and made confident predictions of Democratic success In 1804, exhorting those present to line up for the conflict. T. Taggart was among those present. T. Taggart also made a speech. FEARS WORKHOUSE, RUNS AND SHOT BY OFPICER "Pig" Wiljiams, Paroled Prisoner, Attacks Patrolman and Almost Gets Away. " 'Cause I run to keep from goin to de workhouse he shot me. I never did think he could hit mo." These were the words of explanation that Tom, alias "Pig." Williams gave the doctor who attended him aftr he had been shot by Patrolman D Ro38ett yesterday in the ankle for resisting arrest. Williams is a noted burglar and has served two terms in the penitentiary, being out on parol- whou shot. He was suspected of some large burglaries and the police have been lcMtking for him for several days. De Rosset t met him yesterday at th ssnssf of Columbia avenue snd Sixteenth street aj.'l stopped him. Williams hit the patrolman and then ran. hut Ie Rosse tt proved too good a shot for him. DIGS UP OLD FLAG. Albert Izor Gives Civil War Banner to Museum. Albert laor has presented to the State Museum an old flag which he found while digging among some old I oxes in the rear of his drug store on West Washington street. The flag onoe belonged to tho Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Regiment Before the death of Marion Fit h the reunions of the regiment were held at hie Dome ana tne nag was nis property. It been lost for several years.

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