Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1904 — Page 3

TTTE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TIT URS DAT, JANUARY 7, 1904.

3 Important News of Indiana from The Journal's Correspondents Thousands of Women Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect it To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT, the Great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy will do for YOU, Every Reader of the Journal may have a Sample Bottle Sent FREE by Mail. COLUMBUS FIRM WINS A L0NGLE6AL BATTLE Reeves Pulley Company Proves Its Contention of Fraud Against Milwaukee Fine Art Co. DALEVILLE FLOURING MUMS DESTROYED A Probablv Incendiary Fire Causes a Loss of About $10,000, with but $4,000 Insurance. ASSAILANTS ÖF MISS SINCLAIR ARE FINED POWERS MURDER CASE DRAWS LARGE CROWDS

Plead Guilty to Conspiracy Charge in Sullivan Circuit Court Before Judge Harris. ANOTHER TRIAL PEXDIXG

Testimony of the Physician Who Dressed the Wound from Which William Wells Died.

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IX COURT SEVEN YEARS

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLI'MBUS. Ind.. Jan. 0. Charles S. Baker, who represent ed Reevts Pulley Company, cf this city, in the case of the. American Fine Art Company, of Milwaukee, a?ain.t Reeves Pulley Company, for brearh of contract, received word from the United State Court of Appeals at Chicago this morning that the case had been decided in favor of the local firm. This ends a legal battle which has been wagrd for seven or eight years, the American Fine Art Company having been engaged in trying to collect nearly $15.000 for advertising material which they had a contract with Reeves Pulley Company to furnish. The main contention on the part of the Pulley companywas that the contrac t was obtained by fraud. The first chapter of the story, which has taken so long to finish, opened on April 29, lfm. when C. Johnson Smith, who represented himself to be an agent of the American Fine Art Company, of Milwaukee, called at the Reeves Pulley Company and introduced himself to G. L. Reeves, treasurer of th company. Mr. Reeves gave him what he thought was the signed authority to secur a trade mark for the Pulley Company, which was to cost but 125. The Instrument. In writing, later turned out to be an order for advertising amounting to about 115,000. The Pulley Company refused to honor the contract and the Fine Art Company brought suit in Wisconsin on the alleged contract. The Pulley Company had no funds to attach In Wisconsin, so the sutt was dismissed. During the lifetime of George W. Cooper, congressman from this district, who was attorney for the Reeves Company, suit was brought on the contract in Chicago, where the Pulley Company had a branch house. The suit failed there for want of jurisdiction. In 182, after the death of Mr. Cooper, suit was again brought, this time in the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis. A special answer was ttled by the Pulley Company setting up the alleged fact that the contract had been procured through fraud. The court decided in favor of the Pulley Company and the Fine Art Company then took the case on a writ of error to the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago. The case was argued orally before the judges about three months ago, and then taken under advisement. SUIT TO BREAK A WILL. Relatives of Mrs. Malinda Culver to Begin Action To-Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYKTTE. Ind.. Jan. 6. Averring that at the time of the execution of her will Malinda Culver was of unsound mind. relatives of the deceased will to-morrow inaugurate a court contest in the hope of breaking the will, which leaves about $20.'V to St. Elisabeth and the Home hospitals in this city and $10.00) to heirs. The case is one of the most interesting will contests ever brought up in Tippecanoe county, the families involved being intermarried until the case embraces dozens of relatives who will give testimony either f-ir the contestants or the defendants. The former are Harry Culver and May Bell Culver, who declare that the will leaving the money to the hospitals and other heirs is not the last will and testament of the deceased for the nasut, that when it was drawn up Maiinda E. Culver was not mentally capable of making a will. The defendants are Richard E. Grata, executor of the estate; James M. Culver. Edward Culver, Milo Culver, the Sisters of St. Francis, who manage St. Elizabeth Hospital, and Richard R. Wetherlll, trustee, and the Home Hospital. ELEVEN-MILE LEVEE. Contract Let for Kg Public Work in Sullivan County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN. Ind.. Jan. 6. The contract for the construction of an eleven-mile levee In Fairbanks and Murman townships for the Island Levee Association was awarded to Ben Crowder. R. L. Bailey and John Erstnger, of this city, to-day for $73.000. The work will bo bemin as soon as the association disposes of SSL in bonds. The levee, which will protect M.000 acres of farm land from foundation by the Wft bash, is to be compu ted by May 1, 1905. Cauliflower & i'. of Hutsonville. 111., who were first awarded the con trad for $64,000, forfeited a guaran; bond of $500. EXECUTION OP JUDGMENT Issued in the Jae ly-Stark Case at Blooniington, 111. peclal to th- I iKliAnapolls Journal. BLOOM! NGTON, 111.. Jan. 6.-An execution u - iss-if.l to-day in the Circuit Court to secure collection of judgment for $2.500 against Frank Jacoby, bj favor of Lena Stark, ar. Indianapolis girl, who won suit against hire in both lewer and upper courts for breach of pnmitaj Voter. Deiunnd a Primary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FOWLER, Ind., Jan. 6. The caucuses to elect Republican township committeemen Will be held in this county on Saturday, and on Monday the committeemen will select a county chairman. C. J. Mauzy. the present chairman, is an avowed candidate and is at work all over the county, encouraging his adherents, a decided effort will be made at the meetinjr of the county central committee on Monday to secure a primary election. Great numbers of earn, st Republicans in this county are tired of the old methods of procedure in county conventions and say the time has come to refer these questions more directly to the voters. Incentives to llc lrld. ia! to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., Jan. 6.-The Commercial Club to-day awarded two prizes of $23 and $10 offered for the best essays on The City of New Albany." Miss Helen Pennington, a fifteen-year-old pupil of the High School. w..n the first prize, and Miss Rose W Shea the second prize. There were sixteen contestants and the essays were limited to 3.000 words The judges were Prof. J. P. Funk, former principal of the High School. W A Hedden and James W. Dunbar. The Commercial Club recently distributed $3"0 In premiums among property holders for the beat improvements in properties made last rail. Prominent Democrat Dylnsr. to the Indianapolis Journal. NASHVILLE. Ind.. Jsn. 6-John O Shipwood, eventy years old. and for many years one of the most prominent Democrats In Drown county, lies at the point of death as the result of a stroke of paralysis. He Is not expected to survive the utght He has a large family. U VltMX.. A inn Ii. rUIuk the name of (lurk. hum been ! ! 1 1 i n k ttd e rtlelnic In the wholesale district for an i ml uit rial and busluees entulojtue, hleli he elnliuM Till .lot lt l I to Issue. He Is akliiK S2.54 fur curd, in it. and triea to collect the mone In advance. IHK Jill It I, I not u BgSji In this acueme nail this solicitor la u fraud.

SCANT FIRK PROTECTION'

Special to the Indianapolis Journal: Ml .VIE, Jan. 6. The Daleville flouring mill, owned by Joseph Overman and Frank Oanicls, was destroyed by fire this morning at 4 o'clock. The loss Is approximately Jlo.ouO. with about $4.0 insurance. The ! origin of the fire is a mystery. About $1,500 worth of grain was burned. Besides the look and otti ; xfur.-s. other expensive tixtures about the mill were burned. As a number of houses and business buildings near the mill were in danger, and Daleville has no fire protection, citizen.were kept busy preventing the spread of the flames. The fire probably was of lnCf ndtary origin. The mill was one cf the largest and also one of the oldest in Delaware county. It supplied flour to a large number of Muncle stores, and will be rebuilt. THREE TANKS OF OIL BURN NEAR PRINCETON Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVAXSVILLi:, Ind.. Jan. 6. Three tanks, containing 300 barrels of oil, In the Princeton oil field, caught Are at 7 o'clock this evening and all efforts to put out the flames failed. The tanks Anally exploded, but no n-- was hurt. The lire spread to the grass and trees in the mar-by fields and it was with difficulty the buildings In the neighborhood were saved. This is the first fire of th kind that has visited the Princeton field. It probably caught from a torch in the hands of a passing workman. INDIANA NOTES. RT'SHVILLE. Charles N. Wilson, of Indianapolis, representing the Columbus, Greensburg & Richmond Traction Company, addressed a mass meeting at Carthage Tuesday evening in the interest of a traction line from Greenfield to New Salem to connect with the company's main fine from Columbus to Richmond. All Mr. Wilson asked for was a free right of way through Carthage. The proposition was favorably and enthusiastically received. ELWOOD. Mark Winings. who is In charge of the embalming rooms of a local undertaker, has declined to reaccept his old position as embalmer on the Cnlted States transport McClellan. which he held for two years, and will remain here. Winings is one of the few Elwood people who have been around the world, having traveled to the Philippines by way of New York. Gibraltar and the Suez canal, returning by the Hawaiian islands and San Francisco. NASHVILLE. -While Jasper Good, driver for George E. Zarnwell. was hauling 1 gl south of town on Wednesday the tongue of the wagon broke nt the top of a steep hill, at the foot of which Is a Sharp cuive over South creek bridge. Horses and wagon1 plunged down the hill and over the rati of the bridge to the ice twenty-five feet belcu. Both horses were killed. Good jumper when the tongue broke and was not hurt. RICHMOND. The County Board of Education has decided to merge the county teachers' institute, held just before the opening of school In the fall, with the Chautauqua which will be held in Richmond about the same time. The institute will furnish two of the lecturers. They are N.'C. Schaefer, state superintendent of Pennsylvania, and Lewis Bonebrake, state superintendent of Ohio. MARION. Joseph Murrell was found guilty by a Jury of a charge of shooting with int'-nt to kill nod w is given a sentence of two to fourteen years in the Jeffersonvtlle Reformatory. Murrell was charged .vith shooting James Smith, a publican, on Dec. IS. The bullet penetrated Smith's clothes, but its course was stopped before It touched his body by striking a coin in an inside pocket. WARSAW The Kosciusko County Farmers' Institute will convene In a three-days annual session on Monday, Jan. IS. The programme is arranged so as to devote one day to a "general farm session," another to a "ladies' session." and still another to a "dairy session." Good speakers from the ranks of expert and scientific farmers have been engaged. NEW ALBANY. Five cases of smallpox have developed in this city, three appearing Tuesday and two Wednesday. Three different families are afflicted. Their houses have been quarantined and the Board of Health will make every effort to prevent further spread of the disease. Two of the families came to this city from Kentucky last week. WABASH. The Wabash County Commissioners have elected James D. Conner, Jr., county attorney, succeeding Alvah Taylor, who has served in that capacity for nine years. There were several candidates for the office, but as the commissioners could not agree. Mr. Conner, who was not an avowed aspirant, was chosen to break the deadlock. ALEXANDRIA. -Manager E B. Hurlock. of the Western Union telegraph office in this city, who has been in St. Joseph's Hospital. Chicago, taking X-ray treatment for Modgskln's disease, an ailment which enlarges the glands of the neck and throat, came home Tuesday but little, if any. improved, and It Is feared will not survive. JEFFERSONVILI E. Charles Thompson and Arthur Woods, both colored, escaped from the Reformatory early Wednesday evening. The men were trusties and were employed about the offices. Thompson was sent from Madison county and Woods from Vigo. Both were serving sentences for petit larceny. They have not been captured. TERRK H ACTE. The Sisters of Providence have sent teachers from St. Mary's of the Woods to Paris, 111., to reopen the parochial school which was closed because of the demoralized condition of the parish, owing to the controversies of parishioners with Father Lee. The latter has been sent to another parish by the bishop. BRAZIL. George James, aged eightysix years. the oldest veteran of the civil war in this county, fell at the home of his son. Prof. T. N. James. Tuesday evening, suffering a broken hip and other injuries, from which the physicians say he cannot recover. He also served in the Mexican war. ELKHART -Wiison L. Collins, late cashier of the failed Indiana National Bank, has taken a position as bill clerk in the office of the Chicago Telephone Supply Company, of this city, and It Is asserted that President J. L. Brodrick, of the bank, m-lll assume similar duties In the same office. P LA INFIELD. Harem & Cumberworth, a real estate tlrm of this place, have sold to T. F. Haunick four hundred acres of land known as the Samuel Miles farm, for a consideration of $30.u00 in cash. This is said to be the largest sale ever made in Hendricks county. NOTRE DAM E The second session of the scholastic year opened on Wednesday at Notre Dame University, with a large attendance. Hidden Tsvxahlea I ncovercd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW. Ind.. Jan. 6 -The annual report of David A. Kintzel, assessor for Kusciusko county, shows property omitted to the amount of $103.630. which has been placed on the tax duplicate for the year Just closed. This amount of property, under the old law before the office of county assessor was created, would have escaped taxation altogether The taxes on this amount of sequestered property will more than double the salary received by the county assessor. In Kosciusko county since the creation of that office a similar result has been obtained each year. Farmers to Form u i oiupany. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE. Ind. Jan. 6 The farmer patrons of the Consolidated Teiephone Company to-day held their third meeting to con-M.l.-r the Increase of 33 1-3 per cent. In tela ' phone rates, effective Jan L The company 1 pre d a letter, in which It was stated j that it was impossible to continue the old j rat.- in view of the service now being given and the cost of improvements made. The farmers ordered their phones taken from their homes and arranged for a committee I to formulate plunh for a faxxui-rs' mutual

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ALLEN JACKSON. Hearse Driver Who Has Taken 2.000 Bodies to the Grave. MAN WHO HAS TAKEN 2,000 BODIES TO CEMETERIES Allen Jackson, of Piainfield, Liverymen, Prize 'inner at County Fairs and Hearse Driver. RIDES IN THE SADDLE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLAINFIELD, Ind.. Jan. 6. This quiet little town has the distinction of having for a citizen Allen Jackson, hearse driver, who has carried about 2,000 bodies to the grave. Mr. Jackson is a familiar figure here. He Is fond of horses and, though seventy-four years old. sits as erect in the saddle as a young man. His favorite exercise is horseback riding. Mr. Jackson came to this place immediately after the close of the civil war, and engaged in the feed and sale stable business with his brother Ham Jackson, who is a prominent liveryman in Mooresville. He attended the first fair ever held in Hendricks county, and carried away two first premiums, which in those days consisted of silver. He now has four silver cups in use on his table, which he received from Putnam county. He found that silver did not pay his expenses as an exhibitor and therefore suggested the idea of money premiums. The second day after Mr. Jackson's arrival in Plainfield he was engaged as hearse driver by Undertaker Willis Wühlte, now of Indianapolis, and has been retained by each succeeding undertaker. It Is estimated he has carried at least 2,000 bodies to their last resting place. FUTILE SEARCH FOR YOUTHFUL ELOPERS South Bend Boy and Goshen Girl Were Not Married at West Liberty, O., as Announced. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN. Ind.. Jan. 6. Telegraphic inquiry at West Liberty, O., by relatives regarding their marriage announced here yesterday by Miss Mayme Murray, of this city, and Everett Cleis, of South Bend, elicits the reply that no such marriage occurred there and that no minister by the name they gave the Rev. H. Beard is located at West Liberty. The boy's father, who is South Bend's leading jeweler, went to meet the interurban train on which they left Goshen to go to South Bend, as they announced, but they did not appear there. The fath r then came to Goshen, late last night, and has since searched diligently, but has not been able to locate the couple. DISTILLERY IN OPERATION New Terre Haute Plant Is Running 2,250 Bushels Daily. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HATTE. Ind.. Jan. 6. The new Commercial Distillery, which represents an investment of $400,000 by Cincinnati and Louisville distributers of spirits, has been grinding corn forty-eight hours, beginning at a capacity of 2.200 bushels a day, but as the apparatus is working perfectly the capacity will be increased at once to 4.000 bushels, and perhaps 6,000. The house's total capacity is 12.000. Pens were built for 2,000 head of cattle, but only 500 head are now being fed. The distillery estimate Is for one head to each bushel of corn. The slop not fed in the pens is put through the drying process and sold in the shape of cakes, much of it going to Europe for cattie-feeding there. The Commercial also has an equipment for shelling corn, so that corn delivered by farmers in wagon lots can be bought. The Merchants' Distillery has also put in a shelling plant. Struck Water and n Bad Smell. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERS VI LLE. Ind.. Jan. 6. The Big Dip Oil Company, which drilled a test oil well on the farm of T. C. Bryson, south of this city, did not strike oil. but struck a flow of water, which possesses a smell as strong as the famous Pluto well, and it is hoped possesses the same medicinal properties. Considerable interest is being displayed by the citizens, and should the sample of ratet which has been sent to Indianapolis for chemical analysis prove equal to expectations a sanitarium building will be erected. Iiiterurhan Mall Service. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SPICELAND. Ind.. Jan. 6. The first mall service over the Indianapolis & Eastern Interurban Railroad will begin next Monday. The route has been established between New Castle, via Splceland and Knightstown. to run as follows: Leave New Castle at 10 o'clock a. m.. arriving at Knightstown at 11; returning, leave Knlghtstown at 5 o'clock, arriving at New Castle at 5:45 p. m.. delivering and receiving mail at Spiceland each way. Marlon Toujch Killed at Chtcaajo. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Jan. 6 Word has reached this city of the murder of Richard Roach, once a terror to the Marlon police force, who left here about a year. He is said to have been shot to death in a saloon in Chicago Heights during a fight with a former companion. Roach was a giant iu physique. He had many fights while in Marion and was never known to take defeat but once, and that was when he was put in jail by Patrolman John Golding. Sullivan County Medicos. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN. Ind.. Jan. 6.-The annual meeting of the Sullivan County Medical Society was held at the Davis Hotel. In this city, this afternoon. Dr. E. D. Thixtun was elected president. Dr. Arbaces Cushman, vice president, and Dr. Carl F. Briggs secretary-treasurer. Addresses were delivered by Di . William N. Wishard. Indianapolis; Dr. R. H. Van Cleave. Farmersbuxa. and. Dr. M. 0. Moore Vinceiinaa.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 6. Floyd and Ina Deckard. Pearl and Katheryne Parks. Gertrude and Jessie McClellan were each fined $5 and costs by Judge O. B. Harris in the Circuit Court this afternoon on an affidavit sworn out by Miss Erllne Sinclair, whom the children ducked in a pond in Cass township on Dec. S. The charge was a collective one, alleging riot. The children were not in court, but the fathers of the Deckard and McClellan children were there, and their attorney, Charles D. Hunt, entered a plea of guilty for his clients. The children are each to appear at this term of court to answer to the charge of assault and battery preferred by Miss Sinclair, but it is believed that they will plead guilty again. RIVERS GORGED W ITH ICE AT MANY POINTS

Ohio Blocked in Lower and Upper Reaches and Allegheny Worse than Ever Before Known. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., Jan. 6. The Ohio river here Is closed for the third time this winter, pedestrians crossing on the ice to and from Kentucky. Local shipping is in precarious position for a break-up, half a dozen boats being endangered. CINCINNATI, Jan. 6.-The Ohio river is gorged for twenty miles or more above Cincinnati and for thirty miles below the city. At Coney island, above the city, the ice is piled up in midstream twenty feet high. No one can tell how much damage will be done when it passes out. The utmost vigilance is observed in trying to secure steamboats and all other craft in the river. PITTSBURG. Jan. fi.-Not In the history of the present generation have the conditions in the Allegheny river been so alarming. The ice is gorged at intervals for nearly fifty miles. Almost continuously from Tarentum to Templeton, a distance of about fifty-three miles, the river bed is dotted with gorges ranging from five to fifteen feet in height. From Kittanlng to Templeton the center of the river is a great ridge of ice, five feet high, while from ridge to bank the river Is frozen solidly with thirteen in hes of ice. From Wellsbufg to Moundsville, below Wheeling, a distance of twenty-seven miles, the Ohio river is an almost solid gorge. Still further below Gallipolis reports heavy ice running. WRECK ON BIG FOUR. Freight Trains in Rear-End Collision Near Craw fordsville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Jan. 6 There was a freight wreck on the Big Four four miles west of this city about noon to-day. The local freight was going east followed by two extra freights and a cylinder of the local blew out, causing the train to stop. The first freight following was stopped and the second train crashed into it, the engine demolishing the caboose and seven cars loaded with lumber, seed, hogs and cattle, killing and maiming the animals and blockading the track. The engine. No. 508, was dismantled, but stayed on the track and James Keegan, the engineer, stuck to his post, coming out with slight injuries. The fireman jumped and the trainmen got out of the caboose. The wreck is in a cut and trains are transferred over the Clover Leaf and Monon. WOMAN'S DESPERATE ACT Stuffed Her Dress with Paper to Incinerate Herself. Pppolal to the Indianapolis Journal. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 6. Under stress of mental aberration, Mrs. John Anderson, of this city, tried to commit suicide at her home to-day by setting fire to her clothing. Mrs. Anderson set fire to paper which she had stuffed between her breast and tNM waist. The flames quickly spread to her clothing and she ran into the yard enveloped in flames. Her husband was not far away and .his wife's cries attracted his attention. He ran to her assistance and threw her down and rolled her In the snow. The tire was quickly suppressed, but not until Mrs. Andersen was severely and perhaps fatally burned. PROBABLY FATAL FALL. Collapsing Scaffold at Michigan City Injures Two Men. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. Jau. 6.-Emil Staffel and William Cox, of this city, fell from the tower of a signal house to-day and received painful and possibly fatal injuries. They were working on a scaffolding when the timbers gave way, and they fell a distance of twenty-five feet. Staffel suffered fractures of both arms and one leg an other iujuries. Cox Buffered concussion f the spine and the fracture of several ribs. Elkhart Ilnnk's Assets. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART. Ind., Jan. 6. It was learned to-day through good authority that within the past few days Receiver Bos worth, of the Indiana National Bank, infoimed a man interested that he had reported to thi comptroller of currency that the bank's aasets would pay at least 50 cents ou the dollar. Receiver Bos worth will not talk for publication, and the assertion cannot be confirmed. Discrepancy In His Account!. Special to the Indianapolis Journal: MUNCIE. Jan. 6. Herbert Sanders, manager of the Marlon Paint Company's local store for the past year, has left the city with a discrepancy of $2,000 in his accounts. His young wife is prostrated with grief. The store was closed to-day to ascertain the exact amount of the deficit. The Standard Oil Company will lose most of the amount. Sanders was last heard of In Indianapolis. Operation on Mayor of Wabash. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind.. Jan. 6. Jesse B. Williams, mayor of this city, is at the City Hospital here, having undergone an operation for appendicitis. Mayor Williams was stricken suddenly and the physicians, who operated successfully upon him, say that a few hours' delay would have caused his death. He is improving rapidly and will recover. Fired On a Hold-t p Man. Special to ths Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. Jan. 6 Frank Mains, an employe of the Standard Oil Company, while driving ten miles north of Marion, was held up by a lone highwayman last night at U o'clock, but escaped by firing on the robber as the latter seised the hoi - s bridle. Mains had a large amount of money on his person.

STATE FINISHES QUICKLY Special to the Indianapolis Journal. C I II." T D M ' I I I t-. 1J T C TT U Y.e

1 1 . .1 I iuucj, iuu., ia:i. o. o neu hit f case of Ola B. Powers, who is on trial for the murder of William Wells, last October, was again called this morniug the courtroom was packed with people and standing rooms was at a premium. One of the principal witnesses was Dr. Warren Snyder, a young physician, of Fairland. Dr. Snyder testified that about 8:30 o'clock on the evening of Oct. 10. William ! Wells was carried into his office near the Big Four depot. On examination a bullet hole was found in the back; it was two inches from the spinal column and on a level with the top of the hip bone. After the dressing of the wound was completed he was taken away. The physician said he saw Wells a few times that nltfht and he was suffering and vomiting biood. The next morning he was growing worse and his pulse was very rapid. He died in Fairland the day after he was shot. The cause of his death was hemorrhage, caused by the bullet wound. Dr. Snyder said the wound in his back was not a clean puncture; that part of it was very ragged, and that the bullet was imbedded in the right side, opposite that on which it entered. The bullet was considerably battered. The State concluded its side of the case at noon to-day and the witnesses tor the defense began testifying this afternoon. 'Most of ine witnesses were unimportant, but raral testified that at the time of the shooting, nearly everybody present boli rad Wells was wounded by Constable Crosby and not by Powers. There is no likelihood of the case being finished this week. INDIANA OBITUARY. JEFFERSONVILEE, Ind., Jan. 6. Dr. D. V. Scott, serretary of the County Board of Health, and one of the most prominent young physicians in the city, died this morning after a short Illness of congestion of the stomach. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Scott, of Floyd county, and a brother of Prof. S. L. Scott, of this city, who was the Democratic candidate for superintendent of public Instruction at the l;ist state election. He was thirty years old and left a widow and two children. BROWNSTOWN. Ind.. Jan. 6 William E. Whitehead. M. D.. died yesterday, aged fifty-seven. He suffered a partial stroke of paralysis about three months ago and had been failing ever since. He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College la 1X82. He was a successful practioner and left an estate of $50,000 to his widow, whom he married about six years ago, and their two children. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Jan. 6.-Char!es Viol, one of the oldest and best-known musicians in this part of the State, died at his fnmi'.y re 'donee in this city to-day, aged saventjrflve. He was born in Germany and had lived in this city exactly fifty years. He was a member of nearly every musical crgan!Lat:on ever formed In Lafayette. His suiviving sons inherited the father's taste for music and both are proficient violinists. Besides the sons he left a widow. WABASH. Ind., Jan. 6 W. C. Martindale, a pioneer resident of Paw Paw township, was found dead this morning in a field on his farm. He was hauling wood and when a quarter of a mHe from his house was attacked with heart failure and ML He had been dead an hour or two when the body was discovered. He was seventy-one years old. SEYMOUR. Ind., Jan. 6. John Herschel Peter, aged fifty-seven, died in a hospital at Louisville this evening. He had been sick for a long time and had been in the hospital for two months. Mr. Peter was one of the wealthiest men of this county, possessing about 2,000 acres of fine land and much other valuable property. He left two adult children. ELKHART. Ind., Jan. 6. Samuel D. Ulrich is dead, aged ninety, having been gratified in his wish to survive his ninetieth birthday, Dec. 12. though sick for many w . - ks. He is survived by a widow and five children. He was born in Pennsylvania and had been a farmer in this county many years before retiring. SHELBY VI LLE, Ind., Jan. 6. William Miller, who lived near Iewis Creek, died last night after a sickness of nearly a year. His death was caused by a very peculiar dlseaso called lympadenoma. He was about forty-nine years old and left a widow and one child. WINAMAC, Ind.. Jan. 6. Mrs. Johanna O'Rourke, aged eighty-two, died Tuesday night. Fifty years ago she came with her husband, Patrick O'Rourke. from Ireland, and settled on land in this county. She was a leading member of several Catholic societies. WEST BADEN, Ind., Jan. 6. Mrs. Eugene Helm fell dead to-day about noon. Mr. Helm is cashier of the West Baden National Bank. A daughter was born to them about four weeks ago. Mrs. Helm leaves three grown daughters. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 6. Mrs. Sarah Tranbarger. one of the oldest women of this vicinity, died at the home of her son George, southwest of Elwood. this morning". She was in her eighty-fourth year. Good Well Near Rushvllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVIL.LE, Ind., Jan. 6. The second gas well drilled by W. A. Mull for the Rushvllle Natural Supply Company was shot at noon to-day and a tWenty-five-foot blaze through a six-inch plie was brought forth. The well is on Dr. W. C. Smith's farm and it showed a four-foot blaze before the shot. It Is claimed by the company to be the strongest well in Rush county. rhe next well will be drilled on J. M. Hildreth's farm. It was with difficulty that the derrick was saved from burning when the gas was lighted. Coroner 1m InvcHtiKntlng. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Jan. 6. Coroner Morrison is probing the case of Andrew Bloom, a ferryman, whose body was found under the Monon railway bridge in this city yesterday, bearing some evidence of foul play. No important clew was found today, but a rigid investigation is being made. 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