Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1904 — Page 3

TTTF INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1904.

Latest News of the Most Important Events in Indiana from the Journal's Correspondents M'DONALD SUIS HE WILL iE ABLE TO PROVE ALIBI VETERAN BONIFACE OF GREEN FIELD IS OEAO TRIAL OF C, M, TODD FOR MURDER IS BEGUN Many Hours Spent in Securing a Jury Opening Statement of the Prosecution. WINDOW GLASS COMPANY PAIS ITS MEN IN FÜLL Of LETTER MAY WRECK AND SELL A TRACTION RAILWAY Directors of "The Knobs" Line at New Albany Vote to Dismantle the Property. OTHER TRACTION' LINES SET BACK FOR DEFENSE Again Asserts He Is Innocent of the Charge of Murdering Miss Schäfer. Elbert S. Bragg, Who for Many Years Conducted Hotels in the Hancock County Capital. Violates Simon Burns's Order to Retain 25 Per Cent. Assessment for Strike Fund. Gregg Case Proceeds with Husband of Plaintiff on the Stand Under Cross-Examination. EVA LOVE TO TESTIFY WILL BE BURIED SUNDAY ONE WITNESS IS HEARD PLANTS TO BE STARTED VAGUE IDEAS OF LOVE

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8p"ial to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ind.. March 2. James McDonald, charged with the murder of Sarah Catherine Schäfer, stated to-day he was Innocent of the charge and able to prove an alibi. To your correspondent he criticised Detective Reed, saying he was guilty of coercion. "Reed threatened me bodily harm several times," said McDonald, "and forced me not to employ an attorney, alleging he was my irWu and would see me out of the scrape. I never at any time told him I was not In the Grigsby store, and all the statements he has caused to be published about me re absolutely Incorrect. I am able to account for all my movements the night Mis Schäfer, whom I did not know or ever saw to my knowledge, was killed." I. E. Grigsby and wife, who conduct a grocery store at Seventh and L streets, tonight were emphatic McDonald entered their store at o'clock, five minutes after Bliss Schafer was supposed to have been murdered. The store is seven blocks from the scene of the crime and the murderer could not have killed his victim and traversed the distance in five minutes. This testimony Is corroborated by G. B. Ross, another merchant opposite firigsby's. Will Day, residing at 1712 M street, Mrs. Hanna Fisher and other reputable citizens of Bedford. To-night Attorney Vance made the following statement to the Journal: "McDonald Is not guilty, and is as calm and easy as any prisoner I ever saw. You can look for any and all kinds of reports. The report that he is about to confess is absolutely false, and is aofely to Influence public opinion. He will have a speedy trial and will certainly be acquitted." McDonald detailed all his movements on the fatal day In a calm, dispassionate manner, showing no sign of nervousness he Is credited with being affected. In the morning Miss Eva Ive will be the first witness to testify before the grand Jury. She was a roommate of Miss Schäfer, and Is considered the proecution"s most Important witness. McDonald entered a general denial to all the statements he Is claimed to have made at divers times by Detective Reed.

WATER WORKS CASE RESTRAINING ORDER Sweeping Injunction Prevents Payments of Any Kind for the Laporte Company. 6pcU! to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE. Ind.. March 2. The already complex waterworks situation was still further complicated to-day by the serving of a restraining order on the city officials and the directors of the Laporte Water Supply Company, enjoining payment of interest on water bonds due last December and payment of any money out of the city treasury to the water supply company. The restraining order was granted on petition of L. H. Scott and others, by Judge A. C. Capron, of Plymouth, acting as special judge In the waterworks cases In the Laporte Circuit Court. 1 its relieves temporarily Treasurer Freese form the trouble he has been thrown into by his refusal to cash a warrant for J1.K20 recently allowed by the council, and as a result of which refusal he is being threatened with removal from office.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD. Ind.. March 2. Elbert S. Bragg, one of Greenfield's oldest citizens, died at his home in this city at 0:30 o'clock this morning of neuralgia of the heart. Mr. Bragg was born in Tennessee on Jan. 23. 1. When a young man he came to Indiana and has lived hen- ever since. He and his wife, whew-e maiden name was Sarah Jarrett, a native of this county, moved to Greenfield in 1836 and have lived here ever since. Mr. Bragg was for a gjsgt manv r ears the landlord of the Guymon House in this city when It was the only hotel here. He was also the landlord at the new Columbia Hotel in this city for several vears, hence was well and favorab!v known to a host of traveling men. Ho left a widow, two sons Captain Walter O. Bragg, cashier of the Greenfield Banking Company, and H. A. Bragg, bookkeeper at the Hol weg & Reese fruit jar factory and a daughter. Miss Ora Bragg. Mr. Bragg was a member of the Methodist Church and a Knight Templar Mason. His funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and be In charge of the Knights Templar. Other State .croIoRy. RICHMOND, Ind., March 2. Washington Wright died last night at his home, two miles southwest of Centerville, of cancer of the liver. He was seventy-three years old. Three sons survive. Jacob Fender, aged nir.ety-eight years, died today at his home In Abington. He was born in North Carolina in 1806, and came to Wayne county with his parents in 1811. SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. March 2. Mrs. Edward S. Van Cleve died at her home last night at 7 o'clock, after several months' sickness with cancer and rheumatism. Only a few weeks ago an operation was performed at the St. Vincent Hospital, but she failed to improve In health, and gradually grew worse until her death. She left three children. UNION CITY, Ind.. March 2. Mrs. J. C. Barnes, a pioneer of this county, died here last night. She was seventy-two years old, and came to this county with her parents from North Carolina when but three years old. Her husband. ex-Councilman Barnes, and four children survive. VEEDERSBT'RG. Ind., Ma-ch 2. R. B. Trenary. an old employe of the Chicago & K ..-tern Illinois railroad, died at Mecca, and his body was brought here to-day for interment under Masonic auspices. He filled the positions of engineer and roadmaster for several years. FORT WAYNE, Ind.. March 2 The Rev. Hugo A. Bischoff, aged twenty-three, died from consumption at the home of his father. Professor Bischoff, of Concordia Lutheran College. He was a graduate of the college and the Theological School at St. Louis. MORRISTOWN. Ind.. March 2. Alpheus Tyner was buried here to-day under the auspices of the Masonic order. Mr. Tyner was related to the Dalrymples, of Indianapolis, and was a representative of one of the oldest and most prominent families here. BATESVILLE. Ind., March 2. Frank Sauerland, of Oldenburg, died at his home at that place on Wednesday morning. He was sixty-four years old. He operated the 'bus and mail line from this place to Oldenburg. He left a widow and four children. EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 2. Captain Firman Berry, a river pilot, well known in Paducah and St. Louis, died to-night, aged fifty-seven. Charles Barton, of Washington, Ind., aged forty-four, died to-night in a local hospital. PARIS. 111.. March 2 The death of William Shaw, st venty-four, occurred at his home In Marshall. Mr. Shaw was born in the town in which he died.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind.. March 2. The trial of Cyrus M. Todd, charged with the murde- of his wife, began to-day. Most of the day was occupied in securing a jury. After twenty-six of the special venire of torty had been examined, the jury was impaneled. Five of the regular panel were accepted. The Jury was finally passed at 3:30 this afternoon. Attorney W. J. Darnell, of Jamestown, made the opening statement in behalf of the prosecution. Only one witness was examined during the afternoon. Prosecutor Frank Hutchinson explaining, by the aid of a map, the gener.il plan of the Todd residence and the position of the furniture m the room where the tragedy occurred. Attorneys F. C. Reagan and Reed Holloman are looking after the interests of the defendant. Assisting Prosecutor Hutchinson are Attorneys S. M. Ralston, of this city, and V. J. Darnell, of Jamestown. By Todd's side to-day sat his father and mother and his brother and sister. James A. McLean and wife, parents of the dead woman, were present at to-day's trial and had seats near the State's attorneys. The courtroom was crowded.

FARMER KILLED BY A SHAFT0F LIGHTNING One of His Horses Killed and His Son, Sitting Beside Him on the Wagon, Stunned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind., March 2.-Henry Greemore, aged fifty-five, was killed by llphtning this afternoon while driving over his farm. One of his horses was killed, but his eighteen-year-old son, who sat beside him; was only stunned. Greemore was the wealthiest farmer in lower Vlncennts township and left a large family. Boy Strack by L,!jrhtnfnK. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALBION, Ind., March 2. Chester Cooper, a fourteen-year-old boy, was struck by lightning at noon as he was going home from school. At the time of the stroke he was near a ground wire of the telephone line. After a few seconds of unconsciousness he made his way home, where he has lain In spasms ever since. His recovery is doubtful. WANTS DAMAGES FOR ALIENATED AFFECTION Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 2 Mrs. Elizabeth Isaby to-day brought suit against her neighbors, Constance Bernarrilne and his wif for I2.5O0 damages for alienating the affections of her husband, with whom until recently she had lived, childless but happy, for forty years. 8he alleges that her husband was always kind to her until he became infatuated with the Bernardino family and then he began to neglect and abuse her. She does not ask a divorce.

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WHO CAPTAINS I1ANAJEBATE TEAM Frank W. Thomas, of Danville, Leader of Indiana's Side in Debate with Illinois. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 2. The sixth annual debate by representatives of Indiana University and the University of Illinois, at Champaign, will be held on Friday evening, March 4. Indiana's team is captained by Frank W. Thomas, of Danville, who has been forging steadily to the front as an orator and debater since his entrance In the university. He is very popular with the students, who have unbounded faith in his ability to win high honors for both himself and the university In the coming contest. Moore's Hill College. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MOORE S HILL. Ind., March 2. The prlte oratorical contest announced earlier in the year will probably not take place this year on account of its conflict with other regular features on the commencement week programme. An attempt may be made to introduce the contest In the winter term next year. President J. H. M;irtin gave a reception to the members of the faculty and the senior class last evening. The reception is one of the important social events of the year. Dr. C. W. Lewis, president of the University of Wyoming, and Rev. R. R. Beach, of Aurora, gave short talks at the chapel exercises to-day. the former on "The Importance of a Life Plan," the latter on "What Is Wisdom?" Prizes Won by Princeton Orntora. PRINCETON. N. J., March 2. The result of the annual Baird contest between members of the senior class held here last night were announced as follows to-day: One-hundred-dollar oratory prize to Williams Woods, of Philadelphia, who spoke on the "College Man in Politics;" second prize, $50, to Arthur 1. Scott, of Chicago, subject, "Lynching and the Negro." G. C. Hunter, of Denver, Col., won $30 for the best delivery. In disputation J. J. Fortsall, of Chicago, received the W0 prize, while the second prize of $30 went to P. A. Moore, of New Tastle, Pa. The JnO prize for the best poem was awardd to E. H. Butler, of Tacoma, Wash.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., March 2. The American Window Glass Company to-day paid the window glass cutters and flatteners full balance money and broke an agreement with the Simon Burns L. A. 300. under which It operates its machine-equipped factories. Burns ordered the trust a few weeks ago to keep out of the men's wages 25 per cent, of the same, to be given to the strike fund of the union. The cutters and flatteners informed the company's managers that they would not submit to the order and the matter has been under protest until to-day. when the company paid the workers In full. The order placed the American in a peculiar position. It signed the Burns scale and accepted its obligations to collect the imposed assessment. The refusal of the men to accept the assessment 'placed the company in a dilemma. If it collected the assessment the men could sue and collect it. Now L. A. 300 may sue and collect It from the company, but it is not believed that It will. The small tank of the American, which operates six blowing machines, was fired up to-day and it is announced that it will again be in operation by April. The chip glass plant also will resume. CONN inTargeI

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Former Indiana Congressman Succeeds to Active Management Bank Failure the Cause. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART. Ind.. March 2. Ex-Congressman C. G. Conn to-day announced for publication what had been surmised for some time that he had personal charge of the affairs of the Modern Samaritans of the World. Be has been supreme president for a number of years, in fact, since its establishment in but the work of the head office has been, conducted by the supreme vice president. H. E. Stephens, and the supreme secretary, Harry S. Chester, who the founders of the order, which has Insurance as well as social features and admits women as well as men. J. I. Brodrick, president of the defunct Indiana National Bank, was supreme treasurer, and other interested in the bank were supreme officers. Following the bank failure, wrhich hit some of the officers other than Mr. Conn pretty hard, he was asked by them to assume charge of the affairs of the order and complied, his chief business lieutenant, W. J. Gronert. being elected treasurer to succeed Brodrick. Mr. Chester will continue in the office, but Mr. Stephens has embarked in other business. Though the change was due to the bank failure, it is declared the order itself was protected from loss by Indemnifying bonds. Will Broken by ,1m y. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENVILLE, O., March 2. After eight days' trial of the Decamp will case, involving 175,000 of property, contested on grounds of unsound mind in old age when the will was made, the jury returned a verdict at 8 o'clock to-night breaking the will. ,

Special to th Infipnapolls Journal. CRAWFORDSVILIjE. Ind.. March 2. Cross-examination of George Gregg contin

ued all day in th Gregg alienation-of-af-fections suit, and he was not dismissed j when court adjourned for to-day. The de fense received a severe set-back In the admission, as evidence, of n letter from George Gregg to his wife, while the latter was at her home in Kentucky, declaring that his mother kept a certain young woman (who has been mentioned several times in the course of the trial as having been kissed by Gregg at a fraternity dance) at the house as company for him. while his wife was away. The crowds attending are so great that to-day additional benches were taken into the courtroom for the use of the spectators. Then- was little of interest except as regards the letter mentioned In the foregoing. Gregg was troubled with lapses of memory regarding some points sought to be brought out by the prosecution. He admitted that he had "a loud tongue," but added that his wife had "a sharp one." He declined to answer categorically a question as to whether he loved his wife when he married her. He said love had a "vague meaning" to him. but admitted that he "thought as much of June as he believed he could think of anyone." He was asked concerning the sickness of his mother in the spring of 1899. and admitted that his wife waited on his mother, though part of the time she was also sick. He said he regarded his wife's desire for a home of their own as "a good joke." He admitted that the horse was insured in his wife's name, but that he had turned it in with his other assets when he failed in business. He could not remember the names of anyone on the roof at the dance In which he became involved with the young woman so often mentioned, though on direct examination he had testified that there were at least twenty-five couples on the roof at that time. EFFORT TO RECOVER COLLATERAL FAILS Trustee of Angola Bank Will Sue the White National Bank to Secure Its Return. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 2. Trustee Goodale, of the Kinney Bank, of Angola, was to-day directed by Referee Harris to make a tender of 111.000 to the White National Bank in payment of notes given the bank bv Kinney & Co., and to demand return of the 127,000 of collateral deposited as security. The bank, however, refused to deliver the surety unless the trustees also paid the E ,000 owing it from Kinney personally. The bank advanced the loan on the collateral to protect all the paper, it says, and it refuses to deliver its security unless all the notes are paid. The trustee will bring suit to recover. The trustee was also directed to sell the real estate belonging to Kinney. Struck and Killed by a Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., March 2. John Nester, aged fifty, a resident of Chesterton, was struck by a train to-night and instantly killed. He left a family.

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Special to tht Indiana poll Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind.. March l.-Ths board of directors of the Highland Electrio Railway Company last night decided to wreck the road and sell the cars, rails, cross-ties, trestles and depot building to the highest bidder. The railway waa built about thirteen years ago and extends from Wst Eighth and Spring streets In this city to two miles up the knobs to the camp grounds of the Ohio Valy Holiness Association. It waa in the hands of a r -ceiver for a number of years and since the company was reorganized about three yeara ago it has been losing money. The Louisville A Southern Indiana Traction Company recently offered to buy the property, but a price could not be agreed on and the deal fell through. Henry Terstegge Is president of the Highland company; John Schräder, vice president, and Frank Gohmann, secretary. It is reported that the stockholders may seek to enjoin the directors from wrecking the road on the ground that the offer made by the Traction company. $10,000. Is more than will be realized by selling the property piece-meal to purchasers on the highest bid.

TROUBLE CAUSED BY THE NEW CAR SHOPS Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBl'S. Ind.. March 2-Stnee the new stop signs along the line of the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern Traction Company have gone into effect the company is experiencing considerable difficulty with the passengers. March 1 was the date set for the new stops to go into effect and now the cars will not stop at the places they formerly did. All the cars except one in the morning and one In the evening are labeled "Through Cars" and passengers taking these cars can stop only at the places designated by signs. It is the general understanding among the people on the northern part of the line that suit will be brought against the company to compel the cars to stop. The patrons claim that nine of the deeds giving the owners the right of way contained provision which made It obligatory for th cars to stop anywhere a person might signal. The officials of the road did not know that the deeds contained this clause until a few days ago, and to evade the deeds they are running two local cars a day. Wants to Scale lta Hehta. Special tn the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE. Ind.. March 2.-The reorganized Chicago & South Shore Railway Company, which operates the Interurban line between Laporte and Michigan City, has offered to settle with the unsecured creditors on the basis of 25 cents on the dollar. The outstanding bonds of the company amount to $362.000. the preferred claims are $50,000, and the common claims $30,000. Will Inlffr Distance Tolla. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., March 2 Representatives of independent telephone exchanges in eastern Illinois and western Indiana, with a total of 14.000 phones. m t here and arranged uniform long-distance rates. A secretary will be appointed to give his entire attention to this mattr Eat?

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