Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1904 — Page 3

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Latest News of the Most WOMAN TRIES TO FARMER DROWNS III THE FLOOD JAR VIHGEHNES Henry Sieverts Falls from a Wagon Into Water and Loses His Life. MINERS MUST IRK OR SCALE WILL MOT BE SIGNED NEIGHBOR HELD AS WOULD FRIEHDS ARE CONFIDENT METHODISTS DECLINE TO SHIFT eOUNDARY HUES . - 8EC0MEJJIIK FORGER She Buys $2 Draft at Washington Which Swells to $1,200 at Vincennes. BE SOL BRANDT VAS SLAIt Operators Refuse to Carry on Negotiations Unless Mines Are Manned. Man Mentioned in Divorce Comv plaint Xow Charged with Attempted Murder. SHOT THROUGH WIND'OW Finding of Prominent Logansport Man's Body Strengthens Theory of Foul Play. XO MOTIVE ASSIGNED Proposition from Northwest Conference Causes Lively Tilt at Muncie Meeting. NO ARREST IS MADE AGED MAN FOUND DYING DELEGATES TO GO HOME MOVEMENT VOTED DOWN

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . WASHINGTON, Ind., April 6. A young: woman attempted to swindle the People's. National Bank of this city by forgery today. She purchased a draft for $2, payable to Laura McKay. A few hours afterward the draft was presented by a woman at a bank In Vincennes, twenty miles west, but It had been raised to $1.200. The forgery was detected and the bank here was notified. A woman named Laura McKay, formerly with the Laura McKay burlesque company, was here to-day searching for a missing trunk. She displayed considerable money and is alleged to hav remarked that she had a $1.200 draft. This woman left on an afternoon train. FORMER SALOON MAN ON TICKET FOR MA YOR

Prohibitionists Nominate Strother Pierson in Meeting at Terre Haute. Epclal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April 6. The Prohibitionists met last night in a private residence and put a ticket in the field for the city election. Strother Pierson, a contractor, was nominated for mayor. A few years ago he was a saloon keeper, whose plce gave the police much trouble. His career as a saloon keeper culminated in his killing a man named Joyce, who was drunk In his saloon one Sunday. Pierson was acquitted by a Jury on the ground of self-de-Xense, but it was a narrow escape. PROF. EMMERICH IS A GUEST AT PURDUE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. April 6. Professor Charles E. Emmerich, of Indianapolis Manual. Training High School, and a party from Indianapolis, visited Purdue University to-day at the Invitation of President "Winthrop E. Stone and were cordially received upon their arrival at the local educational institution. They were escorted through the various buildings and the workshops and laboratories and later dined with President Stone and other members of the. faculty at the Hotel Lahr. At the weekly convocation at Purdue this morning Professor Emmerich was called upon to speak concerning the project of holding a ' E-ala week" at Purdue in June. Profesor Emmerich spoke in favor of the plan and his talk did much to Instill interest Into the student body. President Stone urged all students to give the project cordial support and said that the exercises would be the most elaborate ever held at Iurduc. CLERK RESIGNS AND ENDS OFFICE DISPUTE Ppeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. RENSSELAER. Ind.. April 6. John F. Major, clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, to-day forwarded his resignation to the eecretary of state to take effect Saturday. .April 30, which is four days before his original term of four years would expire. Jlr. Major is a Democrat and was elected in 198 by a majority of six votes. Mr. Major has resigned in time to cause vacancy and the commissioners will meet the fame day and appoint Mr. Warner, the clerk-elect, who will thus be in possession of the office whichever way the Supreme Court decides. Mr. Major, the retiring clerk, does not wish to retain the office any longer, as he has large landed interests In Virginia, which require his attention. YOUNG MAN'S BODY FOUND id A DITCH Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. April 6. The body of David Fritz, jr., aged twenty years, was found In a ditch filled with water on the Valentine farm, in Lake township, at noon to-day. The young man, who was subject to epileptic fits, had been missing since Monday. It is supposed that he was seized with a convulsion when, unobserved, he fell Into the water. The discovery of the body was made by his ratner, who was passing along the road searching for the young man.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind.. April 6.-Henry Sieverts was drowned this evening in lower Vincennes township by falling from a wagon into backwater. The wheels of the wagon pinned him down until he was drowned. Ben Blankenship. sixty years old, living alone in a hut in Harrison township, was found In a dying condition this evening and he cannot recover. He was taken from his water-bound home. The County Commissioners have appropriated $22.000 tor the repair of bridges destroyed by the flood.

YOUNG MAN IS KILLED WHILE HUNTING DUCKS Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RENSSELAER, Ind., April 6. Everett B. Crane, nineteen years old, son of a wealthy farmer and stock dealer of near "Wingate, this State, was instantly killed Tuesday morning while in the Kankakee marshes hunting ducks. He was shooting from a boat and in the same boat with him was another young man from Thayer, Newton county, named Harvey Downey. It is believed Crane was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Downey, but Downey declares it was Crane's own gun that was discharged. The coroner is investigating. SALE OF TELEPHONE PLANT IS REPORTED Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., April 6. It is announced on the streets to-day' that the Bloomington Telephone Company has been bought by the same independent system operating at Bedford. Seymour and Louisville. The price to be paid is $20,000 and the transfer to take place May 1. The present company officers are: President. J. D. Showers; treasurer, W. W. Wicks; secretary, Walter Bradfute, and superintendent, Fred Shoemaker. The plant is to be rebuilt and a new twenty-year franchise has been secured. . FATALLY BURNED BY . FLAMING GASOLINE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART. Ind.. April 6. While Mrs. Fred Killins, aged twenty-eight years, was lighting a gasoline stove in the basement of '.he Turner apartment block, her light house jacket caught fire by the flaring of free gasoline and she was fatally burned before she could reach the second floor, where other tenants were. She died five hours later. Her husband and seven brothers and sisters survive. MURRAY CONVICTED AT TERRE HAUTE Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. April S.-Robert Murray, of Indianapolis, was to-day. found guilty of swindling, and sentence will be pronounced to-morrow. He is the man who, uncter the name of Cunningham, engaged rooms at a hotel for capitalists whom he, as a broker from New York, was to meet here, and paid for the rooms. Then he became a high roller and cashed several bad checks. No capitalists appeared. Will of Mrs. Kldforay. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., April 6. By the terms of the will of Mrs. Malinda Hunt Rid,gway, probated to-day, the sum of $100 is bequeathed to the state headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Indianapolis, $100 to the Hadley Industrial Institute at Hadley, $180 to the Francis Wlllard Hospital at Chicago and the balance of the estate Is divided among relatives. "Mrs. Ridgway gave away more than $10,000 for charitable, temperance and church worn during the last few years of her life. Drops Dead on the Street. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., April 6. David Felter, a well-known citizen of this place, dropped dead on the sidewalk while returning home from work. Apoplexy is assigned as the cause of his death. He was fifty-seven years of age and leaves a widow and three children.

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To End Strike In Iowa. OSKALOOSA, la., April 6. An official call was issued from miners' headquarters here for a joint meeting of operators and miners on April 11, at which It is certain some agreement will be reached and the differences between the miners and operators satisfactorily adjusted. It is predicted that the 13,00") striking miners in Iowa will be at work within a week. MOTHER RISKS LIFE TO SAVE HER CHILD Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., April 6.-Whlle Mrs. Andrew Mobley, of near Hartsville, was walking on the brink of a stone quarry she slipped and fell to the bed of the rock, eight feet below. She was carrying her infant child in her arms, and threw herself sideways to save the child's life. Mrs. Mobley's left arm was broken in two places and the elbow thrown out of Joint. She was bruised and Injured internally. The child was not hurt in the least. STRIKE IS FEARED IN THE KENTUCKY FIELD LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 6.-The conference between , the delegates representing the Kentucky coal miners and operators, to which President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers was a party, ended to-day in a disagreement and a strike seems Inevitable. The union officers claim there are 6,000 union miners in Kentucky and of these nearly 5,000 are at work at the present time. It is expected the men will quit work tomorrow night or Friday. B10ÜIII6T0II TRIES 10 WIPE OlITJE SALOONS Effort Being Made to Prevent Granting of a Single License. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 6.-The hearing of the liquor remonstrance cases before the County Commissioners has created Intense interest for the last two days. Because of the large crowds the courtroom has been used. All the saloons of Bloomington are in the First ward, and applications for license are now being made. The remonstrances show a majority of over thirty against granting license, and the efforts of the saloons have been directed toward having some , of the signatures declared illegal. Many women are attending the trial. Colonel Ritter is here assisting the temperance people, and another day will be required. River Rising: at Petersburg. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PETERSBURG, Ind.. April 6.-Whlte river has risen over, six Inches since yesterday and is still rising. Unless heavy rains begin to fall no damage Is anticipated.

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THEORY OF MURDER HOT SUPPORTED BY AUTOPSY Physicians Say Arthur Jackson Met Death by Drowning at Kokomo. NO MONEY IN POCKETS Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., April 6. The dead body of Arthur Jackson was found in Wildcat creek this afternoon. Jackson disappeared three weeks ago. On the night of the tragedy people living near the place where the body was found heard loud and angry cries made by . at least two voices, one of the hearers claimed, and foul play was suspected. At 10 o'clock to-night an autopsy was held in the Kellar morgue, at which Coroner Harrison and Doctors 11. D. Uarner and J. L. Ross were present. A careful examination failed to show any mark whatever on the body of the dead boy, and it was clear to those conducting the examination that Jackson died from drowning. On the night of Jackson's disappearance from the South Side saloon he was accompanied by John and Fred Siler, all being badly intoxicated. The Siler brothers were arrested and fined for intoxication. They were thoroughly sweated, but told a plausible story and were not held for Jackson's disappearance. The body was identified by Jackson's brother-in-law, I. X. Glpo. It was found under a log by David Harnett, who. was catching driftwood. The body had fallen or was thrown from the levee near where it was found, that being nearly a mile out of Jackson's way home from the saloon. He had about $12 in money in his possession that night, but no money was found on the body. MURDERER IS MOCKED M MUSIC IIUIIS PLAYHOUSE John Terrell, Who Owns Newly Opened Theater, Lies in Jail Across Street. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLUFFTON, Ind., April 6.-The new Terrell Grand Theater, built at a cost of 150,000, was opened to-night with the play, "Our New Minister." This is the theater which was built almost entirely from money furnished by John W. Terrell, who Is in Jail In a cell directly opposite the cpera house under sentence to life imprisonment for the shooting and killing of his son-in-law, Melvin Wolfe. Although he furnished the money for the building; Terfell cannot attend the opening, and as he lies in his cell across the street he will hear the music of the orchestra as if in mockery that is, if he is able to comprehend what is transpiring. He has been declared Insane by physicians and by a jury of twelve men and has been lying In the Jail several weeks awaiting the pleasure of the courts as to his disposition. As he became insane after the jury's verdict was given' and before sentence was passed, the authorities have not yet decided the proper ccurse to take. Terrell gradually grows weaker, and his daughter Lucy, whose wrongs he avenged, is constantly at the Jail helping to care for him.

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Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. April 6. As the result of an attempt to assassinate William Horn, a well-known farmer of this county, one week ago to-night, Charles Anthony, a neighbor of Horn, is under arrest on a charge of attempted murder. The arrest of Anthony, who is well known, caused a sensation and developed the fact that it was on his account that Mrs. Horn Is plaintiff in a suit for divorce which was recently filed. Because Horn suspected that Anthony was winning his wife's affections he ordered him from his home. Soon afterward Mrs. Horn left. The attempted assassination took place at midnight, two shots being fired at Horn through a window of the house in which he was sleeping. One bullet passed through the bed clothing and one lodged in the mattress. YOUTH IS SLAIN BY ANGRY MAN AT AUBURN

Innocent Passer-By Victim of Wrath of Frank Foltz, Who Was Tormented. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AUBURN. Ind.. April 6. Will Swigart, aged eighteen years, and member of a prominent family,. was last night shot and instantly killed by Frank Foltz. aged thirty-three years, who fired on some small boys who were taunting him. Swigart was walking down the street with a friend when Foltz, with a Winchester rifle, shot at a party of fleeing urchins who had gathered around his house to tantalize him. The first bullet fired penetrated Swigarfs heart. Foltz was arrested and confessed to the shooting. BIG WATCH PLANT MAY GO TO ANDERSON Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON. Ind., April 6. The "Anderron 50,000" committee conferred to-day with J. H. Kemp, of Appleton, Wis., In regard to the removal to this city of a watch manufacturing plant at Boston which employs 2,000 hands. The situation with the watch company at Boston is that the six-acre tract used for the plant has been surrounded by the city in its natural growth and the site is now undesirable. The company prefers to come West, and Mr. Kemp came to this city three times investigating before he made his purposes known. An option has been taken on a large tract of ground adjoining the city for the company, and the matter is being fully investigated by the committee. TEACHERS TO GATHER AT UgJMÖU TO-DAY Twenty-Second Annual Session of Northern Indiana Association to Open. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., April 6. Everything Is In readiness at Winona Lake for the reception of at least 3,000 pedagogues, who are expected at the twenty-second , annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers' Association, which will be called to order by President T. A. Mott; of Richmond, at 2:30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon in the big auditorium at Winona, where the general meeting of the association will be held during the three days' session. The forenoon of the first day of the gathering will be given over entirely to registration and inspection of educational exhibits prepared by the different section committees. Will Cross Continent to Wed. RICHMOND, Ind., April 6. Miss Corrina Potter, a weli-known young woman of this city, will leave Richmond on April 30 and go to Bellingham, Washington State, where she will be joined in marriage to William Collins, formerly of Richmond. They will reside in Bellingham.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT. Ind., April J. The body of Sol D. Brandt, owner of an island summer resort in the Wabash river east of Logansport, who Is supposed to have drowned while attempting to reach the island Saturday, was found this morning below Georgetown, about fourteen mr.es from the point where he is supposed to have tried to cross. The tody was mutilated to an extent that gives credence to the latest belief that he was murdered and his dead body thrown into the river. The reward of $lv offered by the City Council for the recovery of the body will be divided among Albert L. Kleppinger and John Wilson, the men who first saw it lodged under a log on the edge of an island in the river, and Charles W. Myers and William Merrill, who waded in to take the body out. Friends and relatives have strong suspicions that Brandt was murdered and refuse to believe that he was drowned accidentally. A wide bruise across his eyes and nose was found, and It is thought this was caused by a blow from a club. Ten days ago Brandt rt fused to cross the stream when the water was no higher than last Saturday, and his friends believe he would not have attempted It this time. There are other apparently insignificant circumstances which are bWieved to point to murder. No motive is assigned. CITY OF ANDERSON WILL ISSUE BONDS

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., April 6. W. B. Campbell, at one time editor of the Herald of this city, and lately prominent because of his having promoted the Anderson & Lebanon interurban road, has closed a deal with the city of Anderson by which it will be possible for Anderson to better its financial standing and borrow the money at this time needed to increase the city light plant facilities and install a pure water plant. The city has for a long time been carrying $40,000 in time warrants bearing 6 per cent, interest, and1 Inasmuch as they were payable on demand they made it Impossible for the city to borrow money as freely as is desired at this time. Mr. Campbell has arranged through Well, Roth & Co.. of Cincinnati, to retire these warrants and Issue bonds payable at any time between the ten and twenty-year date from issue at a rate of 4Vi per cent. Township la Divided. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., April 6. -Owing to Jealousies and trouble between residents of the northern .part of Union township, the largest in the county, and the people of the southern portion, which skirts the. Kankakee river, over the construction of bridges, ditches and schoolhouses. the County Commissioners have divided the townShip, making the northern part Washington and appointing' Dr. H. H. Long trustee. The lower portion retains the name of Union and Samuel Lambert will be trustee. Dla.fr Taken Back, to Knox. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KNOX, Ind.. April 6. R. I Blair, the ehowman, who disappeared from North Judson last week and who was charged with having1 Issued a fraudulent check for $450 and leaving unpaid bills to the extent of several hundred dollars, was arrested in Chicago last night and brought here today. Ke was given a preliminary hearing this afternoon and held to the Circuit Court under bonds of $1.000, in default of which he was remanded to Jail. To Improve White Institute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., April 6. Plans have Just been completed and contracts let for improvements at White's Institute, five miles southeast of Wabash, that will aggregate $12,000 and will make that institution one of the best equipped for its purpose of any benevolent institution in the State. Spencer County Ticket Named. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANS VILLE, Ind., April 6. The Republicans of Spencer county met in primary election to-day and nominated Loren Gage for state representative, L.ouis Weiss for treasurer, David S. Hill for recorder and Eli Thrasher for sheriff.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., April 6. "Northwest people have been wanting the territory so bad they have forgotten to say their prayers." declared Dr. William D. Parr In closing hla protest against the proposed shifting of the boundary lines of the Northwest and North Indiana Methodist Conference in th sixty-first annual ession of the North Indiana Conference in this city to-night. And the proposition was voted down. Dr. CJ. B. Colvln, of the Northwest Conference, presented- the proposition, which was to change the boundary line so that it would b the St. Joseph river south from the Michigan line to South Bend, thence south along the old Michigan road to Indianapolis. Before the proposition was rejected Dr. Colvln and Dr. Parr engaged in a lively tilt, and Dr. Colvln 'promised to fight the matter out in the General Conference at Los Angeles. t Bishop C. C. McCabe opened th conference In the High-street Church this morning, after he had administered the sacrament of the Lords supper tho secretary of th former session, the Rev. L. J. Nattzger. of Kokomo. called the roll. The following officers wer then elected: Leslie J. Naftzgcr, Kokomo. recretary; L. A. Beeks, Bluffton. J. C. White, Decatur, and D. V. Williams, Kokorro, assistant secretaries: T. C. Neal. Marion. statistical secretary; Lewis Reeves, Russiaville. assistant statistical secretary; W. B. Freeland, Fortville, treasurer; J. B. McNary, Eaton. D. S. Jones,, Larwlll, P. A. Reichelderfer, Fremont, and Lincoln Steere, Wolf Lake, assistant treasurers; Chaunccy King. New Castle, registrar. The time for the election of delegates to the General Conference at Los Angeles la June was set for Friday morning at ltf o'clock. The Rev. J. E. Young, was announced as transferred from the North Nebraska Conference. The Rev. K. W. Halpenny waa received from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada. The reports of the Rev. W. II. Daniel, presiding elder of the Fort Wayne district, and the Rev. 11. W. Rennet, presidlrff elder of the Goshen district, were then heard. The Rev. Daniel esked that tho conference wculd give him a superannuate relation on account of the Illness of his wife. He reported six new churches in his district during the year. There were 1.S57 conversions and JJ.423 was donated for benevolence. The Rev. Mr. Bennet reported that in the Goshen district, with a population of 550.000 people, there were 8.00.) Methodists. There are sixty-nine churches in the district. The Rev. Lincoln Steers, of this district, during the year traveled over 4,970 miles. This afternoon the conference heard tha annual conference missionary sermon, delivered by the Rev. Somerville Ught. , This evening was devoted to the interests of church extension. Talks were delivered by Bishop McCabe and the Rev. W. D. Parr, D. D. Delegates continue to arrive on every train, and the total number is expected to reach 1.0U0 by Kriday morning. HORSE WRECKS A CAR ON RICHMOND LINE

Special to the Ii.ulanapoiis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. April 6. A cr on th Richmond street and Interurban railroad, was wrecked to-night a few miles west of Richmond. The car struck a horse and W derailed. Motorman Bruher, of Cambridge City, was Injured internally and both legs were broken. No passengers were injured. Slonnment for Colonel 3frCftaley. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE. Ind.. April 6.-Veterans At the Soldiers' Horn In this city are raising a fund with which to provide a monument for the grave of the late Col. Daniel McCauley, who died in Honduras a few years ago, and whose remains repose In the Arlington Cemetery at Washington with only a cheap headstone to mark their resting place. Peterbaric Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PETERSBURG. Ind., April 6. The Washington township Republican primary convention was held yesyrday. There were four candidates for trustee and five for assessor. Joe Patterson was nominate;! for trustee and Charles Iucas for assessor. The convention was as hard fought as an election, a full vote being polled.

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