Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 155, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL," FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1901.

CHARRED BODY CHAINED

TO POST BY M ysterv of Dark Crime Puzzles the Police Officers at Philadelphia. SLAYERS COVER TRACKS PHILADELPHIA. June. 2.-Detectlves of relaware county and this city are working: hard in an effort to unravel the mystery connected with the finding of the body of a. man on Decoration day in the marsh close to the banks of Darby creek. The place where the charred body was found is a treacherous marsh laying between the Delaware river and Darby creek and is ten miles south of Philadelphia. .On the banks of Darby creek are scores of boathouses. many of them being the rendezvous of dissolute men and women, who sund nearly every Sunday .during1 the ummcr months In drinking and carousing. Detective Berry, of Delaware county, does not believe the man was murdered where tne body was found, but is of opinion that he met death in -one of the boathouses during a quarrel and that the body was then carried into the. marsh.. It Is evident an attempt had been made to destroy all evidences of Identification by burning the body, and the murderer or murderers covered their tracks well. Within a few hundred yards of the spot where th body was found la the farm house of William Horn. On the night of Sunday, May 22. a rope and two pieces of chain were stolen from Home's barn. This chain was found close to the body of the murdered man. It had been fastened to fence posts' by staples, and after close Investigation the detectives arrived at the conclusion that the man had engaged In a quarrel over a game of cards in one of the boathouses and had been murdered; that his body was chained to the posts. saturated with oil, and then set on fire. A two-gallon oil can. comparatively new, which had been stolen from the Home residence, was laying close to the charred trunk, which would seem to bear out aia theory. Two suspender buckles, half of a hand and the toe of a shoe are the only means by which the detectives can hope to Identify the murdered man. A report was current Last night to the effect that a body of a woman had been found close to where the man's body was discovered, but the detectives have thus far been unable to locate the persons, who. It Is claimed, made the discovery. SOCIALIST SCHOOL TO BE ESTABLISHED Negotiations Under Way for Pur- . chase of Tract of Land in Michigan. ST. CLAIR, Mich., June 2. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of a 40acre tract of land on the St. Clair river, just south of here, for the establishing of an Industrial training and educational Institute, which will represent an investment of jrW.OOO. In a measure It will be a philanthropic enterprise, conducted along socialistic lines. Parker II. Sercombe, of Chicago, Is the originator of the plan, and among the men mentioned as his associates are Clarence Darrow and Prof. Oscar Trlggs, of Chicago, and Hanford Henderson, of Chicago. It Is proposed to make the Institute eventually self-sustaining through the marketing of the products of the students, whose time will be equally divided between common school work and work of av practical and of a productive nature. HERMAN PETTI BONE ENDS HIS OWN LIFE Son of Former Congressman Commits Suicide in Hotel at . Washington. WASHINGTON, June 2.-The dead body of Herman S. Pettlbone, thirty-one years old, a son of former Congressman A. II. Pettlbone, of Tennessee, was found In a hotel here to-day. Some dress 6.f a mixture of aconite and morphine which wero. found In a glasii on the bureau of the room Indicated that the man had committed suicide, and the coroner gave a verdict to that effect. Pettlbone had been dead for several hours whim found. His father, who is now at Huntville, Ala., was notified. Young Pettlbone has been despondent. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS LIVERPOOL, June 2.-Arrlved: Marlon, from Philadelphia: Ottoman, from Portland; Saxonia, from Boston; Dovlc, from New York; Buenos Ayrean. from Montreal, for Glasgow. Sailed: Bavarian, for Montreal: Cymric, tor Boston; South wark, for Montreal. ' NAPLES, June 2.-Arrlved: König Albert, from New York, and sailed for Genoa, Sailed: Romanic, from Genoa, for Boston. QUEENSTOWN. June 2. Sailed: Noordland. from Liverpool, for Philadelphia; Cedric. from Liverpool, for New York. NEW YORK. June 2. Sailed: La Touraine. for Havre; Moltke, for Hamburg; Grosser Kurfürst, for Bremen. HAMBURG, June 2. Arrived: Patricia, from New Tor. Sailed: Klngstonian, for Boston. BOULOGNE, June 3. Arrived: Ryndam, from New York, for Rotterdam, and proceeded. CHERBOURG, June 2. Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm II, from Bremen, for New York. HONG-KONG. June 2, Sailed: Empress . of China, for Vancouver. SUPPED ON TRAIL AND FELL 2,000 FE ET MONTEREY, Mex., June 2. W. F. Carke, a well-known mining superintendent, slipped on a trail leading from Mlnas Nuevas to La Fama yesterday and fell a distance of fully 2,000 feet, being instantly killed. GIVES MILLION FEET OF LUMBER TO COLLEGE LINDSBURO, Kan.. June 2. Col. C, A. Smith, a millionaire lumber dealer of Minneapolis, who Is here attending the commencement exercises of Bethany College, to-day announced that he would give 1,OüO.OuO feet of lumber to the college. Santa Fe Strikers Enjoined. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., June 2,-Judge Baker, of the District Court, has made permanent the Injunction restraining the striking Santa Fe machinists from molesting the company's property or interfering with nonunion employes. A motion by the machinists to modify the injunction so as to permit them to converse with nonunion men was denied. No Iteviilon of LltnrfO'. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 2. Reports to-day to the General Synod of the Reformed Church show that the 13 plan for the revision of the Liturgy has failed. The vote wns IS against that revision and 16 for, the East commonly favoring revision and the West being against it in the form propose d. Fatally Hort In n Wreck. LE3 MOINES. la.. June 2. Robert Shaffer, of Milwaukee, Wis., was fatally hurt and seven other passengers were Injured by the ditching of a Milwaukee easttound passenger train near Perry. The trln ran Into a washout while going forty cs an hour. Aced Photographer Dead. CI.DVELAND, O.. June 2. James F. Hyder, oiif of the bst-known photographer !:. tho country, died to-night after an illness of n mouth. He was eighty-two yara of use jnd hud bceu in business Xcr -CXty-two icar.i.

MURDERERS

ACCIDENT TO A SOLDIER CAUSES PANIC AT IRONTOH Militiaman Fell from Bridge and Comrades Believed He Had Been Shot.

PLAN TO END THE STRIKE IRONTON, O., June 2.-While patrolling a guard post upon a trestle within the furnace works this afternoon. Private Oscar Simpson, of Company I, Ironton, fell and suffered a fracture of the leg. Ills cry as he fell was heard by comrades, who missing his form from the trestle, believed he had been shot. The soldier fell twenty feet to an ore pile and received many Injuries beside the fracture. He was borne to the hospital. Wild rumors followed. Men came hastily from Ironton to Hanging Rock upon the rumor that a soldier had been shot from ambush and excitement raged until the truth became known. Private Simpson Is not believed to be fatally injured. It is freely said that an agreement has ben reached between the contending sides of labor and capital, with the soldiery in the background, and that there remains only ratification of the work of the leaders for peace. This will mean, if a successful endirg comes of the meeting, the almost immediate withdrawal of the troops, the departure of the alien laborers and the opening of the furnace, manned by the workers who left it on April 25. The matter has been placed in the hands of Vice Presidents John Mitchell and Thomas I. Kidd. of the Federation, who will go to Cincinnati to consult with Rogers, Brown & Co., owners of the furnace. Colonel Thompson, in command of the militia, to-night issued orders compelling all citizens to be. off the streets between 7:20 p. m. and 5 a. m., and any persons found on the streets during these hours will be arrested. Another order issued prohibits the carrying of weapons of any kind and also the use of Intoxicants in the village. Several arrests have been made, one for carrying concealed weapons. Colonel 'Ahompson and - Major Corn made a thorough search for ttrearms to-night, visiting the negro quarters and the homes of several strikers. A large quantity of ammunition and several guns were found and will be held until the trouble is over. TRUSTED BANK EMPLOYE ADMITS THEFT OP $30,000 Douglas Smith, of New Haven, Says He Lost Stolen Funds in Speculation. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2. A loss of from $30,000 to $00,0) through the embezzlement of Its funds by a trusted employe, Douglas M. Smith, Is admitted by the officers of the National Tradesmen's Bank of this city. The exact loss is not yet known. Smith, who was paying and receiving teller of the bank, has acknowledged voluntarily that he embezzled about $30,000, and the greater part of It, if not all, within the last eight or nine months. In a statement given out to-night by Cashier II. W. Thompson, of the bank, the following explanation of the situation is made: "As near as we can make out by the examination thus far made, we believe Mr. Smith has taken about $J0.000. That is the sum which he himself estimates. He was under bonds for $15,000 given by nn indemnity company. As Mr. Smith says, he has not saved a penny during his lifetime, and cannot make good the loss, we shall have to stand the balance of the defalcation above the $15,000 in the bond. Mr. Smith says he has been speculating and that he took the money for that purpose. The bank, is safe and sound. There Is no danger to either our depositors or our stockholders." Smith was arrested this afternoon. He was held in $15,000 bail for examination June 11. It was stated to-night after a later' investigation into the bank's accounts that Smith's shortage would reach almost $70,-ooo.

Cerv era's Plan May Be Tried by Russia's Port Arthur Squadron

(CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) of Kin-Chou. May 26, were thirty officers and eight hundred men killed or wounded. The guns abandoned by the Russians were rendered useless. All the reports reaching General Kuropatkin's headquarters are increasing the extent of the Japanese losses, one to-day making the number at about twenty thousand men. It Is known that the Japanese statements are incorrect in a number of particulars. For instance, they gave the name of a regiment as engaged which really is at Liao-Yang. According to Information irt possession of the general staff, the enemy has five divisions and five reserve corps, about eighty thousand men, on the Llao-Tung peninsula, and at least seven divisions and seven reserve corps, or about 1-5.000 men. in southern Manchuria. Although the impression prevailed among tho members of the general staff that General Kuroki's purpose was to make feints to prevent General Kuropatkin from moving, but not to attack him until the result of the campaign against Port Arthur Is determined, there Is now apparently more Inclination to think he will try a demonstration In force which might result in a decisive engagement. The Japanese commander is constantly shifting his columns back and forth to conceal his real purpose. FOOD GROWING SCARCE AT PORT ARTHUR LONDON, June 3. The Tlmes's steamer Haimun returned to Che-Foo June 2 from a cruise in Kin-Chou bay. The correspond ents sboard learned from Port Arthur refu- f gees that tho native and civilian population only got such food as arrives by Junk from Chinese ports or what they have themselves secreted. The military authorities have requisitioned all available food. On half rations it Is estimated that tho garrison has enough for five months. The five damaged warships moored at the Port Arthur jetties, the Times correspondent learns, have been denuded of everything movable. Lieutenant General Stoessel retains a large number of Junks in the roadsted. The object of this measure can only be conjectured. EYEWITNESS DESCRIBES BATTLE OF KIN-CHOU LONDON, June 3. The correspondent of the London Times at Che-Foo says: "Eyewitnesses of the battle of Kin-Chou describe It as an unprecedented military spectacle. Forty thousand Japanese were massed behind the western spur of Mount Sampson under such small cover as was afforded by the twin peaks. The troops were within two thousand yards of the Russian works. There was so little room to deploy for attack3 that battalions of Japanese troops were obliged to stand in the sea waiting for the moment of attnek, exposed to a veritable inferno of fire from the Russian batteries. The shells plowed into their serried masses. "Meantime batttry after battery of Japanese guns went into action upon the Chi-Li-Chwaug and the Kauchiayan flats, and a sustained gunboat tire played upon tho Russian works. Their lines were fringed with burtlug projectiles. About midday the energy of the Russian defenders in the works in front of Mauchiaying village seemed exhausted by the gunboat fire. Two Japanese battalions appeared over the saddle between the twin peaks and made a desperate effort to carry the nearest Russian works. At first the straggling walls of Mauchiaying gave them some cover and a moment's breathing space. Then the gallant little Infantry crept on again up the slopes toward th? Russian position. It was an impossible task. As yet the defenders had not been sufficiently shaken. An avalanche of concentrated fire from Infantry in tho trenches, machine guns in the Ru:??ian works and quick-riding field nrtl'.hirv fn tK viiv.T.i tlr c defends .struck

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SIX HUNDRED

PERSONS

ARE DRIVEN PROM HOME Flood at Newton, Kan., Also Does an Immense Amount of Damage to Property. MANY NARROW ESCAPES NEWTON', Kan., June 2.-Six hundred people were driven from their homes today by a sudden rise in Sand creek, which flows through the north and west parts of the city. The overflow was caused by heavy rains, approaching In extent a cloudburst. The flooded district embraces about a fourth of the city and the water stands as high as the second-story windows in many places. The flood victims are being supplied with clothing and given temporary lodging In the homes of the city. The water rose so rapidly that hundreds of people were caught in their homes by the water. Rescuing parties were formed immediately, and with boats and rafts nearly all have been taken from the flooded district. The work will be continued all night. One boat capsized and men, women and children were thrown into deep water, but were rescued after heroic efforts. The property loss will be large, as many houses are seriously damaged and much furniture ruined. Washouts have delayed all trains on the Santa Fe. Cloudbursts are reported from Emporia. Strong City, Florence, Manhattan, St. John and Galena. At Lincoln Center more than four inches of water fell in three hours. Heavy rains, are reported from up-stream in the Kaw valley, but most of the high water trouble is being experienced in the bottom lands between Emporia and Newton. At Emporia the Neosho and Cottonwood rivers are reported as rising a foot an hour. . The Santa Fe tracks are a foot under water at Emporia, Strong City and Florence, and are washed out in several places. The little town, of Elmdale, eight miles from Cottonwood Falls, Is reported to be three feet under water. A severe wind accompanied the rain, greatly damaging fruit and growing crops. Howard Holmes, of Clements, and Orvin Gleen, of Concordia, we.e killed by lightning. SUICIDE OF C, I. II ASOUTHOMAHA PARK Body of Manager of the Armour Packing Company Is Found bv His Son. OMAHA, Neb., June 2. C. L. Saylor, office manager for the Armour Packing Company at South Omaha, committed suicide nt Hanscom to-day by shooting himself through the head. The act was committed an hour before the time set for Mr. Saylor's departure for an Ohio sanatorium, where he was goiug for treatment of his nervous system. During the afternoon Mr. Saylor had made all preparations for his Eastern trip, and started for a stroll in the park before starting to the train. Half an hour later his son walked through the park and discovered his father lying near a path in a pool of blood. lie was forty-eight years of age and leaves a widow aud four children. JUDGE BAKER WILL DECIDE TRACTION CASE Judge Francis E. Baker, of the United States Circuit, will render the decision Friday in the case of the Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction Company against the city of Crawfordsville. At that Ume he will hear final arguments if any are to be made. The case has ten one of long litigation and has attracted a good deal of attention. The contention is over the possession of the streets of Crawfordsville for the use of the interurban company, which claims an exclusive franchise. glacis like solder before the flame of blowripe. A few who seemed to have charmed lives struggled on until they reached the wire entanglements. "It was in vain. Heroic effort was wasted. Within fifteen minutes these two battalions ceased to exist except as a trail of mutilated bodies at the foot of the Russian glacis. "Seeing the failure of this attack, the gunboats and supporting artillery concentrated the whole of their fire upon the point where General Oku had determined to drive home his wedge, and by evening the works were practically able for an assault by a general who had such Infantry as the Japanese, and who was prepared to take the responsibility of such fearful losses. It would seem as if the actual carrying of the works had been another Alma. The word was given for a bayonet attack. Then the whole Japanese surged forward and the moral balance went over to the side of the Japanese, the Russians retiring before them. "I learn that it was the mining ship Amur which laid the mines that destroyed the Hatsuse. On the morning of the catastrophe a Japanese gunboat flotilla cut her escort off. I can learn nothing of their fate, but suspect that they succeeded in slipping back into Port Arthur." WIJU RAILWAY IS N EARING COMPLETION SEOUL, Korea, June 2. General Yamane, head of the, construction department of the Wiju Railroad, has removed his main office to Chemulpo for convenience ia the superintendence of the disembarkation and reshipment of materials to the various northern points, where work is progressing. Grading has been finished for a distance of twenty-five miles from Seoul, with all necessary bridges constructed for fifteen miles out. Tracks will be laid along this stretch of the road upon the completion of a long cutting near Yon-Han. which will enable the transport by rail of heavy timbers and materials instead of the present difficult method of carrying them in by bullock carts over rough roads. Work on the branch now under construction, north from Seng-Do, is progressing in a satisfactory mcuner, and it i3 expected that ling-Yang will be reached by the beginning of December. The majority of the railway battalions, heretofore stationed in temporary barracks at Yungsan, near Seoul, will shortly be sent farther north. NO EXTENSION OF THE THREE-MILE LIMIT LONDON, June 2. Earl Percy, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, replying to questions In the House of Commons today, said that no representations had been made to Russia or Japan regarding the placing of naval mines in the far East outside of territorial limits. The subject, he added, was engaging the careful attention of the government. Asked if, in view of the increased range of modern projectiles, the government was prepared to recognize any extension of the three-mile, limit, Earl Percy answered in the negative. RUSSIAN RAIDERS AT WORK NEAR GEN-SAN VLADIVOSTOK. June 2. Letters from the theater of war report that Russian raiders have succeeded in penetrating as far as Gen-San and also south of Anju They have destroyed depots of Japanese supplies and captured provision trains, Koreans are fleeing Into Manchuria to escape the hardships of war. Chinese are moving from K wan-Pong into' northern Manchuria in order to avoid living In ter ritory under Japanese coutrol.

SAYLOR

PATENTS OF

NOBILITY

ISSUED By POPE PIUS X WILL NOTjiE REGISTERED France Strikes a Blow at the Dignities Conferred by the Holy See. LIST OF PAPAL ORDERS Which Virtually Have Been Placed-Under the Ban by the French. Special Correspondence of the Journal. PARIS, May 15. The ex-Abbe Combes has met the Pope's protest against M. Loubet's visit to the Vatican by a measure which would not have occurred to any prime minister of nonclerical education, though he were' a Protestant. At the last ministerial council the premier submitted to his colleagues for foreign affairs and war, who, of course, acceded, an order for the grand chancellerie of the Legion of Honor not in future to register patents of nobility granted by the Pope. The registration there of such titles conferred on them official sanction. A count or marquis of pontifical creation, accepted by the grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor, could not be prosecuted as a swindler if he obtained, by parading his coronetetj card at a tradesman's store, on credit, goods that he could hardly pay for, if at all. Seme time ago orders had been secretly given not to recognize formally papal titles, but not to reject, either, demands for their legislation. Officials at the chancellerie looked into the papers of applicants told them to come again, and when they did so Informed them that the formalities requisite would take some time. Meanwhile they might have their titles engraved on their visiting cards and their arms on their plate. The Italian government, which had often complained of the currency of Vatican titles in France, was thus pacified and the Pope obliged. To admit formally these dignities was to admit the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. The last creation of the kind which the chancellerie of the Legion of Honor legalized was that of M. Lefebvre (de Behaine), a wealthy land owner, who represented the French republic as ambassador to the Vatican. Under the new order of M. Combes the Tope stends on precisely the same footing in reg-.-ird to the chancellerie of the Legion of Honor as Don Carlos or the Due d'Orleans. The latter has not been prodigal of titles. He authorized his brother-in-law, Jean Chartrcs, on his marriage with Isabeile d'Orieans, youngest daughter of the Compte Do Paris, to call himself Due De Gise. This prince came into the estate of Guise under the late Due d'Aumale's will, and he wished to revive the ducal title attached to it before the revolution and borne by D'Aumale's youngest son, who died in 1873. In royalist söciety the ducal title of Guise has currency. MOST ORDERS ARE DEAD. Most orders of chivalry have died out, but the decorations belonging to them still exist. The decorations of Christ are still a bone of contention between the papacy and the Portuguese government, which makes a handsome income out of the decorations of the different grades of the Order of Christ. Half the red ribbon one sees on the breasts of Frenchmen's coats-were bought of King Carlos. The French government has laid down the rule that the cross of the order Is to be worn with the ribbon to distinguish the latter from that of the Legion of Honor. But chevaliers of Christ generally tuck the cross under the flap of the collar, and have It there convenient to show in case a commissioner of police should challenge their right to go about as cavaliers of the esteemed French order. The Christ of the Vatican has been reduced to a single grade, like the Garter to distinguish it from that of Portugal, which has four. Leo XIII was extremely chary in granting it, so much so that in the twenty-five years of his pontificate he only granted It to three persons, namely, Prince Bismarck, Lefebre (de Behaine), and General Von Kauzler, who led pontifical zouaves ag-ainst Garlbaldians and otherwise served the party as a military man. The other Papal orders are of St. Sylvester of 'Jerusalem, of St. Gregory the Great and of Pius IX. They trac at the Vatican the Order of Christ, with its decorative Latin cross surmounted by an imperial crown, 'to the Emperor Constantino the Great. The Order of St. Sylvester, formerly the Order of the Spur, has three grades, like that of St. Gregory, and Its decoration is formed of a Maltese cross from the fourth or lowest part of which hangs a microscopic spur the survival, doubtless, of some equestrian Roman order. Gregory XVI. changed its name to prevent the Sforza family making merchandise of it forever. They had been granted in the sixteenth century by Pope Paul II, who built tho Farnese Palace, and found himself hard up In consequence, the privilege of conferring, on the same footing as the Papacy, decorations of this order. Gregory, on his election In 1S31, found 16,000 Knights of the Spur, created by Sforzas. clamoring for the privileges of their knighthood. Some learned archaeologist had discovered that the name of the "Spur" was a slang one in the time of Paul III. and that he, perhaps knowing this, made in difficult times a bargain with the Sforzas, which he did not intend should ever diminish the sovereign rights of himself or his successors. As Dukes of Milan and residing in a mercantile center, they found convenience and profit in decorating vain and wealthy tradesmen. The. latter apart from the services they learned to earn the distlnc tion of the Spur, had to pay heavy fees ,to tho herald's office, as they still do In London to the herald king 'at arms and red dragon for the making out of a title. ORDER FOR VULGAR PERSONS. The Order of St. Gregory is for mercan tile persons and vulgar sort of people. A grocer making gratis a heavy consignment of goods to the Vatican would be sure to receive in return the decoration of St Gregory. Fius IX created the order in four V grades, called after him, when a refugee at Gaete, to reward faithful servants and partisans. The highest grade confers hereditary and the second personal nobil ity. The refusal of the chancelleries of the Legion of Honor to recognize papal barons, counts, marquises, dukes and cavaliers will considerably impoverish the Holv See. tho I rench being the richest of-Catholic people and fond of such distinctions. The dlminutlo capitis, as lawyers say, involved in the Combes order must be displeasing to the cardinals around his Holiness, and in some degree to himself, notwithstanding his saintiy simplicity or lire and sentiment Aristocratic society smiles when nanal no bles enter drawing rooms, but the feeling oi irony soon wears on, and if there he considerable wealth, the papal duke, marquis, count or baron is soon classed as a genuine nobleman. The fee charged for a uucai creation is w.u0 francs, besides the -oDiigations taking the form of subscrin tions to papal funds. The title of baron costs 10.000 francs. The "obligations" are moral, but lists are sent to bishops of the members of their flocks who have not ful filled them. High-class Catholic society is soon informed through some episcopal machinery and regards the names on the Diacx list as those of defaulters. Really pious French Catholics do not like this traffic in food for vanity, and a s:iir,t!v priest whom I often go to see said to me this morning: "The " power of Jesus Christ's vicar to deal in nobiliary titles Is not among the best things at the Vatican. In this miserable world one nearly always finds the trace or tne cloven foot In what is holiest The Pope is not yet satisfied that Joan of Arc perrormed miracles in the theolcglca sense. While he leans towards canonlza tlon, he thinks well to be in no hurry. EMILY CRAWFORD. The Union National Bank solicits your business: facilities second to none, William p. Richards, president. . t t

GORMAN HOW SAYS HE IS OUT OF POLITICS Conference Between the Maryland Senator and Other Democratic Leaders. NEW YORK, June 2. Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland. Col. John X. Guffey, of Pennsylvania, and J. Sargent Cram, Mr. Cram representing Charles F. Murphy, were In conference to-day at the Holland House. Ex-Lieutenant Governor William Sheehan. one of the main supporters of Jus tice Parker, called at the Holland House and was with Colonel Guffer for an hour. He would not talk withe reporters., Senator Gorman said in answer to inquiries that he had retired from politics. OHIO TELEPHONE MEN FORM AN ASSOCIATION Representatives of More than Two Hundred Exchanges Become Members. COLUMBUS. 0-. June 2. The Ohio Inde pendent Telephone Association was organized to-day at a meeting of 223 delegates from Independent telephone exchanges In Ohio. Memberships are confined to tele phone companies, rather than managers and superintendents. Officers were named as follows: Presi dent, Frank L. Beam, Columbus; vice presidents, W. W. Gilbert Thompson, Lebanon; G. P. Thorpe, Wilmington; J. B. Höge, Cleveland; R. E. Hamblln. Toledo: James C. Reber. Dayton: Dwight E. Sanp. Mount Vernon: Georee A. Manthanv. Columbus: W. A. L,uabach, Akron; J. B. Rhodes, lanesville; secretary, E. E. Knox, Portsmouth, and treasurer, Ralph Ramr, Coumbus. SAID MAN THREATENED TO TAKE WIFE'S LIFE It was reported to the police yesterday afternoon that Peter Hiddinger. 1423 Spann avenue, had threatened to kill his wife and then take his own life. Neighbors stated to the police that Hiddinjer's daughter rushed nto the yard at their home and screamed for help, then fell in a fainting condition from overexcitement and fright. District patrolmen were sent to Investigate, but were informed by Mrs. Illddiuger that the story was untrue. LIQUID BAIT IS TOO MUCH FOR FISHERWOMAN Too much of the "liquid" bait was the cause of Laura Smith's undoing yesterday. In the morning she was one of a merry party which went lishing- along Eagle creek. In the afternoon she returned, alone and maudlin, in the patrol wagon. The sight of the police station had a sobering effect, and she objected to being locked up. It wa-s almost necessary to carry her upstairs, where she was charged with being drunk. POLICE PICKUPS. John Silver, a Chicago traveling man, has reported to the police that an unknown colored woman visited his room on North Illinois street Wednesday night and robbed him of $100. Maggie Brown, a negress. who is alleged to have stolen a watch and $5 from R. L. Leffcl. of Springfield. O., was arraigned in Police Court yesterday morning, and was bound over to the graud jury. Benjamin Irwin and La ban Reynolds, newsboys, seventeen and eighteen years old, respectively, engaged in an alley fight yesterday which lasted for fifteen minutes. The fighters, badly bruised, were arrested by Patrolman Streit. Because he pliced formaldehyde in milk which was delivered to his customers, Charles S. Thomas, a dairyman at Emerson avenue and Tenth street, was fined $30 and costs in Police Court yesterday morning. Judge Whal'.on stated that for-the next offense the maximum penalty would be in flicted. Bicyciemen Bernauer and Kitzmiller were called last night to the coal yard of Stuckmeyer & Co., at Lexington avenue tfnd the Big Four tracks, to look after a driver who Insisted on remaining seated on his wagon all nieht. The proprietors objected, but the driver was obdurate. The police were notified, and the driver ran. Members of a salvage company which has been cleaning out the burned building formerly occupied by the Wisconsin Paper Company neglected to lock the doors when they left last night, and wlthlna few hours the building was tilled with small boys who were rapidly completing the work of the salvage corns. The police were called to eject the youngsters. Xew Gorman Cable Completed. NORDENHAM. Odenburg. Germany, June 2. The last section of the second cable connecting Germany and America was completed during the night. Arbitration Treaty Signed. LISBON, June 2. A treaty of arbitration has been signed between Spain and Portugal. It conforms with Article 19 of The Hague convention.

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Consumers' Company Is Put Out of Business by Decision

(CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) was pending Quinby filed his suit in the Federal Court, which claimed jurisdiction, the outcome being the decision rendered yesterday. The decision was the outcome of the suit of Byron C. Quinby, of Massachusetts, against the board of directors of the Consumers Gas Trust Company lo enjoin them from continuing the supply of natural gas and from entering Into the business of manufacturing gas. The case was argued two days and a half. It took but a few minutes after the arguments were closed for the judges to make their decision in favor of Quinby, as had been anticipated. NOTICE OF APPEAL. When the decision had been rendered Addison C. Harris, one of the attorneys for the directors of the company, filed notice that an appeal would be taken to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. Bond was placed at $1,000, and the bond was filed at once by the attorneys for the company. Some doubt has been expressed as to whether the appeal will be carried out. The filing or a notice of appeal Is a formality, and It rests with the ooard of directors to decide whether the appeal shall be taken. The decrte of the court in the case was prepared yesterday afternoon by Ferdinand Winter. It declares that the capital stock of the Consumers Gas Trust Company belongs to the holders of the certificates, and that the trustees have no power other than to hold the assets in trust for the certificate holders. The decree further states that all property shall be distributed among the certificate holders and that according to the charter the mission of the company was at nn end when It ceased furnishing natural gas. It enjoins the company from further supplying natural ga3, holding that the business Is Impracticable. Further it enJoins -the directors and trustees from continuing the business of the company by converting it Into a plant to manufacture gas. And, finally, the decree enjoins the directors and trustees from disputing the right of the certificate holders to the assets of the company. In the suit the complainant, Mr. Quinby, was upheld by the court In almost every contention made. Throughout the argument It was apparent from the attitude of the court that the decision would be rendered in favor of Quinby. The contention made by the attorneys for the company that the corporation was a trust concern did not impress Judge Baker, who declared

LEADER OP HOLY GHOST AND USJGAIH 111 COURT "Elijah" Sanford, Charged with Manslaughter, Is Arraigned for Second Trial.

HELD FOR DEATH OF BOY FARMINGTON. Me., June 2. The Rev. Frank W. Sandford, self-styled Elijah and David of the Holy Ghost and Us Society of Shiloh, Is on trial for manslaughter before Justice A. R. Savage, of Auburn, in the Supreme Court room. The case was transferred to Franklin county from Androscoggin county by request of the respondent, on the plea that it was impossible to get an impartial Jury in his own county, owing to prejudice against his movement and himself. Six indictments five for cruelty to children and one for manslaughter were found against Sandford at the January term of the Supreme Court in Auburn. He pleaded not guilty to all six Indictments. He has been under 13.000 bonds for his appearance from time to time. He was tried for cruelty to his own child and found guilty, but the case was taken to the law court. Trial of the manslaughter case lasted three days. The Jury went out in an afternon. and reported disagreement at noon the following day. The charge against Mr. Sandford Is manslaughter, in causing the death of Leander Bartlett, aged fourteen years, a member of the Shiloh colony. Three witnesses were examined, George A. Barton, John Swart and Bertha N. Nelson, who testified that while Bartlett was etck he was obliged to undergo a fast; that the only treatment Riven at Shiloh was the faith cure, and that in the case of Bartlett even that was denied him, as it was alleged that he had been disobedient and needed chastisement. One witness testified that Mr. Sandford said in chapel that he would not care if he saw Bartlott's dead body before him. BOARD OF WORKS HAS RESCINDED ITS ACTION Street Improvements Are Stopped Because of Property Owners' Remonstrances. Because remonstrances have been filed by property owners against proposed improvements In various parts of the city, the Board of Wofks has rescinded action on the following improvements: The Improvement of Boone street, from State street to Spruce street, with a brick roadway. Brick roadway in the first alley northwest of Massachusetts avenue, from Walnut street to Park avenue. Brick roadway in the second alley east of New Jersey street, from Ohio to Wabash street. The improvement of Sheldon street. Brad-lej-street. Beauty avenue, the first alley north of English avenue, the first alley south of Pearl street and the sewer In Martlndale avenue. CITY NEWS NOTES. The Up-to-Date Club will give Its opening dance at Broad Ripple, June 9. Dr. C. T. Noble, manager of the Taft dental parlors, has returned from Mexico. A cinch party will be given at Pierson Hall this afternoon by Golden Rule Lodge, No. 25, R. T. M. Dr. J. F. Barnhlll has gone to Atlantic City to attend the American Medical Association, of which the doctor is chairman of the section pertaining to the throat and ear. The annual meeting of the German Club and Musikverein will be held in the clubrooms at the German House Monday evening. Otflcers will be elected for the ensuing year. Forty will be graduated from the Kindergarten Normal and Training School at tho graduation exercises Tuesday afternoon from the Jackson Memorial Institute, Alabama and Twenty-third streets. Mrs. Louis Koltoff, wife of a prominent German near Acton, died Wednesday night at her home. The funeral services will be held in the Gernutn Church at Five Points. She is survived by her husband and live children. The crisis in the condition of Harry G. Leslie, the Purdue football captain, who is suffering1 with typhoid fever nt St. Vincent's Hospital, will be reached to-day. Physicians in charge entertain hopes of his recovery. Mayor Deitmer, "of Shelbyville, with the members of the Shelbyville Common Council, were In Indianapolis yesterday inspecting the Gamewell system of police and fire alarm, which they contemplate Installing In Shelbyville. An entertainment by Capital City Lodge, No. 17, Knights and Ladies of Columbia, will be given to-morrow evening In the Odd Fellows' Temple, on Virginia avenue. The committee consists of Mesdames Jesse Streit, Ollie Reid and Will Cuppus. The Charity Organization Society has taken cognizance of the case of the woman who is alleged to have deceived charitably inclined persons by soliciting aid for "three starving children," who existed only In her imagination. The society will make a thorough Investigation of the case this morning. J. B. Whitehead, chairman of the committee that is arranging the Canadian trip of Indiana editors, is receiving a number of applications from persons outside of tho association for the privilege of accompanying the editors, but Is compelled to enforce the rule that only members of the association and their families can go on the trip. that the company was similar to any other corporation. Judge Baker declared that the company was Incorporated In 1887 to furnish natural gas. no provisions being made for departing from its primary object, and that, therefore, natural gas having failed, the mission or tne company had been accomplished. He said he did not believe the incorporators of, the company had In mind the manufacturer of gas or they would have been careful to provide for it In the charter, f The stock. Judge Baker said, was owned absolutely by the corporation. Because the charter provided that the public was to be supplied with natural gas at cost, it did not mean that the corporation, or any part of its shares, belonged to the public. The capital of the company, held the court, belonged to the original stockholders and the present certificate holders are the stockholders of the company. Whether or not the case Is appealed now rests with the board of directors of the company. As yet no meeting has been held to determine the future course of keeping the company alive. Judge Lewis C. Walker, one of the attorneys for the company, Faid last night that until the directors meet and agree to appeal the case nothing can be done. The Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago is composed of Judge Baker, Judge Kohlsaat and Judge Grosscup. Since Judge Baker has rendered a decision against the company, some doubt is expressed as to whether the Circuit Court of Appeal3 would be likely to reverse the decision. The decision of the Federal Court yesterday was a complete victory for the minority members of the board of directors and the Eureka Investment ' Company, which was organized by the Frnzel interests with a view to buying up tho stock of the original stockholders. The controversy between the minority interests ami the majority members of the board of directors, backed by the Consumers' Gas Trust League, has been one in which the whole city has been interested. it is now said that the purpose for which the Consumers' Gas Trust League was organized was accomplished when it secured the services of the attorneys who made the fight for the company. It is felt generally that the case could not have been presented more effectively than was done by the company's attornej's. Judge Daniel Walte Howe. Judge Iewis C. Walker and Addison C. Harris. Mr. Quinby was represented by Judge A. C. Ayres and Ferdinand Winter. William A. Ketcham and John B. Cockrum represented George J. Marott, who U a heavy stockholder in the company and whose interests were similar to Quinby 's.

AIX JUNE "WEDDINGS will hive this in common Dorflinger Glassware Either pieces cf lets for presentation. Ask the dealer. 1 CHICKEN CHOKED AND ITS OWNER SWORE Fowl's Distress the Cause of Sympathetic Man's Trip to Police Station. While his wife was preparing breakfast at an early hour yesterday morning William Griffith went into his back yard at South East street and Sutherland avenue, where he found one of his little chickens choking to death. He became so angered -because his wife had not noticed and relieved the chicken's distress that ,he fell Into an argument with her. Two neighbor women, Edna Carfkadon and Harriet Hascleman, became involved and caused & warrant to be issued for Griffith, charging him with profanity. He admits that he swore at them, but says that he was greatly vexed. "I am very tende-heat;d,,, ha said, "and when I saw that little chicken there, with a piece of the sack caught under its tongue, it made me furious because my wife had not seen it sooner." The Griffiths have four children which were recently taken from them by the Eoard of Children's Guardians because, as Griffith re marked, their mother did not keep their hair combed and attend to them as she should. "I'm thankful to the Inrd. for when they are grown up they will have good educations now and will know the extent of a father's love." CHOICE OF SITES IS NARROWED TO FOUR Army Post Board Has Nearly Made Decision as to Locating Place for Buildings. f The new army post board has made a thorough inspection of the 2,ono-acre Kite near Iawrenc. The general Inspection was completed yesterday morning, and the remainder of the time that the board will spend In the city probably ten days will be spent in choosing between three or foir choice spot.1; for the location of th-j buildings. All impossible places hav Ieeu eliminated, and the inspection has narrowed down to these four spots, the relative value of which will be determine! by the contour of the ground and th drainage facilities. A member of the board considered the land directly east of the cemetery as the most desirable location. , In speaking of the little cemetery one. member of the board said that -in incident yesterday furnished an excellent otamplo of the false conception of an anfiy.post which many entertain. He paid tl;at several people were in the cemetery placing flowers on graves. When she saw the members of the board pass by, one woman ran up, and, with a look of distress and appeal, asked: "Won't we be allowed to come to the graves when the post is here?" "Certainly you will." was .the readv reply. "Every one is allowed to come to" a military post who behaves himself." HEARING ON SALOON I LICENSE POSTPONED Because of the absence of Commissioner McGregor the case of Charles Reiff el. saloonlst at Maywood, whose application for a renewal of license is being contested by the temperance influence of that suburb. could not be tried yesterday at the time set and was continued until this morning. The grounds for the remonstrance against Relffel are that the description and advertisement of his place of business and his intent to ask for a renewal are faulty. Commissioner McGaughey, however, says that he Is informed that the remonstrators will fight the case only on the grounds of moral unfitness. BIG SUM TO BE RAISED TO ENTERTAIN TURNERS The sum of $30.000 will be raised by the Socialer Turnverein to defray the expenses of the twenty-ninth annual national tournament of the North American Turnerbund, composed of the combined Turner societies of the United States, which meets in Indianapolis in June, l&CG. Thousands of .Turners will be in attendance, and for their accommodation hundreos cf tents will be pitched on the vacant ground n-jrth of the Institute for the Deaf on East Washington street. The city's hotel facilities are insufficient to take care of all who will attend. The Socialer Turnverein will have complete charge of the entertainment of the army of visitors. . I CHURCH NEWS AND NOTES A lawn fete will be given at the Holy Innocents' parish hous Monday evening for the benefit of the parish house. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the IM win Ray M. E. Church ha postponed its monthly meeting to Friday, June 10. J Mrs. R. F. Stone, of 53' North' Capitol avenue. tll entertain th" Womaj's Missionary Society of the Flrit Baptist Church this afternoon. The Rev. T. W. Cox has returns from a short trip through southern Indi.ina and brcught with him a collection of fine views Of tcencry along the line of the railroad being conrtructcd through Brown nful Munroe counties. I The SunAay school and congregation of All Souls' Church will have a picnic at Brooktide .Bark Saturday, June 4. Ther wi:i be a basket lunch at noon. Friend of the rehool and congregation are invited to Join the party. : Th? Indianapolis Presbytery will hold a ptclal fusion at the Home rrtsbyterian Church net Wednesday evening ordain O. L. Duncan as pastor. Mr. Abies, a classmate of Mr. Duncan, will be ordalnfd at the sime time. Thrt reception for the women of fhe Central-avenue M. E. Church will be given at th church this afternoon. MuMe by a mandolin and guitar orchestra wllf be furnished anrf the decorations will be sprinc flowers. The following women presents of the church's various circles will receive: Mrs. J. M.; Dalrymple. Mrs. T. K. Stucky, Mrs J. 0.; Henderson. Mrs. Alice Baxter, Mrs. D. J- Eastburu. Mrs. U. P, Knode, Mrs. Fanny Bacon and Mrs. N. f. Wood, asrifted by the other officers and by your. women. j The Temple, Rabbi M. Messiüg. will glv its last soug service of the season thla evening atjs o'clock, with a sermon by tha rabbi on "Freedom." Mrs. Josephine Bremerman Edmunds. H. A. Stern and;0. Isnsej wi'.l sing "1. the Day of Rest I Near Us." The alto solo. "But the Lord Is Ever Mindful ol His Own" (Mendelssohn), will, be sung bv Miss Florence Atklns.! and tba duet, "Father, Thee I Love," wlil: be sur.f by Mrs. Edmunds and Mb Atkins. Leo B. Riggs Is the organist and John Upmaa J the director.