Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1902 — Page 1
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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEW
VOL. XXXIV U7,“I»„;i„;M I BOH OF PRISON UNO LOVE
tp:n pages
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER t>4, 1902.
Young Man from Georgia Who Found a Sweetheart Through an Advertisement.
finally spurned by her
I He is Said to Have Made Threats and He Got In Trouble—Efforts for His Release.
James Stlrhney, of the Marlon county jail <11 nappe l in ted In love born of an a<lvcrtlsement In « Cincinnati newspaper tor a lady correspondent, which was answered by Miss Esm.t Cole, u stcnoKrapher and musician, of Indianapolis, Is waltiiu for a remittance from his father, and m.h soon It comes the surety of the jr-are proceedlnKS brought In Justice W. C. Smock's court by Miss Cole will be dismissed and the lovelorn Stlckney will return to his old home In the sunny toulhland. Stlckney's father Is a member of the I'.rand Army, and his mother of the Woms Relief Corps. They live at TallaIKMisa. Georsla. and by appealing to R. M Smock, of the Indiana Department of the flrund Army, they started a movement that Is likely to result lit freeing their son from the bondage of prison liars and ultimately from the bondage of love Htlekney last October was sent to the workhouse from the Police Court for 110 days for carrying concealed weapons. The » capon he carried was bought to kill himself after he found that Miss Cole grew -ool and said It "could never l>o," according to Stlckney's story. Never Been a Criminal. The letter from his father was referred by It. M. Smock to Judge Stubbs, of the Police Court, who has a warm place In bis heart for the old soldier. The letter said the son had never been a criminal and the parents could not believe that he had done wrong. Judge Stubbs released Stlckney last Monday, although the original sentence would not have expired until February. The constables of Justice Smock's court
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Great Britain and Plans to Arbitrate elan Troubles. THE PRESIDENT 1$ THI ___ ' Way is Made Clear for Him to Refuse or Concent to Act as Arbitrator.
A/Mvtty
f SHIDELEK, Marlon.
UNION B. HUNT, Secretary of State.
NEWTON W. GILBERT, Lieutenant-Governor.
JAMES GRAY,
Evansx ille.
JAMES A HEMENWAY, ROBERT A. BROWN, CcngrfBsman from First District. Clerk of Supreme Court.
MEN THE POLITICIANS ARE DISCUSSING A3 CANDIDATES BEFORE THE NEXT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION TO SUCCEED GOVERNOR DURBIN.
JOHN L. ORIFFITHS, Indianapolis.
were waiting for his release, for they had an affidavit for his arrest made by Mlsa
role, October 16. The affl«lavlt sny* that Thin Christmas will be a red-letter day Miss Cole “has just cause to fear and does for three of the small waifs of the State, fear*’ violence from Stlckney. for it will bo celebrated for and by them The case was t- have come up In Justice i in a manner they never before knew and Smock’s court last evenini?. Miss Cole» in a manner they may never know was present, was Stlckney. By airr!*o- ! a ® a * n * ^ or nre Inmates of the In-
THREE WAIFS TO HAVE A GENUINE CHRISTMAS
I lected In |.und
regard to presents and dinner, even the Inmates of the women's I prison will be remembered In a suitable j manner with presents and an unusually j good dinner..
AT THE HINDMAN HOME.
GOOSELIHD KlOiOIKE IS SOME PUCE HEIR
HARTFORD CITY ATTORNEY
OPENS HIS HOME.
worth remembering, but these three wUl^jwrentw. be especially fa.’ored, through tlD inter- Mr. Hind
rmnt the rase was continued until Stlckney's parents have the opportunity to
send railroad fare for their son.
Stlckney told his story through the jail lairs to-day. and It bore the marks of a truthful narration. He Is a printer, about twenty-three years old He was employed
tn Georgia, when he took a not uncommon, . . A ... .
notion of advertising In the Cincinnati Kn- " f >' A ' H1 " d " lan ' “
qulrer for a lady correspondent. mi^ of Hartford City and formerly prosecut-
,, , , , , . ing attorney of Blackford county. Cole answered, he says, and from en . „ . . • , , ... . _ , . , . . , „ Two of the girls are thirteen years old
amusing friendship offa.r it gradually ! ^ o(her (8 but e(even . They nre ' m!" 1 . n o o\ <. members of the primary department of
Photographs were exchanged, and Stlck-I , , . lV . .... .... ‘he school. During the conference of State
j charities In this city, several months ago. Mr. Hindman visited the Industrial school
Santa Claus and a Christmas Tree at
Hartford City,
[Special to The Indianapolis News.)
HARTFORD CITY, Ind., December 21 — Tills Christmas will be the merriest ever
-runt-r- cinirv -rn wioit ui«si knHWn to 1,Ule Elnia Simpson. Flossie! THREE GIRLS TO VISIT HIMlFalls and Gertrude Schaeffer, three chil-
I di-en from the Girls’ Industrial School, of
" 1 Indlanai>olls. To-day J. A. Hindman re-
i turned from that Institution with the little girls, and he and his wife have arranged to give them a Christmas tret,
with little folks of the neighborhood
To-night, in addition to the Christmas tree, they will see jolly- old Santa Claus distribute glfls. not only to them, but to Ihe host of little beys and girls of the neighborhood, who will assist In the merry celebration. Mr Hindman has taken a great interest In the children of the Indianapolis institution, and largely through his Intluence Is due the tree that will gladden the hearts of other little members of the home, who are not so fortunate us
these little ones.
The three little girls at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hindman are bright, pretty children, who were abandoned by their
UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.
BANKBUPTCV ACT OF 1898 TO BE AMENDED
COMMITTEE WILL MAKE A FAVORABLE REPORT.
Inmates of the Indiana Industrial
School for Girls Are Made
Happy.
dlana Industrial School for Girls, and the future of the Inmates of that Institution Is not filled with a promise of the
best things In life.
All of the inmates of the Institution will enjoy a Christmas that will be well
nty found Miss Cole beautiful. Stlckney Is crippled, and of this he told Miss Cole he tays, for he never desired to misrep-
resent anything.
Marriage Proposed.
Finally, he says, one or the other proposed marriage. It was agreed that they
should many October 22.
son. Stlckncv says, he came to Indianapolis. He gave up a position in Georgia, vnd when he reached Indianapolis he found •mployrrlent ns printer for the Patriot
Phalanx, a Prohibitionist organ.
Stlckney says Miss Cole was more beautiful to him than her photographs and met the requirements of all his love dreams. At Orst, he rays, he seemed to b- entirely agreeable to her, but one night, or; the way home from the Park Theater, to attend which he had pawned a suit of
clothes, she grew- cold
of an intense headache, but Stlckney anticipated the issue. It was only a few days until Miss Cole. Stlckney relates, told him she did not love him and coulj
and was greatly Interested In what he saw. Numerous questions were asked by him in regard to the manner In which the school was conducted and as to what hopes the girls had of a useful future,
That is the rea- I and he seemed to feel deeply for them.
Christmas for the Girls.
Nearly all of his attention was confined to the girls of the primary department, ranging from nine to fifteen years old. and he Inquired particularly of the cause of their being In the school. It Is evident that his questions were not merely for the sake oi gratifying an idle curiosity, and that his sympathy was genuine, for he came to the city yesterday with a number of small presents for the girls of the prl-
She complained I mar y department. These presents were
from the pupils of the public schools of Hartford City, whom Mr. Hindman had told of the little ffirls In the industrial school. They were hot elaborate presents.
GOLD IN THE BAKING PAN A CHANGE IS DEMANDED
. , , , ... , but, some way, they seemed to carry with
: ot marry him. Stlckney says he loved '
, ...... i , them more of the Christmas feeling than r^hrU^hesSS'r^o^r Kj--- ««ve„ by the State to Us
what he said ur did. T ‘' , ,
Perhaps there was a feeling among the
Hindman was a sort
man has started an agitation
which h* believes will ultimately result In the children being separated from the criminals In the State institution. Many other persons have taken up the question and favorable legislation Is expected from the coming Legislature. Mr. Hindman says the report that he had any trouble with the management of the home In securing permission to bring the children home with him is untrue, and that he has been treated with the utmost courtesy and kindness. Mrs. Hindman is also greatly
interested In the little ones. FOR UNFORTUNATES.
Special Entertainment for Inmates of
the Various Institutions.
The usual Christmas “extras'’ will be had st <C] the county institutions to-mor-
Story of Gordon’s Goose—Stake Out a Claim in the Barnyard and Get Rich.
row. AT'the Jail, workhouse and poor farm, the menus will be In keeping with the day. A graphophone concert will be given at the Jail In the morning- A eoncert will also be given at the workhouse. At both of these places the prisoners will be allowed freedom of speech at dinner
time. HUNTING MISHAP NO. 46.
Jle does say tills: He gave up his posl- I tion on the JTitrlot Phalanx for he did j
Continued—Page 8, Column 1.
INDEX OF TO DAY’S ISSUE.
Pas*. 1— Would-Be Husband Languishes in Jail. Three Waifs Will Have Genuine Christ-
mas.
Bankruptcy Act of 1SS8 To Be Amended. Kid McCoy May Sue Broker Lamar for Libel. Roosevelt lias Two Proposals to Arbitrate Venesuela Troubles. 2— glowers Popular as Gifts This Year. Many Poor Families Supplied by Mystic Shrine. Alvin T. Hert Has Retired from Politics. Total Vote Cast In Indiana at November Blectlon. I—Fourth Ward Citizens Protest Against the Peathouse Location. 1 Farmers Will Combine for Better Profits. Barrackman Fined for Assault on D. C. Braden. Indiana Sheriff Goes After Fake Root Racers. 4—Editorial. Through the Microscope. Questions and Answers. 4—Wants New Army Post Named for General Hackleman. Race Meeting Dates are Still Unsettled. Other Sporting News. Theatrical New*. Personal and Social. •—Efforts of a Mother to Save Her Baby
Girl.
Mrs. McKinley Is Enjoying Good Health. Tutor's Bright Eyes Held Princess Louise of Saxohy. f American Woman Is Queen of an Archipel-
ago.
Mrs. Tlngley and Her Mysterious Ways. 7—Alleged Plot to Rob the Grave of ExPrcsldent Harrison. Classified Advertisements. •—Markets. Girl Deserted by Husband and Driven to Stage Robbery. •—Deserted Bride-Elect for Another Man's Sweetheart. Adolph F. Decker, Youngest Member of Indiana Legislature. The Season la Against OH Drillers. "The Blazed Trail."—Serial Story. W-Hallroad Nsws. Father Oavlak on Elevated Tracks, - Little Stories of Dally Life.
small waifs that Mr
of young ami conventionalized Santa Claus — anyway they were attracted to him in a manner that was unusual, and In a manner that made him feel uncomfortable at the thought of leaving them for
a waif's Christmas.
Took Three to His Home. It was impossible to take all thirtyfive, so he selected three of them and arranged with Miss Rhoades, the superintendent of the jnstllutfon, to take them to his home for Christmas. Early this morning the conventionalized Santa Claus and the three waifs of the State left for Hartford City, and It was difficult to judge which of the members of the party was happiest over thoughts of to-morrow. One of the children was chattering as only a happy child can. but the other two seemed too happy to talk oven, and all three clung to their convent! mnlUcd 1 Santa In a manner that showed that <! j one of the party reached Hartford City i all four would. They were cot used to such happiness, and they were taking no chances of its escaping them through any carelessness on their part. , A gorgeous tree, such, as was never seen before, will he theirs in the Hindman | home, and numerous presents and candy and an elaborate Christmas dinner, and, best of all, that thing which Is most essential to Christmas cheer — tile atmosphere of home. Their visit will continue
for a week.
Christmas at the School. Their small companions at the school are not to be neglected, however, for there will he n huge Christmas tree for them to-morrow, and each one will receive a present, and then, too, there will be the Christmas dinner and the rules of the school will be relaxed for their perfect enoyment of the day. A number of the little girls of the school have written letters to Santa Claus containing a modest request for some small present, and each of these requests will be gratified. Mr. Hindman offered to supply any presents that were needed, that the writers of the letters might not be disappointed, but Miss Rhoades and the State will see to It that none of the waifs is disappointed. The older girls in the school will not be neg-
Greenfield Youth Crippled for Life by a Companicn. ISpeeial to The Indianapolis News ] GREENFIELD. Ind.. December 24.— Edward Felt, fourteen years old, was accidentally shot by Ross Wagoner yesterday afternoon while they, with two or three other boys, were hunting rabbits. Th?y were in the woods and young Felt and companions were waiting far Wag oner to join them. As he approached. Wagoner's gun was accidentally discharged. The load struck Felt In the right hip, tearing away the J llesh and muscles. The boy weighs about I 200 poi nds and physicians say the wound j may not be fatal, but the boy will be | crippled for life. He is a son of Judge
E. W. Felt.
Score another for Indianapolis! And now wo are possessed of the body of the goose that laid the golden egg.
Fact!
William S. Gordon, engineer and Janitor at the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Pennsylvania street and Massachusetts avenue, won a goose at a raffle on Thanksgiving day. It cost him 10 cents— and a bushel of corn. Yesterday Mrs. Gordon killed the goose and prepared It for the joyous Christmas day dinner, Whetf. she took the baked goose from the oven she observed aoms small, yellow particles In the bottom of the pan. It looked like gold. Mrs. Gordon sent for her husband. The particles were scraped together, and Mr. Gordon carried them to a jeweler. Ho examined thept closely and pronounced
them—gold!
Brimful of enthusiasm. Mr. Gordon hurried home with the gold and renewed his search through the carcass of the goose for the gold. He brought forth more. Mr. Gordon to-day took the gold to State Geologist Blatchley for examination. Wants the Whole Flock. Gordon does not know where the goose came from. He is trying to get a line on the goose's history, and if he can find It he may buy up the whole flock. It Is not improbable that the goose came ■ from down in the Gold creek country in | Morgan county. And there Is a probability that that goose has been picking In the gravel of the streets of Indianapolis. Is this the Klondike of Gooseland? Th firdins of gold- in the goose may have a tendency to loosen up that corner on turkeys. Who cares lor turkey without gold In !t v What joy it will be
with gold while eating for a corner in the nke a claim in the barn-
yard and get In the goose's Klondike. Several years ago a farmer d
Go'
Fairbanks and Nelson Have Been Considering the Ray Bill—Indiana Man Gets Big Pension.
siding northwest of town A. F. Long, a Paris Justice of the peace, was lined *5011 and sentenced to jail for two months, Robert Morris and James Glass were each fined $100 and sentenced to two months in Jail, John Thurman was fined *50, Tildcn Board was fined $10, and each was sentenced to jail for thirty days. All the parties were prominent. JEWELRY FIRM’S METHODS. Trying to Collect for Cheap “Stick Pins" Sent Through Mailt, More information was received at the district attorney’s office to-day concerning the effort of a New York firm to collect for cheap "stick pins" and other articles of jewelry sent through the mall ■without being ordered. It seems that more territory has been covered than
was at first believed.
A special to The News says several hundred letters have been received Portland and the firm Is now threatening suits by the wholesale. Complaints have reached the district attorney's office from other points In the State where people who received the Jewelry are threatened with suits If they do not pay. J. J. M. l,aFollette. deputy district attorney, said to-day that copies of the letters have been sent to the poatofflee Inspectors of New York., and It Is probable.
M'COl CAN NOT SEE WHERE JOKE COMES IN
MAY SUE BROKER LAMAR FOR
FALSELY ACCUSING HIM.
HE IS NOW AT WEST BADEN
Story of Theft of $1,000 Bill Has Caused McCoy Much Humiliation —Lamar’s Explanation.
formal proposals I
WASHINGTON, 1 British and German
President Roosevelt to srMtrate Venezuelan difficulty have beert here. They aro tn such shape that President may accept or declloa - propositions, hut so tar he has r*«chi0&' no decision, not having had opportunity carefully to consider them. Nothing can be gatljefed her# as details of the proposals, and although great Interest is felt as to the extent ©$ the limitations which tbe allies wtU affia to be placed on the arbitration, curtMlUl l on that point must remain u until the President has ' finally his mind what he shall do. It Is knowu that he la disposed te with all speed In this matter, fas realizes that the conditkNW on tha ade line are such that almost any m*nt an unpleasant Incident may oeeus,,. through the obstinacy of some skipper or from a genuine misunderstanding as M the terms of the blockade that majr diminish the chances of a peaceful settlement of the Venezuelan trouble.
FAITH
ROOSEVELT.
(By James P. Hornaday, staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, December 24.—The Ray bill, to amend the bankruptcy act of 1838. which passed the House last May, will be reported favorably by the Senate committee on Judiciary soon after the holidays. Senators Fairbanks and Nelson have been sitting as a subcommittee this week, considering the bill, and will be ready to report back to the full committee January S,. ,_th some-amendment*.
In altering the bill gs it came from the I that some action will be taken at once. House they have been guided largely by |
advice received from attorneys and United States Judges throughout the
cour. try.
Communications received by the committee on Judiciary and referred to the subcommittee show that there is a demand from every part of the country for the passage of the Ray bill. There Is scarcely a city of Importance from which leading attorneys have not written asking that the bill be taken up and passed at this session.
DAN PATCH MAY BE A CARD.
Death of an Elkhart Man.
The State Department to-day turn'd over to Senator Beveridge all the correspondence with Mexico relating to the death of Charles R. Rushton, of the state of Vera Cruz, and the effort to have his body shipped back to Elkhart. Ind. It shows that Rushton died of acute dysentery. and that his body was Immediately buried. The department has not yet been informed that the body can be sent hoifle.*
The Famous Pacer May Go on the
State Fair Track.
Dan Patch may pace an exhibition mile at the Slate Fair next year. Charles Downing, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, has received a letter from M. W. Savage, of Minneapolis, who recently bought Dan for $K0,000, saying that the horse will spend next summer pacing on exhibition and that his driver. Myron McHenry, confidently believes that on some of the tracks before the summer Is over the horse will reduce his record from 1:59j« to 1:57. Dan Patch was bred at Oxford, Ind. BILLION DOLLAR GAS TRUST.
to fill one's teeth ’ goose! Look out goose market! Sta! ltd and get In tl
ieveral years ago a farmer down on Id creek Morgan county, killed a duck and found gold l.i It. He killed the whole Hook, but found no more gold. The ducks didn't pan out. But who krews what may come from a claim of Indianapolis geese?
UNDER THE INDIANA LAW.
Isaac Smith a Lucky Man.
Isaac Smith, of Aaron, Ind.. is regarded ns a lucky man by the pension office. Notice went out to-day that a pension has
been granted him of $fi
April 7, 1891. $8 a
American Capitalists Are Planning
Great Things in Europe.
CHICAGO. December 21.—The Daily News to-day says that capital to the amount of nearly a billion dollars Is re-
month from ' ported to be represented In the formation month from December I of a gigantic gas trust, which will Include
Kid McCoy, who is now at West Baden Springs, telephoned The News to-day that he did not know that he had been accused of stealing a $1,000 bill from broker Lamar In New York until he neared Indianapolis on the train yesterday afternoon. bound for West Baden. He received his first intimation through a newspaper. Not until he reached West Baden, McCoy raid, did he learn that the whole affair waa a Joke. ... - McCoy, however, does not consider it a Joke. He said that'he Immediately communicated with his manager In New York, G. W. Grant, and his New York attorneys, and It Is “up to them" a» to whether there will be a damage suit growing out of the supposed joke. McCoy said that he has been greatly humiliated by the episode, and that the story of it preceded him to 5Vest Baden and caused him no end of annoyance on
his arrival.
McCoy will stay In West Baden until further advices from his attorneys. If they advise a suit, he will return to New York at once. If the matter is compromised, he may go on to California. McCoy said he would try to visit Indianapolis on his way
back East.
Lamar's explanation of his part In the story of the theft of a $1,0M) bill by McCoy In the latter's saloon in New Y'ork Is that he was under the Influence of drink at the time, and was made to believe that he had given McCoy a $1.(K)0 bill In payment for drinks, and that the whole thing was a "put-up Job” by his friends.
Gormany is Anxious to Lsavs Her Case with Him. BERLIN. December 24.—Germany Is anxious to receive President Roosevelt's acceptance of the formal Invitation from Germany and Great Britain to act aa arbitrator In tbe Venezuelan controversy. 1 be German government’s preference la very decidedly In favor of arbitration jHf President 1 velt, ra'her than through The Hague tribunal, because it believes the President will
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BOARD OF ARBITRATORS.
'
MRS. CLARK MAY DIE.
28. 1898, and $1G a month from April j the different companies in nearly all the 1. 1902. The (lack pay he will get will j principal cities of Europe. A Chicago man amount to a snug sum. 1 l« alleged -o be the originator of the
_ [ scheme, and Chicago and New York capi-
tal is represented In the projects. John D. Rockefeller I* credited with being a pros-
‘dive stockholder.
FAMINE AT FT. WAYNE.
State
Home for Feeble-Minded Borrowing Coal.
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[Special to The Indianapolis News.) FT. WAYNE. Ind., Dec. 24.-■-The fuel famine In Ft. Wayne I* a serious problem. The State Home for Feeble-Minded j Youth is running on a borrowed supply, j the contractor who should furnish the I fuel being unable to procure enough. The institution should have at least 209 tons on hand at this time. The Ft. Wayne electric-works, crowded with orders, has had to abandon night work. The city water pumping Stat on may have to resort to wood to carry it over the crisis. The natural gas supply is so low that the cjty officials have ordered all the factories shut off. GIFT FOR A SICK MAN.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Appointed a Lieutenant by Gov. Odell. NEW Y'ORK, December 24.—A commission as first lieutenant of the Twelfth Regiment National Guard, signed by Governor Odell, has been received for Cornelius Vanderbilt by Colonel George R. Dyer. Mr. Vanderbilt only two days before he was taken ill passed an exceptionally high examination for the position. to which he had been elected some weeks prevlou*.
Graham A Morton Transportation Co. Has Been Reorganized. RENTON HARBOR, Mich., December 24.—Secretary Moiton, of the Graham & Morton Transportation Company, announced to-day that the company has been reorganized under the law of Indiana, and that the entire fleet of boats operated by the company had been purchased by President J. H. Graham, while the real estate of the company has passed Into the hands of the Crawford estate. The property that the Crawford estate has purchased comprises both Michigan and Illinois real estate, docks and buildings. The business offices of the company will reir,:’!n at Benton Harbor and Chicago, although under the reorganization. Michigan City, Ind., Is the company's headquarters. CARPENTER FATALLY HURT. Daniel Hibler Struck by a Street Car Near West Street. Daniel Hibler. a carpenter, sixty-seven years old, living at 1848 West Tenth street, was struck by West Washlngtonstroet car lid. near West street, last night, and probably fatally injured. He was taken to the City Hospital with a fractured skull. He Is still unconscious. The physicians say there Is little hope for his recovery. ' The ear was tn the charge of A. Miller, motorman. and T. Corcoran, conductor The car men say the man stepped In front of the car. Suit Over Drove of Cattle. [Special to The Indianapolis News.) MARTINSVILLE, Ind., December 24 —A suit brought by Newton K. McFadden, trustee of John M. Stevenson, against Caleb Cobb, is on trial here, on change of venue from Monroe county. The case Involves 153 head of cattle, valued at $8,200, as well as the question If the sale of the cattle to Cobb was within four months of the assignment of Stevenson under the bankrupt law.
Ransdeli’s Christmas Gift. Daniel M. Rnr.sdell, s< rgeant-at-arms of the Senate, who ha* grown gray in Ihe last six weeks trying to keep the Capitol supplied with coal, received a timely Christmas present to-day from Smith King, of Indianapolis. It was fourteen ounces of anthracite coal neatly done up
in manllla paper.
Some Postmasters. Indiana postmasters were appointed to-
day as follows:
Jesse L. Rltz, Duncan. Floyd county, vice William E. Knlerlcman, resigned; Mrs. India K. Martin. Bluff Creek. Johnson county, vice William I. Tressler, re-
signed.
Purdue Man Called. Prof. William Kendrick Hall, of the department of engineering at Purdue University, has accepted an Invitation from the Department of Agriculture to make some special Investigations for the department. He arrived to-day. His duties will take him away from the university until next September. WOMAN KILLS A MAN.
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WEATHER INDICATIONS. United State* Weather Pureau. Indianapolt*. December 24. —Temperature —
December 24, JD'U. 7 a. m. 12 m. 2 p. i 32 39 42
December 7 a. m. 12 m. 33 36
— Barometer.— 7~a. m~ 30 on. 'j 12 m., 2 — Relative Humidity.F a. m” 1>5~ | 12 m.. 73. I
p. m.. 2 p. in
29A1. TTlk
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—lineal Forecast —
Local forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending
25: Fair to-night and
Mother of Million Dollar Baby is Very III at Butte. BUTTE, Mont.. December 21.—Physicians attending Mrs. W. A. Clark. Jr., daughter-in-law of United States Senator W. A. Clark, in her illness, fear she will not recover. The patient Is unconscious, and Senator Clark, who Is at New York, has been notified of his daughter-ln-law’s critical condition. Mrs. Clark has been an Invalid since the birth of her baby. December L The baby was the first grandchild to be born to the multi-millionaire copper mine owner, and won the milllon-dollar prize offered by the Senator to his children three years ago for the first baby boy. The little one’s condition Is excellent. Mrs. Clark's maiden name was Mabel Foster. She was eighteen years old at the time of her wedding, and Is the daughter of John W. Foster, one of the pioneers of Butte. She Is a very handsome young
woman.
Plan Favored by the President—The Calvo Doctrine. WASHINGTON, December 14.—It Is understood that the President s plan. If he determine- to act as arbitrator In the Venezuelan dispute, is to appoint a board of arbitrators. He would not confine this Important undertaking to any one man. nor does he feel able himself to spare tha vest amount of time necessary for an examination In detail of each of the many claims that would be presented against Venezuela. Necessarily the President’s own board would Include some members of t high orler of legal talent, as well as others thotoughlv versed In the practice of International law. It is said that the crucial point to go before the arbitration board Is the famous “Calvo doctriuo.’’ This doctrine, which was laid down by the grea:est ol Ijitln-American International lawyers, and which for many years has been regalded as beydnd question by all the Latin-Amertcan republics, denies the light of any nation to Intervene diplomatically tn behalf of one of Its subjects, where tha courts of the country are open , to his application for Justice. Thus Venezuela has asserted that all of these claimants—British, German. Italian and French—might have gone befora the Venezuelan coutta, and If their causes had been Just and so decided by the courts the government would have paM the Judgments. The objection to thto view Is that no account Is taken of miscarriages of Justice and of racial antipa-
thies.
Bo determined are the South Americas countries to adhere to this doctrine that some of them have gone to extraordinary
diplomatla
>■7 i>. m.. Duuember 25 mlsy; detidodly colder.
—Weather In Other Cities.—
John Ryan.
BRADFORD. Pa. December 24.-At Odeva, a hamlet near here. Mrs. Edward Burdick shot John Ryan dead. Ryan entered the woman’s house during her husband's absence. She sow him coming and. fearing trouble, she got the pistol out of a drawer and held it under her apron. When he attacked her she fired once, killing him Instantly. A coroner's Jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Ryan, who was a laborer employed about the place, had been drinking heav(ly for several days. Blackmailers Sentenced. [Special to Th* IndlaraipoIlH New*.) PARIS, 111.. Decern tier 24—Judge Sellar, of the Circuit Court, has passed sentence on the five defendants In the Whlttcd Blackmailing caae. Three were found guilty by a Jury and two pleaded guilty to the charge of blackmailing William Wbitted, a wealthy farmer re-
Station.
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FROM HERE AND THERE.
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•wued while skatin.
i K RON, O.—R< nn«l eleven years,
h imnd
iy and Earl Smith, age
were dro
near here to-day
Clear NEW YORK -Mayor Low has signed Sleet nt .| franchise for the New York and 1 Cloudy pey company. authorUimc the promote
itpuny. authorising the promoters to bek at once on the New York side.
Snow Clear 1 PU My Clouffy PtCldy Clear !
WASHINGTON—The Navy Depart: decided that Admiral* Crownlnahieid ner shall return to their former stations the rlcme of the winter maneuvers |y
merit has and Bum-
stations after
maneuvers In the
i..*' 11 , lumbago. HU condition, however, la not at ’ '" J,| y ! all Bcrlou*. th.Hjgh the attack will confine him t
' , l ;; ar , to hi* bed for « d»y«c m dt SPRIN0V1LLE. Ata.-Prof. Ja Snow ! the State University, waa Clear I here this morning while ahe
lengths In their resistance of efforts of foreign governments to
justice for subjects. A notable cooe to that of Salvador Recently a Unltoa States corporation obtained, after arbitration. a Judgment against the government of Salvador. The verdict was reeelve<V with Intense Indignation In Salvador, and so intense was the an It-for-dgn feeling * xcited that a law baa been passed within the last few weeks making It a criminal offense, and one to ba heavily punished, for any Salvadorian la give h:iv evidence whatever before OB* court in behalf of a foreigner claiming dutnago* against the Salvador govera*
mmt
Disputed by Don Dickinson.
DETROIT, December 34 —Former Poet- , ( master-General Don M- Dldttooon. of tUg killed j city, was one of the arbitration cotnmlo-
\V, T. BLYTHE. Section Director.
Hourly Temperature.
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Storm in the Northwest. I \ t’ROSFB. W's.. December 24 -La Crosse Is in the throes of a severe bllz--nrd The storm Is general in the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota. It moved Inward 'o^ ‘ oAhe'rify KrsfdS delayed.
t Jacob Korn.
sparrow, with . ^i on unpointed to decide the Salvador case
^Olor rifle. It.- was a son of the tat. Maj - , “‘T”' . WaaMneton Con John II. Forney, of the Confederate army, refelted tq. Ht XOO WOto^lgl^
army.
W. Va.—WhO* attempting to
an unknown negro to-day. officer Bowen waa fatally *hM. The negro then fled arenas the bridge to Ohio, but the Bridgeport officers
ml after • pistol fight hr was
WHEELING, arrest an unkt
geport fight 1
-The fang of !
vhlch has been at
e past yeur cleaned out nda laat night tme hundred
rtsh
and
work la
the
mpe and registered mar..
from two to $1,M».
awaited *hlm. and after a pistol fight he ovripow-red and. taken back to Wheeling. BLOOMINGTON. 111.-The fang of bank
postnrtV-e robbera wl tliia vicinity for the l nstolllce at Towanda dollar* ninl all thw stai «4tlvu»t«d tn value at saying that work
lleni
nu.n stock eau-unU to
» Tready filed* I* about ,|v*r Issued a statement i
ould be
for
ilsatlon. The
preferred
714. we.
Mr. Dickinson said last night: Tn our decision of the Salvador
Sir Henry Strong and myself refused i
solutcly to recognize the Calvo The position taken under this Mea tlrely erroneous. If s sovereign mtikes a contract with aa Individual a controversy arises between the terms of the contract. It i
to assume that the so' of the parties to tbe
right to »R »» a court and dec* ret tn which It to Itself a party;
decision in the Salvador
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