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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1903. ' . •• . . :

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Further Evidence in the Supposed Murder of Lewis Yeager. * HUNTING HiS ASSOCIATES

H# It Btlieved to Hove Gone to Meet a Man and Two Women When He was Killed.

[8p«cUt to tbo lafltttttoito Kewe) KOKOMO. Imt, May M-Tbe dl»cov«ry of blood lylna on tbe couth cld« of tb« county line between Tipton and Howard, •outheaat of Hemlock, marking tbe place, It Is believed, where Lewis Yeager met his death, Sunday night, computes a chain of evidence. The most Important factor of the discovery.' outside of meeting the place where the murder wag committed, was that the Mood was found on tbe south side of the road, in Tipton county. _ Yesterday, aeveral Hemlock farmers, made desperate by the aspersions which have been cast upon their neighborhood, and encouraged by the report that Lewis Yeager, with another man apd two women, waa seen on the county line Sunday night, made another search, hemeful of locating the place where the murder was committed. They were Joined by others, end when the blood was found there were on# hundred men In the party. They had left their plows and teams standing In the held and had gone over two miles east, whan their labor was rewarded.

IMMENSE TRADE IN GRAIN

CATHOLIC CHURCH AT SHELBYVILLK.

Flrgt Discovery of a Trace. B. V, Jackson, a farmer, who has lived in Taylor township for thirty years, waa the first to make the discovery. He sew the red spot on a yellow, crisp cornhusk. Soon other spots were discovered, and finally a square piece of berk was found In a pool of blood. Around this there were numerous pieces of glass, and on the ground were slgna of a struggle. On the road was tho Imprint of a buggy tire, and this shows conclusively that Lewis Yeager's buggy was standing stlll.while blood poured from the wound in his head. Blood on one side of the rear wheel was found Monday morning. The murderers could not have selected a more desolate place for taking the life of any one. The county line road is not a pike. There are no fences on either side of the road, and the brush around that spot grows thickly. Back from the road were a number of tall beech trees, | which were, mute witnesses to the deed. The pool of blood was found midway between the two houses, half a mile from each of them, and In front of underbrush which would furnish an excellent

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Tallica with Statement of Wltneeees. The location of the blood spots tallies exactly with the statement of Bvans Pickering and Miss Btella and Fred Johnson. all of whom heard shots late Sunday night. Johnson lives In the house east of the place, while Miss Pickering lives west. Johnson had been spending the evening with her, and had absented himself from her home about twenty-five minutes when he heard two distinct shots. The others heard shots at the same time. The story of these three, with tbe statement of farmer Shrank Burns, who saw two rigs, with two men and two women, paaa his house a few minutes before midnight, no longer leaves any doubt but that Yeager wag lured down to that

unfrequented spot

Yesterday slternoon, when news of the discovery reached Kokomo. Coroner, Harrison adjourned the Inquest Indefthltely, and with a posse left at once for Taylor township. He says this discovery is an important step In unraveling tho Yeagei mystery. Tbe problem the ameers are now

* (Special to The Indian*poll* New*.] 8HELBYVILLE, Ind., Mav 16.-The corner atone of the new 8t. Joseph Catholic church in this dty will be laid to-mor-row, and the exercises will be In charge of William Tell Commandery, Knights of Bt. John. Services will begin at 10 a. m. and will continue throughout the day. During the afternoon there will be a parade, In which the commanderies from Indianapolis, Lawrenceburg. Batesville, Oldenburg, Aurora. Greensburg and New Albany, Ind.; Ludlow, Newport and Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati and Hamilton, O., will participate. At 3:30 p. m. the Rt. Rev. Bishop O’Donaghue, of Indianapolis, will deliver an address, followed by laying

the corner stone. Addresses will also be delivered by H. J Fries, of Erie. Pa., supreme president. Knight# of St. John, and M. J Kane, of Buffalo, N Y., supreme secretary. The ebufeh, when completed, will be the finest of Us kind In the city. The walls will be of buff-colored brick, lined on the inside with common hatd brick. There will be two votive chapels— one dedicated to St. Anthony and the other to the fourteen holy helpers. There will also be a separate chapel, for baptlsmals. Windows In the building will show the “Adoration,” the "Crucifixion.” the "Three Wise Men,” "Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter,” and the "Descent of the Holy Ghost." The estimated cost of the church Is HO,000.

that Logan Ingles and Dillard and Frank ! of Logan, one of the accused. Not satisEads, who are charged with murder in | fled with the stenographer employed by the first degree, are guilty. There Is; the State, and by the defendant’s attorstrong circumstantial evidence against | neys, Mr. Ingles, who Is a former court them, but not sufficient to convict. No | reporter, took shorthand notes on all the longer does the belief prevail that some I testimony. Mr. Ingles, who Is sixty and jealous lover of Mlsa Fmley killed Lewis j gray. Is still one of the most expert Yeager. i stenographers in Indiana, and not a word In spite of all the evidence that the ! uttered by the witnesses escaped his pen-

young man met his death at the hands of 1 ell,

people with whom he had gone onr frrr-irt W>en the witness testified that he heard time, and that Hemlock boys that had lit jiirld u that Logan Ingles had threatened threatened him had nothing to do wttft The 1 to “do up" Lewis Yeager, Mr. Ingles only crime, many people of Oakford have not ] bent his gray head closer over his note

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trying to solve la, where Lewis Yeager apent three hours Sunday evening. Clarence Hawklna, a bartender, said ho saw him driving In Sharpsvllle about 2 o’clock, and John Earinger said that Yeager ate eupper at hla place at D o'clock, and left him after that hour for Hemlock, Yesterday efforts were made to find where Yeager waa from that hour until eight, when he called on Miss Finley, but no one In SharpsvUle could furnish the In-

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Made Aequaintaneea of No Benefit. ' Last fall Lewis Yeager was employed at the canning factory at Sharpsvllle. And while there be made the acquaintance of ■MR and women who were of no benefit to him. The officer* are confident that during these three hours he was with aotne of these people, and that an engagement waa made for Yeager to meet a man and two women after 16 o’clock that night, and engage in a frolic. Thia entirely new phase has changed every- one’a view*. No longer do the people believe

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book, and the lines in his face hardened. He believes that his son Is innocent, and he says he will spend every cent he has to clear him. John Ingles was for over a score of years reporter for the HowardTipton Circuit Court. He has made the official report of many important cases.

CARNEGIE AT MUNCIE.

MISS STELLA MABEL PETERS. Sweetheart of Francis Sutton. Killed Prior to Yager Tragedy.

into effect. People no longer connect the death of Francis Sutton, which occurred two weeks ago, juat after he had said good night to his sweetheart. Stella Peters with that of Lewis Yeager. Lete yesterday afternoon Logan Ingles dras put on the stand. He said that on Sunday night, when Birch Green said he heard him making threats to put Lewis Yeager out of the way, as had been done with Francis Sutton, he accompanied Mlsa Elsie Miller to church, and after services »at at her home until mid ttti

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Trades Council Once Accepted Gift of Five Hundred Dollars from Him. (Special to The Indianapolis News ] MUNCIE, Ind., May 16.-The vote of the Muncle Trades Council to use its influence to prevent the city of Muncle from inviting Andrew Carnegie to the dedication of the fifty-thousand-doilar library in July, recalls the fact that Mr. Carnegie, about three years ago, gave the Trades Council $500 in cash to assist it in maintaining a library for workingmen: that this sum was accepted by the council and used, but that the unions did not take enough interest in their library to keep it going. The books from the workingmen s library were sold at auction and the proceeds turned into the council's treasury. It is said the City Council will ignore the Trades Counts4]j8 request not to invite Mr. Carnegie, and will send him an invitation to the dedication. DISPUTE OVER GLORY HOLE

Leads to a Strike Among Employes of Glass Factory. (Special to The Indianapolis News.} EVANSVILLE, Ind.. May 16.—A dispute between the managers and the employes of the Sargent glass works resulted in the workmen inaugurating a strike. In order to Increase the output of the plant the managers desired to have six "shops” instead of four in operation, in connection with what is called the "glory hole." but the men insisted that four was all that should be operated, fearing an overproduction. An effort at compromise is being

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[Special to The IsdiaaajmUs News ] WOLCOTT. Ind.. May 1A—Wolcott is ; a modern edition of ‘The House that ? Jack Boilt.” Enter ibis busy town, ask how and where it came from and tbe I proud historian of Wolcott ■will begin: , ! ’This is the town that grew from the l shed that held tbe grain that Anson Woi- ! cott bought." That is Wolcott's history' In a nutshell. Forty-four years ago Anson Wolcott, a ' New York lawyer. wearied of the | i strenuous life of the metropolis. He ’ i looked to the West for a future home { , to Effner. 111., through the prairie lands. of Indiana. When the lawyer, then in the j middle years of life, saw the black soil | | of the prairies he decided that it would : . be the site of his future home. It looked I ; fertile and promising. * The Pennsylvania railroad had a crude railroad running from Logansport. Ind., ; ! to Effner. HI., through the prairie lands, j ! Wolcott saw a chance to buy land at j $6 an acre and bought 2.000 acres in j I White county. Ind. He built a shed in j * the heart of his acres and began buy- ; ; Ing corn from the neighboring farmers j for the Eastern market. Then the law- ! yer built a home. A Good Trader. The farmers of White and neighboring j ; counties found the New Yorker a good ; i trader and a genial companion. It grew j ! to be a habit with them to go to Wol- j j cott’e grain shed on Saturday. Then the j j lawyer added oats to hie buying list, and j ) the capacity of his ^shed had to be in- | i creased. It also became necessary to i i have a sidetrack put in to accommodate j i Wolcott in his grain shipments. He made , i a deal with the Pennsylvania railroad, j i and a station was built at the grain i i sheds. The railroad company called the | I station Wolcott. That is how It started— ; I this busy town of Wolcott. About the time the station was estab-! jlished William Lisk moved into the WolI cott neighborhood and opened a general ; store. Next, lawyer Wolcott built an im- | mei-se grain elevator and employed sev- ! eral men. They moved their families Into houses that the lawyer built. Then came i the village blacksmith and another store. : Wolcott grew like the corn In the prairies, j The seed was well planted by the lawyer-farmer-grain merchant, i To-day the town of Wolcott is a commercial center. The volume of business I averages far above any other town of ! equal population in northwestern Indiana. ! The census of 1890 gave the town 262 in- | habitants. The census of 1900 gave it 82G I inhabitants. A later census makes the figures show 1,100 inhabitants. And the Wolcott historian whispers: "Watch us

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Immense Grain Elevators. Where once stood a lonely grain shed there are now two immense grain elevators, handling more than a million bushels of com and oats a year. Wheat is not grown In this county. Wolcott is known throughout the country as a grain market, and during the shipping season the wagons line up in almost unending procession. A new Industry has come to add zest to Wolcott's commercial life. Recently Eben Wolcott, who represented his district in the Indiana Senate in the last | Legislature, discovered that under his j j farm, just west of the town, there is a i vast area of sand, suitable for glass- j I making. He made his And known to the American Window Glass Company, of I I Pittsburg, and to-day that company has j ] an immense sand plant here. It has I I added largely to Wolcott’s population, j Senator Wolcott accepts royalties from j ! the company for the sand, and it is pay1 ing him about $3,000 a year. The land is j 1 part of that originally bought by Senator Wolcott's father for $8 an acre. Land in | this section is now worth $100 an acre. And a great deal of it can not be bought at that figure. Damaged by Fire. Wolcott Is prosperous. A year ago fire destroyed the business section of the town, causing a loss of $150,000. To-day the site of the fire is occupied by rows of splendid brick business houses. The town grew- Phcenix-like from the ashes. New churches of modern design have taken the place of the little wooden structures of other years. A magnificent new schoolhouse occupies a large, shady campus. A band of twenty pieces is maintained here. Cement walks and macadam roadways are looked upon with pride by the people of the "town that grew from the shed that held the grain that Anson Wolcott bought.” Anson Wolcott, the founder of the I town, still walks among the people. He is In his eighty-fourth year, but main- j tains a vigor that is remarkable for one j of his years. In the old home that he ! built almost two-score years ago he is enjoying a happy old age with his son. I Almost any fair day the venerable law-- j yer may be seen strolling along the shady streets, accompanied by a massive St. Bernard dog, his constant companion. ! He has amassed a fortune, but most of his interests to-day are looked after by his son. who has inherited his father’s commercial ability.

WOMAN’S HIGH OFFICE.

Floy Gilmore, of Indiana, Assistant Attorney-General of Philippines. WASHINGTON. May 16.-Floy Gilmore, of Indiana, has been appointed assistant ’ attorney-general of the Philippines. She is the first woman to be honored with so high an office in the islands. She Is a native of Indiana, and for several years was private secretary to Prof. E. Finley! Johnson, inctructor In law at the University of Michigan. During that time she showed an aptitude for law. and took a course in the university under the direction of Professor Johnson. When Professor Johnson was appointed judge of the Court of the First Instance« in the Philippines. Miss Gilmore accompanied him to Manila, and remained in < his employ as private secretary. She learned Spanish and took the examlna-1 lion for stenographer and typewriter int the civil service !n the islands. Miss Gil- I more was assigned to the office of the! attorney-general in September. 1301, and showed such aptitude for the work in connection with the office that she has now been made assistant to the attorney-gen-I eral.

MEMBER MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION,

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CARPETS, SUMMER STOVES AND REFRIGERATORS

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This fine quarter-sawed golden oak Diningroom Table is exactly the same as cut. Highly hand polished; extends to 6 feet Many other styles of fine Pedestal Tables on sale this next week at the May Sale prices.

Special for Monday only and while they last, this ROMAN SEAT, exactly as illustrated, in genuine mahogany veneer or quarter-sawed golden oak, very strong and nicely finished, $1.98

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See this elegant Mahogany Table, same as cut Appropriate for either parlor or library. Made of genuine mahogany and hand polished. Note the graceful curving of the legs and the massive carved claw feet. An entirely new and exclusive design.

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$14.50

Large family size Refrigerator, with capacity for 100 pounds of ice. For ten years we have sold the Ranney make of Refrigerators and never a complaint. All sizes. Wonderful food preservers and ice savers. ’

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Side Table for dining-room (same as cut), made of fine quarter-sawed golden oak. Has two drawers and shelf. Many new styles of diningroom pieces bought for this May Sale.

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This Reclining Go-Cart, same as cut. Has loose cushion, fancy ruflled parasol, automobile gear, with heavy cushion tire wheels, patent foot brake, rattan body.

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Buffet, same as cut Made of fine quarter sawed oak, elegantly finished. Has leaded glass doors to the china compartment, French- bevel plate mirror. Flush lined drawers for silver and one drawer for linen. .

50c Plate Rack (same as cut), made of nicely figured oak. well finished, has grooved shelf for plates and brass hooks for hanging cups and steins.

MAY SALE PRICE

$9.75

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Broad Easy Couch, (same as cut.) Oak frame with claw feet; 30 inches wide; 7 rows clinch buttons; springs supported by steel cables.

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Indiana’s Leading Dlsiributar of Furnifura, Stovaa and Carpats W. H. MESSENGER

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GLASS BY MACHINERY. Large Sheets to be Made at Orestes Plant. (Special to The Indianapolis New..} ALEXANDRIA. Ind., May the American Window Glass Company's blowing machines, which are being set up in the Orestes plant of the company, three miles west of here, prove successful, the

product will be a wonder In large glass. The machines arc being constructed to blow rollers thirty-two feet in length and sixty inches in circumference, which, when spilt open, means a sheet of glass five by thirty-two feet, and will perhaps be the largest glass made In the world. The Alexandria machines will not make glass over twenty-four feet. The roof of tbe Orestes factory Is being raised Six feet to accommodate the new machinery. It is expected to start early next fall. Sixty human blowers are displaced in this plant.

HARRIMAN ABLE TO WALK.

He Admits He i# Suffering from Appendicitis. NEW YORK, May 16.-E. H. Harrlman, president of the Union Pacific, arrived here on hi* special train at 16:40 o’clock. He walked from the train to his automobile, and In an interview given from his vehicle said that he had suffered from a slight attack of appendicitis, but had

received the best of attention and ^ pected to sail for Europe on the 26th Inst Mr. Harrlman continued: “1 have not been compelled to undergo an operatioa and scarcely think one necessary. I hod the services of three of the very best doetors in tbe West. I expect to be at home for several days, and I do not anticipat# that my proposed trip to Europe on tbs 26th inst. will be interfered with in any wav'. My laughter Mary has not been ill. It is my younger daughter at home. Ml little four-year-old girl has a slight at tack of scarlet fever.”

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