Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 36, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 May 1904 — Page 2
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The business section of l.afollette. T.nn . burned on the l"th. Thirty -Ave buildings wtre deniroyt I Loat POO Tbe Servian fMNUMl has Welded to demolish the oM palate. whick Jgl the scene of th- W ( vlx" ai aad QWW Draga. Henrv M;!ler.a; present ÜBlted State consul at N. w i'hwang. China, has been appointed consul general at New Chwang. WiÜkOVt increase of salary. John Brown, of Richardson. M D. .rr.s charged Ith Killing
bis -year-old son while in a fit of
anger. The fath- r burled the i.o.'.y lmB. vl.a-ely. It has 1" en exhumed. Krnest Terah Rooley, whose meteOtK career and company promoting a few year ago astonished the nnatu ial world, has heen arrested In LOBOOO od the charge of conspiracy to defraud. Report say that while the rumnt that a revolution has broken out in Uavti is fah-e. there Is general discontent in the republic, and a revolution
to momentarily looked tor. It has been definitely derided that Sir Hour? M S'at.!- y. who died Hay 10, w;ll not be biyried in Westminster Abbev A memorial service will be held 'there on the day of the funeral,
May IT. Secretary Edward Jarnlgan. of thf Potter Paper Co.. and his wife, w-r. four.d dead in their home in Chicago on the l"th. Appearances indicate that both had swallowed poison and then turned on the gas. Secretary of State Hay left Washincten. on the 12th. for S Louie, where he i? to represent the president of the I'nlted States and deliver the address of welcome to the International Pres congress on the 19th Inst.
A petition to Gov. peaMdy and Mayon Wright of Denver. Col . to order out the national guard to preserve or- ; 1 r at the election in that city is be-
Ing . ir.-ulated. and raj been ngr.ei . : j hundn-ds of citizen.-. Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton, a stater of the late President Benjamin Harrison, died, on the 13th, at KOlth Bend, a suburb of Cincinnati She was a granddaughter if President William Henry Harrison, who was a pioneer In that part of Ohio Subscriptions in Ixmdnn tr the Jap ! ar.cse loan of $". closed. It was estimated that the loan was over-subscribed twenty timer- There
was. a creat rush to subscribe, and an enormous number of applications for email amounts. James N. Aheel. convicted of forcing the name of J. B. Van Every. v. -- - n tha vosiom t'nion Teleeranh
i hi im . . - Co . to a note of Introduction to ktlM Elanor Anderson, wa- nt. nced by J -- r.fr of New York to the El-
mi ra reformatory. Cow Herrick of Ohio has ordered a rourt martial 1n connection with the -ecent riots at Springfield, at which v'me the negro D'.ckson was lynched. No Information has been given out as yet regarding the persons to be summoned before the court martial The body of a man who had eviden'ly been murdereil was f. .und In the Illinois and Michigan canal at Chicago on the Hth. The orpse was badlj ,!, , i rut" ti A gag had bOOO placed aiross the mouth and two heavy secI. Lirom tvno hnil lf'M üUU' btd
II' ll: Ml ri'aiu to the right arm. Admiral Wall er, pr- Ide Bl of the rr.nama Canal commioeloa, received a ftttogMNM, on the tyth, from John Kindle v Wallace, of Chicago, general manair.r of the Illinois Central railroad. efttag the appiinim-nt of chif enfceeef in charge of the eOMtru I loa of ÜM canal. Mr Wallace will re . .v. a I alary of I::..1""' a year. In the Tyr.er-Barre't case. P V Keyrcr. a cWk in the post office department and formerly secretary to 01 Tyner identified a considerable amount of corr spondenc Including that whi(h related to B J Arnold ft Co . of St. IrfMtl, M a turf-lnvefctment ompany. which was represented feffOM the post offue department hy Mr Barret:
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CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
It has been snowMig for ?l hours lu North Dakota Over wo Inches of now was on the ground on the 12th All field vrk has be. n stopped Tha wheat tfOf i nly half In. Fire at fHIW TOT . N he 1Uh. destroyed 18 derricks, 5 drüllng rlf and '22 tanks, containing about 1.'.."M' barr. Is of oil. Tom Walker of U" enworth. Ka. mounted a ladder to cut off the flow of oil. but fell into a mass of burning oil and timbers, and was roasted to death, while spectat us looked on. helplessly. The loss is , i-mr-ch a Denver ity detee-
tle. was. M the ISffc, convicted of murdtr In th- secon.i degree tor the murder of William Malone. a sal.Mitv PUT Knirich shot and killed Malone in the latter' saloon after a quarrel with Mike By an. an ex-oini.i. o.er n game of diet Malone was. act-
ir.c the role of peacemaker.
It i:. undert.Kd that about n
METHODISTS WANT EIGHT BISHOPS
Five Will Be Elected to Tako Place of Retired Ones.
MAY TAKE VOTE WEDNESDAY
IUI iiiim II H n elloiel lor lava i,iiiiiii-'i,,r ad lisiaa anils B I nU. ii I p.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
. - w it nih R.ild f th. nnw RnaataB loan Will be placed
The Nebraska grand TlKe. Kniuht of Pythiap. on the 11th adopted a resoNttoB barring from membership Ramblers and bartenders This rulins was made sometime ao by the state grnnd chancellor, and the resolution adopted im the 11th confirm that nillne. It
IM provides that all such members nrnirii tnce tha rullnc was made
hall be ejected
A Jury at Sherman T x . on the 11th avp Lotils James, the ator. a JudK
m'nt for $10,o(hi against the Oriental
Hotel Association of Dallas. Tex . for
lllel It Is allied the hotel people
had sent a telegram to Jam s and wife,
rcpieting them to return pillow elipl
aid to b" mivsini; from the hotel Jamet sued for $10.000 actual and $li. 0" c mplary damages
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that 1- Winrleld Harper anu men of V eonPnj of the S- venteenth United States infantry were MMVt, on May v, in an ambush by several hunIrOT Moron, on the east shore of Lake Nrnvw, altndnnao. Lieutenant H. A Woodrufl and Jos. H. Hall and 15 men were kill d and five men wounded. The coroner's jury at Bristol. Tenn.. rT,...! a verd.ct. on the 11th. to the
fr, t tha? nana Kdward 1- W. ntz'
death was due to the accidental discharce of his own pistol. The body vk.is found on the BOOnUinsidfl In la oonntTi Va. It wa found MBCWMI7 on ,hP to draw off the water from the .agoons ... . . i C T fcli In i r.
at the Worlus lair a' an. rier to Ban! a repairs rendered ne ary bv leaks that hid devek p-d. endanger
ing the embrankments. As the rt-sult of an explosion of six kees Of podr in s.aft No. 7 of the Big Muddy C al & Iron Go 's mine at Hnrrin, IIL, on the llth. five men kilbd and 14 others injured. KNM of wl.om will dto. A number of mine gltttaa wart al-o killed. An attempt to wreck Pennsylranl train No tl near Richmond. Ind.. was , hoovered on the Idtk, when the en- - ..r .t,.MTd the train withai a few
I feot of a pile cf bricks and stone which had been nlaced on the track. Two
boys Rare been arrested. UbU States Marshal J. M Barnes, of Ma Ii . was r -TOivfil from off.ee, on thf 1"th. on telegraphic Instructions from President RoOTOTWK. The cause of the removal is through a difficulty which took place a short time a-o at Vnldoatn, Qu, between Ildfl Emory S-eer and the marshal Judce Speer
left Macon for Washington on the. 7th. A eoUliUM oeevrrad, on he 1 1th. at V hittier. 15 miles south of !-s An
geles. Cal . btWOT a Santa Fa pasatSffar tram from San Diego to Los Angeles ar.d an electric car. Fifteen persons were injured, several seriously, but none, it Is believed, fatally. The injured were passengers on the electric rar. The names of the Injured are not available. U was reported, on the llth, that the Riyssians were blowing up their war-hip.- in th- inner harlnr of Port Arthur, numerous heavy explosions hav:nc tie. n heard from that direction. The Russian-, however, denied the re-
oort saving they were not going to
repeat the mistake of S-bastopol. In an auto accident -even miles wesrf of Newton. Kas., on the P'th. Judge M V Simp.-on. of the district court, was allied. Mi a Anna Lees, Mrs M. H. liapeoa and S. Lehman were Injured Tlo- machine got beyond control ar.d lathed off a bridge, falling 15 feet Into a dlti 'i Advice from the far east, of the v.h .nsf . indicated that the RnaatoBI wer
either making or preparing to make
re ir, jfra.io movement, witn nanun
the prolab!e new headquarters ami M-V. ti-.e advance po-t. All the railroads r i:ni ising "he Cen
tral Ptaeeactf morlttlni have decided to. grant top-overs In Chitaco on all tlcketi Mid UH connection with the expOTtUoa in St. Iuis A committee ba been appointed to confer with the W' -tern I'a - r association and arrange a commin ban- upon WMel stop-overs will be author!.' !
An Illinois Central passenger train wa ditched. Mi the llth. at ten
oMock. two mil s -outh of Dixon. III.
Ten people were injured, three -erl-
OOTly. The first three ( ars and tue engine rolled over a 17-foot embank-
ment. demolishing the cars.
I! .wa- i M - Field, son of the late
Cyrus W Field. Is agil in the insanity
ward at Bellevue hospital. In m W York for treatment He went to the
ho.ital Blaatlf and was examined Of
Dr Richards.
Justice Hynd. of Denver. Col . dis
charged William D HdfVOOd, secretary
of the Western Federation of Miner".
charged with desecration of the flag. The charge was based on tbe issuame of a circular bearing a picture of the flag, and headed, '"la Colorado in America." An order was entered In Chicago, on
tha 12th. remanding to the custody of New York officers Capt John J IWly. former prudent of the Alaska F.xploratlon Co Healy Is charged with embezzlement of funds lelonging to the cotr.rany. The Farmers' state bank at Nardln. Okla , failed on the 12th. Assets and liabilities, not given. It had about $18,ooo in the Capital national bank at fVMhrlc which failed recent!-
The grand Jury at Akron. O . on th
with New York
French uudei
custotm rs
LATE NEWS ITEMS. Vr the r-rcak'nc of ore of the.spnn Df the Mi-pension tramway aCfOOT TraekOT river at Lawton Sprint. miles we?; of Reno. Nev . on the l..th. neoole. Maurii e Ja obs. a
ivui ( .
young bufiuos man ol tnai my.
McMillan, daughter 01 a p.onum-nw blUinesa man uf Reno; Mrs. K B. Kde.
Jr.. and a Mr Kingsley. of cnicago, irr precipitated from the car into the swollen stream and drowr. d On the 14th. Joseph Lilliger. aged 72. a wealthy resident of St. Joseph. Mo., wa- beati n by robber- at his hine in the norhtern suburbs, and is be
lieved to be fatally Injured. UlUcr his wife's !-on. Jos-;di Lillig r. Jr., aged -'. were all beaten into iBJOTal"
Ibilitv by three men. wno Deneeli
large sum Of money was ConcemK i on i he premises. The robbers got no hing. E. E Linibocker. of Iganspor;. Ind., fell Into the Arkansas river at Van Düren. Ark. on the Hth. and was .r.oA-ned He had lust made an ascen-
!s-.on of S.000 feet. He was fastened in his parachute and could not extricate Ibimeelf, and drowned before assistame
, , ! r.a-1: l.;m His t was moered within one hour.
Mr- Carrie Nation declares that sne had Mopped smashing saloon:-, and she Man die ü for Qea Netooa a. Mile for pre-ident. IlltcaBOT he was a prohibition, at Mr- Nation says she proposes to build a w. c T r laatltnja like the one she has erected in Kansas ir. every state.
The No'.a-.ay Ya'.'ey t.l. -a- .V Mineral Co. sustained a lose of $5."o at Rnriirciim Junction. Mo . by the unex
pected strike of a gaa well while boring
for oil. The gaa flow. WHICH 10 large.
was ignited, and an OTptOMOa followed.
wrecking the derrick and doing mum 3ther damage. Two masa meetings, on the 1'th. one
for women and the otner tor men.
sen-ices in sev. ral church and an e enine meeting at City Convention hall onded the thirty-fifth international a i.vfn-ion of the Y M C A. of North America at Buffalo. N Y. The Farmers' bar k tl Metz. Mo . 15 miles northwest of Nevada, was entered by robber-, on tlu 14th. and safe was Mown to piece- with nitro glv. rin. It is stated Uli y secured tV entire contents, amounting to L6M in money.
K heavy rain fell over N'ebraka and wr.'ern Ioa on the. 15th, the precipitation being 2'a iu he for 12 aoura. The Chlci t Federation of Lahor na
idopt. d a resolution requesting memut unions affiliated with it to re
fuse to permit their nanus to appear in the forth dd Dg Itf din etary. u is charted in the reaoiqlioa that iho
firm pud. shin?; the directory nan publicly cx;. ' a determined opponttion to ' n anil d Ial or in general by
maintain a so-called 'open
it. effort! i
hop ' '" The pre
demo rat i(
Crwn, cal .
the ti r -
Iminary skirmish Id the tati convention at Santa on the lfth. was won by nana th sending of a
totacatlM to the natio-.al convention
Instructed to support the candidacy of Consre man W R H arst for the
preaidenc
The OOal mine in the gulch is now In
full om rat ion at the Worms lair
St Loull Many vislto-s have tal.-n
advantage of the Opportunity IO travel
into the depth of the earth tor I.'hmi
feet and study the operations of coal
mining The Moros who attacked the American troops in the Philippines, on Ma.' 8 and killed two officer:' and a number of men may be WVefCly punished by MaJ -On Wood, who Is marc hing on the band with a force of Mi officers and
men On John B Sanborn, a civil war veteran, died at P4 Paul. Minn . on the 1.1th. aged 7 years. Death was due In old aire Urn Sanborn was an uncle
i, ,,!.. Walter H Sanborn, of the
Batted States circuit court of appeals.
Sixteen released prisoners wno re
turned from Fort Smith. Ark on the
ir.th where tbev spent :; 'lays In jail
for selling liquor w re im t at the Frls-
m tat inn tat tl.,ld. nvl e l . uy a
brass band and MO cltlz.ns.
On the ISth the Fnlted States army Iransuori Sherman, which had cm board
the Tweniy-t.inth regiment of infantry
and two corapaalef of coaiai artillery
T si At;-. Cal.. May 16 Sunday
was welcomed by the delegate to 'h Methodist general conference as a day 1 of rest, after a week of continuous j session:, either of the conference or
uf the various commit! W.iile Haougb riaitiaa btahopa and ministers vcdunte.red their services to the pulpit supply committee to nil every puiui ; ity and x.iburl an town-, at
both morning and eVOBiaj servic rs. thn I
great body of delegates tested at. 1 talked over the events of yesterday a session of the conference. Sermons by
the following bishops were preached
9 ii day 15y H W Warren. at BoyM Heights. M. I church; BUbbp D H. Moore. Centennial ML E church: Hi hDt F. W. Warne, Doyle Heigh;. Taing; Bishop H J Vi-.nent. Y. tic en; M. : c hun h. where dedtcatory cerenJonJea were held; BUhop Karl Cranston.
Hlanc b.ard s hall; Bishop Joicph O.
HartMll, Fir-t m B, church, Paandena. All other Methodist putptta in the -ity and many other deaoilaatloaa ere occupied by vi-iting clergy met. J .t the Firs: M E church. Ihii ' i'y. Ur Joseph Harry led a large 01 anseilst '.c mass meeting, and at BhapQB'l amütcrium. Dr Frank MaSOfl North, Qearga P. E kman and J. W. Bashford made address . t a lar;-e ;rowd. Ha.ard's pavilion was crowded to orerftowtni to n.-;en to a aerraoa by Dr. W.ieidy Moss, fraternal delegate ! from tha Metbodial church in Bag
land, and at the same place there was a meeting of the Women's Home MiO -onary society. The happenings at Saturday's session of the general conference, who ote was taken on the retirement of Ivp tdshons. furnished a live topic of
discus ion among the delegate! Sun- j
day. The general opinion of the aeiegates is that when the report is given
MH Monday morning it will show a ' decided majority in favor of the re--ort of the episcopacy committee rec - j -.mmending the retirement of Bishops Vincent. Waiden. Andrews. MaUalkN
ind F ss. The prompt and determined Mug in which the stjhjec; was put through the conference Saturday, in
;he face of wrong efforts to poBipon definite action until Monday, was Rauch Mayjaaated upon There are a certain awabar of delegates, especially aasoaf the laymen, who are ilipoaad to criticise the manner in which the five aged bisliops: were deprived of their high off.ces; but the leaders se-m to feel
relieved that the most unph'asant duty of the eqafercnee has been perforaaad, lid that the way is. now lear to make 1 up other pressing and important legis- j lation. It Is tUtta likely that th- elec tion ot t eight, possibly more. MthOpa will tak
place during the week. The day na? not been decided upon, but it Is generally believed it will be Wednesday r Thursday. Other matters that will come before
ihe fonferer.ee tliis week are; Aetion of the Methodist church upon divorce, cmsolldatioa of the various brancheu f the boob co-teem, limiting the tenters of peat orate, ptaetai 'he church on Tt rd In the matter of amusements Ha; daaciag, nrd playing, theatet golnr;. etc . and mnny other matfr that have been brought up In memorials from different c.nfercnccs The number of candidate:, for hlshopi grows dauy. and no less than '' nam- s are now mentioned in this connection.
HOOSIEH HAPPENING Told in Briel by Dispatches from
Various Localities. Secuies Oil Lnnda. Mun b), liu! . Ma) Hi of the most ! ided i.hniee rs in ib Indiana Oi! field i- L L Suulli. a WOTlthj Cbicagoaii Ma aiSalpalHert a deal north of this city whereby be fan la possaealna ..f lunr, tliuti V.oci ui rm of ulliabl' oil
4 law I ww 1 t min ' w land whic h had hitherto been refused to many capitalista who bad offered initi MUM pi ices for it It is claimed that Mi Smith gae- $3t'.oe n cash for the propns) and that be wa- offered $:..' ten minutes, after the deal w as c oiibiiuimat d tor tbe leases. All off rs w. re refuse d. and the Chicago aaaa baaalroad started
the fonnatioii of a giSaotlC .unpany whic h will prooeed to dotralop tbe territory, A number of local bttf n M nie u are w ith him in tbe project and tha machinery lor the lauachlnt r seeeral , ri ling mac hines ha- l--n e'e ll 1 to .-uch an ext.-tit that the MM 411 be In the field w ithin a few days.
NEW RULING BY SUPREME COURT
Railroad Company is Not Liable lor Acts of "Fellow Servant."
NO GROUND FOR DAMAGES
Called to Bury L..e M.an. Roonniagtoa, Ind.. Maj 11- rburadaj niiiht an uudertakir appear d at the door Of Tyson Sherrill'a home, in Salt l.ak. township, with his cpiipnient
ready to arrange for a burial, and was Informed thai Mr gberrillwasatlllattva and his final services would ni ye-t be regalrad. Mr Bberrill. a reteraa f the Mexic an and . Ivil wars, had been c ritically tick for KToral weeks at hU home, and in tha fOTOBOM bej:an ir.k-inL-looa after dark be apparently stopped breathing, aad the frfonde gathrred around his bedside betteeed him lead Noah Sherrill. his sm. who livfs in this city, received telephone atee taga that his father was dead, and he -c ured an undertaker Together thej drot to Ihe She rrill borne, and on the ir
arrival tti n Informed thai atr. Sherrill wxs still alive. Mother Is for Vengeance. New Albany, lad . May 1; -- A t D .-tone thipjecd frni the city to Klizaleth. Harrison OOUaty, to rest OVOT the crave of Kimer Brown, bore on oauaual
pitapb. Brown was hilled tea months aeo by Walter Rail on the Kentucky side of the- Ohio rier. about tea miles below the it and Hall was acepiittcd OB the pottl idl of self-defense The lncriptlOO em the -tone is as follows: "Riser Browm, bora Deeeaiber i?. IS73 Was BUrdered by Walter Hall. July 9, 1903, 'Venpeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord The stone was ordered by tbe mother
of young Krown. No Race Suicide There. Richmond. Ind.. May 11- The annual report of the city health part ment -hws an excess of birth- B i deathaof IS, u i n rail of which it la clahaad that Rb hmond canne.t properly be placed in the race suicie!- belt, in which class Wayne county and this part of Indiana have baea nlaed. Tbe death rate la 1-?
per 1.000, whic h is CXeeedlBglj low. Then- were KM deatha, 4' fewer than last year. The number of births was Itf Little Girl Killed. Rvansville. Ind . May Id At West Height! I'ark Sunday, a l.orse. draw Ii B a surrey, in whic h were John Waterman, his wife and four hildren. leanfrichtened and ran away The butty
was overturned and Clara Waterman. m mam Aid araa laatantlv hilled. All
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Hr. V Fort Williams. Man . on "he
12th deetroyad ibrratof "n.'- owned by the Canadian Pacific railway and vallyl f-.v.eHi Th re were about :i'x.0si bl "!. ,.f wheat In the elevator at '.e time, and the araln. lOgalbeT with the structure. Is a total los The lost of this elevator will seriously cripple burnetii from thatplae Elevator "B" had a capacity of 1. 260.0OO huabeli.
MR. WENTZ MAKLS APOLOGY
I, . Iure. I lull lie Dt4 BaO ach
Ti-riiii Credited t. Hiss i Pevee BlaHitefcta Knoxvllle. Tenn . Hal 11 A Bpcclal
to the Journal and Tribune from llrlstol Tenn . tays:
Tha coroners jury which rendered
a verdict of accidental ihootlag in the
case of Edward T Wentz, whose dead
t.odv was found in Wise county. a,
several clays aRo. Sunday afte.rncjon re-
. a reiilv from Dr. J. S. Ne-nt
regardlag hh alleged crminal charge
In relation of the finding of the jury.
Dr Went makes due apology to the
Jury. de-clarinK that he did not use such terms as were credited to him In
id, nre;. dlnatehe Dr. Wentz was
, -. f.
credited with Inttmattnir that the ver iMrt was intended to shlebl the mur
derers of his son, who wre frienda
of the Jury.
from Honolulu, arrived at San Kmn
cir Pimm j. j t i - llth. returned an indictment against .risen
Art Simms. the prieflchter. on the charce of criminal assault. Sims, a few years a no. gave promise of becominsr the champion P;htwelRhi Of tbe world. Attorneys for the strlklnr Santa Fe rsllwav machlnlats at Tophus. 'Iaa.,
filed a motion In the dlstrh-t court to have the restraining order strains! the strikers dissolved. The hearing In et for May 1 Th strike eltuation le practically unchanged.
i..r, . v,li,,rl,l who ha been in
.pi.' " t ''- Is Mmailaetea (Ind i lall since Feb
ruarv. on the barge of murdering Miss
afer on January 21. ai
mimA on trial oil the IStb (Of his
life
Up ause of the failure of the Joint
sc ale committee to r"ae h a satisfactory
acre. ment. 2..VW) coal miners In sub-
district No 6 at Zanesvihe. O., weal out on a ttrlke on the 10th.
BALLOONIST FALLS IN RIVER wna gatatawed IHe Paaaofeale
I itui ii i atetewea HlataeU und u ii nn. aedi
Van Puren. Ark . May 1 E R
Mmbocker. of lpansport, Ind . fell
into the Arkansaa river here Saturday
evftcrrewm and was e,rrv:tiee1. He htvl
lust made an ascni' Ion of It.tHJ fet
He was faalond in hie, parrchute
and could not vrkate himself, aud
drowned before asslatance could reach
hla
,f ike occupants were seven ly Brnieea. Mr Wate rn.an is all Known ba political circles. Election Contist. rrawfordsille. led . May 11 Dr W n rhambe rs has fli.d in theefrcoil court i eoa eel of tbe enaction of Pua IdcClelland. republi.an e ceuio i'man ii is alleged that II votes e-as: for Chamber! w r r- thrown out . at.c as ' 'an. 1 a only eight majority o the face of the
returns, then aacouBtOT votes wovn led him Kill Fish with Dynamite, .fpffe r-onvllle. Ind. liar 1C. DapUtV
7nmmissi:ine r e.f Fisheries and Came Isaac Cox. Of this city has pone toCorydon. whe-re it is r ported that ti-!. by the hundred are beinn kill 1 by dynamiting, n violation of law It is exp e tr d that a number of arrests will be made. Similar practie es have- I,. n vi.,tk on in this
ounty.
Oil Found in Rush County. Rushvllle. Ind . May 10 - A pood grade
f oil has bern dlacorered In an ai.an-
loned tas well on the farm of Harvey Catt. near Carthage. The find was made
when workmen we re pulling the c asing out of the well, and tin cans were let
'4wn. which were drawn up filled Will
an excellent grade nf Oil.
Suit for Damages. Evansvilie. Ind . May II Suit has
ben Alee! here by ih- aelmlnlstrate.r of
Harry Vaughn against Ihe Ohio Valley
Trust company for flo.oeeo damage!
Vaughn fell down the elevatr of the
D M. A. building, several months ago. ind w as killed
Death of a Pioneer. South Bend. Ind. May 1 Mrs A.
M Iceland, a plotter of this section, riled
he-re She wa- v' years edd at. et wa- a na
the of Ne w York stato.
Quarrel Ends in Murder. Qpejgegajt, 1 n t . Ma' l; - Edward Poniboi-ken. a bartender, was rdiot ar.d killed during a iinarrel witli V. S
lloiirne. a drug c lerk After the shoot
ing H-uirne telophone fj to the Hrar.ll po
lice that he wished lo nirrene'cT. HI was taken into eaatodj
oew Oovcrnesa at Earlham. HI hmond. Ind .Ma v tflM Mary OOOdard, who is govermss at Karlham college. Is to retire with thee lose e.f this year and will be sure ceded l Miss Sara Rogers a graduate nf the mill -c Shels at present a resident of Tcronto. Canada
Ks eile nae fiimaali ooaemtaa iiu-iiiH Deatfc "f i'ir-iHti iu 0. rnll.o. I i '" Of CM iti.t. rttewiaB unie,i. Waahiagtoa. May 17 The supreme rourt of ÜM l'nit d States Monday laid ftowa the princ iple that a telegraph operator fOf a railroad company ar.d a Ixtmta on a railroad engine are f. i,w s. rvanta." and that the negli
gence of the former causing the death Of the lauer in the op jation of trau, was a rich the treenail aaaunaed. aad was not a ground for duvu (M against the railr.iad company. The case was that of Alline A Dixoa, anainst the Northern Pact railroad Co for damages for the- cleat li Of her husband. C. A Diatm. I man 00 the road, killed in a OOlttetoa re wed by the aeerffenea of a telegraph operator. The opinion, delivered by Justice iir.wer an? we re. I two (pi.-'-t ions cer
Tili.d from the Cnite-d S;n:.- tircuf curt of appeals lor the Kighth . ir. ult au follows; Kir.-t When a local telegraph operator is called upon specially by a train dispatcher 10 give information relative to ihe arrival of a train at Ul station, t enahle the dispat.her to formulate ordere for the Morena at f other trains-, does the local operator in the- matt.r of giving Btaeh tnfe.rnur :on net as a fellow servant ' train ojera-t-.-.es in suh sense that th- master is not liable, to train operatives who are Injured by obeying an erroneous order Of the dispatcher that was ladueed hy Mae lafotaamtton in by the local operator? The answer to this question la: " I hf telegraph opttator wa. under the ir
rumstances. descrlbeu a leuow cu of the fire-man" Second. Is the. necligence of a lft.nl talegrapb ojerate.r and station agent ol a railway company in ob.-.rving an I rei.or'.ng by telegraph to the train dispatcher the movement of trains, past his station, whiih cause the injury or d.ath of a fireman of th- company without any fault or nagllgempe of the train dispatcher, the negligence of a vice-principal. fr whi.h the railway eompanv is liable In damages to tht fire.nun or his sonal lipreaenUtlve -or is it the negligenee of a fellow , rvant of the fireman the I -k ol whlcb tha latter brae rarer Answer. "The negligence of the oporator was the negligence of a fellow servant of the fireman, the risk of .!.... .k lntt. r stinied."
A dlsseptlng eipinion was delivered hy Justice white, and eoacurredj In by the chief Justice and Justices Harlan and McKeaaa in this- dhweatlag opinion the view was -xpr.--.d that the operator was the agent e.f the employer and as such his negligence re-n dered the employer liable for damac or death caused thereby. The opinion was further exp-e- c that the court's derision would creat much ee.nfus.ion
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vain effor' to dhWi t thO BOdfeg of four perv.m dltwrnod Sunday All night ihe vigil wa Kepi at points where an- light" had been napeaded over the wate rs, and enrly Monday Ini.ian ;rAi'.rs wir- int oat t foUfaW bothibaake of the turbulent itraaa TheVortl h well organized, and eve, available appliance has beta brought into reajah Won. V W Tinsman e.f Chicago, one or the vk-tims ti.a.-unr of the Chi cago Art Co.. and w a-- eaaapel at Ijiugbton's. In ce.mpany with Charles Daalag. ilw pt eel Int. SAYS SANTA CLAUS IS MYTH
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l.trr. ll.lnU M- ! M OO gatspatai Oeee Nashville. Tnr . May IT. AJ Monday's reeeion of th Southern Uapflat , onentlon, Dr. Herford of St Ixmis,. entered a vigorous protest against teachina children that then- Is such an mtltv a Santa Claas. He -aid it wa. a tnvth. and .in abomination that should be- relegate I lo the rear. ir. Deferd said to teai h c hildren .his de -taptloa wan -xe.dingly hurtful. : that it would eaooaraga auJ train children to be deceitful. Miss Alice Dunlap. of 1'eru. Ind.. haa bic n a te e-L-rapher Inlhe Western 1 nion office at that t.ewn for H years and for fMji ars has been the manager of the office John K. NfOOaa, for 20 years praiJer.i cd the Ot netal Memorial hospital, of New York has worked steadily during that time to find a cure for cancer
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