Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — A WEEK IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

A WEEK IN INDIANA

RECORD OF HAPPENINQS FOR SEVEN DAYS. * Tb« Baited Mia* Worker* la Seesloa at Indianapolis Favor a Woman’* A axillary—A CODcragatiou Loth to Lnee Ita Popalar Pastor. For a Woman's A axillary. The United Mine Workers at Indianapolis have been considering a resolution which will be strongly supported by the Illinois delegates providing for a uniform initiation fee of $25. At present the initiation fees vary from $1 to SSO. It is thought also that the suggestion of President Mitchell that a woman's auxiliary be created will be reported on favorably, in which case "Mother” Jones of fame among the miners, will be placed at the head of the work of organising the auxiliary. Chairman Van Horn of the scale committee requested that six members from the three anthracite districts of Pennsylvania be added to the committee on constitution. These were appointed by President Mitchell: William Martin and Harrison Haslop of district 9, Condy O'Donnell and John Gallagher of district 7, and William Metz and Henry Collins of district L Herman Justi, commissioner of the Illinois Coal Operators ' association, made a well-tempered talk upon conciliation and arbitration between tha coal operators and the miners. Brash Back of Association. Interest in the new American Association was heightened at Indianapolis by a circumstantial report that John T. Brush and other National League magnates are backing It and that there will be no lack of money to keep the association afloat, at least till the American League is killed off. It is not known on what terms exactly the deal was made, but it ia said that John T. Brush guaranteed $20,000 for the support of the association and that his security for the money consists of assignments in franchises and certain obligations as to players, which have been given in a lump by Watkins and his fellow promoters of the American Association. It seems that all the business has been transacted with Brush, but it Is Baid that the National league as an organization is acting through him, and that the details of the arrangement were completed before Watkins started for Detroit last week. Kolactant to Part with Him. The announcement from Chicago that Rev. Joseph A. Milburn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis has received a unanimous call to the pastorate of Plymouth Congregational church of Chicago, was a great surprise to the members of the congregation, and the pastor has been besieged by members of his flock and earnestly urged not to accept. The membership of the church is well pleased with Mr. Milburn’s work and the church has been very prosperous under his administration; so much so, in fact, that the trustees have been considering plans for enlargement in order to accommodate the constantly increasing attendance.

To Compete with the Trust. An independent rolling mill, which will prove to be a strong competitor of the trust, whose promoters are Philip Matter and W. E. Ely of Marion, and J. L. Smith and W. M. Myer of Muncie, Ind., is to be erected in Terre Haute. The negotiations between the Commercial club and the promoters, which have been in progress for several days, have been concluded. The plant will cost $250,000 and requires twenty acres of ground for its buildings. Three of the men interested in the new mill recently resigned important places with the Republic Iron and Steel company, and are practical and experienced rolling mill men. Will Contest la Imminent. When the late Judge William A. Bickle of Richmond died he left no will, and his estate of $75,000 went to hlB wife. Mrs. Bickle has been buried. It was supposed she had left no will, but it develops that she made one thirty-five years ago that has now been produced. By it all her property goes to a niece, Mrs. Irene Wiley Erask. of Bayonne, N. J. Six other nieces and nephews are thus cut off, among them being Charles S. of Chicago and Warner and' William B. Leeds of New York, formerly of the American Tin Plate Company, Chicago. There will probably be a legal content. Brill Hnlearnd on Ite«L Joseph W. Brill of Cleveland, who shot and seriously wounded Attorney E. E. Weir of Laporte because it is alleged the latter refused to withdraw from a divorce suit which Mrs. Brill was about to begin, was today released haoeas corpus proceedings on a $25.000 bond. Weir is not yet out of danger. Woman Rerarm Her Voir*. Mrs. Scott D. Junkin of Warsaw, wife of the clerk of the Kosciusko etreuit court, lost her voice suddenly while attending a prayer meeting four years ago, and during that time had been unable to utter a sound. Saturday at dinner her voice suddenly returned. Smallpox la Indiana. Indiana is having several small outDreaks of smallpox, the towns reporting cases being McCool, 4; Wheeling, 12, and Indianapolis 7.