Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 210, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1902 — Page 1

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3IOUE IJl NCTIOS ISSUER AGAI.ST LKADKHS OF MINERS. W. B. AVIUnn and Other Charged with rarrhmlnK and Distributing Supplies to Feed Strikers. ORDER TO BE DISREGARDED IF IT WAS ISSUED WITH THE VIEW OF STARVING IDLE MEN. United 3Ilne Workers, Mr. Wilson Says, Will Continue Carina; for Idle Men and Their Families. ARREST AT WILKESBARRE TWENTY-FIVE COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST J. F. 3IULLAIIY. Fireman's Secretary Who Has Deen Active In the Anthracite Strike Charged with Libel. CHARLESTON'. W. Va., July 2S.-Federal Judge Keller to-day Issued an Injunction against G. W. Purcell. a member of the national executive committee of the United Mine. Workers; W. B. Wilson, national secretary; Chris Evans, national statistician; "Mother" Jones and five others at the suit of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company. It Is In the form, of those heretofore issued. It was charged that Purcell, Evans, Wilson and the others were purchasing and distributing supplies to feed the strikers In this district. Purcell, Evans, Wilson and the others against whom the Injunction was Issued are not enjoined from furnishing supplies to the miners, but are enjoined from organizing camps close to the property of the complainants, and were selected as defendants because they are nonresidents and because they were active la providing supplies for the miners. Upon Information made before Federal District Attorney Atkinson to-day warrants of arrest were issued for about fifteen persons, charging them with contempt of court In violating the injunction Issued by Judge Keller, covering the Flat Top coal field, along the Norfolk &. Western railroad. The clerk declined to give the names for whom warrants were Issued. Very little of interest developed In the trial of District President John Richards and others to-day on charges of contempt for violating the injunctions. Numerous witnesses were examined. Put few of them could connect the. defendants with the contempt action. Deputy United States Marshal Cunningham testified that, in addition to acting as official, he had worked for the Collins Colliery Company as captain of their guards, drawing a salary therefor. The defense will try to prove that the strikers were under the impression that Cunningham was serving injunctions issued by Judse Jackson In 1M7, and that these Injunctions were not in force. PARKERSUURG. W. Va., July 2.-Judge Jackson issued another injunction this afternoon of the same general character as those for whose violation "Mother" Jones and others were tried. It was issued upon the application of G. Clinton Gardner, receiver for the Flemington Coal Company, and is directed against thirty strikers and organizers. Mil. WILSON'S STATEMENT." Any Injunction Atsnlnst Feeding Strikers Will Re Violated. Concerning the Injunction issued by Judge Keller, Secretary Wilson said last night: "Any restraining order issued to prevent us from suplying food to hungry people will be violated. We have been shipping supplies to West Virginia, and we will continue to ship supplies to those people so long as they need food and are hungry." Secretary Wilson further stated that he had been expecting an injunction to be issued to prevent the United Mine Workers from shipping supplies to the strikers. lie said the coal companies had attempted in every other way to stop the supplies, but failed. "Our cars have been sidetracked," said Mr. Wilson, "and every effort has been made to cause delay. We continued to ship supplies regularly just the same, so that after a time they got there In proper order, eeu if some were delayed. We have shipped our goods prepaid from Cincinnati and had them held up at the other end of the road for freight. An agent visited Shaw, Irwin & Co., of whom we purchase supplier, and told them that it would not be to their interest to continue to sell food to the miners. Th agent also asked Mr. Irwin where the moTiey was coming from, and he refused to tell them. In the hearing of President Richards, of the West Virginia district, Mr. Shaw was subpoenaed, and on the witness stand was asked who furnished the money to buy supplies. He had to tell them, and since th-n we have been looking tor an injunction. "There have been two injunctions issued Hainst labor organizations to prevent them from furnishing help to strikers. One was by Judge Freeman, of New York, against the cigar makers, to restrain them from paying the strikers weekly benefits. The injunction was violated and amounted to nothing. The second was by Judse Nunn, of Hopkins county. Kentucky, against the United Min Workers, to prevent us from furnishing strikers food. This injunction was net really issued by Judge Nunn. It was issued by th clerk of the court while Judge Nunn was away fishing, and when he returned he promptly had it dissolved." George Purcell. one of the defendants in Judse Keller's injunction, is the national board member trom the bituminous field or Indiana, and his home Is in Terre Haute. He has charge of the strike in the district under Judse Keller's jurisdiction. Chris Evans, another defer.. lent, has had charge of the commissary department at Cincinnati. Alrr.oj-t since the strike begn In Wst Virginia, two months ago. the United Mine Workers have been sending them supplies. Evans has been sending aDout three carloads of provisions a day into the State. The funds have either been supplied by the national treasury or by district organizations through the national. D EOt'.t'EI AS AN OITHAGE. Arrest of a Strike Leader on the Charge of Llhel. WILKESBARRE. Pa.. July 2. J. F. Mullahy, fceeretary of the Stationary Firemen' Association of Pennsylvania, was arrested here this afternoon, charged with Übel. Twenty-five complaints had been

lodged against him by men who are now employed in various capacities by the coal companies In this section. It is alleged that Mullahy had printed a circular containing the names of the prosecutors. He classified them under the head of "unfair workmen." and then, so it is claimed, posted them in conspicuous places throughout the region. Magistrate pollock held Mullahy In the sum of $.V0 on each charge, which made the total bail $12.5). The ball was promptly furnished by friends of the accused. Secretary Mullahy has been very active in the strike. It is said that through his influence he has held 05 per cent, of the striking firemen firm. Engineers and pump men have bone back to work in large numbers since the strike began, but the firemen have remained out with the miners almost to a man. At strike headquarters Mullahy's arrest on so many warrants is termed an outrage. Sheriff Jacobs was called to Duryea today to disperse a mob which had gathered in the vicinity of the Warnke washery and prevented some men from going to work. Whn the sheriff arrived on the scene the crowd left. The work of distributing relief among the strikers of the Wyoming region began today. The most needy cases will receive aid first. Agent3 from the soft coal regions in western Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois ha,ve been in the Wyoming region the past few days hiring miners to work In the bituminous mines. Nearly one hundred miners and laborers left the region to-day for western Pennsylvania and Ohio. More will go to-morrow and Wednesday. It Is understood the rock miners will present a petition to the executive board of the Mine Workers' Union requesting permission to return to work. It is said the employment of this class of anthracite miners would not affect the situation. The announcement of the officials of Oxford colliery of their Intention to resume operations Aug. 1 is being discussed here, but as yet there is no evidence on the part of the Wyoming operators to take similar action. The opinion prevails throughout the region that there will be no attempt to break the strike before Sept. 1. Warrants were Issued to-day for the arrest of a number of striking miners at Nanticoke who are charged with holding

(CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COL. 4.) ENGAGEMENT IN HAITI FIRMI.VS ARMY REPULSED DY GE.. CCLIN'S FORCES. Twenty Killed and Sixty- Wonnded on One Side The Gunboat Mnchias at Cape Haltlen. WASHINGTON, July :S.-Acting Secretary Hill to-day received the following cablegram from United States Minister Powell, dated at Port-au-Prince, to-day: "General Colin left Pojrt-au-Prlnce yesterday morning with 2,000 men to repel Flrmin's army,' which was landed from the Haitian naval vessel commanded by Admiral Killick. After a skirmish which ensued the forces of Firmin retreated to the warship. Colin returned to the city yesterday afternoon. The information is that twenty were killed and sixty wounded. The number killed on the other side is still unknown. There is much firing In the city. The Machias has arrived at Cape Haltlen." CAPE HAITI EN. July 2S. Gen. Albert Salnave entered LImba yesterday evening and this morning he was within nine miles of this city, after having defeated the troops under General Nord, the minister cf war of the provisional government. The capitulation of Grande Riviere Is expected, and Cape Haitien probably will be attacked soon. FOUR STATES SHAKEN N EBB ASK A, WESTEBN IOWA, SOUTH DAKOTA AMD CALIFORNIA. Earthquake Shocks That Lasted from Ten to Thirty SecondsDamage on the Pacific Coast. OMAHA, Neb., July 28. An earthquake shock, which was general over portions of Nebraska, Western Iowa and South Dakota, occurred shortly before 1 o'clock today. The seismic disturbances were felt at a large number of towns in the three States and lasted from ten to fifteen seconds. No damage has been reported thus far, although the shock was sufficient to rattle dishes and to affect bell towers in some places. Yankton, S. D.f reports a shock of twelve seconds' duration; Santee agency, in northern Nebraska, reports the occurrence of a disturbance, and Battle Creek, Neb., was shaken for twenty seconds. The disturbance was more plainly felt at the latter place than any others which have thus far reported. In this city the shake was barely discernible, and few people knew of such a thing until the weather bureau reported to-night. From Santee agency comes a report of quite a severe shake, lasting sixteen seconds. The earthquake caused some excitement for a while and was plainly felt by people on the streets. Many windows were shattered and dishes rattled from shelves. At that point the movement was from west to east, and was accompanied by a low rumbling noise. The disturbance appears to have been more clearly felt along the boundary line between Nebraska and South Dakota, although a number of place in both States were affected. Damage in California. LOMPOO, Cal., July 2S. Lompoo valley experienced a severe earthquake shock at 10:55 last night. At that time a violent shock was felt, which lasted fully thirty seconds and was so severe that dishes. clocks, house plants and other articles were thrown from shelves. The people were stricken with terror and ran from their houses, some fearing to return, as other lighter shocks continued for several hours afterward. Another heavy shock was felt at 5 a. m., and one at 11 a. m. today. A large water tanK was knocked over, the earth cracked at many different places, and the Santa Ynez river bed slifihtly changed at places. SANTA BARRARA, Cal., July 2. Meager advices received from Los Alamos, forty-five miles north of this place, report that unusually severe shock of earthquake occurred at about 11 o'clock last night, doing considerable damage to the property of the Western Union Oil Company, estimated at from $12.'" to $15.0 r PRETENDED TO BE TRACY. Tried to Win a Woman's Affections and Came Near Losing: His Life. SEATTLE. Wash., July 2$. WilliamNixon tried to win a woman's affections in the guise of Outlaw Tracy and is nearly dead as the result of his foolhardy attempt. He told an actress in a music hall that he was none other than the famous desperado and threatened her life if she told. Later, when he entered the theater, he was attacked by a policeman and the proprietor. Joe Williams, a brother of Dep. uty Sheriff Jack Williams, who was wounded in a battle with Tracy at Bothell, July 2. He was pounded Inf insensibility and has not fully regained his faculties yet. The mistake was discovered when the man's features were compared to thos? of a photograph at police headquarters. It Is marvelous that the policeman did not hxt first and investigate afterwards, as he was told positively that the man was Tracy, and a reward of nearly JT.ouo Is offered for the desperado, dead or alive.

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BLOOD SHED IN JERSEY PRIMARY ELECTION MARKED BY SEVERAL SERIOUS FIGHTS. One Man Killed, Pugilist Goddard Trohablr Fatally Shot and Two Men Badly Wounded. CONTEST IN FIRST DISTRICT BITTER FIGHT BETWEEN II. C. LOUD EN SLAG ER AXD B. J. A. VAX SAXT. Former Reported at 1 o'clock This Mornlnff to Have Secured the Nomination for Congress. CAMDEN, N. J., July 28. The primary election of delegates to the convention of the First congressional district of New Jersey was held this afternoon and this evening in Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties, which comprise the district. The candidates for the nomination are Henry C. Loudenslager, the present congressman, and B. J. Alphous Vansant. The contest has been one of the most bitter ever held In southern New Jersey. The polls were open from 5 p. m. to 8 p. m., and the three hours were marked with serious fighting. One man was killed in this city and "Joe" Goddard, the well-known heavy-weight pugilist, of Philadelphia, was probably fatally shot while electioneering in Pensauken township, another man was dangerously stabbed in this city and a fourth man received a stab wound near Merchantville. Goddard was at a voting place in Pensauken township when he was shot. He was with a number of men who were traveling from one polling rlace to another. The pugilist got into a quarrel with a colored constable named Robert Washington. It is alleged that Goddard assaulted the constable with a baseball bat and the colored man, in self-defense, shot Goddard in the head. The constable surrendered himself to the police and the wounded prizefighter was brought to Cooper Hospital here, where the physicians say he may die. Near the same polling place Constable Isaac Fowler, while in a fight was stabbed twice. His wounds, though painful, are not considered serious. There was considerable trouble in Pensauken township and at Merchantville, and a number of persons were badly beaten. The most serious affray occurred at Third and Beckett streets, in this city. Each side had a crowd at the polling place at that point and a general riot was started. When it was all over it was found that a man who was later identified as Jonn Morrissey, of Philadelphia, aged thirtyfive years, had been shot through the heart by some unknown person and a policeman not In uniform, named Harry Miller, had received two cuts on the head and probably a fatal stab wound in the left lung. There were a number of other persons hurt in the fight, but not seriously so. At midnight both sides claimed the election. The adherents of both Loudenslager and Van Sant are charging each other with fraud and bringing large numbers of repeaters from Philadelphia. The convention will be h:ld at Woodbury on Wednesday. Loudenslager Winn. CAMDEN. N. J., July 20. Almost complete returns at this hour show that Loudenslager will have a majority of about twenty-five delegates. 1 HE IS THE MILLERS' FRIEND. Speaker Henderson Tells What He Did for Them In the House. DUBUQUE. Ia.. July 2S.-Speaker Henderson in an interview to-day on the reports about the National Millers' Federation's grievance against him on the ground that he prevented the passage of the London dock bill said: "I had not heard anything ot it until Saturday last, when I first saw an article on the subject. I was greatly surprised to see anything c.lhe kind from

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the millers, whose friend I have been all the time and tried to get their bill through. 1 gave them the floor once and let It come up the second time, but members in charge ot the measure wanted It passed over, as they hoped for a compromise between friends and enemies of the bill. This was twice the bill's friends had an opportunity. I proposed again to have the bill called up by calling upon the committees, but Mr. Tawney, author of the bill, was absent that day and other friends of the measure were unwilling to have it come up lr. his absence, so that is three times the bill practically had its day in court, and for the reasons named failed to be disposed of. but in no instance was It any fault of mine. The bill is a Just one and ought to pass, and I have no doubt it will pass at the short session of Congress. I fear there has been some very thoughtless misrepresentation about this matter, for It is not usual for men to attack their loyal friends." Iowa Republicans. DES MOINES. Ia.. July 28. Delegates arrived in "large numbers to-night for the i Republican state corvention, which will be held Wednesday. Little attention is being paid to candidates, all the talk being of the platform. One element favors a reiteration of last year's platform, which was written by George E. Roberts, director of the mint, and the other insists on dropping the following from the plank dealing with trusts and combinations: "We favor any modification of the tariff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording shelter to monopoly." Lafayette Young, of Des Moines, is leading the forces who favor the elimination of the utterance quoted, and Governor Cummins and his lieutenants Insist on a reaffirmation of last year's platform. HARRY DE WINDT'S TRIP HAZARDOUS OVERLAND JOURNEY FRO.M PARIS ACROSS SIBERIA. Places Marked on Maps ns Prosperous Cities Found to Be Mere Hamlets Arrival at Seattle. SEATTLE, Wash., July 2S. After traveling for six months across the bleak steppes and frozen mountains of Siberia, Harry De WIndt, of the London Daily Express, is ready to report that a railroad practically connecting the Eastern and Western hemispheres Is a feasible project. Mr. De Windt left Paris, Dec. 16 last, and arrived in Seattle by way of Behring straits, the Yukon, Dawson and Skagway this afternoon on the steamer City of Topeka. His party encountered great perils from hunger and cold, and attribute to the presence of Americars in northern waters the fact that they are again safe in a civilized country. The party, consisting of Mr. De Windt, Viscount De CllnchampBellegard, George Harding, who has been with the learder of the expedition on many Journeys in the last sixteen years, and Stephen Rastoruryffe, a Cossack, will sail at daybreak to-morrow for his native land. The expedition, from which the party is returning was undertaken at the instance of Alfred J. Pearson, owner of the London Express, Pearson's Magazine and two score of other publications, who wished to have a reporter make the trip by land from Paris to New York, a feat which had not been before accomplished. Mr. De Windt asserts that the overland journey was much more hazardous and difficult than he expected, and that he would decline the trip again. De Windt left the Transsiberian Railway at Irkutsk. From there a course almost directly north was followed to the borders of the Arctic ocean. The trail was along the Lena River, which 13 one of the great rivers of the continent of Asia. On the Unaa great find of gold has been made, but none of the Russians Is permitted to mine It. Much of this part of the trip was made behind reindeer. Near the mouth of the river dogs were procured, and they hauled the four men the remainder of the way to Cape East. The country traversed was covered severel feet with snow, the road was untraveled and rough dangers lurked at almost every turn. The members of the expedition were treated with kindness, but in many places the natives were suffering from famine and disease and could do little for their visitors. Many prosperous cities exist upon the map along the route which the leader of the party had selected. When the points were reached, nothing but a fewscattered huts and a half dozen wretched natives were found. The people of all the northern part of the continent have been attracted to the coast nearest America, as there they can trade with the American whalers and subsist more easily than in their inland towns and villages. For several hundred miles directly east of Bering straits. Mr. De Windt found many settlements of the natives, and there he found food and assistance. Had he not met the Siberians, he believes, he could never have reached Bering straits, and so his rescue is due to American traders.

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i of tht fame IDER OF AN ITALIAN RAPHAEL COMPETELLO STABBED TO DEATH IX THE STREET. Had Altercation with Llixle Spalding, Colored, and Supposed to Have Deen Killed by Her Husband. FEMORAL ARTERY .SEVERED ITALIAN BLED TO DEATH SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS SLASHED. Competello Kept a Frnlt Stand on the Market The Police Looking: for Joe Spalding. Raphael Competello, a young Neapolitan fruit vender, was stabbed to death at 10 o'clock last night on East Washington street by a negro thought to be Joe Spalding, of East Court street. The murderer quickly made his escape In the crowd and confusion that followed. The circumstances of the Italian's death are more or less . clouded in mystery, but out of the mass of statements made by excited bystanders, the police at once went to work on clews that seemed to promise the apprehension of the murderer. Competello, who conducted a fruit stand in the city market, kept his wares in a cellar under the second-hand store of David Asoptsky, at 5U East Washington street, near where he met his death. Last night, after arranging his fruits, he locked the cellar door and went to O'Brien's restaurant, at East and Washington streets, for supper. Later, meeting a fellow countryman, the two went to Brown's barrel house, on Washington street, just east of Liberty street, and had a number of drinks together. They remained there, it is said, about an hour and a half, and were quiet and orderly while in the place. ATTRACTED BY CRIES. People who live in the second stories of the buildings along East Washington street, between New Jersey and East streets, were drawn to their windows about 10 o'clock by the voluble cries of a colored woman, and the excited protestations oi a frightened Italian," who was dodging bowlders and stones that she hurled at him as he ran into the street in front of the barrel house at the corner of New Jersey and Washington streets. The woman, who was said to be Lizzie Spalding, wife of the suspected murderer, was screaming at the top of her shrill voice and doing her best to hit the fleeing Italian with one of the big rocks she was hurling. In the midst of the uproar three negroes ran out of North Liberty street into Washington. One was a little yellow negro, dressed in brown clothes and minus a hat. The other two were taller, the onlookers noted, and remained in the background. The little negro made rapidly for the woman and the Italian, shouting for her to tell him what was the matter. Several people, who were within earshot of the two. declared that she told the little negro that the Italian had stopped her and had tried to hold her up. Without further ado the little negro ran to the fruit vender, pulling a knife as he ran, and plunged it into the Italian's right thigh. With blood pouring in a stream from the severed femoral artery the Italian walked unsteadily to the sidewalk and then west for nearly a square, leaving a trail of blood that reddened the sidewalk. In front of Smith. Day & Co.'s office In the new building near the corner of East street, Competello, overcome by weakness from loss of blood, fell to the sidewalk. A crowd cf people collected around him rapidly and several tried to stop the flow of blood with handkerchiefs. One man closed the wound for a few seconds with his fingers, but the big artery was entirely severed and Competello died within ten minutes after he fell. The body was taken to the city morgue. A few minutes after the fight with the negro woman took place a colored man ran Into Brown's barrel house where the Italians had been drinking and said that

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Competello had tried to hold up the colored woman (Lizzie Spalding) and that she had resisted the attempt by a fusillade of stones. The rollce were informed that some cne else had run to Spalding's home on East Court street just off Liberty and had told him that his wife was in ä fight with an Italian. It is said that two or three other negroes were with Spalding and that th three ran rapidly down Liberty street to the 6cene of the fight. SPALDING NOT AT HOME. Working on the theory that Joe Spalding killed the Italian the police went at once to Spalding's house. Neither he nor his wife could be found, nor did anybody know where they had gone. The negroes living in the neighborhood kept a close rein on their tongues and swore they knew nothing about the whole affair. Everything indicate, however, so the police declare, that Spalding stabbed Competello, and that it was his wife who rocked the Italian before the murder. Just after the Italian was stabbed the murderer was seen to run west to East street and then to South on East. In the turmoil the woman disappeared completely. It is hardly rrobable that the murderer can escape arrest. The police, under Captain Hyland and Captain of Detectives Gerber, including the entire bicycle force. Detectives Dugan and Lancaster, and a number of patrolmen examined those who claimed to be eyewitnesses and made a thorough search of alleys and back yards in the neighborhood. The Spalding house and several negro boarding houses were searched, without result. All district patrolmen were at once notified and watch was placed on all railroad yards and out

going trains. Competello, the murdered man, came from Naples. Italy, to Indianapolis about seven I CONTINUED ON PAGE 2. COL. 6.) TRYING TO OUTDO TRACY JAMES M'KINNEY SAYS THE OREGON OUTLAW IS 'NOT IN IT.' Ex-Convict Shoots Oat the Lights of a Saloon, Kills One Man, Wounds Four and Flees to the Hills. FRESNO. Cal.. July 28. At Porterville. James McKinney, an ex-convict, shot five men and escaped into the country. McKinney first shot out the lights of a saloon, and tried to shoot the cards out of the hands of a player. The cards dropped, and so did William Lynn, a gambler, whose arms and legs were filled with buckshot. Lynn later succumbed to his wounds. McKinney then went to a livery stable, and at the muzzle of a revolver secured a rig. As he was driving off a constable, a deputy and several citizens tried to arrest McKinney. He opened fire, wounding four of the party. The tight arm of George Barrows, a printer, was filled with shot; and a bullet went into the mouth of Deputy Marshal Willis, another into the arm of Deputy Constable Tompkins, and a load of shot into the arm of W. D. West. McKinney then fled. Before leaving he awakened Dave Moshier, and said to him: "I've got Into a fight. They came after me, but I whipped them all. I killed three or four of them. They have not treated me right. I'll die game. You talk about Tracey, he won't be in it with me." There was bloo( on one of his legs, and It is believed he was wounded. He is headed for Fresno county, and It is supposed he will make for the mountains. He has a shotgun, a rifle and a revolver. Officers from surrounding counties have been notified to keep sharp lookout. Two years ago McKinney killed a man at Bakersfield, but was exonerated. He has served a term In state prison. SUICIDE OF A CHICÄGOAN A. 91. ROTHSCHILD, RETIRED MERCHANT, KILLS HIMSELF. Enters the Bathroom of Ills Residence and Fires a Bullet Into His Fore, head Insane from Insomnia. CHICAGO. July 2S. A. M. Rothschild, until two months ago the head of the Statestreet department store firm of A. M. Rothschild & Co., committed suicide to-day at his home. Thirty-seventh court and Michigan avenue, by shooting himself in the head, the wound inflicted causing almost instant death. Acute insomnia, which probably caused temporary insanity. Is said to be responsible for the deed. Mr. Rothschild returned from a six weeks' outing in Minnesota the past week, and seemed improved physically. At no time, it is said, was his mental condition such as to cause any apprehension that he contemplated self-destruction. Shortly after luncheon this afternoon Mr. Rothschild entered the bathroom of one of the upper floors of his home, and almost immediately the servants heard the report of a revolver. Rushing to the bathroom they found the merchant lying on the floor. A bullet wound In the forehead showed what had happened. Mr. Rothschild was still breathing. A physician was summoned, but could be of no service. Mr. Rothschild retired from the management of the big department store at State and Van Buren streets about two months ago on account of ill-health. A constitution ordinarily robust had been shattered in building up the business since Its opening, seven years ago. Interested with him. and the principal owner of the store, was Nelson Morris, his father-in-law. Mr. Rothschild was born in the little German village of Nordstetten, fifty-seven years ago. When a child of five years he came to America, and while in his teens went to Davenport, la. With his two brothers he established a general store. In 175 he came to Chicago and immediately began making a reputation for himself, organizing in lvtj the department store which now bears his name. Mr. Rothschild was a director of the world's fair, a former director of the National Bank of the liepublic and a member of the Standard, Washington Park and Hamilton clubs. He leaves a widow and one son. MYSTERY AT FORT SHERIDAN.

Tito Prisoners nnil a Sentry Dlsappear and Cannot Be Found. CHICAGO, July 28. Two prisoners. Fred Enls and John McQuig. and Sentry Willlam Treet, of Company M. Twenty-first Infantry, who was guarding them, have disappeared from Fort Sheridan, and no trace of the missing men has been found. Searching parties sent out in every direction have scoured the woods and ravines, but have failed to secure a clew. Whether the guard has deserted with his prisoners or whether the sentry was overpowered by his charges and lies in some deserted spot, gagged and bound, or perhaps murdered, is a matter of conjecture, altfctpugh the trustworthiness of the soldier is fcrhund for the belief that an encounter occurred.

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F FRANCHIS L SUBMITTED HV IXDIAXAPOLIS TR CTION AND TERMINAL COMPANY. It Calls for Two Loops, the Larger One to Include Nearly a 31 lie Square Down Town. THIRTY-ONE-YEAR FRANCHISE IXTERURRAN PASSF.XnER STATION WITHIN SMALL LOOP. Two Freight Stations Are to Be Contructed Within the Outer Loop for Reasons Named. ANOTHER CONFERENCE TO-DAY SUGGESTION ABOUT CROSS-TOWN LINE CAUSES DELAY. Mayor Bookwalter Also Wants Lex Ington-Avenue Line ExtendedOther Municipal Affairs. The franchise asked by the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company was submitted to the Board of Public Works by Hugh J. McGowan. president of the Indianapolis Street-railway Company, yesterday afternoon. It was read by Attorney Winter and at its conclusion, when It seemed that all the provisions with flight' additions and modifications were acceptable. Mayor Bookwalter announced further conditions that the city would impose before the franchise was granted. He asked for a North Side street-railway cross-towa line and an extension in Lexington avenue. Councilman Mortality urged favorable consideration of a cross-town line in Irospect street and Councilman Wheeler a lin across Twenty-fifth street. Because of these suggestions the meeting accomplished nothing further than the reception of the franchise. This morning the board, wiiii Mr. McGowan, Mayor Bookwalter and Councilman Moriarity, will examine the Sixteenth, Prospect-street cross-town line routes and the Lexington avenue extension and then Mr. McGowan will make his answer. Should he concede these additions to the local service there is little doubt that the car tax will be eliminated from the contracts with the Interurban roads (except the Union Traction Company) and th terminal franchise granted. WORDING OF FRANCHISE. This franchise, stripped of its legal verbiage, provides: That the Indianapolis Traction and Te minal Company shall have the rlsht to use the streets designated and to maintain its terminal stations and system for thirtyone years. At any time authority is given to consolidate with the Indianapolis Streetrailway Company, the Traction Company being a separate organization now for the purpose of rapidly financing it. That the company be permitted to uj the fcdlowing streets: New York street, from Alabama to Senate avenue. Ohio street, from Alabama street to Senate avenue. Market street, from Illinois street to Capitol avenue. Maryland street, from Alabama street to Delaware, and from Capitol avenue to Senate avenue. Georgia street, from Alabama street to Pennsylvania street, and from Illinois street to Senate avenue. South street, from Alabama street to Delaware street; Kentucky avenue, from intersection of Georgia street to Intersection of Washington and Illinois streets. Senate avenue, from New York ;o South street. Capitol avenue, from New York to South street. Meridian street, from Georgia to South street. Pennsylvania street, from Georgia to South street. Delaware, from Maryland to South street. Alabama street, from Market street to South street. That the rate of fare shall be the samo as the Indianapoll Street-railway Company and that the tickets of both companies are good on the cars of both. That an interurban passenger station b constructed within the small loop bounded by Delaware. Ohio. Capitol avenue and Georgia street; and that two freight stations be built within the outer loop bounded by East street. South street. Senate avenue and New York street. That the smll loop mut be constructed at once and thit tne other may be constructed at any time during the first five years but not later than five years. The franchise contains most of the provisions of the franchise of the Indianapolis Street-railway Company, all of them relating to the occupancy of streets, obligations to the public and reserved rights of the city. LIMIT NOT FIXED. During the reading of the franchise the mayor noticed that the provision called for the completion of the inner loop and passenger station within "blank" months. He suggested that this be made definite. "I suggest that we Insert twelve months. said Mr. Logsdon, of the Board of Public Works. Mr. McGowan said there was so much special work in the proposed terminal system that he would hesitate to say that the system could be installed in twelve months. He said he would not accept a franchise that fixed that limit because he knew of the delays that occur in the making of special curves. So, for the present, the limit was not fixed. The period of ih franchise was also blank. Mr. McGowan said he thought it cuRht to be thirty-four years as that would nable the promoters to finance the scheme better. The mayor said he remembered how overlapping fraprhi". was one of the causes of litigation about the old Citizens' Company's franchise and that he wou'd not approve any contract that extended for a longer period thin that cf the Indianapolis Street-railway Company. Mr. McGowan s-id he would not ini.t on this point and he was willing that It fehould terminate with the !"cal company's franchise and it was made to read "thirty-one years." The mayor thn trought up the subject cf extensions and cross-town lines. He said the extension of a line between Erg'.:a avenue and Pm-pect street, probably tn Lexington avmue. eaat of Virginia avenue, was a necessity as many In that territrry now had to walk from a quarter to hilf a mile to a car. Vice President Jone, of the Indianapolis company, said he had investigated this extension and found It Impracticable because of some hazardous curves and It ended In the lug Four yards. The patrons of the English-avenue and Prospect-street lin. he iild. had to walle onlv 1.50 feet to get service. CROSS-TOWN LINE. The mayor suggested a cross-town lln on the North Side, either on Sixteenth or Thirtieth street. 'What's the matter with Prospect, street?" asked Councilman Moriarity. "Tlicre arc tilru cf workinmea