The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-06
A Difference as to Belief.

The Danish Observation-Disclosures Trinity
Church case came up in the Circuit Court
yesterday, and the members of the congre-
CATION were out in force for the hearing.
This suit arose from a difference between
the plaintiffs. Soren Hansen No. 2 and a
majority of the church membership, and
the defendants, Soren Hansen No. 1, Lars
p. Hansen, Hans Petersen and the other
members of the church, on a question of
creed. This difference of opinion was, in
effect. whether the true doctrine is saliva
tiOn for all who seek it by prayer, or
whether some are ordained to be saved and
others to eternal punishment. in spite of all
they can do for their salvation. The strife
grew so bitter that the adherents of TIT latter
OF new belief, though in the minority,
locked out of the church the majority, who
chung to the old doctrine. and refused to let
them attend worship or participate in the
election of church officers. They hold the
keys, and the plaintiffs cannot gain en-
trance. except by force, so they entered suit
for an injunction to restrain the defendants
from interfering with them in the exercise
of their church rights. The defendants
claim the church is $500 in debt, and that
to its support. and allege that as the cause
for the lockout Hans Petersen. secretary
of the church trustees, and one of the de-
PENDANTS, was Oh the stand all day yester-
day. The case will occupy Judge How
lands attention for several days to come.
Elected from a Street Car.
1t appears that the Citizens Street-rail-
road Company has not yet come to the am
icable understanding with the Oak Hill
citizens which the public has been led to
believe. Mrs. Mary ID. Winter, a middle
aged widow, who lives at the corner of
Fernway and Paw Paw streets. had issued,
yesterday afternoon, from Justice of the
Peace Johnston's court, warrants
for the arrest of Elmer Hall.
driver. n Robert Porter, roadmaster,
on a charge of assault and battery. Mrs.
Winter states that. on Jan. 81, she boarded
a car at the postoffice for her home. and
paid the customary fare. When the car
reached the CITY limits, she says, the driver
demanded another fare. which she refused
to pay. He then, she charges, ordered her
Oft the car, using very rough language. She
did not alight. aud Hall. the driver, called
upon Porter, the road officer, to assist in
e~jecting her from the car. Mrs. Winter re-
sisted remOval,and claims that the men used
violent measures in e%jecting her. She
caught to the side of the car, and the men,
she alleges, jerked her roughly about and
pushed her from the platform. The COM
plainant had Rev. John NorthrOp. of
Brightwood, who was aboard the car, sum
mOned as a witness in the case, which will
be tried as soon as the accused men are ap-
pretended. The lady is well known and
highly respected, and being possessed of
considerable means declares that she will
prosecute the action vigorously.
Motion for a New Trial for Aszman.
Edward Aszman, through his attorneys,
Duncan a. Smith, filed a motion, yesterday
afternoon, for a new trial. Ii was argued
at once, the grounds taken being that Judge
Irwin erred in his instructions to the jury,
in that he failed to include in them, as the
defense requested, the following points:
First, that the mere finding of o grand jury
is not necessarily al evidence of guilt;
second. that any individual doubt as to
guilt must have as much weight as a, gen.
eral feeling of doubt: third, that a person
under the influence of liquor cannot be
found guilty of murder in the first degree.
A Gas Machine Company's Claim.
Some time ago the Combination Gas and