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A BRIEF HONEYMOON.
The Bridegroom Killed "A Few Days After
His Wedding.

The Bridegroom Killed Few Days After
His Wedding.
ANDERSON, May 80. Especial. = Last
Saturday Rector McGlone OF the Trinity
episcopal church in this city was called
TO Elwood to unite in marriage William
Evans and pretty Welsh lady. Mr..
Evans is a Wells hman. aged about twenty
five years, and worked at the American
tin plate works.
Last night about 0 o'clock the BRIDE
groom OF but two DAYS was instantly
killed at the place OF bis employment.
The tin plate works has an electric light
plant of its own. Evans got upon a~stack
OF iron plates and with pair OF tongs at
tenn pted 10 adjus live wire.
The result was awful the tongs touched
the wire and the next instant q deadly
current of electricity shot through the
mans body and he fell back dead. His
hands and feet burned until smoke and
odor came from the burning flesh.
The news of her husbands death was
broken as gently as possible to the young
wife. She fell in faint; the shock was
too great Today she is Frustrated with
grief and medical attention is being given
her.
Rector McGlone will again be called to
perform duty in striking contrast with
the one Of last Saturday.
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JERSEY CATTLE BREEDERS.
The First Combination sale at 8Iuncie 1
Very Successful one.

The First Combination sale at 9Iuneie n
Very Successful One.
MUNcE. June 2.-LSpeclal. The first
combination sale OF Eastern Indiana Jer-
sey cattle breeders association occurred in
Muncie today and was q grand success.
Over two hundred bidders were present
and sixtv-eight head were sold The
average price was Sl2O which is considered
very high, as a majority OF the animals
were young calves.
John DUNCAN of Muncie paid 1890 for
one young heller which had a record OF
sixteen pounds of butter per week. Sew
eral others brought upwards OF $500.
A. I. Dempsey of Columbus, O., was
the largest purchaser.
The contributors to the sale were the
River Jersey cattle company, Muncie.
Ind; Belmont jersey cattle COM
pany, Columbus. o.; J. H. Matlock
| BroWnstown, Ind; L. b. Harris, Ash
vile; Ii. @. Schlsgel, Daleville; O. p.
Jones, Reeds; G. NJ. Jones, Stout; o. p.
Bowers, Royerton; James Boyce, ]. G..
Bowers, Lewis Moore, Walter Pierce, NJ.
5. Claypool. j. ID. Truitt, ]. w. DUNCAN
and w. +. Gilmore, Muncie.
ID. II. Jenkins. editor Of the Jersey Bud.
letiH, pronounced the sale the best ever
held In this part of the country.
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Denths.

GREENWOOD, June Especial. Sam
uel Sells, a much-respected farmer of
White river township, Johnson county,
died yesterday, aged sixty-two.
TERRE HAUTE, June 81 Special. Pas
senger Conductor Al Blake of the Van
dalia line was taken suddenly i'll at st.
Louis Yesterday just after completing his
run and was brought here. He died to-
night. lie was one of the best known
railroad conductors in the state and ran
for years between Terre Haute and st.
Louis.
PERU. June ESPECIAL. Thomas ].
Mcdowell. one of the best known news
paper men in the county and state, died
today of heart trouble. He was down
town this morning and walked home for
dinner, but shortly afterward had an at
tack which resulted in his death in few
minutes. Mr.. Mcdowell was for many
years the proprietor of the democratic
organ of this county and has served the
party as councilman for several terms.
He was always hard worker in the in
terest OF democracy. and his death is
greatly deplored by his friends, who were
legion.
FRANKLIN, June 2. = Especial + An
thony Brunemer died at his home at
Whiteland last night after protracted
illness. Deceased was born in West Vir-
GINA May Is, 1911, and came to this
county in 1889. He was a member OF the
methodist church. -Four children survive
him.
COLUMBUS, June 9. - Special i Mrs.
John Chids an aged and highly respect
ed citizen of this county, died at her
home, four miles east of this city, yester-
| day. She came to this county when it
was almost wilderness.
BEDFORD. June L. Special. William
Neal, travelling salesman for q wholesale
grocery house, very suddenly died at his
home in Harrodsburg, fourteen miles
north of here, yesterday afternoon caused
from heart trouble. He was extensively
known and quite popular in southern In
| diana.
Brazil, June l. - Especial. - Robert
! Hungate. aged fifty-ive and an old citizen,
and one of the foremost farmers in Lewis
| township, who was thought TO be in fine
health. dropped dead of supposed heart
| disease this morning.
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MADE A CLEAN BREAST OF IT.
RumOred Indictments Against Ex-GoyernO
Chase, Paris and the Cashier.

/ Rumored Indictments Against Ex-Governor
Chase Paris and the Cashier.
! KoKoMo, June 81 Special. The grand
| iurv investigating the Greentown bank
/ failure will not report before Tuesday
/ morning but the evening paper here au-
nounces with much positiveness that in
| dictments have been found against Ex-
| Governor Chase, John W. Paris aud CASH
| Ter Walden.
The fact that Prosecutor PIXIE, who con-
| Quoted the investigation, was called from
| Tipton today bears out the belief that true
| bills have been found. The
| examination of witnesses was con-
Guided Thursday evening and as
the remainder of the business is in the
| hands of his deputy he would have no
| other duty here than to draw up the in
! dictments.
| 1t was shown by the testimony of
| Cashier Walden that the organizers OF the
bank never put dollar into it. Even the
| fixtures were paid for by the deposits, and
were the Paris paper and the Chicago gold
mining paper good the bank would still be
insolvent
He contradicted Chase in one important
particular The ex-governor said he knew
nothing of the business of the bank, and
did not know that the Chicago gold min
ing note bearing his signature had been
deposited. Walden said that he showed
him these notes. together with the Paris
note for s., Goo
Walden made clean breast of every
thing and gave much damaging testl-
mony.
The Russiaville bank failure also came
Up for investigation and il is said that an
Indictment has been found against Zimri
DWiggins, but this is probably through
his connection with the Greentown bank.
The Greentown firm comprised Zimri
Dwiggins, John w. Paris, Ira J. Chase.
Lewis s Walden and h. W. Miles. 1t is
believed that Miles alone has escaped.
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Brazil, May 31.-[special. Jim John
son shot and killed Leslie Bell about
o'clock this afternoon at Caseyvllle. a
mining town on the Parke and Clay
county line.
Bell was saloon keeper at Cardonia I;
johnson is o miner at Pratt.
The shooting was without provocation
and the murderer instantly fed.
Bell was thirty-fve years of age and
leaves a widow and four children. john
son is about the same age, out single
man.
The indignation of the community over
the affair is at high pressure, and fears
are entertained that Johnson will be
lynched If caught
Another account says that Johnson and
Bell went hunting. both apparently being
in pleasant and friendly humOr, but that
they soon quarreled, which finally ended
in johnson using his gun on Bell. He
riddled him with shot and then fled the
county, but with the officers In hot pur-
suit as soon as they could get upon his
trail They will doubtless arrest him be-
fore many hours.
Soon after the shooting Bell was found
by some of his friends in a pool of blood
pouring from his wounds.
He was alive when found but could
give no intelligent account Of the affair
and soon after expired.
ROCKVILLE, June L. Special. An old
grudge was the cause of the murder of
Leslie Bell of Cardonia by James Johnson
OF Clay county at the mining town of
Caseyville in Psrke county yesterday
afternoon.
Bell and Johnson had qusrreled in
James Patterson's saloon. Bell went out
and Johnson, whose shotgun was in the
saloon, took it. loaded it and waited until
Bell afterward approached the front OF
the saloon. when he fred. killing him in
stantly. johnson was arrested at Rose
dale last night and is now in jail. He is
the second murderer in the first degree in
custody there.
Parke county thus adds another to its
long list of recent murders. No other
community in the country possessing so
high grade of public intelligence, with
excellent church and school facilities and
courts that haze always been of the high
est standard, can show such q record. her
people are appalled, at it.
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THE PRINCE OF TRAMPs.

Sunday in shelbyvine-wiu Arrive In In
dianapOlis Tuesday.
sHELBYvILLE, June A. Special. l-E. E.
Thompson, the prince of tramps, reached
Shelbyville this morning ct 10 o'clock.
He was the guest during the day of the
Maple Leaf foresters' club, members of
which took him home to dinner. During
the afternoon he received in the club
rooms and walked about town admiring
residences and handsome streets. He had
with him beautiful Scotch
collie dog, which James Morrison
clipped for him in the tan STYLE.
lie was in 81. Paul yesterday and expects
to reach London or Acton tomorrow and
indianapolis Tuesday. He travels with
out any money and so: kind and
Drepossessing is his appearance that
he has no trouble in getting on. His
agreement was to walk ten miles every
day and he is now 100 miles ahead of his
time. lie says he is making for South
America and will stop at the worlds fair
for few days. He is in the best of health
and says that so far be has lived on the
best in the land although he expects hard
times crossing the desert
III keep close TO the railroads and
where the country is the most populated
and think I'll pull through all right"
lie carries book in which he records
the names of the acquaintances he makes
In the several towns and the things which
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each man gives him. He added quite
number OF names to his list while here
and made many pleasant friends for him
self and dog.
THAT CEDAR LAKE MONSTER.

Judge George Burson Denounces the En-
tire Story as False and Made Up.
NoBLEsvILLE, June L. Special. For
ten DAYS or more a story has been going
the rounds of the press throughout the
coutry detailing the thrilling capture of a
huge sea serpent in Cedar lake, near Win
amac, Ind.
Many citizens in Noblesville were loath
to believe the report, and to ascertain the
truth concerning the matter Elwood Will
son, a well-known merchant of this city.
addressed a letter to the Hon. George
Burson, Judge OF Pulaski county. and who
lives near Cedar Lake, asking for a state
ment of facts about the supposed monster.
Today he received the following letter:
WINAMAC. Ind. May &c, 1898.
Elwood Wilson. Noblesville:
SIR-Your letter of yesterday in relation to
alleged capture OF a monster serpent at Cedar
lake came duly to hand.
The story was manufactured out of whole
cloth by Don J. Gorrell. publisher of the
.Stdrke County Democrat, who is ambitious to
initiate Jules Verne, Rider Hsgzard. Tom
Ochiltree AnRnias and other noted liars /
have not been at Cedar lake for year past.
/ am sorry - spoil the story, but knowing the
young man as do assure you to put no con-
tidenee in the yarn.
You can visit the lake with impunity pro-
Vided pure article is contained in the jug.
GEORGE BURSON.
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ANoTHER FARMER swINpLEp.

How John Stipp of Monroe County Lost
Several Thousand Dollars.
BLooNINGToN. May 31.-[Speoial. lone
of the most successful confidence games
ever known in this part Of the state has
just como to light, in which John Stipp, a
leading farmer OF this county, is said 10 be
the victim. About two weeks ago a stranger
appeared in this city. Going to livery
stable he secured q horse and buggy,
stating that he would return in the even
ing. Meanwhile a confederate had formed
the acquaintance OF Mr.. Stipp, and bar
gained with him 70 purchase what is
known az the Red Stone quarry, worth
not less than $40, 900. but which he offered
tor $4,000 cash. The trade was finally
agreed upon. Both men came to town,
when the other confederate appeared and
said he would close mp the papers. Stipp
went to the bank and procured $1,000
cash, and. the papers having been ar
ranged. he and one Of the confederates
started for Stipp's house, three miles south
of town. The money was placed in box,
and when the house was reached the con-
federate said he would drive TO the quar-
~. two miles distant. to return in an
hour, and handed q box to Stipp, who
went into the house. Alter waiting a
while and the man not returning Stipp
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How She Saved Her Home.

MUNcrE. June Mrs. A. L. Barton
made it interesting for a scoundrel this
morning who was attempting to burn her
home.
at 2 o'clock the lady got out of bed just
in time TO detect two men near her home.
Dir. Barton was away aud she got her
husbands 3S-caIibre revolver. One OF the
men went TO Shafer & Fosters saloon. He
was to fire the saloon building and the
other remained to fire Barton's house. As
the torch was being applied. the brave
little woman commanded the one at her
house to throw up his hands, which he
did, but he soon escaped while the woman
fired first at one and then the other.
Mira. Barton's timely discovery saved
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The COLUMBUS TRAGEDY.
Fuller Details of the Murder and AT.
tempted Suicide.

COLUMBUS, June 2. Especial. i THE
SENTINEL published today substantially
the facts of the almost double tragedy
that occurred here last night, but the fol-
lowing account from this mornings Col
umbus Times will be found interesting:
Another horrible murder-almost q double
murder, Ten minuses after 6 O'Clock last even
ing three pistol shots were heard in rapid sue.
cession in the right hand room, at the head OF
the stairway. and In the heavy thud as Of a
body falling on the floor. then the screams Of a
woman, in the brick house owned by ID. F.
Long, at the corner of Seventh and Pearl-sts.
and occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Plymate. who
keeps boarders and lodgers
On hearing the shots the occupants below
rushed up stairs. but before reaching
the landing two more shots were fired
Mr.. Plymate found the door locked, but pee ped
over the transom, when horrible spectacle
met his gaze. The bodies OF man and woman
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KILLED BY A HORSE.
Horrible Fate of Mrs. Margaret Thomps,
Near Charlottesville.

Horrible Fate of Mrs. Margaret Thompson
Near Crawfordsville.
CRAwFORDsvILLE. June IL Special. =
Mrs.. Margaret Thompson. relict OF the
late Amos Thompson, one of the wealth
lest and most prominent citizens OF Mont
gomery county, met with horrible death
last evening at her home, north OF Craw-
fordsville.
She went into the stable and into the
stall of a favorite horse. The animal
failed 10 recognize her because she wore
a cape over her head, and crowded her
against the eide of the stall until she be-
came unconscious and fell. After her fall
her face and breast were paved and
stamped into a shapeiess mass. She was
discovered few minutes later by Alex
ander Stroud, who is mployed on the
farm, and Mr.. Stroud was seriously hurt
while trying to remove Mrs. ThompsOn's
body from under the feet of the vicious
animal.
The deceased was seventy-three years
old. She leaves several sons, all promi-
nent farmers
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HIS OCCUPATION GONE.

The Rev. II. V. Hunter Resigns the Chair
manship of the Sunday Closing Committee.
TERRE HAUTE, June 4.-[Special The
Rev. X. V. Hunter, pastor of the Central
PRESBYTERIAN church of this city. has re-
signed the national craftsmanship of the
Christian endeavor worlds fair Sunday
closing committee. He says the commit
tee has no further work since tine courts
have taken in hand the question of clos
ing or opening the fair on Sundays. lie
said today:
There are some of the agitators who want to
fight the matter further by urging the members
OF different religious organizations to stay
away from the fair. am not in on THE move
ment and am trying to cancel the convention
to be held at indianapolis June IL, 10 and 10
which was set to discuss the closing Of the fair.
think there is no OF this convention. Sec
rotary Bser OF the united society of Christian
endeavor OF Boston agrees with me that the
courts will settle the matter. therefore the work
of the committee on Sunday closing is fin.
ished, and there il no need OF further agitation
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THE SCHEME MATERIALIzEs.
Gas Belt Towns to be Reached by Electric
Roads.


Roads.
NoBLEsvILE, June 1. Especial. 7
There was nothing visionary about the
action of the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Hi
nois capitalists in this city tonight who
are proposing to connect the leading gas
belt cities with electric street car lines.
Tonight an organization known as the
Central Indiana electric railway company
was perfected with capital stock of
S4,500,000. 1t is composed of
moneyed and influential men from
Dayton, ST. Louis, Chicago. Philadelphia.
and London, England. The purpose of
the new organization is to connect Indian
apolis. Noblssvile. Anderson. Muncie,
ElWood, Upton, Kokomo, Frankfort, Peru,
Logansport. Lafayette, Marion and Fort
Wayne with electric street car lines. This,
the company has decided, would be a
paying investment owing to the phenom-
email growth of the towns in the gas belt
rendering connection with Indianapolis
almost q necessity.
Il is the intention of the COM
pany TO build a substantial stone bal
lasted road-bed using extra heavy steel
rails and in avoidance of sharp curves and
steep grades a high rate of speed will be
attained with safety cars which; running
at short intervals will carry both
passengers and freight st a small cost
Through cars will also be run
stopping only at the more central points.
Work on the gigantic scheme will be com.
menced Immediately.
The following board OF directors was
selected this evening: Paul j.
Pontius. Samuel Brinkerhof. j.
Thompson Baker, Robert t. Wiki
inson, Thomas Wilkinson. William b.
Keep, Gustavus A. Gessner, Nevin ID.
Pontius, George A. h Kintz.
The stockholders are Paul Pontius, Phil.
adelpEia; the Illinois electric railway com
pany, Chicago j. T. Baker. Lewis.
burg, Pa; n. ID. Pontious, Chicago
W. B. Keep. Chicago; G. A. p
kintz, Washington Heights ]. +. Crane
I. NJ. s. Metten, G. H. w. johnson, Chi.
cago; S. Harry Oliver, ST. Louis; +. W.
Lewis. Chicago; Robert 7. Wilkinson, Mt.
Carmel, Ill.,; Thomas Wilkinson, Chi
cago; q. A. Gessner, Noblesville.
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DEAD IN A coRN-sHED.
How James Maroney of AIorristown Put Ont
the Vital Spark.

How James marOney of MOrristown Put Out
the Vital Spark.
SHELBYvILLE, June p Special. -
James Msroney. living with his brother
in-lsw. Melvin Bowman, north OF Morris
town, was found dead in a cow-shed last
night hanging by the neck.
Maroney was aged about thirty-eight
and single. Ills father, Sylvester Maroney,
and family moved to Granville, Jasper
county, Illinois. about twenty years
ago and while there in lit
of mental depression killed himself
by cutting mis- throat. Young Maroney
for years has been afflicted with an i'm
pairment of vision. Last week he visited
a noted oculist in Indianapolis who in
formed him that it would be only ques-
ton of time until he would be totally
blind. He was here at family dinner
Decoration day and seemed depressed and
gloomy.
1t was reported on the streets today
that number of his ancestors had COM
mitted suicide while living in Kentucky,
but it could not be verified.
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A sensational Wedding.

Brazil, June Especial. IA senss-
tional wedding took place at the county
clerks office Thursday evening. Martha
sheppard, who had just been divorced and
a woman past middle age was the bride,
and Thomas Jones, but a youth, the
groom. The ceremony was performed by
Justice James, witnessed by Deputy Clerk
a. w. Turner. County Assessor Lewis
Miller and Henry NJ. Pierce. No sooner
had the words been said pronouucing
them husband and wife than the bride
advanced upon the verdant groom, COM
pressed his cheeks and planted arobus-
tious kiss. saying: Now, l guess I'll kiss
you whenever l please" Deputy Turner
suggested that she pass around" when
Pierce begged to be excused and made a
hasty egress from the room.
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OUTRAGED BY TWO NEGROES.
Clara Russell Deserted by Her Escort Meets
with Terrible Experience.

Clara Russell Deserted by Her Escort Meets
with Terrible Experience.
TERRE HAUTE, May Especial. !
Clara Russell, a white girl aged sixteen,
made complaint to the police today that
she had been criminally assaulted last
night by two negroes.
She said that she was walking with her
escort, young fellow of this city. in the
vicinity of the fair ground, when they
were stopped by two colored men. one OF
whom drew a revolver and compelled her
escort to move on.
She says that both the negroes outraged
her and fled leaving her alone on the COM
mons.
Charles Whitser and John Browning
were arrested for the alleged outrage The
former confessed, but claimed it was done
with her consent.
An affidavit charging the two men with
criminal outrage was sworn 10 by the girl
and the defendants sent to jail pending
the hearing.
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A HAPPY FAMILY REUNION.

Rhodes Hurst and His Children Meet After
Separation of Thirty Years.
MUEcrE, June Especial. There was
family reunion in Muncie today between
q father and his three children. who have
been separated for thirty-three years.
The father never had expected to again
see the little tots that he abandoned with
their mother early in the sixties. At that
time Rhodes Hurst left his wife and three
small children near Wabash. The woman
soon died and the children were sent to
relatives in different parts of the country.
After they grew to manhood and woman
hood they returned to Wabash county,
where one son, William, and daughter,
Rosetta, still reside. jesse, another SON,
lives at Marion.
All are married. and long since gave up
ever seeing their father. Mr.. Hurst has
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A Pleasant sociaI Event.

NoBLEsvILLE, June L. Especial. Last
evening the elegant home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Patterson was a bower of love
illness. They entertained 100 of their
friends in honor OF the following guests
from Indianapolis: Miss Jessie Bird. Miss
May Johnson, Miss May Smith, Miss lda
NJ Sweeoie and Miss Angela Maxwell,
and Messrs. John Geiger and viii Walker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson and their guests
received DELIGHTFULLY."-. 4 very elaborate
line OF refreshments was served, and the
musical program was happy finale TO a
very pleasant evening. DIR. Albert Shaw
of New York City. the American editor
of the Reri0U of Reriers, was distinguished
guest. 1t was the social event of the year.
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Bad Use of n Parole.

SHELBYvILLE, June A. Especial. Bob
Clark, the young man who rented a
bycicle of G. w. Guthrie a week ago yes
terday for an hour and then sold the same
10 Hearsey of Indianapolis for SO, was
captured at the edge OF Shelbyville yester-
day evening and is now in Jail.
He was out on parole from the
Piainfield reform school and stands a
splendid chance Of going to the pen. He
is the son of Maj. Asa Clark of this city,
a most estimable gentleman, who has
done all in his power for his wayward
boy, and now decides to let the law take
it's course.