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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-30
TO-DAY'S BOAT RACE
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CREWS TO
ROW ON THE THAMES.
Betting Last Night Was o to in
Favor of the Former = Britannia
Defeated by the Yacht Ailsa.

STAR AND GARTER, Putney. March
29.-The ffty-seventh boat race between
crews representing the universities of Ok
ford and Cambridge will be decided to-mor-
row. The hum of opinions and reasons
therefor is continuous and is led by such
oarsmen as Wallace Ross. Bubear, Hard
ing. Sullivan, Barry, the holder of Dog
gets Coat and Badge, and many others,
major or minor lights of the world of oars
men. There are slight differences of dimen-
sions of the shells of the two crews. The
umpire of an oxford and Cambridge race
is always named from Oxford, the judge
from Cambridge. Before starting, the two
captains, in the presence of the umpire,
agree that if any accident happens in the
first mile, the race shall be rowed over
again. Oxford style varies a little this year
from that of 1894. Up to last year it was al
ways point with Oxford to get the hands
away from the body on the reach forward
with a rush-this year it is done rather
slower. The style of the Cambridge men
has also altered little. Last year they did
not swing the body as Oxford does, but
used the leg power as piston. This year
they are swinging the body somewhat.
The betting tonight is 8 to 2 on Oxford,
for which crew all the watermen claim the
race is a positive certainty, bar accidents.
This is based. partly, on the performance
of the crews over the full course, on the
ebb tide under almost precisely Identical
conditions, when Oxford covered the dis
tance in 10 minutes and 35 seconds, while
Cambridge did it in 20 minutes and Is sec
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THOSE WICKED GIRLS
ANOTHER RIOT IN CHICAGO'S HOME
FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS.
Partitions Torn Down by the Inma es
Police Necessary to Subdue the
Girls and Lock Them Up.

CHICAGO, March 29.-The girls in the
Illinois Home. for Juvenile Offenders who
created so much trouble last night by
smashing all the dishes and windows in the
place, indulged in another riot tonight.
They had gone to their rooms for the night,
when, at given signal, they began to
scream, so that they could be heard fully
a block distant. This proving rather tame
sport, they began to tear down the frail
partitions between the sleeping rooms. AS
soon as a number of girls were congregated
in one room they would make an assault
on the room, battering in the doors and
smashing the furniture. The matron and
her assistants We're utterly unable to con-
troll the girls, and finally call was sent
for police. Two patrol wagons filled with
officers hurried to the home, and, after
hard struggle, during which some of the
girls fought like wildcats, they were all
locked up in rooms the partitions of which
are proof against any attempts they can
make to tear them down. The home is
the dishes and much of the furniture and
bedding destroyed. There was no especial
cause for the outbreak tonight
Mrs. A. j. Dayton, the superintendent
whose methods of government caused the
rebellion, has been removed from the po-
sition. and Mrs. Moudy, formerly superin-
tendent of the Home. for the Friendless
has been selected to fill the vacancy Mrs.
Moudy was SO thoroughly frightened by
the outbreaks of last night and to-day,
however, that it is duhtful if she accepts.
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yaIuable historic Document..

structions contained in a resolution adopted
this morning by the General Assembly, At
Chancellor Wolcott for injunction re-
straining J. Henry Rogers, of New Castle.
from disposing of deed bearing date of
Aug "a 1852, in which document James.
Duke of York afterwards King James ID.
conveys to William Penn the twelve-mile
circle around New Castle, and other an
cient documents. The documents are of
great historical value and are now in pos
session of a firm of Philadelphia auction
eers who propose to sell them early in
April unless restrained by an injunction
Tt is said that representative of the
British Museum intends to compete for the
purchase of the documents when they are
put up at auction unless an injunction i'm
terferes with the sale
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JURY COULD NOT AGREE.
No Verdict Reached in the Case of
the Warning EllKs.

CLEVELAND, o., March 29.-The jurors
in the Elks case came into court shortly
before noon to-day and reported that they
were unable to agree on a verdict, and
asked that they be discharged. Judge Ham
mond said that they must again retire and
either bring in verdict or unanimously
report their inability TO reach an agree
nent. Late this afternoon the jurors again
came into the court room and reported their
inability to agree on a verdict and were
discharged. This will necessitate trial
of the case unless the controversy is settled
out of court 1t is understood that the point
of difference was the value of the para
phernalia of the order. 1t was appraised at
$500. Several of the jurors, it is said, could
not agree that its sentimental value and
special significance made it worth s., COO
which was necessary in order to keep the
case in court.
Already the members OF the Grand Lodge
have concluded terms of peace. They have
agreed to a plan whereby both factions will
be united and harmony will again prevail
Part of this plan includes the resignation
of both sets of officers and the selection of
of others
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MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
Prominent Citizen of Lexington, ky.,
Killed In His Home.

LEXINGTON, KY, March 29.-Andrew ].
Campbell, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce, president of the Humane So
ciety and a leading fire insurance man, lies
dead at his home in this city from a pistol
shot, fired under mysterious circumstances
at daybreak He occupied room with his
thirteen-year-old son, on the first floor,
opening on a rear porch. About 5 o'clock
the little fellow was awakened by the
crashing of glass in the door and the fall
of a briekbat the floor. A moment later
he heard pistol shot, then a quick scuf-
fie and another pistol shot. This was fol-
lowed by heavy fall on the floor of the
porch and hurrying footsteps in the yard.
Rushing out he found his father with a
gaping wound in his cheek and blood
streaming out. The family was quickly
aroused and and n neighboTs i n ~, who heard the
moned, but life was extinct when they ar
rived. The porch bore evidence of Sc
shoe nails and tracked with ashesls Camp
bells own pistol was near him with two
powder burned proving that the shot must
have been fired at short range.
The theory of the family and neighbors
refrigerator on the back porch and went to
investigate. The prowler threw. the brick
that crashed through the glass door
men .grappled, and in the struggle. over the
pistol Campbell was shot in the face from
his own pistol Campbell intended going
to the nearby town of Versailles this
morning, and purchased, yesterday. two
day accident policy for 5000 in the Stand
ard Accident Company of Detroit He had
been in bad health for several years, hav-
ing suffered partial paralysis as a result of
wounds in the civil war and, it is said, he
never went on even short journey with
out taking out an accident policy. His wife
died eight years ago, and he leaves. four
children. Bloodhounds were taken to rhe
ward of Campbell's residence this morning.
They struck a trail on the brick walk and
followed 1T through an open rear gate, but
lost it in the confusion of tracks of the
throng gathered in the alley.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict that
Andrew j. Campbell shot by some one
trying to commit robbery.
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A QUAKER CITY TRAGEDY.
John A. Brown Wounds His Wife and
Commits Suicide.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 29-John
A. Brown. aged thirty years, employed by
James A. Talcott, of No. 10s and no Frank
lin street, New York, shot his wife, Mrs.
e. b. Brown, aged twenty-four years, this
afternoon and then committed suicide. Mrs.
Brown will recover. Brown, who has not
been living with his wife for some time
past, came here from New York to-day
and called at the home of her father, where
the young wife has been living. Mrs.
Brown upstairs at the time and be-
ing informed that her husband wished to
her, started down the front stairs
When about half way down her husband
who had remained standing in the hallway
suddenly drew a revolver and began firing
at his wife. One shot struck her in the
back of the head. Brown then coolIy
walked into the parlor, placed the revolver
behind his right ear and fired bullet into
his brain, dying almost instantly. The
woman was taken to the University Hos
pital, where her injury was pronounced
not dangerous. Browns body was taken
to the police station.
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COUNCILMEN SCORED
CALLED JuDAsEs AND nooDLERs BY
PROPERTY OWNERS.
Almost a Riot in n Chicago Commits
tee Room Over the Granting of
a Railway Franchise.

CHICAGO, March 29.-For a short time
this afternoon there was every symptom of
a riot in the committee room of the City
Council The Council committee railroads
some time ago announced itself in favor
of an ordinance granting the Calumet &
Blue Island railway certain rights along the
lake shore in the suburb of South Chicago.
The residents of South chicago were ex-
ceedingly wrathful at the committee, as it's
action would, they decL@red, destroy the
fine residence portion OF South Chicago.
The committee met this afternoon to vote
on the ordinance, and about two hundred
determined property owners from South
Chicago were on hand to assist in the de-
liberatons.
J. B. Taylor opened the arguments for
the property owners, ana talked in so Wig
orous manner that Alderman Coughlin
attempted to expostulate, but Mr.. Taylor
kept on and only gave way to another ora
tor who was filled up with all sorts of
charges, which he hurled numerically at
the aldermen who spoke favorably of the
traying the people, and a well-trained cho-
rus took up this charge and cried out
'.Judasesi Judasesr
Alderman Coughlin tried to stop this kind
of talk, but he was baked by Mr.. Taylor,
who said he had not as yet made any per-
Woad a % Il the proper me
Then the other orator turned in again and
said:
why don't you fellows come to us when
you want money! We have lots of money"
Not as much as the railroads. cried the
chorus
Alderman Kunz tried to make himself
heard, but was shut off with the charge
that he was wearing the railroads collar,
and this was succeeded by another chorus
alleging that divers and sundry aldermen
who are members of fthe committee had
taken money to vote for the ordinance
The committee finally decided to report to
the Council in favor pf the railroad, and
they were greeted win insulting Names
and charged voeiferously with .'thievery
and boodling'' and other methods of sep
arating people from their money. Had not
the meeting been speedily dismissed there
were evidences that violent talk
would have been resorted to, as the peopie
from South Chicago were in an ugly mood
The property owners declare that if any
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A BOLD sWINI5LER.
Jumped His Bond Flea to Canada,
Came Back and Renew&d His Game.

CLEVELAND, March 20 THE investiga-
ton shows that James Robinson, who is
now under arrest in Chicago for violating
the postal laws is the same man who until
few months ago, published the Ladies
Monthly Gem in this city. sSobinson, after
defrauding his victims out of thousands
of dollars by means of a snap rebus and
prize bogus watches, was arrested for vio-
lating the postal laws. He jumped his
United States authorities here did not at
first believe that Robinson would dare start
up business again so soom aIter MS flgnt,
however, received information which makes
it sure that the Chicago man is the one
wanted.
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TrnnsntIantic Traffic.

LIVERPOOL, March 29-At the annual
meeting of the Cunard Steamship Company
to-day Chairman Burns presided. He said
the reason the dividend of the company
was passed this year was the acute depres-
sion in the shipping business, which espe-
ward traffic ;alone Of the transatlantic
lines during the past year showed re-
duction of f1 $50, 000 as compared with 1893
Nevertheless. the Cunard company held its
own, and the policy of building the Cam
pania and the Lucania had been success
The revenue from the saloon cabins had in
creased $4,000 Chairman Burns referred
with satisfaction to the arrangements
which the government had made to acceler-
ate the service via Queenstown. The report
WAS adOpted
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price of Coke to BE Raised.

PITTSBVyRG, March 29.-Following the
Frick Coke Company in the wages of its
employees in the Conneilsville region. the
price of furnace coke has been advanced
S. cents per ton, to take effect April /, when
the new wage scale goes into effect. De-
liveries will be made after the first of the
$i.s5; foundry, $1.50: crushed $1.65 lit is
probable that all the Connellsvile produc-
ers will follow the Frick company and quote
the same prices Under the contracts which
will be terminated this month furnace coke
was sold at 81 per ton, which gave the
producers little IL any margin of profit.
A further advance in prices is possibility
Of the near future, as the operators are
of the opinion that $l.J0 per ton should be
obtained under the advanced wage scale.
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LEGISLATURES ADJOURNs.
Manft Parliament VIII Not Meet
Until May o.
AIanft

WIN EG, March 29.-No amendment
was offered by the opposition this after
noon in the Legislature on the school Gues-
ton, and after Lieutenant Governor
Schultz had given royal assent to a number
of bills passed. the House adjourned till
May 8, when Premier Greenway will an
nounce the governments reply to- the re-
medal order from Ottawa Members Of
the opposition have all agreed with the
Premier that an adjournment was the
wisest course to take at this critical period.
Immediately on adjournment of the Leg
islature, Premier Greenway was called into
the caucus room, where he was presented
with a full-length oil painting of himself,
given by the members Of the Legislature
as a mark of respect and esteem on their
part towards the head of the government.
Premier Greenway thanked the members
for their high token of regard. He had
been sixteen years in the Legislature, half
of the period opposition. He hoped for
further years of service, and when bis gov
ernrrent appealed to the country he also
naturally hoped they would be returned
again by about the same majority.
The Cabinet Minister IN ts,r an lmterv,ew, ~, tbs
effect that supporters or the sovernnent
are divided as to the line of action to be
The assertion is repeated. however, by the
opposition organ that there as uversty
of opinion. 1t says. IItIt dtC StPPot e.t'
of the government who even urge restora,,
tion of separate schools. Attorney-general
Sifton publicly declared in the House. not
tended TO stand by the act of 1890 and Its
amendments; while to-day Premier Green
wav asks the House to adjourn that the
question may be considered, practicaiiy ac-
knoWledging that he disagrees with the
opinion of his colleagues. and contempiates
action on the remedial order. supporters or
the government have openly advocated Sec
ularization of the schools while others have
as strenuously urged modification OF the
present law"
In reply to this the Ministers say there
Is no difference OF opinion among the mem
hers on the government side OF the house
as to what course should be pursued by the
government The session has been so taken
up with legislaticn and receiving aeleSates
10 the government and committees that Y
has been impossible to give the issues in
volyed in this remedial order the attentlcn
that their Importance demands. During
the recess the government Will be in po-
sition TO go carefully in the question, aftd
when the house reassembles VIII pc ready
to submit their views 10 the nrmpers.
Again the order appears to suggest tnat II
the Dominion Parliament should enact lte-
islation taking control of the school system
of this province there is no power even
within the Dominion Parliament itself 10
amend or repeal act SO passed. bntt
the arrival of the remedial crder thai aS-
pect of the situation had not eeen tobSid-
cred by the government; therefore. with
such a grave constitutional 4uest on In
volved it would not be advisable TO pro-
ceed with the matter hastily.
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PRICE CENTS sssFxsy sS sHs sEAsR ~

ent adds that he learns that Ii Hung Chang
Is now able to continue the peace neso.ia-
tionS though he still remains mucn Qls-
turbed by the attempt on his life. Ihe
Japanese officers are now very watcnIui 10
prevent any further trouble. Had IL not
been for the assault on the plenipotentiary
the negotiations would have been closed
ere this. 1t is reported in Peking that the
attack on Ii Hung Chang was made by
Koyama Rokunosuki in revenge for the
execution of his brother in Tien-Tsin at the
beginning of the war. The war officlais IN
whole settlement of the war appears du-
bious. Prince Kwung. who has charge Oh
A Hong Kong dispatch to the Times says
the General commanding the Chinese forces
March g, that he had sunk two Japanese
vessels. Later he telegraphed that the Jap
anse had captured two forts
A Shanghai dispatch to the Times says
that nine Japanese cruisers and two gum
boats. the squadron being under command
of Admiral Ito. bombarded the east forts
ON Penghui island on March 23 One thou
sand troops were landed from five trans
ports. and an attack was made on the fort
which dominated the others. The Chinese
evacuated the position during the night,
and the japanese entered in the morning
of March "a The Japanese then turned the
guns the other forts, which made no
reply. The magazine of one of the western
i,ated nv ;ts a,esanders dniv one tbousand
prisoners We're taken the other Chinese be-
ing allowed to escape. The Japanese loss
was one killed and twenty-seven wounded.
The victors will leave three thousand men
to garrison Penghui island. Provisions for
four months will also be left there. Tne
Japanese have now secured southern base
for their operations, and fleet is about to
leave. in view of peace having been estab-
lished on the island.
! The British cruisers Leander and Spar
tan have arrived at Takau. The British
dispatch vessel Alacrity, with the admiral
on board left Shanghai to-day for For
mosa. Nine Japanese war ships which
steamed down the east coast of Formosa
passed South cape on March q. A junk was
captured by the Japanese, and those on
board were questioned as to the locality
of the British war ships, after which the
junk and its crew were released. The Brit
ish consul has advised that all foreign
women and children leave Formosa. A
number have already gone. The Black Flags
in southern Formosa very insolent to
the forty whites who compose the foreign
population of that part of the island.
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Women Chess Players.

NEW YORK, March 29.-Plans are being
formed in this city for the organizati tion of
an American Chess Club, the members of
which will be selected from the most ex-
pert women chess players in this country.
Mrs. Florence Grey, acting correspondent
in the United States for the British Ladies'
Chess Club. of London, who has been in
this city four weeks, is one of the fore
most women in the movement Several
names have already been proposed for MEM
bership in the American club. Among
these names are those of Mrs. Jennie June
Croly and Mrs. George Duysters, of New
York; Mrs. Potter Palmer, OF Chicago; Mrs.
M. F. Handy, of Richmond, Va, and Miss
Leona QueroZe, of New Orleans. Miss
Queroze is said to be the champion woman
chess player of Louisiana. When the club
unite it with the British club forming an
international organizatiOn
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AILsA FASTER THAN BRITANNIA.
The Prince of Wales's Yacht Beaten
In n Rreffxr (-xaufssf Nice

in m Pretty Contest al Nice.
NICE, March 29.-The new yacht Ailsa
defeated Britannia to-day in an exciting
contest. There was a strong wind blowing
and a light sea running. The race was for
the James Gordon Bennett cup, valued at
$500 and 5000 in specie. The Prince of
Wales cutter crossed the line with lead
of three lengths and kept ahead on the close
reaching to the first mark boat. There
Rritianna stayed and Ailsa kept away
round and Britannia lost her lead. The
finish was a grand one. The time of the two
yachts in crossing the line were: Ailsa, 2
hours 26 minutes and 4S seconds; Britannia,
hours 2S minutes and 4S seconds
The result of to-days race proves con-
clasr.~.y that Ailsa will be good boat in
a fresh wind and sea when thoroughly fit
for racing. The contest between the two
cutters to-day was one of the finest races
ever seen. Both yachts were sailed in
mastery style and the result forms a re-
liable test of the two racers, as the ad-
vantages gained were about evenly bal
anced.
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Election Law vioIator. radictcd.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. March 29-The
special grand jury which has been investi-
gazing election fraud cases. returned ten
Indictments against alleged election thieves
this afternoon. Two OF the indictments are
against Charles r. Owsley, formerly re-
corder of voters. There Is every reason for
believing that there is at least one against
his chief deputy, Harry G. Brisfow. Owsley
is charged in both indictments with having
aided and encouraged false and fraudulent
registration while he was recorder of voters.
Other indictments are expected to follow
fo-day's BATCH
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INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING

home in his working clothes and came to
Clayton. He drew $4,000 frdrn the county
bank and has not been seen since by his
Mrs. Philip Gerhart, neiShbor. went to
Clayton and had consultation with John
This was the first intination to the public
that the popular miller h@d disappeared
the slightest clew to his whereabouts since
Tuesday has developed, no9 Is any reason
for his disappearance know
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Christian Scientists VIII Turn out.

KANSAS CITY. March 2s.-The Christian
Scientists OF notn tnis . place ana s Kansas
Mrs A. j. Baird an occasion for a general
turnout of the followers of that thought
They have prevailed on Police Judge Jones
to try the case in spacious quarters, where
two thousand or more Scientists can be ac-
counodated and the case will be tried in
one of the divisions of the County Court
The trial has been postponed by agreement
until Saturday. The Scientists are mar
shaling their followers, and they will be
on hand on the day of the trial.
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satanita,. owner win Appeal.

LONDON, March 29.-The Court of APP
peals has reversed the decision of the Ad-
miralty Court in the case of Valkyrie II
and Satanita for damages resulting from the
sinking of the former by the latter on July
5, 1894, on the first day of the Mud Hook
Yacht Club regatta in the Clyde, just prevl-
Gus to the start in the race for the Muir
memorial cup, in which event the Britannia
scored her first victory over the Vigilant
Lord Dunraven is only the nominal plaint-
iff in the suit which was really brought by
the underwriters. The Court of Appeals has
now awarded Lord Dunraven $500 damages
holding that, under the regatta rules a
contract was created between the yacht
owners which took the race out of the
merchants shipping act The Admiralty
Court. Ii will be remembered. limited the
damage to fS per ton, total of fS52. The
owner of Satanita, Mr.. NJ. d. Clarke, will
now apneal 10 the House of Lords