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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
EPwORTH RESOLUTIONS.
The State Society Against All Who
Oppose Nicholson Law.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct 1.-THE State
Epworth League in conference in this city
devoted its time to-day almost exclusively
TO the transaction OF business. The off,
GERS OF the year were elected this morn
ing by defamation They are: President.
Horace L. Burr, New Castle; first vice
president. Worth Tdppy, Oxford; second
vice president. Mrs. Boyer, Upton; third
vice president, the Rev. J. J. Campbell,
Thorntown; fourth vice president, Helen
Johnson. South Bend: secretary, Prof. Mon
roe Vaihinger, Moore's Hill; treasurer, S.
NJ Hoff. Indianapolis; superintendent of
juniors, T. N Barbour, Evansville.
The committee who had in charge the
revision of the constitution reported this
afternoon. The new constitution provides
that the conferences hereafter shall be
held biennially, alternating with the inter
national conference. The selection of the
has been referred TO the eight State off,
GERS. who compose the State cabinet. The
following resolutions relative to an all-im-
Resolved, That we deprecate the spirit
OF lawlessneSS prevalent in our State and
pledge our vigorous resistance to all par
ties and all men who will not decare I'M
compromising fidelity to the enforcement
OF laws, especially those relating to the
tdit Oh 1ulOAlCdlinB llquOTS anu the Cd
servance of the Sabbath. We commend
what is known as the good citizens move
ment. organized for the purpose of puri-
flying politics and public morals.
Resolved. That We indorse the Nichol-
son law and insist on it's enforcement to
the letter, while we labor with untiring
diligence for the total suppression of the
nefarfous rum traffic"
There was a very lively debate regarding
the debt Of 500 which Mr.. Van Doren, a
former secretary, contracted by the pub
lication of the Epworthian. When Mr..
Watson stated that he was security for the
debt. some of the members seemed in
cjned TO come TO his assistance, but the
Rev. Mr.. Halstead called attention to a
resolution passed at the Peru conference,
\ decltning to take any financial risk in the
publication A resolution was finally
passed rendering the sympathy of the con-
ference to the gentlemen who has as
sumed this burden. but deeming Ii unwise
10 compel the local chapters of the league
to assist in paying the debt. The resolu-
ton also admonishes the officers not to
contract any debt hereafter unless. there
money in sight to pay il.
Tomorrow will be the last day of the
conference. The programme includes two
mass meetings. Tn pulpits of the Prot
estant churches of this city will be filed
by ministers attending the conference.
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BATTLE SHIP INDIANA.
Omcial Trial of the Big War Vessel
to Take Place Nexs Week.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.-THE battle
shin Indiana left Cramps shipyard at Z
o'clock this morning for her official trial
trip off the Massachusetts coast, which
will probably take place on Wednesday Of
next week. The Indiana is nearer compile
ton than any government vessel that has
vet been given a trial trip. Every gun is
in it's proper position. all the armor is in
place, and the only thing that remains to
be done is to place some of the cabinet
work in position. She is commanded on the
present trip by Captain r. w. Sargent, Of
Cramps. The only members of the govern
gineer Milligan and Lieutenant Commander
Schroeder. The others VIII join her at Bos-
faU
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wORKMEN CRUSHED.
Three Killed and Seven Injured by
the Fall of a Mill Roof.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 1.-THE roof Of the
Cleveland Mill Company fell in last night,
killing three men outright and injuring
seven others. The furnace had been tapped
a short time before, and a gang of thirty
men were covering the cooling iron with
sand when the accident happened. Those
killed were crushed to death, and are:
Charles Wakefield. laborer. twenty-seven
years old. unmarried; Joe Terfis. keeper Of
furnace No. 5, forty years old, and man of
family; Tony German. keeper of furnace
No. 6, twenty-seven years old, and unmar-
RED The four men most seriously in
jured are: Joe Bealey, legs broken and
back and head cut; Peter Rublaski, legs
broken and hurt internally; Joe Barrash,
head cut; John Lockish, head cut and body
bruised. 1t is feared that at least two of the
injured men Will die
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SHORTAGE NAY REACH $500, 600.
Accounts of the City Attorney of
Pfttsburg I'm Bad Shape.

PITTSBURG. Oct. 12-.-Sensational devel-
opments continue as the result of the inves-
tigation of the affairs of the city attorneys
Office by the subcommittee of the Council.
The auditors have already figured out a
shortage of 100000, and IL is said that
before the. investigation is closed Ii will be
shown that the city is a loser of at least
$780, 900. The investigating committee has
requested counsel to institute criminal pro-
ceedings against the city attorney and his
assistant, and at Mondays meeting the
Offices will probably be declared vacant.
The accused officials have refused TO give
up the check books, and in the event Of an
arrest on Monday these will be seized.
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ANGRY FRENCH CANUcKs.
Joseph Mercer Says He Will Spit In
Premier Taillon's Face.

MONTREAL. Quebec, Oct. IA great
political sensation is expected here shortly
as the result of some remarks made by
Premier Taillon, of Quebec, at a bye cleo
ton meeting last night regarding the dead
Liberal Premier Count Mercer. While the
Prime Minister was dilating on the evils of
the Mercer regime some one exclaimed in
French: ..Mercer's dog is dead" Mr.. Tail
lon Immediately rejoined. also in French:
II hope that he has not left a bitch to
hiring forth another such a brood" Joseph
Mercer. the lead Premier's brother. states
that the first time he meets Premier Tall
Ion he will spit in the iatters face.
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Contract for Electric Lights.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE. Ind, Oct. 12.-J. S. Richards,
Of Marshall, Ill, this morning closed a con-
tract with the Town Board by which work
is at once to begin on an electric light
plant. the Thompson-Houston system to
be used. Twenty arc lights will be put on
the streets and the old water-works plant
and boilers viii constitute the power house
of the lighting plant.
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ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 12.-The Farmers
National Congress adopted a resolution to-
dav favoring reciprocity between the
United States and the South American and
Central American countries. There was
very little discussion on the subject. the
farmers being of one mind. This action is
in part due to the addresses yesterday by
Senior Yanes, of Venezuela, and Mr.. Bates.
of CHICAGO. Oficers were elected to-day as
follows: President. III. F. Clayton, Iowa;
general vice president, G. NJ. Ryals,
G-srgia: secretary, John M Stahl; treas
urer. Henry Hayden, Iowa.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
kOKOMO, Ind. Oct. 12-Offcer Sellers,
of Battle Creek, Mich. and constable Keck.
Of this city, after a long chase. ran down
Frank Roberts near here yesterday. the
latter being wanted for burglary at Battle
Creek. He confessed. His folks live at
4 .JOne>borO Ind
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DIR. Cox. Huge ..BIun.v
al to the indianapolis Journal.

ELWOOD, Ind, Oct. 12.-In a conversa-
ton with a leading member OF the Forest
ers Lodge in this city relative TO the pro-
posed 300 600 damage suit OF DIR. Thomas
A. Cox against the Supreme Lodge OF that
order. at Toronto. Canada. he impaired the
Information that the Foresters were fully
prepared for any move DR.. Cox might
make. and asserted that they would make
IL WARY for him II he started the ball roll
Ing BY bringing suit. He further asserted
that the Fcrestsrs were In possess. on OF
the CONN In which DR.. Cox alleges he
buried Thomas Myers. and that they also
hnfve the weight which was nailed in the
oo<[D 70 counterfeit a corpse's weight 10
rEovoot the discovery Of the fake" The
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81 1000 for a BADLY Set Arm.

SPECIAL to the Indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind. Oct. 12.--About sew
en- years ago William Tamm, of Month
cello, went TO DR.. William Spencer. then
the leading physician Of that place. and
had a broken arm set Recently Tamm
entered suit in the Circuit Court charging
DR.. Spencer with malpractice. and the
case was brought TO this county on a
change of venue. Yesterday a compromise
was affected by which DR.. Spencer is to
pay Tamm $1,000 and the suit was dis
missed The large amount for which the
suit was compromised has caused much
speculation as to the nature Of the evf-
dence which the plaintiff would have pro-
duced- The friends of DR.. Spencer assert
that the case was compromised because the
Doctor did not care to enter into a fight
in the courts. He is an old man now and
practicing very little.
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san FRANCTSCO, Oct. 12.-United States
Marshal Baldwin has completed all ar
st. Clair and James Hansen next Friday.
The double hanging will take place at the
State prison at San Quentin, whittier both
prisoners were taken to-day. Two scaffolds
will be erected. and both will die at the
same time. The crime for which the pris-
oners VIII be hanged Is the murde. cf the
mate OF the bark Hesper on the bigh seas.
prisoners on the Pacific coast. Other men
have been convicted of murder on the high
seas. but have not paid the death penalty.
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Mother OF Nineteen Children.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

MUNCIE. Ind, Oct. 12.-Mrs. Rebecca
Lennard Dill. the eighty-seven-year-old
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., whose death near
Cambridge City was recorded in the
Journal q few days ago. was a remarkable
woman in some respects She had been
married seventy years. her union with John
DIN having taken place in 1924. She was
The mother OF nineteen children, fourteen
Of whom survive her. Four children died
in infancy and one at the age OF twenty
i've. OF the fourteen yet alive there are
seven sons and seven daughters. as fol-
lows: John Dill and Susan Stetzie, OF
Huntingdon: Henry Dill, OF Noblesville:
Lucy Lawson, of Exeter, Mo-: Rebecca
Livengocd, Centerville. Ia. Matilda Borts-
field, Selma; Lydia Fisher. Colfax, Ia;
Jacob Dill. Rock Creek; Solomon Dill, Kali
amazoo. Mich; Harriet Osborn. Mingo, Ia;
David Dill, Payne. o.; Rachael Shideler.
William and Israel Dill. Cambridge City.
Mrs. Dill was the grandmother OF sixty
three children, the great-grandmother OF
seyenty-eight children and the great-great-
GRANDMOTHER OF two children
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coffin and weight is being cared for by the
being preserved to offer in evidence at the
proper time. DIR. Cox is still here, but Is
keeping rather quiet. He has closed up
like a clam The Foresters think his pro-
posed suit Is merely a bluff and do not
anticipate any such action being taken by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
The Crowels Fail.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GOSHEN, Ind, Oct. 12.-Chattel mort
cages amounting to SCI, 900 were to-day
filed by NJ. e. S. Crowel, owners of cloth
ing stores at Elkhart, Goshen and La
grange. Their assets are about $45, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
Reception to n New Pastor.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal

WoRTHINGTON, Ind, Oct. IA public
reception was given, last evening, by the
members Of the Nj. E Church to welcome
their new pastor, Rev. William Whitsett.
Speeches were made by DR.. w. B. SQUIRE.
Rev. May, of the Presbyterian Church:
Prof. w. ID. Keeling, superintendent OF
schools, and Mr.. Wilbur Hays.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
Youngest Journalists, ON Earth.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind, Oct II. The Snow
brothers. Of this city. are the acknowledged
y~ounges journalists in the United States.
Earl E. Snow was thirteen years old last
month and Horace II. Snow will be nine
years old next month. On July II, 1894, they
began the publication Of the Star News. a
small folio newspaper, and nave published
- regularly every other week ever since.
The boys being unusually bright and INTEL
ugenf, they soon learned the art OF type
setting and printing. Their only instructors
were specimen books and printers cata-
loEues- They issue the Star News without
any other assistance Earl, the older, pre-
parcS all copy and assists in type setting,
and has great journalistic aspirations. He
has ALSO developed fine taste and skill as a
job prfnter. Horace. the younger, does the
distribution OF the type and press work.
Both solicit advertisements and subscrip-
lions Their paper is patronized by the
leading merchants OF the town, and they re-
cefve announcement and kind words from
every one. They do the mechanical work on
their paper at morning and evening, before
and after school,. When they first started
TO attend public school each one could read
very readily in the Second Reader. They
are both OF pleasing disposition and excel
lent manners Their father, Prof. ]. r.
Snow, is county superintendent OF schools
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Home missionary Officers.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Oct. R.-At the fifth an
nual meeting Of Muncie district of the Wom-
ans Home Missionary Society OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, held at Redkey, the
following officers were elected: President.
Mrs. A. K. Lee, of Hartford City; CORE
spending secretary, Mrs. NJ Eta Mason. of
Muncie; treasurer, Mrs. Amanda Hadden,
OF Hartford City; district organizer, Mrs.
Dora Mitchell. OF Muncie; mite-box secre-
tary, Miss Anna Curran. Redkey. The next
place Of meeting will be decided by the
president.
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vention Of coal operators and miners ad-
journed to-day. AFTER adopting the scale
OF 1902, for dead work. and liking \
times. where q store ID operated after Jan.
/. TIL conference closed tremendously
after accomplishing more than the most
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
Suicide In Blue River.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EDINBURG, Ind, Oct. 12.-John Ward,
IN old citizen of this city, committed sui
eide by drowning himself in Blue river this
evening. The body has not been recovered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-13
Squire TennelI Tied the Knot.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Oct. 12-Prof. Francis
NJ. Hickman, of the Kokomo Business
College, and Miss Eva ". TenneIl, of West
Liberty, were married Friday evening,
Squire Tsnnell. father of the bride. off,
ciating. They will reside in this city.
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Special 70 the Ind1anapOlS Journal.
ROCHESTER, Ind, Oct. 12.-Lucius V.
Gould, aged twenty-five, died here to-day
of typhoid fever. He graduated from Pur-
due three years ago, was appointed city
engineer of Upton and elected county sur
veyor of Fulton county at the last election.
While In Purdue he was president of the
Republican College Club League of Indiana.
out the State.
A dispatch from Upton says: L. Vernon
Gould, who died at his home in Rochester.
was city civil engineer and superintendent
of water works here. He was a Young man
OF excellent character. The Mayor and
City Council left this afternoon TO attend
the funeral
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Very Tired of the nicholson Inv.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT. Ind. Oct. 12.-The saloon
men Of this city are preparing a petition
which will be presented to the City Council
on Wednesday, asking that they be allowed
TO conduct their business without regard to
the Nicholson law, pending decisions on
the validity of the law by the Supreme
Court. The action on the part of the saloon
men is prompted by the recent ruling of
Judge Stubbs, of Indianapolis, declaring
one provision OF the law unconstitutional.
A case similar to the Brandt case is now
being argued before the Circuit Court here
and will doubtless go to the Supreme Court.
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PIERCED WITH AN IRON SILVER.
Fatal Accident to Superin-
tendent McWhinney at Marion.

McWhinney at Marion.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Oct. 12-W. c.. Nc
Whitney, superintendent Of the Marion
City Street-railway Company, met with a
most peculiar and. perhaps. fatal accident
this afternoon. He was holding a chisel
for a workman as the latter struck il with
a sledgehammer. A chip was broken from
the hammer, striking McWhinney in the
face. ranging downward and apparently
lodging omewhe about the neck. The
neck and face are swollen so that suffoca-
ton Is feared So far the physicians are
Unable to find the niece of metal
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Cause of A. c. Lanier's Death.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.
The statement contained in a telegram
from Madison in your Saturday mornings
issue to the effect that, in my opinion, the
death Of A. c. Lanier resulted from the
shock of an operation for cataract per-
formed at st. Vincent's Hospital. is entirely
incorrect The operation performed by DIR.
thompson was perfectly successful, sight
having been completely restored, and had
no conenction with the Illness which caused
Mr.. Laniers death. Death resulted from
an attack OF and continued malarial fever.
l wish to write a line to the effect that
your correspondent acted in good faith.
having been misinformed by a messenger
from me. DIP. DAVIDSON
Madison Ind Oct 10
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BUILDING UP TRADE.


1t would be unwise, indeed,
and hazardous to our fifty
years reputation as reliable
tailors if we allowed ourselves
to quote prices tool low to pro-
duce satisfactorily made gar
ments. Therefore, when you
see IN our advertisement the
statement that we make Suits
to order from $l6 to 500,
Pants to order from Sd to
SID you may rely on it that
our price quotations are for
good garments.
Samples mailed.
Garments expressed.
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nd HE utnend band of less than 3O0 men have almost fallen out o. memory. 1 e
there is nt in history another Instance of so maIa number accomplishing scn gea
oman from the Briush-annenng a territory to the United States from whch indiana
TO rmse on Indiana sol the stars and stripes which have never since been lowered
Military services 40 600 acres of Indiana land, situatedm Clark Scotia nd 10Y counues
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which recently arrived here from Australia.
after a voyage of five months duration
and which is moored at Blackwell while
oeing prepared TO receive the public. The
poses in Australian waters for years mast
but just as she was on the point of being
demolished. she was purchased from the
government by spectators and brought to
this country. The hulk is over a hundred
years old and is the only one remajnine
of the terrible floating prisons established
by the government of the colony of Vic
toria from 1850 to 1855. as a result of the
discovery OF the gold fields of Bendigo
and Ballarat, and the rush to the colony
of. among others. many thousands of das-
perate. lawless men, of nearly all national
tiles. Every side of convict life in the o,d
days on board the hulk will be depicted
on the Success. especially the different
modes of punishment, and the spectators
who nave purchased her expect to rean
a small fortune as the result Of their stroke
of enterprise
Following upon the purchase, for use as a
museum, of the house formerly occupied
by the late Thomas CARLYLE. at Chelsea.
and the successful accomplishment of that
undertaking., 1t has been proposed to pur-
chase the house formerly occupied by Tur-
ner, the great English painter. which is
also located at Chelsea. The first idea was
to convert the Turner house into a museum.
but that proposition, well under way. was
suddenly killed by the fact that some per
son wrote TO the Times throwing doubt on
the statement that the house was really
occupied by Turner, and limiting hat if he
did stay there for a time, 1t was for pur-
poses other than those of art. The price
lady has also guaranteed to pay this sum
for the property in order hat 1t might be
converted into a Turner museum; but the
intimation conveyed in the communication
to the Times was more than the lady re-
ferred TO could be expected to bear up un-
der and she promptly witndrew her offer
the house. Since then. however, ii has been
definitely established that the house at Chel-
sea was really Turner'S residence and steps
ars again being taken to purchase the
bous> And convsrt Il with others adjoining,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-03
SPRINGER AT YINITA.
NEW JUDGE HOLDS FIRST COURT
HELD AMONG THE cHERoKEEs.
Some Curious Phases OF the Law on
Realty Presented in the In
dian Territory.

Vinlta, I. T., Nov. 2.--(SpeciaD.- The
first United States court held within
the Cherokee Nation adjourned here
yesterday. Judge Springer showed re-
markable aptitude and receives many
compliments. In no place, probably on
the globe, are as knotty legal questions
presented as within this territory and
most particularly In this nation. This
is "a court with special Jurisdiction, and
also concurrent jurisdiction with the
Fort Smith court as to certain higher
crimes Then the Quapaws. Senecas
ana other tribes have carved out of this
nation small reservations with 're-
spective tribal governments. Their
laws, with those of the Cherokees, are
also complicated because OF treaty
rights given members of still other
tribes. And in addition to all, the i'm
truder" or citizenship claimant" comes
in to further add confusion to chaos.
If the spirit Of Blackstone could be
called up and Informed that improve
ments on realty were now by the
United States court in the Indian Terri
tory where the tribe owns the soil in
common, Classed as personal property,
that great law writer would conclude
he had lived In vain. The Indian Ma
tion holding the title To the lands and
owning, as individuals. the Improve
ments on their farms (which give them
"A possessory righD calls for the liberal
construction given by the courts. In
several eiectment cases the rights OF
claimants We're involved. and the
difficulty in Jurors agreeing upon YER
diets demonstrated that class interests
influence the judgment OF men In
some instances Verdicts We're not OBJ
tanned, there being a division of opin-
ions regulated by the number of I'm
truders' on the jury with Indian citi-
zens.
The delegation In charge of the pay
ment to "intruders' for their improve
ments, Gas provided by law, prepare
tory to their removaD is at work. The
claimant refuses the tender unless he
owns more than one farm, in which
event he takes the appraised value of
all except the home place. which he
hopes to hold when allotment finally
comes.
The opposition to giving up tribal
government Is rapidly disappearing,
but few want territorial govern
ment. Statehood Is benerally desired
IL a change is to be made