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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-15
OFFERS S9,8O0.O00.
Reorganization Committee Wants to
buy the whisky Trusts Plants.

CHICAGO. June 1.-THE reorganization
committee offers TO purchase the plants of
the Whisky Trust for S9.SO0,000, providing
the court order the receiver TO allow as
consideration such proportion of the sum
total as would be divided among the 347.0SI
shares of stock held by the reorganization
committee This offer is made in the petit
ton for a judicial sale of the trusts ef-
fects which was filed in the United States
Circuit Court clerks office this evening.
The petitioners set forth as the reasons
FOR an immediate sale the fact that the
business under a receivership does not tend
to any permanence and the retention OF
regular trade in the face of sharp compe-
tition is impossible, and further control by
the receiver tends to the ultimate injury
of the stockholders of the company The
petitioners pray the court 10 order the sale
of the property and the transfers TO the
purchasers be made fast as the cattle
feeding contracts at the various plants
come to an end. The lump sum Of So. SOC. 600
is offered for the plants, conditioned on the
acceptance of the stock. The receiver or
his successor under the terms Of the sale
proposed are TO be empowered to continue
the suits against Greenhut, Morris and
others on the alleged fraudulent bond isSle.
A statement was submitted with the petit
ton showing that the trust has On excess
of assets over all liabilities OF $1,O46,331 The
petition will be called UP before Judge
Showalter within the coming week. and will
be attacked by all of the opposing interests
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VICTIMS OF A BOILER
FOUR PEOPLE KILLED AND FIVE
BADLY INJURED, TWO FATALLY.
Harness Factory at Fall River, Mass.
Demolished by an ExpIosion-En-
Sineer Placed Under Arrest.

FALL RIVER. Mass. June 14-By an
explosion of the boiler Al Henri ]. Lang
ley's harness factory, on County street. at
SIS o'clock this morning. four persons were
killed and two probably fatally hurt The
list Of dead follows:
ADELIA DUDE. aged twenty years
DELLA HORTON, seventeen years.
ADOLPH E. BELLEFUILLE. forty-five
years old.
ROBERT MURRAY. twenty-one years
The seriously injured are:
Thomas Barry, skull fractured and face
and body burned: will die.
Matte DurocheS, fatally.
William Russell. badly burned.
Alice Tremblay. bruises and tu~ns.
Ida lie Page, bruises.
There were twerty people in the building
at the time of the accident. Four were
burned beyond recognition and twelve es-
capped with hardly any injuries to speak of.
At exactly S:5 o'clock the whole eastern
section of the city was shaken as If by an
earthquake. Five minutes later the ruins
were in flames. Citizens assisted the fire
department so effectively. however that the
fire was soon under control The first body
taken out was that of Della Hortor the
next Adele DUDE, and the third Robert
Murray. Terribly mangled and burned.
they were deposited in Star Music Hall in
fourth body, that of Bellefuille. was dis
covered. The engineer LIE Page, who was
in charge Of the boilers, was at first re-
ported killed, but later turned up all right
and was placed under arrest by order of
Medical Examiner Dolan. He says the
boiler was five years old and had not been
inspected for a long time. He claims TO
have been near at hand when it exploded
and cannot explain why 1t did SO. He says
he put water in the boiler some time before
the catastrophe.
The building which was demolished was
a three-story affair, of wood, one hundred
feet long by thirty,six feet wide with an
l.. Mr.. Langley says he valued lie build
ing at about 5000 and his stock and ma
chinery at $4,000. The property is insured
for $4,000 Mr.. Langley has no theory as to
the cause of the explosion. He says the
boiler had been inspected every year.
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MoURNERs MANGLED
FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED AND
TWICE AS MANY MORE INJURED.
Collapse OF BuiIding-POlitical Con-
American Women Will Take Part.

VIENNA, June H-Seventy people gath
cred to-day in the death chamber of a
young man at Rovigno. seaport town
the Adriatic. The flooring of the chamber
collapsed and all fell to the ground floor
and thence into a deep cellar. the walls
OF the house falling on top of the 1nfortun-
ate victims. All the inhabitants oc the
town hurried to the spot, the fire brigade
was called out and the soldiers in the town
also rushed TO the scene. All united in
efforts TO remove the debris. This being
done. revealed the fact that fourteen of
the mourners had been killed and thirty
had been injured. The unhappy young wom-
an. who had been the financee of the de-
ceased<hnan, was found dead in the ruins in
a position close TO the coffin.
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Bu.iues. Endorsements.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,. June 1.-THE
Hubinger-Carroll Cash Register Company
to-day applied for receiver. Judge
Prentis. in the Superior Court, granted the
petition and appointed George Barnes tenn
porary receiver This company Is the only
one outside of the combine known as the
has been bitter war between them. p3rtic-
ularly noticeable in this city. The re-
ownership is not claimed to be due TO this
opposition. The assets are $4,000. and liza
bllities about the same. Creditors will be
paid in full
LANCASTER, Pa, June 14.-S. Shrk
& Son, proprietors of the Stevens cotton
mill and manufacturers of cigars, against
whom executions aggregating nearly $4,000
were issued last week. made an assignment
to-day.
LINCOLN, Neb., June 1.-THE Western
Manufacturing Company. i'm business as
prison contractors in this city since 1883.
has suspended under pressure OF general
creditors
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Harvey Delhi a Fugitive.


BLCFFTON, Ind, June 14.-Harvey Delhi,
son of a prominent farmer east of this city,
attempted to pass a forgery on the Stude-
baker Bank Wednesday. and is a fugitive
from justice. The check. amounting to $40.
drawn on Frank Adams. lumber merchant
In this city, was presented and detected as
a forgery by the cashier. Delhi claimed he
had received the check from Harry Davis
in trade, and in company with the mar
shall drove out to see Davis yesterday.
While the officer was getting a drink Delhi
made his escape through the woods, and Is
still at large. An affidavit was filed against
him on the return of Crosbie and an effort
was made to bring him to justice. Two
years ago he successfully worked a forged
note for $500 on his father on one of the
Decatur banks. His father came TO his res
cue and saved him from prosecution. Delhi
is a married man. and his father has been
nearly ruined by the hayward son.
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TAYLOR WILL SURRENDER.
Will Turn Over All His Property and
Take Two Years Sentence.

SlOCN FALLS. 3 D., June 14.-An agree
ment has been reached between the friends
or absconding Treasurer Taylor. and Attor-
ney-general Crawford. whereby Taylor will
return al once. The agreement is that Tay-
lor will return TO Pierre Tuesday next and
surrender. He will pay over all money he
has on hand. amounting 10 $4,000. and also
personal property. which is 10 be assessed
at a liberal valuation. Taylor viii then
plead guilty. and Judge Gaffy has agreed to
call a special term OF court and sentence
him to the penitentiary for two years. Ii
is further agreed that before the expiration
of this sentence the Governor will pardon
him out and thus save his citizenship
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TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

The Manhattan Elevated railway of New
York Will soon substitute electricity for
steam as motive power.
The New York Press says a great trust
is forming that will have for its object the
entire control OF the wood,pulp paper-mak-
ing industry in the United States.
The scarcity OF supply has caused the
Duluth packing companies 10 put white
fish prices w 2i5 cents, 50 that hereafter
that article win retail at l2i2 and ID cents
per pound
Salt Lake City, yesterday morning. on his
tour OF inspection. He inspected the Six
teenth Regiment at Fort Douglas and left
for the west in the afternoon.
The insanity experts attending the con-
vention of the Medico-Psy Geological Asso-
citation az Denver cut short their discus
sions and have gone TO the mountains. The
next meeting Will be held at Boston on the
fourth Tuesday in May.
Philip Goodwin. colorod. was hanged az
Mobile. Ala, yesterday before crowd or
the murder of John Poole. section boss
on the Louisville x Nashville railway at
Nenetia. who had discharged him.
Admiral Osbon. Rear Admiral Dalzell.
and Colonel Gillespie. United States army.
have just finished tour of inspection
through the Harlem ship canal. and found
everything in good shape for the celebra-
ton on Monday
Governor Morton. Of New York. has de-
cided to sign the BILL 20 amend the consoi-
in the public schools OF the nature and ef-
fects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics
in connection with physiology and hygiene
in the public schools.
An order was issued at Brooklyn yes
terday by Police Commissioner Wells trans
ferring the twenty-iINe captains OF poiice
in this city TO other preclncts. No. other
reason was given by the COMMISSIONER Tor
the change than that IL for the gen.
eral good Of the department -fef.
The Baackes Wire Nail Company. or
Cleveland. has tsaEsf rTcl lis plant TO the
Consolidated Steel AMI n ire Company, an
Illinois corporation. The Baacaes Wire
Nail Company is the LARGEST concern OF It's
kind in this country. The price was s5N,-
Geo. The Liant has icoH in the hands OF
a receiver for the past year or more.
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MANITOBA SCHOOL CASE.


WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June H.-There
was no reference to the school question in
the Legislature to-day. Premier Greenway
returned from Ottawa this evening, and
debate is anticipated Monday.
Archbishop Langeyin was asked to-day for
his opinion on Manitobas reply TO the
remedial order. The following is his
swer: II am sorry for the local govern
ments bad will. 1t is rather strange that
after five years of public discussion their
memorial should blandly charge the Ottawa
government with ignorance, and claim for
themselves the monopoly of knowledge
trust that the government and Parliament
of Canada will sustain the judgment of the
Privy Council OF England and stand by the
Constitution Of the country.
A caucus of the opposition members Will
be held before Monday, when plan of ac-
ton will be decided upon in reference to
the debate on the motion pertaining to the
schools.
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Indiana Notes.

Elwood clerks are forming a union. and
are making fight to have stores closed at
p. m.
Two new school buildings are to be
erected in Elwood to accommodate the in
creased school attendance. There are 5000
school children in the town.
At the Sunday-school convention in
Adams county the teachers discussed such
subjects as Are Sunday school Picnics a
Benefit?" and "How Shall We Prevent
Sunday Visitng?" They also Endorsed the
Nicholson law.
The Hotel Anderson changed hands yes
terday. 1t is owned by Hon. John w.
Lovett, and has been under the manage
ment of Col. l.. F.. Elliott Grant Lock-
wood. an experienced hotel man, assumes
control of the house.
The Decatur City Council has just closed
a contract with the Howe Pump and Engine
Company. Of Indianapolis. TO put in
seventy -thousand-dolla water works
plant. Work is to be begun next week.
one Of the clauses i'm the contract reads
that no Dagoes be employed in the con-
structiOn of the same.
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THE EDITORS ADJOURN.
Decide to Attend Atlanta Exposition
This Autumn.
Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
LOGANSPORT. Ind, June H-Fort
Wayne was decided on as the next place OF
netting OF the Northern Indiana Editorial
Association this afternoon. j. r. Stoll. of
the South Bend Times, was reelected pres
ident by reclamation. Other officers elected
were: Vice president, +. III. Willis, Water
loo Press; second vice president Mrs. DAN
iel Mcdonald, Plymouth Democrat; treas
urer. Major Bitters, Rochester Republican,;
recording secretary. Mrs. J. +. sutton. Lo-
gansport Reporter; corresponding secretary.
Miss Josie Page. Fort Wayne News. IL was
voted to join the other editorial associa-
tions of the State in attending in q body
the Cotton States Exposition. at Atlanta.
Ca. during the autumn. and a committee
was named 10 make arrangements. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-15
The Epworth League Convention.

/ CHATTANOOGA. Tenn. June 1.-THE
canvass for homes for the Epworth
League delegates. TO be here at
~. has been completed. and accommo-
dations for more than 1900 people secured.
The assembly tent. 10 seat 10000. has been
erected and Is ready for occupancy. Large
delegations OF prominent Methodists from
all over the United States and Canada are
to be here. Fifty special league trains have
been chartered. Sir Mckenzie Powell. of
Canada, Rev. Carlos Martyr. OF Chicago.
and Bishop Thoburn. of India. are among
the prominent speakers. chorus choir or
100 voices Is TO furnished the music. Two
thousand children lead the singing at one
session The local transportation COM
panies have secured additional equipments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-15
NAIL CAR ROBBED.
Postal Clerk Forced to Jump from
the Train While If Was Running.

GALVESTON, Tex, June 1.-THE mail car
on train No. 4. OF the International & Great
Northern railway. arrived at Palestine last
night without postal clerk. A masked
man crawled into the car just after leaving
fucker, and at the Inuzzle OF a revolver de-
manded the safe keys. When told he
not in the express car he then demanded
the registered mail keys. On their surren-
der. he ordered the clerk 10 jump out. Clerk
Orrin Davis was badly hurt by the jump,
being seriously bruised. Eight registered
packages are known 10 have been taken.
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Gang of Tramps Held Up.
anial 70 Tho Indio a q racIio Ina,rnnI

SOUTH BEND, Ind, June H-Yesterday.
near Terre Coupee, seventeen miles west
of South Bend, a dozen tramps who had
boarded east-bound Lake Shore freight
train at LaPorte were held up by three
men who had come into the car from the
roof and at the muzzles of revolvers. robbed
the gang OF ST. The robbers then left the
car. One of them attempted to swing HIM
self to the car roof and fell on cattle
guard fence. He crushed the fence broke
his back and received other injuries that
resulted in death at New Carlisle. where
he was taken. He has not been identified.
Following the robbery South Bend officers
arrested Joseph Hart, Philip Fruse, Jo-
esph Sagup Michael Roby. Thomas De-
shane, of Chicago; George Hornelle. of Day.
ton: James Roach Of Boston, and Joseph
Francis of Elkhart
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Dredge Seized by Cnnadian.

BUFFALO. June H-The Canadian gov
eminent steamer Petrol. late this
afternoon, seized the Buffalo
Dredging Companys tug III. j. War
rem and two mud scows in the Niagara
river. just off this city. The offense charged
against the Warren is dumping mud credged
from the American shore In Canadian wa
tiers. Green and Whalen. the captain and
engineer of the Warren. were taken to
Fort Erie and locked up. The Buffalo
Dredging Company. which owns the War
rem. will take steps TO bring the matter
into court. In taking her prey TO port the
Petrol passAd through the draw OF the in
ternational bridge. which Is I'm American
waters. and this fact may count for some
thing.
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Britain's Bering Sea Bill.

LONDON, June IA debate took place
in the House of Commons this evening on
the second reading of the new bill for the
regulation of sealing in Boring sea. Thomas
Gibson Bowles Conservative member of
Parliament from Lynn Regis. asked wheth-
er Canada had consented to the arrange
ments embodied in the bill. He complained
that while America had made restitution
for unlawful seizure of sealers, Russia had
not moved in the matter. He moved an
amendment against withdrawing British
protection from British subjects and sub
jecting them in times of peace to search
and seizure by foreign naval officers.
Sir Edward Grey, Parliamentary Secre-
tary to the Foreign Office, replied that the
Russian dispute was still under negotia-
ton. Mr.. Bowless amendment was rejected.
The second reading of the bill was post
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Panic I'm a Thcnter.

HOLLY, Mich. June IA panic took
place in the opera house to-night during
a performance OF Isl Plunkard, by the j.
c. Lewis Company. Some bed clothes in a
room across the hall from tito entrance 10
the theater caught fire ana the smoke
poured into the entrance in clouds. IRE
audience was I'm an uproar. The -n'.'
company rushed on the stage and : 'cnsf
ed i'm queting the crowd. No one wa ;:
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BARRED FROM RACES
FEW CRACK CYCLERS WILL RIDE
AT CONEY ISLAND TODAY.
Row Over Entrance Fees-PrOtest
from Manufacturers-Clos Of the
Syracuse Athletic Club Meet. 4
special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SYRACUSE, y. Y, June 1.-Bald, Sims,
Macdonald. Titus. Cabanne and Harry Ty-
Ter left here last evening for New York,
and several Of the teams went down to-
night. The division races at Coney island
tomorrow will be competed in by Class B
men to the number of very few. Entries
of some Of the prominent teams have been
rejected. for the reason that the entry fees
did not accompany the blanks. Joseph
Goodman, who has charge of the entering
OLA large number of the teams wrote the
authorities that he would pay the entry
fees immeda tely his arrival at New
York Word came here to-day that the
tries are still rejected and this being the
case the prominent teams with one excep-
ton. will remain out of the contests, the
one team that is an exception competing in
probably one race. The manufacturers of
this country who are contributing the
money that is carrying the circuit chasers
around the country do not feel that they
should be called on to pay the entry fees
for men so prominent as to make them at
fractions. When compelled to pay entry
fees, it is done, but most meets are glad to
get the men without exacting this money.
The second day of the national circuit
meeting, given by the Syracuse Athletic AS
ISOLATION and postponed from yesterday, was
again spoiled by rain to-day. Two events
were run and two heats of the half-mile
open Class Is. but not the final The mile
novice race record was broken by John
Schaefer, of this city. who won the contest
by one hundred yards. C.. b. ellis being
the only other rider of the seven starters to
complete the race. bee and Hughes, on a
tandem, paced the contest, and Schaefer
beat the tandem out at the finish by a
couple of lengths, riding like a veteran in
an exhibition mile. Schaefer is tall and
lengthy, and gives every indication Of be-
coming a good rider. He ran third in the
novice race of Wednesday. II. G.. Winters,
of Buffalo, captured the half-mle, Class A,
Pop Foell thirty-one-year-old rider.
taking second and both defeating Shaw, of
Boston, the winner of the contests in the
race meet Wednesday. Shaw held a poor
position in the last turn, and In the driving
rainstorm which came up just after the
| start of the contest, was unable to improve
| his position.
were run. Coulter, l.. A. Callahan. Barry
and Kiser fell in the first. Baker, Dirn-
berger. Heller and Fisher qualified in the
first; Allen, Terrll, Brown and Zeigler in
the second. The heats were won in 1:O9 and
I 112. without a time limit.
Dwight e Coville. a local sprinter OF note,
| defeated Brophy, who halls from the north.
ern part of the State, in hundred-yard
| contest. Coville won by yard in 10 Sec
| onds and considerable money was gathered
| i'm by the local men on the contest. 1t is
| said that Brophy is ringer.
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SACRED TO .LUMv KIRKuM.

An Eccentric Character of Frankfort
Erects His Own Monument.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKFORT, Ind, June 12.-Residents
Of this city to-day beheld a man pushing a
wheelbarrow containing plain marble
shaft along the dusty highway toward
Bunnell Cemetery, three miles north of
Frankfort. The monument was purchased
by private subscription and bore the fol-
lowing legend:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
of
COLUMBUS KIRKCM.
Born May 3, 1853
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MAMMOTH SPRINGS. Ark. JUNO IA
To-day. J. IL. GentryIpostmaster at Alton,
eight miles south of here. went TO the train
with the mail bag. Two men-George Tay-
lor and William Johnson-were on the plat
from. and one got on each side OF him, at
tackled him AMI beat him. Gentry shot
Taylor in the forehead. killing him in
stantiy, and shot Johnson through the
mouth. and left shoulder and right. arm.
He is seriously but not fatally wounded
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Object of the Powers i'm Deprivfng
Japan of the LiaO-TunE.

INJECT OF the POWera In Depr1N1nR
Japan of the LiaO-TuuE.
VICTORIA. British Columbia. June IA
Letters to King Tai. from Shanghai give the
news that the Russian, German and French
ministers in Picking paid a joint visit 10
the Tsung Ii Yemen on May % and pre-
sented the following statement: THE
course taken by the three powers in CIV
ing advice to Japan by suggesting she
should not permanently occupy Liao-Tung
peninsula was dictated merely by the de-
sire of those powers for q lasting peace
in the Orient and not to promote any in
terest of the China government or on
account of their sympathy with China.
The Chinese government is therefore
warned not to misunderstood the object
of the three powers and thus to rely upon
them in the future in connection with af-
fairs, the settlement of which is now pend
ing
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Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, June 1.-THE Norris
son will case came up for further consid-
Grafton here to-day. The witness fees in
the case have never been settled. and it is
well-known fact that they will come
pretty high, much higher than the attor-
neys for the defense think they should
Some of the witnesses have not presented
their clairBe. while others who were of no
more servi,e have asked for enormous tees.
In several cases witnesses have claimed one
hundred days fees. They have taken into
account every day from the time they were
notified that they were TO testify until
they actually appeared upon the stand. 1t
is in the power of the court to reduce these
amounts. he may fit, and the attor-
neys for the defense have made the request
that this be done. Judge James b. Black
was here to-day from Indianapolis to con-
down considerably.
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HARTFORD. Conn. June 14.-To-day
Harriet Beecher Stowe completed her
eighty-fourth year. While there was no
formal celebration of the event IL was OBJ
served by her relatives and many OF her
friends throughout the word. She is In
receipt Of numberless kilograms and cable
messages.