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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26
THE R E COMMENTS
BASIS FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE e
Triton IN X CASE.
F~ifty-Three Citizens Make Affdavft
ms to Prejudice Against the
ia Murderer.

John o. Spahr. attorney for Alonzo Rock
er, who was acquitted OF the charge OF
numbering his wife, and who is to be tried
for assault and battery with attempt to
kill Emma Pees. filed a motion for a
change of venue yesterday. Judge McCray
win hear argument ON the motion some
time this week. Attorney Spahr deposited
with the court a voluminous bundle of
manuscript containing ~affidavits and news
paper clippings in support of the contention
that his client cannot be tried impartially
in Marion county. n
One of the principal atlantis is attorney
William Robertson. who assisted in the de-
Tense of Rocker while the latter was on
trial for the murder of his wife. Attached
to the affidavit of Mr.. Robertson are the
comments of the various city newspapers
on the action OF, the jury which acquitted
Rocker of the charge OF wife murder on
the ground hat he was insane at the time
he committed the deed. n affiant says
that inasmuch as the newspapers which
have so severely .'lampooned' the Rocker
jury are important factors in molding pub
lie opinion in this county N State. he
believes 1T impossible for the accused to Sc
cure a fair trial in Marion county. There
is also appended to the Robertson affidavit
a newspaper clipping giving an extract
from a sermon delivered March 8 by Rev.
Joseph A. Milburn. The pastor referred to
the Rocker trial and said: 1.-The spectacle
OF a man guilty of one of the most re-
Voting crimes set free by a jury of twelve
men good and true Is q disgrace to justice
and q premium on crime"
Inc attorney also presents the affidavit
OF Alonzo Rocker and the affidavits of
nfty-three citizens Who say on their oaths
that the prisoner should not be tried in
this county on account of the prejudice
OF the community against him. The names
of these citizens are as follows: joseph
Collins, Dan M. Woods, H. T. Hackerdorn,
George w: Spahr. George F.. Null. j. w.
Harris, John p. Lyendecker, S. H. Waters,
G. ii. Powell Linn D.. Hay, Hervey d.
Roemler, w. w. Pringle, ID. J.. Lynn, w.
r. Hancock, Frank 4. Esterbrook, c. A.
Mcguire, John N. Nayin, H. d. Bassett, F.
@. Castor, G. e. Thornton, b. G. Wheat, II.
hi Barnes, c. L. Smith, o. w. Newman,
Schuyler Haas, Albert +. Baumbauer.
Charles w Moores. r.. F. Davidson, j. NJ.
Cropsey, Elmer Marshall, H. T.. Negley,
Harry M. Franklin, Joseph T.. Elliott, jr.,
Charles i. Dietz, Henry H. Meats, Linton
A. Cox, w. j. Riley, John NJ. Bailey, III. N.
Spaan, Frank Fitzgerald, r. M. Coleman,
Martin NJ. Hugg, Frederick A. Joss, Joseph
Il. Healing, William II. Dye and Marion
Eaton.
The prosecuting attorneys are preparing
and they may prepare some counter afi-
davits. They say the case will not be taken
from the county. If it is possible. 20 pre-
vent 1t.
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PROCEEDINGS FOR SALE or REAL
estate.

State of Indiana. Marion county, IS. In the
Marion Circuit Court.
Joseph b. Healing, executor OF the last
will and testament Of Sarah G. Reams, VS..
William Y. Wheeler and Margaret r. clark.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue Of an
order or the Marion Circuit Court Of Marion
County. Indiana, the Undersigned. executor
Of the last will and testament of Sarah c.
Rea ~, Will offer for sale at private sale,
for sot less than the appraised value. at
tho siiics CT Healing K Hugg. 90 East WASH
tpGton street. indianapolis. at 10 o'clock a.
IN, ca "Wednesday, the Sth day of April,
1855 ard from day to day until sold. the
f0llov.tng Inscribed real estate in the city Of
InGlanapoli IN Marion county, Indiana:
Beginning at the southwest corner of lot
four ca anC running thence north on the
west lire Of said lot eighty go feet, thence
east, parallel with the south line of said
lot. thD. -seven and one-half G71z) feet;
thence south, parallel with the west line of
line OF sad lot. and thence west or the
south lire of said lot, thirty-seyen and one
half Gli2) feet. TO the place OF beginning.
being eighty (SO feet off the south end Of
thirty-seven and one-half 971D feet of the
west side. OF said lot four "a heretofore con-
veyed to Louis Aldag by John s. Duncan,
commissioner. by deed recorded in Towr Lot
Record OF Deeds. No. 81, at rage LIS, of the
records IN the cffice OF the recorder OF Marion
county. Indiana.
Terms OF sale win not be less than one
third cash. balance in two equal iastallments.
payable in nine CO. and eighteen QS) months.
above real estate, subject 10 all liens.
JOSEPH b. HEALING.
Executor OF the last will and testament OF
Sarah C. ReamS.
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ID. w. Bigoney has been appointed auditor
of disbursements of the Erie. vice n. 5. Rut-
ter, resigned.
C. Il. Schaff. general manager of the Big
-Four lines, was in the city yesterday. and
went to Chicago last night.
The Cleveland, Canton & Southern has
given notice that 1t will become a member
OF the Central Freight Association.
On Monday next the Big -Four will restore
Train 4. between indianapolis and Cincin-
natl, leaving indianapolis at us a. m.
On May L General Superintendent Kline, of
the Georgia Central, will become general
manages of the Interoceanic road of Mexico.
The Irving-Terry company left last even
ing via the Lake Erie & Western and the
Wabash Tor Detroit, travelling by special
train.
HI fast freight of the Panhandle on Sat
urday last made the run from Columbus to
Pittsburg at an average speed of twenty-six
miles an hour.
Official notice is given of the appointment
Erie lines at Cleveland vice w. 3. Wether-
ell. transferred.
George B. Hazelhurst, general superinten-
dent of motive power of the Baltimore &
Ohio, has resigned, and other designations, it
is stated. will follow.
The governing committee OF the New York
Stock Exchange yesterday listed $500, 600 of
general mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds Of
1885 of the Toledo & Ohio Central railroad.
Relatives of T.. o. Barbour, treasurer of
the Chesapeake az Ohio, who reside in this
city, state that recent kilograms give no en-
couragement that he viii recover from his
illness.
The eight-mile extension Of the Louisville
e. Nashville. whereby eleven miles between
Louisville and Frankfort are cut off. is COM
pleted. and trains viii begin 10 run over it
April 4.
II is probable that in the near future the
tickets OF the Indiana. Decatur & Western
will be sold at the uptown joint office Of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the
Monon lines.
W. w. Peabody. jr. takes the newly-cre-
ated office OF coal traffic manager on the
Baltimore < Ohio lines on April 1. He has
heretofore been assistant to General Mama
ger Peabody.
There Is considerable uneasiness among the
passenger conductors on the Nickel-plate. \
number OF freight conductors are learning
view OF promotion in the near future.
An order has been issued by the Wabash
management cautioning its employees agains;
selling their time checks, reciting that il is
pays PROMPTLY for the services o. the pre-
vious month.
The local freight earnings of the Monor
at indianapolis for the month OF January
this year exceeded those OF January. 1895, by
S1.3i2. Those OF February were 1892 ahead
and indications are that in March the in
crease in local earnings will be in the neigh
borhood OF 5000.
D.. f. Mcmillan. who on April 1 become:
general freight agent Of the Columbus. san
eight years been chief clerk OF the genera
freight agent OF the Chicago & Grand Trunk
and has represented the road at the Contra
Traffic Association meetings.
A special meeting Of the Central Traffic
passenger committee was held In Chicago
yesterday for the purpose OF considering the
rules and regulations governing the forma-
! ton Of the organization. The COMMITTEES was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26
German House bowling Contest.

All members of the German House took
a lively interest in the bowling contest of
last evening The nine pin game was played.
each participant being independent. There
were fully one hundred contestants. Prizes
were offered for the SIX men and the six
women who should have the highest scores
at the close of the game. The scores OF
those winning prizes were very close and
the contest at the close was exciting. The
six men winning prizes finished in the fol-
lowing order: Fred Zwicker. Herman
Pfafflin, George Marvin, Albert Cooper,
Otto l. Kipp. The game for the women was
won by Mrs. George Vonnegut. The others
finished with scores placing them in the fol-
lowing order: Mrs. Theodore Stempfel, Mrs.
julius Karmen, Mrs. Albert Cooper, Miss
Lille Ludorff.
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An insane Man Attacks. a clerk.

c. S. Culbertson, an insane patient, who
is under treatment at B~rowning's sanitari-
UNI, attacked Charles Gerhard. a clerk at
Paul Krauss's store, yesterday afternoon.
and but for the interference of some of the
otner clerks, would have done him serious
injury. Culbertson, under the escort Of an
attendant, has been in the habit of going to
Krauss's store for his laundry packages.
Yesterday the attendant left him at the
door of the store. Culbertscn asked for his
package and received il. After paying the
charges he sprang upon Gebhard- Patrolman
Moore was about to place Culbertson under
arrest. when the attendant appeared and
took charge of him.
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She Ably Defended Her Husband.

Annie Singleton was tried and acquitted.
in the Criminal Court, yesterday. of the
charge OF assault and battery on James
Dunnigan. The case came up on an appeal
from a justice of the peace court. The Dun
nigans and Singletons are neighbors. living
on Shelby street. June 3. 1894, Dunnigan and
Mrs. Singleton's husband got into a tight in
front of the latter's place of business. Mrs.
Singleton, believing her husband TO be In
danger Of bodily harm. flew to his rescue.
With the dramatic Outterance, IF you must
strike some one. strike me-" she planted
prepared TO receive the blow meant for her
husband. Witnesses testified that the latter
was willing to take refuge behind his wife.
Dunnigan calamity replied, Il never strike
a lady, and then put himself in the charge
of the policeman who had appeared on the
Sccnp
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llsnsHh WOULDN'T MARRY HIM.
Arthur Mitchell Assaulted the Young
Lady-Hfs Punishment.

Edward Johnson, a young colored man
charged with cutting Arthur Mitchell, an
other eolored man, On the Ohio-street anal
bridge ST. Patrick's night, was fined 50 end
costs in Police Court yesterday. Johnson
claimed that ne acted in se1e-defense.
Mitchell having threatened to kill him on
account of a quarrel over a girl.
to the workhouse for thirty lays for at
lacking Johnson. Gertie Snyder, a young
girl who refused to marry Mitchell.
charged that he assaulted her some time
ago. He was fined a like amount ani Civ
EN- twenty days in the workho1se for the
LATTER 0ffense.
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P~ittsburE, Cincinnati, Chicago & st.
Louis Railway Company.

RG, Ia, March L, 1876
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & ST.
he nrincinaI Office OF said company nsi Pen -
avenue and Tenth street, Pittsburg, Pa, on
TUESDAY, APRIL II. 1856,
az II o'clock a. m. for the purpose OF re-
ceiving the annual report for 1895, the cleo
ton OF three directors 10 succeed a like num-
Der. whose term OF service expires on that
date. and the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before the
meeting.
The transfer books will be closed on Tues
day. March 81. and reopened on Wednesday,
April 10. 1896. >. b. LIGGEFT,
II. Cacrntarr
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Her First Verdict Was for 81. 900

The suit of Mary Henderson against the
c., H.. & I. Railway Company is being tried
for the second time in the Superior Court.
The plaintiff, in 1884. was driving on State
street, near the railway tracks, when her
horse took fright at an engine and ran off.
She was thrown from her buggy and badly
injured. In the first trial of the case the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for
$1,000. Judge Bartholomew, however, granted
a pew trial
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A Triple Alliance Formed.

1t has been stated that the Pennsylvania
Company intended to make Cleveland a
mum more important terminal OF its sys-
TEN and largely increase the business of
the Pittsburg e. Cleveland division. The
Pennsylvania Company, it is annoInced. in
conjunction with the Cuddy-Mullin Coal
Company, has perfected an arrangement
for the interchange Of traffic, both passen-
ger and freight, with the Great Northern
Steamship Company and the Great North
ern railroad. Freight is to be handled over
the Cleveland & Pittsburg and Fort Wayne
e. Chicago roads. A Pittsbnrg paper states
that the new dock which the pennsylvania
Company IS to build in the Cleveland har-
Dor will be used and a line Of carriages
will be established to carry passengers
from the Cleveland e. Pittsburg trains to
the vessels. The Great Northern Will take
from the Cuddy-Mullin docks 10000 tons OF
coal per year, all of which will come from
to the Great Northern that have hitherto
month begin to start out from Cleveland.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company owns
one line of lake teamers known as the
Anchor line, which will carry freight to
and from Erie, but the new line will not
conflict with the Erie trade, which is most
ly diverted for the benefit of the Philadel-
phia & Erie railroad. A freight house IS
to be built by the Pennsylvania Company
on the new Cleveland dock, which VIII be
used for the business originating through
the new line Of steamships.
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State or Indiana. Set: In the Appellate
Court.
Rudolph o. Shaefer VS.. Dora Nelson.
Ne 1871 Appeal from Wabash Circuit
Court
Whereas. II appears by afidavit filed that
Dora Nelson Is a nonresident Of the State
OF Indiana. and Is a necessary party TO said
appeal
Now, therefore. the said nonresident an
peiiee above named Is hereby notified That
on the 10th day OF December. 1895. the said
appellant, Rudolph @. Shaefer, filed in the
clerks Office OF the Appellate Court OF Indi-
ana. a transcript of the record and proceed
ings in a certain suit appealed from the Cir
cult Court OF Wabash county, Indiana, in
which said Dora Nelson was plaintiff. and
said Rudolph O.. Shaefer was defendant: and
said above named nonresident appellee Is
hereby notified 10 appear at the Appellate
Court room. in indianapolis, Indiana, before
said Appellate Court. on the 18th day OF
May, 1856. and defend said appeal, else the
same win be proceeded upon in her abb
sence-
Witness my hand and the seal OF said
court. this 18th day OF March. 1896.
ALEXANDER HESS.
Clerk Appellate Court.
Kenner g Lesh. Attorneys for Appellant.
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MarshaI Thorp's Trial.

Town Marshal Thorp. of Haughville, was
before the Criminal COURT. charged with
assaulting a colored man on whom he was
trying to serve a writ of replevin. Thorp
was fined by a justice of the peace and APP
pealed the case. Judge McCray took it under
advisement.
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Di..ectinr Room Clenpinr..

Small boys playing at the West Vermont
street dump a few days ago discovered a
umbe of parts of human bodies. 1t was
Immediately suspected that it was the clean
Ings from a dissectirg room. An investlga-
ticn proved that last Friday the dsssecting
cleaned out, but the janitor denies that any
parts of bodies were removed 10 the dump.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26

The jury in the case of Myra Anderson
against the citize1s, 9. Stfeet-railroad Com
pany, tried in Room :. Superior Court.
brought>in a special verdict yesterday. The
plaintiff sued to recover damages for being
elected from an insane hospital car.
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VANDALIA LINE.
The Short Line for ST. LOUIS and The WEST

Leave indianapolis Daily-7:3o a m. $40
g. m, 1910 noon, 1900 d. m. 1i:20 d. m.
Arrive st. Louis Union Sation-5:l2 .. m,
500 y. M, 70o p. m, 1:4 a. m, ZOO a. m.
Parlor car on 1910 mon train daily and
local sleeper on IL 20 d. m train daily for
Evansville and St Louis. open 10 receive
passengers at $50.
street. No. as jackson place and Union
Station GEO. z. ROCKWELL d. p. =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26

1 nave only had an opportunity to give a
hasty examination TO the American Encyclo-
paedic Dictionary, but / am pleased with it.
II is a valuable reference book.
March "a, 1896. BENZ. HARRISON.
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THE COURT


1851. Lumbert VS.. Woodland. Elkhart C.. c.
Affirmed Hackney, C.. J.-It is not essential
to the validity Of a vendors lien on personal
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The b .FIyer."

A dispatch from Fort Wayne says: THE
change of schedule on the Wabash, which
went into effect last Sunday. is already prov
ing a success and is very popular with trav-
cling men and other patrons of that line.
The time is very fast, but so far there has
been no trouble to make it. The east-bound
fast mail No. 46, due to pass here at Has a.
M, in making all the stops has a hard run.
No. AZ, the west-bound fast mail, makes but
few stops, and is said TO be the fastest
scheduled train crossing Indiana to-day.
Both of these fast mail trains carry pas
sengers. The west-bound schedule is ex-
actly fifty miles per hour between Toledo and
Danville, Ill.,, and it's average time between
Toledo and St. Louis is forty-three miles
per hour, making it faster than the Penn
sylvania limited or the Knickerbocker. Since
the train was put on last Sunday it has been
on time TO the minute, although between To-
ledo and Danville it mak nine regular sta
ton stops, besides ten other stops at rail-
way crossings, making nineteen in all. The
conductors who have charge of this flyer
are Peter Fording, Tom Riley and James
Adams. The engineers are John Ross and
James Federly, with engines IA and 423."
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NOTICE.

The board OF control of the Central In
diana Hospital for the Insane will receive
sealed proposals I'D TO Friday, March n.
at 10 a. m. for furnishing a full line of sup
plies for the month OF April. Requisition
book viii be on file at Room E Statehouse
from and after Monday. March 23.lS96. nv
order OF Board OF Control.
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The transmissouri roads have not been as
liberal with the c.. A. r. as the roads in the
Western Passenger Association. They have
decided upon a rate of one fare for the round
trip for the annual encampment in st. Paul,
instead of a rate of / cent a mile. as au-
thorized b. the roads of the Western Pas
senger sASsociation.
Some time ago the Chicago-St. Paul lines
requested their st. Louis connections to dis
continue a secOnd-class rate of 1850 from st.
Louis and East st. Louis TO St. Paul via
Chicago. The rate offered a scalp on the
which was the reason the C~hicago-St. Paul
lines objected to IL. The St. Louis roads took
out the rate when requested, but il was con-
tinued for basing purposes and to intermedi-
ate points. The Chicago-St. Paul lines have
now requested the st. Louis roads to take
the rate out Of the market entirely.
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NO POOLING / L YET
LITTLE HOPE THAT CONGRESS WILL
ACT UPON 1T THIS SESSION.
The Pennsylvania Reaching Toward
Please Commercial Travellers.

A railroad attorney who has watched with
a good deal of Interest the movements in
Congress regarding the railway pooling bill
says II Is now likely to suffer the same
fate that other general legislation will
in the present Congress- The chances for
the passage of the bill by the House looked
bright at the opening Of the session. The
Railway World has a lengthy article on
the bill and its provisions, and says: The
chief influence which seems to be arrayed
against the present bill Is that OF the large
shippers. The present system affords the
opportunity for secret rebates in their favor,
which give them a great advantage over
their small competitors. This advantage
would disappear under a system of division
of business or a fixed division Of earnings.
for the motive for paying rebates would
disappear. The theory of members Of the
Interstate-commerce Commission is that
railways. being quasi public corporations
and holding public franchises, have not the
right to grant larger concessions TO great
shippers than to small ones, beyond the
reasonable limits of the difference in cost
of handling. 1t is their policy to establish
this uniform equality OF rights for all ship
pers. and they believe that commercial con-
diticns, public opinion, and the power OF
law will prevent any undue advance in
win contribute towards the equality OF con-
ditions which Is the right Of every citizen
from CORPORATIONS holding valuable fran
chises by grant of the public powers
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The trial OF John Scroggins against the
Cleaveland Fence Company is going on in
Room 1, Superior Court Scroggins had his
eyes injured by the bursting OF a casting.
He demands $4,000.
The Indianapolis Cabinet Makers Union
yesterday filed with the county recorder a
mortgage for $4,000 TO Augusta Louise Sti-
fel, OF Dayton, o. TIL mortgage is given on
real estate owned by the company.
Appointments wers-4naae in the Probate
Court yesterday. az follows: George Coble,
jr., administrator of the estate OF Timothy
McMahan. bond. 500; Rev. Francis III.
Gavisk, administrator OF the estate Of Cath
crime Rowland, bond :, ZOO.
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.Rrown,s RrnnchinI Troches,

Are widely known as an admirable remedy for Bron-
chitis. Hoarseness, Coughs and Throat troubles Sold
only In boxea
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sncIrTY

SOCIETY MEETINGS.
ADMINISTRATIONS Lodge. No. 564. +. and
A. NJ. MasOnS Special meeting in Masonic
Temple this Thursday evening at 40
O'Clock for work in the second degree VS.
itcrs welcome. GEORGE A. GAY, W. NJ.
WILLIAM H. SMYTHE, Secretary.
The record-union., 1896-06-26

There is nothing Congress accom-
plished in Its late session that has as
much cordial general praise as its dec
laration that it is now the settled policy
of the United States to make no appro-
priation of money or property for found
ing or maintaining, or aiding in any
way, any church, religious denomina-
rtion, or religious society, which is
wholly or in part under sectarfan or &C.
clesiastfcal control. The National
League for the Protection of American
Institutions, which for seven years has
labored assiduously, openly and notori-
ously for this end, has reason to con-
gratuIate itself upon its success. 1t is
still in the field urging the injection OF
this policy into the Federal Constitu-
ton, 1t has in its ranks many of the
first scholars, publicists and clericals in
the land, along with statesmen, business
men. soldiers and host Of officials. In
its membership is the President OF
nearly all the Universities in the United
States and all the leading scholars,
artists and writer's. General Grant was
really the author of the proposed
amendment, he having sent it to Con-
gress in a special message in 1879.