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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
A CRUEL MOTHER-IN-LAw.
Kept Husband and Wife Separated for
Years by Intervening Letters.

Defiance. o.. Dispatch in Chicago Journal.
Chester Childs a broom maker of Tole-
do, was in this city to-day arranging to file
evidence with the postal authorities to
prosecute his mother-in-law, Mrs. Daniel
Farmer residing near Hicksville, o., on
charge that she defrauded him out of
S1,17O by intercepting mail and by false
pretenses. Childs tells a strange story of
love, romance, deceit and crime. A num-
Der of years ago he resided at Upper San
dusky, 0. Here he wooed and won Miss
Clara Farmer daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Daniel Farmer The girl was proud and
did not want her friends to learn of her
love for the man, SO Childs took the girl
to Auburn, Ind. where he secure ed a license
under the name Of Frank Dudley and they
were married by minister.
This was on March, 4, $780, Childs took
his young wife to Columbus, o., where he
gave up his broom making and secured
position as travelling agent for Detroit
publication. For a time all went well, a
son came to brighten their home. Shortly
after ChildS lost mis- position and went East
to find other employment. He obtained
position at Carnegie, Pa. which lasted but
a few weeks, when he went to Philadelphia.
In the meantime Mrs. Childs had gone to
the home of her parents, who had moved
from Upper Sandusky to this county.
ChildS wrote from Philadelphia to his wife,
inclosing money to pay her way to Phila-
delphia. Some time later he received a
letter from his mother-in-law stating that
Mrs. Childs had died on June 5, 1894, and
asking him TO send money for the support
of his son.
Childs says the story of his wifes death
was a sad blow to him. but that he could
not leave his position long enough to visit
his son, and knowing him to be in good
hands, he forwarded the money as request
ed This he continued TO do, renting at
regular intervals small sums of money, and
receiving occasional letters in reply from
his mother-in-law.
A short time ago Childs gave up his po-
sition at Philadelphia and came to Toledo,
o., where he resumed his trade OF broom
making From a friend in Toledo he
learned to his great surprise that his wife
was not dead. but that she was living with
her seven-year-old son at 81 La Sale
street Fort Wayne Ind, where she was
supporting herself by dressmaking. Childs
est no time in Fastening to Fort Wayne,
where there was a glad reunion, and he
was again surprised to learn that his wife
believed him dead. having been told by her
mother that he died of blood poisoning
while working in Philadelphia. Not cent
of his money had ever reached her.
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THE MARLBOROUGH BABY.
Name, Wealth and Honor to Which
the Little Lord Will Succeed.
New York Herald.


The little mite Of humanity who drew
his first breath of life in Spencer House
yesterday has the title by courtesy of the
Marquis of Blandford. If he survives his
father he will be the tenth Duke of MARI
borough and have long string of titles
including Earl of Marlborough, Earl of
Sunderland Baron Churchill Of Sandrige,
Prince Of the Holy Roman Empire and
Prince of Mindelham, in Suabia-
In addition to a great name. the lucky
child will inherit a magnificent entailed es
tate. which has been restored and i'm
proved by American dollars Through his
father he can trace descent to some OF the
most famous men in English history on
his mothers side he will be related TO the
wealthiest family on this side of the At
lantic.
Most of the Dukes of Marlborough have
had sufficient strength of personality to
have left marked impressions in their gem
Grafton Many OF them have been noted
for brains rather than good morals. for
Conquests in the battle field and In the
boudor. The little marquis should inherit
good looks, a strong Will and a superior
mental ability. The faculty of acquiring
OF of retaining money. for which the first
duke and duchess were notedA was missing
I'm some Of their descendants and the splen-
doris of Blenheim We're tarnished The
Vanderbilt blood should restore this desira-
BILE quality in the present heir.
The dukedom of Marlborough was Gre
ated less than two centuries ago. John
Churchill. the first To bear the title was
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is at present employed as head molder at
the Citico furnace of the Roane Iron Com
pany. He works all day at Citleo, ana
walks home in the evening, Il distance of
two miles and works half the night on the
buildings of his foundry.
The company has not borrowed cent OF
money. and It will start entirely clear of
debt, and Ferran says IL will never owe
cent of money it can't pay by check at any
time There are five men like Ferran in
the company, but none with his intelligence
and knowledge. The plant has been pald
for by the savings of these gritty men out
of small wages.
The result will be watched with the great
est interest. as it Is believed that II this
enterprise proves successIul tne race quss-
ton in the South will be in large measure
settled. The dignity of skilled labor VIII
do more for the negro than all the polltlcI
nostrums in the world. AS soon as ne mas
that as a race, he can be independent, theh
he will begin to look to himself ana not 10 10
the white man altogether. and then ne VIII
gain self-respect. something he has to a
very Indifferent degree now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
COLORED MEN IN BUSINESS,
Negroes Put Up "a BuiIdins; and VIII
Run 1t Foundry at Chattanooga.
Special to

The Southern Hollow Ware and FounJrv
Company organized and operated exclu-
SlVely by negroes, is an experiment about
TO be launched in this city to test the ca
pacity of the negro for management of ms
own affairs. The company is organized IN
the cooperative idea, and each man is To
give to the business so much OF his time
The plant, when completed, will make
stoves especially, but is designed to do all
kinds of foundry work. The main foundry
building is 100 by 25 feet. with a number of
outbulldlngS and anneXeS. These buildings
have been completed by the stockholders
working at nights and at odd times, so as
not to interfere with their work on the out
side. each one of them having a job with
one or the other foundry establishments in
secondhand material, bought here and
there in job lots. The cupola is new, and
cost about $500. They have acquired by in
dustry and hard work engines, boilers
molds and all needed lesser tools and will
have their shop perfectly completed at the
to make about fifteen stoves a day. ana
they Already have promises of orders SUI
ficient TO give them a start The plant will
give employment TO about fifty cOlored men
when running full time. In addition TO
making stoves. they expect a good business
doing piecework for the other foundries
and iron works about the city, as they will
be able 10 work cheaper than any other
concern in the city.
The men back OF this enterprise are all
Woodworking. sober and Industrious and
deserve and are receiving the greatest en-
cOuragernent and cOnsidera ton from the
whites of this city The idea of building
and operating the foundry originated with
the president. G. II. Ferran who is mu-
latto formerly a slave. belonging to an old
and wealthy Alabama family. He was the
plantation blacksmith, a man of colossal
frame and model OF manly physique. He
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PENDLETON, Ind, Sept. 22.-Notwith-
standing the dispatches to the contrary,
the status of the window glass workers
troubles shows no material change, and the
prospect Of any of the factories starting is
very poor until the workers patch up their
differences. The factories here are ready
to start and have pots all 'set," and the
ident Burns will give the local company
the right to select it's own f1atteners and
cutters the plant will start Mr.. Burns
will not permit this, but says the factory
must use the men furnished by the council
This same difficulty is being encountered by
all the window houses that We're reported
to be ready for work. The blowers and
gatherers will not work with the cutters
and flatteners formerly of the l.. A, 300
How the trouble will be adjusted no one can
flatteners and cutters TO be held at Ander-
son tomorrow night,
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Obituary.

LONDON. Sept. 22-Charles Andrew Van
neck, third Baron Huntingfeld, is dead.
He was born in 1918 and was a deputy
lieutenant of Suffolk
BAYONNE. France. Sept. 22.-General
Bourbaki, who was in command of the
imperial guard at Metz during the Franco
Prussian war. but who left that place on
a mysterious errand shortly before the
equalization, is dead.
ROME. Sept. PA dispatch from Mes
sina, Sicily. announces the death of Mgr.
Giuseppe Guarino. cardinal bishop of Mes
sina. He was born in Sicily in 1927 and
was created a cardinal in 1893.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
BIG PRICE FOR STOCK
PERU FINDS ITSELF IN THE THROEs
OF A REGULAR OIL BOOM.
Case Against Mrs. Rittenhouse at YER
saiiIes Dismissed for Want of Evil
dence-Sfate News.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
PERU, Ind, Sept. 22.-EXcitement in the
new oil field is undated. The hotels and
boarding houses are all crowded and oil
men are arriving on every train. The lob
bies of the hotels in the evening remind one
of the early days in the Ohio and Indiana
fields. Stock in the Peoples Oil Company
and other strong companies is commanding
fancy figures Blocks of two paid-up Peo-
pies shares and fourteen assessable shares
on which one 10 per cent. assessment has
been paid have been sold for $500 yesterday
and to-day. The shares represent an outlay
of only 49, Oil men from abroad complain
that it is hard in this field to get leases, but
the home companies have secured many
valuable tracts. A home company secured
lease on the old fair grounds this week.
The tract is about half mile west of the
first wells and contains about eighty-five
acres. 1t is along the Wabash Railroad and
is the most valuable lease yet made. The
Standard Oil Company offered the owners
$4,000 for the ground, but they would not
sell. Then the Standard offered to lease,
giving $1,0e0 a bonus and one-fourth of
the product. The Peoples Company offered
lease
The Bearss well, which showed strong in
dications when Trenton rock was first
struck, did not turn out as well as was
hoped The well is considerable distance
east of the Peoples No. l. and the rock
made a big dip and was found too low.
The well was shot and is pumping probably
fifty barrels a day.
The Fulwiler well was drilled in to-day
1t IS about half way between the Peoples
well and Bearss well, and made a better
showing than the Bearss well, but not so
good as the other producers.
t'orty-seven rigs are erected in the Peru
field, some of them not yet working. Prob
ably four moro wells will come in this week
and give some basis for judging the size
of the field. Loring, TAFT, Mcdonald g.
Boyd, a firm of wealthy operators from the
Montpelier field, have leased from A. N.
Dukes the old Wabash and Erie canal bed
and towpath from the feeder dam to the
fair grounds, a distance of about three
miles, with siXty-foot right of way.
A proposition was made in the City Coun-
Gil last night to lease the vacant lots be-
longing to the city in the eastern part of
town and devote the proceeds, If there be
any, to public Improvement. The PROPOSE
ton meets with much favor and will prob
ably be favorab,y acted on at the next meet
ing of the Council, next Tuesday evening.
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A soreIy stricken To,yn.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-Dr. wyman's
advices tonight include the following:
Thirteen new cases and two deaths are re-
ported at Edwards, Miss.
Surgeon Sawtelle, at Atlanta, reports
there are no suspects in that city and none
found on the trains. The case at the de-
tention camp is well.
At Mobile four new cases were official
ly reported liz the infected district, also
five recoveries; no deaths.
DR. GuiteraS reports from Memphis that
he has inspected the government dredges
at Point Pleasant and no traces of yell wv
fever are found.
A dispatch received from Montgomery
says that city has no unnecessary restric-
lions against the mails. This was in reply
to an inquiry on the subject by DR.. Wy
man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-The Columbian
line steamer Finance, Captain Daily, ar
rived this morning from Colon, with eight
cen cabin and five second-cabin passengers.
There were TWO cases of sickness during
the voyage. On Sept. IS Pat Heating, fire.
man, was taken i'll and removed to the
ships hospital and John Endeman, a stu
dent from San Jose, Guatemala, aged
man was isolated from the rest of the pas
SengerS, and on arrival at quarantine the
health officers had both patients removed
form.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
SCHEME OF PULP MILLS.
Get a story Printed shifting the blame
for PolIutinE the Rivers.

Special to the indianapolis Journal. ssf's
MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. 22.-Deputy State
Fish Commissioner Hon. Ozro n. Cranor
and citizens generally residing in the north
ern part of the county in the vicinity of
the Mississinewa river are indignant at the
item from Eaton in an Indianapolis paper
last Sunday. purporting to be from cor
respondent OF the paper, in which he mar
rates an alleged night on the river with
party OF dynamiters. who. it is stated used
the deadly explosive in killing wagonloads
of fish. The report stated that these law
less actions were responsible for the de-
struction OF the fish in the river. Their
dead bodies floating IN the water by the
wagonloads, he said, is not the result of
the pollution OF the stream by the straw
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
Losses by Fire.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22.-The ]; w: Day
& Co sawmill on the river, at North Twen-
ty-fourth avenue. was burned to-day. Loss
$4,000; insurance. $4,000 The fire depart
ment managed to save 10000 coo feet of
lumber that was in danger The mill ham
died 10000 feet daily and employed 25O
men.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Sept. 22.-The works
destroyed by fire at O'Clock this morning
Loss estimated at 100000; partially COW
cred by insurance. Two hundred hands
are thrown out of employment.
KANKAKEE, ILL.,, Sept. 22.-Tne plant of
the Kankakee Manufacturing Company
makers of refrigerators and bicycles. was
closed by the sheriff to-day. Estimated
liabilities. $4,000; assets. S35. OO0.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
IngaIls Receivershtp case.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. 22.-Dr. A. w.
Miller, of this city, who was appointed re-
ceiver yesterday for the Ingalls, Land Com
pany, filed his bond for $4,000 to-day. The
receivership was asked in order to collect a
judgment of $1,000 against A. B. Grover,
obtained at the May term of court by Mrs
Sophia Elliott and Mrs. Mary Tobias. 1t
has been impossible to collect the judgment.
The complaint alleges that Grover is the
principal stakeholder of the Ingalls, Land
Company, and that his real interest is pur-
ported to be held by other parties. To-day
Attorney Lovett, for Grover, filed a motion
to set aside the receiVerShip.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

Washington Post.

Theodore f. Snyder, of Indianapolis, who
was in town yesterday, talked freely about
the wholesale lynching at Versailles, the
delighted at the exploit of his fellow-cti-
zens. Aren't we Hoosiers, thought he
exclaimed, gleefhlly We amt none of
lone niger out to string him up and then
fill him full of buckshot. We do the thing
up brown. When we go to lynchin' folks
'em so thick on a tree that you'd think
they grew there like the leaves. / don't
believe in lynchin' on mere suspicion but
when you know a man is guilty it's savin'
of expense to the taxpayers TO just take
him out and hang him. There won't be any
more murdern' or boss stealth round Yer
sailes, you can just bet your boots on
that"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
Indiana Obituary.

GREENSBURG, Ind, Sept Pc. NJ
Warthen, aged thirty-eight, died this after
noon of Bright's disease Mr.. Warthen has
He leaves two children, Mrs. George Dunn,
jr., and DR.. Aldred Warthen, of Ann Arbor
University.
ORLEANS, Ind, Sept. 22.-W. r. While,
aged seventy-seven one of the prominent
citizens of this section, died suddenly last
night of paralysis. He was a member of
the F'orty-ninth Indiana, Company G, in
the late war.
WILKINSON. Ind, Sept 22.-Mary
A. Ayers, wife of ]. A. Ayers, of this place,
died to-day from a stroke of paralysis,
aged forty-three. She was taken i'll yester-
day
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 22.-Miss Bar
bara Hickey, aged eighteen, well-known
young woman here, died this morning Of
typhoid fever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
SIiIIil1in Wants Revenge.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, Sept. 22.-Thomas r.
Millikin, who has just been given his liber
ty after three months Imprisonment pend
ing investigation of a charge of securing
money under false pretenses. the grand jury
failing to indict him, announced to-day that
he would bring suits against the Indiana
Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis,
asking damages in the sum of $4,000 for
alleged breach of contract He came here
to represent that company, but it refused
to honor q draft drawn by him, and as a
result he was arrested for securing money
under false pretenses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
Texas Cattle in Quarantine.

Ex-Governor Matthews was informed yes
terday that his Vermillion county farm had
been placed in quarantine by the state vet
erinarian. The Ex-Governor has been in the
city the last ten days attending to his du-
ties as a member of the State Board OF
Agriculture. Recently he received eighty
head of Texas cattle at his farm, and, al
though they were not infected, the Texas
fever broke out in an adjoining county
Mr.. Matthews says the state veterinarian
called on him last Sunday and stated that
as a precautionary measure all Texas cattle
would probably be placed in quarantine.
There is no fear of a spread of the disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind, Sept. 22-Sher-
if Larsh arrested William Murphy and
William Gray, of this city, tonight as be-
ing implicated in the murderous assault ON
Agent Gray, of the p, c., c. & St. L., Mon
day night Knox, who was first arrested as
the guilty party, confessed having hand in
the robbery at Silverstein's junk store the
same day, taking the money to buy whisky.
He will also be held to account for the re-
cent hold-up of young Ellaberger near the
city. This is only a portion of the gang
and more arrests will follow. Murphy and
Gray were taken to Richmond and lodged
in the county Jail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
Heavy Export Tax ON Gold.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.-The owners of
the gold mines in Nicaragua are worried
over a decree published Aug. 10, taking
effect Immediately, establishing an export
duty of 81 gold per ounce on gold ingots
and 81 per ounce on gold dust The informa-
ton comes to the State Department from
Consular Agent Clancy at Bluehelds He
says the old duty was S544 cents per ounce
on gold The mining interests have united
in petitiOning the government to revoke
the decree which, they assert, would be
ruinous to a new industry. Last year the
gold exports from Bluefields amounted to
$169,565, an increase of $31, 636 over the pre-
Ceding wears SHIPMENTS
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took the fever this afternoon, his fever be-
ing high. He is reported as doing well to-
night.
TIE Can't-get-away Club of Mobile is do
ing a great work in the way of nursing
the sick and relieving distress. This noble
organization has performed great deeds in
the past here and in neighboring cities.
The amount of distress in the city is not
yet great but ii Is growing, very many
families having had their means of susie
nance taken away by the general stop
page of business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-The charter OF
Branch of the Social Democracy of
America was revoked to-day by the nation
al executive board and the sentence of
temporary suspension imposed on four OF
its insubordinate leaders was CHANGED to
expulsion. Violent utterances in discord
with the purposes of the order and refusal
to submit to the discipline of the board
were the offenses charged against those
who are placed under the ban
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
DisabIed steamers.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Sept D.
When the steamer Queen left Juneau the
steamer Al-Ki, from Seattle, was there with
her boilers leaking 1t will take three or
four days to repair her boilers, when she
will return south. The Queens officers re-
port having spoken the steamer City of
Topeka near Juneau with two of her pro-
pellor blades broken and her crankshaft
bent The cause of the accident was not
learned
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
Merely Another Road.
Boston Transcript.

One of the evangelical papers, deploring
the liberalism of Rev. b. Fay Mills who
is to begin his Sunday evening meetings in
October, says: I'VE deeply regret that the
arch enemy of souls has spiked a gun that
proved so effective when arrayed under the
evangelical banner against the battlements
of sim" Wait and see, brother. Perhaps
il will prove that the devil has not yet
spiked Mr.. Mills perhaps his and your cap
tain has only given him marching orders
over q different road towards the same
gate when alls done
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Mount to appraise the value of the court
house and Jail at Brownstown, met at that
place. The appraisers must file certificate
one with the Governor as to the value of
the present buildings. Each of the ap-
praisers received $50 and his expenses. The
election to vote on the relocation of the
county seat takes place Oct. 10, and if
Seymour is successful in getting GO per cent.
of the vote cast. the new courthouse and
Jail must not cost less than rs per cent.
more than the value placed on the buildings
at Brownstown by the appraisers, and cam
not exceed the appraised building over 100
per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23
AnerIcnn Lnhnrern nnrrod.

DETROIT, Sept. pa sweeping alien
labor clause which, was added to the crown
timber regulations by the Ontario Cabinet
Yesterday has caused some dsquietude
among Michigan lumbermen who are oper-
ating in Canada. The new regulation pro-
hibits employment of any person not a
resident of Canada in any capacity in lum-
bering operations. The only exceptions
made are as to a manager. head book
keeper and one estimator or explorer for
each corDOrattOn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

LEADVILLE, Col, Sept. 22-James
Rowan, one of the passengers on the Port
land has reached here with a big bag of
Klondike gold. Rowan has been mining and
prospecting in Alaska for thirteen years
lie was on the site of Dawson City in May.
1896, and owns ground which he values at
$zO0,0O0 He returned to the States, he said.
to hunt up his family concerning whom he
has not heard for ten years.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. l22.-Fire at
noon to-day destroyed the residence of
William Freed and damaged the residence
of DR.. J. p. Tourner and DR.. j. L. Harris,
the blacksmith shop of Frank Dobson and
a number of stables were burned. Total
less. 81 GO: covered by Insurance.