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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Everhardt-Daly Fight a Draw.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2S.-Jack DAILY and
Jack Everhardt met before the Tulane-ave-
nue. Athletic Club, with about a thousand
persons present, for a percentage of the re-
ceipts The match was originally for TWEEN
ty rounds, but the mayor would not issue
a permit for over ten rounds and charged
$500 for that Everhardt said he had trained
for twenty rounds and refused to go on I'M
Til he secured an agreement that if both
men were on their feet at the end of the
ten rounds the fight would be declared a
draw Everhardt tried to make it rough
and-rushing fight from the start, but DAILY
was clever enough to keep away from pun
ishment. Days left was weak, so that
seventh when DAILY learned to use his right
ana keep it going on the body. In the tenth
round Days right did a rushing business
on Everhardts body and there was danger
of a knockout. Then Everhardt clinched
and wrestled and saved his skin until time
was called, and Referee Duffy declared it a
draw.
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OBITUARY..
Samuel BoOIxstnver Bell, Who Estab-
Iished u College i'm California.

SANTA ROSA, Cal, Dec. 2S.-Samuel
Bookstaver Bell is dead aged eighty years
He was born in Montgomery, Orange coun-
ty, New York, on Sept. II, 1917. In 1S45 he
married Miss Sophia Walworth, a member
of Chancellor Walworth's family. While a
young man ne took up the study of law and
for few years practiced in the courts of
his State. Subsequently he studied theolo-
gy and was ordained a minister of the Pres
byterian church. On coming to California
ne established d college in Oakland, which
became the basis for the formation of the
University of California. DR.. Bell served
in both branches of the California Legisla-
ture and presided over the first Republic
an convention in this State. He was
personal and intimate friend of Abraham
Lincoln during the civil war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

found dying in Morgssn's cut, near this city,
on the night of Oct. %. was murdered by
negro tramp. At the time OF the supposed
accident it was thought that the conductor
had fallen from his r..din, but the railroad
authorities were not satisfied with this, and
put detectives to work on the case. As
result a negro named jackson, claiming
Muncie as his home, has been arrested at
Hannibal, Mo-, and is now in Jail there
He has confessed that he knocked the
twice" ne said and when he ordered me
off again and called me name hit him,
He is not aware of Conductor HugheS'S
death, and will be kept in Ignorance of the
fact until he is brought to this city. which
will be in few days. The detective who
made the arrest is in the city to-day in
conference with Hon. NJ. H. Stannard, the
Big Four's attorney.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 2S.-Forty per
cent of the Pittsburg district coal oper-
ators have signed a legal document bind
ing them to uniformity and expect to be
operating under the new plan by JAN l.
The signers will meet on Thursday to rati-
fly their signatures and get matters in
shape for the new year. Enough signatures
have been secured to convince the pro-
motors of the scheme that it can be pushed
TO success. Those in the agreement have
the cooperation of the miners and those
without w the fold will be compelled to pay
price for mining until they come to uni
formity, or uniformity is proven a failure.
about one half of the mines in the district
will be on strike after Jan. Is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
KILLED by a Divorce suit.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Dec. 2S.-Lemuel
Wesley Henkle, one of the oldest citizens of
this county, died yesterday at the age of
eighty. Mr.. Henkle has held many offices
in this county, including the office of coun-
ty treasurer. He leaves several grown chill
dren by a first marriage. Last spring he
was married to Mrs. Matte Bowman, a
widow, aged about fifty. Their dispositions
were not congenial, and yesterday morning
Mrs. Henkle filed a petition for divorce
from her husband, alleging cruelty, and OBJ
tanned a temporary order restraining him
from disposing of his property, amounting
to about $1,000 AS soon as the divorce
papers were served on Mr.. Henkle he was
Immediately taken SICK and inside of four
hours was dead. The case has excited a
great deal of comment in the community,
and excited a great deal Of sympathy for the
old gentleman in his troubles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 2S.-The Brit
ish Hosiery Company, at Thornton. r. L..
is making preparations to remove part of
its business to the South. A plant is to
be established at Nashville. Tenn, and a
number of the operatives from Thornton
will soon leave for that State, where they
will be used as instructors to the new and
inexperienced Southern colored employees.
The management asserts that the South
ern plant will be used for cotton goods,
and that the change is necessitated by the
present condition of cotton manufacturing.
The concern recently had much trouble with
it's employees and decided upon lockout,
which was enforced for day, when an
agreement was reached
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Gen. Sir Charles william Adair

LONDON, Dec. 2S.-Gen. Sir Charles Will
liam Adair is dead.
General Adair was born April Is, 1922. In
1910 he served in Syria, where he received
the Turkish medal He was slightly
wounded in the assault upon Gebail. In the
Crimea he served before Sebastopol dur
ing the siege and fall, and he served at
the occupation of Kerteh, Yenkinkole and
Kinburn. In 1864 he served in Japan, and
he commanded a battalion of royal marines
during the operations at the Island sea.
when he was slightly wounded and men
toned in the dispatches. In 1870 he was aid
de-camp to the Queen and from 1876 to the
end of 1877 commandant of the Portsmouth
division of the Royal Marine Light Infan-
try. He retired with the rank of general
in 1887.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

TRENTON, N. j., Dec 2S.-The manufac-
turing potters of this city and the men en-
ployed in the clay department had a con-
ference to-day, at which it was agreed the
men should be restored the 1917 per cent.
cut made in their wages in 1894. This fin
ishes up the conferences of the manufacture
erS with the men in several departments of
their work, and means an all-round restora-
ton Of the 1219 per cent. cut, the restoration
to remain in effect until Feb. 1. In the
meantime it is hoped to get the manufac-
turers of the East and West together for
the purpose of agreeing upon a uniform
scale Of wages. The Eastern manufacture
ers claim that with the increase they will
be paying the men more than is paid to the
Western operatives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Dec. 28.-Last Fri
day evening an agent for Adams Bros.
poultry house in this city, loaded over four
thousand pounds, one thousand head, of
live poultry a car at LoSantville, a
town on the Big Four ten miles from this
place, and billed the fowls to this city.
They were confined in a box car and Sat
urday morning, when Adams Bros. opened
the car for the purpose of unloading it,
they discovered that over one-half the
fowls had been smothered. An inventory of
the dead was as follows: Young hens, 1885
pounds or about $50 head; young ROSTERS
PA pounds; geese, one head; ducks six
head; old ROSTERS, thirty-five head To
add to the misfortune. while the was
left unguarded short time thieves came
and stole about $40 worth of the surviving
poultry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 2S.-Sheriff Starr,
|by accidental discovery, headed off whole
sale Jail delivery this afternoon that was
planned for tonight. 1t was being en-
gineered by the Dobson gang of horse
thieves, and they had sawed through two
of the big inch bars and started on the
third which was to let them out. The
turnkey happened to hear the noise and dis
covered the work. The saws used were of
extra quality, and it is thought that the
wife of Dobson, the leader, struggled them
in. The men were put in different corridors
tonight. The gang was rounded up few
weeks ago, after having done a land-oftice
horse-thieving business between Anderson
and Hartford City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

BERKELEY. Cal, Dec. 2S.-Dr. William
A Setchell, professor of botany in the Uni
versity of California, has been making in
vestigations among the California algae and
declares that the ocean plants have uses lit
tie suspected by most people He says: I'm
the early days of California the Chinese
imported great quantities of seaweed from
China for food Now they gather all they
want right here, and think they are even
exporting some to China. This edible sea-
weed is the layer, a small weed that grows
on the rocks and looks like tightly stretched
rubber. Eaten raw it has a gelatinous.
slightly bitter flavor 1t is dried and cooked
by the Chinese. Several varieties of Cali
fornia lSelp are valued food
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Carnegie,s Wage Contracts.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 2S.-The wage contract
in force at the several works of the Car
negie Steel Company will terminate by
agreement Friday. The present contract,
which has been in effect since 1885, will be
renewed with all employees except the tom
mage hands. The bonus payments which the
company has made since June, 1895, in add
ton to the contract rates, will be continued
to all employees receiving the bonus now,
including tonnage, turn and day and night
men upon the same conditions as hereto
fore. New contracts will be signed tO-mor-
row between the company and the tonnage
men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 2S.-Within the
next few months a raft containing five mil
lion feet of lumber will be constructed in
this city and towed to San Francisco. John
Poulson, of Inman & Poulson, owners of a
large lumber interest here, designed the raft
construction The raft will be 1896 feet long
fifty-three feet wide and be constructed SO
that only small portion of the raft will
be above the surface of the water. Several
RATS of piling have been successfully towed
from the Columbia river to San Francisco
but the rafting of sawed lumber is a new
undertaking.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

How a person can gain a
pound a day by taking an
ounce of SCOTS Emulsion
is hard to explain, but it
certainly happens.
1t seems to start the diges-
tive machinery working
properly. You obtain a
greater benefit from your
food.
The oil being predigested.
and combined with the hy-
pophosphites, makes a food
tonic of wonderful flesh
forming power.
All physicians know this
to TO be a fact. !.
All druggists; SOC. and $500.
SCOTT s. BOVINE, Chemists, New Yosk =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
wabash to Have Asphalt.
lecial .to the INDIANAPOLIS journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis JOURNAL.
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 2S.-The Barber
Asphalt Paving Company last evening was
awarded $24OOO worth of paving in this city
at $1.95 per square yard. Since last spring
the paving question has been agitated in
Wabash, both brick and asphalt having
their partisans In September bids for
asphalt on the streets in the business dis
trict were received and the paving COM
panies combined, making bids around $2.45
per yard The tenders were rejected and
bids were again advertised for, the Barber
Company being the only bidder. The pay
ing will be laid in the spring on Wabash,
Canal and Market streets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

gresham James E. Watson, was damaged
by fire yesterday afternoon to the extent of
about $500.
During the week of icy streets the follow
ing accidents happened at Winchester: La
fayette Irwin, both bones of the right leg
broken just above the ankle; Mrs. j. Z.
Barnes. seriously injured about the head
and spine; John Perkins, court bailif, IL
iured in back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Little Girl Crushed 60 DEATH.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENVILLE, o., Dec 2S.-Marna Bur-
nett aged ten. daughter of DR.. Burnett
while returning home from skating this aft
ernoon climbed on the hind wheel of a
wagon loaded with wood and accidentally
fell under the wheel. The heavy wagon
ran over her head, crushing the skull and
causing instant death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Brakeman r,ooIey Killed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 2S.-Charles II.
Dooley, a brakeman on the Big Four, was
ground to pieces under the wheels of a train
in this city this morning. He had made an
extra run to this city to tell the parents
of Howard Nelson of the boy losing a hand
while coupling cars in Dellefontalne. He
had just delivered the message to his broth
er and got on the train, when he lost his
balance and dropped between the cars. His
at Daleville. He leaves wife and one
child.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

had subscribed the necessary capital was
short nearly 500 900. This deficiency was
made up by w. A. Mcdonald, the Cincin-
natl Standard Oil man. who will in all like
lihood be president of the company 1t was
the company at Cincinnati shall be shut
down. leaving but six in operation after the
first of the year. Under the new agreement
no coal will be delivered in Cincinnati from
Pittsburg or the Kanawha valley unless 81
a ton is secured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

CINCINNATI Dec. 2s.-Martin Echstein
an old and prominent citizen of Newport
was burned to death in his residence to-
day. A mysterious explosion was heard i'm
his house and fire quickly followed de-
strosylng the puiiqlng ana burning MI Elch-
for the explosion. No coal oil or ether
explosives were kept In the house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
A sknting Party Drowned.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW. Ind, Dec. 2S-While engaged
in skating on Wolf lake, in Noble county,
last night, William and Frank Englewood
and Miss Della McNish were drowned,
caused by the breaking of the ice. Frank
Englewood and young woman named
liam and Miss McNish broke through. In
his efforts to rescue them Englewood, too,
was drowned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
other Deaths in the state.

ANDERSON, Ind Dec. 2S.-George Blan-
co, aged ninety-two, for years one of the
Zig tours leading engineers and round
house managers. died insane at the poor
farm last night. He lived in Anderson nifty
years
GREENCASTLE Ind, Dec. 2S.-Benjamin
T.. Duncan, aged eighty-seven, died this aft
ernoon at his home. near this city He was
one of the Oldest residents of this section.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Movements Of Stenmers.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2S-Arrived: Georgia
from Liverpool; OLDHAM. from Rotterdam
Stella. from Stettin Westernland from
Antwerp. Sailed: Nomadc, for Liverpool
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2S.-Arrived:
Pennland, from Liverpool.
BOSTON, Dec. 2S.-Arrived: Catalonia,
from Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL Dec. 24.-sailed: Bowie. for
New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Diamond oil Company's New Well.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER, Ind, Dec. 2S.-The Dia-
mond Oil Company to-day shot it's thir-
teenth well on the Godfrey reserve, seven
miles east of this city. The well, like all
of the rest, is showing big and will make
200 barrels a day. This lease comprises 1874
acres, and is by far the best producing one
in tho State. 1t is now producing $4,000
barrels month from thirteen wells. DR..
White the president of the company, is
known throughout this field as the oil
wizard having located all the wells without
a single dry hole
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

PITTSBURG, Dec. 2S.-The promoters of
the Citizens Coal Company. which will be
compose OF o., Fittsnurg ana oin sdil OPP
company. meeting will be held In this
city on Jan. Is for organization. election of
officers. etc. The entire capital $4,000 Co.,
Pittsburg people being taken at 81, 600 900
cash. When all the operators interested
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Escaped just in Time.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 2S.-At midnight last
night the residence of John Campbell, near
Lagro, this county, was burned. MIR. Camp
bell and his wife were away. and Mr.. and
Mrs Joe Renner, who occupied the resi-
dence. were forced to fly in their night
clothing, escaping just before the roof
of 81 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
INDIANA OBITUARY.
Father COrby, of NOtre Dame, Head
of Order of the Holy Cross.

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Dec. 2S.-The Very
Rev. William Corby. of Notre Dame, head
of the Order of the Holy Cross in America.
died this afternoon. He was the chaplain
of the famous Irish Brigade. His death took
place at Notre Dame University. The funeral
will be held Friday morning in the chapel of
the university of which he was formerly
president. Father Corby was one of seven
chaplanS who left their classes in the uni
Versity for the Union army. He was a COM
mander of the recently organized &. A. r.
Post, No. $685. composed of the priests and
brothers at Notre Dame.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Judge GiIbert II. Reed.

DENVER, Col, Dec 2S.-Judge Gilbert B.
Reed died suddenly to-day of neuralgia of
the heart He was born in Steuben coun-
ty, New York in 1928, and was a graduate
of the University of Michigan. He served
as a member of the Miners Court before
the Territory was organized, and was re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Mrs. Elizabeth stanton woolworth.

OMAHA, Neb., Dec 2S.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Stanton Woolworth, wife of Hon. ]. M
Woolworth, ex-president of the American
Bar Association, died at her home, in this
WooIworth was the daughter of Moses
Bradford Butterfield, and a lineal descend
ant of William Bradford, the first Gov
ernor of Plymouth colony. She was born
at Homer, N. Y, in 1886.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Guests from Dem
yer and friends and relatives in the city at
tended the wedding to-day of Edward Lam
sing Wample and Miss Blanche f. Wright
at the home of the bridegrooms father,
Christopher Yates Temple. in this city. The
bride was queen of the mountain and plain
festival in Denver
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-29
Eight Victims of Fire.

SCOTTDALE, Pa, Dec. 2s.-The farm
house of Jacob Steyer. in Salt Lick town
ship, Fayette county, was destroyed by fire
last night, and Jacob SteyeT and his wife
burned. Their son Jacob narrowly escaped
and was badly burned. During the past
forty-eight hours eight persons have been
burned TO death in Fayette county.