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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09

stroyed by fire, together with the contents,
including three horses. Loss estimated at
1850.
The Elwood tax levy has been reduced
from SIP. where il has been for three
years. to 81 even.
John Suders was instantly killed yester-
day morning at Mishawaka by the cavlng
in of sewer trench He resided IN that
place and leaves a family.
Dudley N. Vance. of Benton Harbor,
Mich, Will teach science in the hlgh scnool
at Charlottesville next year, He is a native
of indianapolis and a graduate OF the state
University.
John Baird, a well-known roller in the
hot mill at the Elwood tin-plate factory.
married his wife fourteen years ago, and
yesterday she presented MN with the
eleventh child.
Fire originating from an explosion in the
oil room caused much damage last evening
in the plant of the South Bend Pulley COM
pany. Loss has not been estimated. but is
covered by insurance.
The officers of the state Labor day cele-
bration committee at Muncie, after set
Ting all bills, found that there was sur
plus in the treasury of nearly $500. The ex-
penses were in the neighborhood of $1,000.
The southern Grant county farmers held
a picnic yesterday near Paramount with
large attendance. The speakers were Prof.
1atta, of Purdue, and w. F. McNahon, of
Fairfield. 1t was decided to hold the picnic
annually.
Last evening the barn of DR.. Ed +.
Diggs, Of this city, was burned and fine
driving horse and phaeton consumed. The
fire was started by little boy, who had
matches in the barn trying to light the
candles in the phaeton lanterns.
Earlham College has received from Allen
Hadley of Richmond, valuable addition
to it's museum in the shape of a collection
of North American birds Hadley has been
years and the collection embraces nearly
every variety found on the continent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
THE TIN-PLATE STRIKE.
1t May Result I'm Suspension of the Big
Works at EIvvOOd.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD. Ind, Sept S.-The strike at
the American tin-plate factory continues
and the entire tinhouse department is
closed down. The $50 employees organized a
union four months ago and decided to de-
mand an advance of from 10 to 20 per cent.
The heat mill men were granted an in
crease of per cent. and the tinhouse en-
ployes arranged a new wage schedule,
which was presented to the company this
week. The time was up yesterday and the
company informed the men that no adj
vance would be granted. A walkout re-
suited. and notices We're posted warning
people to remain away from the factory, as
a strike is in progress. Warning notices to
this effect have peen sent broadcast over
the country and are expected to keep away
any laborers that the company may at
tempt to secure elsewhere. The company
says new men will be secured and that the
old employees will only be treated with
individuals. The strikers had the factory
guarded on all sides last night to prevent
any one from going to work. Two men
went to work yesterday evening, but We're
The Amalgamated Association men are
still operating the heat mills, and have
shown no indication to sympathize with
the strikers. If the difficulty be not soon
adjusted the work will accumulate to such
an extent that the entire plant will be
forced to close This will be greatly re-
GREETED, as the factory has large orders on
hands and is employing vast army Of
hands.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09

WASHINGTON, Sept S.-Before Septem-
Der has passed the lighthouse board expects
to have in position on the Diamond shoals
off Cape Hatteras the new light vessel which
has just been fitted out at Staten island
New York. Diamond shoals is considered
to be the most dangerous point off the
coast of the United States. The problem
of placing there an adequate light to warn
mariners has been one which the light
house board has for long time had under
consideration. Altogether the government
has spent $4,000 in building and equipping
the vessel, the full amount appropriated by
Congress, and it is hoped that the ship will
withstand the severest weather that is en-
countered off HatIeraS. Instead of being Sc
cured by an ordinary ancnor 1t Will be
make the ship absolutely secure in It's posi-
tion The light vessel will be toWed from
Staten island on the 18TH and 1t is expected
that it will be placed in its permanent posi-
ton on the 10th, the anchorage ground be-
ing tWenty-seven miles OFT Hatteras. 1t
power incandescent lights at each of the
two mastheads, when Will be visible at
least fifteen miles.
The last attempt to locate light on the
Diamond shoals proved a complete failure
This was about five years ago, when Con-
gress made an appropriation of 100000 for
the erection of a lighthouse on the shoals
The contractors spent about 100000 in con-
Structing a caiSSon 100X50 feet, intended for
the foundation of the lighthouse. 1t was
built at Norfolk and ~towed into position on
the shoals, where it remained for about
away. The contractors then gave up the
work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
GUN CLUB TOURNAMENT.
Fifteen Organizations Take Part in
the Terre Haute Shoot.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. S.-,The an
nual tournament of the Indiana Trapshoot-
ers' League opened here to-day. The clubs
which form the league are as follows:
Charlottesville Gun Club, Limited Gun Club
of Indianapolis, Highland Gun Club of
Elkhart, Muncie Gun Club, Peru Gun Club
Electric Gun Club of Fort Wayne, Wabash
Gun Club. Lake City Gun Club of Warsaw
Hartford City Gun Club, Washington Gun
Club Erie Gun Club of Huntington. In
diana Mineral Springs Gun Club, Lafayette
Gun Club Lakewood Gun Club of Ander-
son and Bedford Rod and Gun Club. The
results of the first days shoot follows:
Ten Targets-Tripp. Beck each 10. Be-
ment, Trimble, Darlington, North, each g.
Fifteen Targets-Mackie, Trimble Part
ington, each IA; Davis, Neukom, Smith,
Fifteen rgets-Partington Lawrence,
Perry. Tack, Trip, Dietrich. each IA;
Trimble, Stone, voris. each 10.
Twenty Targets-Mackie, Stewart, Trim
be Partington, Beck, La rg :. Perry
Dietrich, Tetzel, each II.
Fifteen Targets-Partington, Is; Beck,
Lawrence, Trip Stone Dietrich each a.
Fifteen Targets-Perry, Tetzel, Bindley,
each Is; Trimble, Stone, Darlington, Law
Twenty-Five Targets-Stone, Lawrence,
Tetzel. each "a; Trimble, Perry, Dietrich,
each %.
Fifteen Targets-Trimble, Is; Neukom,
Stone, Perry, Trip, Tetzel Smith, each
IA; voris, Darlington, Beck, Tack, Green,
Fifteen Birthstone, Lawrence Dietrich,
each Is; Perry, IA; Mackie, Trimble, Beck,
twenty Birthstone, Dietrich, Smith,
each 49,; Darlington, Perry, Tack, each IS;
Trimble. Green, each II; TetZel. 16.
Fifteen Birds-Tack, Is; Dietrich, IA; Still
well. Trimble, Darlington, Green, Perry,
Trip, Tetzel, each 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
New York Tribune

Mining experts of undoubted competence
have estimated the gold in the Johannes
burg reefs to exceed S., 000 100000 and say
turned into the world s circulation. Seventy
millions is the highest figure yet placed on
the Klondike deposits so far discovered
and located. There are no doubt a good
many more of them, but if the territory
were to turn out as much of the precious
metal as California did in the years fol-
lowing it's discovery there it would still
play the smallest kind of second fiddle to
South Africa which, in its breast of boun-
ty, holds the worlds mother lode, enrich
enriches the current generations of men
and monarchs. Africa bore the first BIOS
be without q golden flower pot to set It in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
TRIED TO HAZE PERRY
COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL BOY
CHASED BY THE STUDENTS.
Another boy stripped and Ducked by
the Youngsters-Statc Gun
Club Tournament.


Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Sept. S.--Much excite
ment was caused here tonight over an at
tempt of the upper classmen of the high
school, assisted by number of boys of
the lower grades, to haze a freshman
named Ben Perry. a son of James Perry,
one of the largest land owners of this sec
ton of the State. The affair took place on
Washington street, the main thoroughfare
of the city. When the crowd charged on
Perry, who had been warned, he drew a
revolver to defend himself. This checked
the would-be hazers only for a short time
and when they again rushed at him, he
fled and ran into a store for protection. Cit
liens interfered and the mob was dispersed.
For a short time the excitement ran high.
The boys are determined and say that they
VIII yet haze Perry. Last night Raymond
Mccormack, a son of z. II. Mccormack,
the contractor, was taken TO the Driving
Park, a short distance north of this city,
and stripped and beaten, ducked, his hair
stuck full of burrs and other indignities
heaped on him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
DARING FRENCH SCHEME
CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION SAID TO
BE IN CONTEMPLATION,
With the View of Making the Presf-
dent semi-KinG-DulSe and Ouch
ess of York Leave ireland.

LONDON, Sept. 9.-The Daily Chronicles
Paris correspondent says that a startling
attempt to revise the French Constitution
is contemplated. The National Assembly
is to be convoked at Versailles to consid-
plan for the modification of the office
of the President of the republic The Chron-
icle in an editorial says: If the foregoing
is verified, it is evident that an attempt
will be made to take advantage of the visit
of M. Faure to St. Petersburg to bring
the Presidents position nearer to that of
hereditary monarch. Possibly the Bona
partist and Orleanist factions might be in
duced to support such a movement, and
there is no Gambetta to resist. But we
doubt if any serious attempt will be made.
M. Honataux is the strongest man in the
Ministry, but neither he nor M. Faure is
likely to be the pivot for such change
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09

one of the marshals of the day As was
predicted, Organizer Dolan, of the Miners
Association, of Pittsburg, was not present,
Pension Commissioner Bell, of Indianap-
Oils, delivered addresses. The following
resolutions were adopted:
I'VE, the bimetallists of Clay county. In
diana, send greeting TO our fellow laborers
in the cause of the people, and declare that
we reaffirm the principles proclaimed in
the Chicago convention of 1896 and still in
sist upon and demand the free and unlim-
tied coinage of both gold and silver at the
present legal ratio of l6 to /, without wait
ing for any other nation or governments
action in the premises;
THAT the promise of the single standard
advocates last fall that they would open
the mills instead of the minis and thereby
restore confidence and bring prosperity has
proven false to the American people;
THAT we believe the opening of the mints
metals at the present legal ratio of is to
will force open the mills factories and
channels of trade generally;
THAT we favor the initiative and refer
endum mode of enacting laws, both state
and national;
"That we as patriots, believe in the up
holding of the laws and the rigid enforce
ment thereof, but we demand that corrupt
judges be impeached the same as other
officers;
THAT the Constitution of the United
States should be amended so to make
the United States judges elective by the
people and for q certain term of years;
also, tnat united states senators De elecIeu
by direct vote Of the people in the several
States
THAT we are opposed to government by
injunction.
THAT we believe capital and labor should
go hand in hand, yet view with alarm
the apparent unrest on the side of labor
under the encroachments of capital in the
form of trusts and corporations; that as
a partial remedy for these evils we favor
constitutional amendments both to the
state and federal constitutions rendering all
persons ineligible TO any and all legislative
judicial and executive offices, both state
and national, who own directly or indirectly
any capital stock in any corporation con-
trolled by trusts;
THAT we pledge anew our confidence and
promise our undivided support for the pres
idency in 1900 to that fearless leader and
n i
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09

Mr.. Richardson, the London correspond
ent of the New York Herald, is dead.
dispatch from Strasburg says that two
of the largest and wealthieSt manufactur-
ers of Klingenthal, named Brand and Oesin-
ger. have been expelled from Alsace-Lor-
raine.
The London Daily Mails Berlin corre-
spondent says he hears that Prince HOhen-
lohe's successor as imperial chancellor will
not be Baron Won Bulow. the German en-
bassador at Rome, but Gen. Won BulOw,
who is now in command of the Fourteenth
Army Corps
Under the terms of the will of the late
Louis Winans, formerly of Baltimore, who
died in London, June rs last, the entire es-
tate valued at e., 600 ($12.610OO0) is to be
divided equally, subject to an annuity to his
wife of Go COO and another to his sister-tn-
law of $4,000, between his two sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
No Written Alliance.

LONDON, Sept. 9. = The Daily News's
Berlin correspondent says it is alleged on
the authority of reliable sources at st.
Petersburg that no written alliance be-
tween France and Russia exists, and that
not even verbal treaty was made, for the
military convention was of an earlier date.
The Car used the phrase ''allied nation
in response to the urgings of NJ. Hanotaux
that unless something of the sort was said
the French Ministry would be overthrown
on President Faure's return to Paris. All
the Russian ministers were surprised on
hearing the toast proposed by the Gar, and
NJ De Witte the minister of finance. asked
Count Muravieff, the foreign minister, TO
explain, whereupon the foregoing was made
nrIrrn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
A MYSTERIOUS PRISONER.
GreencastIe Doesn't Know What to
Make OF Fred CIOdgo.

Make OF Fred CIOdgO.
Special TO the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. Sired
Clodgo, formerly of Cincinnati, is under
rest in this city charged with larceny. He
has been in Jail here for several months,
and the crime for which he was indicted
was the alleged theft of horse and buggy.
Clodgo tells rather straight tale that has
some romantic and sensational features.
He did not deny the possession of the rig.
but set up plea that he was intoxicated
and temporarily lost his mind. He visited
Creencastle and took a few rounds of
drinks, later purchasing a pint of whisky,
and after hiring the rig visited a Miss
Corda Hunter, south OF the city, to whom
he thought he was engaged. He says liquor
caused him to lose all recollection of his
visit to the girl, and evidently 1t caused him
to miss marrying her. Clodgo was put on
trial here to-day, but one of the jurors fell
i'll and the entire panel was discharged.
This led to a new start, which was made
before Judge McGregor and the case lasted
all day. Clodgo settled in a section of
Putnam county, four miles south of Put
namville, where a certain religious sect
have their headquarters. They are known
as Shakers" and one feature of their re-
ligion is that those affected go through vio-
lent shakings, like person with ague. This
peculiar religious fervOr has spread all over
that section and Clodgo alleges he was con-
verted and Joined their Faith Band The
Oh the prosecution Is that Jacy nave
a good find in Clodgo and that he is inn
posing on the simple minded members or
the Shaker band, who are backing the pris-
oner TO a man through his trial, and who
have believed him to be all right. The court
took Clodgos case under advisement and
will correspond with Cincinnati people
whose addresses were given by the prisoner.
The prosecutor believes Clodgo is hiding
from some great crime, and he certainly
chose an obscure and isolated neighborhood
when he took up his residence with the
Shakers. The Miss Hunter to whom he
made love was a witness for him in court
and visited him at the Jail after the trial.
and the trial has created great interest IN
all Putnam county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
GOODBYE TO IRELAND.
Duke and Duchess of York Leave Bel
fast for Glasgow.


BELFAST, Sept. S-Ths was a very
busy day for the Duke and Duchess of
York and it was the last of their stay in
Ireland. The city was in a state of holiday
enthusiasm, flags and other decorations
were to be seen on nearly all the side
streets, as well as on the main thorough
fares. Their royal highnesses on arriving
here from Mount Stewart, the County
Down residence of the Marquis of London
derry, drove to the town hall, where they
received no less than eighteen addresses
from different public bodies belonging to
the province of Ulster. The duke and
duchess were then entertained at lunch by
the corporation of Belfast, after which
they were present at the formal opening
of the dock here. No sooner was that cere-
mony concluded than the royal travellers
inspected the famous Shipbuilding yards of
Harland & Wolff. From there the duke
and duchess attended a garden party Civ
en- by the lord mayor of Belfast. After the
garden party their royal highnesses went
to Belfast Tough, where they embarked on
board the royal yacht for Glasgow, Scot
land, thus ending a very successful and
popular visit to this portion of her Males
tvs dominions. The royal procession was
greeted with enthusiasm by the crowds of
people who packed the main thoroughfares
and filled all the side streets leading into
them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
Different Source of Information.
hi

George Remnants charges as to cruelties
practiced under the Russian convict sys-
tenn are substantially denied by Harry de
Windt in his New Siberia Mr.. de Windt' s
description of the convict settlements on
the Island of Sakhalin and of the political
prisons and mines of eastern Siberia would
seem to have been made under Russian
bureaucratic SuperviSiOn-a decidedly differ
ent way of arriving at the real truth from
the method employed by Mr.. KEENAN,, and
a way which probably accounts for Mr.. De
Windt's defense of the penal system. What
ever one may think concerning his bias, it
is of interest lin view OF the recent report
concerning the contemplated establishment
of pententiaries) to learn from this quasi
authoritative source that Russia lis dis
posed to gradually abolish the system of
exile to Siberia in favor of deportation by
sea to Sakhalin and the opinion is that her
object is not so much to punish crime as to
colonies Russian Asia y
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
Afridis Have Disbanded.

SIMLA, Sept. SIN official circles here
it is believed the bottom is dropping out
of the rising of the tribesmen against the
British. The general officers commanding
report that the Afridis have dispersed. The
news that the Zakkakhels are removing
their families from the khyber district to
Tirah is confirmed. and there is no longer
any doubt the enemy is leaving the Sa-
mana territory.
The dissension among the Afridis is in
creasing, owing to the stoppage of all gov
eminent allowances for keeping the Khy-
Der pass open. 1t is not unlikely that when
the Afridis learn of the size of the punt
tive expedition sent against them they will
elect to WELD
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
THE DUCHESS" RELEASED.
Wife of an Alleged Fraud" Out of
Holloway Jail on Bail.

Wife of an Alleged Fraud" Out of
Holloway Jail on Bail.
LONDON, Sept. S.-Madame Edgar Serge
De Neil, otherwise known as the Duchess
of Rio Grande,' the American woman who
was arraigned with her husband in the Po-
lice Court yesterday morning charged by
a hotel keeper and two landladies with de-
frauding them. was released from Hollo-
way jail to-day bail in $50 having been
furnished for her appearance next Tues
day on demand.
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa, Sept. S.-The Duke
and Duchess of Rio Grande," who are I'M
der arrest in London on the charge of de-
frauding hotel keepers, are believed to be
the two persons who came from Philadel-
phia to this city on Aug. &c, 1896, and were
married before Justice of the Peace Len
hardt The woman was handsome blonde
and claimed to be of French descent. The
marriage certificate gave the bridegroom
name as Edgar Serge de Mel residence
Nice. France his age thirty years and his
occupation commander in the Brazilian
navy. The brides name was Miss Clarice
Conger aged twenty-five years, residence
Philadelphia. Her parents names were
given Pliny Fisk and Maria de Cosse
Conger. Nothing has been heard OF the
couple since that night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-09
SUBPOENA FOR HINsHAw.
The Preacher VIII Appear Before the
Grand Jury Saturday.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE Ind, Sept. SIT is very
probable that the investigation of the Hin
shaw murder in the light of the Baney
story will go over until next Monday. 1t
is also settled that William f. Hinshaw
will be a witness before the grand jury and
will be brought down from Michigan City.
A subpoena was issued for him to-day,
also for Warden Harley, ]. B. Wilson, DR..
Spinning and Guard Coffin, of the prison,
returnable on Saturday.
Lewis Asher, a resident of this county
who claims to have been in Belleville the
night of the murder, and who says he saw
a rig hitched to the fence where Baney
says he hitched his rig, cannot now be
found and his evidence is wanted. Carrie
James, Baney's old sweetheart, now mar
ried and living at Indianapolis, will not be
a witness as she insists she knows nothing
about the case, although Baney says he
left her house to go on the BelleVllle trip
Baney now refuses to talk TO Mr.. Parker
and refers all matters TO his attorney. MI
Parker said to-day that Baney Is IN ex-
actly the same fix that Burton, the alleged
murderer of Fireman Redmond, is in, that
after telling his story, he is Trying 10
hedge on it.
There is considerable friction between
Prosecutor Gulley and Mr.. Parker ana
other friends of Hinshaw over the matter
of how the grand jury shall investigate this
matter and who shall lead IN the lnVeSuSd-
tion, representing the state before the jury.
Mr.. Hinshaws friends insist that deputy
prosecuting attorney should be appointed
and Mr.. Gulley takes the suggestion as
reflection his ability and honor. Judge
Hadley urged that Mr.. Gulley allow
deputy to be appointed for the investlga-
tion but Mr.. Gulley refused Judge HALEY
proposed that an Indianapolis attorney be
appointed and suggested Judge Howe
Judge Ayers or Judge Mcbride. This sug-
gestion did not meet the approval of Mr.
Gulley and less of Mr. Hinshaws friends
There have been numerous consultations
and conferences but to no purpose and
Judge Hadley says he is out of the mat
ter Mr.. G1lley says he is perfectly willing
to do all he can, but complains that Mr.
Parker has not given him enough of the
evidence to outline a method of procedure.
He says that what has been given him is
not enough TO go into an investigation. On
the other hand, Hnshaws friends say that
enough and more have been given and that
ordinary prudence would suggest that it
would be a wise move for Mr.. Gulley to
consent for deputy to be appointed Mr..
Gulley says that the situation has resolved
itself into an attempt to cause him virtual
~ to surrender his office temporarily, to
throw the entire case into other hands and
as he is the duly elected prosecutor, he
will not do 1t. He says that instead of
being helped in his prospective work he
has been mpeded and hindered- AS mat
tiers now stand Mr.. Gulley will go into the
work of investigation alone.