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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
WILL DIE IN SING SING
THORN SENTENCED TO BE ELECTRO
CUTED IN WEEK BEGINNING JAN. 10.
Heard His Doom Pronounced with the
Same StOicism That Marked His
DemeanOr During the Trial.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Martin Thorn, or
Torceswisky. convicted on Monday of the
murder of William Guldensuppe, was to-
day sentenced to be electrocuted in the
week beginning Jan. 10, 1898. When Thorn
was brought into court in Long Island City
he stepped as briskly, walking between the
two officers, as he had done on the days
when he was on trial. He preserved the
same calm, imperturbable expression of
countenance that he had worn at every
crisis in the working out Of his fate during
the trial and when, as a preliminary to
the passing of sentence of death, Justice
Maddox put the customary questions to
him, he responded promptly, collectively
and without outward evidence of emotion:
MY true name' said the murderer, ''is
Torceswisky. 1 was born in Germany and
am thirty-tive years old. am a barber and
have never been in prison before. l was
brought up in the religious belief of the
Roman Catholic Church. l can read and
write. My father is living. am not mar
ried''
Then Judge Maddox proceeded to pass
sentence solemnly and mpressively. He
said: Thorn, you were indicted, charged
with having premeditatedly and deliberately
designed and caused the death of William
Guldensuppe. You have had fair trial III
the course of which you were defended by
the ablest and most astute counsel. They
could not have done more for you. Every
effort was made by them to save you. After
that the jury found you guilty of murder
In the first degree and the punishment for
that is death. Reflect upon it, Reflect upon
the death of him whom you slew. 1t is the
duty of the court to fix time for the
executlon-the law pronounced the punish
ment | shall give you reasonable time
the law permits me to do that 1t is need
less for me to state anything touching the
1acts IN this case more than to say that
the evidence justifies the verdict The iudg-
ment of the court is that you shall be taken
hence to the states prison at Sing Sing
within a reasonable time and that there
you snail be executed in the form prescribed
by law In the week beginning Jan. TO- 1898 -
Thorn listened without moving muscle
and when the judge had finished he inclined
his head slightly forward as if bowling to
me court The prisoners lawyers then
handed up an affidavit applying for an APP
peal. Justice Maddox took the affidavit and
WIFI pass on 1t later Thorn was then led
to the jail below. 1t is likely that the con-
demned man will soon be removed to Sing
Sing.
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WINTER IN THE WEST
SEVERAL STATES COVERED WITH
MANTLES OF THE "BEAUTIFUL.''
Snow Falling in Nebraska, Iowa. Kan
sas and the DakOtas-RaiIWay
Trains Delayed by Drifts.

CHICAGO, Dec. S.-There was a heavy
fall of snow to-day in the Northwest and
West. AT some points railway traffic has
been blockaded by drifts. Omaha reports
that snow has fallen in Nebraska continu-
ously for twentyfour hours, and in some
parts of the State it continues. At Omaha
the fall amounts to about eight inches, and
in the northern part of the State it is much
heavier. Harrington reports sixteen inches
and still falling. The snow is general in
western Iowa and South Dakota The
storm has stopped the gathering of corn
with fully a fifth of Nebraska's big crop yet
in the field. The movement of trains is
greatly hampered, and the wind, which is
rising tonight, may cause troublesome
drifts.
AT Sioux City, Ia, where the fall has con-
tinued for over forty-eight hours. the snow
is foot deep on the level, with drifts
wherever the wind has had a sweep. Des
Moines reports that it has been showing
there for twenty-siX hours without Interrupt
ticn. The fall has been between six and
seven inches. Street-car and railroad traf-
fc is much interfered with by drifts. If the
wind increases in severity railroad men fear
that all the roads centering there will be
blocked. There are no present indications
of a cessation of the storm.
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LACROSSE, Wis, Dec 3.-~Fire destroyed
the Mcmillan Opera House and Pomeroy
blocks at an early hour to-day Loss. $780,
600: covered by insurance The third floor
of the Pomeroy block was used as the
armory for Company M of the National
Guard. On this floor all the stores or the
company were kept and when the fire
reached the powder and shells the explosion
was terrific. Six fremen were injured. three
seriously. The Mcmillan Opera House was
owned by the Mcmillan estate and will
probably be rebuilt.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Dec. 3.-This after
noon the Tennessee Medical College was
protection 1t burned slowly to the ground.
The college one of the best lnStltu-
lions in the South and was well attended.
The building cost $25,GO0 and was compara-
lively new. The owners claim the contents
were worth $4,000; in arance, $1,000
ROME Dec "A dispatch from Cueno
province of that name. in Piedmont, south
houses in the village of Roviera have been
DESTROYED by fire. One man was burned to
a crisp. The calamity has rendered thirty
families homeless, and. as the ground is
covered deep with snow, their condition is
desperate.
ONTARIO. CAL Dec. 3-Thc Southern
Pacific Hotel in Ontario, one of the finest
ground this morning. Loss, $60.00G with
SIS, 600 insurance. The ground floor was Oc-
cupied by the pOStOtiice, a real estate office
and the Ontario Observer. The fire was
caused by the crossing of electric wires.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Dec. 3.-The hotel
and various buildings at Red Boiling Springs
were destroyed by fire at an early hour this
The fire originated in the parlor of the no.
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mails in the various protectorates of the
empire to act as advisory bodies to the gov
ernors of the colonies
1t is said that Oscar Wilde has arranged
TO publish in London and in New York city
2 poem entitled THE Ballad of Reading
Jail, by c., So
During quarrel between some officers
and students at Kieff. Russia, recently a
student named Ulyanitski struck an off,
Ger, whereupOn the latter drew his sword
and ran Ulyanitski through the body kill
ing him on the spot
The London Daily Chronicle says it has
good reason to believe the Khedive of
Egypt will refuse to allow his brother
Mehmet Ali Pasha, to marry an American
in view of the fact that the child to which
the khedivah recently gave birth is a girl
and that Mehmet Ali is still heir presump-
tive
The French Council of State has vested
full power in the hands of projects of de-
partments to ann1l municipal AUTHORIZE
tons of bull fighting. The decision has
caused a great sensation at Mines. capital
of the Department of Gard, Bayonne and
other cities where bull fighting has been
frequent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
POSTAGE STAMP FENCE. I"
Saloon Keeper Charged with Acting
as Agent for Robbers.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Charles E. More
son, Coney island saloon keeper, was
arrested to-day on the charge of having
received stolen postage stamps from a gang
of Western robbers, the majority of whom
are in prison. Postoffice Inspector Water
bury. of the Denver division, who. in COM
pany with several officers made the arrest,
said that during the last year stamps worth
more than $150.000 had been stolen from
postofiices in various parts of the coun-
try and of this amount he said the greater
part was brought to New York, where it
was disposed of by fences. 1t was when
some of the members of the gang broke
into the posto1fice at Cripple Creek. Col,
that w. II. Hostetter and Oscar Dickens
were captured Dickens wrote MORRISON a
warning letter, which was intercepted by
Inspector Waterbury. Later he traced a
package of stamps to the coney island
saloon keeper and gained possession of q
letter containing a check for 1919 which
MORRISON sent to Hostetter in payment for
S432SO worth of stamps. Moreson was given
a preliminary hearing and was held in $500
bail, the case going over until next Wednes-
day.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Edhem Bey, the
new Turkish charge who recently arrived
here, states that he has received no in
structions thus far relative to the reported
demand made by the United States minis
ter at Constantinople, DR.. Angel, for a
speedy payment of indemnity for the de-
struction of American mission property in
Turkey. 1t is believed that Turkey will
postpone a settlement the ground of q
depleted treasury. This WAS the basis for
a former postponement. The excuse is less
effective now, however, as Turkey is to re-
ceive large cash indemnity from Greece.
II is felt that DR. Angels pressing for pay
ment of the American claims is due largely
TO his knowledge that Turkey is about to
have a feplenished treasury 1t is said at
the State Department that no new claims
have been filed since Mr.. Terrells presenta-
ton Of the subject, and that DR.. Angel is
simply pressing these to a definite cOnclu-
sir =
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GARNETS In ALASKA.
Five Hundred Pounds of Precious
stones Picked Up by One Man.

VICTORIA. B. c., Dec. 3.-Advices from
Alaska and the Yukon district received to-
day per steamer Corona are as follows: The
Chilcoot Railroad and Transportation Com
pany made an attempt to build through the
town site of Dyea. 1t was opposed by a
force organized by Healy & Wilson, the
original locaters of the town site, and had
to give up the attempt. During the trouble
a man named Peterson accidentally shot
himself inhicting wounds that may prove
fatal
Among the passengers who came down on
the Corona was Capt. A. Pendleton, of Bos-
ton, Mass. He located large deposit of
garnets on Stickeen river several miles
from the range, and he is now on his way
back to Boston TO organize a company to
work his find. He brings down about five
hundred pounds of stones and number of
pieces of rock with red crystals sticking
out
The Canadian Navigation Company will
begin their service between this port and
Fort Wrangel, Skaguay and Dyea on Dec.
u. The first steamer to sail will be the
Tees. She will make two trips per month
from Victoria to ports from which the diff
ferent routes have their starting points
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RIPLEY, w. Va, Dec. 3--John Morgan.
who was sentenced to be hanged Dec 16.
played a sharp trick on the jailer here last
night, whereby he walked out of jail and
took to the woods, where bloodhounds are
on his track. A short time ago he sold a
confession for $25. With the money he
bought new suit of clothes to wear on
the gallows. Last night he made dummy
OF his old suit and put it to bed in his cell.
Downing his new suit, he climbed on top
of the cell and lay there till it was locked
for the night. Then he escaped and was
not missed till this morning. reward of
murder of Mrs. Green. her son and daugh-
ter, was committed Nov g. just month
ago, near Grass Lick. this (Jackson) county.
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German Marines for China.

BERLIN. Dec. S.-The Naval Department
has sent instructions to Kiel to dispatch
two hundred artillerymen, with field guns.
and one thousand marines to China
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3.-Great reti-
cence is observed in official circles here re-
garding the political situation in the far
East, but the opinion prevails that Ger
many will not permanently occupy Kiao-
chau bay, on the Shan-Tung peninsula The
Russian newspapers protest against the oc-
cupation of kiaochau bay as being calcu-
lated to injure the interests of Russians in
the far East, and they say that the Rus
sian government ought to demand its evac-
uation or else obtain an equivalent
LONDON, Dec. 3.--A dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai says that five Rus
sian instructors have recently arrived in
China, and that Russians have also been
appointed customs officers, two at Canton,
one at Swatau, province of Quang-Tong,
and one at Fu-Chou, capital of the province
of Fo-Kipn
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SEEKING $4,000 DAMAGES.
Conductor O'HnrR Claims to Have
Been BlacI<Iisted by a Hallway.

OGDEN, Utah, Dec. 3.-Following up the
verdict in the court OF Judge Clifford in
Chicago, Nov. is, awarding damages against
the Chicago Il Northwestern Railway to
Fred r. Ketcham in the sum of $21. 800 be-
cause of blacklisting, which prevented his
securing employment there was filed in the
District Court at ogden tonight the COM
plant of John OHara against the Oregon
Short-line Railroad and receivers of the
Union Pacific Company claiming damages
to the amount of $4,000 OHara had been
a conductor and brakeman for twenty years
at the time of the A. r. u. strike in 1894,
and has been unable to get steady employ
ment since that time. There will be about
thirty cases filed here on the same basis.
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PRISONERS wreck a Jail.

SMITHPORT. Pa. Dec. s.-Fourteen pIis-
orers in the Mexican county jail attempted
Sheriff Davis and his deputy were away.
Two hall men. who were out in the CORR,
dor. secured an iron bar, pried off the steel
blinds on a cell door, releasing another man:
Then the three broke every cell lock until
fourteen men were gathered in the corri.,
doris. They tried to break. open the la.
door leading TO the street. but failed. TIE
sherifr's Wife hearing the noise went Tor
assistance and citizens managed to hold the
men in check until the arrival OF the sherlfI
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NEW WORK. Dec. Six men were
severely scaided by the explosion of a cop
per sugar boiler in the candy factory of D..
knerhach & Sons, In this city, to-day.
Some az the victims are not expected TO
recnver. and several of them will in any
case probably lose their eyesight. The IN
yy,r;etor. Holm Cheroghini, John Zenosky,
Caesar Donidero, Leon Schaushaues and
Erssll Avignon. The clothing of the men
ntosion and they were frghtfully scalded:
'rhe damage done by the explosion viii
o,,,otiut tn e. 600
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
EnrIi.b EDrineers warnea.

LONDON, Dec 4.-Mr. Sinclair, editor Of
Locomotive Engineering. of New York city,
has a long letter in the Times to-day on the
engineering strike. He describes the great
est economy of production in America re-
sulting from the adoption of Whitney's
principle of Interchangeable parts of ma
chnery. He says that during a single week,
as Il consequence of the strike, fifty-eight
foreign orders We're received in the United
States for locomotives, which under normal
conditions would probably have been placed
in England. He warns English engineers
that ii they attempt to follow the trade
they are banishing to America they will be
Obliged to work harder and longer hours
than they are accustomed to at home.
The Times comments editorially on Mr..
Sinclair's letter and commends il to the no.
tice of English wOrkmen and trades unions.
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Miss CIawson to Become "a Missionary

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Dec. 3.-NIiss Bertha
Clawson, one of Henry county's most pop
ular young women and most efficient teach
ers, has announced her intention of going
to Akita Japan, as a missionary under the
direction and support of the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society of the Christian
Church. Miss Clawson is at present one of
the teachers in Spiceland Academy. but will
close her work there the last of this month
in order to arrange to sail in April.
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CAUSE is UNKNOWN.
Verdict of the COrOner's Jury in the
Case of the Central Accident.

COLD SPRINGS, N. Y, Dec. 3.-The
sixth and last session of the coroner's in
quest to inquire into the cause of the death
of nineteen persons who were in the New
York Central accident at Garrison was held
at the Town Hall in this village tonight.
At 9:15 the jury retired and they were out
one hour and half before they brought in
the following verdict:
I'VE, the jurors, agree that the persons
came to their deaths at about $50 a. M
at an accident on the New York Central
Railroad near Garrison, N. Y. when six
cars and an engine plunged into the Hudson
river, and that the nineteen persons were
drowned with the exception of one, Will
liams, who came to his death from loss of
blood and shock and the cause of this ac-
cident is unknown to this jury"
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PLATE GLASS STRIKE GROWING.
All the Plants of the United states
Company May Have to Close.


Company May Have to Close.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
kOkOMO, Ind, Dec. 3-The strike at the
plate glass factory here has assumed larger
proportions. The polshers voted to return
to work, but before their action was known
the grinders also went out, and both de-
partments have been idle since Wednesday
morning. A similar strike is said to be or
at all the eight factories owned by the
Pittsburg Company. OF which the Kokomo
plant is one. The change OF the wage
schedule from regular daily pay to piece
work. is objected to by the men. Sixteen
hundred men are involved in the strike in
the eight factories-two hundred in each
plant.
A dispatch from Elwood, where there is
another branch, says: 1.-The strike in the
polishing department at the plate-glass fac
tory still continues and neither side is show
ing any disposition to yield. Unless settled
in a short time the other departments will
have to suspend work until the polishers
resume again."
Reports tonight indicate that President
Burns has ordered out all the glassworkers
at PendletOn because the company is al
legged to be paying the cutters and 1iatten-
ers under their own separate scales.
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BATES FAMILY HOODOO.
sullivan County People Who Are
Meeting with Violent Death.

Sullivan County People Who Are
Meeting with Violent Death.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Dec 3.-The burn
ing to death of a daughter of the late
George Copeland. of Sullivan county. has
increased the belief in Sullivan county that
the Bates family is hoodooed. George Bates
and his unmarried daughter were indicted
about year ago for infanticide, being ac-
cused of killing an infant child of the
daughter. George Copeland, relative, fell
dead while consulting with the family about
the case. Soon after Mrs. Copeland died
suddenly. George Bates was stricken with
paralysis while consulting with his attOr-
neys. Yesterday a daughter of Copeland
was burned to death by her clothing taking
fire at crate. A sister was perhaps fatally
burned in the effort to rescue her, and the
grandmother, with whom the children have
been living since the death of their parents
also was badly burned in her efforts to save
the two girls.
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Pingree on the Warpath Again.

LANSING, Mich, Dec. Ex-Governor Pin
gree has determined 20 lend his personal
efforts to the rigid enforcement of the state
lew against the manufacture and sale OF
colored oleomargarine. State Dairy and
Food Commissioner Grosvenor has met
much opposition to his efforts to carry out
the provisions of the law which was passed
by the Legislature last winter, and to-day
prevailed upon the Governor to enter the
fight with him. Attorney General Maynard
will at once assume command OF the state
forces, and prosecutions of the most Vlgor-
Gus character will follow.
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THE WAGE SCALE NEXT
WINDOW-GLASS WORKERS SETTLE
THEIR INTERNAL TROUBLE.
Wage Committee Hastily Called to
Pfttsburg, and the Strike Expect.
ed to BE Declared OF.

PITTSBURG, Dec S.-The trouble in the
National Window-glass Workers Associa-
ton was amicably settled this afternoon by
President Burns paying over $4,000 to the
cutters and fatteners and the latter for
mally Withdrawing from the association.
There will be two organizations of glass
workers hereafter, one composed of the
blowers and gatherers and the other of the
fatteners and cutters. The wage scale will
now be adjusted, and a general resumption
of work is expected before the end of the
year The court proceedings have been
called off
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BELGIUM BACKS DOWN.
Americans Hereafter Need Not Serve
In the Civil Guard.


In the Civil Guard.
BRUSSELS. Dec. 3.-The government has
decided that Americans residing in Belgium
will hereafter be exempt from service in the
civil guard
In September last. in spite of the fact that.
according to the treaty between the United
States ard Belgium neither country can
call on lhe citizens of the other country for
military service, the Belgian government
proposed to compel foreigners to serve in
the civil guard. on the theory that that body
was not part of the army. Thereupon, the
Americans residing in Brussels held meet
ing and decided to oppose the action Of the
Belgian government, and resolutions were
adopted and forwarded to the United States
minister at Brussels, Mr. Bellamy Storer,
asking for the Intervention of the United
States government in the matter. 1t. Is.
doubtless. due to the efforts of the United
States that the Belgian government has now
decided that Americans residing in Belgium
will hereafter be exempt from service IN the
civil guard
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ExemDt from Dutv.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-The United States
board of general appraisers to-day rendered
a decision 20 the effect that under the Ding
ley tariff act imported calfskins. raw, are
not to be CLASSIFIED uncured hides or
cattle which are subject to a duty of Is
per cent ad valorem. but are wholly ex-
cmpt from duty and come under the head
of the raw skins included I'm the free list
The decision Is important TO the shoe and
leather manufacturing interest.
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WIZARD SCHAEFER WON
DEFE ATED "NAPOLEON" IVES AT
BILLIARDS LAST NIGHT.
Best Same of the Tournament, and
Witnessed by "a Large Crowd
sutton Beaten by DAILY.

NEW YORK Dec. 3.-The game this after
noon in the billiard tourney at Madison
square Garden Concert Hall brought
Sutton, both of whom up to
date had lost all their games. Daily
won the game. 500 to 81. There was con-
siderable interest manifested in this ex-
hibition by the spectators owing to the fact
that the losing man would occupy last posi-
ton in the tournament at the close. Sutton
at times put up a brilliant game, but as in
his previous exhibitions during the present
series, in q general way he was very err
ratio. The same might be said of Daily, al
though he made one of the best runs of the
entire series this afternoon-seventy-th
points. The score:
s. IS, 1, Q. 0, 8, s, "A, 2, 2, /, IA, 4, 49, O.
4, s, s. 0. 0. 16, s, 16, 5, TO- 10, 2, 0, !, 2, !,
Q, l, o, 80, 8, u, 1, 2 "a, Is, 81, r. TO-
sutton-1. 1. 7, 5, 6. 50. ?. A. Z. 25. /, Q. 8,
/, 0, 0. o, IA; 4, 8, i. 10, 16, Q, Q, O. 2, Q, O.
90, T. 4. H. 10, g. 4; 2; 9; 10, 3 3, 4, O-3I7 g,
High runs-Daly 20; Sutton, 50.
It 1ss a aganst the w 9d
ard" Schaefer-and the old champion won.
BY far the largest crowd that has yet at
the g.me, which was worthy of the two
experts who crossed cues. There were sew
e1al brilliant runs in the game, and Schaefer
topped the list with 50. The score by inn
ings follows:
Ives-O, 4, o. 46. /, 6, o, 3, /, q, 0. 0, 40. IS.
IS, "A, g. AZ. 8. 3S, o. 0, 80, l. 20, II, is. 6, 0,
s s. s, o, Sc, 2, 90 Is, 20. 8, 3. 49, 2.
IS, s. 10. 81. l, 40, l, 0, 9, 6, 81, 0, 0, s. H..
Averages@Ives, 12 5-ss; schaefer, Is 5-aS.
Highest runs-Ives, As; Schaefer, IS.
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Local CONCENTRATIONS Friday.


C. L. r. WAPPENHANS,
Local Forecast Cffii:ial.