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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-29
MODERN WOODMEN.
There Were Some BIunders, but They
Had u Good Time at WinOna.

Specal to the Indianapolis Journal
EAGLE LAKE, Ind. July 2S.-The Mod
ern Woodmen of America headed by Lieu
tenant Governor Northcoate, of Illinois.
who is head venerable counsel in the
United States, made descent upon Winona
to-day and took the place by storm. The
excursion trains came in over the Big Four
and brought people from Ann Arbor, Niles,
South Bend and Elkhart. Frozell's band, of
Benton Harbor, accompanied the excursion
lists. There was a big crowd, but there
would have been thousands more had the
matter not been bungled by misunderstand-
ings among the Woodmen themselves. 1t
seems that delegates from numerous lodges
In northern Indiana and southern Michigan
have formed association known as the
Northern Indiana Picnic Association. The
executive committee had planned a grand
rally of all Woodmen in their section to-
day and invited Lieutenant Governor
Northcoate to make the address. Nothing
more was heard of the executive commit
tee. The crowd came. but as most of them
did not know the way from Warsaw to the
park at Eagle Lake, committee had to
take charge of that business. The manage
ment of the Winona Assembly did not
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know that the honored guest of the day
had been invited or that he was pres
cit until ne made himself known. Not
outstanding all these difficulties the big
crowd of Woodmen, with characteristic
good humor set to work enjoying itself.
The Winona Band and the visiting band
gave a concert in front Of the hotel, and
afterward Miss Clara collars, of Fort
Wayne. a song recital In the auditorium
Miss collars is a daughter Of Judge Allen
collars, formerly of the Indiana Supreme
Court. She has a fine soprano voice and
sings in highly artistic style. AT o'clock
the auditorium was turned over to the
Woodmen for a public entertainment. The
lieutenant governor made a strong speech,
of interest chiefly to the Order of Woodmen.
He had good words to say for Winona, and
announced that he would endeavor to or
ganize Woodmen s day at this place next
season, to be national event
This evening Professor Grilley, DR.. Frank
Marshall Whistler and the magniscope en-
tertaned the crowd.
Hon. John L. Griffiths is at the Winona
Hotel
DR.. Henry w. Johnson, of South Bend a
director of the assembly. left to-day for
Chautuaqua. to spend two weeks investi-
eating the details of the management.
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Operations to BE Resumed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MONTPELIER, Ind, July 2S.-T. c. Neal
receiver for the Indiana Steel Casting
Company, this morning stated that the
plant would now start without any doubt
as all the necessary arrangements have
been made and that there was nothing to
prevent the mill from being operated. The
parties now interested in the plant are
Richard Sinclair of the firm of Sinclair &
Morrison, of this city; Mr.. Springer, of Chi
cago: w. H. Whitley. the wel-known i'm
plement manufacturer of Muncie; c. s.
Bash and NJ. Goldberger, of Fort Wayne.
The interests held by d. A. Bryson, L. e.
Maddox; of this city, and j. A. Hindman,
of Hartford City, have been purchased by
the gentlemen now interested In the plant
The plant will be run under the super
vision Of Receiver Neal for the present
If the plant works successfully, and there
is no doubt it will, it may pass out of the
receivers hands at the October term of
court. All the machinery has been thor
oughly overhauled and the furnaces re-
built. All kinds of steel castings, weighing
from one pound to fifty tons, will be cast
A larger portion Of the work will be in
casting car couplerS
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SCHEME THAT WAS TRIED HERE
Conspiracy to secure Damages from a
Street-Railway Company.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 2S.-Mr and Mrs.
William Webb were indicted and arrested
to-day on a charge Of conspiracy to rob
and blackmail the Citizens Railway Com
pany. Mrs Webb boarded car several
days ago and fell in the aisle. She alleged
the fall injured her spine and sued for SIS, 900
damages, after a fruitless attempt to COM
promise. The woman has permanently
diseased spine and through it she has re-
ceived money from the Lindell Street-rail-
way Company in ST. Louis and another
company in Atlanta, Ga Officials of the
company here heard of the pair and knew
to the hour when they intended to fall vic
Tins to the alleged accident. The lawyer
who filed suit for damages has withdrawn
from the case.
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Twenty-Five years ago resident Of Los
Angeles died, leaving an estate valued at
see 900. There was a dispute over its settle
ment. Recently the public administrators
handed in his final account All that re-
NAMED to be divided was forty cents. AS
the heirs have either died or left for parts
unknown, this remnant of the $4,000 was
ordered turned into the county treasury
Current Item.
This is the way in which estates are fire.
ouentIy depleted or exhausted by adminis~
traitors who have no interest in the prop
erty except what they can make out of it.
A trust company, however, like the Union,
of INDIANAPOLIS. having a reputation to
maintain and executing trusts with the
greatest fidelity. would have handled such
an estate as this so that instead of being
used up entirely, it would have Increased
in value after paying all reasonable
charges Ninety-nine estates out of hum
dred can be settled better and cheaper by
the Union Trust Company than by any
individual Consultation on wills is invited.
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TOURISTS PAY DUTY.
Less Free Wearing Apparel than TN
der the Wilson Law.


NEW YORK, July 28.-The first of the
big transatlantic passenger boats to ar
rive at this port since the Dingley tariff
bill became a law WAS the Majestic, which
tied up at her dock to-day. The new tariff
act has restricted the privileges of tourists
in regard to the quantity of wearing APP
parel of foreign manufacture that they may
bring into the country and these restrictions
were not generally understood on the other
side of the ocean when the Majestic sailed.
In anticipation of confusion and in order
to obViate ii as much as possible Surveyor
Of the Port Mcguire went down the bay 10
meet the steamer, and before the stop at
quarantine had all the passengers assem-
bled on deck where he informed them of
the changes in the tariff that would be
likely to affect them. Thus prepared, the
passenge We're enabled to make ready
their declarations before the steamer
reached her dock, where an extra force Of
fifty-five inspectors had been detailed for
duty. Considering the circumstances the
passengers were subjected TO but little de-
lay. With few exceptions they met the
new requirements in a spirit of candor that
made the work of the inspectors easy and
the delay in passing the baggage was re-
duced to a minimum. More than So, 600 was
collected by the customs officials on the
baggage of the MaJestic's passengers.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, July 2S. -
Maxwell Mccullough died last night at his
home near Smartsburg. He was born in
jefferson county on Aug. 6, 1918. and has
lived here since 1923 He was married twice,
his second wife surviving with seven of his
thirteen children. Two sons, Albert and
Samuel, reside in California, William in
Benton county, j. c. and Henry in this
county, Mrs. Lizzie Sheridan in Terre
Haute and Mrs. c. e. Gay in Benton
county.
LYNN, Ind, July 2S.-Ira Marine, living
southwest of this place, died suddenly last
night. AT about II o'clock his wife was
awakened by his loud breathing, and in a
few minutes he died. Mr.. Marine was an
old and well-known farmer of this county.
WASHINGTON, Ind, July 2S.-Hugh
Barr. president of the Peoples National
Bank, died here to-day, aged eighty-one.
He was i'll but ten days. He leaves an es-
tate valued AT $125 900.
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MAN BURNED TO a CRISP
THREE OTHERS OVERCOME BY
SMOKE AND FUMES OF BENZINE.
Fire Loss of $4,000 at Michigan City
Evidence that James Rafferty,
Was Pushed on u Train.

MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. July 2S.-One
man, William Rauman. was burned to a
crisp and three others were scorched and
overcome by smoke and the fumes of ig
nited benziae in a fire that started just
after II o'clock this morning in the huge
frame warehouse of the Michigan City Sash
and Door Company. Besides the human life
and injuries the fire licked up practically
a whole square of buildings, including the
factory where it started and four dwell
ing houses and their contents. Three other
dwellings We're partly destroyed. The total
loss viii reach s70,000 with about $4,000 in
surance. Louis Schwartz, Fred Peters and
Herman Lucknow were the most seriously
injured. but none of those hurt will die.
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INDIANA OBITUARY.
William III. Jones, Indiana Universe
tvs Oldest Graduate.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 2S.-William
Harrison Jones. the oldest living graduate
of Indiana University, with probably one
exception, died this morning aged eighty
five. He was one of the best-known men
in the city and known by hundreds of In
diana University students, as he has always
been a central figure a. alumni meetings
and in matters connected with the universe
ty until old age kept him from attending
such meetings. He was a prominent G. A.
r. man, and for many years was chaplain
of the Paul r. Slocum Post. He was also
a leading member Of the Methodist Church
and an Odd Fellow. The funeral will take
place at the Methodist Church. tomorrow
al o'clock, and will be in charge of DR..
no.
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Two Nuns VIII Go North.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 2S.-Two sisters
of the order Of St. Anne have offered their
services for ten years labor in the frozen
north and have been accepted by the SUI
perior of their community. They have ar
rived in San Francisco on their way north
and were to have sailed for st. MichaePs on
the steamer Excelsior this afternoon, but
as it was considered that the vessel would
be crowded with passengers the officials of
the Alaska Commercial Company advised
the Bertha, either Saturday or Monday
next. The two who go to the north are
Sister Mary of the Cross. formerly Miss
Peterson she has been engaged recently
in educational work at Holyoke Mass. Her
companion is Sister Mary Magdalene Of
the Sacred Heart, who was Miss Goulet
a native of Quebec.
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RECOILED UN HERSELF.
She Wanted Only to Anger Her Moth
err. but Took Too Much Poison.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 2S--Mrs.
Myrtle Sparks Fortune died to-day from
the effects of poison taken to aggravate
her mother This she did yesterday after
noon with no serious intention of commit
ting suicide At supper time she told her
husband what she had done. Soon after
ward she became very i'll. She suffered
throughout the night. She was not yet
out of her teens, and was we'll known in
the city. Several years ago she was about
the newspaper offices trying to get employ
sudden death year ago caused some talk,
left her 81, 900 insurance. and it was the
rapid way in which she was spending this
mother.
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Inducements of Steamers.

NEW YORK, July 2S-Arrived: Males
tic from Liverpool; Persia, from Ham
Noordland for Antwerp; Britannia, for I4iv-
erpool.
LIVERPOOL. July IS. - Arrived: Waes-
land from Philadelphia Sailed: Belgen-
land for Philadelphia.
ROTTERDAM July 2S.-Arrived: Veen-
dam. from New York. Sailed: OLDHAM, for
New York
GIBRALTAR July 2S-Sailed Ems. from
Genoa and Naples. for New York.
PLYMOUTH, July IS. - Arrived: Fuerst
Bismarck. from New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. July 2S-Arrived New
York. from New York.
BREMEN, July Is. - Arrived: Dresden,
from Baltimore.
BALTIMORE. July 2S.-sailed: Munchen.
for Bremen.
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FILLED WITH TOBACCO.
Hollow Logs Shipped to Havana
Found to Contain Sumatra Leaf.

HAVANA, July 2S.-An examination by
custom-house officials of eight of the con-
signment of 155 logs which reached here on
Sunday last on the steamer Seguranca, and
which were deposited in the custody of the
police at the Tallapiedra wharf, show them
to have been packed with fine Sumatra
leaf tobacco. If the remainder of the logs
contain an amount of tobacco proportionate
to that found already examined it is es-
timated that the total shipment Of tobac-
co will reach 1900 kilos.
The logs, it is said, were shipped by a
Maine lumber company
Captain General Weyler. it is announced
will take the field in a few days to per-
sonally direct military operations in the
Havana province against several bands Of
Insurgents, from fifty to two hundred
strong. This step is due to an attempt on
the part of these bands to reunite.
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fee. 81, and was surprised to learn that
the fees were not paid into the city treas
ury, but collected by the officer in charge
The police commissioners hold that all fees
under the new police law shall revert to
the city. and not TO any officer, and ac-
ed the city clerk to notify officer Honeycut
to report the amount of all fees collected
by him since last April and turn the same
over to the secretary of the Police Board.
1t is the first ruling of the kind since An
derson has been governed by the Metropol-
itan police law.
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THRONG LEFT BEHIND
DEPARTURE OF THE STEAMER EN-
CELSIOR FOR THE FAR NORTH.
So Many People Eager to Reach Alas
kn that $1,000 Was offered for "a
Ticket-ActiOn of Canadians.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 2s..-The steamer

SAN FRANCISCO. July 2S.--The steamer
Excelsior, chartered by the Alaska Com
mercial Company, left Mission street at
p. m. sailing direct for St. Michaels.
This is the last of the companys fleet which
will connect with the Yukon river steamer
this season. For hours before the departure
of the steamer the wharf was thronged
with people. Three times the original price
was offered for tickets. One passenger
changed his mind after receiving an offer
of $500 for the pasteboard for which he
originally paid but $3.50. over Two thcusard
people gathered upon the wharf to bid
farewell to the 10 pass eag4:s for the I<lon-
dixie.
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Farmhouse Robbed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ind, July 2S.-Yesterday
while the family of George Thomas, a
wealthy young farmer living near this
place, were at work in the back part of the
house some unknown persons entered the
front rooms and thoroughly ransacked
them, even tearing up the beds. They Sc
cured $40 in money and check for $226
which Mr.. Thomas had just received for
wheat he had sold. The thieves succeeded
in making their escape. Fortunately for
Mr.. Thomas, he succeeded in stopping the
payment of the check.
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UNDERMINED BY RAIN.
Fall of TrestIe, n Locomotive and
Two Passenger Cars.

ST. LOUIS. July ss-Train No. on the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis Railway
was wrecked at 9:15 o'clock this morning.
Nobody was hurt. At Grassland, ILL.,,
trestle had been undermined by rain. 1t
went down under the engine and the loco
motive and two cars followed it. The en-
gineer and fireman escaped uninjured. Two
passengers were slightly shaken up.
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THE DEATH OF RAFFERTY,.
Inquest Develops that He Was Pushed
from "a Train by "a Brakeman.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, July 2S-Saturday
night the body OF James Rafferty,, whose
home was in Falkland, was picked up by a
train crew on the Big Four tracks about
three miles west of here. 1t was reported
at the time that he had been drinking and
had sat down on the track and that an
engine had killed him. At the inquest aff1-
davits were made by Harry Childers and
Walter Miller, also of Falkland, that they
were with Rafferty, Saturday afternoon and
jumped on a coal car in the local freight
to ride home. when a brakeman showed
Rafferty, off while the train was moving.
He fell and struck his head on a rock
Childers, in getting off, sprained his ankle
and remained here all night, but Rafferty,
started home along the track and died
before he reached Falkland. The undertaken
who prepared Raffertys body for burial
found not a bruise or scratch except the
wound on the head. If the story told by
Childers and Miller is true, the probabil-
fly is that the brakeman who was RESPONSE
BILE for his death was none other than. Dan
Tel Walters. who himself killed at Ac-
ton yesterday afternoon by getting his foot
caught in a frog.
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dent Mckinley is now in possession of the
revolutionary war record of David McKin-
ley, his great grandfather. David McKin-
ley was resident of this county during the
revolution and served in a York county
company The rosters of the companies
from this region are in the possession Of
Miss Carrie Hay. granddaughter of Lieut..
Col John Hay Through the efforts of Mr..
Spangler, President Mckinley has been pre-
sented with that one containing the record
of his ancestnr
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON. Ind, July Henderson po-
lice commissioners have made an important
ruling relative TO the fees that are be-
ing collected by a special" officer that
is of interest throughout the State. as the
same condition of affairs exists in
many cities. officer Honeycut, who was
named as an assistant health officer and
given police powers, has been impounding
stock and appropriating the fees 10 his own
use. Police Commissioner d. T. Mustard
line horse broke lose few nights ago and
was found next day In the hands of the
special officer, who had confined the animal
in the city pound" Commissioner Mustard
went to the office Of the clerk TO pay the
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Engineer Crushed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

optCIdI 20 lnt IIllIIdhSpUIIs JOUIIldI.
PRINCETON, Ind, July 2S-John Chap
man, aged thirty-five, an engineer on a
traction engine, met a horrible death yes
terday Afternoon near Fort Branch, seven
miles south of this city While running
an engine pulling a separator up in
cline, the separator became detached.
Chapman reversed his engine to back down
to the separator, and in doing so the engine
became uncomfortable and dashed into the
separator. Chapman was caught between
the two machines and his body horribly
crushed. He died shortly after the acct
dent. He has wife and two children liv-
ing at PleasantVille. Ind.
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NEW YORK, July 2S.-Judge Newburger.
in the Court of General sessions, has over
ruled the demurrer in the case Of Mrs.
Mack and Martin Thorn, accused of the
murder of William Guldensuppe. The de-
murrer alleged that if murder was commit
ted, it was in Queens county and out OF
the jurisdiction of the courts of this city.
The case therefore will be tried in New
York county,
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New Route to the Gold Fields.

MONTREAL July 2S-In 1887, when W.
Ogilvie, the Canadian explorer, who has
since determined the one hundred and
forty-frst meridian and marked it on each
side of the Yukon to show the boundary
between Alaska and the Canadian
Yukon country went up there he
returned to civilization by crossing
the divide and descending the Mac
kenzie river, Great Slave lake and
river to Lake Athabasca and thence arrlv
madam Pacific has a branch from Calgary
to Edmonton and Sir William Van Horne
stated to-day that they had already dis
monitor to the Athbaasca river, a distance
of about fifty miles. From here there is
a clear waterway of about 1890 miles in
length to Fort MACPHERSON near the mouth
of the Mackenzie. Then the route would
be across the divide by the Pearl river,
s1n
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LAKE STEAMER SUNK.
The Cambria Wrecked on Lake Huron
All the Passengers Saved.

All the Passengers Saved.
PORT HURON, Mich, July 2S.-The
steamer Cambria of the Windsor Detroit
& 500 line which left Detroit Tuesday
noon with 100 passengers for Sault Ste
Marie was W 5cked this morning on Lake
Huron, three miles north of Sarnia. The
vessel ran into a drift of logs which had
broken away from a raft. Her paddles
were broken and then her machinery be-
came disabled. The passengers were wild
with excitement, but at daylight this MORN
ing all were safely landed on the beach
and are now at Sarnia. The Cambria lies
on a sandy bottom exposed to a high west
sea and had commenced to go to pieces
before the last passenger was taken off.
The Cambria was a vessel of 400 tons of
the old-fashoned side-wheel type. She had
been doing heavy business the past four
years on the route between Detroit and
Sault Ste. Marie via Georgian bay
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Girl Drowned in Diamond Lake.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 2S.-NIiss Dina
Odell, of near Jones, Mich, was drowned
about o'clock this afternoon at Diamond
lake, a South Bend summer resort, north
east of the city about thirty miles. Miss
Odell. Miss Clara Whitehead, Miss Mary
Skinner, all of near Jones, and Miss Eta
Train, of near Vandalia, Mich, went out in
a rowboat said to have been built for two
and not for four. The lake was rough and
the boat capsized All but Miss Odell were
rescued and her body was found floating
soon after the accident.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LYNN. Ind, July 2S,-The grocery of j.
A. Hinshaw has been burglarized several
times recently, and yesterday afternoon
Henry Steward, a detective of Winchester
arrested Calvin Parker on a charge of rob-
bling the store. Parker confessed his guilt
and in his confession implicated others
More arrests will follow
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Big Deal in Mines Closed.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 2S.-AIr. Henry
Taylor, the representative Of the English
syndicate which has an option on most of
the coal mines in East Tennessee, arrived
here at noon to-day. The deal is practically
closed. only awaiting Mr. Taylor's inspec-
ton Of the properties and final report. The
price approaches five million dollars and
the properties employ 5000 miners and have
coal annually.
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WILL WEAR A $4,000 CROWN
Mrs. Mary Il. Lease Chosen Queen OF
the Harvest Festivities.

TOPEKA, Kan. July 2S.-Mrs. Mary e.
Lease. the Populist orator, has been Sc
lected as queen of the fall festivities-a
harvest demonstration. Mrs. Lease is in
Iowa on lecturing tour. The committee
having the matter in charge has asked her
by telegraph TO accept the honor. She will
reign a queen for a week and wear a $20,-
600 crown.
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Boy Drowned in "a Pond.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 2S.-Leon Sic
benthal was drowned this morning while
bathing alone in a lara poAd three miles
east of this city. He had been picking ber-
ries with two other boys and went to the
water he took the cramps. His cries for
help brought the other boys, but they ar
rived too late. The boy sank in eight feet
of water. The body was recovered after a
two hours search.