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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-21

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Nov. 20.-The
board of managers of the Reformatory,
which was in session yesterday was nego-
tiating with Hon. John F. Read and John
C. Zulauf of this city. for the purchase of
large tract of land adjoining town on
which TO work the inmates of the Reform
atory. They visited the land while in the
city, and it is thought the deal will be con-
summated at the next regular meeting of
the board. This action becomes necessary
because of the act passed by the last Legis-
lature abolishing convict contract labor,
and, as many of the contracts will soon ex-
pire, the convicts will be idle, and some
kind of work must be secured for them
The products of the farm will be consumed
by the various state Institutions An APP
preparation was made by the last General
Assembly for this purpose.
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a RUSH COUNTY ExPosuRE.
Daniel b. NewIxirk Charged with
Squanderfng Trust Funds.-

Special to the Indianapolis Journal s 81
RUSHVILLE, Ind.,. Nov. 20 = John A.
Ellsworth an attorney of this city and the
newly appointed guardian of Francis NJ.
Hamilton, minor. to-day instituted suit
against Daniel B. Newkirk for the recovery
of $1,000 alleged to have been appropriated
to his own use by Newkirk during the lat
ter's guardianship of young Hamilton Mr.
Newlxirk is sixty-fve years old, and until
recently was one of the largest landowners
IN Union township: For years he was guar
dian of Francis Nj. Hamilton. who owns
large estate left him by his father At the
last term of court Newkirk was asked to file
q new bond. Failing to do so, he was re-
moved by Special Judge Mccullough. and
John A. Ellsworth was appointed. Ellsworth
has made an examination of the books kept
By Newkirk and claims that he has squan-
dered about $1,000 of young Hamiltons
money. Eewlirk's sureties are his SON, It.
j, Newlxirk of Richmond, ex-clerk of the
Legislature, and Mrs. Martha Williams,
mother of f. M. Hamilton. the ward, The
action filed to-day also asks that convey
ances to S5S acres of land made by New
kirk to his children be set aside, as the
ssame is alleged TO have been made for the
purpose of cheating and defrauding his
creditors.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Nov. 20.--Most of the
twenty-three men injured in the wreck of
the miners train on the C. & E. l. Railroad
yesterday are much better to-day and all
may recover. Guy Alderman is very low,
being internally injured. The injured min
ers held a meeting last night and decided
to refuse to ride over the c. & f. !. again
unless their train be pulled on and off
side tracks. The trainmen as usual were in
the act of backing the miners train UP
Keystone switch this morning when all
the miners left the train and returned
nome. 1T is understood that the officials of
demand and work will probably be resumed
Monday
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and ]. w. Pinnell. all OF this city. Mr..
6Bilger came here several years ago from
seems to have pursued him. Shortly after
he located here he applied for a divorce
from his wife, who remained in Philadel-
phia. The latter suddenly put in an appear
ance and declared her intention to fight the
case. A compromise was effected and Mrs
bigger returned home. After her departure
Agnes Martin. Within a few months Mrs
bigger No. l again returned to Lebanon
and brought action to annul the marriage
cured from her by fraud. Special Judge j.
g. Adams heard the case and decided in
her favor, annulling Bilger's marriage with
Miss Martin.
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AssIGNEE's bond FILED.
officials Now Ready to Investigate
Crawford County Banks.

ENGLISH, Ind. Nov. 2O-The legal steps
necessary to the appointment Of an as
signee for the settlement of the affairs of
the 6etunct banks has been made, and the
bond of r. C. Arnold for 100000 was flied
this morning. The security was furnished
by Messrs Slaughter and Gilmour, of Lou
isville general agents of the National
Security Company of New York. as is
the case with the bond given by J. f. John
son, assignee of the Royal Spoke Company
Of Leavenworth for $25. 900.
Mr.. Slaughter says that everything is
now in readiness for the aSSignee's inVesti-
cation. Congressman Zenor says that the
report quoting him as saying depositors
will be first was erroneous In every way
as he never made such a statement Ali
claimants will share alike in the settlement
of the affairs, no class being preferred The
people have full confidence in the assignees
Arnold and Johnson, and Congressman Ze-
nor. Whatever the result there will be
fair and square deal, and the interest Of
no one will be neglected or forced. Nothing
has been heard from Cashier Willett.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-Arrived: Munchen,
from Bremen. Sailed: Manitoba, for Lon
don; La Gascogne, for Havre; Normandie.
for Naples Umbria, for Liverpool; Palatia,
for Hamburg. The reported arrival at New
York yesterday of the steamer Ohio, from
Hull, was an error.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2O.-Sailed: Bel
genland, for Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL. Nov. 19.-Arrived: Tauric,
from New York.
HAVRE, Nov. 2o.-Sailed: La Touraine,
for New York.
SOUTHAMPTON. Nov. 2o-sailed: Paris,
for New York.
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A remarkable feature of the proposed
shortening of the course of instruction for
a college degree to three years is, that the
experiment has never been made before in
a land where so much is sacrificed to a
saving of time, and where conservative
sentiment so rarely stands in the way of
an innovation along lines of utility. The
graduates actual battle with life. Under
the elective system at Harvard it has long
been possible for bright student to read
jects required for a degree, and he has
been encouraged to do this by the president,
who, ever since he became the chief Off
Ger of the university, has been changing
the old order in many particulars; but
formal recognition of this procedure has
been delayed The marked Improvement in
preparatory academies some of them now
parable with England's celebrated public
schools in standards. is an essential factor
in this evolution But 1t IL a question
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Its Development One of the Quickest
I'm OIL History.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MONTPELIER, Ind. Nov 2O.--There is
no point in the Trenton rock regions more
interesting than the Peru field has been for
the past three months. The oil trade had
begun to fear it as dangerous factor in its
business. AS an oil center 1t arose more
suddenly, perhaps. than any other locality
in the entire range, when the amount Of
work and regular daily output are con-
sidered. The completion of over $50 wells
in less than ninety days made it the talk
Of the whole country and the Mecca for oil
pilgrims in search of work. The character
of the wells and of the rock from witch
they received their supply was in every re-
spect admirably suited to the occasion. The
rock was first class, nothing apparently
richer ever having been discovered in these
regions, and the wells responded with an
average yield quite surprising anything
previously experienced in this State But
1t seems to have shot its bolt 1t is fairly
and satisfactorily determined that it con-
sists OF pool bounded on all sides by salt
water or blue lick water in large supply.
The dimensions of the pool as far as the
drill has proceeded are about two and a half
miles by two miles.
As to the Peru held connecting with any
otner OF Importance there does not now ap-
richness of the pool and the rapidfty with
Which wells could be drilled adj had a dam
gerous aspect for prices. But it should be
understood that the field has not passed en-
tlrely from notice. The largest part of Ii
SO Tar as area is concerned, is yet to drill
Ihe territory west and north of the city
limits is held by large land owners, and
viii not be drilled with the haste that char
acterized the city lot drilling. The number
or drilling wells and the number weekly
coming IN are diminishing already. The
wells are growing smaller daily and many
or the producers will lose money in the
toWn-lot ventures. The Ohio Oil Companys
Wen on the CHARTERS property north of the
1air grounds is of but little value. Bolds
brothers have completed another good pro-
Queer on a town lot. Porter & Strobe have
completed very light producer on the.
Reyburn lot, Part Slack has finished a
good well on the corner of Fourteenth and
Dukes streets. The North Peru well struck
a pocket OF blue lick water at the first
screw in the Trenton rock and the well is
no good. The Connolly well on the Bearss
farm is dry and has been abandoned The
United States Oil Company has completed
a dry hole on the Meyers. farm west of the
city. The sand was found at $3.50 feet The
Crescent Oil Company completed a dry hole
on the MARI lot west of the bagging mill
Shirk's well in the same vicinity IS no good
as paying producer.
On the +. H. Brown farm, in Section S5
Jefferson township, Huntington county, the
Ohio Oil Company has completed well No.
3 and 1t is good for fifty barrels. II. c.
Zlegler, Of Montpelier, has completed well
No. on the N. Carver farm, in Section q
Van Buren, township. Grant count and ii
IS good for thirty barrels
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LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Juliet Nesville has
returned from New York, where she had
a part in Edwardes's musical comedy 'In
Town" and has resumed her old role of Ju-
lietta Diament. in THE Geisha."
The SALISBURY Theater, whose doors have
been dark since Adele Richie ceased to
sing in 1.-THE Wizard of the Nile" there
was reopened on Wednesday last by Will
hanson and Musgrove. the Australian man
ayers, who brought Mrs. Potter and Bellew
to London, with an anglicized reproduction,
under the title of THE Scarlet Feather"
of an old French opera originally chistened
La Petite Mariee." Thomas Q. Seabrooke
has a secondary part in it and acquitted
himself commemorative
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Grace Croyvell sim Unnvenged.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
VALPARAISO, Ind, Nov 20.-In the case
against ex-Sheriff Heber Stoddard and
Lydia Walgamot, charged with conspiracy
to commit a criminal operation in Chicago
that resulted in the death of Grace Crowell
the jury failed to agree and was discharged
this noon, after being out nineteen hours.
The jury stood nine to three for convic-
ton on the last ballot. This was the sec
ond trial and lasted eleven days. The de-
PENDANTS gave new bonds for their appear
ance at the December term of court.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENSBURG, Ind, Nov. 2O.-Depart-
ment Commander J. s. Dodge, of the G. A,
r., was here last evening and addressed the
veterans at campfire at the Christian
Church. He was accompanied by Adjutant
General r. NJ Smiock and CONGRESSMAN
Hogg, of Virginia, who also gave short
talks. Recitations were rendered by Miss
Carrie simpson, of Rising; Miss Ola Cam
eron, OF kntghtstown, and DR.. r. G.. Simp-
son., of Rising Sun. Col. M. d. Tackett
presided
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Brigadier General Brooks.

DENVER, Col, Nov. 2O.-Brigader Cen
eral Brooks, commander of the National
Guard of Colorado, died suddenly at $3.50
O'Clock this afternoon of neuralgia of the
heart. His health had been apparently good
of late, and he was transacting business
at his office until an hour before his death.
General Brooks was born in Detroit, Mich,
coming to Colorado twenty years ago: He
has been prominent in National Guard cir
cles since his arrival here. He had COM
mand of the troops in the Cripple Creek
and Leadville strike campaigns. He was a
leaves a widow, four daughters and three
sons, the latter being prominent in business
circles.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 2O.-Mrs. I. l..
Nicholson, wife of Bishop Nicholson, of
this city died to-day of consumption, after
an illness of two years. Mrs. Nicholson
was considered the best authority in the
country on church vestments embroidery
The deceased's relatives live in Baltimore.
FITCHBURG, Mass. Nov. 2O.-Mial Da-
Wis. at one timesa well-known lumber manu-
facturer, died here to-day, aged sixty-nine
years. He was a member of the firm of
Shepard, DAVIS & Co, Of Nashu a. n H.,
which failed for over 81, 100000 in 1870
BUFFALO. N. Y. Nov. 20.-Ex- State
Senator Loren B. Sessions, of Chautauqua
county, died suddenly to-day at his home in
Panama, n. Y.
LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Henry Calderwood
versity of Edinburgh, is dead.
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OUTBREAK OF MINERS
STRIKES AT FOUR PLACES IN sULLI-
VAN COUNTY DISTRICT.
OH Men Satisfied the Peru Pool Is
Limited-Gunrdiansh Scan
daI at RushviIle.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBURN, Ind, Nov. 2O.-At Alum
Cave the miners have struck at one of the
mines be ause dues were not paid into the
miners organization At Hymera the
screen question is the division between the
company and its men and a strike is on.
At Star City work has ceased because the
company refuses to employ the present
check weighman elected by the miners, the
company claiming he is not entitled to
weigh, as he had formerly been discharged.
The company offered to permit any of the
other miners to go on as check weighman.
but this the miners refused and quit work
to-day.
At Jackson Hill the miners refuse to re-
sumo work unless the company discharges
the mine boss.
The present strike at the four mines is
of local nature, but should 1t continue
any length of time the strike may spread.
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John Amos, resident of Lexington Ind,
was accidentally shot and killed by Den
mis- Meagher while the men were hunting.
The Middle Prairie Church. southwest of
Kokomo.. near the Upton county line, was
DESTROYED by fire Friday night In the past
month the torch has been applied to four
barns in the neighborhood.
E. B. Reynolds, of Wayne county. who
was appointed a special Indian agent and
ordered to the Crow agency in Montana,
has been relieved from that duty and or
dered to the Cnitah agency, Utah.
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OBITUARY..
Capt. William p. Anderson, a Prom
inent Renide emit OF Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2O.-Capt. William P.
Anderson died suddenly at his home, on
Pike street, this city. tonight, of heart fall
ure, aged fifty-seven. He was a nephew
Of Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame.
He was pre-eminently a man of affairs.
Though retired from active business for
several years, he was at the time of his
death a director in the Big Four and the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, director in
the American Cotton-seed Oil Company,
one of the governors of the Jekyl Club near
Brunswick, Ca, a director in three impOr-
tant local companies and director in the
Citizens National Bank.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Ind, Nov. 20,--The stu
alton between the striking miners and the
operators at this place grows no better.
Relations are as strained as can we'll be
Imagined. The mine owners offered, few
days ago. to reopen an unused mine and
allow such of the strikers as could find
places to go to work. The strikers said
they would consent to this proposition, pro-
vided the foreigners that have been i'm
ported to take their places in the other
mines were sent back. This the mine
owners have steadfastly declined to do.
Messrs. Cabel & Kaufman have announced
their intention to reopen the mine very
shortly. As soon as this action is taken it
is expected that trouble will follow con-
ference between representatives of the
striking miners and the operators was held
here this afternoon, but the result of the
conference has not become public. 1t was
thought that some feeling would be mani
tested at this conference, and that possibly
a serious difficulty might be precipitated.
So far the situation is unchanged.
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the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Ind, Nov. 2O.-The announce
ment is made here of the approaching mar
riage of Mr.. Frank Martin, deputy in the
auditor of states Office and Miss Elizabeth
Payne, of Franklin. Mr.. Martin is a son
of Dr. G. H. Martin, of this city. Miss
Payne is the daughter of DR.. p. w. Payne,
of Franklin. The wedding will take place
about the middle of December at the home
of the brides parents.
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NEW YORK Nov. 10.-The funeral of
Rev. DIR. George H. Houghton was held to-
day from the Church of the Transfigura-
ton, Familiarity known as the Little
Church Around the Corner A large
crowd was present, including many actors
and delegations from the Lambs Club, the
Players Club, the Actors Fund Associa-
ton, the Order of Elks and the Actors Ma
tional Protective Union. The burial serv-
ice, in simple form, was conducted by
Bishop Potter. Interment took place at
Trinity Cemetery, on Washington Heights.
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Bass foundry Out of Trouble.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov. TO- - ]. H.
Bass, now in New York, gives out that all
the arrangements for reorganization of the
Bass foundry and machine works have been
completed and within thirty days every dol
lar of the firms Indebtedness will have
been settled. This will insure a prosperous
future for the works Nearly one thousand
men will thus be given steady work.
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MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 20. - Alderman
George A. Durham, convicted of demanding
a bride of $1,000 in behalf of combine of
sixteen aldermen was to-day sentenced to
six years and a half al hard labor in the
penitentiary Pending the argument on a
motion for a new trial and possible subse-
quent appeal TO the Supreme Court, his
bond was fixed at $4,000.
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whether a boys digestion is equal to the
robust meal that is spread for him at Har-
ward or Yale, and whether he ought not
to be older rather than younger to assmi-
late it. A case in point is that of a Har-
Aristotle in the original Greek under Prof.
w. w Goodwin, one of the best of teach
ers, and came away with a nonsensical
smattering of these authors, whom he re-
read last year, at thirty-five, with infinite
delight
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Trying to "work, van Ta.meI.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Nov. 20.-Attor-
ney Parker, of Danville, has been here to
interview Guy Van Tassel and Harry Cor
ham, who are in Jail, with reference to the
Hinshaw murder. Parker seems hopeful of
he could say the word that would make
Hinshaw a free man, if he would tell what
he knew about the murder of Mrs. Hin
shaw: Van Tassel divulged nothing in Him
ShaW'S favor
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Hon. A. p. Twineham Injured.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON, Ind, Nov 20.-Hon A. p.
Twineham. who was the Republican candi-
date for Congress four years ago. was bad
~ Injured in a runaway tonight He was
thrown out Of a buggy and sustained a
fracture of his right arm and dislocation
OF his shoulder
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wants All Immigration Suspended.

Trades Council of this city has adopted res
olutions petitioning Congress to suspend all
immigration to this country for at least
the period of ten years that the great
army of unemployed may have the oppor-
tunity Of earning an existence. State Labor
Commissioner Fitzgerald has been chosen
to represent the council at WASHINGTON.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
DANVILLE, Ind, Nov. 2O.-The jury to-
DAY acquitted Ludwig, of Indianapolis,
charged with running a fence" The jury
was out about an hour. 1t was proven that
Ludwig in person did not receive the stolen
bicycle in question, was not at the store at
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CONNERSVILLE,. Ind, Nov. 20-Chris-
tIan Fitch aged seventy-three, was viewing
a corn shelter at the hominy mill this morn
ing, when he stepped too close to the shaft
ing, his coat sleeve was caught and lis
arm horribly crushed Amputation at the
shoulder was necessary. He may die.
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No More free quotations ON Lead.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-On Jan. 1, 1885,
the Western Union Telegraph Company
will discontinue it's present system of New
York Lead quotations After that date these
quotations viii be forwarded only as pri-
vate messages. This announcement 1T is
stated, is of interest to the lead-mining in
terests throughout the country.
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KALISPEL, Mont, Nov. 20.-Owing to
recent heavy rains SHOWS and chinook
winds, the railroads. both east and west Of
Kalispel are completely blocked and it Is
not expected that it will be opened inside
of weeks time. The wires have also
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CORYDON. Ind. Nov 20--C. e. L.
Steepleton. the absconding justice of the
peace and insurance agent, returned and
surrendered to the authorities to-day and
is now in jail So far as known his short
age Is 81 200.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LEBANON, Ind, Nov 2O--W A. Bilger,
the florist, made an assignment this after
noon TO Henry L. Moore. The assets and
liabilities are each about $1,000 The princi-
pal creditors are the Citizens Building and
Loan, the Mutual Building and Loan. the
First National Bank. Campbell q Smith
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been down since Thursday, and communi-
cation with the outside. world was only re-
established to-day There have been sew
eral heavy snowslides and numerous wash
outs of a serious nature.
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son township, was found dead in bed yester-
DAY morning He was born in Germany,
but has resided In this county fifty years.