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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
LIFE-SAVERS DROWNED.
Ten Lost During Storm That Is
Sweeping British Waters.

LONDON, Dec. 2.-Fierce storms again
broke out over the coasts of England last
night and the scenes recorded during the
early part of the week are recurring.
Heavy hail. snow and transforms accom-
panied the gales. The Dover and Calais
channel service is temporarily suspended
and several vessels are reported to have
been wrecked on the Goodwin sands. The
number of wrecks off the Norfolk coast
and the fury Of the storm on the Kentish
seaboard are unexampled. Heavy SHOWS
have fallen in several parts of France.
The volunteer lifeboat belonging to Mar
gate capsized this morning off Nayland
rock. OF the fourteen men comprising her
crew, ten were drowned. The lifeboat,
when the accident occurred, was on her
way to rescue the crew of the Persian En-
pire, which had been in collision with an
other steamer. The nfeboat was about
two miles off shore when she was over
turned. Neither of the colliding vessels was
seriously damaged.
A special dispatch says that the captain
and four men, who were in the missing boat
OF the Welsh steamer Labarrouere of Car
diff. which foundered off TreVos head last
week as the result of q collision with an
unidentified vessel, We're picked up by
French steamer and have been landed at
Anglers. Last Saturday several of her crew
reached Cardiff, after having been in an
open boat for twenty-four hours. and re-
ported that the captains boat has cap
sized. But carly this week French steamer
Slgnaled TO a port in the Bristol channel
that she had picked up a boat containing
members9 of the crew of a vessel that had
foundered in the channel on Thursday night
last week, and it was Immediately inferred
that these were the missing members Of
the crew of the I.abarrOuere
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LUETGERT JURY SCANDAL.
Alleged Friend of the Sausage Maker
Under Suspicion.

CHICAGO, Dec. Zone of the four men
selected to act as jurors in the Luetgert
case is under suspicion. Reports have come
to Mr.. Deneen which imply that the man
secured his position in the interests of the
defense and has for years been a friend
of the sausage maker. Tonight Mr.. Deneen
had two of Inspector Schaak's most trusted
men assigned to him and he placed the in
vestigation in their hands. "A report is eX-
pected tomorrow morning and it may re-
suit in the discharge of the juror and sub
sequent proceedings against him.
The day after the four veniremen were
accepted as jurors, an acquaintance of the
states attorney happened to be in the
courtroom and, seeing the man in question
sitting in the jury box, asked if he had been
chosen. HE told me- said Mr.. Deneen
that this man had known Luetgert for
twenty years, and in fact was his friend
My informant stated that the juror had
frequently talked about the case when it
was formerly on trial, and had expressed
the opinion that Luetgert was not guilty.
This opinion was strong, he said, and the
man thought that the prosecution of the
defendant was little short of an outrage
NO additional jurors were secured to-day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
POISONED HER HUSBAND
MRS. BEHRENs TO SPEND THE REST
OF HER LIFE IN PRISON.
Murder Committed for the Purpose of
Securing Life manufactured
Letters and a Thumb Mark.

DAVENPORT, Ia, Dec. 2.-The second
trial of Mrs. Christine Behrens for poison
ing her husband last July has resulted in a
verdict of murder in the first degree. the
jury fixing the penalty at Imprisonment at
hard labor for life. The verdict was re-
turned after the jury had been cut twenty
six hours Henry Bendt, of Rock Island,
ILL.,, Mrs. Behrens's partner in crime, is in
Jail here, and will be tried next week.
Claus Behrens, a Woodworking factory
fireman, after eighteen years of married
life, was deserted Dec 10, 1895, by his wife
Christine, who went to Rock Island. ILL.,,
to live with Henry Bendt Otto Bendt,
son of Henry Bendt, had been counting
Behrens's daughter, and while their love
affairs were in progress an intimacy grew
Up between Bendt and Mrs. Behrens. Beh-
rcns changed his $1,000 insurance policy
after his wife left him from her favor
to their daughters. Occasionally he Wis
tied his wife at Bendt's and pleaded with
her to come back to her home. July z, 1897,
she consented on the condition that he at
once transfer back into her name the in
surance policy. The new policy, dated July
10, was in their hands d couple of days
later. July Is Mrs. Behrens wrote a letter,
filed with endearing terms, to Bendt APP
pointing a meeting on the bridge between
Davenport and Rock Island for Saturday
afternoon. She could not wait, but went to
Bendts home Thursday right. They had
long talk and he hitched ~ and drove part
way home with her. Saturday they met upon
the bridge, spent part of the afternoon to-
gether, Bendt parting company with her
rear her home. That night Claus Behrens
died in horrible agony and an autopsy re-
vealed paris green in his stomach. At the
ccroner's inquest, evidently badly scared,
Bendt gave up Mrs. Behrens's last letter to
him. Both were arrested. A week after
Rehrens's death, lying upon the washstand
by the head of the bed where he died, was
found short lead-pencil note, in German,
saying:
THE work is too hard for me. have
done myself. Paris green"
The police found the note, locked 1t up,
and said nothing Another week passed and
Mrs Behrens, turning wrong side out pair
of her husbands pants which she had
brought to the Jail that she might wash
q longer letter, written in ink, from her
husband, pinned in the inside of one leg or
the trousers. Like the other, its effect was
that her husband committed suicide. PUBIC
opinion pronounced both letters forgeries,
but upon the second letter was a thumb
print that DR.. p. RadenhauSen, teacher
in the Davenport High School, after Ben
rens'S body was disinterred, testified was
ipdentical with the markings on his thumb.
trials has really hung upon this thumb
print, the only mark of genuineness upon
the letters upon which the theory OF suicide
was based. sr
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TRAGEDY ON THE STREET.
Doctor Killed and His Brother Nor
tally Wounded.

NASHVILLE, Ark, Dec. "details of ae
terrible street duel at Horatio, in which one
man was killed outright and another fatally
wounded, reached here to-day. The dead
man is DR.. Smith, a prominent practicing
physician Of that place, and the man fatally
wounded is j. ]. Smith, a prominent bust
ness man of Horatio and a brother of the
dead doctor. The killing was done by w.
w. Millwee, also of Horatio, one of the
wealthiest men in the town and a man
noted for his fearlessness and bravery. The
tragedy was the elimination of a feud of
long standing and owing to the prominence
Of the parties it is believed that the feud
will be continued by some of their numerous
friends and adherents and that more blood
will be shed before the affair is finally set
tied.
Millwee and DR.. Smith met in front of
the Locke Hotel. Both men quickly drew
their weapons and opened fire almost
simultaneously. Several shots were eX-
changed, Smith receiving a wound in the
left arm at Millwee's first fire. He con-
tinue6 the battle, however and only gave
up when he sank to the ground dead, with
bullet through his heart. j. j. Smith
came to his brothers assistance just as the
fatal bullet was fired and drew his own
pistol to fire on Millwee. His weapon snap
ped, however, and Millwee turned his at
tention to the brother and sent bullet into
his head There is much excitement over
the terrible affair.
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Tried to Machete His Family.

MILFORD, Del, Dec. 2.-rSalvage Bilder-
back a charcoal burner, who about a
year ago moved from New Jersey to
Duglestown, a Maryland village near the
Delaware line, attempted to kill his family
last Monday evening. Bilderback returned
to his cabin about 10 o'clock and said to his
wife: Il have just learned to use the kind
of sword that the Cubans use. Now, /
want all of you to stand up" In order to
humor him she and the children arose,
when he tied their hands with a piece OF
cord which he fastened to the rafters. OBJ
tanning Il corn knife which was in an ad-
Joining room, he commenced cutting his
family, inhicting some. dreadful wounds.
Before he could complete his work his son
came back. Bilderback, becoming alarmed,
seized his army musket, ran outdoors and
fed to the woods The son summoned
physician and notified the neighbors. A
posse was quickly organized and search for
the assailant was begun, but as yet Bilder-
back has not been found. The villagers
threaten to lynch him if he is found. The
condition of Mrs. Bilderback and the chill
dren is serious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
RETURN OF THE DAUNTLEss.
Noted Filibustcr Reported to Have
Landed q CnrgO In Cnhn.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 2.-The fill
clustering steamer Dauntless arrived at port
at o'clock this afternoon, after having
successfully landed another expedition in
Cuba. The Dauntless left here Nov. 10 for
Savannah, with the schooner Jennie Thorn
as in tow. The schooner was towed to Sa-
vannah. after which the Dauntless left port
and had not been heard from until her ar
rival here to-day. 1t was reported that the
schooner carried a cargo of arms and am
munition from Thomasport and that the
transfer was made en- route to Savannah.
Senior Sotous, the Spanish vice consul.
stated yesterday that he was satisfied that
such was not the case, and indignant de-
NAL of such an accusation comes from Capt
Young, the master of the schooner, at Sa-
vannah The Dauntless is reported 10 have
landed a large cargo, included in which was
a underground Hotchkiss gun. A large
quantity of quinine was also landed for the
insurgents. The steamer returned with
scarcely any coal left and high out of the
water. She was promptly boarded by an
officer from the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius,
but nothing was found
MADRID, Dec. .2.-Senor De LONE the
Spanish minister at Washington, has cabled
the government denying that the Dauntless
has gone to Cuba.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
ANNA NIGGL.s DEED.
Woman Asphyxiates Two of Her Chill
dren md Tries to Kill Herself.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.-Anna Nigel, a
young married woman, tonight murdered
her two younger children by illuminating
gas and at the same time attempted suicide
by the same means. The murdered children
were Frank, aged two years, and Harvey
aged six months. Mrs. Nigel lived in a
small-two story house at No. 1888 Jackson
street, with her husband, John Nigel, who
is a picture-frame glider. When he re-
turned from his work.. about $3.50 o'clock
last night, he was unable to get into the
house. Forcing an entrance he went up
stairs, and, detecting the odor of gas from
the bath room, forced the door. In the
bath-tub lay the unconscious forms of his
wife and the two children. The latter were
lying on two pillows and the gas in the
room was turned on full head The police
were notified and signs of life were found
in all three. They were hurriedly removed
to st. Agnes's Hospital, but the children
died on the way Mrs. Nigel was alive
when the institution was reached but at
late hour her condition was critical.
There seems to be no reason for the wom-
ans action. She LETT two letters, written IN
German, and these are in the cOroners pos
session. Her married life was apparently
happy, and her husband says that when he
left her this morning she was in the best
of spirits. Her remaining child John, aged
six years, had been sent by her to a neigh
bor'S house to spend the evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
Indiana Notes.

The Central Poultry Association will hold
its annual exhibition at Thorntown, Dec
20 to a.
Capt. W. r. Myers, ex-secretary of state.
has entered a partnership with Sparks l..
Brooks, young lawyer, at Anderson.
Buck" Stanley has just closed a series
of lectures on temperance at Hynsdale,
Morgan county, and succeeded in getting
1872 signers to the pledge.
DR.. A. c. Farr, one of the best known
citizens of Monroe county, was seriously in
jured yesterday by being thrown from a
buggy in a runaway His leg was broken
and he was kicked in the stomach by the
horse.
There have been added to the museum at
Earlham College. six cases of fine shells,
gathered from the Ohio. Mississippi and
other rivers. including the rivers of the New
England States. 1t required two months to
get the shells properly classified
O. f. Kennedy has brought a $1,000 dam
age suit in the Morgan Circuit. Court
against Robert McKown, wealthy farmer,
near Danville, Ind. Mr.. Kennedy says his
health has been permanently impaired by
being struck with q cane in the hands of
Mr.. McKOWn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
A BOGUS CONFESSION.
BIanther Was ia Atlanta When Dur
rant Committed His Murders.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 2.-Joseph E.
Blanther better known as Arthur ID.
Forbes, who was manager and proprietor of
the Southern Purchasing Agency in Allan
ta and who recently committed suicide in
a county Jail in Texas, was in Atlanta on
the day when the murder of Miss Blanche
Lamont and Miss Minnie Williams occurred
in San Francisco. The statement is made
by persons in Atlanta who knew Forbes
well, and who had business dealings with
him. and to support their statements the
books and records which were in Forbes S
office here have been consulted, and it is
shown that between April and April a.
1885, the time of the two murders in San
Francisco, Forbes was here and doing bust
ness with Kelly Bros. 81 Co. and other
firms. If these statements be true, and
there appears no reason to doubt the proofs
submitted, Forbes, alias Blanther, could not
have possibly been the murderer of the two
young girls, and the declaration made in a
written confession admitting that he killed
the young women is false. Mrs. Blanther,
the widow of the suicide, has been eXert1ng
every energy and effort to show that her
husband was the real murderer, and that
Theodore Durrant, now under sentence OF
death for the crime, is an innocent man.
Mrs Blanther, who was deceived by her
husband, is doubtless sincere in what she
says but her whole course of action is
based on the alleged written confession,
which, it is said, found upon the per-
son of Blanther when he committed suicide
in the Texas iail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
The Farm a Training school.



If anyone will take the trouble TO inquire
into the early life of the most prominent
business men of the South he will find with
scarcely 2R exception, that those who have
been the most successful started life with
out fortune, surrounded by the conservative
and healthful influences of the country; la
boring upon the farm in summer and at
tending school in winter; taught i'm early
life how hard 1t is TO make a dollar and
how easy it is to spend it; cultivating habits
Of systematic industry; accepting the labor
of life as one of is duties, to be performed
with prOmptness. vigor and cheerfulness
There are barefoOtcd boys who to-day fol-
low the plOw, clad in coarse garments and
living on the plainest food. who will in
twenty-five years be the leaders in the BUSH
ness world and the presidents OF our great
railways and the directors of the policies
of this government. Such boys are having
their hardships in early life, to be followed
by great achievements and triumphs and
wealth and honor In later life. They ar
going through severe training but time
viii demonstrate its wisdom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
Populists Had Enough of Fusion.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 2.-The Pop
ulist party of Monroe county has taken
strong grounds against fusion. At e. con-
vention here to-day it passed resolutions
unanimously against further action with
any other political party. Popullsts are
strong in this vicinity and in the last cam
paign Endorsed a part of the Democratic
ulists were to go on the county ticket. The
resolution declares that I'VE, the true Pop
ulists have been betrayed, ensnared and
handicapped by the so-called reformed
Democratic party and realize as never be-
fore that the mission of a reformer is to
reform and lead the people to higher and
nobler and grander civilization, and believe
that this condition can never be realized by
fusion with any party whose only ambition
is the lust for the spOils of Office"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
Losses nv Fire.

PROVIDENCE, r. L., Dec. 2.-Fire,
smoke and water did $125,0OO damage to-day
in, the furniture establishment of Flint. q
Co, occupying a four-story building in this
city, Samuel Berg, twenty years old, q tai-
lor, was suffocated, his dead body being
found after the fire was extinguished.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-Fire destroyed the
Home for Aged and Infirm Coored women
almost helpless inmates were nearly suffo-
Gated by smoke before they were rescued by
the police.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Dec. 2.-The
clothing shoe and queensware store of A.
E. Cox burned this morning. Loss, $4,000;
Insurance. $40, 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03

BROWHEAD, Dec. 2-1:55 a. m.-Passed:
Lucania, from New York, for Queenstown
and Liverpool.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 2.-Arrived: Thing
valla, from New York.
QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 2-Sailed: Teu-
tonic, for New York
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2-Sailed: Neider-
land, for Antwerp.
GENOA. Dec. 2.-Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm
II, for New York.
LONDON. Dec. 2.-Arrived: Manitoba,
from New York.
HAMBURG. Dec. ARRIVED: Palatia,
from New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Arrived: Germany,
from Liverpool
LONDON. Dec. 2.-sailed: Massachusetts,
for New York.
CHERBOURG. Dec. 1.-sailed: Trave, for
New York.
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A Good RenubIicnn Record.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SEYMOUR, Ind, Dec. AT a meeting of
the City Council tonight City Treasurer
Thomas j. Clark submitted his monthly re-
port, showing a balance of $1O.4451 in the
treasury. The present Republican city gov
eminent has paid off bonds amounting to
$14.500; has put in brick streets, added large
number of street lights and fire plugs; has
put in stone foot crossings and extension to
the city sewer and paid off every cent of
bonds which We're payable at the option of
the city. The bonded Indebtedness of the
city is $4,000, not one dollar of which can
be paid off before 1901. The city is in
healthy financial condition and the tax levy
has been placed at 80 cents on the 500.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
ADVANCE IN WAGES.
Iron and Steel Workers, QuaPrymen
and Ore Miners Made Happy.

1HUH stHU SteeI WOFkeFs, QuAFfy Hell
and Ore Miners Made Happy.
PITTSBURG, Dec. yesterday was the
day on which the advance made by iron
and steel companies which promised their
men Mckinley wages" went into effect.
All the day hands at Jones & Laughlin's
had their wages advanced 10 per cent
From 1850 to 1900 men are rejoicing Men
employed in other departments expect a
raise also. The Mahoning Iron and Steel
Company, whose works are at New Castle
and Youngstown, also advanced wages 10
per cent yesterday. About l. 900 men shared
in the prosperity. The largest pay in five
Years will be distributed at Moorehead &
Co.'S Sharpsburg mills Saturday. About
$1,000 will be paid out to $50 men. The
puddlers have been working triple turn and
earning $4.28 per day. For the first time in
many years every blast furnace in the
Pittsburg district is in operation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
Three peonle Rutchered.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec Near War
rens, ten miles from Greensboro, last night
John Singley, q wealthy farmer, was called
from his house by u negro named Bill
Scott for the alleged purpose of catching
a horse. Singley was struck on the head
and his throat cut. The negro then went
into the house, where he killed Mrs. Sing
ley, cutting her head almost off, and later
killed Dallas Singley, a ten-year-old son.
Scott then robbed the house of $780, Mr..
Singley is still alive, but cannot live. He
was able to tell the story a posse is
searching for the negro, and if caught he
will be lynched.
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PATRIOTIC Lillian BELL
Defends America from British Detrac-
tors Who LOathe This Country.


have fought bled and died" for home
and country more times than / can count
since have been here. / ought TO come
home with honorable scars and the rank of
field marshal. at least. | never knew how
many objectionable features America pre-
scented 70 Englishmen until / became their
guest and broke bread at their tables /
cannot eat very much at their dinner par
ties-I am too busy thinking how to parry
their attacks on my America. and especial
" my Chicago and my West generally. The
English adore Americans. but they loathe
America. and /. for one. will not accept q
divided allegiance Love me- love my
dog" is my motto. I 80 home from their
dinners as hungry as a wolf. but covered
with Victorian crosses. 1 am puzzled TO
know If they really hate Chicago more than
any other spot on earth, or if they simply
love 10 hear me fight for it. or il their man.
ners need improving. | may myself COM
plain of the horrors of our filthy streets, or
OF the way we tear UP whole blocks at
once (here In London they only mend tea
spoonful of pavement at a time), or of our
beastly winds which tear your soul from
your body. but / hope never TO sink so low
as to permit lot Of foreigners To do II.
For even a Payisian loves his Paris. and
as a New YORKER loves his London, so do l
love my Chicago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
THREE-coRNERED DUEL.
Bloody Fight for Love of a Girl Near
IN ArIxansna Church.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. "a three
cornered duel took place at country
church near Huntsville. Madison county,
last night. Seth Lowe. William Phillips
and John Howard, three farmers, were in
love with the. same girl, Miss Irene Pruitt.
Miss Pruit went to prayer meeting with
Phillips last night and they met the two
other young men. The girl went into the
building while the men walked a short dis
lance away to discuss the situation. How
ard and Lowe jumped on Phillips, who
pulled revolver and shot Howard through
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03
Left an Estate worth s12. 900, 900.

BALTIMORE, Dec. Proof of the regis
tration in a Probate Court in England of
the will of the late William Louis Winans
d resident of Maryland was filed
to-day in the Orphans Court with a copy
of the will. The gross value of the personal
estate is given at G2,522, 0G5 and the net
value at e. .5S7 about $12 900, eco. The en-
tire estate is left to Winanss sons, who
are made executors. An annuity of G5 900
is left to Mrs. Maria Ann, Winanss widow
and an annuity of e10,J90 is given to Louis
William Winans her son. to be used in pro-
viding a suitable residence for his mother
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HANGED in Prison.

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Dec. 3-Guiseppe
Fuda, convicted of the murder of his wife
in East Norwalk Feb II last, was hanged
at the states prison at Wethersfeld at 1922
this morning.
The so-called automatic gallows was used
for the fourth time and very successfully.
Although Euda weakened for a few Sec
onds before the trap was sprung, neces-
stating the attending officers holding him
up, when jerked into the air his neck was
broken and it was less than nine minutes
when the attending physicians pronounced
life extinct