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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
TRUCE TILL TUESDAY
KENTUCKY LEGISLATORS HAVE
AGREED TO REST A FEW DAYS.
But One Vote VIII He Cast for Each
MOnday-Blackburn' scheme.

FRANKFORT. Ky, April 16.-A truce in
the senatorial battle has been declared till
next Tuesday. The respective steering COM
mittees this afternoon signed agreements
that on tomorrow and Monday one vote
should be cast for each of the candidates.
Nearly half of the members have gone
home or elsewhere to stay till Tuesday
morning. and most of the remaining half
will go to Louisville on special train to-
morrow afternoon to attend the address of
William Jennings Bryan at the Auditorium.
1t is generally agreed that the Blackburn
people are hoping for the indictment of
Hunter, the idea that If indicted he cam
not withdraw under cloud, and the cloud
could not be lifted till the trial of the in
dictments which would last the summer
out The grand jury, which has kept three
deputy sheriffs busy looking for and sum-
moning witnesses for two weeks, Is not yet
through, and adjourned again tonight
without making report. The court adj
journs early tomorrow afternoon for the
week and ii is said that Judge Cantrill has
notified the jury that report must be
forthcoming before this adjournment.
Three ballots for senator were taken to-
cay all resulting as follows: Hunter, 5S;
Blackburn. AZ; Martin, Il; Boyle, 8; Stone,
/. Necessary TO a choice, 90.
Hon. Samuel Taylor. representing Chair
man Hanna. of the national Republican
committee. sent a long telegram to Senator
Hanna last night In IL he Is reported to
have told Mr.. Hanna that the senatorial
situation had reached stage where three
fourths of the Republican members wanted
DR.. Hunter TO withdraw, and in which he
further asked Mr.. Hanna what to do. MIR.
Taylor refused TO discuss the contents OF
his dispatch. and the truth or the reported
communication TO Mr.. Hanna cannot be
confirmed.
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Noble streets. and that the conductor re-
fused to accept the legal fare and elected
him from the car. using force.
A number of attorneys have suits which
will be brought In the magistrates courts
or in the Superior Court this morning. One
is that of John Winchester. of No. 10 Maple
street Winchester refused TO pay more
than cents. and the motorman and con-
ductor assaulted him and threw him on the
car. Affidavits for the arrest OF the motor
man and conductor have already been
made. Other suits for the 500 penalty will
be filed for Augustus l.. PaXson, OF No.
3)5 Ash street; Oran Perry. of No. BOZ
HandeS street. and William Bursch. of No.
342 YandeS street.
Four employees of the street-railroad COM
pany were arrested last night on grand
jury warrants charging them with the Of
Tense OF collecting more than cents fare.
They were W. +. Powell, a conductor of
the College-avenue line; Joseph Henchman.
an inspector; Hiram Robbins. an East
Washington street conductor. and James
Collins. an inspector. The arrest of the
first two named grew out of the collection
of cents fare from w. II. Nickerson
Thursday afternoon. The arrest of Collins
and Robbins grew out of the collection of
cents fare from Hector Fuller and w. X.
Williams.
Collins was the first of the four arrested.
He was found at his work by deputy
sheriff and was released at the jail on
$500 bond. Shortly afterward another deputy
came in with Powell There was nobody
there to go on his bond and he waited for
half an hour. Then two inspectors APP
peared. Grant Palmer was one of them
and he at once signed a bond for the re-
lease of Powell The other inspector was
Henchman. The three men. were about TO
leave the Jail when Henchman was in,
formed that warrant was out for him and
that he might as we'll save time and trou-
BILE by giving bond then. This he did. Be-
fore the men had left the jail Sheriff
Shufelton came in with Hiram Robbins.
Robbins already under arrest for as
sault and battery growing out OF the same
case and will be tried in Police Court this
afternoon.
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refusing to pay more than cents All
passengers who demanded TO ride Tor thai
amount were to have their way ana We're
to be permitted TO ride. At the same tlfne
the conductors were instructed TO take tie
names of passengers. Mr.. Mason said that
there is a city ordinance which makes pas
sengers who refuse TO pay the LAWFUL
fare subject to fine OF $50. Their names
IL was announced. were 10 be taken 50
that the company might proceed against
the citizens. Even the conductors gave Ill
tie heed to this ridiculous order
Shorn of its innuendo this threat OF Mr..
Mason amounts to nothing. The ordinance
to which he refers-Section 2059 OF the re-
vision of lS95-makes IL unlawful for any
passenger Ito refuse to pay the lawful fare
prescribed by the rules of such company.
etc. The next section says that the fare
shall not exceed cents. The lawful
fare to-day is not the fare prescribed
by the rules of such company, but the fare
prescribed in the statutes of the State OF
Indiana. 1t is a generally accepted rule of
law that where laws conflict the latter re-
peals the former so that the state law.
in itself superior 10 any city ordinance,
repeals the ordinance which was approved
in February, 1870, more than tWenty-seNen
years ago. 1t was quite freely asserted
Yesterday that Mr.. Mason made this threat
as a pure bluff and that he we'll knew
ii would never be carried out. Many re-
garded il as but another effort on the part
of the company TO intimidate passengers
and keep them from exercising their lawful
right TO ride for cents.
The efforts of the conductors TO secure
the names of passengers were generally re-
garded as impertinent and the question
when put was generally ignored with a de-
riSiVe smile.
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HARTMAN MUST HANG.
Found GuiIty of Killing Mrs. Geddes,
and Suspected of other Crimes.

PAXTON, Ill. April 1.-THE jury I'm the
trial of Frederick Hartman. who murdered
Mrs. Weibke Geddes near Sibley, found
Hartman guilty to-day and stipulated the
death penalty Hartman was perfectly
composed and Indifferent. The jury delib-
Grated a few minutes only.
On the I'd of last December Mrs. Geddes
the wife of a farm laborer. was found muir
dered at her home. Her body was sus-
pended by the neck from a door knob and
was terribly bruised. she evidently having
been killed bv strangulatiOn and blows with
a potato fork. Hartman Is believed TO have
killed "A number of women in Illinois, In
diana and Michigan. all of whom were
murdered i'm much the same manner as Mrs
Geddes. One victim found near Mel
win, Ill, and another at Danforth III.
Hartman Is farm hand forty years old,
and formerly lived in Michigan. He lived
for some years i'm Bloomington, Ill. AL
though long suspected none of the other
murders could be fastened upon him.
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GENERAL HARRrsoN's ARGUMENT.
The Ex-President Begins His Address
TO the Court.

General Harrison said: May * please
YOUR Honor. a witty and versatile editor
who once had his home in Indianapolis re-
moved TO a not distant city and was very
much embarrassed i'm his work by a rule
which he found the managing editor OF the
paper To which he had come had estab-
lished The rule was that the editorials In
that paper must consist" j suppose this
rule cannot be enforced by the courts az
il was by the managing editor. and yet I
think have never in my practice observed
such diversity and inconsistency in the posi-
tions assumed by counsel supporting a
contention as we have in this case. IL is
contended on the one hand that the re-
striction in our Constitution upon the crea-
ton of corporations has no application
whatever TO corporations that are formed
under general laws; that TO such cor
porations there is no constitutional restric-
ton whatever. We have again the PROPOSE
ton that this restriction does apply. but
that the legislation which Is called in ques-
ton here is not special legislation; that II
* general legislation by the use of legiti-
mate classification. IL Is contenoea mat
the work OF creation, having been accom-
plished the power ceases, that IL the con-
stitutional restriction applies and corpora
tions are created by these general statutes.
that the work OF creatiOn-the Constitution.
the bringing into being OF a corporation
exhausted the constitutional restriction en-
tirely and thereafter the Legislature Is at
liberty TO deal with the whole matter upon
principle, upon favorttism, or as IL may
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
The questions presented here are consti-
tutional questions Such questions are al
ways great questions. but they are not al
ways difficult questions. They are great
questions because they relate 10 fnnda-
mental law; law that Is not susceptible OF
easy and ready change: character OF Law
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MIR. KERN CONTINUES.
His Argument supplemented ny Fur-
fher Citation of Authorities.

When the court opened yesterday morn
ing Mr.. Kern. for the city. continued his
argument giving some attention to the no.
ton for an immediate restraining order
supported by the affidavit of Mr. Miller.
He remarked, with some sarcasm, that IL
was surely strange thing that the people
of indianapolis should be endeavoring TO
carry out the law. He then addressed him.
self TO the line OF argument he had fol-
lowed the day before, and cited number
of authorities in support Of his contention
that IL was competent for the Legislature
TO regulate a corporation by special enact
ment. quoting decisions from the United
States Supreme Court and other federal
courts.
Addressing himself TO the question Of the
reasonableness of the Scent fare, Mr.. Kern
called attention to the fact that a reasons
BILE fare in A town CT 1900 Inhabitants might
be an entirely unreasonable fare I'm city
of 200 600. He declared that IN 1864. when
the general street-railway law authorizing
3 cents was enacted. steam railroad fares
and an prices of commodities were double
what they are now. 1t was monstrous To
suppose that the Legislature OF that time
could fix rates and then, tie the hands or
it's successors for all time 10 come
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
snowdrift from Chicago.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, April 16.-The crew of
train No. 3, Peoria division of the Big -Four.
in charge of Engineer Sharp and Con-
ductor L. f. Jarvis, with thirty passengers
saw what is supposed TO be the air ship
northwest of st. Joseph, ILL.,, being in sight
about ten minutes and travelling at the rate
of about 120 miles per hour
SCORERS assert that what the passengers
saw was merely cloud driven with great
force across the sky, but Conductor Jarvis
who reported the above TO the telegraph
operator here, says it was too compact and
moving with too great velocity to be either
common cloud or a Kansas twister. Some
or the passengers suggested that ii might
be Chicago snow drift (snow fell in the
windy city to-day that had been picked
up by the wind and was being hurled about
in the heavens, undergoing soldificaton
preparatory to being dropped to the earth
as spring hailstone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
MORE AIR SHIP FAKES
NAVIGATORS OF THE AEROPLANE
THOUGHT TO BE POPULIsTS.
Its Occupants Are Said to Wear Pef-
fer-LiI>e Whiskers-What Passen-
gers ON Big Four Train Saw.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, April 16.-Board of Trade
bulls" scout the idea of local scientist
that they are responsible for either the
movements of the mysterious air ship or
the winter-like weather that threatens to
make short crops this year. While admit
ting that snow and rain, and consequent
chilliness, might be produced by artificial
means, such as explosions among the
clouds. they assert that they are too good
citizens TO engage in such a conspiracy
against the pubic welfare. Meantime re-
ports, "all well authenticated" according
TO the writer's OF the fakes" continue to
pour i'm from nearby States. A corre-
spondent at Belle Plain. Ia, says:
The citizens of Linn Grove declare there
is no longer any doubt among them of the
existence of an air ship. This morning a
large object was seen slowly moving in the
heavens in a northery direction, and
seemed TO be making preparations to alight
James Evans, liveryman f. G.. Ellis, har-
ness dealer; Ben Buland stock dealer; David
evans and joe CrOskey jumped into a rig
ana started in pursuit. They found the air
ship had alighted four miles north of town
and when within seven hundred yards it
spread It's four enormous wings and flew off
towards the north. Its occupants threw
out two large powders of unknown compo-
sition, which We're taken into the village
and are now on exhibition. There were two
queer-looking persons on board, who made
desperate efforts to conceal themselves
Evans and Croskey say they had the long
est WhiSkerS they ever saw i'm their lives
Nearly every citizen in Linn Grove saw the
air ship as 1T sailed over town, and excite
ment is intense"
According TO correspondent at Mount
vernon ILL.,, the air ship was seen there by
ore hundred people. Mayor Wells, who had
an excellent view of the mysterious visitor
from the observatory attached to his resi-
dence, says il resembled the body OF a
huge man swimming through the air with
an electric light at his back.
Similar reports have been received from
numerous towns, the reports merely vary
ing with the imagination of the CORE
spondent.
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SPENT TOO MUCH MONEY.
Mayer Goods Campaign Expenses, Il
Is Snid, Exceeded the Limit.

SPRINGFIELD, o., April 16-E. f. Cal
houn district organizer of the Topographic
cal Union and a member of the Trades
and Labor Assembly. stated to-day that the
assembly had retained lawyers TO take
steps to prosecute Mayor John NJ. Good for
alleged violation of the new Garfield CORRUPT
practices law limiting the amount a can
didate for any Office can expend to secure
his election. In Mr.. Goods case the limit
was about $3.50. His bill of expenses showed
an expenditure of but A5. The assembly
claims that Goods real expenses were
about S4.000. The case will attract great at
tention as IL will be the first test case under
this remarkable new law.
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Texans Fear Lobbyists.

AUSTIN, Tex, April 16.-Friends of Hon.
A. f. Ripley, of New York, general man
ager of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
Railroad who is in the city on visit,
tried to-day to get the privileges and cour-
tesies of the House extended TO him and his
party by means of a resolution After the
resolution had been debated and wrangled
over for two hours, 1t was withdrawn, the
members objected to extending the liber-
ties of the House to Ripley and his party
on the ground that they were railroad lob
byists and might try TO influence members
on the fellow-servant bill, now pending in
the House.
The House to-day took up and rushed
through the Senate bill taxing sleeping and
dining car companies 10 cents per mile of
travel. and life insurance companies 2 per
cent. tax on the gross premium receipts
and fire and fidelity companies L per cent.
annually. The bill only needs the signature
of the Governor to become a law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
LOCOMOTIVE EXPL0DES,
And Scalds and Mangles Three En-
pIoyes of the Big Four Road.

SPRINGFIELD. o.. April 16.-The engine
of north-bound freight train No. 50 on the
Big -Four exploded this evening at Osborn.
Engineer John Hutchins. of lvorydaie. was
badly burned on the leg. Fireman Fagin,
of Columbus, was sealded from head to
foot and will die. Brakeman Dailie. of
Middletown, was blown fifty feet against a
stump and his head fractured. His ia iuries
are fatal. The explosion was caused by
seams on the fire box giving way. The en-
gine, at the time of the explosion. was
standing on the Sidetrack. The injured men
were placed in a hospital at Dayton.
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To Tax street-Car Earnings.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, April 16.-The Hum
phrey bill. extending street-railway fran
chises fifty years and providing tax on
the gross earnings on street-car lines, was
passed to-day by the State Senate-29 to IL.
The bill has yet to pass the House and Is
being bitterly opposed, particularly in Chi
cayo by the municipal reform organizations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
They Saw "a "Strange Body,
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, April 16.-More than
score OF citizens of unquestioned verac-
ity saw some strange body passing over
the city early this evening. which they
think was the mysterious air ship. 1t was
al a great altitude and moved rapidly i'm n
southeasterly direction straight over the
city. Such men as Col. NJ. Z. Ghee, ex-
Mayor Ewing. Edward Watson Thomas
Eastman, Judge De Wolf, Scott Emison
Will Mason and others saw the strange
aerial visitor in its nocturnal migration.
Heretofore they have doubted the story of
the air ship, but ali now admit that seeing
is believing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
Albany Gets sight of the ship.

SpeciaI 20 the Indianapolis Journal
ALBANY, Ind. April 16-The air ship
that has been fitting across the heavens for
the past four weeks was seen here early
last evening by several citizens whose YER
acity is above suspicion. 1t was between Z
and o'clock when the object was seen
moving across the western sky going south
The shape of the object could not be plainly
distinguished Mrs. Smith Clark. j. S Nc
Irwin. cashier of the Albany State Bank
and William Yocum were some of those
who saw the object.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17

CHARLESTON. :. G.. April 16.-Dispen-
sary constables to-day seized ninety-eight
cases of liquors consigned to John G. ST.
monds. one OF the leading men of the city
The liquor came from San Francisco
house and was marked for personal Use
\ drummer of the house was recently in
Charleston and a number of the leading
people of the city dubbed together and
made this purchase.
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The Popular
MoNoN ROUTE
l. I'm. sss to ohe.tCHICAGO dn.ss ;o HOURS
FOUR DAILY TRAINS

Leave Indianapolis-7:0o a. m. u:5o a. m, s:35
3. m. 1855 night.
Trains Arrive Indianapols-3:3o a. m, 7:45 a.
m, 2:25 d m. 4:39 =.
Local sleeper IN indianapolis ready at $50 D.
m. Leaves Chi icago. returning, at 2:45 a. IN. Can
be taken time after $3.50 p. m
Ticket offices. West Washington street. Union
Station aad Observation-Disclosures Depot.
GEO. w. HAYLER ID. p A.
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$500 Reward for Robbery.

ELDORADO. Kan. April 16.-Cracksmen
blew open a safe at Latham last night and
secured a large amount OF money. re-
ward OF 500 has been offered for the cap
ture OF the robbers and the recovery of the
money. Iae exact amount secured is not
given
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17

Deformity Apparatus. Trusses. Elastic Hos
tery. Largest stock OF Artificial Eyes in the
State. Invalid Chairs of all kinds and acces-
sortes for the sick room Trusses made and
properly adjusted. Store open every Saturday
night.
VIM. III. ARMSTRONG a. CO.
" South Illinois street INDIANAPOLIS Ind
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Mail and telephone orders promptly filed.
Money refunded. II goods are not as represented
Street-cars stop in front OF MONARCH.
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Easter Egg CO1Oring Free

A package containing s colors, given
free with every purchase amounting to
5Oc (sugar excepted all day Saturday.
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Tel. 1853. 81 Il. WASH. ST.
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Fair and warmer.
Easter Suits

The largest and best selection in the State
to investigate. Examine and see what the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-17
Everything Nice for Easter,

Fresh Strawberries, Fresh Vegetables
than usual
The herald., 1897-09-10

passenger agent Of the Southern Pacific
Railway company. He met them at Og-
den and has been with them on all their
travels since. He will make the trip
through to New Orleans, his duties be-
ing to make arrangements for the proper
transportation of their special train over
the various divisions Of the road.
THE ITINERARY
AS 1t was known that the party had
already prepared a program of what
they desired to see when they visited
each of the points and how much time
they would devote to each, the chamber
of commerce found it impossible to pre-
pare in advance for their reception and
entertainment. Secretary Virgins has
been in communication with Congress
man Dovener on the subject and at his
suggestion the matter was deferred unr-
til the party arrived. so that their
wishes might be known. A brief consul
tation was held last night Immediately
after their arrival, and it was decided
that as the party will have only half of
tomorrow to spend in Los Angeles, to
take the visitors over the city in car
riages. 1t was therefore decided that all
members of the reception committee
meet at the chamber of commerce
promptly at 9 o'clock this morning.
The start from the Van Nuys will be
The herald., 1897-09-10

haps the best known attorney in that
state), Mrs. c. C. Farrar of Washington,
D. c., Sheriff H. c. Richard of Wheel
ing, County Commissioner Joseph SpideI,
the largest wholesale grocer in West Vir-
ginia; Otto Tyson and r. P. Glass of
Wheeling, T. c. Moffat, clerk of the
board of county commissioners, and
Mrs. Moffat of Wheeling; State Senator
o. 5. Marshal of West Virginia, Hon. T.
M Garvin and Mrs Garvin of Wheeling
(Mr. Garvin introduced in the West Vir-
ginia legislature the bill appropriating
the money for the purchase of the pres
ent to the United States steamer Wheel
ing), Mrs. Garvin of Wheeling, B. F.
Russell, sergeant-at-arms of the ma
tional house of representatives. and edi-
tor and publisher of the Crawford, Mo,
Mirror, and Mrs. Russell of Crawford
Mo-; j. T. Keon, millionaire oil pro-
ducer of Warrington, W. Va; F. F. Far
ris, prominent architect of Wheeling;
Charles H. Copp, James P. Maxwell,
Peter Bochman, Charles Ebeling. John
c. Rhildaffer and H. c. McGregor, all
prominent business men of Wheeling:
A. s. Hare Miss Martha Hare and Mrs.
J. B. johnson of Wheeling; Mr.. Porter,
wealthy fire brick manufacturer, and
Mrs. Porter of New Cumberland, w.
Va; Mrs. c. p Boughner and Miss Laura
Boughner Of Clarksville, w. Va; Miss
Florence NJ Campbell of New Cumber-
land, w. Va; P. r. Callahan of the
Wheeling News; w. A. Beans of the
Wheeling Register; Allan Smith Of the
Wheeling Evening News and Fred w.
Colman Of the Wheeling Stats Zeitung.
The party Is accompanied by C. A..
tThurston Of San Francisco, travelling