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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
MRS. OELRICHS HURT.
Daughter of Senator Fair May Lose
the Sight of an Eye.

NEW YORK, Dec. s.-Mrs. Hermann Oel-
richs is suffering from the result of
strange accident to one of her eyes, which
may cause the loss of sight. Some work
men were engaged in hanging tapestries in
the east parlor of her residence, the old
Paran Stevens mansion, at the northeast
corner of Fifty-seventh street and Fifth
avenue, last Saturday afternoon, and Mrs.
Oerichs was experimenting the details.
One of them was on top of ladder, when
a tack slipped from his hand and fell Mrs.
Oelrichs was standing close by, with her
face turned upward, and the sharp point of
the tack struck her in the eye, lacerating
the cornea and causing intense pain. Mrs.
OelrichS bathed the eye, and, confident that
the injury was of trivial nature, was per-
suaded to attend the silver wedding of the
De Forests that evening. Her eye, how
ever, grew worse, and she had to leave be-
fore the reception was over. DIR. Knapp,
an eye specialist, was Immediately sum-
moned and the family physician was also
called in. 1t was found that she had caught
cold in the eye, and she has been con-
fined to her room ever since. On Monday
the eye grew rapidly worse, and a consult
ing physician was called in The opinion
was expressed by the doctors that the
point of the tack must have been rusty,
for the wound had become liberated and
to-day the wound is no better. Mrs. Oel-
richs is the daughter of the late Senator
James G. Fair, of California, and one of
the heirs to the millions left by him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
EXTRADlTED FROM ENGLAND.
Charles Fisher, an Alleged FOrger, ON
His Way to Cincinnati.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Charles Fisher,
alias J. b. Ford, reached this city to-day
on board the steamer Teutonic from Eng
land. Fisher is in custody of detective
from Cincinnati, to which place he is being
taken to answer to the charge of forgery
by which he is alleged to have obtained
a considerable sum of money from the Gin.
cinnati Coffin Company. He is also accused
of having been one of a gang of letter-box
robbers who have operated in most of the
large cities of the United States
According to the statement given out by
detectives in charge of the case tonight
Ford is a notorious forger whose operations
have extended over the United States.
While under arrest in Cincinnati for at
tempting to swindle the First National
Bank there on Nov 10, 1895, Ford made his
escape. He has served long term in Sing
Sing and while there he made the ac-
qaintance of several letter box thieves
with whom, according to record, he worked
Philadelphia, Washington, st. Louis and
number of other places. He was arrested
in England in 1894 in the Bank of Scotland
where he had gone to secure a check book
on forged order. He was sentenced to
three years. but was pardoned in 1895, as
the authorities thought he was about to die
of consumption. Then he came back to
this country, and is credited by the police
with having been engaged in extensive
swindles in Richmond, st. Paul, Cincinnati
and Baltimore.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
j. M. CLAYTON'S SLAYER.
Murderer Of the Arkansas Politician
Now in the Georgia Prison.

LITTLE ROCK, AlsIas@sBec as~Kmte=est in
the Pitts, Ga- clew to the murderer of Hon.
John M. Clayton. which had about sub
sided here owing to the tone of a recent
communication from Luther Aiken, the
Georgia convict guard, who claims to be in
possession of the name of the murderer,
has revived, and 1t is now probable that
the clew will be investigated. Sheriff j. d.
Clerry, of Bradley county, Arkansas, in
an interview with Governor Jones told him
Of strong corroborative evidence of the
statement that a Georgia convict has con-
fessed to the murder of Clayton at Plum
merville in the autumn of 1885, Sheriff
Cherry says that he has information from
former citizen of Georgia now living in
Bradley county that a Georgia convict
made such a confession to another convict
that the self-confessed murderer of John M.
Clayton is now serving life sentence for
another murder in Georgia. His name is
withheld, but it is stated that it is a former
citizen of Arkansas who fled from the State
the time the murder was committed it was
of a political fight, but according to the
confession politics played no part in the
terrible affair, revenge for an old grudge
being the motive given by the Georgia con-
Wet. The state authorities say they will
leave no stone unturned to bring the muir
derer to justice in this State, but are in a
quanda~y as to how it is to be done should
the murderer be found serving a sentence
for murder in another State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
TO CORNER AMERICAN GOLD.
Alleged Object of a Combination of
Capitalists and Miners.

NEW YORK, Dec. Snow it is a gold
trust. A number of capitalists have formed
a company to control the gold output in
the United States. The company has IS. .0OO-
900 capital, but it is said this will be in
creased to $25,C0O.0OO if necessary. A GER
tificate OF Incorporation of the new COM
pany, which is to be known as the Menlo
Trading Company was filed in the county
clerks Office in Jersey City yesterday.
Charles n. King, Nelson r. Vanderhoff and
Augustus G. Kellogg, residents of Jersey
City. are named as the incorporators. They
admit they simply figure as representatives
Of the men who are back of the concern,
and whose names they decline to make pub
lic The company is to acquire and pur-
chase gold mines and establish factories
for the treatment of ores. Even Mexico.
it is said, is to be invaded by the trust. and
the gold mines in that country are to be
developed. There Is also talk of sending a
great part of the company's capital in pros
pecting in the Klondike region. 1t is learned
to-day that the new company will include
the owners of the principal gold mines in
California, Colorado, Idaho. Montana and
Mexico, and that the aim of these capital
lists is TO combine and practically control
the gold output OF the United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
LYNCHED At JENNY LIND.
Constable Murray Hanged by a Mob of
Arkansas Coal Miners.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Dec S.-The dead
body of James Murray, constable at Jenny
Lind. q oal-mning town in Sebastian CCun-
ty. was found, Monday morning, lying by
the roadside. 1t was at first supposed that
Murray had been the victim of a common
murder, but it has since developed the OIL
Ger was lynched by a mob of coal-miners
Constable Murray left his home at Jenny
Lind Sunday afternoon and went to Roman
"a to arrest q miner named Grant McBroom,
for whom he had a warrant He captured
McBroom without trouble and started with
his prisoner for Jenny Lind about mid
night. That was the last seen of Murray
alive. The constables body was found lying
yards from the shaft of the Bonanza mine.
His hands were tied securely behind his
body and his neck was black and blue,
showing plainly the imprint of a rope which
had choked the life out of the body. Blood
oozed from a dozen bullet wounds in the
officers body and his clothing was torn
into shreds. There was no rope around the
dead mans neck, but the imprints and lac
erations of the cuticle showed Enthusiastically
in what manner the constable had met his
death. The coroner began an investigation
and it has been fully developed that he was
waylaid by q mob of McBrocm's friends,
composed of miners, determined on rescuing
the prisoner and that Murray was lynched,
the body cut down and placed by the road
side. McBroom was arrested to-day Every
effort is now being bent on discovering the
members of the mob.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
PRESENTS FOR FOREIGNERS.
5000 Christmas Money Orders Sent to
Europe Yesterday.

NEW YORK, Dec. SIN the mail bags
which went out on the St Paul to-day were
5000 foreign money orders, amounting to
e24,554 These orders are for Christmas
presents, and most of them go to Norway
and Sweden. This is the first large batch
of foreign money orders that has gone out
this year. The first orders each year go to
Norway and Sweden. About a week later
those intended for German friends are sent,
and after them go the orders to Great
Britain and Ireland. The money order GER
tificates TO France come last, presents being
sent for New Years, according TO the GUS
tom there. The money order business in the
New York postofIice this year is about
double that of the last holiday season.
There were 10000 money orders handled yes
terday as against 10000 on the correspond
ing day last year. OF these II 900 were do
mestic orders. amounting to $501A The
money order department of the New York
postofiice shows generally an average irl-
crease of LOCO orders a day for the past
six months over the corresponding period
last years .-------.- ..-+-- - 80
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
MAY ESCAPE HANGING.
Murderer's Execution Stayed by a
Courts Writ of Error.

PITTSBURG, Dec S.--Phillip Hill ne
gro, was to have been hanged here to-day,
but the execution was indefinitely post
poned on an order from the Supreme Court.
Governor Hastings had been asked to ex-
ercise his clemency, but did not do so.
Hills attorney then applied to the Supreme
Court for writ of error. The develop
ments in the case have caused a sensation
in legal circles. George H. Kane, one of
the young members of the bar, who acted
as Hills counsel, is supported by several
judges of the county courts, well as by
many of the leading attorneys. Mr.. Kane
says: Phillip Hill is legally dead; we shall
ask for a writ of habeas to have his
body turned over to his friends and, If nee
essary, will take the case through the Su-
preme Court of the United States. The
writ of error, as we notified Governor Hast
ings should not have acted as supersedas
or stay of execution under the act of 1897,
and he is regarded by the law, as | see 1t,
as dead" The postponement of the execu-
tion by the writ of error is something un-
heard of in the history of this State before.
1t is almost exactly a parallel case to that
of Theodore Durrant, the San Francisco
murderer, whose execution was prevented
by the same sort of an application, but, ac-
cording to the laws of California, the sher-
if can fix the date for the hanging himself
afterwards.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
DURRANT MUST HANG.
His Case Remanded to Judge Bahers,
Who Will Resentence Him.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. Slate this
afternoon the Supreme Court dispelled the
last hope of w. H. I. Durrant, the muir
derer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Will
liams, by disposing in a summary manner
of his two appeals. In a written opinion
from the pen of Chief Justice Beatty,
which is concurred in by all but one Of his
associates, the court affirms the judgment
of Judge Bahers in remanding the prisoner
to San Quentin until the date set for his
execution, but reverses the sentencing of
Durrant to be hanged on Nov. IL and re-
mands the case to the Superior Court, with
instructions to proceed according to law,
AS the remitter was orze4ed41SsElszz lfaa3HlIks
with and the court holds that execution
can only be stayed now by the issuance of
a certificate of probable cause, it only re-
mains to resentence the condemned murder
er, which will probably be done tomorrow.
Justice Garoutte alone disSented from this
opinion, maintaining that Durrant's appeals
should have been dismissed, as the time
required by law for their perfection had
been allowed to lapse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
FRAUD is ALLEGED.
Miss Sheridan Denounces the Suit
Against the C. IA. LA.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. S-Miss Mary
Sheridan, supreme president of the Catholic
Knights and Ladies of America, says that
the suit brought in Chicago against the or
ganization in which a receiver was ap-
pointed by Judge Dunno yesterday, was
prompted by a desire to get revenge be-
~ause an unwarranted claim was rejected
The constitution OF the order has never
allowed any one To be admitted over fifty
years Of age and this was an attempt, Miss
Sheridan says. to defraud the order by get
ting into it woman who was not less
than sixty and was almost certainly sixty
three. The order was started several years
ago In this city and is in nourishing con-
dition. 1t has paid out $4,000 on death
claims, and has refused to pay up to this
time only two claims, fraudulent claim In
Pennsylvania, which was never sued upon.
and this claim in Chicago. This action will
be vigorously fought by the officers of the
Catholic knights and Ladies of America and
damages will be demanded against the
plaintiffs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
House Democrats VIII Caucus.

WASHINGTON, Dec. S-The Democrats
of the House will caucus soon on party pol
ICY Representative Richardson, the caucus
chairman, said to-day that he was consult
ing with members as to what day would
suit them, and he expected that the meeting
would occur the latter part OF this week
or early next week Considerable differences
of opinion have arisen among the Demo-
cratic members as to the necessity of q eau
have withheld their names from the call on
the ground that a caucus at this time could
do no good and might lead to considerable
difference and division. The promoters of the
caucus secured about fifty signatures, which
is sufficient to require Chairman Ricnardson
to issue a call when a convenient time is
agreed upon. The understanding is that the
purpose of the caucus is to determine upon
a line of policy as to Cuba, Hawaii and
finance, although it would not be surprising
If some question as to the Democratic lead
ership in the House came up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
BICYCLE SKIRT TOO SHORT.
An Abbreviated Costume Said to BE
the Cause of u Divorce Suit.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. s. - The answer of
Charles A. Ballack, of Rochester, Wis, to
a petition for divorce filed in the Circuit
Court here yesterday recites that with the
suspension Of the American Hameless Col
lar Company, in this city, over a year ago,
he was financially ruined and removed to
Rochester. After renting house there he
sent for his wife, VINO decided to remain in
st. Louis with her two boys. Ballack as
serts that an affectionate corresponding
was kept Up and he sent his wife as much
money as he could afford out of his small
income. ION July 21 last" says Ballack,
my wife wrote me a letter showing that
she was very much hurt because had writ
ten her letter criticsing picture she had
sent me, taken in bicycle costume and with
her wheel. l stated that / would have liked
it better had the skirt been three inches
longer, that 1 considered it too short for
married lady, according to my ideas. l re-
piled to her last letter firmly but kindly,
and have never received another letter from
her. Then came the service Of the divorce
papers"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
INDIANS AS LOGGERS.
Experiment Which the Government Is
About to Make.

ASHLAND, Wis, Dec. S.-The govern
ment is about to make the experiment of
making loggers out of its Indian wards on
reservations in northern Minnesota. The
plan which is approved by Land Commis-
sioner Hermann, is that contracts for cut
ting dead and fallen timber on the White
Earth and Winnibigoshish reservations will
be let to the Indians themselves and no 9TH
ers. The Indian must contract for the sale
of the lumber at a certain price per thou
sand delivered on the bank of lake or
stream. Fifteen per cent. of the sale price
will be deducted for the tribe in payment
for stumpage, and the remainder will go to
the contractor In case the Indian has not
sufficient money with which to purchase a
campt outfit, provision is made for advanc-
ing the necessary amount, either by the
government or the purchaser of the logs. 1t
is expected that between i, ,OO0, 900 and 20 OOO.
600 feet will be cut in the Winnibigoshish
reservation during the coming winter, snd
a total of about $1,000 900 feet on that end
the neighboring reservations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.--To-day's state
ment Of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $227, JAG, 496;
gold reserve, $15S, ,191, $50.
The records of the Treasury Department
show that the amount of net gold on hand
to-day was $l5S, ,191, $685. which is greater than
at any time since August, 1880, when it was
$1s5, ,S37, ,5S1.
The ministers and charges of the Latin
American republics were the guests of Will,
liam r. Curtis, at the Arlington, tonight
and met at dinner the directors of the Pan
American exposition, which is to be held on
Cayuga island, near Niagara Falls, in 1899
lied the Franklin National Bank of Frank
lin o., to begin business. Capital stock,
$50 001
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

WASHINGTON, Dec. Sat the semi-an-
nual meeting of the trustees of the Ameri-
can University, held to-day, the Rev. DR..
Charles H. Payne. of New York, secretary
of the board of education, presided. The le-
ports of the chancellor, Bishop John +.
Hurst, and the vice chancellor, Dr. Samuel
L. Beiler, indicate a growing public interest
in the progress of the university, which has
now assets. aggregating, on a conservative
basis, ST 100000 The college of history,
marble building, 176 feet long, 80 feet deep
and SO feet high, will be completed in about
ten days. Among the first articles of furni-,
ture tc be placed in the new structure will
be a table and set of chairs once the prop
erty of Charles Sumner, a wardrobe that be-
longed to George Bancroft and the war desk
of Edwin M. Stanton, all of which have re-
Gently been acquired by the university.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. S--Toru Hoshi Jap
anese minister to the United States, passed
through Omaha this evening en- route to
Washington, accompanied by his private
secretary. In interview Mr.. Hoshi adj
mitted that the object of his mission to
Japan was to ascertain the views of his
government on the proposed annexation OF
Hawaii, and to procure instructions FROM
the Mikado relative to the course he was
expected to pursue in case the treaty shall
be ratified by Congress. 1.-THE impression
has gone out to the American press" said
Mr. Hoshi, that we propose to recall the
protest entered by Japan against the ac-
quiSition of the Sandwich Islands by the
United States government. This is mislead-
ing and untrue. Japan has always main-
tanned amicable relations with the United
States, and 1t is not our purpose now to
take any steps that would lead to breach
Japan will stand firmly on the maintenancd
of it's right and privileges acquired under
treaty with the Hawaiian government. If
the United States decides to annex Hawaii
we hope to be able TO enforce our demands
for indemnity for the violation OF treaty
grants from the island and their exclusion
from the rights acquired uTder our treaty.
Concerning President Mckinley'S message.
especially referring to the relations or
Japan and the United States in connection
with the proposed annexation OF Hawaii,
Mr.. Hoshi declined to express any views be-
yond reiterating what he stated at the OUT
set, that there would be no disposition on
the part of-the Japanese to resist the acqui-
sition of Hawaii by the United States, but
that he hoped to be able through diplomatic
negotiations to bring about peaceful solu-
tiOn of the matters in controversy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
ABUSE TO BE CORRECTED.
Young Women to Be Barred from Mar
rying Old Pensioners

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The House com
mittee on invalid pensions met to-day and
took action that is intended to correct the
alleged rapidly growing abuse of young
women marrying old soldiers and sailors
for the purpose of becoming their widows
and drawing a pension from the govern
ment. This subject has been much dis
cussed in view of the comparatively large
number of widow claimants on account of
the revolutionary, war of 1912, and Mexican
war services of husbands. The committee
authorized Chairman Ray to obtain from the
committee on rules an order or rule per-
mitting an amendment to the pension ap-
propriaticn bill providing that no pension
shall hereafter be granted to the widow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
of the treaty FOst-
poned Until Next week to Give Its
Friends Time 70 Rally.
ANTI-PELAGIC SEALING BILLS
STRINGENT MEASURES INTRODUCED
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
POpuIist Allen in Favor of Congress
Acknowledging the Political In
dependence of Cuba.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.--Opponents -
Hawaii annexation are in high feather.
They claim that they have the proposition
beaten. Senator Davis, chairman of the
Senate committee on foreign relations, an
nounced yesterday that he was going to
bring the treaty up to-day In executive seq
sion. This morning it was given out that
he had revised his intention and would de-
fer action until next week. This is con-
strued by anti-annexatonists to be an ad-
mission of weakness and to signify de-
termination on the part of the annexation-
lists to carry out. their plan through the
agency of legislation, programme rem
dered necessary, so it is claimed, by the dis
covery that it will be absolutely impossible
to obtain two-th!rds vote in approval of
the treaty. 1t is difficult to locate the origin
of this recently developed wave of senti-
ment in Congress against annexation, but
there is no denying the fact of the change
in feeling. A random canvass of members
of the House discloses the fact that large
number of Republicans who had been here
tofore counted as favorable to annexation
have changed front and are either opposed
to the project or put themselves on the
doubtful list A good many of them profess
to see an inconsistency in being against
Cuba, which is right at our door, and for
Hawaii, which is remote from our extreme
western boundary. The Democrats, both in
the Senate and in the House, are lining up
against annexation and will present prac-
tically unanimous front, although a few
among them are active on the other side.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
Favor Changing CiviI-service Law.

WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-A paper was
circulated in the House to-day with a view
to bringing about conference of those
members favoring change in the present
civil-service system. The paper was hans
dled by Representative Pearson, of North
Carolina, and received numerous sigma
make the conference nonpolitical in charac-
ter, and to extend it outside of the men,
bership of the civi-service committee, as
some OF the men most active in urging a
revision of the law are not on this commit
tee. General Grosvenor of Ohio, is among
these. He approved the plan of a confer
ence of those interested in the subject, and
it is likely to be held at an early day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-09
BEWARE OF STREET DEBATES.
Woman Who Was Stabbed in the Eye
Sues for $4,000 Damages.

GALEsBURG. ILL.,. Dec. s.-The trial of
the case OF Lizzie Caine against William
Andrews, one Of Galesburg's oldest attor-
neys. is now In progress in the Circuit
Court and is proving Of much interest Last
year Mr.. Andrews. while arguing politics
on the street, gesticulated with the hand in
which he held open knife. At that mo-
ment Miss C2ine was passing, and the
knife blade sticking her in the eye, de-
stroyed the sight. She asks for $1,000 dam
ages, alleging the accident to have been
due 10 the lawyers careleSsnegS.