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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
Almost n Riot Last Night, in Which
Two Men Were Severely Beaten
While ON Their Way Home.
PROBABLE FATAL SHOOTING
DESPERATE FIGHT BETWEEN
BROTHERS IN GREENE COUNTY.
One with Bullet in His Lung--Im-
parchment Proceedings Against
the Mayor OF Huntington.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, July 23.-Rioting strik-
ers caused scenes Of wild confusion In CO.
lUmbus this evening. Workingmen who had
taken their places in the Mooney tannery
were assaulted and beaten. The streets
were filled with excited people who talked
OF the affair until late tonight The trouble
occurred just after the shops shut down
for the day. Yesterday the men who are
employed in the skiving department of the
tannery announced that they proposed to
return to work. This brought the crisis. All
day the strikers were conspicuous by their
absence from the streets, but about the
time for the factory to close small crowds
of angry men gathered in various places
The workngmen were not assaulted until
they ha0 separated and were several blocks
from the factory. John Gilday was waylaid
in the north part of the city. He had al
most reached his home when two strikers
S. LaWlis and j. LaWhead-jumped from
buggy, in which two others were sitting,
and proceeded to severely beat him. His
head was badly cut and his face was al
most raw from the pounding he received.
He was placed in a carriage and taken to
his home. He is a well-to-do citizen and
member. of the Masonic fraternity. His as
sailants got back into the buggy and were
driven rapidly away. w. E. Turner was
also badly injured. He was near the rail-
road station when the strikers caught him
and beat him over the head and face. A
policeman was pushed aside and told to
leave. He could do nothing against superior
numbers. The rioters also tried to reach
others of the working men, but the alarm
had been given and the rest escaped. A
number of the rioters have been arrested
and others will be in the morning. This is
all in the face of injunction proceedings be-
ing brought up day before yesterday 1t is
a much more serious affair than the partici-
pants realize. The Mooney Company, which
operates the largest tannery in the United
States, will prosecute the cases to the
limit. Much of the sympathy which has
been with the strikers has gone over to
the opposite side and the best citizens are
deploring the lawlessness of this evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24

for Bryan lest fall and who never will vote
that platform or on platform indorsing it.
Politics brings about some curious results
in the way of strange bedfellows and
changes of front, but nothing it does is bet
self-respecting men blush for common hu-
manity than the spectacle of man eating
his words, abjuring his principles, denying
his convictions and appealing from himself
sane and sober to himself drunk with par
tisanship. Every personal friend of Mr..
Kern's knows as we'll as he does himself
that at heart he was and is a sound-money
man; that he voted for Bryan reluctantly
and held his nose when he accepted the
Chicago platform. These are his real SEN
timents to-day as much as ever but in or
der to keep in line with his party and help
conciliate the free-silver faction in a city
election, he denies his conscience as I'M
blushingy and earnestly as Peter denied
his Master, and helps to rush through a
platform demanding 1.-The free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at the historic ratio
of 16 to T. and indorsing that great states
man, William J. Bryan" No wonder it
makes Mr. Pickens tired. No doubt it has
the same effect on John r. Wilson, George
G. Tanner. John p. Frenzel, Sterling r.
Holt John W. Holtzman and scores of
other sound-money Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
INDIANA,s NEW WHEAT.

Frank Power, of near Mlroy is feeling
pretty comfortable over his yield of wheat
this year. He had thirty acres that aver
aged thirty-four bushels and one field of
sixteen acres that averaged 81 rs bushels
per acre.--Greensburg Review.
Nicholas Henizer brought the first new
wheat to the city mills Saturday morning.
1t tested sixty pounds. Clarence johnson
delivered the first new wheat at Bishop s
elevator Monday morning. 1t was OF
first-class quality.-Winchester Journal.
The wheat crop in this neighborhood is
much better than was expected it would be.
The yield is not only larger, but the quail
ity of the grain is exceptionally fine. There
are but few fields that average less imam
twenty bushels per acre, and some as high
as thrty.-Middletown News.
H. c. Brown, who has been receiving new
wheat for several days, pronounces the
quality excellent. On account of the wet
weather not enough has been threshed to
make good estimate On the yield per acre,
but it is away above the expectations or a
few weeks ago.-Rockville Tribune
Local dealers were paying 70 cents for
wheat Tuesday. but Wednesday morning
thesprice jumped Up to " cents. Consider
ingIthe fact that threshing has but scarcely
Begin, no large amount has yet been
brought to the elevators, but 1t is coming
in more rapidly every day.-Noblesville
Ledger.
Wellington, Schalk & Co, grain dealers,
received at their mill Monday 1900 bushels
of Madison county grown wheat and Tues
day they measured into their bins 150O
bushels. This grain was taken in at 70
cents per bushel which is 70 cents more
than was paid at this time a year ago.
Anderson Herald.
We were talking with a gentleman last
evening WHO has been in the country during
harvest. He said that the wheat crop is
fine this season, and that much of the grain
will test sixty-two and sixty-three pounds
to the bushel The oats crop is promising,
and some farmers have excellent prospects
for corn.-Columbia City Commercial.
Mr.. George Gaines, who lives in Marion
township. east of this place, reports the
best yield of wheat reported up to this time.
He had fourteen acres that weighed out
thrty-five bushels and sixteen pounds to
the acre, and the berry weighed slXty-one
pounds to the bushel. Mr.. Gains had fifty
acres that averaged twenty bushels to the
acre.-Shelbyville Republican.
Wheat is turning out much better than
was expected. Lon Sutton who has been
out with his machine since Monday, reports
that he threshed the wheat from two fields
for Mr.. Kestler, south of the city, one a
twelve-acre field. yielded twenty-three
bushels, the other, sixteen acres. turned
out twenty-five bushels to the acre He
also threshed for Mat Tyner, and the yield
was about the same. The wheat all graded
No. 2, and weighed from sixty 10 siXty-one
pounds per buShel-Wabash Plain Dealer.
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MIR. KERN,s OPIUM ARGUMENT.

One OF the strongest passages in Mr..
Kern's speech at the Democratic conven-
ton was that in which he portrayed the
infamy of the Republican party for increas-
ing the duty on opium. The drug as most
people know, is not a necessity of life nor
an article of common use in this country
Children sometimes cry for it in the form
of paregoric or soothing syrup, but that
is because their unwise parents have Great
ed in them morbid taste which would bet
ter be taxed cut of existence than fostered.
The American people do not smoke opium
like the Chinese. nor do they chew it as
they do tobacco No national convention
has ever demanded that it be placed on the
free list, and, 50 far as known, no person,
except those engaged in the business. has
ever protested against the efforts Of the
government to prevent the smuggling of
opium. 1t was not an issue in the last cam
paign and might not have figured in the
city election had not Mr.. Kern made it a
feature of his keynote speech. He said:
Imagine a plainly furnished room in the
home of a laboring man who was induced
by false pretenses to stihe his own convic-
lions and vote for Mckinley. On bed in
with disease and nearly crazed with anxiety
for the future of her little children. who are
already in need of food and clothing. She
must have medicine. She needs an opiate
to take off the wire edge of the awful pain
she suffers. l say God Almighty should
send some thunderbolt red with uncommon
wrath, 10 burn and destroy the man or men
who by their votes in Congress or elsewhere
would add to the price of those medicines
or in any wise make 1t more difficult for
her restoration TO health. This is McKin-
leyism, and such is the statesmanlile meas
ure about to be enacted for the relief of
the people.
The reading of this in cold type will not
produce anything like the impression its
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
PEkILS OF LONG PLATFORMS.

Beng very busy man, it is not probable
that Mayor Taggart had time to read the
long and verbose platform which had been
prepared for him. If he had the time it is
probable ne would have stricken out that
allusion to the taxation of the homes of the
people to their full value and of the prop
erty of corporations and the personal prop
erty of the wealthy at less than their value.
He would have done so because he knows
that during eight years he had as much to
do in making the assessments in Marion
county as any other official. He was coun-
ty auditor and the head of the board of
review. The first assessment under Re-
publican control has not yet been made.
Therefore the present inequalities which the
platform complains of were made by the
Democratic officers under the Taggart
regime. Such censure must be regarded as
unfortunate since it charges unjust dis
elimination against the owners of humble
homes in favor of the wicked corporations
and the rich by Mayor Taggart.
The Journal does not vouch for the
credibility of these charges, but 1t remem-
bers that several years ago Mr.. Taggart
when county auditor, increased the figures
of the appraisement of the property of the
county after it had been passed upon by
the proper authorities and after the COM
mittee of the Commercial Club had pleaded
that the appraisal of the board was 10 per
cent. higher than it should have been.
Doubtless Mayor Taggart will recall the
fact but. lest he should not be able to veri-
fy it by consulting the figures, they are
given. The appraisement of Indianapolis
submitted to the state tax commissioners
by Auditor Taggart was as follows:
Real estate $50 165, 5l5
improvements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 70, 3O0, $40
IolaI .Soi 469 4l9
PERSONAL property observation-disclosures. Z2,96O,9OO
A few weeks later Auditor Taggart sub
mitted to the city controller the following
appraisement of indianapolis property for
city taxation:
improvements NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 25 392, $50
Total ......................... 1865 ,O75, l45
Personal property Observation-Disclosures. q, 006, $50
That is in order that the city levy might
not exceed 70 cents The valuation of the
realty of the city was increased SO, COS, 735,
all but $4,000 of which was laid on lots
representing very largely the homes of the
city. The valuation of personal property
was increased only ST. 044,O60.
Here was the opportunity Mr.. Taggart
had to down those men who refuse to re-
turn their personal property. but he did not
seize it. Instead, he added SO, 900 to the
valuation which the committee of the Com
mercial Club declared to be 10 per cent. too
high. This is what Mr.. Taggart did, and
what he did is condemned by the platform
made for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
PROBABLE MURDER.
Mort Record Shot by His Brother But
Ter During q Quarrel.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BLOOMFIELD, Ind, July 23.-What in all
probability will be a murder occurred this
morning near the little village of Robson,
about fifteen miles from here. Butler
Record shot and probably fatally wounded
his brother, Mort Record. Bad feeling had
existed between the brothers for some time.
This morning about o'clock the two men
were doctoring sick horse at their fathers
barn. A dispute arose as to the method of
treatment and the men engaged in bitter
quarrel Butler picked up d club, but Mort
who was much larger, made him throw 1t
down. Butler then went TO the house and
declared his intention Of leaving the place.
He began packing his clothes, and while
doing so placed his revolver in his pocket
About this time Mort returned to the house
and renewed the quarrel. Picking up a
chair, he started for Butter, when the lat
ter drew his revolver and shot Mort in the
right lung. The wounded man, not then
realizing his condition, Waged desperate
fight. He leaped on his brother and with
d chair beat MIN until the aged father of
the two men came in and separated them
An unconfrmed report has reached here
that Mort died this afternoon. Butler came
here and gave himself up and is now in
Jail. The only witness to the affair was a
sister of the men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
UNIQUE WILL.
Ben Bingham Didn't Like Law Firms
and Used Plain English.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 23-The will of
Ben Bingham, the celebrated photographers
and Odd Fellow, was admitted to probate
to-day. one OF its paragraphs is as follows:
Il believe there is in existence a forged
will that will be presented after my death,
and the probate judge will look out for it,"
The will begins with the following para
graph, which is strongly in contrast to the
ordinary will as prepared by lawyers:
Recognizing as I do that we all must die
and as may shuttle off this mortal coil be-
fore my wife, Anna Bingham, and as we
have never had any children, and my wife
has helped me to make and take care OF
what we have accumulated, make this my
will"
The testator then proceeded to give all
his property, real and personal, to his wife.
The remarkable will then names the testa-
tors wife as eXecutrix without bond, and
in explanation of that direction says: Il
have seen widows and orphans swindled out
or property because they had 10 let others
administer on estates, give straw bond,
steal everything and leave the original
owner to suffer-
The testator touched little upon ancient
history when, continuing, he referred to the
absconding of Public Administrator James
Anderson many years ago. The Anderson
case" the will says reminds me that half
the men who make a win fail to give their
wife the same right that they give TO some
men who they think. are friends but they
prove to be raScRls, and sWindle those
whom they were requested to befriend. L
think more of and put more confidence in
my wife than / do any man. and think her
perfectly competent to attend to her own
business, and If she cannot take care of her
own property she will be the only one to
suffer"
And as / am no lawyer" the will con-
cludes land always was opposed to where
asses and the foresaids and and SOS, this
will be readily recognized as my plain way
of doing business and allowed to stand AS
my last will and testament"
The estate is very valuable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
CHANGE IN SUGAR TRUST.
Standard OIL Magnates Have Pur-
chased the Havemeyer Interests.

NEW YORK. July 2S.-Though not yet
officially announced, there is no doubt in
Wall street that the Standard Oil people.
headed by John d. Rockefeller have OBJ
tanned a controlling interest in the Ameri-
can Sugar Company, and that the Have
meyers will soon be called upon TO give
up it's management and place it in the
hands of secretary John f. Searles. who
will represent the Standard Oil interests.
Searles was the original organizer of the
Sugar Trust with the aid of the Havemeyer
millions. 1t is known that several of the
biggest of the Standard Oil magnateS
bought literally of the Sugar stock. and It
was their purchases more than any other
influence which kept the market up. The
men of the Standard OH Company who have
been buying the stock may probably turn
over the control of the Sugar Trust TO the
company OF which they are members. No
one will admit. however. that there is any
intention on the part of the oil people TO
take immediate active control of the trust.
1t Is said that the Havemeyers are per-
fectly willing TO get out OF the active bust
ness life which the control OF their vast
enterprise necessitates. The Havemeyers
are gradually putting their money into real
estate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
IMPEACHING A MAYOR.
Huntington Council Conducting a
One-Sided Investigation.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HUNTINGTON, Ind, July 23-The City
Council was in session all day Thursday to
hear the impeachment case against the
mayor, who is charged with procuring a
false census in order to secure metropoli-
tan police board. The forenoon session
Thursday was vigorous fight against the
Jurisdiction of the Council, the claim being
made that under the law of 1897 the case
could only be heard in the Circuit Court
The Council overruled the motion to dis
miss and also the demurrer which was filed
The witnesses examined We're the census
enumerators, who swore to the correctness
of the totals sent to the Governor by the
mayor. Great stress was laid on the fail
ure to preserve the original census re-
turns, although the Council refused to rec
ognize the census by resolution before it
was completed and repudiated the expense
in advance. A private census was offered
in evidence and accepted by the Council to
discredit the official census of the mayor.
AT first a large crowd was in attendance
but the frivolous character of the testi-
mony did not hold the people last night.
The Council met again tonight to continue
the investigation.
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utterance by Mr.. Kern did In addition to
his sonorous delivery he threw a pathos
into his voice, a sort of sympathetic trem-
olo, which made it very effective. A Demo-
cratic convention always responds quickly
this case the audience was so stirred that
if the author of the increased tax on opium
had stepped into the hall at that moment
he might not have got out alive. Not every
speaker can use the opium argument as
effectively as Mr.. Kern did in his keynote
speech, but if it is properly handled it
may give the Democratic party the solid
Chinese vote.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24

The resignation Of President Andrews, of
Brown University, seems to have been an
unnecessary assertion of independence on
his part. The board of corporators did not
ask him to recant or change his views on
the silver question; they simply asked that
he refrain from public expressions which
experience had shown were injuring the
patronage and the finances of the univer-
sity 1t is no part of the duty of a college
president to advertise his views on such
question, and when they are opposed to
those of all sound political economists, in
teligent fnancers and wise statesmen, and
distasteful to the managers of the institu-
ton over which he presides. he ought, to
be willing to refrain from expressing them.
President Andrews probably understands
his own business. but all sensible people
that is, everybody except the Bryanites
will say he has done a very foolish thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
GAS AND OIL.
Attitude of Supervisor Leach Toward
ViOIatOrs of the Law.

Special to the Indianapo Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, July estate Natural
Gas Inspector ]. c. Leach returned to-day
from an extended tour of the natural gas
and oil field. Concerning the Alexandria
oil field he said The first well was COM
pleted on April %; since that
time, three months. there have
been twenty-nine wells drilled OF
these, nine are oil wells, twenty are gas
wells, and have been properly packed and
tubed. The field, so far, has proven very
uncertain. While the oil pool seems to be
very narrow and extend from northeast to
southwest through Alexandria, many fail
ures have been found in this territory This
doubtless accounts in part for the lack of
excitement and the few operators in the
field. Everything is very quiet, there being
but seven rigs running now"
Mr. Leach said that the report sent out
from Hartford City charging him with say
ing that he expected to give oil operators
in the gas field a rest, was absolutely false
if 1t meant that he was going to cease pros
ecuting ViOlatOrS of the natural gas law
Twelve suits have been filed under the pen
atty statute, and this will continue in all
cases where the well is permitted TO stand
open longer than the time allowed by law,
whether it be a gas or an oil we'll In the
Montpelier field comparatively little gas is
wasted. OF course the opportunity to waste
gas is small compared with the Alexandria
field, but a majority of the operators are
anxious to save their gas. as the supply is
very limited in that part of the field But
few wells are being drilled, owing to the
low price of oil
Concerning the Petersburg gas field Mr.
Leach said: II visited Petersburg last week
1 understood that two new wells would be
completed by that time. l was disappointed
in finding that they lacked much of being
finished. The first and only well that has
been drilled is certainly a productive well
at present. How long il will remain so
cannot say. Those who drilled the well do
not know in what formation they found
gas When that is known we will be better
prepared to judge of the permanency of the
supply. The record of the formation passed
through sent out from the first well is not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
Growing in Wealth.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, July 23.-County Assessor
Stewart has the totals of the result of the
recent canvass of the assessors almost
completed and the figures make some re-
markable showings. Especially is this the
case for the town of Albany, which had
but few hundred residents two years ago.
in THE town is $511 900, a gain of over $780,
000 OF this amount $4,000 is on improve
ments The town of Eaton shows a gain
of $26, 900, and Center township, outside the
city of Muncie, has an increase of $4,000
in valuations. and the city when completed
will give this a big boost. one building,
the Johnson block, valued at over 100000,
has been added, together with many other
buildings, regardless of the general de-
preston, and Delaware county will be on
the good side of the table for the State
by big odds. There is falling eff in but
two toxUpchinS
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The farmer is feeling better this summer
than he has for many years and he is be
ginning to let loose of his money, II he has
any left from the long years of shortage
and low prices. Many mortgages will be
lifted by this years crop and many old
scores settled. In this section of the State
the effect is already felt.
The foregoing is not taken from a Repub-
lican paper, but from regular correspond
ence of the Chicago Record, and is writ
ten from Anderson, Ind. Whatever politics
the Record has is always anti-Republican,
but as a newspaper it gives the public
what its correspondents discover in regard
to business. The organs of calamity should
not fail to denounce the Record as they
did last October when the postal-card vote
of that paper showed that the popular tide
was setting strongly against the silver mine
owners party.
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a st Louis physician in charge of a san
itarium has noted a new disease which he
calls "hard-times hysteria" He says that
within a few months past he has had no
less than fifteen cases. Il find" he says.
''that every one of them has become broken
in health by business worry, and their
symptoms are nearly all alike. They laugh
or cry without provocation and cannot
sleep The terrible strain that business
men have undergone the past year or so
probably accounts for the disease Men are
the victims and absolute rest the only rem
edy." Perhaps the disease is well named,
but It might have been called Wilson
German hysteria." 1t will disappear I'M
der the Dingley treatment.