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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

new corporation. which place she has filled
satisfactorily since the organization of the
soCAty six years ago. Since 1891 she has
frtkl time to time bought the shares of diff
felNnt stockholders. and for three or -four
years past has held a controlling interest
About six weeks ago she purchased the in
terest of the last stockholder.
The creamery is similar TO many others
except that it shows the tidiness of the
womans art. Miss PETER understands the
mechanism of the plant to the minutest de-
tail. She begins the days work sometimes
as early as a. m. and attends 20 the wants
of its sixty-hve patrons personally. Last
year she handled over 100000 pounds of milk
and sold over 5000 pounds of butter each
month.
She has taken large number of valuable
premiums for her butter exhibits both al
the county and state fairs In 1891 Miss
Peffer scored 100 points in her butter, ano
secured a fine parlor set offered by the
Dairymens Association In October, 1893
when she assumed charge of the Pewauket
creamery, her butter exhibit at the world
fair at Chicago was awarded diploma and
medal Since then she has taken many
premiums. and only this year the creamery
exhibit at the state fair secured several
valuable awards.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
IMPORTANT ADMISSION.
Mrs. BOtkin Was at the Ferry the Day
Poisoned Candy Was Mailed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.-The trial of
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin is nearing an end. The
defense concluded it's case to-day with the
testimony of the accused woman. Mrs.
BOtkin made specific denials of almost all
the charges brought against her. She con-
tradicted the testimony of almost every wit
ness that has appeared for the prosecution
and her denials, generally, were on the
most important points in the case. She
swore that she did not buy the candy sent
Mrs. Dunning, the handkerchief which
was inclosed for Mrs. Dunnings little girl.
She admitted intimacy with John p. Dun
ming and stated 10 the jury that she had
tried to prevail on him many times to re-
turn to his family. Cross-eXamination
brought out at least one very important fact
against the accused She admitted being at
the ferry depot on the day that the poisoned
candy was mailed at the ferry postoffice.
Three other unimportant witnesses were i'm
troduced by the defense. The court then adj
Journed until Tuesday, when the prosecu-
tion will present testimony in rebuttal.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
OBITUARY..
Sebastian Bach Mills, a WeII-KnOwn
Pianist and Composer.

NEW YORK. Dec. 23.-A cable dispatch
from Wiesbaden, Germany, announces the
death Of Sebastian Bach Mills, a well known
pianist and composer, aged sixty years.
His father was a musician, and he showed
that he had inherited his talent at a very
early age for he appeared as an infant
prodigy and played before Queen Victoria
by special command when only seven years
old. He received his musical education at
the Leipsic Conservatory and came to this
country in 1859. His appearances at con-
certs, as well as his compositions, gained
him national reputation. In the year of
his arrival in the United States he married
Miss Antonio Young of Chicago, whom he
had met at the Leipsic Conservatory, where
she was also a student, and whose brother,
Otto Young, is prominent merchant of that
city. She was a native of Germany, how
ever, and 1t was in accord with her wish
to end her days in the fatherland that Mr..
Mills went to Germany with her last April
and established himself in his profession in
the city Whsre he died.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
MUST APPROPRIATE FIRST.
Park Investigators VIII Employ No
Help Till Then.

Councilman Madden, chairman of the COM
mittee on impeachment and investigation.
returned from trip to Grand Rapids yes
terday. He said he did not propose to em-
ploy the assistance authorized by the Coun-
ell resolution to investigate the park scam
dal until a special appropriation had been
made for the expense. He said he did not
intend to become mixed up with the char
ter in the way the Council did when it Or
dered the appropriation to pay Water Works
Expert Hill.
lit is a general opinion that the investi-
cation of the alleged park scandal will sim
ply be a whitewashing, said one TO whom
Mr.. Madden was talking.
We'll, it won't be whitewashing, he
replied vigorously. wen go to the bottom
of these charges and call in the testimony
of everyone supposed TO know anything
about the matter"
Mr.. Madden said he would call confer
ence of the committee next Tuesday, but he
would take no action until the Council had
acted on the expense feature of the pro-
posed Investigation.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
MARINE ACCIDENT.
One Man Killed and Another Injured
in a Collision Between Steamers.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2s.-One man was in
stantly killed and another seriously if not
fatally injured in a collision which oc-
CURED off Liberty island to-day between the
freight steamer Idaho, of the Wilson line.
and the tramp steamer Flower Gate. The
dead man was William Smith and the in
jured man John Birch Both were firemen
on the Idaho and were asleep at the time
of the accident. The sleeping quarters of
the crew were forward, which accounts for
the injuries to the men, Smith had been
nearly decaptated one of the broken planks
cutting his throat he lay in his bunk.
Birch has his collar bone on the right side
torn out and may not recover.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
New York Evening Post.

new 1OfK EVenlng IOsI
A nonsensical idea is afloat in the news
papers importing that the President is en-
barrassed to find a person suitable to fill
the position of ambassador to Great Britain,
who possesses the intellectual equipment for
the place and a large fortune besides. Prob
ably this notion was conceived by some
candidate who has larger stock of the lat
ter than of the former qualifications. and
whose imposing dinners are his principal
distinction 1t is, perhaps, worth while to
show what a fimsy basis this vulgar idea
rests upon. The truth is that not one of our
ministers to England in recent years has
been man of any considerable means. un-
less, possibly, Mr.. Hay may be so consid-
cred. Going back to the time of Charles
Francis Adams, who are the men who can
be recalled as having shed luster on the
office? The names of Motley. Lowell. Phelps
and Bayard are the ones most readily re-
called, none of whom was rich man. Be-
sides these were Reverdy Johnson Robert
G. Schenck, Edwards Pierrepont, William
Welch and Robert Lincoln, not one of whom
could be accounted rich man. Hence, the
latter-day conception that somebody ought
to be appointed ambassador to Great Brit
ain on account of his dollars. or that some
other man should not be appointed because
OF his lack of dollars, is as baseless as 1t is
groveling and un-American.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
PngiIisfic Ronts.

HARTFORD, Conn. Dec. 23.--Tommy
Ryan, of Syracuse. proved too much for
Dick O'Brien, of Boston. at the Coliseum
tonight. The police interfered in the four
teenth round and saved O'Brien from an
actual knockout, but as far as practical
purposes were concerned he was out.
Roche awarded the fight to Ryan.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23-At the Greenwood
Athletic Club, in Brooklyn. tonight. Billy
ODonnell. of Memphis, and Joe Bernstein.
of New York. fought twenty rounds to a
draw. Each man weighed 122 pounds.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 23.-Tom Broder-
lex, of Yonkers, and Charles McKeever. of
this city, fought a rattling sx-round bout
at the Arena tonight. McKeeVer had the
best of the fight.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
A wOMAN's CREAMERY.
Prosperous Affair Built Up by Miss
PETER, of Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Sentinel


Miss Kate PETER, of Pewaukee, Wis. is
an example of what a woman possessed of
grit and determination can do. She Is the
owner and manager of the Pewaukee
creamery, which she has made a great sue
cess of in the past six years. Though it was
organized a stock company, she by pur-
chase from time to time of other interests
recently became sole owner of the prop
erty.
Miss PETER is tall, dresses we'll is fluent
and earnest cOnversationalst, with a CHEEKY
bit of advice and helping hand for those
who deserve it. A daughter of the late
Peter PETER, a well-known nurseryman
dairyman and farmer, born and raised on
her fathers farm just outside this village,
she early learned to follow in his footsteps,
and gradually assumed charge of the affairs
on the old homestead. During the latter
years of her fathers life the farm, dairy
and nursery were practically under her df-
reCtion
Miss PETER, always willing to learn some
thing new about agricultural subjects, spent
a good deal of her time in study and re-
search. besides attending the meetings Of
the various state societies. When a COOP
erative creamery was suggested for Pc
waukee il found her a ready and enthusiasts
tic supporter Her ability as a manager
was recognized by the stockholders and she
was elected secretary and treasurer Of the
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
HOBSON At FRISCO.
The Champion kisser Given a Public
Reception by the Union League Club.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.-Lieut R. p.
Hobson arrived in this city tonight, and
was driven at once to the Palace Hotel,
where he was given a public reception under
the auspices of the Union League Club. The
great courtyard of the building was crowded
and hundreds of people were unable to gain
admission. After the reception Lieutenant
Hobson was the guest of the Friday might
Club After cotillon and supper the hero
of the Merrimac proceeded to the Univer-
sity Club which will be his home during his
sojourn in this city.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
NINE HURT IN MUNCIE
INDIANA IRON WORKS AND A GRO
Gerry DAMAGED BY EXPLOSIONS.
KOI1OmO All Excitement over Visit of
Jockey Sloan and His Private
Car-COunty OmciaIs Short.
special % the IndIanapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 23.-This evening at
the Indiana iron works five men were badly
burned in an explosion of cinder. The
cinder is the skimmng from the iron in the
puddler furnaces. 1t runs in puddle hole
in the ground cools off and is then wheeled
out of the mill. The men that do this work
are through when the cinder is all wheeled
out, and in their anxiety to hasten the work
threw water on 1t to cool it, Albert Porter,
coiOred, threw water on about 500 pounds of
cjnder and the explosion followed, throwing
the iron in all parts of the mill. The in
jured are:
ALBERT PORTER, face covered with the
stuff and clothes burned off; will die.
ARTHUR STEVENS, burned in the back
and hurt in the face.
WILLIAM ENSLEY, burned in the head
and face and clothing burned off.
FRANK CHAMBERS. burned in the face
and body about the waist and will lose his
eyes
EDWARD HEFFERLINE, struck in the
side of the head and large cash cut.
This afternoon there was a natural gas
explosion at Henry Krulfs grocery, at
which four were burned, but not seriously
The victims were:
HENRY KRULL. ,...,
WILLIAM DRAGOO. iIslhs fgsN
ARCH BREEZE. boy.
ABE MITCHELL boy.
Some gas fitting was being done in the
store by Dragoo, and leak in the pipe was
being searched for when the Breeze boy
dropped lighted paper under the floor,
where gas had accumulated. The floor was
blown out and the ceiling raised Some fire.
works in the store exploded. Damage, $5O0
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 23.-Strong pressure
is being brought by cottage owners of this
city, Goshen and Indianapolis whose prop
erty is on the banks of Lake Wawasee, to
have the new State fish hatchery established
on that, the largest Of the hundreds of lakes
which dot this part of indiana. This week
the intimation came that Fish Commissioner
Sweeney was disposed to select Wawasee,
and the cottagers and their friends have
been working a sort of endless chain on
that Official bushel Of letters having gone
to him in the last three days urging him to
choose Wawasee. The cottage owners have
Joined with the state authorities in prevent
ing the wholesale destruction of fish in
Lake Wawasee, with the result that there
are fewer violations of the fish law than any
where else, and they feel that the lake is
not only the best place for the hatchery, but
they are entitled to consideration for their
vigilance.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
A BALTIMORE SENSATION.
Mayor MaIster offered $25O,OOO Not to
Seek Recollection.

BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 23-Mayor NAL
ster. in speech al the Columbian Club an
nouncing his candidacy for the first four
year mayoralty term under the new city
charter. declared yesterday he had been Of
fered $250.OO0 to withdraw from the contest.
The mayor declined to discuss the affair or
to name the parties who made the offer.
Stephen r. Mason. the mayors chief polit-
ical lieutenant, however, said Mr.. Malster
had been offered 100000 in stock and $50OO0
in cash. He had replied that he would not
sell out the humblest of his followers fer
any sum. Mr.. Mason said he thought the,
mayor should make known the names of the
parties. The public would then know what
influences are fighting Mayor Malster. In
view of the factional fights in both parties,
the leaders of the independent element that
knocked out the German machine are pre-
pairing to play an important part in the first
spring election ever held in Baltimore
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
THIRTY DAYS FOR CONTEMPT.
Boston Editor Punished for Comment
ing ON the GetcheIl Case.

DEDHAM Mass, Dec. 23-Torrey E.
Wardner, editor of the Boston Traveller, was
sentenced to serve thirty days in Dedham
Jail to-day for contempt of court in permit
ting the publication in that paper of COM
ments and editorials on the Getchell case.
which, in the courts opinion, would have in
fluenced the minds of the jury had the paper
containing the matter reached the court
house before the case was submitted for
final consideration. Engineer Getchel, of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad. was charged with mansaughter in
connection with a railroad collision last Au-
gust.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
Movements of steamers.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Arrived: ST. Louis, from
Southampton; II. H. Meier. from Bremen; Europe.
from London. Sailed: Morava. for Hamburg; st.
Paul. for Southampton; Germanic. for Liverpool:
FTiesland, for Antwerp; Werkendam. for Rotter-
dam; Assyran, for Glasgow; Penlnsular for
Lisbon.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. "a. 2:55 a. m.-Arrived:
umbria, from New York. for Liverpool and pro-
ceeded. Passed: Cymric, from New York, for
Liverpool
LIVERPOOL. Dec. 2S-Arrived: Switzerland,
from Philadelphia Sailed: Bowie, for New York
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23.-Arrivod: Neder-
land, from Antwerp Minnesota, from Londone
HALIFAX, Dec. 23-Arrived: Siberian, from
Glasgow, and sailed for Philadelphia.
BOSTON, Dec 2S.-Arrived: Sylvania, from
Liverpool
York.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CLINTON, Ind, Dec 23.-A sensational
story in the Clinton Republican to-day
charges that shortage of $21,6OO exists in
the accounts of A. L. Whitcomb, late part
ner in the firm of A. L. Whitcomb & Co.,
which has been controlled by b. H. Morgan
since Mr. Whitcomb's death in 1887 Mr..
Whitcomb, it is alleged, promised Morgan to
square accounts before his death by leaving
him property in his WILL but when the will
was read it was found that the property all
went to the widow The books were never
examined until recently, and the shortage
was unknown. Mr.. Whitcomb was son OF
an adopted brother of the late Governor
Whitcomb. Mr.. Whitcomb was one of the
merchant princes of VermiIliOn county, con-
Quoting a large business there from 1880 to
1886
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
FOR MISCEGENATION. ,
COIOred Man and White Woman Sent
to the Penitentiary.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Dec. 23.-John W.
Bowling, .coored, and Martha Craven, the
white woman he married, were each SEN
fenced by Judge Boyd, to-day, to eighteen
months in the penitentiary, the minimum
penalty for miscegenation. When Judge
Boyd asked if they had anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced Bowling
arose and said he believed that the girl had
colored blood in her veins, and that in mar
rying her he acted in good faith The girl
said nothing. The couple came here from
Pennsylvania, and were married several
months ago. Judge Boyd in passing SEN
tence, said 1t was the first prosecution of the
kind in Maryland
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec. 23.-Johnson
county 4 per cent. bonds, to the amount of
$65 600, have just been disposed of to Lamp
brecht Bros. & Co., of Cleveland, at a pre-
MUM of 1882. The bond issue is made to
take up outstanding claims held by county
banks. The taxpayers are very bitter in
their denunciation of the extravaganza and
management of affairs, which has made nee
essary the issue About three years ago the
county was out of debt, and there has been
no unusual demand or necessity since then
to justify the Indebtedness. 1t has been made
in the payment OF running expenses. The
Board of Commissioners has been SOlidly
Democratic during this time, and the feeling
is growing that a change politically Is
needed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
Volunteer system Doesn't Answer.
Neu Ynrl. Commercial Advertiser

Decision to discharge $1,000 more volun-
teers, in spite of the urgent need of troops
for foreign service, is confession of the en-
tire breakdown of the volunteer SYSTEM in
peace as well as in war. IL confronts Con-
gress and the country plumply with the
necessity of increase of the regular army.
This will be an easy matter. if Congress will
do its part. American youth are now as
Rager to get into the regular army as they
are to get out of the volunteer forces. Re
cruiting offices report free enlistment under
the present Hull law. and adventurous read
mess on part of recruits for service abroad.
At one important station in the East the
recruiting officer a civil war veteran who
served before Santiago, makes a point of
warning applicants that they may be sent
abroad, and four-hfths of them answer that
is just what they want. Many applicants are
discharged volunteers who say they want
TO enlist where they viii be taken care of -
They vino have been bemOaning the neees-
sity of cOnscripton to police our expanded
limits understand the temper of the Ameri-
can people no better In this than in other
matters.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
FRENCH PRIZE RELEASED.
Blockade Not Effective When the
OIinde Rodriguez Was Captured.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec 2S.-In the
United States District Court here to-day
Judge Brawley handed down a decision dis
charging the Olinde Rodriguez, the French
steamship made prize of war by the
cruiser New Orleans on July II. The ship
belonged to the Transatlantic line and at
one time it seemed as. though international
complications might grow out of her reten-
tiOn and the fight in the United States
courts over her has been long and bitter.
ground that the blockade of San Juan was
not effective on the 5th of July in the sense
nations
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
The Oldest odd Fellow Dead.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Dec. 23-The oldest mem
ber of the first Odd Fellows lodge instituted
in America, Richard Constantine, passed
away a few days ago at Rochester, this
State. Mr.. Constantine was the father of
Mrs. DIR. Lawrence Snider, of this city He
was born in Baltimore, Md, April %, 1878,
and became a member of Washington Lodge,
1. o. O. F.. April Is, 1885, the next day after
attaining his majority. Washington Lodge,
No. J. then known as 1.-The Seven Stars.
was organized at Baltimore April 16, 1919, and
il was the first Odd Fellows lodge in Amer
lea. Mr.. Constantine retained his member
ship through life
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
Row Over Prize Fight Decision.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.-Sammy Max
we'll of San Francisco, was given decision
over Martin Denny, of Australia, at the end
of a twenty-round glove contest before the
Excelsior Club at Woodward's pavilion last
night The decision was greeted with
mingled Kisses and cheers. Denny attacked
Referee Jack Stelsener for giving an ad-
verse decision and for few moments there
was a scene of great excitement The ring
was finally cleared and order restored.
Denny broke his right hand in the second
round and was unable to use it throughout
the remainder of the contest.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

LONDON, Dec. 24.-The Washington gov
ernment, according to dispatch from
Auckland, has instructed the United States
consul at Samoa to act with greater Wig
iance and not to intrust his duties to his
British and German colleagues. 1t appears
the German agent has taken advantage of
munitions of war without their knowledge,
and also to obtain important advantages for
(HarI1an n
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
shot His Baby sister.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Dec. 23.-The six-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs George Keister of
Whitley county, to-day accidentally shot and
killed his two-year-old sister. During the
temporary absence of the mother the little
boy took revolver from the bureau, and
when it was discharged, the bullet struck the
infant in the head followed the spinal col
umn down and lodged in the back. Upon
the return of the mother she was horriried
to find the boy with the dead body of the
little sister in his arms, at the door waiting
for her,
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARTINSVILLE. Ind, Dec. 23-W. l..
Thompson, prominent young married
physician of Mooresville, was acquitted in
the Circuit Court here this evening of the
charge of criminal practice Miss Laura
Brooks, of Monrovia, who died early in
September. The jury was out but eleven
minutes.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The War De-
partment has taken steps to strengthen the
military force in the Sioux Indian country,
South Dakota. This is merely precautionary,
as the officials deem it advisable to be pre-
pared for any possible contingency which
may arise. The First Cavalry. with head
quarters at Fort Riley. Kansas will be
utilized mainly for the purpose and will be
moved from the various stations at which
IL is scattered in the West northwaTd to-
ward Fort Meade. South Dakota, where two
companies are now located.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24
Damnge to the Massnchuretts,

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Navy yard en-
glneers went under the battle ship Massa-
chusetts in dry dock to-day and measured
her damaged plates. Workmen were there
also cutting out rivets Repair work will
proceed night and day next week. Ii is es-
timated It will cost about 10000 to put the
ship IN order and that the work will take six
weeks The board of inquiry. of which Com
modore Pickering Is president, finished its
work to-day and forwarded the report TO the
secretary of the navy. None of the MEM
bers would say anything about the findings
upon which viii depend the decision of the
secretary Of the navy as to whether court
martial will be ordered
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 23.-The evidence in
the trial of Mrs. Lavina Black for murder
was concluded this evening, and three hours
time will be occupied on each side with the
arguments. Bets are being offered at to
tonight that a verdict of acquittal will be
returned before 6 o'clock tomorrow even
ing. Mrs Bailey. widow of the murdered
man, does not expect a conviction, saying
that the defense has made away with some
Of her best witnesses
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-24

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Dec. 23.-The Sixth
Ohio, Colonel McMackin, received orders to-
day to move. The regiment goes from here
TO Charleston. 5. c.. where transport will
be taken for Cienfuegos, Cuba The Sixth
expects to leave Camp Poland tomorrow
night and will spend Christmas on the
Ioad. This regiment is one of the commands
of the First Brigade. First Corps, of which
the Fourth Tennessee is already in Santa
Clara province. The Thirty-firss Michigan
Is still here, but expects orders soon.