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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-10
JERSEYMAN MISSING.
w. p. Douglass Supposed to Have
Drowned Himself I'm the Hudson.

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 9.-William P Doug
lass, ex-police justice and Incorporation
counsel of Jersey City and one of the best
known men in New Jersey, is supposed to
have jumped into the river during Saturday
night from the steamer Dean Richmond
somewhere between New York and this city.
Mr.. Douglass went aboard the Dean Rich
mond when she lay at ner pier in New York
city and. it is said. carried two satchels
He paid for his stateroom and retired, COM
ing out only once during the night. He &C.
cupied Room V on the main deck, and his
window was flush with the outer guard rail
of that deck. 1t would have been possible
for him TO have perched himself on the win
dow ledge and jump overheard. When the
boat reached this city this morning Mr.
Douglass did not appear and porter was
sent to call him He knocked on the door
and received no answer. Then he opened
the door and found the bed had not been
occupied. The window was open and the
key of the room was in the door. All the
clothing was in the room and a hat was
hung on the chair
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END OLE CAME wIKoFF.
Seventh Infantry Ordered to the De-
partment Of the Lakes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. - The following
self-explanatory telegraphic orders were is
sued by the War Department to-day to the
commanding general at Camp Wikoff, Mon
tauk Point, Long island:
by direction OF the secretary Of war the
Seventh United States Infantry is relieved
from duty at Camp Wikoff, and will pro-
coed to the Department Of the Lakes, taxi
ing station headquarters at Fort Wayne,
and as many companies as can be comfort
ably sheltered at Forts Wayne and Brady,
Michigan, and the remaining companies to
be assigned to stations by the commanding
general, Department of the Lakes to whom
the regimental commander will report by
telegraph prior to departure. The regula-
ton amount of officers baggage and COM
pany and reeimental baggage left at sta
tons of the regiment prior to the war Will
be furnished to the new stations Arrange
by communication with the commanding
general of the Department of the Lakes re-
garding details of movement The quarter
masters department will furnish necessary
transportation, the subsistence department
suitable travel ratons and the medical de-
partment proper provisions for medical sup
plies and attendants. Commanding officer to
report departure and arrival 10 the adJu-
tant general of the army.
With the carrying into effect of this order
Camp Wikof, to all intents and purposes,
will have passed into history as military
encampment. The departure OF the Seventh
Regiment Will leave at Camp Wikon only
a small detachment of engineers, under COM
mand of Colonel Young.
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RESULT OF JEALOUSY
SOLDIER SHOOTS ANOTHER AT LEX
INGToN FOR LOVE OF A WOMAN,
And a Third Is Fatally Wounded
While Trying to Arrest the MUIR
dcrer-Other shooting Arrays.

LEXINGTON. KY, Oct "a womans
love and a mans insane jealousy caused
murder in the Seventh Immune Regiment
at $50 o'clock this morning and another
man who acted as peacemaker is at deaths
door with a pistol ball in his abdomen.
Shortly after O'Clock Corporal Edwards
and Color Sergeant Greene, both Of Com
pany A. met in the company street and en-
gagged in an argument. Greene attempted
to strike Edwards. who turned and ran to
Captain Daniel Jacobs tent. where he Sc
cured a revolver. Returning Edwards be-
gan to shoot. The first two bullets missed,
but the third took effect in the left breast,
killing Greene instantly. Corporal Coleman,
of Company A, attempted to arrest Ed
wards and he was shot in the abdomen and
will die. After being confined in the guard
house Edwards attempted to escape, but
was knocked cold by the guard He is in a
dangerous condition. Edwards will not be
tried by court-martial but under the Grim
inal law of the commonwealth.
When the regiment was at Jefferson bar
racks, Missouri, both men fell in love with
the same woman and had several quarrels.
Last Wednesday both received letters from
the woman, and they had a fight over it
Saturday night. They came to the city and
became intoxicated. and when the murder
occurred both were very drunk.
Private Glyn, of Company H, Seventh
Immunes, was shot and fatally wounded by
an unknown white civilian at o'clock Sun
day morning.
Henry Armstrong, private, Company c.
Seventh Immunes, was shot and fatally
wounded in Adamstown a suburb this after
noon by Provost Guard Kelm. Armstrong
was under arrest and attempted to escape
Private Bailey, Company A, Third En-
gineers Regiment, was shot in the leg by
provost guard tonight, while attempting to
escape. His hip bone was shattered and
his leg will have to be amputated.
The city is full of drunken negro soldiers
but the whites are behaving themselves
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EDUCATION OF INDIANS.
Annual Report of Commissioners Jones
Schools Well Attended.

WASHINGTON, Oct 9.-The annual re-
port Of Commissioner OF Indian Affairs Will
liam A. Jones shows a general steady ad-
vancement in the condition of the 'Satlcr's
wards" Education, the greatest factor in
solving the status of the Indians, is icing
pushed forward in the service and now
there are 147 well-equipped boarding schools
and an equal number of day schools en-
gagged in the education of 3,y52 pupils The
average attendance and enrolment has
steadily increased for the past twenty one
Nyears. Vigorous inquiries prosecuted by
Commissioner Jones during the year slow
significantly that 80 per cent, OF those PUPILS
who have gone through the schools ard re-
turned to their homes are reported to be in
good physical condition, contrary 20 the fire.
quent suggestion that the change might
break naturally strcng and vigorous con-
stitution. OF the pupils attending school
per cent. are reported as excellent or first
class. 70 per cent as good or medium, while
only "A per cent. are considered bad or
worthless. showing il: the commissioners
judgment the value Of a system which can
in generation develop from savages &c per
cent of good average men and women. I'm
der the present regime fhe large net de-
crease in enrolment and attendance of last
of l,040 and 995 enrolment and average at
tendance, respectively, Tor the present year.
The reservation schools show the larsest
gain Agents are now being urged to great
er exertions to fill the schools to the limit
OF their capacity by placing therein every
child of school age TN the reservation whose
physical condition will warrant school con-
fnement and future DEVELOPMENTS. Mr..
Jones predicts, will undoubtedly emphasize
that regulation enforcing compulsory at
tendance upon the schools must be enacted.
The placing of Indian children in the ublic
schools of the country for the purpose of CO.
education of the races does not appear to
meet with much success, but a fuller test
Of its value and practicability is to be made
this year.
The school plants in the service are valued
at over $S,OO0000. and larger funds for Keep
ing them in repair, etc, are urged.
Referring to the torturing ard burning of
Seminoes in Oklahoma last Janl arv, the
report says it is thought indemnity will
soon be paid by the governm emit 20 Ill nem-
bers of the Seminole nation injured tv the
mob of lawiess whites in that occurrence
and the whites guilty of the outra2cs are
now being prosecuted: The report gives in
detail the work that has been going on at
the various reservations curing the wear
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RAIDED BY BURGLARS.
Michigan Village Plundered by a Bold
Gang of Thieves.

FLINT, Mich. Oct. 1O.-The village Of
Grand Blanc was raided last night by bur-
glars and nearly every business house en-
tered and ransacked. After entering Moo
dy's blacksmith shop and stealing some
tools. the burglars proceeded to the grist
mill and two elevators, which they entered.
The money drawers and safes of each were
rif1ed and their contents taken away. The
Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Station
was the next place for the robbers. The
railroad company's office was thoroughly
ransacked and everything of value to the
operators was taken. Trunks belonging to
passengers were broken open and their con-
tents strewn about promiscuously. The ex-
press office is in this building and suffered
the same fate. Efforts were made to enter
other stores, but watch dog gave the
alarm and scared the thieves away. Sheriff
Mccall has been working on the case all
day, and at p. m. tonight fourteen men
charged with the offense had been placed
behind the bars in this city.
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HALDEMAN DISAPPEARS.
Cincinnati officers Unable to Serve
Warrant for Murder.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 9.-When the grand
jury meets tomorrow sensational develop
ments are expected in the case of w. j..
Haldeman charged with killing his broth
in-law and business partner, ex-senator j.
c. Richardson, of Glendale After they
quarrelled in their paper mill at Lockland
and the fatal shooting occurred Sept. q
Haldeman remained in concealment Rich
ardson died a week later and the day pre-
ceding his death Haldeman left for Chicago,
Learning that a warrant had been sworn
out by Coroner Haer, charging murder in
the first degree. Haldeman returned last
Tuesday night and early the next morning
was bound over for manslaughter by his
neighbor. the mayor of Lockland. He was
admitted to bail and haA not been seen
since The officers of this city have never
been able to serve their murder warrant,
but the case will come before the grand
jury for indictment for murder in the first
degree and then 1t will be known whether
Ha1deman has really disappeared. His at
torneys promise that he win surrender if
indicted Owing to the prominence of both
the Richardson and Haldeman families the
case is attracting unusual attention.
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BURNED in A CHURCH
YELLOW FEVER PATIENT ALLEGED
TO HAVE BEEN CREMATED.
Deed That Is Charged to the Panic of
Fear Now Prevailing Mississippi-.
New Name for "YellOw jack"

JACKSON, Miss, Oct. 9.-An unknown
white man supposed to be a yellow fever
patient was burned in a negro church in
lie Fiore county to-day. This news reached
here tonight in a letter from DR.. T. B. Har-
Iison health officer of Tallahatchie county.
The man was found sick yesterday by
negroes who had gone to prepare the church
for divine services to-day. The case was re-
ported to DR.. Harrison and he reported him
as suspicious case. The doctor left, and
when he returned he found the church in
ashes and found few charred bones to tell
the awful story. 1t is not positive that the
man had yellow fever and it is not sure that
he was dead when the church was fired, but
an ungoverned fear suggested the deed, and
Mississippi has to answer for it. This is a
forcible illustration of the unreasonable
panic now affecting this State.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
KOKOMO. Ind. Oct. 9.-George W. Slid
er, of Lafayette, brought suit in the Howard
Circuit Court yesterday, contesting the will
of his brother, the late John w. Slider, Of
this city, who year ago committed suicide
on account of disgrace from an arrest by a
fellow-member of the City Council. Mr.
Slider who had made several previous I'M
successful attempts to end his days, finally
threw himself from the top of a business
block crushing the skull on the brick side
walk. The will was made just prior to the
last and successful effort to quit the world
and the provisions of the instrument were a
surprise to the immediate relatives. 1t is
claimed by the contestant that the deceased
was insane at the time the will was exc
cuted and that undue influences were used.
The estate is estimated at $4,000. mostly in
real estate. The will gives valuable rest
dence property TO Mrs. Laura Sawyer, Mr..
Slider's financial agent, and another to the
trustees of Grace NJ e.. Church for par
sonage. Deceased was widower, with no
children, and the brothers and sisters came
in for a small share under the will. Attor-
neys enough on both sides have already
been employed to take the money in contro-
VerSy.
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ClRCLING THE GLOBE AFOOT.
A Frenchman Covers 24,2O6 Miles, and
Has 1924 Yet to Walk.

VANCOUVER, Oct. 9.-Australian adj
vices brought by the steamer Warrimoo
are as follows:
Henry Gilbert, a Frenchman who is MAX
ing tour of the world on foot, arrived
In Sydney as the Warrimoo left. Since
leaving Paris on Feb. 10, 1895, Mr.. Gilbert
has accomplished 24,2O6 miles out of Al 800
he calculated on covering by June l. 1900.
the date on which he is due in Paris. Two
thousand pounds is involved in the under
taking and among other conditions is one
that no money is to be asked during the
whole of the journey. Gilbert has passed
through Spain, Algeria, Palestine. Syria,
Java and part of Australia. When tour
ing in Armenia he wSS in danger of being
slain by Turkish brigands, but on telling
them he was a Frenchman he was allowed
safe passage Gilbert purposes to visit
America, Canada, Scotland, England and
then to Paris.
The corn section of the New South Wales
Chamber of Commerce estimates that the
coming season will produce a yield of 49,
100000 bushels Of wheat of which 10000 90
bushels will be required for home consump-
ton, leaving 10000 bushels, or, roughly
speaking, 100000 tons of wheat to be ex-
ported.
There have been several very disorderly
scenes in the New Zealand Legislature
The opposition kept the house sitting sixty
six hours on the estimates and at the end
of that sitting forced the government to
agree to their demand for further Informal
ton.
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"YELLOWOID FEVER"
Name Given to the Plague by LOuisi-
INNS HeaIfh Rnard.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 9-Dr. Souchon.
president of the State Board of Health. to-
night issued the following proclamation:
Whereas the prevailing fever. the yellow
fever, is noticeable for it's mildness, be il
ordained that,
"First-All persons from non-quarantined
localities are permitted to enter all quar-
antined localities, but they cannot return
to the nonquarantined locality, even If
these are willing, except under the Atlanta
regulations.
''Second--All quarantined localities lex
cept Franklin and Wilson, are permitted
to hold communication with New Orleans
and adjacent quarantined localities-St.
Bernardo Plaquemine, st. Tammany lin
part). Orleans. ST. Charles, Jefferson fright
bank), st. John.
'Third-Persons from quarantined locali-
ties intending to go into the quarantined
localities not adjacent to New Orleans
must ascertain beforehand upon what con-
ditions they will be received there, viz. !:
St. Mary, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St.
James, East Baton Rouge. East and West
Fehcianees, Ibervile and Rapides."
The above virtually means that the State
has found the fever of such mild type that
it has determined to name it yellowoid and
fear it no longer, ten counties out of sixty
nine having already removed restrictions.
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NEW SENATOR'S VIEWS.
MIR. Simon Favors Retention of the
Entire Philippine Group.

PORTLAND. Ore, Oct. 9.-Senator-elect
Simon, in an interview regarding his course
on the leading questions which will come
before Congress, to-day said: 81 favor the
retention of the entire Philippine group and
should not agree to the ratification of a
treaty that RENTS any portion of them to
Spain. / am for government construction
and control Of the Nicaragua canal and
favor a Pacific cable. I am for larger
standing army and g. greater navy. 1 am
especially anxious for the firm establish
nient of the gold standard and reformation
OF the currency by retirement Of govern
ment paper obligations and creation of a
banking currency. These measures are of
great urgency. both because of our pros
pective trade expansion and because post
ponement can only result in disaster when
the next inevitable financial difficulties
arise"
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KILLED ON INDIANA SOIL
LOUISVILLE BURGLAR AND HIS
SWEETHEART SHOT BY OFFICERS.
Crossed the Ohio River, Opened Fire
ON Their Pursuers and Were
Both RiddIed with Bullets.

OwENsBORO. KY. Oct e.-Howard
Clark, who was wanted in Louisville for
murder and burglary. and his girl. Hattie
Malone, were both killed while resisting
arrest on the Indiana side of the river near
here to-day. Clark was wanted for the
murder Of Officer Hefferman at Louisville
last August and was attempting to escape
in skiff by rowing down the Ohio river.
Word had been sent along the river by tele-
graph to arrest him. Officers from Owens
boro were in pursuit when Clark tied up his
skiff on the Indiana side of the river and
took to the woods. When detected at burg
larry in Louisville he killed the officer that
caught him. When the officers came up
Clark and his girl both opened fire. The
officers returned the fire, and both Clark
and Hattie Mahoney were riddled with bull
let's
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About 700 Soldiers VIII Guard the
Settlers About Leech Lake.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Oct. 9.-General
BacOn's order for the movement Of more
troops to the vicinity of Leech lake took
ninety men from Fort Smelling on a special
train last night. Two companies of the
Fourteenth Minnesota Volunteers are held
at Duluth ready to start for points along
the Fosston line of the Great Northern,
where the two batteries of militia artillery
men have preceded them, and tonight an
other company of the Fourteenth made up
Of fifty men from Company z, of Merriam
Park, and fifty from the guard stationed
In charge Of Camp VanduZee, where the
Fourteenth is to be mustered out was or
dered 20 take the O'Clock train tomorrow
morning for points along that same road.
These last will take with them the equip
ment of the two Duluth companies which
was left at Camp Vanduzee when the men
werei furloughed. The government is par
ticularly anxious about the danger to the
dams at the headwaters Of the Mississippi,
only small guard having been stationed
there since the trouble with the Indians
came on. By tomorrow night over 200 SOL
dfers viii be scattered all around Leech lake
protecting settlers and property from the
possible attack of the uncertain number of
Indians now In arms against the govern
ment because they objected to being taken
10 court as witnesses in prosecutions for IL
legal selling Of liquor to Indians.
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YALE'S CRACK ATHLETE.
Bascom Johnson Declared to BE the
Unfversity's Champion.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 9.-The Yale
all-round champion in athletics was to-day
announced as being Bascom Johnson. 1900,
of Washington, whose speciality has been
the pole vault, in which he until recently
held the interscholastic championship and
also that of Yale. The championship Is
awarded on the strength of the Ponthalon
held just previous to commencement last
June. The averages have been compiled by
the Intercollegiate Athletic Association
from the worlds record in the several
events contested Johnson's average is $3.50
on a scale of 10000. Second is r. G. Clapp,
tercollegiate pole vaulter, whose average Is
500. Third is w. F. B. Berger, '99, of Dem
yer, Col. 4,7S6; fourth, ]. ]. Adams, 1900, of
Orange, n. j., 4,300; fifth, F. c. Chisholm,
1901, Savannah Ga, 1855: sixth A. S. Mann.
'99, Buffalo, N. Y, 1888; seventh. H. Shaffer.
1900, Philadelphia, 1206.
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other Deaths in the state.

HARTFORD CITY, Ind. Oct. 9.-Mrs.
Mary Ann Whitman, aged eighty-four, the
Oldest resident of Blackboard county. died
Friday In this city. She lived in the county
sixty-four years. She was married twice.
her first husband being Jacob Emshwiller,
the first settler of Jackson township. Jacob
Emshwlller was elected county treasurer
soon after the organization of the county
but was accidentally killed shortly after
taking his office. His wife was married
again to Lewis Whitman, one of the prom
inent men in this section.
WORTHINGTON, Ind, Oct. g. - Mr..
George Harris, a prominent citizen of this
place, died yesterday after lingering ILL.,
ness OF consumption. The deceased was the
son of Mr.. Lawrence Harris. widow and
five children survive. Funeral services were
held to-day.
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LONDON. Oct. 10.-The morning papers
renew the discussion of Tod Sloan's doings
Saturday at Kempton Park, where the
American jockey finished first in two races
and second in three.
The Times says: The swerve Mount Pros
pect made on Sironia was probably due to
the former being already beaten. and though
Sirona may have interfered with Sloan s
mount, the fact that he was the prime Of
fender made any protest against Sironia' S
narrow victory impossible"
The Daily Telegraph warmly protests
against the idea that Sloan should be boy
cotted because he dared to be successful.
The Sporting Life says: The swerving
was quite accidental. There was no fault
on the part of Mount Prospect (Sloan' s
mount or SirOnia.
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SEVENTH ARMY CORPS
ORDERS ISSUED ron IT'S MOVEMENT
TO SAVANNAH, GA.
161st Indiana and other Regiments
Preparing for Garrison Duty in
Cuba-End OF Camp WikOff.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct 9.-General
orders were issued from corps headquarters
to-day for the movement of the Seventh
Army Corps from Jacksonville to Savan-
nah. The movement is to begin as soon as
the quartermaster's department can provide
transportation. The regiments will move in
the following order: Ninth Illinois, Second
South Carolina, Fourth Illinois. First Tex
as. Second Louisiana. Third Nebraska
Colonel Bryan's regimenD, One-hundred-
and-sixty-first Indiana, Second Illinois,
First North Carolina, Forty-ninth Iowa,
Fourth Virginia ard Sixth Missouri The
signal corps is to prepare itself to move at
once and to report to the quartermaster the
date at which it will be ready to go. The
sick are to be left at Jacksonville. The
quartermaster and medical departments are
directed to provide each regiment with
requisites for establishing regimental field
hospitals.
1t is also understood that an order will
be issued on the return of General Lee
from Washington during the coming week,
rebrigading the regiments of the corps. The
brigades will probably be in the order
named above, the first three forming the
First Brigade of the First Division, the next
thirty the Second Brigade of the same divi-
sion and so on. The commanders of these
respective brigades will not be known until
General Lee shall issue the necessary order
and as several of the general officers of
the Seventh Corps have been announced to
be mustered out late this month and some
the last of November, it is not known what
officers will be in charge of the respective
brigades. as they shall be sent to Cuba. 1t
is not anticipated that the stay of the
troops at Savannah will be long only suffi-
cient to allow transportation to Cuba to
be provided and for enbarking the troops.