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NO MORE DRUGS FOR GRAY.
Sherin stops Murderer's Father from
Giving Him Medicine.

III
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMFIELD, Ind, May 15.-The de-
Tense resumed the examination of witnesses
to-day in the Gray murder case. No materi-
al points, however. were brought out. DR..
John w. Gray, father of defendant, was
the most important witness. He gave a his
tory Of the ancestry of the Gray family.
with reference to insanity, showing that a
number of distant relatives of the defend
ant were of unsound mind. He testified to
having asked his son. after the tragedy,
why he had lone 1t, and defendant said he
did not know why. He then asked him how
he felt about it and he said he never felt bet
ter. A number of witnesses told Of queer
things DR.. Gray had done. Willie Backen-
stOe said he came to him at midnight clad
only in his night clothes and begged him to
stay all night with him, that he had seen a
prosecution sought to show that a case of
beer had been consumed at DIR. Gray's Of
flee that day. W. l.. Isenhower told of the
defendant giving him a letter, directed to
defendants father, and told him that he
was so infatuated with Malissa Skinner
that he could not live without her. and. be-
ing married, could not well live with her.
and that he was going to commit suicide.
Gray was looking better than usual to-day.
Gray's family to provide his meals and has
refused DR.. Gray, ST., to administer medi-
cines TO him. This action has been taken
by suggestion of the states attorney, who
felt that Gray was being drugged to affect
his appearance In court.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

William Brown. colored, living I'm North
Indianapolis. was arrested last night ana
charged with stealing a bicycle from George
Swain.
The Willard w. G.. T. u. will meet at
the home of Mrs. Van D%eventer, No. zo4
North Illinois street. this afternoon at 30
o'clock.
The large realty deals of last Saturday
by which Washington-street property was
sold were made through the Indiana Trust
Company.
August Miller, a peddler living at 13
North California street. was arrested yes
terday by Patrolman Admier and charged
with using a short measure In dealing out
his goods.
There will be a musical and literary en-
tertainment at Greenleaf Hall, corner RAIDER
and Twenty-eighth streets, tomorrow even
ing. for the benefit of the Home Presbyte-
rian Church OF North Indianapolis.
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, May 15.-The De-
PAW field day contests were held at Nc
Keen Park to-day. The summary:
Northumberland dash: Anderson first,
Weeks second. Time. IL
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hurdle: An
derson first, Weeks second. Time, 20.
Mile run: Walker first, Pissler second.
Time, eco.
~One-quarter mile run: Weeks first, Ellis
second. Time, leo.
Running broad jump: Rudy first, Ander-
son second. Distance, nineteen feet.
Two-hundred-and-twenty-yard hurdle
Weeks first, Dempsey second. Time. 81.
Sixteen-pound-hammer throw: williams
first. Ivy second. Distance, IS feet IL inches.
Pole vault: Weeks first, Coulter second.
Height. 9 feet.
Standing broad jump: Thomas first, Green
second. Distance. 10 feet 4 inches.
Observation-Disclosures dash-An-
derson first, Weeks second. Time, e.
Sixteen-pound shot put: Williams first,
Coulter second. Distance, "a feet So inches.
Running high jump: Anderson first.
Weeks second. Distance, 4 feet 10 inches.
One-half-mile run: Walker first, Coulter
second. Time, 2:2S.
The juniors and the seniors played a game
of ball, five innings, which resulted in a
victory for the juniors by a score of IL to 5.
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The Epu.tmept. Ye.terd.y.

The following enlistments were made yes
terday morning at the recruiting office:
John Wyman, Brooklyn. Ind; Henry Wy
man, city; Elmer E. R~eelhorn, North Man
chester, Ind: Sylvester c.. Jackson. city;
Charles +. Logan. Marion. Ind; Heenan
Gilbert, New Lisbon, Ind; Charles s.
Myers, West York. ILL.,; Frederick Gull
liams, Fincastle, Ind; William C.. Canada,
Advance, Ind; William Sloan. city; William
Murphy. Needham, Ind; John Bailey and
Earl Hancock, city.
The following enlistments were made at
Lafayette. the men coming in on the after
noon train:
Morton NJ. Barnes, Fred p. McAtee, Loyal
A. Fairman, Robert s. Gearhart, Furman
Mckinley. George A. Lockwood. Henry
Swanstrum, John j. Brown. Ola Carlesson,
Louis c.. Gearhart. Abner ]. Akers, John
II. Graham. Jerry Mulcahy.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 15.-Enough
of the possible 400 delegates to the tenth
annual meeting of the Indiana Union of
Literary Clubs have sent word that they
will be here this week to assure a larger
attendance than ever before. There are
row 200 clubs in the union, which is thirty
more than a year ago, when the meeting
was held at Bloomington, and each club
is entitle6 to two delegates. Arrangements
are being made for the entertainment of
the delegates i'm the residences of members
Of the fourteen Terre Haute clubs. The
first session will be held Wednesday even
ing. when the address of welcome will be
delivered by the Rev. William Mitchell. OF
st. Luke's Episcopal Church Mrs. Frances
Swain. wife OF the president of the Indiana
University, will follow with the presidents
address.
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Terre Haute Race Trouble Over.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
ERR HAUTE, Ind. May 15.-The new
company which is to take a load of debt
and the lease Of the fair grounds on which
is the famed "four-cornered track" of the
hands of two associations was formed to-
night, with w. p. Ijams. president of the
American Trottiny Association, as presi-
dent. The vigo Agricultural Society and
tho Terre Haute Trotting Association to-
gether were in debt about $1,000. the di-
iectors having given their notes from time
to time to meet deficiencies. The new COM
pany Is TO have $4,000 capital stock, over
half of which is subscribed. The pro-
gramme for the fall trotting meeting will
be announced in a few days. and 1t is felt
that better offers can be made now that
the fair and trotting meeting will not be
managed at double cost and with conflict
ing interests, which at times brought on
such bitter feeling that officers of one as
scciaticn sought 20 have the other meeting
published abroad as a fraud.
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ORDERED TO EVANSVILLE.
Hoosier Citizens Will Get to See the
Na&hYille.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, May 15.-If there be
a sufficient depth of water in the Ohio river
to justify the trip. the gunboat Nashville
will visit Evansville this week. Citizens
kept the wires hot to-day between here and
Washington. and with the aid of state Off
Gals at Indianapolis, a pressure has been
brought to bear that had telling effect.
Tonight Secretary Long wired that the
Nashville had been ordered to proceed to
Evansville provided Captain Maynard
found a sufficient depth Of water. There is
a good stage of water and the river is ris-
ing. The matter will be determined when
the Nashville reaches Cairo. The gunboat
left st. Louis this morning.
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Pension Board Fees Cut On.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind, May 1.-THE New
Albany district is to have two boards Of
pension examiners. but one board is ex-
pected to attend to all the business. Drs.
John F. Weathers and E. p. Easley, of
this city. and Charles p. Davis, of Galena,
to-day were notified of their appointment as
pension board No. 2, and that all business
of the district would be directed TO them.
The old pension board Is composed of Drs.
Wilcox, Zigler and Rutherford, who were
appointed during the Cleveland administra-
ton and are all Democrats and under civil
service protection. As they refused to re-
sign the new board was appointed. The sal
aries are derived from fees, and as all bust
ness is directed to the new board, the old
board will nave no fees forthcoming. DIR.
Weathers was formerly a member of the
pension board at Huntingburg. Ind.
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FIRST COUNTY COUNCIL
JUDGE ALLEN ANNOUNCES THE LIST
OF APPOINTMENTS.
Members of the Township Advisory
Boards Also Selected-WhO
They Are.

Judge Allen, of the Circuit Court, ap-
pointed the members of the Marion County
Council and the members of the advisory
board for the townships Of Marion county,
yesterday afternoon. The County Council is
made up as follows:
First District--John Strange, Broad Rip
pie.
Third-Dr. William B.. Radcliffe, of West
Newton.
Fourth-wiIliam A. Bell. indianapolis.
Councilmen at ~Large-James f. McCul-
Tough, Indianapolis; Eli Heiney, Perry
township; DIR. William B. Mcdonald, New
Augusta.
The members of the Township Advisory
Board are as follows:
Wayne Township-Albert Huffman, Field
ing Beeler. John McClelland.
Center Township-John ]. w. Billingsley,
George Hitz. George Wolf.
Perry Township-George c. Thompson,
o Peters, John Webb.
Decatur Township-Thomas W.. Janeway,
George p. Blank, Levi Paddock.
Pike Township-William NJ. Wiley, Mat
thew ]. Wagle, William HI. Guion.
Wright. Jesse Fletcher, Lafayette Lewellen.
Lawrence Township-John J.. Johnson,
Warren Township-John NJ. Toon, Fred
erick o. Ritter. William Schleicher.
Franklin Township-Garrett Stanton, AL
fred HI. Plymate, Henry j. Brown.
fOuT Oh the leiuDcT Ol the SOunty COun-
Gil are Republicans and three are Demo-
Gratis. The Republican members represent
the districts and the Democratic members
are the councilmen at large. The First dis
trict member. John Strange, of Broad Rip
pie, is a farmer. He has a college educa-
ton and is a practical business man. James
T. Layman. of the Second district. lives in
Irvington. For many years he has been in
the wholesale hardware business on South
Meridian street. He has long been promi-
nent in Republican politics in this county.
and was at one time a member of the Coun-
ell of this city. DR.. William b. Radcliffe, Of
West Newton, who was chosen for the
Third district, is a practicing physician Of
high standing, and William A. Bell, of the
Fourth district, has served several terms as
school commissioner in this city.
OF the Democratic members, James f.
Mccullough is a prominent lawyer, of In
dianapolis. who has been a member of the
Legislature: Eli Heiney is a ~l-kno
farmer and a good business man, and DIR.
William b. Mcdonald. a physician of New
Augusta. was one time the superintendent
of the City Hospital in this city.
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Trnnsportation Oyerland.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, May 15.-Township
Trustee George Gwinn, Of this city, has
Matched up a new scheme in helping the
poor. Last week a family of seven persons
applied to the trustee for transportation
to Nebraska, where they had friends. 1t
was found that the railroad fare would
amount to SOS, a sum much larger than
Gwinn wanted 10 pay. Saturday, at an ex-
pence of $50. the trustee purchased a pair of
jackasses about fifty years old and an old
wagon and started the family overland to
Nebraska. The plan worked so we'll that Mr..
Gwinn will continue ii. A woods west of
town is full of Abandoned horses that have
been turned out to die and the trustee draws
on this collection when transportation is
rid of not only the poor people, but the poor
horses as we'll.
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n r. a s.o.ooo.ooo Tru.t.

ANDERSON. Ind, May 15.-The $4,000
900 window-glass trust Is a certainty.
Leases have been closed which place 90 per
cent. of the productive facilities Of the
country in control of the new combine. The
work OF organization has begun and the
new concern will be ready to take the place
of the w~indow-glass combine on the 10Th of
May. when all plants will close for the
summer season. The new organization will
be known as the American Window-glass
Company. 1t will run over seventy window
glass plants.
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The annual engagement of the Holden
Comedy Company opened at the Park yes
terday with the usual good sized audiences
both afternoon and night and gave the
usual good entertainment. This company
has come to be one of the fixtures at II.
Park, and patrons of that theater would
not feel that the season was really over
If the Holdens did not come. "A Barre. RI
Money Is as good as any other dranias to
xhibi the company's art, and the lovers
of Park Theater drama went away well
satisfied. This is one of the companr's hes.
pieces and will be repeated to-day and to-
morrow
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MISS TAGGART'S REMAINS.
Mayor Will Return Home with Them
Night.

The Journal received the following tele-
gram from Mayor Taggart, dated at New
Orleans, last night:
The body is that Of my daughter Flor
ence. VIII be home with remains Wednes-
day night. The burial will be Thursday
morning and will be private"
There was some doubt among friends OF
the Taggart family yesterday as 70 the
Identification of the body found as that OF
MisA Taggart. because no telegram had
been received from Mr.. Taggart corroborat-
ing the press dispatches. which said the
Identification. was complete.
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FORMING A NEW TRUST.
Every WindOw-GIass Plant in Marion
Is Thought to BE Sold.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, May 15.-Messrs. j. r.
Handy. t. G.. Colley. Charles Loehrl, B. F..
Just, j. Cowan Stobs and G. Camille, of Chi
cago, and Messrs. C. w. Haskins and r. b.
Bouck. of New York city. said to be repre-
sentatives of the proposed window-glass
trust, are in the city on business connected
with that organization. They ave been
here since Friday, registered at the Spencer
House. and have kept their business a Sc
cret. Some of them are expert accountants,
making a tour through the gas belt examin-
ing the business of all the w~indow-glass
plants on which the new organization has
an option. 1t is understood that the new or
ganization has an option on every window
glass factory in this city, and while here
they have gone carefully over the books Of
each concern looking into the business done,
the amount of stock on hands and apprais-
ing the plants.
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Five shots Fired I'm n Duel.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, May ia sensa-
tional duel was fought at an early hour this
morning between ex4Prosecuting Attorney
John T. Goodman and John Cation, a we'll
known saloon keeper and sporting man.
They fired five or six shots each. Goodman
was shot in the leg. but Cation escaped
without injury. The men are Democrats and
prominent in local politics. 1t is expected
that hostilities will be renewed, but friends
are endeavoring to prevent further trouble.
The duel was the result of an old grudge.
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Harry j. Webb, the young indianapolis
man who went to Chickamauga with the
Twenty-seventh Indiana Battery. was noti-
fled yesterday by the assistant secretary OF
war that his discharge had been ordered.
The War Departments action shows that
Webb has been officially recognized as an
artiileryman. although his name did not ap-
pear on the muster rcil of the battery, and
he Will receive pay from the time he took
the oath OF allegiance up to the present day.
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Antitrust LesixIation-

HOUSTON. Tex. May 15.-Governor Say
ers gave out the Information to-day that as
soon as the Legislature shall adjourn he
will address a letter TO the Governors of all
the States. asking a meeting at some suita~
bic time and place with their attorneys gem
eral Tor the purpose OF considering and
agreeing upon an effective anti-trust law 70
be presented to the different legislatures.
In the meantime he will Insist on the Legis-
session
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and demand for $500. The ex-trustee, in
his answer to the complaint, makes the
sensational claim that, instead of his hav-
ing ~wrongfully appropriated public funds,
he paid out for the benefit of the township
5000 more than he received and that the
township owes him that much. White River
township is badly torn up over the case and
large numbers attended the opening of the
case. A two weeks legal battle is expected.
Miller & Barnet and White & White appear
for the township and Judge Johnson and
Deupree & Slack for the defense.
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Now AIbanx Guard. Mustered In.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, May 1.-Adjutant
General Gore tonight mustered in the new
military company in this city. which will
form a part of the sew state guards. The
company has sixty-six members. William j.
Coleman was elected captain, Frank Nc
Curdy first lieutenant and Otha Candy sec
ond lieutenant. Coleman, McCurdy and
Candy were captain, second lieutenant and
first sergeant in the One-hundred-and-fifty-
ninth Indiana volunteers. The noncommis-
stoned officers will be appointed later.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind, May ia. V. and f.
w. Conradt, of this city, have purchased
the Brewer pottery works,N Of Tifin, o.,
and will operate them in connection with
their plant in this city. both plants to be
known as the Great Western pottery works.
The price paid for the T1fiin plant is In the
neighborhood of 100000. The Brewer Is an
eight-liln plant, the same size as the Ko-
komo concern. Sanitary pottery is made ex-
clusively and ii is the largest concern of
the kind in the United States. The Kokomo
factory is being enlarged.
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LONDON. May l5.-In opening a Cafe
Chantant at the Hotel Cecil this evening
In aid of the British Nurses Association.
Charles Wyndham. the actor-manager OF
the Criterion Theater. referring to Sir Hen
~ Irving said: Il am sure that you share
my grief mt the news Of the illness OF SIR
Henry Irving, - well ~ my regret that he
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is absent to-day. To myself. who have
been associated with him a whole life long.
IL Is a wrench. which, however temporary.
is n bitter one" The function. which proved
one of the most brilliant Of the season.
was attended by the Prince and Princess OF
Wales. the Duke and Duchess OF Con-
naught. Prince and Princess Christian and
the Duke OF Marlborough. Mrs. Brown
Potter and Frank Lawton took part In the
programme CT entertainment.
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Ex-Trustee Denies the charge.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN. Ind. May l5.-John Har-
din's suit on behalf of White River town
ship. against the former trustee. ]. r..
Brickert and his bondsmen was begun to-
day before Judge Buckingham Brickert
was forced to resign from Office last year
and the present suit Is for an accounting
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
MADISON, Ind. May 15.-Carl Parvis,
aged twelve, who left his home at Frank
lin. Ind, a week ago last Sunday. in COM
pany with two tramps, was arrested in this
city this afternoon. His parents were noti-
fed and sent the Franklin marshal. who
arrived here tonight and identified the boy,
who will go home with him tomorrow
morning. The boy says he went with the
tramps from choice. being DESTROYS to see
the country
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The 1eoth,. Band Not Doing Well.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, May B.-The members of
the Observation-Disclosures Indiana Regi-
ment band, which is giving a series Of con-
certs in county seat towns in this vicinity,
are somewhat disappointed at the slender
crowds that lave greeted them so far. Two
of the ten or more concerts contemplated
have been given, and the houses were quite
small. In this city the friends of Company
ID from this city are moving earnestly to
get out a large crowd at the forthcoming
entertainment by the band.
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ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, May ia representa-
tive OF one of the casket COM
panies to-day gave out the
that the attempt to form a coffin trust has
proven a failure. An option was held on
this factory, but it has expired, with no
request for renewal
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind. May 15s-Capt. John
B. Ford. formerly of this city. and the first
to utilize natural gas In the manufacture OF
plate glass, has been elected a member of
iAcademie Parisienne des Inventeurs and
has also received a diploma and gold medal
in recognition of his inventions i'm ma
chinery used in making plate glass. He is
nearly ninety years old and now resides at
Ford City. Pa.
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Irving Hns Influenza.

LONDON. May 15.-It became known to-
day that the indisposition of Sir Henry r.
wing, who has been playing the title role in
"Robespierre" at the Lyceum Theater here,
WAS caused by Influenza.
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acial 70 the Indiananolis IournaL

Special 10 the indianapolis journal.
BEDFORD. Ind, May 15.-James Allen,
under indictment for attempted bribery, in
connection with a fire alarm deal in this
city last summer. left for unknown quarters
this afternoon. leaving Arnold j. Padgett, an
attorney of Washington, who was his lawyer
and also his bondsman, in the hole for 500
for his appearance. He will IA to make
good that amount unless Allen is returned,
as Il has been declared forfeited.
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Archbi.hop Ireland AppIauded.

LONDON. May 1.-THE Paris correspond
ent OF the Daily Chronicle says: Arch
bishop Ireland lectured this evening Mon
day. at the popular Cercle de St. Joseph
on 'The Church and the World Ferdinand
Brunette, Of the Revue des Deux Mondes.
resided. Archbishop Ireland declared that
practical religion to-day must be energizing
and loving. His eloquence was warmly ap-
rs trded
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Miner. Win n Victory.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind. May 15.-President
Van Horn. of the Indiana Miners Associa-
ton. tonight stated that he had been adj
vised that the miners will resume work
all through the southern Indiana district to-
morrow. The last mine in that district will
tomorrow be unioniZed, and the miners re-
gard that fact as a splendid victory for
the men.
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James-Kfdder-Warde.

The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES combination.
which appears at English's for a matinee
and night on Wednesday. will be the last
regular attraction at Englisn's this season.
The advance sale indicates about as much
demand for the matinee of Hamlet" as for
the big production of The School for Scan
dal."
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i to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, May 15.-James Fer
~. prominent for years as an Evansville &
Terre Haute railroad conductor, and at one
time internal revenue collector. died this
evening. aged ~sixty-six. Nervous trouble
was the cause.