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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Chicago Strikers Establishing CO.
Operative Methods of Living.

CHICAGO. April THE Journal says:
1.-THE Building Trades Council has become
a sort of parent to all its members and
their families. It was announced to-day
that contracts bad been made with whole
sale grocers, clothiers. shoe dealers and
with some property owners whereby the
commodities in which each deals are to be
furnished TO the council. When necessary,
il is stated, credit will be given the coun-
Gil 1t is believed. however, that the goods
can be paid for when delivered as the local
unions are receiving constant aid from the
national organization, as we'll as from some
organizations in Canada and Australia
The arrangements made IL possible for
the $1,000 striking members of the Building
Trades Council to continue the struggle
against the contractors for at least a year,
when the contracts expire. The distribu-
ton of groceries to needy families OF strik-
ers has already begun. and in a few in
stances clothing has been given out. Should
the situation grow still more serious. with
the great majority of strikers in needy cir
cumstances. they will be cared for on CO.
operative plan, each contributing to the
common fund and living much in body
as possible"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
TAXES ON INHERITANCEs.
So Large This Year New York's As
sessment Rate Has Been Decreased.

ALBANY, n. Y, April IA large de-
crease in the state tax rate is due to some
extent to the largely increased amount of
collateral inheritance tax which has been
collected during the current year The
death of Cornelius Vanderbilt has thus far
brought to the State about $3.50, OO0 When
William III. Vanderbilt, the father of Cor
nelius, died some years ago. he left a trust
fund of upwards of $5.000OO0 in the hands of
Cornelius TO be disposed of by the latter.
From this the State realizes $5S.354. which
has been paid by the Vanderbilt estate
pending litigation questioning the State
right to collect it. On the disposition of
some thirty odd millions of dollars by d.
rect bequest In the will of Cornelius Van
derbilt the State has received $500, 900. The
tax on requests not specific vii, not be paid
until the return TO the United States of AL
fred Vanderbilt.
From the estate of George Smith. for
merly of Chicago and New York, and later
of London, England. the State has received
the sum of 81, 1894. 753. Smith was wealthy
Scotchman, worth many millions Of dollars.
He held securities in New York State val
ued at S42,096970. upon which the State
claimed tax Of S2,0S5,5S2. The estate by
paying the tax within specified period,
procured a reduction of per cent. The
English government collected from the es-
tate tax OF more than s, 200, 900. The class
of securities held by Smith in this State
were mainly bonds of railway and trust
companies, warehouse and moneyed cor
porations. The State collected a tax on all
the property in this State. Smith left his
property mainly to charitable and religious
institutions in Great Britain"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
WILL MEET AT ELWOOD
NEXT CONFERENCE OF THE NORTH
INDIANA METHODISTS.
Charges Against the Rev. DIR. Wool
pert Are Not Sustained-Dr. Her.
rick to He a Presiding Elder.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELKHART, Ind, April 7--Saturday
mornings session Of the North Indiana
Conference elected the Rev. DR.. J. c.. Muir
ray, of Atlanta, Ga, as the second reserve
in the ministerial delegation to the Gen
eral Conference. The special committee tc
report the testimony in the case against
the Rev. Dr. d. c. Woolpert, of James.
town, o., formerly a presiding elder and
otherwise prominent in the conference, de-
clared the charges were not sustained. and
Mr.. WooIpert's character was passed and
he was continued in the same relation to
the conference, that of superannuated
minister.
Wabash and Elwood were the only appli-
cants for next years session, and the pref
erence was indicated by raising hands. Ell
wood receiving an easy but not overwhelm-
ing majority. The Rev. A S. Preston. of
Goshen, on behalf of the ministers of the
Goshen district, presented to retiring Pre-
siding Elder c. CT. Hudson a fine onyx
clock
AS result of the lay conferences rec
concentration that the number of districts
be reduced from six to three a resolution
of seven be appointed to report at the
conference of 1901 a plan for dividing the
conference into four and also five dis
tricts.
The report OF Statistical Secretary Neal
which will be filed Monday morning, shows
the following items of general interest
There are $3.50 members in full connec-
ton and gal probationers, gain of 29s
in the first and $50 in the second The
churches number 4s1, an increase of T.
The valuation of the church property is
H,5S4.525. an increase of SCI, 100. The num-
Der of parsonages is 161, their valuation
S254, 800, an increase of 1880 For buildings
and improvements $117 1872 was spent an
increase of SIS, 123. The amount paid on the
old indebtedness was Si01S0. as compared
tic $50, 454 the year before. The present in
oebtedness Is sl26,925, an increase of 1882
due to the erection of several fine edifices
The number of Sunday schools is Az an
increase of 10. The number of members
is 6l.45S The number of Senior Epworth
Leagues is 252, and the membership b. 7S4;
Junior Leagues, 100; membership, S445
All the local pulpits will be occupied by
visiting ministers Sunday. Bishop Foss will
preach at Trinity NJ. l.. Church, and the
others will speak at one church or another
morning or evening. As the time limit OF
the Rev. DR.. A. T.. Mahin, presiding elder
of the Richmond district, has been filled,
the ministers of that district held a meet
ing and appointed a committee to notify
the bishop that they desired the Rev DIR.
w. ID. Parr, the Rev. DIT. II. y. Herrick
or the Rev. DIR. George. III. Hill as DIR. Ma
hins successor. Fort Wayne district min
listers have asked for the Rev Dr. c. G.
Hudson as successor TO the Rev. F. T.
Simpson, whose time limit elder also has
expired.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
BEATEN BY UNION PICKETs.
Nineteen Nonunionists Reported to
Have Been Assaulted.

CHICAGO. April T. Ninteen nonunion
workmen were reported to have been as
saulted and badly beaten by union pick
cts to-day. Two of the men were injured
seriously, one gray-haired man. whose
age may not withstand the shock The
injured are as follows:
William Hancock, sixty-four years old,
contractor: severely beaten. eye blackened.
nose lacerated. back injured; attacked by
union pickets while laying brick on build
ing at No. 1887 Ogden avenue; five arrests
by city police
Nonunion bricklayer knocked senseless
with a brick thrown by union picket while
working building at 14S7 Ogden avenue;
nose broken; physician worked over him
two hours before he regained conscious
ness; serious: five arrests.
Four nonunion bricklayers badly beaten
by union pickets while working at building
at 1857 ogden avenue; five arrests.
Nonunion carpenter, elderly man, Sc
verely beaten by three union pickets on an
Ashland-avenue electric car at Congress
street; serious; one arrest
Twelve nonunion bricklayers badly beaten
by union pickets at Twentysecond street
while on their way home from work on
the Armour soap factory, at Benson and
Thirty-first streets; no arrests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
MANY PEOPLE WALKED
Raw Men nt Work in the Power
Houses-Ne,v scheme of Laborites
The Miners Strike.

CHICAGO. April THE South Side sur
face lines, which were tied up last night
by strike of power house employees, fur
nished very uncertain transportation ia
cilities early to-day and thousands of PEG
pie suffered delay. The cable lines were
running. but the electric lines, which act
as feeders on some streets, were not run
ming at all. and on other streets SO in
frequently and with so many delays that
patrons preferred TO get out and walk to
the elevated stations or 10 the cable lines
where possible. BY Z o'clock the new men
succeeded in moving the electric cars on
Wallace and Halsted streets, and on Went
worth avenue, all trunk lines, with a de-
gree of regularity, but delays were still
frequent There was little Improvement in
the service Of the feeding lines. On Thirty
first street no cars were run early and on
the other streets the service was far from
adequate The ten thousand stockyards
employees. who last night had to walk home
from their toll, in most cases repeated the
act this morning, as they begin their Ia
bors early and the principal lines touching
the stockyards were not running up to Z
O'Clock. BY noon, however, all the cross
town lines Of the city company were oper-
ating, but with greatly decreased power,
and the cars were barely able to creep up
the State-street and Cottage Grove-avenue
cable lines
The manager OF the Chicago City Rail-
way. against which the strike of the oilers,
helpers and firemen is directed, declared
emphatically that there were more men
at work in the power houses this morn
ing than ever before.
But they don't understand the dyna-
mos" commented a striker "They got a
lot Of raw men last night and are bound to
have trouble"
The strike resulted from a new order,
which went into effect last night. 1t put
the work formerly done by three shifts of
men on TO the shoulders of two shifts. This
heightened the days work for each shift
10 twelve hours for which only % cents
extra was allowed, and threw one-third of
the men out of employment.
a movement has been started for the
banding together in a union of all the
street car employees OF Chicago. A circular
outlining a sweeping plan of organization
was distributed to-day to the homes of mo-
tormen, gripmen and conductors all over
the city. The circular, which was issued by
the Street-railway Employees Association
of Chicago, calls upon the employees of the
various street car lines to join in a move
ment to reOrganize the unions disrupted
that William Mcmahon, chief of the Anal
gamated Association OF Street-car EN-
pioyes Of America, is expected to arrive
here from Detroit within a day or two,
when IL is believed that active work in the
formation of union viii begin. Traction
officials say they are prepared to oppose
any such move.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
RAISE OF TEN PER. CENT.
Restaurant Men Talk of Increasing
Prices.

An association of restaurant men that
was formed some time ago, taking in near
ly every restaurant keeper in the down.
town district. for mutual benefit and to es-
tablish uniform price for meals. is now
confronted with an embarrassing situation.
1t was proposed that coupon-book sys-
tenn be adopted instead of the use of tick
cts and that the Communication be raised
from 20 TO 10 per cent. The increased price
was to go into effect April TO- and some of
the restaurant keepers had their books
printed and so notified their customers.
Now there is a disposition on the part of
some to go back on this agreement and the
matter of raise of 10 per cent. may again
come before the association for considera-
ton. President George Krauss, OF the as
ISOLATION. when asked If 10 per cent. raise
would go into effect next Tuesday, said
there would be no increase in the price by
the adoption of the coupon-book system
He said 10 per cent. raise was discussed
but that no final action was taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Major Alfred Harris, of the Salvation
Army in Chicago, is in the city. and Will
lecture at the army's hall on West Market
street tonight.
Louis, where he read a paper before the
Western Association of Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat Specialists, at the Planters
Hotel.
The closing exercises of the Y. M. c. A.
night school will be held tomorrow night.
A musical and literary programme will be
rendered. There will be "A display or WORK
done by the classes in the association par
lors.
The annual meeting of the congregation
of the First Presbyterian Church will be
held next Thursday evening. The reports
show the church to be in a fiourshing con-
dition. and much was done during the past
year.
Master Henry Knippenberg, son OF Mrs.
Mary Maxwell Knippenberg. who was Dit
ten Thursday by 81. Bernard cog a.
the home of his grandparents, 1914 North
Meridian street, is improving and will re-
cover.
At a meeting of the State Board of Tax
Commissioners, held at the Statenouse,
Frank Morton, secretary of the board. was
instructed to correspond with the dinerent
county auditors to obtain data for the pur-
pose of publishing new State railroad
map.
The congregation of Zion Evangelical
Church will celebrate the hfty-nintn an
niyersary of the organization of the church
to-day and also the seventeenth anniver-
sary of the pastorate Of Rev. j. c. Peters.
A special programme has been arranged
for the occasion.
II has been decided by the trustees Of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese OF Indiana TO
make extensive additions and improve
ments to knickerbacker Hall, the diocesan
school for girls. The old frame annex 10
the main building will be replaced by
three-story brick structure.
Rev. ]. III. Washington, superintendent
of the Evangelical Rescue and Manual
Training School and Home. says that Of
ficers of the home will in the future receive
no more donations The home will be oper-
ated independently and will be supported
by two or three especially interested per-
sons.
The April meeting of the Political Equal
ity Society will be held at the Propylaeum
tomorrow at 2:30 p. m Mr.. Philip Rap
paport will address the meeting on 'Polit-
icaI and Economic Equality" musical
programme will be given by Miss Lille
Adam. Miss Alice Holton and Miss Ben
aldine Smith. The public Is invited
The contract for the new two-story brick
buildings which Is to be erected on the va
cant property adjoining the postofYice build
ing was let yesterday to Schumacher d
Co. and is to be completed by May a The
syndicate purchasing the federal building
Is the promoter The building will be tenn
DorariIy occupied BY the revenue omces ana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
DISEASE IN THE STATE.
Facts Contained in Reports to State
Board of Health.

Reports to the State Board of Health
show the following facts concerning dis
ease in the State during March. as COM
pared with the previous month: In
creased-Rheumatism. measles. tonsilitis,
influenza. Decrease-Pneumonia, bron-
chtis. intermittent fever. diarrhoea diph-
iberia, Group. typhoid fever, erysipelas,
whooping cough inflammation. of the bow
els. No material change-Consumption
peritonitis, scarlet fever. puerperal fever
and cholera morbus. Smallpox was re-
ported from the following counties: Posey,
Washington. Greene. Marion. Clay. Jack
son, Vanderburg and Gibson. There was
a marked decrease of smallpox in March;
until March 81 the total number of cases
reported in the State was Sc, as against
$50 on Feb. 81
The State Board of Health announces
that the annual conference of the State
health officers will be held in this city on
May and 3. The feature of the meeting
will be symposium on school hygiene.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
ORGANIZED LABOR.
Information Furnished by Bureau of
Statistics.

The bulletin issued by the Bureau of Sta
tistics yesterday gives complete informa-
ton regarding the, labor unions of the
State. Every labor organization in the
State is given with its name. the name
of the secretary, and the name of the ma
tional organization. The table of men,
membership shows that there are
24,42i union men and women in
the State, which is a net in
crease of 1872. Admissions by initiation
during the year were 2,6SS. The scale or
wages fixed By the unions for the journey
men in Indianapolis as we'll as other cities
and also for the butchers, clerks, laun-
dry workers and machinists, who have no
established scale, is shown In the report.
The table of the hours of work shows a
tendency towards shortening and this is
more noticeable in the printing trade,
where a half hour has been cut off.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
Former Bankers Go to Prison.

CHICAGO. April 7.-George Magill, for
nerly prosperous and well-known Chi
cago banker. who has. for years. fought a
charge OF receiving deposits after he knew
HIS bank, the Avenue Savings. TO be in
solvent. to-day withdrew his plea of not
guilty and was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary and to pay a fine of SS.027.40. Magil
was largely Influenced by the unlocked
for action of Robert Berger. a banker.
who convicted OF similar offense. yester-
day withdrew his prayer for new trial
and was Immediately taken TO prison.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind. April T. - 1t was an
nounced here to-day that il has been de-
termined to make Dr. II. n. Herrck, pas
tor of the First NJ. f. Church of Wabash.
presiding elder of one of the districts of
the North Indiana Conference. The as
signments will not be announced until Mon
day, but reliable information leaves little
doubt that the change is already decided
on. DIR. Herrick was unanimously asked
by his congregation to return, and a
change will prove great disappointment,
especially as to him largely belongs the
credit for building and paying for the new
church. He has been here two years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Blanche McAllister brought habeas cor
pus proceedings against Addie B. Houk in
Superior Court. Room 2, yesterday for the
possession of her child. Dorothy McAllister
who is two years and half old. She al
leges that the child is being unlawfully de-
tanned at the home of Addie Houk at 3l3
North Capitol avenue, and that Addie
Houk refuses to give up the child although
plaintiff is its mother. II is further charged
that the child is being called Alta Houk,
when her real name is Dorothy McAllister.
Judge feathers ordered the defendant to
bring the child into court at 8 o'clock Mon
day morning for a hearing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

SAVANNAH. Ga. April I'm the United
States Court to-day Judge Emory Speer
sentenced Harry Belmont and Harry Mel
SON two postoffice robbers. to four years
i'm the penitentiary at Nashville. In pass
ing sentence the Judge said that profess
sionaI crooks from the North make great
mistake in believing they can come South.
ply their trade with impunity and escape
punishment. The people OF the South are
easy 10 get along with when dealt with
honestly" said the court, but they are
quick to run down any one who robs them"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

CLEVELAND. o.. April 7.-According to
Business Agent Pratt. of the Street-railway
Employees Association. the fight of that
organization against the big consolidated
street-railway company, as the result or
last summers strike, will be actively re-
newed this spring. w. ID. Mahon. the ma
tional president OF the association. will be
here next Friday 20 address the Cleveland
members The boycott is undoubtedly the
weapon that will be used in case the fight
Is actively reneWed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
MISS ALGEO FINED.
Court Decides Against the Principal
of school No. b.

Justice Smock yesterday rendered his de-
cision in the case OF the State, upon COM
piaint OF Mrs. Sarah Harris, against Miss
Amy b. Algeo principal of public school
No. IS, and fined her 81 and costs for as
sauit and battery upon Mrs. Harris's SON.
who was attending the school. She APP
.pealed 10 the Criminal Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
TO TERMINATE THE STRIKE.
Pittsburg District Miners to Meet i'm
Convention Thursday.

PITTSBCRG. April THE executive
committee of the United Mine Workers has
called convention of the miners of the
Pittsburg district for next Thursday. when
* is expected that formal action Will be
taken TO terminate the present strike. IL
is the belief of the officials CT the union
that by the time the convention meets the
miners will all be back at work. but the
convention is considered necessary in order
that delegates from each mine may hear
explanations from the mouths of officials
in regard to the disputed points in the
new scale and take them home to the men
who sent them.
About 5000 miners, out Of the 1900 mi
ners in the district. are still on strike The
miners and operators in the Irwin district
have agreed on a scale, and all viii return
20 work Monday. The new scale affects
500 men. who have been out ten days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Rev. Burris Jenkins, president OF the
University of Indianapolis. will deliver the
baccaiaureate address before the students
OF the university to-day in Plymouth
Church. The students of all four senior
classes will assemble in the Denfson Hotel
at $3.50 D. m, and will march to the church.
Music will be rendered By the choir Of the
church. and also by the university GUAR
tet. The services will be open to the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
A Commission of $50. 900.

LONDON, April 7.-Controller Coler to-
day confirmed the report that he, as agent
of the State OF New York, had collected
s., 100000 in taxes on the estate of the late
George Smith, who died in London. The
controllers share for making the collection
IL $40, 600 commission. The government of
Great Britain collected $4,500,000 inheritance
tax on the estate. sufficient as the chan
celler of the exchequer said in the House
of Commons month ago, to build and
equip battleship
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

COLUMBUS. o.. April lit Is announced
az the state headquarters OF the United
Mine Workers that an agreement has been
reachel between the miners and operators
or the Bellaire district at the New Phila-
oeIphfa conference and all differences
settled. The Indianapolis scale was signed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Schweihie & Prange. carriage makers at
SOL East Market street, discovered upon
opening their ofiice yesterday morning that
some one had during the night worked the
comblpakion Is the safe and taken from II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
Another Case.

Louis G.. Deschler received a case of
those fine Havana Estanillo cigars through
the custom house. yesterday, and from the
regularity with which he receives these
Shipments the Estanillo must be a prime
favorite with Indianapolis smokers who
know the quality OF tps tobacco they use
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

about $15 The work showed conclusively
that the robbers had an intimate acquaint-
ance with the place, and suspicion di-
rected to former employees Books and pa
pers were scattered about the Office, but
nothing but the money had been taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

Lille Carter fled suit for divorce from
her husband. James +. Carter. yesterday
ALLEGING that he stayed out late of u1GhtD
and made no expiration Tor - 0oonG
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

and a new scale made granting an In
crease of 20 per cent. to outside day labor
ers. About five thousand men are affected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08
Sues for Possession of Child.

Major Glover, whose apartments will be
turned over to the Federal Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-08

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