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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
VIOLATING THE LAW.
JenersonvilIe Loan Associations Said
to Ee Borrowing money.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Jan. H.
County Assessor Thomas Swartz has made
serious charges against the loan associa-
tions of this city to State Tax Commission
er Thomas Buskirk. The latter came to
this city at the request of Mr.. Swartz to
assist him in securing the return for taxa
ton of a number of outstanding certificates
of the different loan associations. To the
surprise Of Mr.. Buskirk he was informed
that the certificates which were causing
the trouble were issued security for
money alleged TO have been borrowed by
the associations.
AS il is clearly against the law for the
loan associations to borrow money under
their charter the main object of their or
ganization being to loan money, Mr.. Bus
kirk has written Attorney General Tay
lor, requesting him TO visit Jacksonville
at once and ascertain the truth of the
charges. While here Captain Buskirk called
the attention of County Attorney Fortune
to the charges made against the associa-
tions by the assessor, and suggested that
he investigate them at once, and If they
were true TO take the proper steps to
stop the practice. Captain Buskirk was
much surprised by the statement of Mr..
Swartz and says that he can hardly be-
lieve that the associations would be guilty
of so fragrant violation of the statute
and their articles of Incorporation. The
outcome of the investigations will be
awaited with much interest. The amount
of these outstanding certificates is said
to be $4,000.
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FOR ACCEPTING BRIDES.
Members of a School Board Arrested
on a Serious Charge.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 11.-Four members
of the Board of Education were arrested
to-day on warrants charging them with ac-
cepting a bride. They are A. M. Cowie.
G. G. Trey, George H. Hess and Frank A.
Sears. The case grows out of the letting
of a contract for Venitian blinds fer sew
eral large new school buildings erected
last year. The evidence on which the
charge was made was furnished by Chas.
Chiniquy, the representative of the Bost-
wick & Burgess Company, of Ohio. He
made affidavit to paying all of the ac-
cused, except Cowie, certain sums for their
influence and turned over TO the authorities
the checks with which the sums were
paid. showing the Endorsements of the &C
cused which were made when the checks
were cashed. Cowie he alleges, demanded
money, but wanted more than he was
willing TO pay. A committee of the board is
also investigating charges of bribery con-
nected with other contracts, but no ar
rests have been made in connection with
them.
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TO CARRY ON M0ODY'S WORK.
Three Million Dollars Asked for the
Memorial Endowment.

NEW YORK. Jan. 11.-For the purpose of
devising the best means of carrying on the
work of the late Dwight l.. Moody men,
beTs of the committees from the Bible
House. Chicago, Mount Hermon Institute
for Young Men. and the Seminary for
Young Women at Northfeld, Mass, met
here to-day. Among those present were
VIII r. Moody, eldest son of the evangel-
list, and F. A. Fit. his son-in-law. The
meeting was in secret and after 1t was con-
Guided, formal announcement was made
that the work of Mr.. Moody would be
continued under the form of the Moody
memorial endowment. The following adj
visory committee was selected at the meet
ing: William Z. Dodge, New York; James
Talcott, Morris X. Jessup. Arson Phelps
Stokes, jr.. ID. w. McWilliams. d. Willis
James. John s. Kennedy, Ira ID. Sankey.
all of New York: Il. q. Keith, Cyrus w.
Mccormick and Victor F. Lawson all of
Chicago; John III. Converse and John Wan
amaker, of Philadelphia; c. A Hopkins,
Boston. and Francis White, Baltimore.
IL decided to issue appeal to the
public TO subscribe the S3.0o0000 required
to meet the expenses OF the institutions d.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MARION, Ind, Jan. III A Kuntz.
president of the Mississinewa Gas Com
pany, said to-day that his company is ar
ranging to equip its plant in this city with
pumping stations next season. The pressure
of the wells has decreased so much that Il
will be necessary TO force the gas into the
city. Most of the companys wells are To-
Gated two or three miles from the city.
year ago the pressure averaged from 100
TO two hundred pounds. Now IL registers a
pressure of about 120 pounds to the well.
The gas company is also determined to try
an experiment with the exhausted wells
In the Pennsylvania field about FIVE differ
ent strata can be found furnishing indie
pendent flows When one stratum is ex-
hausted the well is put down to another
stratum. and the life of the field is thus
prolonged. The Mississinewa company will
give Grant county a thorough test The
wells now range in depth from nine hun
dred to one thousand feet. 1t is proposed
TO sink them to depth of from $500 to
$500 feet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
PLAGUE IN A NEW PLACE.
The BubOnic Pest Obtains n FOOthOld
in Rio De JaneirO.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE bubonic
plague has made it's appearance at Rio
Janeiro, as is shown by the following cable
gram received here tonight by Surgeon
General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital
Service, from Acting Assistant Surgeon
Havelberg:
There has been one death from plague
at Rio Janeiro. This diagnosis confirmed
by meteorological examination. Acting
Assistant Surgeon Carson has arrived en-
route to Santos.
Some weeks ago cases of the plague were
said to exist at Santos, and 1t would not
be surprising to the officials here if later
developments show that the ease of Rio
Janeiro is traceable to Santos. 1t was
from Santos that the ship Taylor with
cargo of coffee arrived at New York some
time ago and was refused permission to
land. Prompt measures will be taken by
the Marine Hospital Service to prevent
the introduction of the disease into the
ports of the United States by means of
any vessels that may leave the Brazilian
ports.
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CHAPLIN ON THE STAND
TESTIMONY FINISHED IN THE FOR
gerry CASE AT BRAZIL.
Jeffersonvflle Loan Companies Ac-
cused of borrowing Money-Oil
Field Fires-POIiticaI Notes.
eneciaI 10 the IndIanapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
BRAZIL, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE defense had
its inning in the Chaplin forgery trial to-
day. One after another. bank officials, ac-
countants and handwriting experts, most
OF whom were familiar with the handwrit-
Ing OF Sterling b. Holt, declared the sig
natures OF the notes in controversy to be
genuine. Mrs. Chaplin, wife OF the defend
ant. was placed on the stand After tes-
tifying as to facts concerning her mar
riage, age, etc, she declared that she was
nearly always present when Holt and
Chaplin discussed business matters, and
that she went to Chicago with them to
sign the deed for the transfer of property
belonging TO her and her husband to Holt
After they bought the Charlemont Hotel
they drove. with Holt, to his office, one
day. and she remained in the buggy while
the men went in. In about twenty minutes
her husband came out with two notes in
his hand. They then drove to the Cap
ital National Bank. which Chaplin entered.
but returned in a few minutes with the
notes still in his possession.
In Philadelphia. where they went to bury
their child. she said they went by their own
name. often met Indianapolis people. and
identity. When they left indianapolis, she
borrowed money for the expenses of the
trip. She said Holt knew that her hus-
band bad bought the Charlemont; that he
held $500 note against Chaplin, and did
not attempt to collect ii. On cross-examina-
ton she testified that she was present four
times In Hollis office when negotiations
were pending for the purchase. by her
husband OF the Brazil Ice and Cold-storage
company. NO other persons were present.
Frederick Chaplin was called, and went
confidently to the stand. He recounted the
story of his life and the circumstances
leading up 10 his present trouble, simply
and interestingly After the death of his
father, In 1884, he SAID he went from Chi
cago to indianapolis. intending to buy
hotel property from Thomas Taggart He
met Holt, and the latter induced him to
buy into the Brazil Ice and Cold-storage
Company. Holt had told him Ii was doing
a business of s., 600 profit a year, but after
ne had bought IL, Holt sold ice in Brazil,
IN opposition to him, and his investment
was not good He made the first payment
on the Charlemont Hotel, he said. with
money secured from Brazil banks He
tried to get 1t on his own security but
Iailed He then went to Holt, and secured
his Endorsement TO the notes cashed here.
and now in controversy.
Attorney Spaan cross-examined the wit
ness. put nothing of Importance was
elected Chaplin told his story with marked
cofnposure, and endured the cross-exam-
lnatiOn with equanimity. Arguments will
De begun In the morning and the case prob
ably VIII go TO the jury late in the after
noon Notwithstanding the heavy down.
70 the doors, both morning and afternoon
to-day.
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Senator Gochenour is candidate for re-
nomination for joint senator from Wabash
ard Fulton counties, and there is pos
sibility that Walter Irwin, of North Man.
chester will also run for the office.
Representative James NJ Barlow, of Hen
bricks county. has issued a card declining
to allow the consideration of his name in
Connection with the Republican gubernator-
ial nomination and urging upon the Hen
bricks county Republicans the claims and
worth of Enoch G. Hogate for the honor
Montgomery county Democrats are said
to be rallying to the standard OF George
S. Harvey. of Charlottesville, for the Dem
ocratic congressional nomination. They
hold that the election of Neal as district
chairman kills the chances of Captain AL
len, and as most of the other men suggest
ed for the race have refused to consider the
matter favorably Harvey is being groomed
the most available entry
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QUEER COLLEGE JOKE.
Premature Explosion of an Internal
Machine i'm a Theater.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, Jan. 1.-THE ex-
plosion of a bomb in closet in Sanders
Theater at Harvard tonight while five or
six hundred people were listening to a
Beethoven pastoral by the Boston SYM
phony orchestra, not only put a sudden end
to the concert, but for a few minutes, by
reason of the panic which followed threat
ened the lives of many in a rush for the
doors. Fortunately the turmoil was
Gained and the audience left quietly. The
college authorities tonight believe the
whole affair was intended as joke on the
history class, and that it exploded twelve
hours ahead of time. The janitor offers a
very tangible theory as to the intention of
the authors of the internal machine
He stated that during the afternoon he
found satchel beneath one of the seats
and thinking that ii belonged TO one of
the students. he put il in the closet. The
history class, for whom the bomb was
probably intended will meet in the theater
tomorrow morning.
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the United States of interest on the capt.
tai invested in the railway. owned and
operated by said company pursuant TO q
guarantee Of said interest by the Spanish
government. The Manila Railway Com
pany, limited. which is corporation, or
ganized under the laws of Great Britain.
obtained a concession from the Spanish
governement for railroad from Manila
TO Dagupan in the island Of Luzon. about
100 miles. BY the terms of the concession
the Spanish government guaranteed a re-
turn OF per certum per annum on the
capital invested in the railroad. The rail-
way company contends that the United
States by assuming sovereignty over the
Philippines in accordance with the terms
of the treaty of peace with Spain became
bound to respond to the obligations OF the
Spanish government under said concession.
and should pay to IL the amounts due on
the subvention which have accrued since
the date of the treaty o. peace. aggregating
S237. O6S
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Eighteen OIL Wells Idle, I'm Addition
10 Immediate Fire Losses.
indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. Jan. 1.-Two
more power houses were destroyed I'm the
oil field yesterday making a total of five
within the past few weeks. One was on the
rhomas Stackhouse farm, near Van, Buren,.
owned by the Standard Oil Company The
power pumped eight wells. The loss on the
building and machinery is about 81 600. The
other was the property of the Colgen OIL
Company, OF Toledo. o., situated on the
Ogle lease. near Poulto. The power pumped
the product of ten wells and the loss is
about the same as In the first fire. The
greatest loss. however is in the shutdown
of the wells, which cannot be made 10 pro-
duce until new power houses can be built
and new machinery secured The loss from
this alone will be several hundred dollars
q day. The fire originated, In each case.
from gas line.
MONTPELIER, Ind. Jan. 1f.-An oil
power house on the Ogle farm. three miles
north OF here. in blackboard county, burned
last night. causing a loss OF about 81 300
beside the stopping OF seven wells. The
blaze caught from gas line. a cause
which IS responsible for most of the power
house fires.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
A ROYALIST'S VIEWS.


CHICAGO. Jan. n.-Count de la Chesney,
who was married at Colorado Springs two
days ago and who passed through Chicago
to-day on his way TO Paris, believes that
eventually France will have again a mon
archical form of government. Nothing
will be done in a political way to reorgan-
ize the present government" he said. until
after the Paris exposition That is prac-
tically matter of agreement among the
high statesmen. But France is near
change. The Fashoda incident and the
Dreyfus affair added much to the general
discomfort among the masses. AT the prop
er time the man TO lead the Royalist party
will be found. Ii is not unlikely that
Prince Louis Napoleon. now a colonel in
the Russian army, will be the one who will
be chosen"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Stationery Bids Are Extortionate.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
KOKOMO, Ind. Jan. 1.-THE Howard
County Council. is in quandary over sta
tionery supplies. Last year the officers were
supplied with books. blanks, etc, at cost
of $500, and the Council, in regular ses-
sion this fall fixed the appropriation for
next year for this purpose at the same fig
ure. When the bids were opened the lowest
proposition over $500. ranging from
that to IS, 100. All bids were rejected, and ii
was readvertised. The Council, in special
session, this week opened the second bids.
and the figures were no lower than at first,
and they were again rejected. 1t was de-
cided not to increase the appropriation, but
to advertise a third time. in the hope of
getting reasonable bids. The hand of the
Paper Trust is clearly visible in the trans
action, but the Council hopes in some way
to prevent the extortion.
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SEWAGE TO BE UTILIZED.
Drainage Canal Water Power Leased
by the City Of Chicago.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1L-Water power sufii-
cient to operate the city pumping stations
and municipal lighting plants for seventy
five years will be turned over to the city
of Chicago by the sanitary board as re-
suit of joint conference to-day between
committees from the City Council and the
drainage board. BY the terms of the agree
ment, which will in all probability be rati-
fed by the drainage board and the Cisy
Council all the water power privileges gen.
Grated at Lockport by the opening of the
new drainage canal will be transferred to
the city at the rate OF "a per horse power.
The amount OF power which ii is estimated
will be created at Lockport is about 1000
horse power, which will furnish the drain
age board with an annual income of 100000.
The conditions defined at to-'iays confer
ence limit the use of the water power by
the city authorities for municipal purposes
only. The city will bear the cost of build
ing the Improvements necessary at Lock-
port in order to use the power. Water in
the north section of the drainage canal
to-day reached the top of the bear trap
dam at Lockport, and within an hour after
the first thin sheet OF water began pouring
ever the top, thousands OF gallons of water
under the pressure of the immense volume
of water i'm the windage basin were speed
ing on their way TO the Mississippi. Huge
cakes of ice and masses OF driftwood were
taken up in the current and the roar OF the
water could be heard for a quarter of a
mile. 1t will be two or three days yet be-
fore the Chicago level is reached. and then
dredging at the Campbell avenue dam will
be commenced.
Ten days have elapsed since the waters
Of the Chicago river were turned into the
canal through a narrow sluice way with q
capacity of only sixty thousand cubic feet
a minute. The waters Of the river have
been so purified that n sample OF water
taken from the river at Wells street was
pronounced by chemists to be fit for drink
ing after being boiled. IL is better water
than has been obtained many times from
the city intakes out in Lake Michigan
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Association of High Schools.
ciaI to the Indianapolls journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
KOKOMO, Ind, Jan. IL - Steps were
taken here to-day for the organization of
the high schools of this part of the State,
to be known as the North Indiana High
School Oratorical and Athletic Association.
Superintendent Malsbury and Principal
Hedgepeth, of the Peru school, and Super
intendent Ogg and Principal McCaughan,
of the Kokomo High School, have outlined
plan of organization and other cities
have promised to cooperate in perfecting
the association. The plans contemplate
contests in oratory, essays, class studies
and field games of several kinds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
BETTER THAN THE KLONDIKE.
Anderson Men "Strike 1t Rich" in the
Cripple Creek Field.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON Ind, Jan. 11.-Last summer
County Clerk l. E. May and c.. w. Hoover.
agent for the Big Four, grub-staked an old
miner and sent him to the Cripple Creek
region, in Colorado. The miner secured
claim and has been working 1t for months.
with Indifferent success. few weeks ago
Messrs. May and Hoover went to Cripple
Creek to look after their interests, and
found their miner hard at work, but in need
of more money 10 develop his mine, In
which the Andersonians half owners.
They determined to give the desired sup
port. To-day word was received from Grip
pie Creek announcing that a rich vein of
pay ore had been struck. and a fortune for
both men is In sight They have been Of
fered and have refused 1000 per cent. OH
their claim, but will not sell out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IL - General
Shafter received telegram from Nagasaki
to-day, sent by Major Hyde. quartermaster
Of the Thomas. stating that the body of
Gen. H. w. Lawton is on that transport,
which is due in San Francisco on the 18th
of January. The body will be escorted to
Washington by General Shafter himself
accompanied by his aid, Lieut.. Eugene T.
Wilson, Third Artillery. The body of Major
Logan is also on the Thomas.
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Cashier Held I'D.

NEW YORK. Jan. 1.-Two men entered
the Long Island City branch of the Pru-
dental Insurance Company tonight and
at the muzzle OF revolver compelled Har-
~ Athing. the cashier TO give up the mon
ey he was counting at the time. This
amounted TO over $500. The robbers. on en-
,ering and leaving the place, walked past
an open safe In which were thousands Of
dollars. as the weekly collections had been
made to-day. The robbers escaped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Elkhnrt Public Building Bill.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Jan. u.-Congressman
Brick has notified Mayor Turner that he
would soon introduce a bill to appropriate
100000 for a public building in Elkhart.
The city will offer a desirable site free. and
the high standing of the Elkhart postof-
flee, which. in gross receipts is third in
the State, and in net receipts second only
to indianapolis, is expected to prove a po-
tent factor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12
Big Deal I'm OH rerritery.

BOWLING GREEN. o., Jan. III. c.
Hickock and NJ. b. Chidester. of this city,
have closed a deal for the entire oil in
terests of the Palmer Oil Company. The
price paid Is 100000. and includes so
acres in fee in Wood county, and leases on
3.z5 acres in Wood and Hancock counties
There are 155 producing wells on the prop
erty with monthly production of 1850
barrels.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE
American Tin-plate Company has ordered
twenty fiat cars to be used I'm shipping the
machinery from the Montpelier mill, closed
last Saturday, to Elwood. where the same
will be added to the plant there Five car
loads have already been shipped. The citi-
zeris of Montpelier, who gave 1000 to the
company for locating there, will make no
effort to prevent the removal of the plant.
The removal of the plant will have the
effect of making q bonus pretty hard to
get in the future in the gas-belt cities.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
BATESVILLE. Ind. Jan. 1.-THE Union
Furniture Company. of Batesville, has rec
ognized the return OF good times by de-
claring a per cent dividend, adding
enough 10 its surplus 10 enhance the value
of the stock about 20 per cent and bv
advancing the wages OF its employees ali
around, 10 per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-12

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE Indiana
Board of Pharmacy is holding its regular
session at the st. Denis Hotel in this city.
All the members of the board were present.
Nine applicants for license from various
parts of the State were examined to-day in
practical pharmacy. One of the applicants
was a young negro, j. III. Jones, of Evans
ville who owns drug store in that city.
He passed a very fine examination. The
next meeting of the board will be held in
Lafayette on the second Wednesday in
April where the board has been rendered
the use of the Purdue University labora-
tories during the session.
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WATERBURY, Conn.,, Jan. 1.-THE
twenty-five round bout between George
McFadden. of New York, and Mystery"
George Kerwin, of Chicago, scheduled to
take place here tonight before the Nation
al Athletic Club, was not pulled off. Nc
Fadden was not in condition, as he was
still suffering from the punishment ~
ceived in his recent bout with Spike"
Sullivan, and Matty Matthews sub
stituted, but as the pugilists were about
to enter the ring the box Office receipts
were attached and the fight was declared
off