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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-12
TO BUILD UNIVERSITY
TRUSTEES HAVE BETWEEN TWO
AND THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
Bishop Hurst, However, Hopes to Sc
cure Another Million Next Year
for the Great American School.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE board of
trustees of the American University held
its annual meeting here to-day. Bishop
Hurst reported that there now was be-
tween sa2,Oo0,0o and 100000 on hand, ard
urged that every effort should be put forth
TO secure $1,000, 900 more during the coming
year. the money TO be used as a basis for
opening the institution for actual work in
instruction. Everything was reported TO be
in a prosperous condition. TIL report OF
the financial secretary showed that $4,000
will soon be added to the fund.
1t was reported that land worth 5000. near
the site of the proposed university. had
been given by a friend. A subscription of
10000 was made by a member of the board.
whose name was not announced.
During the day the members of the board
called on President Mckinley, who showed
a deep interest in the project, and suggest
ed that subscriptions both small and large
be asked SO that all classes might con-
tribute. The President already has made a
contribution and hopes to make another.
AT the afternoon session the board passed
q resolution indorsing the organization of
the Woman's Guild of the American Uni
versity. The following officers were re-
elected: President, John E. Andrus; treas
utti, AdllleW IL EMERY, SScfStdry, rev.
Charles w. Baldwin. D.. ID. Rev. John A.
Gutteridge was elected financial secretary.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt, of New
York, Hon. w. G. Emerson. of Wyoming,
and Hon. w. L. Woodcock, of Pennsyl-
vania, were elected to the board to fill va
cancies.
While the members of the board were re-
turning from the executive mansion the
venerable Bishop McCabe was taken sud-
denly i'll with a severe headache. He soon
recovered and tonight announced his in
| tention to leave for Evanston. Ill.
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OHIOAN SUES FOR $2,297, 037.
He Wants a Large Portion of the
Adams Express Company's Assets.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 11.-Harrison
Wagner, of Cardington. o., who a few
days ago instituted suits in the United
States Court against citizens OF Frederick
county, Maryland, in which the damages
claimed aggregated hundreds of thousands
of dollars, filed another paper to-day
against the Adams Express Company, IN
which he claims the sum of 81, 291, 0s7 as a
debt and the interest on 81. 342, 022. 40 from
Oct. %, 1900. 1t is contended by the plaintiff
that he sued the Adams Express Company
before John Hays. a justice of the peace of
Frederick county. in 1920 separate and
distinct suits, claiming in each $100.
He states that the defendant company
was duly served with proceedings in each
and every suit on the return days from the
10th TO the I'D day of December, 1883, in
elusive. In each one of these suits Wag-
ner alleges Judgment was rendered against
the express company in the sum of 500
principal and S1.30 costs. He states that he
has not had execution or satisfaction on
any or either of the judgments, and that
every part thereof remains unsatisfied and
is in full force and effect, not reversed or
otherwise vacated The plaintiff acts as
his own lawyer and prepared and filed the
bill of complaint. The numerous judg-
ments. 1t is stated, were for prosecutions
the plaintiff has suffered at the hands of
the corporation.
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Indiana Notes.

The Charlottesville Oil Company has sold
out to the Standard Oil Company.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the C~ovington postoffice Sunday night.
Fountain county farmers will hold their
annual institute in Covington to-day and
tomorrow.
The cold weather has practically stopped
new operations in the Hartford City oil
field. Frozen water pipes are the cause Of
the shutdown.
Taylor Reagan, postmaster at Plainfeld,
has been notified by Representative Holli-
day that he will be recommended for re-
appointment.
Burglars entered the home of Willard
Smith, at Union City, Monday night, and,
after chloroforming the Inmates, ransackeJ
the house, securing about $50.
The attorneys for William Gates, convict
ed Of involuntary manslaughter in connec-
ton with the death of James r.. Meek, have
filed a motion for q new trial at Richmond
alleging that the verdict is not supported
by the evidence.
Ira Hunt, of Centerville, a boy who was
sent to the R~eformatory for burglary, is
sick unto death, and will be taken home
TO die. He was the mascot of the One
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Indiana infantry
during the Spanish war.
A. W.. Winterberg, of Edinburg, has sued
Henry Lewis for s, 1000 damages for libel, for
stating, so complainant alleges, that VIM
terberg had tempered with the election re-
turns In Blue River township. Both men
are wealthy and prominent.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE body of
Frank Boone, aged forty-fve years, who
has been missing for two weeks. was found
in a vaul in the rear of Charles Shoff's
saloon last night. he was last seen on the
night of Nov. rs in Shoff's saloon. The au-
thorities say they nave cause for suspecting
that Boone was murdered. He had drawn
$35 the day he disappeared for work done
at the Soldiers Home. Will Hines, a fell
l~cw-painter, is under arrest on suspicion.
Boone was a well-known painter and con-
tractor and of good family.
No marks were found on the body which
would Indicate that Boone had met death
by violent means. The theory is advanced
that he was poisoned and the body thrown
into the vault. The contents of the stom-
acE will be analysed.
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Bishop White Fortunate.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE board oil
managers of the Protestant Episcopal Mis-
sicnary Society held its monthly meeting
to-day. Bishop Doane, of Albany. presided,
Three women missionaries were appointed
for work within the United States. They
were Miss Nancy Gantling, who is to work
among the negroes at Brunswick. Ca, I'M
der the direction of the Bishop of Georgia,
Miss Augusta II. Murphy, to Los Angeles,
Cal, and Miss Laura Carroll, to North Car
DINA.
Bishop John H. White, of Michigan City,
Ind, said that when he went to Michigan
City, two years and a half ago, there was
no provision even for the bishops salary
and no diocesan endowments of any kind.
Every engagement made by the churches
in the diocese has been kept, however, and
on time. AT present there is a fund OF
$4,000 as an endowment fund for the bish-
ops salary and an episcopal residence
building. The only outside help was a sal
airy of $1,000 a year paid by the missionary
society to the bishop.
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE state
legislative committee which is inspecting
the state-supported institutions, accompa-
MED by Governor-elect Durbin, was at the
Indiana State Normal School to-day. This
morning the visitors went over the build
ings and grounds. Especial attention was
given to the two matters referred to in the
biennial report Of the board of trustees,
the purchase of "A frame residence prop
erty, which is very close to the new build
ing of the Normal and which is a fire
menace. and to the establishment or an
electric-lighting plant. TIL cost of the resi-
dence property and the lighting plant would
be S13, 500.
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Acquitted After several Trials.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 1.-THE jury
in the case of John Gafford, charged with
the murder of Frances b. Lloyd, brought in
a verdict to-day of not guilty. This ter
minated one of the most celebrated GRIM
inal cases ever tried in Alabama. In
August, 1897, Gafford shot and killed
Lloyd, q newspaper man known as
Rufus Sanders" Gafford claimed that
Lloyd had improper relations with CAT
ford's sister. At the first trial Gaf-
ford was sentenced to death. The
Supreme Court reversed the case. and at
the second trial was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment. The Supreme Court again re-
versed the decision, and Gafford got a
change of venue from Butler county to
Montgomery county. The feeling in Butler
county was high against Gafford, and for
five years he has been confined in Jail here.
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FOND DU LAC. Wis, Dec 1.-THE Duke
of New Castle is en- route from London.
England, 10 visit the Rt. Rev. {. c. Graf
ton, Of this city. He will reach New YORK
next Thursday The duke comes TO confer
with the bishop and other prominent clergy
men in relation TO church publications lie
Is owner of the Church Review. OF London.
one of the three largest church papers I'm
England. IL Is the desire OF the owner and
publisher 10 merge IL with some American
church paper, so that IL may become an
organ for the entire Anglican community.
n Is with this purpose in view that he
comes 10 Fond du Lac to visit Bishop Graf
ton. who is publisher of the American
Churchman.
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A Large Grist Goes Through the Hop
per on the Last Day.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 1.-THE Amer
lean Federation of Labor begins to see
daylight through the mass of resolutions
with which it has been struggling for the
past five days. TO-DAY was the last day
for the submission of resolutions. and
Notwithstanding the short session this aft
posing of those already before the con-
~ventior. 1t now looks as though Friday
would see the final adjournment.
The docket of resolutions received by
the secretary at to-day's session contained
the following. to be passed on by the
proper committees and submitted to the
conventions: A resolution introduced W
John Mitchell, of the United Mine Work
ers, expressing sympathy with the Iron
Molders' Union in its struggle with the
National Founders Association, against
rules requiring members of the former
union to work with nonunion holders; a
resolution for noninterference by national
and international unions of woodworkers
with shipwrights' and ~joiners' unions; one
providing that no local" affiliated with an
international or national body, chartered
by the A. +. of L., shall be permitted to
join any central body that has affiliated
WIl IL All 1AA&& AALAo ~
from an International or national body
chartered by the A. +. of L.; one for the
placing of orders for governmental army
hats with union factories; one for the
free school book system where not in force:
one for the organization OF textile workers
ia North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama; and one for the ton of
telephone girls.
The report on the presidents address
contained the following recommendations:
Higher dues; appointment of organizers;
The chartering of local and central bodies
of colored people; in favor of strikes where
they represent the only means for redress
ing grievances: for the collection of sta
tIstics relating 10 strikes and gains made
without strikes: for the closer cementing
of the bonds of international unions; for
the employment of an advertising solicitor
for the Federationist, and that the feder-
alton look with favor upon the formation
of trade groups" The report was unani-
mously adopted.
A resolution for the establishment of the
free school book system where not al
ready in force was adopted. Other resolu-
tons adopted provided for the demanding
OF the card of the Retail Clerks lnterna-
tional Protective Association when max
ing purchases; for the organization OF
unions OF shipping department workers AMI
all other freight handlers; for organization
OF blacksmiths and the placing of such
organizations in the front rank of trade
unionism;" for the organization of trunk
aud baggage workers, and for the organ
izationD of agricuiturists.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE Com
mercial Club is negotiating with a COM
pany with strong financial backing which
offers to establish a rolling mill here for
a bonus of $1,000. The mill is TO employ
45O men, with a pay roll of $4,000 a year.
1t is to be independent of the trust COM
pany, the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany, which owns the Terre Haute mills.
"A special committee is to be appointed to
solicit subscriptions for the subsidy fund
The company gives reasonable assurance
that If the mill is established a steel mill.
the plant to cost several hundred thousand
dollars, also will be erected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-12
MARVIN KUHNS ESCAPED
OFFICER Fan AsSAILANT BE-
LIEyED TO BE HIDING AT AUBURN.
Insane Fountain County Farmers
Crime-Road Builder Blown to
P~ieces-GirI Fatally Burned.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
L~OGANSPORT, Ind, Dec. n.-Marvin
Kuhns, the escaped convict from the Ohio
penitentiary, who last evening gave bat
tie to officers attempting to effect his ar
rest on q charge of horse stealing, Is now
probably safely sheltered in the vicinity
of his home near Auburn.
The posse from here traced him as far as
Peru last night. where he is known TO
nave boarded a Wabash eastbound train
at 2 o'clock this morning. He was recog-
nized by the conductor, with whom he
talked. and to whom he remarked that he
had been down to Logansport having a
little fun"
officer Dean, shot by Kuhns during the
fight, probably viii recover. although the
wound in his breast is a dangerous one.
When Dean approached Kuhns, the latter
remarked: "well. old man. 1T looks like we
would nave TO fight ii out alone" and will
this, advanced towards the officer. Then
it was that Dean threw his empty revolver
at Kuhns, who lodged the weapon and shot
the unarmed officer.
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REVENGE OF A WOMAN.


BUFFALO, Dec. n.-George H.. Harmon.
a stationary engineer employed by the
Union Drydock Company. staggered from a
hallway on South Division street and fell
to the sidewalk in a dying condition, re-
sulting from carbolic acid burns. He was
taken to an accident hospital, where he
died a few minutes later. 1t was learned
by the police that Harmon had been in
the room of Mrs. Maggie Culp. The wom-
an left the building through a rear door
and the detective force of the city has
been unable TO find her. The police were
at first inclined TO believe that Harmon
had committed suicide but after an in
vestigation state that they believe that I'm
"A passion OF jealous rage the woman
poured the acid in the mouth and over
the face of Harmon, whom. they assume.
was sleeping upon a bed I'm her room. 1t
Is stated that Mrs. Culp had made threats
to kill Harmon. who she knew was con-
templatfng marriage TO another woman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-12
Proposed Home for Aged Erk..

OMAHA, Dec. u.-Jerome b. Fisher,
grand exalted ruler of the Elks, j. T. Fan
ming, and j. d. O'Shea, grand trustees, to-
gether with George p. Cronk, past exalted
ruler of Omaha Lodge, viii leave for Colo
RADIO Springs tomorrow. They constitute
a committee appointed by the Grand Lodge
to select a site for the contemplated home
for aged and decrepit Members of the
order William S. Stratton, the multi-mil-
lionaire miner of Cripple Creek. has offered
the order a piece of land. with a magnif-
cent new building. at Colorado Springs,
free, and the committee goes tomorrow TO
look il over. Thence IL will continue on
west TO Salt Lake, where another gener-
Gus offer for the home has been made
the Grand Ladge.
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Ship Subsidy Bill Opposed by Mr.. Clay
mir Hanna to Reply.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE first speech
I'm opposition TO the ship subsidy bill in the
Senate was delivered to-day by Mr.. Clay,
of Georgia. one of the minority members of
the committee on which reported
II to the Senate. He Is recognized as one
OF the most vigorous opponents of the bill
IN the Senate. and during nearly two hours
was accorded close attention by enators
on both sides of the chamber. Mr.. Hanna,
who expects TO reply to Mr.. Clay's argu-
ment. gave him a particularly attentive
hearing.
In the early part of the session a lively
colloquy was precipitated over the refer
ence to committee Of the Grout oleomar-
garine bill, just passed by the House OF
Representatives. 1t finally went To the
committee on agriculture. This was a vic
tory for the friends OF the bill
There also was a sharp debate over the
Montana senatorial case, but 40 action was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-12

GALVESTON. Dec. 11.-President Dol
phin, of the o. r. T., tonight issued the
following statement:
Representatives of the order have wired
from Chicago that 80 per cent. of the men
sent from that city to take the places of
strikers have been members of other
trades and professions, who took advantage
OF the offer of free transportation and
meals to come South and see If they could
not better themselves in their own trade;
the other 10 per cent. were mostly men,
berS of the order. who were going on an
excursion TO the South.
Big union meetings OF the machinists,
conductors and firemen have been held at
The Needles, Las Vegas, Pueblo. Col;
Ration. N. M; Gainesville, Tex; Cleburn,
Tex, and other points. indorsing the ac-
ton of the ~telegraphers and signifying
willingness to assist in bringing about a
settlement"
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE State
Conference of Charities and Correction will
begin its ninth annual meeting in this city
tomorrow night and three sessions will be
held daily until Friday night. Several hun
died delegates are expected to attend the
sessions. On Friday morning the confer
ence will meet at the R~eformatory at JEFF
fersonville. State Auditor Hart will fill the
appointment of Governor Mount. who will
not be able to attend the conference Mr..
Amos w. Butler, of indianapolis, secretary
city.
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STATE GRANGE IN SESSION.
i'm the President's
Rcport-Programme for the Week.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE first
session of the thirtieth annual convention
of the Indiana Grange was held this morn
ing, in one OF the halls of the Indiana
State Normal School. with about seventy
five delegates present. More delegates ar
rived during the afternoon and this even
ing. All the state officers were present at
the opening session except Chaplain Isaiah
Imler, of Fulton. Aaron Jones, OF South
Bend, master of the State Grange. deliv-
cred his address after the opening exer-
cises. This afternoon was devoted to ar
ranging the preliminary organization. The
officers reports were submitted late in the
afternoon and this evening. All three ses-
sions to-day were behind closed doors.
Worthy Master Jones recommended
state legislation for a pure food law: for a
state railway commission 10 fix rates, with
a maximum rate of 2 cents a mile for pas
sengers; against the use OF public highways
for private electric roads: to encourage for
estry and TO reduce the number OF circuit
courts In the State. He said there had been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-12
Trio of Alleged Counterfeiters.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Dec. 11.-Deputy
United States Marshal Peck. of Evansville,
brought Jesse Page, Mike Decard and
Schuyler Chansbers from Elnora. and they
were bound over. by United States Com
missioner Higgins on a charge of counter
feiting. Page is sixty years old, a shoe
maker. and was in trouble Will the govern
ment several years ago for violation of
the internal revenue laws. Seventeen years
ago Decard was accused of counterfeiting
but escaped punishment. Chambers is only
nineteen years of age, is from Marshall
county, this State, and has had no en-
ployment since he has been in Elnora He
has made a complete confession. The ar
rest was brought about by the town mar
shall of Elnora.
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Boston Transcript.

Let others assent or dissent TO the re-
mark OF DIR. Hoy, of Chicago, that after
thirty-fve a man should take no exercise.
That's as IL may appear to men or diner-
cnt temperaments. What the majority OF
us see In DR.. Hoy's statement with which
we wish TO take issue is his CHASING thirty
FIVE as ''middle-age-" Stuff and nonsense
wait till you come TO forty-fcur." Even
that is the heyday OF youth with those
who live In appreciation of the good things
of life. And DR.. Hoy SHOULD not his name
be spelled with a BIT will have all the
members Of all the athletic clubs In the
country about his ears II ne goes TO setting
their reckoning of "middle-age" back In
that fashion, Why, at thirty-ive a man
is just beginning TO sense, In these days.
how good a thing IL Is TO be young. Try
another tack. DR.. Hoy, TO fame and Tor
tune as a guide and counselor for grown
rucn
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WASHINGTON, Dec. u.-Colonel Mills,
superintendent Of the Military Academy,
has entered the broadest denial, based on
the full investigation made by himself of
the report that the late Cadet Oscar L.
Booz was hazed and otherwise m~istreated
at that academy. The secretary of war has
transmitted Colonel Mills's report to the
House committee on military affairs in
answe to the House resolution on the SUBJ
feet. and has accompanied it with the
statement that, at the instance of Colonel
Mills, he has appointed a board, consisting
of Major General Brooke, Colonel Gillespie
and Colonel Clous, 10 meet at West Point
on the 18th inst, or as soon as possible
thereafter, to investigate, not only the
Booz case, but also the methods employed
at the academy 10 prevent hazing.
Colonel MillS'S statement is quite long.
He says he had no personal knowledge of
Booz. whose record at the academy he sub
mits to demonstrate that there was no
medical evidence of mistreatment, but that
his resignation was attributed to weak
eyes and a poor record in studies Having
carefully questioned cadets who were class
mates of Booz, Colonel Mills fnds that the
cadet had no trouble prior tn ANS. 6. 1898.
when he had a fist figlic. witnessed by six
cadets, all Of whom are now at the acad-
envy. Two classmates of Booz testify that
the latter invited them to attend the fight:
that he went TO it and engaged In il will
ingly. and in the beginning was the ag-
gressor- Ali the cadets testify that the en-
counter was short. of little severity. and
Beoz was in no way injured or marked. On
the testimony OF the cadets Colonel Mills
also denies specifically the story that To-
basco sauce was poured down Booz's
throat. and that he was called BIBLES"
or ridiculed on account of his religious be-
lief In conclusion he asks for the investi-
cation, which the secretary has ordered.
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CLEVELAND, Dec. 1.-THE independent
glass manufacturers of the United States,
tc the number of about forty, were in ses-
sion here to-day behind closed doors. Pres
ident c. p. Cole, of the Window Glass
Manufacturers Association, presided. 1t is
said that matters pertaining to the fight be-
tween the independent manufacturers and
the trust were discussed at length.