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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-22
THEY TALKED IN GERMAN.
Noble County Priest Delighted with
His all on the President.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. H.-Representa-
tive Robinson is home from Washington,
and tells an interesting story of the call
upon the President by the Rev. Father
Duehmig, of Avilla, Noble county. The
reverend father has served the Avilla par
ish for over thirty years and is one of
the best known men in this part of Indiana
He recently made a visit to his old friend,
Father Curryer, at Washington, who is
a friend Of President Roosevelt, and the
two priests called on the President in
company with Mr.. Robinson.
When they entered the reception-room
they found the President passing from one
guest to another, many of them high in
the councils of the administration, and
talking in his emphatic tones in hearing of
all. When Father Duehmig was presented
he addressed the President in German and
as he has a strong voice like the Presi-
dents and was answered in German, the
two men were soon the center of attrac-
ton for all in the room. 1t was an unusual
thing TO hear the President of the United
States greeting a citizen in any foreign
language, but Father Duehmig, who prides
himself on his own knowledge of German.
came away saying that there is no fault
TO be found with the Presidents use of
that tongue.
He was enthusiastic in his description of
the call and is telling everybody at home
about the enjoyment of the visit. He has
become q warm admirer of the President.
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Rival Interests to Meet i'm Muncie on
Saturday Next.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 4.-One Of the larg-
est meetings of w~indow-glass manufacture
ers in the number Of pots represented, ever
held in the United States. will be that in
Muncie on Dec. rs. when the Federation
OF Cooperative Window-glass Companies,
the independent manufacturing concerns,
President Chambers. OF the American Win
dow-glass Company, and Secretary Gray,
OF the Window-glass Jobbers' Association,
will meet I'm the Office of the federation. in
the Boyer block, to discuss plans for the
welfare of the trade in 1902, make prices
and also To secure the signatures of the
outside manufacturers to contracts with
the Federation of Co-operatives. The latter
organization is now a Owe in the trade
and is on a footing equal 10 that of the
two trust concerns.
The conference is intended 10 prevent a
ruinous price war. which has been threat
ened for several weeks.
An invitation has been sent to Simon
Burns, president of l.. A. 800, who probably
will be present TO look after the interests
of the workmen.
There are a great man. pots not yet rep
resented in either OF the national organ
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MIR. RAYNER -DIsPLEAsED.
says "the Whole Proceeding Is Arbi-
frary and TyrannicaI.'

BALTIMORE, Dec. H.-Isidor Rayner,
attorney general Of Maryland, and counsel
for Admiral Sehley. when shown the de-
eision of Secretary Long, to-day, declared
that The whole proceeding is arbitrary
and ~tyrannical," and manifested great sur
prise and Indignation. The court decided
the case" said he without considering
the testimony OF Admiral Schley and his
witnesses. and Secretary Long seems to
nave decided it without SO much as per-
hitting us TO file a reply to the protest
filed by Admiral SIMPSONS attorneys.
This protest was filed late yesterday after
noon, and just one hour ago we finished
our reply to it and sent it to Washington.
"Now I understand that the secretary
has decided against Admiral Dewey and
adverse TO Schley's being In command at
Santiago. and virtually in favor of Samp-
son, without even permitting us to produce
before him the conclusive proof, admitted
at the hearing by consent, that the COM
mand practically and officially devolved
upon Schley. The whole proceeding is too
arbitrary and tyrannical for me now to
discuss. 1 really wonder whether the peO-
pie who live under free institutions will
tolerate such an exercise OF despotic meas
uTes. -
you ask me what our next step will be.
] do not know, unless the press intervenes.
There is a power in the courts to compel
the secretary To file the dissenting opinion
OF Admiral Dewey whether he agrees with
il or not. We viii determine next week
what procedure We will adopt"
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Coroner at Fort Wayne In
ebriate Asylum Doctors of Caus-
ing Death of a Patient.
IN COLLISION At HAzELRIGG
BIG -FOUR PASSENGER y FREIGHT
TRAINS MEET HEAD-ON.
Few CasuaIues-several Fatal Cross
ing Accidents-Big Pay Rolls at
Muncie-The Death Record.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Dec. 21.-No
verdict has been returned in the case of
Newell C. RathbUn UP to 1 o'clock this
Sunday morning. At that time Judge
Marsh left the courthouse and stated that
he would call the jurymen into court this
morning to hear a report and dismiss them,
unless a verdict is reached in the mean
time. A little after midnight the jurymen
asked for more explicit instructions, which
were given by Judge Marsh.
The taking Of evidence was completed
yesterday afternoon. The arguments were
begun this morning, the attorneys occupy
ing about four hours. Judge Marsh then
gave his instructions to the jury, stating
that the prisoner must either be found gull
ty of murder or manslaughter or acquitted.
The jury then retired. During the after
noon Rathbun was arrested BY Sheriff
Rave, acting for the government. on the
charge of being a desertor from the United
States army.
Rathbun was indicted on the charge Of
poisoning Goodman at the Falls City Hotel
in this city on the night of Nov. 6. where
ne and Goodman engaged lodging. Rath-
bun registered as w. l.. Ten Eyke and
Goodman as Newell C. Rathbun. The fol-
lowing morning the man who had regis
tered as Rathbun was found dead in his
room and letters in his pocket indicated
that he had a wife in Little Rock, Ark.
He had been drinking heavily the night
before and the man who registered
as Ten Eyke left the hotel some
time before the body was dis
covered. AS soon as the body was found
the coroner was called. The body was
shipped to Little Rock, where it was discov-
cred by the agent of IN insurance COM
pany, who had insured Rathbun's life for
$4,000, that he dead man was not the one
to whom he had issued 2 policy. The body
was then sent back to this city and was
identified as that of Charles Goodman, of
Evansville.
In the meantime a man answering the
description of Ten Eyke was arrested at the
Louisville recruiting station, where he had
enlisted in the army, and he was charged
with causing oodm death. The pris-
Oner finally admitted that his name was
Newell c. Rathbun; that he was formerly a
soldier in the regular army; that he had
intended to kill Goodman, whom he had
registered as Rathbun in J~effersonville,
and then burn the hotel to hide all evidence
of ~wTOngdoing, in order TO collect a four
housand-dollar life insurance policy on his
(Rathbun's) life, but that Goodman had
died from the effects of a drunken spree
before the plans had matured. His indict-
ment followed, but he maintained that he
had not caused GoOdman's death, and the
analysis of the dead mans stomach by
an expert chemist failed to reveal any
traces of poison.
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Indiana Notes.

MARION.-Marion oil operators are the
moving spirits in an organization that is
intended TO be formed by the Indiana oil
interests in the effort to better general
conditions. a meeting will be held here
FRIDAY Dec q, to perfect the plans now
Supreme Court returned on Friday in the
case of Murphy VS.. Brown, exec, ct al,
carried from the Lake Circuit Court, Miles
Murphy, of Marion, will receive one-third
of an estate estimated 10 amount to $3.50,
0O0.
CRAWFORDSVILLE.-The Farmers In
stitute in session here passed resolutions
favoring the passage of a law compelling
the spraying of fruit trees. The president
elected for the coming year is Jacob NJ.
Hamburger; secretary, NJ. B. Waugh .
$ w. III. Morrison, of indianapolis, has
been awarded the contract for county
supplies in Glasses 1 and 2, and c. Z. Lacy,
of this city, in Glass 2.
ELWOOD.-John j.. Jones, a local tin
plate worker, with an acquaintance all
over the gas belt, had a narrow escape
from death on Saturday morning. His
clothing was caught in one of the heavy
sets of rolls and he was being steadily
drawn into the machine when his fellow
workmen saw his plight and stopped the
rolls, but not until Jones had been badly
bruised.
FORT WAYNE.-The famous Geiermann
Sanitarium, or Kneipp institute, at Rome
Precious Blood, a Catholic order. The deal
was completed on Friday. The price paid
was $50. 900. The sanitarium is located on
Sylvan lake, north of Rome City, the north
ern summer resort, and was established
about nine years ago.
LAFAYETTE.-Mr. and Mrs. Balthazar
Kaufman on Saturday celebrated the six
tieth anniversary of their marriage with q
family reunion. Both are natives of Po-
land. They are ~eighty-three and eighty
two years old, respectively. Both are in
the enjoyment Of good health and retain all
of their faculties.
WABASH.-Fred Losing, of the National
Manufacturing Company'S plant here, was
dangerously injured by coming in contact
with a revolving saw. The teeth caught his
clothing and threw him entirely over the
could be dragged from the spot where he
fell.
ELKHART-Henry Chaffee, formerly a
pany for $4,000 for injuries received in
jumping from his engine at Swanton, O.,
on Oct. 10, 1900, to avoid injuries in a rear
end collision, which he alleges was no fault
of his own.
BEDFORD.-John d. Sellers, who ar
river recently from the Indian Territory,
has developed a case of smallpox and has
been quarantined at his home on West
Twentieth street. This is the first case to
develop in Lawrence county this season.
EVANSVILLE-Samio Josepha, a Chi
on Saturday, charged with stealing a gold
watch and diamond earrings from Mrs.
Amelia Berrer, of Henderson, KY. Josepha
is in Jail.
FLORA.-John NJ. Koonsman, a prom
inent undertaken of this city, made an as
signment on Saturday. The liabilities are
placed at $1,000, with assets of 1880.
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Accusation Against Doctors.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 21-The coro-
ner of Allen county lays the responsibility
for the death of Henry Mcintosh, a wealthy
farmer. on the, physicians at the Boston
Inebriate Hospital, at Warsaw, one of the
best known institutions of its kind in the
country, where many Fort Wayne men and
others have been cured of their taste for
liquor.
Henry Mcintosh, a wealthy farmer with
an appetite for drink, went 10 the institute
last September for treatment, and died
after having received an injection. The
coroner has been at work on the case
since, and to-day returned a sensational
finding holding the physicians responsible
for McIntosh's death. He reports that
death was caused by the administrator
of an overdose of hydrobromateS of hy-
oscin Ga preparation of henbane), and the
relatives CT deceased are preparing to carry
the matter into court.
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HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. Ex-Governor
Sayres has returned from a visit to Braz-
Cria, where a meeting of the p~enitentiary
board was held. He announces that it was
definitely decided to purchase for the pen
itentiary the Clemens farm of $500 acres
and to erect thereon a sugar mill to cost
between $4,000 and $4,000 The plantation
owned by the State, now comprising 5000
acres, is to be devoted solely to the raising
of sugar cane, and convict labor to be
employed in the mill. This will remove
all convict labor from railroads and other
contract employment. The mill will be
built next year.
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NO LONGER A DEMOCRAT.
Leading ElVvood Banker VIII Affiliate
with the Republicans Hereafter.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Dec. 21.-The greatest
political sensation ever known in Elwood
in years was caused to-day by the an
nouncement that Joseph A. De Hority,
vice president and one of the principal
stockholders of the First National Bank,
and one of Elwood's most prominent citi-
zens, had deserted the Democratic party
of which he has been a lifelong member
affiliate with the Republicans. The news
came out through Mr.. De Hority's appli-
cation for and admission to membership
in the Columbia Club at Indianapolis. He
is a brother of County Treasurer c.. c. De
Hority and has been one of Democracy'S
stalwart supporters, financially and other
wise in this county. Local Republicans are
much elated over his accession TO the
party ranks.
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MURDERED IN ARKANSAS.
Fate of ROIIa Britton, of Evansville,
Is at Last Explained.
the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 21.-The mys-
terry surrounding the disappearance of Roll
la Britton, of this city, was cleared this
evening by a message received from a
brother Of Britton. The brother says Brit
ton started from Memphis on Dec. 1 will
a boat load of Christmas goods. At Elan
Landing, Ark, Britton and a companion
got off for an hours hunt. They became
separated and Britton was ambuShed and
robbed by negroes. He was shot to death
and his gun and $40 were taken. The body
was buried.
The body and manner of the deed had
just been discovered. When the telegram
was sent a posse was being organized to
go after the negroes.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2f.-Arrived: Philadel-
phia. from southampton. Sailed: Amster-
dam. for Rotterdam; Etruria, for Liver
pool: Marquette and Mesaba, for London,
Pretoria, for Hamburg.
LIVERPOOL. Dec. 2I.-Arrived: Lucania.
from New York. Sailed: Tauric anE I'm
bria. for New York.
HALIFAX, y. s., Dec. 21.-Arrived: Pa
risian. from Liverpool. for ST. John. N. b.
CHERBOURG, Dec. 21.-Sailed: St Paul
from southampton. for New York.
GENOA. Dec. 2l.-Arrived: Aller, from
New York. via Naples.
BOSTON. Dec. 21.-Arrived: Pommeran-
Ian, from Glasgow.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2I-SaiIed: Rhyn-
land for Liverpool
HAMBURG. Dec. 21.-Arrived: PalatIa.
from New York.
HAvRE, Dec. 21--sailed: La Champagne.
Ter New York.
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Other Deaths in the state.

FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec. 2l.-Mrs, Isabel
Mcclellan, "a pioneer resident of this city,
died yesterday in the residence which had
been her nome for over fifty years. She
was the widow of James II. Mcclellan,
who was first postmaster here under Pierce
and Buchanan and was for years promi-
nent in business and politics here. She left
two children. S. j. Mcclellan. Pennsyl-
yania Railroad agent here, and Mrs. w.
H. Riley.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 21.-Homer c.
Hartman, one of the leading patent attor-
neys of northern Indiana and a prominent
Republican, died early this morning of
Brights disease and drOpsy. He was born
in Pleasantville, o., sixty-five years ago,
and when a very small boy came to Fort
Wayne, where he had lived ever since. He
left a family.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 81
Charles Long, deputy county treasurer,
died last night from consumption at Phoe-
nix, Ariz. The body will be brought here
for burial.
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ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21.-At the banquet of
the New England Society tonight the Rev.
DIR. Howard A. Bridgeman, editor of the
Congregationalist, of Boston, responding to
the toast, "Our tasks in the light of our
inheritance" said: mot more surely did
God take Moses to train him for the leader
ship of the children of Israel than He has
been keeping President Roosevelt secure In
moral rectitude for one of the most mo-
mentous lines in the history of our be-
loved country"
The speaker also paid a high tribute to
Booker Washington, who, he said, had
risen from the shackles of slavery TO free
dom and the height of intellectual attain
mpnf
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Notes of Accidents.

ELWOOD.-Miss Jennie Shaw, aged thir-
ty-two, living with her parents here. was
struck by a Panhandle freight at the South
J-street crossing Saturday night. Her
body was thrown ahead on the track and
run over. one leg was crushed off and
necessary. Her injuries probably are fatal.
VALPARAISO.-William Hanna, aged
Twenty-Five, a young farmer of Porter
county, was killed on Saturday afternoon
by a Pennsylvania train while trying to
cross the tracks at Wheeler, a few miles
west of here.
RICHMOND-EdwaId Eubank, a Pan
handle brakeman, was killed in the local
yards on Saturday afternoon. His home
was at New Madison. o.
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BIG CHRISTMAS PAY ROLLS.
Twenty-One Muncie Factories Pay
Out Nearly 800,

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Dec. 21.-Complete figures
from twenty-one of Muncie's leading iron.
steel, glass and woodworking mills and fac
tories to-day show the total pay roll to
have been greater than any previous time.
The total sum OF Christmas money paid
out by them was S97, 400. Two Of the largest
paid for two weeks work, the rest for one
week. The Republic Iron Company, with
two plants. heads the list with $4, 400. Ball
Brothers. glass manufacturers, paid s12, 600
and the Midland Steel Company SIS. 900.
None of the big factories or mills will
shut down more than Christmas day, all
being rushed with orders. The Whitley
malleable iron works is overstocked with
orders and has started its old factory at
Springfield, o., TO care for an order for
Santa Fe Railroad COMPANY. The big plant
here is working on the boiler heads for
three new ships for the United States navy.
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SummitviIIe Burglar Identified.
Special to the indianapolis JournaI.

Special to the Indianapolis Journai.
MARION, Ind. Dec. 2L-The burglar
who was shot at Summitville by Night
Officer Ray. early yesterday morning, was
Identified to-day by Miss Maude Smith, of
Alexandria, as Charles York, her sweet
heart. York's family lives at North Grove,
Grant county, and his father has gone to
Summitville to further identify the body.
A brother, David York. lives here. and all
the members of the family are respectable
members of society. Bird Simpson was ar
rested in Marion to-day as an accomplice
of York in the crime, and was bound over
to the Circuit Court in default of a bond
of SJO0.
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scbIey Declines to Express His views.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-When seen at
his hotel this afternoon Admiral Schley
stated that he did not care to make any
comment whatever upon the action taken
by Secretary Long on the findings of the
court of inquiry. The admiral said that he
would leave Washington on Monday next
for New York city, where he will remain
for an indefinite period.
Messrs. Rayner q league, Of cOunse for
Admira Schley, were in Baltimore to-day,
and in their absence the admiral was not
prepared TO say whether any further ac-
ton would be taken in his behalf at the
Navy Department or in Congress-, or
whether or not a final appeal To President
Roosevelt would be made.
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BANQUET TO HUNT.
Governor of Porto Rico Welcomed on
His Return 10 San Juan.

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. a.-Gov-
ernor Hunt was given an enthusiastic re-
ception by a large crowd which had gath
cred on the wharf on his return here late
Thursday night. Yesterday ne was given
a banquet by one. hundred of the most
prominent residents of the city. A number
of toasts were proposed, the Governor re-
spending in a most eloquent impromptu
speech, in which he said that he felt in
spired TO move forward with hope and con-
idence I'm the task of firmly establishing
a civil government. He said he had found
President Roosevelt actively interested in
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 2L-The death
late last night Of Homer c. Hartman, once
the law partner of Robert 5. Taylor, re-
moved a man who formerly figured prom
inently in the politics of this part of the
State. He was born in Pleasantville, o.,
sixty-five years age. but with his parents
removed TO this city in bOyhOOd. he was
an uncompromising Republican and a warm
friend and supporter of Governor Morton
when the Governor priced the support of
able men in this county, because of its
Democratic majOrities. The widow, two
sons and two daughters, one the wife Of
Lieut.. Ivers Leonard, now in the Philip
pines, survive.
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James :. Barcus Buys n Paper.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 21.-At the
head of the editorial column of the Tribune
this evening there is this unexpected and
brief announcement:
Mr.. James S. Barcus has purchased the
interest of Mr.. Louis L. Golding in the
management of the paper on Jan. l."
Mr.. Golding took charge two years ago.
He came here from New York.
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Christmas Gifts for Convicts.

AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 21.-Following a
time-honored custom of granting pardons
to deserving convicts at the approach Of
Christmas in order that they may go home
to their families for Christmas dinners,
Governor Sayers to-day forwarded par
dons for ffty-eight convicts to the state
penitentiary and two TO the state reforma-
tory, thus releasing sixty men.
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to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Dec. II. - Samuel
Baurer, of Elkhart, who has served one
half of a six months Jail sentence for horse
stealing, says the horse was turned over to
him by parties who had asked him TO lease
a barn here capable of stabling twenty or
more horses and then take charge of the
barn and sell or trade such horses as they
would deliver to him. He says that since
his Imprisonment they have written him.
promising him $1.25 for each day spent in
jail, provided he refrains from revealing
their identity. He refuses TO divulge their
names.
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Negro Saved from Lynching.

BRISTOL. Tenn, Dec. 21.-Dayton II.
Miller, the coal company treasurer who
was shot at Tom Greek, Va, yesterday.
by Charles Foy. a drunken negro, died
at I o'clock this evening. Miller's home
was in Philadelphia. Charles Williams,
who was shot by the negro at the same
time, may recover. The officers captured
Foy last night, hurried him across. the
mountain to Wise, Va, in advance of a
mob of 200 who had determined on lynch
ing the negro. The Jail at Wise is being
guarded with the hope of preventing a
Ivorhfpo
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WORTHINGTON, Ind, Dec. Pr. G.
Haxton's barn, at the north edge of town,
burned a little after noon to-day, together
with one fine jack, two fine colts and a
mare. The barn was the largest in this
part of Indiana and contained twenty-five
box stalls. The exact loss cannot be
stated, but it is in the thousands of dol
lars.
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Admitted EmbexzIing $1,000.

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-James e. Madison,
of Newark, N. j., cashier for the Armour
Packing Company at its Jersey City pack
ing house, was arrested to-day on COM
plant of Arthur +. Barclay, auditor of the
company. He charged Madison with hav-
ing embezzled $1,000 of the company.s
funds. Madison admitted his guilt. He
lost the money specializing in stocks. He
has hitherto borne an excellent reputation.