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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
NEW RULES UNPOPULAR.
College Clubs May Not Adopt National
Leagues Changes.

CHICAGO. March ga dispatch from
Urbana, ILL.,. says: 'If the other Western
universities take to the new National
League playing rules no more kindly than
Illinois the example of the American
League will be followed and the battle of
the college diamonds fought out under the
old laws. Practice contests on Illinois field
have convinced Coach HUFF and his men
that the changes introduced by the mag
mates of the big league will work harm to
collegiate baseball IL adopted. AS Illinois
Won the baseball championship among
Western colleges, last year. the State Uni
versity Will assume the initiative i'm call
ing a meeting of Representatives of the big
Western schools to decide what shall be
done regarding the rules. The principal OBJ
lection Is made to Rule 4, which makes
fouls count strikes"
illinois is not the only college dissatis-
fed with the new rules" said Coach Stagg.
OF the University of Chicago. I'm the first
place there is a strong objection TO the
rule requiring a pitcher TO deliver a ball in
twenty seconds. That is foolish and means
that once a player gets on first he is ad-
vanced to third I'm two throws. The foul
rule. too. Is nonsensical. There is not one
college player in twenty who can foul
when he wants; IL is all accident"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.

The fiat racing season was opened at
Lincoln, England, yesterday in a snow
storm.
The spring meeting of the Arkansas
Jockey Club opened at Little Rock yes
terday.
The Jack Bonner-Kid Carter twenty
round contest at Louisville last night ended
In a draw.
Yale defeated Columbia, at New Haven.
last night, in their first fencing bout, by a
score OF D bouts to 4.
The Fond du Lac CWis.) basket ball team
was defeated by Company l team at Ken
ton. o., last night by a score of 20 to Is.
Garry Herman, the favorite in the Ken
lucky and American Derbies, was sold yes
terday by Charles Head Smith, of Chicago,
5000 SSp'- sam . nfo""' 'i r'''S0u'S i0'
Richard Croker ran his bay flly Eileen
Violet, with J. Reiff up, in the first race.
but failed 10 secure a place. The Tatwell
stakes was won by the chestnut colt Con,
Lester Ref uD.
Yesterdays Race Winners-At Tanforan,
Cal: Serious, 2 to l; Muresco, 4 to !; Ken
nilforth. Z to 10; Topmast, even: Specific,
1 TO 2; Gauntlet. 8 to l. At Little Rock,
Ark: Harry Duke. even: Jordan, 2 to /;
Larkspur, 2 to 1: Lady S~trathmore CTurf
Congress sweepstakes), 2 to l; Club, 3 to /;
j. A. Sloan, out.
that participated in Mondays racing at
Little Rock will stand as an outlaw said
Secretary Nathanson, of the Harlem
excuse to offer. They were thoroughly &C
quainted with the Western Jockey Club
rule bearing on that point, and, therefore,
did not go into it blindly."
With a blare of trumpet and the martial
sounds, the fifth annual military and ath-
letic tournament OF the Military Athletic
League opened last night in the Madison
square Garden. New York. The attend
ance was large. Notwithstanding the bad
weather. The garden was a hutter of flags
from the arena to the very center of the
dome. National and state colors were
dfaped together. In the center of the tier
of arena boxes, at one side, was Vice Pres
ident RoOsevelt's box.
The Cambridge University Athletic Club
has received the challenge of Harvard and
Yale for a regular set of track games be-
tween oxford and Cambridge and Harvard
and Yale to be held i'll New York during
the early part of next July. The Rev.
Joseph H. Gray, treasurer of the Cam
bridge University Athletic Club, reiterates
that there will be every disposition to ar
range a meeting, but it is difficult for the
Cambridge men to go in July. The club
will probably suggest another date, prefer
ably September.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
IN FORT WAYNE
INTERSTATE LEAGUE TO BE REOR-
CANNED IN THAT CITY TODAY.
indianapolis Magnnte Stnl Holds Ter
EftoriaI Rights-ObjectiOn to
Change i'm Playing Rules.

Secretary Charles Ruschaupt, Of the In
dianapolis club. left for Fort Wayne. yes
terday, to attend the meeting of the Inter-
state League, and President Watkins will
leave this morning, having remained last
night to take the third degree initiation in
the Masonic lodge. President Watkins was
asked, last night. concerning the report
sent out from Anderson to the effect that
President Meyers, of the Interstate
League, had been quoted as saying that
the territorial rights held by Watkins had
expired, and the only way indianapolis
could become a member of the Interstate
League was to purchase a franchise from
one of the cities already in the league. He
said his rights were I'm force now and
would continue in force until such time as
Indianapolis had become Identified with a
league. and the indianapolis magnates had
protected their Investments. The league
meeting will be held in Fort Wayne to-
day and the new circuit will then be de-
cided uDOn.
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NO PAPERS FOUND.
Residence Of the Late Millionaire Gill
man Searched in Vain.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, March 25.-The
Bridgeport Trust Company. administrator
of the estate of the late George F. Gilman.
has men engaged in a search of the late
millionaire's Black Rock residence for doc
uments which may be of assistance in set
thing the estate. This forenoon Orange
Merwin, one of the directors of the trust
company. announced that the search had
failed TO reveal a single document of any
description. Mr.. Merwin declined to make
any statement regarding the significance
OF this result. In addition to looking for
documents, he said his assistants merely
took an inventory of the property in the
mansion for the benefit of the appraisers.
who are yet To be appointed.
- woman who has been employed in the
Gilman mansion as caretaker is authority
for the statement that not long ago Mrs.
Helen Hall had a quarrel with Mr.. Gilman
and first thought of leaving the house,
but decided to remain lest she might APP
pear TO be ungrateful. 1t has been up
posed heretofore that their relations were
always of the friendliest nature.
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SUIT TO RECOVER $500, 900.
Defendants in Alleged Gambling Cases
May De Forced to Testify.

CHICAGO, March 25.-According to a de-
cision handed down in the Appellate Court
to-day by Judge Adams. defendants in
suits To recover alleged gambling losses
may be compelled in the Chancery Court
to answer questions concerning the alleged
illegal speculations. This decision was an
nounced in deciding the appeal of the
suit in the case of Edward Doyle against
John Robson for the recovery of 5000, 900.
The action was taken under the statute
which permits any citizen after six months
have elapsed to bring suit for three times
the amount alleged to lave been lost in
any gambling transaction. The declaration
filed by Doyle made the allegation that
Alexander Geddes and John b. Dutch had
each lost $100, 600 in deals in puts and calls
on grain transactions with John Robson,
who was alleged to be a member of the
Board of Trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
OF A DAY.

James Horne and Daniel Preller were
killed yesterday by the explosion of a gas
oline engine at the GAINESVILLE, Wis, barbed
wire works.
Mrs. Albert Fredley, living at 60 West Nine
teenth street, Chicago, while holding her
t-en-months-old baby In her arms. attempted
to start n fire in the kitchen stove yester-
day by using kerosene. An explosion re-
suited, the burning oil almost completely
covering Mrs. Fredley and her child. Both
may die.
The steamboat Leader. a harbor boat be-
longing TO the Monongahela River Consoli-
dated Coal and Coke Company, struck a
pier of the SiXteenth-street bridge over the
Allegheny river at Pittsburg yesterday
and sank in a few minutes. Capt. Thomas
F'laherty and the crew of twelve men were
rescued by the steamer Tide. The Leader
which was badly crushed, will be raised at
once.
A Wisconsin Central short-line passen-
ger train returning from Eau Claire ran
into a washout Sunday night one mile
south of Chippewa Falls. Two coaches
went down a thirty-foOt embankment. Con-
ductor Roy Miller, Brakeman Lee Thomas,
Gilbert Moodlind. of Eau Claire, Ole
Thompson. OF Eau Claire. and Mrs. John
Anderson. Chippewa Falls, were injured,
but not seriously.
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Indiana Notes.

Two mild cases of smallpox developed at
Patriot on Sunday. Schools and churches
have been closed by the health officers.
Eleven students will be graduated from
the Hagerstown High School on May 8.
Prof. John p. John will deliver the adj
dress.
Richmond has a case of smallpox. a
young negro from St Louis who was Wis
iting his cousin. William Arnold, a mail
carrier.
years old. was run over and killed by a
Wabash switch train yesterday. He left
two daughters.
When Mrs. A. j. Omer, OF College Cor
ner. awoke yesterday morning she found
her baby. which was but a few weeks old.
dead in her arms.
Fire near Portland destroyed a barn on
the Shafer farm, with a considerable GUAM
tity of grain and farm utensils owned by
w. p. Judy. causing a loss of several hun
dred dollars.
Fred Garbric. a young man of Portland.
who cut his throat with a razor, a week
ago. died Sunday. He fought against re-
>covery and tore open the wound after 1T
was sewed up.
In the Blackford Circuit Court. yester-
day. Len J. Skinner pleaded guilty to a
~manslaughter charge for the killing Of
Milton Rutter. a fellow-workman at the
fint-glass works.
Mrs. Nancy Dickerson. Of Sullivan. cele-
brated her n~inety-eighth birthday on Sun
day. She was born in Virginia and has
lived in Sullivan county nearly sixty years.
She still does her own homework.
Miss Evelyn Eckart. OF Whiting. is in Jail
at Decatur, on a charge of perjury basel
on some serious charges which she pre-
ferred against a prominent lumber dealer
in the Adams county schools.
William Ward. who about a month ago
eloped with the young wife OF an agei
Illinois farmer and went to Brazil. has re-
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Other Deaths i'm the State.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind. March 25.-John
w. Caskey, the well-known passenger con-
ductor on the Michigan division of the
Vandalia, oied Sunday of pneumonia caused
by taking cold on a recent rainy day on the
road. He was ffty-three years old and left
a widow and one grown daughter. Mr..
Caskey had been with the Vandalia twenty
years.
RICHMOND. Ind, March 2.-Harry NJ.
Braffett. one of the city's most prominent
young men. died this evening Of the grip.
He was thirty-six years old. He was a
travelling man and was a son of eX-County
Auditor T. W. o. Braffett.
SPENCER. Ind. March z5.-Joel A. Cof-
fey. a prominent citizen of this city. and
ex-postmaster. died here, last night, aged
eighty-three years. He was well known
among the members of the Christian
Church Of the State.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind. March o.
William Dunkle. of Linden, died suddenly,
last evening. He was sixty-five years old,
and always lived near Linden. He left a
widow and three children.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
SNAPPED HIS REVOLVER
Brazil BOYS PLAY MAY RESULT IN
HIS BROTHERS, DEATH
Little Girl Hanged Herself by Acct
and Operators Firmly Apart.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, March 2.-While three
sons of John Sprout were in a room at
their home this afternoon John. seventeen
years old, pointed a self-acting revolver.
in play. at his ten-year-old brother. who
was lying on the floor. and began swapping
it. thinking il was not loaded. The weapon
was discharged, the ball striking the boys
nose and passing down through the mouth,
neck and breast lodged behind the ribs.
The victim nearly bled to death before a
physician could reach him. He is still alive,
but in a very precarious condition
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
GAS RATES TOO HIGH.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 25.-At Winchester
this morning Judge A. o.. Marsh gave his
decision in the case of the city of Muncie
VS.. the Muncie Natural Gas Company, ask
ing for an injunction against the increased
rates introduced by the company last No
vember for natural gas. The suit was tried
two weeks ago.
The court finds for the city and grants
the injunction. The city ordinance pro-
vides that the rate for gas shall not ex-
coed two-thirds of the price of wood at
$3.50 a cord or of soft coal at 50 per ton or
of anthracite at $3.50 a ton. The first of
last November the company raised the
prices to Is cents per 1000 meter rate and
made a fiat rate at an increase of % per
cent. Judge Marsh decided that the rate
for ordinary stoves now is % per cent. too
high; that the fiat rate is 10 per cent.
higher than a rate based on soft coal and
that meter rates are y per cent. too high,
based on the price of wood.
Tn company will be compelled to set
forth a new rate at once and must refund
the overcharge made to consumers since
last November. The case will be appealed
to the higher courts in the event a new
trial is not allowed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
COSTLY BLAZE AT GOSHEN.
Furniture Factory Burned and Eighty
Men IdIe-Loss $4,000.

GOSHEN, Ind, March 25.-The Nash,
Knox & Hubbell furniture factory, en-
ploying eighty men, was destroyed by fire
at 10 o'clock last night, cause unknown.
Incendiarism is strongly limited, owing to
recent labor troubles The fire was con-
fined to the finishing and storerooms.
where 1.4OO fine tables were stored. The
blaze started on the first floor and spread
rapidly through the room. The large build
ing adjoining, containing the machinery,
was saved. The loss on manufactured fur
niture and building will exceed $4,000. The
insurance of the entire plant amounts to
$29, 600, only, $15,0 900 of which is on the
burned portion. The entire manufactured
product of the past year was consumed.
The corporation is yet undecided on the
question of rebuilding.
Fire Chief Snobarger fell from a burning
ladder, suffering severe injuries, and he
was hauled home in a carriage. A number
of firemen were severely burned, but none
dangerously.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
DOUBLE
Muncie Couples Observe FOrtieth and
Fiftieth wedding Anniversaries.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 25.-An interest
ing double wedding anniversary celebra-
ton was held at the home of Samuel Brady
this evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Brady cele-
brated the fftieth anniversary of their
marriage, and at the same time and place
the Rev. and Mrs. f. F.. Hasty celebrated
the fortieth anniversary Of their marriage.
Both couples are pioneer residents of
Muncie. Mr.. Hasty being a Methodist min
lister. For twenty or more years Mr.. Brady
has been route agent on the mail-car serv-
ice on the Lake Erie Railroad between
Muncie and Peoria, III. A large number
Of friends of both couples were present.
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navy. The war vessels are being closely
guarded, as IL is believed the officers are
not quite trustworthy. II was the pur-
pose of those concerned, ii was declared,
to give the signal for the outbreak by the
assassination of President Campos SALES.
During the excitement that followed the
monarchist adherents in the army and navy
were to take possession of the city and hold
the government offices. The affairs of
state were 10 be intrusted to a triumvirate
composed of Admiral Mello, Marshal Can
turia and Counsellor Lafayette Pereira.
Mello was quietly removed from
this city. as IL was feared his presence
would cause disturbance He was conveyed
to Cobias, where he is held in the custody
of Admiral Proenca."
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Fine. New Well Near Marion.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind. March 25.-One of the
largest oil wells yet drilled in the Indiana
field was discovered in heretofore undevel-
oped territory on the John Sohn farm,
southwest of this city. yesterday. The
lease is owned by the Marion Fruit Jar and
Bottle Company. and that concern, which
has considerable additional territory sur
rounding this tract, will push develop
ments for oil and gas. The well is now pro-
barrels an hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
Pittsburg District Scale Fixed.

PITTSBURG, Pa, March 25.-Patrick Do
Ian, district president of the United Nine
Workers Association, announced, to-day,
that after a conference lasting more than
three weeks, the operators conceded the
demands made by the miners in the new
wage scale and a fair settlement for the
Pittsburg district has been effected. a dis
agreement seemed inevitable on Saturday
and a call was issued for a convention, to
be held Thursday next, to consider the adj
visibility of striking, but all the conven-
ton will have to do now will be to ratify
the scale as signed. The miners officials
will take up the Beaver and Irwin, dis
.ricts scales this week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
Married Sixty-TwO Years.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
GOSHEN, Ind, March 25.-Mr. and Mrs.
Louis III. Noble, the former e~ighty-five
years old and the latter seventy-eight, who
were married in Ohio, tomorrow will cele-
brate their sixty-second wedding anniver-
sary, both in good health. Mr.. and Mrs.
Noble moved to Goshen ffty-two years ago
and since then MIR. Noble has been an
active force in the city's history. For many
years he was engaged in merchandising, but
fifteen years ago organized the Oval Churn
Company, with which he is yet actively
connected as president. Mr.. and Mrs. No
BILE nave four children living, eleven grand
children and one gr"eat-grandchild. Mr.. No
BILE all his life has loved a good horse, has
been a breeder of more than local repute
and at no time has been without a fair
sized string in his stables.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM.
Miners and Operators Stand Pat on
Respective Powder Positions.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 25.-The In
diana miners convention met this afternoon
after the Sunday recess. The only question
now under discussion is as to the demand
OF the operators that a provision be put in
the wage contract requiring the miners 20
buy powder from the employing operator
at s1.75 a keg. The joint convention will
meet again tomorrow afternoon.
Both miners and operators say they will
stand out for their respective contentious,
though there should be a suspension OF
mining with the beginning of the new scale
year, April l. The operators will meet to-
morrow morning, and If there is any weak
ness in their ranks the fact will then be
developed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind. March 2.-The evil
dence in the case of DR.. Condo Beck. for
the murder Of William Barton. closed with
the evening adjournment. The defendant
took the witness stand on his own behalf.
telling in a straightforward manner the
incidents leading up 10 the shooting and
his conduct during the shooting. He said
Barton fired twice before he got out Of
the buggy: that not until Barton had fired
three or four times did he shoot. and then
only TO protect his own life; that he fired
only three times, and that each time he
fired Barton was advancing and he was
retreating.
The State introduced evidence showing
that Beck's moral character was bad. II
also introduced a paling OF the fence
having a bullet hole through IL. which was
behind Barton when the shooting COM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION.
Order Issued for Disposal of the Phil
adelphia Record

PHILADELPHIA. March 25.-Assistant
United States Attorney James NJ. Beck,
master in the suit TO set aside the assign
ment of the Philadelphia Record BY, Will
liam y. Singerly, filed his report in the
United States court here to-day. Mr.. Beck
finds that Mr.. Singerly was sane at The
time he assigned the newspaper property to
assignees George II. Earle, jr., and Rich
ard Y. Cook. and the transaction was
therefore valid. He DEGREES that the Rec
ord shall be disposed of at public sale anc
settles GAINS in dispute amounting to ovvr
S2.lQo. COO.
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Special TO the indianapolis JcurnaI.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 24-The evidence
was concluded this evening in the trial of
DR.. Leach, and the case will go to the jury
tomorrow afternoon after each side has
had four hours for argument. In rebuttal
to-day the State introduced some damaging
letters which passed between DIR. Leach
and Frank and JOIN Diehl, and also adds-
tiOnal testimony of Miss McCluskey, the
nurse, who AYERS that the last statement
b. Mary Farwig was made TO her, TO the
effect that the former statement the girl
made generating DIR. Leach from any
blame for her condition was false.
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National Notes.

At Aurora. Ind. yesterday Mrs. Nation
shook hands with the crowd at the depot.
and told the women TO set out with rocks"
and smash all the 'hell-holes."
Mrs. Nation passed through Seymour.
Ind. yesterday on her way 10 Cincinnati,
and. seeing some feathers on the feminine
headgear in the crowd, told the wearers
that feathers looked prettier in a ROSTERS
tail than on a woman's hat.
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Little Girl Hanged Herself.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind, March 25.-The three
year-old daughter of Peter Geary, an
Amish farmer, living near Berne, acct
dentally hanged herself yesterday. She
was at play and was attempting to crawl
through a board fence. She put her head
between two boards, could not get it back,
and. in her efforts to become free, was
strangled.
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ALBANY. N. Y, March 25.-Superintend-
emf of Insurance Francis Hendricks to-day
authorized the Continental Casualty Com
pany, of Hammond, Ind, with its princi-
pal office in Chicago, TO commence the
transaction of the business Of health and
accident insurance in this State. 1t has a
capital stock of 00,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-26
Baseball Notes.

President Robson. of the st. Louis Ma
ti0nal League Club, say First-baseman
ID. L. Mccain has signed n contract TO
play this season with st. Louis.
Bob Wood. a former Cincinnati National
League player. and who played last year
with Manager Comiskey. has been signed
TO catch for Cleveland this season.
The Columbus co. Baseball Company
was organized last night with a capital
stock of 5000. half of which has already
been paid. A. Ii. Cohen is president. The
company will place a strong team in the
Interstate League. Negotiations will be
opened at once with Walter Wilmot 10 man.
age the team.
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Suits to Stream Pollution.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, March 25.-Ten damage
suits. aggregating $4,000. demanding re-
straining orders against the Muncie Pulp
Company, the Consumers Paper Company
and the West Muncie Strawboard Company,
of Muncie and Yorktown. from using White
river and Buck creek for the refuse from
the mills were filed in the Circuit Court
this evening for alleged pollution of the
streams. The plaintiffs are farmers with
lands abutting the streams. So many of
these suits are being filed as TO promise TO
put the big industries out Of business.