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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-29
Indiana Obituary..

PERU, Ind, May 2S.-The funeral of
Wednesday morning. He was assistant
master mechanic of the transohio division
Of the Baltimore & Ohio, located at New
ark, Q. He had held several important po-
sitions with the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul, and the following mel from that line
will attend the funeral: CT. II. Brown, divi-
sion master mechanic, and William Wrat-
tan, general foreman, of Dubuque; j. &.
general foreman, of Marion, la. ;
j. A Kershaw, superintendent of air
brakes; Morgan Harvey, fuel accountant,
and n. NJ. Maine, general foreman of Mil
waukee. Mr.. Deibert was a former Peruv-
ian. He leaves a widow and one son.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind. May 2S.-Rufus
Mcpherson, Of Greensboro. died last night,
aged seventy years. Some weeks ago Mr..
Mcpherson suffered a stroke of paralysis
and his death was its consequence.
Rufus Mcpherson and his brother RILEY
were the most remarkable twins in In
o1ana. They so closely resembled eacn
other that persons who saw them every day
for forty years were unable to distinguish
one from the other. They were born in
North Carolina, and were brought TO
Wayne county in their youth, and have
lived near Greensboro ever since.
WARSAW, Ind. May 2S.-Mrs. Stan 3.
Frazer, the only daughter of Gen. Reuben
Williams, died at the home of her father.
in this city, at 2:30 o'clock this morning of
congestion of the brain.
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Suit of the BiddIe Heirs Is Settled by
Compromise md In Case Is
Taken Out of Court.
GRADUATION DAYS ARE HERE
MANY TOWNS TURN OUT QUOTAS OF
WORLD CONQUERORS.
Independent Glass Works to Close
Marion Union Labor Trust-lmpOr-
tant Traction Line Ruling.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind, May 2S.-The body OF
AggIe Long. aged fourteen. was found at
s o'clock tonight in the Methodist Church
at Sycamore, Howard county, the girl nav
ing committed suicide in the pulpit by
shooting. While in the attitude of prayer,
at the minister's chair. she sent a bullet
through her heart. At 2 O'Clock this after
noon she went to the church alone for Or
gan practice. The act was premeditated.
but no certain cause is known. 1t Is sup
posed. however. that the fact that she re-
Gently failed to pass two examinations in
the Sycamore school may have had
something to do with it. She left a
note on the organ telling how her funeral
was to be conducted, naming the minister,
the organist and the choir. Miss Long was
a member of the choir and had been a de-
vout member of the church. She was the
daughter of John Long. of Sycamore. One
brother is attending college at Marion and
another is operator and railroad agent at
Sycamore. Two of her sisters are school
teachers. She was a niece of John and
Henry Lowe, Of Kokomo. =
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New and Old Members of stock Ex-
change Disagree.

w. G. Nicholas. in New York Telegraph.
A membership on the New York Stock
was sold yesterday for $50 1000.
That figure is $4,000 less than the last
last sale. The officials OF the exchange re-
fuse to divulge the names of the principals
to the transaction. The panic. now ancient
history 10 the extent OF nearly two weeks,
inflicted a frost on the membership boom.
The reason, therefore, is patent. In the
first place, the average new member felt
that an obligation rested on him TO DO
something out Of the ordinary TO distin-
guish him from the ordinary run OF brok-
ers. In some instances that feeling led
him into indiscretions that resulted in
panic slaughter. In other instances IL re-
suited in the financial murder of clients and
customers.
The complaint is lodged against the new
members that they lost their heads and
caused the panic to go ten 10 twenty points
further than il would have gone had they
been off the floor during the exciting cata-
clysmic hours of that fateful Thursday.
They stand charged with having gone upon
the floor and slaughtered their clients in
the most foolish. not 10 say crazy. manner
conceivable. selling them out without re-
gard TO conditions or the rights OF prin-
cipals.
In fact, the new element bitterly resent
the imputation that the panic is I'm any way
attributable to their mistakes and charge
that as many errors of Judgment are
chargeable to the veterans as TO the freshly
initiated members They say hat In maxi
ing the assertion that the new members
were especially responsible for the panic
the veterans have overstepped the limit and
are distinctly guilty OF libel. Genuine bad
feeling has been engendered between the
older and the younger members consequent
upon me panic ana It's after enects.
The question of responsibility may not
ever be settled. 1t is holly contested and
down to date no OF arbitration
has been appointed TO adjust the differ
ences. Hence the two parties are standing
of, growing at each other.
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The death rate is over thirty daily. The
epidemic is the worst known since 1894. The
colony requires drastic sanitary legisla-
ton"
The delegates Of the st. Nicholas Society
OF New York. accompanied by the United
States minister. Stanford Newell, presented
yesterday to the Dutch foreign minister,
NJ. De Beaufort. a silver cup as the So
ciety's wedding present TO Queen Will
helmina.
The Neus Weiner Tageblatt, of Vienna,
I'm the course Of an article advocating the
formation OF a European customs league
against the United States. says: America
Is the common enemy Of all, an enemy so
formidable that each European country
must succumb unless leagued with the rest
a hard fight"
Members of the New York Chamber Of
now in London will visit Wind
sor Castle June Z and will be received by
the King. A conference between the men,
bers of the New York Chamber of Com
merce and the London Chamber of Com
merce has been arranged for June 5. Nor
ris K. Jessup. president of the New York
Chamber of Commerce, Will preside
"A report is current here" says the
Odessa correspondent of the London Stand
ard. ION apparently good authority, that
Russia his readiness. should he have no
heir. to bequeath the Servian throne TO
Prince Danilo OF Montenegro. leaving 10
the future to decide the question of unit
ing Servia and Montenegro under the same
crown"
After consultation Will Mr.. Fife, Sir
Thomas Upton has decided to send Sham
rock / to America with the challenger in
order that he may continue the trial races
right up TO the date of the cup races. This
Will cost an additional $4,000, but Sir
Thomas is confident that the advantage to
be gained jUstihes the expense. Captain
Wringe will shamrock /, with the
same crew that has sailed her this season.
Three candidates have been chosen by
the Congregation OF the Propaganda for
the rectorship of the American College in
Rome, made vacant owing to the appoint
ment May Z of Mgr. O'Connell to the
bishopric of Portland. Me. The names are
kept secret, but they include the Rev.
Thomas Kennedy, of Overlook, Mass.
Forecasts OF the result are premature at
present. The congregation meets in June
and will then make a choice that will re-
quire the confirmation of the Pope.
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Claude Jackson, Lew Reed. Bertha Bennett.
G. Maude Engles. Daisy Johnson, Ada
Lingo, Carrie WATSON, Howard Dyas. VIII
Mclaughlin. Sidney Stern, Ethel A. Pea
cock, Pearl Mcclure. Dollie Ross. Dolly
Galbreath. Frank Kellar. Roxy Galbreath
and Bernard Williams, The class address
will be by Professor f. S. Ames, of the
Chicago University.
nual commencement OF the Mt. Vernon
High School will be held at the courthouse
on Friday evening. May 81. The class num-
bers thirteen, as IolloWs: Lola Beste' EIva
Isadore Fuhs, Walter Hinch, Clyde John
son. Frank Keck, Edmund krentzginger.
Ruby Lowenhaupt, Walter Millett, Fred
Matte and Goldie Smith. DR.. Robert j. Ally,
ment address and the Rev. Wilson Black
burn, member of the city School Board,
will present diplomas. =" .Superin-
tendent Edwin S. Monroe has been re-
elected for the seventh year to the super
intendency of the Mt. Vernon schools.
TERRE HACTE.-Rose Polytechnic COM
mencement exercises Will be held on Thurs
day. June 20. The address will be by George
B. Leighton. president OF the Los Angles
Terminal Railway. The programme for the
week is as follows: Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday, thesis examinations; Tuesday,
entrance examinations; Wednesday, senior
and fifteenth alumni banquet. alumni adj
dress by Walter B. Wiley, Of the Illinois
Steel Company.
PERU-It is understood that Prof. A. P.
Malsbary. who has just been replaced as
superintendent of the Peru school system
by Prof. A. A. Campbell, of the high
school faculty, will contest the appoint
ment in the courts.
PETERSBURG-The School Board has
passed a resolution that no teacher is 10
uses tobacco. plays cards in any form or
Dances.
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DIED IN POVERTY.
j. G.. Miner, Former Assistant Secre.
tary of the Confederate Navy.

CINCINNATI, May 2S.-Col. James G..
Miner, an assistant secretary Of the Con-
federate navy during the civil war. died In
poverty to-day at Milford, o., aged eighty
two years. He was a graduate Of Edin-
burg University; a native of New England,
but a resident Of Texas, and a friend of
Gen. Sam Houston. He served under Tay-
Tor in the Mexican war. Before the war he
was one of the owners Of the famous Tired
gear iron works of Richmond, Va. The
civil war swept away his fortune. and since
then he has battled unsuccessfully in the
effort TO build up a new fortune. He in
vented a high-pressure engine, but could
not bring il to a financial success. In "A
trunk in this city he had a million dollars
Of Confederate bonds and money. Three
weeks ago his wife. who bravely shared
his i'll fortune with him, died. aged eighty
years, and a Mrs. Spencer, of Milford, gave
her burial and took the broken-hearted
cid man to her home. Manufacturers here.
whose places Colonel Miner loved to visit.
nave provided a lot in the cemetery and will
see TO his burial.
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JACK THE RIPPER SCARE
ANOTHER SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY IN
THE wHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
Mutilated Woman Found Dying
London Police Unable to Find "a
CIew to the Murderer.

LONDON, May pa sensational murder
and case Of mutilation has occurred in a
low lodging house in Dorset street, White
chapel. close to the scene of the Jack the
Ripper" murders of 1888. The victim. a
woman named Annie Austin, twenty-eight
years old. was found dying in a bedroom
on Sunday morning. and was removed to a
hospital. where she died. The murderer
escaped, and the police were not notified
of the crime until early yesterday. The
murderer's long start and the total lack of
a description of him renders his appreien-
sion unlikely.
The wounds on the lower part Of the
victims body are too revolving for descrip-
ton The woman was conscious when
found. but died without making a state
ment. The police are ~apprehenSive of fur
ther outrages, and a panic mas been Gre
atsd in the neighbOrhood.
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Movements of Steamers.

NEW YORK. May 2S.-Arrived: Koenigin
Luise. from Bremen. Sailed: Tauric. FOX
Liverpool: Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. for
Bremen.
GIBRALTAR. May 2s.-Arrived: Hohen-
>~ZOllern, from New York for Naples and
Genoa. Sailed: Alsatia. for New York.
CHERBOURG. May 2S.-Arrived: Penn
sylvania. from New York. for Hamburg.
and proceeded.
QUEENSTOWN. May 29-Arrived:
Oceanic. from New York. for liverpool,
and proceeded.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 2S-Arrived:
Lain. from New York. for Bremen. and
proceeded.
BOULOGNE. May 29.-Arrived: Rotter-
dam. from New York. for Rotterdam. and
proceeded.
MOVILLE. May 29.-Arrived: Ethiopia.
from New York. for Glasgow, and pro-
ceeded.,
PLYMOUTH. May 9.-Sailed: Graf Wal
dersee. from Hamburg. for New York.
BROWHEAD. May 29.-Passed: Cufic,
from New York. for Liverpool
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SALEaI'S BANNER CLASS.
Twenty-One Students Receive Di-
pIOmas-AIumni Reception.
indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
SALEM, Ind, May 2S.-The opera house
was crowded this evening with friends Of
the Salem High School. who gathered in
honor OF the twenty-one graduates, who re-
ceived their diplomas. The Rev. ]. Cum
ming Smith. of Indianapolis. delivered the
address to the class on Optimism and
Education" The Rev. II. b. Sutherland
presented the diplomas. This was the
twenty-third annual commencement, and
the largest graduating class. Among the
decorations of the stage was the school
pennant and the silk banner won by the
school in the athletic contests Saturday.
The victorious field team and orator will
be banqueted at the Avis Hotel on Thurs
day. The alumni reception will be given
at the residence OF j. A. Kemp, tomorrow
evening. and will be followed by a banquet
in honor OF the graduating class.
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Important Demurrer O~verruled.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, May 2S.-In the injunc-
ton suit of Mrs. Suoan Eagle and Mrs
Cynthia Johnson against the Wabash Riv-
er Traction Company, which has held up
the laying of track from Manchester avenue
into the business part of the city on Wa
bash street. Judge Paulus to-day overruled
the demurrer of the company to the COM
paint Of the two women, who are prop
erty owners and who want s., 900 damages
each. The ruling foreshadows making the
injunction permanent, or requiring the COM
pany TO pay damages to property owners
or Wabash street. which would be virtually
prohibitOry. 1t is commended by the prose-
oution that the company is not organized
as a street railway. but under the general
railroad statute of Indiana, and therefore
has no right to the city streets. 1t has ac-
cepted a $20.00 subsidy as a railroad-not
as a street railroad, and If 1t enjoys the
privilege of using the streets 1t cannot COL
lect the subsidy, since the statutes do not
provide for the payment of subsidies TO
street railroads.. The case will be tried on
Friday.
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FAIR PLAY FOR NEGROES
hooker It. WASHINGTON APPEALS
TO WHITES OF ALABAMA.
Urges the constitutional Convention
to Take Conservative Action
Morgan's Scheme.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 2S.-Booker
T Washington, In behalf of his race, to-
day presented to the constitutional con-
vention an appeal for conservative action.
The address reminds the convention that
the negroes came here against their Will.
but nave been benefited, trained and Chris
tianized. They did their duty in the civil
war and in the Spanish war. They have
ceased for twenty years to be an offensive
element in politics. Leading members OF
the race have persistently urged the negro
to learn to trust the white man. For these
men thisi is d crucial time. The negro pays
some direct taxes. He pays much more in
directly through his labor. He is in the
main a producer of wealth and generally
cOntented and law-abiding. Already the
emigration agent and exodus associations
are at work on the negro's fears that his
citizenship and schools will both be taken
away. The relations are now reasonably
satisfactory between the races. Anything
That would unSettie the negro now, Wnen
he is settling down 10 thrift and common
sense. would inJure both races. Tn adj
dress pleads that all incentive for right
and useful living be not withdrawn from
the young negro 1t concludes; ANY law
which VIII merely change the name ana
form OF fraud, or can be interpreted as
meaning one thing when applied 10 one
race and something else when applied to
another. will not. in our opinion, improve
our present conditions, but may unsettle
the peace and thrift of our people ana
decrease the wealth and prosperity of Ala
bama."
The leading feature OF the suffrage clause
offered to-day by Ex-Governor Jones is that
which denies the right to vote TO ANY
person who shall hereafter be guilty and
convicted Of selling his own vote or buying
or bartering the vote OF another in any
election or any primary. caucus or con-
vention held TO nominate persons for public
office. or TO elect delegates to any primary
or convention, or who shall make or aid in
making any false count. certificates or re-
turns as to the result OF such election, prl-
mary. caucus or convention. or who shall
thereafter carry concealed weapons and be
convicted thereof"
Senator Morgan has prepared for the
consideration Of the convention an address
designed to support his suffrage clause.
Senator Morgan's plan Is simple. Nobody
but a white man shall hold office. A court
OF three registrars Is provided for each
county. and these courts shall have abso-
lutte power TO determine the qualifications
of every voter. save that an appeal from
its decision lies to the circuit. The real
feature of the plan is in the provision that
only white men shall hold office. The regis
trar plan Is similar to that in Mississippi.
except that the courts OF registrars have
a much wider discretion.
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The British third-class cruiser Pegasus
stranded on CRANE Spit. outside Sheerness.
yesterday. but was later hoated without
serious damage.
Vice Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour
who has been British commander-in-chief
on the China station since ISIS. has been
promoted 10 the rank OF admiral.
The resignation Is gazetted OF the MARQUIS
OF Headfort as "a LIEUTENANT in the First
Life British Guards. presumably because
he married Rosie Boote, the actress.
Queen Ranavolana OF Madagascar has
started from Algiers for Paris. This is the
first visit the French government has per-
mltted her 20 make since she was exiled
10 Alg!ers In 1889.
Several serious accidents have occurred
among the West Icelandic fishermen, many
persons being rOwne A large boat was
capsized near the West Mamma islands.
and twenty men and women persisted.
THE progress OF the bubonic plague
here" says the Hong-kong correspondent
e the London Times. lis becoming serious.
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Loogootee Raided by Thieves.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
LOOGOOTEE, Ind, May 2S.-The people
of Loogootee are mystifed by the preva-
lence of petty thieving. On Sunday night
several residences were broken into and
pocketbooks, clothing. jewelry and eatables
were taken. No one was able 10 detect the
thieves. and only in one instance was al
disturbance heard. They went 10 the ware
house of a local wool dealer and hauled
away a load of wool. Monday night an
other raid was made. presumably by the
same marauders. The largest amount Sc
cured by the robbers was s156. in paper and
silver, taken from the room OF E. H. Evans.
the wool buyer referred TO. So far there
Is no cleW.
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BIDDLE SUIT SETTLED.
Compromise Is Effected and Case Is
Taken Out of Court.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
L~CGANSPORT, Ind, May 2S.-Late this
afternoon through attorneys representing
both sides a compromise was effected out
of court in the case of the late Mrs. Anna
NJ. NJ. Biddle against Charles 5. Peckham,
administrator of the estate Of the late Hor-
ace p. Biddle. This was a case in which
plaintiff ued for her widows third of the
estate and for possession Of other prop
erty which she claimed was hers.
Shortly after the death Of Judge Bidilc
Mrs. Biddle died and the case has been
carried on by the heirs of both, promising
to De bitterly contested. BY the terms of
the compromise the plaintir takes the
famous Biddle library, and pays attorneys
costs in the suit. The library has been ap-
praised at $500, and Is ordered sold at
private sale, for not less than the appraised
value, the plaintiff dropping the suits as
regards all other property.
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Germans Expect Much Trade.

BERLIN, May 2S.-The Hamburger Cor
respondent prints an interview with Herr
Balm. director Of the neutrality-suspicious.
Steamship Company. who recently returned
from IN Asiatic tour. in the course OF
which he says that the Hamburg-Ameri-
can line, with several German firms, es-
tablished in Shanghai. has purchased 1900
feet of deep water frontage at the entrance
TO Shanghai harbcr, where immense docks
and repair shops will be constructed. The
company has also leased large tracts OF
wharves from the China Merchant Steam
ship Company for twenty-five years and
will erect quayS and warehouses, expect
ing a rushing business after the conclu-
sion of peace at Picking.
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Co-Operative Plant to Close.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. May 2S.-The
cooperative window glass plant Of the
Johnston Glass Company will go out of OPP
Grafton tomorrow at midnight, after a
most successful blast of about a month.
President Simon Burns decreed that the
Johnston should not operate this fire and
refused the company a scale. The men
formulated their own wage scale and went
to work. They have had a successful fire
and have agreed, of their own v~olition, 10
close tomorrow night. Operations will be
resumed on Sept. IA.
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Boxers Active Again.

LONDON, May 29.-The Boxers are again
active in all districts where there are no
foreign troops" says a dispatch TO the
Standard from Tien-Tsin, dated May q.
Yesterday a missionary, who was going
TO Tu-Lu On the Grand canal, was forced
to return to Tien-Tsin on account OF a
fierce fight raging between Boxers and
Catholic converts. There was heavy firing
on both sides. -Four thousand insurgents
from the province OF Kwai-Chau have in
vaded the province of Sze-Chuan," says the
Shanghai correspondent OF the Standard.
wiring yesterday, causing a widespread
panic. 1t is said that 1900 Yunnanese are
about to Join them"
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Policemnn's Son Shot by Tramp..

CARROLLTON, Mo, May 2S.-Charlcs
Mckinney, a son OF Policeman Mckinney.
was shot and killed at 2 O'Clock this morn
ing while assisting his father TO arrest a
gang OF tramps. Three OF the gang wore
arrested and placed in jail. Half a dozen
others escaped and We're pursued by the
sheriff and a posse 10 a point three miles
south Of Carrollton. where they were sur
rounded. Here a lively fight ensued. the
tramps exchanging shots with the posse.
Two more OF the tramps were finally
rounded up. but not before the sherin's
horse was shot from under him. The 9th
ers escaped to the WOODS.
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Detroit Free Press.

Great interest will be taken In the steam
boat race on Lake Erie early mex month
between the Tashmoo, OF the White Star
line. and the City of Erie. of the Cleveland
and Buffalo Transit Company. These two
fast passenger steamers are 10 try conclu-
sions over a course of one hundred miles for
stakes OF $1,000. That there will be a lively
time is beyond question. not only aboard
the contestants. but among the crowd of
watchers. Among the latter viii be Super
~intendent Mercereau. OF the Pere Marquette
line, who is more particularly interested in
the work OF the wireless telegraphy TO be
employed. as IT is the intention TO estab-
lish IL in place OF the carrier-pigeon serv-
ice planned for its seven boats. with land
stations at Milwaukee, Ludington and Man.
itowoc. That the race may be safely run.
with success 10 the faster boat and a sa.-
isfactory demonstration OF the utility OF
the wireless telegraph. Is devoutly hoped.