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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
SHELBY DOODLE CASES.
Filed Under N Change Of Venue In
bartholomew County.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Aug. S.-Sherif Theo-
dore Luther. of Shelby county, Indiana.
to-day filed in the office OF the clerk of the
Circuit Court here the transcript and pa
pers in four of the celebrated cases or
the State of Indiana against Adam A. Dir
ton and William Amos, who. together with
James Cherry. composed the Board OF
County Commissioners. with whom George
RAY transacted business aad got himself
into the Michigan City State Prison. The
four cases come 10 the Bartholomew Cir
cult Court on a change OF venue from
Shelby county. and probably will come up
for trial during the first two weeks OF the
September term OF court, which convenes
Sept ,.
one Of the cases against Amos Is on an
Indictment charging him and James l..
Cherry while county commissioners. with
making an Illegal allowance OF $50 30 10
J. Marsh Wilson. county treasurer. on his
claim for copying and transferring schools
fund mortgages 10 new record. Two OF
the other cases vCnued are against Amos.
and the indictments charge him with pre-
senting fraudulent claims against the
county. These cases are on Indictments
by the grand jury, and grew out az the
stationery supply contract with the Shelby
Democrat operating under the manage
ment OF George NJ Ray. The case against
Adam A. Girton is the same as that against
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ANTHRACITE MINERS.


HAZLETON. Pa. Aug. s.-Pra ctically
nothing was done at to-days meeting or
the executive boards of the United Mine
Workers of the three anthracite districts,
and no action was taken on any of the
questions submitted. Another session Will
be held tomorrow. Following are the ques-
tions to be considered and definitely acted
upon.
Adoption of some plan to secure an agree
ment with the coal companies whereby
the latter will grant permission to card
committee to make stated inspections at
the collieries, thus avoiding petty strikes,
such as have occurred recently on account
of the refusal of the mine superintendents
to allow committees To enter the works.
How to get the stationary firemen, the
stationary engineers, the teamsters and
blacksmiths who are now organized sepa
rately into the United Mine Workers and
make that the one strong body embracing
all classes of labor in and about the mines.
Reinstatement of the fremen who struck
recently and have not yet been taken back.
The mine workers promised to use their
influence to have the strikers placed in
their old positions in return for the action
of the men in calling off the strike.
Settlement of local grievances which have
arisen since the last strike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
Little Public Attention Given To the
Gambling Den Recently Estab-
lishcd i'm Lake County.
SHELBY COUNTY DOODLE CASES
FILED, UNDER a CHANGE OF VENUE,
IN BARTHOLOMEW.
Bank wrecker John r.. johnson Re-
turns to Logansport-Tempo
Receiver for the Aviiia Bank.
,.o,,, - -. rns,anano,,. Journsl.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind. Aug s-Fire started
at l O'Clock this afternoon I'm barn on the
property of Charles Lott. in the village OF
Galveston. sixteen miles south OF this city,
and before il could be put under control
six buildings had beer destroyed with
loss of $1,000 For time the destruction
Of the entire village was threatened.
Just how the fire started is not known,
but IL is supposed that some boys playing
with a bonfire were the cause. The fire
spread from the barn I'm which II started 10
the barn owned by Mrs. Minerva Tickle.
Her residence was also destroyed. as were
three other barns in the vicinity. The flames
then attacked the new Methodist Church
but recently completed at cost of $1,000.
and IL was destroyed.
In the meantime aid had been asked from
Kokomo, but before IL arrived the citizens.
aided by small chemical engine. which
the town has. succeeded I'm getting the fire
under control. The church property was in
sured for about half. but there was little
insurance on the other property burned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
No COMPLAINTS FILED.
Lake County "Montc Carlo" Has RE-
ceived but Little Public Attention.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
CROWN POINT. Ind. Aug S-The cru
sade against the Long Beach Turf Club.
located I'm the sand dunes on Lake AIichl-
gan. near Whiting Lake county. has been
very quiet since Tuesday. when thousands
OF letters bearing tho indianapolis post
mark reached this city and other towns OF
northern Indiana. showing a large zinc
etching cut Of the place and surrounding
territory and also an accompanying un-
signed letter deuouncing the Lake county
authorities FOR not stopping IL. As a mat.
ter OF fact, the place has been known 10
be running for several months. and has
been termed the Monte Carlo OF the West
Very little attention was paid 10 IL by the
citizens OF the county until the big blue
letters arrived, and then not 10 any great
extent. for IL has been ascertained tina,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
LEG CUT OFF By A SHARK
FATE OF QUARTERMAsTER MIKE,
OF THE GUNBOAT ANNAPOLIS.
Went in Swimming OF uoiIo and Was
Caught by a Sea MOnster-May
Receive Pension.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Admiral Kempf
has forwarded to the Navy Department an
official report, thrilling in its details, of the
biting off of the les of Quartermaster S.
McKie, third-class, of the gunboat Ann
apolis, by shark or other mammoth sea
monster The Annapolis has been stationed
of late at Ioilo. and on June "A last a
party was sent out for rife target practice.
Commander Rohrer in command OF the
Annapolis, states that permission was
given TO several of the men to go swim
ming, while others were engaged in firing.
Two of the men had been in for some time
when McI<ie joined them and asked if they
had been able TO touch bottom. Being an
swered in the negative. he made a dive
and was gone for several seconds. One of
the seamen says he heard a gurgling sound
beneath the water. moment later Nc
Kie appeared on the surface and shouted
shark Shark!' The surface of the water
was covered with blood near where he
came UP. McKie started to swim and al
pulled in by his companions. A horrible
sight met their eyes, the quartermaSter s
leg having been bitten off near the knee
With all dispatch he was taken aboard the
Annapolis, where the surgeon found it
necessary to amputate the limb between
the knee and his hip.
The surgeon i'm his report, states that
while the accident was not in the line of
duty. 1T was incident to the service. Ad-
miral kempff. however, i'm indorsing the
papers, holds that as the quartermaster re-
ceived permission of the officer in charge to
20 in bathing, the accident occurred in the
the crippled duartermaster probably will
receive "A pension.
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EX .EMPLOYE ARRESTED
JOHN WINTERS SUSPECTED OF ROB-
BING THE sELBY SHELTER.
Held on Evidence Much Like that
Worked Up by Sherlock Holmes
Against His Criminals.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-Captain Sey-
mour. of the local detective force. has dis
closed the identity of the man whom the
police department has in custody on sus-
picion OF being implicated in the robbery
Of $2S0,O worth of gold bullion from the
Selby smelter works at Vallejo Junction.
The suspect is John Winters, thirty-seven
years old. former employe of the smelt-
ing company. Captain Seymour also out
lined the evidence on which Winters is be-
ing held as follows: "A mans cap which
was found in the railroad tunnel last Tues
day morning has been positively identified
head covering worn by Winters and
to strengthen this fact there is the further
one that the suspect has been wearing a
new cap ever since the time of the robbery
He explains his loss of the old one by say
ing that IL blew away. The cover of the
tunnel excavated by the thieves was con-
structed of laths, on which some cloth
was fastened with tacks of a peculiar pat
tern. and tacks similar to these were
found to-day I'm Winters's cabin. Portions
OF lath similar 10 those composing the
framework of the cover have been found at
the same place. A pistol owned by VIM
ters and found in his cabin is covered with
mud which corresponds exactly with the
earth taken from the tunnel.
in the tunnel found several cubes Of
peculiar chalk which had evidently been
used to smother the grinding sound made
by the drill. by which the floor plate of the
vault had been bored. and pieces OF chalk
exactly like them were discovered in Win
terss residence. In the cabin was also
found a implement designed TO cut
gas pipe. A small electric battery and a
tiny electric bulb. the latter being covered
with dirt similar to that in the tunnel under
the vault. was found in the cabin. Winters
had been seen late at night I'm the vicinity
of the railroad tunnel six or seven times hy
persons who had occasion to pass that
way"
Winters stoutly claims he knows nothing
whatever about the robbery.
Special guards are now stationed at night
in the neighborhCod of the works. armed
with shotguns. The Selby Smelling Com
pany has increased the reward offered
from 5000 10 $4,000 This reward will he
paid for the arrest and conviction OF the
criminals and for the return OF the gold
The company places its exact loss at $2SS.-
005.0l
The theory upon which the detectives
are now working is that the robbery was
executed by one man only. Ii Is thought
the two bars OF gold found on the waters
edge were placed there dcsignedly for the
purpose of creating the impression that the
gold had been carried away in a boat on
this hypothesis strict search il being
made near the vicinity OF the robbery for
the stolen gold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
TEN PERSONS INJURED
COLLISION BETWEEN EXCURSION
TRAINS NEAR CONFLUENCE, PA.
Locomotive of the Third Section
Crashed Into the Pullman at the
Rear of the Second Section.

PITTSBURG, Aug. S-Two sections Of
an Atlantic City excursion train on the
Baltimore & Ohio road collided near Con-
fiuence Pa. eighty-four miles east of Pitts
burg. to-day. Ten persons were seriously
injured and a number of others slightly
hurt. Those seriously hurt were:
- HANNON. fireman, Pittsburg; prob
ably fatally.
p. j. COLLINS. WIFE AND INFANT.
Youngstown; badly bruised, serious, but
not dangerous.
j. H. DAVIS New Castle. Pa; arm
broken and badly bruised
MRS j. T. LEWIS New Castle, Pa;
cut on head and otherwise injured.
A. G. SHAW. Pittsburg; badly cut about
head.
MISS HELEN LEMoNT, Pittsburg; head
cut.
MISS DORA HARTZELL. New Castle.
Pa; both legs fractured.
J. E STILLWAGON, Connellsville: SUI
perintendent water works. arms crushed.
The trains left here in three sections
shortly after o'clock this morning As
the third section neared Confluence the
engineer suddenly saw looming up before
him on the same track the rear end OF
the second section. II was then too late
TO aovid the disaster, and the engineer and
fireman OF the third section jumped. The
third section crashed into the Pullman
car on the rear of the second section.
telescOping It, The people in the car were
mingled with the debris. Messages were
Immediately sent TO Connellsville, and a
special train OF three passenger coaches
was made up and hurried to the scene.
On board were three physicians The in
iured were taken TO a hospital. With the
exception of the fireman, all. it is thought.
viii recover.
d. f. Maroney. general superintendent Of
the Pittsburg division said from reports
received from their agents. the accident
was caused by misjudgment OF signals.
The excursion was the largest of the sea-
son over the 3. & O. The second section
or the train was composed Of seven parlor
cars. every seat being occupied. and on the
third section there were seven coaches and
one psrlor ear The injured who were able
to travel were brought back 10 Pittsburg
tonight.
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strikers insisted that there are not enough
men at the Lindsay < McCutcheon estab-
llshment 10 operate the one mill started,
ana predicted that IL would close during
the DAY. Ii was kept going until night.
IL is planned soon TO open another mill
at Lindsay & McCutcheon's and start the
Painter mill and the CHARTERS plant at
carnegie. The steel corporation is evidently
putting forth its greatest effort at PITTS
ourg, the headquarters of the strike, for the
moral effect elsewhere.
President Shaffer when shown the report
or the starting Of the Lindsay & Nc
Cutcheon plant said
There Is nothing in il. l have report
from Vice President Gibson informing me
that there are only two men at the works
one is roller and the other common
laborer. IL would do them no good and
would do the company harm 10 take men
from other mills and put them there, as
they would only break the machinery ana
spoil the material. There Is no place Ior
them to get raw material, as they can
not get puddlers TO make ii, so how can
they run the finishing mills? Why. 1 can |
get puddlers for union mills. l nave an
order for ninety puddlers 10 go TO Work at
once at the Sligo mills, on the South Slde,
and cannot get them. Men are wanted ct
the country. We have advertisements IN
the Amalgamated Journal for all classes
of skilled men and it is impossible for US
10 get them. What / can't see Is how the
trust can secure men to work in their mills
that are on strike when we cannot get thom
TO fill good union jobs In union mills. The
mills of lower Allegheny have been after
me for some time to get them men, but l
cannot furnish them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
TEST OF STRENGTH &c BE MADE
CARNEGIE GROUP OF PLANTS MAY
BE THE BATTLE GROUND.
Several Mills ReoPened Yesterday
Samuel GOmPers in Conference
with President Shaffer.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. S.-There is one
feature Of the United States Steel COrpor-
atoms plan for the breaking of the Anal
gamated Association which is of peculiar
interest to the towns Of Indiana where
plants of the steel corporation are located
1t is the present purpose TO start mills In
communities where the least resistance Will
be offered and where it is easiest to secure
nonunion labor This means that. in the
first place. the mills in the large cities will
be started. There ample police protection
IS offered and the enthusiasm Of the strik-
ers cannot prevail against the agents Of
the law. In the second place, where it is
difficult to transport nonunion men to dis
tant and Idle mills they will be left idle.
In the end. according TO the plan of the
steel corporation. the owners will win,
and there will be a grand accounting. The
steel corporation already has too many
mills. IL will be the policy. after the
strike, according to present plans, to de-
sert the more undesirable mills. That is to
say. mills that are not advantageously
located for the purposes OF the steel cor
poration and which il has been unable to
start will be left alone permanently and
their ordinary output will be provided
from other mills which the corporation IA
vors.
AS the time for the strike nears II is
evident the real battle-ground Will be the
mills of the Carnegie group along the
Monongahela river and al the old National
tube works plant in McKeesport. The
steel corporation has a growing confidence
that IL will be able to keep the men at work
in the Carnegie mills. If the union has
any hopes OF breaking the nonunion
strength in these mills they are based on
facts which they stubbornly refuse to re-
veal to the public.
The sentiment at the headquarters of the
mill owners seems TO be in favor of letting
NcKeesport take its course for the pres
ent. That is a strong union center. The
union there cannot be opposed without
violence. Both sides know that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
Unusual Gas Wen Accident.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Aug. s-The
strongest gas well opened in this vicinity
I'm two years was being completed on the
McEldowney farm. four miles west or
here. to-day. when it caught fire and Se-
stroyed the derrick and drilling machinery.
Cox & Alysworth. the contractors. were
drilling the well for the Progress OH Com
pany. and had just installed new ca@ls
at a cost of $500. The gas was ignited by
the friction OF a baler whic.i was heing
lowered into the we'll. and II is said 10 be
the only accident or the kind recorded i'm
the gas and oil fields The gas ignited
while the balor was within ten rect OF the
top There was no explosion, and three
workmen were standing in the derrica when
the gas took fire. The loss Will reach
high figure. as everything I'm the vicinity or
the we'll was destroyed. The output OF gas
is tremendous. and the burning well pre-
sented q beautiful spectacle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
SITUATION AT SAN FRANCISCO.


WASHINGTON, Aug. s-A dispatch has
been received at the War Department from
Colonel Long, quartermaster at San Fran
cisco, showing that a serious condition
exists there a result of the strikes. IT
has been found impossible to procure
skilled labor and almost impossible TO find
labor of any kind to work on the ships. For
this reason the government will turn the
transport LennoX over to her owners with
out removing the government fittings.
Heretofore il has been the custom to have
a transport refitted upon the expiration OF
the charter as she was when the govern
ment took it. Colonel Long says that the
commerce of the port of San Francisco
has been practically tied up and that the
strike situation there is more serious than
at any time since il began. The govern
nent has been able to get its ships fitted
up. but with delay. While this delay has
been annoying il has not been of such char
acter as TO cripple the government service
and no doubt ii felt that supplies will he
regularly sent TO the troops in the Phil
iIpineS and in Alaska.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
FOREIGNER WOUNDED.


PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. S.-The first act
of violence in this neighborhood occurred
at Natrona. last night. when a foreigner,
whose name could not be learned, was shot,
presumably by strikers. He was employed
in the copper extraction department of the
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company
and was struck by shot in three places,
but not seriously injured. There were six
eight shots fired from the hill hack of
the works. The company has succeeded in
filing the striking furnacemens places.
and the strikers are trying TO frighten the
new men away by throwing rocks and
shooting at them while at work. A heavy
guard of special officers has been put on
for the protection of the workmen.
The strike leaders plan a series of rallies
for Saturday. the closing day of their pre-
liminary campaign. The largest will be held
at Cascade Park. New Castle. and it's lead
ers claim that 1000 workingmen will partici-
CONTINUED ON PAGE s, COL. A.
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Crown Prince Deported.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. S-The steam
er Moana, from Sydney, to-day, brings
the story of the deportation of the native
Crown Prince on Gilbert Island. 1t is
stated that the Prince defied the author
inv of The British commissioner. and was
working up an insurrection among the
natives The commissioner thereupon is
ished to a neighboring island for six
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
JEALOUS WOMAN SHOOTS.
Wounds Man and His Wife, but
Neither Probably Fatally.

DENVER Aug. s.-Mrs. Philip Hitchcock,
wife OF a prominent railroad man, to-day
shot and seriously wounded James w Rob
erts and his wife in their candy store. on
Sixteenth street. The woman was shot in
the face and the man received two bullets.
one in the middle of the forehead II was
at first thought the man was killed but al
the hospital he revived and the physicians
hope for the recovery OF both. jealousy
was the cause Of the shooting
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
Surprised and Captured by Beers.

LONDON. Aug S--Lord Kitchener in
dispatch from Pretoria to-day announces
that a post OF twenty-five men belonging
to Steinacker's Horse. on the Sabari river
have been surprised and captured by the
Beers.
Lord Kitchener reports also the surrender
AT Warm Baths OF Commandant Devilliers.
who was second In command TO Beyers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
Jnnitors Forming n Trust.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-Janitors in this city
are forming q trust says the Chronicle.
They call it THE Janitors' Protective AS
sociation," and declare it is designed for
1.-The amelioration of the condition of those
who are in charge of office buildings and
fats" The association now has $50 mem
bers and has applied for a charter. At a
meeting last night bylaws were adopted.
officers elected. and trustees named. Ii is
said efforts will be made to form similar
associations in other cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
Trainmen MnngIcd.

SPRINGFIELD. H.. Aug SIN a coIli-
sion to-day between Chicago & Alton
freight trans at Greenview. W. l. Burns
fireman, OF Columbia. Ill. lost both his
legs: James W. Wilson, painter for the
Alton, Wellsville. broke his left leg and
John 3. Conley, engineer, Bloomington. dis
located his shoulder and got 4 bad wound
on his head.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
DEATH FASTER THAN STEAM.
Harvard Graduate Overtaken While
Trying to Reach His Home.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-A race with death
from Boston with Claremont, Ia, as the
goal, ended here to-day with the death of
John Foley. Three weeks ago the decedent,
who was a Harvard graduate and who had
been employed in coast survey work by
the government was seized with quick
consumption at Boston. Wishing to die at
home he was carried aboard a train on
Tuesday. He became so i'll last night that
it was decided he must stop in Chicago for
rest. He was placed i'm an ambulance but
died while on his way to the hospital
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
TRIGGS OUT OF SORTS.
He Belittles the Poetry Of Longfellow
md Oliver wendell Holmes.

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-Oscar l.. Triggs, the
University of Chicago professor who COM
pares Rockefeller with Shakespeare and
characterizes church hymns as doggerel.
told his class in English literature to-day
that the poetry of Longfellow is trivial and
unworthy of consideration. Professor
Triggs made similar expressions with ref
erence to the poetry of Oliver Wendell
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
MANY CANNIBALS KILLED
SLAIN BY GERMANS IN REVENGE FOR
RECENT MASSACRE.
Eighty Natives of the Island Of ST.
Matthias Put to Death and
Seventeen Captured.

BRISBANE, Queensland, Aug. S.-The
German punitive expedition sent TO avengc
the massacre OF DR.. Mencken and other
members OF the first German South sea
expedition on the cannibal island of ST.
Matthias landed from the German cruiser
Cormoran near the scene of the massacre
killed eighty natives and captured seven
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-09
ACCUSED OF MANsLAUGHTER.
Faith HeaIers Alleged to Have Per-
mitted Their Child to Die.

HAMILTON. o.. Aug. S-Humane Of
fcer Smith to-day swore out warrants for
the arrest of sylvia and Lecia Bishop.
charging them with manslaughter. The
Bishops are believers in faith healing and
when their little daughter Esther was
burned by a gasoline explosion, July 81,
they did not call physician, and the child
died. Bishop was committed TO jail in de-
fault of bond. Mrs. Bishop is at Greenville.
o., and constable has gone there TO serve
the Warrant for her