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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
BETRAYED BY A FRIEND
CHARLES A.. JOHNSON, OF. NILES,
MICH, ARRESTED AT COLUMBUS.
Cashier of the First National Bank
Who Is Charged with W~recking
that Institution.

COLUMBUS, O., March 17.-Charles A.
Johnson, cashier of the First National
Bank, of Niles, Mich. was arrested here
to-day on a charge of wrecking that insti-
tuition. He was placed in the emergency
hospital at the police station because Of
his physical condition. He is badly broken
in health. much emaciated and very ner-
vous. He expressed a Willingness to re-
turn to Michigan at once. Johnson is said
TO have come to Columbus Immediately
after leaving Niles, about two weeks ago.
when the examination of the bank at
fairs was begun. Shortly after his arrival
here Johnson wrote to a friend in Niles re-
questing that he send him a number of
articles, and instructing him TO address
them in care of j. b. Elliott, the alias
which he assumed on his arrival here.
His friend gave the letter to Thomas L.
Porter, a secret service officer. and Mr..
Porter came to this city this morning.
He enlisted the services of Detective FOs-
ter, and together they sent Johnson Il
decoy letter signed with his friends name.
The letter asked Johnson to meet his
friend i'm West Goodale street, and receive
the articles for which he had written.
Johnson fell into the trap. He was greatly
surprised when ne thus fell into the hands
of the officers, but quickly consented to
return TO Niles. He declined to talk about
the affairs of the bank. On the prisoners
person were found certificates of deposit
tor $500 in the Hayden Clinton National
Bank, of this city. Papers found in a pock-
etbOok disclosed the fact that he had de-
posted 500 with two local brokers, ana
was playing the markets here. Johnson
i held pending instructions from Judge
Thompson, of the United States District
Court at Cincinnati.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
Intense Heat from n Burning Build
ing Melted "a Network of Wires
and Caused Them To Fall.
ONE STRUCK A BRASS NOZZLE
AND A TRONG TROLLEY WIRE CUR
RENT KNOCKED TWO MEN DOWN.
Two Others Hurled to the Ground
burg Exposition Building Burned.

PITTSBURG, March 17.-During the
progress of a fire to-day at the corner of
Duquesne way and Fort street, one man
lost his life and three others were badly
hurt The property loss will be fully $780,
600, well insured.
Dead
WILLIAM MILLER, driver No.. 9 hose
company.
Injured
GEORGE ]. SNYDER, hoseman. same
company.
HARRY GRIFFITH, ladder man, Truck
H. f. SHECKLER, hoseman. Company
80.
The injured, who are in the hospital. will
recover.
The fire broke out in the boiler room of
the Hiram W.. French C~ompany's hair felt
factory, just opposite the Exposition main
building. Through some misunderstanding
no alarm was turned in for some time and
II was fully fifteen minutes after the fire
was discovered before the engines reached
the scene. From the felt factory the flames
jumped across the street, and in a very
short time the Exposition building was
burning fercely. All the firemen could do
here was to prevent the flames spreading.
~ hoAQ NOAh III N0o oNCCAHtf
and Machinery Hall, with its valuable con-
tents. was saved. The main building was a
complete wreck. Two lumber yards adj
joining the felt factory soon succumbed.
Gallagher & Banker lost one million feet
of lumber and Henry Henk 100000 feet of
valuable hard wood. Three small dwell
ings near the lumber yards were destroyed,
but so far as known all the inmates es-
capped.
William Miller and his fellow-firemen
were victims of a live wire. The intense
heat melted the network of wires running
in every direction and one of them in fall
ing struck a trolley wire, the other end
crossing the brass nozzle of the hose held
by Miller and Snyder. Both men fell as
though they had been shot. Sheckler and
Griffith, in going to the rescue, were also
caught, and both were badly burned.
When the PROSTATE men were reached
Miller was dead and two of the others UNI
conscious.
The loss on the Exposition building will
reach 5000 00, fully insured. President Tor
rance say the structure will be rebuilt at
once and be ready for the fall engage
mentS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18

creasing interdependence of literature and
the theater.
We find still another vastly different vari-
ETY. in the fifth book, Booth T~arkington's
Monsieur Beaucaire," a neat and clever
little comedy OF English life in the eigh-
teenth century, by a young American col
lege graduate. And most different of all is
the sixth, Maurice Hewlett's brilliant. arti-
hcial. hyperesthetic historical omanc of
Richard l.. The Life and Death of Richard
Yea and Nay" Now, from such a list as
this one may infer anything or nothing.
The only sound conclusion, perhaps, is that
are not the same as those who read the
to choose both "Eben Holden" and "Ricn-
ard Yea and Nay" but the great average
of Mr.. Bachelors readers would think they
or their author had gone suddenly crazy II
confronted with the bizarre history OF
Richard and Jeanne of the Fair Girdle.
No special tendency" appears in the list,
except the tendency TO read whatever seems
pleasing. Realism or roinanticism, Amer
lean history or European history, or con-
temporary life, Il labored cOnceit of style or
no style at all-nOne of these things seems
to affect the result. On the whole, the
choice might have been much worse, and L
is 10 be said hat all of these books, and,
indeed, the whole thirty, are eminently
a touch of degeneracy or moral faint. The
tone of current fiction has improved vastly
in the last half dozen years, and the hys-
terical women of the "Keynotes" period,
the cOarse-minded women of the Saran
Grand period and the Women who Did
have alike disappeared from the pages Of
the contemporary novel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
KILLED BY HER PET DOG
HORRIBLE DEATH OF CARRIE
COBUS IN HER KITCHEN.
Attacked by a Terrier While Suffer-
Severed by the Animals Teeth.

NEW YORK, March 17.-Mrs. Carrie CO.
bus met death i'm a shocking manner here
tonight. being killed by her dog. Mrs. CO.
bus, her husband, her son and her mother
lived together. Mrs. Cobus was subject TO
epileptic fits. Her constant companion was
a fox terrier of unusual intelligence. Mrs.
Elizabeth Broadhead, Mrs. Cobus's mother,
says her daughter went out into the kitchen
about Z o'clock. A few moments later Mrs.
Broadhead heard the dog barking excitcdly.
The mother ran out and found her daughter
lying on the floor. She knew it was an cpl
leptic attack, and, dashing a pitcher of
water into her daughters face, she ran
into the hail and screamed for help. Philip
Rockefeller, living near by, heard her and
ran to her assistance. They went into the
room where Mrs. Cobus lay and there saw
a horrifying spectacle. The pet terrier, see
ing its mistress in agony, appears to have
gone mad. 1t flew at the PROSTATE woman
as she writhed on the floor and repeatedly
attacked her, burying its teeth in her throat
and s~evering the jugular vein. When
Rockefeller tried to tear the maddened
brute away it chung to the dying woman
with terrible tenacity. He finally got the
animal loose. 1t then attacked the mother
and the man. but they beat it off. a physi-
clan was summoned, but Mrs. Cobus had
bled to death. The dog disappeared in the
streets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
SLEEPING CAR BURNED
CAUGHT FIRE WHILE RUNNING
FROM TAMPA Al JACKSONVILLE.
Both Filled with Tourists, Who Lost
All Thei Clothes and Valuables
No One Injured.

PALATKA. Fla. March 1.-THE Pullman
sleeping cars Tabita and Elmer, on n
Plant System train from Tampa TO Jack
sonville, were burned early this morning at
Buffalo Bluff. seven miles from this city.
The sleepers were filled with sleeping tour
lists and so quickly did the flames spread
that there was practically no time for saw
ing clothes or valuables. At the time of
the discovery of the flames they had gained
such Roadway that it was impossible to
e%xtinguish them and the train was run to
Buffalo Bluff. where the burning cars were
showed into a siding.
The seventeen passengers, including sew
eral women in the burning cars, were hur-
ried into the other sleepers and made as
comfortable as possible. Several lost their
clothing and personal effects. Blankets wer
icaned to those who had lost their clothing
and they remained wrapped in these until
jacksonville was reached, where Plant
System and Pullman officials provided for
their wants. One man lost his trousers and
several men were minus their coats. The
women lost the majority of their wearing
apparel. The realroad officials had the
measures or the passengers taken for cloth
ing, dresses, shoes, etc, and they were sup
piled within a half hour of the time of the
arrival OF the train in Jacksonville. The
passengers We're then sent 10 hotels.
The loss i'm money and jewelry is. ac-
cording TO the statement of the passen-
gers, between $4,000 and $4,000. The total
loss is estimated at $50. OoO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.
Representatives of Republic to Meet
i'm the City of Mexico This Fall.

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Responses
have now been received from practically all
of the South and Central American repub-
in the conference of American republics,
which is TO be held in the City of Mexico
next October. The preliminary work of
the congress has been directed from WASH
ington. as the United States government
has taken great interest in the meeting.
and has had the cooperation here of the
representatives of the southern countries.
The personnel OF the delegates from the
United States is beginning to attract at
tention. and in South American circles
one of the delegates from this country
shall sustain some official relation TO the
State Department. In the former con-
ferences held in Washington Mr.. Blaine
was a conspicuous figure. and the Southern
republics are DESTROYS that there be like
prominence at the coming congress. Little
attention has yet been given TO consid-
Grafton of particular names, yet among
those Informally mentioned are Assistant
Secretary Of State Hill, director RockhiU.
of the Bureau of American Republics. and
John Bassett Moore. who was assistant
secretary of state during Judge DAYS adj
ministration of the State Department. MI.
Moore's name has come up in connection
with the researches he has made on the
subject of arbitration. which IN to
be one of the most interesting themes be-
fore the congress. Besides arbitration IL
Is expected the congress will deal with
commercial affairs OF interest TO this coun-
try and the other republics. developing
means for thorough cooperation and mu-
tual expansion OF trade. To some extent
also the gathering Will have a broad DO
Itical aspect, Indicating the fraternity
which exists among the republics of the
western hemisphere
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Banker of Vienna Accused
Of Poisoning a Client.

LONDON, March B.-The Vienna cor
respondent OF the Daily Express says:
"A prominent banker at Vienna. Alfred
Vogl. was arrested on Saturday. at the Of
fee OF the Gale Manufacturing Company.
American machine makers. whose repre-
sentative he was. ON charge OF murder
ing. by poison. an aged client named Tau
bin. whose body he had cremated after
inducing him TO make a will whereby Voxl
obtained $1,000"
Other dispatches from Vienna say that
Nogi Was formerly connected with a New
York Newspaper. and once raced with a
liner across the Atlantic In a yacht with
the proprietor Of the paper IN question.
Taubin. II appears. was a Russian Jew. a
miser and a ~drunkard, and died In Vienna
last April.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
GOV. YATES, OF ILLINOIS.
He Attended the Funeral and Talks of
General Harrison.

Governor Yates and wife, of Illinois, at
tended the funeral of General Harrison
yesterday. returning to Springfield last
night. Governor Yates paid the following
tribute to the dead: Lawyer. orator, SOL
der, statesman, senator and President
sucn was the career of Benjamin Harrison.
in each and every capacity his attain
ments were remarkable and afford a high
incentive and inducement to American
manhood. AS a public speaker he had
no superior in his time. l nave heard
him many times and every time had the
impression that | heard a master at work.
His diction was simply elegant. His accu-
racy and facility OF expression were mar
VelOuS. His polished sentences usually
ended with exactly the solitary word which
alone could properly finish the phrase. That
word never failed him. His numerous
short speeches were signally simple and
superlatively forcible. He was a really
great President and has done as much
as any man to maintain the dignity OF
the presidential office. Most men have one
standard for themselves. and an
other for their officials. He held highly
TO the highest of official standards. \
statesman he was popularity conceded to
be while he was yet alive. This is un-
usual.
tom Reed once said "A statesman is a
successful politician who Is dead meaning
that a statesman *. after all. a politician.
hut II bOth successful and dead he is en-
titled TO the title OF statesman because
he is beyond the reach of criticism. de-
traction or envy. IL is significant tina Ben
Jamin Harrison's statesmanslike qualities
were recognized before death. He was A
lawyer of the first magnitude. l remem-
Der hearing him argue a case before the
United States Supreme Court-a court the
majority of whose members. II | am nor
mistaken. he had himself appointed. IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18

Study and original documents and of in
formation hitherto unused. The period
covered Is that between the earliest Eng
lish colonization and the year loOO.
Doxey's Eat the Sign of the Lark, New
York; announces a volume of verse. 1.-The
like of which has never been ventured
in this country" 1t is called 1.-The Book of
jade and its authors name is not made
known. That il is a remarkable production
is evident from these assertions by the pub
Usher: His verse is Oriental 10 a degree; 1t
is redolent with strange perfumes. Occa-
sionaily 1t is lurid and fiery; sometimes IL Is
chill with the damp Of death; IL IS always
original. a first perusal Will lead to u
second, and il viii then dawn on the reader
that even Charles Beaudelaire, the great
French decaden (t0 whom the book is ded-
fcated). wrote nothing more unique"
Herbert ID. Ward will publish in March,
through Houghton. 8iifiin & Co., a story
entitled The Light of the World" In con-
ception it is very daring.t equaIing. in it's
quite different way, some of the ideas Of
Mr.. H.. G. Wells, while in it's religious sem
timent 1T is of high quality. The author
seizes upon some recent scientific diScov-
cries concerning the nature of light, and.
simplifying them for the purposes of his
story, brings them to bear upon the resur-
rection in an entirely novel way. The event
is authenticated to a scientific materialist
I'm the light waves that fill interStellar
space, resulting in his conviction of the
truth of this cardinal fact CT Christianity.
Little, Brown & Co.'S spring list includes
''Slr Christopher by Maud Wilder Good
win; "Ballantyne." a strong novel by Helen
Campbell; Richard lie Gallienne's new ro-
nance. The Love Letters of the King; or,
The Life Romantic;'' "A Daughter of New
France" by Mary Catherine Crowley; a
unique problem story by Ellis Meredith;
Truth Dexter" by Sidney Mccall; 'Por-
tia, a Story of the Seventies a powerful
story of a North Carolina town by a new
writer; Anna Bowman Dodd's new book.
1.-The American Husband i'm Paris new
editions of Mrs. FawceTt's Life of Queen
Victoria and of Prof. Benjamin w. Weiss
Modern German Literature" and a limited
edition of In and Around the Grand Can
yon." by Prof. George Wharton James.
Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co. call atten-
ton TO the fact that fiction is not the only
form OF literature that finds the ready pur-
CHASER. To illustrate this they refer TO the
success of the works of Ralph Waldo Urine.
whose In Tune with the Infinite has
reached its thirty-seventh thousand, and
whose other books are selling in the same
proportion. 1t is only a few years since
the Messrs- Crowen published Mr.. Trine's
first book. What All the Worlds a-Seek-
ing the instantaneous success of which
proved a field for just such clear and prac-
tical teaching as il contained. Following
three booklets entitled The Greatest Thing
Ever Known" Every Living Teacher"
and Character Building and Thought
Power"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
STRUGGLE IS PROBABLE
OPERATORS DETERMINED NOT TO
RECOGNIZE THE MINERS UNION.
Strike Predicted by Organizer Dill
cher, IL Employers Persist in Refus-
ing to Attend a Joint Conference.

SCRANTON, Pa, March 17.-President
John Mitchell denied himself to all inter-
viewers to-day. He said he had no state
ment to~make, but National Organizer Fred
Dilcher said: Il I'm only giving this as
my personal opinion, but If the union is
not recognized before April 1 there will be
a strike"
The operators here say they are in no
position to say anything on the situation.
The general opinion among superintendent
is that the presidents of the nine big coal
roads will never consent to a recognition OF
the union. The United Miners must be met
and ~vanquished some time, the superin-
tendents say, and the present is an auspi-
cious time because of the large stocks of
coal the companies have stored away In
anticipation or such an emergency
Opinion is so divided among the miners
themselves as to the wisdom of striking for
recognition that no general statement will
apply in depicting IL.
The meeting OF the national and district
officers of the Mine Workers Union, sched-
uled to take place in this city tomorrow,
has been changed to Wilkesbarre. AT this
meeting it will be decided what course is TO
be pursued.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
ANTI-JESUIT DISORDERS
UPRISING IN PORTUGAL FOR SAME
REASON AS In SPAIN.
Wealthy Young Woman Induced to
Take the VeiI-Appeal to the King.

MADRID, March I7.-Advices received
here to-day from Lisbon dealing with the
anti-Jesuit demonstrations in the Portu-
guese capital and in other parts OF the
country say: THE Jesuits here urged a
very wealthy young woman named Braga
to leave her home and persuaded her to
take the veil. Much excitement has been
caused by a revelation of the facts Of the
case.
king Charles consented to receive a dele
cation from Oporto, strongly urging the
suppression of religious congregations in
Portugal and presenting a manifesto in
favor of the establishment of a national
church under papal authority, but VITA
Portuguese priests.
THE Lisbon police have seized a mani
festo in favor of Jesuits and protesting
against the demonstrations against them as
persecution The radical papers continue
to publish violent anti-Jesuit articles, ac-
cusing the government of deliberately
emitting to enforce the laws"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18

Negro Who Was Charged with Grim
inaIIy A%ssauIting "a White Girl.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, March 17.-At Tip
t~onviIle. in Lake county, last night. a mob
hanged Ike Fitzgerald to a tree near the
courthouse. The negro was charged with
assault on a white girl. Miss Nina Daven-
port. nineteen years old. and the trial jury
had just reported that they could not
agree and had been discharged. A different
verdict had been expected and a mob seized
the prisoner before the sheriff could hurry
him from the courtroom and hanged him
&c the first tree.
The crime for which Fitzgerald suffered
was committee "a few weeks ago on the
hanks of Reel Foot lake. near T~iptonvilie.
Miss Davenport, while passing a lonely
spot. was assaulted by a negro who was
mending fishing nets. and the pursuing
posse arrested Fitzgerald as the guilty per-
son.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
wisconsin Party Goes Home.

Ex-Governor Peck, Lieutenant Governor
Stone and State Senator Roehr. of Wiscon-
sin, represented their home State at Cen
eral Harrison's funeral. They were APP
pointed as a committee by the Governor of
Wisconsin TO perform that duty. Sitting
in their sleeper at the Union Station las
night before returning home, they were dis
GUESSING the sad event. Ex-Governor Peck,
whose genial face at once identified him
with the humorous incidents in "Pecks
Bad Boy which originated in his mind.
said: Il am a Democrat in every sense OF
the word, but | was always an admirer OF
General Harrison, although opposed to him
III politics. He was a man of great ability
and was certainly a great statesman. He
was the most capable man the party had.
and, in my mind, had the strongest nom
partisan prestige of any Republican since
Abraham Lincoln"
During the conversation Lieutenant Gov
ernor Stone said: Harrison was certainly
a geat man, but 1 do not believe he was
fully appreciated"
II don't know about that" replied Sena-
tor Rcehr; The may have had opponents in
politics, but they recognized his superb
Ority as a statesman. Even some of the
men in the party may have borne him vi
will, but if they did it was because they
could not influence him. You know poll
ticians sometimes want men they can use,
but Harrison was a man of his own mind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18

NEW YORK, March 17.-Arrived: Cali
fornia. from Marseilles; Genoa. from Leg
horn and Naples; L'Aquitaine. from Havre;
New York. from Southampton and Cher
bourg; Potsdam. from Rotterdam and
Boulogne. Sailed: Philadelphia. for Liver
pool.
KINSALE, March 17.-Passed: Bowie,
from New York, for Liverpool; Caledonian,
from Liverpool, for New York: Cestrian.
from Boston. for Liverpool; Unitarian, from
Glasgow and Liverpool, for Halifax. n. S..
and Philadelphia.
QUEENSTOWN. March T.-Arrived: In
vernia, from Boston. for Liverpool. and
proceeded. Sailed: Etruria, from Liver
pool, for New York.
PHILADELPHIA. March 17.-Arrived:
Waesland. from Liverpool, via Queenstown.
CHERBOURG. March 17.-Sailed: Vader-
land. from Southampton, for New York.
BOSTON, March 17.-Sailed: Ultonia, for
Queenstown and Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL. March 11--Sailed: Devon
ian. for Boston.