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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-17
Indiana

MUNCIE. Ind, Aug. 1~6.-Thomas s. Nee
lY, aged ninety, a resident of Muncie since
1899. when he came to this place from Mi
ami county. ohio. died this morning at =
o'clock. The funeral will be held at the
family residence or Sunday afternoon. the
Rev. w. H. Oxtoby, of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church. officiating. lnterment will be
made in Beech Grove Cemetery i'm this
city.
ELkHART. Ind. Aug. 16.-Phoebe. wife
of Oscar w. VANDERBILT. for thirty-hve years
a resident OF this city and prominent in
literary club work, is dead. aged sixty-six
years. She leaves the following children:
Mrs. L. +. Smith, of Colorado Springs.
COL; Henry Vanderlip. of Chicago. and
Louis Vanderlip. of this city.
KOKOMO. Ind. Aug. is.-Jerome Haney.
aged thirty-one. fell dead of heart trouble,
made acute BY -overeXertion at the race
track ticket window this afternoon. He
ran from the street 10 the gate. and just
as he asked for a ticket he fell dead.
MONON, Ind. Aug. 16.-Mr. George Hen
derson. a pioneer farmer of this county
aged ~sixty-five. is dead of dropsy.
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Building Boom in Monticello.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MONTICELLO, Ind, Aug. 16.-Monticello
without manufactures, oil or gas. is having
an unprecedented building boom, both in
her residence and business portions. Since
the opening of a new three-story hotel this
season one square south of the former
business limit on Main street, the inter-
venlng space is being rapidly filled with
business buildings. The finest of these will
be the OConnor-Moorhouse block, now un-
der construction. 1t will be three stories
above the comprising four rooms
on the ground floor. The corner room will
be used as a bank and will be equipped
with a safety deposit vault and boxes. One
square farther north the old McCuaig Hotel
Is peing replaced by a three-story block.
built by the Odd Fellows and others and
TO be known as the Odd Fellows block,
while on the next lot east another new
hotel is approaching completion.
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COLUMBIA LEFT BEHIND
CONSTITUTION HAD AN EASY VIC
TORY OVER TIL OLD DEFENDER.
Driftcd Across the Finish Line Over
Half an Hour Ahead, Owing to a
FIake In Light Airs.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Constitution
drifted across the finish line over the Lsrch-
mont Yacht Club course late this after
noon a winner over the Columbia by thirty
one minutes and t~wenty-three seconds.
This difference In time, however. does not
represent the difference in speed between
the two yachts. For a very large part of
the big markin was entirely due TO a huke
IN the light airs. while the boats were sail
ing the second round of the triangular
course of fifteen miles. 1t occurred just
as the Constitution was rounding the first
mark. Both yachts had come up from the
home mark on "A broad reach with a south
west wind. he Constitution leading by
about two minutes. As they approached
the stakeboat black clouds, which had been
gathering in the northwest. brought with
them a small rain squall and sudden
change OF wind. The constitution was able
TO turn on the southwest wind and imme-
diately after take the n~orthwester. which
lifted her out into the middle of the sound.
while the Columbia was making for the
mark close hauled on the port tack in the
very last wind OF the first northwest squall.
This gave the Constitution an opportunity
10 take advantage OF the westerly wind
which followed out In the sound while the
Columbia lay almost becalmed at the mark.
This settled the race, for thereafter the
Columbia was hopelessly out of IL. The
contest OF speed Was altogether in the first
round while the wind, which was at all
times light. held true. On every leg the
new boat gained and maintained her repu-
tation as a wonderfully fast yacht In soft
airs. But the Columbia. with her perfect
sails. was also going fast. and In the first
fifteen miles the new boat only made up
twenty seconds over her time allowance.
The most noteworthy spectator of the
race was Captain Sycamore. OF the sham
rock III. who came from New York on the
Upton tug Lawrence and followed the
racers over the course. IL was his first
view OF the American boats and he got
q very valuable line on the l~ight-weather
qualities Of his rival. The race was held
under the auspices Of the Larchmont Club.
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wfNONA LAKE ASSEMBLY.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WINONA LAKE, Ind, Aug. 16.-An i'm
portant meeting OF the ~evangelistic COM
mittee appointed at Philadelphia in May by
the Presbyterian General Assembly will be
held Aug. -. This committee was appoint
ed 10 formulate plans for holding evan
gelistic meetings all over the United States.
It's chairman is John b. Converse. of PhiIa-
delphia. The meeting OF the committee dur
ing the Bible conference will enable it's
members to confer with leading ~evangelists
of other denominations who will be in at
tendance.
This morning Winona seemed quiet COM
pared with the noise of yesterday. Sew
eral excursions filled the grounds with mer-
ny crowds who stayed till late at night.
This morning DIR. John Mcneil again had
charge of the devotional hour The large
auditorium was we'll filed, although the
French gave AN Hour with a Caricatur-
list, - and this evening the Boston Carnival
and Concert Company gave "A fine enter
tainment.
This afternoon the one hundred girls of
the Fresh Air camp We're taken in row.
boats TO Yarnelle Point. across the lake,
where they had an old-fashioned picnic.
Late arrivals at the hotels are. Milton
Denny and wife, Chicago. j. H. Arrick and
wife. Louisville; Alice Hasson, St. Paul.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO, Ind. Aug. ia prisoner
whose term in the Lake county Jail ex-
pired "A few days ago, warned Sheriff
Lawrence that a plan was under way for
the escape of several of the most desperate
prisoners. men who are being held on
murder and other serious charges, and that
two women who had been visiting them
had smuggled in several saws. Yesterday
the sheriff made a careful examination of
all the cells, and found a number of saws
and other tools. most of them hanging
suspended by threads i'm the ventilators,
and that several bars in the windows al
ready had been sawed through. Another
Job. and would have liberated several of
the most desperate prisoners ever confined
in the Lake county jail.
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Young Corbett Rests Dixon.

DENVER, Aug. 16-"Young" Corbett, of
Denver. was given the decision at the end
of a ten-round so with George Dixon, eX-
feather-weight champion. at Coliseum Hall
here tonight. The fight was fast. Corbett
was the aggressor at all times. but Dixon
punished him severely. and from the fifth
round to the finish Corbett's face was
bathed In blood. In the seventh, ninth and
tenth rounds Dixon was badly punished by
Corbett's persistent jabbing I'm the ribs.
Dixon showed In his old-time form when it
came TO blocking, but he fought a defensive
battle all through. He was willing TO mix
with his sturdy opponent. however, and
nearly always broke even with the in
fighting.
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Indiana Teachers Have Safely Passed
Hawaii, En- Route to aniIa.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Aug. l6.-Letters
received last evering from Honolulu state
that the United States transport Thomas,
with the Indiana teachers aboard, bound
for the Philippines. arrived there safely
on the Slst of July and would leave ON the
Cd of August. \ few OF the Indiana crowd
escaped sea Sickness. The first TO sue
cumb TO II was VIII Sparks, the ~well-known
university football player. The Indiana
teachers organized a baseball team, with
George Moore as captain, and expected to
get a game with "A club at Honolulu. The
ship was crowded with teachers. both ladies
and gentleman. Prof. E. b. Bryan. owing
10 some irregularity in his transportation
Papers. was left at San Francisco, and
expected TO follow a week later. The
Thomas is expected TO arrive in Manila
about Aug. p.
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PLAGUE OF CRICKETs.
Thorntown and Union City Are
Swarming with the Pests.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
1HORNTOWN, Ind, Aug. 16.-This place
is in the midst Of a plague of crickets.
Large numbers of these insects have made
their appearance, and in several instances
they cover the walks and sides of build
ings in the vicinity of electric lights. One
business corner is literally a moving mass
of young crickets. Many of them have en-
tered residences and hop about in large
numbers over the floors. They are all
young.
UNION CITY, Ind, Aug. 16.--This city
was greatly annoyed tonight by showers
of black bugs on the order of crickets,
but somewhat smaller, coming from the
West. They covered the sidewalks and
brilliantly lighted business houses were
filled, in some cases TO such an extent as
to cause a temporary cessation of business
while all hands, armed with brooms, swept
the little pests into the gutter.
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PRISONER BREAKS JAIL.
George Constinc, Accused of Criminal
Assault and Robbery.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE. Ind, Aug. 16.-George Con-
slime escaped from the Michigan City Jail
last evening. Several months ago the fell
low was charged with criminal assault by
Nora Young. Before he could be taken into
custody Constine disappeared, and he was
not located until Sunday, when he was ar
rested at Rolling Prairie, Ind, or the
charge of having robbed a saloon. The Of
fcers felt more confident of securing con-
viction on the assault charge than on the
robbery charge, and so he was taken to
Michigan Cit for preliminary hearing.
An hour after he had been placed in a
cell he drew a broom through the bars
and with this secured the key from the OPP
posite wall of the corridor. He unlocked
the cell door and then obtained possession
of the key TO the outside door. The dis
covery of Constine's fight was not made
for two hours.
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There Is Little British I'm the Appear
ance of Shamrock n.

NEW YORK. Aug. 16.-As a matter of in
terest. IL is worth noting that not only the
model OF the new Shamrock Is Yankee"
but that nearly all the wrinkles I'm rig
and I'm the matter OF blocks. have been de-
rived from American sources. The sails
are OF American cotton duck and the main
sail is laced TO the boom-a recent conces-
sion 20 American methods. And. as & mat
ter OF fact. Shamrock ii has more or Amer
team wrinkles I'm hull, spars. sails and
rigging than are indigenous 10 Great Brit
ain. She Is more than two-thirds Yam
kee."
Shamrock III will be hoated out OF dry
dock before noon tomorrow II the plans
of the officers OF the yacht are adhered 10.
and before sunset she will be swinging at
anchor on Stapleton. near the steam yacht
Erin. The work OF polishing the under
body was continued throughout the day
and completed just before midnight. the
workmen putting the finishing touches on
the bright metal under the glare OF electric
lights until II reflected the rays like a
mirror. The coat OF green paint which was
20 have been applied TO her top sides will
not be given until she II hauled out into
the open water. A lacquer. said 10 be a
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Fish Dynamiter Under Arrest.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION. Ind. Aug. 16.-Deputy Game
and Fish Warden L. L. Earle to-day To-
Gated Meade Barr, Of Elizabeth, Ind, i'll
Jail in this city, where he was serving a
sentence for having defrauded his landlord
at Matthews, this county, out of a board
bill. and after paying his fine to secure his
release placed him under arrest. charged
with ~dynamiting fish in Driftwood creek,
near Columbus. Ind, last June. Barr is
said to have been a member of an organ
lied gang of fish dynamiterS.
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Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Aug. 16.-Great
crowds attended the street fair again to-
day. The main attraction was the floral
parade, which took place at 2 o'clock. II
was one OF the most beautiful sights ever
witnessed In Greensburg. Miss Lena Eich,
the carhiVal queen, accompanied by her
maid Of honor, rode In a beautifully deco
rated ce~riage. She was dressed In white
and wore her golden rown. There was
great excitement this morning when a re-
port was started that burglars had at
tempted to steal the queens golden crown
last night. The story is doubted by many
persons. but the crown will be kept in a
safe place hereafter.
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Making Sites for Farms.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Ind, Aug. 16.-The great
enterprise of deepening and widening the
channel of Blue river for a distance of ff-
teen miles is now about half completed,
and the dredging machine is rapidly near
ing New Castle. The channel is being
lowered about six feet, and when COM
pleted will turn narshy and wet tracts of
land into the best corn fields in the world,
The lowering of the channel will cause
the abandonment of the last water power
nouring mill In this part of the State, 1T be-
ing the Hodson mill at Stone Quarry mills.
when the dreoger reaches that part of
the river 1t will drain the mill pond. The
owners OF the mill recently obtained heavy
damages for the ruin OF their plant.
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Gift to Aged WOmen's Home.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind. Aug. 16.-In a short
time the arrangements preliminary to re-
ceiving a $3.50 gift to the Margaret Smith
Home for Aged Women will be completed
The money is given by William B. Leeds
of New York, who is an officer of the tir
plate trust, and is intended as a memorial
10 his mother. Ten thousand dollars is
to be used in making improvements and
$751; 900 as an endowment. The old trustees
have resigned and new ones were ap-
pointed by the court to-day. They are
Benjamin Starr, Charles G.. Carpenter and
Albert CT. Ogborn. Articles of incorpora-
ton will be filed and the money will Their
he available.
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Rush County Farmers Prosperous.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 16.-Rush coun-
ty will have more than half a corn crop.
The rains of recent date have made many
bushels of corn. Never have the farmers
of Rush county been in better shape finan-
cially, due TO last years large WELD of
corn, followed by an excellent wheat crop
this year, and, considering the drought.
an excellent corn crop. All kinds of stock
have sold at high prices. The banks of
Rush county are said to hold 81, 900. 600 on
deposit, largely owned by the farmers.
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Asphyxiated While Asleep.
he Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 16.-Louis
Finkbiner, one of the ~well-known German
American citizens of Terre Haute for half
a century, was found dead from asphyxia-
ton. He had gone to his room at the home
of his son-in-law. Frank Connolly, Thurs
day morning and lay down for a rest. In
haging his vest on the gas bracket he
partly turned the thumb-screw. Mr.. and
Mrs. Connolly were spending the day with
Mrs. Connelly's sister, and il was not until
evening that Mr.. Finkbiner's accident was
learned. He had been dead several hours.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, Aug. 16.-Miss Nora
Fiers is mysteriously missing, and is sup
posed TO nave drowned herself in White
river, at Dicksburg, in the lower end of
Knox county. She disappeared from her
room last night. A track supposed to be
hers was traced to the waters edge on
the bank of White river. Her home is
near Oblong. ILL.,, and she has been living
with her sister, Mrs. John Sloan, three
miles below Decker. She has been despond-
ent over poor health.
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Miners MsngIed by Rock.

CALUMET. Mich. Aug. 16.-The rock
hanging in one of the levels of shaft No.
2. OF Tamarack shaft. fell last night, kill
ing three men and ~injuring two. neither of
whom may live. The dead are: Rich
ard Trezona. aged twenty-eight years;
John Simmons. twenty-three years old:
Matthew Stainhoa. Austria. aged twenty
six years. The injured are: Samuel ia
cobson. a Finlander; Matthew A. NJ. Ula. a
Finlander. Jacobson had worked In the
mine only two shifts.
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Bondsmen Must Pay $1,000 Each.

WATERLOO. Ia, Aug. 16.-In the Dis
decision in the case OF James T.. Sherman.
receiver. VS.. G.. w. Hardin, president OF
the Equitable Mutual Life Association of
Waterloo. II. Il. Allen and w. l.. Hing
worth. sureties on his bond. are, by the
decision. held liable in the sum of $500
each, with interest at 8 per cent. from
April 10. 1900. for an alleged misappropria-
ton of the funds Of the association. Judg-
ment of SlO.662.15 is ordered. Except in
minor details this decision supports the
decision rendered July 10. 1901.
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Indiana Notes.

FORT WAYNE.-The drought in this
county is one OF the most protracted and
severe on record. Artesian wells, whose
flow has never ceased. are much affected
and the streams are not much above half
the usual amount. There has been no rain
since July l.. Farmers are suffering I'm the
quality and quantity OF sugar corn. toma-
toes. and garden truck which
ought TO be marketed now. but are getting
prices for everything green.
PERU.-The City Council has ceased its
opposition TO the city school trustees I'm
the matter OF constructing the Carnegie
library and has appointed a committee
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THE SUNDAY

viii consist of Twenty Pages and
will present more than usual variety
of News and Literary Features. In
merit the Sunday Journal is the
equal az any % sold in its terri
tory, and It's publisher. invite in
spection and comparison.
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Mrs. Booth wants Nuisance Abated

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Mrs Maud Ball
lington Booth, wife of the commander OF
the Volunteers OF America, has appeared
as a plaintiff In the New Jersey Court of
Chancery, at Trenton, N. j., where she
lives. She wants the town enjoined from
maintaining a nuisance. She complains OF
a drain pipe which was laid on the prem
Uses adjoining her property. which prem
ises were decided by the owner. Edwin NJ.
Harrison. 10 the town of MOntclair. The
drain is not large enough 10 carry of the
water. and Mrs. Booth claims that ~ in
lures her property.
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DistiIIer Accidentally Killed

PEORIA. H.. Aug. 16.-Horace Easton.
a brother of the late r.. :. Easton. COM
missioner Of the asylum for incurable in
sane under Governor Tanner, and one OF
the wealthiest d~istillers in Peoria. was
struck by a passenger train on the Rock
Island q Peoria road and instantly killed
this evening
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Died rs Result of burns.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, Aug. 16.-Harris jefferson,
who fell in the field with an epileptic fit
while lighting burning grass. and had his
clothes burned off when found by a brother.
who had gone to his assistance, died this
evening.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind. Aug. 16. - Word
was received here to-day of the serious
illness at Asheville, n. c., of DIR. Z. s.
Baker. who is at the head of the chemistry
department of De Pauw University. His
wife left this afternoon for his bedside.
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walked Eight Miles to Drown.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MADISON, Ind, Aug. l6.-William Kist-
Ter, an old man living just over the line of
Jefferson county, in Clark county, near
Tyrus. Saluda township, walked eight
miles TO Squaw Creek landing and ended
his life by drowning in the Ohio river at
that point.
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Acquitted on a Technically.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VEEDERSBURG, Ind, Aug. 16.-Tobe
Bailey, of this place, was acquitted yester-
day by Deputy Fish COMMISSIONS John
Simpson for shooting d squirrel on Sunday
and without a written permit. and his trial
was held last night before a jury. The
evidence was that he saw the squirrel
climbing a tree; that he followed, catching
il, and that he choked it 10 death. On this
evidence Bailey was acquitted.
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secret preparation, but in reality a varnish
with just sufficient body TO protect the pol
ished meta, will be applied TO the under
body in the morning. AS soon as this is
dry the challenger will be towed TO the
Stapleton anchorage. The yards were
crowded to-day, and many members of the
New York Yacht Club viewed the craft.
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Gus Rubin in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.-Gus Rubin
and his manager. Billy Madden. arrived
to-day from Portland. They have come to
sign articles with Jim Jeffries. who has
been in the State a month and has agreed
TO meet Rubin and fight him for the cham
pionship.
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wrecked I'm the Yellow Sea.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE. Ind. Aug. i6.-Relatives in
this city Of William +. Carlson are In re-
ceipt of letters from him telling OF his
narrow escape from drowning In the Yell
low sea. lie left here recently to accept
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Miles will visit the exposition tomorrow.
the army day. escorted 60 the grounds by
the West Point cadets and the two local
regiments OF the National Guard. He VIII
attend the meetings of the Spanish war
veterans on Aug. %, and the Porto Rico
Society on Aug. 20 and y, and later the
n,eeting of the board of ordnance and
fOrtincatiOnS.
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the SUPPLEMENTARY of a company store
at a gold mining camp near Chemulpo.
Korea. While on the Yellow sea he was
shipwrecked. being compelled 10 swim a
mile with his clothes on. finally reaching
an island, where he and the others who
had been saved were taken by a passing
boat. and eventually reached their destina-
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F1NDLAY, o., Aug. 16.-"Big' Mackey. a
local bantam. tonight knocked out Tommy
Wilson. of Curtis. in two minutes Of fast
fighting. y short-arm punch on the point
of the Jaw did the work. Wilson was un-
CONSCIOUS for ten minutes.
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Mary y. Leyburn sold for $4,000.

LEXINGTON. Ky. Aug. 16.-Thomas w.
lawson. OF Boston. has purchased from
+. H. Parrish. Midway. Ky. the three
year-old hlly Mary Z. Leyburn for $1,000.
She won the first heat OF the Lexington
trotttng Futurity as a two-year-old in 2:2I
and worked his year in 2.l5.
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Lieut.. Gen. Miles at Buffalo.

BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. 16.-Lieutenant
General Miles. accompanied by Mrs. Miles
and Lieutenant Colonel Whitney, his aid
de-camp, arrived here to-day. He will
remain ten days or two weeks. General