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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-03
EDITORS ON TRIAL.
They Accused German officer Of
WantOnIy Shooting Boxers.

BERLIN, Dec. 2-The trial was begun
to-day in the Berlin Criminal Court OF
three members of the editorial staff of the
Norwaerts. These men are charged with
insulting Major General Won Kettler by
the publication of the so-called Hun let
ters,' which accused General Won Kettler
and his column of summary and barbariOus
treatment of the Boxers during the China
expedition, and especially of shooting
twenty-five Boxers at Yachiao. General
Won kettler maintained that these twenty
two men were shot in pursuance of a SEN
tence of court martial for the massacre of
POO Christians
Lieutenant StOlzenberger testified that the
inhabitants of this village were driven to-
gether in the market place. where two
Chinese Christians picked out Boxers
whom they accused of participant
ing in the massacre in question.
An English missionary named Lawry then
examined the men accused by the two con-
VertS and selected twenty-five of their
number surely being Boxers These men
were executed at General Won Kettler's
orders. The general told the court that
these executions were necessary in order
10 break the reign of terror established by
the Boxers throughout the whole district
Two of the prisoners named Schmidt and
John, were convicted of the charges
against them and sentenced TO six and
seven months Imprisonment, respectively.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Directors of the Boston and Montana
Mining Company have declared a dividend
Of s. per share, which is reduction Of s.
from the last previous dividend, declared in
July.
W. w. HeTelfnger, of Minneapolis. fam
GUS as a Yale football guard few years
ago, and Miss Grace Pierce. of Kansas
City, Will be married in the latter city to-
morrow.
The United States buoy tender Wisteria
sank in Cape Fear river Sunday night She
was cruising in the river with the intention
of placing new lights in the Sixth district.
The boat lies in five feet of water at low
tide. No lives were lost.
A dispatch from Walker. Mimi, says:
After being out one hour the jury I'm the
murder trial Of Solomon Williams brought
in verdict Of not guilty. The defendant
claimed that his shooting Of James Nor
ris was in self defense.
Representatives of Terry McGOvern and
Young Corbett' will meet in New York
next Saturday To decide the question of a
return match between the featherweight
pugilists Two offers have been made for
the fight, one of which was for a $4,000
purse.
The Rev. W. c. Davis. pastor of the
Welsh Methodist Church. at Scranton, Pa.
has resigned his pastorate because of the
feeling aroused against him in his cOngre-
CATION by reason Of his having ridden on
trolley cars during the strike. Most OF
the members Of his congregation are min
ers.
A house at Briceville, Tenn, occupied by
a nonuniOn miner named Emmitt, was
nearly destroyed by a dynamite explosion.
The house was owned by the Knoxville
Iron Company at whose mines IT is re-
ported trouble recently occurred on ac-
count of the reported organization of a
branch Ct the United Mine Workers oG
America.
The recently published statement that
the officers of the Travellers Protective As
ISOLATION of America contemplated chang
ing the place for holding the national meet
ing from Portland Ore was erroneous.
Secretary Lewis T. La Beaume announces
that no change has been discussed and that
elaborate plans are being made to send
delegations to Portland from every State
in the Union
The seventh annual meeting Of the Wom-
ans National Sabbath Alliance was held
in New York yesterday. Mrs. Darwin r.
James presided The Rev DIR. Marin -.
Kneeland general secretary OF the New
England Sabbath Protective League. was
present by invitation, and In his address
denounced the proposition TO keep New
York city saloons open Sundays, ana in
Weighed against Sunday theaters, baseball
and bicycle races.
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FRENCH EXPERT WON.
sutton Defeated by BarufeI in First
Game of the Billiard Tourney.

sutton Defeated by Barutel in First
Game of the Billiard Tourney.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Louis Barutel, the
French billiard expert, won the opening
game of the international billiard cham
pionship tournament, which began tonight
In the Madison-square Garden Concert
Hall. His opponent was George Sutton, of
Chicago The Frenchman gained a very
decided advantage early in the game, but
Sutton overlook him, and. far high
ors. twice making fifty-two which he
backed up with fOrty-twO and forty, all
Of which were made by excellent billiards.
Toward the end Of the match the French
man did some clever work, particularly
when he was forced TO play masse shots.
He won out by score of 400 TO 3S9.
Tomorrow afternoon Leonard HOwiSOn,
of Canada, will play Sutton, and tomorrow
George +. SlOsson and Ora Morningstar
will be the contestants. Games will be
played each afternoon and evening until
the finals shall have been reached, on
Wednesday of next week. Each game Is of
400 points, 1S-inch balk line, one shot in
balk and one in another space. Following
are the scores of to-night's play in detail:
Louis Barutel, France, 10, o. 2, 0, /, O.
D, II, IL, s. l. 8 o. 8, 4, 30. !, IS, 81, 10, a. Il o.
l. IA, /, 80. 3. 3i-4O0 High runs, IS, 80, 81. go
Average, 32-46.
George Sutton. Chicago-O. 0. 0, IA, Is, /, G.
O. 0. 0, 0, %. s. O. 1, 0, 0. O. !, ?, 3. l. 3 O. a.
il, 13, 2S 81, o, 0. s. ?. 81, 9, A. 10, O. O. s. o.
g. S. Il, 0, 1850. High runs, 81 81 ~ 40
Average, 8 21-46
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MISS NEUKoM's DEATH.
Unusual Circumstances in the Demise
of a Terre Haute Teacher.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec Miss Min
ME Neukom, critic teacher in the city
schools, who died supposedly from an over
dose of morphine, had been engaged to be
married TO d. NJ. Geeting. formerly state
superintendent of public instruction The
engagement to marry Mr.. Geeting was
broken off several months ago. Many Of
Miss Neukom's friends deny that Mr.
Geeting broke OF the engagement. They say
that she herself did it. and because she
found she had become a victim OF the NOR
rhine habit. 1t is said that she began TAX
ing morphine year ago for relief from
suffering caused by an injury received as
the result of fall ON the ice
KUN was suffering from nervous
ness and consulted aphysician, whotold her
10 take a long rest, but she would not do
so. On saturday she was found To- be UNI
der the influence OF an Opiate and phySi-
clans We're summoned Later i'm the dav
when they had ministered To her she
promised TO take no more morphine but
that evening she took another dose from
which she died on Sunday morning Mr.
Geeting visited Terre Haute about
week ago and saw Miss Neu-
kOm. II was understood that he
renewed or tried 10 renew the engage
ment. The neighbOrs who We're her friends
thought they saw that she rallied and
they believed the engagement had been re-
newed, but il seems that since he was
here she wrote TO him saying finally that
she would not marry him. After her dea IN
there was found under her pillow two un-
opened letters from him, received on Fri
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THE BOY WAS CUTE.
After Being Fed He Succeeded in
Stealing $3.50.

A young man whose name was not learned
complained yesterday afternoon that he had
been robbed Of $3.50. He said he had been
to Kingans TO draw the pay Of man who
was ILL., After leaving the plant he met a
boy. The latter complained that he had had
nothing to eat for some time and his newly
made acquaintance said he would provide
it, and took him TO a restaurant After
finishing his repast the boy said he was
sleepy and had not slept for many hours.
His companion said he would find a place.
Together they started across the commons
at the west end of Market street. The boy
took hold of his arm. Suddenly he turned
and ran. The man looked surprised. Some
one who saw the boy run asked if the fugi-
tive had not stolen something. The young
man said ne had not Later he discovered
the amount stated was missing from his
coat -nOcket.
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ROWDY CLEVELAND STUDENTS
Almost Cause Riot i'm Their Foot
ball Celebration.

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2.-One hundred ana
fifty Case School students started out to-
night to celebrate their recent football vic
tory over Western Reserve University.
They captured two Western Reserve pro-
fessors whom they made to kneel on the
top of tar barrels and beg for their re-
lease. They admitted they were out FOR
fight with the Reserve men, and assaulted
the latter's dOrmitOry with sticks and
stones, doing considerable damage
Next several Reserve students were cap
tured, among whom was James Mickleth-
waite, of Columbus, a law student, and
they started TO duck him in a nearby park
pond. Changing their purpose. they start
ed with NIicklethwaite for down town on
an electric car. James McCleary, captain
Of the Reserves football team, appeared on
the car, and at the muzzle OF a revolver
rescued MiCklethwaite.
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Gable Notes.

The extremely cold weather throughout
Russia, especially in Siberia, has delayed
the mails and many trains are snow-bound.
Grain steamers on the NiStula are frozen III
the river.
1t is now almost certain that Lord Dud-
ley viii succeed Lord CadOgan as viceroy
of ireland, says the New York Herald's
Dublin cores Ondent This puts an end to
the rumors that the Duke Of Marlborough
would receive the post.
The edict of the dowager Empress of
China deposing the heir apparent, Pu
Chun, says that the son Of such a man as
Prince Tuan has no right to aspire TO be
heir apparent and that moreover Pu Chun
himself IS overwhelmed with shame at his
fathers conduct
The Standard Oil Company is negotiating
for the purchase of the Shell Transport
and Trading Company, whose capital is
100000. with the view of getting control
of the RornoO and for Eastern oil interests
of that concern. It Is rumored that 5000
600 has been offered for the company.
According to the Cannes correspondent of
the New York Herald the Tribune de
Cannes asserts with assurance that King
Edward is to visit Cannes at the end of
January after opening Parliament. Ac
cOrding to the paper Lord Gleneck, who has
q villa at Cannes, communicated this news
TO one of his friends residing at Cannes
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PLETHORA OF LITIGATION
SUITS FOR CONSIDER ABLE AMOUNTS
ENTERED OR SETTLED.
warsaw Family Poisoned by EentinE
Cheese-The Evansville Murders
Woman's Unexplained Death.
special to the INDIANAPOLIS journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
LEBANON, Ind, Dec. 1.-The suit Of
Mrs. Lydia Adair against the American
Trust Company. guardian of John Adair
ST, has been compromised and judgment
was returned this morning b. agreement
for $500 in favor OF the plaintiff Mrs
Adair sued last March for $4,000. She
and Mr.. Adair were married oct. -, $50
1t was the second marriage for each Mrs.
Adair has three children by her former
marriage and Mr.. Adair has two children
by his former marriage. The plaintiff s
husband died, leaving her the owner of a
159-acre farm and $500 worth of personal
property. She charged in her complaint
that Mr. Adair took charge of her farm
after they were married. sold her personal
property and never accounted for il and
appropriated the proceeds OF the farm UP
10 March. 1888, and never accounted to her
for any part OF il.
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PLAYED TO A BLANK TIE
SOUTH BEND AND RENSSELAER,
TEAMS UNABLE TO SCORE.
Evenly Matched Professional Game &c
FootbaII-AImoSt Riot at
the Case Celebration.
Special to tho Indlananons Journal.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Dec. THE cham
pionship football game between the Ath-
letic Club OF this city and Pat O'Dea.s
professionals. of Sout Bend. at this place
this afternoon resulted IN a tie. The score
being TO o. In the early part of the first
half O'Dea had a slight chance for a
drop kick. His team had been held FOR two
downs on the twenty-yard line and he
dropped back for kick but the ball went
wide of its mark and was seized by Rens-
selaer and punted out of danger For the
most part the ball was kept well L. the
center Of the field and puntlng was resorted
to by both teams frequently. Sayler, fun
back Of Rensselaer, team. punted the ball
an average of fifty yards and O'Dea almost
as far. Neither side gained more than
ten yards at any time on a Scrimmage.
The lines We're evenly matched and the
teams play so much on an equal basis that
neither side could claim the slightest adj
vantage. Parcels and Sayler We're the aS-
gressive stars for Rensselaer,, and Myers
did some of the best work in defense.
O'Dea did the best ground-gaining for
South Bend and was ably assisted by the
Goehler brothers. who played half backs.
The South Bend team was the strongest
il has played this year for il had Captain
Fortin Lins and Walker, of this year
NOtre Dame team. Lineup:
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DEAL IN COAL LANDS.
Norfolk - Western Railway Secures
the POcahOntas Company.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-The Herald to-
morrow will say that announcement will
soon be made by the Norfolk K Western
Railroad that its management has con-
Guided a deal for the acquisition of the
POcahontas Coal and Coke Company the
recently formed 100000 combination.
owning extensive bituminous lands in Vir-
ginia, along the line of the railroad. 1t Is
stated that only a few details remain to be
arranged before an official announcement
will be made. Through a projected sub
sidiary company the Norfolk & Western
will then control over 100000 acres of coal
lands Approximately over $1,000 900 will
be involved in the deal which 1t is proposed
to cover with a bond issue to that amount
by the railroad.
The POcahOntaS Company was formed in
October and included in its projectors sew
eraI of the United States Steel Corporation
officials
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Dinner to Football Team.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec 2.-One of the
most noteworthy social functions of the
year was the banquet given this evening
by DR.. c. H. Hall to the members of the
Franklin College football squad After the
men had been served, rousing speeches
were made and college songs We're sung.
The football situa ton in Franklin College
was thoroughly discussed, and il was con-
ceded on every hand that. although Frank
this year. vet for what Victories il had won
it deserved much praise, as they were OBJ
tanned under most unfavorable circum-
stances. The prospects for next year are
fine as every man on the team, with the
exception Of one, who will be graduated
this year, expressed his intention OF re-
turning next fall.
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Indiana Obituary.

PORTLAND. Ind Dec Mrs. Sophie
Croft aged seveuty-eight years. died at
the home of her brother, Palmer J. Smith,
in this city. The body was taken 10 Day
ten. o.. her home to-day for interment.
Mrs. J. O. Binkhauer, wife of an
eX-sherin of the county, is dead of con-
sumption. She was an honoTed member Of
q number Of different secret orders.
BROWNSTOWN. Ind Dec. Mortimer
Goss commissioner of the First district of
Jackson county died al his home, FIVE miles
west Of here, at > o'clock this morning Of
typhoid fever. He was a farmer, owning
about five hundred acres of river bottom
land. lie was about fOrty-three years old,
and left a widow and four children.
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Important New wells Opened.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
VAN buren,. Ind. Dec. Am impor-
tant test we'll has been completed by the
Rankin oil Company on the Jane Camolin
farm. in Section p, Van Buren, township,
Grant county. This well started at seventy
barrels and extends the Van Buren, field.
The Robinson oil Company's well No. g.
on the r.. J Plummcr farm, in Section 3,
started at sixty barrels, as did the Ziegler
oil Companys No. II, on the II. Wisehart
farm, in Section . The sun Oil Company's
well No. s. ON the Lynn farm. in Section
., started at ninety barrels. while Carver
* Bartley's No. 8. on the q. A. Landess
farm, il Section Il. started at 500 barrels.
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France and Free America.

PARIS, Dec. 2.-The report of the COM
mission on the budget and foreign affairs
issued to-day, reviews the relations Of
France with foreign countries. This report
says: "The ancient friendship of France
with free America, which is vivified by
the memory of Lafayette cannot fail to
be precious TO US at a time when the
United States are entering upon a move
ment of expansion and forming, by taking
possession of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. a colonial domain which will
create with France relations at once neigh
borly, immediate and constant"
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
PERU, Ind, Dec. Hans Schwegel. Of
Chicago, representing himself as acting
consul of Austria-Hungary, has been in the
city to see two Austrian wreck victims at
the Wabash Railway Hospital. The Of
fcials admitted him on that representation,
but when ii was found he was trying to
get the patients TO sign papers for him,
the violation Of the hospital rules was re-
scented by the dismissal of the man from
the building He entered again through a
window, but was made 10 leave once more.
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Wants Damages for "A kidnapped Wife.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANKTON, Ind, Dec. Edward
Brown, a young farmer near this city, has
brought suit against Richard Cooper for
$4,000 damages. In the complaint Brown
alleges that Cooper had kidnapped his wife
Mrs. Brown is COopers daughter and is
still in her teens, but married Brown with
the fathers consent
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Mrs. Nation ON a Rampage.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
LAPORTE, Ind, Dec. Carrie Nation,
of Kansas. who was a passenger this aft
ernoon on a Lake Erie & Western train,
conducted continuous service on the
train from the time it left indianapolis IN
til she left it at Plymouth to take another
train for the East whore, she declares,
she Will follow her Old-time methods in
crusade work. The Kansas woman
preached, prayed and exhOrted, shouting
that she had been commanded by Goo to
preach, and TO drive the devil from the
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Special To the Indianapolis Journal
FRANKLIN, Ind. Dec. 2.-Franklin is to
have several new factories within the
near future. Henry Murray, of Mitchell.
has secured a building and is putting in
machinery for a skirt and shirtwaist fac
tory to employ fifty people Grafton John
son, of Greenwood is preparing to begin
the manufacture of tin cans. \ local COM
pany has been organized for the manufac-
ture of galvanized irOnware Lots were
purchased to-day and the erection of
building viii begin at once
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g, 300 deer and moose. as per count of
the game commission. have been killed
The season closes Dec 1, which leaves
five days TO spare for the wholesale Killing
OF the number given. about 200 have been
moose There is no close season for bear.
In fact there was Premium Of 50 for
the legal proof Of the killing Of a bear
until two years since, when the Legisla-
ture excepted this item Of big game from
the former long list of wild beasts in Maine
on whose head there was a price. Thus
the act Of 1899, in which the killing Of bear
is no longer encouraged Is sort of legis-
lative admission of the passing OF bruin.
NO CARIBOU LEFT.
The caribou. which formerly inhabited
the woods of northern Maine in great num-
bers. travelling in droves of from ten to
fifty, left the State some five years ago,
since which time none has been seen. They
are reported to have crossed the St. John 5
river into New Brunswick, where many are
now killed each year.
There are many dangers attending hun
ters in the Maine woods. Three weeks
ago a cranberry picker in AroostoOk county
was killed by a sportsman, who mistoOk a
gray hat for deers head. Some twenty
Of such fatal mistakes are reported this
year. This year the snow began falling on
Nov. -, and, continuing for sixty hours,
covered the ground to a depth of about
three feet. This unusually heavy fall for
so early I'm the season caught many sports
men in the woods. Some parties without
snOwshOes were compelled TO wade out.
One party spent twelve hours in travelling
five miles, from a shack in the woods
to the camp on Moosehead Lake.
In addition TO the sport of killing wild
game and the renewal Of the ties that
binds the primitive part Of mans nature
TO the forest, there is a humorous side to
the hunters life. Last month a Philadel-
phia sportsman, who had had no luck in
securing even a shot was by his guide
stationed in a raviue down which the guide
tramped TO beat up a moose. My guide
had been gone for half an hour and l was
beginning to tire of waiting" he said IN
relating the incident. Il set my gun
against a big tree and went down to the
stream TO get a drink 1 was brought to
my feet by a tremendous crashing OF brush
and looked down the valley 10 see an i'm
mense moose making toward me with all
his might. Well I'll wager that no lion ever
looked fiercer than that moose, his eyes
starting out and the lowered triangle OF
his antlers seeming to fill that narrow
ravine. A leaning birch stood before me
and with one wild sprint / ran up it as the
great numbering bull moose rushed past
me. Later L ventured down for my gun
My guide came up brsathless. Did you see
him.? he painted. Why, no. 1 said, as
innocently as possible. Did you start one
up%" Ebert ID. HAYFORD.
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the $4,000 subsidy. The regular train serv-
ice will be started to Marion on next Sun
day.
HAGERSTOWN.-Seve droves of hogs
near Hagerstown are affected with a malig-
naut type OF cholera Many animals have
died from the disease and farmers are huT-
rying their feeders 10 market before they
are i'm the desired condition
THORNTOWN.-HiT Hampton. sew
enleen-year-0ld boy Of BOwers's Station.
badly. perhaps fatally. injured by
jumping from fast train before IL slowed
down al the station after a trip TO Thorn
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Bouts at milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE,. Dec. AL Weinig, of
Buffalo. was given the decision over Billy
Stiff. of Chicago, after six fierce rounds be-
fore the Milwaukee Boxing Club tonight
Battling Nelson, Of Chicago, and Joe Per-
cente, of kenOsha, went six rounds to a
draw and Kid Black. of Chicago. knocked
out Al Gear, of this city. in the fourth
round. Sixteen hundred persons witnessed
the bouts.
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Three Noted EngIishmen.

LONDON, Dec. 2.-Charles William Hyl-
ton Molyneux, fifth Earl of Seton, is dead.
He was born in 1867.
The death also is announced Of William
Bateman Hamburg. second Baron Bateman.
in the seventy-siXth year OF his age.
Edward John Eyre. who was Governor of
Jamaica and its dependencies 1926 and
who put down the mutiny Of the negroes
there is dead. He was born in 1915.
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Fleming Company Is Sold.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec 2.-The sale
was announced to-day of the Fleming Man
ufacturing Company, makers of road
scrapers, snow plows. etc, to the Indiana
Road Machine Company for S525o0. The
Fleming Company was owned by Charles
Pape, sr.. and has employed a hundred
men for many years. 1t was founded by
the late William Fleming former treas
urer Of state