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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-22
SYCAMORE HILL GUESTS
OFFICERS OF FIREMEN'S BROTHER
HOOD DINE WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Ask Mr.. Roosevelt to Attend Their
Convention-Presid to start
on His Trip To-day.

OYSTER BAY, n. Y, Aug. H.-J. j. Han
nahan, acting grand master, and F. w.
Arnold. grand secretary and treasurer OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
to-day presented to President Roosevelt a
handsomely engrossed invitation to attend
the eighth biennial convention of the order
at Chattanooga. Tenn. Sept. s. The Pres
ident indicated desire to attend the con-
vention if it were possible for him TO do so.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina,
who was at Sycamore Hill when the invita-
ton was extended, asked the President to
visit Asheville, n. c., il he made the trip
to Chattanooga. The President promised to
do so. Senator Pritchard also discussed the
vacancy on the Court of Claims bench with
President Roosevelt. He had heard THAI
the place would be given to North Carolina
and came here to present a candidate. The
President strongly intimated that the APP
pointment would not go to North Carolina
or Ohio.
Senator Pritchard, Mr.. Hannahan and Mr..
Arnold were the guests of the President
at luncheon, the other guests being Volney
c. Foster, OF Chicago; Congressman Will
liam Alden Smith, of Michigan; Jonas S.
Van Duzer, who was a colleague of Mr..
Roosevelt when the latter was a member
of the assembly; John A Sleicher, editor
of Leslie's Weekly and S. B. Williams,
chairman of the State Republican commit
tee of Louisiana. Mr.. Williams compli-
mented the President on the character OF
his appointments, and Mr.. Smith discussed
the arrangements for the Presidents trip
to Michigan.
These gentlemen are about the last Wis
itOrs President Roosevelt will entertain a
Sycamore Hill until Sept. 3. He sails on
the Sylph tomorrow morning for New
Haven, Conn, where he will board his
special train and begin his New England
trip. The Presidents immediate party will
include Secretary CortelyOu. DR.. Lung, the
Presidents official physician. Assistant
Secretary Barnes, who will join the party
at New Haven, two stenograrhers and two
messengers
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Denial from Cochran.

PORT WASHINGTON, n. Y, Aug. 21.-
w. Bourke Cochran, when seen at his home
at Sandspoint tonight, said: Il have little
or nothing to say relative TO the testimony
of Mr.. Lamb and Mr.. Power in connection
with the Northern Pacific merger suit, be-
yond asserting that it is entirely false as
far as my name is used. All 1 know about
the case is what l have read in the papers.
1 was in no way responsible for the suit
being instituted. | have no interest in il
and never had. L have had no relation with
Mr.. Lamb for at least a year, and none
relative to this matter. j have no idea
why my name has been brought into the
matter and know of no reason why Mr..
Lamb should have dragged IL in This is all
L care to say, except to repeat that the tes-
timony, as it relates to me, is false"
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NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 2I.-The report
that Edward S. Remington believes that
his brother Robert r. Remington was MUIR
dered in this city was received with in
creduity here tonight. Chief of Police
Richards, when interviewed, said it was
absolutely impossible that Mr.. Remington
could have been murdered. He said he
thoroughly investigated the affair soon aft
er IL happened, with a view to finding
whether there might be any possibility of
murder having been committed, and that
there can be no doubt that the man came
to his death by his own hand He said that
while the body was lying here awaiting the
arrival of his brother he examined the
revolver with which the shooting was
done. He found that it was old French
revolver and that it had not been bought
in this city.
Medical Examiner Ecroyd, who viewed
the body and who deemed an autopsy un-
necessary, stated tonight that there was
nothing to indicate that the man died other
than by suicide. Those connected with the
reading room, both employees and members.
place absolutely no credence in the theory
of murder. Other than this they refuse
to discuss the matter. The undertaken
who had charge of the body also gave it
as his opinion that il must have been a
case of suicide.
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Police Chief shoots n Boy.

Special 70 the India ma polls Journal
MARION, Ind. Aug. H.-In a sensational
encounter this morning, Superintendent of
Police Lindsey Addington shot Bert Mid
dleton in the right cheek. causing a severe,
but not serious wound. The bullet entered
the cheek about an inch from the corner
OF the mouth. and came out at a point in
front OF the right ear. Addington fired
five shots in all. emptying his revolver
The first four shots. Addington declares.
were fired for "A bluff" The last shot.
he says. was fired to kill. The young man
now occupies a bed In his own home, which
is guarded by the police
The trouble grew out of a quarrel be-
tween Bert Middleton and his brother
Edward. When Superintendent Addington
arrived at police headquarters this morn
ing ne was informed by the sergeant that
telephone call had just come in from
the Middleton home for police. There was
no patrOlman at headquarters at the time,
so the superintendent went himself TO the
Middleton home. He says that when he
arrived the boy went at him like a maniac.
with a pair of timers shears in his hands.
up his hands. AddingtOn then began to
ire After the shooting he seized the
youth. and the latters mother attacked
him. trying to take the revolver away Mrs
Middleton says AddingtOn pointed the
weapon at her
Many OF the neighbOrs censUre very
strongly the conduct of the police superin-
tendent. while others say he entirely
justified. Middleton Is eighteen years old.
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ABOARD THE FLAGSHIP.
How the Naval Maneuvers Were Di-
rected by Admiral HigginsOn.

ROCKPORT Mass. Aug. p con Board
the Battleship Kearsarge. Flagship OF
Rear Admiral Higginson. Commander-in-
chief OF the North Atlantic Squadron. OF
Straits Mouth).-Rear Admiral Higginson.
commanding the North Atlantic squadron.
while anchored at Sandy Bay harbor. at
Rockport. yesterday. received Information
that an enemy's fleet had been sighted OF
the New England coast. The telegram was
received on the flagship at 1l.s0 a. m. I'm
mediately all was hustle and excitement and
the mimic war maneuvers scheduled for
the navy OF the summer Of 1902 were under
way. orders were given in rapid succession.
quickly followed by the blare OF bugles
and the setting OF signal iags. From that
moment the flagship Kearsarge and the
other vessels Of the defending fleet have
been in readiness for the approach OF the
opposing vessels under Commander John
E Pillsbury.
When the orders 10 move came yesterday
the Mayhower and a torpedo boat were the
first away. starting out OF the north en-
trance OF the harbOr or refuge for stations
OF Portland The Brooklyn and Olympia
were close behind. steering In more east
erly course. The Scorpion took her course
about southeast, while the Montgomery
and Leyden also went 10 the southeast
The torpedo fleet scattered 20 various
points of shore. The kearsarge. Massa-
chusetts. Alabama and Gloucester took a
general station about fVe miles on Thatch-
er's light. The point is about midway be-
tween Portland and PrOvincetOwn
Up midnight the movements OF the
ships We're not very important. The battle
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5. COL. 81
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GATES LEAVES DENVER.
Fight Over the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company Not Yet Settled.

DENVER, Col. Aug. 21.-The situa ton in
the fight for control of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company is practically un-
changed tonight. Joel +. Vaile, one of
the attorneys for the Gates people, said
tonight that application would be made
for dissolution of the injunction issued
yesterday by Judge Mullins. of the District
Court, restraining the holding of the stock
holders meeting, but he did not indicate
just when such action would be taken.
The practice of Colorado requires that five
days notice accompany such application.
which would bring the matter up for con-
sideratiOn some time next week should the
application be filed tomorrow. Judge Null
lins is arranging for a short vacation in
the mountains, and evidently does not
anticipate that he will be interrupted by
any Legal steps in the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company case. The entire Gates
party has left Denver for the East and
Mr.. Vale was not aware of any intention
on the part of Mr.. Gates 10 return 10 Den
yer soon. At the headquarters of the Col
oradO Fuel and Iron Company to-day the
usual conditions prevailed, and the reporter
was dismissed with the statement that
there was nothing new.
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ANOTHER FUTILE ATTEMPT.
Labor Commissioner Schmidt Fails to
Settle Lafayette Strike.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. H.-State Labor
Commissioner Frank Schmidt's first at
tempt. this evening. to bring about a set
tlement of the street-railway strike and
boycott was a complete failure. Mr.
Schmidt arrived this morning from Indian
apolis and conferred with both parties to
the dispute. Vice President MurdOck who
really is the official head of the street-rail-
way company, made one slight concession
In addition TO those offered Vice President
Jacobs He was willing 10 allow organi-
zatfon OF the men. TO arbitrate the queS-
tton OF the reinstatement OF the eleven
men discharged and would agree 10 put on
.ne extra list the nine men who left last
sunday when called out by the union.
These last named are the real bone OF con-
tention.
Mr.. Schmidt presented the proposition TO
President Ballard OF the Street-railway
Mems Union and other strikers, but they
refused without discussion They all
take a firm stand in the matter and say
that the reinstatement of the nine men
must be included in any peace overtures-
Mr.. Schmidt Il stu at work and Commits
siOner Mccormack. now at Bedford, will
come here soon 20 assist
II the strikers and the company agree
10 submit the dispute 20 arbitration, the
decision OF the arbitration board must
stand. There is prospect OF another
meeting very soon.
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SIX SPECIFIC FORGERIEs
Charged Against a Farmer Who Has
Departed from Morgan County.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 21.-William
Flake, farmer living on farm of Rueben
s. Aldrich, near Waverly, is reported TO
have left for parts unknown last Sunday
because of numerous forgeries. Mr.. Aldrich
accuses him with forging his (Aldrich's),
name TO notes to the amount Of $500
follows, for borrowed money: Frank Paul,
$500; Eli Thomas, sr., 800; Thomas Perry.
s1GO: ]. w. St. John, $780, Sarah NJ. Shirley,
800
In addition 10 these, Mr.. Aldrich holds a
note against him of $780, with Davis Flake
his brother as security. The brother says
the signature of his name is a forgery 1t
is alleged that Flake acknowledged the
forgeries to Mr.. Aldrich and to Frank
Paul. Just before leaving, Sunday, he told
his family ne was going away and would
return on Tuesday, but nothing has been
heard from him since.
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Another Compromise Wage Scale
Made at Pittsburg, This Time Af-
fecting Flint Glass Workers.
SECOND FUTILE EFFORT MADE
LABOR COMMISSIONERS SCHMIDT
FAILS TO SETTLE A STRIKE.
Indianians Hurt in N Collision i'm Ne
yada-Farmer Accused of For
geries-Suft Caused by X-Rays.
Special to the 1ndianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Aug. H.-Clinton
Pierce. an iron Duddler. crazed as the
after effect of prolonged spree, is dead,
and Policeman Sanford Pierce is suffering
from severe gashes made by razor, as
the result Of a sensational ARRAY on the
street tonight.
Clinton Pierce became enraged at a
street-car conductor and ran into a barber
shop. where he seized two razors and
dashed again into the street. While wait
ing fer the return of the car he ran de-
fantly toward a wagon-load of policemen
who were responding to a telephone mes
sage received at evening roll call. The
policemen had to avoid his rushes as they
jumped TO the ground He had a razor in
each hand and while he lunged at one Off
Ger another would strike at him with a
club Policeman Sanford Pierce failed to
avoid his blows and was badly cut. At
each slashing stroke the crazed man re-
ceived a blow from Policeman Gregory S
club
Then the policemen. at least two of them,
Burnett and Hoffiand began shooting. The
crazed man fell. three bullets striking him,
and died within few minutes.
Policemen Pierce was taken to the hos
pitaI where the surgeons took many
stitches in his wounds. They say that
while the wounds are serious ne will re-
cover.
At first little was known of the dead man.
"A letter from his wife, written at No. 1SS
Shelby street, Louisville KY, disclosed his
identity. Then two fellow-iron workers,
who came with him from st. Louis on
Sunday. told the police about him. He had
left them at noon saying he would try to
walk off the nervousness with which he
had been suffering. They said he is thirty
eight years old. and that a brother is a
captain OF police i'm Louisville.
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began the study Of law in Lambs Office in
April OF that year. He was TO receive so
week salary
Did you ever own any stock in the
Northern Pacific Company asked Mr..
Kellogg, who conducted the examination.
Mr.. Lamb told me Mr. Weidenfeld would
carry 100 shares of the stock for any one
who would bring suit The stock was as
signed to me-
Power said he never saw Mr.. Wedenfeld.
All he knew of him was that Mr.. Lamb told
him the stock was his That was in May Of
last year. He understood he was TO pose
as plaintiff but he did not know until six
months later what the object of the
suit. He understood Mr.. Wedenfeld was
to bring the suit and pay the expenses. All
the information ne had was from MT
Lamb. Power said he understood the stock
was given 10 him because the real parties
of the suit wished to remain under cover.
You had no interest in this suit OF the
Northern Pacifc?" Mr.. Kellogg asked.
1.-The stock was mine" he answered.
us ii yours nOw?
81 certainly understand that it is"
Power first saw the certificates at the
Auditorium Hotel in Chicago. That was
the only time he saw the chiefs.
Power said. replying TO questions. that
he saw in the newspapers that he was
wanted as a witness before the examiner.
The first subpoena was served upon him
July "a, and an attempt to serve a second
was made next day. A third was served on
! him a few days later. Mr.. Lamb told him
that counsel had decided that the service
was not good. The witness declared that
| he had said he would appear before the
| examiner If Mr.. Lamb advised him to do so.
Did any one else tell you the service
| of the subpoena was no good?" Mr.. Kel-
| logg said.
! "Mr Chandler and Captain Stern were
talking about il in Mr.. Lambs office and
| Mr. Chandler told me in their presence that
| l need not worry, as the service not
| good"
! Chandler and Lamb met at the Calumet
Club" Power said. end he called up Mr..
| Weidenfeld at Oyster Bay on the telephone.
! After their conversation Lamb said Wei
denfeld wanted him 20 go TO Europe He
said he refused 10 go.
To a direct question Power said he had
! called w. Bourke Cochran on the telephone
forty or fifty times during the different
periods Mr.. Chandler was In consultation
| with Mr.. Lamb.
After Power had denied that he had ever
! acted as an automobile chauffeur to any
body his examination was ended. The hear
ing will be resumed next Tuesday.
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PROMOTERS STRIKE A SNAG.
Hitch In the Formation of the Nine
MiIIiOn-DoIIar Candy ''Combine."

CINCINNATI. o., Aug. 21.-The Confec-
TONERS Review, in its issue to-day, says;
There is said to be a serious hitch in the
formation of the 100000 candy combine
embracing the leading manufacturing con-
fectioners of the West. owing TO the refusal
Of certain Cincinnati concerns to join the
trust now being engineered by Edwin Cor
bin. New York promoter, o. II. Peckham
of St. Louis, and Vincent L. Price, of Chi
cago, well-knOwn confectioners Corbin ar
rived here yesterday and directed his ener-
gies during the day in an effort 10 induce
prominent local candy makers TO give Op-
tions on their plants. All refused except
Echert Company. To-day the Reinhart q
Newton Company notified Corbin that they
were not satisfied with the progress made
in the combine and that they would not
90 in"
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GENERAL SIGEL'S CAREER.
Famous Fighter in Germany Before
He Came to This Country.

Cen Franz Sigel was born on Nov "a 1924
at Sinsheim Baden. Germany. He was edu-
Gated in a public school and in the classical
school Gymnasium of BruchsaI He en-
tered the military academy of Carsruhe
in 1S41; was graduated in 1S43 and served
as an officer of the regular army until the
fall of 1S47. when he resigned his commits
sion for political reasons, and, after duels
in which his antagonists were killed. he
went to Bruchsal, where his parents lived,
and prepared himself for the study of law
at the University of Heidelberg. When. in
the spring of lS4S, the revolutionary strug-
gle in Germany began he organized a bat
talon OF volunteers in Mannheim. Then
Fastening to the upper part of the country
he raised and organized 4OOO men in five
days during his march from Constance to
Freiburg. through the Black Forest and
Guentersthal and Frieburg. In 1919 he COM
manded the army OF the Neckar and fought
the battle of Heppenhein on May 30 In
the following campaign he served as
adjutant general and second in command
TO General Louis Mieroslawski The army
Of Baden and the Palatinate in the field
was about 5000 strong; that Of the army
under the Prince Of Prussia over 10000.
General SgeI took part in all the principal
battles and engagements. especially on the
Neckar and Rhine at Schriesheim, Gross
achsen. Waghaeusel and Sisheim. and in
the three days struggle on the river Murg
near the fortress OF Rastadt. When Cen
eral MIerOslawski resigned Sigel was
placed again in command OF the army. until
II finally crossed the Rhine into Switzer-
land. He was also for a time a member
OF the Provisional Government of Five
and minister OF war. One of his COM
panions In the insurrectiOn was Carl Schurz.
whom he afterward was TO meet In st
Louis before the civil war.
CAME TO AMERICA IN 1852.
After the insurrectionary movement OF
1913 and the war OF 1879 General Sigel lived
as exile in France. Switzerland and
England, and in May, 1852. came to New
York. Until the fall OF 1857 he was en-
/ gagged engineer and surveyor, then as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-22
MAJOR ARMIES WOUNDED.
Retired Army Omcer shot by j. ID.
johnson Near wnshineton

WASHINGTON, Aug. A.-Major George
A. Armes, retired army officer was shot
but not seriously injured al his home a
few miles outside this city to-day by j.
Doland Johnson Major Armes was able
TO come TO the city and to go to the army
hospital for an operation 20 extract the
bullet. According to his account Johnson
was formerly one of his tenants with
whom he had some difficulty. and who
threatened TO shoot him. Major Armes
says he was sitting on the porch OF his
home when Johnson approached and fired
two shots. the first taking effect in the
right breast. The second shot went wild.
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school No. i, he also served two years as
adjutant OF the Fifth New York Militia
Regiment. gave military lectures ana
translated into German a part OF Scott
Tactics and Hardee's Tactics. In the
fall Of 1861 he got a position as teacher IN
the German-American Institute in ~.
Louis and in April 1860 was elected by
popular vote a director of the Board OF
Education of that city. During the sec
wrote strongly for the Union for Carl
Schurz's paper in ST. Louis, and both men
became leaders Of the Germans IN the
Southwest.
When the war for the Union broke out
in 1861 he resigned those positions organ
lied regiment (the Third Missouri and a
battalion OF artillery and entered and held
the St. Louis arsenal on the 2lst OF
the same month. With his regiment and
battery he participated in the AFFAIR OF
Camp Jackson. where his regiment lost
an officer mortally wounded. private
killed and ten privates wounded. he then
commanded a brigade during the eNpedl-
ton 10 southwest Missouri, fought the
battle of Carthage. was in the battle OF
Wilson's Creek, was in command OF a
division in the campaign of General Ere
mont and under General Hunter. who ap-
pointed him commander of Springfield. and
commander of the right wing OF the two
divisions under General Curtis in the battle
of Pea Ridge. on March g. anc s 1852 on
May II, 1861, he was commissioned briga-
dier general, and on March q, 1862, major
general of volunteers. Toward the end OF
May OF the same year he was transferred
TO the East and assigned TO the troops at
Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights,
arriving there on the 1st OF June.
On the 2d he followed General Jackson on
his retreat TO Winchester and Middletown.
On June % he was assigned TO the COM
mand of the First Army Corps Of Virginia,
and was engaged with part of his corps
in the battle of Cedar, or SlauGhter's noun
tain. Then with his corps and that Of Gen.
Banks and division of the Ninth Corps
he served on the Rappahannock. and was
in command on the battlefield Of Bull Run
Aug 20. during the second day Of the bat
tie, from o'clock in the morning 10 l:So in
the afternoon. He served with his corps,
, its name changed to the Eleventh Army
Corps of the Potomac. with General Nc
Clellan on his advance 10 Culpepper.
AN INJUSTICE DONE.
When General Mcclellan had been re-
lieved by General Burnside. in November,
1862, General Sigel was placed in command
of the Grand Reserve Division, consisting
of his own, Eleventh, and the Twelfth (Slo-
CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COL. g.
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EYES TO BE EXAMINED.
All school Children i'm Illinois Must
submit to Health Board Rules.

SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Aug. 21-Dr. J. A.
Egan. secretary of the State Board of
Health, to-day sent to all county superin-
tendents of schools in the State circular
regarding the action decided upon by the
State Board of Health for protection OF the
sight and hearing Of school children. II
was found from an examination of pupils
of the Chicago schools that one-third OF
the children had defective eyesight. and
the board has decided that an examination
of the eyes of pupils shall be made in every
school in Illinois yearly
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NEW METHOD OF SUICIDE.
Wisconsin Farmer Eats Fifty Ears of
Green Corn and Soon Dies

WINONA, Mimi, Aug. 2L-William Haf-
ner, farmer living near TrempeleaL. Wis.
is dead as a result Of eating fifty roasting
ears" Mr.. Hafner had an especial liking
for green corn, and at dinner ate twenty
four ears. He pursued his regular occupa-
tion during the afternoon. and for the even
ing meal disposed OF fifteen more ears. He
was awakened during the night by an in
tense craving for more corn. and. rising.
proceeded TO deyour eleven more ears OF
cold corn. In the morning his wife awoke
70 find her husband dead az her side.