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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-12
Indiana Notes.

LAFAYETTE.-Mason from all parts Of
the county and elsewhere in the State are
the guests of Dayton Lodge. No. 3. at Day.
ton, few miles south of this city, to-day,
at the celebration OF the fiftieth ami
versary of the founding of the lodge. which
was the first organized in Tippecanoe
county. AT o'clock Tuesday afternoon
the masters degree was conferred on three
candidates, after which a banquet was
served
PORTLAND.-The Rev. M. L. Smith, Of
Bryant, has been elected by the congrega-
ton of the Lutheran Church of this city
as its pastor. He has been filling the pull
pit for several months. One of the
best sales of fine cattle in the county was
that made by James NJ Sutton, of Penn
township. who disposed of twenty-five
head, averaging sixteen hundred pounds.
for $500 or at the rate of cents pound.
RICHMOND.-The annual report of st.
PauIs Lutheran Church. one of the most
prosperous in the city, shows a total men,
bership of SS4, with 753 in the Sunday school.
The total amount of money raised was &c.
902 81, of which $5,216.97 was for benevolent
work. The Rev. Conrad Hubor is the pastor.
PERU.-Judge Cox has appointed the
Very Rev. John Guendling, Mrs. Moses
Puterbaugh, Mrs. Milton Shirk, Mrs. Emma
Davidson, +. l.. Miller and DR.. Kalb-
fleisch members of a county board of char
tiles and corrections, which is to operate
under the provisions of the law of 1899.
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WOMEN MISSION WORKERS.
They Meet in the High-Street Method
list Church, Muncie.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 1.-THE eighteenth
annual convention of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of North Indiana Meth
odist Conference convened in the High
street Church this afternoon. The confer
ence will remain in session through Thurs
day morning. Eighty-five delegates re-
ported to-day and more are expected to-
morrow. The societies of Wabash, Fort
Wayne, Goshen. Richmond, Kokomo and
Muncie are represented. The session this
afternoon was opened with praise service
conducted by Mrs. z. l.. Davidson. of
Peru. Mrs. E. Philabaum, of Muncie,
made the address of welcome. TO which
Mrs. Madison Swadner, of Marion. re-
sponded. Mrs. c. u. Wade, of Muncie,
spoke in behalf of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society. The address of the
president Mrs l.. A. Retts, of Centerville,
followed. with the reports of the CORE
spending secretary, Mrs. l.. H. Bunyan,
of Richmond, and the treasurer, Mrs. J. w.
Vail, of Decatur. During the past year the
total receipts of the society were 81. 339 "a (;
increase over 1901, $1,257.95. Seventeen new
societies were organized during the year.
making a total of sixty-three. The total
membership is now 2,079, an increase OF
$50 for the year.
This evening a young peoples rally was
held. Miss Gertrude Schrader, of Fort
Wayne, led the devotional exercises. The
principal address by Miss Bertha
Fowler, of Chicago.
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A MORAL HOUSE CLEANING.
Terre Haute Not to BE So "Wide
Open" as I'm the Past.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Nov. n.-Mayor
Steeg's new police board has begun giving
orders which look as IL the mayors ante
election promises are to be fulfilled. The
saloonkeepers to-day were ordered to re-
move slot machines, dice and wheel games
from their saloons. AS yet no order has
been issued to stop gambling in the rooms
connected with saloons. The order also
is to stop music in saloons. This applies
more particularly to Terre Hautes tender
loin district. Nothing was said about en-
forcing the saloon closing law, but IL is
understood the saloonkeepers are to have
quiet tip to be more careful after hours,
both as to the noise in their saloons and
the use Of prominent front doors Before
the election the mayor said that his board
appointed in September under the special
charter by which the city's police depart
ment was taken from the metropolitan
police law under which the Governor APP
pointed the board had not been able TO
make changes in the wideopen policy that
had prevailed under the old board because
the fall race meeting, the street fair and
the election followed in order, but that
after the election he would give Terre
Haute housekeeping, morally speaking.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

The funeral of Mrs Sophia Murphy will
be held tomorrow evening at s o'clock at
the residence, 80 Hamilton avenue The
burial will be at East Germantown.
Mrs. Florence Wagner, who fell into an
open crate Oct. % while in an epileptic
fit. died yesterday at the City Hospital
severe burns about the head, face and
arms.
The body of Jennie W Nash, who killed
herself Friday night in the Marquette
her home in EPworth. Ky, last night by
an uncle from Marysville, Ky. The body
had been at Adams & Kreiger's under
taking rooms.
The State Florists Association will give
its annual exhibit of cut flowers and plants
in the horticultural rooms in the statehouse
this afternoon and evening. There will be
exhibits of chrysanthemums, carnations
and roses from all parts of the State. The
public is invited
The detective department has received
number of complaints from indianapolis
people of the operations Of two well-dressed
men who are thought 10 be fakirs. The
young men in the south and west parts
of the city solicit subscriptions for the
members of the Indianapolis Light Guard
to pay for uniforms. There is no such
organization as the Indianapolis Light
Guard. and the detectives say that the two
men are impostors.
Jerry Gray, trustee Of Perry township,
was assaulted yesterday afternoon by
fight over the contest for road superin-
tendent Clyde Lowe and Abraham Hamil-
ton were applicants for the position. A
meeting was held in Trustee Grays office
and HamiltOn's friends failed 10 appear.
This angered him and he accused Gray of
working against him. Friends came be-
| tween the two men and prevented further
| trouble.
Frank Bauer, living at PIG Birchman
| avenue, was arrested yesterday by Bicycle
Policemen Trimpe and Lowe on the charge
| of grand larceny. IL is said Bauer in COM
| pany with his brother-in-law. Frank Stew
art. stole ten and a half bushels of po-
| tatoes from a farmer who was stopping
| at the Checkered stable on West Wash
! ington street. Bauer was arrested vester-
| day in North indianapolis and admitted
| that he took the potatoes He implicated
| Stewart in the deal
The funeral services OF Mrs. Harriette
| y. Gillette were held at the family resi-
| dence yesterday morning. There was a
large attendance of friends OF the deceased
| especially OF elderly people. The officiat-
ing clergymen were Rev. Adrian ID. Berry
| pastor OF the Woodruff Place Baptist
! Church. OF which she was q member, and
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RILEY AND JAP MILLER.
Some Correspondence I'm Rhyme That
Passed Between Them.

Some Correspondence In Rhyme That
Passed Between Them.
James Whitcomb Riley sent his friend.
Jap Miller, of Brooklyn. Morgan county, a
copy of his last volume, 1.-The Book of
Joyous Children" which Mr.. Miller is
proud to show his friends. On a fiyleaf is
written in Mr.. Riley's small but clear Chi
Biography:
For Jap Miller and his sister, with best
greetings and most grateful esteem.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
Indianapolis, Nov. 8, 1902.
Jap kin answer er refuse,
But the late election news
Don't they kind o meet his views?"
Mr. Miller has written the following,
which he will send to Mr.. Riley:
Dear JIM thank you fer your book;
The poems have friendly look
And when / read your cheerful rhymes
i can't help thinkin o. the times
When you and me was young together
An didn't care fer wind er weather"
Mr.. Miller has never married, and to a
friend who visited him he showed the fol-
lowing:
"Jim's poems about childhood days
An what the children does and says
Are mighty good, and since L read 'em
l can't help but wish l had en-
"Of course" he said, i've got the poems.
1 meant something else
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new WAGE AGREEMENT
STRIKE OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN AT
CHICAGO AVERTED.
Yard FOremen and Helpers Granted
Increases of Four and Three Cents
an Hour, Respectively.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-THE wage contro-
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, which
for time threatened to tie up all the prin-
cipal switching terminals in Chicago. was
amicably adjusted tonight at a conference
between the railroad managers and officials
of the brotherhood. The settlement was
reached on the basis of a compromise.
Seventeen of the railroads signed the new
agreement. and the Santa Fe. the other
road involved, will sign tomorrow morn
ing. The men will receive an increase OF
about u per cent. In their demands, which
were submitted several weeks ago, the
men asked for an increase OF cents an
hour. After several conferences between
the representatives of both sides the rail-
roads offered to compromise with an in
crease OF 2l3 cents an hour 10 helpers ana
3 cents 10 foremen. This was refused by
the switchmen. At to-night's meeting the
railroads submitted a proposition Offering
an increase of 3 cents an hour TO helpers
and cents to foremen. After several
hours elaboration the proposition was ac-
cepted by the men. The rates agreed upon
are as follows: Day foremen. 81 cents per
hour; night foremen, 80 cents per hour;
day helpers, Is cents per hour; night help-
ers. 30 cents per hour. These rates are one
half cent per hour in excess OF the St PAUL
Minneapolis rate for each class.
The effect OF the new scale will be far
reaching. According to the officers of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the
rate will go into effect at all large centers
west of Chicago, where committees are now
in session awaiting the outcome OF the
Chicago trouble. Representatives of the
organization will leave here tomorrow for
Kansas City, Denver, Omaha, St. Louis
and other points to have the new scale Of
ficially ratified by other roads and en-
ployes. 1t is asserted that already the
men and managers have agreed TO abide
by the Chicago decision. and as a conse-
quence no trouble is anticipated In making
the agreement universal for the entire dis
trict west of Chicago.
The Chicago scale goes into effect Nov.
10. and through the signed agreements with
the railroad managers Il cannot be mod
flied without thirty days notice.
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REFERRED TO COMMITTEES.
Questions at Issue In the American
window Glass War.

PITTSBURG. Nov. 1.-THE National
Window Glass Jobbers' Association closed
its conferences in the Hotel Henry long
after last midnight. The session opened
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and was
attended by over fifty members. The de-
moraIized condition of the window glass
market. resulting from the jobbers shading
the price list. causing the meeting TO be
called 1t was thought when the meeting
opened that II would be disrupted by a
vote OF the association.
After a conference with the jobbers and
manufacturers last nigh. the whole matter
was turned over to the executive commit
tee of the jobbers. and another meeting will
be held within the next few days to settle
the differences
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OIL STILL GOING UP.
Two Cents Added to the Price of In
diana Crude Petroleum.
o the Indianapolis journal

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER. Ind. Nov. 1.-two cents
more were added TO the price OF Indiana oil
to-day and cents on the price of Eastern
oils This price brings the price within 4
cents OF the Ionged-for dollar OIL Oil
men are iubilant over the advance and
many are figuring on holding their oil until
the price goes still higher. Many locations
for new work have been made since the
price began 20 go up, and IL IL continues TO
advance. many doubtful pieces OF land will
be. tested. The Southwestern Petroleum
Company, which has just bought leases
south of this city in the gas field is MAX
ing locations to begin drilling at once
The prices Of the different oils are as fol-
lows: Tiona. $l.54; Pennsylvania. l39:
Corning. $l.22; New Castle NI4: North
Lima, sl.0l; South Lima, 80 cents; Indiana.
p6 cents; White House. $l.09 Somerset. IS
cents. Lacey, IS cents
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M0FFETT AN ALLEGED GH0UL.
Detectives Arrest a Man Charged with
Grave Robbing.

Charged with being implicated in the
grave robberies of Rufus Cantrell's band
of ghouls, William Moffett. a white man.
whose home is at GIG Roach street in North
Indianapolis. was arrested at 100 o'clock
this morning by Detectives Asch, Manning
and Long Moffett was found at his home.
trell. McEndree and other ghouls. black
and white, who are already under arrest
has robbed graves in Ebenezer and other
small cemeteries near the city. His viola
lions of burial grounds. they say, extend
over period of six months. No bond was
furnished Moffett.
Rufus Cantrell declares that Moffett is
1.-THE king of the grave robbers" and that
Moffett taught him the tricks of the trade.
He says Moffett has been robbing graves
for years and is old in the business. He
positively Identifies the man under arrest
1t is said that Moffett had been the GUS
todian of one of the medical colleges. He
Is fifty-four years of age.
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Two Cents Added tn the Price of In
diana oil Makes the Operators
Think Dollar Oil IL i'm Sight.
ACCIDENTS ON THE RAILROADS
THREE DEATHS AND FOUR INJURIES
CAUSED BY FIVE MIsHAPs.
Election Contest I'm MOnrOe-WindoSv
Glass Troubles Referred to Com
mittee-Other Indiana News.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind. Nov ia murderous
attack was made tonight on Elijah Rodi-
baugh. a well-known Big Four passenger
engineer, while he was waiting at the sta
ton to take out the Indianapolis express.
A stranger boarded the engine. and Rodi-
baugh ordered him off. The fellow de-
clared he had a right to ride there, as he
had a master mechanics permit. Rodi-
baugh asked for the permit, and the man
drew knife and slashed wildly at the en-
gineer. infiicting four deep gashes in the
shoulder and side. none of which is fatal.
The assailant was overpowered and
locked UP. He gave his name as c. ID.
Easton. his home New Albany, and his &C.
cupation agent Of the Aetna Life Insurance
Company. Another engineer took the train
out
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Says Gas Is Being Wasted.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Nov. I1.-Deputy
Gas Inspector B. A Kinney has been tour
ing the gas and oil fields near this city for
several days and reports that he has found
a fragrant violation of the law in the mat
ter of gas waste. Kinney says he will file
affidavits against several oil operators to-
morrow. He says a favorite method of the
oil operators TO waste the gas is to pipe it in
an exhaust for the steam. The noise of
the steam browns out the noise of the es-
Gaping gas and ii can be discovered only
bV the OdOr.
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Barely Escaped Asphyxiation.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MARION. Ind. Nov. 11.-David Barker.
a wealthy manufacturer of Marion. and his
two daughters. Blanche and Cora. narrow
ly escaped being asphyxiated early this
morning. Cora Barker was awakened by
groans from her sisters room and when
She entered to make an investigation she
too was overcome. The father was aroused
and detecting the odor of gas. threw open
the windows and summoned physicians.
Although in critical condition, they prob
ably will survive
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Indiana Obituary.

GREENSBURG, Ind, Nov. u.-Mrs.
Eliza ]. Kennedy died this morning at $3.50
at the home Of her son, Theodore Jones,
south of this city. She was eighty-one
years of age. Mrs. Kennedy was born in
Franklin county in 1921, and was one of
the oldest inha bitants of this vicinity. She
was devoted member of the First Meth
odist Church.
PORTLAND, Ind, Nov. 11.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Wright, a pioneer of Jay county, is
dead at her home in Pennyville. from an
attack of pneumonia. Mrs Wright was
and was the mother of NJ. o. Wright, who
Is well known throughout eastern Indiana.
Her husband died twenty-five years ago.
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The Right to Work.
New York CAGE and Comment.

New York CAGE and Comment
Bodies OF striking workmen have become
quite in the habit OF assuming the authority
10 dictate when and on what terms Other
men over whom they have no legal control
whatever shall work Protesting usually
that they deprecate coercion and use per
suasion only. the strikers commonly resort
to criminal violence against other workmen
who dare TO take the employment which
they have abandoned. Not only among the
strikers. but among large numbers OF other
people, there has grown up kind OF quasi
approval of this high-handed and lawless
tyranny of men over their fellow-citizens
The right TO labor. even when the Legisla-
ture attempts 10 deny II. Is so clearly pro-
tected by constitutions that no one pre-
sumes TO dispute IL. Even the restrictions
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An Oklahoma Sport.
Kansas City Journal.

1--WE have all kinds of sports In Okla
homa to amuse the public" said Delegate
test sport the territory puts up is dog
and rabbit race. An inclosure 100 rods long
and forty-two rods wide, is fenced off with
hiding-place for the rabbit at one end if
he manages to escape the greyhound The
rabbit is given seventy-five yards the start
of the dogs and has to run one hundred
yards in order to get under cover Two
hounds are generally unleashed for the run
and when they set sail they eat up the
ground In manner amazing to witness
In the meantime the rabbit is not doing
long back on his neck and ali that
you can see of him is gray streak fiy
ing through the air. Sometimes the dogs
win out, but more often the Jack rabbit
gets there first. The runs are great bet-
ting contests and one Of them will come
off at Blackwell the latter part OF this
month"; 1850
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Important Action Dismissed.
al to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SULLIVAN. Ind. Nov. 1.-THE commits
sioners of Sullivan and Knox counties heard
the objections filed against the proposed
Strengthening of Busseron creek, filed by
nearly seventy land owners along the
property The estimated cost of the work
aggregated over $4,000. The case was bit
terly contested and is one of vital interest
20 the two counties. The case was dis
missed. About s. 600 has been expended in
the preliminary work, which the petitioners
will have 10 paw
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COL. WETMORE CHALLENGED.
Millionaire Asked to Fight a Duel
with a Kentucky Promoter.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11.-Peter Arlund, pro-
moter of Louisville. KY. to-day challenged
Col. NJ. c. Wetmore, millionaire and former
tobacco magnate, to duel. Sunday night
Arlund and Wetmore had some difficulty in
the lobby Of the Planters Hotel, during
which blows were exchanged. The chal-
lenge to a duel is the result of that alterca-
ton. Arlund, in the challenge, which was
mailed to Colonel Wetmore, states that he
is not an American citizen, but a soldier
lieutenant marine of the Danish army, Den
mark and demands that Colonel Wetmore
do battle with him with sword, gun or
pistol. Nothing has been learned from Col.
Wetmore regarding the challenge.
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RICHEY MURDER TRIAL.
IL Opens mt Greensburg-Outcom of a
Street-Fair Fight.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind. Nov. n-Frank
Richey was put on trial here to-day for the
murder of John Cline. Both men had at
tended the street fair in this city on Sat
urday, Sept q. They met on the depot plat
form al Adams where both lived, ana after
a few words Richey drew a pocket-knlfe
and cut Cline's throat from ear to ear. over
a hundred witnesses have been subpoenaed,
most OF whom will be used 10 prove that
Richey is a confirmed epileptic and had
been the butt of Clines spleen for years:
The defense has entered "A special plea or
insanity in addition to one OF self-defense.
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Took m Dose of Poison.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, Nov 1.-R. II.
Swan, night Waterman at the wheel works
IN this city. is dead from a self-adminis-
tered dose OF poison. He was about forty
five years OF age and married. He was
formerly a resident Of Anderson, at which
place he made unsuccessful attempt at
self-destruction, and since has been subject
10 fits OF depression.
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school Board Asked to Resign.

Special 20 the IndlanapoIis Journal.
MARION, Ind. Nov. 1.-THE City Coun-
Gil, in special session, tonight, asked for
the resignation of the Public School Board.
Several weeks ago the Council appointed
a board of five members to work in con-
junction with the School Board in the
management of the new Carnegie library.
Heretofore the library affairs have been
in the hands of the School Board. The
School Board refused TO recognize the IL
brary board and affairs eliminated to-
night, when the members of the former
board were asked to step out.
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Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Nov. I1.-Charles,
the three-year-old son of F. f. Dare. of
Howell. who was run over by freight
on Sunday. died to-day. Floyd. an elder
brother, who was mangled by the same
car, died yesterday. The parents are left
childless. The father and mother were out
walking. and while crossing a railway yard
saw their little boys run over The mother
Is Frustrated and in a serious condition.
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Death Resulted from n Bruise.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov. 1.-THE
nine-year-old son of Joseph Fulmer, OF st.
Marys. died of blood poisoning. caused by
an injury 10 his foot from another boy
stepping on ii. At first IL thought TO
be only a slight bruise. When the injury
proved TO be more serious four Terre Haute
physicians were called in, but they could
not save the boys life.
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Increase Demanded.

DENVER, Col, Nov. n.-Having re-
ceived a telegram from Grand Master Nor
risey announcing the advance in wages
granted switchmen by Chicago railroads,
the Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen to-
crease from the Union Pacific and the
Colorado Southern Railways A committee
will leave Denver for Omaha tomorrow
the divisions of the Union Pacific and
Colorado Southern will have representation
in the committee The lodge to which most
of the Denver Rio Grande swtchmen
belong will take action tomorrow night.
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Philadelphia Record.

The bookworm was emittingsone of his
usual growls. Il could never Understand"
he said. why some OF the sDeOple en-
ployed I'm book stores shOulot have so
missed their locations. l am that
many a good truck driver Is Bans wasted
In that way. The other day went into
a secondhand store and askedzfo copy
of Burtons Anatomy OF kelancholy.'
You'll find the medical books an tie sec
ond floor blandly replied the Soung man
whom / had addressed. on aTStther occa-
sion / asked for copy OF Gil Bias Let
me see. unused the intelligenE attendant.
Gil Bias that's a book for CT .ldren. isn't
IT.? / told him / shouldn't carr 10 recom-
mend IL TO children, and | might remark,
incidentally. that l didn't get II !"