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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-21
RIGHTS ON OHIO RIVER
CASE TO BE ADVANCED IN UNITED
STATES SUPREME COURT.
Assistant Attorney General Goes to
File Papers in This Indiana
Kentucky Controversy.

1t is not unlikely that the Supreme Court
of the United States will decide early in
its coming session a question of i'm
portance to the States of Indiana and Ken
tucky-the question as to whether Indiana
has concurrent jurisdiction with Kentucky
on the Ohio river where it separates the
two commonwealths. Assistant Attorney
General Merrill Moores has left for the
East to secure from a justice of the su-
preme Court permission to present the
petition and writ of error in the case. AS
Mr.. Mooress mission will in all probability
be successful the will be advanced
with all dispatch.
The question of jurisdiction over the Ohio
river has been the cause of a number of le-
gal battles in the past and OF no end of
annoyance to Indiana police officers. In
diana criminals fleeing Justice have deemed
themselves safe from arrest by Indiana off,
GERS as soon as they were able to push a
boat from the Indiana shore on to the
waters of the Ohio. In that belief they
have been upheld by the Kentucky authorf-
ties from time innmemoriaI. Kentucky con-
tending always that its jurisdiction over
the Ohio river extended 10 the low-water
mark on the Indiana side. Not infreouently
have policemen been obliged to stand on
the Indiana shore helplessly, while some
criminal whom they particularly wished 10
catch Wiggled his fngers at them from a
boat heading toward the Kentucky shore
Civil suits, countless in number have also
arisen, having as their principal point OF
contention the respective Jurisdiction Of the
two States over the Ohio.
Indiana has always claimed that il has
concurrent jurisdiction with Kentucky over
the Ohio, and that il Kentucky's jursdic-
tion extends to the low-water mark on the
Indiana side, Indiana's extends TO the low
water mark on the Kentucky side. In other
words, Indiana has always claimed the
right TO arrest fleeing criminals upon the
Ohio In a case some time ago, the Su-
preme Court of Indiana held that the con-
tention of concurrent jurisdiction was Just,
and the lower courts of Kentucky have also
held the same. The Court of Appeals of
Kentucky, however, has denied the con-
tention.
Attorney General Taylor is particularly
interested in the question and his brief for
the State is nearly complete. AS soon as
the Supreme Court convenes he will urge
that the case be advanced rapidly as
DOSSible.
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GEN. ALGER is WILLING
IF ELECTED UNITED STATES SENA-
TOR HE WILL ACCEPT.
Says, However, He VIII Not Ask Ap-
pOintment or Appeal to Legisla-
tors for Their Favor.

DETROIT, Aug. 20.-Gen. Russell A.
Alger, former secretary of war, issued a
statement this afternoon announcing him.
self as a receptive candidate for the United
States Senate from Michigan to succeed
the late James Mcmillan. He says that
while he will seek election 5 Senator
McMillan's successor, he win accept the
office If the people of the State, through
the Legislature, see fit to elect him to it.
The statement is follows:
II will not seek the appointment or cleo
tion to the Office Of United States senator
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Senator Mcmillan. The office and honor
are too great to be thus gained. Should,
however. the people of Michigan, through
their Legislature, see fit TO elect me to
that high office. I will accept it and fill
it to the best of my ability. To the friends
who have so kindly expressed a desire to
have me thus chosen as their representa-
tive. I wish to tender my grateful thanks. -
General Alger declined to be by
newspaper men after the statement had
been issued sending word that he had
nothing further to say. A note asking him
"WiI you make any effort to secure the
election of members of the Legislature fa-
vorable to your senatorial candidacy? ?'
was sent to him in his private office. In
reply the general sent word that he could
answer no questions at present.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-21
TW0CHARGEDW WITHARS0N
SALOON KEEPER SAID TO HAVE
HIRED MAN TO BURN A BARN.
William Mock and SurI Fletcher Ar
rested-FIetcher Accused His Wife
of Doing the Work.

Surl NJ. Fletcher was arrested at Mount
Clemens, Mich, yesterday by Captain Ger
Der and Detective Colbert, charged with
arson and brought to this city. William
Mock, a saloon keeper of % North Alabama
street, was also locked up, charged with
conspiracy TO commit a felony. Mock's ar
rest was brought about through informa-
ton furnished by Fletcher. The two men
are believed by the police to be responsible
for the burning of a barn belonging to
Perry c. Apple, near Oaklandon, in No
vember, 1899. Besides the barn the farmer
lost heavily through the destruction of
his crop Of hay horses and farming i'm
plements. Arson was suspected at the
time but there was no evidence Apple
said he knew no one that desired TO in
ture him.
About three months ago Fletcher went
TO Captain Gerber and informed him that
ne could put him in the way of finding the
person that burned Apples barn He told
Gerber, without any hestancy, that his
own wife, who has left him since the time
alluded to, was guilty of the felony. She
asked him to drive with her into the
country, he said, on the night that the
barn was burned, and when they drove out
of the city she carried with her a can of
kerosene. Fletcher said he was drunk and
manifested no curiosity as to the presence
of the kerosene. In the country, near the
Apple place, Fletcher said his wife asked
him to remain in the buggy and wait for
her a short time. After a few minutes he
saw his wife in the middle OF the highway
near the Apple residence, and about the same
time said he saw that the Apple barn was
on fire. The two. according TO Fletcher's 5
story, then drove rapidly back 10 town.
The next day, according TO Fletcher he
went 10 Mock's saloon and Mock took him
TO one side and handed him $40 with the
remark: Give this 10 Jennie, she will
understand it all right
Mrs. Fletcher was found by the detec-
tives yesterday and questioned. Her story
was fiat contradiction of her husband s
statement. She was not arrested After
Mock was placed under arrest he was con-
fronted with Fletcher. who renewed the ac-
cusation that Mock had given him money.
Mock angrily denied the charge, and the
matter rests for the present
II is understood that Mock's efforts to
start a saloon in OaklandOn were resisted
by Perry Apple, among others. and that
there had been bad feeling between the
men. Mrs Fletcher declares that her hus-
band told her ne was 10 get $50 from Mock
for burning Apples barn, and that he came
home complaining because he had received
only SIS.
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BANKS MUST MAKE RETURNS.
Hint to Delinquents from the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue.

WASHINGTON, Aug. W.-Commissioner
Yerkes, of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
has issued a circular 10 collectors direct
ing them to report the names of banks
which have not made complete amended
returns for the year ended June so, 1902
and in case Of neglest or refusal 10 make
proper returns, collectors will report them
for assessment. On Dec. 81, 1901, the COM
missioner ruled that under Section 2, of the
act of June 13, 1898. bankers were required
to return for taxation all moneys used by
them in carrying on their business and
that banks in making their returns should
include therein their capital. surplus and un-
divided profits, or other profit and loss
account except so much thereof as may
apart 10 meet ascertained liabilities and
losses or 10 pay dividends actually de-
clared by the directors Of the banks TO
paw taxes, or TO pay fixed annual charges
and other necessary annual expenses.
Under this ruling a large number of
banks and institutions doing a banking
business, which had already made their
returns for the year ending June 80 1902
were required 10, and did make, amended
returns including their undivided profits
or their profit and loss account and adj
them In some instances these assess
ments were paid, but I'm a large majority
Of cases the returns were made under pro-
test and claims for abatement We're filed
Temporary action on these claims was
suspended pending a decision of the court
in the case. This decision recently having
been made SUSTAINING the commissioners 5
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SCHWAB SEES MORGAN.
He Is Well and VIII Sail for Europe
Probably Saturday.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-Charles NJ
Schwab, president of the United States
Steel Corporation. who arrived here last
night, took breakfast to-day at the Lor-
raine, where he has apartments. Then he
went to the Office of the United States Steel
Corporation, where he remained for a time
and next visited the banking house of ]. p
Morgan & Co.. where he had a conference
with Mr.. Morgan. The conference lasted
about an hour Nothing concerning it was
made public.
+. II. Gary, chairman of the executive
committee of the Steel Corporation, made
the following statement to-day: President
Schwab spent considerable time in my
office this morning, and also in his own
office and at the bank of j. z. Morgan *
Co. He is looking well and hearty There
seems TO be no doubt that he will soon be
completely restored TO health. We are all
insisting that he take a much needed rest
During the last fifteen months he has had
charge OF more responsibility than one per-
son should assume. However, he has so
systematized the business of the company
that il will not suffer during his absence.
He will probably sail within a day or two
and will take with him the best wishes of
all his associates.
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nine WORKMEN KILLED
FIVE REPORTED MISSING AND FOUR
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Result of an Explosion of Digesters
Fire Added to the Horror

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. a.-Nine
workmen are known to have been killed,
five missing and four others were bad
ly injured by the explosion of two steel
digesters in the Delaware pulp mills of the
Jessup & Moore Paper Company on the
Christiana river to-day. Following are the
casualties:
Known dead-Frank Harris. William
Burke, James Nagle, John Mccormick,
Zachariah Collins (colored), James Stokes.
Joseph Lumbacher' Granville Waters,
| Joseph Henry
Missing-wiliam Scott, fireman; Joel
Hutton. fireman; William Ruth, fireman; e.
II. Mousley, James Sweeney.
Injured-James Jester, badly burned, re-
covery doubtful; John Collins, burned and
and scalded recovery doubtful; Thomas
Reeves. skull fractured in two places. may
die
The digesters were located in a two
story building. There were ten of them in
the building. each one resembling a vat
and about six feet in diameter They were
used for reducing wood pulp. Eighteen
men were at work in the building There
were two terrific reports and the next in
stant the building and other mills about
the structure were completely wrecked
fell to the ground two hundred and fifty
feet away. a dense volume of smoke for
time prevented the outside wOrkmen
from going 10 the Immediate rescue of
those who were caught in the ruins of the
falling building. Several men made their
escape without injury.
An alarm of fire was sounded and the
entire fire department of the city and a
large force of police were soon on the
ground, and the work of rescue was i'm
mediately begun. Several of the workmen
were taken out unconscious only to die
after being removed TO hospitals. The
wreckage was piled up for more than thir-
ty feet and the escaping steam made the
work of rescue rather difficult
Those who were not killed outright were
mangled and burned by escaping acid that
| flowed over their bodies from the broken
digesters. Up to this writing nine persons
are dead, and, according to the officials of
| the company, at least five others are in the
ruins To add to the horror of the disaster
| the wreckage took fire, but after some diff
| iculty the fire department managed TO sub
| due the flames and the work of rescue was
/ continued.
Steam was used in the digesters The
/ officers of the company think that too much
/ steam was generated in them and that this
/ was the cause of the explosion. The loss is
/ estimated at $25 .OOO
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Must Take Out Licenses.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2O.-The commits
sioner of internal revenue has made a rul-
ing TO the effect that dealers who sell oleo-
margarine which paid tax of cents a
pound prior to July l, 1902, must take out
a license costing $3.50 a year for whole
salers and S4S a year for retailers, instead
of $500 and Sc respectively. The new law
provides that dealers in oleomargarine
which has paid a higher tax than one
fourth of cent a pound must pay the
higher license rate, and as all oleomar-
garine was taxed cents pound prior to
July dealers in the article made and tax
paid before that time must pay the maxi
mum license rate. The only dealers who
pay the minimum rate Of license of s6 and
$500 year are those who deal exclusively
in oleomargaFine which has paid the tax of
one-quarter of a cent pound.
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IN BEHALF OF VETERANS.
Appeal by the q. II. \. Citizens Com
mittee TO the President.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-The following
communication to-day was addressed to the
President at Oyster Bay by the citizens
committee Of the G.. a. R.:
THE citizens executive committee on the
thirtieth National Encampment of the
Grand Army OF the Republic passed a
resolution at its last meeting directing me
TO request that you issue an executive or
der permitting members of the Grand Army
OF the Republic employed in the service OF
the United States in Washington and
throughout the country 10 attend this en-
campment which will be held in this city
during the week commencing oct. next
whenever the interests of the public serY-
ice will permit. without loss of pay or
without having the time so occupied de-
Quoted from their annual leave.
This will in all probability be the last
great gathering OF the veterans of the civil
at the national capital, and large
number of them are coming here for the
purpose OF meeting their comrades in re-
union at camp fires in a social way. In
fact many of them will make sacrifices IN
order To be present
way clear 10 comply with this request,
which will be in the line of encouraging
patriotism and devotion 10 the flag OF our
country.
You will be gratified TO know that on
this occasion a large number will also as
semble here who were soldiers in the Confed-
crate army, as well as several thousands
of your comrades in the war with Spain" p"
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with hands up, but as they proceeded down
the stairway Bishop dropped his hands 10
hardly made the motion when one Of the
warden's party fired. the bullet striking
Bishop in the breast, inficting a fatal
wound.
When Bishop fell Mulllgan and Brooks
sank To their knees. begging the warden TO
save their lives, and by 1880 o clock the two
desperadoes, heavily shackled and accom-
panied BY ten men with drawn pistols were
placed in their cells and quiet had been re-
stored. After the men had been securely
locked UP IL was discovered that Brooks
had been wounded in the shoulder, though
he was not seriously hurt.
Foreman Willis, who was held as a
hostage By the convicts, went TO work as
usual after his exciting experience. He
says the desperadOes were perfectly cool
and calm while besieged by the guards,
and that Bishop said at one time: D
them, they can't scare me, because / would
just soon be dead as alive"
Brooks, Bishop and Mulligan were among
the most desperate OF the 1,5OO criminals
confined here. All are young men. Since
their confinement all three men had given
the prison officials much trouble. About
a year ago Bishop and Mulligan came up
10 the prison entrance and, throwing down
their coats, declared that they would not
work and defed the warden. 1t took sew
eral weeks punishment and confinement to
subdue them and since then each has been
carrying, locked TO one of his legs, heavy
ball and chain. Brooks has been employed
in the shoe shop and Bishop and Mulligan
in the reed department.
Bishop was under life sentence for the
murder of Policeman McQuery. of Coving-
ton. KY. Bishop and an accomplice had
killed a tramp in cold blood at a tramps'
rendezvous near Ludlow. KY, and had
taken street cars for CovingtOn when the
police of CovingtOn were notified. Police
man McQuery got in the car after Bishop
and when he attempted to make the arrest
Bishop shot him. The murderer then
jumped from the suspension bridge into
the Ohio river, and when men in boats at
tempted 10 save him he threatened TO kill
them. He was finally caught and received
life sentence Bishop had a record of
killing several men and always resisted ar
rest by attempting TO kill officers
Brooks made statement TO the warden
this afternoon. He places the RESPONSE
bility for the attempted outbreak on Wal
lace Bishop. He says that he and the other
two men had worn shackles constantly
for months for bad conduct and that
Bishop assured them that ne could get
them out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-21
MILLING WHEAT SCARCE.
Small Stocks in store ut Minneapolis
and Little Coming In.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 20.-The
continued light movement of wheat 10
Minneapolis. coupled with the extraOrdi-
narily small stocks a. store here, is the
source of much concern TO flour manufac-
turers OF this section. Those without
terminal stocks TO draw from are said 10
include all the extensive millers. except the
PiIsbury Washburn Company, which is
understood TO own practically all the good
milling wheat in store in the Minneapolis
district at present The shortage OF mill
ing wheat has become so marked in the
last week that several mills have been
forced 10 suspend operations. The ex-
pectatons OF relief from the shortage
through the movement of new wheat TO the
local market this week have failed of
realization. Stocks in store here now ag-
gregate 2.525.50S bushels. less thaa half the
amount on hand a year ago.
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Stockton, Bagley, Sanney and Biddle. The
gunboats are the Scorpion and Peoria.
While the vessels of the white squadron
are understood 10 represent an attacking
force of great power. in reality IL can
hardly be compared with the defending
complement Commander Pilsburys three
auxiliary cruisers have an average dis
placement of 5000 tons and average
speed of thirteen knots. Admiral Higgn
sons squadron includes battleships of near
ly 1900 tons average displacement and
nearly seventeen knots average speed;
cruisers the slowest Of which is a nineteen
knot vessel. and TORPEDO boats good Tor
The flagship Kearsarge weighed anchor at
2:15 p. m. and slowly steamed out of the
harbor. proceeding by the north passage
from the harbOr Of refuge. Outside she
ioined the Massachusetts, Alabama and
Gloucester The ships formed in line, led
by the Massachusetts,, the Alabama being
second and the hagship last, with the
Gloucester alongside, and moved slowly
southwark.
RETURNED TO THE BAY.
The three battleships returned to the bay
this evening but did not anchor. All the
evening they were kept under steaming
conditions, moving slowly northward for a
short distance and then TO the southwark.
the movement serving as a patrol of Mas
sachusetts bay from a point off Minot's
to within a short distance of Thatcher's.
1t was evident that when the Kearsarge
returned much of Admiral Higginson' 5
work has been accomplished. He had
cruised seaward for considerable distance
with his fleet, had dispatched the cruisers
Brooklyn and Olympia. with several tor
pedo boats, to patrol the waters off Port
land, and sent several other vessels to sta
tions off the tip end of Cape Cod TO serve
as outer picket line for Massachusetts, bay.
Thus Admiral Higginson had guarded the
extreme points of the coast line in danger.
After the flagship Kearsarge had come into
the harbor the Gloucester came in but was
| later sent off in a southerly direction.
During the evening no little excitement
was caused on the kearsarge and Massa
| chusetts over the report that war vessels
had been reported off Nantucket. 1t was
| at first thought that Commander Pillsbury
| might have attempted to make feint in
| this direction and by a trick maneuver
! draw Admiral Higginson's fleet to the
| Cape Cod shore, while he put TO sea and
/ attempted his attack to the north But
| the battleships did not leave this station.
The naval base is established here in
! Rockport and the station Is in charge of
| Ensign Berry. One of the incidents was
! the construction by the navy of a tenn
! porary telephone line from a grocery store
| to a shed. This telephone is the center of
| the naval intelligence service, which eX-
tends for this occasion from Portland to
! Providence, with main stations at Ports
| mouth and Boston. From this station all
the evening messages were sent to the
CONTINUED ON PAGE A, COL. Sd
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MURDER OF A GIRL.
Zoda Wick Killed While Getting Wa
ter at n Spring Near Her Home.

RUSSELLVILLE, KY, Aug. 2O.-Zoda,
the ffteen-year-old daughter Of c. NJ. Wick,
a prominent farmer of this county, was
murdered to-day in sight of her fathers
house. She had gone TO the spring for
water and, falling to return, a search was
instituted. About o'clock the body, with
the head crushed, was found in a fence
corner, partly covered with leaves. One
hundred men with bloodhounds have gone
to the scene Of the murder and If the guilty
person is caught a lynching will follow.
The Wick home is about five miles from
here, near the asphalt mines.
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STOLE TRAY OF DIAMONDS.
Removed from a Showcase by Thief
During the Noon Hour.

NEW YORK. Aug. "a daring robbery
took place in the jewelry establishment OF
A. a. Webster & Co. Brooklyn. during the
busy hours Of the day. A tray containing
forty-tvo solitaire diamond rings valued
at $4,000 was removed from one OF the
showcases and the thief made his escape
undetected by anyone in the place.
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TO PROTECT DOCTORS.
Association That VIII Investigate the
SoIvency of Sick People.

FRANKFORT, KY, Aug. 2O.-Articles Of
incorporation were filed to-day by the
Doctors Protective Association of Ken
lucky. The object Of the association is to
collect and purchase accounts and 10
furnish information TO practitioners regard
ing the solvency Of patients. The incor-
porators are not physicians
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Beat the JsiIor and Escaped.

LEXINGTON. Neb.. Aug. 2O.--Early to-
day Henry Koehler and John Barnish, two
desperate prisoners in the county JAIL beat
the jailer into insensibility and made their
escape.
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FOUR KILLED, MANY HURT.
Result of the Breaking I'm Two of n
New York Central Freight Train.

SCHENECTADY, y. Y, Aug. 3.-Four
men were killed. one seriously injured and
a score OF others slightly injured near Hon.
mans Ferry tonight by the breaking in
two of a New York Central east-bound
freight train and the<\bsequent crashing
Of the rear half inI >Rnt part, which
had stopped
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ruling the bureau Will reject claims for
abatement which have been filed and col
lectOrs VIII be instructed 10 collect the
taxes as assessed
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BISHOP SHOT.

Suddenly the crack Of a Winchester was
heard. showing that the note was but a
Tuse. We got Bishop. shouted a guard.
"IIe is dead" The prisoners had emerged