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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-06
The King james Bible.

In telling of the lineage of the English
Bible in Harper's Magazine for March, H.
w. Hoare pays a tribute to the King James
version and the scholars who made it,
Its scholarship marked a conspicuous
advance even on that of Geneva" he says.
lit was free from bias and did not provoke
opposition by any polemical notes. The
character of it's diction was in full harmony
with the keynote which Wycliffe had been
the first TO sound. and which Tyndale had
re-echoed. Its English was the peoples
English. yet rejecting at the same time
all the glow and glory Of a period never
surpassed i'm the whole history OF letters
Receiving the jewel committed to them
with deep sense OF devout responsibility,
King James, revisers provided for il a set
ting of imperishable beauty. In strength
and tenderness. in its sustained note of
nobility and solemnity. in its wondrous
pathos. in it's chastened sObriety, simplicity
and directness i'm the semblance of inevi-
tableness under which the elaborate art Of
il lies concealed, in its haunting cadence
and rhythms, the richness and power and
grandeur of our native tongue have. been
enshrined for evermOre. In other respects
our debt TO King James may not be great
but i'm the history of the English Bible he
stands out as the energetic, sagacious and
wide minded promoter of an enterprise not
unworthy of the nation.
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Representative Kahn. OF California. who
introduced the Chinese exclusion bill in
the House. has received dispatch from
Canada saying the special commission Of
the Dominion has just submitted its re-
port and that IL takes a position against
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Indiana Obituary.

RICHMOND. Ind. March 5-Charles A.
Vale, a native of this city. died recently
in Baltimore He member of the firm
of Vale & Young, sheet metal manufac-
turers. He was sixty years old. At the
outbreak of the civil war he assisted In
raising a regiment and was commissioned
lieutenant by Governor Morton. A widow
survives.
RUSHNILLE. Ind. March 5.-Mrs. Anna
Murphy. living the county line near
Orange. died yesterday of dropsy. aged
seventy-one years. She was the widow of
a prominent farmer and left several sons.
The funeral will be held Thursday at the
Methodist Church AT Orange, conducted by
the Rev. Jesse Miller, Of Connersville.
WORTHINGTON, Ind. March 5.-Mrs.
James NJ. Daviss, whose husband died on
Feb . is dead at the home of her son.
John Daviss. in Terre Haute, Ind. She
was seventy-five years old. The burial
will be in Terre Haute tomorrow.
LAFAYETTE. Ind, March 5.-Jeremiah
Phelps. who died last night in West Lafay-
ette left will in which he requested that
his body be cremated and 1.-The ashes
thrown broadcast on mother earth"
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extending an invitation when the session is
held at South Bend The Demo
Gratis Of Wayne county will meet at Cam
bridge City In mass convention March Il
10 select the officers of the central commit
tee and State convention delegates.
LAPORTE.-Willam Tobin. a prominent
farmer OF this county. is dying OF hic-
coughs, which attacked him Sunday ana
have continued uninterruptedly since. Ply
sicians are unable to cope with the trouble:
Five members OF the FAMILY OF
Charles Lang. OF Laporte county, are In a
serious condition from winter cholera
caused by drinking snow water. The re-
covery OF the son is not expected.
WABASH.-The long-pending suit of j.
s5OVU soldiers memorial hall In this city,
against the Wabash County Commissioners
FOR 5000 for extras on the building, which
was sent 10 the Grant Circuit Court on
Ing on Thursday. A crowd of witnesses,
attorneys and court officers will go over TO
take part in the trial
PERU.-The Commercial Club will have
meeting Of the business men of surround
ing cities here on the 18th for the purpose
of considering agreement to do away
with the offers of free transportation TO
purchasers from outside the various cities
banquet will be served at the same time
and the Hon. Addison c. Harris, of Indian
Apolis, has been invited TO make an ad-
dress.
ELWOOD.-Through District Manager
OF Atlanta are attempting to bring about
a resumption Of work at the plant or the
American Tin Plate Company there, which
has been idle for several months on ac-
count Of the ina ability of the machinery to
do the work required. New machinery
probably will be supplied.
MUNCIE.-J. c. Adams, former manager
Of the Indiana iron works of the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, on Wednesday
evening was given handsome diamond
stud by mill employees. They took this
manner to express their appreciation OF his
former management. Mr.. Adams will soon
depart for Colorado. NJ. ]. Hanley succeeds
him.
SEYMOUR.-For the fifteenth time under
the Nicholson law the legal voters of Owen
township. in this county, have successfully
demonstrated against saloon applicants. A
remonstrance was filed this week against
granting license to John Follick, signed
by two-thirds of the voters of the town.
ship.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. & Kelly, con-
tractors. have asked the City Council for
a charter to construct city sewer. some
thing this city has not. but needs very
badly 1t was taken under advisement.
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Chinese immigration similar TO that taken
by those favorable to rigid exclusion from
mission recommends a treaty which will
permit strict exclusion and in the mean
time a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. head tax on
Chinese entering Canada. As many Chi
nese come to the United States by way Of
Canada, Mr. Kahn regards the action of
the Canadian commission as having an i'm
portant bearing on the exclusion situation
in the United States.
The House committee on public lands to-
day ordered a favorable report the bill
to acquire the giant tree tract of Califor-
MIA. The secretary of the interior is au-
thorized to purchase IL for not over $500
600. or TO resort TO condemnation proceed
ings.
Consul General Smith, al Monrovia, in
a report dated Jan. 90 and made public
to-day. informed the State Department that
he had succeeded in inducing the Liberian
government to secure the passage of a bill
reducing the high tonnage rates (Which OPP
Grated more directly against American yes
sells, European vessels usually carry
Liberian mails) from so to cents a ton.
Captain ]. F. Merry, recently in command
OF the naval station at Honolulu. wes re-
tired to-day. with the advanced rank Of
rear admiral.
Following is the census preliminary re-
port regarding the manufacture of buttons
in the United States. with percentage of
increase since 1890: Number Of establish
ments, 23s, an increase of 125; capital. &.-
212 $50 an increase of Sc per cent: wage
earners, average number S,6S5, an increase
of 127; total wages, S2.S2623S. an Increase
of 100 per cent; miscellaneous expenses.
S393S62, an increase of So per cent; cost of
materials used. s2.S03.246, an increase of 81
per cent; value of products. including Gus
tom work and repairing. S7,695.9l0 an in
crease of SO per cent.
II is now said Miss Alice Roosevelt, ac-
companied by Harriet Blaine Beale, will
leave Washington Sunday night for Florida
and will sail Tuesday from Port Tampa
for Havana They go To visit Governor
General and Mrs. Wood and will remain
in Cuba two or three weeks.
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Indiana Notes.

LAFAYETTE.-A contest over the will of
Samuel Case will begin in the Circuit Court
on March - He left about $4,000 to the
Society of Spiritualists, and his relatives
are resisting payment by the administrator
on the ground that he was of unsound mind
when the will was made. An army OF legal
talent representing the administrator, the
contestants and the Spiritualist Society has
been engaged and the case will be bitterly
fought.
TERRE HAUTE.-Mrs. Anna Kelley
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
the street-railway company for the death
OF her husband. who was a mOtorman and
was killed by his jumping the track.
II is alleged that the company failed To
repair faulty brakes after notice had been
given that il unsafe 10 run the car.
Seven similar damage suits against the
company have been set for trial in one
court
RICHMOND.-This city will make an eff
fort TO secure the 1903 session OF the North
ern Indiana Teachers Association. The
Commercial Club will join the teachers in
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sTEEG WILL BE NOMINATED.
He Captures the Delegates i'm Terr'
Haute Democratic Primaries.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March SIN the
Democratic primaries tonight Mayor
Steeg's delegates were elected in all wards
except one, assuring his denomination to-
morrow night. Notwithstanding that Gus
CoZman, former county treasurer and now
cashier of a bank, had said he was not a
candidate. his closest friends have made a
canvass for him in the past few days such
as has seldom been seen in Terre Haute
The mayor be elected in May will have
new power in the city under the new
charter. The Republicans have no avowed
candidate as yet.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
CLINTON, Ind, March 5.-A special
train. consisting of an engine and two
coaches, passed through Clinton going
north about 5:3e o'clock this afternoon.
The train. going sixty miles hour,
struck Bert King, teamster. at the
Fourth-street crossing. The man and one
horse were killed instantly and the wagon
was demolished. King left a young widow.
Much Indignation is expressed over the
reckless speed OF the special through the
city.
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MUST TRAIN DOWN.
Fat Men the Fort Wayne Police
Force Are Lectured by the Mayor.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, March 5.-Mayor
Berghoff has entered the complaint against
half a dozen members of the police force
that they are too fat and would not be
worth their salt in a foot race after a
thief. He said in an interview this morn.
ing that these members OF the force would
have TO take some exercise and reduce
their surplus flesh or get off the pay roll
He intimated that they take life too easily
and should some strenuous exercise
with anvil or dumbbeIls. They are
short winded, he said, land in case they
should have 10 run would fail 10 acquit
themselves well. They must get them
selves into condition, but will be given time
10 do so.
The mayor called the force together this
evening and gave them a lecture for the
good of the order"
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Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind. March 5.-Through the
filing before the County Commissioners of
a 50 bill for postage by County Superin-
tendent James II. Clark it has come TO
light that the superintendents had been
collecting a fee of % cents from each APP
plicant for a teachers license. Mr.. Clark
is authority for the statement that il has
been the custom 10 collect the fee. that
the work of grading the eXamina ton pa
pers is behind, and would be much more
SO III ii was not for this fee. Some of the
teachers objected to paying the fee, but
Clark will attempt to enforce the collec-
ton.
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GOT ANOTHER sCoRCHING.
EnamcIing Works at NoblcsviIIe Had
Second Visitation of Fire.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, March 5.-The
enameling works, owned by the Noel
waine-R Richards Company, visited by
another fire to-day. About sixty DAYS ago
the plant considerably damaged by
fire. To-day the fire originated in the ex-
plosion OF vat of tar. the result of red
hot castings being dipped into the tar
The fire for a time threatened the entire
plant but by the strenuous efforts of the
fremen the flames were put under control.
Superintendent Bush estimates the loss
at from 5000 TO $4,000. fully covered by
insurance.
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EXPRESS LAW CASES.
Three Suits VIII Come Up in the jack
Court To-Day.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, March 5.-Under the
Brooks express law three cases against the
Adams Express Company and one against
the United States Express Company have
been filed in this county and will come up
for trial before Judge Buskirk tomorrow.
The suits are brought in the name Of the
State and $500 penalty is demanded in each
case because of the refusal of the old ex-
press companies TO receive express pack
ages from the Southern Indiana Express
Company in the same manner and on the
same terms that the old companies receive
and transfer express packages from and TO
each other.
The defense will attack the constitution
atty of the Brooks law the terms of which
have been violated by the old companies.
Similar suits have been filed in Lawrence
and Vigo counties
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Candidates for the Judgeship.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. March 5-The names of
several new candidates are being mentioned
for the Indiana district judgeship which
Will be vacant some time i'm the spring
Among these are Quincy a. Myers, of Lo-
gansport. and Charles A Dryer, of In
dianapolis. Another candidate whose name
will be considered by the appointive power
and those making recommendations will be
that of VIII Elliott, of the firm of Elliott
Elliott & Lttleton. of Indianapolis. There
is no disposition at present TO take up the
consideration of names for this position
and probably will not be until much later
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Voluntary MadhOuse Inmate.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, March 5.-A remark
able condition of affairs has been devel-
oped by the confinement in the county jail
in this city of John P. Kintzele, who is
awaiting removal TO the insane hospital at
Logansport. Mrs. ktntzele was but re-
Gently released from the asylum, where,
she says, she was confined, though per-
fectly sane, at the solicitation of her
friends, who, knowing of her unpleasant
family life, suggested confinement in a
madhouse as bringing her temporary re-
lief Mrs. Kintzele was hospital inmate
until the superintendent learned the true
condition of affairs and she was ordered
discharged.
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Five Men Drowned.

SACRAMENTO. Cal. March 5.-Five men
we e drowned i'm the Sacramento river on
Sunday. The party. consisting Of DR.. ]. IL
Morton, George Nunes, Clarence Casterson.
Elmer livery and Knight Ellington, left
Cortland. down the river, in a small boat.
early Sunday morning. Their boat was
found in Tues, four miles below Cortland.
Near the boat the bodies of the three frst
named were found. searching party Is
dragging for the other two bodies
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~ JAIL IN MEXICO.
Former Hartford City Engineer Is Ac-
cu-ed Murder.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. March 5-Henry
Yeager. a wealthy retired farmer of this
city. received a letter to-day from his
brother. John Balser Yeager who has been
confined in jail at Torrean. Mexico, for FIVE
months on the charge OF murder. without
being given an opportunity 10 prove his in
nocence.
He was a locomotive engineer on the
Mexican Central Railroad. and while run
nirg a switch engine killed his fireman
while the latter. unknown 10 him. was nm
der the locomotive. In Mexico engineers in
such cases are arrested for murder even ~
the victims throw themselves I'm front OF
the locomotive. This was last October
Yeager asks his brother 20 have some in
nuential person 10 intercede I'm his behalf
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CAUGHT WITH A KODAK.
Trusted Clerk Photographed in the
Act of Tapping the Till.
clal TO the IndianapolIs journal

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, March 5.-This afternoon
Albert Decker. of the firm of Decker & Son,
prominent furniture dealers and funeral d.
rectors of this city. conceived unique plan
which successfully caught one OF his trust
ed clerks in the act of tapping the TILL
He directed a kodak in line with the
money drawer and attached a string TO the
slide, carrying it into the cellar. He pro-
cured a vantage point, and when he discOv-
cred Harry Sayer taking money from the
drawer he pulled the slide by means of the
string and perfectly photographed Sayer
with his hands fall of coins. Sayer was ar
rested.
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ALL FROM FOUNTAIN CITY.
Men who Are Making Deep Marks I'm
the Realm of Publicity.

Special 10 the Indianapoli Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, March 5-Fountain
City, Wayne county. takes pride In the
number OF successful men who have gone
out into the world from there. Among them
are the following:
Howard L. Woody. who now occupies the
former seat OF President Roosevelt I'm the
General Assembly of New York; j. Elmer
Clark travelling freight agent OF the Denver
a. Rio Grande and Rio Grande a. Western
railroads; Ernest Williams. first cornet So
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Little hoy Killed by "a Train.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal
LAPORTE. Ind. March As the three
children OF William Brumwart were on
their way To school this morning they
crossed the tracks of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago Railroad two miles east
of Wanatah. In LapOrte county. and Ray
aged seven, was struck by the morning
passenger train from Chicago and instantly
Killed. The body was horribly mangled.
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Has Invented n Voting Machine.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind. March 5.-Hugh a.
Adams. of the South Side. this city, has
invented a voting machine on which he
has just received letters patent The ma
chine is not like any of the machines now
In use, and is so constructed that errors
in the registry of votes are impossible
Models of the machine are being made for
exhibition to city and county authorities.
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Killed by Having His Head Crushed.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON, Ind, March 5.-Bennett
Gregory. of English. Ind. was killed to-
day. west OF this city. by dredgeboat.
His head was caught between two arms OF
a beam and crushed. He was twenty-three
years old and came OF a prominent Craw-
ford county family. He was single
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Prohibition Nominations.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 5.-The Prohi-
bitionists of this county to-day nominated
the following ticket: Senator Alpheus Hol-
loway. of Tippecanoe township; representa-
tive, Asa WATSON, Union; clerk William Fl.
Stnespring. Wabash: auditor, Joseph
Guest, Fairfield: sheriff, Ora l.. Loveless,
Lauramie; treasurer. Arthur L. Green,
Fairfield; surveyor, Frank Rynearson,
Wayne: commissioners First district Jo-
siah Fugate Wabash; Second district,
Frank a. Ford, Wayne. There were no
nominations for Circuit or Superior Judge
or for prosecutor.
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Primary Contest Decided.
to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, IND, March 5.-The contest
for the office of county recorder instituted
by present Recorder Perry Groves was fin
ished tonight and Abe Curlee was de-
clared the winner for the nomination. At
the primary last week Curlee received 55S
votes and Groves got ] $50! In the recount
to-day in the contested precinct, the only
one questioned, the figures were the same
previously given. Curlee is therefore
the winner by a single vote in Bis ballots
cast
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
PORTLAND. Ind. March 5.-Dr ]. G..
Ross. the county health officer. has made
the discovery that there are five cases of
smallpox In Wabash township. near New
CorydOn. and is making every effort to
prevent a further spread of the disease.
The patients thus far are Mr.. Reitz Henry
HierhOlzer. Anna Welch. Nichols Bricker
and Sister Radegundis. the latter an in
mate of the Catholic Convent
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
VINCENNES. Ind, March Six bids
were opened to-day for the new Knox
county Jail. Peoria, Fort Wayne. Column
bus Chicago. ST Louis and Anderson were
represented Fred Meyer & Co., of Fort
Wayne and Coates & Parkinson, of Column
bus, bid lowest. respectively, S42,415 and
S42 2l3, and one of them will get the con-
tract Tomorrow The appropria ton for the
bIiIdiOpr is $4,000
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Fired On from Ambush.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, March O.
Last night near Cherry Grove Sanford
Weaver. a farm hand living with Michael
Carroll, heard a noise a the barn He
went out to investigate, and he opened
the door some one shot him. the bullet
around the left side. The wound is not
dangerous and there is no clew to the
shooter.
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Baldwin Gives Up the Fight.

Special TO the Indianapo polls Journal.
FRANKFORT. Ind, March 5.-The con-
test for delegates in Clinton county, which
the friends of Mr. Baldwin had proposed
making against the Lands forces, has
been formally declared off and the Lands
delegation will be selected without contest.
Baldwin'S failure to get single delegate
in Montgomery and Fountain counties, and
his securing but one i'm Boone county has
thoroughly disheartened his organization
in this county and it has declared the con-
TEST off
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Block Coal Miners Name New Leaders
Work Progresses Slowly.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, March 5.-This afternoon
the session of the delegates of the Eighth
district was taken up in the selection of
officers Samuel Anderson of Knightsvile.
Robert Piel of Cardonia and James Can't
we'll of Cardonia were candidates for pres
ident, and after a spirited fight Cantwell
was selected. William Trigger, of Ben
wood, was elected secretary and treasurer.
The delegates will not be able TO agree
on a proposition to enter into joint con-
ference with the operators before Satur-
daV
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Russian Newspaper suspended.

ST. PETERSBURG. March 5.-The sale
az viedomosu on the streets has been for
hidden for three months. on account OF the
papers editorials on the forty-first anniver-
sary. March 3, Of the emancipation of the
serfs. lamenting recent reactionary meas
ures, which. il is said, had largely disillu-
sionized the political and social aspiration
raised by the emancipation of peasants
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loist with Sousa's Band: Jan Williams,
first clarinet with SOusas Band; ). NJ.
Boren, with the Stock Exchange, Buffalo,
y. Y. l.. G. Wilcutts. collector of customs
al Duluth. Mimi; Cornelius Harris, mem
Der of the Board of Aldermen. Los Angeles,
Cal; Joseph Colvin. chief electrician Of
the electric road between Washington. old
Point Comfort and Baltimore; Ohio VIII
liams. nominated for representative from
Henry county.
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school Destroyed at Converse.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PERU. Ind, March 5-The two-story
brick school building al Converse was de-
stroye6 by fire to-day, causing a loss of
$4,000 and depTiving about four hundred
pupils of school facilities The insurance
amounts TO S5,000.