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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
in NORTHWEST
HEAVY NOW IN SOUTHERN MON
TANA AND NORTH DAKOTA.
Poor Prospect of saving Crops-Down
pour of Rain mt st. Paul and Else
where i'm Minnesota.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. Zone OF the
heaviest transforms In recent years ragged
in St Paul and generally ~throughout the
city being five inches for the twelve hours
between Z p. m. and Z a. m. Many base
ments were flooded. and street car service
was much impeded by sand washing on the
track. No very serious damage. however,
has as yet been reported.
Reports from the Northwest show that
the rain storm extended from Elroy, Wis.
will be extensive. In some parts Of this
State it is impossible TO move threshsng
machines or haul grain. The result will be
that many acres Of grain and fax in shock
will be damaged. il not totally ruined.
causing a loss OF many thousand dollars.
Nearly all railroads entering St. Paul re-
port more or less minor damage.
From North Dakota points reports come
of snow on the ground, and at Granville
two inches has fallen. Dickinson reports
that snow has been falling ever since last
night, and the ground Is covered six inches
deep. The storm there assumed the pro-
portions OF "A blizzard. blowing down trees
and telegraph lines and delaying traffic.
At Staples. Mimi, a heavy wet snow has
fallen all morning This was preceded by an
all-night rain. and the outlook is gloomy
for saving the crops.
a heavy snowstorm also swept over
southern Montana last night. aud every
thing Is covered with "A layer OF snow about
eight inches deep. Considerable grain is
still standing. and IL II probably ruined.
The storm covered a wide area. IL was
reported that two feet OF snow fell near
Pryor mountain.
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AFRAID OF LOSING POWER.
Allen County Democrats Are Making
n Record for

AIien county Dem1OcratS are MakinS
a Record for Economy.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. L.-The Coun-
ty Council which adjourned late yesterday
made the levy for county purposes the same
as last year, 81 1-3 cents. This includes
4 cents for gravel roads. 6 cents for bridges
and s cents for the courthouse bonds. The
council cut down the total asked for. by
the county officers to $2l5. 233, a reduction
of 59,253. The amount asked for in the
estimates was nearly $4,000 below what
was allowed last year, SO that economy
has been thoroughly exemplifed. The
officials being fearful hat power
is about to pass out of their hands, are
making a bid for the voters favor. The
council, however, passed a resolution intro
duced by George w. Loesch, a Republican
member, declaring it the sense of this
council that the various county officers be
requested to ask for appropriations only
in such amounts as are required to cover
the various accounts, and not ask three or
four times more than would be actually
necessary TO cover the expense"
The Democratic members voted for the
resolution and there is CONSERVATION among
the courthouse officials who say the coun-
ell has given the party a heavy handicap
in the campaign next year. The council
no appropriation for voting machines.
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FIRST DEGREE MURDER
JOHN TERRELL INDICTED BY THE
GRAND JURT AT BLUFFTON.
Three Months Ago He His
SOn-in-Law and Later Killed Him
as He Lay in Doctors ONCE.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind, Sept. 12.-The grand
jury to-day returned Indictment against
John w. Terrell, charging him with muir
der in the first degree. His trial probably
will not be held before November term
of court.
The crime for which Terrell was indicted
occurred on Sunday, jun II. Terrell shot
and killed his son-in-law, Melvin Wolf,
firing three shots into his body. Wolf had
deserted his wife, and. it is said, afterward
often drove past the Terrell house throwing
taunts at the family. On the Sunday he
was killed he drove past the Terrell home
several times in company with two girls
and another young man.
Terrell lay in wait beside the road and
fired two shots from a shotgun. One load
tore off VOLTS leg. Wolf was taken TO
Petroleum to have the leg amputated and
Terrell followed him and shot him twice as
he lay on the operating table. Terrell gave
himself up.
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TO GO TO JURY MONDAY
EVIDENCE Is ALL IN IN THE HAMP-
TON MURDER TRIAL.
witnesses for the Defense Contradict
Their Testimony Given Before the
Court at Danville.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Sept. 12.-The
Hampton murder case probably will go to
the jury Monday afternoon. the judge say
ing to-day that an entire day would be
given the lawyers for their speeches If they
wanted it. At the conclusion of the trial
to-day the defense seemed to have made
a little better case than it was thought it
would from the evidence offered when the
States witnesses were being examined. The
evidence all the way through was practi-
cally the same as that of the first trial i'm
Danville. when Hampton was convicted.
The defense tried to secure the admission
of evidence from three men concerning one
other time the defense claimed the muir
dered man and his brother Charlie were
shown a billy, or club, in the drug store,
at a time when the defendant was not
present, and to show that the club shown
at that time was the one that was in the
mind of Charlie Haynes when he testified
that he was shown a club by the defendant,
but the evidence was not admitted by the
court.
Stephen Hampton, father of the defend
ant, and Grace Hampton, a niece, testified
as to the time the defendant returned home
from the drug store on the night of the as
sault on Haynes, and they contradicted, in
a few instances, evidence they gave at the
lrst trial, which was read from the record
of that trial. Each claimed this time that
Hampton returned home before IL O'Clock
that night, and Grace Hampton testified
that one young man of the family had been
occupying a certain bed regularly for some
time before the night of the assault, n
the father Of the defendant testified that
the young man had been in indianapolis
some time and did not return until that
night, at about the same time they said
Charlie m returned home.
1t seemed to be the theory of the State
that the members of the family confused
younger man with that of Charlie Hampton,
and that Charlie Hampton did not return
until after ii o'clock.
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R PERSONS KILLED.
Train Wrecked by Into a
Washout at kempton, Wis.

ST. PAUL, Sept IA special excursion
train on the Wisconsin division of the Chi
cago, st. Paul. Minneapolis s. Omaha rail-
road went into a washout at Kempton.
Wis, about $3.50 this morning and three
passengers were killed and a number of
others hurt. none seriously. The dead are
Patrick Conway, Reedburg. Wis, Wendell
Brown. Casanova, Wis; Murphy.
Madison, Wis.
The train was a popular excursion from
different points in northern Wisconsin,
and was bound for Duluth. There had
been a terrific rainstoTm raging all dur
10 proceed slowly and carefully. The
train was running at a speed OF about four
miles an hour when a soft place in the track
was struck The engine passed over IL
sefely. but the baggage car and three
coaches were derailed. The other seven
cars OF the train remained on the track.
A number Of passengers were slightly
hurt, their injuries consisting mainly of
minor bruises.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
BIG TRESTLE AT PA0LI
EXCAVATION FOR MONON IMPROVE
MENT is NEARLY FINISHED.
the Work Is Completed the
Road Will Be Prepared to Make
Fast Time Over the Line.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PAOLI, Ind, Sept. 12.-The workme who
have been employed on the long ninety
foot trestle of the MonOn Railroad, Just
north of here, since last spring were to-
day conveyed in a special train, with their
families, teams and other paraphernalia, to
their homes in Greene and Sullivan coun-
ties. There were fifty teams and all kinds
of household utensils that had been used
in operating the camps since the work was
begun. The rest of the excavating will be
accomplished with steam shovels.
The trestle will be of steel, and when
completed will be over ninety feet high.
with thirty-siX stone piers. The tracks of
the Monon will be raised. curves straight
ened and new steel rails laid, and when COM
pleted it will be possible TO make a speed
of sixty miles an hour over this t~restle.
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VICTORY FOR PUBLICANs.
Anti-seloon People Beaten i'm a Hot
Fight mt Rensselaer,.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Sept. ia desper-
ate attempt to drive all the saloons of
Rensselaer, out of their last refuge-the
First ~ward-ended to-day in a victory for
the saloons, which all conservative people
feel to be final until a new City Council can
be elected on a platform of re-districting
the city in the anti-saloon interests.
The saloons have all been driven out of
all the other wards for years, but until this
year they had the majority in the First
ward. This year three of the four i'm that
ward were closed by remonstrances, but
new applications were made at the Sep
tember term of the commissioners and the
saloons secured enough Withdrawals to
defeat the remonstrances
The temperance people made a fight on
law points, but to-day the commissioners
decided against them and granted the sa-
loon license asked for.
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GAS COMPANY II


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. 12.-For
the first time in the history of the natural
gas business in this city outside capital is
to take charge of the natural gas systems.
L. N. .Barnesdall, a Pittsburg oil and gas
millionaire, is negotiating for the purchase
of the Hartford City Gas Company and the
Crescent Gas Company. Early in the spring
it was reported that he had secured options
on many of the gas belt gas systems and
proposed to merge them into one concern,
capitalized at $6,Oo0,0O.
He has an option on the Hartford City
plants which will expire next Tuesday. and
1T is said that if he closes the deal, which is
quite probable, it is his intention to pipe gas
from a distance. as well as to use what gas
he can get locally from the Southern Oil
Company, of which he is president, and
which has a large acreage of leases here.
He now owns the gas plants at Marion and
Paramount and secures most of his gas
from the La Fountaine field and NAV get
his gas from there for this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
A WAR D
shops Owned by Independents Pur-
chased by the Cigar Trust.

NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-Twenty-eight to-
bacco shops in this city owned by the indie
pendent Cigar Stores Company. are report
ed to have been purchased by the United
Cigar Stores Company and the strife be-
tween the two combinations is at an end.
1t is understood that more than half a mil
lion dollars was paid.
For nearly two years the retail cigar deal
ers have been waging bitter warfare against
the United Cigar Stores Company. About a
year ago the Independent Cigar Stores Com
pany was Incorporated and twenty-eight
stores were opened in New York. A fierce
price-cutting war has been waged. but the
sale OF the entire chain TO the United COM
pany will end the conflict.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
BANKERS SwINDLED.


BOSTON. Sept. 12.-The announcement
was made to-day by L. III. Gay & Co.
bankers and brokers of this city, that they
had been swincled out of bonds valued at
$4,000. The firm says that a person repre-
senting himself 10 be an agent i'm Lynn
for Norman III. Poor * Co., bankers OF
Boston. gave TO Gays messenger at Lynn
a worthless check, apparently certified. I'm
m for "A quantity of bonds deliv-
cred. The stolen property includes 5000 of
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad first mortgage
gold a.. due In 1915, five Union Pacific Rail
road first mortgage land grant gold Is.
due In 1917, and five Atchison. Topeka q
Santa Fe general mortgage coupon gold
-, due In 1866.
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TWICE IN SIX MONTHS.
EIwOOd Man Severely Injured by a
Railroad Train.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Sept. R.-For the second
time in a year Richard s. Smith, living two
miles west of Elwood, was run down by a
train last night while walking along the
tracks. He had been to Elwood and went
home on a regular passenger car on the
interurban line, disembarking at a crossing
a short distance from his house and start
ing to walk down the track the rest of the
distance. A gravel train came up behind
him, unheard. due to his partial Deafness.
and knocked him high in the air, breaking
his collar bone and injuring him internally.
Six months ago he was run down by a
Lake Erie passenger train and narrowly
escaped death. Although he can hardly
hear at all, he persists in walking along
the railroad tracks to and from his home,
despite the protests of his relatives. Smith
is thirty-eight years of age and unmarried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
FIVE MEN DROWNED.


CHARLEvOIX. Mich, Sept. 12.-Five
men, all of East Jordan, were drowned in
Pine Lake this evening in a collision be-
tween the steam yacht Pilgrim and a naph-
tina launch. The dead are: r. X. Tine. NJ.
c.. Calmon. Fred Winners. Kit Carson. Will
liam Renard.
The Pilgrim plies regularly on Pine Lake
between East Jordan and Charlevoix. This
evening when half a mile from shore the
Pilgrim ran down a naphtha launch con-
tanning thirteen men. returning from a ball
game at Harbor Springs. This occupants
of the small boat were thrown into the
water, and. although the yacht lay TO and
began a search for the drowning men. only
eight were saved. According to a report
the launch showed no lights until just be-
tain Lee. of the Pilgrim. was then so close
upon the little craft hat to avoid a coli
lision was impossible.
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CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Sept. 12.-Acting on in
formation furnished by Bert Turner. a
printer, who had been rooming at her
home, the police to-day locked up Mrs.
Tillman Fountaine for the attempted muir
der of the family OF Christian Harnisch, a
farmer near Dora, this county. During
Thursday night the Harnisch home was en-
tered by an person and all the
members were given chloroform in such
quantities that the lives of two persons long
hung in the balance. Robbery was sup
posed to be the motive until Turner, who
had been keeping company with Miss Lola
Harnisch, and who suspected that Mrs.
Fountaine was jealous, took the latter driy-
Ing and obtained a confession, she averring
that she expected to get rid of the Harnisch
family and leave Wabash for all time.
The story was reported TO the police, who
arrested Mrs. Fountaine at the railroad
station. She was very indignant. d%enounc-
ing her arrest as a conspiracy to ruin her.
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Held without Bond.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE prelim-
mary hearing of Joseph Weeks and his
wife. Anna A. L. Weeks, charged with the
murder of Mrs. susanna Ireland, the mother
of the latter, who was killed Monday un-
der such suspicious circumstances as to
cause their arrest, was held yesterday be-
fore Mayor Smith and Prosecutor Stephen
son. They were bound over to Circuit
Court without bail, pending the action of
the grand jury which will convene on Mon
day. Jos. Weeks. the husband, has been
taken TO Bloomington for safe keeping ow-
ing to the unsound condition of the Bedford
Jail, but Mrs. Weeks was imprisoned here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
TAKESABACKWARDS STEP
HOWARD COUNTY ABANDONS ITS
HOME FOR ORPHANS.
Thirty Little Waits to BE Distributed
Among other County Institutions
No Money for Building.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Sept. 12.-The County
Commissioners to-day abandoned the How
ard County Orphans Home, and will send
the thirty little waits to the other institu-
tions. The commissioners in August appro-
priated $1,000 to build a new home, but the
lowest bid was $500. and the board decided
to abolish the institution and cease to MAIN
tain a home for orphan children.
The present home is i'm a dilapidated con-
dition, and the sanitation is very bad. The
home has been controlled by a board of
women managers, who nave been trying
for years to secure better quarters for the
but without success.
The refusal of the commissioners to APP
propriate a sufficient sum to rebuild precip-
itated the abandonment of the county home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
TAINTED SALT FISH.
Probable Cause of the Death of a La
grange County Woman.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Sept. I2.-Mrs. Isaac
Van Daventer, wife of a prominent farmer
of Valentine, near Lagrange, died last
night from the effects of poison supposed
TO have been taken into the stomach In
tainted salt fish.
Soon after supper she was stricken with
violent pains i'm the stomach and before
medical aid could reach her she was dead.
She was forty-five years of age and in full
health.
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Seeking an Aged Criminal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Sept Thames McVey.
who was shot by John Petri in a saloon
tight at Lodi, Friday evening, is yet alive,
but cannot last long. as his right jaw was
completely torn off by the shot. Petri is
still at large and it is thought he is i'm
hiding in this city. Sheriff Bray and two
deputies are searching for the would be
murderer in the small towns of the north
part of the county, while the city marshal
and a number of police are searching this
place for him. Petri is seventy-two years
old, and on one occasion was in Jail here
on a charge of criminal assault.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
WILLIAM HOFFMAN CAUGHT.
Man Who Killed His Father-in-Layy
and Dehed Arrest.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Sept. 12.-Wflliam Hoff-
man. who shot and killed his father-in-law
William Brandt. near Maeystown. ILL.,. and
threatened to take the lives of others. is
under arrest i'm Belleville, III.
Hoffman surrendered without making any
resistance when several deputy sheriffs
came up and ordered him to throw up his
hands.
A visit to the home of his brother In
BeIleville led to the apprehension of Hoff-
man. The prisoner was taken TO Belleville
and locked up i'm the county jail. Hoffman
talked freely TO the deputies of his crime.
glorying i'm what he had done.
+ b Waterloo police were advised.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD. Ind, Sept. 12.-The County
Council has made an appropriat ton of $685.
900 for the erection of an up-to-date Jail
building to be erected on the site of the
present old structure. The architectural
plans have already been accepted, bonds
will be issued Immediately and work will
be begun in a short time. The present
: Cructure has been standing for half a CEN
tury or more. and has become so unsafe
that many escapes have been made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
SHOCK OF 1000 VOLTS
KILLS A TELEPHONE COMPANY'S
LINEMAN At ELKHART.
EIwood Man Hurt by n Train for the
Second Time in Six Months-Dr. j.
NJ. Badly Injured.
,eclal 70 The Indianapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Sept. 12.-Lev HUFF, a
telephone lineman. was electrocuted this
afternoon by striking 1900 volt light wire
while climbing through them TO get to tel
ephone wires above.
Tod Louthan. a delivery boy. who drove
down the alley, saw him hanging among
the wires and. though Huff couldn't speak,
he motioned an appeal for help, and Lou
thai was on a fence trying TO reach the iron
steps on the pole to climb to him, when
his body fell to the ground, narrowly mis-
sing Louthan.
Huff died Immediately after the fall. He
was forty years old and left a widow and
two small children. He was a Maccabee,
and just withdrew from the Ancient Order
of United Workmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
DIR. Wishard Severely Hurt.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENWOOD, Ind, Sept. 12.-Dr. j. Nj.
Wishard, one of the oldest physicians of
this place. is suffering from a fall he re-
received this morning while climbing on the
rear roof of his residence. He fell over
ten feet. No bones were broken, but he
received a severe sprain of the hip. from
which he is confined to his bed. DIR. Wishard
has been very ill for the past year. He
is in his seventy-fourth year, but his intu-
ries are not thought TO be of a dangerous
nature.
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X SHOOTS SCALP.
w. L. II. 4. Petitioning for His ExpuI-
sion from the Senate.

CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-The Record-Herald
to-day says: THE National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has begun a cam
paign for the expulsion of Senator Reed
Smoot. of Utah. from the United States Sem
ate. and has sent 10000 letters from the head
quarters at Evanston 10 the local branches
all over the country with blank forms for
petitions to the Senate. The form of the
petition TO be signed asks that the Senate
investigate the charges made and filed
against Smoot and says. If IL is found that
he is a polygamist We ask that he be ex-
PEELED from the Senate as a yiolater of the
laws of his own state But there is ample
ground for expelling. according to the
women. whether he Is a polygamist or not.
The petition will read. further. the Nor
mon Church claims and teaches supreme
authority. divinely sanctioned 10 control its
members in civil as well as religious af-
fairs
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Osborne Not Yet Arrafxned.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind, Sept. 12.-Joseph Os-
borne, who is held here for the murder of
John Bushenbeck, was not given a pre-
iiminary hearing on Saturday. A special
grand jury was called and will be i'm ses-
sion next week. At the coroner's inquest
Friday Mrs. Osborne testified that her
nuspand threatened to Kill her father,
Bushenbeck. This was about three weeks
ago. The communication was made in the
presence of no other persons, however. and
consequently is incompetent evidence.
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COLUMBUS, o., Sept. IA fire which
started in the Columbus Transfer Company's
building on East Naghten street tonight re-
suited In a loss of $4,000. as follows: Co.
lumbus Transfer Company. $50. eco; G. G.
Aler Paper Company. SIS. 600: goods I'm stor-
age. $4,000. The loss to the transfer COM
pany and paper company is fully insured.
Albert Dennison and Harry Eiilborne. fire.
men. were injured. but not seriously. Will
liam Link, deputy sheriff from Newark.
who was a spectator. became entansled in a
hose and his arm was broken.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
Ind, Sept. 12.-Big Four
switchmen tonight found the body of Mel
son Clowry, a laborer of this city, lying
badly mangled beside the railroad tracks
at Walnut street. 1t was three hours be-
fore the remains were finally identified by
friends of the deceased. clowry. il is be-
neved, threw himself in front of the Big
-Four passenger train due here at 8 O'Clock.
He had separated from his wife and family.
who live in Twenty-second street.