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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
Indiana Notes.

CONNERSvILLE.-An effort is being
made by the Manufacturers Club to locate
more industries in this city. At their meet
ing Monday evening they entertained the
members of the City Council and the repre-
sentativeS of the newspapers. Committees
were appointed for the purpose of forming
plan of operation, with instructions to
report on Jan. 81. One committee was sent
to New Castle which has been ENJOYING
healthy growth, TO learn the methods
used there.
ELWOOD.-Elwood Company, No. "a, u. r.,
knights of Pythias, which won the cham
pionship in it's class at the Detroit conclave
two years ago with the highest per cent.
made by any company in any class, was re-
organized at a meeting last night and i N
NuZum elected captain. 1t has been def
nitely decided TO enter Glass A in the
championship drills at Baltimore in Sep
TENDER, and practice will be begun as soon
as the weather will allow outdoor work.
MARION. w. Kelley, who attended
the Detroit meeting for the purpose of TAX
ing up the coal strike and the bringing
about OF settlement of the labor trouble.
has received an invitation to attend a
meeting in Washington on Jan. q for the
purpose OF urging on Congress and the at
torney general the necessity of legislation
and bringing about arbitration in the coal
strike. The meeting was called by Mayor
Maybury. of Detroit
RICHMOND.-The vital statistics of
Wayne county for the quarter ended on
Dec. 81 show some remarkable things One
mother aged thirty nine years had her
thirteenth child. The youngest father was
sixteen and the youngest mother seventeen
The oldest father was fifty-eight and the
oldest mother forty-four. The oldest groom
was eighty-four and the youngest nineteen
The oldest bride was seventy-six and the
youngest fifteen
LAFAYETTE.-Bisho Alerding, OF Fort
Wayne. and twenty-five Catholic clergy
men or this diocese met at st. Jose0h's
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TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.

The Rev. DIR. Langdon c. Stewardson.
chaplain and professor of philosophy of
Lehigh University. has been elected presi-
dent of Hobart College.
Mayor Wells, of ST. Louis, has suspended
from office Patrick r. Fitzgibbons, the city
registrar, who is charged with corruptly
contracting for city printing and binding
Among the passengers on the steamer
Korea, which sailed from San Francisco on
Tuesday for the Orient were Rear Admiral
Cooper Lieutenant Victor Blue and Mime.
WI Tingfang.
A highwayman entered the Southern Pa
and held up the ticket agent at the muzzle
of a revolver, securing all the cash in the
money drawer, amounting to $1,000.
w. c. Price. of Beattyville. KY, a med
ical student shot and killed Tony Gegg. a
Southern Railway swftchman, at Sixth and
Green streets, Louisville, Tuesday night.
The shooting resulted from quarrel.
A company of field artillery consisting of
40 men left Fort Sheridan for the Philip
pine islands yesterday in command of First
Lieutenant Yule. The battery will sail
from San Francisco Feb. 1 on the transport
Sheridan.
Russell Quinn. of 81 Washburn avenue.
Chicago, who was injured in the Grand
Trunk wreck at Wanstead, Ont, on Dec
&c, died in Victoria Hospital, London, Ont,
on Tuesday. He is the twenty-ninth victim
of the wreck.
Jay Lahmer, manager of a soap company,
is QedQ at St. LOUIS, ndNlnS Deen SnOt accl-
dentally, it is believed, while alightng from
a street car. 1t is not known who did the
shooting The police are looking for a
saloon keeper and four negroes who par
ticipated in a pistol fight at the locality
where Lahmer was wounded.
Advices from Guayamas, Mexico, state
that orders have been received at MaZatlan
by the federal authorities to burn the ship
yard which was erected a few years ago
at large cost to the federal government.
The destruction of the shpyards is only
part of the programme of desperate mea-
sures to be taken to rid the city of bubonic
plague.
John II. Blumanauer. secretary of the
American Railway Union during the big
railroad strike of 1894, and who disappeared
from Minneapolis in 1885, has been declared
dead by jury, and his wife, who brought
suit against a secret society to recover
$1,000 on a life insurance policy held by
Blumanauer. was given a verdict for the
full amount.
Louis A. Hickey, a freshman student and
Carl Dunsweiler, a brickmason. were terri
bly, injured as the result of an accident i'm
the chemistry building of the University of
California on Tuesday. The skulls of both
men were fractured and Dunsweiler is dy-
ing. Hickey is in an unconscious state and
it is not believed that he will recover
Dunsweiler was working a cornice. The
cornice gave way. The bricks hit young
Hickey on the head, crushing his skull
Dunsweiler struck on the cement floor.
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TRIES TO ESCAPE A MOB.


PITTSBURG, Jan. N.-Shortly before
noon to-day Antonio Roach, Italian.
seized Maggie Liano, with whom he con-
Quoted a boarding house on Bradford ave-
nue., and slashed her throat from ear to ear
with a razor. He then fed and was fol-
lowed by hundreds of angry citizens. After
long and exciting chase the would-be
murderer was captured. In attempting to
escape Roach slipped and fell fifty feet
over a steep precipice to Grant boulevard,
and jumped thirty feet from the Seven
teenth-street inclined plane without re-
suers threatened lynching, but the police
succeeded in placing him in the station
house unframed. The woman is still liv-
ing, and, Notwithstanding her wounds,
may recover. The motive for the assault
was jealousy.
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FRANKLIN, Ind, Jan. 20-Mrs. Annie
Owens, wife of John X. Owens, of this
city, died Monday night after prolonged
illness. She left her husband and two sons,
Fred r., of the firm of White & Owens,
attorneys, and Arthur c., present city
clerk.
BEDFORD, Ind, Jan. 20.-William Le-
mond aged seventy-three years, one of the
city's pioneers, is dead. He left a widow,
two sons and a daughter.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 2o.-Mrs. Ed
ward Raub. ST., wife of a prominent farmer
south of here died last night at her home
of heart failure. She left her husband and
four children.
PORTLAND, Ind, Jan. 2O.-William B.
Fields, a pioneer of the county. is dead at
the age of seventy-five. He left number
of grown children.
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CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
Byron c. FOltx and Woman Under
Arrest.

Byron c. FoltZ was arrested last mid
night in company with woman he called
his wife, on a charge of bigamy. They
were living together at the woman's
boarding house at 5l2 Eckert street. Com
plant was made by Mrs. NJ. Foltz, of New
Albany. who sent letter TO the police
saving that her husband, Byron Foltz,
had left her in 1896, but no divorce had
been obtained by either. The writer of the
letter said she was of opinion that her
husband was living in this city with a
woman he called his wife. Foltz last
night said he and the woman arrested
with him had been married in Franklin.
March 80 of last year. He said he had
been told that his first wife had obtained
a divorce from him.
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
'sCOrn school," to Meet Next Week
Freshman Banquet Forbidden.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 20.-Purdue Uni
versty will hold the first Indiana corn
school, beginning Jan. &c and continuing
through the week. An elaborate programme
has been arranged by the secretary of the
Corn Growers Association Each morning
there will be a rOund-table talk on prac-
teal subjects and then livestock subjects
will be discussed. Daily lectures will be
given on corn growing and the breeding,
selection and storing of the grain. In the
afternoons there viii be daily Judging or
corn and live stock by competent author
tiles More than one hundred prominent
corn growers of the State already have
promised to attend.
Plans of the freshman class of Purdue
for a class banquet have been frustrated
by President Stone. who has taken de-
cided stand against such affairs, and has
announced that men who participate will
not be allowed to continue their college
work.
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ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE.
Aged Couple Poisoned Near Green
woOd-The Wife Is Dead.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
GREENWOOD. Ind. Jan. 2O-Last night
about o'clock Mr.. and Mrs. John Barlow.
an aged couple who live east of here. were
found in an unconscious condition from
poison, at their home. Someone rang a
dinner bell and Mr.. Peters, who lives on the
Barlow farm, went TO the house where he
found Mrs. Barlow on couch and Mr. Rar
low lying on the floor. Mrs. Barlow was
dead before a doctor could be secured Mr.
Barlow is still alive but has never regained
consciousness, but the doctor hopes he will
recover. Unless he does IL will always re-
main mystery to the cause. as they
were alone.
Mr.. Barlow Is one Of the wealthiest far
mers In Johnson county. Their home Is
about six miles east OF here. There is no
motive that could be assigned for suicide.
80 far as is known. Mr.. Barlow is well-to-
do. their home life has been happy and the
couple have always seemed to enjoy life
TO the utmost.
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'Kidv Hennes.ey Arrested.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
LAPORTE, Ind, Jan. 2e.-"Kid" Hennes-
sey. of Frankfort, who claims to be cham
pion heavyweight pugilist of Indiana, but
who for some months has been in this city,
was pulled out of bed at o'clock this morn
ing by Chief of Police Bongersee, of La
porte, Sheriff Stevens, of White county,
and Marshal Rothrock. of Monticello, ana
arrested on warrants charging him with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses ana
prize fighting. He had eluded arrest Ior
some months. He was taken to MontlceIIo
before he had a chance to make hsht.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
SIX workbench INJURED.
Two VIII Die as Result of Boiler
Explosion at EIwoOd.

Explosion at EIwOOd.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
ELWOOD. Ind, Jan. 20.-Sx men were
hurt, two of them probably fatally, by the
explosion of a boiler in the local plant of
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company at 2:10
this morning. The boiler was one hun
dred horse power affair and had been in use
about eight years. The rear end burst
without warning, tearing down a brick
wall and playing havoc in the grinding de-
partment adjoining.
Robert Gammams was struck in the head
and face with flying brick, his skull frac-
tured and one jaw broken in four or five
places. He was also badly scalded. Sidney
White had three ribs broken and was in
ternally injured, beside being badly burned.
These two have but little chance of recov-
cry.
William HUT, Prudence Guyeax, John Os-
man and Roy Higgins were also burned
and bruised. but not dangerously. The two
last named were I'm the boiler room when
the accident happened, but the corner of
brick stack protected them and saved their
lives.
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without Gas for Hours.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
ELWOOD. Ind, Jan. 20-Every house on
the south side of Main street, comprising
the larger part of the city. was without
gas for four hours this morning, on &C
count Of fire which destroyed the regu-
lator and meter house of the Elwood Nat
ural Gas and Oil Company at o'clock this
morning. The loss will reach 81 600 or 81 500.
The entire system of, the company had to be
put out of service while temporary repairs
were being made.
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Contract for Grant County Jail.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Jan. 20.-The County
Commissioners to-day awarded the con-
tract for the building of a new county jail
to the Champion Iron Company, of Kenton,
o., the contract price being 92.559.S9. This
contract is for the jail proper, all the bids
for the jail residence being rejected. The
contract calls for the construction of the
exterior of the building of common brick,
with Bedford stone trimmings. Work on
the new structure will begin early in the
spring.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
Losses by Fire.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20-Fire early to-
day in fve-story building at 512-51S Della
ware street caused 100000 loss, as fol-
lows: Jones Brothers. dry-goods company,
$50 900; Rothenberg & Schloss, wholesale
cigar makers $50 600: building, SIC, 900. In
srrance, about two-thirds.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Fire destroyed the
plant OF the Scheffer Piano Manufacturing
Company at Riverview this morning, en-
failing a loss of 100000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
Additional Subsidy Voted.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Jan. 2.-The Wabash &
Rochester Railway Company yesterday re-
ceived another subsidy. which. added to
the $4,000 voted it last year in Noble and
Pawpaw townships of this county. Roches-
ter township, Fulton county, and Perry
township. Miami county, makes the total
$4,000. the aid voted yesterday in Henry
township of Fulton county, amounting to
$4,000. The road is to be built this spring.
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Accused of killing Her Child.

LOUISVILLE. Ky, Jan. 2O-Three times
in the insane asylum and three times mar
ried, her last husband being the father of
her first, Mrs. Anna l.. Pennington,
whose home is near Marysville. Ind. is now
charged with killing her six-months-old
child while in a demented condition, and an
application made late this evening for
her recommitment to the Central Hospital
for the Insane at Indianapolis.
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$1,000 Fire mt Goshen.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GOSHEN, Ind. Jan. 2O.-Fire was dis
covered in the frame office and wareroom
building of the Goshen Novelty and Brush
Company after o'clock tonight Damage
of at least $4,000 resulted to the building
and finished stock before IL was put under
control. The insurance is 81, 200 The origin
was in a stove i'm the building, which was
owned by Woodson V. Mossick, Charles
Lamb and George McMaster. A new brick
factory building is nearing completion.
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Standard Oil Company to the United
States Court for the Southern district of
Illinois The city claims 100000 damages
for the failure OF the oil company to obey
an ordinance commanding IL to remove It's
plant outside the city limits. The oil COM
pany will not only deny the right OF the
city to collect damages. but will also put
in counter claim of 800 a day against the
city for virtually confscating its property
and rights without compensation.
The Standard Oil Company. for the first
time in several weeks. to-day delivered oil
in tank wagons to the retail trade.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
nrinoi. Defendants VIII Surrender.

CHICAGO, Jan. a.-The nine defendants
named in the indictment against the officers
and executive committee of the Retail Coal
Dealers Association of Illinois will meet
in Chicago tomorrow and surrender them
selves at the state attorneys office. Bonds
for their appearance for trial will be given
at once. II is likely they will agree TO an
immediate hearing and waive a jury. The
Indiana corporations and their indicted Off
Gals may take similar step.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
WORTHLESS ASPHALT USED.
Federal Company Will Relay Main
Street, Wabash, at Once.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Ind. Jan. 20.-At a cost of
$4,000 to the company the Federal Asphalt
Company will take up the rock asphalt with
which it paved Main street, this city, from
Wabash street to Holiday street, and relay
the entire surface. The asphalt was put
down last fall. and is utterly worthless.
crumbling after each rain and wearing out
In holes when subjected to ordinary traffic.
The company acknowledges that the ma
terial is inferior. and claims that the trouble
lay in the milling in Kentucky.
The company has fifty cars OF the asphalt
at Auburn and thirty cars elsewhere to
be used in paving, and all will be dumped
and new material brought up. The esti-
mated loss by reason OF the worthless
asphalt is $4,000.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind. Jan. 2O.-Strong evidences
of incendiarism have been found at the
Kiefer mold works at Gas City, in which
place fire was discovered Sunday morn
ing. After the firemen had extinguished
the blaze they found two slow candles still
burning. To the candles were attached long
hemp ropes which were saturated with oil.
The ropes led to a pile of waste cotton,
which was also soaked with oil. a rigid in
vestigation is being made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
c. f. Kelly Convicted of Perjury

ST. LOUIS. Jan. 20.-Charles F. Kelly.
member and former speaker of the House
of Delegates, was to-day convicted of per-
Jury in connection with the suburban rail-
way franchise deal, and given two years in
the penitentiary. He still has to stand
trial on two charges OF bribery in connec-
ton with the same deal. A motion for a
new trial was made by cousel for Kelly.
John OBrien and Edward Butler. ir.,
signed Kelly's bond for $4,000 and the de-
PENDANT left the courtroom.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, Jan. ga telegram
from Frank Taylor, in Boston. at noon to-
day, said: Father is not so well to-day
but is resting quietly" Judge Taylor is
himself convinced that he will not recover
He is having paroxysms Of pain in his
heart, and dissolution may occur at any
moment
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,ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Jan. 20.-Indiana
defeated De PAW here to-day in very
spectacular and enthusiastic game Of bas-
ketball by the score of 43 to Q. Indiana
put up the best game it has played this
season. The Methodists were weak and
showed deficient team work. Maxwell, as
usual, was the star. and threw most of
the goals For De Paw, Burnett played
a good game, but his support was weak.
The first half was the most spectacular
and ended, Indiana, 10; De Paw, 3. In
the second half the Methodists made siren
uous efforts TO run up the score, but were
unable to handle their opponents The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
Not as Had as Supposed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 20.-It develops
that the condition of the municipal electric
light plant is much better than the public
has been led to suppose, The special COM
mittee appointed to investigate the man.
agement reports nothing except some minor
defects in the power house and machinery.
The committee found nothing to substan-
tiate the charge of incompetency brought
against S. 4. Gard, the superintendent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21
ordinance Regulating Coal Sales.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND. Ind. Jan. 20.-The City
Council has passed ordinance to regu-
late the selling of coa. This provides that
certificate of weight must accompany
each load of coal, and the marketmaster
Is given the right TO weigh coal at any
time. 1t is also proposed TO establish pub
Tic scales
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Fen from Ton of a Derrick,

speciait TO the indianapolis Journal
BLUFFTON. Ind, Jan. 2O.-Robert Hay
lett. aged forty-five and unmarried, fell
from an oil derrick to-day and was prob
ably fatally injured. His right arm was
broken, his hip dislocated, several ribs
broken and he suffered dangerous internal
injuries. His home Is in Pennsylvania
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Stricken with ApopIexy.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GOSHEN. Ind, Jan. a.-Charles E. Rog-
ers, director of Rogers's famous Goshen
band and orchestra, whose wife died three
weeks ago tomorrow of apoplexy suffered
a similar attack early this morning, and
he now lies at his home in critical condi-
ton
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NEW YORK Jan. 2o.-William III. Kim
ball. former president of the Seventh Ma
tional Bank, and Gamaliel w. Ross the
paying teller, who were placed on trial yes
terday on charges OF violating the national
banking law by overcertifying checks of
Marquand & Co., to-day withdrew their
plea OF not guilty and pleaded guilty TO the
indictments against them. They were pa
rolled i'm the custody of their counsel for
sentence on Tuesday of next week.
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standard Oil Company VIII Seek to
Remove the DanvilIe, ILL.,. Case.

special to the Indianapol Journal.
DASNlLLE, ILL.,. Jan. 2o-Attorney
george Mabin. representing the Standard
Oh Company. win tomorrow in the Cir
cult Court file a petition TO remove the
enss OF the city OF Danyille against the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-21

installation exercises, has telegraphed that
he will be unable to attend, owing to sick
ness. Benjamin f. Shvely, of South Bend,
probably will preside.
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cIMoNA viii cure that sore throat.
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Calendar No.
ALICE NELSON
ADELE RiTCHIE
EDN0 mar

A more beautiful CHRISTMAS NEW YEARS GREET1N
hard to find a gaudy Calendar, unusual
work OF When you you will want several
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-06-25
How to Drive Away Insects.


Bits Of raw cotton or wadding sat
urated with the oil of pcnnyroyal and
placed in corners, OIL closet shelves. and
In boxes or drawers Will drive away
several kinds Of Objectionable insects,
cockroaches, ants, etc, says the Wom-
ans Home Companion. Placed in a
saucer In the windows, 1t will help
drive away flies. Saturated pads of
the pennyroyal placed between the
mattress and around the bed will
drive away the plague not given in the
list Of those with which Egypt was
scourged for her sins. For this dread
full pest another excellent preventive
and cure Is an application to infested
places Of equal parts Of kerosene and
spirits Of turpcntlne. Put the solution
in the joints and cracks Of the bed,
about the surbase and In any other
places where the insects have found
lodgment and fill all cracks with hard
soap that can be so treated. This Is an
old fashioned and reliable remedy.