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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
VISIT TO THE STONE BELT
INDIANA FAIR COMMISSION PLEASED
WITH THE INSPECTION.
Members Return to the City After a
Two Days TOur-Probability
of an Exhibit.

liberal appropriation for an exhibit that
will adequately represent the stone indus
try of Indiana likely will be the result of
the trip of President Gilbert and eight
members of the Indiana worlds fair COM
mission through the Quarries of Monroe
and Lawrence counties. This statement
was made last night by prominent men,
ber of the commission. The members of
the commission arrived in Indianapolis last
night, Surprised at the extent of the stone
industry of Indiana and well pleased with
their trip.
During the two days the commission Wis
tied twenty-five quarries in Monroe and
Lawrence counties. All are impressed with
the magnitude and Importance of the in
dustry and are thought to favor a liberal
appropriation from the commissions funds
with which to establish a representative
exhibit of the States stone product at the
st. Louis fair.
Senator O'Brien, of Lawrenceburg, a
member of the commission, who was on the
pleased with the outlook for stone exhibit
and in almost every case have expressed
a willingness to go half way with the COM
mission to make the exhibit a success and
also to save the State as much money as
possible Every place they went the COM
missioners impressed upon the quarry own
ers that the exhibit would not be given
to show the merits of one kind of Stone
or the product or any one district, but that
it will be the purpose to give an exhibit
that will be representative of the entire in
dustry and of every kind of stone product
in the State
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
CANTRELL Is A NUISANCE
THAT is THE OPINION OF CAPTAIN
GERBER, OF DETECTIVE FORCE.
All His Talking Done for Sake of No.
tOriety, Gerber Believes-Detec-
tives on SeIvage Case.

The city detectives are working on the
Selvage case through information given
them by Rufus Cantrell, the convicted
grave robber, but they report they are no
nearer the solution of the problem of the
mysterious disappearance of Miss Selvage
in 1900, than they were several days ago.
Clews have been picked up and dropped
and new ones taken up in their places, but
all, when run down, have so far proved to
amount to nothing Detectives Asch and
Manning, under whose charge the Selvage
case has been placed, say that they have
by no means given UP hope and claim that
in time they will be able to produce facts
which will warrant arrests of a number OF
persons who they believe were implicated
in the murder of the demented woman.
The city detective department. is in cor
reSpondence with Cantrell who is now back
in the Reformatory in Jeffersonville, and it
is said have received several important
pieces of information from him by mail
since his departure. The police are firm in
their belief that If Cantrell is not prom
ised clemency for his many crimes he VIII
refuse to tell exactly what Ii is necessary
to know before any arrests can be made.
They believe that the ghoul, If so disposed,
could throw light on the case of Miss Sell
wage as well as clear up a number of other
mysteries.
Captain Gerber, of the detective force,
said yesterday that he did not put much
faith in the stories told by Cantrell some
of the other people connected with the
police department. He says that Cantrell
has merely shown the people that he is a
nuisance to the community and has done all
his talking for the purpose of gaining public
notoriety. Gerber also stated that he does
not believe anything of what the ghoul had
told of the Selvage case. In fact" the
captain said, II put very little faith in any
thing Cantrell has told and think most of
il is that peculiar quality of hot air Can't
rell Is so fond of handing out"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
MRS.BLANCHARD REMAINS
SHE AGAIN ACCEPTS PRESIDENCY OF
GIRLS, INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Condition Made That Permanent
Officers Elected at Meeting.

A meeting of the ladies interested in the
Girls Industrial School was held yester-
day afternoon at the Tabernacle Church
and Mrs. f. A. Blanchard was again chosen
president. She explained that she would
again undertake to carry on the work If the
citizens of the city would attempt to secure
a hall for a permanent meeting place. 1t
will be recalled that Mrs. Blanchard re-
signed some time ago. but her friends urged
her to take charge of the school.
Following are the officers elected at the
meeting yesterday:
President-Mrs. Frank A. Blanchard.
First Vice President-Mrs. ID. II. jenkins.
Second Vice President-Mrs. Henry c.
Thornton.
Treasurer-Mrs. Gustav Westing.
Secretary-Mrs. ii. II. Hall.
Superintendent of Infant Department
Mrs John V. Coyner; assistant, Miss Grace
Burks
Chairman Work Committee--Mrs. w. n.
Coffin; assistant, Mrs. L. III. Anger.
Work Table-Mrs. A. E. Long and Mrs.
Ella Rose.
The advisory board is composed of the
Rev. j. Cumming Smith. w. c. Hall, Gus
tav Schnull, John p. Frenzel. Clemens Von-
negut and George Bruenig. The auditing
committee is made up of w. G. Hall, Mrs.
II. II. Johnson and Mrs. G.. l.. Ritter.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
FOOD IN SORROW.
How to Tighten the Burden.

''who feeds his body starves his grief {"
There may be heart wounds difficult to heal
but a weli-fed healthy body and mind soft
ems the trouble greatly. a lady of Homer.
Ill, says: About year ago my dear little
four-year-old boy met with an accident
which resulted in his death. and the anxiety
and grief and worry that Experienced while
watching his suffering and death resulted in
my having nervous prostration 1 could
neither eat nor sleep and was soon a total.
miserable wreck, sick enough To die
Then 1 was put on Grape-Nuts food TAX
Ing half teaspoonful ar meal. the amount
was gradually increased until | could ear
about three teaspoOnfuls at time / began
to improve almost Immediately. gaining
strength steadily day by day until now /
have entirely regained health and am well
throughout.
''Of course my sorrow will never entirely
leave me- although they say time heals ali
wounds, but | am glad 10 be strong again
mentally and physically. for | can bear my
burden better. feel confident that " had
not used Grape-Nuts 1 would n,yer have
been well again" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
Send for particulars by mail OF extension
OF time or the $4,000 cooks-cQntest for sc
sRe18e3 I11<eS
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
STOVE MOUNTERS' union
REPRESENTATIVES, OF SHEET NET
AL WORKERS HERE TO CONFER.
Question of Jurisdiction the Point
at Issue-saIaries of Officers
Increased.

Richard Patterson, of New York general
president, and NJ. O'Sullivan, general vice
president of the International Union of
Sheet Metal Workers, will arrive to-day and
hold a conference with representatives OF
the International Stove Mounters' Union in
regard to the jurisdiction of the steel range
workers. The latter, it is claimed by the
stove mounters, are affiliated with them.
and the sheet metal workers claim they
are allied with their organization. The two
committees will hold a conference this
afternoon. and an effort will be made to
settle the matter satisfactorily.
The convention of the stove mounters
yesterday in the Cleveland Club Hall In
creased the salaries of the president and
the secretary of the union. The presidents s
salary was raised from $1,000 to $3.50 a
year, and the secretarys was increased from
$500 to 81 200 a year. He is also allowed
$1.50 day and mileage while on the road.
The president for the past year has been
j. f. Tierney, of Detroit, and the secretary
pect to run for office again this year. The
election of new officers will be held to-day
If the routine business is completed. The
raise in salaries will make the positions
doubly desirable.
RATES RATIFIED.
Inc Clause efnDOuylilB the SCdle VI ldtSS
agreed upon with the Stove Founders Ma
tional Defense Association was also ratified
yesterday by the convention Another ac-
tion of the morning session was the decision
to take into the organization apprentices
at half-rate dues. There are about two
hundred apprentices in the union.
A proposition was offered at the afternoon
session to place another organizer in the
field. When put to a vote it was lost. At
present the president is the unions organ
izer, and it was thought that another was
not necessary 10 the needs of the union. A
greater part of the afternoon was taken
up with reports of the delegates, which
were read. All of them reported unusual
prosperity in their districts. The conven-
tion also received congratulations from the
headquarters of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, located In this
city.
Tonight the convention will hold BAN
quet in the Cleveland Club Hall. Speeches
will be made by the officers and delegates.
Secretary Wilson, of the United Mine
Workers, has promised TO be present and
make an address to the men. There is also
a probability of Secretary Duffy, of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, being present.
The convention hopes to finish up its busi-
ness to-day. Besides some routine busi-
ness, about the most important things that
remain are the election of officers and the
action on a change of the unions head
quarters from Detroit to indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
AMALGAMATION OF COLLEGES.



Cannot Soon he Done.
Indications seem favorable to an ultimate
consolidation of the Medical College of In
diana and the Central College of Physicians
and Surgeons with the State University, but
it is not likely that anything definite will
be done in the immediate future
DR.. Allison Maxwell, dean of the Central
College, gave out this statement last night
in reference to the report that plans for the
consolidet tion of these institutions has been
practically consummated.
President William Lowe Bryan and the
trustees of the State University and the of
ficials of the medical colleges may have a
meeting to-day or tomorrow, but il is en-
tirely improbable that anything definite will
be accomplished.
IL think the Central College of Physicians
and Surgeons and the Medical College of In
diana will be eventually consolidated with
the State University" said DR.. Maxwell
last night but from present indications
don't think the consolidation will be brought
about very soon; at least, not in the imme-
diate future. Settling an important matter
There about forty officials of the three
institutions, who will have to reach an en-
tirely satisfactory and amicable agreement
before this consolidation can DE brought
about, and il usually takes forty men some
time TO see a matter in the same light and
settle all their differences satisfactorily"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
MACHINISTS' STRIKEE ENDS
BIG FOUR WILL NOT HAVE FURTHER
TROUBLE WITH EMPLOYEES.
Committee That Went TO Wabash
Succeeded in Bringing About an
AmicabIe Agreement.

As result OF the conference held in Wa
bash Wednesday night the striking machin-
fists in the Big Four shops of that city re-
turned to work yesterday at noon. The
matter was discussed until o'clock in the
morning b. the machinists and the COM
mittee which met them and which was
composed OF ID. w. Roderick. of Chicago.
manager OF the Midland Associated Dis
trict OF /. A NJ; Thomas Hawkes.. secre-
tary OF this district of the International
Machinists' Union; George Thomas, chair
man of the district and W. Grass. district
delegate
The trouble was finally adjusted by more
or less of compromise. The executive
committee made a proposition to the men
that the number of hours OF work be
eqUalized in all the Big Four shops in the
State-the equalization being based on the
number OF men employed. In the Big Four
shops OF the State 1t will take about sixty
more men TO do the work on a nine-hour
schedule. The Big Four officials were called
up at a late hour last night and agreed to
hire the force necessary to bring the work
down to nine hours throughout the whole
district. Until the required machinists can
be secured the Wabash men will return to
work under the ten-hour system and assist
in securing more machinists. At present
the demand for good machiniSts is greater
than the supply.
GARSTANG AGREEABLE.
Mr.. RoderIck returned to the city yester-
day morning and arranged the matter with
Mr.. Garstang, superintendent of motive
power of the Big Four. The adjustment of
the affair pertains to the whole of District
q of this State. IL is not known how long
IL Will take to secure more men at Wabash,
where about five are needed, but the ma
chinists believe that they can be brought
In within very short time and do not
think that they will have to work ten hours
a day more than a week longer.
The trouble. Mr.. Roderick said was the
result of misunderstanding between the
employers and the machinists. The con-
tract between the two specifies that the
men shall work nine hours a day as long
rs enough machinists can be had to do the
work in that time. The Big Four officials
were working their men ten hours a day
at the same time refusing to fill vacancies
that would bring about shorter day. The
point was not clearly defined when the de-
mands of the machinists were made and
hence the deadlock between the employers
and the men. There were about twenty
seven men involved in the strike and until
an understanding reached IL was
feared a strike would ensue in all the Big
Four shops.
Mr.. Roderick said last night that he did
not see how the men could have acted 9TH
erwise than they did as they were working
under unfair conditions. He thought. how
ever. the strike could have been avoided
had the men and the employers held pre-
vious conference and discussed the matter.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
kankakee District Land.

Suit may be brought by the State soon TO
recover lands in the Kankakee district of
Stark county. Deputy Attorney General
Cassius Hadley is in Starke county this
week investigating the title to the mean
dered LANDS. Hundreds of acres along the
Kankakee river are in dispute. A large
number of titles give the river as the
boundary line. but this i very indefinite
line OF boundary. as the Kankakee has
changed its course and overfiowed many
times. The deputy attorney general is MAX
ing this investigation on the request of
Auditor Sherrick Construction of a large
ditch 10 drain the Kankakee district is soon
To be put under way and land owners In
Starke county have petitioned the auditor
of state TO sell the States land The i'm
vest;gation of the deputy attorney general
Is in preparation for this sale, II is under.
stood. -
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD, Ind, July 16.-The train bear
ing the worlds fair commissioners represent
ing the State of Indiana arrived here on
time this morning from French Lick. Soon
after their arrival the commissioners were
on their way to the oolitic stone fields to
visit which, in the main, is their mission
here. An exhaustive inspection of these
quarries were made, and at noon they re-
turned to the city, and were taken in
charge by the Commercial Club, members
of which escorted them to the New Deck
ard hotel where they were handsomely en-
tertained at luncheon. They were then es-
corted TO carriages by committee of the
club and were driven to all the points of
interest in the city. including the stone
mills, Midland Portland Cement plant the
handsome stone churches and school build
ings and the Carnegie public library. At
6 o'clock the train left for Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
MONEY FOR TECHNICAL SCHOOL.
Financial Agent Brown Talks AbOut
Endowment Plans I'm This state.

Endowment Plans I'm This state.
George W. Brown. recently appointed
financial agent of the National technical
Institute. is hard at work endes vorng to
Increase the endowment fund ot the tlain-
ing school. Mr.. Brown expects that
diana will contribute a large part of the en-
dowment His plan is to appeal to two or
more wealthy citizens in each county of
the State TO contribute 5000 or more to
the fund, and in addition to interest the
people of every county in the new school.
1T is the view of the projectors that this
school shall not make the mistake of some
schools" said Mr.. Brown yesterday. Ere
quently schools and colleges have been
largely endowed but they have not had
the prestige and patronage of the local pop
ulation. II is the purpose of the committee
to secure an Indiana contingent TO the en-
dowment fund which shall be distributed
proportionately among the counties. If the
plan is carried out II would insure at least
two boys or girls from the more modest
walks of life from each county each year,
who can. by supplementing these endow-
ments with certain amount of daily work.
secure an education along technical or
trade lines.
1T Is the purpose of the endowment COM
mittee to raise 100000 in Indiana. Local
interest should enable the committee to re-
ceive this much assistance from the State
I'm which the school is to be located.
Friends of the institution in Pittsburg have
already pledged S125,000 and the promises
and pledges received from other large cit
les of the country are very hattering."
III. j. Heinz, the pickle manufacturer OF
Pittsburg. who Is one of the most enthusi-
astic of those interested in the Winona
movement, has accepted the Craftsmanship
of the endowment committee. Mr.. Heinz,
with Alexander Mcdonald and others, will
be large contributors to the endowment
fund
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
REPLY OF THE GOVERNOR.
Did Not Make Statements Attributed
to Him by Evansville Socialists.

Governor Durbin has replied to the
Evansville Socialists who adopted resolu-
tions last week condemning him for stat
ing that the recent rioting in that city was
caused by Socialists. The Governor stated
that he had never made the remarks at
tributed to him. but. on the contrary, had
said that he had been reliably informed
that the instgators of the trouble were
men of anarchistic tendencies. He said that
he had no desire to enter into a political
discussion and expressed the opinion that
men of all parties had participated in the
rioting.
The resolutions of the Socialists referred
the Governor TO the dictionary TO learn the
difference between Socialists and Anarch-
lists and in his letter the Governor referred
TO this caustically, saying that no dicton-
airy is needed to understand the meaning
of men who talk about the destruction of
government and incite their fellows to des-
perate deeds, and that men who do such
things certainly have anarchistic tenden-
cieS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
GOVERNOR Is INDIGNANT
MEMBERS OF MILITIA COMPANIES
DISMISSED BY EMPLOYERS.
Labor Unions Making Themselves Felt
I'm Evansville-SimiIar Cases in
Indianapolis.

Governor Durbin is very indignant over
the dismissal of a number of the members
of the Evansville militia company by their
former employers. who were threatened
with boycotts by union labor.
ut is outrage" he said last evening,
that the members of that militia company
should be compelled to pay such price for
the faithful performance of their duty, for
doing exactly what they had sworn to do
1t was upon them alone that the business
men and property owners of Evansville re-
lied for protection against the lawless ele-
ment But for their services the very men
who have since discharged several of them
might have incurred heavy property losses
from the TORCH which almost invariably
accompanies the mob.
Il know Of nothing that can be done un-
der the circumstances, except to condemn
the action of these employers. They are
making a mistake, and some day they will
doubtless realize it. 1t Will be a peculiar
situation, indeed, If the labor unions are TO
say that we shall have no National Guard,
but that is the logical conclusion of the
course that is now being taken in Evans
vile."
The Governor was informed yesterday
that one member of the Vincennes company
had lost his position as a direct result OF
his service at Evansville.
1t was also learned that but recently a
member of an Indianapolis company, who
belongs to the mOlders union, was forced
by the union to resign, and 1T is said there
have been other similar cases in the city.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
FITTON TERRIBLY BEATEN.


Joseph Fitton. giving his home as Chi
cago, and claiming to be a foreman in the
employ of Lorrimer, Gallagher, Walsh &
Co., of that city,. was beaten almost into
insensibility by two unknown assailants
last night. Being a stranger in the city
Fitton was unable to tell the police where
the assault took place. He was taken to
the City Dispensary, where his wounds
were dressed by Drs. Sheek, Cunningham
and Seaton and while there stated that he
thought the object of the men who beat
him was robbery.
He was in a saloon somewhere near the
center of the city, he said. shortly before
he was made the victim of the assault, and
carelessly exposed q roll of bills contain
ing about $780, while paying for a glass of
beer, and he thinks the two men followed
him from the saloon with the intention
of stealing his money from him. The police
investigated the affair but were unable TO
locate the assahants. They are of opinion
that he became mixed up in a fight in one
of the warehouses which found here
and there on the public thoroughfares Fit
ton was under the impression that the as
sault took place at the corner of Illinois
and Washington streets.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
A CLOTHES-LINE THIEF.
Charge Made by Police Against John
VI HUffer Under Arrest.

John NJ. Huffer S2S Buchanan street. was
arrested yesterday by Detectives Asch and
Manning and Captain of Police Hyland. and
is being held at the police station under a
$1,000 bond until certain thefts which it is
thought he has committed can be investi-
gated.
When placed under arrest Huffer was in
the act of selling a pair of valuable lace
curtains to a secondhand dealer for a
price so low that suspicion was at once
aroused in the minds of the detectives HUFF
fer is thought to be clothes line thief by
the police and il is said makes a business
of stealing clothes and articles of wearing
apparel from the lines on which the washer
woman has hung them up TO dry
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17
WILES OF A HORSE TRADER.
Horace Boyer I'm Trouble for Alleged
MisrepresentatiOns.

Horace Boyer, 312 East Michigan street,
was arrested yesterday afternoon by De-
tectives Lancaster and Kurtz, and locked
up at the police station on a charge of OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
Boyer is a horse trader. and has been in
trouble over alleged misrepresentation in
horse flesh many times during his career
i'm the horse business in this city. In the
present case ne is charged with selling a
horse TO Archie Short, of Pendleton, Ind,
claiming that the animal was sound and
good, when i'm fact il was Of practically no
value, and giving as his reason for selling
il the fact that his sister had recently died
and he had no further for the steed-
Hep will be given a hearing in the Police
Court this morning.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-17

Samuel Cline, salesman for whole
sale liquor house In Fort Wayne was
given a hearing in the Police Court yester-
day morning TO answer charge Of obtain
ing money under false pretenses. Cline IL
is said, represented TO Frank O'Brien, a
saloon keeper on East Washington street,
that he had a quantity of whisky stored i'm
Kentucky warehouse which he would
sell at low price. and on agreement closed
the deal with o Brien. accepting $l39 for the
liquor. MIR. OBrien later sent 10 the ware
house for the whisky and found, he says,
that Cline had never paid for It. The case
was continued until July %.