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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
INDIANA OPERATORS FREE
CHICAGO COURT DIRECTED A vER-
DICT OF NOT GUILTY.
Judge Chetlain Found the Case Was
One for the Federal Authorities
Talk with HI. b. Talley.


CHICAGO, March 13-Judge Chetlain to-
day instructed the jury in the trial of the
coal operators to bring in a verdict of not
guilty. The jury was then discharged The
court held that if there was any violation
of law by the operators it was violation
of the interstate commerce law and not Of
the Illinois statutes. Such being the case,
the offense is one for trial by a federal
jury.
The decision came a result of Attor-
ney Hammill's motion to the court to take
the case from the jury and discharge the
defendants or to instruct the jury to re-
turn a verdict of not guilty. Judge Chef
lain decided that the affairs of the Boyle
Indiana operators were properly classified
under interstate commerce and the act of
1891 covering the antitrust law, and the
conspiracy statute of Illinois so far as it
covers an illegal act injurious to public
trade has no application to Interstate COM
merce; that the agreement or contract en-
tered into by the defendants tended to Gre
ate monopoly and restrict trade, and that
while the defendants were amenable to the
law they could only be prosecuted under the
federal law. The decision in part follows:
by the federal Constitution Congress
commerce among the States. 1t has been
held repeatedly that the power is plenary
and absolute and exclusive. Considering
all the facts in this case-the residence OF
the parties, the character Of the transac-
tions. and. in fact. the admission of coun-
sci, who state themselves that these were
the subject of interstate commemorative
court is constrained to find that Congress
alone can pass such laws are cited to
apply to the case at bar. have been
constrained, although somewhat reluctant
ly, to hold that the act of 1891 and
that the conspiracy law has no application
to interstate commerce; that the transac-
tons of these defendants constitute inter-
state commerce, and that, therefore, the
court must direct a verdict of not guilty"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
FELT SURE OF VICTORY.
III. b. Talley, of Terre Haute, Talks Of
Chicago Judges Decision.


H. B. Talley, of Terre Haute. repre-
sentative of the Coal Bluff Mining Com
pany. was in the city yesterday afternoon
when he received the news that the famous
trial OF the Indiana coal operators in Chi
cago had been brought to sudden close
by Judge Chetlain's instructions to the jury
to return a verdict Of not guilty. Mr.. Tai
ley's father. j. Smith Talley. president of
the Coal Bluff Company. was one Of the
nine Indiana operators who were under in
dictment by the Cook county grand jury;
Naturally Mr.. Talley was much elated at
the outcome Of the trial.
I'VE were very confident of winning the
case" he said last evening at the English.
but, of course, 1t was possible that 1t
would be a prolonged fight. The case
would have been carried to the Supreme
Court II the decision of the lower court
had been adverse. but every effort was
made to win the first trial.
1.-The Indiana operators were confident of
ultimate If not immediate acquittal. be-
cause they had acted only on the very best
into the contract that was made the SUBJ
ject of the grand jury investigation. The
attorney who drew the contract is one of
the best in the West, and he was the one
who made the winning argument for the
defense in the trial
THE contract was not one to limit or
reduce the output Of the Indiana mines
was made in order that the mines might
reach market that they could not other
wise secure. The contract bound the mines
to produce a certain tonnage, and by this
means the Chicago representative was able
70 secure big railroad contracts calling for
a very large amount of coal-contracts that
could not have been obtained without such
a combination. As result the mines were
kept running during the summer months
when they are ordinarily idle, and a larger
force MAS kept at work all the time. The
output was greatly increased, and as there
were thirteen mines along the G. e. E. l..
that were not in the combination the supply
sense reduced. These mines were amply
able to have met the usual demand II un-
usual conditions, brought about largely by
the anthracite strike, had not greatly in
creased the demand.
There has. of course, been a great deal
of interest in this trial. My father has been
in Chicago constantly for the past two
weeks, but expect TO see him at home to-
morrow"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Senator Vest, of Missouri. has written a
letter thanking the state Legislature for
resolution which 1t adopted approving his
course in the Senate. Twenty-four years
continuous service in the United States
Senate is rather an unusual record, and
Senator Vest ends it with the unbroken
confidence of his constituents. In his letter,
indulging in bit of Renaissance, he says:
I entered the United States Senate in
March, 1879, during the aftermath of a ter
rible and devastating war AS the waves
of ocean are uneasy and turbulent for days
after a great storm, the waves of sec
tional passion and bitterness ran high for
many years after the civil war, and no.
where were they more violent than in Mis-
souri,. Happily, those waves have subsidized
and we have seen soldiers of the North and
South wearing the same uniform and fight
ing under the same flag for our common
and united country.
The public generally has forgotten that
Mr. Vest served in the Confederate House
of Representatives and also in the Confed-
crate Senate during the war, occupying the
unique position of representing State
that did not succeed in getting out Of the
Union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Mr.. George w. Perkins. president of the
Cigar Makers International Union at Chi
cago, has addressed letter TO President
Roosevelt asking him to furnish protection
to Organizer James II. Wood against the
nonunion cigar makers of Tampa, Fla. Mr..
Wood has been in Tampa for some time
trying TO induce the cigar makers there to
become members of the union. The local
workers are divided into bitter factions,
including one composed of Spaniards. Re-
Gently Mr.. Wood received an anonymous
notice, signed Committee of Tampa and
Surrounding Country" commanding him TO
leave the city and never return under pain.
of death II he disobeyed. The president of
the union asks President Roosevelt that
you hold yourself In readiness to take the
necessary steps at once to protect Mr..
Wood in the exercise of his rights as an
American citizen. and against the unwar-
ranted. unlawful ana outrageous threats
of this self-constituted vigilance commit
tee" Attorney General Knox and the Gov
ernor of Florida have also been appealed to
to protect Mr.. Wood. Now. this is all
right. Mr.. Wood has right to go to
Tampa TO organize labor union. and the
local authorities should see that he is pro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Only four
members of the Cabinet attended to-day's
session, the other five members-Secretaries
Hay Root. Moody. Postmaster General
Payne and Attorney General Knox-being
out of the city. Only routine business was
transacted. 1t being announced that no sub
ject of serious Importance was considered.
j. Pierpont Morgan, of New York. was at
the Treasury Department to-day and saw
Secretary Shaw in regard to the duty on
some works OF art which he Is importing
from Europe.
The secretary of the treasury to-day ap-
proved an agreement entered into by Com
missioner General Sargent with the Canadi-
an Pacific Railway Company whereby all
ports along the Canadian border which
sion of Chinese persons are closed except
ing Rockford. VT; Malone. N. Y: Portal.
N. D., and Sumas. Wash;
Secretary Shaw left here tonight for
Beaumont, Tex. to look after his rice prop
erty interests, and while South will ex-
anime the subtreasury, customs house and
mint at New Orleans, and also will inspect
proposed sites for the new public building
in that city. He expects also to visit At
lanta, Ca. on the same mission. He will
one of business. although his wife and
daughter will accompany him at least as
far as New Orleans. Before leaving he
intention to purchase bonds or to increase
deposits with national banks.
The launching of the battleship Colorado.
building at the Cramps yard. has been
postponed until April Is.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Darling
has disapproved of the recommendations
of the board appointed TO arrange for the
removal of certain of the navy bureaus to
the new Mills building, opposite the State,
War and Navy building Mr.. Darling has
decided that the Navy Department proper
should contain all the administrative of
fices and that the overflow working force
of the various bureaus should go into the
new building
family at Clinton, n. Y, is expected to
return tomorrow or Sunday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
Evelyn b. Baldwin's View of the Fail
IRE of the Explorers to Reach
Bennett Island.
SETBACK FOR. THE KAISER
BERLIN MUNICIPALITY NOT COM
PEELED TO BUILD CHURCHES.
Formal Reception by Ambassadors Nc
Cormick et st. Petersburg That
Entailed Great Cost.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 1S.-Professor
Barula, the BIOLOGIST of the Baron Toll ex-
petition, who left the expeditions yacht
Sara in May with three others to engage
in scientific research in New Siberia, has
ria. The expedition is exploring the ST.
berian coast line. 1t was reported on Nov.
q to have been cut off from the coast by
early winter ice in New Siberia, and on
Feb. 81 the Imperial Academysof Sciences
at st. Petersburg decided 10 dispatch an
expedition to search for Baron Toll and his
companions.
BOSTON, March 13.-Evelyn B. Baldwin,
leader of last years Zegler polar expedi-
ton, to-day was shown the dispatch relat
ing to the return of Professor Barula, the
zoologist of the Baron Toll Arctic expedi-
ton. Regarding the failure to force the
expedition steamer Saria through the New
Siberian islands to Bennett island owing to
the exceedingly unfavorable conditions of
the ice last summer, Mr.. Baldwin said
THE experience of the Russian expedition
in failing to force the Saria from Kotelnoi
one of the southernmost of the New Sibe-
rian islands, to Bennett island, which lies
only 150 miles northeast of Kotelnoi
island, is analogous to our own experience
in being unable to push the America
through the ice-blocked channels of Franz
Josef Land to Crotin, Prince Rudolf island.
in the summer of 1901. 1t will also be re-
called that our supply steamer Frithjof
failed to reach Franz Josef Land last sum-
mer, and that not single Norwegian seal
ing vessel was able to reach even the east
coast of Spitzbergen. where / had expected
our balloons to drop the most of their
buoys. The return of the Saria to the main
land at the mouth of Lena river before the
completion of the work of the expedition is
also doubtless justifiable The experiences
Of the Toll expedition, as well as those Of
our own and the Norwegian sealing fleets.
seem to indicate that the unfavorab BILE con-
ditions Of the sea ice during the last two
summers were general in the Barents sea
and Kara sea regions Under such circum-
stances it is not surprising that expeditions
should run short of fuel"
When asked to whether he intended to
go north again the explorer said: THAT
question l cannot at present answer def
nitely, but were $4,000 placed at my dis
posal / believe more firmly than ever that
my plan of reaching. the north pole and
safely returning from 1t would be effected.
At any rate I would be delighted to have
the opportunity of continuing my work."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
Church Discipline Bill Passed.

LONDON, March 1S.-The entire sitting
of the House of Commons to-day was occu-
pied with the discussion of the church dis
cipline bill, which passed its second read
ing by 1Ss to 81 votes. The archbishop Of
Canterbury Dr. Davidson and Lord Hall
fax, president OF the English Church Union
occupied seats in the peers gallery. The
debate, which was strictly or nonparty
lines, brought out a strong sentiment on
both sides of the House against extreme
ritualism. The bill proposes giving the
civil courts the right to take cognizance of
proceedings brought by laymen to prevent
the bishops right of veto, and provides
that offending clergymen may be deprived
of their livings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

WASHINGTON. March l3.-Major Will
liam p Evans. Twentieth Infantry. has
been relieved from treatment In the United
States general hospital. Preside of San
Francisco. and ordered to report to the
commanding general. Department Of the
Lakes, for assignment TO a station.
Captain Charles p. Stivers. commissary.
has been relieved from duty as assistant TO
the purchasing commissary at Chicago. Ill.
and ordered to this city to report TO the
commissary general of the army for duty.
Captain Harry Z. Wilkins. commissary.
has been relieved from duty in the division
of the Philippines and ordered 10 San
Francisco. Cal. for duty as an assistant
in the office of Colonel Charles A Wood
run assistant commissary general, pur-
chasing commissary In that city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Representative Stechhan estimates that
the State VIII lose $4,000 during the next
two years through the blunders of an en-
crossing clerk which caused the Governor
to veto House Bill sss. providing for COL
lateral Inheritance tax. If the error had
been in an immaterial word ii might have
passed. but IL was in very material word.
and repeated more than once. indicating ig-
norance- The Legislature itself must bear
part or the blame for such errors and 9TH
eSs due to the employment of incompetent
employees through the Importantly of men,
bers themselves. Mr. Stechhan Is right in
saying that some more thorough system
should Be inaugurated. not only for this
work. but In the enacting OF laws generally.
carelessness being obvious in every stage
CT the proceeding"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

The Democrats in the Senate may have
succeeded in forcing an extra session of
the House Of Representatives. For reasons
which seem quite technical and unimportant
they compelled the adoption OF an amend
ment to the Cuban sreciprocity treaty re-
Quiring concurrent action by the House In
Its ratification AS the House will not
meet until next December the treaty can
not 80 into effect until after that time. even
II 1t should be ratified by the Senate In its
amended form. as it probably will be- That
would defer the benefits OF the treaty to
both countries 50 long that the President
may call an extra session OF the House TO
act upon Il. In that case the Democrats
IN the Senate will have demonstrated their
power to carry out particular programme
without accomplishing any practical or
beneficial results
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
Death of Princess Bernard.

BERLIN. March 13.-Princess Bernard Of
Saxe-Weimar died suddenly Wednesday
near Hanover. She was seized with con-
vulsions while driving with her husband
and expired two hours later in wayside
cottage. The princess was of obscure orr
gin and was born at Lubek. 1t was for her
that Bernard. second son of the late Prince
Hermann of Saxe-Weimar. renowned his
name and royal rank about two years ago
and received for himself and his male de-
scendants the name and rank of Count Won
Crayenbers. The deceased princess was,
before she married Prince Bernard. tine
widow of the Marquis Luchessini, an Ital-
ian. When the marquis married her in
London in 1900 she was thirty-seven years
of age, but was a graceful and accom-
plished woman. Owing to her variegated
career the family OF the marquis declined
to receive his wife. whereupon he gave up
his family.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

WASHINGTON. March 13.-The Board Of
Construction of the Navy Department to-
day finally decided that the three new 1900
ton battleships authorized by the naval ap-
preparation bill shall be identical with the
Connecticut and Louisiana types as to arm
or and armament. the only difference being
that the upper portion of the belt armor.
which is eleven inches those two ships.
shall be ten inches in the new vessels and
that the superstructure armor shall be in
creased from six to seven inches. Prelim-
mary TO the determination of the type OF
the new lS0OO-ton battleships II has been
decided to prepare sketch plans for fast
twenty-two-knot ships and slow seventeen
knot ships. When these plans have been
prepared the contest over the question of
high power and speed of armament will
be determined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

ROME, March 13-The Pope to-day re-
ceived in private audience Bishop Edward
Dunno. of Dallas. Tex, who presented
the Pontif with a jubilee offering. The
bishop was impressed with the Pope's vital
ity, especially when. in expressing his al
lection for the people of the United States
ne asked the bishop 10 convey his blessing
to all the faithful in his diocese, saying;
Come again"
The following priests were afterwards
presented to the Pope: Stewart MELON
nell of Chicago, Thomas Osara of Whining
ton. ILL.,. and II. O'Gara Mechanic OF Chi
cago. Bishop Dunno will return TO Amer
lea in the middle of May. The Pope also
received Monsiegnor Barrett, secretary OIL
Bishop Mcdonnell. of Brooklyn, n. Y, IN
1000 in gold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14
FIGHTING IN CHINA.
Imperial Troops Defeated and Some
High Omcials Slain by Rebels.

High Omcials Slain by Rebels.
VICTORIA, B. c., March 1S.-The steam
er Tosa Maru, which arrived last night,
brought news of the further engagements
between the Chinese government forces and
the Kwang-Si rebels. in which the imperial
troops were defeated with loss. some high
officials being slain The Governor of
HUMAN has stated to the Chinese govern
ment that the rebellion has reached a most
dangerous state. and he requests the gov
eminent to mobilize troops in other prov
inces as a precaution against emergencies.
Picking dispatches state that the Emperor
and Empress dowager were to visit the
imperial mausoleum at Li-Liang on March
s. and on their return were to stop at Pao-
Ting for the purpose of carrying on a
grand army review there. All the troops
that have just been raised in Chilli, Ho-
Nan, Shan-Si and Shen-Si provinces. about
10000 in all. were TO take part. Yuen Shih
Kai. viceroy of Chilli. was TO be COM
mander-in-chief That official is working
hard to increase Chinas army. He will
organize shortly a force including Chinese
and Manchus. The necessary arms which
were to have been manufactured in Chi
nese arsenals have been bought. with am
munition. from German merchants in ITEM
Tsin, who smuggled them into China.
Viceroy Yuen Shin Kai declared that he
will raise $1,000 new troops before April
Of this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

WASHINGTON. March 13.-Commissioner
of immigration Williams. at New York. has
made a report to the Treasury Department
on the employment of female inspectors.
The report points out many objections to
the employment Of these inspectors. and
Commissioner General of immigration Sar-
gent has reported. to the secretary of the
treasury that their services are not needed.
Late in the day Secretary Shaw approved
the recommendation of the immigration Of
ficials and the Treasury Department noti-
fed the Civil-service Commission that IL had
been decided not to continue the service OF
women inspectors at New York and there
fore the department would not call on the
commission for the certification Of eligibles
for appointments for this service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

LONDON, March 13.-The first court or
the season was held at Buckingham Palace
tonight. 1t was the first function since the
accession of Edward VII that was not
spoiled by rain. More than nine hundred
persons assembled in the throne room, all
the embassies and legations being well rep
resented. Their Majesties. after the pre-
sentations reverted to the former custom
of allowing the guests to file past the royai
dais. This arrangement avoided an I'M
pleasant crush in the supper room. Inc
King and Queen remained seated while the
company filed out.
The Americans presented by the embassy
included Mrs George p. B. Hill, of New
York, Mrs. III. Clay Evans, Miss Evans and
Miss Anita Evans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

The recent riot of Purdue University
students at Lafayette was much too serious
20 be passed over in silence. either by the
college or the city authorities. a good
deal Of allowance can be made for the an
tics Of college boys. or their rough play in
games. but when it comes to destroying
property and resisting the police they should
be given ecse of law. One of the things
that students should learn is that laws are
made for all alike. and that violating them
- serious matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

The Republicans OF st. Louis, says the
Globe-Democrat. have nominated first
class municipal ticket. There was a time
when the Globe-Democrat did not, because
II could not, say so much for Republican
municipal tickets as a whole The Re-
pubiicans contributed their share to the
municipal boodlers who have been sent
20 the penitentiary. even il the man who
was the head Of the gang was Demo-
crat- 1t becomes Republicans to nominate
nrst-class tickets in all cities. They cannot
afford to do otherwise. This does not mean
negatively good men, but men of positive
uprfghtness
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

me action of the business men of Water
bury, Conn.,. in organizing to police the
city and enforce the laws is a popular pro-
test against the inaction of the mayor and
the imbecility OF the city government The
present decentralization and lawlessness are
due to the strike and boycott of trolley
men and the sympathy of the police with
them 1t Is a singular condition of affairs
TO exist In New England city and savors
more of vigilance committee methods than
orderly Soxernrnent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Lazarus as token of his Majesty's appre-
citation of Mr. Burt's labors, extending over
seventeen years. During this period he has
dustriai school with fifty pupils. a girls
finishing school with 275 pupils. boys
Methodist college and theological school,
under the direction of DIR. Clark. all in
Rome, and an Industrial school for boys in
Venice. The Methodist building in Rome.
one OF the largest in Europe. which was
built for the twenty-fifth anniversary of
churches. a publishing house and a home
for converted priests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Indiana coal operators should hereafter
regard thirteen lucky number. 1t
required about thirteen days to secure a
jury at Chicago 10 try the case against
them. The last juror accepted was the
thirteenth of the thirteenth panel of venire-
men, thirteen hundred and thirteen tales
men in all having been examined. The op-
orators were acquitted on Friday, the 18th
daY of the month
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-14

Dynamite is an uncertain explosive
Sometimes it explodes apparently without
cause; at other times it bears the most
careless handling without danger. A few
days ago five Buffalo boys were mangled
while examining a stick of the explosive
they had found. Yesterday at Olean, N. Y,
nine cars of freight train were destroyed
by the explosion of a car of powder. but
three cars of dynamite in the same train re-
manned intact