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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
HEAVY DIVORCE DOCKET.
Th~irty-Three Cases Set Down for Trial
I'm bartholomew County.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS. Ind, Sept 5.-The Septem-
Der term of the Bartholomew Circuit Court.
which Judge Francis T. Hord will convene
Monday, promises to be the busiest for
several years past. One fact which will
give it unusual distinction is the abnor-
maiiy large number of divorce cases which
are set for hearing during the term. No
less than thirty-three suits for absolute
enforcement are now on the trial docket,
sixteen of which were filed during the
month of August Just closed. Besides the
divorce matters Cudwith Abel. who killed
his nephew. Charles Abel, at JonesviIIe.
May Is last, will be tried for murder in the
second degree.
Another case Of unusual Importance is
that Of Henry Hartman and others against
Charles Piefef and others to recover
money lost gambling. Hartman, who is the
county treasurer OF Jennings county, is also
the senior member OF the firm of Hartman
brothers. stone work contractors. 1t is
charged in their complaint that Albert
Harman, the junior member of the firm.
while experimenting the stone work of the
new Lutheran Church here. lost 81 200 gam
bling at the sporting rooms Of Pfiefer, and
usual case is that of the State of Indiana
against Robert Henry, a barber, who is
charged with praeticing medicine without
a license His offense lies I'm operating a
steaming apparatus for the treatment of
disease of the scalp, etc. He was found
guilty before a justice of the peace, and
took an appeal to the Circuit Court.
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ENDED LIVES TOGETHER
BODIES OF MOTHER, son AND
DAUGHTER FOUND IN THEIR HOME.
All Are Believed to Have Taken Poi
sOn-WOman Found Her Di-
vOrced Husband.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-The bodies of
Mrs. Rosa Leisy, thirty-five years old, and
of her two children. Gotfried, sixteen years,
and Mary. fifteen years. were found by the
police to-day in their home on Germantown
avenue. Mother and son were lying on a
couch clasped In each others arms, and the
daughters body was lying on three chairs
at the foot of the couch. The bodies were
decomposed. The coroner has not yet deter
mined the cause of death. Mrs. Leisy and
her children came here from Zurich, Switz-
erland, five months ago. She and her
son were employed in a silk mill. None of
the family had been seen by the neighbors
since last Wednesday.
Investigation developed the fact that the
woman. and her children had died from
poisoning. 1t is believed the family agreed
to end their lives together.
Charles Leisy, a brother of the woman,
expressed the opinion that fear Of her hus-
band, Fred Lineger, from whom she was
divorced, was the cause of the act. Line
ger Us in Switzerland, but had written a
lettet to his former wife, announcing his
intention of coming to this country. Mr..
Leisy said his sister had expressed fears
that she would suffer violence at his hands.
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WOMAN WANTS THE CUP
MRS. GREEN HUNTER MAY CHAL-
LENGE If Upton DOES NOT.
Has 100000 to Invest i'm n Racing
Yacht. and In Proposes Il
Act as Its Skipper.

MONTREAL, Sept. 5.-Greme Hunter.
who is staying at the Windsor Hotel, says
that his wife has ambitions FOR the Amer
ica's- cup and may challenge for it. Mr..
Hunter comes from Arrocher, Scotland.
Mrs. Hunter is at her home in Scotland.
According to MIR. Hunter, Mrs. Hunter is
an enthusiastic yachtswoman and a MEM
Der of the Clyde Corinthian Club. She has
had ambitions ever since the Valkyrie was
lost off Hunters Quay, Scotland, to have a
try for the Americas cup, and she has, he
says, set aside the sum of 10000 for that
purpose. Her idea is to act as her own
skipper and to have an amateur crew.
Mr.. Hunter says that they nave no in
tention of interfering with Sir Thomas
Linton and that a challenge will be sent
only In case the Irish knight does not chal-
lenge again. In the event that a boat is
built. ii will be constructed by the Messrs
Denny. of the Clyde. Mr.. Hunter says ne
once worked for Sir Thomas Upton and
that he made his money out of building
oneratiOnS.
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Change I'm Surgeons at the Lafayette
Institution.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE. Ind. Sept Sat the meet
ing of the board of trustees of the Soldiers
Home yesterday afternoon DR.. John A.
Martin resigned as surgeon of the home,
and DR.. Theodore c. Sargent, who has been
acting for some time as assistant surgeon,
was appointed surgeon-iD-chief. DR.. Sar-
gent has been at the home since it was
established, and acted as chief surgeon at
one time. No assistant surgeon was named.
No candidate will be chosen from Tippe-
canoe, Marion or Allen counties, as they
have their quota of appointments. The
resignation of Miss Florence Martin, sister
Of DR.. Martin, as superintendent of nurses
was also accepted. She will be succeeded
by Miss Elizabeth Hoberg, who comes
from the national home at Danville, Ill.
Seventy-fve applications for admission to
the home were examined, and of these
twelve were rejected and nine held for
further consideration. The board adjourned
to-day TO meet I'm special session on Friday
Of next week. Important business will be
transacted at that time.
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new WORK FOR CONVICTS
PRISONERS IN STATE INSTITUTIONS
COULD BE USED ON ROADS.
Suggestions at the District Good
Roads Institute Offered Mt New
Albany Yesterday.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Sept. 5.-The first
annual District Good Roads Institute, held
in this city. closed this afternoon. A score
of counties were represented and great in
terest was taken in the proceedings. Prof.
w. c.. Latta, State superintendent of the
Farmers Institutes, presided over the meet
ing, which was held under the auspices of
the school of agriculture of Purdue Uni
versity, Lafayette. The speakers to-day
were w. H. Moore, of st. Louis, president
of the National Good Roads Association;
the Hon. J. B. Killibrew, of Nashville,
Tenn, representing the National Bureau of
Good Roads Enquiries at Washington,
d. c.: d. Ward King, of Maitland, Mo-,
and C. V. Seastone, instructor in sanitary
engineering at Purdue University. Moore
predicted that every college of prominence
in the country would have a department of
road building within two years. He said
there were three ways of raising money for
the betterment of the roads. One was a
bond issue, another was State aid and the
third was working the c~onvicts in the peni-
tentiaries on the roads. He favored the latter
plan, as he said it would do away with the
present contract system in prisons which
came in competition with honest labor. He
urged the immediate organizat ton of the
Southern Indiana Good Roads Association.
He said Indiana had about 1890 miles of
roads. Of which about $4,000 miles are i'm
proved, some being as good as the best
roads in Europe. Killibrew spoke in favor
of national aid in road construction by max
ing appropriations. He said that harbor and
river bills aggregating millions of dollars
are passed by Congress at every session, and
gave instances in which the money appro-
priated for certain streams was virtually
thrown away, so far as its benefits to the
surrounding territory were concerned. He
believed the proper solution of the good
roads question would be of more benefit to
the country than the completion OF the Pan
anna canal. King and Seastone gave prac-
teal instructions on the proper methods of
building hard earth roads.
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w. @. GREsHAM,s MOTHER.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Sept. 5.-Mrs. Sarah
Rumley. mother of the late Gen. Walter Q.
Gresham. secretary of state under President
Cleveland's second administration, to-day
celebrated her ninety-eighth birthday at her
home near GAINESVILLE, Harrison county, six
teen miles west of this city. She has lived
for the past seventy-eight years on the
farm on which she now resides with a wild
owed daughter. She was born in Springfield.
KY, in 1906, and came to Indiana when she
was ten years old. Her first husband, Cen
eral Gresham's father, was killed while
serving as sheriff of Harrison county In at
tempting to arrest a desperate named Ar
mold. One of her sons, William Gresham,
is judge of a Circuit Court in Minnesota, and
another was Col. Benjamin Gresham, who
was in command Of the Thirteenth Indiana
Cavalry during the civil war. Mrs. Rumley
is still quite active and performs her house
hold duties daily.
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WILL BE OPEN ON SUNDAY.


Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Sept. 5.-The Trot-
ting Association has decided to continue the
midway and fair through Sunday. Not all
the shows will remain, but many will, and
the admission fee TO the grounds has been
placed at 10 cents, day and night. The
attendance for the week ending tonight is
far beyond the total of any week since there
were fair grounds in Terre Haute, and the
association will make much money. 1t is
believed that if tomorrow is a pleasant
day there will be fifteen or twenty
thousand persons on the grounds. Some of
the free shows will give exhibitions and
those for which an admission Will tie
charged will reap a harvest. of which the
Trotting Association gets a percentage. The
beer privilege and other concessions also
pay the association a percentage. Some of
the attractions of the week will remain
through the Labor day celebration on Mon
day.
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cuts on his wrists. He said he had ridden
a freight into the city and had been held
up and robbed when he alighted. Later to-
day he admitted he had attempted suicide
Just after Degnan was brought into the
ponce statlon,. Charles Bell, also OF RUS
burg, who had been sleeping on a bench in
the station, went into the bathroom and
was found a few moments later in the act
Of cutting the arteries in his hand, arms
and legs. with a knife. Degnan and Bell
spoke as If they recognized each other
when they met in the station. but each
denied all knowledge of the other. Both
men said they were from Pittsburg and
are bricklayers. They resemble each other
as much as if they were twins. Bell is in
a serious condition as a result or his
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COST LIQUOR MEN L $4,000.
Fight Against the Temperance Ele.
ment at okomo Expensive.

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KOKOMO, Ind, Sept. 5.-Ju@ge B. +.
Harness, OF the Howard Superior Court, to-
day issued an order directing County Audi
tor a. Il. Ellis to issue retail saloon IL
censes for the saloons OF Councilman Std
ger, John f. Dobbs. Thomas McGovern,
William Guire and Ed. L. Robinson. This
followed the dismission of the appeals TO
court by the withdrawal of Appearances IF
the remonstrants and the doors of the sa-
looms opened this morning. The saloon
men admit that the fight has cost them
$4,000.
In an interview Councilman Stidger, who
led the fight for the liquor interests. said:
1T was the hardest fight | ever made.
A conservative estimate of what the hghr
cost the Galoon men is $4,000. L knew ell
along that W. would VII, that the remon-
strators would sooner or later fall down.
And VIC fought in the dark. too. Ii has
been expensive and las done no good ex-
cent clos.ii- u few saloons for a few months.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, Sept. 5.-To-day a blanket
remonstrance was filed in Commissioners
Court by the Anti-saloon League against
Joseph McGinnis, William ingalls,, Samuel
Criss and William Arney, urging that they
shall not be granted license to sell liquor in
Harrison township. The remonstrants say
they have over one hundred majority of
the voters of the township, and are conf
dent the applicants will be refused licenses.
Some years ago ten saloons were located i'm
Harrison township. but the persistent fight
ofthe Anti-saloon League has reduced the
number TO one, which is located at Clay
City.
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THEIR OLD TEACHER
REUNION AT MoRRIsTbwN OF FOR
MER PUPILS OF DIR. FITCH.
Meeting of Sullivan and Knox County
Old Settlers-Mexican War Vet
Grams at

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MORRISTOWN, Ind, Sept. 5The former
pupils of DR.. CT. Fitch held their seventh
reunion at his home here to-day. DIR.
Fitch was educated at Wyoming Academy,
New York. and the Ohio Medical College of
Cincinnati. His educational career began
in 1887 and he continued in the school room
until 1886, with the exception of three years
pants wore yellow %triangles, on which were
gold fields.
The doctor is now past eight-six years
of age and is quite feeble, but his ~intellec-
tual powers are as keen as a half century
ago, and he is a close reader of ten daily
papers and we'll informed on all topics of
current interest. At these reunions, the
old pupils gather from ali over this and
adjoining States and those living in more
distant parts of the country remember the
occasion with letters to the association.
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ORDEAL roo GREAT.


special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, Sept. Sword received
to-day from Hendersonville, N. c., where
Mrs. JAMIE Stewart Boyesen, Of Laporte,
divorced wife of Attorney Boyesen, of Chi
cage, has been staying since leaving Spar
tanburg, 8. c.. after filing a $4,000 damage
suit In the Federal Court at Charleston
against DR.. Morgan, OF Augusta, Ga, and
Landlord Harris, OF the White Stone Lithia
Springs, for having falsely charged her
with the theft OF six hundred dollars worth
OF jewelry from a hotel room, is to the
effect that she is seriously i'll. having
given way under the strain OF the humili-
atins ordeal through which she has been
compelled TO pass.
No answer mad been received for several
JAYS 10 letters and kilograms sent her, and
this had caused considerable apprehension
as TO her safety. but to-day's word explains
that because of her illness she had been
unable TO reply to the many offers of as
sistarce and extensions of sympathy re-
ceiveu. She expects 10 come North as soon
rs her health will permit.
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WILEY DIFFERS WITH DENNIS.
Thinks Children Should study When
Thirteen Years Old.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 5.-Superin-
tendent Wiley. of the city schools. in a
talk before the Vigo County Teachers In,
stitute, took issue with DR.. Dennis. of Earl
ham College, who earlier in the week criti-
cised the common school system by which
pupils under thirteen years of age were
given too much study, which called into
use the reasoning faculties of the child. Mr..
Wiley said that a child begins to reason
of it's own accord before il is thirteen
years old, and when it begins to reason,
he thought, it was time to teach it to use
its thinking, logic and reasoning faculties.
He believed that the primary work should
be in reading, writing and spelling and that
the development of the intellect proper
should begin when pupils are about ten
wears old.
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FOR BASS.
Endeavor Will he Made to Supply
Winona and w Lakes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW, Ind, Sept. 5.-Fish brooderies
to supply Winona and Wawasee lakes with
bass are to be established on these bodies
of water. In opinion of z. 7. Sweeney,
state fish and game commissioner. who
has been on a tour of inspection Of the
lakes in northern Indiana, a hatchery for
bass is not practical, but if the bass are
put in a good clear stream and kept sepa-
rate from minnows and other fish they will
spawn with wonderful power of increase.
Mr.. Sweeney says a hatchery large enough
TO keep Lake Wawasee, the largest lake
in the State. well stocked would cost 81. 600
TO start and 500 a year 10 maintain.
An energetic campaign against violators
of the fish laws has commenced and a num-
Der OF arrests have been made at Ligonier.
Goshen and other points In the lake region.
Sportsmen have complained TO Commission
er Sweeney and orders have been issued
TO the deputy commissioners throughout
the State to be vigilant and prosecute every
case of violation that comes under their
notice.
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President PhiIIips's Resignation.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Sept. SIN
formation was received here to-day that
President Phillips, of the new l.. A. 300,
has resigned and that the members of his
organization will be permitted to go to
work in any of the plants after Oct. 10.
This will practically stop any effort TO
form a third union of glass workers and
mean a possible early resumption of
all the factories. a ~well-known manufac-
turer said here that if the Independent
plants went into blast all would very likely
do the same thing.
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WILL PLAY WITH ELwoOD.
Second Rush Otis Spencer 10 BE a
Member OF the Polo Team. Again.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, md, Sept 5.-The announce
ment was made that Otis Spencer. OF New
Haven. Conn. last years second rush on
the Elwood polo team. had reconsidered his
determination not TO play polo this year
and had put his name TO an Elwood con-
tract. This makes the Elwood lineup ex-
actly the same as last year, when the
championship OF the league came to this
city, and there is general rejoicing among
the local enthusiasts. who already antici-
pate another championship. Elwood's full
team Is now signed and will report Nov. 1.
Spencer Is one of the fastest players in the
league. with the possible exception of Hig-
gins.
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Was There a Mistake.

LONDON, Sept. 5.-Considerable comment
has been caused by a special dispatch from
New York to the Daily Mail declaring that
a mistake in connection with Shamrock
III's water line made her defeat a foregone
conclusion. The correspondent says il is
strange the error In the design was not dis
covered in time to prevent the formation
of the unwarranged hopes by which Sir
Thomas Upton had been deceived" and
intimates that some one blundered mex
cusably. The friends of Sir Thomas In
London are much excited. They declare
they are quite unable to see how the water
line mistake occurred. and hope an ex-
plauation will be forthcoming.
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They wi! now do tie same amount of
business as before
LIQUOR ELEMENT DEFEATED.
Antf-SaIoon League Makes q Winning
Fight mt Camden.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CAMDEN, Ind, Sept. 5.-The Anti-Saloon
League succeeded in getting 22s signatures
to a blanket remonstrance in this township.
which is a majority of forty, and all sa-
looms will have to close. The licenses of the
two saloons of this township will expire
this month and Camden will be a dry town
The leaders Of the league and the saloon
element met and a serious fight was
stopped by friends of both parties stepping
in. The remonstrance was filed to-day and
will be acted on by the commissioners on
Monday morning.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Sept. 5.-An-
nouncement was made to-day of the en-
gagement of Miss Maud j. Lusher, young
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George w
Lusher, of Burdwellyn Place, and Elmer
NJ. Frank. The ceremony will be performed
early in the fall, and the young couple will
reside in this city. Mr.. Frank is a young
lawyer and real-estate agent.
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firsts and two seconds. 1t is the first time
the colt was ever shown.
MICHIGAN CITY.-W. III. Wagner, a life
man, sent up from Owen county for murder
four years ago. died at the prison Satur-
day of tuberculosis. aged thirty-four years.
LEBANON.-The Boone County Agricul-
tural Association. at a meeting of the stock
holders Saturday afternoon, voted to sin
crease its stock to $1,000.
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Baylor Family Gathering.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO, Ind, Sept. 1.-The annual
reunion of the Baylor family was held here
yesterday, attended by nearly 200 relatives.
The next meeting will be held at Inwood,
Marshall county, the first Thursday in
September, 1904. Relatives were present
from Bourbon, Warsaw, Inwood, Fort
Wayne, Lafayette, Plymouth and Chicago
Officers were elected as follows: President
Oliver Wallace, of Warsaw; treasurer,
w. c. Coar, of Bourbon; secretary, Mrs
Sophia Sencur, of Bourbon.
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{. Discovered Valuable Barge.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CANNELTON, Ind. Sept. 5.-The steamer
Fulton this morning found the barge of
steel rails which was SUM in the Ohio
river by the towboat Finley last winter.
The barge was found on the Kentucky side
opposite this place. 1t was valued at $25,-
600 and a reward of 1900 had been offered to
the person who was lucky enough to find it.
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Marion Carnival Closes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Sept. 5.-The Pathfinder
carnival. which has held sway for a week.
came to a most successful close tonight.
During the six days and night 1000 peo-
pie attended the carnival. Large crowds,
including many strangers, have been at
tracted by the carnival, but not a single
robbery has been reported.
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OLD SETTLERS MEET.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SULLIVAN, Ind, Sept. 1.-THE annual
meeting of the old settlers of Sullivan and
Knox counties was held at Deiss Grove,
near Carlisle, to-day. The day was spent
in "reminiscences of the pioneer days and
the singing of the hymns of fifty years ago.
One visitor exhibited a legal paper written
in 1928 for the transfer of 134 acres OF land
from Thomas Anderson to Joseph Wilmont-
ert, on which is the grove where the meet
ing was held to-day. The principal address
was delivered by William H. Hays. of this
CITY.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLUFFTON, Ind, Sept. 5.-The Cornell
Concert Company has been here two weeks,
and a few nights ago Mr.. Cornell had a
young man named Harry Hixon arrested
for creating disturbances In the tent. Hixon
was fined and sent to Jail for five days.
This evening it was reported that a mob
of Hixon's friends was forming to clean out
the show. Mr.. Cornell asked the mayor for
protection and special officers were sworn
in to guard the show.
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petal TO the Indianapolis Journal.
LUFFTON, Ind, Sept. 5-Samuel Grew
Idied at $3.50 O'clock this morning at the
ONE OF his son-in-law. Councilman j.. A.
Morris. He was one OF the pioneers of In
diana. being born near Rushville. April %.
1S17. and was the son OF a revolutionary war
veteran Mr. GreweIl resided in Rush coun-
~ until t~hirty-five years or age. He later
moved 10 Boone county, where he lived until
six years ago, when he came 10 Bluffton to
live with his daughter. Uncle Sammy"
as he was called. was given a State and ma
ffonai reputation by the fact that he was
credited with having the rooster as the en-
blem Of the Democratic party.