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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-29
GENERAL INDIANA NEWS
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL OVER HOOsIERDOM.
Lafayette Seeks Reduction Of Taxes
Memorial Day at Muncie-Woman
Struck by Train at Seymour.

LAFAYETTE.--People of Lafayette will
appear before the County Board of Tax
Review and Equalization this week to make
an effort to reduce the assessment of city
property. 1t is generally believed. and
conceded by county officials. that the city
property is taxed too high in comparison
with the farm land. This is the first time
In four years that the tax board has met
to equalize the appraisement. and it is
probable that all of the big real-estate
owners will go before the board and try
to secure reduction
PROFESSIONALLY. = Charles Friend
who disappeared from his home near Wat
son five years ago, leaving wife and sew
eral children, and whose whereabouts has
been wrapped in mystery. has been heard
Friend, from Canada, where he is conduct
ing a dairy. Friends wife has waited all
these years for some word from her hus-
band, but. hearing nothing, she secured a
divorce at the last term of the Circuit
Court, two weeks ago.
MUNCIE.-The members of the two
lodges Of Knights of Pythias and the three
local lodges of the Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows held a Joint memorial
service at Beech Grove Cemetery The pa
rade was mile long and one of the most
imposing ever seen in the city. The address
was by the Hon: G. w. Cromer. representa-
tive from the Eighth congressional district.
NOBLESVILLE.-The School Board has
chosen Prof John A. Carnagey, of Madi-
son, as superintendent of the Noblesville
schools. to succeed Prof. j. f. Haines,
who was recently elected county superin-
tendent. Professor Carnagey was superin-
tendent of the schools at Columbus for
eleven years.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 2S.-The annual
reunion of the First Indiana Battery was
held Sunday at West Heights, near here.
Mrs. Catherine Frey, whose husband be-
longed to this battery and died in the serv-
Ice, entertained the veterans, 1t being her
eightyrfirst birthday.
TERRE HAUTE.-George Rouse, a we'll
known character of this city, is accused of
working the change" racket on a woman
clerk at the Clinton postoffice. He has been
bound over by United States Commissioners
Higgins to the federal grand jury at In
dianapolis.
LAWRENCEBURG-T Order of Loco
motive Engineers held their sixth annual
picnic at the fair grounds here on Sunday
Over five thousand people were here, and
the affair was one of the best conducted
that ever took place in this city.
SEYMOUR.-Mrs. Clara Lee was struck
by a freight engine in the b. & o. S. w
yards here, Sunday morning. and very seri-
ously hurt The pilot of the engine struck
the side of her head, cutting a deep and
DANGEROUS cash.
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FIRST ARREST UNDERLAW
JOSEPH l.. LENNON WILL HAVE TO
APPEAR IN COURT.
Warrant Issued by DEPUTY Factory
Inspector Charges Him with vfo-
lating Child Labor Law.

Joseph l.. Lennon. 1871 South Meridian
street, general superintendent Of the In
dianapolis Tin Can Company. located at
Eighteenth street and the Belt Railroad.
was arrested last night by Patrolmen Law
Ter and Kimple on a warrant issued by
David 70 Specs. chief deputy factory In
him with employing child labor under the
age Of fourteen years, contrary to law.
Mr.. Specs alleges that Lennon. as super
intendent of the plant Of the indianapolis
Tin Can Company. employed Henry Wick.
a twelve-year-old boy. TO work in the fac
tory without first providing and placing on
file In the Office Of the can company an
affidavit made by the parents or guardian
of the child TO the effect that the boy was
over the age of fourteen years. He also
claims that Lennon refused TO produce the
register on demand OF the factory inspector.
as is required by law I'm order that the ages
of the employees Of the company might be
learned.
Mr. Specs says he will prosecute vigor-
ously all cases of employers who hire child
labor In violation Of the law, which compels
an affidavit stating the childs age 10 be
more than fourteen years, filed in the ONCE
OF the corporation or company. and regis
tered In book TO be shown on demand or
the factory inspector.
1t is said there are many factories In the
city employing boys and girls whose ages
range from ten to thirteen years, and in
many cases the parents of children have
been known to swear TO false afidavits In
order that their children might be taken
from school and put 10 work In some fac
tory almost before they have learned their
alphabet.
A crusade will be made on all factories
that are violating the state labor laws and
on parents who, for the dollar so week
which their small children might earn.
have been known to openly perture them
selves and swear that the ages OF their chill
dren were above the limit placed by the
law.
Mr.. Lennon will be given a preliminary
hearing in the Police Court this morning,
and the case will excite unusual interest
among the manufacturers of the city who
employ child labor. 1t Is the first case OF
that nature that has ever come up in the
Police Court of indianapolis.
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test, he sent this pathetic explanatory mes
sage to the wife Of his bosom: Mature
done it," We are reminded of this incident
by the equally pathetic attempts or some
OF the silver advocates to crawl out OF their
loyalty TO that metal on the compulsior OF
the increased gold output"
Chancellor Z. b. Andrews, of the Uni
versity of Nebraska. who was one or the
principal sustaining pillars OF the silver
edifice while he was president OF Brown
University, has acknowledged that he made
an Astounding mistake" in assuming that
the gold output was going to b. less than
~ really turned out to be, and confesses
that the actual output has invalidated his
reasoning. And now Senator German, OF
Maryland. who. though never distinctly
silver man, has been committed 10 his
party's attitude on the question. is out with
similar statement. The silver question,
he says "hAs righted itself by the increased
output of gold
This is, of courses crawl Nature is
undoubtedly enlisted, with the power OF
sense and logic. against the silver standard.
But the essential question has not been at
all affected by the recent production or
sold. There was quite enough guild to serve
as a basis for our currency when Andrews
and German were holly supporting the
Nebraska monomaniac for the presidency
on his Kansas City platform. The essential
matter, then and now. was and is that
the more precious metal is the only safe
and secure basis for a national currency.
That is the conclusion to which the DEM
ocratic leaders are being forced by the logic
of events. They are only trying to save
their faces" by putting the odium Of their
conversion upon mother nature.
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MORE SIGNALS FROM MARS.
Pity We Don't Know How to Respond
to the Neighboriy "Hello."

New York Times.
Our good friends the Martians are at it
again. They have something TO communi-
cate and are trying 20 signal us. Whether
it is a peaceful communication, which If
transferable would be found to mean Good
morning, Earth. How's business? or some
the long threatened Marian invasion of
this planet is about to begin, calling for
some sort Of proclamation of hostile intent,
We cannot at present be quite. sure. Prof.
a speciality of Mars for some years, has
observed a brilliant projection from the
edge of the Marian disk which admits of
must be artificial If artificial, it undoubted-
ly has q purpose and from its position
and character the presumption is that this
purpose is to attract the attention of the
astronomers of this planet and tell them
something, or at least get answering
signal. 1t might very well be that they
have something important to commune
this be true we shall have to remain con-
tent with ignorance of what it is.
Were this otherwise the difficulties in the
way of answering the Marian signal would
be sufficiently serious to prove discourage
ing. Sir Robert Balls calculations led him
to the conclusion that If we should at
tempt to establish a wg-wag communica-
ton with Mars We should need for that
purpose flag of sabout 81 500 square miles
in area, which would demand an incon-
veniently long flagstaff and entail some me-
we should try it with lights, we should
need an electric light as large as the city
of London. which would be expensive to
maintain. We may get TO Ii by and by IL
the occasion exists, but meantime it would
be great pity If Marian romance was
eliminated from our pseudo-scientifc liter
allure. IL is lovely planet to speculate
about. Everything points to the conclusion
that the conditions on Mars are very SINH
lar to those existing on the earth. We hope
their June climate is better than ours. and
...seL t.1t~ IS .r..sf
presumably for irrigation purposes, they
suffer less than we from the alienation
of drought and food-but that is beside the
point 1t will continue to interest us, not
because IL makes any possible difference
what the people Of Mars are doing. but
maybe because il is really none of our
business anyway, and has additional fasci-
nation for that reason. 1t is a pity. of
course, IL they want TO signal us. that we
cannot find a way 20 respond, just to show
ourselves neighborly and -sociable, but
doubtless ii amuses them to make the eff
fort and thus contributes something to the
gayety of plants.
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BIG STRIKE PREVENTED
COMPROMISE ADOPTED By THE Ma
CHINIsTs AT PITTsBURG.
MoIders Probably VIII Go Out-Sel-
diers Still Guard Richmond Cars
Miners Are working for Peace.

PITTSBURG. June 2S.-The threatened
strike of the machinists in this vicinity on
July / was probably averted to-day by the
men agreeing to a compromise. Over 1000
machinists attended the mass meeting to-
day, and. after much discussion, agreed to
cut their demand for an increase in wages
from Is to 10 per cent. and withdraw bodily
their original proposition to make entirely
union all shops where union men in any
number are employed.
A committee will wait on the manufac-
turers tomorrow to present the modified
scale. If this conference fails to agree
nearly 1900 union machinists will be or
dered on strike on Tuesday. AS the union
izing of shops has been the stumbling block
it is believed the manufacturers will agree
to the 10 per cent. advance In wages.
The molders. in all probability, will strike
on July 1. This craft, after several confer
ences with the employers, has failed to
agree on a new scale. Arbitration has also
failed, and a mass meeting will be held in
order to get the sentiment of the whole
body on strike or acceptance of the en-
ployers' ultimatum.
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OF Indiana Interest.

A dice game at Evansville resulted in the
probably fatal stabbing of Martin Farmland
by Joseph Beiderman.
A new ice company has been formed at
Terre Haute. and immediate cutting of
the rates is the result.
Ben Freeman, who killed man at Bur-
nett Friday, surrendered to the Terre
Haute authorities on Saturday.
1t is reported that the assets of the failed
Milton bank are S14273.52, with liabilities of
Sl4,516. President kessler is still missing.
Owing to the temporary vaction of houses
on circus day at Lafayette. ten residences
were burglarized, and losses were suffered
aggregatiIg more than $l,O00.
Councilman Culbertson has been arrested
at Evansville on the charge of trying to
bride four of his fellow-members in con-
nection with vote on telephone fran
chise.
Ten of the biggest oil companies oper-
ating in Adams county have been merged,
and the work of developing that field will
be pushed with more capital and renewed
vigOr.
The coroner of Howard county has re-
opened the inquest into the killing OF SUIT
ton and Yeager, on two Sunday nights,
several weeks ago, incident to the I'll feel
ing between two neighborhoods.
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THEY ARE DOING WELL.
Japanese Students Who Were Gradu-
ated from De Pauw University.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GREENCASTLE, Ind, June 2S.-Great in
terest is being taken by De Pauw Univer-
sity people in the progress of the japanese
students that have graduated from this
Methodist institution. Especially pleasing
to them Is the receiving by Tozaburo Kudo
of the decree of doctor of philosophy from
Yale University this month. Mr.. Kudo
was graduated from De Paw University
in 1896 with his Il. Phi, and the following
year, after postgraduate work, received
the M. A. degree. He took the Phi ID:
degree at Yale after considerable special
work in philosophy.
Mrs. Thomas Bayne of this city, has re-
ceived a copy of book published this
year by another De Paw graduate from
Japan, Suteta Takashima, who grad
uated from De Paw in 1891. 1t is a set
of short articles on various subjects, with
several short stories, and is somewhat
curious in appearance from the paralleling
of the English and Japanese text for the
benefit of the students who use II, espe-
cially those in the higher commercial col
lege at Toxic, Japan, where Mr.. Taxa
shima Is a professor.
Another japanese graduate, Sutemi Chin
da, is now envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary from his government
to St Petersburg. He has served in very
many high governmental positions. His
wife is a sister Of AimarO Sato, graduated
in 1881, who is minister resident and con-
sui general from Japan to Mexico.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK, June 2S.-Arriyed: Fur
nessia, from Glasgow; Patria, from Mar
settles and Naples; Cymric, from Liverpool.
INISTRAHULL, June 2s.-Passed: Hun
garian, from Glasgow, for Montreal; Nu-
indian, from Glasgow, for New York.
LIVERPOOL, June 2S.-Arrived: Cedric,
from New York: Etruria, from New York.
RATHLIN ISLAND, June 2S.-Passed:
Corinthian, from Montreal. for Glasgow.
KINSALE, June 2S.-Passed: Iberian,
from Montreal, for Liverpool.
QUEENSTOWN, June 2S.-Sailedt Luz
cania, for New York.
BOSTON, June 2S.-Arrived: Phiiadel-
phian. from London.
SOUTHAMPTON. June &.-Sailed: Brem-
en-. for New York
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Hearing Of the Moses Fowler Chase
Case to Determine to Whom Mrs.
Duhme Shall Make Accounting.
NEW TURN IN A MURDER CASE
BODY OF MRS. BRAKES FIRST HUS-
BAND ExHUMED FOR INQUIRY.
Salem Has Closed sunday-AttOrney
Rebuked for Preventing a Settle
ment-Other Indiana News.
specia, 70 the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINAMAC, Ind, June 2S.-The recent
finding of paying oil wells eighteen miles
west of this place. near Medaryville, is
causing the investment of capital and the
building of oil refineries at Medaryville.
During the week ons hundred Milwaukee
CWis.) men came on an excursion and in
vested large capital to further develop the
JasperPulash counties oil district Con-
tracts have been let for building refineries.
1t is reported that several gushers have
been struck. There are about twenty COM
panies drilling wells, and several wells gave
a monthly output of 1,50O barrels. that was
shipped to the st. Louis refineries.
The Indiana Pipe and Gas Line Company 8
ten-inch mains pass through the territory,
and the oil can be piped to Whiting, Ind,
to be used by the Standard Oil people until
the local refineries are built.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 2S.-The blood
hounds at Boonville We're sent to winslow,
Pike county. to put on the trail of the men
who set fire to the barn of ]. III. McCon-
nell and the Weekly Dispatch Office early
yesterday morning. The barn was de-
stroyed but the newspaper Office was saved
There Is considerable excitement over the
affair. Mcconnell has been active in the
temperance fight I'm Winslow. all the
saloons having recently been closed.
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TROUBLES OF MINERS.
Linton Diggers Raise a New Question

Linton Diggers Raise a New Question
Work stopped mt Tower Hill.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June 2S.-The 600
miners at Linton while complying with the
imperative order of John Mitchell to return
to work have raised a new question which
could not be decided by the arbitrator.
The original trouble arose from the dis
charge of three men for refusing to work
on Sunday to make repairs At the confer
ence with the arbitrator the operators Of
fered to reinstate the men on condition
that hereafter men could be discharged for
dissuading other men from working on
Sunday. This refused and the question
has now been referred to the State execu-
tive committees of the miners and the OPP
orators.
Vice President Boyle, of the miners, has
fined five mule drivers for quitting work at
Jasonvilie without first asking permission
from the mine boss.
The miners at the Tower Hill mine, near
Midland, have stopped work because they
say there is not enough air in the mine.
The State officials of the miners have taken
up the grievance.
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Philadelphia Ledger.


Yes, we have some queer experiences"
said the undertaken, land IL could only
give you the names some of the things that
come under my observation would make
rich reading. For instance. the other day
a man who Is. well known I'm fashionable So
ciety came into my place and asked me II
/ had any plain pine boxes. j said had
How much are theyT he asked. From s.
to $40. said. He ordered S. one sent to
a certain address in a swell downtown
neighborhood. and told me 10 send some one
to lay out corpse. My curiosity was
aroused and went myself. The corpse was
that OF an elderly woman who used TO be a
social leader. and the man who had given
me the order was her son. No one viewed
the remains except the servants. There
were no services, and the box was carried
out the back way at night. under cover OF
darkness. And yet. in the front room. as I
was screw.ng on the lid OF the IS pine box.
were men whose combined wealth. L am
told. Is fully 100000. Explain IL? OF
course. can't. It's just one OF those things
YOU wonder at.
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WAShlNGION, June ZS-W edtner loIe-
cast for Monday and Tuesday:
Indiana-Fair Monday; warmer in north
and extreme south portions. Tuesday fair;
light to fresh south winds.
nlinois-Fair Monday; warmer In north-
east and extreme south portions. TUESDAY
fair: fresh south winds.
Ohio-Fair and warmer Monday. Tuesday
fair: light, variable winds, becoming south.
Kentucky-Fair and warmer Monday
Tuesday fair.
Lower Michigan-Fair Monday and Tues
day. Eight to fresh south winds.
Kansas-Fair Monday and Tuesday.
Iowa-Partly cloudy Monday; Tuesday
probably showers and cooler.
North Dakota-Fair Monday and prob
ably Tuesday.
South Dakota--Partly cloudy Monday,
probably showers and cooler; Tuesday fair
ENTHUSIASTICALLY fair Monday and
Tuesday, except probably showers and
cooler Tuesday In the southwest portions,
light to fresh south winds.
Minnesota-Fair Monday; Tuesday cooler
and partly cloudy, probably showers in the
west and south portions; variable winds.
Enthusiastically cloudy Monday, prob
ably showers and cooler In the western
portions: Tuesday fair In the West and
North. showers in the southeast portion.
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MRS. BRAKES FIRST HUSBAND.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COVINGTON, Ind, June 2S.-The body Of
Calvin Myers, the first husband of Mrs.
Elmira A. Drake, who Is held here for the
murder of her second husband, Robert ].
Drake, was yesterday removed from its
grave by request Of Prosecutor Ratclin. At
the time OF Calvin Myers's death there was
much talk, and many thought she had poi
soned him. There was some objection made
by relatives to having the body examined
for poison, but they finally consented. My
ers died three years ago. and was attended
by Dr. Mendenhall, of kingman. AS to the
cause of his death the doctor will not COM
NIT himself at this time. The heart, lungs
liver and stomach are now In possession of
DIR. Hurry, of indianapolis, for chemical
analysis.
Mrs. Drake is very anxious for the trial
to begin. Both sides are prepared for the
battle. Almost the entire population of the
southern part of the county will be present
The trial Will begin on Monday.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, June 2S.-John Reed aged
twenty-three. formerly of this city, but now
of Huntington. w. Va, jumped from a
moving freight train yesterday morning and
fractured his skull. He died this morning
at the City Hospital without regaining con-
seriousness. He has relatives here whom he
was coming to visit The young man had
much property and had several large bills
In his pocket His motive in riding on the
freight train is unknown.
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FROM SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Brief Summaries of the Principal
Items I'm the Issue Of June 2S.

Six alleged poolrooms in the New York
Tenderloin were raided and six hundred
habitueS were arrested.
The syndicate which underworld the new
issue of Pennsylvania stock will receive
81 900, 900 for its services.
Postmaster General Payne, who has been
seriously sick at Washington, was able to
return to his desk Saturday.
The Postal Telegraph Company is about
to construct line along the tracks of the
Union Pacific from Omaha to Ogden.
An open switch and a cow combined to
wreck a fast train near Petersburg, Va.
The engineer and fireman were killed.
Mexican steamer was wrecked on the
gulf coast near Galveston. The captain was
killed, but the rest of the crew was saved
The entire police force and one hundred
militiamen are on duty at Wilmington,
Del, to prevent an anticipated clash of the
races. growing out of the lynching of last
week.
President Roosevelt arrived for the sum-
mer at Sycamore HILL Oyster Bay, and his
homecoming was made the occasion of a
fete by the inhabitants. Mrs. Roosevelt
and the children had preceded him there.
James p. Mccain, a st. Louis horseman
who disappeared a week ago. was muir
dered. His nude body was found on Satur-
day, and the fictitious Lord harrington
has been arrested on suspicion of having
committed the crime
Jackson, KY, has been put under strict
Inlltdry rune, anu the provost mas OruerS,
in the event that there is firing from any
house I'm the town, to destroy the house
with cannon, which are already posted at
advantageous points.
1t is reported at Washington that a ship
ment Of bulls from Indiana to Argentina,
for breeding purposes. developed foot and
mouth disease after their arrival, though
there are no cases of the disease in In
diana. The matter will be investigated.
Emperor William, at Kiel, wished to pre-
sarge, and was Informed by Ambassador
Tower that the laws of the United States
forbade them to receive so much as a
pencil from foreign sovereign or govern
ment. He then told the ambassador to tell
them that he had the disposition to do so,
which was done.
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KessIer Is Yet Missing.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, June ga message
from Milton tonight states that Elijah
Kessler, president of the Citizens Bank,
has not yet been heard from, and that no
one now believes he will return. The sem
timent against him is increasing in bitter
ness. Ii is learned that Kessler never had
more than $3.50 at any one time. Many
believe the assets will not pan out nearly
so well as the statement previously made
indicates.