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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04
SAYS THEY STOLE COAL
RAILROAD COMPANY PROCURES
WARRANTS FOR CITIZENS.
Business and Professional Men of
Lakeyiew, o., to Be Arrested-ROad
Gets Even for Loss Of Fuel.
TO the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BELLEFONTAINE. O., Aug. 3.-War-
rants were issued tonight for the arrest
of twelve citizens of Lakeview, charged
with larceny for their part in the confisca-
ton of a carload of coal during the winter
when coal was scarce. The coal was taken
from car, on the Ohio Central lines that
had been sidetracked there on account of a
hot box. Not a vestige of coal was left in
the car when the morning of Jan. 81
dawned, and since that time the railroad
company has been endeavoring to secure
settlement from the town Of Lakeview and
from private citizens. but failing in all of
these attempts decided at last upon this
drastic measure. The warrants were issued
tonight, and it is claimed that professional
and business men of the town are included.
Several officers have been dispatched to
Lakeview to make the arrests and ii is ex-
pected that sunrise session of the mayors
court will be held TO try the cases.
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Both bodies Burned I'm the building,
which Was Destroyed Before Help
Could Be Summoned.
QUICK WORK AT DANvILLE
JAMES WILSON s.RAILROADED" 10
THE ILLINOIS PENITENTIARY.
Negro whom a Mob Tried to Lynch
and Caused a Race War-A Grape
Creek Tragedy.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GOODLAND, Ind, Aug. 3-Charles Med
worth, wen-known farmer living two and
one-half miles southwest of Mountayr. was
murdered about noon to-day by a man for
merly in his employ, and burned in his
mediately after committing the crime.
killing himself and burning in the build
ins with his victim. It is supposed they
had some words on the porch when Med
worth started into the house and was
followed by his slayer. who shot him i've
times with a revolver. Mrs. Medworth
then took refuge in the pantry. when the
murderer picked up a shotgun and fired
both charges into him. The family was
absent and the tragedy was seen by an en-
ploye on the farm, who was driven away BY
the threats of the murderer.
The Journals correspondent at Rensselaer,
says Charles Medworth, the murdered
farmer, was well known and respected.
The murderer had worked for Medworth
oyer three years, but would never give his
name, and was simply known as John.
About ten days ago he went away, coming
back at noon on Monday. From words he
dropped to another hired man, named Miller.
it was learned the two men were having
trouble about a settlement. They sat on
the porch while Miller was at an clubhouse
grinding a sickle. He heard two shots and
saw John follow Medworth into the house,.
Miller approached, but was driven away by
Johns threats to kill him also. Miller
went some distance to a Mr.. Browns
house and Mrs. Brown hurried to
Medworths home and found IL had been
set on fire, no doubt, by John, the murderer.
He was at an upstairs window and she
called to him to get out before he was
burned. He Immediately disappeared from
the window and was not seen again. IL Is
believed he cut his throat with razor. The
bodies of both men were found later this
afternoon in the ruins of the house. Johns
body was horribly burned, only little more
than the charred trunk being left Med
worth's body was not nearly so badly dis
figured. Medworth's wife and her two
children were away gathering black5erries
or very probably the murderer would have
killed the whole family. Mrs Medworth
is prostrated at the Brown home and
fears are entertained that she will not sur
vive the shock
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Unknown Man Called at POstOfice
and Asked for Mail Addressed to
the Drug Firm.
OFFICIALS AT WORK ON CASE
SIMILAR COMPLAINTS ARE EXPECT.
ED By POLICE FROM OTHERS.
Belief Exists that Theft Was CarefulIy
Planned by Some One Familiar
with Firms Business.

The Moody-Mueller Drug Company report
ed to the city detective department last
night that an unknown man called at the
Postoffce yesterday and secured their mail.
The clerk at the postoffice who gave out
the mail does not remember to whom he
gave ii.
Letters belonging to the drug company
were found last evening in field on Meek
street near the plant of the Home Brewing
Company, and all had been opened, but in
the opinion of the detectives only a few of
the letters were opened at that place in
order to divert suspicion.
The mail theft was evidently carefully
planned, and it is thought by the mem
bers of the drug company that il was COM
mitted by some person familiar with the
business affairs of the firm as the Monday
mail is generally much heavier than that
of other days and sometimes contains from
5000 to $4,000 in checks and drafts.
OFFICIALS AT WORK ON CASE.
The officials of the Postoffice are work.
ing on the case and the city detective and
police departments will assist them in the
search for the guilty person. Every patrol
man in the city was instructed last night
to look for letters addressed to the Moody
Mueller Drug Company and to arrest all
persons whom they had any reason TO be-
lieve were guilty of the theft.
The boldness of the thief is only realized
when ii is known that he walked away
with the mail in the presence of the mail
carrier employed by the drug company.
who was standing i'm the line near the de-
livery window at the time the theft was
committed. A number of similar cases. il
is said. will be reported to the police to-day.
and IL is believed that other mail matter
has been stolen in the same manner. a
more careful watch will be maintained at
the postoffice hereafter to insure the de-
livery of all mails to the proper persons and
to avoid any complications in the future
The Moody-Mueller Drug Company yester-
day notified all banks of the loss of their
mail and cautioned them against cashing
any of their checks or drafts presented by
strangers.
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TRICKED BY HOSTUTLER
kOkOMO OFFICER LED TO INVEST
$50 BY A "FAIRY" STORY,
But Grew Suspicious, Had the Ex-
Ripley County Man Arrested and
Forced Him to DisgOrge.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
KOKOMO Ind, Aug. 3.-Pete Hostutler
who assisted i'm running down the five men
who were lynched at Versailles, Ind, on
Sept. Is. 1897, and who has since figured
in numerous escapades, turned trick on
the Kokomo police. Hostutler came TO
Kokomo, professed religion, carried the flag
and beat the drum in the Salvation Army.
He gained the confidence of the officers and
to them he unfolded a beautiful story of
discovering the murderers of Lewis Yeager
and Francis Sutton, who were found dead
in Taylor township a few weeks ago., and
agreed for $50 to land the assassins and Sc
cure confessions.
One officer thought he the $1,000 re-
ward offered by the commissioners safe in
bis purse, gave Hostutler the $50 and started
him out. Later he grew suspicious and
sent a man to follow him. Hostutler was
found in Upton about to board train for
Indianapoli He was arrested and re-
turned to Kokomo. Hostutler disgorged
nearly all the money and will not be pros
ecuted. He had no knowledge whatever of
the crime criminals.
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CRIME COMMITTED ON A BOY
HORRIBLY MUTILATED BY TWO Me-
GROES WHILE HUNTING.
Woods Searched by Farmers, Who
Later Visited the City Bent on
Lynching the Men If Found.
ipecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD City, Ind, Aug. 3.-For
time tonight this city was in control of a
mob, but it dispersed without harming any
person. The mob wanted two negroes, but
they were not found in the Jail as expected.
Monday morning while hunting squirrels
in the woods on his fathers farm three
and one-half miles southwest of here,
George Hershey, aged nineteen, was at
tackled by two negroes who are said to have
attempted to mutilate him Fearing that,
the boys cries would attract the attention
of some passerby, they are said to have
first filled his mouth with plaintain leaves.
then searching his pockets and finding a
penknife they committed a horrible crime,
according TO the boy.
One of the negroes is reported to have
kept saying: xiii him; kill him., bu,
the other said: ..No, unman him, and that
will be worse than DEATH" After having
committed the deed. the boy says, they
threw his gun away and left him to die
alone in the woods. The boy dragged him.
self home and his cries were heard by his
father, whose first presumption was that
the boy had shot himself. When he
learned what had been done he drove to
town for physician. The news of the crime
spread rapidly and the father was followed
home by the sheriff with a posse of nearly
800 men at his back.
AS yet nothing has been learned of their
whereabouts, but 1t is safe. to say that If
they are caught Judge Lynch will preside
at their funeral. This evening it was cur
rently reported that they had been caught
and were being kept hidden to avoid dam
ger of lynching. The knife used by the
fiends was duh and the pain suffered by
young Hershey, he says was excruciating.
A mob of fully 500 persons gathered
around the jail here about o'clock tonight
and committee, which had been appointed
for the purpose. demanded that Sheriff
Morrical deliver the keys of the JAIL The
men had been told that the negroes who
had tortured Hershey had been secretly
taken to the Jail, and they demanded ad-
mission. The sheriff opened the Jail and
allowed them to make an investigation
The mob seemed satisfied and Immediately
dispersed, after being assured the negroes
were not there. Had the sheriff refused
heir request it is thought the mob would
have stormed the Jail.
1t is now rumored that the boy may have
committed the outrage himself, although he
strenuously denies it. So far no one can
be found who has seen the negroes, either
before or after the crime, except the boy.
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DENVER FAvoRs EXPULSION.
Citizens Alliance VIII Commend Ban
ishment of Idaho Springs Miners.

DENVER, Col. Aug. 3.-President ]. c.
Craig, of the Citizens Alliance, said to-day
that he believed that the action of the Citi-
zens' Alliance of Idaho Springs. in expelling
the union miners, who were accused OF COM
plicity in the blowing up of the sun and
Moon converter. would be commended at the
meeting of the Denver Alliance, but no radi-
cal unlawful actor would be taken he
expressed indignation at the action of the
Denver Typographical Union in adopting
resolutions warning the alliance against fol-
lowing the example of the Idaho Springs
alliance.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
DECATUR, Ind, Aug. 3.-The largest
crowd ever seen in Decatur was attracted
here Saturday by the Wallace shows. 1t is
estimated that 1850 strangers were in the
city. Eph. Bollinger. one of the best-k4own
farmers of the county, was robbed of $500
at the grounds. He held by some one
from behind while another man went
through his pockets. stealing his pocket
book. So systematically did the men work
that before the officers could get to the
scene the men, who could have been identi-
fed, had made their escape. The sum of
$500 was in cash and the rest in certificates
and notes.
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M'KEE PLEADS GUILTY
FORMER ADAMS EXPRESS MESSEN-
GER Is ARRAIGNED AT BRAZIL.
He Admits Stealing $1,000, and Says
He VIII He Glad when Sentence
Is Passed on Him.
peciaI to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind. Aug. 3.-To-day Lawrence
Sparth Mckee, the absconding Adams ex-
press agent, was brought here from Dem
yer, Col. where he was captured week
ago. Mckee. while an agent of the express
company between Terre Haute and Indian
apolis, stole a package on the 18th day of
February. 1902. containing s1.2O0 consigned
to the Riddell National Bank here. He i'm
mediately left the company's employ and
was a fugitive until his apprehension in
Denver. He was arraigned before Justice
Couch, as the crime was committed in this
county, and sent to Jail to await the COM
ing of the October term of court, in default
of $500 bond. He pleaded guilty to the
crime. He said ht would be glad when
final judgment was passed upon him.
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ST. LOUIS. Aug. S.-In the Circuit Court
to-day Judge Ryan sentenced julius Leh-
mann, former member of the House of
Delegates, to seven years imprisonment in
the penitentiary on the charge OF bribery I'm
connection with the city lighting Doodle
deal. On request of Circuit Attorney Folk
the passing of sentences on Kelly. former
speaker of the house, and former Delegates
deferred. Kelly was convicted OF perjury
and the others OF bribery in connection with
the same deal
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GARRETT's BODY FouND.
Suicide of Edinburg Negro While
Insane.
| 10 fhe Indianapolls Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
COLUMBUS. Ind. Aug. 5.-The body OF
Buck" Garrett. the insane negro from Edin-
burg, was found by searching party this morn-
ing in a bayou about hve miles north of this
city Garrett bareheaded and barefooted. ter
rorized the inhabitants of the northern portion
Clifrord ali day Sunday ans parties from Ed
inburg and Clifford organized TO appre-
he nd him. At Clinoro. where he was last seen
alive some time yesterday afternoon, he threw
his money away, saying he had no Use Tor IL
and disappeared in the direction OF Flatrock
river where the searchers tracked him TO the
waters edge. IL supposed al the time that
the body was under drift IN the deep water
iust below where the tracks led 10 the water.
but the place where the body found h over
a mile distant from the river proper.
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LYNcHERs TO BE INDICTED.
yermillion County, Illinois, Grand
Jury Reconvenes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 3.-The regular
grand jury reconvened to investigate the
lynching of ]. ID. Metcalf. July IS. in the
attack on the jail and other matters per-
tanning thereto, to-day returned an indict-
ment against James Wilson, the negro ar
rested for assaulting Mrs. Burgess at Al
win. The charge is attempted rape. Wilson
Immediately went before Circuit Judge M
W. Thompson, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced TO Chester penitentiary. He was
taken there at once. The grand jury Will DC
in session three four days and Will prob
ably indict many engaged in the lynching
and riot at the pail Company A, of Arcola,
arrived this morning and is now on guard
at the iail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04

John II. Carrington Is Accused Of the
Murder of His Sister-in-Law.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
DANVILLE, Ind, Aug 3.-George Car
rington was arrested to-day and his brother.
John T. Darlington. is badly wanted by the
sheriff for the murder of the formers wife
at Grape Creek Sunday night.
At the coroner's inquest to-day George
Carriugton testified that his wife taunted
John r Darlington with having an inten-
tion to steal some chickens, and Threatened
him with a revolver, when he shot her IN
the stomach with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot. killing her almost instantly. John
T. Darlington. the escaped murderer, II q
paroled convict from the Jeffersonville Re-
formatory, where he served three years tor
killing a man near Terre Haute.
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HER CONSCIENCE EASED.
Woman Enabled IN Sleep After Pay
ing nm Ancient Grocery Bill.

NEW YORK. Aug. 3.-The heirs of Z. B.
Gaunsales, who, about thirty years ago, con-
Quoted a large grocery business in East
Orange. N. j., have received a check for $50
from conscience-stricken woman, who says
she has not enjoyed a night of sound sleep
since she ran up the bill for groceries twen-
ty-seven years ago and left town without
paying il. The von.ans lawyer asserts that
after paying the S;ebt the woman retired and
slept until next morning at 10 o'clock.
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and president of the Red Cross. The plan
has been formulated by Miss Barton In an
ucipation of the time when she must neces-
sarily lay down the work. Miss Barton pro-
poses that a national fund be established
to be at ready command of a finance COM
mittee of men of national reputation when
calamity breaks upon the country. She sug-
gests that the organization be known as the
National Society of Red Cross.
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OSSINING, n. Y. Aug. 3-Antonio Tur.
kowsky "A Pole. was put 10 death to-day i'm
the electrical hair at Sing Sing prison. He
declared on his way to the chair that he
was innocent OF the murder of John Shepo-
loski Brooklyn saloon keeper, which oc-
Cured March s. and of which he had been
convicted. Turkowsky was sentenced June
o. and the time elapsing between the pro-
nouncing of sentence and its execution is
said to have been the shortest on the State
records.
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DISASTER IN SILESIA.
Thirty Persons Killed and Many Hurt
i'm a Railway Wreck.

BERLIN, Aug "A dispatch to the Volks
Zeitung, from Breslau, reports a serious dis
aster on the railway between Sucha and
Kaluria, Austrian Silesia. A train consisting
of eleven cars, heavily loaded with stone.
broke their couplings and ran at a terrific
speed down a sharp grade for twenty miles
until they collided with a passenger train.
Thirty persons are said to be killed and
fifty-two others severely injured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04
Grain Dealer Robbed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MONON, Ind, Aug. 3.-George L. Catlin,
a grain dealer of this place, was robbed of
s3s5 by a pickpocket at the Monon depot
yesterday. No clew has been found to the
guilty party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-04

Harry Robinson. drayman. OF soi Elm street.
Joe Dunn. OF ss5 Huron avenue. and John Zion.
OF s2s Arch street. Were arrested last night by
Ricyclemen Griffin and Amsdcn for participating
in a fzht at the lsig -Four freighthousc yester-
GAY The men became involved I'm diSpu-e
with a number Of negroes Who ran on the ar
rival OF the bcyclen.en. Robinson AIT in
the chin by OF the negroes and suffered
ugly cut His wound was dressed 1t ths o---
pensaTr.
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DOCTORS WERE SURPRISED.
Found q Hundred Cherry Pits I'm the
Appendix of a Patient.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Nearly one hundred
cherry pits have been found in the appendix
of a patient who was being operated on in
a Brooklyn hospital. The collection of stones
had not caused appendicitis, however. Their
discovery was due to an operation for cam
Ger of the stomach. What might have been
the ultimate effect the doctors are unwilling
to guess Not only the appendix, but a
large part of the intestines, was filled with
the pits. After the cancerous growth had
been cut away the surgeons took away the
pits and the patient quickly recovered.
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ENCOURAGING FECUNDITY.


PITTSBURG. Aug. s.-A check Cor sl0o has
been received from President Roosevelt for The
odore Roosevelt Signet. of McKeesport. the boy
born to Mr.. and Mrs. William III. Signet of
McKeesport some weeks ago. and which is the
twentieth child born to Mr.. Signet The money
has been placed in bank to the credit of the
baby the interest TO accumulate until he is
twenty-one years old
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OXFORD. Mass. Aug. "A national re-
lief organization with branches In every
city and town in the United States, with
branch No l I'm her native town of Oxford
q proposed by Miss Clara Barton. foundey
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RIOT AT BUFFALO.
FOrty-Five Italians Arrested-Many
shots Exchanged.

BUFFALO, n. Y, Aug. 3.-A riot broke
out in front of the Niagara elevator on Ohio
street to-day. and. as a result, forty-five
Italians are under arrest and detectives are
looking for more No one was hurt. although
scores of shots were exchanged. The fight
took place between the employees of the Nj
agara elevator and Italians who are en-
ployed at the plant of the Buffalo Union
Furnace Company. Ii is said 1t was pro-
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voked by an empIoye of The Niagara eleva-
tor, who shouted derisive epithets at the
Italians as they We're passing along the
street.
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CANTON o.. Aug 3-Joseph Saxton.
aged seventy-three years. the last surviving
uncle of Mrs. Mckinley. died to-day.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-30
MURDERED FOR HONEY
Tragic Death of a Chinaman Five
 Miles From Clifton.

Meager details Of a horrible murder committed five miles above Clifton. are printed m the Solomonvile Bulle- tin that reached here yesterday. The victim, 9 Chinaman, was stabbed in twenty places and his jugular vein severed.
 The scene of the murder was at the Chinese vegetable garden on the Frisco near Clifton, on land owned by Super visor Harper. Three Chnamen have heen farming the land and furnishing Clifton with vegetables. Last Friday morning two of the Chinamen left the garden early in the morning as usual with a load of vegetables for Clifton leaving one of the men in bed at the ranch. They disposed of their produce and returned to the ranch about noon when the horrible dis covery was made
 Lying in the doorway was the half naked body of their partner covered with blood and literally hacked to pieces. Upon examination twenty three knife wounds were found, and the room bore evidences of desper- ate struggle. The cabin looked like made hard struggle before meeting his death.
 The motive of the murder was rob- bery. It is sald the Chinamen had S450 in cash a few days previous to the murder with which to pay the rent. The murderer left no clew. Clifton officers are now making a hard effort to run the assassins down.