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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-26
INDIANA NOTES.

ity, Thursday night, Milton Rutherford,
aged forty, made a desperate effort to kill
himself by cutting his throat with a razor.
and only the interference OF the members
of his family prevented the carrying out
of his design. Rutherford went home last
night and drank a quantity of gin, which
threw him into frenzy, resulting in his
attempt at suicide. He will recover.
GREENWOOD.-The Rev. T. j. Simon,
charge Of the Presbyterian Church here,
from Pennsylvania. was installed Wednes-
day evening. DR.. Heron, of Indianapolis,
delivered the installation sermon. The
Rev. A. Nj. Barrett, of Whteland deliv-
cred the charge. TO the pastor. and the Rev.
the charge to the people.
RICHMOND.-within period of six
weeks what Is perhaps the largest combi-
nation-picture ever made in Indiana, and *
maybe in the Central States, will be COM
pleted in local photographers gallery.
will contain 25O pictures of the local 7. p.
A The picture will be hung in the It. p A
building at the st. Louis fair.
SHELBYvILLE.-Shel county wheat is
reported to be in excellent condition at the
present time and the crop promises to be
an average crop next year. The farmers
have planted about 20 per cent. less acreage
this year than last and the acreage seems
to be falling off each year. Most of this
20 per cent. will be planted in corn.
PETERSBURG.-The j. d. Carter Glass
Company began drilling a gas we'll here on
Thursday. The well will be completed in
thirty days. The gas. If any is found, Is
TO be used in the company's factory.
EVANSVILLE.-Miss Sallie Coerfield and
Mr. Lucian Roudcout. of Henderson. Ky.
eloped here on Friday and were married by
Magistrate III. +. Schrader.
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STRUCK BY A HUGE WAVE
THAT WAS SIXTY FEET HIGH
Stories Told by Passengers of Elk
perience of the Menominee
During Hurricane.
ARRIVAL OF THE CEDRIC

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-The White Star
steamer Cedric arrived to-day from Liver
pool and Queenstown. The steamer en-
countered fresh to strcng winds, but no
rough weather of note. She brought 2.272
sacks of mail and sixty-eight packages of
parcel post. Among the passengers was
Joshua lowering, of Baltimore, who was
the Prohibition candidate for President
with Mckinley and Bryan, and who is re-
turning here from a tour of the world, &C
companied by hts wife and daughter. An
other arrival was DR.. w. j. Arnold, of
Cambridge University, who has come over
to deliver a lecture on tuberculosis before
the medical faculty of Henry Phipps Col
lege on Jan. 20 at Philadelphia.
A number of the passengers who were on
the Atlantic transport steamer Menominee
bound for this port, when she was struck
by hurricane Dec. and disabled SO that
she drifted at the mercy of the storm for
five days, also arrived on the Cedric They
told a thrilling story of their experience.
The Menominee left London Dec 3. Four
days later she ran into a terrific gale and
huge wave. which the ships officers say
was sixty feet high struck the ship. throw
ing her on her beam ends. 1t came with
such force as to crush in the heavy dead
lights in the cabin ports on the starboard
side and the staterooms were flooded. Most
of the passengers were in bed when the
wave hit the ship. They were thrown from
their beds with their bedding and baggage
and everything movable top OF them.
The utmost confusion prevailed for a time
among the passengers. according TO the
story told to-day, and the officers had diff
Guilty In quieting them.
When the ship righted itself it seen
that her rudder post had been snapped off,
leaving the steering gear disabled and the
ship helpless. One sailor was caught in
the backwash Of the waves and dashed
against the hulwarks, receiving injuries
from which he died an hour later. Three
other seamen were seriously injured by
waves which broke over the ship while
they were trying to make repairs to the
shattered steering gear, and it became nee
cssary to lock the passengers in the cabin.
Oil was used TO still the waves, but with
little effect. For five days the ship rolled
in the trough of the sea, Captain Lucas
and his officers remaining the bridge
night and day without sleep Finally at
noon on the fifth day a temporary steering
gear was rugged and the ship limped back
TO Falmouth, where the passengers were
sent to Liverpool. and such of them
chose were sent TO New York on the Cedric.
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ANOTHER VICTIM DEAD;
TOTAL NOW SIXTY-FIVE

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, Dec. 25.-An-
other name has been added TO the long
death list resulting from the Duquesne
limited wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad at Dawson on Wednesday, Harry
Devlin. one of the three remaining pa
tents at Cottage State Hospital, died at
10 o'clock to-day The total dead now
numbers sixty-hve and this probably COM
pletes the list as the two still at the hos
pital are doing well and will probably re-
cover. Devlin's home at Homecoming.
Maryland.
There was one Christmas funeral-that of
Edison Goldsmith. Goldsmith was pop
ular young man and immense con-
course attended the services. The funerals
of the other Connellsville victims will not
be held until Saturday Sunday. This de-
lay is necessity as the undertakers are
too overworked to attempt to conduct sew
eral funerals in a day.
Special services for the dead were held
In all the Protestant churches of the coke
regions to-day, and after the burial OF
Father Fienello, which will take place to-
morrow. the Catholic churches will hold
masses for the dead. The remains of
Father Fienello were carried to the main
body Of the Church of the Immaculate Con-
ceptfon this morning, where they will re-
main In state until the funeral services on
Sunday.
The bodies of about thirty of the vic
times were gathered up and carried away
on early trains to-day
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GEN, J|M|NEZ MAY SOON
CONTROL SAN DOMINGO
Marching on the Capital of the Re-
public with a Large Body of
Adherents.
SITUATION IS CRITICAL

SAN DOMINGO. Dec. 25-It Is rumored
that the greater part of the republic now
under arms is in favor Of General Jiminez,
the former President, who is said to be
marching on this city at the head OF
large body Of insurgents. The provisional
government is making active preparations
for defense. San Pedro De Macoris has
declared in favor of the insurgents.
The situation here is becoming extremely
critical, though the city is quiet In expecta-
ton of events. There is great depression
in business circles as to the result of the
constant disturbances of the financial situ-
alton. The financial condition of the gov
eminent is very bad. owing to the fact
that the duties were mortgaged in advance
by the government of President Wos Gil.
The United States cruiser Panther and
the gunboat Newport arrived In port to-
day. The German cruisers Vineta and Ga
zeie also arrived to-day. The Dutch war
ship De Ruyter has been sighted.
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WOMAN EATS CHRISTMAS
CAKES AND SOON DIES
Said to Have Gorged Herself with
Three Dozen, but Coroner
Is Skeptical.
ONE ARREST IS MADE

ALLENTOWN. Pa, Dec. 25.-Coroner
Scheirer and Chief of Police Eastman are
investigating the case Of Mrs. Agnes
Minerva Leiby, who died Thursday at the
home of William Clader, of this city, under
what seemed to them suspicious circum-
stances. In connection with the case the
coroner tonight determined to hold William
Kunkle, an ex-policeman, until an inquest
is held. Another arrest, 1t is reported. may
follow
The woman's body was removed from the
Clader house last night and taken to the
home of her stepfather at Bethlehem. The
police say the body was removed without
notice to the Board of Health. 1t is said her
face was more or less bruised. Kunkle was
arrested because he was said to have been
with her when she died.
Inquiry at the Clader house brought out
the information that the woman died from
natural causes, due to eating three dozen
spiced Christmas cakes. 1t was also stated
that she was attended by two physicians.
Mrs. Clader said that Kunkle merely as
sisted her in administering medicine to
her and also said that the bruises were due
to Mrs. Leiby falling against a bed while
and DR.. A. j. Yost held a post-mortem ex-
animation tonight, but they declined to
say what developed.
Mrs. Leiby was twenty-Six years of age
and left a four-year- daughter. Her
husband deserted her several years ago.
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NEGRO USES CABIN AS A
FORT AND DEF|ES ARREST
Fires Fifty to Sixty Shots and
Wounds Hostage and a St.
Louis Policeman.


ST. LOUIS, Dec 25.-Albert Chambliss,
colored, who was being held as a hostage
for the arrest of his friend. was shot and
fatally wounded to-day by the latter. Pa
trolman Peter Dolan, who had the negro
in custody, also was wounded, but not so
seriously, by shots fired by Abingdon, a
negro whom the police were trying to ar
rest.
The shooting occurred near Benton, in
the western section of the city. where a
number Of negroes began rioting this af-
ternoon. Abingdon. who did considerable
promiscuous shooting, retired to a cabin,
which was surrounded by dozen police
men and a crowd OF two hundred citizens.
Owing to the presence in the cabin of a
negro girl, the police refrained from bonn
harding it, although Abingdon fired at least
fifty or sixty shots at them, with the re-
suit already mentioned. When Alington's
ammunition finally gave out the police ar
rested him without further trouble.
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Franklin College Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN. Ind, Dec. 25.-An invitation
has been extended by the Franklin College
directors to the indianapolis Baptist So
cial Union to hold its annual banquet and
meeting In the college in January. In
all probability the invitation will be ac-
cepted.
The debating club has elected the follow
ing officers: President, f. s. Gardner.
head OF the department of English: vice
president. N. II. Pritchard; secretary. Ray
mond Sellars: treasurer, Frank Shields
The club will begin active work at the
opening OF next term. preparing for the
annual debate with Kalamazoo. There will
be between sixteen and twenty candidates
for the team.
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FAMOUS LEANING TOWER
SOLD TO ITALIAN BARON
Composer Purchases the Gerisenda
Pile, Alluded to in Dante's
Inferno.
PEOPLE NOT PLEASED

ROME, Dec. 5.-Bologna,s most remark
able structure, the leaning Garisenda
tower. which was begun in ITO by Fflippo
and Ottono Garisenda, and which was
owned by the Marquis Malvezzi. has been
purchased by Baron Raimondo Franchetti,
who is well known a composer.
The Garisenda tower is only lsS feet high.
but 1t is ten feet out of the perpendicular.
Dante, in his Inferno" compares the
giant Antaeus. who bends toward him. to
this tower. when a cloud passes over it,
The oblicueness OF the tower was occa-
stoned by the settling of the foundations.
The sale of the tower has given rise TO
much dissatisfaction and the government
has been urged to interfere for the pur-
pose of securing it for the nation. thus
preserving this most important monument.
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BODY OF A SUICIDE is
FOUND IN THE WOODS
Hunters Near Salem Find an IN
known Lying with a Pistol
Clutched in His Right Hand.
BULLET IN HIS SKULL

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
SALEM, Ind, Dec. 25.-Two hunters dis
covered the body of well-dressed man. un-
known in this vicinity. evidently a suicide.
in the Wiseman woods. near a deep cut OF
the Monon Railroad. at $50 o'clock this
morning. The body evidently had lain there
forty-eight hours. A pistol with one cham
Der empty was clutched in the right hand.
On the other hand he wore a glove. His
mouth and lips were powder burned and
bullet was taken from just under the skull
at the back of the head. gold watch and
razor were found in his pockets. but nothing
else.
On the right arm, just above the elbow,
was found the name &c. Hope" tattooed.
The body was embalmed and held for iden-
tihcation until tomorrow. 1t is supposed
TO be that OF Louisville man.
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FAMILY REUNION TO
CONTINUE THREE DAYS
Descendants of Jeffersonville
Couple Who Married at Falls
City Hundred Years Ago.
special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Dec. 25.-One
hundred years ago to-day Mr.. and Mrs
David Spangler sat down to their first
Christmas dinner together in house in
Utica township, which had been erected by
Mr.. Spangier's own hands. The house still
stands and to-day there began reunion
of the descendants of the old couple. which
will last three days. The house is now
owned by FIVE lineal descendants of Mr.
and Mrs. Spangler and under its roof
sxty-five children, grandchildren and other
relatives will meet during the three days
Those who will attend the reunion came
largely from Illinois and Missouri, and,
with the relatives who live here, the gath
ering will be the largest of its kind ever
held in this county.
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Nearly Seventy Years Married.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind. Dec. 25.-If Walter T.
Carpenter lives another week. until Jan. 1,
ne will be ninety-three years old and he
and his wife will have been married seventy
years. Mrs. Carpenter is two or three years
her husbands junior. They are well known
to the people or Richmond and still drive
back and forth to the Quaker meeting held
at the East Main-street Church. Mr.. Car
penter Is best known for his connection
with Earlham College. where he was SUI
perintendent for fifteen years.
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SAD CHRISTMAS NEWS
FOR LILLIAN BENNETT
Instead of Greeting from Betrothed
an English Girl Hears OF His
Death in B. & O. Wreck.
SHE WILL BE DEPORTED

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Lillian Bennett,
who was to have met here and married
Ambrose Good. of New Castle. Pa. who
lost his life in the railroad wreck at Con-
nellsville, Pa, Wednesday night, arrived
to-day the steamship Cedric from Liv-
erpool, and was informed at quarantine of
her lovers death. Miss Bennett, who had
been worrying because the delay Of a day
in the vessels arrival would cause a post
ponement of the wedding until tomorrow.
was grief-stricken over the news. AS she
came over in the Storage and has neither
friends nor relatives to take charge of her,
she must, under the law, be returned to
England.
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VATICAN TREASURE
STORY PROBABLY TRUE
Cardinal Gotti, However, Gave the
Pope a Memorandum Instead
of Money

PARIS. Dec 25.-The Rome correspondent
of the Figaro maintains the accuracy of the
statement that the Pope has received
through Cardinal Gotti. project of the Con-
gregation of the Propaganda, several mil
lions of dollars which were held back at
the request of the late Pope Leo. The cor
respondent adds that the money had been
invested and that Cardinal Gotti simply
transferred to Pope Plus memorandum
of the investments without, however,
handing him the actual securities 1t is
pointed out that the official denials only
cover this latter point.
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SEVERE EARTHQUAKES
IN THE WEST AND EAST
Buildings Swayed in California,
and There Was a Thunder-Like
Noise in New York.
D NO SERIOUS DAMAGE

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. ga severe
earthquake shock lasting about eight sec
onds, occurred here at 9:45 this morning.
The big buildings in the business center
swayed for an instant as though they
would fall and people rushed into the streets
thinking some explosion had occurred. No
damage is reported.
OGDENSBURG. N. Y, Dec. pa dis
tinct earthquake shock was felt here to-
day. Telephone reports show that it was
noticed all through St. Lawrence county,
being severest along the st. Lawrence val
ley Buildings trembled violently at Mad
rid, sixteen miles east from here. The
earthquake was accompanied by a noise
resembling thunder, which was sufficiently
loud to awaken people.
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BUXTON WAS AWAKE.
Shelbyville Man Fired Three Shots
at a Burglar.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dec. 25.-Early this
morning a thief broke into the home of
Councilman Robert w. Buxton, and at the
time Mr.. Buxton was awakened the in
truder was bending over him.
Buxton moved slightly, which frightened
the stranger. and he moved backward to-
ward the door, on reaching which he lighted
a match to see If Mr.. Buxton was awake.
bed and secured a revolver firing three
shots in the direction of the intruder, but it
is not known whether the bullets had any
effect other than to hasten the progress of
the man.
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Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
PETERSBURG. Ind. Dec. 25.-The find
ing OF the whole right arm of a large man
here yesterday by Marshal Watson has
caused considerable excitement. Dogs were
eating the flesh from the bones when the
discovery was made. The county coroner
has the arm in his possession and Is max
ing dillgent effort TO find out how the dogs
got hold of IL. 1t is supposed by many that
the arm was used by some medical student
and afterwards thrown where the dogs
found IL.
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FIGHT IN SALVATION
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
Negroes and Whites Clash in a
Cincinnati Suburb and One
Man Is Wounded.
MORE TROUBLE FEARED

CINCINNATI, Dec 2.-In a race war to-
day at Lockland. a suburb of this city,
one negro was shot and seriously wounded
The trouble was the result of a. dozen en-
counters the white residents have had with
the colored inhabitants within the past
week. To-day several colored men, led by
Wheeler Stone, sought the white men at
the Salvation Army headquarters to settle
their differences. On their arrival at the
meeting they Immediately attacked the
whites present. The fighting was furious
a revolver and shot Wheeler Stone in the
arm. The negroes then retreated. More
trouble is feared
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PLEASANT CHRISTMAS
FOR PRISON INMATES
Good Dinner at the Reformatory
and Two Hours Entertainment
Music by a Quartet.
Special % the rndIanapolIs journal.


JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Dec. D.
Christmas day was celebrated here in an
unusually quiet manner. At the Reforma-
tory this morning the inmates were given
two hours of pleasant entertainment, dur
ing which Walter B. Armsbury, of a Chi
cago lecture bureau, gave forty minutes of
humorous readings. and was followed by
the Rev W. c. Clinton, of New Albany.
VINO delivered an address full Of wholesome
advice. spiced with numerous happy anec-
dotes. Music was furnished by a quartet
from New Albany. After the entertainment
the inmates sat down to a dinner table
laden with rabbits, mashed potatoes and
pickles. with oranges and other fruit as
dessert.
At the quartermaster's depot. yesterday
evening. Col. c. A. III. McCauley. the new
quartermaster, presented TO each of the
two hundred employees one or more boxes of
CONNECTIONS, on which were the names Of
the children of the employees and cards
wishing them a merry Christmas. The de-
pot will be closed until Monday morning.
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SHE HIS NO SPLEEN,
YET APPEARS HEALTHY
Remarkable Case of Miss Olive
Smith Which Surgeons Will
Tell About.

IOWA CITY, Ia, Dec. 25.-Alive and
healthy although without a spleen is the
remarkable lot of Miss Olive Smith, of
Kinrose. Ia, who visited the University
of Iowa Hospital to-day ana reported to
DR.. William Jepson, of the chair of sur
gerry. Months ago DR.. Jepson removed
Miss Smiths spleen. and the report will
be told to the American Association of
Surgeons in Denver next week.
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PNEUMONIA EPIDEMIC
IN CITY OF NEW YORK
Health Board Has Classified the
Disease with Measles and
Smallpox.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Pneumonia has
become so prevalent in this city that the
health department has decided to extend
the sanitary code by classifying that all
ment with measles, scarlet fever and small
pox and making it compulsory on physicians
to report every case of pneumonia promptly.
This is said to be without precedent in
America Europe.
In the last five weeks, according to the
health department, there have been $40
cases reported here, an increase of 43 per
cent over last year.
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BRYAN INTERVIEWS
THE CROWN PRINCE

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 25.-William Jen-
nings Bryan arrived here this evening. He
was Immediately granted an audience with
Crown Prince Frederick, with whom he
had a long interview. Mr.. Bryan left for
Berlin tonight.
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Got His Trousers.
New York Press.

Among the passengers Of a steamship just
in from England was a clergyman, whose
intention it was TO take up his permanent
residence here. During the examination of
his baggage, which included surplices. stoles
and other nondutiable church vestments,
the question arose as to whether the rever-
end gentleman was not called upon 10 pay
duty for the numerous pairs of trousers
which he was importing. Said the customs
officer:
II am sorry to say, sir, that you must pay
duty on these trousers; only the apparel you
make use of during divine service can be adj
mitted free of duty"
whereupon the quick-witted clergyman
exclaimed:
Come. come. my dear mani You surely
don't expect me to officiate in church with
out my trousers
So the apparel in question was passed free
of charges.
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Change Of Venue Taken.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYV!LLE. Ind, Dec S.-Wiliam
Sanders. whose case was set for hearing
In the Shelby county court on Dec. 2S. has
been granted change OF venue and the
case will be taken to another county. San
ders has been in jail since the early part
OF September. at which time he was ar
rested. accused of numbering the infant
child OF Eva Cochran by throwing IL into
the bottom OF a vault
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.--Ex-Governor
Isaac Sharp, OF Kansas, died here to-day
of an affection Of the stomach. aged sew
enty-one years. He was a native OF Penn
sylvania. but went to Kansas in the early
fifties where. a free-soiler, he played
a prominent part in the Kansas Missouri
struggle. He had lived in Washington
since 1ss2 The remains will be sent to
Council Grove, his former home. for in-
terment
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WRECKED TWO JOINTS."
Illinois Woman Used Energetic
Methods to Rescue Husband.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PARIS. ILL.,, Dec. 25.-Mrs. Francis Con-
diff, wife of a drayman at Herrick, viii
lage west of Paris. rescued her husband
from a saloon and gambling house by the
use of Carrie Nations methods.
With Ratchet she demolished the plate
glass front of saloon and not finding her
husband there she used the hatchet to such
good advantage in a gambling house that
she soon secured possession of the place
marched him home.
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Lose Of $500 by Fire.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Dec. 25.-Fire early this
morning I'm the large department store OF
Il. Lowenstein & Bros, on Main street be-
tween jefferson and Court. caused damage
estimated at $4,000, fully insured. The fire
was in the retail branch of the company
is carried.