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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
CASH REGISTER CASES.
Bruce CosrelI's Statement Concerning
Attempts to Influence congressman.

Bruce Cosrelrs Statement Concerning
Attempts to Influence Congressman.
NEW YORK, June 19.-The federal grand
jury In Brooklyn adjourned until Monday.
The day was spent. II Is understood, in in
vestigation of matters pertaining to the
Brandt cash register concern. Bruce Cor
rell. of Canton o., an assistant doorkeeper
of the House at Washington. was at the
federal building. and IL was understood was
subpoenaed as a witness against the COM
pany. 1t was reported that Correll intro
duced former Congressman briggs, of
Brooklyn, to George f. Miller as the repre-
sentative of the Brandt company, and that
he also introduced Miller to other members
of Congress. -Correll was formerly in the
law office of William Mckinley at Canton.
The following statement was published
to-day purporting to come from Correil:
"Correll said that a representative of the
fraudulent Company approached him in
Washington and asked to be introduced TO
some influential congressman, intimating
that IL might be worth his while. He did
so, but the perquisite never was forthcom-
ing. After a fruitless demand the
Brandt-Dent company for compensation he
instructed his attorney to bring suit at
Watertown, Wis, for 500 for services In
this way the postal inspectors heard of the
matter ar he was brought here as a wit
ness. He says the Brandt-Dent people now
say they never saw him, much less had
anything to do with him..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
GOVERNOR ON A VACATION
CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND FAMILY
WILL VISIT YELLOWSTONE.
He Would Have No Opportunity to
Get Away Later I'm the Season.
The Itinerary.

Governor Durbin will leave Indianapolis
to-day for two weeks vacation. one week
Of which will be spent within the confines
of Yellowstone Park. He will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Durbin. his son Fletcher
Durbin. and Mr. and Mrs Garstang. of
this city.
The Governor has made his plans for his
outing very quietly and had intended to
slip out of town without letting anyone
save his office staff and few State officials
know that he was going or where his itin-
erary would take him. but last evening 1t
was whispered about the Statehouse that
the chief executive was prenaring for a
trip OF some kind. and when he was asked
about it he told Of his arrangements.
The party will leave this city at IL o'clock
to-day for Chicago. and will go from there
to ST. Paul. where stop OF several hours
will be made before proceeding west to
the Yellowstone regions AS much time
as possible out OF the two weeks available
for the outing will be spent in the great
treat for the Nations chief executive dur
ing his Western tour The trip will be one
solely for recreation. and the Governor will
spend a quiet week among the geysers, elk
and grizzly bears.
The Governor Is taking his vacation at
this time. as IL Is the only opportunity
ne wiz have during the summer. From
the first of July on he must be here to
sit as a member OF the State Tax BOARD
for nifty days, during the period when a
end of that time the business I'm the execu-
tive department. VIII have accumulated to
such an extent that IL would be impossible
for him to get away until late In the fail.
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Under the New Plan Adopted the As
100000 the First Year.
NEXT MEETING IN MILWAUKEE,
THAT CITY WINS OVER QUITE A
NUMBER OF AsPIRANTs.
Southern States Admitted to Member
ship for the First Time-Conwen-
tion VIII End To-Day.

Lieutenant Governor Northcott OF Illinois.
central organization of the Modern Wood
men Of America for ten years. Major
Halves, who has been chief clerk of the
Head Camp for more than ten years, and
the entire administration faction of the or
der were defeated last night by the rejec-
ton of the Young rate readjustment plan
and the adoption of the Iowa plan by the
Head Camp.
Ii cannot be said that j. G.. johnson and
his anti-administration and anti-rate re-
adjustment party. who have been humilat-
ed and defeated all through the convention.
which has been in session at Tomlinson
Hall all week. won in the truest sense OF the
word by the adoption of the Iowa idea.
But there is some victory and some re-
venge for Johnson and his party I'm the
thought that the readjustment plan cham
pioned and supported by Northcott and the
administration faction was defeated by
large majority and that the plan is much
more like the plan proposed by Delegate
Goodrich. Mr.. Johnson's representative in
Illinois, than the one rejected
Lieutenant Governor Northcott is said to
be the biggest man in the order OF Modern
Woodmen Of America and his defeat last
night is the worst defeat ever given any
officer of the order. A greater defeat than
this one was never given an official of any
fraternal organization. it is claimed.
HAS WORKED FOR YEARS.
For many years Mr.. Northcott has real
lied that the insurance rates of the Mod
ern woodmen of America would have to
he s,,or
tire insurance system of the order would
have to be rebuilt or the order would fail
utterly in its fundamental purposes.
For years Mr.. Northcott has led a move
ment all over the country to secure these
changes in the orders constitution. All
along it was thought generally that Mr..
Northcott and those working with him
had won their fight for raadjustment
and that this, the thirteenth biennial con-
vention, of the Head Camp would undoubt-
edly adopt the plan proposed by Mr..
Northcott through the administration fac
tion.
But the plan adopted-the Iowa plan-is
far from Mr.. Northcott's ideas OF readjust-
ment, and he openly declares that the plan
is bad" The Iowa plan is essentially
different in almost every particular from
the provisions of the Young plan.
But Mr. Northcott is not through. He
tacitly admitted last night. in the midst OF
the vote by which he and his faction were
defeated. that he will go to work again to
secure the kind of readjustment provided
for in the rejected plan.
The Iowa plan provides for a iat in
crease of from IS to 100 per cent. on tho
present rates of assessment. the amount
of assessment increasing with age until a
certain age limit is reached. when the as
sessments begin to decrease. Following
is the assessment table of this plan:
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Mitchell Will NOT GO
PRESIDENT OF NINE WORKERS
WILL NOT SPEAK AT WINSLOw.
striking Miners at Linton Ordered to
Return to WOrk-COnference
at Terre Haute.

President John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, will not attend the celebra-
ton of Mitchell day" at Winslow to-day.
Since his return from the East he has been
feeling indisposed, and will rest up for his
trip West next week. He will leave Mon
DAY and follow Vice President Lewis to
Rathbun. where they M investigate some
local trouble among the miners. and then
Mr.. Mitchell will go to Kansas CitJ to
assist in making arrangements for the joint
convention of the miners of the South
western districts.
Mr.. Lewis will leave tomorrow evening
for the Rathbun mines. The striking min
ers at Linton, Ind, were ordered to go to
work last night, and the affair will be
further investigated. w. w. Willard, secre-
tary of the Island Coal Company, at whose
mine the strike exists. said, however, that
word had been sent the miners that they
need not resume work until Monday morn
ing. The miners have been idle all week.
There are about six hundred men that have
refused to work. The trouble grew out or
the discharge of one man, who had been
dismissed by the company for letting coal
that was not up to the standard be sent out
from the mine. There are three local unions
among the miners, all under the same con-
tract to the company, and IN striking the
men are violating the rules of the contract.
The union officials consider the settlement
of the difficulty important. in that 1t will
be precedent that they have long wished
to make for miners throughout the State
who do not observe their contracts in the
proper attitude. Secretary Wilson, of the
Mine Workers. held conference last night
at Terre Haute with j. P. Penna. commits
sioner of the Indiana coal operators, and
John Boyle. vice president of the Indiana
Mine Workers, In regard to the settlement
of the strike. Mr.. Wilson will make the
address to-day at Winslow.
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Under the Encouragement the New
Middle Division Will Include Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky.
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
CHANGE, 1T is ANNOUNCED, WILL
BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY L.
Many Persons, Who Thought Head
quarters Were Permanent, Will
BE Greatly Surprised.

Indianapolis is to lose the headquarters Of
the middle division of the rural free deliv-
cry service. Superintendent s. B. Rathbone
received a telegram from the Postoffice De-
partment yesterday afternoon notifying him
of the change. and ordering him to report
for duty at Omaha, Neb. The change will
be effective by July 1.
Accompanying the change of the head
quarters comes the announcement that the
divisions have been rearranged, and that
the new middle division will include the
States of Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky, with
headquarters at Cincinnati. 1t is not known
here yet who will be in charge of the
division. The present middle division COW
ers the States of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin. In the change a new division is
created, covering Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, with headquarters at Chicago.
Mr.. Rathbone, at his new post at Omaha,
will have charge of the western division.
When Mr.. Rathbone was seen by Jour-
nal representative last evening he declined
to confirm or deny the report that he had
received orders indicating these changes.
but the information comes from altogether
reliable sources. Mr.. Rathbone said that
any statement in regard to such matters
should emanate from the department at
Washington.
PRESENT OFFICE FORCE.
At present the headquarters in Indian
apolis gives employment to an office force
of twelve persons, in addition to Superin-
tendent Rathbone, and twenty-six inspec-
tors travel out of the city.
The loss of the division headquarters will
be a surprise to many Indiana people, who
had been given to understand that the re.
port of the proposed change, circulated a
few days ago, was wholly without founda-
tion. 1t is not known that the change will
in any way affect the rural service in In
diana, or interfere with further extensions
that are greatly desired in several districts.
The Seventh and Eleventh districts both
have the complete service at present and
the Eighth is very well covered. Represent
ative Overstreet said yesterday afternoon
that the change would not interfere with
the reorganization Of the service in this dis
trict, as the order for the improvements
had already been issued and would be exc
cuted at once. An inspector will be here to
go over the district a week from next Mon
day, and upon his recommendations one or
two new routes may be established, and the
present ones will be changed for the better
ment of the service.
1t is matter of conjecture here whether
or not the order depriving Indianapolis of
the division headquarters and transferring
Mr.. Rathbone to Omaha should be attrib-
uted to Inspector Bristow, who has been
creating such an upheaval in the depart
ment at Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
Age at nearest
g OOO 600 THE FIRST YEAR.

Under the new system of assessments the
increased income of the order from its In
surance department will amount to $2.000.0t0
the first year. AS the Iowa plan provides
for the assessments to decrease when a cer-
tain age limit is reached and hundreds OF
the members are reaching this age limit
ever year, IL Is thought the amount of In
crease caused by the new system will not
be so large after the first year. II has not
been estimated what the increase will
amount TO after the first year
The vote by which the Younger admins.
tration. or Northcott-plan was defeated
came about after the stormiest and most
enthusiastic session Of this convention.
For four hours the almost complete body
of delegates listened to speeches by Mr..
Northcott and Mr.. Johnson as leaders OF
the two factions. The body was worked
demanded some kind OF action. and repeat-
ed and continues cries OF question, vote
Mr.. Northcott realized, it is thought. that
ing 10 prevent a vote being taken last night.
The Head Camp was ready 20 vote and de-
manded that the question be put. The vote
to be taken first was upon the Young plan
as an amendment 10 the substitute Cor Iowa)
plan. which was a substitute 10 the John
son Cor 80 per cent. fat increasel plan. The
vote taken by individual roll call.
The vote stood 2S019 against the Young
plan and III for IT, After ten years Of al
most absolute rule Mr.. Northcott was de-
feated and was no longer the unquestioned
leader OF the Modern Woodmen OF America.
VOTED FOR IOWA PLAN
A division roll call was then taken upon
the Iowa plan. and II was adopted by
vote of 215ls TO 1e6. About the same dele
gates who opposed the Young plan supports
ed the Iowa PLAN
The Young plan Of readjustment consisted
of four options. viz. level rate. reaching
$3.50 per $1,000 at the age OF forty-eight.
an increasing step rate from the age OF
eighteen years to SIXTY. a IS per cent nat
increase over the rates now in force, and
the present rates.
The johnson plan. which. was presented to
the convention by Delegate Goodrich. Of
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ARNOLD sURRENDERs.


ST. LOUIS, June BE j. Arnold, pro-
prietor of the Arnold Turf Investment Com
pany. chief of the exploded ''get-rich-quick'
concern. appeared at the -Four Courts short
ly after IL o'clock to-day and surrendered
himself. Arnold, who is charged in indict-
ments with fraud. has been missing since
his company went TO pieces In February.
Upon surrendering himself Arnold an
nounced that he was ready to give bond
TO answer the seven indictments against
him. The bonds. for $500 on each charge.
were prepared Immediately and after being
signed Arnold. accompanied by his wife,
attorney and bondsmen. left the courtroom
and drove away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
ONE IMMIGRANT. unidentified


ASHLAND, KY, June ia west-bound
Chesapeake & Ohio express to-day was par
TALLY wrecked here. The Pullman
coach went over an embankment. A woman
from Virginia, whose name could not be
learned. was seriously injured and returned
to Ashland. Deputy Internal Revenue Col
lector c. III. Bergman of Lexington. Pull
man Conductor Robson of Louisville and
five passengers were slightly hurt. The
mail pouch, when thrown from the moving
train. struck the depot platform and bound
ed under the train, throwing the smoker
off, and 1t pulled the cars off that were
turned over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
SHERIFF In POSSESSION.
Builders of the Chattanooga Say the
Seizure Was Unwarranted.

NEW YORK, June 19.-Tne cruiser Chat
tanooga. which is nearing completion at
the Elizabethport. N. J.. yards of the Cres-
cent Shipyards Company, is in the pos
session of Sheriff Coriell. of Union county.
New Jersey, who took the vessel on writ
of seizure granted by the Supreme Court
of New Jersey to the Babcock & wilcox
Company, makers of boilers. That COM
pany delivered six boilers to the Chatta-
nooga at the contract price of s6O,0O0 Treas
urer Ward asserts that the company had
paid two-thirds OF the price. in accordance
with the contract, but that the Babcock &
Wilcox Company had been unable TO get
the balance. The manager Of the yard
claims the levy grows out of misunder-
standing.
Lewis Nixon, president of the United
States Shipbuilding Company. said to-day:
There was no necessity to sue out a
warrant of seizure against the Chattanooga
Two-thirds OF the money due on the boil
ers had been paid and the balance will
be paid within the time specified
Sheriff Coriell said to-day that he had
placed deputy in charge of the Chatta-
nooga and would keep him at the Crescent
yard unless he received orders from some
higher authority to withdraw him. The
sheriff added that he had simply performed
his duty in seizing the vessel in accord
ance with the writ issued by the Supreme
Court commissioner and that knew MOTH
ing ABOUT the merits OF the case. he nad
not heard anything from the Navy Depart
ment at Washington, but he felt he would
be fully protected in seizing the Chatta-
nooga by the highest courts irf New Jersey.
George NJ Keasby, of Newark. who repre-
sented the boiler makers in obtaining the
attachment, said to-day: I'VE have alb
solutely no desire to hamper the United
States government or to delay the work on
the cruiser. The boilers which have not
been fully paid for were not bought by the
government, but were supplied to the ship
building company. The ship has not been
accepted by the government and still re-
fore, we proceed against them. We do not
look to the government to pay us. but eX-
pect the shipbuilding company will do SO
eventually"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
TEN KILLED, TWO HURT
SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE ILLINOIS
CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Enginemen of Two Locomotives, a
Mail Clerk and Five Others
Crushed to Death.

WATERLOO, Ia. June ia passenger
train on the Illinois Central, which left
Omaha at 7:50 last night. collided head-on
with freight train Just west of Redmond.
Ia, at 2:40 o'clock this morning. Ten per-
sons were killed and two injured. two seri-
ously. 1t took four hours to clear the
track of the wfeckage. The dead:
]. r. GRIFFIN. engineer.
+. H. STONEMAN, engineer.
D. ]. BRANTZ, fireman.
j. B. MILLS, fireman.
E. r. STICKNEY, Waterloo.
GROOM, mail clerk.
THREE TRAMPS. unidentified. stealing
a ride.
ONE IMMIGRANT, unidentified.
The seriously injured are Charles Moran.
Independence, Ia, arm broken, and George
Hurn, negro, of Independence, internal.
The trains met at curve. The passenger
train, which had the right of way, was go
ing at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The
freight crew Is said to have misunderstood
their orders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
TRIED TO EAT SNAKES
LITTLE LOGANsPORT GIRL is IN A
PRECARIOUs CONDITION.
Wanted to Emulate n Circus Perform
er-Ten Men Hurt by n ColIapsing
Wall at Michigan City.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, June 19.-Alice Fair
child, twelve years DID, tried to eat a dozen
live snakes, in emulation of the circus at
traction. and tonight is in a precarious
condition as result of numerous bites in
f1icted by the reptiles, which objected to
being eaten alive.
Last week Alice was taken by her parents
to see a snake eater who appeared in Lo-
gansport at a carnival. Thursday Alice's
brother caught a dozen small snakes, and
last night the girl tried to eat them. She
she might die.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20

Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
MARION, Ind, June 19.-Doctors s. s.
Tuttle and r. J. Morgan. of Van Vert, O.,
who were seriously injured by plunging into
an excavation on the Monroe pike with an
automobile Wednesday night. probably will
recover, although Dr. Morgan will be
cripple for life as result of the knee-cap
of the left leg being shattered. IL was at
first believed that DIR. Tuttle was internal
much improved and it is believed that he
will survive.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
CHARTER REVOKED.


CINCINNATI, June 1s.-The annual con-
vention Of the International Printing Press
men and Assistants Union closed to-
night. A proposition that feeders receive
two-thirds as much as a pressman in the
same jurisdiction was discussed and finally
ruled out of order on the ground that the
convention could not establish wage scale,
as that right belongs to local unions. The
dispute between pressmen and bookbinders
as to the jurisdiction of certain kinds of
work was reported as settled.
At the executive session to-day IL was
decided to revoke the charter of the Ham
mond, Ind, union. At the opening of the
convention Tuesday an attempt was made
to unseat the two delegates from Ham
mond, Ind. on the ground that all the
members Of that union are employed at
the Conkey factory. which firm refuses
to run its factory on a union basis. After
long and bitter contest the delegates
were seated and the question of revoking
the charter of the Hammond union was
referred to the committee on credentials
That committee reported at the executive
session to-day and after much discussion
the charter of the Hammond, Ind, union
was revoked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
LEO FORCED TO REST.


ROME, June 1s.-The Pope did not hold
an audience to-day, much against his own
wishes. he said he would Immediately be
reported as dying, which / am not" he
added. emphatically. Indeed. rumor that
his Holiness had had relapse was already
in circulation. The only reason for the
suspension of to-days audiences was Dr.
Lapponfs wish that the Pontiff should be
in the best condition for the consstory
which is TO be held next Monday. The doc
tor would like to stop ell audiences By the
Pope until Monday. but his. Holiness re-
fused to accede to the desire, saying that
it was his duty to go through il at all cost
The Pontiff has ordered that the new car
dinal, Archbishop Fischer. OF Cologne and
his suite be admitted to see him tomorrow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
Postmistress Arrested.

BALTIMORE, June 19.-Dora Campbell,
twenty-six years old, former postmaster of
Maysville. Ca. was arrested to-day on a
charge of embezzling postal funds. She re-
signed her position in Maysville. ii is said,
last May, and came to Baltimore for treat
ment at a hospital, where she registered as
Dorothy Herndon. Miss Campbell Is held
at police headquarters for the action Of the
United States officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
For Soliciting a Bribe.

SCRANTON, Pa, June 19.-W. Il. Evans,
select councilman of the Fourth ward, was
arrested tonight on the charge of soliciting
bribes as a result of an exposure made in
the Select Council meeting last night. when
Seiectman John II. Cuinnan demanded az
investigation of allegation that eight
councilmen met In his office, banded togeth-
er and solicited $500 each for voting for the
Dalton street-raiiway franchise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
Used Franked Envelopes.

GREAT FALLS, Mont, June 19.-Postof-
fee Inspector Beatty has discovered that
most of the United States land commission
ers in this region have been violating the
postal laws by the of franked envelopes.
on which they had printed their own names
and used for official mails. The commission
ers understood they were entitled to do
this, but 1T develops that they are subject
to fine of $500 for every letter thus sent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-20
WOMAN FIGHTS MADMAN.
Oldest Lighthouse Keeper Puts n Luz
natic to Flight with a Poker.

NEW YORK, June 19.-Mrs Nancy Rose,
the oldest lighthouse keeper in the United
States, is the heroine of a combat in the
historic lighthouse at Stony Point, on the
Hudson, in which she was pitted single
handed against an Italian lunatic who at
tempted to demolish things in the light
house and to tear the light down Armed
only with poker the woman, who Is sew
enty-five years old and had attended the
light half century, bravely stood her
ground and drove back her assailant by
belaboring him over the head. After the
lunatic had fed the old lady sounded the
fog bell and secured aid from the residents
nearby. The Italian was soon captured
and locked UP.