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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
INDIANA STATE EIsrEDDFoD.
more than Fifteen Hundred Visitors
at the Gas Belt Festival

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
MARION, Ind. Feb. 2S.-It is estimated
that over 1,o0 visitors from Indiana. ILL.,
nois and Ohio were in the city to-day in
attendance at the Indiana State Eisteddfod.
All the gas belt cities were well repre-
sented. and there were many visitors from
other parts Of Indiana. Ohio and Illinois.
Owing to the absence of Mayor John Eiley.
who Is sick, the opening address was de-
livered by the Rev. Dr. Charles w. Rob-
erts. president of Central University of
Kentucky Following are the prize win
ners at this mornings session:
Solo for bcys under fifteen: First. Willie
Jones, Gas City; second, Eva Roberts, Gas
City.
Solo for girls under fifteen: First. Gladys
James. Elwood; second, Lizzie Baker, Ell
wood.
Recitation. boys under fifteen: First. Nate
Brennenan. Alexandria.
Recitation. girls under fifteen: First,
James Myvanwy. Elwood; second, May
Cole. Gas City
Plano solo: First. Mary Baker, Elwood;
second. James Blowden. Elwood.
Juvenile chorus, twenty-five in number:
First prize. Children's Choir of Gas City,
John Roberts, conductor.
Following are the afternoon prize win
Recitation. for ladies': Won by Olive Bot
kins. Alexandria.
Violin solo, for children under fifteen:
Won by Marion Davis, Marion.
Duet. tenor and bass: Won by Benjamin
Jones and john Marion, Elwood.
Patriotic song. for men over fifty: Won by
John II. Evans, Elwood.
Bass solo: Won by Thomas Peate
Lima. o.
Male chorus, not less than twenty: Won
by Elwood Male Chorus. John Morgan was
awarded a gold medal for being successful
conductor of chorus.
Winners at evenings meeting were: Male
recitation, Tudor Jones. Anderson; soprano
solo, Sara White, Lima. o.; tenor solo.
Eber Richards. Eda. o.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
FORMALLY LAUNCHED.
Campaign of G. A. III. ShideIer for the
Nomination for Governor.

Special to the Indianap polls Journal.
MARION. Ind. Feb. ga meeting of
the Grant county Republican central COM
mittee was held I'm the Superior Court room
tonight for the purpose of formally in
dorsing the candidacy Of G. A. II. Shideler
for the Republican nomination for Governor
OF the State next year. Besides the mem
bers of the committee fully go enthusiastic
Republicans attended, the number being
limited only by the capacity of the room.
Resolutions were adopted which pledge the
support of Grant county to Mr.. Shideler's
candidacy and call on the people of the
state TO nominate and elect him. Mr.
Shideler was present at the close of the
meeting and expressed bis appreciation of
the confidence and support of the Repub-
district
Similar meetings have been held in every
county or the district, and in all of them
there was no dissenting voice against the
candidacy of Mr.. Shideler. but he waited
Tor the formal expression of his own coun-
" before signifying his acceptance of the
situation and entering formally on the cam
palgn for the nomination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Frank E. Ward becomes general manager
of the Great Northern to-day, succeeding
John +. Stevens resigned.
President Ramsay, of the Wabash, will
return from the East on Monday, when 1t
is expected the result of the vote of the
train employees on the question of a uniform
advance in wages on the Wabash lines east
and west of the river will be made known.
The Omaha, Kansas g. Texas Railway
Company Is selecting its route through
dent c. C. Waller of the Velasco, Brazos
& Northern, the new line is being con-
structed as a portion of that system and
will be operated, when completed. by that
company, The route runs near Leger. o. T.,
and Vernon, Tex, to the Gulf OF Velasco,
Texas.
The Baltimore Evening News telegraphed
to George j. Gould as to the truth OF the
report that arrangements had been per-
fected by which the Iron Mountain road,
one of the Gould properties, will take over
the Wabash. and that traffic alliance
has been concluded between the Wabash
and the Pennsylvania. receiving the fol-
lowing reply: Your message received. /
know of no such deal"
The Santa Fe reports an agreement with
the conductors and trainmen regarding a
was Is per cent, but this fact will not be
definitely known until to-day, when it will
be formally ratified. Third Vice President
Kendrick left for Chicago this afternoon.
that a settlement perfectly satisfactory to
both sides had been made.
J. Pearce Clagett and Ernest E. Rock
hold, under the firm name of the Paxton
Tie Company, of cambridge, o. have filed
with the Interstate-commerce Commission
a complaint that the Detroit Southern, Gin
cinnati & Muskingum Valley, the Cleveland,
Akron &, Columbus and the Pennsylvania
railroads have charged them unreasonable
rates for shipments of crosstes. They
claim that by charging them a rate of 141a
cents per 100 pounds for transporting cross
ties from cambridge to Girard, while exact
ing only IL cents per 100 pounds for trans
porting lumber between the same points,
the roads are giving undue preference to
the lumber shippers.
The Buckeye Buggy Company, of Column
bus o., has complained to the Interstate
commerce Commission that the Cleveland.
Cincinnati. Chicago & st. Louis, the Balti-
more & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western. the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis
railroads and the Pennsylvania Company
have been subjecting them TO unreasonable
rates. The complaint alleges that the rates
on buggies from Columbus to Pittsburg.
Louisville and Atlanta are unjust compared
with rates from Amesbury, Mass. and
other northern cities to ,Pittsburg. Louisville
and Atlanta 1t is alleged the new regula-
tons of the roads regarding shipments tend
to localize the buggy business of the COM
plainantS.
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Linens, White Goods and
Redsnreads


and anything else that might show that
others had knowledge of his guilt. Captain
Kruger on the night following in company
with Journal reporter. got permission
from Mrs. Knapp to take away number
of letters that she exhibited. These letters
showed eoneusivelg that the parents and and
murder of his third wife, and pleaded with
him to remain away from Hamilton the
police were looking for him.
BODY NOT SHIPPED HERE.
The indianapolis police put little no
credence in the story sent out from Hamil-
ton yesterday to the effect that Knapp
shipped the body of his third wife to this
city on Dec 80 when he shipped two boxes
and barrels here. Knapp himself declared
that when he shipped these things they
contained his household goods and nothing
else. A careful search of the squalid quar-
tiers where he and his bride have been re-
siding failed to reveal anything bulky ex-
cept the one bed and cook stove.
Although Mrs. Knapp has stoutly denied
having any knowledge of her husbands
actions prior to their marriage. she is not
believed by the police of this city accord
ing to the letters now in their possession.
Captain Kruger has on several occasions
since Knapps arrest asked her questions
on this point, but Mrs. Knapp has given
evasive answers in such a way as to lead
the police to think that she, too like
others, had knowledge of his great crimes.
Mrs Knapp, since her husband S, arrest,
has not been able to partake of much food,
as she claims that each time she tried
TO eat she felt a choking sensation in her
throat. Inquiry by the police disclosed
the fact that had Mrs. Knapp been able
to eat she could not have subsisted long on
the meager supply of eatables then in her
possession. Captain Kruger reported the
matter TO the Charity Organization, whose
members promised they would look after
her. Mrs. Knapp complained that since
her husbands arrest the people living I'm
her neighborhood had refused to speak to
her and she expected that the rent man
would turn her out. The agent appeared
with writ, asking that Mrs. Knapp and
her aged father leave the place. The old
man left the City Hospital Friday after
several weeks Illness.
1t has been learned that George Geb-
hard. father OF Ida Gerhard. who was
killed by Knapp. is still living in Dowagiac
Mich Mrs. Gerhard died short time
after her daughters tragic death from a
broken heart. Mr.. Gerhard has sent a re-
quest to the police at Hamilton, O., for
all papers containing the capture and con-
fession of Knapp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Captain Kruger, of the police depart
snent. in a long-distance telephone con-
versation with Hamilton police officers last
night, disproved the story that Knapp had
shipped the body OF his second wife to In
dianapolis with two boxes and barrel of
mercha ndise freishted by him from Ham,
ilton to this city. 1t was suspected that
one OF the boxes contained the body of his
second wife. but the police at Hamilton
said last night that the baggage had been
inspected before leaving Hamilton. Mrs.
Knapp's uncle and a furniture dealer, TO
whom Knapp owed money, examined the
found them TO contain clothing and house
furnishings Captain Kruger reported TO
the authorities at Hamilton that he had
been unable TO discover anything here as
vet that would corroborate Knapp's con-
fession TO the murder Of HIS third wife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Indiana Notes.

ELWOOD.-Bert Collins, of this city, nine
teen years old, is under arrest charged
with robbing the safe in the Babbitt &
Haworth grocery of $50 in silver and paper
money. The safe. which stands behind the
counter at the store. was unlocked at the
time and Collins gained access to it while
using the telephone, near by. The money
was nearly all recovered.
SHELBYVILLE.-The officers of the
Shelby County Fair Association at a meet
ing held Saturday decided to increase the
purses in the speed department at the
Shelby county fair, which will be held in
September, from $1,000 to $500.
LAPORTE.-The Rev. j. L. McKim, of
Mishawaka, has accepted call to the
Christian Church at Wanatah
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
WIFE NO. l ALIVE.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
the girl had a prominent gold tooth, while
it was not known that Knapp possessed
such molar.
The attempted assault on the little girl
was one that aroused the neighborhood of
South West street, where the girl lives.
She was walking down the railroad track
near the starch works in company with her
small brother when the two were APP
preached by man of middle age VINO
asked the little girl if she wanted to be
vaccinated The man without waiting for
answer took hold of the girl and started
down the track near an alley. The brother,
becoming frightened. ran to the starch
works to tell his older brother who was
then about to leave his work. The older
brother told other employees of the works
and crowd soon ran to the place where
the little girl was thought to be. She was
found in an abandoned shed crying. but
otherwise apparently unframed. A search
of the entire southwest part of the city was
made that night. but no trace of the man
could be found.
KNAPP KNEW SOMETHING.
When it was said by the police yesterday
that Alfred Knapp might possibly be the
man who attempted the assault on the Me
haus girl, the Journal at once asked its
correspondent at Hamilton to ask Knapp
what he knew concerning the attempted as
sault
The answer received is as follows:
Knapp denies that he committed the as
sault on the Niehaus girl in Indianapolis.
He has a complete knowledge of the case.
however. The Journal correspondent Wis
tied the Jail this evening to question about
the matter.
do you know where the starch works is
located in Indianapolis?" asked the CORE
spondent.
Yes" answered Knapp. 81 know what
you are trying TO find out. You think am
guilty of the Niehaus case. Well, you're on
the wrong track. l had nothing TO do with
that case. The girl was found badly mutt
lated in a box car, wasn't she?
THE police Of Indianapolis think you had
something to do with this case
"Well, don't care whether they think so
or not. I'd tell Ii IL had, but didn't and
that's ali there is 10 il.
Knapp is either 1inacquainte6 with the
case or tried to make the Journals COR
respondent at Hamilton believe that he did
not commit the deed when he said the girl
was found mutilated in box car While
there were a number of box cars on the
tracks in the neighborhood of the starch
works when the man grabbed the girl, she
was not taken into any of them. The
maa took the girl to an old shed in an alley
near the starch works and left her. Her
screams evidently frightened him away, as
the girl was found in the shed alone A
! number of women from the neighborhood
saw the fellow take the girl into the alley.
Capt Thomas Lenehans who came here
last week for Knapp. failed to make a
search of the house on the morning of the
arrest. Yesterday afternoon he telegraphed
force. to search Knapp's house for letters
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Heavy Damage Suit Compromised

Special the indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, Feb. 2S-The $4,000 DAM
age suit brought in the Laporte Circuit
Court by Charles Dolan. of Elkhart, against
the Lake Shore Railroad Company for
the loss of leg in freight wreck in this
city in August of 1901, has been COM
promised, the plaintiff receiving. it is un-
derstood, $40 900. Dolan was a brakeman on
the wrecked train and was pinioned be-
meath the wreck for two hours before be-
ing released. He was in hospital here
jurieS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Voted Against strike.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 2S.-The poll OF
the Wabash trainmen having their head
quarters in Springfield was completed to-
day. and out of one hundred votes given in
to Conductor Ashley and Brakeman Jordan,
who took the poll, 80 per cent. voted against
striking. This course was advised by Ash
ley and Jordan. 1t is stated that a poll of
majority of the trainmen having their
headquarters in Decatur shows an equally
large per cent. against striking. 1t is be-
lieved the result on the eastern and middle
divisions will be against strike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
WILL INSERT THE PROBE.
Mayor BerEhon to Personally Investi-
gate the Fort Wayne Police.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-Mayor
Berghoff. in an interview to-day, declared
his intention Of making a personal investi-
cation of the discipline and faithfulness OF
the police force. He criticises the grand
jury for returning indictments against Su-
perintendent GOrsline for drunkenness
when several county officials are notorious
offenders against sobriety. He says he
viii so to the bottom of the trouble in the
police force. and Gust the inefficient
lie Is moved TO this. he said. by the re-
peated complaints OF the police that
the police are playing favorites." and that
several young men of good families have
been allowed to destroy furniture and glass
doors in saloons with perfect immunity
The police and people are still In an ex-
cited frame OF mind over the disclosures
made by the grand jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
ANOTHER MURDER SUSPECT
Arrested I'm Connection with the La
porte County Reynolds Case.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal
LAPORTE. Ind, Feb. 2S.-Edward Clan
cy. the third suspect In the Reynolds muir
der case. whom the officers last night an
nounced would be in their hands within a
few hours but who eluded them. was can
tured this afternoon at wanatah. and to-
night was received at the county Jail. OF
the three men now in custody he is the
most concerned and nervous over the
charges Wagner and Durham still main
tain their innocence. appear mistaken nv
the ''sweatings." and say that they viii
be able 20 prove an abb by their families
and neighbors. The prosecution refuses 10
disclose its evidence. simply stating that IL
f. strong enough TO convict.
The men viii be arraigned on Monday.
being now held without bail and n the
State takes no steps which VIII disclose
Its evidence IL IL believed that the attor-
neys for The defense will force the prose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

March Success.

Have you ever formed the '.memorandun
nabit. IL not, form il al once. Did YOU
ever stop TO think how forgetful Won are
how forgetful we all are? One puts a finger
into the water, withdraws IL, and looks
LOT the hole Ii isn't there The poet left
MS footprints on the sand The RISING
footprints were gone.
So IL is with things to be reme,nberea
Eraiity. treachery. thy name is memory
Wednesday. Upon il all sorts of imnor,. -, :,
contineencies depend Three O'clock comes
Wednesday-and goes. Two hours Ia fer yo,,
remember Horrors. What have lost 9''
were duly informed. Your treacberov.
memory registered the hour as s:a0 W.,
are at the station well In advance Of VIA
The clock there points to s:lk W6>~a :.
your train? Gone. ~ese =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MORRISTOWN,. Ind, Feb. 2S.-Quincey
Wooten, stock dealer here. was arrested
to-day on charges of alleged forgery and
was identified by John A. Young, cashier
of the First National Bank of Shelbyville,
the man who, by representing himself
as William Jones, secured money on a
check made payable to that person by Will
liam r. like, of this place, and drawn on
the Union State Bank of Morristown. The
check called for slJ04 Another check.
on this bank. for $50, was cashed at the
Rushyille bank. Cashier Williams. of the
bank here. pronounced both signatures
forgeries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Cohn-schlnng NuptinIs.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RICHMOND, Ind, Feb. 2S.-Colonel
Henry S. Cohn, a prominent resident OF
Louisville. KY, and Mrs. Mathilda Schlang
were married here at noon to-day. The
ceremony was performed at the home of
the bride by the Rev. c. Huber, of St.
Paul's Lutheran Church. The ring cere-
mony was used. The attendants were Miss
Emma Girardet, of Louisville, and Capt.
Albert Silbert, of Cincinnati. Dinner fol-
lowed the ceremony and Colonel and Mrs.
Cohn then left on short trip. They will
later go to Europe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Crushed i'm the Skating.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS. Ind. Feb. 2S.-Clarence o.
Sweany. aged twenty-six years. whose
home is at Seymour. Ind, was instantly
killed at the w. w. Mooney & Sons tan
merry here this afternoon at $50 o'clock. He
was employed in the leach works. with a
gang of men, and went into another de-
partment to get a drink. Soon after he
left his companions an oiler found Sweany $
body revolving beneath a huge belt and
pulley The machinery was stopped at
once but life was extinct and the body
was horribly crushed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
/ find the following statement in the Jour-
nal of to-day:
Judge Truman +. Palmer, who has been
mentioned as a candidate for the position
of solicitor of internal revenue to succeed
A. w Wishard, states that he is not cam
didate and did not authorize his name to be
used Judge Palmer has four years yet 10
serve as Judge of the Carroll and White
Circuit Court
The foregoing is unfair TO me and my
friends. 1 have never said to any one that
/ did not authorize my name to be used as a
candidate to succeed A. w. Wishard.
T. +. PALMER.
Monticello, Ind, Feb. %.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Clash Over the Vaccination Question
Results I'm the Action.

TERRE HAUTE. Ind. Feb. 2S.-An order
was issued by the Health Board tonight
closing the public schools until the case
brought against the health and school au-
thorities by the anti-vaccinationists is heard
in the Circuit Court March 5.
Until temporary restraining order was
issued, Friday morning, all unvaccinated
children were excluded from the public
schools on account OF the smallpox cpl
demic. the principals standing at the doors
of the different buildings to bar the en-
trance of children coming under the ban
The boys and girls were compelled TO bare
their arms TO satisfy the principals that
the vaccination operations had been sue
cessful To avoid having their children
excluded the anti-vaccinationists carried
the matter into court, which resulted in the
temporary restraining order being granted
The case Is to go to the highest courts
for a final decision to establish the power
OF the Health Board. Seven thousand pu-
pills are enrolled in the public schools here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Prefer. to stay fin JAIN.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Feb 2s.-Wilmert
Schrieber. a farmer of this county and
minister for the Latter-day Saints congre-
cation In Lafayette township. was fined sl9
to-day for violating the truancy laws by
refusing to send his children 20 school.
He refused to pay the fine and told the
court he preferred to go to Jail. He said
he was amply able 10 pay the fine, and
friends also volunteered to pay it, but he
declined the prefer and went TO jail to
serve nineteen days The Mormons have a
settlement in Lafayette township.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
COURT AND LAWYER CLASH.


Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
HUNTINGTON, Ind. Feb. 2S.-Judge
Branyan. Of the Circuit Court, announced
to-day that he would no longer recognize
III. c. Morgan. of the firm of Watkins &
Morgan, as member of the Huntington
bar. unless Morgan apologized for alleged
malicious action before next Saturday.
The trouble grew out of the Brooking
case, in which the Supreme Court was
asked TO mandate Judge Branyan for
ruling. Branyan charges Morgan with
suborEation of perjury. and accuses him
or pursuing him (Branyan) with vindic-
tlVeness born of hatred and malice" Ex-
Judge Watkins was also alluded to- and
Judge Branyan threatens to institute dis
barment proceedings about him also. The
frequent trouble of judges and attorneys
mere is strengthening sentiment in favor
OF the establishment of the proposed Su-
perior Court in this county
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
COAL OIL MONOPOLY.
French Chamber of Deputies Votes to
Tax Consumers of Petroleum.

PARIS. Feb. 2S.-After an animated de-
bate the Chamber of Deputies to-day voted
tax of franc IS confines per 100 kilos on
petroleum and Incorporated in this law
provision asking for the establishment of
government monopoly on petroleum with
the least possible delay. American petrole-
UNI is one of the chief items of importation
into France. and the prospects of the Amer
lean company predonlinatin the market
figured prominently in the debate and was
one OF the chief factors in the unexpected
vote for the establishment of the monopoly.
This question came up on a proposition
made by Finance Minister Rouvier to tax
French oil refners a means of relieving
the present financial stringency
The opposition sharply attacked this prop
osition on the ground that 1t would injure
the French oil industry and help the Amer
lean. NJ Rouvier contended that the French
industry now amply protected and
asked that the refiners share with the gov
eminent a part of this protection.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Interstate Traction Line.

TOLEDO, o., Feb. 2S.-The Toledo & Chi
cago Interurban Railway Company will be
Incorporated under the Ohio laws next
week. IL is TO be an extension of the To-
ledo e. Western line, running to the In
diana State line. The same capitalists own
the Garrett Aubrn & Western, now I'M
der construction, and the remaining links
will be built to make a connected system
from Toledo TO Chicago, with a branch
from Goshen to Fort Wayne