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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-16
SALE OF FANCY CATTLE
OVER 400 HIGH GRADE HEREFORDs
DISPOSED OF.
Nearly $4,000 ReaIized-Average of
$1S.65 a Head-Many Buyers at
Cambridge City.
Special to the Indianapolis Jc

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind. Oct. 15.-The
sale of high-grade Hereford cattle, under
the management of j. A. Black, of New
Lisbon, and ID. w. Harris, of Greenfork, in
the Lackey sale pavilion in this city, to-
Gay, attracted prominent farmers and fancy
stock breeders from a half dozen or more
counties of the State. Out of a consignment
of GOO head 424 were sold at public auction
in groups of five and ten, for $500, averag-
ing slS.65 per head. The average price per
head for heifers was sl6.S5, while the bulls
brought $40. This bunch of fancy stock
came to this city direct from the Panhandle
grazing territory of northwestern Texas,
and comprised the choice selections of this
famous variety, grading from one-half to
three-quarters Hereford. the greater por-
ton being registered. While the larger por-
ton was made up of young stock from six
bunch of fancy feeders up 10 two years old
that brought top prices.
The best individual sale was made to
j. X. Mason. who purchased ten head for
$2s5. Other leading sales were: E. E. Jones,
of Connersville, eighty head for s., 4S7.0 A.
f. Oller, Economy, thirty head. $522.5O Bond
& Lindeman, city, thirty head, 1855; j. ID.
Wilson. New Lisbon, thirty head, $542.5 so:
Levi Crull, Mays, twenty head, 1851 so; Will
son Drake. Moreland, twenty head, $S57.50;
Charles Stateson. Greenfork. twenty head,
1912. so; Fred Bond, Greenfork, twenty head,
s37l. %; Graver & WINNER, city. twenty
fifteen head, $3.50; j. A. Cummins, Center
Vile. $216.
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OIL FIELD NEAR ELWOOD
GREAT EXCITEMENT IN AND AROUND
THAT THRIVING CITY.
New Well ON the shaner Farm Pump
Good Well at Princeton.
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CpSCidl 10 IA 1iiuidIdBOiiSJ Ouiu
ELWOOD, Ind, Oct. ia genuine oil
boom, the first of any prominence that FL
wood has enjoyed. is prevalent as a result
of the strike made four miles north and
two miles east of Elwood, on the William
Shaffer farm, by the Pittsburg Plate Glass
The pumps were placed on the
well yesterday, and, although the company
is very reticent as to the results of the test,
well-informed oil men say the new well is
pumping over a hundred barrels a day, and
work has been begun on a large tank in the
new field. Sylvanus Barrett, field manager
for the plate glass company, was in the city
last night, and says the Duck Creek town.
ship field is as good or even better than the
Parker field. one of the steadiest producing
districts in the State.
Among the farmers of Duck Creek town.
ship. which adjoins the Elwood city limits
on the north, there is the greatest excite
ment, and for three days there has been a
rush Of spectators for the purpose of leas-
ing land. The well in question has been
growing better from the start, and arrange
ments are already under way for setting up
new rigs as fast as they can be secured
This we'll is the closest to Elwood of any
boom of the first water is looked for here
this winter.
William Shaffer, on whose farm the new
we'll is located, was I'm the city this morn
ing, and says the quality of the oil is excel
lent, and that Ii is now almost entirely free
from water. For an hour and a half after
the pumps were started pure oil came from
product was almost half water. To-day.
however. the oil has steadily increased and
the water decreased, and now three-fourths
of the product is oil.
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INJURED in A COLLISION
EIGHT MEN IN UNION TRACTION
TRAINS EAST OF ELwOOD.
Three Are Seriously Hurt, but Prob
q Curve Screened by Woods.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, Oct. 15.-Eight men were
injured, three of them seriously, in a COL
lision of an east-bound work train and a
west-bound gravel train on the Union Trac-
tion line five miles east of Elwood, this
afternoon, at 2 o'clock. The injured are:
v. WALTER PRUITT, Alexandria, mo-
on gravel train; right arm cut,
broken and dislocated and back hurt.
GEORGE DIMMICK. Marion, laborer;
head crushed by ties.
FRANK RIDDLE. Gas City. laborer: feet
mashed.
SAM LANG, Marion, laborer; scalp
wounds and sprains.
HARRY SHEPARD, Marion, body
crushed and bruised.
Elmer Shaw, Of Elwood, a laborer, and
Motorman John Grubbs and Conductor Jo-
seph Overman, of Alexandria, escaped with
minor injuries.
There were twenty-six workmen on the
east-bound car, en- route to Alexandria,
after finishing a job here, and they carried
their tools and materials with them. The
collision occurred on a curve half a mile
west of Orestes. There is a heavy wood
on the inside of the curve, and this pre-
vented the motormen seeing each other
front ends of both motor cars were de-
molished and although both motormen
were hurt in jumping they would doubt
less have been killed instantly had they
remained at their posts.
Behind the car containing the workmen
was a car of ties, and the force of the i'm
pact sent them through the rear end of the
car in front. 1t was by them thai most of
the laborers were hurt.
The company surgeons were at once rushed
to the scene in a special car, which brought
the injured men to this city. where their in
juries were dressed. Unless internal in
juries should develop it is believed all the
injured will recover. The curve where the
cars met is a dangerous one, and 1t is re-
arkab that many of the men on the
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POLICE MAY USE THE GAG
PUBLIC MUST BE PROTECTED FROM
USERS OF FOUL LANGUAGE.
Ruling of Logansport Board i'm Exon
Grating NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Visit
States Prison-Other News.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Oct. 15.-In the
opinion of the members of the Board of
Metropolitan Police Commissioners Of this
city it Is proper for a policeman TO slap the
mouth of a prisoner under arrest when the
latter uses foul language within the hear
ing of women and children, even to the ex-
tent Of using the gag, IL necessary. This
opinion was expressed last night when the
board filed its decision in the trial Of Frank
A. Wermess. a patrolman who was charged
with conduct unbecoming an officer. The
patroIman had been charged with ordering
people to move on on the streets and
with slapping a prisoner while the latter
The prisoner had used abusive language
towards the officer, and the latter stopped
him by striking him in the mouth.
In its finding the board says: The board
desires to repeat Its approval OF the action
OF the officer in slapping the mouth of a
prisoner who persists In using foul, profane
and indecent language in a public street,
where 1t may be heard by women and chill
dren, and the officers are under orders from
this board to suppress such language, even
TO the extent of using the gag IL necessary,
the board holding that II is as much the
duty of the officer to protect the public
from such a nuisanc as to protect 1t from
violence"
The board exonerated Patrolman Wer-
mess in each of the seven charges preferred
against him by Mayor S. A.. Vaughn and
stated that in each instance he performed
his duty.
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LAFAYETTE. Ind, Oct. 15.-Joseph Rice.
one of the best known veterans In Tlppeca-
noe county, was found dead this morning In
the Warren county building at the Soldiers
Home by George Winston. another inmate
of the home. Heart disease was presumably
the cause Of death. Rice was in the city
yesterday, and was apparently In good
health. He was one of the old school or
tailors. and practiced his trade at the home.
He had worked at the trade for more than
fifty years. He vas born In Germany in
He enlisted in Company K. Sixth Michigan
Infantry, May s, 1862. and was discharged
on May "a. 1866. at New Orleans. He was
sent to the Home from ~Tippecanoe county
on May Is, 1896.
ELKHART. Ind. Oct. 5.-Daniel Asby. q
resident OF Elkhart since 1854. died to-day.
aged eighty-two. He had lived In the same
house forty-nine years. He was a black
smith by trade, and followed the work 40
an employe of the Lake Shore shops until
five years ago. His wife, TO whom he was
married In 1851, survives, as does his only
son, Winfield.
BEDFORD, Ind, Oct. 15-David Newkirk.
a local contractor and builder. who was
stricken with paralysis last Saturday night
while sitting talking with friends in Elliott's
drug store, died last night. Mr.. Newkirk
was sixty-three years old and had been long
a useful aud prominent citizen OF Bedford.
His wife died a few years ago. He left no
family.
RICHMOND. Ind, Oct. 15.-Word received
from Cleveland to-day announced the death
Of Mrs. Simon Fox. formerly a resident OF
this city. Mr.. Fox having been IN the mer-
chant tailoring business here for some years.
The funeral Will take place at Cincinnati
tomorrow.
BRAZIL, Ind, Oct. 15.-Thomss Williams.
aged seventy-ive years, died at his home
in Cardonia last night OF heart disease. lie
was the oldest mail carrier I'm the county.
having carried the mail between this city
and Cardonia for thirty years.
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MOVEMENTS OF

CHERBoURG. Oct. 15.-Arrived: Ftlerst
Bismarck. from New York. via Plymouth.
Tor Hamburg. and proceeded. Sailed:
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, from Bremen.
for New York.
NEW YORK. Oct. 15.-Arrived: Norge.
from Copenhagen; Pretoria. from Hamburg
Sailed: La Savoie. for Havre: Blucher. for
Hamburg. via Plymouth and Cherbourg.
GLASGOW, Oct. B.-Arrived: Ethiopia.
from New York. via Neville. Sailed:
Carthagenian. for st. John. y. F., and
Philadelphia.
QUEENSTOWN. Oct. 15-Sailed: Teu-
tonic. from Liverpool. for New York:
N~oordland. from Liverpool, for PhiladeI-
phia.
LIVERPOOL. Oct. 15-Arrived: Iyernia.
from Boston Sailed: Bavarian, for
Montreal, via Neville.
BROWHEAD. Oct. 15.-Passed: Ger
manic, from New York, for Liverpool.
LIZARD. Oct. 15.-Passed: La Touraine.
from New York, for Havre.
SOUTHAMPTON. Oct. B.-Arrived: New
York. from New York.
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READY FOR YEARS WORK
LITERARY SOCIETIES OF FRANKLIN
COLLEGE ARE REORGANIZING.
Many improvements Made to Their
HaIls-New Students Pledged to
Greek Letter Societies.
pecial % the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, Oct. 15.-The literary
societies of Franklin College, which have
an important part in the social and lit
erary life Of the institution. are taking on
a new interest this fall. There are three
of them-the Periclesian, the Webster and
the Offer Gran. They occupy spacious.
elegantly-furnished halls in the central
building. The Periclesian and Webster So
cieties are having the halls remodeled and
r~efurnished.
The Offer Gran Society has not yet re-
organized this fall, but IL is. believed II
will follow in the steps of the other organ
izations and make similar improvements.
The rivalry of societies is always strong
and accounts for their progressive spirit.
The Periclesian Society is the oldest or
ganization in college, having been founded
in 1853. On its membership rolls are the
names of the most prominent alumni OF
the institution. including United States
senator's and representative and national
officials. and other prominent men. The
society has elected the following officers
for this term: President, Roscoe A. Stott:
vice president, Frank Shields; recording
secretary, Miss Grace s. Carney; corre-
spending secretary, Miss Mary Magaw;
urSt crttlc, Roy A~leXanders SecOnu Cfllic,
Miss Ruth Sloan; chaplain, the Rev. u. s.
Hun; prosecutor, John Coon.
The Webster Society was founded In 1873
and for a number of years was a barb"
society. In later years the clause against
fraternities was withdrawn The Oner
Gran Society is an honorary organization,
only those being admitted who rank among
the highest fourth in the classroom work.
1t was founded in 1900.
The rushing season among the fra
ternities Is over, each fraternity
having secured a share OF the new
students. The Pi Beta Phi Sorority has
pledged Miss Marie H~ollensworth, of Plain
fiel6, and Miss Isabelle Porter, Of Petoskey.
Alpha Cramma Alpha has pledged Miss
Georgia Redman, of Peru. and Miss Alto
Williams, OF Sigma Alpha
Epsilon has pledged Roy Chadwick, of
Pleasant Lake. Luther Forsyth, of Trafal-
ger. and Benjamin Davis. OF Madison.
The young women of the Pi Beta Phi
Sorority entertained Tuesday evening in
honor of Miss Mabel Matthews, of Bed
ford.
The Thursday Night Club was entertained
this evening by Miss Clara Moody.
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NEW OPENED.
Home for New York RepubIicans-Let.
ter from President Roosevelt.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The new clubhouse
OF the Republican Club was formally
opened tonight. The ceremonies were at
tended by Governor Odell, Senator Depew.
Secretary OF the Navy Moody and other
prominent guests A letter of regret was
read from President Roosevelt. He wrote:
Permit me TO congratulate the members
OF the Republican Club on the occasion
or the dedication OF the new building. IL
cannot too often be said that the success
fui working of free institutions depends
upon the way in which the individual citi-
zen does his part honestly and efficiently i'm
the effort TO secure clean and strong gov
eminent: and OF course the individual can
only work efficiently in combination with
others. Your club is the kind of organiza-
ZION which opens a peculiarly broad field
Tor such work in combination by men who
are disinterestedly anxious for success not
only for the principles i'm which they as
members OF certain party believe, but for
the principles In which all men of what
ever party must believe IL they are good
citizens To a body like yours i know Il
can always appeal not only for support In
q contest. political or economic. but also
FOR support in every effort to secure de-
cency and Righteousness in public as in
private life"
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TO MEET AT HUNTINGTON
OHIO IMPROVEMENT CONVENTION AT
EVANSVILLE ADJOURNs.
Reafirms Principles of the Parkers-
burg Meeting and Names an Envoy
to Visit the President.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 15.-By unani-
nous vote the Ohio Valley Improvement
Association to-day selected Huntington.
w. Va, as the next meeting place. The
resolution committee reported unanimous
ly that it advised a r~eafirmation of the
principles and declarations embodied in the
resolutions adopted at the Parkersburg
meeting in November last. Embodied in the
resolutions were recommendations that the
former reports of engineers regarding the
plan for Ohio river Improvement be sane
toned, that the finance committee be COM
mended for it's useful work in getting the
association out Of debt. hat the press be
complimented for generous support of the
movement to improve the river, that the
Legislatures of Ohio. West Virginia and
Indiana be thanked for their resolutions
supporting the movement, that the polit-
ical parties of Ohio be praised for unso-
licited declarations in behalf of improve
ment. The resolutions concluded with the
statement that THE convention in this
city has been the most important and
most successful in the history of the as
ISOLATION"
Albert Bettinger, Cincinnati. O., was dele
gated special envoy to carry the proceed
ings of the convention to President Roose-
volt and to thank him for his past en-
deavors on the score of the river, and to
solicit his future interest for congressional
appropriations. President Vance and Sec
rotary Ellison were delegated representa-
tives of the association TO the convention
of the Mississippi River Improvement As
ISOLATION, which meets at New Orleans on
Oct. %.
Regrets from numerous public officers
were read. The first was from the White
House. President Roosevelt assured the
convention Of his hearty approval of the
objects sought and promised aid in SO
far as he was able. Every member of the
Cabinet sent regrets, as did also Governors
~Pennypacker, Nash and White. Senators
Beveridge, Fairbanks. Quay, Allison, For
aker, Hanna and Dolliver also sent regrets.
Numerous letters explaining absence OF
representatives and United States engineers
also were received
For the hour preceding final adjournment
Congressman Shirley, of Louisville, Grit
fifth. of Vevay, Ind, and Williams, of IL
linois, addressed the convention briefly on
river Improvement. Each drew loud ap-
plause. The convention adjourned sine die
at l o'clock. The delegates attended a bar
becue this afternoon.
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VISITED STATES PRISON.
Veterans of an Indiana Regiment I'm
Reunion at Michigan City.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Oct. 15.-The six
teenth annual reunion of the One-hundred-
and-twenty-eighth Indiana Regiment was
concluded this afternoon. The following
officers were elected: President, w. c..
Weir, Laporte; vice president, Jacob Nico-
demus, L~ogansport; treasurer, Samue Sail
or, Logansport; secretary, H. f. Butler,
Fulton. The next reunion will be held at
Logansport I'm October of 1904.
The veterans participated in a camp fire
Wednesday night, at which addresses were
delivered by J. +. Gallaher and Maj. H.. w.
Johnson. To-day the visitors went to the
State Prison and were shown through that
institution by Warden James L. Reid.
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WILL PRESS A BUTTON.
Gov. Durbin to start the Work on the
Indiana HarbOr Canal.

CHICAGO. Oct. 15.-Work on he new
East Chicago ship canal will be begun on
Oct. -, when Governor Durbin. of Indiana.
will press a button which will start two
"sand-sucker' dredges pumping sand at the
east end of the canal Work will be pushed
then until cold weather prevents, and will be
resumed early in the spring. The canal will
open into the lake at Indiana Harbor. ex-
tending south three miles To the Calumet
river. Ii win be two hundred feet wide and
have "A depth OF twenty-one Peterborough, it
is expected, to admit the largest boats on
the lakes-and will. together with the i'm
provements now being made in the Calumet
river, form a deep waterway from South
Chicago TO Indiana Harbor.
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TROUBLE AT PEKING.
Mysterious Attempt tn Blow Up the
British Legations Magazine.

LONDON, Oct. ia Peking dispatch TO
the Times describes a mysterious attempt
TO blow up the magazine of the British
legation Tuesday night during a military
ball. Wires were laid. but were not con-
nected witt the battery. At the same time
the breech blocks and sights of a 4.7-inch
gun were stolen, but have since been dis
covered I'm the native city.
The Times. after mentioning that such
an outrage at the moment the officers were
giving a bali might have had disastrous
effects. points out the coincidence OF this
attempt with the British legations recent
refusal to attend the Empress dowager's
entertainment at the summer palace, and
thinks the coincidence suggestive.
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DEATH RECORD
MRS. POLLY WRIGHT, WHO LIVED
EIGHTY YEARS AT WINCHESTER.
Veteran Found Dead I'm state Soldiers
ents We're at a Convention.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, Ind. Oct I5.-Mrs. Pos
ly Wright, as she was Familiarity known.
died at the home OF her daughter in this
city this morning at the age OF eighty-five.
of kidney trouble. She was born near Day.
ton, o., and was brought, when an infant.
to this city by her parents. AT the time
of the settlement OF the family here Win
chester scarcely had an existence and the
county was practically an unbroken will
derness.
In the earlier history of this city her
father, David Heaston. was a large land
owner and the foremost citizen of the coun-
~. She and one brother. Lewis Heaston.
of Wiltshire, o., were the only representa-
tives of the older generation OF her family.
of which the brother is now the sole sur
vivor. OF her immediate family there are
four daughters-Mrs. Eliza Lykins. OF this
city, Mrs. John Romizer, Mrs. Henry Cur
ry and Mrs. Kate Monks, living near here:
She left an estate consisting OF several
hundred acres OF valuable land near here.
The funeral will be held Saturday after
noon
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look at Mrs. Austin's New Dress
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HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE
advance guard for the w. c.. II. u. State
convention has reached the city and this
afternoon the officers held meetings pre-
liminary to the opening of the convention
proper Friday morning at Grace Metho-
dist Church.. All indications are that the
attendance will be the largest in the his
tory of the Indiana w. G.. Il. u. Three hun-
dred and thirty delegates have received as
signments of rooms and the visitors will
probably swell the attendance to 800. The
convention will continue until Monday
night. Oct. 10. when the convention lecture
will be delivered by Mrs. Leonora Barry
Lake, of st. Louis.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE Indiana
Union Traction Company to-day put a large
force of workmen on the 49, curve at the
target crossing near South Anderson and
this dangerous kink in the tracks of the
Union Traction Company will be taken out.
The short double curve was the result OF
trouble with the Belt Railway Company of
this city and was the point on the line
where the most disastrous wreck of last
summer occurred. which resulted in the
loss OF one life and the serious injury 10
many others. The line will be Strengthened
by Friday night.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Oct 15.-Four new
cases Of diphtneria developed to-day and
the houses have been quarantined by the
Board of Health. Several deaths have oc-
Cured in the past two weeks, and the
Board of Health is exerting every effort
to stamp out the disease by fumigating the
schoolrooms and establishing a strict quar-
antine. Judge w. G. Utz, of the Floyd
Circuit Court, is confined to his home on
account of the sicKness of his young son,
and the October term of court has been ad-
journed until he is released from quaran-
tine and can resume the sessions.
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to 1900 by a pouring rain. necessitating
postponement OF the racing card. The fea-
ture of the day was the award OF prizes
for the best acre of corn i'm the county,
resulting as follows: First prize, $50, TO
George V. Kell, 103 bushels: second prize.
SO, TO Thomas E.. Ellison. 81 bushels and
AZ pounds; third prize. Sl5, TO Carl Wiese.
s. bushels. For best ten bushels the prize
was awarded to Thomas T.. Ellison. This
corn is to be sold for next years seed at
auction on Saturday. Each acre was spe-
cially cultivated under strict regulations.
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STRIKE OF PUDDLERS.
objected TO n Cut in Wages of from
96.2S to - N Ton.

Pa, Oct. 15.-As the re-
suit OF a cut of sl.25 a ton in their wages.
the entire force OF puddlers at the Moor
head Bros. Company rolling mills, Sharps-
burg. went on a strike at midnight. The
hoorhead mill Is independent and has new
or recognized the union, but has heen nav
ing union wages until within the last two
weeks AT the payday two weeks ago the
wages were reduced from s625 to IS per
ton. Yesterday an order was posted an
bouncing that after midnight the price
would be 70 per ton, making a cut of 81 .25
from FORMER prices: The 90 puddlers en-
ployed I'm the mill held a meeting and
decided 10 go out. Unless new men are
procured at once the puddlers' strike will
effectively tie up the mill.