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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
EMINENT MEMBERS OF
CHAMBERLAIN'S BOARD
English Factors, Merchants, LegiS-
lators and Economists Who
Have Accepted Places.

LONDON, Dec. 1S.-It has been announced
positions on Joseph Chamberlain's COM
mission of experts, which is to inquire into
the condition of British trade and report
thereon with the object of drawing up a
tariff reform measure: Charles Booth, Sir
Vincent Cailard, Sir Arthur Keene, Sir VIII
liam L. Lewis, Alfred Moseley, Sir Andrew
Noble, the Hon. Charles ~. Parsons. Sir
Walter Pence c.. A. Pearson. Sir Charles
Tennent and Sir Alfred Jones. A number of
members of Parliament also have accepted
positions on the commission. They include
the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, William II.
Grenfell, Frederick l.. Harris, Sir Alex
ander Henderson, Sir Alfred Hickman and
A w. Maconochie. Other members of the
commission are Charles Allen, Henry BeSs-
mer, Richard Burbidge, j. j. Candish, +.
j. Warning, jr., and j. Howard Colts. The
secretary of the commission will be Will
liam A. 5. Hewins, director of the London
School of Economics and Political Science,
and teacher of modern economic history
in the University of London, who will be
assisted by a large staff OF experts and
In this mornings issue the Standard en-
tiers a strong editorial protest against Mr..
ChamDerlain'S commission as involving a
complete change of constitutional methods
and being akin to defiance alike of the au-
thority OF the crown, the Cabinet and the
legislature. The paper demands that Mr..
Balfour diScOuntenance the attempt TO AS
Sert an irresponsible dictatorship and take
steps to deprive the movement of any sort
of official recognition. 1t declares that the
members of the commission are mostly
wealthy protectionists, hardly one of whom
would be entitled TO sit on a really strong
royal commission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
DREW THE COLOR LINE
At DElANEYS REQUEST
Veteran Trainer Says that Success
of the Blacks Causes
Trouble.
N POOR LIGHTER

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 17.-"Jim JEFF
fear" said Billy Delaney.
mo one for a moment doubts that the
Champion would have easy work trimming
The c0l0red brother. II Is through long
pieadings that the champion took his pres
ent stand. / argued that when jackson
was in his prime is was almost impossible
TO live IN California owing 10 the airs and
manners the colored population adopted. II
IS to avoid a repetition Of this kind that L
am so opposed to Jeffries fighting a colored
man.
johnson showed last week that he Is
miles removed from championship caliber.
He lacks the punch TO finish. Take all his
fights and il will be noticed that only in
about one out of ten he finishes an oppo-
nent before the limit is reached. Sandy
Ferguson had no trouble in staying the
twenty rounds.
Jeffries and see what would happen to him.
It would be Ike taking candy away from
a baby for the big fellow TO trim him.
johnson contents himself with jabbing his
opponent and jumping back out OF narms
way He generally makes an unsat1srac-
tory fight, and that is another good reason
why Jeff should avoid him.
No one can blame Jim COfforth for try
ing to bring the meeting about, because he
Is keeping an eye on the main chance.
Cofforth knows that any contest in which
the champion is engaged Will draw a big
house, and as he Is the head and front OF
the Yosemite Club he natul ally wants to
secure an attraction that will draw the
fight-f0llowers TO the box office window.
Hence his great anxiety to secure Jeffries's
consent TO the match"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
Il RACING
William Scheftel Takes Trainer
May Into the Firm.

LEXINGTON, KY, Dec. 16.-William
Scheftel. OF New York. owner of the SEN
sational colt Highball. has bought of
two-year-old bay colt Major Pelham, by G..
W. Johnson. dam Stratnmaid, by Strath-
more. and the chestnut yearling flly, by
imp. Top Gallant, dam Lettie Brown, by
Julien. In return Scheftel has sold his
trainer a half interest I'm all his horses
except Highball. and the deal embraces up
ward OF a dozen coming two-year-olds.
The Eastern Jockey Club was to-day adj
vised of the formation Of the new racing
firm OF owner and trainer. and the horses
In this string will in the future race In the
name of Scheftel & May.
Z. Cowden Maplehurst Stud. Mt. Kisco.
n. Y, has secured OF Henry i. Oxnard,
treasurer OF the sugar trust, the great race
horse and young stallion. Prince of Mel
gowan, by Hindoo. for the season OF 1904.
Cowden agrees TO breed fifteen of his best
mares to him and OXnard will send ten OF
his own mares 10 the great young horse
next spring. Prince of Melbourne won the
Realization Stakes, Brighton Cup and other
classic races. The contract is void at the
close of next season. as Oxnard intends to
send the mighty son of Bramble to Ken
lucky In 1895.
At the Elemndorf Stud of James b. Hag-
gin IN last Saturday night, during the
severe Snov-StOrm that swept over this sec
ton. seventy yearlfngs quartered IN a big
paddock stampeded and ran through the
wire fencing Five of the number were
badly crippled and veterinarians say two
OF them cannot recover and will have to
hllies reserved by Haggin from his last
years crop for future brood mares.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
DEFENDS BROTHER OF
THE MURDERED WOMAN
John B. Brown Says the Members
of Gillespie Family Have Been
Wronged.
ATTACKS YELLOW PRESS

John 3. Brown, OF C0nnersville, Ind, the
editor of ArborfcuIture. was in the city
last night, and in speaking of the recent
sensational murder at Rising Sun. Ind.
said: eff mob rule gets the upper hand in
Ohio county the sensational press of Gin
cinnati and Indianapolis will be wholly TO
blame. There is entirely too much sensa-
tionaIism in the stories sent out by Rising
Sun correspondents, which goes back to
tina locality as authority taken from the
great dailies of the cities. The excitement
Is already too intense in that Ohio river
town. 1t would be well to withhold public
opinion and not hang a man until he has
been legally and impassionately tried in a
court of competent authority.
II have known the Gillespie family for
more than half a century. The old DR.. Gil
lespie was a friend Of my grandparents and
the late DR.. Gillespie was my family physi-
clan. while the stricken mother was my
earliest friend. There is a strain of insan-
ity through some of the family, although.
as is usually the case. showing itself in
only a few members.
Some forty-five years ago one member of
the family came to America from the old
home in Scotland. He was here but a
short time when he became violently
insane and was finally taken to an asylum.
1 think the young woman. Elizabeth
showed un~mistakable symptoms of the dis
ease and while she was accomplished. intel
ligent and pleasant in society yet she was
imaginative TO an extreme degree, so much
SO that she believed things which had no
existence whatever and told stories of peO-
pie, including her own relatives, which
caused lifelong enmities. While the brother
who stands suspected of the murder was
at home she refused to meet him or come
down stairs while he was in the house and
she compelled him to leave and take his
abode elsewhere.
1t is not unreasonable to believe that there
were others who were injured by the i'm
agined stories. who might have been i'm
PEELED TO commit the deed. Every clew
should be investigated and the public should
not decide upon one persons guilt until it
is proven beyond all doubt. The State of
Indiana demands the punishment of the
guilty party or parties, but it also demands
that mob spirit and a prejudiced community
shall not override justice.
1t was perfectly proper that the members
of the family who were absent from the
funeral should have remained away, since
under the excitement of the hour there was
no telling what might have occurred had
they been present"
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many examples of the too ready use OF the
gun" Some years ago a man was shot
down near the canal because, as reported.
he was trying to escape arrest" The
calling down and the evil had apparently
disappeared until recently II has taken
such a hold that. to cap the climax. II is
now proposed that the Board Of Safety re-
of weapons. The reason given is that
when they shoot any person IL cannot be
determined who did the shooting" Such a
policy leads by a short cut to anarchy.
man has just as much right TO shoot
as another.
Officers are permitted to carry guns for
their own protection in defense and never
for use in aggression. Dealing with law
breakers, 1t is TO be presumed they are
dealing with a more dangerous element
and they are granted this protection as a
means of defense.
An officer is never justified in shooting
or shooting at a man who Is running un-
evident intent to assault, and, in such case,
when tried the latter may plead such fact
N defense. If the person whom an officer
desires to arrest runs away from him
surely the officer has no right, under our
laws, to shoot at him for any purpose.
Human life is not that cheap in America.
Every man life is supposed TO be pro-
person or limb of any MANNED or disfig-
ured. excepting by due process of law. and
upon trial and conviction by a court of
competent jurisdiction. Justice fails in any
case where a shooting occurs by an officer,
just the same as IL done by a private citi-
zen. If, upon trial. they show a good de-
fense, the law Is vindicated-and only then.
u can never be done by any and all at
tempts at flushing up"
When an officer has shot a man and goes
acquitted without trial, there arises the
query in every MIND as to when and who
is he going to shoot next? For these rea-
sons I am protesting, in the name of law
and order. that IL an officer thinks he has
more right to shoot because he carries a
gun either that he be removed from the
position or given such instructions as win
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
CLETER FORGER FINDS
VICTIMS FOR GOOD SUM
Man Supposed to Be Russell King
Passes Worthless Checks to the
Amount of sos.

A clever forger yesterday succeeded in
passing a worthless check for S25 on the
Granger store on West Washington street
and going directly from here to Carbon,
Ind, he passed another forged check to a
merchant there for $40. Both checks were
drawn on the Fletcher National Bank to the
account of the Standard Life and Accident
Association, signed by A. l.. Willard, the
general agent, and Endorsed by Russell King,
the man who secured the money.
King forged the name of Willard to both
pieces of paper and being a man of good APP
pearance had little trouble in securing the
money. At the Granger store he bought a
suit of clothes for $50 and received about So
in change and at Carbon. Ind, he made a
purchase Of a small amount of goods and
took cash in change for the check. The
detectives here were notified of the forgery
and were given an excellent description of
the man, but up to the present time they
have been unable to locate him.
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
AS a citizen in favor of law and order, !
desire TO enter a protest and warning rela-
tive TO the altogether free use of guns
by police and other public officers. Lately
the news columns of the press have had
what I regard as a surfeit in accounts of
persons being shot, and shot at. by officers
whose only purpose should be to protect.
and not endanger, the life or lives of the
public. This fundamental principle In the
makeup of our government should never
be lost sight of. viz, that an officer. police
or constabulatory. has no more right TO
shoot or to shoot at any person than any
other citizen.
Recently II was reported that certain off,
GERS had discovered persons who were
thought TO be lawbreakers and started TO
arrest them and were compelled to shoot
at them as they had started to rum" etc.
This was just as bad. IL not worse. In
~crinsinology than the accused were sus-
2ected Of. In our own city we have had
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
GAMBLERS MUST STAY
OUT OF CUMBERLAND
of Witnesses Called to Tes-
tify Against Keepers of Rahke-
Jones Poolroom.

Gamblers who look to Cumberland as
their refuge will find very shortly that the
arm of the law is as long as the land. In
the eyes of the grand jury any one who
goes to Cumberland with the intention of
gambling is a target of the law and will not
escape the consequences.
Almost twenty subpoenas were issued and
served yesterday on witnesses to appear be-
fore the grand jury to-day and testify
against the keepers of the Rahke-Jones
poolroom and gambling house at Cumber-
lard. +. h. Wiese, one of the committee of
Cumberland citizens which is fighting the
new gambling quarters. was in the city yes
terday with a list of citizens who will tes-
tify against Rahke. Jones and their follow
erS-
Prosecutor Ruckelshaus declares that he
is determined to break up the resort as
quickly as possible and will arrest every
one who goes to Cumberland with the in
tention OF gambling, provided il can he
proven that that is his object.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
TRACTION COMPANIES TO
Be MERGED, is THE RUMOR
Union Traction and Indiana Rail
way Lines Said to Be Planning
to Consolidate.
P is DENIED HERE

Reports from Elkhart, Ind, state that
indications point TO a merger of the Indiana
Railway Company and the Union Traction
Company, of which George +. Mccullough
is president. The reports are denied by trac-
ton men of this city. Mr.. Mccullough Is
in Chicago. but a. L. Drum. vice president
of the Union Traction Company, said last
night that the reports were a mistake and
nothing had been heard in traction circles
Of this city to the effect of the merger.
The Indiana Railway Company was re-
Gently placed in the hands of a receiver by
Judge Anderson, of the Federal Court, and
the Elkhart report says that George F.. Nc
Cullough and men identified with him are
TO acquire the property of the company. 1t
is stated that after the Union Traction
lines are completed to Warsaw but twenty
four miles will remain to connect with the
Indiana syndicate at Goshen. Connection
could be made either at Goshen or Elkhart,
but the latter place would require forty-one
miles CT new tracks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
SUFFERING FROM COLD,
FORCED TO STEAL COAL
Stole to Amount of Twenty-Five
Cents and Placed Under Arrest
by Railroad Police.
PLEAD FOR MERCY

For stealing a few small pieces of coal out
of a box car in the Big Four yards early
last evening William Jones, No. 726 Darnell
street, and Norman Virgins, No. 1907
Southeastern avenue. were placed under ar
rest last night by railroad special police.
Both men are extremity poor and they stole
the coal TO keep their families from suffer-
ing from the cold. Their appeals at the po-
lice station for leniency were most touch
ing, but in spite of the fact that the amount
or their thefts will not amount to 25 cents
each, the men will be vigorously prosecuted
by the railroad company. Virgins is known
to be a Woodworking man who has had a
great amount of sickness in his family,
which made his small theft almost a neces-
sity. Jones is also a worthy poor man, but
unfortunate circumstances forced him to
steal, he said. Both men will be given hear
ings before Judge Whallon this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
Another Prophet Come to Grief.

New York Letter.
Dowie's financial troubles were due in
large part TO the failure of mis- invasion of
New York city, and now another prophet
has come to grief here. He is Joseph II.
Ralston, who claims to be a prophet and
one of the leading Seventh-day Adventists.
He came here with his wife and two chill
dren from New Orleans, where he was en-
gagged in mission work. Prior TO that he
says he was preaching through Indiana.
Raiston was summoned to the headquarters
of his sect. He remained there for a few
days. but failed 10 give satisfaction as a
prophet or preacher and was expelled. Now
he is asking the city 10 keep his family
from starving. Unlike Dowie, Ralston does
not claim the distinction of any special line
OF Biblical descent, nor does he claim any
titular distinction. But he does claim that
he is in close communion with saints and
angels and that revelations are frequently
made tO him i'm dreams.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18

Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
The Philadelphia scrapple season Is now
at its height. and in the three or four big
scrapple factories of the city about sc. 900
pounds OF the delectable compound ara pro-
duced weekly. Each factory prides itself
On the peculiar flavor of it's scrapple, lust
as breweries pride themselves on the flavor
OF their beer. There are, indeed, scrapple
connoisseurs in this city-men who, when a
dish OF scrapple is served to them, can say
unerringly, This is Browns" or '"This is
Smiths" or This is Jones's ~scrapple."
Many Pennsylvania farmers, too. make
their own brand and take a pride in IL and
have a host of followers who declare there
is no scrapple like Farmer Alburger's or
Farmer SchGltz's or Farmer Diffenderfer's.
as the case may be. 1t follows that the
scrapple expert must be profoundly learned
must be, in fact, as learned as the wine
expert. Scrapple is climbing from a local
TO a national popularity. 1t is shipped in
refrigerator cars to many distant States.
and In many different cities PHILADELPHIA
scrapple' is a favorite dish upon the break
fast menu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
ATHLETIC OFFICERS
ELECTED 1T
Combination Ticket Run by Phi
Delta Theta Frat" Was
Successful.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

bpetidi u ne luuldndlOhS JOuIudi.
FRANKLIN, Ind, Dec. 1.-THE annual
election Of the Franklin College Athletic
Association wa held this afternoon, and
resulted in the victory of a combination
tickle run by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity
and the independents. The following off,
GERS OF the athletic association were elected:
President. A. f. Thompson: vice president,
i. ID. Webb; secretary. Delmar Huff; treas
urer, B. Demming; field day manager, Simon
Roach. Thomas f. Neal was elected man
ager Of the 1904 football team. Mr.. Neal.
whose home is In Lebanon, managed the
second team this year, and was very sue
cessful. Raymond H.. Sellers, OF this city,
was elected manager of the baseball team.
In all probability Franklin College will not
be represented in track athletics this year,
as all their forces will be concentrated in
putting out a winning baseball team.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
Il ORDER ISSUED
AGAINST RACE INVESTORS

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. T.-Postmas-
ter Kearney. Of this city, to-day received a
fraud order from the Postoffice Depart
ment at Washington aginst Maxim & Gay,
a turf investment "get-rich-quick' concern
which advertises offices at New York and
New Orleans and solicits money to be wa
gered on the races. All mail received at
New York addressed to the firm will be
stamped fraudulent and returned TO the
writer's and the payment of money orders
viii be refused. II Is claimed that there
are eight or ten concerns of a similar ma
ture which are to be the subject Of similar
Investigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
DANGER IN COLOMBIA.
American Investors VIII Not Visit
the Bellicose Republic.

MOBILE. Ala. Dec. 1Z-Dr. c. f. z.
Caracristi. a promoter of concessions in
the Gulf OF Darien, says that the proposed
visit of certain American investors TO the
country has been called off because of the
receipt OF letters from a high Colombian
official. saying Under present conditions
Americans should not court hanger I'm CO.
lombia.' The expedition was To have sailed
this week. DIR. Caracristi. for six years a
resident OF Colombia, says that appeal will
be made 10 Washington, as the rights OF
Americans I'm Colombia are guaranteed by
Article q OF the treaty OF 1876.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
COOKING MAIN IS
FAST md FURIOUS

A rousing good cooking main was given
southeast of the city last night by a num-
Der OF local sports. Birds from Louisville,
Bloomington and Muncie were pitted
against each oSher. and the pits were fast
ard furious. The fight was stiIl going on
at an early hour this morning. A goodly
sum or money was wagered on the final
outcome OF the contest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-two Croatians.
Petrovitch Lepane and Miovar Keobar.
We're brought back from England on tho
Teutonic to-day In custody OF Superintend-
ent OF Detectives McQuaid and Detective
Richard Kelly. OF Pittsburgs They are
charged with the murder OF Samuel +. Fer
guson, near New Middletown, Washington
county. Pennsylvania. last September.
This is the case In which a miae pay.
master and his assistant. Ferguson. the lat
ter of B~eiiefontaine. o.. were blown an with
dynamite and the paymaster was robbed e
$500
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
GRAND JURY NEARS END
Will Report on Purdue Wreck in
Few DAYS.

The grand jury has practically finished its
investigation of the Purdue special wreck
and will probably make a report within a
few days. There are a few more witnesses
who will be examined this morning. The
most important witnesses who testified be-
fore the grand jury yesterday was Train
Byers, of Kankakee. who was
held culpable for the wreck by the cor
oner'S Jury.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
DREYFUS TO
THE ARMY OF FRANCE

PARIS. Dec. 1.-THE Liberte confirms the
report that the council of the war office has
considered the details of Dreyfus's reinstate-
ment in the army and that the regiment he
will command with the rank OF lieutenant
colonel. has been chosen. u Is added that
q determination has been reached 10 deal
vigorously with officers who express disap-
proyal with Dreyfus's reinstatement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
WILHELM And PRINCE
HENRY GO HUNTING

BERLIN, Dec. 17.-Emperor William.
Grand Duke Vladimir. of Russia: Prince
Henry. of Prussia; the Russian ambassa-
dor, Count Won O~sten-Sacken, and a great
following of other notable persons left Ber-
lin to-day to the forest of Goehrde. prov
ince of Hanover, on a two DAYS hunt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
Four Children Burned.

ATHENS. Ca. Dec. T.-News has reached
here of the burning in a remote section of
Oceanic county last night OF a cabin in
which four children were burned TO death.
The parents. Arthur Copel and his wife. left
the children alone for some hours during
the evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18

A deal has been closed at Columbus, o.,
by which M. Il. Mullins. OF Logan. w. Va.
transfers TO o. l.. Snyder. of Buffalo, and
Henry Patton. of Albany, N. ", $1,000
acres of coal land in Logan county, West
Virginia. The consideration is said to be
$4,000. The land lies on the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18
seven workmen Injured.

COLUMBUS, o.. Dee. 1.-Two work
trains collided in a fog on the Scioto Valley
traction lines near Canal Winchester to-
day with the result that seven men were
injured, one of whom, George Davis. may
die. The others suffered broken ribs and
limbs. The traction line is in course of
construction and steam locomotives are
used. While one stopped at a coaling sta
ton the second crashed into the rear OF IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-18

that their lives are not endangered because
OF his presence. ~ Jolt.
Indianapolis, Dec. IL.
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Mrs. Austin's buskwheat -four gives you
the real genuine old buckwheat flavor. Ask
for Mrs. Austin's buckwheat Hour.