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Indiana Notes.

PoRTLAND.-John Freemyer. five years
old. was attacked by a large st. Bernard
dog. on Monday, and a large piece was
bitten out of his right cheek The dog was
never before known To attack any one.
Five members OF the City Council
have requested the mayor 10 return TO that
body the franchise granted to the Hooser
Telephone Company at its last meeting. be-
cause IL fixed no rate for service, nor the
time within which the plant is to be con-
structed.
SALEM.-A company OF Indiana National
Guards has been organized here with
seventy enlisted men. They were mustered
into service Saturday evening by Major
Coleman and elected A. G.. Williams cap
tain. Dr. w. j. Purchaser. first lieutenant.
and j. T.. Gresham, second lieutenant. The
company will recruit to its full quota and
will be assigned to the second battalion OF
the First Regiment, under Colonel George
w. Mccoy.
JEFFERSONVILLE.- Rev. C. f. AS
bury, pastor of the Wall-street Nj. T..
Church of this city, and son will leave
Thursday morning I'm an automobile for
Indianapolis. where they will visit rela-
tives for a week. Mr.. Asbury says he will
leave early In the morning and will reach
the State capital that evening. The pas
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HERITAGE OF INSANITY
ALL THAT Is YET TO BE PROVED IN
THE VI. f. CHASE CASE.
Dispositions from Paris-Good Gas
Well Near PortIand-Change i'm
Wabash StrawbOard Mill.
specIal to the rnaianapoIls journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, June s.-Except for
the dispositions of Paul Paquet, Henri
Cachard and laurent Pacha, Of Paris.
which will be submitted by the Fred s.
Chase attorneys tomorrow, there is no
further testimony on the Chase side in the
Moses Fowler Chase case except evidence
that will tend to prove that insanity ex-
listed in the Fowler family. The case was
resumed at Fowler at 2:30 o'clock this aft
ernoon when the attorneys handed in their
written instruction to the court which
will. in turn, be given to the jury. Drs.
Davidson and Larry were again on the
stand this afternoon. They testified as to
the mental condition of Moses Fowler
Chase when they examined him. Their
testimony was purely technical. 1t is ex-
pected that James T. Fowler, business
man OF Fowler. will be put on the stand
TO testify that he has been twice in an in
sane asylum and that his mental condition
Is hereditary. The Chase side will try 10
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tor is an enthusiastic automobilist. and
makes all his pastoral calls in his auto.

tor is an enthusiastic automobilist. and
makes all his pastoral calls in his auto.
DELPHL-An election will be held to-
morrow in Deer Creek township. in which
Delphi is situated, on the question of build
ing thirty-two miles of gravel roads. Senti-
ment is much divided on the question, ana
both sides are canvassing actively for sup
porters. Carroll county has but one nun
dred miles of gravel roads, while the sur
rounding counties have many times as
much.
PARAGON.-On Monday morning Robert
shooting apples out of the hand of James
Harvey, using a target rifle and what
were thought to be blank cartridges. one
OF the cartridges had a ball in 1t, how
vey's hand, besides giving all the boys a
severe fright.
NEW CASTLE-The Henry County Mail
Carriers Association has held meeting to
devise means for encouraging the farmers
TO keep up good roads. The X. OF
Z. Lodge held decoration services here on
Sunday and performed the ceremonies at
the cemetery in the midst of a downpour of
rain.
PERU.-Mrs. Clarence Flora was in
stantly killed near Chilli nine miles north
of Peru, by striking her head on a post
as she jumped from her runaway vehicle.
Those who kept their seats escaped with
out injury. Mrs. Flora was young mar
ried woman and left child.
FINCASTLE.-D. F. Brothere, of this
place, last week captured a carrier pigeon
wearing on its leg metal band with the
number J-14336.. Mr.. Brothere will ship the
bird at owners expense to any one proving
property.
DANA.-Lieutenant Governor Newton w.
Gilbert delivered an address to the l. o. o.
F. and X. of P. lodges at this place on
Sunday. 1t was the most successful me-
mortal service ever held here.
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FRANKLIN COLLEGE.



ism I'm Release OF kidnapped Student.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, June s.-The class day
exercises of the graduating class of Frank
lin College were held this evening. The
class presented Merchant of Venice" The
costumes were made especially for the oc-
casion, and were the finest ever seen in this
city. The class has been under the training
of Mrs. Prunk, of Indianapolis, for four
months, and the acting was unusually good.
The opera house was filled to OVERLOOKING
all standing room being taken. This is the
first time for several years that the seniors
have not presented an original play, but it
was success in every respect.
III. e. Jordan, Eho was kidnapped by the
juniors Saturday afternoon, was returned
to-day at o'clock by his abductors. The
seniors declared yesterday afternoon that
unless he was returned by midnight they
would swear out warrants for the arrest
OF the juniors. On their failure to return
him the seniors carried out their threats,
and had five juniors arrested at o'clock
this morning. The juniors pleaded not
when the seniors withdrew their charges.
their original plans and deliver Mr.. Jordan
over TO the seniors on the courthouse steps
this afternoon. Mr.. Jordan was brought in
town on a dray, in a cage, paraded around
town, and then released. Handbills had
been scattered over the city announcing
the programme of his formal release, and
the streets were crowded.
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members OF the family to be or to have
been mentally unbalanced.
This evidence will be offered for the pur-
pose of showing that the presence of de-
generative stigmata in Moses Fowler Chase
was inherited by him and his present men
tai condition partially caused by
hereditary influences. The status OF mind
of Moses Fowler Chase must be proved
On that depends his intentions as to resi-
dence, change of name, transfer of prop
erty, etc. IL ii can be proven that he was
sane at the age of twenty-one the defense
will hold that he had right to change his
residence. IL IL can be shown that he was
sane in July, 1900. the defense will contend
that he had a right TO change his name.
II will be remembered that the boy at that
time had been for a month in the famous
Conan retreat" in Paris.
IL is expected that the petitioner. F. s.
Chase, will close his side by Wednesday
noon and IL is probable that the defense
viii introduce evidence in surrebuttal.
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STUDENTS TO BE DROPPED.



CHICAGO. June S.-Fudge parties and
sorority affairs and theaters have worked
havoc with the standing of so many stu
dents at Northwestern University that
Dean Thomas F. Hdlgate is making out
a list of those who have provoked official
displeasure. The list is headed "undesira-
ble," and those whose names appear will
be requested not to return i'm the fall. The
request VIII be made gently, but those who
receive it will know that il means, prac-
tically, their dismissal. There will be
about forty young men and women, IL is
expected who will not return.
On Cupid is placed some of The lame for
moonlight strolls which have been INDUCED
in along the lake shore, to the neglect of
studies. The more prosaic matter OF the
nonpayment of bills has caused others TO
be slated for dismissal.
Stringent measures In regard to social
functions and society are also expected at
the Methodist institution next year. The
students have taken advantage of the
rules, officials assert, and have broken
them all. Parties held after IL O'Clock at
night, and II on Saturday evening they
have continued until the beginning of the
Sabbath; more parties than the faculty
rules allow have been INDUCED in.
All students on the list. however. will not
consider the matter settled. and il their
pleas are not listened TO by Dean Holgate
there is always the appeal 10 Caesar"
namely, the faculty. No student at North
western University can be denied admission
10 the university until the faculty has
tried his case, and then decided. Many
will go TO the faculty, and If they can ex-
plain that there has been mistake, or
that they will endeavor to do better their
cause may be championed by members of
the faculty.
The list, while not an exceedingly large
one, considering that there are between 200
and 500 students In the university, will
strike hard. because, IL Is asserted, there
are many Of the best known students under
the surveillance of the faculty.
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WILL MAKE sTRAwBOARD.
Wabash Plant TO Discontinue the
Making OF Manila Paper.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, June S.-The Wabash
plant of the United Boxboard and Paper
Company, the strawboard trust, will soon
cease making manila paper. which it has
turned out at the rate of twenty-five tons
a day for the last fifteen years. The COM
pany has fine manila machine here. but
in this territory II can make strawboard
much more profitably. owing to the
abundance and cheapness of straw, while
the material used in making manila paper
has 10 be shipped a long distance and can
be worked UP more profitably at other
plants of the trust.
New machinery for the plant here has
been ordered and the change will increase
the force employed locally.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK. June S.-Arrived: leland
from Antwerp; Rotterdam, from Rotter-
dam: Batavia. from Hamburg: United
States cruiser Buffalo. from Gibraltar; Min
nehaha. from London; Victorian, from
Liverpool.
CHERBOURG, June S.-Sailed: Frieder-
fch der Crosse, from Bremen, for New
York
PLYMOUTH. June s.-Sailed: Graf Wal
dersee, from Hamburg, for New York.
GLASGOW, June ARRIVED: Columbia
and Laurentian, from New York.
LIZARD. June S.-Passed: Switzerland
from Philadelphia, for Antwerp.
BREMEN, June s.-Arrived: Barbarossa
from New York.
LONDON, June s.-Arrived: Minnetonka
from New York.
LIVERPOOL June s.-Arrived: Partisan
from Montreal.
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Concert at De PAW.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE. Ind, June s.-Miss
Maritime Dietrichson, 1.-The Norwegian
nightingale" conducted a brilliant concert
at De Pauw University this evening
charming large audience by her solos and
the excellent work of the chorus she had
trained. She has been professor of vocal
music in De Paw for six years-a longer
period than any other has occupied the
p!ace-and during that time has trained
both w0men's and mems voices with high
degree of success. She unites in unusual
manner the dramatic qualities of a fine
soprano singer with the patience, gentle
ness and executive ability OF a good teacher
Miss Dietrichson was educated in Italy,
where she pursued her musical studies for
several years. Besides being a musician,
she has marked literary talent and has
been musical critic for the Daily Scandi-
navian' of Chicago, and for several Ameri-
can publications. She has recently had
successful tours with the Ladies' Glee Club
OF De Paw, which she originated and
trained. She will so to Pasadena, Cal,
next year.
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LURED TO HER DEATH.


CHICAGO. June S--Lured from home by
feliow-countrymen who believed she carried
a large amount of money, robbed of $50 and
then murdered, is believed by the police to
have been the fate Of Mrs. Mary Danil-
ovsky whose body has been found in a
lonely spot in Illinois and Michigan canal
When the body was discovered there was
bullet hole in the woman's left temple and
her clothing was IN disorder Her money
and three gold rings were gone. Mrs. Dan
ilovsky was last seen by her friends near
her home in Eighteenth place. Thursday
morning. She was with a strange woman
who had visited her week before and
whose husband is known to have besought
her 10 lend him money. 1t Is this strange
woman and her husband that the police are
seeking. The police are also hunting for Ed
ward Danilovsky. nephew OF the dead wom-
an. who Is thought to know something
about her disappearance. An expressman Is
also being sought.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind. June SACK Summer
land, of this city, has gone to Lafayette to
perform difficult and perilous feat. Dur
ing a recent storm the scales held in the
hand of the figure of Justice on the spire
of the courthouse, blew away, and it is de-
sired to replace them The scales have been
bought and Summerland Is TO make the
ascent of sheer DDS feet and attach them.
Summerland, who is a son of ex-County
Treasurer j. c. Summerland, is an expert
climber
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Wenger Family Reunion.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, June 8.-Between 200 and
300 descendants of Christian wenger. who
came TO America from Germany in 1727, be-
gan to-day a two days reunion in Island
Park, this city. This is the third triennial
gathering. The recorded descendants num-
Der 4.243 in S34 families, and the youngest
are children of the seventh generation. The
bulk Of the family lives in Pennsylvania
first TO come to Elkhart county was Joseph
Wenger. who was the oldest person present
at to-days gathering. He Is seventy-two.
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Indiana Obituary.

LIBERTY. Ind. June S.-Thomas d.
Evans, an attorney of this place. died sud
denly Sunday morning of apoplexy, aged
sixty-three. He arose from bed at 4:30 a.
m complained of difficult breathing and
asked his wife TO send for physician, ex-
piring Just as the doctor arrived He was
we'll known in eastern Indiana and at In
dianapolis. He was born In Gallatin Tenn.
and came North at the close of the civil
war. He left a widow and four children.
SUAIMITVILLE, Ind, June S-DanieI
Webster, aged seventy, retired wealthy
farmer, one mile south OF this place. is
dead. A family of adult children survives
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Funeral Of Miss Killing.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNClE, Ind, June S.-The funeral of
Miss Nora Killing, the young woman who
was drowned Saturday in the Mississinewa
river at Eaton. took place this afternoon
from the High-street Methodist Church.
The Rev. L. J. Naftzger, of Kokomo, and
the Rev. T.. IL. Randle, of Muncie on
ciated. Miss Killing was to have been
graduated from the Muncie High School
this week. The baccalaureate address was
delivered to the class yesterday at the Uni
versalist Church by the Rev. G. |. KERN.
but all other commencement Festivities
have been withdrawn. Only the com
mencement exercises proper, on Thursday
night, will be held.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, June S.-George
Rowley, son Of James Rowley, of Franklin
township. was attacked by a dog to-day
and received probable fatal injuries His
face was horribly lacerated his nose being
chewed and torn off. The dog was pois-
oned some time ago and has been acting
strangely.
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Cut the Telephone Wires.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
NASHVILLE, Ind, June S.-Thirty-ive
citizens to-day cut the wires above their
phones in dwellings and business houses
Two months ago the citizens demanded
free service to Columbus of the Morgan
town Telephone Company, but the COM
pany paid attention TO the matter. To-
day a meeting was held in the courthouse
yard and nearly every subscriber went to
his box and cut the wire. Some citizens
will demand that the telephone poles in
front of their residence be taken down,
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June S.-Prof W.
l.. Noyes. who has been at the head of the
department of chemistry at Rose Poly
technic for many years, has resigned. to
take position as chemist in the Bureau of
Weights and Measures of the new Depart
ment Of Commerce at Washington. His
successor has not been selected
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FARMERS FIGHT A DUEL.
One Is Dying and One Is I'm Jail-Fam-

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SULLIVAN, Ind, June S.-Frank Burris
and Henry York, farmers near Merom, but
across the Illinois line, between whom a
family feud has existed for some time, met
in the road Saturday afternoon and pistol
duel followed. Both men had made threats
and when they came face to face they drew
revolvers and began firing at each other.
Several shots We're exchanged. York es-
capped, but Burris received three wounds in
the lungs and abdomen and will die Bur-
ris's wife who was with him, was the only
witness the tragedy. Burris is about
forty years of age and York is twenty-five.
The men are brothers-in-law, Burris hav-
ing married Yorks sister. York is in Jail.
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Captain IngersOlI Home on Leave.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, June S.-Captain Royal
Ingersoll. U. S. N, for the past two years
in command of the United States gunboat
New Orleans in the Chinese waters, ar
rived home to-day direct from Yokohama
on a two months leave of absence. Mrs.
Ingersoll Is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Setheason, of this city. Captain Inger-
soil, who is authority on gunnery and
for eight years was an instructor of that
branch at the Annapolis Naval Academy,
will be assigned to shore duty, probably
being stationed at Washington. He has
a son, Royal Ingersoll, jr., who is a sec
ond-year cadet at the Naval Academy.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, June S.-Judge Cook,
of Cannelton, will hear motion tomorrow
for bail for Mrs. Martha Dixon, who is
charged with the killing of her husband,
Bonaparte Dixon a wealthy farmer of
Perry county. Mrs. Dixon Is in falling
health, and her attorneys say she will Gle
if she remains in Jail much longer.
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Suicide of n Young Farmer.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Ind, June S.-Edward
Altman. son of John Altman, one of the
best-known Sugarland farmers, hanged
himself in a slaughter house near the city
last night and his body was found this
morning. He was soon to marry a daugh-
ter of Captain lack Jones, a Washington
merchant. Young Altman visited his rela-
tives yesterday and bid them goodbye, but
no one guessed his purpose. The cause
of the suicide has not been revealed.
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Still Searching for Lyons.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SHOALS, Ind, June S.-Posses from this
place. Loogootee. Burns City and Indian
Springs are still out searching for Arthur
Lyons, who shot his stepmother near Kill
lion last week. but no details have been re-
ported of any measure of success in the
search. A considerable tract Of country
has been surrounded, but the district is
very hilly and is we'll wooded and the work
of running the murderer down probably
will be slow
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NEGRO LYNCHED.


MACON, Ca, June s.-W. Cope Winslow,
jr., whose father was one of the leading
members OF the Georgia bar. was instantly
killed by a negro named Banjo Peavy. on
the formers farm near Fort Valley this
afternoon. The negro owed Mr.. Winslow a
small amount OF money and was asked to
work out the debt. He refused, and shot
Mr., Winslow through the forehead. Peavy
was soon captured and turned over TO the
sheriff. At $50 o'clock tonight the officer
and guard were overpowered and the negro
hanged. His body was riddled with bull
let's
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Got Both Oil and Gas.

Special to the Indiana polls Journal
PORTLAND, Ind, June S-A well drilled
by the Southwestern Oil Company on the
Aaron Beck farm, north of Westchester, is
gasser OF heavy pressure. The casing
has been capped and anchored, but the gas
finds it way through the ground and to a
height OF twenty feet, with considerable
force. A we'll on the Kelly farm. south of
Westchester, which was thought to be dry,
were drawn. and 1t could not be bailed
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Grain Dealers Re-Arrested.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, June s-Infor-
nation was filed in the Circuit Court to-day
against j. H. Waters and Robert Pickerell,
the grain dealers of Sellersburg, who were
arrested Saturday upon complaint of
Charles Rippey, of Forest City, Ia, charg-
ing them with embeZzling $3.50, and the
ease in the mayors court will be dismissed.
Sheriff Rave served the bench warrants on
the men tonight.
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MALLORY MURDER TRIAL.



Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE, Ind, June S.-The trial Of
Josephus Mallory, indicted by the St.
Joseph county grand jury for the murder of
John Nj. Koontzman, at South Bend, last
December, was begun to-day in the La
porte Circuit Court before Judge Richter
and a jury.
Melvin Boone, who was indicted for the
same crime last week at South Bend and
sentenced for life, was brought here to-day
and taken 10 the State Prison at Michigan
City 10 begin his sentence. He will not be
used as witness, but Nathan Rankin,
George Sherman and Harry Wilson, who
are members OF the gang which robbed the
grocery store the night koontzman was
killed, will be placed on the stand. Rankin
also was indicted for murder in the first
degree.
The defense will be that Mallory did join
Rankin and Boone in the plan to rob the
store, but that he withdrew from the
scheme before the murder took place. had
no knowledge of the crime, and took no
part therein.
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state Meeting OF Pathhnders.
special to the indianapolis Journal.

MARION, Ind, The State convention of
the Pathfinder Lodge will be held in Marion
on Wednesday. Several hundred visitors are
expected to attend. The exercises will be
held at Matter Park where there will be
speaking and athletic contests in the aft
ernoon. At night the session will be de-
voted to lodge work.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
EVANSVILLE. Ind, June S.-Chester
Smith. a brakeman on the Evansville &
Terre Haute Railroad, was fatally hurt to-
night by being caught between cars He
was forty-ffve years old and married
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Druggists refund money IL PAZO ONT
MENT fails 10 cure Ringworm. letter. Old
Ulcers and Sores. Pimples and Blackheads
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vAssAR COMMENCEMENT.

Whitelaw Reds Annual Address be-
fore the Phi Delta Kappa.
POUGHKEEPSIE. N. ", June s-Com-
mencement week exercises at vassar Col
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w. T. BLYTHE.
Section Director.