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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
EVANSVILLE RESIDENTS
UNABLE TO GET WATER
Factories Shut Down and Schools
Closed Because of Bad SAM
tary Conditions.
PEOPLE IN FEAR OF FIRE
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 16.-ThiS has
been a day of anxiety in Evansville. No
body has been able to get water. and the
people fear that should a fire break out
under present circumstances the city would
be helpless. Wagons can be seen all over
the city hauling water in order TO keep
machinery going. Each day sees more
plants closing. Even the water haulers are
experiencing great difficulty for the rea-
son that the shore of the river is lined with
thick and ragged ice, making it almost i'm
possible for water carriers to get to the
river. Water at the street car power house
was exhausted this forenoon, and the entire
system was tied up for several hours, or
until men and wagons could be hired to
haul water for the boilers. Some of the
public schools are closed because of bad
sanitary conditions resulting from lack
of water supply.
The new water works, where the accident
occurred 10 the intake pipes, is still closed,
and one OF the two pump boats used to
supply the reservoirs at the auxiliary plants
by heavy ice. breaking both suction and
discharge pipes. That boat will not be in
commission again before tomorrow. In
the meantime but one pump at the old
works is in service. 1t furnishes about
2,5G,0W gallons of water in twenty-four
hours. The ordinary consumption in the
city is not far short of 10, 00O, 900 gallons.
Because of more ice in the river there is
no telling when the Cincinnati pump boat
can be brought here. 1t will take until the
LIST OF March TO complete the temporary in
take pipe that is now being prepared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17

REPUBLICANS OF BOONE
At THE BANQUET TABLE
by Ex-Mayor Bookwalter
on Life and Character of Lincoln
Tribute to Hanna.
II EMINENT GUESTS
.eeiaI to De IndIanapoIis JournaI.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Ind. Feb. 16.-The eighth an
nual banquet by Boone county Republicans
in memory of Lincoln Was held tonight at
Lochinvar Hall. Prominent in the decora-
tions of the hall were pictures of Mckinley
and Hanna, draped in black. Five hundred
persons attended.
Among the out-of-town guests were: w.
l.. Taylor, ]. Frank Hanly. Warren G..
Sayre and w. L. Penfeld. candidates for
Governor; L. Z. Newly, candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor; Leroy Nash, candidate
for reporter Of the Supreme Court; John
Wingate. state tax commissioner; Harry
S. New, national committeeman; A. A.
Young. collector of the port Of Indianapo-
lis, and ex-Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter.
F. c. Reagan. a local attorney, was toast
master. The principal address was by ex-
Mayor Bookwalter. Short addresses were
made by the four candidates for Governor
and by some Of the other guests. The Co
lumbia Gu Quartet. of Indianapolis,
aroused enthusiasm with it's patriotic
songs.
Mr.. Bookwalter's address was on Abra-
ham Lincoln. He gave a comprehensive es-
innate of the martyred Presidents life and
character and his remarks were repeatedly
cheered. Mr.. paid a most feel
ing tribute to the memory Of Senator Han
ma. as did nearly all of the speakers who
followed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
INDIANA NOTES.

LAFAYETTE.@Sidney r. Vaughn, a
freshman in civil engineering at Purdue
University, and son Of Mayor Vaughn, Of
Logansport, has been robbed of a draft for
$40 which his father sent him to defray his
expenses. The draft was sent in a letter to
young Vaughn's boarding house two days
ago and evidently the letter had been
opened, the draft taken, an attempt made
to re-seal the envelope. Telephoning to
his father young Vaughn learned that the
draft had been sent. Later ii was dis
covered that the draft had been cashed at
the First National Bank in this city. Young
Vaughn's signature had been forged.
E~LWOOD-The Curtisville File and
Brick Company, operated largely with Ell
wood capital, elected the following officers
at its annual meeting: President, H.. c.
Galloway; vice president, Ed. c. De Hority;
secretary. j. T. Jessup; treasurer, Joe A.
De HOrity; manager Leander Goodwin.
Two new kilns have been erected and a
complete steam drying system installed
since the failure of the natural gas supply.
WASHINGTON.-The Washington Cam
ming Company, which was organized last
fall, and whose plant was recently COM
pleted. held a meeting at the courthouse in
this city to contract with farmers for their
tomato crop next summer, and to interest
them in the industry sufficiently to have
them enlarge the acreage of tomatoes. The
price fixed was $50 a ton or 221z cents a
bushel. Several large contracts were made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
SPEED TRIAL FOR
SCHAFER SUSPECT

Special to the indianapolis Journal
BEDFORD, Ind, Feb. 16.-Whether the
local authorities are convinced of James
McDonald's guilt or not. the alleged slayer
of Sarah Catherine Schafer has been prom
Used a speedy trial.
Prosecutor r. G.. Miller. who has been
here the entire day. stated to the Journal
representative tonight that the grand jury
would not consider the Schafer case until
Monday. During the interval summonses
will be prepared for the witnesses necessary
to give the case proper consideration. None
of these. however. is to be issued to the
sheriff before Monday morning.
IF" said Prosecutor Miller. IAN indict-
ment is eturned against Mcdonald, he will
be placed on trial the last week of the
present term of the Lawrence Circuit Court,
which will be the first week in March.
There will be no delay on the part of the
State IN affOrding the accused an oppor-
tunity of proving his innocence"
Mcdonald passed through Bedford at II: 10
this morning en- route from the Reforma-
tory at JefersOnville to the Bloomington
Jail. The officials conducting the investiga-
ton have maintained a strict guard over
their movements, and a city official who let
slip an unguarded statement to-day, left
the impression that through Mcdonald they
are expected 10 apprehend the real criminal.
Few peOple in Bedford tonight are willing
TO vouchsafe an opinion that Mcdonald
committed murder. A prominent contract
or. a stone and brick mason, examined the
piece of fire brick to-day INC emphatically
weapon of death. He described the al
legged blOodstain on one corner as a particle
OF red clay as having been colored by heat
while In process of manufacture. The same
person took several bricks and demonstrated
the truth of his statement by breaking
them into several particles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
LITTLE STORIES
OF THE STATE

LAWRENCEBURG-Elihu Alden, of
Petersburg, KY, has been awarded the con-
tract at $500 per annum for carrying the
mail between this city and Petersburg, KY.
This exceeds the present contract by $50.
During the past eight years the mail has
been carried in a skiff, but beginning July
l it will be taken by the steamer Pauline,
plying between this city and Aurora.
CONNERSVILLE.-The Republican city
central committee has issued a call for a
mass meeting to be held at the city hall
determined when and the manner in which
candidates will be chosen for the various
city offices. There will be several candi-
dates for each of the offices.
ELKHART.-Mr. and Mrs. James With
ers. of Constantine, Mich, celebrated their
fftieth wedding anniversary Sunday by en-
PERTAINING their eight living children and
about forty other relatives. Among the
regrets was a letter from Senator S. b.
Elkins, inclosing a check for 500. He is a
nephew of Mr.. Withers.
PERU. w. Miller, a stranger without
permanent location, was arrested here for
stealing fifty chickens and turkeys belong
ing to John Zimmerman and John Hutzel,
near Cass Station. He admitted his guilt
and was taken to Logansport for trial. The
horse-thief detective association made the
capture.
COLUMBUS.-Mrs. Charles Yealy is sick
at her home near this city with measles.
She is eighty-one years old. and, although
she had been exposed to measles several
times during her life, she never took the
disease. She has four children who are
past middle life, none of whom has had the
measles.
LAPORTE.-John Stearns, a well-to-do
Laporte county farmer, who disappeared
last October. has returned home. He says
he visited friends in Michigan. His fam
iy was much exercised over his absence,
having no intimatiOn as 10 what had be-
come of him.
NEW ALBANY.-The Rev. b. +. Cato.
IL - ozN% . I'LL -
the passionate of the Central Christian
Church in this city, succeeding the Rev.
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Other State Neurology.

PARIS, ILL.,, Feb. 16.-The death of Mrs.
Terrence Clark, aged about sixty, occurred
last night in Chicago. The body arrived in
this city tonight and was taken TO the
residence of her brother-in-law in West
Court street. The funeral will be held to-
morrow, with interment in Edgar Gene
terry. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark moved three
years ago from Paris to Indianapolis. where
they lived on North Meridian street. The
death of Mrs. Clark was due to cancer.
Her husband and one daughter. Mrs. Harry
G.. Epps. of Indianapolis, survive.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 16.-News was re-
ceived here tonight of the death this aft
ernoon of Miss Eva Kessler at New Paris,
o.. at the home of her brother. Miss Kess-
Ter taught for many years in the Muncie
High School,, but gave up her position a
few weeks ago on account of poor health.
Overwork is given as the cause. A sister,
Miss Julia Kessler, teaches here, and a
brother, John kessler, a merchant, sur
wives.
GREENFIELD, Ind, Feb. 16.-Mrs. Boyd,
wife of James R.. Boyd, president of the
Citizens Bank, of this place, died at 3
o'clock this afternoon of heart trouble and
complications. She had been sick about
four weeks. but was seemingly much bet
ter just prior to her death. Her husband
and two sons survive. Jefferson Willett,
of Indianapolis, is a brother.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Feb. 16.-George
H. Reed, one of the oldest men in Shelby
county, died this morning at 8 o'clock at
his home in Falkland, after a sickness of
several weeks, due to a stroke of paralysis.
A widow ana three children survive. lie
was a member of the Methodist Church at
that place and the services will be held
there on Thursday.
RICHMOND, Ind, Feb. 16.-Mrs. Elvira
Newburn, who died at Galveston, Ind, at
the age of sixty-two, was buried to-day at
the Methodist Church. She was a daughter
of John Pegg, of Fountain City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
PUBLICAN SUES NORTH
MANCHESTER CITIZENS
Wants $1,000 from Leaders OF
Anti-Saloon Fight-Says They
Have Slandered Him.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WABASH, Ind, Feb. ia suit for 5000
damages was begun to-day by n. f.. Lautz-
euheiser, a publican of North Manchester.
against the leaders of the anti-saloon fight
in Chester township as a result of the war
fare in the Commissioners and Circuit
Courts of this county against the saloon
men. The defendants are /. Bruce Book,
w. r. Oyler. George Craft, George Shoe
maker, Lee Steele. Jacob Hollinger, j. NJ.
Jennings and G. a. Rowand, pastor Of the
Methodist Church. 1t is alleged by Lautz-
enheiser that the plaintiffs have sought to
ruin his business and his character; that
they employed minors as spies 30 get Grim
inal cases against him; that they caused
evidence to be brought before the grand
jury for his indictment, and he was indicted
and the cases were dismissed; that they
have circulated reports derogatory TO his
reputation. and that he has been irrepara-
bly, damaged in the community. The de-
PENDANTS say they are ready 10 meet the
issue and will hurry a trial in the Cir
cult Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
SCHAFER SUSPECT is IN
JAIL At BLOOMINGTON
James Mcdonald Safe in the Wom-
ems Part of the Jail-Quiet
Trip from Reformatory.
EARLY TRIAL PROMISED

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. Feb. 16.-James
Mcdonald, the alleged murderer of Sarah
Schafer. is safely confined in the woman's
department. OF the Bloomington jail and
viii remain here until after a report is re-
celved from the grand jury now in session
at Bedford. McDonald's arrival here was
a surprise. as no one knew Of his coming
until he was almost to the jail. and before
people could overtake him and the officers
he was secure behind the bars.
The order was quietly issued by Judge
Wilson yesterday. and Sheriff Smith and
Detective Reed went TO Jeffersonville.
where he was turned over Dy the authori-
ties Mcdonald was handcuffed, as Sheriff
Smith said he did not want to take any
risks. AS Bedford was approached, the
Ma became perceptibly nervous, but he
uttered not a word. At Bedford IL became
known that he was on the train. and a
large crowd gathered. but by the drawing
of the window blind he could not be located
In the car. It was not till almost reach
ms here that Mcdonald was told that he
was 10 be placed in the Bloomington Jail.
Even then he did not say anything.
On arrival here the sheriff handcufed
him to his arm and with Detective Reed
my dhutA AtuAE dlSilltu lIOln II "a -
the train.
As soon as the Jail was reached Detective
Reed inspected the cells, and then requested
that Mcdonald be placed upstairs in the
women department, where he has no way
OF approach TO any one. Strict orders were
also given that he must not be allowed
10 see or talk TO anybody. He will be
guarded with the utmost care.
Detective Reed was at the jail tonight,
and says he will remain here several days.
Sheriff Thrasher has provided comfortable
quarters for Mcdonald. but aside from
this he viii receive no favOrs or attention
from any one. He seems mOrOse and has
no desire TO talk to any one.
1t is evident that Detective Reed is max
Ing a desperate effort TO get a confession
from Mcdonald. Since his arrival here at
ii O'Clock Reed has been alone in the cell
with the prisoner. He returned again after
supper and has been with him since. Reed
dropped the word tonight that he would
leave here by tomorrow If he got what
he wanted.
This afternoon Mcdonald talked freely
10 an officer at the Jail. but asked that
not e word be said about the murder. He
then requested that a Bible be brought him.
de said he wanted to read il all the time.
Mcdonald told the officer that he thought
seriously of joining church. The Baptist
Church is his preference and he expressed
a desire TO be immersed at an early date.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
DEMURRER OVERRULED IN
GAS FRANCHISE CASES
Court Holds that Elwood Com
pany Accepted Burdens as Well
as Benefits with Franchise.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

optIidA u II AhuldhdpyAAS hdt
ELWOOD, Ind, Feb. 16.-Judge Ryan, of
the Superior Court. to-day practically up
holds the 200 holders of franchises for free
gas in this city by holding as insult
ficient the answer of the Citizens Heat and
Light Company TO the injunction proceed
ings brought by the franchise holders TO
prevent the company turning off their gas.
The company, in it's demurrer, set forth
that the franchise was sold at a time when
gas was plentiful in EIwood and could be
furnished at little or no expense, but that
the weakening of the pressure, followed by
the abandonment of the local field, and the
necessity for buying 20 to 80 per cent. OF
the supply from the outside, coupled with
the erection of a $4,000 pumping station and
a storage tank at the same price, made it
impossible TO carry out the free gas fran
chise without going into bankruptcy.
The court holds that the company knew
or should have known when il made or ac-
quired it's franchise that the gas pressure
would weaken at some time and that in ac-
cepting the franchise they accepted the
burdensome as well as beneficial require
ments which il implied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
ENTRY CONDITIONS
HIGHER At PURDUE
speciel to the INDIANAPOLIS journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Feb. 16.-Continuing
their policy of raising the standard of the
university by making more difficult the
examinations for admission, President
Stone and the Purdue faculty have issued
an official bulletin setting forth the new re-
quirements, to take effect next September.
Hereafter, in addition to the English,
mathematic and preliminary subjects re-
quired, candidates for admission will be
obliged to take an examination in one of
four groups, i. e., history, science, modern
languages or Latin. Tn practice of holding
examinations at the various county seats in
August will be discontinued. Candidates
living at a distance can arrange to take the
examinations offered by the college en-
trance examination board in all of the
larger cities. The fact is emphasized that
students will not be admitted on certif-
cate except as graduates of commissioned
high schools in Indiana or their equivalent
in other States. The raising of the require
ments for admission will result in a shorter
length of time being spent on freshman and
sophomore work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
RECEIVER APPOINTED
FOR CHICAGO COMPANY
Applicants Allege There Was a
Scheme on Foot to Defraud
Them and Other Creditors.

CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE Chicago Motor
Vehicle Company was placed in the hands
of a receiver to-day by Judge Tuthill in
the Circuit Court on application OF Jona-
than T. Primley and Henry w. Hoyt. stock
holders Of the company. In their applica-
tion for a receiver Primley and Hoyt de-
clared that the Monarch Railway Car Com
pany. capitalized at 100000 under the laws
OF Maine, was TO be the means OF defraud-
ing them and other creditors of the Chi
Gag company.
The Chicago Motor Vehicle Company il
capitalized at 100000. and for four years
has operated a large plant at Harvey. III.
Heavy losses are alleged 10 the
present operation OF the plant at Harvey.
and IL is said that the company has assets
worth less than $4,000 and debts OF $4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
KOKOMO V|OL|N|STE AND
NEW COUNTY HOSPITAL
Miss June Reeds Connection with
Institution Through a Wealthy
Danish Recluse.
A OF A CHARITY

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, 1nd., Feb. 16.-Miss June Reed,
Kokomo's violiniste, did much toward Sc
curing the erection of the Orphans Home
building, which probably will be trans
formed into a hospital by vote of the Coun-
ty Commissioners. She appeared in sew
eral benefit concerts for the home build
ing fund. at the instance of Peter Hersleb,
an eccentric ~recluse, an exiled member of
the Danish nobility. who gave the land
for a site and several hundred dollars to-
ward the erection of the building.
The Reed family and Hersleb lived just
south of the site of the home. Hersleb
was a musician of fine capabilities. He
early took an interest in Miss Reed, whose
genius he detected and carefully trained;
in fact. giving her the first impulse to
abroad. In the midst of a fine old orchard,
surrounded by a fence twenty feet
high. which was strung with wire
at the top, which every boy be-
lieved rang bells if disturbed, lived Hersleb.
One day he disappeared, taking with him
certain mysterious looking sea chests and
hampers. The pupil in whom he had taken
so great an interest won abroad the /. )norS
he had always believed she would, and one
day she began a search for him in Phila-
delphia. whittier she learned he had gone.
AT last her search was rewarded, but the
aged instructor did not know her. He was
In a cellar where he had retreated to shield
his failing eyes from the light of day. His
mind was wandering. She spoke to him,
but he did not heed the familiar voice. Then
she took out the old violin and rendered
the Hungarian air he loved so well and
which, when she was a slip Of a girl, he
had taught her. The familiar sounds
pleased his ear and aided his memory to
recognition of his former pupil.
The violin with which Miss Reed won
her triumphs was manufactured in Gre
mona over two hundred years ago. 1t is
of balsam wood and was obtained by her
father I'm 1S49.
1t was an express stipulation of Mr.. Hers
leb's deed that the home be used for the
housing Of orphans, or, If sold, that the pro-
ceeds be expended for a charitable purpose
of its kind. The ladies' home board will
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
MDONALD WILLING
TO GO TO BEDFORD
to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Feb. 16.-Few
words were exchanged between the Off
Gals at the Reformatory and Sheriff Smith,
of Bedford. this morning when the latter
arrived after James Mcdonald. who is ac-
cused of the murder of Miss Schafer. the
Bedford school teacher, and who has been
in the Reformatory for safe keeping. The
best of feeling does not seem 10 exist be-
tween superintendent Whitaker and the
Bedford officials and Chicago detective be-
cause Of the refusal of superintendent
Whitaker TO allow the officers to put the
prisoner through a series of sweating pro-
cesses during his confinement in the Re-
fOrmatory.
Mcdonald seemed little concerned when
told that he was to be taken TO Blooming
ton. II should just as soon go TO Bedford.
as not" he said. for l know l would be
I'm no danger. The people there know that
j am innocent. 1t will take more proof
than these officers have to make the public
believe l killed Miss Schafer.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
FOR MOCK CONVENTION
Members Selected from Four In
diana University Glasses to Have
Charge of the Meeting.
EDITORS TO OBSERVE IT
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 16.-The ma
tional committee OF the Democratic mock
convention, which is to be held at Indiana
University on March 9, was selected to-
day from the four classes. 1t is as follows:
Senior class, r. c.. Hills, c. c. Lyon, James
p. Boyle, Z. L. Giltner, Albert Fields, Hal
w. Trovillion; juniors, A. T. Conner. A. H.
Greenwood, G. R. Conger. r. w. Douglass,
F. c. Mansfield; sophomores. c. r. McAtee,
c.. r. Wise, William Cooper, H. D.. Chapel;
freshmen, N. c. Neal, John White and
Charles Johnson.
This committee will meet this week and
arrange for the state convention, which
will be made up by the different college
fraternities and organizations. March 8 is
the date on which the Southern Indiana
Editors will be the guests of the university.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-17
VIGOROUS SEARCH FOR
MV|LLE HOLD-UP MAN
Horse He Rode and Abandoned
Identified by Owner-Wound-
ed Men Are Doing Well.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

special Z the Indianapolis journal
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, Feb. 16.-The
whole community in the vicinity of Nc
Vile is excited over the shooting and hold
up in the Lane and Draper stores at z
o'clock last night. Before morning search
ing parties started out in three directions.
All the neighboring towns were notified.
At Z o'clock this morning Western Union
Operator Cline identified the horse from
the description given last night, as when
he woke UP this morning the animal was
only a few rods from his house. saddled and
bridled and wandering alone along the
street. 1t was taken TO a stable and this
afternoon identified by Mr. McHaley as his
animal.
1t is now believed the robber rode through
TO Bloomington, getting here just i'm time
TO take the midnight train and that he has
likely gone to indianapolis. The police
have been notified. 1t is believed now that
the man is a former resident of the Nc
Vile neighborhood, as the description fits
exactly. Both Draper and Burch. who were
shot. are getting along well. Draper may
lose his hand.