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IN I A NAP LI LAST EDITION FAIR WKATMEH. Sunrise, Sunset, CO. Dally paid drenlstkm for Jar airy. February and March. Z1.VT,.Y 'Tt Indianapolis alone A VOU XLmWZ xm TWENTY PAGES WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1912.

TWENTY PAGES ITWO CENTS KOf SWORE AT SMAY DIDilTiOWHIM Fifth Officer of Titanic Says White Star Owner Was Excited 'When Ship Was Sinking. GOT IN WAY; ORDERED BACK H. a Lewe'e Word So Harsh They Are Written Instead of Spoken Women Clamor to Hear Testimony. SAW THE TITANIC SINK. WASHINGTON, April 24.

Word that the. sinking of the Titanic Was observed from the steamer ML Temple, which landed at St. Johns. N. last Friday, was received by Chairman Smith, of the senate lnvestlgat lns committee today from Dr.

Qultx man, who says he saw the catastrophe, and Indicated his willingness to appear before the committee. This announcement was made during the recess today of the investigating committee. The premier of Canada Is In communication with the committee with a view to clearing up this phase of the disaster. WASHINGTON. April 24.

J. Bruce Jsmay. the chief official of the steamship line which owned the ill fated Titanic was ordered away from one of the ship's lifeboats while it was being lowered be cauw, In his excitement, he was Interfering with the ship's language too objectionable to be repeated aloud In the senate Inquiry into the Titanic disaster was used by Harold Q. Lowe, the fifth officer of the ship. Lowe dramatically recited to the senate Investigating committee how be, not knowing that he was talking to the head of the company which employed him, bad told Jsmay to "get the hell out of here to that I can work." while Lowe and other sailors were trying to lowet the first lifeboat on the starboard aide of the Titanic.

Was Very Much Excited. Lowe said that Isrr.ay was not trying to get Into the boat, but that he was very much excited and wss Interfering with the proper lowering of the boat. "This man (Ismay), said "was greatly excited. He was hollering "lower away, lower away, lower away and I swore at him to order him back." Lowe said that lsmay' went back and made no reply to him. Lowe also testified that he never would have known the man was lsmay if he (Lowe) had not met told him what he had done and asked htm why he "swore at lsmay." The senate committee investigating the Titanic diHafiter began its fifth day of Inquiry with the hope.rhat before It clone tr.

'r would have been fixed the JUon of ronporiKibiUty for the collision vlth tbe Iceberg that proved the great Mo'S undoing. Frederick Fleet, the Tltanlc's lookout man who was in the crow's nest at the time of the collision, was subjected to another gruelling tire of questions on the eta no in an eiiort to get him to fix the time he first reported the obstruction to the Titers on the bridge. This is said $eteriiay he was unable to do. There was the UKUtl crowd of the curious in. the corridors of the senate orTite building long before the committee mt." The great majority were women wtr in.

all their wiles and cajoleries In efforts to net past the two giant capital guards who stood sentinel at She doors. The committee refused to permit any jone innlde the room except the witnesses, the survivors and the representatives of the press. Never Solved Light Mystery. Senator William Alden Smith, the chairman, announced after a meeting with his colleagues that the British witnesses would be called as rapidly as possible before any more passengers were examined. Frederick Fleet, lookout on the Titanic, was recalled as the first witness of the day.

I Tiitor Burton asked: When you were on the Titanic were your eyea examined?" "Yes." j. How often "Frequently." Can you distinguish colors T' "Vr, ir." Lt.l you, when In the Titanic's crow's rest, see a light?" When Binoculars Are Used. "No. I saw rio light until I got In the lire boat. Then I aaw a bright light on the port bow.

I don't know what It was. Mr. Llgbtoller saw it before we got off the Tltsnlc and told us to pull toward It. It finally disappeared. We never made out what It was." "When you have binoculars, what share of time do you have the glasses to your eyes while on the lookout?" "If we fancy we see anything on the horison," said Fleet, "then we use the glasses to make sure." Saw No More Women.

Senator V1t cYr 1rMi Vtfr vw.v. WfiiTLIIffSr he had helped In the loading of the boats. "Yes. sir." "Had you ever had any experience In loading and lowering lifeboats?" of us do In the White Star." He said be saw no lifeboats loaded other than number the boat in which he pulled away with about thirty passengers. "Were there any women left on the decks who did not get In the boat?" "No.

sir: I saw none." Did you call for them?" "Yes. sir." The witness said that there were a number of men ore the decks, but that none of 'them sought or even asked to be taken on. Fleet told of the appearance In the boat of a stowaway, who had hidden beneath a seat. The man. an Italian, was of it assistance because of an Injured arm.

boat. Fleet said, avked for and got snother man from a lifeboat to which tied up. Heard Cries for Help. "Dil you hear any cries for help?" Senator Smith, Yes. but IheJ were very faint." you go back to help?" sir; some of the passengers want el to, but the quartermaster, who was in ordered us to keep on rowtng How far were you Irotn the Titanic it sank?" "on, it must have been a mile." "As to your eterlnce in trying to estimate how far the Titanic was from the berg when you sighted it.

I should nay fiii r.nt have any judgment of dl Senator Smith commented. more, I haven't." Flet answered an 1 then was excused. Smith Makes Statement. r.AloT Smith then arose and formally (.: i.i.ncK) that he wanted (o meet an that had arisen a to the pur 5 ct the committee, "it la to get I farts attendlo thl he I. '11 rvl rs and in ri "Ot siiibulii rs, and If We Continued cn Page Fifteen.

WHY ASK HIM WHERE HE STANDS ON NATIONAL ISSUES? WHAT'S THE USE? BOSTON, April 13. Augustus P. Gardner, representative from Massachusetts, in his speech here said: 5 "If we ask Roosevelt where he stands on Canadian reciprocity, he anrwers us that Senator Lorimer and President Taft are conspiring to swindle the American people. "If we ask him whether he believes that the Sherman law ought to be enforced against the trusts, he replies that our spelling ought to be reformed. "If we ask him to tell us where he stands on the tariff, he replies that women ought to have plenty of babies.

"If we ask him how he stands on the Gompers anti injunction bill, he tells us that the new nationalism will fix us right as a trivet. "We do not even know where he stands on the question of the recall of judges by the people. In California he was for it and before the Massachusetts legislature he recalled the recall. "Is it the same way with the question of the revision of judicial decisions? He has revised and whittled away that doctrine in each successive edition until now the healthy, howling child of the Columbus charter of democracy, is a poor deodorized antiseptic little waif whose picture is already turned towards the wall." AMERICANS IN JEOPARDY BY INTERVENTION TALK REPORTS ARE WIDELY C1RCU LATED THROUGHOUT MEXICO. REBEL ACTIVITIES INCREASE WASHINGTON.

AprU 24. State depart ment advices from Mexico today say Americans in all parts of the country feel their safetv la in leoDardy by reports of American intervention circulated through out the United States and reaching Mexico. The activltv of the rebels. Immediately south of Mexico City, la reported to, be increasing and various towns have been captured by them. Otherwise, conditions are quiet, especially In San Luis Potosi and at Saltillo.

though a number of American families are continuing to leave for the United States. RECITE TALES OF CRUELTY. Refugees Tell of Harrowing Experiences With Mexican Rebels. GALVESTON, April 24. Refugees from Mexico continued today to tell of harrowing experiences with Mexican guerrillas and self styled lnsurrectos In the southern republic W.

R. Llms, an American attorney, of Honolulu, and J. Ftexen. an American railroad engineer, declared never in their lives had they conceived of the cruelty to the living and the desecration of the dead they recently witnessed In Mexico. MUNITIONS SENT TO AMERICANS.

Three Shipments Are to U. S. Citizens In Mexico. SAN ANTONIO, April 24. Within the last few days Ft.

Sam Houston has sent three shipments of arms and ammunition to Americans In Mexico. Fifty thousand rounds of cartridges were sent tc Ouadalajara. Another shipment went to El faeo. and sliil' a third to some point farther wet. Beyond the shipments were made, army officers are reticent.

TROUBLE IN FIFTH Four Balls' Too Much for Catcher Is Police Court Version. When the umpire called four balls that the catcher thought should have been strikes, and thus forced In a run. trouble started. That was In the fifth Inning. The catcher waited till the end of the frame, which waa lost by his team, and then started In to whip somebody, the umpire preferred.

He didn't get the um pire, but he got iquis raim, on innocent bystander, and as a result both teams and the bleacherltes appeared in police court today. The catcher was fined Jl and costs and got thirty days in which to pay It. The catcher was a member of tha Riv erside Juniors team, which played the iJeicu Specials Sunday. In the midst of the argument, so the witnesses wild, he rapped a Dat ana went ror me umpire, lugh Webb, a friend ot the umpire, and the manager of the opposing team, stepped In between and caught "the blow on his ribs. Foiled.

Haldeman looked elsewhere a victim, and found Kraim. a 'sixteen year old boy. Fralm caught the bat across the head and was laid out. Judge Collins said the boy fined ought to be disqualified for the season. COST CRUMPACKER 94 CENTS Campaign Expense Account Filed Other Candidates' Figures.

Edgar D. Crumpacker, who waa recently renominated for congress on the Republican ticket in the i Tenth district, spent 94 cents In hi a campaign, according to a report filed with the secretary of state; The total was for postage, Frank J. Hall. Lieutenant Governor, spent J153.10 in his successful race for nomination as Governor on the Democratic ticket. The chief items of Hall's expense were the following: Printing.

o.W; postage, :8.35; stenographer. $15; hotel expenses, state committee. $50. Charles J. McCullough.

of Brasll. an unsuccessful candidate for reporter of the supreme court spent $3.62. The principal Items of expense were the following: i.aliroad fare, hotel expenses. state committee, $50: printing. newspapers.

$13.70: telegrams, badges. stamps, PROCLAIMS STATE OF SIEGE French Government Tries to Suppress the Moroccan Rebellion. TANGIER. Morocco. April 24.

The French government has 'proclaimed a state of siege in Fes, the Moroccan capital, where, during the last few days, a large number of officers and men of the French army have been killed and wounded while suppressing an outbreak of the Moorish population In which hundreds of the Jewish residents were killed and wounded and a large part of the city destroyed by fire. Advices from other districts of Morocco say that the Arab tribes are. displaying a very warlike INJURED IN COVINGTON FIRE Six Men Hurt In Fighting Flames In Kentucky City. COVINGTON. April 24.

Eleven persons were Injured In a fire at the plant of the Paris Dry Cleaning Company in this city today. Six of the Injured were firemen, while the others were employes of the dry cleaning plant. The most seriously injured were Fire Chief Theodore tiritntli and Assistant Chief Thomas Davis. CALL ON NATIONAL BANKS. Controller Asks for Statement of Con ditlon at Close of April 18.

WASHINGTON," April 24. The controller of tlie currency today Issued a call rr natement ot the of all rt tiot.al anlTS In ti United States at the tlose of bailie on Thursday, April IS. DELEGATES AT LARGE ARE CONCEDED TO TAFT 'LOOKS AS IF WE WERE BEATEN," SAYS CUMMINS. ABANDONS HOPE IN IOWA CEDAR RAPIDS, Sapril 24. The situation prior to the opening of the Republican state convention here today was construed by Taft adherents to point to the selection of Taft delegates at larce to the national convention.

The Cummins Deo Die anoenred to irrnt defeat. "It looks aa If we were heaton said Senator A. B. Cummins, Just before tne convention opened. He added that he would start back to Washington this afternoon.

flAVA RAl iu.n n. 1 I date for the presidency." continued the art ti rT nere in lowa, my friends, said they wanted to present my consented without making the active canvass which, apparently, was expected of me. I still expect my name will be presented to the national convention, notwithstanding today's happenings." The program of the Taft men for the afternoon appeared certain to go through. The four delegates at large, in resolutions reported, were Instructed to support the President. RHODE ISLAND FOR TAFT.

Ten Delegates Are Instructed to Vote for the President. PROVIDENCE. R. April 24. Rhode Island will send a solid Taft delegation to Chicago.

The six district delegates select ed recently are for the President and the four delegates at large chosen by the state convention today are Taft men. They" are United States Senator Henry F. Lippitt, R. H. I.

Goddard. and Herbert A. Rice, of Providence, and George R. Lawton. of Tiverton.

Congressman George H. Utter, of Westerly, was the convention chairman. In addresslDg the delegates Mr. Utter 'declared that the Theodore Roosevelt we stood by two years ago is not the Theodore Roosevelt of today. Knowing the things that we know now, the time has come for the American people to say that, while we had an idol, we have no idol now." Reference to President Taft was greeted with prolonged cheers.

Resolutions instructing all the' dele Kates to Chicago to auDDart Pnnii.nt Taft's candidacy for the nomination unui were a a op ted. RETURNS TO FACE F. O. Beach, Millionaire, Accused of Attempting to Kill Wife. NEW YORK.

April 24. Frederick O. Beach and Mrs. Beach reached here today on the stemshlp Kaiser Wilhelm IL from' a trip abroad, where Mr Beach learned that he was wanted In Aiken. 8.

C. for trial on the charge of having attacked Mrs. Beach there on Eebruary 26 last. The attack on Mrs. Beach created a sensation In society last' winter.

She waa seized In front of the Beaches' winter home in Aiken and slashed in the throat with a sharp weapon. It was said that Mrs. Beach was assaulted by a negro. Mr. Beach said that he ran from the house to his wife's rescue when he heard her screams.

After Mrs. Beach's recovery she and her husband returned north and sailed for Kurope. Later a warrant was issued on the affidavit of a detective accusing Mr. Beach of tbe attack. Mr.

Beach cabled from abroad that he would return home at once. WHITECAP JURY OBTAINED I. U. Professors Among Those Who Are Trying Newton Adams. Special to The Indianapolis News.

BLOOMINGTON, April 24. A Jury to to1, Newton Adams, one of the alleged whltecappers of Harvey McFarland, waa obtained today. Among the Jurors are three Indiana university professors. The twelve men in whose hands the fate of Adams has been placed are Professor D. A.

Itothrock. Professor S. C. Davlsson, Professor U. S.

Hanna. Milton Robertson. Samuel Bray, George Bode. R. S.

Hunt. S. B. Curry. John Reed.

Elmer Covert. John Abel and C. Harvey. The opening statement waa made by the state and the taking of testimony began this afternoon. "I WANT TO LIVEVSAYS GIRL Leona Ehllnger, Victim ot Death Pact, Then Dlee In Father's Arms.

tSpecIal to The Indianapolis News. I.OGANSPORT. April 24. Leona Ehllnger, age sixteen, who was shot by her lover. Otto Glenn Brown, three weeks ago.

died at. St." Joseph's hospital last night. After shooting the girl Brown killed himself. A death pact, signed by both, was found In his grip. The girl acknowledged she had signed it.

but said It was a Joke. She threw her arms about her father'a neck. exclaiming. "I'm dvlng father, and I don't want to die, I don't care If Otto Is dead. I want to live." KILLED IN PORTUGAL RIOT.

Many Soldiers and Civilians Meet Death In Fight With Strikers, LISBON. Portugal. April 24. Many soldiers, and civilians were killed today in an encounter between the striking textile workers and a detachment of troops at Villa Nova de Gaia, a suburb of Oporto The strikers threw bombs into the ranks of the Infantry, who replied with volleys, of rifle shots. AGREEMENT IS REPORTED.

Government and Harvester Company Reach Dissolution Terms. WASHINGTON. April 24 Some agreement between the government and the International Harvester Company relating to the dissolution of that corporation lias been reached, according to statements here today. Its nature is not divulged and officials decline to discuss the matter at this time. TITANIC PASSENGER IS IN INDIANAPOLIS Miss Ellen Toomey Met at the Station by Friends Who Shed Tears of Joy.

RELATES HER EXPERIENCE Was Adrift Seven Hours In Lifeboat Pays High Tribute to Men WhbLost Their Lives. i When Miss; Ellen Toomey stepped from a train at the union station at noon today she was met with tears of joy from the scor.e of relatives who had gathered to welcome her home after her terrible experiences as a passenger on the ill fated steamer Titanic. But Miss Toomey smiled and was happy, and she consoled her relatives with the remark: "Don't worry. I am home again." Miss Toomey went in a carriage to the home of her sister, Mrs. Richard Haney, 911 Bates street, and on her arrival there she told the thrilling story of her experience as a passenger on the Titanic and as a refugee in a lifeboat for hours, after the ship went to its doom.

I "The wreck was due purely to carelessness," she declared. "It could not have been otherwise. I do not know whether the stories are true or not, but it was common talk among the survivors that the man in the lookout was asleep at the time and that the captain and other officers were not doing their duty, but that they were below at a banquet when the crash came. These stories may be true or not, but there was no other excuse for tne wreck but carelessness. Too Far Away to See.

"Oh, those cries and screams of the poor, drowning people. The sound was awful. I shall never forget it. But we did not see any of them in the We were too far away from the Titanic when it went down to see those who had leaped or had been washed Into the sea. But we could hear them for some little time.

Then all was still, and we knew the last of them had perished. "I was, a second class passenger on the Titanic, and in the same room with me were a Scotch woman. Mrs. Watt, and her little daughter, eleven years old, and a Jewish woman. Mrs.

Watt and daughter were on their way to Join Mr. Watt at Portland, Ore. We were all in bed. but not asleep, when the ship struck the iceberg. There was a slight shock, but nothing serious, as we thought.

Mrs. Watt went out on the deck to see' what had happened, and she was told that it was nothing 'serious and. she came back and told ua All Go on Deck. "Tn a short time, however, a steward came running past our room and told us to take down the life belts and put them on. We did so and then I partly dressed and we all went on deck.

There was no confusion or excitement. We were ordered to the side of the ship aiong wiin omer women. td men stood aside. They were brave, those men on the Titanic. They were real heroes.

The order was given to lower the lifeboats, and one boat on our side of the ship was loaded with woman and lowered the water. "An officer' stood by us with drawn revolver but I did not see him shoot. He threatened to shoot a man because he did not do what the officer told him to do, but "iinally the man obeyed. But I heard several shots tired on other parts of the ship. Who did the shooting i do not know.

was pot into the second lifeboat on the starboard side, and I think there were about thirty persons In our boat. In the number there were three members of the crew, who had been ordered there by the officers, and when we were lowered to the water we found two other men In the boat, who had sneaked In in some way. One. was a Frenchman and the other was some other kind of foreigner. Room for More.

There was room In our boat for more people, but the hurry of loading and the fact that people thought the boat could not sink probably accounted for the fact that there was not a full load. "When we struck the water the men rowed our boat rapidly away from the Titanic, because when we left the ship we could see that It was gradually low ering In the water. Arter we were at a safe distance we drifted about. Then we could see that the Titanic was sinking little by little and It was evident that it would go down. When there was but little of the ship still above water there was a loud explosion.

We could hear it plainly. Then the Titanic stood on end and made a dive straight, down and that waa the last of it. Then it was that we heard those awful screams from the drowning people. We could not see them. Drifted Seven Hours.

We drifted in the lifeboat for seven hours before being picked up. by the Carpathia. Our boat was the second or third that was picked up. The night was Continued on Page Fifteen. 1 WEATHER INDICATIONS; (See Weather Map on Par H.

UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU. Indianapolis, April 14. 131iL Temperature April M. 1911. a.

m. 43 April 24. 191Z" 7 a. in GO 12 12 i p. in.

2 p. m. (7 Barometer. a. It tn.

2 p. m. 30. Z3 Local Forecast Local forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty four hours ending 7 p. April, S3: Fair tonight and Thursday: not much chance in temperature.

Forecast for Indiana: Fair tonight and Thursday. Forecast for Illinois: Fair tonight and Thurs day; warmer Tnuraaay. Weather la Other Cities 1 The following table shows the state of tbe weather tn other cities at 8 a. Bar. Tamp.

30.24 4 Weatti. PtCldy PtCldy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy PtCldy Cloudy Clear Clear PtCldy Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudv Cloudy Clear Clear Rain Cloudy PtCldy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Armarillo, Tex. Bismarck. N. fn Mass.

30. 13 30.04 30. IS 30. 30.14 30.30 30.32 30.3 30.30 .1 so. is 30.24 30.H 44 46 63 64 44 3 44 fci 68 C4 44 48 44 4 ji i.

Cincinnati, O. in IXinvfr, IXxiue City. Kaa. nn. Melons, Jacksonville, Fla Kansas Utile Rock.

Ark. lx Angeles. VaL Mobile. Ala. New Orleans, La.

New York. Oklahoma City, Ukla. Omaha, Neb. Pittsburg. Pa.

Portland. Ore. Rapid City, 8. IX nv. S0.02 41 31.13 34 sari 30.14 30.

30.2S EMIO Ii' Ban Franciwo. St. Iuia Mv Paul. Minn, 11 40 V. H.

CHURCH, Section Director. Hourly Temperature. a. m. 4 7 a.

60 a in. sr a. 61 10 a. m. tall a.

3 11 m. 1 p. m. I (. n.

S7 V1SHES INSTRUCTIONS OF T. R. IN HARVESTER CASE SENATE ASKS WHY PROSECUTION WAS ABANDONED. tl JOHNSTON MAKES MOTION WASHINGTON, April 24. On motion of Senator Johnston, of Alabama, the senate today adopted a resolution directing the attorney general to supply the senate with the Instructions given by President Roosevelt in 1907 concerning the proposed prosecution of the International Harvester Company and also to give the reasons for the abandonment of the prosecution.

DR. J. N. MOULDER NEW HEAD OF METHODIST HOSPITAL Kokomo Physician Chosen by CommitteeReport on Improvements to Trustees. Dr.

J. N. Moulder, of Kokomo, was today chosen superintendent of the Methodist hospital. He will begin his duties June 1. lie has been a member of the hospital board for some time.

He was chosen by the executive committee and the trustees approved the choice. He succeeds W. T. Graham, who resigned several weeks ago. Great progress in extensive improove ments and additions at the Methodist hospital yas reported by the Rev.

William K. McKenzie, general secretary of the hospital, and other officers, to the board of hospital trustees, whicn met at the Young Men's Christian Association building. Mr. McKenzie said the hospital had accomplished the largest service during the last year of any year In its history. He said the new building, which will be known as the Mary Vount pavilion, is now practically completed and will be dedicated June 4.

This building contains fifty nine private rooms and cost about 1140.000, exclusive of the furnishings. (Progress was reported la the canvass which is being made for a fund of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is to be used in building a nursesV home, with accommodations for one hundred nurses, three new operating rooms, and a pavllllon at the north ot the present building. It was shown that a boot forty thousand has been raised. The buildings will be erected as soon as there is money enough for that purpose. Lou A.

Robertson, the treasurer, reported the finances of the hospital in a good condition. Superintendent Willard T. Graham gave a detailed account of the conduct of the Institution during the last year. The Rev. Joshua Stansfleld, of Indianapolis, is recording secretary of the hospital board.

Charles W. Fairbanks, president of the board of trustees, presided. Mr. Fairbanks was chairman of the special committee appointed to recommend a new superintendent to take the place of Superintendent Graham. There was a large attendance of trustees and associate trustees at the meeting.

There are sixteen trustees from the Indiana, the North Indiana and the Northwest conferences, and three trustees at large. H. P. BROWN WILL TAKE STEEL CASE TESTIMONY Dissolution of Corporation Object of Proceedings Examiner Lives in Philadelphia. TRENTON.

N. April 24. Announcement was made here today that Henry P. Brown, of Philadelphia, has been appointed examiner to take testimony in the proceedings Instituted by the United States government for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation and some of its subsidiary concerns. It is expected that the examiner will hear most of the testimony In New York where books and papers of the steel corporation and its subsidiaries can Ita more conveniently consulted.

It Is probable that it will take the greater part of the present year to examine all tha witnesses. INDIANA CRUDE OIL HIGHER. Advanced Two Cents a Barrel by Ohio Oil Company Price Now 95c. rspeclal to The Indianapolis News. HARTFORD tHTT.

April S4. Another advance of 2 cents a barrel on Indiana and North and South Lima oil has elated oil operators throughout the fields of Indiana and Ohio. The Ohio Oil Company's purchasing agency in this county was 'notified today of an advance to $1 a barrel for North Lima and to Soc a barrel for South Lima and Indiana. Operators in the Montpelier. Selma, "Vanburen and Wells counties fields be liove their expectation of dollar oil.

in Indiana. will soon be realized. BOLT FROM CLEAR SKY KILLS. Man Struck by Lightning When There Was No Sign of Storm." (Special to The Indianapolis Xewa LOGANSPORT. April Elmer Robbins.

age forty, living ten miles north of Logansport, was struck by lightning early thla morning and instantly killed. Robbins was in the woods, trying to drlv the cows when he was struck. The lightning came from almost a clear sky. There was no storm. 1 NOW FOR THE NEW STUNT TO SOLVE MYSTERY Rush County Grand Jury Takes Up Case of Wealthy Mrs.

L. B. Harris. KILLED IN HER FARMHOUSE Building and Body Then Burned to Hide Evidence of Crime, According to the Coroner. Tr Special to The Indianapolis RUSnVlLLK, April 24.

The finding of A. G. Shauck. coroner of Rush county, that Mrs. I B.

Harris, a wealthy woman, was murdered before her body was burned near her Ashland farm home, March 12, has revived Interest la the ''r .1 The coroner, who Investigated the case for about six weeks, filed his verdict yesterday afternoon, but the document waa at once taken by a deputy prosecutor to the grand jury room and Its contents were not made public. Coroner Shauck. however. saM he had found that Mrs. Harris's death was caused by a bullet wound and that the house where she had been killed was burned to destroy evidence of the crime, a Man Accused of the Crime.

It was admitted by the coroner that in his finding he had charged a nian with the but in view of the fact that the prosecutor had taken charge of the verdict he did hot wish to give the man's name, as publicity before tbe grand jury acts might thwart the end of justice. It was said at the courthouse that the grand Jury was expected to begin the investigation of the case late this afternoon, and that Phllos Culbertson, a negro, who was the coroner's chief witness, would be the first witness called by the grand Jury. It Is believed the grand, jury will go over the same ground as the coroner In making its inquiry. Paul Harris Assisted In. Inquiry, "Attorneys for Paul Harris, the dead woman's son, were active In aiding the coroner in his Inquiry, and they found considerable evidence they wished Investigated.

This, step was taken because rumors in regard to" Paul Harris bad gained currency, and the young man said he desired the most searching Inquiry In order to counteract all rumors. The property of Mrs. Harris, which consisted smostly of the large farm on which the family lived, was so willed to her by her father, Timothy White, that her husband could never enjoy any part or it, and an or it wouia descend to her blood heirs, or in case had none, to her brother and sister or their heirs. Timothy White was opposed to the marriage of his daughter, Minnie to L. Ii Harris.

His attempts were of no avail, and Miss White and Harris eloped and were married. It was several years before the father recognised his daughter. Colored. Man's Testimony. Coroner Shauck began hla Investigation the day after tbe tragedy, when small parts of Mrs.

Harris's body were found In the ruins of her home. The greatest amount of evidence was in the testimony of Pnilos Culbertson, a colored farm laborer, who rode with Paul Harris from Ashland farm to the Harris home. Culbertson has been tn jail since the Friday following the tragedy and fire. He gave himself up voluntarily snd asked to be locked up. It was brought out in Culbertson's testimony that Paul drove to this city with laundry he had obtained at the Harris home.

It further developed that the negro hauled some the laundry to the home ot Mrs. Jane Moore, colored. The sheriff searched clothes at the time and is said to have found blood on them. Several clean articles were found In the bundle taken to the colored woman's home and this led the coroner to believe that the package had not been prepared by a woman who waa experienced as a housewife. The coroner also says that blood was found on tbe clesn side of a soiled sheet.

Incidents Recalled by Witness. Culbertson. In his testimony before the coroner, recalled many Incidents of the day of the murder. He said he arose at the usual hour. after breakfast did the motning chores.

Paul Harris, he said, remained at Ashland farm all night, because Mrs. Harris, a wife, and baby were visiting her parents at Con nersvllle. He said he was in the houaeJ only once during tne morning, and thar was to cet water to mix reed for the hogs. At that the negro said. Mrs.

Harris and her. son Paul were singing and piaying on thei piano. While he was harnessing a horse in the buggy shed, about one hundred and fifty feet Culbertson said, he was attracted byi a fh'ot from the direction of the house, and that the dog beean howling and house. Culbertson said he then! went to the house and was met at the kitchen door by Paul Harris, but thnt Paul did not open the door, but Continued. on Page Fifteen.

WOMAN'S DEATH GERMANY IN EAVOR OF MARITIME 'AGREEMENT AMBASSADOR NOTIFIES 0FFI CIALS OF NATION'S ATTITUDE, TIME IS NOW RIPE TO ACT WASHINGTON. April 24. Germany has taken the lead In a movement to procure greater safety to passengers on the high seas by international agreement. Count Be ra st or ff. the German ambassador, today informed the state department that the safety of passengers on trans Atlantic liners always had been subject of deep concern to the German government.

The imperial government, he said, believed that tbe time was now ripe for an agreement between all maritime nations. Germany stands ready to enter Into negotiations to that end. Count Bernstorff, It Is understood, pointed out that the present German relations were very strict and had always been observed, but it was realised that the time had come to make these precautions common to all oceanic traffic. Germany had at varioua times enlsrcd Into special agreements with Great Britain and France for the regulation of passenger mmc It is expected that it tbe American government is responsive to the sugges tion negotiations will at once begin with all of the nations whose vessels reach cm ted mate shores. TELEGRAM TO MOTHER PUTS POLICE IN PATH OF ELOPERS Young Couple, of Columbus, Ohio, Intercepted on Way to Be Married.

Miss Helena Schafer, sixteen years old, and Arthur Parks, seventeen years old. elopers, members of well to do families in Columbus, were taken from a train at the union station, early this morning, by detectives Morgan and Sullivan, and held at the police station. A telegram which Parks sent to his mother while the train was speeding from Columbus toward this city caused the couDle to stopped here. They nave Deen returned to Columbus by the young man's father. Parks wired his mother thst he and Miss tfchafer were on their way to St.

ljouls to be married, and Mrs. Psrks put the matter in tbe nands of the Columous police. Captain Coffin got a descrlDtion of the couple a few minutes before 2 o'clock, and with only five minutes to get to the station the detectives were taken there in the emergency automobile. The young couple took the matter as a joke, although Miss Schafer told the police she was sorry that Arthur had sent the telegram, "just think," said sh, "our folks would never have known any thing about our elopement until we were married if Arthur bad not become uneasy for fear hia mother would wonder where he was and sent the telegram. That was boneheaded." Parks said he had sent the telegram so that his mother would not be uneasy about his absence.

Miss Schafer, who Is a high school girl, said that they had planned to run away last week. Parks said he was in the employ of the weather bureau at Columbus. The two were slated as Parks spent the night in a cell, and Miss Schafer was allowed to stay with Matron Whiteman. When the girl awoke in the morning she called for "Doris." "Oh said she. "I thought I was home." She explained that Doris was her cousin.

GUILTY OF Husband's Death Is Ruled on by Appellate Court. The appellate court tody held that the Gibson circuit court committed no, error tn the trial of the case ot Anna St. Clair against the Princeton Coal Mining Company, and that the verdict of the Jury with the answers of the interrogatories show that her husband. McClelland St. Clair was guilty of contributory negligence in recharging a hole that had been fired the day before, cracking the coal around the hole; that when he fired the recharged hole the nareout from the defective hole was what killed him and was the result of his own negligence.

The court says Instructions which lo not exactly state the law. but which by the answers to interrogatories show that the appellant waa not harmed, are not a ground for reversal. LOOT BANK; GET $3,000. Robbers Blow Open Vault Escape From Posse of Citizens. FT.

SMITH. April 21 After a two hours' running fight with a posse of citl sens four robbers, who had blown open the vault In the Bank of Midland, thirty miles south of here, escaped with their loot, about CltUens of Midland were awakened early today by noi of the blasts. They pursued, but the robbers had too much of a start, and got away. MURDERS CITY EDITOR. Unidentified Man Enters Spokane Office and Shoots E.

H. Rothrock. SPOKANE. April 24 An uni dentified man, shortly before noon today. entered the editorial rooms of the Sjmj kane Chronk le.

drew a revolver and ehot K. II. Rothrock, the city editor, dead. GARDNER HAS GOODS Rome Taft Also Is Going Into Massachusetts and Its Fiht to a Finish. VOTERS WISH ALL THE FACTS Letter Written by Roosevelt Will Give New Light Perkins' Money Is Used Freely.

By E. I. Lewis, Rtaff Cerrepondeat ef The ladlaaapolis Nm. SPRINGFIELD. April 24.

Until the presidential primaries are hsld In Massachusetts next Tuesday, little else than politics will be thought of or discussed. The contest between the Tart and Roosevelt adherents Is attracting attention everywhere because It is realised that the thlrty elx delegates to be sent from this state to Chicago will be very important personages when it comes to nominating a candidate for the presidency. Taft Republicans here are not trying to befog the true situation. The state seems to be swinging in the balance. Taft seems, however to have the preference, and the state probably will go to him If he fights for It, The demand Is Imperative that the President shall do his part and that part is to put aside tomorrow, for his day's campaign' in Massachusetts, his genUI self, and to kick the hat.

Augustus P. Gardner, the agirresslve progressive Massachusetts congressman who has started in vla orously to convince Ihe Roosevelt enthusiasts that their "idol has feet of clay," has opened the opportunity for the President. For the fiist time at least here In the east, liardner has been fighting third termer ltli his own weapons and choice of rough words and he has been biting them off a he hurled them He is charging Roosevelt not only with vilification, but the lowest forms of misrepresentation. What the Letter Say. The proof is In President Taffs hands.

Will he produce it, or will he continue tS be held back by what Is here called a "false sense" to bonds of friendship which have been broken by Mr. Roosevelt, and by the presidential reserve which Mr. Roosevelt does not respect? Gardner has this state by the ears. Massachusetts Is ready to listen to letters which will prove. In Roosevelt's own handwriting, that he wrote to Taft, urging him to tie up with Joe Cannou and lick the progressives snd lnsuijcents.

The state is eager to listen to letters written by Roosevelt, complimenting Taft on the reciprocity treaty proposal because it was the right thing no matter wtist the people thought, though Roosevelt now denounces It. Massachusetts will gladly listen to Roosevelt correspondence whicn shows that Roosevelt'a p'eeent charge, that Taft was linked up with Lorimer is entirely untrue. It is understood that these letters show that he asked lart to get Lodge In line to vote against Lorimer. saying that Taft was tbe only one who could do that. They May.

Force Roosevelt. Lodge voted against Lorimer. and It is thought also that the corespondence would reveal, that It was as a result of I It's Influence that Root spoke agilnst If President Taft will give Gardner and the Massachusetts Rpub licans thla ground to stand on and will come to Massachusetts In a fighting tern Jhm Gardner and the Massachusetts run fressmen will try to make Theodore toosevelt discuss national issues here. Gardner, however, realises the evasiveness of his man. Ho would like to know something about where the mUllon dollars that has been spent already in his campaign has come from; he would like to get Roosevelt to talking on his labor record: on his declaration for keeping open the gates of Immigration; on tlie injunction, and also on the eight hour day and the parrels post.

How Third. Termer Replies. In his Boston address Monday, Gardner, however, pointed out the practical futility of all such efforta. He said: "I should like to question Colonel Roosevelt on these and other subjects; but what is the use of trying? 'If we ask htm where he stands on Canadian reciprocity, he answers us that Senator Ixiimer and President Taft are conspiring to swindle the American peo ple. "If we ask him whether he that the Sherman law ought to be en forced atrainst the he replies that our spelling ought to be reformed.

"If we ask him to tell us where he stands on the tariff, he replies 'hat wom en ought to have plenty of babls. "If we ask him how he stands on the Gompers antl lnjunctlon bill, he ieiis us that the new nationalism wilt fix us right as trivet. "We do not even know where ho stands on the question of the recall of judges by the people. In California he was for it and before the Massachusetts legislature he recalled the recall. "Is it the same way with the question of the revision of judicial decision He' has revised and whittled away that doctrine In each successive edition until now the healthy, bowling rhlld of the Columbus charter of democracy i a pour deodorised antiseptic little waif whore picture is already turned toward the wall." Not True to the Issues.

The opinion here Is that Roosevelt's Infidelity to his Issues has only been surpassed by his infidelity to hls.thtrd term declaration and to hla famoua friendship and by. his double crossing of the progressive La Follette, whom he urged to be a candidate. Former Senator Beveridge who, with Glfford Plnchot, Senator Moses E. Clapp, Miles Poindexter. and Senator Borah, are the principal Roosevelt campaigners aside from RooseveH himself booked for this week, is making the usual denials of the charge that Roosevelt is being financed by the trusts.

Such a conservative and far seeing Journal as the Springfield Republican does not. however, seem to take the Indiana orator seriously. Aside from the lavit Use of money all over the country the Springfield Republican sees It being balwi out here In a way to force the quertion of where It comes from. There are elaborate headquarters and a most expensive campaign, one of Its feature being a contract with practically ail of the daily paters in Massachusetts to carry two columns of advertising each day this week, a contract which is estimated to call for an outlay of P.ciO in one lump. Comes Through Perkins.

Referring to the advertisement running In its the Republican fji; The Republican this morning Is tl'ii erously favored. It is In th degree iKwible that It come George W. Perkins, director of the Hol trust, organizer of the harvester frlxt and until recently a partner of J. jcan the eame George who so I I gave from the funds of th N. York Life Insurance Companv, I ing to widows and orphan, to the vclt oamnainn fund In 1.

4 1 (''i i rtl George W. l'erkins who rave a weekn ago to pay the H'0 It i cami'S expenses In Y'tk v. .1. I'erklns has only one ren.a i j. In life, to wit: Th rul t.

Of course lYrt rt 1 no enmity toward I'rp r.t left 1 Continued on P.e.