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THE I JD IAHAP 0 1,1 SIXTH EDITION FAIR; SNOW OH RAIN. WARMER. Sunrise, 7:12. Sunset, 4M. The lodlannpolU publlhe tnoro! pnlil rlaxaltlecl (want) ad every day, every rwk, every mnnlh nd erery ycr tban all the other Indianapolis papers eumbiued.

VOL. XXXY I TWENTY tOUB PAGES FRIDAY EVENING, DECEIBER 11, 1903. TWEKTY EOUB PAGES I TWO CENTS JVlAV PAflAF.1AlAHS 'KEEP THEIR EYES DPEII HAIiHA CALLS THE WHEN GREEK MEETS OR EE WAY HAS IVESTIGATIOII OF MURDER MYSTERY LEADERS TO ORDER BEGUII TO SAVE Scouting Parties Have Left the Capital to Watch the Colombians' Movements. ReDublican National Com Indiana Chairman Knocks a Junket In the Head Trial for $2,500. Coroner and Grand Jury at Work On Shooting of Miss Gillesoie mittee Meats to Talk Over Next Campaign.

TWO GUNBOATS GO TO DAVID TWO THINGS ARE CERTAIf NICE TRIP WAS PLANNED STORIES REGARDING BROTHER HEME Will Assure that District that the United State Is Helping to Maintain Peace, PANAMA, December 11. Several Pan unalan boo Ling parties hv already left bore and others will leave Panama' shortly to watch the movement of the Colombians. No reports have yet been yeoelved from the parties In the field. knl there Is no news tending to confirm the report from La Guayra of the landing of Colombian troops at the mouth of the Atrato river. A Panamalan gunboat and a United fc'tates gunboat hare proceeded together to David, near the western end of the Isthmus of Panama, for the purpose of giving the people of that district evidence of the fact that the United States forces tire co operating wltbJ those of Panama In maintaining peace on the isthmus.

The gunboats are expected to return here ou iaunday. Work for the Junta. The principal worlc of a political nature, riow occupying the attention of the Junta 1j the calling! of a convention and the election of members of the 'House Representatives, etc, Effort are being made to hell the convention February S. three months after the declaration of the lnde evidence of I 'an a ma. Kederico Boyd, v.i.o recently went to the United States as a member of the special Panama commission, i renumed his place on the Junta, leior who was temporarily ap joiUed a member of the Junta, retiring.

THIS IS A. Cmall Body cf Colombian will March on Panama. December 11. Secre tary Moody has received a cablegram from Ilea Admiral Glass, saying rumor reached Panama that a small body t'f" Colombian troops has landed on Colombian territory with a view to marching overland to the isthmus. Reor Ad mirsl Glass has been unu.ble to confirm the rumor.

AfJ INNOCENT BYSTANDER WAS FATALLY WOUNDED. James McCann, Living at Diamond, was Accidentally Shot by Town Marshal Harmon. Special to The Indlanspolla' BRAZIL, December 11. James McCann, wenty wo years old and unmarried, v.hs accidentally shot and fatally Injured at 12 o'clock last night at Diamond, a mining town north of here. John Itsrmon, towu marshal, went to the west nd of Diamond to arrest Daniel Klncaid, who was disturbing the peace.

Klncaid reel ted and attempted to use a knife. Harmon drew a revolver to protect hlm slf. Klncaid seised the weapon and In the tnat fallowed the weapon was d. he bullet struck McCann, an Innocoit bystander. In the abdotnen.

Harmon succeeded in arresting Klncaid ml placed him in Jail. McCann was taken 1 i V. V. A V. ci'Hifin his wound as At noon day he was sinking rapidly.

Harmon says ho Is willing to surrender at any time and Is crushed by the accident, as lie wm a warm friend of McCann, who vss a miner. Until a year ago. when Har Muri ran elected marshal of Diamond, the illiao was one of "the most turbulent" lrt the county. Harmon succeeded in driving cut all the rough characters. The sympathy of the residents Is with Harmon.

THINK TERR EL IS INSANE. rrhree Witnesses from. Indianapolis EACh Get $100. a Day. lal to The Indianapolis News.

December H. Dr. II. IT. YV'eer.

Dr. Ernest Reyer and Dr. Frank B. Wynn, three physicians of In testified this mornlnrr as to the Insanity of John W. Terrel on the Ctvy he shot and killed his son in law, Tlelvin Wolfe.

They thought Terrel Is insnne. basing the opinion on a hypothetic nl question which required thirty two ir.ihuu.s In reading, and covered twelve typewntten jMgea. Their teBtlmony was iiot shaken under crons examlnatlonl Dr. ynnmade the spectators catch their breath when he stated, under cross examination, that he was to receive $100 day us a witness In the' case. other two physicians testified that they Were to receHe the same.

SMALL CRADLE IN SALOON. Painter Charged with Robbing It of Coins. J'dwerd Dally, a pamter, living at 2411 iin irr urci, in unupr urreei on me charge of stealing one of the charity which were recently dlstrib uted about the city by the Indiana Children Home Poole ty. The "cradles'" are wooden ravings banks mnde in the' fr hape of cradles, with a slot in the top to receive roms. cine of them was placed in Clone's sahxin.

in North Delawaie street, and Dully is charged with stealing it. It a alicge.1 he took out the money b'kI attempted to burn the contrivance, hen seen ty the porter of the saloon, lie will fx tiled to rnorrow. CANAL TO INDIANA HARBOR. It will Probably be Open to Steamers Next Summer. "CHICAGO.

December 11. Rush orders 1 een Issued for completion of the rip canal to connect Kast Chicago ami Ii.dLin.i Harbor. Ind. It Is planned t. have part cf the canal open to steamer lttiMt the ond of next summer.

Mat rial 'ia been ordered for two bl)f of the suction type. These wJil ts al together on the canp.l and cutting their way toward MU hUa'i 11 direction, and to the Grand aliimot rivor V. the other. Receiver for Elkhart Company, Ju Andon on, of the Federal Court, his rurncd iiorviuo C. Hartley as receiver the liucsv her Manufacturing Cum lany, of Application for the re rver was made by three Chicago firms, vM ill.

that th' hold claims tira against the jur li artlev. sorno time ago. n. sis manager. of the company's ts own afininent.

Chicago will Get the Convention an H. S. New will Go to Work tt Once. The Iadlas apoU Tfews Bureau eO Post Building. WASHINGTON, December 11.

The Republican national committee, which began a two. days' session here to day, will rat ify the plans made by Chairman Hanna and the members of his executive commit tee. The net results? the meeting will be that Chicago will, be selected as the place for the convention and the time will be the third week In June. No change in the present basis of representation will be made, though the committee may sug gest that the convention consider the ad visibility of changing the apportionment for IKS Harry S. New, as a member of the ex ecutlve committee, will establish" national headquarters at the Auditorium Hotel, early In January, and will be Senator Hanna's personal representative in the making oi arrangements ior ins convention.

Indiana for Roosevelt. The gathering of the committeemen has brought out very clearly that what ever opposition there may be to the re nominatlon of President Roosevlt is scattered and absolutely unorganized. Events of the last two or three days have tended to emphasise the fact well under stood by most persons that the Republic an organization in Indiana 'is loyal to the President. National Committeeman Now, both the Senators and every one of the nine Republican Representatives in the House have made It plain that they are for the nomlnatlion of Roosevelt for a full term, Cheers for Hanna. When Senator Hanna called the meet ing.

to order he was greeted with a round of applause. He expressed briefly his thanks to the corftmlttee for the work in the campaign of 1900, saying: "I desire to Improve this opportunity to thank the members of for their hearty and loyal co operation in the cam palgn of 1900, for which service they were chosen by the convention held In that year. "From a personal standpoint It is a pleasure to me to make this acknowieag ment of unanimous and able, support on the part of this oommittee In that cam puign. "3uccess" the Word. "AH of Interest to1 the Republican par ty that centers In' this' meeting can be told in One word, and that Is "success, And all that is necessary to bring about that result is to stand pat upon the prin ciples and policies of, that party." This statement was greeted with hearty applause.

Chairman Hanna ex plained that all meetings' of the com mittee would be public except' the' meet ing' to morrow, when balloting for a place to hold the next convention, would ta ice piace. A tribute was paid to the late Oeorg "Wis well, of Milwaukee, sergeant at arms of the committee, Heath Reads theCall. Perry S. Heath, the secretary, read the call of the meeting, stating Its purpose. A number of communications were th presented, including one of the National Republican League, asking for' opp'or funity to be heard on the question of some plan of co operation between the league and the national committee.

In the last campaign the league was sup pliea witn runas and literature, ana this plan is ravored again, A Mississippi Request. Another communication was read by the chairman of the four congressional dis tricts in Mississippi asking that the call for the national convention be so worded that the delegates from State can be elected according to the law, which provides that delegates must be elected at State conventions. Instead of by districts. Another, communication was received from S. Palmer, of Porto Rico, representing the American Federal party, and related its association with, the party.

It was stated that as long as Porto Rico was governed by the For aker act It could not be "connected with the politics; of the United States, as Porto Ricans wete ftot recognised citizens, of United iStates. A communication was received from E. H. Deas and others, of South Carolina, protesting against the appointment of John O. Capers as member of the national committee of that State.

It asserted that Capers was not a resident of South Carolina. These communications and others Of minor importance were referred executive session of the committee. Brayton Takes Advice. General JSrayton announced that while he had Intended to present a resolution regarding the basis of membership to the national convention, he had, since arriving In Washington, been Informed that It would be Inopportune to bring up the question at this time, and he should not do so. This statement elicited applause on the part of the committee.

Chairman Hanna. in outlining the pro gram of the committee's session, said that the committee would go In a body to the House at 2 clock. To pay our respects to the President of the United fcttes." This, said, would close the proceedings of the day. The death since the last meeting of the following members of the committee were announced: of Montana. Gibbs of lew lork.

ester of South Carolina, leatv of New Hampshire and Elliott of Michigan. Cannon for Roosevelt. About fifty of the members of the dele Ration which is here from Chicago to urge the holding of the Republican convention in that city called on Speaker Cannon today to pay their respects. Addressing the visitors, Mr. Cannon expressed the opinion that they would succeed In taking the convention to Chicago.

He added: "The work of thut. convention has already nvsppod out. Public sentiment, us vetoed by the great multitude of ti voters, has alrudv expressed approval of tha administration and a desire for the nomination of PresidentRoose tor a second term. Jl doti not matter what may be the i iiiiv Muni ('(union or iire of you or me. the F.fpublu an piwrty has always been tuui w.

il always controlled by the of the great majority, and that sentiment hs already bt expressed an. I will hee.led by the conventto. and the work of, that convention will be approve! at the polls la November." 1 SEVEN THOUSAND MEII WILL BE LAID OFF HARVESTER TRUST TO FIGHT 1 Union labor. WAR ON SMALL CONTRACTOR CHICAGO, December 11. Seven thou sand men will be laid oft on December 23 by the Dee ring division of the International Harvester Company.

According to the report the works will remain olosed a C. 8. Funk, representative of the International Harvester Company, said: "There is nothing alarming. Sometimes it "is" necessary to. suspend operations for a while in order to taXe" stock, overhaul machinery and generally clean up.

Such a time may now have arrived." The. union officers attempted to obtain explanations 'from the company concerning the proposed shutdown, but they were met with evasions, and got absolutely nothing In reply to their demands. Of ficers of the union say the policy of the harvester' trust is to demolish this unions. The building contractors of the nation. ace here in convention to form a national alliance.

William D. O'Brien was select ed chairman and E. N. Craig secretary. various opinions concemins the condi tions that confront the building, contractor were exploited by several speakers.

Frederick W. Job. secretary of the Em ployers' Association, explained the scope and functions of that body. He advocated the open shop, no sympathetic strikes, no restriction "upon the output, and the preservation of law and order. He saw in the proposed Contractors Al liance and the recently organized Citizens' Industrial Alliance ope and the same purpose.

To Fight Small Contractor. Uniform agreements between building Contractors and trade unions In the prin cipal cities of the United States that competition from the small contractor may be eradicated, outside competition restricted and activity in construction work continued evenly the year round proved to be a favored plan among delo gntes. The policy win tie openly conciliatory to labor unions, but no cast iron rule as to the open or closed shop that would Interfere with satisfactory arrangements with a recalcitrant labor organization will be adopted JOHN M'CREA HANGED. The Negro Who Killed a Detective at PEORIA, I1L, December 11. John Mc Crea.

colored, who murdered detective William Murphy, In this city on June 21. last, was hanged this morning. The drop leu at Aicurea oniy escapea lynching by being secretly taken to Galesburg. WEATHER INDICATIONS. UNITED 6TATE3 WEATHER BUREAU.

Indianapolis. ecembr 11. 1903. Tempsraturs. Xtocembsr 11.

1902. A. 62 Decerabsr 11, 1903. 7 a. m.

10 13 34 p. 11 62 p. m. Btmnwttr. M.lt Reiatlvs Humidity.

7 a m. 100 12 li 30.14 Local Forecast. Local forecast for Indianapolis and vi cinity for the twenty four hours ending p. December 12: Fair to night; Saturday, increasing cloudiness and possibly rain or snow; riving temperature. tVeather in Other Cities.

The following table shews the state of weather tn other cities at t.a. Station. Bismarck. N. Boston.

Mass. Chtcaso. ill. Har. Temp.

Weih. 29 4 12 Cloudy 284 2 Clw J. 14 Cloudy ClfS 29 31 PtCidy SS Clear 28 Snow Clear SU2 24 Clear S0.H Clar incinnau. Dfnvsr, Colo. lodgre City, Kas HtlrBi, Mont.

Jacksonville. Fla. Kansas City, Mo Utttle Rocs. Ivos Angeles, Cal Mobile. Ala.

New Orleana, La. New Tork. N. Oklahoma, O. Omaha, Nb Mvt.obsrg, Ha.

rcrtland. Ore. Qu ArPH. KDld OUjr. .82 40 ftCldy 43 Clfar 23 4 Cloudy 91 SS Clear 30.02 tU Clear 30 20 S3.0S Cloudy 30.1.) 34 Cloudy 14 Cloudy la.Ti 34 Cloudv Pan Antonto, rJum 44 Clear San Francisco, Cal so 0J 43 Cloudy St.

Louis, 3P.U Cloudy St. Paul. Minn, 0 Clear Washlneton. 1J. C.

30 OS 22 Clear W. T. JBLTTHE. Section Director. Hourly Temperature.

10 10 19 I' ii 20 4 10 it li 1 SHE DOES NOT ALWAYS KNOW JUST SEVEN TEAMS ARE TIED. Weary Grind of the Cyclers. will End Saturday Night. NEW TORIC, December 11. With seven teams tied for first place.

Root and Dorian having withdrawn last night, and Mo ran and Keegan still a lap behind, but making occasional desperate spurts to make up that distance, the riders in the slx daiy bicycle race kept up their weary grind to day, all the men except Breton appearing In shape, to continue to the end. Breton, when relieved sifter a hot sprint, coughed up a quantity of. blood, and seemed very weak, but his trainer stated that he would finish the race. At 1 p. m.

the seven leading teams In the six day bicycle race were tiedat 1,829 miles 2 laps. The scores of the others Moran and Keegan, 1.829.1; Samson and Vanderstuyft, Gougoltz and Franz Krebe, 7. arid Dove and Heds peth, 1.S01.4. PROSSER, GAS EXPERT. COPYING IN A FEW DAYS EXPECTS HIS WORK ERE TO REQUIRE TEN DENIALS OF GAS RUMORS ii C.

Atkins, director of the Consumers Gas Trust Company "and member of the cojnmittee appointed to select an expert examine, the plant, to report on the cost of 'extending "the system, of mains to all parts of the city and 'on the plan to manufacture gas and furnish it at a low price upon the failure of natural gas, to day received a letter from. R. Prosser, of New Tork. who said that, he was ready to come to Indianapolis within a week. Mr.

Prosser said it would probably take him ten days to do all' the work and complete his report This indicates that the examination will cost about 11,000, as the expert Is to reoeive $100 a day. John R. Pearson's Denials. John R. Pearson, assistant to the president of the Indianapolis Oas Company, objects strongly to the statements that have been made about his company recently.

He says the company is in no way, shape or form interested lh the Eu reka Investment Company. He says he never heard of the Eureka company until lie saw an account of it in the newspapers. He invites a thorough test of the gas meters now in use by his company to determine their accuracy, and resents emphatically any insinuation that the meters work too fast. He also Invites a test of the candle power of the gas. Mr.

Pearson says that F. 8. Hastings, president of the company, was not In the city last week. It was reported that Mr. Hastings was in the city, but chose not to confer with the city officers at this time on the proposition for lower pncea gas, aitnougn.

a conference had been invited by the mayor and Board of Works. Mr. Pearson says there is no reason why Mr. Hastings should not have conferred with the city officers if he had been In Indianapolis. Legal Committee Meeting.

The legal commtttee of the Gas Consumers' League met at the Commercial Club at noon to day and talked over the legal phase of the fight to save the Consumers" Gas Trust Company. The theory of Charles E. Barrett that the certificates are mere evidences of Indebtedness, and that their transfer carries with them no rights in the stock of the company, was discussed, and it is reported that the committee is strongly Impressed with It. According to this theory, if the Consumers' Gas Trust Company plant shoufd be wrecked, the original subscribers would receive the bene tits and the persons who have bought the certificates would get no share in the plant, their only claim being any remainder due with 8 per 'cent, in terest. RYAN WILL.

TEST. METERS, Inspector of I Weights will Undertake the Work. P. J. Inspector of weights and measures, said' to day that he would make arrangements "at oriCC 'to begin to test gas meters.

Mr. Ryan is of the opinion that this work comes within the field of his office. There have been a number of requests of late to have gas meters inspected. He says he will make a requisition on the Boaid of Public Safety, under which ho serves, for a testing meter. With this as a standard, Mr.

Ryan will be able to make comiarison of the meters that are now in use. He says be will be ready to begin work as soon as he can get the apparatus. The franchise of the Indianapolis Gas Company gives the Board of. Works authority to inspect and test meters at the exper.se of the company, as well as authority to test the candiepower. WHAT TO DO AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY.

HE WILL MAKE GOOD. Grant Gillette, Former Kansas Cattle King, is at Fostorla, O. FOSTORIA, December 11. Grant Gillette, at one time one of the wealthiest cattlemen in Kansas, who left there a few years ago owing about $1,500,000, will return to that State and says he will settle in full every dollar he owes. He has been living here for some time.

Gillette said that when he saw a crash was inevitable he executed a deed of trust and employed three attorneys to settle his atxairs, turning over property enough to pay all Indebtedness and leave a balance. He said' the property was not handled right. He paid over $30,000 on debts the aay oerore he lert Kansas, leaving him practically no money. He had done nothing' for which the law could reach him, and did not flee, and never has attempted to keep under cover in any way. lie nas oeen successful in mining ventures in Mexico.

DAVIS USED HIS CANE TO DEFEND HIMSELF U. S. CONSUL WAS ATTACKED AT ALEXANDRETTA. ATTARIAN STILL IN PRISON CONSTANTINOPLE. December 11.

The United States legation states that the advices regarding the Alexandretta affair confirm the reports of the violence of the police andTTthe attack on Consul Davis, who had only used his cane in self defense. It appears that Attarian, the naturalised American, who had asked for Consul Davis's assistance to enable him to era bark for Egypt, was arrested by a subterfuge. After he had embarked in a consular boat of Mr. Davis, Attarian was invited to land to undergo fumigation, whereupon the man was suddenly seized by three policemen and promptly locked up. Mr.

Davis, in attempting to interpose, was assaulted by the police, and was obliged to defend himself with his cane. Attarian is still a prisoner. The report that the United States cruiser San Francisco had left Beirut for Alexandretta was premature. i SENIORS ARE STILL OUT. Reinstatement of Student Green Is Sternly Insisted Upon.

Special to The Indianapolis News. I1ANOVER, December 11. The student trouble at Hanover College is well nigh ended, as all the classes have resumed work with the exception of the seniors. There seems little chance of reconciliation with the seniors, however, as the faculty will not permit the return of student Green. He has been captain cf tho football team for two years, and he played forward on the basketball team during the same period.

He was president of the In his freshman year, and he is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Green is very popular with the student and the senior classA It is said, will stand by him to the Jast. The class feels that Oreen has been greatly wronged, as it Is claimed that he was only a spectator in the recent affair. President Fisher, however, recognized him in the crowd. and seems determined to abide by his de cision witn rererence to expulsion.

GUNBOAT IS AGROUND. The Castlne, En Route to Colon, Strikes the Delaware's Bottom. PHILADELPHIA. December 1L The United States gunboat Castine, which sailed yesterday for Key West, en route to Colon, grounded In the Delaware river below Marcus Hook, about fifteen miles from this city early to tlay. The Castlne Is lying easy and Commander McKnlght reports that she will probably float at the next high tide without assistance.

Her engines are working and she is gradually being released from the bed of sand on which she is lying. JAPS TOOK CHANCES. Jumped Into Water and Started for Ten Miles Away. ASTORIA, December 1L Seven Japanese are mlslng from ie Oriental liner Indravelli. When the Vessel left Portland she had nineteen Japanese on board, eighteen being deported for irregularities in tbir papers and one for contagious disease At Brookfield the steamship was compelled to come to anchor and the men escaped during the night.

They Jumped int the, icy water and started to swim to shore, ten miles distant INDEPENDENT 'PHONE COMPANIES COMBINE PLAN IS PROPOSED AT CHICAGO CONVENTION. INDIANA MAN PRESIDENT CHICAGO, December 11. Eight thousand independent companies In the' United States will be merged Into one company, with a capital of J350.000.000, if plans of the Interstate Independent Association are carried out as planned at Its convention, which closed last evening with a banquet at the Auditorium. At the final session of the convention a committee was appointed to take necessary steps for incorporating into a company the association, with Us 4,500 members. At the same time the association's territory was extended to include every State east of "the Rocky mountains, instead of being restricted to nine States, as under the old constitution.

This will bring 3.500 additional independent telephone organizations Into the new combine, which then will be as thoroughly organized as the Bell Telephone Company. First Step to Reach Chicago. "One of the first things to be done by the said Henry AJ Barn hart, newly elected president, in his address (o the convention, "will be connection with Chicago, by means of the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company, bringing our company with its lines In all important cities in Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Wis consin, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and other. States into direct competition with the Bell company, and reducing rates in this city.

'The average rentals of the Independent companies are half those of the Boll. Each of our phones Is ca pi tall red for $100, while the Bell company must pay interest on a capitalization? of i ti7 ror each phone, we will have 2,600,000 phones, as against 1,270,000 operated by the Bell company. No More Extortion. "The public no longer will tolerate telephone rate extortion. Half a million independent telephones are in operation within a radius of 200 miles of Chicago, and until arrangements were made at this meeting not ono cf them had oeen able to get con nection with.

the city, cnicago needs us and we need Chicago. Both have mighty interests in common. "The influence that keeps us out of Chicago is costing its business men $10, 000.000 a year in excessive rentals and trade losses. In cities like Indianapolis, Louisville and Cleveland, where the inde pendent service has been admittea, tne business lntersts at once have reaped the advantage. I Will Protest Roosevelt.

A committee was appointed to visit President Roosevelt and protest against an order said to have been Issued a month ago by Postmaster General Payne forbidding the placing of independent telephones In postotBces. The association makes the assertion that the Postmaster General is a stockholder of the Bell Telephone Company. The election of officers resulted as follows: President Henry A. Barn hart, Rochester, Ind. Vice President E.

M. Moulton, Minneapolis. Secretary E. M. Coleman, Louisville.

Treasurer A. B. Conkiin, Aurora, 111. The next convention will be In St. Louis.

The officials were surprised in the afternoon by the discovery of the theft of one hundred banquet tickets, valued at $3 each, from the room of the secretary. At the same time the enrollment book of the association was taken. Numbers of loose membership blanks were in the book, and the thief is believed to have mistaken these for checks and drafts. The tickets were numbered consecutively, and the secretary sought them during the 'banquet, but discovered none. What Sheerin Says of Combine.

The so called merger of the Independent telephone companies proposed at the meeting Chicago of the Independent Telephone Association, Included the New Telephone Company; of this S. P. Sheerhi. president, says that the arrangement amounts to. little more an agreement for an Interchange of service amorg the Independent companies for the good of the independent movement generally.

No combination of capital Is contemplated, nor transfer of property. The different companies will be operated separately, as heretofore. CORK FACTORY FIRE. Girls Were Carried from Burning Building Seven Men Injured. PITTSBURG.

December II. Seven workmen were seriously burned and a number of others sustained slight Injuries to day In a fire and explosion at Armstrong's cork factory on Twenty third street. Many of the 600 employes narrow ly escaped from the building with their lives. Over' 100 girls were carried by the police and firemen from the second floor by means of ladders. The explosion was due to a motor and boiler and partly wrecked the building.

Congressional: Delegation Intended Going to New Orleans to At tend a Celebration. Ttie ladiaaapolle) Bureau, ftO Post Building. WASHINGTON, December 11. Representative Hemenway. of Indiana, chairman of the committee on appropriations, has set his foot down on the policy of appropriating public money to pay for congressional junketing.

He has Just killed a resolution to appropriate $2,500 with which to pay the expenses of a con gressional delegation to New Orleans to attend the celebration In honor of the transfer of the Territory of Louisiana. Rathbono Writes to Root. E. G. Rathbone has addressed a com munication to Secretary Root, inquiring if the recent request of the Secretary to the Senate committee on relations with Cuba, to have printed the itemized ac count of receipts and expenditures of the military government of Cuba, includes the accounts of Dr.

Wood in Santiago from about July to December, 1SS8, Inclu sive, known as the Wood '88 accohnts. Major Rathbone states In his letter that the attention of the Senate committee on military affairs was recently called to these accounts In written communication by one of the auditing officers of Cuba who attempted to audit them and who characterized them as being in very bad shape. Major Rathbone adds that on November 18 he requested the committee to subpena the ex audltlng officer above referred to. Speakers for Indianapolis. John B.

Cockrum la here to see Representative Oversireet about the list of speakers for the 'Columbia Club banquet, February 12. Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, promised several weeks ago to be present, and to day Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, accepted an invitation. Two or three other Con gressmen will also speak. The party will be taken to Indianapolis in a special over the Baltimore Ohio railroad. R.

H. Miller's R. II. Miller, of Falrmount. president of the Indiana Lincoln League and a member of the national executive body of the organization, is here with the other members ef the league to meet with the national committee and discuss plans, for closer: relations between the committee and the league.

The league wants a working part In the next campaign and will probably get it. Mac Arthur Must Explain. The statements attributed to General as contained in a dispatch from Honolulu. In which he is alleged to have' predicted war in the immediate future the United States and Germany, have, come to the notice of Secretary Root. The Secretary said he did not regard it as a case calling for action by him, inasmuch as the dispatch quoted General MacArthur as saying that the statement In Colonel Jones's report to 1 Oovernor Carter did not correctly represent his views in any particular and utterly misrepresented them In some.

Secretary Root made the assertion that remarks of this character delivered in private conversation would not necessarily shield an officer from the requirement of an explanation, but he says that General. MacArthur' deniel carries with it the weight of an explanation. He therefore would take, no action In thi matter. At the meeting of the Cabinet to day it Is said that the matter was discussed, as a result of which it seems likely that Secretary Root will modify his view, and, In the interest of fairness to Gen. MacArthur.

call upon him for an explanation upon his arrival in the United States the latter part of this month. Hay Still In Bed. Secretary Hay's condition continues unchanged. Except for the Inclement weather, it is said he probably would have been able to leave his bed before this. The Miller Protest.

i E. E. Perry, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Western Millers' Association, telegraphed the Indiana Senators to day that he was authorized to say that 10,000 millers represented by him were opposed to the bill to bar so called unauthorized Insurance companies from the malls. The Re tall Merchants' Association of Evansville also wired a protest against the bill. ROOSEVELT CRITICISED.

Arkansas Congressman Talks on the Panama Situation. WASHINGTON. December 11. The House, on convening to day, resolved lt 4 self into a committee of the whole for the consideration" of the pension appropriation bill, with Mr. Lawrence, of Massachusetts, in the chair.

Vrwr.rhl 1 Ren 1 rt Ohio mgs oi ine om iimierit aim n.m i.m nlRlU thit The crwWoM of the bfll 1 new that Mlss "1esPl" preparing werSrlcUcaUv identical with thoU of to entertain member of a liter try Zlt vMr'l raure Mr Dinsmore dety. Because of this preparation tn for one' hour, took occasion to speak ofj fJ ted hi" lln Vtre tab IVh and. took d.hberate llshed. and that it exists' by the power of almhe funeral services over the Uh'v the United States, and that without that J7i IxkJ ntl ings of the old homestead, and that he Dower said, been gained that could not have been gained tn a straigniiorwara ana Honorable way. lie explained that he did not use the word "honorable" in an offensive sense, but insisted that but for the action of the United 8tates there would be no republic of Panama.

Did Not Obey the Law. Mr. Dinsmore, referring to the provi sions of the Panama canal bill, said: "Here is the law. Did the President obey It? Everybody knows that he made no pretense of obeying the law. Has any excuse been offered why he did not obey He has not even vouchsafed to Con and cast aside the express wish of Congress declared in law." IN THE SENATE, TOO.

Culberson Offers a Resolution on Panama, WASHINGTON. December Il.At the beginning of to day's session of the Senate. Mr. Culberson introduced a resolution Instructing the committee on the Continued Page 10, Column 7.," gress. whose law.

he violated, the slightest I excuse. Is he above the law? Indeed, Mr. Chairman. If this Is true, we have come upon evil times when the executive power of the Government can usurp authority i Said that Ill Feeling Existed Between Families Gunwads May Afford Important Clew. Special to The Indianapolis News RISING SUN.

December 1L Miss Elb abeth Gillespie died yesterday afternoon without recovering Consciousness. She was surrounded by members of her family. Including ber aged mother, who had to be carried to her bedside. James Gillespie, her twin brother1, and Mrs. W.

R. Seward, a widrrwed slater, who live immediately across the street, were not present; It is reported mat there has been ill feeling between the two families fex a. iung nine, Decawe oi aisputoo. prop erty rights. James Gillespie formerly lived In the old homestead, but two years ago he withdrew to make his home with Mrs.

Seward. The dispute originally arosa over the division of their father's estate, and the felling. It is asserted, was Intensified when Mrs. Gillespie, the aged mother, made a will In which Elizabeth Gillespie was named as the beneficiary Coroner and Grand' Jury Investigate. Immediately after the 'death of Mis.

Gillespie, Lewis Thorne, coroner, of Ohio county, began an Investigation, and tha grand Jury, called in special session by Judge Downey, also took up the case. Among the earlier witnesses before the grand Jury was' James Gillespie. The family openly expressed Jjta indignation that he was called. He was subjected to a rigid examination, which, however, developed nothing throwing light on the terrible tragedy. Public sentiment, however, falls to be satisfied, although Dr.

William Gillespie, of Cincinnati, who has been In constant attend ance upon the stricken woman, and. who has no part. In the family feud. Is outspoken in his belief that an unknown enemy Is responsible for the dastardly assassination. Dr.

Gillespie also denounces' the reported Ill feeling on the part of cer tdin mmhir. vf thn "These stories that are lloating around that my brother, James S. Gillespie, and my sister, Mrs. Belle Howard, have veu ipalous of fondness shown by mother to Elizabeth Is absurd. The fact that Jim whs before the grand Jury to day and was subjected to severe cross examination, does not make ary case apalnet him, for he is only a witness in a Kn eral wr.y, I do not think he knows any more about the murder of my sifter than I do." It is now apparent thut the myptery must he ferreted out by the nuthorlllp of Ohio county alone.

The chlff of police nt Cincinnati, over the long distahce to day said he could not send detectives outsiJt of the State, and the Hams word came from Lou is i Formally Declines io Assist. The Gillespie family Is wealthy, but it is said that none of the members would comply'with the. request of local authorities to offer a reward or to trtke step for the employment of detectives. It la also stated that the GllWpies jrefused to testify to anything the" victim may have said from the time of the shooting iir Tuesday evening, until her death, ou Thursday evening. The victim's twin brother, on advice of his counsel, refiisi to "answer questions before the, grxnd Jury, even after arraignment before Judge Downey, nnd he still refuses to talk to newspaper men or others.

Suspicion no lorger rests on Dr. H.irri man, who has proved that he was in Mo Henry's store when the shooting ws heard. Dr. Harrln an has gfun shotgun, such as was used for thn fat. il shot, and the empty shotgun shell whs found after the tragedy in the alloy back of Dr.

Harrlman's house. Dr. Han i man rents from the victim, and had Just been ordered by Miss Gillespie to vacatn the This difference between them and the finding of the gauge shell near his home caused much unjust suspicion at first to reet on the doctor. Since the Harrini.in theory lm i been dispelled, the feeling in the commu Once Grappled with Man at Window. The story Is revived that some month ago Miss Gillespie found a man nt her window, gazing Into her room, nnd he grappled him, being of a very courageous disposition, but he broke away and escaped arrest.

It Is said that she identified the man and reported his name to th town marshal, and there are some who thing that this man fired the fatal After the death of Miss Gillespie two wad were from the wound their con dltion little changed by the Impact, aril it is alleged that they fit an empty Fix teen gauge shell ftfund hear the house. There are few owners of shotguns la.th city carrying slxteen gauge shells, and bo cause of their scarcity there Is hope th.it this nify prove an important clew in running down the mnrderer. It is conceded that the assassin wns Intimately, acquainted with. the surrour.d at theT Presbyterian church. WILL ASK FOR RECEIVER.

Heavy Debtor of Elkhart Cank In Financial Difficulties. Special to The Nw. ELKHART, December 11. The attorney for the receiver of the Indiana National Hank to day informally notified the attorney for the 1 Paper and Bag Company thit he 1 ROCKEFELLER IS TOO FCCR. Employes will Not Get Turkey This Year.

(Kperia! to The ln lfa WASHINGTON, Decern 13. An nouncement was mde here iy ti the Standard Corrp my will its usual Christmas K'J't of a tu: oyftern to nch e. ioye. Tho icect came Irom tie fctuie rh. KVr, 7 1 Vi Ti r.

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