Logansport Reporter (Newspaper) - October 7, 1903, Logansport, Indiana THE Flir and light Logansport Daily Reporter A NEWSPAPER Fitto be reaa children asby VOLUME 30 NUMBER LOGANSPORT INDIANA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 7 1903 TEN CENTS PEA OEO W FENDEE APPOINTED PROBATION OFFICER Will Have Entire Charge of Paul Gross with Arson Until Time of Trial Gross Is Charged with Setting the Barn of James on West Side Afire THIRTYFOUR DEATH Board of Health Report Shows an Increase in Deaths this appoint ed AY Fonder probation olli cer of Cass county Friday WHS first lime Cass comity has needed a probation although state prescribes that the counties of the state shall have such officers It was when Paul Gross 0 years was arrested charged with arson The state law prescribes plainly that a lad under Hi bo incarcerated in tlie county jail and the jail were at a loss to know what to do with the lad Deputy Brumous spent one watching the lad and then his mother was called and upon to be ready OH Monday to him over to this authorities was allowed to take her son She has since been in care of the young ster Today W Fender will take charge of the Voy and will under bond bring him for trial before the court at a date Young Gross is charged with set ting the barn of James on fire last Thursday which blaze con the barn a loss of SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Tie Come to a Close This Evening The annual convention of the Cass County Sunday School associa tion which is being held at the First Presbyterian church will close with the services this evening after one of the most pleasant and profitable meetings yet held by that body The inclement weather has cut into the attendance considerably but the en has not been dampened and those in attendance ire delight ed with the meeting This evening the program will con sist of devotional exercises conduct ed Rev E Y Hill and an address on the subject Hindrances by Rev E W Halpenny general secre tary of the state association The meeting will begin at oclock and the public is cordially invited LITERARY SOCIETY Officers Will Be Elected Friday Night at Union Hall There wil be a meeting of tho North Side literary society held at the North Side ball Friday evening at 7 oclock at which time the society will be reg organized for the winter work ivy the election of officers and tho transaction of other necessary busi ness This society has become famous throughout the county for tho interest which is manifested in its meetings and from the vigor with which the matter of reorganization is being push ed the present season will not be any exception to tho rule Every person interested in the success of the socie ty is cordially invited and urged to be present and participate in the meeting CASE Schedules of the Wabash Bridge Iron Works The Wabash Bridge and Iron Works of Wabash Ind which failed recently have been filed Referee Swigart today The schedules show that the creditors will get little of their claims The liabilities of the company amount to and tho assets to 35248 Of these two totals the follow ing are the items Assets real estate personal debt 1524S Liabilities Taxes wages secured claims and un secured claims Free Drinks of Cass is to serving free drinks to his friends When at his home in America yesterday he purchased a huge jug of cider and brought it back Today he is serving the fruit beverage to his friends to the delight of his visitors The report of tho county board of health shows an increase in ihe death rato during the month of September According the quarterly report of Dr F A Busjahn secretary of the county board of health the following number of deaths eases of con diseases births diseases marriages and births three months 24 Au gust 31 September 24 14 cases scarlet fever measles 1 typhoid fever g 15 August 20 Sep tember 30 43 August P September 35 Sli contagious diseases 24 marriages 05 births 117 Diphtheria is reported on tho in crease in city and judging from ihe reports of the last few months it is increasing throughout tho county Efforts will be made to stop its ad vance and it is thought that in the next few mouths or more it will die out No smallpox has teem reported in tho county yet and are no signs cf a general outbreak of the Us ease Typhoid fever is the next most prevalent disease in tho county ajni promises to stay here awhile HEAD OF THE ORDER OF EAST ERN STAR OF INDIANA Fidelity Chapter Begins the Fall and Winter Work Under Very Pleasant Conditions Degrees Were Conferred After Which Members and Guests Joined in Banquet Not fewer than ono hundred mem bers of Fidelity chapter Order Eastern Star were regular monthly meeting last night and the meeting throughout was one of the most enjoyable on record and marks the close of the vacation period and the beginning of the active work of fall and winter An especially pleasant feature of tho meeting was the fact of the presence of Mrs of Crawfordsville grand matron of the Order Eastern Star of Indiana Tho degrees were conferred upon one during the evening and at close of the regular session the members and their guests assembled in the banquet room where an elaborate banquet was serv ed covers being laid for a hundred The room was tastily ar for the occasion the decora tions being in keeping with the colors of the various degrees A small table at Which was seated the grand matron and principal officers of ithe local chap ter occupied the center of the ban quet hall and from this nucleus fad the tables occupied by the other members the whole representing the five points of the star Following the banquet the members were favored with a brief address by the grand ma tron Lator the tables removed and social amusements occupied the attention of the company hour of low twelve The grand matron during her visit in the city was the guest of Miss Lillio Parker of West Broadway who is worthy matron of Fidelity chapter Mrs Galtra departed today for other points in the state where she wiH participate in the work of the order WILL PLAY FT WAYNE Logansport Ball Team WIE Meet the Shamrocks Sunday Instead of the Richmond base ball toam as was scheduled the Logans port base ball club will meet the Fort Wayne Shamrocks at the ball park Sunday The Richmond team has dis Last night Manager Sowers cinched the Fort Wayne club and an excellent exhibition of base ball is ex Fort Wayne has game the best of Logansport in a series of sev en games played this season and the local taun expects to tie the score at the contest Sunday will pitch for the locals Helen Margaret Antrip the six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben An trip of No 1412 died Jast evening Tha will be held tomorrow morning at S oclock from the St Joseph church Interment bi Mt St Vincent MAYOR OF VETOES THE METER ORDINANCE If the Gas Company Proposes to Send the Gas This Way They Can Proceed at Once Eclipse Oil Gas Company Has Gas Enough to Produce First class Explosion people who still hug to their bosom the fond hope that they will be able to use natural gas for at least awhile yet may gain some corn fort from reports which come from cities It was reported a short time ago that if tho people of Kokomo dirt not their common council adopt a meter ordinance the supply if would be shut oil from the Howard county capital and turned into the mains which supply Logans port The major of Kokomo at last the council vetoed the meter ordinance and there was no attempt to pass it over his veto so if the gas company proposes to switch the supply of fuel his way it has the switch ing process immediately But the most roseate view of the gas situation comes from Wabash which was to the effect that sure was so terrific on the mains of 1m Eclipse Oil Gas company that they burst at the town of Lafontaine ten miles south of Wabash and do the regulating station The Wabash special then contin ues in a somewhat streak a follows The company has a the Wabash Val ley Gas deliver 1300000 feet of gas daily at the wells to the latter company cents a Ihon feet The Logansport has gas from its and has not token the the Lo company it would collect at the agreed rate for the 1500000 feet daily from October 1 whether used IT not The Eclipse people say that the gas the Logansport company provide an abundance of the fuel for this city all winter FOND OF PRISON Paroled Kokomo Man Goes Back to Michigan City Perry Clark a wellknown Koko mo barber who six yean convicted of a crime of he probably was not guilty and was paroled a few has taken a prison life Monday he went to Michigan City and surrendered himself to the pris claiming ho had vioi lated his by getting No charge of intoxication or any other charge has lodged against Clark here and he is not wanted anywhere as far as known by the officers here Clark was un der a sentence but be ing a good prisoner was soon pa roled The charge against him was larceny The prison officials took him in again nt his request and he will probably remaining there the remaining years of his term CHANCE TO TELL SECRETS Kokomo Grand Jury Is Seeking In formation Ind October grand jury which will be in session here for several days is to proceed on broadest lines Any one having a grievance of any character that ias dignity to It wip be heard Kokomos municipal conditions of late months have been somewhat out of lie usual tenor There has been a tenden cy to conditions and to blame local authorities for their existence The critics will be to the test anfi summoned to of violations of law of which they claim to have knowledge that convictions may be had Many are on the anxious as the result of the calling of tie jury as there is no telling bow moch trouble it may create It has not been ashed investigations save at rare intervals and its is a matter of no ones Cooper says he intends to sift affairs to the bottom and if any one is in the wrong or low the o will be prosecuted LOGANSPORT MAN HEIR TO A FORTUNE James Hazeltine Learns of Death of an Uncle Don Carlos at Denver Colorado Don Was a Fortune Soldier of Don Carlos a soldier of fortune and man of many thrilling few days ago at the ripe old age of 78 He left a fortune and it has been discovered that James Hazeltine of Ko 31 West Broadway is a nephew of the deceased and one of the heirs to the fortune The life of the deceased reads like a novel A a stori at Ham ilton Ohio elopement with a southern belle from fe male seminary at Oxford of lie Eighth Mississip pi tho Confederate army in the war the Rebellion a spy of death at Pt Don aldson an of Commodore Porter of the federal forces in tlie latter days of the a soldier ot fortune tinder in Mexico a member of the CHARGES FILED AGAINST THE MARSHAL OF ROYAL CENTER Clara Hollis Claims that He Assault ed Her Profane Lan guage Against Her Mrs Hollis Says Marshal McDon ald Ssid Untrue Things and Refused to Retract Two affidavits have been tiled the marshal of the town of Hoyal Center remanding him to ap pear for trial upon charges of as sault and battery and profanity Clara Hollis a resident of the town of Royal Center appeared iu the of Prosecuting Attorney Walters this morning and filed tho affidavits against Marshal McDon ald She sols forth in her complaint that the marshal said disreputable bines about her and that when she asked him to take hack his false THE SURPRISE ON BUNKER HILL in Cuba a coal dealer in Chicago and at last a pawnbroker at his ease in Denver Effort will be made by Mr Hasel iH of this city to substantiate his fortune of the latre pun Carlos A STRIKE IN ZION Dowies Healing Leaves by a Walkout Menaced Determination by Zions to foreman in the stereotyping plant of the Zion pub lishing house at Zion City 111 re in the walking out yesterday afternoon of four the department is closed while officials ate seeking men to continue opera tions The walkout is particularly disas trous to Elijah II in view of his ex tensive work in getting out pam and papers for the New York trip nest week The machinery in stalled recently in the new plant is such that men unfamiliar with it cannot operate it readily and the strikers claim that Dowie cannot set out this weeks Leaves of WILL NOT MERGE CHURCHES Bishop to St Pe Purely Personal Fond clu Lac Wis October The press dispatch from St Peters burg savins the Bishop Graf ton was in that city to merge the Anglican and Greek communions is termed misleading by Warden B T Rogers who says Bishop Graftons mission is purely personal and in tended to bring about a better un between the two churches rather than an effort to merge them Bishop Graf ton is a member of on church relationship which is appointed at the general conference of the church statements lie struck her She also claims that ha used profane lan guage in her presence The been be fore Justice but the ease Has not vet been set for trial Mrs Hollis is resident of Center against whose name no pub reports have been made The marshal is a good officer and the re suit with of the trial is great interest being awaited WON BY CHRISTIAN Suit Gives Church Cult Right to Fight Disease FIERCE ENCOUNTER Rollo Webster lost a Part of Trousers Yesterday His II J a route car rier was minus the sent of his trous ers when the last evening after having carried his as a had to wait iu until a new pair of be procured ster was enquired in his duties when a bulldog owned by one of the pa trons of came along nabbed him Before he could get loose the dog had torn away the seat of his trousers A DESERVED PROMOTION C W Hartman Appointed Special Agent at Cincinnati Mr C W Hartman who has held the position of traveling passenger agent for the Vandalia for the past several years with headquarters in this city has promoted to spe cial passenger agent for the Penn sylvania railway at Cincinnati Ohio He will take up his new duties at once but will his family from 1220Broadwaythis city for a while No one has been appointed to succeed him here NEXT MEETING OF THE FOR INDIANA Sixtyseven Veterans of the Famous Regiment Are in Meeting in Logansport Today This Evening at Masonic Temple a Banquet and Social Will Be Held Today the veterans of the Forly sixth Indiana volunteer Was a Private Line Upon further investigation of the live wire accident of yesterday it de thai the line was not the prop erty of the Home Telephone company but a private telephone wire which bad bean stretched across Ae street Who ever the wire belonged to there is gen eral that no serious in jury resulted from tha dropping of the wire on the high tension lines of the troCe company Concord N H October de cision of tho supreme court today in favor of in a suit brought against Rev Irving C linson first reader in the Christian Science church here by Mrs eed is taken as the right of Christian Science practice in state The complain ant held thatthat Mr treatment of a case of appendicitis by Christian Science methods was mal practices The lower court decided against the complainant and the su preme court overruled exceptions taken to that finding which so valiantly marched away to battle on December 12 1SG1 arc in reunion in this city Sixtyseven of the surviving iSo members of the regiment are pres ent and this afternoon a business session was held in the north court room By an overwhelming vote secured the next meeting Rochester and were both in the rae for the meeting but Del put forth the best plea aud had the strongest delegation Owing to the rain which has fallen incessantly all day the parade of the street which over forty they trod ou their way to battle will be omitted from the program After the regular business meeting the vet erans will enjoy a Social un til evening when they will go to tho Masonic temple and partake of a banquet prepared by the Ladies of the G A R and the Belief Corps At this banquet there will be speak ing by several eminent orators and a musical program Tomorrow the veterans will be given a drive over the city to view the sights It is a sturdy Jot that arc of the regi ment who all look as though they State Librarys Acquisition The state library has just received a valuable acquisition through the cour tesy of Mrs May Wright Se wall wto was a member of the Columbian exposition board from the state of Indiana in 18921S93 and w chairman of mens the committee on One of the features of the work done by the com was an exhibit of tne organized work of Indiana women This compiled in a huge black book folio and was z careful catalogue of organi of women as they stood at thai day in the Hoosier state Tenth Anniversary Tirzah tribe of is preparing to celebrate the tenth an of its birth in this On October 21 this occasion will be celebrated with a banquet and dance in the Masonic temple Urs Prank daughter Mrs Press of Elwood Neb were guests of friends in this for a short time today to Galveston for a visit at their old hornet could enjoy a storr good banquet and a FIRE CHIEF ACCUSED Discharged Employe at Kokomo Makes Allegations Edward chief of the fire department is himself under fire by the council committee Charges were filed with the commit tee yesterday oy John a former employe of the department The charges are First intoxication while on duty second appropriation of public property to private use and receiving pay for third asso with persons of immoral character It is not believed that any of these j charges can be proved and are gener ally regarded as spUe work on tiie part of the discharged employe Cawthorne was let out for cause Chief has been OB the komo force for twenty years and be fore that served as fireman at Peru FIVE MONTHS OF ENOUGH FOR AIWA WEST Applies for a from E West a Fanner xf Walton for Failure to Provide Rochester Resident Sues Telephone Company for Failure to Him Service Married in April und separated In August is the record of Anna and Abraham West the former is applying In the circuit court divorca Anna West who resides ta Walton has applied by her attorney AV Walters for a divorce from bam W West a Jtanner Sim forth m her complaint that band was cruel o her and called her bad names and tolled vide for her after were married she thali to leave feim because he failed to provide for She the return of her maiden name Boyer Sues Telephone Company Two suits were to the circuit court today from Rochester Fulton county They were brought by P M entitled tie stale esc Max vs the Rochester and the other is Max Goldberg vs ton Telephone a wilt lor dam ages i The first of these came ie a wilt to compel the company under they to telephone service and the suit tor damages because tie company falls to i The second complaint when tho telephone company franchise to operate in Rochester agreed to rate at for residences and a monUi tor iness Mr that he is a private resident and that he secured a phone as eoon aa the plan was In A abort after began notified him Jve would haye to either pay the business rate or quit He quit and brought those suits to tht suit tor damages ho demands the sum of Kissed and Hade tip Ollie T McClaeb lias dismissed her suit for action against her husband William P McClaeb in which she de manded divorce and custody ot their chili reached in which they decided w live together again This agreement uy Attorney O T3 Conant Granted a Divorce Ida was today granted a divorce from lier Will iam Blackburn 8HOXJLD 8BHD WARSHIPS Minister for Turk aud Evansville Ind and Henderson Ivy He is one of the most firemen in the council will make a thorough October Tbe Drr J W Powell of the Christian church last night gave a lecture en Turkish Massacres The doctor t spent nearly a year to Turkey in He said that not one promise ir the sultan and hte ww of a moment B consideration end the only remedy for Christian lay In sending to Uio nelles and Wowing ti and lite off the aca iat Ko foreigner can for In Ivr key oe said The statement ot Mo to the mow than balances that of a dozen tians He described the and ferings of M ne I saw them and told of the persecution ot the converts Tbe reports cow coming he did not tlw If the his minions permitted tie real to become known It would mean Ow immediate of Turkish in Europe Licenses Granted The county licenses to r Jerome SJ J today tor and Frank M J Council Tonight the council meet in regular to Attend tO tbe ot accrued since the meeting the fey those who promise the
