Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 120, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, A PHIL 30, 1900.

spending provisions In the organic laws of all the States referred to are likewise Invalid.: As the point made by the counsel for Taylor that In the administration of the law the contest board and the Legislature did not allow sufficient tlm for hearing. It is contended that if th State provided a statute, regulating the procedure, allowing a hearing after reasonable notice, and the board or Legislature departed from the statute and rendered an erroneous decision, this does not bring the case within the prohibition of the fourteenth amendment of the federal Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States. Jn Arrowsmlth vs. Harmonlng. lis IT. S., 213, is quoted as follows In support of this last proposition: "The Legislature of a State performs its whole duty under the Constitution when it provides a law for the government of the court, while exerclsirg their respective jurisdictions, which, if followed, will furnish the parties the necessary constitutional protection. All after that pertains to the courts." The Supreme Court is further cited in Kennard vs. Loulsiana,-92 U. S., 40, as follows: "The question before us Is not whether the courts below have Jurisdiction of the" cape and the parties have followed tne law, but whether the law. if followed, would have furnished Kennard the protection guaranteed by the Constitution. Irregularities and mere errors In the proceedings can only be corrected in the State courts. Our authority does not extend beyond an examination of the power of the courts below to proceed at all." It is further insisted that there Is no property In a political office, and hence its deprivation cannot fall within the inhibition contained in the fourteenth amendment. Numerous decisions from the Supreme Courts of New York, Kentucky, Ohio. Missouri and Wisconsin are cited to sustain this proposition. It is Insisted that if thU case presents federal question, then by like allegations to those made here such a question may be presented in every flection contest, and the court of last retort be converted Into a "supreme board of contest." It is therefore Insisted that the motion to dismiss the suit should be sustained, because there is no color of a federal question in the record. OTHER QUESTIONS. Inasmuch as the case is set down for hearing on the motion to dismiss, and also on the merits, the other questions are also discussed. It is said that the jurisdiction of the General Assembly Is exclusive and its Judgment is conclusive; that no other tribunal or court, under any form of proceeding, or in any code, has jurisdiction to determine the question involved in this contest, or to review the action of the Legislature. "Fpon the ground of public policy." the brief says, "the lawmakers have Invested the General Assembly with this plenary and final jurisdiction for the determination of these contests. No provision Is made for an appeal or review by the Judicial tribunal?, because It was not Intended that they should have Jurisdiction over th3 contest." The Kentucky cases of Batman against Megowan, 1 Met., 33. and Stlne vm. I Jerry. D Kentucky. C3. together with Baxter vs. Brooks, 29 Arkansas. 182, and numerous Ohio cases are cited in support of this proposition. In reference to the contention of Taylor's counstl that the determination of the contest by the board and the General Assembly was the result of a fraudulent conspiracy on the part of the members of the Legislature, it is maintained that the Jour

nals of that body, showing Its action, can- I r.ot ne impeacneu ior iraua or mistake, and that they import absolute verity. "The rule." it Is said, "rests upon the ground that the legal effect of the record of the General Assembly, solemnly made in pursuance to the mandate of the Constitution, cannot be denied or destroyed by Judicial action. The rule applies whether the action of the General Assembly is assailed in the passage of a law or the performance of any other duty imposed by the Constitution." Opinions of the courts of Kentucky, Indiana- Pennsylvania. Virginia and Ohio are cited in support of this position. Counsel for Taylor, the brief says, seek further to avoid the determination by the General Assembly of the contention that at the time the contest was decided, on Feb. 2. 19flo, the Legislature had been adjourned by permission of Taylor as Governor until the 6th of February, to meet at London, In Laurel county. In reply it Is insisted that the only power the Governor of Kentucky has at any time to adjourn the General Assembly is by virtue of Section 8 of the Constitution, which provides that "in case of disagreement by the two houses,' with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn th-m to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months." "This." the brief says, "only authorizes an adjournment when there Is a disagreement as to the time and not the place of adjournment. There Is no pretense that such a disagreement existed. Hence there was no power to adjourn to any place at all. "The only authority that the Governor has to change the place of holding a session of the General Assembly is contained In Section SJ of the Constitution, which provides that 'in case rf war, insurrection or pestilence It may, by proclamation of the Governor, assemble for the time being, elsewhere " but this It Is Insisted applies only to a time when the General Assembly Is not in session. When in session it Is a f V f . V. J U11VI V I.A. - . V. v . . . - X. J adjourning when and where It pleases. Besides this, it is Insisted that by Section 41 of the Constitution it is provided that by censent of both houses the General Assembly has the right to adjourn and fix on the time and place. If the Governor has the same powers conflict would result. If he should fix one time and place and the General Assembly Itself another time and rlae. It is contended moreover that to allow the Governor this power would be an invasion of the rights of the Legislature. If he could adjourn It for six days. It is fa Id. he could adjourn It for an Indefinite length of tine and remove it from place to place and thereby prevent it from enacting a law or discharging its duty. Former Mayor Kill Illmaelf. APPLETON, Wis., April 20.-Herman Erb. jr., former mayor of Appleton. committed suicide to-day by shooting himself In the head. He had just returned from a Milwaukee sanatorium, where he had been under treatment for mental trouble. WEATHER FORECAST. ITnlr und Cooler To-Hay and Warmer To-Morrovr. WASHINGTON. April 2D. Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: , For Ohio Fair and cooler on Monday and Monday night. Tuesday fair; brisk west to northwest winds." For Indiana and Illinois Fair and cooler on Monday. Tuesday fair and warmer; brisk northwesterly winds. Local Observation on Sunday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Pre. Weather. 7 a. -m.. 30.03 53 45 East. .00 Ft clo'dy. 7 p. rn..2L.05 TS 41 S'east. .00 Clear. Maximum temperature, 80; minimum, temperature, 55. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for April ): v Temp. Pre. Normal 57 .13 Mean 63 .00 Departure ll .13 Departure since April 1 ' o 2.05 Departure since Jan. 1 1$5 4.97 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official.

Yesterday's Temperatures. Station?. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta. Ga S4 61 IlsmarcK. N D 62 Go Buffalo, N. Y 0) 5$ Calvary. N. W. T To o; Chicago. Ill 54 SO 71 Cairo, 111 64 7) 72 Cheyenne. Wyo 30 3i Ci Cincinnati. 0 50 y 7 Davenport, la 5 80 7 Pes Moines. Ia 5J 7i 6 Galveston. Tex 75 74 Iltlena. Mont e &) Jacksonville. Fla M ?S Kansas City, Mo 64 7H 74 Little Hock. Ark 62 7S 76 Marquette. Mich 0 to Memphis, Tenn C4 71 72 Nashville. Tenn GO 80 72 New Orleans. La .. $4 7s New York city c; 62 North Plitte. Neb 52 5t 54 Oklahoma. O. T 54 70 63 Omaha. Neb s 70 60 rtttsburg. Pa 41 SO 74 Qu 'Appelle. N. W. T &i 64 Itapid City. S. V 44 52 52 Fait Lake City 4 IR 4$ Ft. Louin. ilo GO P2 7S Ft. Paul. Minn 5S 54 Fi-rlngrtel.;, Ill 42 .SI 78 Sprlngfleid. Mo Z& Ko 76 Vicksburg. Miss fc 7$ Cashlnston, D. C 74 64

GRIFFITH HAS A CINCH

OV12H.M YKH CUT OF TO IK HACK FOR C05GIICSS IX FOtHTII DISTUICT. IIa lint tto Voten to Hin Opponent SI Irl Who Died After Dreaming of Death. Special to the Indianapolis Jourral. SEYMOUR. Ind.. April 29,-John Overmyer's boom for representative In Congress from the Fourth congressional district has burst, and the North Vernon statesman again finds himself without a party, on account of his alleged vacillation. The primaries held in the various counties of the district in the past few days have selected delegates to the Greensburg convention next Wednesday, who are favorable to the nomination of Francis M. Griffith. In the fight for the nomination Griffith has had the support of all the leading politicians of the district. The reasoi of this was that the Fourth district is dotted all over with men who have their lightning rods up for two years hence. It has been understood for some time that Griffith will not again ask for a renomlnation. and, therefore, the politicians were afraid that If Overmyer should receive the nomination and be elected and the Democratic party was successful in the national campaign, that he would build up such a powerful machine that it would keep him In Congress for many years. An opportunity was presented to kill him politically and it was done in a very systematic manner. Since there is not the slightest chance for Overmyer receiving the nomination, the eighteen votes of this county will be cast for him as a unit. If his name is still before the convention next Wednesday, although ten of them would have been recorded against him if the race had been close. But the delegates will now abide by the Instructions of the county convention. Ripley county Is the only one in the district which has not selected its delegates, but as It Is conceded to Griffith the vote by counties will be as follows: Griffith. Overmyer. Bartholomew 12 4 Brown 6 1 Dearborn 17 Decatur 12 1 Jackson 18 Jefferson 11 2 . Jennings 9 Ohio 3 Ripley 14 Switzerland 9 Totals 84 S3 Total number of delegates, 113; necessary to a choice, 60. It will be seen by these figures that Griffith has 24 more votes than are necessary to secure his nomination. A Dnrhln and Cilllert Clult. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SPENCER, Ind., April 2D. At a meeting of the Spencer First Voters' Club last night their organization was named the Durbin and Gilbert First Voters Club. This is the first club organized in the State. It has forty members. DIG DEAL IN WINDOW GLASS. Jobber Obtain an Option on Half a Million Boxes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind.. April 29. The National Window-glass Jobbers' Association and the representatives of the American Window-glass Company attended a meeting at Atlantic City, N. J., where the greatest deal in window glass was made that has ever occurred In the United States. Last February, at Pittsburg, the Jobbers obtained 500.000 boxes of glass, the option to hold good until May 1. The terms of the option were 85 and 25 per cent, off on first bracket, 89 per cent, off on second and third brackets and 90 and 5 per cent, off on all above, on single; S3 per cent, off on first five brackets; 90 per cent, off on 60-inch bracket; 90, 10 and 5 per cent, off on 70 to 100-Inch brackets (inclusive;, and 90 and 20 per cent, off on all above, on double. This carrying with It an additional rebate on both single and double of 5 per cent., to be paid on Sept. 1. to all members of the jobbers' association. At the time this option was taken the jobbers association purchased 600,000 boxes outright from the American Window-glass Company, which was the largest deal ever made in window in the United States, as well as being the initial purchase of the Jobbers' association and represents a sufficient quantity of glass to supply the demands of the country for a quarter of a year. HER DREAMS BECAME TRI E. Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Who Had a Presentiment of Death. PpK"lal to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., April 2D. In connection with the death of Miss Leona Boerner, a seventeen-year-old girl, of Dunkirk, which occurred in this city, at the home of James Marsh, Friday morning, is a peculiar story. The young girl had been an invalid for the last four years. About three months ago she had a dream that she was going to Marion, where she would take medical treatment, and that she would have her health restored. She ; also had a presentiment that she would take suddenly ill again within two months after her recovery, and that she would die shortly afterwards. To add to the mystery of the case, another dream which the girl had a week ago was to the effect that she would die within a week. The announcement of her death on Friday is a demonstration that the dreams became true. Losa May Reneh $ 113.000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., April 29. J. Wood Wilson, of the fruit-jar manufacturing firm of Wilson & McCulloch, of this city, which suffered such a severe loss by fire at its plant, at Falrmount, on Tuesday night, states that after a full day's consideration the insurance adjusters who were in conference with them yesterday, decided the loss was total, and that the company was deserving of the full amount of the insurance. The loss will reach about $113,000. The company will begin clearing up the ruins in a few days. The factory, which has been idle ever since the destruction of the wareshed, has again resumed operations. Killed While Sitting on the Track. tpfcir.! to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW PALESTINE. Ind.. April 23,-Bud Harper, an elderly man living ten miles cast of Indianapolis, was struck and Instantly killed by C, H. & D pasenger train No. 31, three miles west of Juliette at 8:35 o'clock this morning. He was sitting on the track jnd. being slightly deaf did not hear the train as It approached him. His remains were taken in charge by relatives living near by and removed to this place. He has relatives living at No. 509 Indiana avenue, Indianapolis. Windfall Has Gits to Ilnrn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Ind.. April 23.-The Windfall Natural Gas. Mining and Oil Company yesterday evening completed one of the best gas wells ever drilled in this pa'rt of the State. It was drilled in territory that was supposed to be exhausted. Its depth Is DSD feet. The well has about 300 pounds rock pressure and is perfectly dry. This settles the fact that there is plenty of gas in this locality, and Windfall is all right for the precious fuel for many years to come. Xevr Salem Graduates. (eclal to the Indianapolis Journal. RFSHVILLE. Ind., April 2S. The graded school at New Salem graduated a class of seven Thursday night, with an address by F.ev. Dr. Lewis, president of Moore's Hill

College. The graduates are Don C. Morris, Chester Williams. Mamie Kemp, John U. Green. Willard King, Alta Morris and Nellie McKee.

Mnstodon'a Skeleton t'neartlied. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FLORA, Ind., April 2D. While Reuben Kitchen was ditching on the Ira Rinehart farm near this place yesterday he unearthed at a depth of thirty inches almost the entire skeleton of a mastodon. The bones, and especially the teeth, are in a good state of preservation. Child nitten liy a Rat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., April 23. The five-year-old son of Dr. Raker was bitten by a rat last night and there are fears for tho child's life. The rodent was released from a trap for the house dog to catch, but the boy beat the dog to it and was bitten as he grabbed the rat. MAID AND LOVER QUARREL. Latter Fatally Wound III Svreet1i en rt nnil TnLm Ilia Otvil 1.1 f 1 WATSEKA, 111., April 20.-Dert Underhlll fatally wounded his sweetheart, Anna Davis, at her home near Plato, Iroquois county, last night, and then sent a bullet through his own heart. Miss Davis is seventeen years old, and a daughter of D. M. Davis, on whose t farm Underhlll worked. The farm hand and the young girl formed a mutual attachment. The parents consented to their union on condition that the couple would neither see nor correspond with each other for three months. This period elapsed to-day. Underhlll went to the Davis house last night and fired on Miss Davis through the window. The bullet took effect In her breast, and the wound Is believed to be fatal. Underhlll went a short distance from the house and shot himself through the heart, dying Instantly. It is believed the couple had quarreled. Wife Murder and Snlcide. UPPER SANDUSKY, O.. April 29. William Bollard, who lived about seven miles from this place, shot and killed his wife this afternoon and then killed himself. Ills wife had left him and he asked her to-day to return and live with him. On her refusal to do so he shot her and then killed himself. The Bollards came from Paris, Mo. Wounded Wife and Himself. CHICAGO. April 29. William Edmunds, forty-two jrears old, to-day shot his wife and then shot himself at their home. No. 511 West Sixty-sixth place. The wounds of both may prove fatal. It Is said Edmunds was intoxicated and had been despondent. DAUGHTER ALSO BURNED. Detail of the Accident 1- AVhlch Mm. Wilson Lost Her Life. HAVANA, April 2D.-In the terrible accident at Matanzas yesterday, which resulted In the death of the wife of General Wilson, governor of the department of Ma-tanzas-Santa Clara, the daughter who was driving with her was also burned, though not seriously, while endeavoring to extinguish the flames. The coachman was somewhat burned while assisting. Mrs. Wilson's hands were so badly swollen before her death that it was found necessary to cut the rings from her fingers In order to give her relief. To-morrow the term will expire during which claims for the payment of mortgages on rural and city properties have been held unenforced at law. The papers assert that a large number will be forced to sell land at auction In order to meet their obligations. Senor Pierra. discussing the question to-day said: "Additional grace to debtors on city property ought never to have been given. During the war payments of such debts were enforced. Moreover, the value of city property increased 25 per cent, during the war and consequently creditors have every right to enforce claims. So far as rural properties are concerned many nominal owners have secured them by purchasing on the installment plan, paying, for instance, a fifth of the value In cash and then immediately realizing on all salable plant and capital, which would probably bring twice the amount of the first payment. Then they have sublet the properties for a nominal figure. Therefore, the result of granting: an extension of time for the payment of purchase money in such cases as these would be. In effect, to protect people who had no intention of trying to develop their property and who are deserving of no consideration whatever." A SPENDTHRIFT'S CRIME. Gashed Ills Wife's .eck and Then Cat Ills. Own Throat. NEWARK, N. J., April 23.-Edward Norley, forty-five years old, went to the home of C. W. Stuart, wher his .wife is employed as a domestic, early this morning and attempted to kill her. He entered the kitchen where she was employed, threw her on the floor, drew a razor from his pocket and inflicted seven gashes about her neck.. Leaving her, as be supposed, to die, he went into the rear yard and cut his own throat with the same weapon. He died in an hour. -The woman will recover. Norley was worth $18,00) a few years ago, but lost his money and drank heavily. Ills wife left him two years ago. Since then he has served several times in the workhouse and county jail. ALL GOT AWAY. (CONCLUDED FROM. FIRST PAGE.) cial in the commissariat 1 have obtained some Interesting details. The Boers had in December C0,Of) men. In March they had barely 26,500. having lost .000 in killed or wounded and 6,5X in captured. The others are not accounted for, but have probably returned to their farms. The official who gave me the information predicts that the approach of winter will produce further wholesale shrinkage. He says the Boers are short of wagons, wheat and smokeless powder, but that they have plenty of other stores and of rifle ammunition. Thfy are not likely, however, to offer serious resistance, as they possess no positions this side of Pretoria that are not capable of beln? turned by the British army. Moreover, the Vaal river offers no protection because It is fordable every dozen miles or so. The official thinks a determined advance by the British would lead the Boers to destroy the Johannesburg mines. Their cleverest general, he says. Is Delarey, although Botha is a man of great ability. None of the Boer commanders, in his opinion, can be compared with the late CJeneral Joubert. OLIVIER rilOBAIILY "WOUNDED. A Doer Commander Reported to Have Deen Hit at Wepener. ALIWAL NORTH. April 29. It 1 reported here that Commandant Olivier was wounded at Wepener last Monday. Six New Zealanders while scouting fought six Boers, killing and wounding three. One New Zealander was wounded. The inhabitants of Rouxville do not know to which government they belong, as there is no civil administration there. Una Left BiKKarsherK. LONDON. April 30. The Durban correrpondent of the Standard, telegraphing Saturday, says: "It Is reported on good authority that the lJerksdorp commando has left Biggarsberg to assist in opposing the relief column." Police Scrsrant Killed. CHICAGO. April 29.-Desk Sergeant Timothy S. O'Connell. of the Woodlawn Police Station, was shot and instantly killed on the Eighteenth-street viaduct to-night. The shooting is a mystery. Two men were seen running away from the scene of the shooting after the shots were heard.

30,000 MEN MAY STRIKE

SERIOUS TROIIILE BREWING OX THE SEW YORK CENTRAL. Employes of the Road nt linffalo Threaten to Cripple the Entire Vanderbllt System,, BUFFALO. N. Y., April 20. The striking employes of the New York Central have given the company until 1 oclock to-mor-row afternoon to grant their demands. If the concessions are not made by- that time It Is the intention of the strike leaders to extend the strike, and they predict that it will be the largest in the history of railroads of the East. They claim that all they have to do is to remove the restraint under which they have been holding railroad men, and that it then will run through the entire New York Central system in the State and cripple nearly every road entering Buffalo. A strike leader said to-night that he andfiis fellows had arranged their plans so nicely that within twenty-four hours after 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon thirty thousand men would join the ranks of the strikers If the situation seemed to demand it. The New York Central strikers say that they nave induced others to delay action pending a reply from the officials of the company. The members of the board r mediation and arbitration conceded to-day that the situation was grave, and they did not disguise their belief that a great railroad strike is imminent. After talking with som of the railroad officials. Superintendent of Police Bull consulted with Mayor DIehl and Commissioner Cooper, and then promulgated an order declaring an emergency and calling the whole police force on duty. An important conference was held today between Commissioners Delehanty and Webster, of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, and the committee of tho strikers, headed by Chairman A. M. Fish. At the request of the arbitrators the rockbottom terms which the men are willing to accept from the New York Central were presented. They were Identical with the original demand, Including a general increase In wages and the re-employment of the old union men who were discharged. Iii response to the question as to whether a suggestion to compromise would be acceptable, the reply was a prompt negative and that there would be no settlement until the roads agreed to a uniform scale of wages. Commissioner Delehanty urged that this plan be abandoned until after an effort had been made to adjust difficulties with the New York Central. To this the executive committee agreed, and it was agreed that Commissioner Delehanty should start for New York at once, in order to confer with Superintendent of Motive Power Walt, of the New York Central, the, first thing tomorrow morning. Commissioner Delehanty Is to telegraph Mr. Wait's reply to Chairman Fish, of the strikers' executive committee. The commissioners, were given the unreserved promise of the executive commit'tee that no move would be made by them to extend the strike or to affect the general situation in any way pending the receipt of his dispatch from New York, provided that it was not forthcoming later than 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. To-night 200 New. York Central freighthouse employes announced that they would join the strikers, to-morrow. Fifteen car cleaners quit work to-night. . The other additions to the strikers ranks reported today were 200 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western yard employes of the mechanical department, and 100 yard employes of the Western New York & Pennsylvania. The most important announcement at strike headquarters to-night was that the conductors, trainmen and brakemen of the New York Central would refuse to work on the ground that car inspection which was performed by the men now on strike Is now inadequate and a menace to life and limb. No Sympathy Strike. ATLANTA, Ga., .April .-President Powell, of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, said to-night that there would be no sympathy strike on any Southern or Eastern railroads, as has been stated in some Northern newspapers. He said the striking telegraphers on the Southern Railroad were receiving meal and financial support from operators on many roads, and were prepared to continue the present strike. Engineer! Have Xo Grievance. CLEVELAND, O., April 29,-Chief P. M. Authur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said to-night that the engineers on the New York Central would not be affected by the threatened tie-up of that railroad. "The engineers have no grievances." he said, "and they cannot strike except in obedience to the laws of the organization. There will, in my opinion, be no trouble." Brewery EnKlneern Threaten. BOSTON, April 29. The union engineers employed in thirty-two breweries in this city to-night voted to strike on May 1 If the master brewers do not accede to wage demands of $30 as a minimum and $25 a week for chief engineers. The eight-hour day Is expected to figure in the trouble also. XonanloniHta Took Their Places. ST. LOUIS. April 29. Twenty-seven crews on the Suburban Railway, an electric street-car line running to different parts of St. Louis and the suburbs, struck to-day. Nonunion men quickly filled the vacant places. It is not believed the strike will become general. ABRASION OF GOLD COINS. Bankers Lose Over $500 on Each Shipment of One Million Dollars. NEW YORK, April 29. An Investigation Just completed is likely to have an important bearing on the future shipment abroad of gold bars instead of coin. It was fcund that eagles had lost inj weight .7 of 1 per cent, through abrasion, the loss on double eagles amounting to .5 of 1 per cent. On that basis a banker shipping 1.000,000 in eagles would loose $700 on the venture. The loss on a $1.000,000 shipment of double eagles would be 1500. Exporters are said to have kst through abrasion in transit at the rate of $2,500 per $1,000.000 of gold shipped. NICARAGUA CANAL BILL. Moat Important Measure to Come Before Congress Thtu Week. WASHINGTON, April 2D.-The feature of the week in the House will be the Nicaragua canal bill, which will be considered Tuesday and Wednesday. The elimination of the section relative to the fortification of the canal removes the objection entertained to it by the friends of the HayPauncefote treaty, but because of that very fact the resentment of some of the Democrats has been aroused. The bill, however, doubtless will command a very large majority when It comes to a vote: Thursday will be given up to consideration of the "free homes" bill and Friday to war claims. To-morrow Is District of Columbia day. So far as can now be seen the week in the Senate will be given up largely to the

Alaskan code bill and to appropriation bills. Senator Hawley, chairman of the committee on military affairs, has given notice that he will call up the army appropriation bill on Monday, and when this bill is disposed of, it is probable that the fortifications bill will be taken up. There will be an effort to secure final disposition of the Alaskan bill, but as there Is almost as much opposition to the Carter amendment as there was to the amendment suggested by Senator Hansbrough it is impossible to say whether the effort will succeed. Senator Chandler on Wednesday will ask consideration of the resolution in the case of Senator Clark, of Montana, but therewill be a request for more time to read the testimony and the case probably will go over for at least several days more. On Thursday the Senate will listen to eulogies on the late Representative Baird, of Louisiana.

Will Make Cattle Immune. WASHINGTON, April 29. United States Consul Schuman at Mainz has Informed the State Department that Prof. W. W. Inkier, of Glessen. Hesse. Is said to have discovered that well-boiled milk of afflicted cattle, fed to healthy animals for a period of about eight days, will give the iatter immunity from foot and mouth diseases. Col. V. J. Volkmar Retired. WASHINGTON, April 29. Cel. William J. Volkmar, of the adjutant general's department, was placed on the retired list of the army yesterday. An army retiring board reported that that officer was permanently incapaclated for active service by reason of tuberculosis of the lungs. AIDING THE DESTITUTE. 3Ioney Ponrlns Into Ottawa for Relief of Fire Sufferers. N OTTAWA. Ont., April 29. The city is Just beginning to recover from the shock of the great fire. The relief of the unfortunates is proceeding, and from distant points visible evidences of sympathy are pouring in. Cablegrams have been received from Lord Strathcona and Lord Mount Stephen, donating $25,000 and $10,000, respectively. The relief committee has ample use for all the money It can get. In many Instances, the destitution was complete, even the ordinary means of livelihood being cut off. A careful estimate by a prominent lumber man places the value of lumber destroyed at $3.500.000. Expressions of sympathy and funds are pouring In from all directions for the sufferers from the fire. The following cables have been received by the Governor General: From his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Sandringham. April 2S: "Accept my deepest sympathy at serious fire and destruction of property." From his Royal Highness, the Duke of York: "Deeply grieved at terrible fire. My warmest sympathy with people of Ottawa." From Lord Lansdowne. London: "As an old neighbor, who has never forgotten kindness shown him by people of Ottawa, I desire to express my deep sympathy with them lh their calamity. I grieve to think of the destruction of those fine mills where I was so often allowed to visit by the owners." From Lord Derby: "Deeply grieved to hear of terrible fire. I will ask you to accept 1,000 for distressed of Ottawa. Credit will be wired- Monday to Bank of British North America, unless you desire otherwise." Mansion House Relief Fund. LONDON, April 29. The lord mayor of London, A. J. Newton, has oiened a mansion house fund for the relief of the Victims of the Ottawa fire. Yesterday Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of the colonies, wrote the lord mayor and communicated to him dispatches exchanged with the Earl of -Mlnto, governor general of Canada, showing the extent of the disaster and showing also that the Canadian Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, had assured Lord Minto that Mr. Chamberlain's suggestion that the mother country would like to contribute was highly appreciated. Mr. Chamberlain wrote: "In these circumstances, my lord, I would ask you with your usual kindness, to consider the desirability of opening a fund. I am confident that at a time when Canada Is making In South Africa, such sacrifices for the common interests of the empire, an appeal to the generosity of the British public will meet with a ready response." Brewery Darned. CHICAGO, April SO.-Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning fire ruined the building occupied by the Atlas Brewing Company, No. 6S0 Blue Island avenue. It Is estimated that property valued at $200,000 has been destroyed. OBITUARY. Hnrry S. Mnrtlndale, New York Clubman and Cross-Country Rider. NEW YORK, April 29. Harry S. Martindale, a well-known .club man and cross country rider, died at the New York Hospital late last night, aged thirty-five years, from the effects of an overdose of morphine. In November, lft)8, he was thrown from his horse while riding in a hunt and his right leg so badly injured that amputation was necessary Since that time his health had failed gradually. Gen. Allen Rutherford. WASHINGTON, April 23,-Gen. Allen Rutherford, clerk of the Maryland Court of Appeals, died here yesterday of consumption, aged about sixty years. He was a native of New York and served with distinction in the civil war, entering the service as major of the Ninth New York Regiment. He was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers for gallantry. During Gen. Grant's administration he was third auditor of the treasury. Interment will be at Arlington. Iter. E. R. Tierce. CHICAGO, April 29. The Rev. Edward Reynolds Pierce, pastor of the Seaman's House mission boat, died to-day of apoplexy. The Rev. Mr. Pierce was chaplain of the Fifty-fifth Regiment in the civil war and for five years was pastor of the Seaman's Bethel at St. Paul. 3IIasj Laura HayKOod. ATLANTA, Ga., April 29. A telegram was received here to-day announcing the death in Shanghai of Miss Laura Haygood, a missionary of the Methodist Church. She was a sister of the late Bishop Haygood, and founded the McTyere Home for Women in China. Eagene Harbeck. CHICAGO. April 29. Eugene Harbeck, general agent for the Western and Southern departments of the Phenlx Insurance Company, of Brooklyn, died here to-day from nervous prostration and exhaustion. Mr. Harbeck's health first began to fall in the fall of 1S9. Cassias M. Clny Divorced Wife. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 29.-Mrs. M. I. Warfleld Clay, the divorced wife of Hon. Cassius M. Clay, sage of White Hall, died to-night, eighty-six years old. She was the mother of Brutus J. Clay. United States commissioner to the Paris exposition. James S. McKean. riTTSBURG, Pa., April 29.-PresIdent James S. McKean. president of the Union Trust Company, this city, died to-day. Helen Gould Gives 2M. NEW .YORK. April 29. The Indian famine mass meeting under the auspices of the Ecumenical Conference was held in Carnegie Hall to-night. President Seth Low, of Columbia University, presided. A list of names of prominent men was read as composing a committee to collect money for the famine sufferers. The contributions tonight amounted to $1.167. Miss Helen M. Gould, who occupied one of the boxes, pledged 200. Death of a Fugitive. NEW YORK, April 29. Joshua Gregg, the Sixth-avenue furniture dealer who unexpectedly made an assignment of his

prosperous business on Feb. 10 and leaving his home in this city with his wife, evaded the inquiries of his friends as to his whereabouts for several days, died Saturday at Glens Falls, N. Y., where he had been staying for the last three weeks.

READY TO MEET CHARGES. Steel and Wire Trust Magnates ow In Xeiv York. NEW YORK. April 29. John W. Gates and John Lambert, chairman of the board of directors and president, respectively, of the American Steel and Wire Company, are in town ready to face any legal proceedings which have been or may be instituted against them in connection with their conduct of the affairs of the company. They arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria from Chicago at 11:30 o'clock to-night. With them was Isaac L. Elwood, the vice president of the company. They were Joined at the hotel by Max Pam, counsel for the corporation, and at once held a "conference. A series of questions was sent up to their rooms, Mr. Gates and Mr. Lambert having declined to see reporters. It was rsked whether Mr. Gates and Mr. Lambert had resigned from their official positions with the American Steel and Wire Company, whether any legal papers had been served upon Mr. Gates or Mr. Lambert, and whether they had any reply to make to the alleged false statement said to have been issued concerning the affairs of the American Steel and Wire Company. At midnight Messrs. Gates and Lambert made the following statement: "Both Messrs. Gates and Lambert came here, as stated, expressly to respond to any process or summons of any kind which any one may have issued against them. As yet, no paper or process has been served or presented. Any charge that either one made any false statement concerning the affairs of the American Steel and Wire Company is unqualifiedly false. Counsel has been retained and authorized to accept service of any process or papers against us." THE TEXAS FLOOD. Situation Is Improving Waco The Homeless Provided For. WACO, Tex., April 29.-The flood situation to-day Is very much improved, the destitute and suffering being nearly all provided with wearing apparel and food stuffs. The citizens, especially the business men, gave out large quantities of clothing and food, which eliminated the suffering, to a great extent. The principal difficulty the committee of organized charity, who have the distribution of supplies in charge, are meeting with is a place to house the homeless. Many houses contain several families, while many are living in tents, waiting to see if the predicted overflow of the Brazos materializes. The prospects of the Braios not overflowing are exceeding bright, as the river has been steadily falling since yesterday, and is now ten feet above the low-water mark. The crop situation is really worse than on the former deluge several weeks ago, and many of them will have to be replanted, thus throwing the cotton crop, which is already behind, backward about six weeks. BLOW AT COMBINATIONS. Executors and Guardians Must Not Invest In Trust Securities. NEW YORK, April 29.-A blow at trusts, Industrials and all kinds of corporations formed to control some specific commodity is made in. a decision Just handed down by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. This decision forbids executors, administrators and guardians of trust estates to Invest those funds In the stock of a trust or industrial corporation. It is held by the court that combinations-formed to control the market prices are illegal and unauthorized. t The decision was reached in the case of the controversy over the estate of the late Alvah Hall. Portions of the funds were invested in the umbrella trust, which collapsed after an existence of two years. The decision requires that the trustees shall pay over to the estate the sum put into the umbrella trust. BEFOEE A 1IIRR0R. Girl Stands in Front of a Looking: Glass and Snoots Herself. CHICAGO, April 29. Miss Minnie M. Wry, of Lincoln, Neb., was found dead in her room on the sixth floor of the Palmer House to-day, with her brain pierced by a bullet fired by her own hand. Miss Wry, who was twenty-two years old, evidently stood before a mirror and. by its reflection, aimed the shot which ended her life. REMINISCENCES OF GRANT. The Recent Illrthday Anniversary Revives Recollections of III Friends. Kansas City Journal. Captain J. D. S. Cook tells a number of interesting stories of General Grant. As an Illustration of the great warrior's simplicity of character and of the familiar way in which he treated the common people. Captain Cook gives this reminiscence of the first time he ever saw Grant: "In the spring of 1S64," he said, "when Grant first took charge of the army of the Potomac, I was In command 'of the guard on one of the mail trains between Culpepper Courthouse and Alexandria. All passengers who went on mall trains had to have their transportation stamped at the depot, and then it was my duty to inspect all these passes and see that they were property authenticated. The first lieutenant of my company had charge of the depot at Culpepper Courthouse. Shortly after Grant took up his headquarters at Culpepper some bushwhackers got In on the railroad between Fairfax Courthouse and Alexandria, and burned a bridge, which interrupted operation of the road for about three days. On the afternoon of the third day I went from camp to Culpepper Courthouse to spend a few hours with my lieutenant, having been notified that I would take my train out next morning for Alexandria, the bridge having been repaired. While I was there an engine and passenger coach drew up in front of the station and immediately a crowd of furloughed soldiers, officers on leave and civilians with passes rushed into the station to get their passes stamped. To each of these the lieutenant saia: This is a special Train for General Grant. You can't ride on tnls. You will have to wait until to-morrow morning.' "One soldier in particular attracted my attention. He had been waiting there for three days to use his ten-day furlough, and. having been away from camp, had become about as dirty and disreputablelooking as any Union soldier I ever saw. He begged hard for leave to ride on the platform or on the tender or anywhere else, but without success. Soon afterwards General Grant came down to the station with two of his staff, and they took their seats on the side of the car next to the station. Grant pushed the window up and puffed out the customary cloud of smoke. The steward at his headquarters stepped onto the platform and Introduced to him a correspondent of the New York Times, who was anxious to go down to Washington with the party and asked permission to accompany them. General Grant, with the Impassive face so characteristic of him, answered curtly: 'Any man can go who has a right to. The soldier was standing about ten feet away, staring with all his eyes at the new commanding general, lie heard the remark and in a voice that trembled with excitement exclaimed: "General Grant, General Grant do you

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'Grant glanced over him and answered: Any man can ride who has a right to, and then, looking down toward the platform, he added: 'Until the car 1 full. "You should have seen that soldier Jump. He was inside that car In le?s than naif a second and a larse number of the waiting crowd followed his example and rapidly filled the car. "I had no business Inspecting the passes on General Grant's private car. but, on the other hand, as an officer of the proVost guard of the army. It was my business to see that nobody left the army without proper authority. So. as the train pulled out, I swung on to the rear platform, walked through the car, inspected the passes of the passengers, and with a conductor's punch put upon trem the private mark which indicated they had been used. I accompanied the train to the next station, and then left It to take the regular passenger train the next morning. A few weeks afterwards, when I Joined my train In Washington, I found an extra car attached and received orders to reserve it for General Grant and his party, who were returning to the front. I locked the back door of the car and placed a fentinel at the front door, with orders to admit no one but Oeneral Grant and th party with him. There was a large number of soldiers and officers returning to the front, as this was but a few days before the march to the Wilderness campaign, and the other cars were soon uncomfortably crowded. Several officers and civilian. asked me for permission to go In the rear car. Under the orders I had received I was compelled to decline. When the train pulled out I got on the front end to lnicct the passes while crossing Long bridge, before reaching Alexandria. When 1 reached tho rear car I found It more than half full, and upbraided the sentinel for disregarding my orders. He told me that In accordance with the usual custom he had gone Inside the front door when the train started, and that the crowd standing In front had come streaming back, and that he had tried to jdop them, and as he did so an olflcer near General Grant spoke up. saying: "Gentlemen, don't you know this Ir General Grant' private car?' General Grant replied: "Well,. I don't think I can occupy but one seat and then turning to the sentinel said: 'Let them come in; let them came in. I considered the sentinel's excusttufflcient. "General Grant rode to the front Furrounded not only by his own party of officers and servants, but by a mixed crowd of soldiers and civilians who would not at that time have been admitted to the private car of any other general army officer of the Artny of the Potomac. "General Grant was a man of real dignity and did not need any adventitious display to enable him to preserve that dignity or command respect." Another shorter but not less entertaining anecdote of the negro guard who made General Grant throw away his cigar is told by Captain Cook, as follows: While his headquarters were at City Point a dock was erected In the Jamei river and station houses for storage for quartermasters', commissaries and ordnance stores. The Tenth Colored Infantry furnished the uard for this dock and storage and were very rigorous In their enforcement of their orders, esprclally one agralnst smoking, which, on account of the danger of nre and explosion, was ptrictljr prohibited. One day General Grant came walking down the dock, smoking, as upual, and encountered one of the colored sentir.els. The fellow brought his musket down to "arms port." and in a stentorian voice commanded: "Fro away dat cigar, sah." "Are those your orders?" asked General Grant. "Yes, sah; dem' de ordahs, no smokln heah. sah. Fro away dat cigar, I tell you." "Very good orders, indeed," said General Grant, as he threw the cigar Into the river. The sentinel straightened up, gave hlra the salute due to a commanding officer, and the general passed on. Grant could enforce a command with no less promptitude and severity than he obeyed it. One day he saw a teamster beating his mules over the head with the butt of a whip. "Stop that, my man. Stop that," he nald. Without looking up the teamster Paid: "Go to . I'm running this team." "Well, sir, you will find that I am running you," retorted General Grant as ne beckoned to an orderly. "Orderly." he said, "take this fellow and tie him up by the thumbs for half an hour." As soon as the teamster looked up he recognized General Grant, of course, and apologized In the mot abject manner. "I didn't know it was you, general, or I shouldn't have paid what I did," he pleaded. "It doesn't make any difference." said General Grant, "you oughtn't to speak la that way to any one." Necessarily Couldn't. . Baltimore American. The fair young captive clasped her hands and looked beseechingly Into the stony ryes of Bloody Bob. the boss of the brigands. "Ah, think of your mother," she walled. "Have mercy on me for her sake!" "I'd like to accomr.'odate you. lady," replied Rubicund Hobert, "but I was an incubator baby." Soon the slave caravan had another pale faced woman in its ranks. An Honorable Sentiment. Boston Journal. General Ruls Rivera's statement that the Cubans would have to be coerced into annexation now, but that after a period of Independence they will a?k for It, unquestionably represents the sentiment of the majority of the Cuban people. And there is no reason why we of the United States should do else than honor the Cubans for this feeling. Jtintiflnble Supposition. New York Press. "It a big dog and a little dog are f ghtlnsr In the street and there are a number of strong men looking on. Is Jt not light and proper for them to rescue the little dog? Should they allow the big do to Inttict deep bites and injuries on the little dog?' one of Oom Paul's shrinking little fables. Suppose the little dog Is mad? Aged Farmer Murdered. OTTl'M WA. Ia., April 23. Josiah Carr. an aged farmer living live miles north of here, was brutally murdered by an unknown man. The body was found In the cellar, where It had been dragged. He lived alone and was considered well-to-do. The sheriff and deputies are ncarchlng for the murderer. No object for the murder can be discovered. Ilenesrade Punished. ANACONDA. Mont.. April 23.-A Fergus county Republican who, as a member of the last Montana Legislature, voted for Senator Clark, was refused a seat yesterday In the Fergus county Republican convention en the ground that he was not entitled to sit in a RepublTcan convention. Princess Frederick Victoria of Schaum-bourg-Lippe, a sister of F.mperor William, has been elected a patroness of the floral festival to begin at Cologne on May C