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No Communication With the Town of Buluwayo.
CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY FELT.
Che T.nat Telegram From There Reports That a Battle Had Been Fought Near the Town and That Many Natives Had
Been Killed—Further News Is Anxiously
Awaited. CAPE TO^N, April 24.—Telegraphic
communication with the town of Buluwayo has been cut off at Fig Tree. The latter is a small place near Mangwe, southwest of Buluwayo. The break cuts off all means of communication by wire with Buluwayo, and, in view of the serious condition of affairs there, the town being surrounded, by 15,000 hostile Matabeles, it causes considerable anxiety.
A repairing and scouting squad has "been sent out from Mangwe in the direction of Fig Tree. It. is hoped the break may be due to an accident or simply be the work a marauding band of Matabeles.
The last dispatch from Buluwayo dated Wednesday reports that a small fight had occurred near that town an 1 that mnny natives had been killed. "Our loss," the dispatch adds, ''was one killed and three wounded, including a cousin of Earl Gray."
A SCARCE ARTICLE.
Csman Digua's Dervishes Want to Got Where There's Food. I SUAKIM,
April
24.—An
Arab, who has
reached here from Osman Digna's camp at Horasab, says that he saw 100 wounded dervishes there, and he confirms the report that over 100 of the enemy were killed in the recent fight.
The dervishes are urging upon Osman Digna to withdraw to ^Thamiankhor, cwipg to the scarcity of food. He has dispatched camel men to the khalifa asking for instructions.
Several of the subsidized sheikhs have been disrated for failing to support the Egyptian troops.
Pretoria Dispatches.
LONDON, April 24.—A Pretoria dispatch to The bajly Telegraph says: "It is reported that the chief members of the national reform committee intend to plead guilty to the charge of high treason. "A dispatch from Buluwayo received here and dated Tuesday says that Mr. Spreckley intends to take out another force to harass the rebels."
Mbarukaziz Surrenders.
ZANZIBAR, April 24.—Chief Mbarukaziz and his followers, who have been causing so much trouble that several detachments of German troops have been .cent to Tanga in anticipation of further disturbances, fled from the British to (he German territory and has now surrendered to Baron Yon Wissman. the governor of German East Africa.
Troops Ready to Start.
LONDON, April
34.—Detachments of
the King's Royal rifles, stationed at Dover, and the Irish rifles, quartered at ^Brighton, have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to proceed immediately to South Africa.
FRENCH CABINET RESIGNS.
Not Able to Secure Relief For tiadapwear They Stop Down and Out. PABIS, April 34.—The cabinet has re
signed. M. Bourgeois, in announcing the resignation of the ministry, read a statement contesting the right of the •enate to overthrow a ministry or to be the sole interpreter of the constitution, t»ut he added, in view of the impossibility of securing proper military reliefs for Madagascar, the cabinet was compelled to resign.
The premier was frequently interrupted with cries from the Extreme Left of "Down with the senate," and •when the ministers filed out of the house there was loud applause from the Right and Center, to which the Left replied with loud cries of "Turn out the senate," "Down with the senate." A scene of prolonged tumult followed.
The crisis precipitated by the resignation of the cabinet has set the politicians of all shades briskly at work to get what advantage is possible out of the new formation. The Bourgeois cabinet, distinctly Radical as it has Wen and even socialistic, has held office longer and accomplished more than war thought possible when it first took office after M. Ribot's overthrow. The opinion is expressed in the lobbies that M. Bourgeois has made a blunder in resigning even now, and that he could have defied the senate and continued to hold office with the approval of the chamber.
It is feared that the present cabinet crisis may have serious effects on the political fabric. It seems probable that a presidential crisis will ensue. In fact it has been argued, by some of the deputies that the resignation of the presidency by M. Faure is part of M. Bourgeois' plan. The two chambers would have to mee" together as one, the national assembly to elcct a now president. M. Bourgeois believes that he could control the national assembly us one body, though as two chambers the senate is against him. DEATHS IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR.
Two Wife-Murderers Executed in Hias Sing Prison. SING SING, April 24.—There was a
double execution at the state prison here yesterday. The victims were Louis 1J. Herrmann and Charles Pustolko, both of New York city, both Germans and ^joth wife-murderers.
Herrmann shot and killed his wife during a quarrel on July 17, 1805, and ^ustolka stabbed his spouse to death on ^Ang. 28 last, because he suspected her -of infidelity.
Herrmann asked as a special favor that jhe be executed first, and Warden Sage granted the request.
Both executions were successful.
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"Lee's Nomination Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—The senate Tin executive session yesterday confirmed ^U« nomination of General Fitzhugh to be consul general at Havana, -Ooba. There was no opposition to con^Lraaation. Both Virginia senators exweesed themselves as satisfied with the
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Appropriation Bills Veins Presaod in tk« Stonate—Pension Bill Discussion. WASHINGTON, April 24. Several minor bills were passed at the opening of the senate yesterday. Prior to taking up the Indian appropriation bill Mr. Call asked for agreement by which the senate would take up his resolution directing the president to dispatch a naval force to Cuba, for the protection of American interests there but on appeals not to interrupt the Indian bill withdrew his request, stating that he would call up his resolution later.
The Indian appropriation bill was then taken up and several minor amendments made, the most importan^being the insertion of the item of $Lo00,000 for payment of the Cherokee outlet fund, which had been struck out by the committee. The bill as thus amended was then passed.
The sundry civil appropriation bill was then taken up with the agreement that it should not displace, except temporarily, the bond resolution.
Messrs. Pettigrew, Teller and Cookrell were named as conferees on the Indian bill.
Bills were passed for an additional circuit judge in the Sixth judicial circuit appropriating $500,000 for a public building at Salt Lwke City and $188,000 for a public building at Ogden, Utah for the disposal of the abandoned Fort Shaw military reservation, Montana, under the homestead and mining laws.
At 6 o'clock the senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned.
In the Honse.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—The house, on motion of Mr. Talbert (Dem., S. C.), unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the secretary of state for all information relative to the arrest and imprisonment In Cuba of Rev. Diaz. Consideration of the Pic-kler general pension bill was turned and occupied all t. rest of the session.
HIS SENTENCE ENDED.
A Convict Almost Sevci's His Head With a Knife. COLUMBUS, O., April 24. —Patrick
Lynch, a convict from Cuyahoga county, received on June 11, 1895, to serv a nine-year sentence for robbery, committed suicide in his cell some time Wednesday night, in a most horrible manner. When a guard went into h±s cell yesterday morning to wake him, he found on pulling the covers down that the bed was soaked with blood, and the head seemed to be entirely severed from the body.
Lynch had secured a shoeknife, and lying in the bed had, with a desperate stroke, the blade chancing to strike the junction of the vertebrae exactly, cut the head almost off, it hanging by but a shred of flesh. He had been in a despondent mood for some time.
Built a Fire With Coal OH.
CLEVELAND, April 24.—The wife of Herman Scharnitzka, a wood carver living at 110 Yonkers street, tried to kindle afire yesterday evening with the aid of coal oil. The oil can exploded, burning her and two of her children, 5 and 8 years old, who were clinging to her skirts, so badly that they will probably die in the course of 24 hours.
England Remaining Quiet.
LONDON, April 24.—The under secretary of state for foreign affairs, Mr. George N. Curzen, answering a question in the house of commons yesterday, said that the negotiations with the United States regarding Venezuela were proceeding and. it was not advisable to make a statement on the subject until they were concluded.
Treasury Statement.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Yesterday's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $271,454,950 gold reserve, $126,324,208.
Governor Bradley 111.
FRANKFORT, Ky., April 24.—Governor Bradley is ill and not able to be at the executive office. Several important engagements had to be canceled.
Indications.
Light local showers and partly cloudy weather fresh and brisk eastorly to southerly winds warmer.
Base Ball.
AT ST. LOUIS— II St. Louis 0 0000100 0— 1 76 Chicago 10000200 0— 8 54
Batteries—Breiteusteiu and Douglass Briggs and Kittridge. Umpire—Sheridan.
AT PITTSBURG— E
Pittsburg 001 20001 x— 4 6 Louisville 0 0000 100 2— 3 (5 5 Batteries—Foreman and Mack Hill and Boyle. Umpire—Weidcman.
AT BALTIMORE— E Baltimore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0 (3 3 Boston 0 1101020 2— 7 10 0
Batteries—Clarkson and Robinson Nichols and Ryan. Umpires—Henderson and Lynch.
AT NEW YORK— E New York 3 4 0 1 0 0 0 0— 8 9 9 Philadelphia 1840202 2—19 17 4
Batteries- Flynn, Clarke, Doheney and Zearfoss, Farrell and Wilson McGill, Carsoy and Clements. Umpire—Hurst.
AT WASHINGTON— E
Washington 1 0 1 2 0 1 3— 8 13 2 Brooklyn 0 02010 2— 5 11 2 Batteries—Mercer and McCauley Sloiu and Grim and Bailey. Umpire—Keel'e.
E A E S
Keview of tho Grain and Livestock Markets 1'or April 24.
l'ittsbnrg.
Cattlo—Prime, $4 35(®4 45 good butchers, $3 9()(&4 10 bulls, slags and cows, $1 7o(£83 0 rough l'at., uutijiii 75 fre.sh cows and springers, $15^45. Hoys—Prime light, $3 O-JiaiB iU heavy, 'iU@3 55 common to lair, 25(S3 00. Sheep—Extra, $3 5U(c£3 05 good, $3 ll@3 25 common, $2 75(^3 00 spring lambs, $3 60($ 4 U0 veal calves, ji3 25{$3 75.
Cincinnati.
Wheat—72@73c. Corn—32@32j/2'c. Cattle—.Selected butchers, $3 50(93 70 fair to medium, $3 OOitfb 50 common, 5J® 90. Hogs—Selected and prime butchers, f3 36(33 40 packing, $3 25@3 80 common to rough, S3 u0(3!3 20. Sheep—$2 50(03 75. Lambs—13 50#4 05.
Chicago.
Hogs—Selected butchers, $3 20®3 50 mixed, 93 35@3 45. Cattle Poor to choice steers, 93 16@4 00 others, $3 25A 3 85 cows and bulls, 92 25(88 75. Sheep-' 92 25m SO: lam be, 3 50(84 60.
XBW York.
Cattle—93 00@4 ttO- Sheep—93 0003 60 lambs, 93 6u®4 00.
MINERS WILL STRIKE.
Six Thousand Men to Quit Work May 1.
CONFERENCE WITHOUT RESULTS.
Miners Ask For a Sixty-Six Cent Rate and Agreed to Accept Sixty-One Cents but the Operators Would Not Go Above fifty-Five Cents—Other Indiana State
News.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 24.—The conference between the miners and the Indiana block coal operators has ended in a disagreement. The miners convention appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee from the operators organization. The committee ended their conference yesterday.
The miners' committee at first demanded 66 cents a ton while the operators wanted to cut the present scale, which expires May 1, to 55 cents. After much discussion the miners agreed to accept 61 cents, but the operators' committee refused to go above 55 cents. The miners' committee reported back to the convention, which adjourned without further action.
The result will be, the miners say, a strike which will begin May 1, and will affect 6,000 men. At the Diamond mine in Clay county there are now 600 men on a
iike
because of local differ
ences, and the Ehrmann company's mines are idle from similar causes. The operators insist that the demands of the miners will be acceded to if the Illinois wage scale is increased, and no discrim inv.tion in shipping rates is made by one or two companies.
STRIKE IS OFF.
The Window Glass Factories Will Close Down at Once.
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MUNCIE, Ind., April 24.—The strike of the Hartford City glass works has been declared off and the window glass factories of the country will not close down at once, as threatened if the men refuse to go to work at Hartford City. President Burns of District Assembly No. 5300, who ordered the strike, made the settlement.
The men will return to work when ordered, without the discharged man, Wilhelm. The adjustment was caused by the threat to throw
20,000
out of
work for one month. The C. H. Over window glass works, with 850 hands, closed yesterday for the season. This is apart of the factories to go out as a result of meetings held in Muncie and Pittsburg.
WILLIAM WILLIAM3 DEAD.
He Was a Noted Orator and an Ex-Mem-ber of Congress. WARSAW, Ind., April 24.—William
Williams, aged 70, died at the home of his son, County Recorder J. R. Williams, after an illness of several months. He was a man of national reputation as a popular and effective Republican campaign orator. In 1852 he was a candidate on the Whig ticket for lieutenant governor and while not elected, ran ahead of hi6 ticket several thousand votes.
He was a member of the Forty-second and Forty-third congresses from the old Tenth district. He made 40 speeches all over the United States on the tariff question during the Garfield campaign. He was minister to Uruguay and Paraguay under the Garfield administration.
Sentenced For Life.
CROWN
POINT, Ind., April
24.—Eman
uel Morris, the colored jockey arrested for murder at the Roby race track last fall, was found guilty and was sentenced for life. Morris received the verdict without a murmur. During a dispute over a game of craps at Roby, Morris pulled a razor and frightfully slashed his opponent, who died instantly. Morris has spent his whole life at Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis tracks. Six jurors said they were in favor of hanging. The verdict was a compromise.
A Bride Suddenly Disappears. ELKHART, Ind., April 24.—William
Dygert and Miss Cora Brandt were married about six weeks ago. Last Monday they went to South Bend, where they intended to take a train for Michigan. They stopped at the Grand Trunk depot, and during their stay there Mrs. Dygert said that she wanted to call on some old friends. She hr,s not been seen since. Dygert is distracted over his wife's disappearance, for which he can offer no explanation.
Disease Among the Sheep.
FRANKFORT, Ind., April 24.—"Liverfluke, better known as "liver-rot." is prevalent among the sheep in this county. Richard Pence and Newton Saulsberry, well known sheep breeders, liavo lost many head during the past few weeks, and a number of other owners are sufferers. The disease is not contagious, and is contracted from germs in the grass. It is said that after the disease once becomes fairly seated there is no cure, death resulting.
linrn and Stock litirncd.
MUNCIK, Ind., April 24.—Fire completely destroyed a large barn owned by Henry Snider, who resides four miles north of Muncie. Four horses were cremated and aonsiderable corn and hay was burned. One horse succeeded in getting out before he was burned to death, but his flesh was cooked, and it was necessary to kill him. The loss is $2,000, with no insurance.
Man Missing For Weeks. APORTK, Ind., April 24.—William
R. Handley of Mount Aye, Pulaski county, has been missing for several weeks. He was last heard of in Salt Lake City, and it is feared he has since died, and that his body lies in an unmarked grave. The lodge of which he was a member is now working on the mystery.
Switchman Squeezed to Death. L0GANSP0RT,'Ind., April 24.—James
Keis,, a switchman, was caught between the bumpers of two freight cars in the Panhandle yards last Tuesday evening and so badly squeezed that he died last nigut.
Child Burned to Death.
LAPORTE, Ind., April
Sis.!
24.—The 4-year-
old daughter of Rudolph Freyer of
Michigan City, who wa badly burned by having her clothing set on fire by her brother, who was preparing to light afire in a smokehouse, is dead. Portions of her body were burned to a crisp.
Instantly Killed by Lightning.
MARTINSVILLE, Ind., April 24.—Nicholas Jungen, 16 years old, was fishing yesterday at White river, when a heavy thunderstorm came on. He took refuge with another boy under some trees. Lightning struck the tree and Jungen was instantly killed.
Glassworkers' Meeting.
ANDERSON, Ind., .^pril 24.—On the first Sunday in May a joint meeting of all classes of glassworkers in Indiana is to be held at Gas City. Among the speakers will be Eugene V. Debs and Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor.
Dropped Dead.
LIGOXIER, Ind., April 24.—George Washington Black, one of the wealthiest men in this county, dropped dead yesterday at Albion. Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause. He was 89 years old.
QUAY FOR PRESIDENT.
His Name Formally Launched by the Pennsylvania Kepublicans. HARRISBUUG, April 24.—Representa
tives of the Republicans of Pennsylvania assembled here in convention yesterday and formally launched the boom of United States Senator M. S. Quay for the presidential nomination. This feat was accomplished amid scenes of much turbulence. Men ordinarily sedate lost their tempers and said harsh things to each other, and at least one distinguished gentleman made demonstrations of violence.
The violent scenes were the result of the efforts of the anti-Quay delegates to secure the adoption of a resolution naming McKinley as the second choice of the convention. After an exciting debate the proposition was defeated by a vote of 178 to 65.
The convention nominated the slated candidates for congressmen-at-large, and selected the delegates and electors-at-large named by the caucus. The platform drawn up by Senator Quay's friends was adopted without material change. In fact, it was a Quay convention all through, although those opposed to that gentleman made things lively on the floor of the convention and in committee room.
The financial plank of the platform is as follows: "Faithful to its record, believing that the people are entitled to the use of the best money and anxious to restore and preserve the industrial and commercial prosperity of the Union, the Republican party favors international bimetallism, and until that can be established upon government account it demands the maintenance of the existing gold standard of value."
McKinley Delegates in Virginia. STAUNTON, Ya., April 24.—The Ro»
publican convention met here yesterday and seleoted delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention and instructed them to vote for McKinley as long there was any prospects of him receiving the nomination. The d©legated are William Lamp, General James A. Walker, Major S. M. Yost and A. W. Harris, colored.
METHODIST WOMEN LOSS.
Shut Out as Delegates to the Conference by Only Eighteen Totes. CLEVELAND, April 24.—The proposi
tion to admit women as lay delegates to the general conference of the M. E. church, has been defeated by a very narrow margin. The vote of the North Dakota conference has just been received here. It was the last to be taken on the proposition. The total vote is shown to be 7,515 for the admission of women and 2,529 against.
According to a provision of the discipline, it is necessary for a proposition to change any of the restrictive rules of the church to receive the support of three-fourths of the members of the annual conferences voting for the proposition and two-thirds of the members of the general conference. According to these figures the women have lost by just 18 votes.
Bad Fire in a Boys' Home.
DENVER, April 24.—Fire caused a panic among the 30 inmates of the Brightside home for boys at 5:80 a. m. yesterday. All escaped without serious injury, although several, overcome by smoke, were unconscious when carried out by the firemen. A number received bruises in jumping from the windows. Superintendent Fields received severe cuts on his hands and head iu arousing and rescuing the panic-strioken boys. The interior ef the home is in ruins.
Depot Burned.
HILLSBORO, O., April 24.—About midnight the Baltimore and Ohio freight depot, with contents and several boxcars on tracks near by were totally destroyed by fire of supposed incendiary origi. i. Loss unknown, but supposed to reach $0,000 to $10,000.
T-miilxjr Dealer Assigns.
HUNTIxerox, W. Ya., April 24.—II. Gordon, lumber dealer, made a general assignment- yesterday evening to Sinims & Enslow, attorneys of this city. Assets, $75,000 liabilities, probably $100,000.
I'reuiat iii'i: Explosion.
PORTSMOUTH,
O., April 24.—Peter
Evcndall was injured yesterday by a premature explosion oJ: dynamite used at the new ball park. His left arm was shattered, and he will lose an eye.
Death of a Fenian Leader.
DUBLIN, April 24.—A dispatch from Mitclielstown, near Cook, announces the death there of the Fenian leader, J. S. Casey, who was one of the originators of the land league.
Fell Over a Wall.
DAYTON, O., April 24.—Henry Reinmiller, a wheelmaker of Troy, was seriously injured yesterday by falling over an 18-foot wall near a railroad bridge. He may recover.
I Cashier Right Held.
COLUMBUS, O., April 24.—Cashier John A,. Kiglit of the dfefunct Fifth Avenue Savings bank was held to an* •wer tor alleged embezzlement.
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'XDHLSAAT'SIDEALS"
THE EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO TIMESHERALD INTERVIEWED.
He Hone Two Pipers and Has Unbounded Faith In Journalistic Independence and Conscience Even In Chicago—His Views and His Methods.
[Special Correspondence.]
CHICAGO, April 21.—"I could talk newspaper all night," was the reply I received from Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat when I apologized to him for taking up several hours of his valuable time one evening recently. I think Mr. Kohlsa *«xaggerated very little, if any, when lie said it.
It is just a year sincji'Mr. Kohlsaat took possession of the Chicago Times-Herald. For along time before he had been seeking an outlet for his journalistic enthusiasm. He had been looking for a New York paper, and several times he thought he had one. He heard The Tribune was for sale, but on inquiry ho found that was a mistake. He made an offer for The Times, but some of the stockholders at the last minute refused to sell. He did not want The Journal or The Recorder, because he felt he was not well enough known in New York city to undertake to convert the type of either The Journal or Tho Rocorder to his ideal of a newspaper. Mr. Kohlsaat's ideal is hard to fulfill, but he is living up to it in Tho Times-Herald. He is making that paper as independent and as fearless as the most pronounced
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II. H. KOHLSAAT.
theorist could wish. It was said of him reoently that he could afford to do this because his other largo business interests made him independent of "the counting room" of his paper. In the light of this statement I had a little ouriosity to know whether Mr. Kohlsaat's journalistic virtue was his own reward, and I asked him. He replied that from Maroh to March under his management the newspaper property had been more prosperous than it had been in any like period before. This may not prove that decency pays, beoause The Times-Herald is a better newspaper than it was under the old management, but it shows at least that decency is not a handicap in the pursuit of newspaper prosperity, and It demonstrates, too, that a paper need not be edited from "the counting room" to be prosperous. Mr. Kohlsaat has a wholesome dislike for the business end of his newspaper. "I would rather publish a newspaper without any advertisements at all," he said to me, but he acknowledged that the idea was impractical. The big paper of today Is almost as much a vender of advertisements as a purveyor of news. But advertisements are necessary to the support of a paper, and besides they help to sell it. "A newspaper without advertisements would have a very small circulation," said Mr. Kohlsaat.
The Times-Herald turns away every year many thousands of dollars' worth of advertising. The advertising columns of the paper are edited as earcfully as its news columns.
Mr. Kohlsaat manages with a firm hand the editorial departments of his two papers, The Times-Herald and Tho Evening Post. While I sat with him in the reception room of his beautiful home on the Lakeside drive a messenger brought from The Times-Herald office the proofs of the editorials for the next day's paper. His practiced eye ran down the columns, and he ohecked off with his poncil one after another of the paragraphs. "I go to my office early," he said, "and the proofs of all the editorials for The Evening Post are brought to me there. I see every line of editorial matter before it goes into the paper. I never interfere with the news department of the paper. I have one of the best managing editors in tho world. Mr. MoAuliff is devoted to The Times-Herald. In his waking moments ho has no other interest. He has chosen his own staff, and while ho sometimes consults me about things and I sometimes make suggestions to him he gives all his own instructions to his men, and they never come to me except when something turns up after he has gone home."
The Apple of His Eye.
Tho editorial pago of the paper is in charge of Major M. P. Handy, who has made tho editorial pago of Tho TimesHerald something unlquo in western journalism. Ho has introduced signed articles by well known writors and improved the character of the loaders and tho editorial paragraphs so that an eminent St. Louis editor said recently that the pago was above tho heads of the Chicago pooplo. Mr. Kohlsaat and Major Handy are in thorough sympathy, which is a fortunate thing, for that editorial pago is the apple of Mr. Kohlsaat's eyo.
Mr. Kohlsaat has a telephone in his dressing room and it happens not infrequently .that ho is aroused out of a sound sleep to answer a query from the ofliee. He lias to sit on tho side of the bed sometimes until he can collect iiis scattered thoughts. But ho nover says, "Bother the telephone" or "Hang tho ofiiee." His enthusiasm would contribute more than a wasted hour of sleep to the perfection of even ono potty dotaii of tho affairs of his papers. "I sometimes ask myself why I give so much of my timo and energy to my newspapers," he said to me. "It is not for the money." I suggested that it was for tho satisfaction to bo found in being so great a faotor in public affairs as the editor of a great newBpnper can be. "That i6 ttie principal reason," he said "the power which a newspaper wields.'' Mr. Kohlsaat has the old fashioned belief that a newspaper can make public opinion. When I quoted what a well known .editor said a year or two ago—'that newspapers merely followed public opinion—he combated the proposition strongly.
The News Colnmns.
I asked Mr. Kohlsaat if he permitted his views on public questions to influence the news columns of the paper. "No," he said. "The news department
of the paper Is not supposed to know what the editorial polioy of the paper is. We Instraot our correspondents to send us the truth and if we think they may be influenced in a special case we send instructions supplementing our printed rules for correspondents. I am accused sometimes of making my correspondents lean the other way."
Mr. Kohlsaat is a great personal friend and admirer of Major McKinley, and his papers have supported the Ohio candidate eo earnestly that it is quite likely some of the correspondents have caught the enthusiasm of their employer and permitted it to influence their judgment, but it is Mr. Kohlsaat's intention to publish the news without bias.
In municipal politics Mr. Kohlsaat has been working for clean government, and he rejoices in tho fact that many of the aldermen who have made Chicago's name a byword are to be forced into obsourlty by the reform movement which now has possession of the better element of the city's population. He thinks there will be enough aldermen in the next council to sustain the mayor's vetoes of objoctionable ordinances, and that is tho first step In the direction of better government. Municipal governments, he says, do not withdraw when they have taken the first step toward reform, and he has great hopes for the Chicago of a few years hcnce. ".For example, civil service reform," he said, "has been growing year by year. It began in tho national government. Now it is being extended to municipal governments. Wo have had it in Chicago for eomo time, and tho mayor says it is the one thing wliioh makes life endurable."
Mr. Kohlsaat may somotimes tilt at windmills, but no ono can accuso him of lack of sincerity—in fact, no ono does. He has firm convictions and the courage to support them. He has set his business standard high, and he lives up to it. He has set his journalistic standard just as high, and he is living up to that. It Is a pity he did not get a New York paper when ho made the attempt a year ago. Ho would have raised the average of the daily journals in that centor of newspaper activity and furnished a more conspicuous example to the newspaper world. He had that New York paper all planned. His staff ho had made up in his mind from the active newspaper men whose work he has studied. He has been interested in the workers of journalism rather than the editors of great papers since first the newspaper bee began to buzz in his bonnet.
A Hard Worker.
While I talked with Mr. Kohlsaat there came a ring at the telephone and he left me for five minutes to give a long range interview to the correspondent of a New York newspaper. A little later he was called up again to receive a business message. I left him busy with the proofs of the editorials which Major Handy and his corps of writers had contributed for the next issue of the morning paper. Probably before that duty had been completed another presented itself. He never seems to tire. The restless energy which mark6 his thin pale face sustains him through 14 or 15 hours of labor every day. He does more work than any one on his salary list and his only fear is that through overwork he may be incapacitated for further labor. But his temperate life, regular habits and cheerful disposition make such a contingency seem very distant.
Mr. Kohlsaat lives in one of the most beautiful homes in Chicago. It looks out over the lake. Within a stone's throw is Lincoln park. All about are handsome residences and the Lakeside drive stretches far away in front. There is no sound of the city's uproar, but in 20 minutes he can reach his office on Washington street.
When a madman climbed on the Auditorium stage to attack Jean de Reszke one night during opera week Mr. and Mrs. Kohlsaat were in the audience. Mr. Kohlsaat went right out to telephone to his paper about the matter. He congratulated one of his reporters, whom he found already at the telephone. "Then you do not hesitate to gather news for your papers?" I said when Mr. Kohlsaat had related this Incident. "No, sir," he replied with an emphasis which carried conviction.
GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN.
COLONEL "BOB" AMMON.
When He Was a Boy, Uncle Sam Asked Him to Allow the Mail to Go. [Spccial Correspondence.
PITTSBURG, April 20.—Everybody in Pittsburg who is old enough to remember tho first great railroad strike, something over 20 years ago, remembers also the remarkable youth who assumed tho position of loader among the strikers. Ho was not chosen in any formal way. He was hardly more than a boy. He had not been prominent among the men before the strike was declarod, yet inside of the first 48 hours of the trouble he was recognized by common consent as the commander of tho striking forces, and the government of the United States was compelled to appeal to him in order to secure the passage of the mails without a disturbance that would certainly have cost a number of lives and very probably have drawn the United States army into the light. It is not every one, however, who remembers that tho youngster's name was Robert A. Amnion, and very few know that he is tho same person who was the most prominent figure In that queer group of speculators who formed themselves into tho New York Mining Exchange recently.
It would probably be impossible for Colonel Amnion, as he is now generally called, to bo anything else but conspicuous in any community or under any circumstances. The same qualities which brought him to the front in tho great strike always attract attention to him wherever he is.
The incident of tho passing of tho malls was really remarkable and is not recalled with any great satisfaction by the authorities. The strikers were half maddened by tho fact t-bat the railroad corporations woro firmly refusing to accedo to their demands, and they swore that .no engine should move from the yard after a certain hour. Either they did not know what is common knowledge now—'that the entire forco of the general government, is liable to bo exertod iu case of interference with the mails—or they were made reckless by their desperate fury. Howevor that was, tho mob that had gathered around tho ongine yard proposed to make no exception when tho authorities undertook to start out a mail train. Not a man dared if any wishod to mount an engine for tho run, for it seemed to bo more than a man's life was worth to make the attempt.
It was at this juncture that tho government offlcials asked Amnion for assistance, and he, cooler and more intelligent than his fellows, gave orders whiolfUbey did not venture to dispute. The mail train went, and a terrible fight was avertod. Sinoe that time Amnion has had more ups and downs than half a down men. He has drifted all over the oonntry, been in various kinds of business and isnowaoeounted a rich man. People in Pittsburg still remember Bob Amnion and know that he was a real hustler. D. A. C.