Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1889 — Page 1

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The Czar Will Not Take Part in a Conference Oyer Servo-Buliarian AlTairs.

He Is Too Well Acquainted with the Chancellor's Finesse to Allow Himself to Be Puped, and Will ilerelj Make a Social Visit, Wad-El-Jumi and Many of His Dervish Followers Killed by the Egyptians. Inland's Naval Review Prevented by Stormy Weather Progress of the Trial of Mrs. Maytrick for roisoninsHer Husband. AFRA1D OF JUSMARCIC The Csar Decline to Tak Part la m Conferference While Visiting licrlin. CCorrriglit 1W3. by the New York Associated Preis. Bkrljx, Aug. 3. Prince Bismarck's maneuvers tobriug about a meeting of the throe Emperors have been foiled by the sudden reticence of the Czar, who has not deigned to acknowledge the communications of Count Schouvaloff Informing him that Emperor Francis Joseph and Emperor William are favorable to an interview. It was e,ven doubtful, until Wednesday last, -whether the Czar would adhere to his journey to Berlin, Schouvaloll only then receiving formal authority to inform the government of the Czar's visit. The language of the ecmi-oflicial papers of St. Petersburg is studiously designed to divest the visit of any tendency to a restoration of amity. The Czar is described as too well experienced with Bismarck's finesse to allow himself to again be duped. With unshaken firmness he refused to listen to overtures, unless preceded by a recognition of Russia's claims to freedom of action in the Balkan peuinsnla. The ominous outlook on tho Servo-Bulgarian frontier, where both governments are massing troops, the rising in Crete, and the concentration of to Asians around Kars discourage the hope to. 'it the (Ear journey will be anything but a formality which he would avoid if possible. The Foreign Office does not expect him to come to Berlin. Ho will go direct from Stettin to Postdam. where ha will stay ono night, and then proceed to Copenhagen by way of Kiel. As soon as tho Czar's intentions were known, the programme for tho reception of the Emperor of Austria was issued. He will arrive on Aug. 13 at the Thiergarten Station, where a crand receptian will bo given him. From the station the two Emperors will drive through Uriter den Linden to tho old achloss. The next threo days will bo devoted to p.irades in the Ternplehofcr fields, maneuvers at Spandau, stato banquets and a naval review at Kiel. 'Among the pressing questions to bo discussed by Bismarck and Count Kalnokr. the Austrian Prime Minister, during tho ttay of Kmperor Francis Joseph, is the posit'onof thoTppei It is believed that Mgr. iiaiiinoeru lias muueiiceti tuo iusxrian Emperor to make cxplicitpromiso to rupture it 1 1 1 HL T 1 jl me aiiiauco wuu ltaiy ir naiy veniuroj to occupy the Vatican, shonld the Pope leave Kome. feiguor Crispi, resenting tho hostile diplomacy of Austria on the Italian policy regarding the Vatican, conies again to confer witu rnnceUjsmarck. immediate ly after the departure of the Austrian Em peror. lne temper or the Italian government toward the Austrian is displayed in Signor Crispi's response to Frinco Bismarck's congratulations on the repression of tho Irridentists' committees. It was, briefly: "The lrridentists will continue to agitato until Austria removes the cause." DERVISHES llOCTED. Wad-el'Juml, tho Leader, Killed and 1,500 of Ills Followers Slalu and Wounded. Caiuo, Aug. C General Gren fell engaged the Dervishes near Tosld to-day and completely routed them. Wad-el-Jumi, the Dervish leader, was killed. Tho Dervish loss was 1,500 killed and wounded. The Egyptian loss was slight. Besides Wad-el-Jumi, the slain on the Dervish side include twelve rrairs and nearly all the fighting men. Fifty stand ards were captured by tho Egyptians. General Gren fell marohed out of Toski at 5 o'clock this morning, with a strong reconnoitering force of cavalry and camelry, and advanced close to tho Dervish camp. Making a feint of retreating, he drew the whole of Wad-el-J urn i's forces to a point within four miles of Toski. Here tho Egyptian infantry were held in readiness for an at-' tack, and a general action was at once be gun. The Dervishes made a gallant de fense, but were driven from hill to hill. The Egyptian cavalry made a succession of effective charges, in which Wad-el-Jumi and the emirs were killed. After seven hours of hard fighting the Dervishes were completely routed. Gun-boats are following the scattered remnants of tho Dervish force along the river. Later particulars estimate the Dervish dead roughly at 1,500. The Dervishesfought desperately, throwing themselves upon tho advancing columns repeatedly, and refusing quarter. The crisis of the battle was reached when the Dervishes attempted to turn the extreme right of the Egyptians. The steadiness of tho troops was admirable. The cavalry swept the lines ot the enemy. DreaKing mem up. so prisoners are yei re ported to nave been taken, l ho cavalry pursued tho retreating rebels for miles. General Grenfell ordered the gun-boats to pick up fugitives and wounded. THE NAVAL REVIEW. Stormy Weather Causes Its Postponement and Plays Havoc with the Spectators. Special to tne Indianapolis Journal. LONDON", Aug. 3. Tho storm which pre vailed in the channel throughout tho day played havoc with everything and every body having the slightest connection with the proposed naval review, and especially wrought misery to the thousands of excur sionists to the scene of the review, most of whom were neasick. A reporter who went down on the Teutonic, on board of which vessel were commoners Chamberlain, Ritchie. Hicks Beach. Douglass, Jackson, Money, Childers and others, telegraphs to his paper that obscurity, misery and disappointment pervaded everything and atllicted everyono on board. Tho naval vessel wero invisible from tho deck of the Teutonic. on account of the thick fog. and the sufferings of the notables on board from mal de mer, and tHe drenching they received wero intense. This statement virtually tells tho whole stor3 of the condition of atlairs at Snithead. as observed and experienced by everybody unfortunate enough to be there. The wind blew fiercely, and the vessels pitched terribly. The fares on the steam pinnaces coming into Portsmouth from the anchored fleet were extinguished by the heavv feean whlrh dnsheil nvpr thft amall vessels. The German Emperor remains at Osborne over Sunday, except that, weather permuting, he will pay a visit to some of tne larger vessels or tne English licet to morrow. The review may be held on Mon day. The officers of the English fleet cave ft bano4t at South Sea this evening, in hon

The Prosecution Clise Its Case and Sir Charles It us sell Opens for the Defense. Livekpool, Aug. 3. At the trial bt Mrs. Maybrick for the murder of her husband, to-day, Dr. Stevenson, ono of tho physicians who had attended Mr. Mavbrick, asserted that all of the patient's symptoms indicated that he was sufleringfrom arsenical poisoning. A nurse testified that when Mrs. Maybrick tried to pursuade her husband to take the medicine he objected, saying that it was tho wrong medicine. On cross-examination witness 6aid that no improper food or medicine was given to the patient while she was in the house. Mrs. Maybrick had appeared tender and considerate in her treatment of her husband. A waiter at Flattman's Hotel identified the prisoner as the woman who had occupied a bedroom in the hotel with the man Brierly. After the introduction of this testimony the prosecution announced that its case was closed. Bir Charles Russell opened tho case for the defense. He made a forcible speech, ia which he urged that the jury could not render judgment against the accused based on a probability, even if supported by an apparent motive for the commission of a crime, if there was a shadow of doubt. He would prove that Mr. Maybrick had been a confirmed taker of arsenic for years. A witness named Bateson, who lived with Mr. Maybrick in America from 1877 to 18S1, mariner Thompson, and a negro named Stanton, who waft Mr. Mnybrick's former servant, all testified that the deceased took arsenic habitually. A chemist testified that Mr. Maybriclc had purchased "pick-me-ups" from him which contained arsenic. Professor Tidy testified that the snuDtoms manifested, bv Mr. Maybrirk were not typical of arsenical poisoning. The appearance of tho internal organs at the post-mortem examination distinctly negatived tho theory that death had been caused by arsenic. The appearance of the organ was consistent with tbe theorv that death resulted from gastro-entcritis. During the testimony of analyst Davies in the Maybrick trial, yesterday, Mrs. Maybrick came very near breaking down from norvousness. fehe was much better to-day, however, and showed no traces of her ordeal. The female witnesses have become completely unnerved under the battery of lorgnettes leveled at them by the spectators, so that the court police has prohibited tho use of tho glasses altogether. Great crowds congregate in the vicinity of the court and cheer bir Charles Russell vociferously whenever he inakea his appearance in going and coming. This enthusiasm is partly due to his masterly conduct of the Parnell case and cross-examination of witnesses in the present trial, and partly to the increase or public feeling in favor of Mrs. Maybrick. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Emln Relief Committee Appeals for Money Indifference to the Fate of Dr. Petersen. I Copyright 1SS9, by the New York Associated Press. Berlin, Aug. 3. The Emin relief committee to-day issued an appeal to the nation for .funds to aid the expedition, and voted its thanks to ' Dr. Petersen for his energy and prudence in executing his mission. Tho nppeal won't work. Tbe committee ignored the fact that Dr. Petersen's expedition sticks fast, a disorganized mob of Somalisclamoring for pay, and tbe Europeans sick and wanting doctors aud medicine. Thero is a general lack of provisions and munitions for the expedition. The Cologue Gazette continues U outcry against tho English African Company as actively pursuing to destruction German enterprise. Tho .public is indifferent to the fate of Dr. Petersen and centers its anxiety on Capt. Wissmann's progress. Ho has hitherto effected little. Bunuiri's forco has been increased by the arrival of Arabs from the interior, armed with Remington rifles. The expedition is also beset by coast fevers and. the mortality is increasing. Fifteen out of sixty nou-commissioned officers are coming home invalided. The Crete Insurrection. Londox, Aug. 'J. A sailor belonging to an Italian man-of-war has been shot by Mussulmans at Canea, Crete. The Turks have attacked and dl?perft?d a body of insurgents near Canea. A number on both sides were killed and wounded. A British pun-boat has arrived at Candia, the chief city of Crete. Many Frauds at Kiel. Copyright. 1S80, by the New York Associated Press. Berlin, Aug. 3, The inquiry Into the Kiel navy frauds proves that corrupt practices have ben in operation since 1884. Wood and iron sent out to Kiel for construction purposes was duly signed for and then eccretly soldln England. Chief Constructing Engineer Pannecke Is the principal in the echeme. Bremen officials uro alio involved. The Emperor insists upon the utmost secrecy, and will allow only tho sentences which are imposed to be published. Socialists Suppressed. Copyright, 1&S9, by the New York Associated Press Ulrlin, Aug. 3. The police are suppressing all meetings of Socialists convened to hear reports from the delegates to the Paris congress. Ilerr Glorte, the Berlin delegate, was arrested while glorifying tho congress before a reunion of carpenters, coopers and stone-cutters. The workmen resisted the police, and in the tumult that followed a number of workmen were seri ously hurt. The Bavarian delegate, Ilerr Forth, was warned that he would be expelled If he made any speeches. Improbability of Boulangcr's Extradition. London", Aug. 3. Although the French gov ernment is mooting the question of Genend Boulanger's extradition, the Cabinet contending that he Is guilty of crime under the common law. it is extremely unlikely that any serious effort will be made to secure his return to France under a requisition, and still more unlikely that Lord ealisoury would honor any such demand. Anyway, return to France under such conditions, is one of the very least of Boulanger's fears. Dutchmen Killed In Sumatra. Amsterdam, Aug. 3. InteUigence has been received of a fight In Acheen, Sumatra, between natives and aforeoof Dutch troops. Nineteen Dutchmen were killed and twenty-two wounded. Cable Notes. The French government has dismissed fifteen telegraph clerks known to be in sympathy with the Boulangist movement. The French press ponerally express their belief that the German Kaiser will attempt to commit England to the triple alliance during his visit to England. The German Anti-Semitic Society, fouaded by M. ficho?nerer, hi Vienna, has been suppressed by the Austrian frovernment for exceeding tbe powers and privileges conferred upon it by the authorities when permission was given for its organization. The Morgcnthaler Llcotypo Printing Conopany is experiencing some uithculty iu Heating Its stock in London, of widen XI, 000,000 has been launched upon the market, and success in placing the shares is dally becoming more doubtful. Mr. Louis J. Jenniucs, member of Parliament for Stockport, has resigned from the directory of the company, and a iortion of the pros are attacking the company for having tpent thousands of pounds In useless advertising. Fatal Affray In a Franklin Saloon. Special to the IndiasapoUa Journal. Fexxklix, Ind., Aug. 3. Cam AUord, bar tender in Jchn Craig's aloon, was fatally cut In the abdomed at 10:30 o'clock to-night, by Homer Waggoner. Waggoner and others were in tho saloon playing cards, when a dispute arose and the bar-tender tried to settle it. Waggoner drew a tnlfe and cut the lartendcrin tho abdomen, making a fash about fire Inches long and cutting the entrails. Alford grabbed a shotgun near by and tired at Waccroner. Several persons in tho saloon were hit with the sbot.aniongthe num ber bam McQulston, who received a number of snot in nis race, wasgoner niaue gooa cis escape out of the back door snd so far has evaded arrest. The bartender was curried to his home and 1$ in a critical condition. Fatally Stabbed. Ppeclal to the Indlan&roUs JourniL 8helbttii.t.k. Ind.. AOg. 8. w ill itnodes, a young firmer of Marion township, was arrested to-day for stabbing Lafayette Zeimer oii the farm of George Phnrea lart night. Zeimer at tacked Rhode with a pitchfork, when the latter drew a knife, stabbing Zeimer la the abdomen at., mulcting a ratal wouncu

It Receives a Check in His Statement Concerning the Special Tension Cases.

The Tersistent Claim of Democrats that He Had Advanced Ten Thousand Applications Shown to Be a Gross Exaggeration. Canadian-Built Cars Sot Subject to Du ty AYhen Used in Regular Business. Conference Between President Harrison and Secretary YYindoin Orer Treasury Appointments Argentine Mission Fillel THE CRUSADE AGAINST TANNER. Slanderous Storle Refuted by His Statement of Tension Cases Made Special, &ec!a! to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. S, To-day Commissioner Tanner gratified the desire of the mugwumps and Democrats, who have been hounding him ever since his induction into office, and presented all those who cared for it a statement as to the exact number of pension cases which hare been made "special" since his administration. As was to I)? expected, the statement was notatall satisfactory to the anti-administration newspapers. The reason for this is that the figures fall below those set down as accurate by the correspondents of several veracious sheets. Instead of ten thousand cases mado "special," of which it was claimed that two-thirds were advanced for Leaman and Dudley, it appears that the entiro number so advanced in something like four months was only &53, and of these only fifty-eight were cases in which Mr. Leaman appeared as attorney, and only live were Mr. Dudley's clients. When it is remembered that tbe former gentlemen has 5 very large clientage and an army of clerks it is not a matter of surprise that fifty of his clients were proven to be in such need that it was advisable to push their cases forward, but in spite of the fact that the statement of the Commissioner is based upon the official records of the office, which can bo very easily verified, tho correspondents of the newspapers which have been most bitter in their attacks upon the administration ond the Commissioner, have received their orders to believe nothing which would seem to place Mr. Tanner in a more favorable light before the conntry, and he is receiving as many additional 6hafts to-night as at any tnno since this attack began. The investigation demanded into his attitude toward the law has de monstrated the integrity of Mr. Tanner's , aaininisiraiion mus iar, ana it is uecause of this fact that the cry of "whitewash" is raised, and Mr, Tanner has every reason to expect that he will continue as tbe target for the Democratic press until somebody else attracts the attention oi tne corre spondents, or he goes out of office. How The Cases Were Divided To the Weatera Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 8. Commissioner of Pensions Tanner has made public ft statement of the number of cases made "special from the date he assumed charge of the Pension Office, March 27, up to the 23d of July. It shows that during that period there were mado special 053 claims. Of this number the Commissioner has had 052 drawn from the files aud examined to ascertain who were the attorneys in the cases. The resnlt shows, among other things, that thero were 118 cases in which there were no attorneys; that George F. Lemon was atA i I i. :v. ,1 T17. xtluiutry m uiucij -cjin iitsrs, uuu , ,,. Dudley attorney in live cases. The Com missioner then names eleven other attor neys who had cases made special in num bers ranging irom twenty-aix Gown to eight. Tne above aggregate SS5 cases. The balance of the cases, the Commissioner says, are distributed among various other ailuiJicvB, uu uiic vl vwiciu js mo iiiiuxiic.v in as manv as eicht cases. About SI? attor neys, tho Commissioner says, are represent ed altogether. FOREIGN-BUILT CARS. They Are Non-Dutiable When Usd in the Regular Course of Business with Canada. Washington, Aug. 3. The Secretary of tho Treasury this afternoon rendered his decision on tho question submitted to him by the collector of customs at Detroit Mich., as to the dutiable or non-dutiable character of foreign-built railway cars coming into the United States and Canada laden, or for the purpose of being laden, with mails, passengers, etc. The decision is as follows: Collector of Customs, Detroit, Mich.: fclr The Department has fully considered the question submitted by you of the dutiable or non-dutiable character of foreign-built railway cars coming into the United States and Canada, laden, or for the purpose of being laden, with mails, passengers, baggage, express matter or freight. Tbe records of this department show that railway cars engaged in the eo-o.illcd transit trade, partly over the territory ot tbe United States and partly over the territory of Canada, have never bteu regarded as importations subject to duty, but simply as vehicles of transportation for the conducting of an established and legalized trade. In letters from this department to the president of the New York Central UaUway Company, Feb. 2, 18S9, to the collector at Port Huron, April 27, 1870. and to the collector at Burlington. Dec. 3. 1878, and Jan. 0, 1882, it was held that such practlee was not obnoxious to the revenue laws of the United States. aud did not nuhject foreign-built cars running In the transit trade between Canada and the United fctates to duty, since Pection 3102, Kevised statutes authorizes foreign-built rahway cars laden with Importations to enter the United fctatca and proceed to destination, aud Section 3006, lievised Statutes, authorizes the cars of both countries to encage in International traffic, and the merchandise so carried to be treated as "If the transportation had taken place entirely within, the limits of the United States." Tbe principle so adopted and announced hna remained In force more than twenty years, and does not aeeni to have been impeached or questioned In or ty any statute or other congressional action, or any Judicial decision or treaty, or any departmental remilatiou or restriction in all that time; It being considered that the action taken by the department Jan. 3, and which action was recalled and rescinded before the game had taken enect,did not amount to a disturbance or impeachment of the otherwire unbroken practice. . . Iu Tlew of the long-settled rule and practice upon the subject, the d?partmcnt does not deem It conformable to the public Interest to disturb the decision deliberately reached, and repeated, and athrmed, and must hold that the question li no longer open to administrative construction. It onlv remains to advise you that, while these rulings are adhered to in deference to the reasonable requirements of commerce, not to permit such practice to degenerate into licence for the free importation of foreign-built railway cars Into the domestic tratne of tiQ United Btatea under cover of the established usape described in the preceding paragraphs. Respectfully yours, w. Wixdom. Secretary. MINOR JIATTKIW. Indianlans Entertained by the PresidentConference Over Yreasury Appointments. Eperlal to the Xndlan&poUs Journal. Washington, Aug. 8. It seems that the little dinner at the White House last night was peculiarly an Indiana affair. Covert were laid for eight, and the diners were, besides the President and Secretary Halford. Attorney-general Miller, Treasurer Huston, Assistant Attorney-general Chaney, ex-Congressman Stanton J. Peelle, Hon. II. M. LaFollette and Chairman Miehener The President was closeted nearly all today with Secretary Windoxn, and the two gentlemen were engaged in discussing tho '