Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1P;h

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. JULY 22. 1693. WASHINGTON OFFICE 515 Fourteenth St. Telephone Calls. EnsircR OClc I3S Eilitnrial Rooms 212 TJC11MS OF SUIISCRIPTION. DAILY LY MAIL, Pally cxTy, one month .70 Iiclly only, three month.... 2.0O luiiyoni)-, one year b.00 Jjailv, luclr.iliER Sunday, one year lo.oo bun da y only, o:ie year 2.00 WHF.X rUR5ISIIEl BY ACEMS. Tallr, Tier eek, by carrier 15 eta Futrtajr, infde copy............................... ctm laiiy ud buiiday, per week, by carrier.. ...... .20 cts WELKLT. Per year $1.00 lied need Kates to Clubs. Fxibt cribe with any of oar numerous agent cr Bend subscription to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY INDIANAPOLIS, ISD. rmona ner.ding the Journal through the mails In the United state should put on an eiht-pare paper a CKE-crT ixmtage .t:ui; on a twelve or sixteenpape paper a two-cent postage stamp. Foreign postage Is usually double these r&les. A 11 communications intended for publication in th u paper mutt, in order ta recti ce a! lent Urn. be accowjamtd by the name and address of the writer. 7HK INDIANAPOLIS JUUKNAL Can be found at the following places: PARIS American Exchange in Farls, 36 Boulevard An Capucioes. KEW YOliK -Gilsey House and Windsor HotcL FHILADELPIIIA A. pT Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CIXCIXNATI-J. R. HawIeyA Co., 151 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Iering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.-TJggs House and Ebbitt House. "Another bank gone Democratic" is the way an exchange announces a bank failure. Yes, Mr. Controller, depositors should help bank 6, but brinks should also help depositors. . Kansas and Colorado are object lessons to other States that it does not pay to elect freak Governors. Despite the active efforts of the administration as a "bear" in the silver market the white metal clings to figures above 70 cents an ounce. Because or the incapacity and duplicity of Sullivanism in the city government, the taxpayers are paying $124 a day interest instead of SCO. The present period of "alow liquidation," as Controller Eckels calls it, is likely to be known and remembered as "the Democratic panic of 1S93." Thousands of people who concluded that they would vote against protection Inst November to soo what would happen have seen enough, but their Booing is too late. The Louisville Courier-Journal takes a column and a half to say that if Mr. Cleveland does not make an attempt to carry out the Chicago pledge regarding tariff revision he will be a traitor to his party. The Journal has in stock nearly fifty solutions of the currency and coinage questions furnished - by as many correspondents all of which shows the intereat Jhe people have in practical publio questions. It ill becomes the paper which is the obsequious mouthpiece of the boss who is responsible for the defeat of the proposition to refund the now defaulted bonds of the city to prattle about Tweedism elsewhere. The plate-glass trust has collapsed, owing to the withdrawal of the Pennsylvania Glass Company, and it is expected that many factories now idle throughout the country will start up soon. The failure of a trust is not one of the kind that hurts business. Anxiety in regard to the action of Congress centers wholly about the course of tho Democrats. Everybody knows the Republicans will be almost solid for safe and conservative legislation. The Democratic party is always theunknown factor in national emergencies. The Council of Indianapolis, during the next two years, will, doubtless, have soveral important matters with which todonl, notably, that relating to street railways. Consequently, care should bo exercised to secure a ticket composed of xnun of sound judgment and integrity. Now that Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, has declared that he, tho most rabid of free silver coinage advocates, will not offer serious objection to the administration's filverpolicy, thorecognition of a few statesmen from tho binegrass region may be looked for from the President.

The people of tho State of Indiana are paying interest at tho rate of $270,000 a year on a debt created by the Democratic party, and the peoplo of this city are paying $G4 a day more than they would have had to pay if the Dem ocratic bosses bad not prevented the funding of tho debt a year ago. Truly, Democracy is a tax. The Democratic nomination for Governor in Ohio goes abegging, and promi nent members of tho party admit that there is no prospect of their carrying the State. One is reported as saying: "We might possibly have a chance if Larry Neal could bo kept still." Mr. Neal is tho author of tho free-trade plank in the Chicago platform. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred in Denver are rampant freo silver coinage men, yet at the first sign of danger they showed as much anxiety to get their money out of bank while it was yet good as the veriest "gold bug" could have done. T n to one most of them have hoarded it in the form of gold or greenbacks. The letter of Pension Commissioner Lochren shows that ho is either ignor ant regarding the orders issued by Sec retary lloke Smith or that ho feels that he must apologize to the friends of tho veterans. Ho seems not to know that an order was issued soon after tho advent of Hoke Smith annulling the rulings of Assistant Secretary Bussey which put the disabilities for which pensions were asked under the law of 1600 tho samo as under the law granting pensions for service disability. This ZXoko Smith ruling forbids the issue of

a pension for any cause except total disability for manual labor and it strikes at all pensions heietofore granted where

$4 a month is allowed for rheumatism and equal amounts for one or two other causes of disability. And yet Commis sioner Lochren either is ignorant of this fact or ignores it. Ho intimates that the suspensions are chiefly cases where deafness is attributed under the act of ISO, whereas, inquiry brings to light the fact that a large percent, of tho pen sions suspended were granted under tho old law. Hoke Smith goei about the country declaring that over 100,000 pen sioners will be dropped from the rolls and $30,000,000 a year saved. Commissi oner Lochren says that only the deaf under tho act of 1890 will be dropped. The facts snstnin Hoke Smith. TnERepublicau municipal convention, which will be held this evening, has a very great responsibility resting upon it. It should therefore be a deliberative body, composed of men who will bo inspired with the single purpose of giving the voters of the city a ticket composed of able and clean men. No man in it should be so easily influenced as to be moved by cheers or any of the methods of ten adopted to carry conventions by storms of applause. If the matter were to end with the convention, that would do; but the ticket nominated will be as sailed, not only by the enemy, but will be scrutinized by thousands of voters as they meet in places ot business, in work shops and offices, and in their homes. The cool-headed and intelligent delegates, having the best interests of Indianapolis at heart, will seek to name a ticket which will meet the approbation of the taxpayers and which will grow In .popular favor uutil the election in Octo ber, and on that day will be worth two thousand more votes than the most ef fective party machinery could rally for a ticket which does not fully commend itself to the mass of Republican voters and the hundreds of Democrats who have had enough of reform of the Sullivan brand. Minister. Blount has disgusted pa triotic Americans in Honolulu by his openly expressed disapproval of a Fourth of July oration made there by Lieutenant Young, of the United States war ship Boston. Tho Lieutenant took advantage of the t'ay and tho occasion to let the American eagle scream a little. What angered Mr. Blount was a passage in which, after detailing the successive extensions of American territory, the speaker said: Finally, with the annexation of Texas and California, whose rapid settlement brought the Pacific coast into such prominence, no one can donbt the mauifeat destiny of the United States to control the commerce of the Pacitio ocean; and in so doing it will not be long before these Hawaiian Inlands will become as important to the Phoenician of the new continent as the Egean islands were to the Phoeni cian navigators of old. And in ourdesiro to preserve and protect oar commerce we are spending millions of money on the fortifications of oar coast, on the completion of which we may expect, in the near future, to see the United States ornamenting her skirts with Cuba and the Danish islands ot the West Indies, and with the Hawaiian bouquet in the left hand, she will with her right pay her salutation to tho North. This grated so harshly on the super sensitive feelings of Mr. Cleveland's minister that he did not get over it for several days. It is said that when ho expressed his displeasure to Admiral Skerrett, tho bluff sailor declared that tho add re 8 a was not too American to suit his taste. Mr. Blount should come homo and hie him to the wilds of Geor gia, where his ears will not be offended with such patriotic sentiments. The Pittsburg Dispatch, which con ceives that its mission is to distrust and advise Republicans, has recently reiterated the following: With regard to the tariff, it is time for Republicans who have the interests of the country at heart to lav aside partisanship. They can by uniting with the conservative elements of the Democracy secure such a revision as will cause no further disturbance to business. The issue is between a radical revision and a moderate one. The duty of the Republicans is to join with the moderate Democrats, secure the conserv ative revision outlined by President Cleve land, and put an end to tho period of un certainty. Pray, when did Grover Clevoland "outline a conservative revision of the tarifn" When has it appeared that Mr. Cleveland is not an out-and-out foe of protection! This assumption that Mr. Cleveland is not in accord with the free traders who were his most active sup porters has become rather wearisome in connection with the insinuations that Republicans will seek party advantage regardless of the best interests of the country. If President Cleveland would but print a sentence to the effect that be is opposed to any general change in character of the tariff, confidence would begin to return. There havo been several prize fights in Marion county during the last few years and not nn arrest made. If the sheriff had been vigilant and zealous in the performance of his duty, most if not all of these lights could have been pre vented. A few arrests would have put a stop to the business. As the sheriff may make arrests without a warrant for violations of law committed within his view, it was only necessary for him to attend one of these fights to justify him in arresting the participants. Why has ho not done so? Docs the Democratic party in this city aud county stand in with tho prize-fighters as well an with tho gamblers? It seems from tho reports of British papers that silver mining companies controlled in England find the business very profitable. The Broken Hill stock holders are assured that if tho price of silver should go to 3S cents an ounce they will receive fair dividends. Tho Elkhorn stockholders were told at the annual meeting that silver could be pro duced without loss at 33 cents an ounce. The same report camo from other mines. And yet owners of mines in tho same county as the English mines insist that every ounce costs them $1.20. There must bo some mistake somewhere. General Tokkknce is being widely ouoted as saying that Secretary Gresh am has Cleveland's promise that he shall be the next presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket. Torrence also says that Indiana will be solid for Gresham. It is not at all improbable

that the ex-Judge has sold himself for an empty promise. That is a matter of no consequence to any other than himself. The question of interest is, who is Torrence, who is seeking notoriety by making so free with Indiana? Has any

body ever heard of him before! Last night's primaries offered con vincing proof that the Republicans of Indianapolis are in the fight to win. The attendance was unprecedentedlv large, and the fact that all but twelve precincts forwarded reports to the head quarters of tho city central committeo demonstrates that the party organiza tion is in excellent working condition; While the meetings were, in some pre cincts, quite spirited, tho general party harmony is shown in the fact that in all, the 15-9 precincts there is but one contest for seats in the convention. The primaries have done well, und it reraaips for the convention to complete the work so auspiciously begun. Nine months ago the country was on the eve of a presidential election. The Democratic party had made its cam paign on a platform which demanded the abolition of protection and the sub stitution of freo trade. It had promised the farmers an increase in the price of their products, workingmen an increase in wages, and everybody an improvement in business. On the strength of these promises Cleveland was elected. Suppose another national election were to take place to-morrow? Now that Secretary Carlisle's freetrade subordinates are making deci sions, the duties on important grades of wool fixed by tho McKiuley law have been reduced 00 per cent. If these ofiicials can rule out one class of duties, why can they not change tho protective tariff act to a strictly revenue basis? Something of that sort would tend to keep the temporarily closed factories shut for a year or more. At $2.50 a day tho $G4 of interoat boing paid because Frenzelism defeated the Controller's refunding scheme a year ago, would have paid for twentyfour patrolmen, or thirty-eight teachers at $600 a year. It would go a long way toward paying the cost of sprinkling now paid by every householder. Now it goes into tho cash boxes of Eastern investors as so much money taken from Indianapolis taxpayers. Hon. Joseph II. Manlev, of Maine, attributes the present business depres sion mainly to the success of the Demo cratic party in November last. "Tho4 business men of the country," he says,' "became alarmed when they fully un-?l derstood what the Democratic party de clared to be its purposes and found that party placed in power." This opinion is shared by a vast number of people. liUBBLE.t IN THE Alii. Itpree. He (maliciously) It is only the female mos quito that annoys people. She (musingly) I notice that you take a great del'ght in mashing them. Arcorninodatlnsr II I m. '. "Got any explanation to makel" asked the Justice. "Please, you Honor," began the offender. "I havo been bad oft' for two mouths, aud I thought "Been bad off. for two months, oh? If that's what you have been bad off for, I'll see that you get It. Sixty days." Modern Romance. 'I wonder where I could get a steam callyoapl" suddenly asked the youDg Chicago buainess man of his partner. ' We don't need any callyoap," was the reply.v 'Callyoaps won't soil real estate." I don't want it to sell real estate with. I want to serenade that dandy girl of mine, who lives on the xourtceutn floor In tho Aerial flats." ; Utterly Useless. n "Why den't you go to work!" asked the benev olent woman. "Weil," replied IMsuial Dawson, iu a voice mingled with tears and pie. "I tried keepin'a hotel oucet, and I tried runnln a newspaper oncet, and both of 'em fizzled. So I J 1st give It up. I knowtd that a man who couldn't get rich in ary one of them businesses .wasn't meant to get along in the world." . An Eastern paper whiob was distressed by the rumor that Mr. Cleveland's reoent rheumatio attaok was not rheumatism, but something else, devotes three columns of space to proviug that it was not something else. According to this veracious account.. Mr. Cleveland, so far from disregarding' his strict anti-fat diet rules, went iramodiately to bis berth on boarding Mr. Bene-, diet's yacht and slept eighteen hours., When he woke he had but little appetite' for breakfast and returned to his couch in half an hour and slept twelve hours more. In fact, he spent pretty nearly all the two days and a half consumed in the trip to. Buzzard's Bay in sleep. Then, alter he got wide awake, the rheumatism and the tooth ache caught him. It may oocur to some overly-suspicious persons that this story proves? trifle toomnch. but they ought to be ashamed of themselves. He slept because he was tired, and, being a big man. it took him a long time to get rested. Why, of course; the explanation is perfectly simple. Perhaps in that long nap he dreamed out a way of getting the country out of the hole that his party has got it into. If so. he cannot spring the scheme too soon. A Japanese editor has been condemned to one year's penal servitude for sDoalcing of the Nishin Shinizisi. in a recent elective campaigu,ae a "hovenknkidojo,"or boneless fish. With one eye on tho libel law and the other on Mayor Sullivan tho Journal will venture the statement that hovenkukidojo is an nncommonly expressive word when applied to certain officials, and the Japaneee editor deserves a vote of thanks instead of imprisonment. Tiik manly examplo of Col, Mary Ellen Lease has had its eiiect. Kansas women refuse to be '"trod on'' any longer, and stand up for their rights with 'nbs in their hands and blood in their t s, just like their busbauds aud brothers. The day of the meek and submissive woman appears to have passed in Kansas, if it ever was. Thc memorial bust ot William Cullen Bryant which is to be set up In New York Central Park will cover, with its pedestal and foundation, an area larger than a city lot. This will be a bigger bust than Bryant was ever on in his life. It is due to Mr. Watterson to say that he denounces the recent interview in which bespoke slightingly of the Vice President as bogus; but it would have been to bis credit to have said the things attributed to him. The cold wave company which has been formed in South Dakota seems asnpertlu-

ous organization. The Democratic party is furnishing all the cold waves the country can stand just now. jo the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Was there ever a law In Indiana prohibiting soldiers and sailors from voting! i.'ts. It is provided by the laws of every State that soldiers of. the regular armv shall not be allowed to vote in the States where they are stationed, but they are permitted to vote in the place in which they had a residence when they enlisted. The prohibition referred to is in the Constitution of Indiana,

XVt the dtitor ot the Tnrtiaiiapolla Journal. How much silver is the Secretary of the Treasury compelled to purchase under the provisions of the Sherman lawf J. a. o. Just 4,500.030 ounces a month at the bullion market price, to be paid for by an issue of coin notes. l o the Editor of th Inttianauolls Journal: Where is tho Leland Stanford, jr.. University located, and how far Is it from San Francisco! SUI1SCKIHEU. At Palo Alto, Santa Clara county, about fifty miles from San Francisco. AI.0U1 PhuThh AM) THINGS. The first people to com money were the Lydians. who began to do so 1600 13. C. Dr. Laffoni, physician of the Pope, says bis patient bids fair to live to ninety, or beyond, and that his health at present is all that can be desired. Admiral Belknap thinks that "since steam and eloctricity have taken possession of the naval soul, seamanship is almost deoried as a lost art by the rising generation of naval men," Newport has sat a now fashion and made it fashionable at a bound. The new fashion is called the "Dutch treat." which means that eaca member of a party pays his own expenses. It was inaugurated by thirteen women last week, and it is now the reigning sensation in upperdom socially. Charles H. Cramp, the shipbuilder, who has turned out so many fast vessels, including tho cruiser New York, is a modest man, who never refers to his vessels as "marvels of speed" or "record breakers." He usually refers to them as having been "bmlt in accordance with the conditions of the contract." Of every one thousand clergymen between the ages of forty-live and sixty-five it is found that only 15.1)3 die annually. Hutof every one thousand doctors between tb ages of forty-hve and sixty-live no fewer than 28.02 die every year. That is to say, th.9 mortality of medical men is almost double that of clergymen, and the rate is increasing. The King of Azzam has two hundred wives, who are divided into nine classes. When one of these ladies dies her body is let down over the palace walls and then buried; it is against the law for a dead body to be carried out through the palace doors. At the King's death his consoTts receive permission to remarry themselves to any of his subjects. That extravagant lady, Catherine the Great of Russia, not content with her massive service of solid gold, had made In France for the imperial table several dozen plates, painted by distinguished artists of the time, for which she paid about four thousand rubles a plate. French works of art were made to do the duty of dinner plates, npon which, no doubt, was served plenty of Tartar sauce. Near Midway PJaisacce a Kansas exhibitor shows a section of an old rail fenoe. It is overgrown with a complete crop of weeds, representing the pests of tho Kansas farmer, cockle burrs, ironweed, mullein, iimsonweed, milkweed, ragweed and pusley. This uovel exhibit is intended to bring out the beauties of an adjoining feoce of woven wire, which adords no troublesome corners for the weeds t lodge in, but is bordered by clean, close-shaven turf. , . " " It's not the clouds, indeed, ; ' 1 About which we're repining. But the certainty of the fact That they've a silver lining. Chicago MaU. THE GOLD BUG'S DAUGHTER. "My father owned a silver lode Aud now 'tis mine." ho cried. Oh. tako a load from off mv heart, And say thou'lt be my bride." "Unload thy heart elsewhere," she cried; "Thv lode's a tickle store. " Love laughs at silver when 'tis down As low as nfty-four." Judge. . CAUSED OF THE DtrULbSION. Tiik main and real cause is found in the threatening and uncertain attitude that th Democratic party holds toward tho manufacturing and agricultural industries of the country. Try as hard as they may. they cannot cover up the fact, nor further deceive the people. Toledo lllade. There can be no reasonable doubt that one potent cause of the bnsiuessaistrast and depression is the apprehension that the coming Congress will make a revision of the tariff that may injuriously atieot most of the industries of the country by subjecting f hem to a more or less destructive foreign competition. Omaha liee. The business depression comes from a variety of causes, a portion of which have been for some years preparing to operate. If it were not for the condition of the currency there would be nothing in it that could not easily be overcome. As soou as the currency obstacle is removed by Congress the pathway to returning prosperity will be open. Boston Herald (Dem.) Industrial depression is not a theory to be argued down by subtle sophistries, it is a face And Democratic threats and Democratic policies are as clearly the cause of it as poisonous food and water cause disease. It would have been a costly blunder to place the Democratic party in power under any circumstances, but it was especially unwise to place it there under promise to cripple the country's industries. Kansas City Journal. Labor is already tasting some of the bitterness of free trade in the closing of factories, the narrowing of fields of employment and the casting out on the world of thousands of unemployed, who are vainly seeking the means of support for themselves and their families. No mugwump or Democratic newspaper will deny, or can deny, that a sweeping reduction in wages must follow the adoption of the tariff-smashing measure which the freetraders have in preparation. New York Press. The timidity of capital is direotly at tribntable to the uncertainty which prevails in the commercial world, and it id hopeless to expect a re-establishment of confidence nntil the tariff policy to be adopted by tho Demorratie party can he definitely known. The idea that th abrupt repeal of th Sherman act without regard to consequences, without even an intimation of the legislation which will take its place, would help matters, is moonshine of the most delusive r.harARtnr. f Kochester Democrat and Chronicle. The power that has swung the pendulum with such decisive force from prosperity to panic is not the fear of any law now on the statute books. It is the threat of the obliteration ol those laws that has brought the Nation from one extreme to the other. Let the country feel that no tariff smashing is to be done by this Congress; that no llood of State bank notes is to be let loose npon the people; that no tinkering with our finances and no npsetting of tried and settled policies are to be indulged in by our Democratio rulers. New York Mail .and Express, Tiik fact is that if the Republican party to-day bad the control of both branches of Congress, and Mr. Harrison were in the President's- chair, there would not be the slightest reason for apprehending the enactment of a free-silver law. No one would dream of tho possibility of reviving wildcat currency through the repeal of the ten-per-cent. tax. Moreover, there would bono expectancy of a hostile revision of the tariff, with the resultant disturbance of all lines of business. The business situation might not be unclouded, but it would

wear a very different aspeot from that which it wears to-day. Hoston Advertiser. CANPilwTE COY.

Sim Coy has been nominated for city councilman at Indianapolis almost unanimously by the Democrats of his ward, and being largely in the majority they will elev?t him. "When the wicked rule th people mourn." New Albany Tribune. Why the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Sentinel should kick on the nomination ot Sim Coy as a candidate for councilman from hu Indianpoii ward, cannot be reasonably explained. Coy is a representative Democrat and it is altogether proper that the law of natural helretion should be faithfully observed. Crawfordsville Journal. Bv some of the apologists for the Democratic municipal administration of Indianapolis it is said the nomination of Sim Coy for councilman was secured by the worst elements of the party. That may be true, but the significant fact remains, nevertheless, that Coy received five votes to one cast for his opponent, a . fairly reputable citizen, and it is as plain as can bo that the same inlluenoe that foisted Coy on the ticket is responsible for the name of Sullivan at the head of iu Lafayette Courier. SIM Coy's method of managing the Democratic party is peculiar. During the campaign he has the leading Democratic papers repudiate him as unworthy of recognition, but when the election ia over h steps to the front again as party leader. This is just the reverse of Democratio treatment of their party platform. During the campaign they all swear by the party platform; after the election they swear at it. It is a rule which seems to work both ways and works successfully. Richmond Palladium. On the morning of the primaries the Indianapolis Sentinel declared that if bim Coy was nominated for the Counoil in the Ninth ward it would be by dishonest methods. im got five votes to one lor his competitor. Sim is a ward heeler of the most infamous type and ex-convict, and his opponent is a proiniuont labor leader. The incident shovrs two things: first, that the Sentinel has little intiuence in its party, and second, that a decent workingman stands noshow when he cornea up aeatnst a boss of the Democratio party. Brookville American. The ex-penitentiary bird and eminent Democratio leader in Indiana, Hon." StmeonCoy, has again been rewarded by bis party with a nomination to the City Council of Indianapolis. Coy was one ot tho anient supporters of Sullivan in his etlorts to secure a renomination for Mayor, and it was dan chiefly to his work that Sullivan Was successful. In partial pay ment of this debt. Sullivan turned everything at his command in favor of Coy. and also set the employes of tho city to working for him. With this small army of spoilsmen at his back. Coy bad no trouble in defeating for the nomination an honorable person who stood as a representative of the workingmen. Fort Wayne Gazette. INSURANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The total losses of the companies in the Fargo tire aggregated 8l.275.00J. W. D. Little, of Portland. Me., who has represented the Mutnal Life in Maine since 1843, the year the company was organized. is dead at tho ago of eighty-six years. An action has been entered against the New York Life by Mr. Fannie Cravens, who seeka to recover 210.000 of insurance on the life of ber husband. The company refused to acknowledge the claim for the reason that the last premium had not been paid. At its recent session the Michigan Legislature passed an aot making it an offense punishable by line and imprisonment for any agent or officer of any life insurance company doing business in that State to make discrimination between white and colored persons in the matter of premiums or rates charged. Insnranco Commissioner Snider, of Kansas, is makiug a crusade against underground operators iu that State. Ho says Kastern wildcat tire companies send tbir agents into the country districts and offer insurance at a discount of '25 per cent, and thus catch the farmers. The agents avoid the larger cities and towns, because their fraudulent work would be detected. Steps have been taken in the conrts of North Dakota to appoint a receiver for the purpose of winding op the allairs of the Phcpnix Insurance Company, of Fargo. The deficiency in tho assets of the company arose from the failure ot the Fargo and Dakota National Banks, both of which are owned by Ashley Mears. The capital stock of the insurance company is $2o0.000, of which SlOO.OOi) was paid in. and tho company included as assets $50.C00 worth of stocks of the banks owned by Mears. The "clerical error" in the corporation law of Kentucky, supposed to have been made by the engrossing clerk, and also supposed to eventually rosult in the withdrawal of all the life companies from the State, was really dne to the compositor and proofreader, the first of whom omitted, and the other failed to restore the word "such" before "companies." as it is to b found in the engrossed bill. The letter is a literal copy of the Massachusetts nou-for-fuiture law as it was intended to be. Tho law does not apply to other State com panies. In declining to call an extra session of the Tennessee Legislature to amend the corporation tax law. as desired by the fire insnranco interest. Governor Turney calls attention to the fact that the Legislature was dealing alone with foreign corporations. and had no reference whatever to domestic corporations. Ho added: "Th restriction was purposely used. There is nothing In the law authorizing a taxation upon property not in the State and subject to its jurisdiction. The State has no right to go beyond its borders and place a tax upon property. Companies that file their charters and comply with the law may withdraw at any time without condition." A new form of casualty policy has just been issued for the benefit of personsliving in the suburbs. It isoalled the commuters1 policy and provides indemnity for injuries sustained while traveling in a conveyance using steam, electricity or cable an a motive power, ocenrring through derailment, collision, explosion or any other cause. It also covers injuries occasioned by the. sudden starting or stopping of the conveyance, cuts from window or chimney glans, scalds and burns from steam pipes, stoves and 'lamps, and a thousand and one accidents which happen while traveling in cars or boats. The cost of the policy is 82J per annmtn. Its benefits are $10,000 for ae:idental death and 050 per week for total disabling injuries. Ascher Weinstein. a wealthy real-estato dealer, living in New York city, leaped overboard from the Cunard steamship Uuibria on Friday tbt day before the steamer reached (ueeustown. There is no imestion that Weinstein deliberately committed suicide, but his reason for doing eo is a mystery, as he was wealthy, had no business troubles, and had a wife and five interestin tt children to whom he was dnvotedly attached, who are now spending the summer at Long Branch. The news of his death overwhelmed them with grief. The singular part of this story of the gea centeis around tho fact that before he took hi falsi leaD Weinstein carefully placed $15,000 in gold, checks and jewelry m his pockets. He told a fellow passenger on the steamer that he had 50,000 insurance on his life. The companies which have been victimized by prisoner Meyer and his accomplices are the Washington, New York and Mutual Life insurance companies. It appears that in the case of Damn the Washington and Mutual paid the policies, the latter company hinting nt the time that it would make au investigation into the facts of the death. Another individual, named Jacob Wimmers. is implicated in the conspiracy and has lied, but the authorities feel confident of his apprehension. All the persons implicated in the wholesale tragedy, victims and slayers, appear to be Germans. Those persons who are apt to believe that all the detective acumen is usually concealed behind brass buttons and green lamps have for once received a severe shock. While the police have been making a great display of their wonderful sagacity in this matter it now crops out that their first knowledge of the subject was imparted to them last Thursday, when Coroner Schulte applied to Chief Detective McLaughlin for warrants for the arrest of Meyer, ids wile and Wimmers. This was the result of a painstaking ' investigation which had heon going on for ; a year by Manager Gillette, of the Mutual, to whom the sole credit is du for having run these criminals to earj h. The evidence against the acculed is said to be oonclusIve.

11UI1HAII, FOB. THE KAISEU!

Emperor Wilheim Gettinir Ueadj toPack His Trunks lor a Trip to the Fair. lifs Coming Will Result in Mcny Crown Ileads Followinir, liidndinp; Wales and the Yoaair Married Courl, Geurge and ilary. Special to t'le Indianapolis Journal. World's Fair Ground.. July 21. It Is not at nil unlikely that tho latter part of next month cr the first of September will see the crowned heads of Europe commence pouring into Chicauo to view the wonders of the White City. Word was received here to-day that Commissioner Wermuth, of Germany, who sailed for home yesterday, being called back temporarily by a private message from Emperor Wilhelra, had let drop the fact in New York that the Kaisei desired very much to come to the fair, but that the many evil reports circulated by London papers about the alleged unhealthy couditiou of Chicago, and, what is far worse, alleged discourtesies that a royal Personage might receive, made him hesitate. Hence, it is said, he had sent for the German nation's commissioner to advise with and arrauge the details of a satisfactory journey. It if also understood that Commissioner Wermuth intimated as much to Directorgeneral Davis beforo leaving. The com missioner said it was possible the Kmperor bad decided to visit the fair and if he (Wermuth) were consulted on the question, he would do all in his power to persuade tho Emperor to come. This is taken as grand news for the fair as it will no donbt result in bringing over the Prince of Wales witU possibly his son George, the Duke of York, lately married to Princess May of Teck. on their wedding to or. This will also open the way tor other crown heads, including, soma say, even the haughty Alexander HI, Czar of Kussia, who by tho way. is a great admirer of America. and may brave th Nihilists and come. The action of the Kussiau exhibitors who, because of an alleged insult, closed their exhibita in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building does not meet with approbation of the world's fair officials. Charles II. Schwab, of the council o administration, said to-day: "The exhibitors, foreign and American, must obey the rules of tho exposition, and the ooner they come to this conclusion the better it will be for them. If they attempt to close their ex- ' hibits permanently we will put acustodian in charge and open it up and maintain it at their expense. The fair is to be managed by the authorities in charge and not by the exhibitors." The foreign commissioners held their regular meeting to-dav. The sale of duplicates of exhibits and the grievance of the Russians were questions dieoussed. The commissioners sent an ultimatum to tha . fair directors, which will be replied to within a week, and the present situation warrantM the conclusion that an amicable adjustmant of the difficulty will be reached before the next meeting of the commissioners. The only way in which the Russian matter came before the commissioners was in a short speech from Commissioner Soustchevsky. He dealt with the case more in the light of an act of impoliteness on tho part of the customs officers which would be settled in a manner satisfactory to tho commission and the exhibitors. As the Russian commissioner did not officially order the covering of exhibits, and btd no grievance to present to the commissioners, no action was taken on the matter. It ia likely that a letter from Collector Clark and the director-general will settle tho matter. Colonel Davis and Chief Allison, of manufactures department, paid an informal visit to the Russian section during the day, but did not induce ths exhibitors to remove the coverings. As a result of the council ot administration consideration to-day of the matter of distributing the S105.0GQ. which is now the amount of the fund for tb families of the tire victims. President liiginbotham will recommend that the Mayor's committee, the Bo&rd of Trade committee and thf world's fair trustees act together in tho work of distribution, putting all tbemoney contributed in a pool and apportioning it as one sum. President liiginbotham said he had not derided when the distribution should be made, as money was still being received, and he would wait until tho contributions stopped. The foreign com missioners contribution to the fund, as an nouueed at the meeting to-day, amounts to, $'J57. Major Fred Fleming and Captain Lecht man, of Kansas City, called on Directorgeneral Davis this afternoon and arranged for the appearance at the exposition of the militia from that city. Their companies, which include the famous zouaves, have been allotted the camping ground on Midway Plaisance from Aug. 1 to 10 and they will arrive on the evening of the 1st The zouaves will give exhibition drills almost daily and will appear frequently nt tho Missouri State Building for dress parade and drill. The delegates from stenogrnphio societies in all partsof the world now holding a congress at the Art Palacs will unite with the stenographers at the fair to-morrow. Delegates to the number of live hundred will be escorted to the exposition grounds by Chicago stenographers, taking the boat atYanBuren street atlO a.m. At 2:iX) o'clock in the afternoon the Hon. Robert R. Hltt, of Illinois, and Hon. Robert W. Mitchell, ot Oregon, will deliver addresses at Festival Hall, and at 4 V. r., Mrs. May Wright Sewall, of Indianapolis, will speak to tho delegates in the Woman's Buildins. The aotion of many railroads in reducing the rates is beginning to have its effect on tho attendance. The average is larger than It was ten days ago. There was no lessing of interest at the' educational congresses to-day. In the congress of higher education, presided over by Dr. Henry Wade Rogers, of tho North western University, Professor Waetzold, of the University of Rerlin. aud Professor Finkler. of the University of Honu. made addresses on the German educational system. After Professor Finkler had concluded. Mr. Kappea. an Indianapolis teacher, arose in the audience and discussed the German schools as compared with the American. He said he was a native of Germany, but bad taught many years tn this country. 'The teacher in Germany is au important person." said the speaker. "What is, he heref If he offends the committeeman or his politics are not ritfht. hfs head falls. The teachers of this couutry should band themselves together and secure legislation which will improve their conditiou." The cut rates on the railroads are bringing visitors to the fair in droves. Yesterday the paid admissions were 126.s7. with a total of 104. UU. The paid admissions today were c5,2.,6. ClirUtian Will Mt In Ch.lc-.3r0. Cincinnati. 0., July -lL The annual convention of the Christian Church was changed some weeks ago from Chicago to St. Loum. on account ot Sunday openiug at the world's fair. At a regular meeting today of the General Christian Missionary Board it was unanimously decided to meet in Chicago in September, instead of St. Louis, since the gates have been closed on Sunday. These conventions embrace the General Christion Missionary Society, tha Foreign Christian Missionary So. iety, the Christian Woman's Board of Missions and the Hoard of Church Exteuion Fund, all representing nearly one million people. IJlg lrive Wheel Exploded. Mr.MiMii, Tenn.. July .!, The driving wheel of the Memphis electric power house exploded to-day in hundreds of pieces, tearing up the building aud killing engineer Pat McDermott. The wheel was Jour feet arroiis. fifteen feet in diameter and weighed 2, 7tO pouuns. It became wild and eceentno from some unknown eauve. rovolvingatanincredtble rate and before it could be stopped the explosion resetted from centrilug&l force.