Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, - 1894.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1834. WASHIKGTOS CFFICE-M10 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Telephone Call. Btmlnee Off c. 23 Editorial Rooms 212 terms OF SLIISCRIPTIO.V. liAILT BT MAIL. Pally only, one month lily only, thrt-e mouths .OO Daily only, ciih year ..-0 Iaily. 1iiciuuji Sunday, one year...... SJ bunuaj oiily, one year --00 VHEX JTiOXIeHED BT AGE5T. Pally. pr wk. by carrier.. IS eta Sunday, single co;y o cla DaUj and Sunday, per week, by carrier .20 eta VEEKLT. rer Year tl-00 Reduced Kates to Clubs. 8ul;cribe ith any of our numerous agents or Bend uLscrlitlon to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS. LNU rern nendlng tne Journal through the mall In ti e I'ziltett htatea hlioal.l iut on an eitfht-pajf paper a oke -cent ptare fttamp: on a twelve or lxien-layejiapf-i rw(H E.vr postage atamp. Foreign postage l usually double the rates. IV All communications intended for publication la thu paper must, in order to rweire attention, be acctuipaniwl by the name and address of the writer. TIIC I.MIIA.NAI'OLIS .JOIHNAL. Can le found at the follow In g places: PAKIS American Exchange in Paris, 36 Boulevard de Caititlncs. KEW VOKli-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel, PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster amine. CHICAGO Palmer House, Anditorinm Hotel. C1NCINNATI-J. R. Hawley A Co.. 154 Vine atreet, LoriSVILLK C. T. Peering; northwest cornerof ILlid and J t fie r sou atreet s. fcT. LOUIS-Unlon News Company. Union Depot WAniXGTQN. D. C.-Rlggs House and Ebbltt House. The Journal declines to follow the example of 231 of Its exchanges and repeat the old story of how Maine went but that Is exactly the way she went, nevertheless. ; i i When Senator Peffer declares that he conelders the Fifty-third Congress the most stupendous failure In the history of the Nation he voices the opinion of a great number of people. Mr. Bynura professes to be pleased at the Democratic outlook In his district. The outlook may' be all right, but the look In and around the district Is not of a sort to inspire Democratic souls with Joy. The further Into space they can gaze the better they are suited.' Following1 the resumption of the glass works at a 'reduction of 22 per cent. In wages the Muncle Times says that several factories of that city will resume In a few days, "their operatives accepting a reduction of 15 per cent, from the scale of wages heretofore paid." So It will be all along the line. A London cablegram to the New York World says: '"The commercial depression Is already beginning to lighten. The new tariff -is expected to achieve much in the way of Improving trade everywhere on general economic lipes." On this side of . the ocean the Improving trade takes the form of reduced wages to worklngraen. Pittsburg seems to have "done Itself proud" lnentertaning the veterans. From now on there Is likely to be a rivalry among cities In soliciting the honor of the yearly Grand Army encampments and In the hospitable entertainment of the veterans. Their ranks will diminish year by year, but the honor In which they are held will Increase as their numbers lessen. The claim of the Populists that they will hold the balance of power in the next Congreys, does not derive any encouragement from recent elections. They have developed no growth In the North, and, judging from the election In Arkansas, where they did not carry a single county, they are losing gTound In "the South. The trouble with the Topulist movement is that It Is built upon the sand. Sugar In small or moderate quantities Is a necessity, and in large quantities Is a luxury. When It Is high people consume only as much as they absolutely require; when it la cheap they consume all they want Thus In 1S67, when sugar was high, the American people consumed 24 pounds per capita, while In 1SDI they consumed 6S pounds, per capita. Last year, under the pressure of hard times caused by the Cleveland panic, the consumption fell to G3 pounds per capita. This year It will be much less, and will continue to decrease

as the price advances. Suppose it Is true, as advocates of the new tariff law claim, that it will facilitate Importations and thus reduce the cost of goods to the consumer. It Is still undentable that the greater the Importation the less the demand for home products. The les the demand for goods produced at home the smaller the amount manufactured: the smaller the amount manufactured the fewer worklngmen required, and the less the aggregate wages paid by manufacturers. The more worklngmen out, of employment, the harder the times, and the harder the times the less money is circulated. So It all works out to the injury of the American vorklngman, who, no matte$ how cheap foreign manufactured goods may become, cannot buy if he has nothing to buy with. -General" Booth, of the "Salvation Army," started yesterday from London for the United States and will spend the autumn and winter visiting American cities. The time has passed when intelligent people can afford to make fun of the Salvation Army and its methods, and least of all of "General" Booth. He has shown himself to be a man of pure and high purpose, and possessed of great executive ability, lie has organized and put In successful operation one of the most extensive and practical charities of recent times, and the best people In England have Implicit confluence in his integrity and administrative ability. It will not do to criticise the Salvation Army because its method. are peculiar, and still less will It do to critlcl5e "General" Booth because he works outside of established lines. The need of a general divorce law is demonstrated anew by the unpleasant predicament in which many possessors of Oklahoma divorce decrees now find themf elves, and yet these victims are not to be pitied. Married ccuples with good cause for divorce have no trouble in eecurlng legal separation In the States where they resid. and. as a rule, their resort to the distant courts of Dakota or Oklahoma, whert

the law Is "wide open," Is a practical confession that fraud, or, at least, an evasion of Justice, is being attempted. Indeed, the so-called "residence" within the Jurisdic

tion of the court Is fraudulent, since it is known to all concerned. Including ti courts, that a majority of the applicants are not bona fide residents, but are only waiting the exdratlon of the specified ninety days and the Issuing of the desired decree to return to their homes In other States. The tangle In which the patrons of the hasty divorce mill find them selves who have married again only to find the divorces Illegal, and the sec ond marriages consequently void, may serve as a warning to other men and wom en dissatisfied with matrimonial bonds, but the tangle is one to excite amusement or disgust, and not sympathy for the sufferers. In the minds of onlookers. MR. BY.MM, AND THE 1VOOL INDUSTRY. Mr. Bynum remained in Washington some time after the adjournment of Congress to complete the compilation and editing of the Democratic campaign book. Ills services In this behalf were part of the consideration for which he was to receive the support of the Gorman-Brice combine in the coming campaign. One of the claims o? the campaign book, and one that Mr. Bynum has already made on the stump, is that the price of American wool will be, and, in fact, has been, increased by the placing of foreign wool on the free list. It Is characteristic of the Democratic party to go before the people on false claims and assertions. It has a remarkable facility for ignoring the logic of facts and the results of experience. Not a single case can be cited in which the repeal of a protective duty on an American product has resulted In Increasing Its price, and there Is not the slightest reason to believe that it will operate that way in the case of wool, It Is too soon yet to state definitely the ultimate result of the repeal of the duty on wool upon the American sheep and wool industry, but there is every reason to believe it will be very disastrous. Under the mere threat of the passage of the new law the number of sheep in the United States decreased 2,223,536 in 1893, and on Jan. 1, 1S94, the value of the sheep owned by American farmers was $36,723, 151 less than on Jan. 1, 1S33. Further, the prospect of the repeal of the duty on wool caused a decline in the price of the wool clip of 1S93 of not less than $20,000,000 from the price realized for the clip of 1R32. Thus the diminution in the value of sheep and ,the depreciation in the price of wool together paused In one year of free trade agitation a loss to American farmers of more than $55,000,000, besides about 2,250,000 sheep sent to the butchers. It is possible that the price of wool may have rallied a little since the new tariff law was passed, but it had declined so much during the year before that It would take a big rally to bring It up to the old standard. The great wool market of the United States is Boston, and there the price of the wool clip of the country Is fixed. The following comparative . statemeet shows the difference between the prices of different grades of American wool in Boston In February, 1S93, when the McKlnley law was in full operation, and In September, 1891, after the now law had passed. The quotations represent actual sales: M . rs 5 34Tii 32?i'38 321 36 32li23 '4'2-TiM It O - r 7 z "1 00 t 2 10311 n 11 10 1212 mn 12 11 'a 14 m 9 6W 8 Kit 8 U 9 7'f 8 22'u :22 12'llf lOC'ill XX and above 20Ti21 X 10fi0 Nos. 1 and 2 2K22 Ohio Delaine ZlnZZ Michigan and abovclTfrlS Michigan No. 1 '.201j21 Michigan combing s blood 2422 Michigan Delaine. ...20fa"2l Washed combing 21rI Ky., Mo. and Xiid....lS?;lU (2S Fine spring, Texas.. lift l2Vi 16&21& Fine territory 8lil2 IS'!! 20 Fine medium Iran Medium 12'all Spring California.... 8fil2 Fine scou red ?M'n 3S Medium scoured 2S'a31 London scoured 2iy52ti 17Ci2l r"a2 urn m 40ru0 3040 There is no escape from the figures. They represent business transactions and are a complete answer to the Impudent claim of the Bynum campaign book that the repeal of the duty on wool has Increased Its price. Mr. Bynum is an old hand at fooling the people, and it Is high time he should be called down. FOHIiST FIRES AXD DARK DAYS. The heavy pall of smoke which overspread the city on Monday disappeared yesterday as suddenly as it came, and was followed by a normally clear Indiana at mosphere. The opinion of the local weather observer that the smoke came from the great forest fires In the Northwest may be considered conclusive on that subject. It Is not the fist time that smoke and even ashes from forest fires or volcanic fires have been carried hundreds of miles by the wind, and in some Instances the light of the sun has been obscured to such a de gree as to produce remarkable phenomena. Many persons will recall the blood-red sun sets in 1SS3 and 1SS4, which proved, upon investigation, to have been caused by particles of dust and vapors blown into the air by an eruption of the volcano Krakatoo. In the island of the same name in the Strait ot Sunda, between Java and Sumatra. The phenomenon of the red sunsets was first noticed In India, but gradually spread around the whole world, and It was found that the course of the red skies followed closely the course that such dust and vapors might be expected to take from being wafted from place to place by the winds. At the same time, selfregistering records of barometric pressure In various parts of Europe showed that an atmospheric wave Irom the same erupHon was carried .completely around the earth. History records some notable dark days caused by clouds of dust borne by winds or by smoke from forest fires. One of these days was May 19, 17S1, when nearly tie entire population of New England were firmly ooninced that the day of Judgment had come. On Sept. 6, 1SS1, still remembered as the "Yellow day," the smoke from forest fires was so dense along the Atlantic coast from New England to Vir

ginia as to cause much alarm among the superstitious. In 1SS3 smoke and ashes from extensive forest fires In Michigan were carried across Lake Huron far Into Canada. A gentleman, now of this city, who at that time was living near Toronto, says it was so dark there at 3 o'clock in the afternoon that people went about with lanterns and the ground was covered with fine ashes to the depth of nearly an Inch. Itis obvious, therefore, that there Is nothing violent or improbable In the conclusion tlat the dense smoke which suddenly fell

ujon the city on Monday was brought by the winds from the scene of the great forest fires in the Northwest. THE VETERAXS O.V PARADE. The Grand Army veterans marched in parade at Pittsburg yesterday, as they en joy doing, because it helps to bring back to them more vividly the days when they first went out in the pride and enthusiasm of youth to conauer their country's enemies. Youth departed long ago and took with it some of their fiery zal, but left with them all their courage and a patriotism which only grows stronger as years go by. Time, too, has Intensified the eense of brotherhood that had its begin ning In those four years when th?y, shared, a common peril for the sake of a common cause. Men who have come on the scene since that day find it hard to understand the feeling these old soldiers have for each other, the fervency of their love for Amer ican institutions and their apparent forgetfulness that a third of a century has gone since the war began. These young men must have their courage and patriotism tested by danger to home and liberty before they can quite comprehend that the things the lust fight for become dearer to their hearts, and that men toy whose side they fought are bound to them by a tie life cannot break. The war was not an episode In the lives of these old 60Idlers. It was a central point, a culminat ing event. They have lived and .loved. formed new ties and new interests Blnce then, but those fc-ur years are clearer in their memories than any that have come after. Into them they put so much of their mental and physical vitality, In them so many fears and anxieties and hopes had birth, in them were concentrated such intense sorrow, suffering and triumph that it Is no wonder these memories do not grow dim. Earlier events may fade from the recollection, later ones be forgotten, but to the veterans the war period forever unrolls itself to their minds like an Illuminated scroll. Upon that scroll are shadows black as night, but these they do not dwell upon. Time has softened regrets for battles lost and grief for comrades slain, and only the bright lights upon the t picture and the glory of final victory are their theme. The veterans parade now and are glad of their reunion, but the sight grows more pathetic year by year to those who look on. No man who fought in the civil war is any longer young. Some "are strong and vigorous, but all have passed their meridian and many are feeble with age. Last year the parade In this city showed numbers who scarce seemed likely to attend another encampment, and with each.xsuccceding reunion this token of decline must' be more marked until the ranks of the vanishing army shall have passed to the eternal camping ground. . But In Pittsburg yesterday they had a happy day, worth all the trouble of their Journey. Till: OPTIMISTIC HYMTM. A Washington special says that the secretary of the Democratic congressional campaign committee has received a letter from Congressman Bynum in which he says: Yesterday I attended a meeting at Anderson and was surprised at its magnitude. The amphitheater had a seating capacity of over two thousand, and about half of the people were unable to get in. I spoke for about two hours and never saw a more pleased audience. Every Democrat went home feeling all right, and expressed himself as anxious for the contest. I found an Improvement in sentiment beyond comprehension. The most notable and observable thing was that all the old members of the party were out and took a deep interest, as well as the young. Mr. Bynum was evidently in a very opt!-, mistio frame of mind when he wrote this letter. Perhaps he had found things at Anderson not quite as bad as he expected, or perhaps a good dinner had put him In a condition to take a cheerful view of a bad situation. Certainly local reports do not bear out his rosy statements. Anybody who wants to ascertain the extent of the Democratic disaffection in Anderson needs only to circulate among the workingmen and business men. They are taking a deep interest in politics, but they are not attending Democratic meetings. Mr. Bynum did not come li contact with them. Representative llolman has begun his campaign for re-election to Congress by declining a challenge to Joint debate from farmer Gregg, the Populist candidate. llolman and Gregg live on adjoining farms, separated only by a small creek. Holman says he i3 for free silver at 16 to 1, Just as Gregg is. He says he knows all of Gregg's views; that he holds the same, and that really the only thing between them is that narrow creek. There are a good many dissatisfied Democrats in the Fourth district who will regard this as a cowardly evasion of farmer Gregg's challenge. By the way, superstitious people may find an omen in the fact that the campaign which Mr. Holman is now entering upon is his sixteenth. The late Hon. William D. Kelley, known as "Pig Iron Kelley," was the "Father of the House" for several terms, but Just a3 he was about to enter upon his sixteenth term he suddenly failed in health and died. Then Congressman O'Neill, of Philadelphia, became "Father of the House," and. singularly enough, he too died Just before passing the sixteenth milestone. Now that Mr. Holman, who succeeded to the position held by Messrs. Kelley and O'Neill, is approaching the same limit, and at the age of seventy-two years, with perhaps the hardest right of his life on his hands, one cannot help wonJerlng if he will break the record. Friction is reported in the Democratic congressional committee on account of the charge that the committee is under the domination of Gorman and the Senate wing of the Democracy and Is disseminating Senate ideas on the tariff to the exclusion of Wilson-Cleveland Ideas. But why shouldn't the committee be under the con-

trol of the Gorman element? Cleveland, and Wilson and all their congressional supporters had to submit, and how can smaller fry be expected to resist? Mr. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is among the Invited guests and speakers at the Grand Army encampment at Pittsburg, and no doubt he had a cordial welcome. During the war he "fit" on the other side with his pen, doing what he could to fire the Southern heart through the editorial columns of a paper whose place of publication was rendered very uncertain by the movements of the Union forces. Apropos of this the following little story is related: Watterson's Chattanooga Rebel became particularly abusive of the Union officers and s-oldier3 when Rosecrans was maneuvering against Chattanooga, while Bragg held possession of the city. He described them as low villains, who lived to insult defenseless women- and murder little children rather than to fight the brave men of the South. A copy of this paper was carried over to General Thomas, who was in command of a corps In the Union army. The General rode to the brow of a hill and long eurveyei Chattanooga through his glass. At last he made out the little brick building which was the home of Watterson's Rebel. Then he rode back and got the best gunner In the army, and took him to the same point. He handed the gunner the glass and asked him if he could see the Rebel ofilce. The gunner found it. 'Van you put a cannon bail through that building without doing any other damage to the city?" asked the General. "If you do you shall hive my favorite horse." The gunner had wheeled out a large gun and trained it on the Rebel office. One ball only was fired, Jut that went crashing through the Rebel office, smashed everything in it, and sent Watterson and his compositor Into the street with the impression that the bombardment of the citv had begun. The people in the city were also of the same opinion, but they were needlessly alarmed. There was no more firing, and not another building In the city was harmed. It was simply the compliments of old pap Thomas to Henry Watterson and his reply to the charge that the Yankees made war upon women and children and not upon brave men. Mr. Watterson was very young then, and his later utterances show that he now entertains only the most loyal sentiments towards the government, and the most kindly towards the once hated Yankees.! If the next national encampment shall be held at Louisville, as many think it ought to be, Mr. Watterson will prove himself foremost among the generous entertainers of that hospitable city.

The relations between Senator Peffer and Sergeant-at-arms "Dick" Bright are strained. The Senator is standing on his dignity, and the Colonel Is, to speak vulgarly, on his ear. The trouble grows out of thu removal of the Senator's son from office. The latter had a thousand dollar place under Colonel Bright, who has a large amount of patronage, and when the legislative appropriation bill recently passed the young man wrote a letter to the Colonel asking for a promotion. The Colonel paid no attention to the letter, and' the young man was indiscreet enough to write a sarcastis note, thanking him for his "prompt reply and favorable consideration of the application." The Colonel could not stand this kind of "imperence" from a subordinate, even If he was a Senator's son. and the young man was promptly dismissed. Peffer senior Is very mad because his son was not thought worthy to hold a thousand dollar place, while Sena tor Voorhees has a son and several other relatives under Colonel Bright, to the amount of $8,000 a year, and almost every other Democratic Senator has at least one relative on the pay roll. After he has been In politics long enough he will learn that kissing goes by favor, and he will also discover that Colonel Bright knows how to place his favors where they will do the most good. The "Reverends Mr. and Mrs.," as applied to an Indianapolis couple, both being ordained ministers, is something new in personal titles, and shows how the advanced woman is advancing. The first cold weather brings lively talk about the next chrysanthemum show. It has been too warm even to think calmly of those balls of concentrated yellow sunlight. ' More than Feven and one-half inches of rain fell in Chicago during last week, and yet there are those who say that Chicago's water supply Is poor. The pantata looms up larger and larger amcng the New York police the more the Lexow committee Investigates. Jackson won't sign, and thus is given a chance for a lot more talk by Corbett'a admirers. 'Alas, alas! Competition seems to be as good a thing in the street-paving business as it is in other lines of trade. m ULIIIILES IX THE AIR. IVIint He Mean!. "Can I see you apart for a moment?" "Ycu mean alone, don't you?" "Yes; a loan that's it, exactly.' I want to borrow five." rhe PenMimltm of Arc. "When a man has attained the wisdom of years," asked the youth, "he loses his foolish belief in omens, does he not?" "He loses," said the sage, "his belief In the good ones." TIi Coming Method. "Wfien horses are done away with," said i the Funny Boarder, "what will become of the people who want to ride hobbies?" "That's easy," answered the Cheerful Idiot. "They will ride the wheels in their heads." Arcorillner to Rale. "I hope, brethren," said the editor of the Bugle, who had been appointed to take up the collection, "I hope you will bear In mind the proper spirit In which to contribute. In other words, you should not give to the Lord for publication, but as an evidence of the goodness of your faith." ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Patti will spend the winter In Europe and sing in opera at Nice at New Years. When bicycles were something of a novelty the Sultan of Morocco used them as a means of punishing his wives. A number of the wheels were presented to him by a French officer. The offending women of the harem were placed upon the machines and bidden to ride around a track In the palace grounds. They( fell repeatedly, a proceeding which greatly amused the Sultan. A friend of George Gould says that the millionaire yachtsman is bitterly disappointed over the result of the Vigilar.t's contests In English waters. He asserts that Mr. Gauld had no social ambitions to gratify by his yachting exploits in fore.gn waters, but wus patriotically anxious to keep the stars and stripes in the van and to maintain his own reputation as a winner. No one ever sees a bed in any of the bedrooms at Mme. Patti's Craig-y-Xos casile until the evening, and what might be taken to be a handsome wardrobe with a mirror was really a bedstead. The housemaids, after making the bed in the morning, touch a spring and the bed sinks down into the frame of the bedstead, and is drawn up so as to give it the appearance of a wardrobe. Sultan Abd-al Aziz, the new young Sultan of Morocco, does nothing without consulting hi3 mother, who Is a woman of tact and talent. After the discovery of the recent conspiracy at Fez she persuaded him to spare the lives of the culprits of lower rank and to pardon his brother, wha was involved. Tha European power3 have been requested to send no representatives to Fez for the present in order to avoid complications. Alphonse Daudet said recently: "For the last fifteen years every three months I have received a note, written with pencil, from the same man, who evidently is a great traveler, for his letters bear alt the stamp of the world. He tells me that he trains animals to pronounce my name and then lets

them go. When it snows he spends his time writing Alphnse Dandef with the end of his cane, and I have never been able to find out who he Is." The latest use of wood pulp is to adulterate woolen yarn, and a process of spinning the mixture has been devised so that hosiery can be made of one part of wood to two parts of wool. The death of "the Blind Woman of Manzanares" has attracted wide attention in Spain, where she was known from one end of the country to the other. She was a poet and had a remarkable talent for writing begging verses, describing her misery. Many of the poems are beautiful, and the author enjoyed a large income. She was said to be one of the best reciters in Spain, and many of the most famous men In that country made pilgrimages to her house to hear her. Queen Isabella gave her a pension years ago. She left about 60,000. The seasons come, the seasons go,. And soon we must prepare To keep from hitting with an ax The dude with football hair. Philadelphia Record. The Puritans had, so it is said, A most grim way; In fact, their lifelong motto was: "Don't Get Gay." Cincinnati Tribune The passing away of each summer gay. Though bringing to many a most gloomy mood. Has one cheer in store, for then the lawn mower Sneaks Into innocuous desuetude. Buffalo Courier.

SOMEWHAT NOVEL CASE. Telegraph Manager Dismissed for Not Fermittiiigr Soldiers to Use the Wires. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1L Benjamin. Shearer, manager of the Western Union telegraph office at Reno, Col., and his corps of assistants have been dismissed from the service at the Instigation of the War Department of the United States. He and his operators were at the same time indirectly charged with conspiracy, but after the dismissals the charges were not pressed. During the recent strike of th A. R. U., in which the regular army took a prominent part, a corps from Utah wrs Ht itloned at Reno for the purpose of protecting the railway company's property. Some moves of the troops were to be made, and Adjutant Bowlin, who was In charge of the Signal Corps of the detachment, was obliged to telegraph for instructions. He marched his corps to the telegraph office and demanded that Shearer and his operators vacate the office, wnile he, with trie operators connected with nis command, asked for and received the necessary instructions over the wires from headquarters. Shearer refused to leave the office. He considered that he and his men were perfectly able to conduct the business of the office, and the rules of the company were that none but employes of the company should have access to tne wires. The Adjutant, In his military way, could not quite understand the position take by the telegraph manager, yet he was obliged to file his messages in the ordinary way. He complained to his superior of the refusal of Shearer to let him use the wires, and in the complaint he alleged that Shearer and his operators were in sympathy with the strikers and acquainted them with all telegraphic messages concerning the movement of the troops. The complaint was sent to the War Department In Washington and thence forwarded to General Ruger for inestigation. General Ruger In turn sent a copy of the complaint to Frank Jaynes, Pacific coast superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who in turn discharged the Reno employes. That action stopped all further proceedings as far as charges of conspiracy were concerned. . RORIJER KILLED. Sou of a Chicago Politician Shot hy ExPugilist Thomas Jlorgan. CHICAGO. Sept. 11. Thomas Cantwell, the wayward son of the well-known politician, Thomas Cantwell, president of the Eagle Brewing Company, was shot and Instantly killed last night by ex-pugilist Thomas Morgan, bartender at a saloon. No. 2000 State street. Cantwell and two other men whose names are not known, and who escaped, had entered the saloon as the bartender was counting the proceeds of the day's sales, and demanded the money. Morgan says: "Notwithstanding an order to do so. I had At no time thrown up my hands, but as Cantwell stood outside the bar, directly in front of me, and had me covered all the time, he supposed he had me. I just watched him eharply. and when the other robber got around to the cash register and begun to help himself I unconsciously half turned my head, though the big revolver was still leveled at me. When I did so the man with the gun took his eyes off me to see how the man at the cash register was getting along, and whn he did so I reached in front of me, and, quicker than I can tell It. I had tired two shots at him. lie dropped to the floor stone dead. To my training as a pugilist I owe my life, for If 1 had once attempted to draw my revolver while he had his eyes upon me I would have been shot, and not he. I went at him with the gun pretty much th? same as a fighter would strike out with his right hand. The couple of seconds he took in watching the man rob the drawer cost him his life." DRFHAKKR A WOMAN. Story Anent an Alleged Attempt to Defraud Life Insurance Companies. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 11. The statement Inadvertently made in court by J. N. Courtney, of Salt Lake, that Dr. Fraker, upon whose life the insurance companies were carrying larce policies and refused to believe was drowned, as circumstances would indicate, was corroborated to-day by John Foley, of Excelsior Springs, who gave this interview to a reporter: "One day Fraker was more than usually tender toward me. j Putting his arm around my neck, he told I me that he was a woman. He said he had i a plan by which we could both be made very happy; that he would shave on his beard, dress like a woman, disappear and afterwards Join me in Europe, where we would go Into business. He told me not to bother about money; he would have plenty of it. In Europe he proposed we would live as man and wife. I thought the man was making game of me and laughed at what I thought was his little joke. But he was serious and said he meant all ne said. I still did not believe him, and for two weeks nothing further was said. At the end of that time Fraker convinced me that he could put on a female dress and be, to all appearances, a woman." Until to-day Foley, who was known as a personal friend of Dr. Fraker, persistently declined to talk. OutruKea by Cattlemen. PARACHUTE, Col.. Sept. ll.-Cattlemen swooped down upon three sheep camps on the mesa west of here to-day, shot and dangerously wounded a herder named Carl Brown, drove off the other herders and ran the sheep over the cliffs along Roan creek. The cattlemen evidently knew that they would have no great opposition, as nearly the whole population of this vicinity had gone to Grand Junction to take part In Peach day celebration. The sheep men have raised a posse of men armed to the teeth and started for the scene of the conflict, swearing that some one will have to pay for this day's work. The present trouble is merely a renewal of the troubles of a year ago In this vicinity and there will probably be a lively time before It Is ended. Improved Order of Red Men. BINGHAMTON. N. Y., Sept. 11 The Grand Council of the Improved Order of Red Men of the United States convened to-day In Stone Hall. Over one hundred representatives were present. The great sun council was organized. A parade was. held this afternoon In which Governor Flower participated. This evening a reception was held. The business of the council will be transacted to-morrow. Killed nt n CroMntnjr. WHITE HALL. N. Y., Sept. 11. While attempting to cross the track ahead of the north-bound express train at Putname, N. Y., to-day, Mr. and Mrs. Orson H!gglns. of Benson. Vt.. were Instantly killed and a little girl. Mary Manly, fatally injured. . Athlete Stage Married. lT.TJtAV V V. Rent. 11. Miss Fte!l ' Robertson and Prof. Alonzo Stagg. the t -Yale athlete, now of the University of t Chicago, were married here last nighL

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SUGAR PLANTERS WHO WAST nocTY HAVE NO OTHER RECOURSE. Secretary Carllnle Deride He Cannot, Under the Nr Turin Lant Appoint Inspector nntl Tenter. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Secretary Carlisle, In a letter to-day addressed to Senator Caffrey, of Louisiana, officially decided, as predicted In the dispatches last week, that under the new tariff law It would be unlawful to appoint inspectors, weighers and testers of bounty sugar under the McKlnley act. and further that Congress having made no appropriation for the employment of such officials, tha laws of the United States prohibit th employment of such persons to serva without pay. The letter in full Is as follows: "I hare carefully considered your favor of the 29th of August, ami also the communication of the Porrydrus Planting and Manufacturing Company, of Louisiana, requesting the appointment of an official force to inspect, weigh and test the sugar to be produced during the present fiscal year with a view to ascertain the amount of money claimed to be payable thereoa under the third section of the act entitled 'an act to reduce the revenue and; equalize dutlts on Imports, and for other purposes, approved Oct. 1. lbiw, and hava reached the conclusion that, under existing legislation, the department has no power to appoint or pay any office? for the performance of the duties Indicated. "Paragraph 1S2 of the act entitled 'aa act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the government and for other purposes,' which became a law on the 2Mhj of August last, provides 'that so much of the act entitled 'an act to reduce revenue, equalize duties, and for other purposes1 approved Oct. 1, UvUO, as provides for and; authorizes the issue of licenses to produca sugar, and for the payment of a bounty to the producers of sugar from beets, sorghum or sugar cane grown in tha United States or from maple sap produced within the United States 'be, and tha same Is hereby repealed, and hereafter 16 shall be unlawful to issue and license to produce sugar or to ay any bounty for the production of sugar of any kind under the said act. "Whatever may be the correct construe tlon of this clause, as to the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay bounty on sugar produced while the act of Oct. 1, 1830, remained in force, 1 think: It was clearly the legislative intention that no bounty should be paid on su;ar produced after the repeal; and If no bounty Is to be paid on such sugar. It Is not reasonable to suppose that the appointment of Inspectors, weighers, etc. was contemplated. Moreover, Congress has made no appropriation for the emplovment of such officials, and the laws of the United States prohibit the appointment of officers to serve without pay, or to 4e paid by others than the government Itself." The letter of Secretars' Carlisle to Senator Caffery does not decide the main question in which the sugar growers are Interested, namely,, whether the Fugar bounty for this year earned up to the time of tha tariff going Into effect will be paid. Tha decision to-day Is simply an official refusal on the part of Secretary Carlisle to appoint sugar bounty inspectors and testers and does not-decide the other question, although tltre seems little doubt that he will hold that he has no authority to pay bounties earned this year before the tariff bill went Into effect. The law says It shall be unlawful after the passage of this acto pay such bounties. The only recourse left to the sugar growers for bounties earned! would be to sue In the Court of Claims. Duties Levied on Oar Products. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1L Consul-general Williams, at Havana, under date of Aug. 24, has sent a dispatch to acting Secretary of State Uhl, a copy of which was to-day transmitted to Secretary Carlisle, giving the translation of a telegram received on j the day previous by rhe Governor-general of Cuba from the. Minister of the Colonics at Madrid, directing the latter to replaca the duties on American products in that Island and in Porto Rico as soon as tha new tariff bill went Into operation. This is the first official notification received bv the Treasury Department of the restoration of duties by any country which was a party to the reciprocity agreement provided for by the McKinley law. This action of the Spanish government will relmpose duties on the many articles exported to Cuba from the United States, including meats in brine, bacon, hams, lard, tallow, fish, oats, starch, cotton-seed oil, hay, fruits, woods of all kinds, agricultural Implements, petroleum. Ice, coal, etc., and restores the reductions made on corn, wheat, flour, butter, boots and shoes, etc. Wood Alcohol DlMlllcrlr Cloned. WASHINGTON, Sept. ll.-A. J. Pierca aid a delegation of wood alcohol distillers from New York called upon Secretary Carlisle this afternoon to urge upon him the necessity for the immediate decision as to whether an attempt will be made to put the free alcohol clause of the tariff bill into effect. They told him that all th wood alcohol distilleries in the United States had closed their doors and could not resume if the tax was to be removed from methyl or grain alcohol used In tha arts. They said that over JW.000,000 In capital were Invested In wood distilleries. The Secretary said that, of course, the department had nothing to do with the making of the law, but would execute the free alcohol provision if possible. He expects to make his decision after consultation with the National Druggists' Association committee on Thursday. 1'ntentn Granted Indian! una. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Patents hava been awarded to the following residents of Indiana: Edward Dawson, Terre Haute, trolley for electric railways; William Fitzgerald, assignor of one-half to A. N. Mowrer, Marlon, undertakers trlmmln table; Stephen D. Frey and J. R. Hamilton. Attica, churn; Itiley P. Hobbs, Indianapolis, capsule pin and capsule: alo,' capsule ciphiclus; A. I. Johnson. Peru, latching device for double doors; William H. II. Lyons, Goshen, heating drum; Thomas A. Martin. Evansville. adjustable bedstead; Hiram W. Ruton, Goshen, assignor to Goshen Sweeper Company, Grand Rapids. Michigan, carpet sweeper. Trad mark Iarry fc. McDonald, South Bend, deodorant powder. Gold In the Trrnry. WASHINGTON, Sept. U.-T statement of the gold coin and bullion In ttu treasury and the gold certificates outstanding Issued by the United States Treasurer to-day shows that on Sept. 10 the total gold in the treasury was S121,K6,142. as against 113).8S5.SG3 on Aug. 31. Of this $H$,k20 represented gold certificates in the treasury, $w,492,079 gold certificates in circulation, and $G6,K4.0Sv3 net gold In treasury gold reserve. At the close of business to-day the net cash In the treasury was $127,776,5C3.27, of which $54,101,003 represented the gold reserve. Tuberculosis In Cattle. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The results of investigations dealing with the question of tuberculcsis In cattle from both econjmical and sanitary standpoints are embodied In a report' to the Agricultural Department, prepared by Theobold Smith, chief of the animal pathology division. It reviews the examinations, dlcu.-es the history and character of tuberculosis and present.many valuable suggestions for the diagnosis and prevention of the disease. Customs Receipts Very Small. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The statement of the monthly receipts from customs for the port of New York for the last ten days, practically the first ten days of the new tariff act, shows a total cf VM'M. as against $8,723,031 for the preceding ten days. Not one dollar In gold coin or gull certlfl- ' catfs was received during the ten days at New York. i Representative C onn Coining Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. I WASHINGTON. Sept. 11. Congressman Corn," w ho recently declined Democratic rei nomination, returned to his home, Elkhart, ' to-day. for the first time since Congress , adjourned. i " Gou.nr'N iJntungre Salt. BOSTON, fiepi. it. .urn. ueWn M. Cougar and Congressman Elijah A., Morse were both present In the United States Circuit Court to-day when the libel suit against the Congreman for IC5.uuO damages was begun. While speaking at Attleboro, Mass., In October, 1J. for the prohibition party. Mrs. fiougar chllenj-l Mr. Morse to a pubMc debate. In his reply tha Congressman used several terms wmcn sat resented, and the suit i the T&sult.