Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOtRNAL Csn be found at the following places PA Kl 8 American Kxchantfe in Paris, 30 Boulevard le r.'aptH'lnes. KEW Vokk Gilsey House, Windsor Hotel and AHr House. 1 . yiULADKLPHIA A. P. Kemble, cor. Lancaster ""' ave.and liarlng st. A CHICAGO I sliner House, Auditorium Hotel and ' -.'. o. Mews Co.,,91 Adams street. TTSriXVTIJ. Ti Tfawler A Co.. 154 Vina SC. LOtrisVILIE C. T. Peering, northwest corner of ' Third and Jefferson sts aud Louisville Book Co., i - 30H BouitUavn. ' S'iV LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. - Washington, n.c Higgs House. EobittHonse. WtllJirrt's Hotel aud the Washington News Lxcbuuge, 14tli street, bet. I'enn. ave. and V street. The House by aereating tne rsurns statute extravagance has commended itself to the best people of Indiana at the outset. . '. ....... Senator Voohees cannot afford to let V. . . a - T I , , gaiur oi- nn&nciai iieieaieo. c win probably, try to out-Vest Vest. The wordy war between Senators Hill and Gorman is only another evidence that the Democratic ship is drifting be- ,' fore trre storm "without sail or rudder. . . A BHHWMMiSSHMatSMSMMMMMMMSHMBHSa " A Washington special to a Democratic - nDnaf'iniSi)Va r,f "fh otrnnir efforts of Senator Voorhees to put an end to the financial dllllciilties of the country." Think of it! ' . In reducing the legislative appropriation bill $5,000 as compared with that of the last Legislature, making it $100,000, and providing that no employe shall have more "compensation than is fixed "by, law, unless the bill proposing it shall have been read oh three successive days ' 1 J J 1 ::"The resignation of M. Casimlr-Perler, President of the French republic, is an. entirely unexpected event. The resig nation of the Cabinet on Monday as the result of a defeat in the Chamber of Deputies In consequence of a parliamentary defeat was interesting as a passing event, but did not necessarily imply j": a serious situation. The resigrtatnn'rt th 'Proniilont dnoa nnrl mnv Ttroolrdtnte nn nc.iite nnlltical crlsls. , The bill which has been introduced in the House prr-ldlng for the ' appointment of a State boiler inspector and oeputy inspector should be promptly rejected. There is no more reason for the appointment, of a State boiler inspector than. there la for a State inspector of threshing machines or saw mills. There ; are too many inspectorships already, and instead of creating more the Legislature would better abolish some that now exist, notably the inspectorship of - natural gas. .According to Washington dispatches the petition for a writ of error in the Tlehs rasfl la to hp. n rimed hpfore the Supreme Court to-day. The court seems to have recognized the gravity of the questions Involved and the importance of an early decision in setting so early a . day for the hearing. If a writ of . i ... . ..i i ...in i t, with supersedeas which will release LiebsV and the other defendants from jail pending a final decision by the Supreme Court." This decision will necessarily rev.ew;all the constitutional questions involved In the case and settle them definitely. An interesting, feature of the move- . nif nt for . the relief of the Nebraska sufferers is the efforts that some Southern cities are making in that direction. . Trade organizations in Charleston, Raleigh,, Augusta, Atlanta, New Orleans', Nashville and Helena are among thos'e hich'are collecting food in their' Immediate localities. Washington, N. C-.Ttt, town of about 3,500 people, has Contributed two carloads of rice, and ""supplies have been forwarded by sevVai other Southern towns. Such acts show . that the bloody chasm between the North .and South is indeed a thing 'of the past; v The Congressional Record of thei(llth "IniC contains a speech by Representative Houk, of Tennessee, which well illustrates the flagrant abuses practiced under the "leave to print." The speech covers nearly thirty-eight closely printed- pages of the Record. It purports to have been delivered while the ! army appropriation bill was under consideration, but it has no relation to that or any other public question. It is simply5 the malfgnant attack of a de feated candidate for Congress against bis successful competitor, thirty-eight jpares of vituperation and abuse printed and circulated at the expense of'lhe government. ' The "leave to print" privilege should "be abolished. Representative Nicholson's bill providing that the court instead of the . Jury shall iix the punishment for crimes where it ' is ' discretionary between a minimum and a maximum limit is deserving of careful consideration. Originally; , trial by jury made the jury Judges only of fact. The only thing for a Jury to decide was whether the derenaant was guilty or not, ir guilty, th,e law affixed the penalty or left It discretionary with the court. The transference of that function to the Jury i a departure from the original practice; and does not seem to be Justified by sound reason. The law in this State, where It does not fix a determinate penalty for crime, leaves it dis- , cretionary with the Jury. This discretion applies in a large number of cases and has a wide range. The affixing of a penalty is essentially a Judicial function, and the exercise of so large a discretion should be accompanied by many considerations which a Jury Is Incapable of entertaining. It has no relation Mo

a finding of fact, which should be the exclusive province of a Jury. There is reason to believe that the proposed amendment would contribute in no small degree to a more intelligent, fearless and vigorous enforcement of criminal law in this State, and that is something that is sorely needed. POWER TO REVOKE I,1CESES. The lay mind will not be able to understand the process of reasoning by which Judge Harvey reaches the conclusion that the provision in the city charter which gives the Mayor discretionary power to revoke a saloon keeper's license Is unconstitutional. The Mayor's authority In this respect, as In many others under the charter, is derived directly from the Legislature. It is true, as Judge Harvey argues, that the City Council could not enlarge this power, but as the charter makes it absolute there does not seem to be any necessity for such enlargement. Section 45 of the charter names, among various other powers of the Mayor, that "to sign ail bonds, deeds and written contracts of the corporation and all licenses issued pursuant to law by any department, and to revoke or suspend any such license." The charter is a special act of the Legislature. It was intended to create a special form of government for this city presumably better than that which it had before. Under the general law the Mayor of a city has no power to revoke a saloon keeper's license for any cause whatever. In view of the provision of the charter above quoted it is fair to . assume that when the Legislature gave the Mayor of Indianapolis power to revoke or suspend any license granted by any department of the city government it intended to give him a new and enlarged power commensurate with the better form of government which the charter was intended to create. It could not with any. show of reason be claimed that the Council could confer on the Mayor the power to revoke saloon licenses because the Council itself has not the power, but It will not be denied that the Legislature which passed the license law could confer such power, and it is difficult to see how it could have done so in plainer words. A license to sell liquor is a privilege. It is true, as Judge Harvey says, that the business is a legal onel but it is only legal when carried on in accordance with the regulations prescribed by law. No person can sell liquor without, a license nor on certain prohibited days or during certain prohibited hours. The saloon keeper gets his license on the implied condition that he will comply with the law as to days and hours of selling. This is a part of the contract. It Is reasonable to suppose that in granting a new charter to the city the Legislature intended to confer on the Mayor a new power to enforce compliance on the part of saloon keepers with the terms of the contract under which they are permitted to do business. To deny that the Mayor has such power is to deny the right of the Legislature to prescribe any conditions under which a saloon keeoer's license may be revoked. That would be absurd. The license law' says that "every person who shall sell, barter or, give away any intoxicating liquors in violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be personally liable and also liable on his bond" in damages. .Surely it .vwUJ not be denied that the Legislature might have added, "and the County Ccftnmissloners shall have authority to revoke such person's license." They did not give that power to county commissioners, but they gave it in plain terms to the Mayor of Indianapolis. Judge Harvey's argument "that the provision In the charter is unconstitutional because such a discretionary power is too great to be lodged with any official is not to the point. , The question is not whether the power is too great to be conferred on the Mayor, but whether the Legislature has conferred it. A saloon keeper's license Is no more sacred than an auctioneer's license, a peddler's license, an expressman's license, a hotel iicense or a' score of others provided for under, the city government, any of which the Mayor may suspend or revoke in his discretion. Judge Harvey's argument proves too much. AX INTERESTING POLITICAL. SITUATION.

It is the unexpected that happens. Advices from South Carolina indicate the probability , of a political coalition in that State which, for unexpectedness and picturesqueness. will take rank among the strangest events In political history. This is nothing less than a fusion between the old-line " conservative Democrats and the Republicans. If this happens, as now seems probable, it will be the result of a remarkable social as well as political revolution. Those who have paid a little attention to South Carolina politics must have noticed that the Tillman movement from fts beginning was a rebellion against an established order. In a sense it was a .movement of the masses against the classes, or at least against the ruling class, which, in South Carolina, was an established aristocracy. By a singular misnomer this aristocracy represented the traditional Democracy of the State. It was a case pf "lucus a non lucendo," a party thaAvas democratic because it was aristocratic. Tillman, a rough and ready , man :of considerable force and ability, and a man of the people, led the revolt against the aristocracy and became first Governor and then United States Senator. The new Governor, Evans, is his chosen successor, and, like himself, represents the rebellion against the aristocracy. The,complete success of this movement, culminating in the election of Tillman to the Senate, has opened the eyes of the old-line Democrats to the necessity of forming a new anti-Tillman party, and in their desperation they are courting an alliance with the Republicans. A prominent South Carolinian, lately one of Tillman's leaders, is quoted as saying that;, 'in three months the conservatives of South Carolina will be found In the Republican - party, or at any rate found voting the same ticket as the latter." Another prominent politician of that State, a member of the defeated conservative faction, admits that he has been helping to work up the movement, which he pays "will be general very soon." Its -avowed object Is to wrest the controls of the State from the Tillman faction hy a union of strength and division of ifflces between the old-line Democrats and Republicans. The main Interest which the proposed coalition would have foi Northern Re

publicans is in the Impetus it would give to the demand for a fair election and honest count in South Carolina. When the aristocratic Democrats of the Hampton-Butler school are compelled to appeal to Republicans for political aid and succor there is reason to hope that Republican ballots will be deposited In the box and counted instead of shoved up a chimney and burned.

WHV NOT RESTORE RECIPROCITY? Among the many causes- that have contributed to the present discomfiture of the Democratic party, all due to its own blunders or stupidity, not the least is the repeal of the reciprocity treaties. These treaties were entirely satisfactory to foreign governments and immensely beneficial to this country. They opened new markets for our agricultural products, thus largely increasing our exports, and indirectly added materially to the government revenues. The only reason for their repeal was that they were the work of the Republican party. Their repeal has caused a large falling off in our foreign trade and furnished a pretext for the adoption by foreign governments of a retaliatory policy which is proving embarrassing and injurious. Under these circumstances why should not the Democratic party show Its good sense and patriotism by re-enacting the reciprocity features of the repealed McKlnley law? True, that would be a confession of error, but wrhen the fact that an error has been committed is so perfectly apparent to everybody why should Democrats hesitate to acknowledge it and make the best amends they can while it is yet possible? The party leaders must see as plainly as anybody that the repeal of reciprocity has brought loss to American trade, disaster to American interests and commercial complications which threaten still more seriouar results. This being the case, why should they let mere political stubbornness or pride pf opinion prevent them from : restoring reciprocity? If they had. a little bit of sense and a small modicum of patriotism they would do it. ! It is now well understood that the Democrats in the Senate will vote solidly for any measure which will cause the appearance of , extravagance cr grabs on the part of Republicans. They have already carried what was intended to be the statute grab. They could not have done so if a few Republicans had not joined them. The Journal begs to assure such Senators that their joining the Democrats, even in that little mat- , ter, is deprecated by all earnest and thoughtful Republicans. The Journal could give the names . of fifty Republicans, some of whom-stand high in the esteem of the party, and all of whom are ardent party men, who have expressed sorrow rather than anger that the Republican Senators who assisted the Democrats in giving a majority were not. able to see that such action is In violation of party pledges and a is in violation of party pledges. If the Republicans in the Senate do not stand together on every matter in which the question of economy and the public welfare is concerned they will not only bring, reproach upon themselves, but surrender the vantage 'ground the Republican party has won. Let the Rer publican Senators consult together and come to compromise on a ground whre they can stand shoulder to shoulder. Above all things, let none of them tecome the dupes of the Democratic minority, whose one aim is to bring the Republican party into disrepute in the eyes of the people of Indiana. Pennsylvania papers are warning the Legislature of that State that junketing expeditions of the members to - the various penal and " benevolent Institutions are useless and expensive, and should be done away with. What is true in Pennsylvania is true In other States,and the warning should be duly considered. 4 France has a lightning-change government, whose transformation scenes the outside world finds it difficult to follow, but In spite of the numerous changes the republic seems stable and Frenchmen get along very well with it on the whole. BIBBLES IN THE A I It.

Garrulous. "Mudge Is pretty much of a talker, is he not?" "He is, but I can't say just how much. I have always had to leave before he got through." ' Wise. . "Now, if a fellow were to call you an ass, what would ycu do about it?" "That depends. If I owed him. I'd lick him. If he owed me, I would try to get him Into a good humor." - Not a Mascot. "What Is this I hear about you making a good, deal of money at the race track lately? I never would have believed it." "It is so, though," replied Mr. Jonah H. Hoodoo. ."There are a half dozen fellows paying me every day not to bet on their horses." ' " " Tlie Porter's Metamorphosis. With noiseless tread of slippered feet, He softly moves around. And brings the ice and turns the heat, . With scarce a bit of sound. But when he dons his uniform Of the Sable Sons of Glory, , The building shakes as in a storm Clear to the topmost story. In Pennsylvania all public and charitable Institutions desiring appropriations from the State are required to submit their applications to the Board of State Charities, which passes on them and presents its recommendations to the Legislature. Applications were submitted to the board from 132 institutions for aid in 1895, aggregating $3,432,482. and the board has approved and recommended appropriations to the amount of $3,001,275. The Institutions which filed applications for aid comprise those owned and controlled by the State, those for dependent and delinquent classes, recognized as wards of the State, but owned and conducted by private corporations and private charities of all kinds. The amount thus appropriated In 'Pennsylvania to penal, corrective, charitable and benevolent purposes is much larger than in any other State. Probably the city -cannot afford to employ the number of men and teams that would be necessary to remove the heavy fall of snow from the down-town business streets, but at least it ought to keep the crossings cleaned in that part of the city. The streets are almost impassable for pedestrians who are not provided with high-topped boots, and there is a tradition that pedestrians have some rights on the thoroughfares. No defense can be made of such a transaction as the antedating of Inspector Scholl's, appointment from Jan. 29. 1S33. when it was made, to Jan. 15. Whether it was for tbe purpose of giving blai. a salary - . )

of $100 per month instead of $60, as was its effect, or to-: Compensate him for the purchase of a horse, as is claimed by a memfcer of the board, it was equally indefensible. No public official is expected to be infallible, and some mistakes of the Board of Public Works can be accounted for consistently wun the theory that the board does the best it can, but the deliberate antedating of an appointment by which several hundred dollars are taken out of the city treasury Is not a mistake of that kind, Hugo' Christopher, the Russian entomologist, who has Just died, is said to have been the discoverer of a number of before unknown insects. When it is considered how much trouble the people of the earth have with insects already discovered, and how much time Is spent in the effort to get rid of them, thi3 claim of the late Mr. Christopher, to fame seems of very doubtful value. He might have been in better business.

The contest of the Fair will case proves anew that millionaires cannot divide their property to the satisfaction of the heirs; They try hard to tie a string to It that they can hold in the next world, but the attempt fails every time. There is always a way to cut the stringy ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Vassar College has recently received two very handsome and costly vases from the wife of Count Oyaraa, of Japan, who was graduated at that institution. Rev. Thomas McK. Brown, of New York, is probably the "most Roman Protestant" in this country. His church is a vine-covered building, with a bird's nest of a rectory next door. Fatner Brown wears the black soutane and cassock which characterize the Catholic priest, and his service as far as ceremonials go if, identical with that of Catholic churches. , Twenty small statues were recently stolen from the front of the Rouen Cathedral and offered for sale to a sculptor in that city. It was only when he undertook to find out where they came from that they were missed from their . places, as s they stood high above the ground. The manner of their taking down is still a mystery, and the thieves have not been found. Joseph Bertrand, the French mathematician, who recently celebrated his golden wedding, rescued his wife from death in the great railroad accident on the Paris-Versailles railroad in 1814. She was the wife of Admiral Dumont D'UrvUle, who was killed in the accident. This wis the admiral who brought the Venus of Milo to France., and who three times circumnavigated the earth. . " " The late Senator Fair was generous to his poor relations, ; particularly to hl3 brothers and Sisters, who lived In Iowa. In bis will he left them legacies ranging from $50,CC0 to $10,000, and during his lifetime he made them large gifts. They are nearly all farmers, their land lying near Ida Grove. Ia., and their farms were stocked by the Senator severs 1 years ago. About a year ago he paid hi3 Iowa relatives a long visit. The drainage of the grea.. silver mines in the West is an expensive undertaking at times, and the drainage tunnels are frequently driven under conditions as dangerous as those which are encountered in tunneling under rivers. One of 'the greatest of, these tunnel? in the country is that just completed at the Ontario mine, about a mile and a half south of Park City, Utah. It runs 15,490 feet into the mountain at - grade of three incues in one hundred feet. The most finished negro scholar in the world to-day, 'according to the Boston Transcript, is Edward Wilmot Blyden, who represented Liberia at the Court of St. James.- He is a valued contributor to many English magazines, is a linguist of pronouncedability and is one of the most profound thinkers the negro race has yet produced. He is the author of a work entitled "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race," which has had two editions in London. Dr. Blyden is a pure negro, without a trace of white blood in his veins. Little Suzanne is dead. Mile, Suzanne, as she was called, was Marie Suzanne Antoinette) Leduielac, and she was Gibson's model in Paris. She was the daughter of respectable trades people and was one of a large family of children. She was one of Bougereau's favorite models and was well known in all 1 the best Paris studios. In many famous "pietu res : her - face is to be seen, and , in -the beet of Gibson's latest drawings She is the original, it had been Suzanne's intention to come over to America to pose for Gibson, but a few weeks ago she died, an easv victim to pneumonia. Of his half-finished sketches of Suzanne G'bson says: "I do not think I shall ever ftnlHh them. They shall be put away out of respect to . the little French girl, who was their inspiration." "If I should die before I wake." ' With emphasis this line she said; She knew the chances she did take Through sleeping in- a folding bed. --Buffalo Courier. MAGAZINE NOTES. The Bankers' Magazine for the past two months illustrates the tendency of what have been special publications to'go outside of what may be -regarded as their legitimate field. Last month this magazine contained an exhaustive article upon the wheat situation, and this month it treats cotton in the same manner.. x here -is not an article in it which does, not contain something of interest for the lnteligent business man. It is published at No. 83 John street, New York, by John G. Floyd. Elizabeth - helps's new serial in the Atlantic Monthly opens with a chapter of students' life ; in a New England theological seminary presumably Andover. The time is winter, and the descriptions of the snow and cold, the icy atmosphere of the dormitories and the chill pervading the entire institution are so vivid that tne reader involuntarily finds himself accounting ror the rigidity of the theology that emanates from such establishments. The shadow of consumption hovers over the hero of the tale, and if, as seems likely, the story is to be a study in heredity that mysterious force . will' probably be held responsible for the coming cough that will inevitably carry the hero off, rather than his very reprehensible and deliberate disregard of the rules of health. While there is more or less talk of the decadence of the .novel, as shown In certain widely read tales of recent production, it seems not ' to have been noticed by the critics that" juvenile literature is suffering from a lack of spinal marrow. Take almost any periodical for children, and, aside from the fragments of history, biography and scientific lore which are sandwiched among the -stories. ' poems and sketches, and are usually well prepared, the bulk of the matter is the weakest of Hterary gruel and not fit for babes. The productions show an absence of force, earnestness and sincerity on the part of the authors. When there is not an obvious attempt to "write down" to the supposed level of youthful comprehension there is a perfunctory air about the work and a want of originality that must have its effect upon ' the children, though they will not be able t define the cause of their dissatisfaction. In a current issue of one of these publications is an account of a nineteenth century boy's adventures with a magic lamp and its" attendant genie an absurd eombinationKobegin with. It would have been much better for the editors to reprint the original Arabian Nights' tale of the lamp if a story of that sort was considered desirable. Mr. Kipling, in his animal stories, has introduced a wholesome and virile strain Into this literature, and one or two women, Mrs. Wiggin, for instance, produce books of merit for children, but for the most part the matter brought out for young folks to read is twaddle. A Hindoo contributor to the Arena declares that the money spent upon Christian missions in India is practically wasted and the efforts of the missionaries productive of pernicious results. 'The reason Is that these missionaries reach only the lowest caste of Hindoos, the wretched and ignorant, and these, tempted by the promise of food, ally themselves with Christians, and are in nowise genuine converts. Much good might be done through free education, this writer thinks, but with all its- boasted improvements in the country Great Britain has provided no free schools, and thecolleges and schools founded are far too expensive for the vast majority of natives to profit by them. Free secular education would. - he thinks, solve the problem and do away with caste or superstition sooner than any other influence. He add: "f have been confronted in this country with the statement, 'But our missionaries ai giving tree education to your people.' WU you tell me where and how many sfhnnls vou havp in India with not a. oent I of expense attached to them, and I will tell you the terms. They are free only to those 1 I ..111 .V.I. .nlnn I. uj win ivtr up men iriigiiu. a-ui nit? man who holds to his caste system there U no fre education offered. Free secular

education given to the people of India at the hands of the natlvea of India would do In a few years what the missionaries cannot do in a thousand years. If you would turn your thousands of dollars Into free education and industrial institutions for India, you would accomplish all and more than you cctild anticipate." The revised edition of the second volume of Bryce's American Commonwealth," soon to be issued, will contain several new chapters and others so much amended that they are practically new. In all, there will be about two hundred pages of new matter. Dr. Albert Shaw, of the Review of Reviews, has examined advance sheets of the work and gives atk outline of their contents in the current issue of the Review. Among other topics, he discusses the condition of the South since the war, the future of the negro, Tammany and the prospect of reform in New York, territorial extension and the workings of the Australian ballot system. On the question of Canada's future, Mr. Bryc-e says plainly that England will consider Canada perfectly free to choose her own destiny, and he holds that the United States will never, under any circumstances, be disposed to bring pressure to bear for Canadian annexation. He points out the circumstances which are developing a growing friendliness between the Americans and Englishmen, and Is of the. opinion that the future of Canada, whatever it may be, will not involve English-speaking countries in strife. He exonerates the United States absolutely from any disposition to make territorial conquests in the European imperial spirit, although he evidently considers that manifest destiny will bring about a crumbling of Mexico, with corresponding gradual accessions to the United States on the south, comparable with our acquisition of Texas. He looks forward to the extension of the .United States as far south as the Isthmus of Panama.

SHREDS AND PATCHES. "What qualifications has she for office?" "She is a self-made man." Puck. 4 As a society bud Senator Hill ' is a marked success. Washington Post. I always pass good advice on. It is the only thing to do with it. Oscar Wilde. Too many good people expect pie .when they say. "Give us this day ur daily bread." Detroit Free Press. - Soup houses In Newfoundland, too? There must be a tariff-reform party In that benighted land also. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Breckinridge has discovered quite a similarity between the course of true love and the lecture course. Washington Post. Instead of binding their women's feet so that they can't run, China should have done this with its soldiers. Philadelphia Times. "James," called out Fweddy to his' man, "bwing me a chair to stand on. I am going to put on me ovahcoat." Chicago Tribune. Evidently Colonel Breckinridge will have to become a sawmill, a pile-driver or a tank of real water if he hopes to succeed on the stage. Cincinnati Tribune. . Hamlin Garland's latest effort is called "The Straddle Bug." We have not read it, but presume it is a satire on the present attitude of Congress. Atlanta Constitution. ILLINOIS VILLAGE 'J 1 A CJ ED Y. Crazed Farm Hand Wounds Two Men and Kills Himself. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 15. At the little village of Mitchell, Madison county, Illinois, about twelve miles north of this city, a horrible tragedy was enacted by Louis Banker, a hitherto quiet and Inoffensive farm hand, who became suddenly crazed as the result of a fight between two of his friends. As the result, Phillip German, the village blacksmith, and Andreas Welch were wounded, the' former fatally, and Louis Banker, the shooter, is dead by his own hand. The trouble occurred in a saloon where about twenty men had congregated for an evening's sport. It began when William Giiham, a farmer, became drunk and picked a quarrel with Joe Hanks, a friend of the murderer. This enraged Louis Banker, who was sitting quietly by and seemed to transport him into a demon. He drew a revolver,, backed himself up to the wall and defied the whole crowd. Phillip German, a friend of Banker, tried to quiet the latter and received a bullet in his neck that will probably prove fatal, for it is thought to have lodged in the lungs. The insane wrath of Banker was then turned on Mrs. Martin, the saloon keeper's wife, whom the infuriated man next fired at. Her life was saved by Andreas Welch, who stepped before the woman just in time to catch the bullet In his arm, the bones of which were shattered. With a shout of frenzied joy and rage Banker then drove the panic-stricken crowd out of the saloon and ended the tragedy by blowing out his own brains. The coroner returnea a verdict in accordance with the facts. MULHATTON KEDIVIVUS. Recrudescence of the Cheerful Liar In the Shape of a Tramp. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15. Joseph Mulhatton arrived here from Arizona yesterday and left, this morning for San Francisco.. Contrary to his custom, he looked serious and, instead of wearing fine raiment, was made up as a tramp, and declared he had, just for amusement, traveled from Arizona as an amateur brakebeam rider, and he looked the part to a dot. He wore five-day-old whiskers, a coat that might have adorned several generations of "dusty Rhodeses," a pair of trousers that not only bagged at the places where the knees ought to be, but were adorned with ventilators. He was the real old cheerful liar, Joe Mulhatton, however, and he had a Joyful calling on old friends from New York and Louisville. Col. Tom Louis, the assistant postmaster, chaperoned him, and Mulhatton drew up a menu for a French dinner that would have made Chauncey Depew ill with envy. MILK TRUST KILLED. Chicago Freed from the Grasp of a Price-Controlling Combine. OTTAWA, 111., Jan. 15. The Chicago Milkshippers' Association, known as the Milk Trust, as organized in February, 1892, with a stockholding membership of 1,500 dealers, to control the price of milk within the limits of the city of Chicago, received its death blow as a price-fixing concern in the Supreme Court to-day. The court handed down a lengthy opinion, in which the business of the association is declared Illegal and the man responsible for Its downfail, Charles C. Ford, of No. 1055 Adams street, is absolved from the payment of $433.80, which he owed the association in October. 1891. v STREET RAILWAY CHANGES. Tom and Albert Johnson to Retire from the Cleveland Directory. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 15. It is said that Congressman Tom L. Johnson and his brother Albert will soon retire from the directory of the Cleveland Electric Streetrailway Company, which, with the Cleveland City Cable Company, now controls every street-car line in this city. It is believed that the retirement of the Johnsons will be followed by a consolidation of the cable and electric companies. This would involve a deal of about $20,000,000 and result in a street-car monopoly in this city. The stock of the electric company has risen rapidly within the past few days. Oklahoma's Illegal Divorces. GUTHRIE, O. T., Jan. 15. In the Supreme Court to-day a motion was granted for the hearing of the celebrated Irwin divorce suit. This is the case in which the question of the right of the probate Judges to grant divorces was raised, and tne decision of which invalidated over a thousand divorces granted by such judges throughout the Territory, involving hundreds of people from every State in" the Union. Rich divorcees who have been granted a separation have contributed a large fund and employed the most eminent lawyers in the Southwest to secure a rehearing and fight the case. If they lose, it is their intention, it is said, to push a bill through the Legislature legalizing the divorces in question. Urida-e Workmen Mangled. PITTSBURG, Jan. 15. The strong wind to-day blew over the false work of a new bridge being erected over the Monongahela river at Homestead and a number of workmen were dashed to the ground, a distance of thirty feet. Chris Rogers was killed. 1 Lewis Cash was fatally crushed. Mike McT .a , n-Vtl'-n H3ri, Arm rt1lwVtorl UdVra1 I otners werj badly bruised.

i TORTURE AND DEATH

FATE OK TWO JAPANESE STUDENTS SURRENDERED RY GRESIIAM. The Secretary" Reply lo an Inquiry Regarding, the Alleged Spies Turned Over to Merciless Chinese. SCHEME TO STEAL A PORT BRITAIN ANXIOUS TO SECURE A HARBOR ON THE ALASKAN COAST. Revival of n Dispute that May Lend to International Complications Boundary Lines Not Fixed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The President to-day sent to the Senate the correspondence in the case of the two Japanese spies, together with a letter from the Secretary of State, in which it is stated that the American consuls had no authority to protect Japanese in China, except so far as using their good offices when occasion demanded. It was clearly stated to Minister Denby .by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mutsu that during the progress of war Chinese subjects in Japan must be direct in the jurisdiction of Japanese courts and military authorities, and that treaty provisions to the contrary were necessarily abrogated by the war situation. This, of course, carried with it the status of Japan-' ee subjects in China. The letter further states that there is scarcely any doubt that the supposed students were spies. The Secretary, In his letter, first quotes the Senate resolution requesting the President, if not Incompatible with public interest, to transmit to the Senate all correspondence or other papers relating to the delivery by the United States consul at Shanghai of two Japanese citizens to the Chinese authorities and their subsequent death by torture, etc. He then shows the changed status brought about by the war, and continues a3 follows: "Before war was declared, but in anticipation of it and at the solicitation of Japan, our agents in China were instructed to exercise their unofficial good offices in behalf of Japanese subjects in China on all the proper occasions and to the full extent allowed by lnternatlonal iaw, and on a similar request from China our agents in Japan were instructed to afford protection to Chinese subjects in Japan in like manner. This comprises the extent of the 'understanding' relative -to protection of Japanese in China. ORDERED TO BE GIVEN UP. "On the 18th of August the Chinese minister at this capital complained to the undersigned that the United States consul at Shanghai was protecting two Japanese spies who had been arrested in that city, and whose surrender was demanded by the Chinese authorities" in order that they might be dealt- with in due course. After proper inquiry into- the circumstances of the case the demand was recognized as lawful and the men were ordered to be given up. This was not done, however, without proper measures being taken to prevent precipitate or summary action by the Chinese authorities. Tne undersigned at the same time requested (there was no authority to aemand it) that the accused men might not be tried until the return of .Minister lenby to Peking, It being supposed that this would afford opportunity for investigation and deliberation. The Chinese minister at once promised compliance and subsequently informed the undersigned that his government had acceded to the request. Without questioning the lawfulness of the sentence under the laws of war, the undersigned regrets to say that the men were executed about six weeks after their surrender, but before the return of Colonel Denby to Cnina. "Special attention is invited to the correspondence on this subject. That the prisoners were not boys, but men and spies in the service of Japan, there is small, if any, room for doubt. Mr. Jornigan, our consul-general at Shanghai, says that when the men were arrested 'plans were found on them,' and that 'the accusing papers are safe.' And speaking on the same subject in a later report, Mr. Jornigan says: 'Some papers found in their possession would naturally, in a state- of war, create a suspicion tending to support the charges.' The Chinese minister claims that besides the evidence of guilt found In their possession when arrested, the prisoners admitted, without torture, that they ' had been employed by their government to obtain and forward by telegraph and otherwise information useful in conducting military operations against China, and that they had been engaged in that business. It will not be said by any one, after reading the accompanying correspondence, that Mr. Jornigan is biased In the slightest degree in favor of the Chinese authorities. In a report dated Nov. 2 he says: 'The two alleged spies were not executed as soon as handed over, but their cases were under investigation for nearly six weeks, and I am now assured that there was no unfairness practiced against them during the investigation,' and in a still later report he stages that 'a letter from an intelligent foreign resident at Nanking, where the two Japanese were executed, discredits the reports of their torture. Other letters from the same gentleman, have proved so accurate that I am indisDosed to accept the reported torture without substantial proof.' The Chinese government denies that the men were put to death after being tortured, and the department is not advised that they were tortured. SPYING IN TIME OF WAR. "Of the decision that the prisoners were not subject to the jurisdiction of the consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, and that he could not give them asylum, the Japanese government, made no complaint. Spying in time of war Is a purely military offense, not cognizable by civil tribunals, and to have held the accused, against the demand of the Chinese government, either for trial by our consulgeneral or before a mixed tribunal of foreign and Chinese officials, would have been inconsistent with our assumed attitude of Impartial neutrality. Our agents in China were not substituted for the withdrawn agents of Japan, and this government could not invest Japanese in China with an extra territoriality of which they did not possess as subjects of their own sovereignty. - ' "From a letter addressed to Mr. Denby, jr.. dated Aug. 27, by Mr. Fowler, our consul-general at Ningpo. it appears that a Japanese was arrested in the dress of a Chinese priest at Chin-Hal, twenty miles from the Ningpo, a foreign settlement. In his report to Mr. Denby, Mr. Fowler said: 'I wrote for the facts. Total replied, giving circumstances of trlaL Evidence weak and ex parte. Requested delay of punishment for a few days. Just received reply that it is none of my business. Will not answer further dispatches on the eubject. Shall demand delay. Mr. Fowler seems not to have understood the nature of the protection he was authorized to afford Japanese within reach of his consulate." The correspondence is quite voluminous, covering fifty documents of greater or less length. It also contains full transcripts of the Instructions. These seem to have been misunderstood, and on Aug. 29 Mr. Gresham wired Mr. Denby: "The consul-general should not have received the Japanese and 1 not authorized to hold them." and he adds: "Your suggestion that our consuls act as arbitrators is not entertained." On Aug. 31 Mr. Denby. charge d'affaires, asks whether he can be authorized to make the request on behalf of Japan that the students be held until Minister Denby shall arrive, to which Mr. Gresham replies on the same date: "My instructions of the 29th are clear." Mr. Jernigan, in explaining his conduct In receiving the students, says: "Some of the papers found in the possession of the Japanese would naturally, in the state of war now existing, create a suspicion of a character tending to support the alleged charge, but they state that they had been students In Shanghai for several years, wearing Chinese clothes, giving the name of tht school, the teacher, the place of their lodging, with other facts that give to their statement a minuteness which more than raises a reasonable doubt in their favor." In a letter to Mr. Denby dated Sept. 1, Mr. Jernigan says: "The barbarous proclamation of the Governor of Formose shocks civilization throughout the world, and yet it remains for China to disavow the prlri money, rescript for heads and shies issued

here by a subordinate offieer of her arsenal. When the barbarities and cruelties of the dark ages are sought to be utilized In modern warfare it becomes the humane and patriotic of all Christian races to protest."

BOUNDARY DISPUTE. England Reported to lie Anxious t Secure a Port in Alaska. TACOMA, Was.. Jan. 15. The Alaskan News, published at Juneau City, makes the sensational prediction that Takou Inlet and tha head of Lynn canal will become famous the world over as affording grounds for a fierce international dispute between Great Britain and the United States, and be the cause of arbitration by the European powers to determine which country shall hold possession of it, according to the provisions of the Russian treaty and the subsequent purchase of Alaska by the United States. "Each nation." says the News, "holds fast to a different construction of the Russian treaty, England maintaining that the boundary line does not follow up and around the deep inlets and bay, a held by the United States, but follows the general cost line ten martne leagues in tha interior from salt water. Great Britain sees a flaw in the treaty and, with her usual aggressiveness. . . will endeavor to wrest from the government of the United States the hafbors and inlets, so a British seaport will hold the port to the Yukon country and the undeveloped Northwest territory. The good results following to the commerce of England's provinces by reason of a seaport is too important to be overlooked by England's aggressive foreign policy. Will Uncle Sam. under Gresham's policy, lose valuable possessions in southeastern Alaska? Since Japan Is coming to. the front as a commercial power, England has her tentacles on Alaska to snatch a seaport for her navy and commerce-laden ships." - - Commissioners at Work. WASHINGTON, Jan, 13. The officials of ;this government are well aware of the feeling of the British government, but more particularly of the Canadians on the subject of the boundary line question. Initiatory steps looking to the settlement of such disputes were taken some time ago by the appointment of commissioners on the part of Canada and of the United States to delineate the boundary line in cases where a dispute arises. The ' Canadian commissioner (whose appointment was approved by the crown) is W. F. King., and the American commissioner. Prof. .T. C. Mendenhall. formerly in charge of the coast and geodetic survey. During, the past season Canadian and United States surveying parties were engaged jointly In making surveys and preparing maps of the part of Alaska and British Columbia Involved In the present question for the use of the two commissioners. It is not expected, however, that there will be sufficient data available before a couple of years to enable the commissioners to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion regarding the matter. "Up to a few years ago." said an official of the coast and geodetic survey to-day. "all the Canadian maps show -the boundary line as this government claims it should be, and it was only when the great resources of that section of British Columbia which adjoins Alaska' began .tO' be developed that the Canadians began "to question the matter of the boundary line. Of course, the whole question turns on the interpretation of the words of the treaty negotiated between England and Russia at times in the eighteenth century and by which the boundary line was fixed at ten, marine leagues from the coast. Along the portion of the coast of Alaska where Juneau is located there are many Indentations and the question is whether the ten marine leagues are to be measured from the Islands adjoining or from ie continental coast line. The establishment' of a port by the Canadian government on Taku inlet . would be of very great . benefit to it. Its vessels .could enter the port without the payment of duties and a trade route could be established by which the Yukon country might be reached in . a much shorter time and less expensive manner than now, when goods are carried in vessels that are obliged to skirt the Aleutian islands, pass through the Bering sea and enter the Yukon river at its mouth. Last summer William Ogeleby, a Canadian in the employ of his government, was engaged In making a survey from the head of the Taku Inlet for the purpose of settling tha question of a trade route to the Yukon river. What the results of his survey are I do not know. . The question of what is the right boundary line is, you see, a very important one, but I look for no settlement of .it for several years." , PESS13IISTIC i PROPHET. Samnel Bennes Says 1893 Will Not Be a. Prosperous Year for Americans. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. For a number of years past Samuel Bennes, has Issued annually a prophecy in regard to various markets during the ensuing year. His prophecies have been right in a sufficient number of cases to have created curiosity yearly as to what he would say. His forecast for 1894 declared that there would be continued embarrassed business, bankruptcies, unemployed labor and ruined farmers." For 1895 he says: - ; , i v;rv "There is no promise or sign of better times for the coming year.v We may look in vain for any permanent improvement In general business. Wheat 54 cents a bushel at Chicago, cotton h cents per pound at Cincinnati, and pig iron $10 a ton at Pittsburg denote impoverishment for farmers, cotton planters and furnacemen. The Increase last year of $100,000,000 in the bonded debt of the government does snot signify that the people are contented, keeping out of debt and making money. Ever, since 1873 values have been shrinking in consequence of the establishment of -the single gold standard, and no one can fathom the depths to which prices will fall. There is no .evidence that we are at the lowest point of depression. There is no property, except gold, which is not depreciating. An average crop of grain In this country this year, with fair crops abroad, will send the price of wheat at Chicago after the next harvest down to 40 cents a bushel. Prices for corn next fall will decline to 23 cents a bushel. Fat hogs will 'be $3 a hundred pounds, gross, for next winter's packing season. Prices for wool, cotton. Iron, cattle and horses will be on the down grade during the present year. Common sheep, after the wool is taken off next year will sell for what the pelt will then bring 25 cents. To the anxious inquirer: The year 1895 will not be the proper time to make investments in property or to engage extensively in business enterprises." DEPEW DENOUNCED. Condemned by Ministers Who Were Deprived of Half Rates by Railways. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew was roundly denounced at a meeting of the Methodist ministers of this city and vicinity in the rooms of the Methodist Book Concern. The denunciation was for the stigma the Doctor has cast on ministers by a recent interview wherein he defended the action of his railroads In withdrawing the half-rate privileges from clergymen. Dr. A. J. Palmer,' pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church, saidthat Dr. Depew should be asked to retract his. statement that ministers had abused the privileges and that some of them had even sold halfrate tickets to scalpers, thus defrauding the company. Dr. Palmer demanded thai Dr. Depew furnish the society with the names ot the offending ministers, so that the alleged culprits might be tried at the conferences of their coadjutors. The Rev. F. C. Iglehart said that Dr. Depew's utterances against the ministers were made merely to reconcile the politicians whose passes were taken away by the recent amendments to the Constitution. Used the Mails for Fraud. PARKERSBURG, W, Va., Jan. 15. In the United States Court, to-day, C. T. Shields, Willartt Dlehn. K. .Winfleld I.uken. Charles T. Dollmer. J. C. Newell, Mrs. J. C. NewelL Irving Chambers, F. ' H. Couse, R. J. iiuby and T. C. Hughes, air of Philadelphia, composing the Fraternity and Financial . Co-operalioa Company, were found guilty and fined' $100 eat h and covta for using the mails Sor fraudulent purposes. Most of these people are said to be ia Europe now. They operated In Wheelingwhat was called short-term Insurance. , . 1 i ' New Gold and Silver Field. GUTHRIE, O. T.. Jan. 15. Hundreds of prospectors are swarming into the VY.chita mountains In the Kiowa and Comanche Indian reservation caused by the dl-Very of rich deposits of gold and silver, Yoojm have been ordered' f rom Fort Reno to eject them and serious trouble ia looked lor uthe prospectors declare they have a right In the mountains under, the nilnhig taw and will not leave. , Many samples of rich ore have been brought out for , assay ir the past few. day, and a general stamped for the mines will llkelv snsue.