Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1895 — Page 4

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NKW YOKK Gilsey Souse, Windsor Hotel and Astor Houwe.Fill LA DELPHI A A. P. Kemble, tor. Lancaster by. and luring it. IUK'AOO Valmer Hons. Andltorlum Hotel and P. o. News Co, ifl Adams street. CISCIN'ATI-J. TL Hawiey 4 Co., 1SI Vine street LOUISVILLE C T. Deerlnr. northwest corner of TLlrtJ and Jefferson sts., ana XiOuisvUle Book Co., 22A Fourth ae. . fcT. LOUIS Cn Ion News Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON, V. C Kig House, rbbltt House, Wiiianl s Hotel and the Waihlnrton News Eicbange, HUl street, bet. 1'pnn. ave. and ' street Mr. Taggart has promised that It shall not be a wide-open town. Will he keep hla pledge? , The gas-meter crowd was very Jubilant In the election of a Council whose majority It counts on. ; And the civil-service commission, with Its elaborate machinery to what ' use' will Mr. Taggart put it? That element calling themselves the good citizens, who propounded questions to candidates last fall, have been conspicuous this year by their absence when they might have been useful. The beet thing- the Mayor-elect can do is to offer; Mr. Trusler the offlce of controller. He would stand between mm ana me tax-eaters wnom ne nas not been able at times to withstand. Now, that the long-delayed record In the Waller case has reached Parts it Is to be hoped the government will take some position and maintain It with at least a remote approach to firmness! MaassMHaaBMaaasHMsaaMaMeaMM The last Congress passed a resolution expressing an earnest desire, that Great Britain would submit the Venezuelan boundary dispute 'to arbitration. If Great Britain treats the. resolution with silent -contempt, as she almost certainly will, "what will the next Congress do? Both canvasses showed no falling off In the number of voters who are Republicans In general elections. Testerday hundreds of the.m did not vote, and many unwisely voted for Mr. Taggart because of one sort of Irritation or another. They will all be in line early next season. . There art -indications, that Eugene V. Debs will soon have to exchange the role of a. martvr for that nf n. fallen Idol. Leading representatives of organized labor are denouncing him as a traitor to the cause because, of his recent declaration that1 labor unions were inadequate to promote the cause of labor. When Postmaster-general Wilson was told that there is a movement 09 foot to Increase the tariff on wool along with the increase on beer he said: ."The tax on beer may increased, but there is one thing certain, there Is' no chance for an increase In the tax on wool' Mr. 'Wilson has an undying grudge against the American sheep. , In a speech at Frankfort, Ky., Democratic Congressman Berry went out of his way to compliment Colonel Breckinridge, and declared that the Democratic party and the country would have need of his irervices in the next Congress. The Journal cannot speak for the Democratic, party, but it feels authorized to cay the'eountry has no use for him. The city election affords a good illustration of the tendency of the political pendulum to swing from one extreme to another. Two years ago the people of this city voted by 3,000 majority in favor cf a change from the policy of the Sullivan regime, and now they have voted by a very decided majority in favor of a return to that policy. Such are the freaks of popular government, and yet tlie "people are supposed to know what they want. There is a movement on foot In Richmond, Va., to try and have the National Encampment- of the G. A. R. held there In 1837. Prominent ex-Confederates at the head of the movement say the Union veterans would be as well treated there as they were in Louisville. When the encampment was held in Washington a few years ago a Richmond post of Confederate veterans sent a committee to Washington to invite the Union veterans to visit the Virginia capital. A large number did so, and were very handsomely treated. The coal miners of the Pittstyirg. Pa., district, after making many futile efforts to ercape from the oppression of "pluckne" stores, have finally hit upon an expedient which promises to be successful. It Is the simple device of a 5-cent differential In wages In favor of operators who do not run such stores or who will agree to give them up. Operators with ctores are required to pay 63 cents a ton for mining, while those without them are only charged 64 cents. The miners have been fighting these stores for years, and if they can succeed in driving them out they will have removed a fruitful cource of Injustice and trouble. Not long since the president of the University of Chicago felt called upon to declare that Mr. Rockefeller and other donors had not In any way interfered with the Independence of the teachers In that institution. As this remark was called out because of the comments made upon the dismissal of Piofessor Bemis, he finds In the statement that which gives the Impression to th-j public that he was dismissed for ::rr.3 InsHcleney in his particular branch r : cic'.ojy. Co assuming, he has writf:3 c Izzz crticl? In which ha quotes " i rrtrt'rzt cf ths university to tha

effect that he was entirely satisfied with Professor Bemis's work, .but that, as a man of the world, the Professor should understand that with the environment of the university he cannot do his best wcrk. Professor Bemis is not a Socialist, but he believes that large cities in time should own and control such local monopolies as the gas and street railways. He does not insist that, these changes should be made at once, but that the franchises should be given for brief periods preparatory to municipal proprietorship. This teaching and printing, the Professor says, displeased the president of the Chicago Gas Trust, who would not extend to the Institution a financial favor fo long as Professor Bemis was connected with it. This controversy does not interest the public except In so far as It discloses the fact that the ethics and he economic theories taught In an institution founded chiefly by the leaders in the Standard Oil Trust, which has ignored State laws and crushed out competitors by outrageous methods, must bear the trade mark of the donors.

THE RESILT. There were so many elements and factors In the city election of yesterday as to make It difficult to analyze the result. The result Itself Is sufficiently emphatic. Mainly, It -was a protest of the people against the measures and methods of the administration of Mayor Denny and his boards. It is useless to deny the fact that the administration has been very unpopular. - Coming Into power on the crest of a tidal wave. It goes out with a .very emphatic expression of popular disapproval. This, is due both to what has been done and to the manner in which it has been done. The laws might have been enforced and public improvements might , have been ordered and carried out in a way that would have merited approval, but they have been done on lines that seem to have invited popular condemnation. The enforcement of law has been made' conspicuously and unnecessarily odious, and the prosecution of public Improvements almost equally soi The Board of Public Safety have strained at. gnats and swallowed camels. They have taken "tithe of mint and anise and cummin" and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, They have, made an offensive and obnoxious parade of the performance of duty which might -have been discharged with equal efficiency without any brass band accompaniment. The Athenians of old gol tired of hearing Aristides called- "the Just," and modern Americans get, tired of a too conspicuous parade of virtue. Mayor Denny's Board of Public Workcontributed its share to the unpopularity of his administration and to yesterday's result. The election of Mr. Denny two years ago was largely a protest against ,the' arbitrary and oppressive methods. of Mayor. Sullivan's, Board of Public Works. Tet,' following the precedent of the" Sullivan regime. Mayor Denny's Board of Public Works have ordered street and sewer "improvements far beyond the demand of the times or. the ability of scores of property owners to pay. They have forgotten' that "Rome was not . built in a day," and that the people did .not demand, that Indianapolis should be revolutionized In a few months. A wise administration would have recognized and profited -by the mistakes of Its predecessor, but the Denny administration failed to do so. To these general causes for the result must be added personal ones. While Mr. Trusler undoubtedly suffered by reason of his connection with the Denny administration,. It must be admitted that he was not a popular candidate. His administration of the controller's office was the one bright spot in the Denny administration, and ought ' to have counted far more in his favor than it ,dld. But many Republicans, resented his course in the last presidential campaign, as they would have done had the candidate been McKInley or Reed or Allison Instead of Harrison, and, believing that he deserved a dose of his own medicine, they administered it. Unfortunately for Mr. Trusler, his personality was no more' calculated to offset this hostile feeling In his own party than It was to draw votes from the opposite one. The Journal abates nothing of its belief in Mr. Trusler's ability and Integrity, and that he would have made an excellent Mayor,. but It canot stultify itself by denying that he waV an unpopnlar candidate. Without entering into any argument as to the merits of the Nicholson law, the fact may as well be admitted thtt it had much to do with the result. In a city of this size a law of that kind cannot be enforced in its spirit and letter without Inviting the opposition of a large number of voters who resent legal interference with ; their private habits and personal liberty. The Nicholson law may 'be conducive . to cood morals and good habits, and it may be popular In some localities, but In " a city like Indianapolis, with a large and mixed pop ulation. It Is not conducive to vote3. The plainest feature of the situation is that from a party point of view there was no . politics in the result. Party polities cut a very small figure In the campaign, and the result has no general political significance. No. doubt it will be heralded a a great Democratic victory In General Harrison's home, a presidential straw, a pointer for 1836. etc., but In reality It has no such significance. It was not a Democratic victory nor a Republican defeat. It was pimply a "victory of one set of local and personal Influences oyer another, In which all the conditions, including an immense corruption fund, were in favor or the winning party. IDIAS AVEXUK THEIR DEAD. About two months ago the serenity of a m'dsummer morning was broken by a startling dispatch announcing the outbreak of an Indian war. in a remote corner of Wyoming. It was ' said the Bannocks had taken the war path and bloody times were predicted. The first dispatch vros followed by others pretending to give details, and for several days the country wes kept in a ferment of excitement in the belief that the white settlements In that part of Wyoming were about to be wiped out. The truth was a few Indians who were hunting otf thtir reservation had been arbitrarily arrested, and in attempting to escape from ' their captors two of them were killed. They had not attacked anybody, and only fired at their assailants after they were fired upon. General Ccpplnger, who was sent to investigate the matter, reported that the shooting of

the Indians was one of the most unprovoked outrages that had ever come un

der his notice. Now we have a sequel to the affair in the announcement that a few days ago Captain Smith and two other white men, while proppecting along one of the forks of Snake river, were ambushed by Bannock Indians and killed. Captain Smith precipitated the fight In July, and hlm-solf killed one of the Indians. The . Bannocks swore revenge for the death of their braves, 'and now they have taken it. A special from Idaho Falls says:, "Troops C and D, Captain Collins commanding. immediately started for Jackson's Hole, and will un doubtedly drive out the Indians If found." This probably means there will be more avenging and more killing. There Is no probability of an Indian war, because the Indians are not numerous or ctrong enough "to make much trouble, but no candid man can deny that they are the aggrieved party, and that, according to their code of law and morals, they were Justified in avenging the death of their comrades. If Captain Smith, -who was known to have killed one of the Indians last July, had been arrested for murder, as he ought to have been, and If the Indians had been assured that he would be dealt with ac cording to white man's law the murders now reported would not have occurred. ""waMBnaaaaaaaaisiiaaaianaaaasaaanaBaiiiawaafc TUB INTEREST IX WATER WAYS. Just now there 13 an unusual interest In ship canals. A convention in Cleveland recently devoted two days to presenting the advantages to be derived and r in- exploiting schemes for water ways. Newspapers are giving figures to prove the advantages' of special routes. While a few advocate general plans, one cannot fail td notice that the greatest Interest Is created by those who have schemes to benefit a few cities. It is not unfair to assume that if the different schemes are not Indorsed, those who fall to obtain Indorsement will have.no further: interest in deep water ways. . Several of the schemes which are most zealously advocated are of doubtful practicability or utility. It is not necessary here to name these schemes, since most people who are not interested in them must realize that they are not to be thought of. In fact, the only project which Should receive national support is One which would enable sea-going freight shins to reach the ocean from theJake ports without breaking bulk. Such a ship canal would be of value to all the people.. On the other hand, a large expenditure of public money in the Interest of two cities and a population within a hundred miles of the canal should not be thought of as a national enterprise. If States and cities desire to construct such works there can be no objection. . ' . ' The greatest danger is that water ways may be undertaken which are not needed,, and which will cost twice or three times as much as the original estimates.' The outcome of the Manchester ship canal, connecting that city with deep tidewater, is an illustration of this danger. . It 1? only thlrtyflve miles in length. It was estimated to cost $23,000,000; It did cost $75,000,000. The canal has cheapened the transportation .because the railroads have reduced their charges, but the (railroads ... do the most of the business. . Otherwise than in reducing , the cost" of shipment between Liverpool j and Manchester the enterprise has proved a failure. The earnings do not pay operating expenses and interest charges. The cost of maintenance, the dredging and the maintaining of the walls is expensive! : All things considered, the railroads can carry goods from Liverpool to Manchester cheaper than can the ship canal, considering all the expenses. The cost of 'construction and maintenance are factors which must be considered in ship-canal construction. There are other factors which must be considered, such as the growing, ability of railroads to compete with water transportation, and the fact that the ship cabals which will be of national importance will be closed with ice four or five months in the year. How far deep water ways may be able in the future to affect the cost of transportation cannot be estimated, but the lake and canal transportation that the country has, inadequate as it has been, had a powerful influence In reducing rates between Chicago and New York from 1S60 to 18S0. Since that time railroad competition has been so fierce that the water ways seem to have had very little influence over the rates of transportation. An American medical missionary who has been . living at Peking, China, for ten years writes to the New York Tribune that this government will have to adopt a much more severe policy towards China before American citizens in that country will be safe from insult, and outrage. He says the Chinese are easily subdued if they know they will be severely punished for their misdemeanors, but as long as they are only remonstrated with the outrages wilcontlnue. The writer adds: Until recently I was under the impression that our home government was ignorant of the situation and that all the blame lay with our minister. Col. Charles Denby, and the consular staff In the ports. In an interview with Colonel. Denby, however, a few weeks since, he assured me he had reported matters in detail to the State Department often, and urged reprisals as the only effective treatment, but had been warned by telegraph: "I do not wl3h to go to war with China." This indicates that Minister Denby has done his duty, but that'he has been handicapped by the timid policy of the administration. Colonel Denby has lived In China many years and probably understands the Chinese character as well as any American living. The administration should have followed his advice. This month has been Issued the first number, of "The American Historical Review," which will be published quarterly by Miic-' mlllan & Co., in New York. The names of the board of editors George B. Adams, Albert Bushnell Hart, Harry Pratt Jul5on, John Bach McMaster, Wlll!am M. Sloane and H. Morse Stephens will commend .the periodical to the favor of those who take an' interest in historical research and discussion based upon historical events. The periodical has been started to meet the demand3 of an alreaJy large class of people who take an Interest in historical study and the philosophy of history. Tho first number has five leading articles, namely: "The History of Democracy," by William M. Sloane; "The Party of the Loyalists in the American Revolution." by Prof. Metres Colt Ty. ler; "The First Castillan Inquisitor," by Henry C. Lee; "Count Edward de Crillon," by Prof. Henry Adams; "Western Statemaking In the Revolutionary Era." by Frederick J. Turner. These papers aro fol

lowed by documents amon which are some Intercepted letters of George Rogers

Clark, in 177&-;, when he..ws at Fort St. Henry St. Vincent, and .eome. letters of Georgians to Jefferson Davis concerning his proposition to arm the negroes in 'the win ter of 1S64-65. A large part of. the number is devoted to a review of no less than twenty-six historical ' and biographical works, which appear to have been pre pared with a view i to Riving, the purpose of -the writers rather than to find points for criticism. This Is (he first work of the kind on so wide a scope: that has been published in the United States, and Its publication Is largely due to the study of his tory as a science and to ihe. fact that la the American colleger are a large number of professors who' study the philosophy of history. ' '" : YT. ' While the Episcopalian Hous,e of Bishops, at Minneapolis, were discussing the Important question whether the official designation of the presiding Bishop shculd be "primus" or "president bishop," a delegate from Virginia created considerable amuse ment in speaking of the term "Primus," by asking how the officer would be addressed by members of the house; whether they would call him Mr. Primus or simply Primus. Then he caused the grave bishops to smile audibly by suggesting that as the Americans are a humorous -and-sarcastic race they would saon begin to call the official "Uncle Primus." The' question does not strike ah outsider as, one oft great im portance. There will be no end of Sunday baseball next season, but because the police author ities prohibited it this year it cost the ticket five hundred votes yesterday. Sunday base ball Is regarded, as an evil practice by a large part of the people, but it is now very evident that it cannot be exterminated by police regulation, which would put It on the same list of offenses . as a Sunday roadhouse brothel. The New England. .Society, of Orange, CC. J., proposes to erect a monument over the remains of General George B. McClellan's war horse, which .were burled on the McClellan place near there. There were a vast number of horses that saw more active seYvice and smelt more powder during the war than General McClellan' s. United States consuls in Germany report that since the Chicago' exposition American leather has come to be recognized asthe best in the world, and the demand for It In Germany is Increasing very rapidly. If Corbett and Fltzsimmons would go up In a balloon and fight in midair decent people wouldn't care ' which ' got knocked OUt. ' : ' '' :.'. ' DUnDLES IX-TIIE AIR. . Xo Indeed, Which we wish to remark, and our lanv guage is piam, That we will be dinged and be dorn. If we can perceive what glory or gain Lies in blowing a penny tin horn. Money . In; It. "Do you think," said the ambitious young man, "that I ever will, be able to make a competence with my voice?" "Well." said the outspoken, man, . "perhaps you might use . it f er holierln' 'ap ples.' " " . 'Iff ' 1.1; UndUtingulahabYe. "John," said the grocer, , Vtake them dried currants that was swept up off the cellar floor and set 'em out In front at half price. John came , back in about five minutes. vVhlch ones is the dirty one3?" he asked. "Blamed If I can. see any difference." The Cornfed Philosopher. "The boy. whose mother Is continually yelling at him to 'don't, says the cornfed philosopher, "may not have a very good' time, but .he wllL makea; fstj-ra.te, father: . . m a L He will have so vivid a; memory; oi rus,own misery that he will let his children alone.". SIinUDS AND PATCHES. Are we to Infer that' Margaret Mather intends to return to . the stage 7-Chicago Post. .; . ---' Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and. though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Congreve. In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of. youth with which age should surround itself. Joubert. - These are stirHng times in the country. The apple-butter season 'is at hand. Cincinnati Enqu.'rer. Mr. Breckinridge's Kentucky campaign should be liberally supplied with moth balls. Washington Post Corbett and Fltzsimmons seem to have some difficulty in escaping recognition as belligerents. Chicago. Record.,. . . Toll a woman that she doesn't look well and you have furnished a topic of conversation to last an hour. Atchison Globe. "Hush, there are visitors in the drawing room." "How do you know?" "Listen, papa is saying 'My dear to mamma." Judy. - The man who would rather be right than be president can console himself with the thought that the chances are Just about as good. Puck. v - u - . A very modest bride declined to take a bridal trip to the Southwest, as-she had no desire to see the Cherokee Strlp.-Cin-cinnatl Tribune. For the head of an army nobody could have a better name than MHes. It has stood in its meaning of a sfldier for thousands of years. Philadelphia Times. "Jane," said the mistress to the new girl., "what burned that large hole in the rug?" "Fir'4," answered Jane, laconically, and and there the dialogue endad. Detroit Free Press. ABOt'T PEOPLE AND THINGS. One of the Rothschilds is quoted as saying that there will., be more chances to make money in America- during the next five years than in any, other section of the globe. It cannot be denied that the Empress of Austria has of late years been very eccentric, says Realm. She lives only for her hair and-figure, ra'ts raw meat, and takes a twenty-mile walk every day. Benjamin Constant,f in his Letters, says: "Here rs a pleasant trait of amour propre supplied me by Schlegel. v One day he read me a letter he had addressed to one of his friends. Shortly afterward I happened to see that the friend, had died. I spoke of it to Schlegel, who , replied: "les, he is dead; but. however, he, had time, to receive my letter, before dying.'. " - m At the Genesee M. E. Conference Bishop Vincent addressed seven ."young men, who have been on trial for two years, who were admitted. He said: "I believe in good exercise and healthy methods of living for ministers and all other persons. I think nothing has done so much for our young people as the bicycle. -It has saved them from falling Into many bad practices, and built up their constitution at the same time. I hope you all have them; if not, get one." From a letter received recently by the Boston Theosophleal Society from the young man's mother it appears that there was not a word of truth in the story that George Roble, of Chicago, whose body was found in the Calumet river last month, committed suicide to "test the teachings of theosophy." as reported. It is believed that he fell through a railroad trestle into the river while on his way to deliver a lecture, and that it was an accident pure and simple. He had shown none of the signs of madness the reports credrted him with, and had never said much about theosophy at his home. , King Leopold was never so popular In Paris as at present. During his recent visit to the French capital the populace thawed unmistakable evidence of their respect and esteem, and. whenever they caught sight cf him . on the boulevards, in theaters and railway stations they saluted him with cries of "Long live the King of tne Bel gians!" Leopold is not a handsome man. One morning while he was -returning to his

hotel from a walk he askei two loiterers at the doors what they were waiting for. "To see the King," was the reply. "That Is not a very imerestlng spectacle," said the monarch as he entered the hotel. Nicola Tcsla, the famous electrician, is In hot water with his former Servian friends. Rumors of his reputed great wealth have reached the little country on the Danube, and he Is receiving many letters asking him to help his native state by paying off its national debt. As Mr. Tesla is not yet a plutocrat, and is a modest and. hard-working man of science, the letters receive short consideration. Let him who can admire the lass , Of modern thought and dress; I cherish still, though decades pass. Old-fashioned comeliness. Though solitude my heart may move, I shall not go not I A courting of My lady love Where bloomers I descry. - What though her voice sound sweet to me? Toward slang Its cadenc"e sets. What though her Hps like coral be? They may. puff cigarettes. And so, though desolate I prove, I shall not go not I . A courting of My lady love Where bloomers I descry. Washington Star. ANOTHER PROP GONE

WITNESS FOR DrRRANT GIVES EVI- . DEXCE AGAINST HIM. 3Inn Whom Defense 'Attempted to - Show Hnd Pawned a ntnsr Dear o .1 Resemblance to the Prisoner SAN" FKAXCISCO, Oct. 8.-Af ter wandering through a mass of unimportant witnesses, the defense In the Durrant case this afternoon summoned to the stand two of the most Important witnesses that have been called since the prosecution closed its case. One witness materially aided the defense, for the fact that on cross-examination he failed to -give important testimony expected by the prosecution. The examination of the other witnesses had only, just begun when the court took a recess until to-morrow morning, but in the short time the witness was on the stand he testified to one important fact, which was directly opposed to what the defense had hoped to establish. . ' '. . ' The most important witness of the day was Charles Lenahan, the young man who, the defense contends, was mistaken for Durrant by pawnbroker Oppenhelm. Lenahan, who does not bear a striking reSemblance to the prisoner, said that on -April 3 he. attempted to pawn a small diamond ring, similar to the one worn by Blanche Lamont, at Qppenheim's shop. The witness said that he asked Oppenheim the same questions and received the same answers that Oppenhelm quoted in relating the. conversation he had with the young man whom Oppenheim testified was Durrant. Then came the surprise to the defense, which counteracted nearly all of the strength gained from witness's testimony. Lenahan said he tried to pawn the ring in the afternoon, while 'Oppehelm testified that Durrant entered his shop In 4 the morning. Attorney , Duprey was considerably disconcerted by the statement. of the witness, and endeavored to impeach Lenahan's testimony by reading a letter written by Lenahan to the attorney for the defense, in which he divulged the fact that he had tried to pawn a -small diamond ring at Oppenheim's on the same day Durrant was said to have entered the place. The court Interrupted Duprey, however, and refused to let him read only such parts of ' the letter as referred to the question in Issue., Duprey then asked that the letter be admitted in evidence, and at the close of the struggle over this, move, court adjourned for the day. The'court refused to admit the whole letter in evidence, as some passages .were devoted to the expression of the writer's opinions as to the correctness of Oppenheim's testimony. The remainder of the letter was admitted. After Lenahan surprised the defense by stating that he tried to pawn the ring in the. afternoon, attorney Duprey became very suspicious of the witness, and asked him. several questions intended to indicate that he had transferred his sympathies from the defense to the prosecution. Among other things, attorney Duprey asked Lenahan If he had not been informed by persons known to be in sympathy with the prosecution. Duprey also asked him when he had shaved on the mustache that he wore when he entered Oppenheim's shop. Lenahan said he had never worn a mustache in his life. Duprey intimated that he would impeach the testimony of the witness on this point by a statement contained In the letter written by Lenahan to the, attorneys for the defense. i W; A. Dukes, a student at Cooper Medical College, who was expected to give strong evidence for the prosecution, gave disappointing testimony. Dukes said that Durrant asked him if he could remember that he attended Dr. Cheney's lecture on the afternoon of April 3, and to that end recalled a number of Incidents said to have taken place at that time. Although Dukes's seat in the lecture room was next to Durrant's, Dukes could not remember whether Durrant was there or not, and told him so. Dukes said it was untrue, as "had been reported, that Durrant asked him as a favor that he would attend the lecture. On the contrary. Dukes said that Durrant told him he wished him to testify only to the facts as he remembered them. With one exception, the remainder of the witnesses were called to testify to the previous good reputation of the defendant. H. N. F. Marshall, a reporter on a morning paper, testified that on April 14 detective Gibson, who discovered Blanche Lamont's body In the belfry of Emanuel Church, told him that he saw the prints of a No. 9 shoe near where the body lay. Durrant wears a smaller rhoe. In the case of Miss Carrie Cunningham, a newspaper reporter, who refused to disclose the source of certain information relative to the nature of Mrs. Leake's testimony. Judge Murphy ruled that the witness was right in refusing to answer the questions. Miss Cunningham was, therefore, not punished for contempt: .. FATHER FLAHERTY GUILTY. Jury Considers Him the Father nf Mary Sweeney's Child. GENESEE, N. Y., Oct. 8. After six hours deliberation the jury in the case of Father Flaherty, the Mount Morris priest charged with the rape of a member of , his church under sixteen years, brought in a verdict of ' guilty. Sentence was deferred till Wednesday. ' In 1S33 Father Flaherty was charged by Mary Sweeney, the adopted daughter of a prominent resident of Mount Morris, with being the father of her child. In the Court of Sessions Father Flaherty was convicted and sentenced to seven and one-half years in the Auburn prison. He appealed on the ground of prejudice, and the general term granted a new trial. Father Flaherty was the rector of St. Patrick, Church, at Mount Morris, for ten years. ARMOURS ROBBED. False Weights t'sed toy n We I Kb. master In Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 8.-A wholesale system of robbery extending over a period of twelve months or more has been unearthed in Kansas City, Kan., by the Armour Packing Company, who are the victims. Many thousands of dollars have been stolen from the company during that time through a system of false wtghts. The principals In the robbery are Frederick Manne and Joseph Kaufman, two chicken buyers, who sold their goods to the Armour corrfpany, and the welghmaster for the firm, who passed on the purchases and credited the- seller 'with double weight. Manne and Kaufman were arrested to-day and held in bonds of $2,5CO each. The name of the welghmaster Is not known. Several other arrests will soon follow. Elevator Dropped Pour Stories). CHICAGO, Oct. 8. An elevator In the building of the National Tailoring Company, in Fianklin street, fell one hundred feet to-day, fatally injuring a man and a boy " and reriously injured two others. Joseph Rosenberg was internally injured and will die. Hyman Kown had his legs fractured and otherwise bruised. Abraham Clernange has his spine Injured and lower limbs paralyzed. Herman Clernange. a boy, has his right side Injured and will -die. The victims were all tailor shp employees. The car had reached the fourth floor when I the cable" snapped. The elevztcr was an I old end rickety freight Hit.

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GEX. RODItlQtEZ pnOMISnS THAT CXHA WIIL S5QOX DE FREE. Appeals to the United States to Permit Open Shipment of Arms to the Insmrsrenia. PRECEDENT FOR CONGRESS CLAIMS TO BE PRESENTED AS SOON AS THE SESSION OPENS. Latest News from the Island to the Effect thnt Rebels Are Doing , Great Destruction. NEW YORK. Oct 8.-General Joseph Rodriquez. of the Cuban army, in a letter to President Palma of the Junta, repeats the declarations that the revolutionists need only arms and ammunition to assure the triumph cf their cause and earnestly pleads that tho United Satetes give them aid. Rodriquez, who Is chief of staff fcr General Rolen", says: "We are completing trie main hody of our army In Los Villas. We ha vo ?. tided it Into two divisions one di vision. mar. General Sortfln Sanchez, the other -vV-f r General Suarez. Each division lr. ,f arrr.ed of two brigades which are again sjbdivi&ed, one into two columns of coktiy and one of infantry' and the other in onr of. Infantry and two of cavalry. Eveiy lit:' , hundreds of young men from towns find, villages flock to our ranks, but unfortunately we have no arms or ammunition for thttri,. and though full of zeal and patriotjrr.i, they are unable to aid our cause. vVe want arms and ammunition uuV, iTid we hope that the United States will nt forbid the shipping of arms as merc!undise from its ports. "Had we arms and ammunition, believe me, the war would not last very long, and in a very short time Cuba would achieve her IndeT enAcnc. It is only a question of time Li tin c-ase. Triumph Is assured, but that triumph would dawn all the sooner if arms could be sent to us from the United States with the full permission of its government. "Why should the United States restrict our movements or detain the hour of our freedom? The quicker the realization or our liberties the greater the advantage to the United States. Commercial Intercourse between a free Cuba and the United States would be greatly augmented. Now it is narrowed by .the selfishness of Spain. Apart from sympathetic reasons the business aspect of the question should appeal most strongly to the government of the United States for recognition and satisfaction. Let the United States permit our friends under its flag to' ship us arms and ammunition, and before you realize it, there will be an other free republic in America." j HAVANA. Oct. 8.-It is reported here that the Insurgents have derailed a. train between San Domingo and Manacas, one fireman being killed and several passengers slightly injured. Dispatches received here from Santiago de Cuba cay that the government cruiser Alcedo has been firing at bands of insurgents ashore In the neighborhood of Cape Maysi, atj the most eastern extremity of the island of Cuba, and it is added that on Sept. 26 the cruiser, while so engaged, stopped a steamer believed to be the Alene, which left New York on Sept. 21 for Kingston, Savanilla and Carthagena: The Alene belongs to the Atlas line, and was flying the British flag. The firing caused her to stop, under the impression. It Is presumed, that she was being fired on,, but, not receiving any orders from the cruiser, and seeing that the latter was firing towards the land, she continued on her course, apparently, heading for Jamaica. . The dispatch giving the first news of the stopping of the Alene was held by the authorites here. The Spanish colony in Mexico has notified the Spanish government that it has placed five hundred mules at Its dis-' posal for use during the military operations against the insurgents of this island. A curious maritime disaster Is reported from Malaga, near the Colorado reefs, on which the Cristobal Colon recently met with disaster, and where other disasters to shipping have recently occurred.' It appears that the coasting steamer Triton, being In danger of going ashore on the reefs during ;the recent cyclone, was sunk by her com mander, and, arter the gale, she was pumped out and floated. A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, dated Sept. 27, announced that the captain of the British steamer Alene. of the Atlas line, on her arrival there reported that Mis vessel had been fired on by a Spanish gunboat the previous day. The gunboat appeared In the Alene's wake, and without warning fired three shots after her. The Alene promptly hoisted her colors and put about. The cruiser, according to the captain of the Alene, approached to within a mile of her and then turned around and steamed away. aBSBBSSSsaaaBBBBBBBBBBaSBBsaHBaBl WILL WAIT FOR CONGRESS. - Cnhan Inaursrents Appeal for Recognition In' This Conn try. WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. De Quesada, secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party, with headquarters in New York, has been in Washington recently on private business. He did not see Secretary Olney nor were any steps taken toward securing the recognition of the Cuban Insurgents as belligerents. Mr. Quesada had come oA to attend the trial of the Cuban filibusters at Wilmington, and extended his trip to Washington to see friends. The1 policy of the Cubans In seeking recognition of the United States has been outlined substantially as-follows: No application will be made to the executive branch of the government until Congress assembles. It is the feeling that even if the executive authorities were disposed to recognize the Cubans, .the action would Involve such grave responsibility that the executive branch would desire to have the co-operation and support of the Congress. Care will be taken also to see that there Is uniformity in the' step proposed to Congress. In this way the mistakes made at the time of the last Cuban uprising will be avoided. At that time ithere weite rfo less than forty different Cuban resolutions referred to the House committee proposing recognition, arbitration and many other plans, all Intended to favor Cuba. In the end this diversity of proposals prevented an agreement on any one course. In connection with the probable presentation of the su'oJect to Congress and the executive branch an Interesting precedent has been found In the archives of the State Department. It involves the recognition by President Monroe of the South and Central American republics when they broke away from Spain. The Spanish minister at Washington made the most urgent protest, to which John Quincy Adams, Secretary, of State, replied, stating the policy of this government in giving recognition. The propositions then advanced by Spain1 and the replies made by the United States are said to be exactly parallel in the statements of facts to the status of the Cuban affair to-day. President Monroe sent a message to Congress in March. 1822. In which he proposed the recognition of the Insurgent fovernment in Spanish America, as then esignated and Including Mexico. .Peru, Chile. Colombia. Brazil and other countries. On March 9, Senor Anduaga, the Spanish minister, addressed a letter to Secretary Adams expressing his astonishment at the course of the President. After reciting many acts of kindness Spain had done for the United States, the minister says: "But even admitting that morality ought to. yield to policy, what is the present state of Spanish America, and what are its governments to entitle It to recognition? Buenos Ayres sunk In the most complete anarchy and each day sees new desocts produced who disappear the next. Peru conquered by a rebel army, has near the gates of its capital a Spanish army. In Chile, an Individual suppresses . the .sentiments of ' the people. On the coast of Firma, also, the Spanlf h banners wave. The insurgent generals everywhere are occupied with quarrels among themselves. In Mexico there is no government. Where, then, arc the governments which ought to recognized?" tVoretary Adams's answer Is dated April 6, 1?22. He cays he at once laid the Spanish minister's letter before the President. The latter desires the friendliest relations with Spain. But In recognizing the ssouthprn countries the President had been gov erned by facts which. Mr. AcUims points out, sue qu.ie ctrreiei.t rom ie :acia ?c

forth by the minister. Mr. Adams lays down the general principles governinr the recognition of the new countries. Oje Is the principle of right, the other the principle of fact. The Secretary says thai tho United States has carefully refrained from taking any rart in the outbreak snd hus maintanied a most Impartial nf-utrsllty. Rut the contestants have ret up tbclr -rvn governments and have successfully rcsi-tcd Spain. There are conditions of fat, kind they are ruch as to entitle the insurant countries to recognition. 31r. Adams a$l.: 'The government of the United Stties, far from consulting the dictation ot a policy questionable In Us morality, lta yielded to an obligation of duty of he highest order by recognlring as independent states, nations which, after dehors cly asserting their right to that chsr&ct r. have maintained and established It a -aim all the resistance brought to orpore t. This is the mere acknowledgment of exiting facts with a view to the regular establishment with the nations newly fenrj-d of those relations, political and commsrcld. which it Is the moral obligation of clvlllrd and Chrstlan nations to entertain reclpncally with each other." THE M0UA INDEIISITi

STATE DEPARTMENT WILL PAT TEH t CLAI3IANTS THIS WEZIC. ' . Mrs. Waller and Family Expected U Arrive In New York Saturday "General Capital News. WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-It Is expected that the State Department, which is the custodian of the funds paid by Spain on the Mora claim, will pay tho money to the different parties on Thursday and possibly to-morrow. The amount finally agreed on for Antonio Maximo Mora, principal In the claim, is SSG7.0S5. This sum has been reduced tomewhat by assignments, and the actual amount to be paid Mr. Mora will be slightly above $700,000. The next payment of Importance will, be 2S7,C0O to Dr. Jose I. Rodriguez, who has heen the attorney of MY. Mora since the inception of the case In 18T0. A further amount, approximately 25,030, will be devoted to the payment of Mr. Nathaniel Page, who was at one time an attorney in the case, or to thor? to. whom he 'may have assigned his interest. In the original agreement between Mr. Mora and his attorneys he was'to retain SO per cent, and they were to have 40 per cent., the latter sum to cover all legal expenses. . ' Mrs. Waller to Arrive Saturday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. Mrs. Waller, wife of ex-United States Consul-genet a! Waller, now imprisoned by the French government, will arrive In New York on Saturday, and steps are being taken to have ter met by representatives of the Slate -' fc-Ain-iik.. mi .svii, jl aui ui a n ill vlacn go to meet her. She is accompanied by her young children, the family having made the long journey from Maiaszscar by way of Paris. Relief funds for her have been raised in Kansas, Iowa and Washington, and these will be available for her support after the landing. Thus far eho has been helped homewsrd by private contributions, the State Department aiding ner irom .Madagascar to ranee, ana i;m bassador Eustls advancing the funds for her trip to New York. Ethelbert Woodford, a young American in Madagascar, supplied her immediate needs until assistance was rendered by the State Department. It Is expected she will settle In Iowa. Patents for Indiana Inventors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. - Patents hava been granted to the following residents of Indiana: Cortland Ball, Indianapolis, hydro-carbon burner; Greenberry Bryant, Raleigh, wire fence; Charlea B. Case, Indianapolis, cell-door lock; Francis P. Davidson, Fast Chicago, apparatus for rolling plats glass; George "F. Hartley, assignor to J. 11. Smith & Co., Muncie, sandpapering machine; George W. Marble, assignor to In--dfcana NoveHty Manufacturing Company, Plymouth, wodcn-rlm bicycle wheel; John S. MaxwelL Worthingion, Kate hinge; Gottlieb Schneider Kendallvllle, - food cooker and boileri Melville F. Shaw and J F. Gail, Ingalls, wire mattress designs; Jacob Hummel, Elkhart, vehicle step pad. A Boy for President Cleveland WASHINGTON. Oct. 8. After a lon period of freedom from such Inflictions, another crank , turned up at the Whito House to-day in. the person of one Owen Jones, hailing from New York State. Ho had previously addressed a threatening letter to the house, fo the officers were on the watch for him. This morning he turnedup, and in an incoherent- and rambling fashton that plainly showed a disordered mind announced he had come for employment as the President's boy. ' He was promotly removed -to the nearest station, and it Is probable that he will be examined as to his mental condition. General News ; Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. Fourth-clars postmasters have been appointed as follows: At Maxlnkuckee, Marshall county, D. O. Wallace, vice G. W. Kline, resirned; at Myoma, Washington county, Marjtrrt Fleener, vice J. M. Fleener, deceased; at Sherman, Randolph county, A. E. Drill, vice Clark Stewart, resigned. ' To-day's statement of the conditloc. of the treasury shows avaljablo cash balances of tlS2.867.123: gold reserve. t33.017Cl The records of the Treasury Department show that 1,522 persons raid Income taxes aggregating $77,130 before the adverts decision of the Supreme Court as to its constitutionality was rendered. Of the whole number 709 have applied for and hav xu refunded amounts paid, aggregating JL3.5C why'frof. bemis left. nis Views on Chicago Strike TVero t'sed Against Ilia. CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Prof. Bemis, late associate professor of political economy in the Chicago University, made a statement to-r.!ght as to why he left that Institution. He quotes the following, from a letter of President Harper: "I am persuaded that in the long nm you can do In another Institution, because of the circumstances here, a better and more satisfactory work to yourself than ycu can to here. I am personally very much attached to you. You are, however, man of the world enough to knew that, unless one is in the best environment, hs cannot work to-the best advantage. You are sa well known and your tbllity t? widely recognized that there will be surely no difficulty in securing for you a good position, one in which you will be monarch and one in which you will be, above ail things else. Independent." v , Other quotations from other letters of ths president are given, setting forth the moderateness cf I'rof. Bemis's Mews, his success in his work and pleasant relations with nearly all his colleague s. However, for publicly stating. Just after the great railroad strike of that "the railroads in the past-had broken the law equ.-Jly with their employes" though "no justification was attempted for the men in the strike" he resigned. In another letter quoted President Harper says: "Your speech at the First Pretbyterian Church has caused me a great deal cf annoyance. It Is hardly safe for me to venture Into any of the Chicago clubs. I am pounced on from all sides. 1 proposs that during the remainder of your cenneeticn with the university you exerci2 rre-t care in public utterances shout question that are agitating the minds of tha people."- ' When Professor Bemis ured tnat tns university should be in close touch with labor, municipal and monopoly prcilrrss the president replied: "Yes. it Is val Lle worfc and you are a good man to ".a It. tut this may not be this is not the inrtltutlcn where such work can be done." Referring to Dr. Bemis. the president tV.I another gentleman "It is all very well to sympathize with ths worklnmen. tut we get our money from the other side tnd, we can't afford to offend thrm. Altcether, aside from Professor Bemts's perso-ad Interest in the question. It is declared to t the far larger issue of the. subjection cf college teaching to any lowei alms than ths pursuit of truth." Killed ly an Editor. WILLOWS. Cal.. Oct. 8.-W. A. C:::, editor cf the Journal, fired thrc thoti tt J. E. Putnam, drusslst ar.d prr" . nt of C ; municipal beajd of trvtrr.-:. 1 tnam f;ll dead. An altercatlrn err a !'-utr 1 r--r.vmt amounting t: a fy ra c---- " the r.cctlr.