Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1895 — Page 1

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JJL ill! OLD JAMES E. PEPPER 51.50 Ots. $15 Case.' Discount to the Trade. POIAER & DRAKE, Distributors of Fine Imported and Domestic Groceries, 16 North Meridian Street. A HIGH-GRADE HAVANA CIGAR EIGHT SIZES. EIGHT SIZES, 56 We3t Washington Street, Entrance Into Bates House lobby. BATTLE SHIP INDIANA sun gives rnoMisB op beixo tiie NAVAL QUECX OP II CR CLASS. Goesj Throaeh the Water Without One Deffree of Roll Preliminary Ran Over the Offlclal Trial Coarse. BOSTON, Oct. 16. The battle ship Indiana waa given a preliminary run to-day over 4he government trial course oft the Massachusetts coast, between, Cape Ann and Boone island, and the result was very satisfactory. On tho run up the course the average reached was 13.31 knots an hour for two hours. The course measures thirty-one knots, and in marked by six big black buoj'a..plADCil' C.2 knots apart. The greatest speed achieved to-day was between the third and fourth buoys,-the average' for the distance being 15.75 knots. Boilers, engines and every thing . about the ship showed to such advantage on the run that it was not deemed necessary to speed her on the return trip, and she was, therefore. Jogged back over the course at an average speed of 13 knots. Her official trial will probably take place Friday. The Indiana is believed to be the steadiest battle ship ever constructed. After she passed to sea from the Delaware capes yesterday morning, her compasses were adjusted and then she was headed for Boston. From Southeast End lightship, off the NewJersey coast, to New South Shoals, Mass., the ship averaged twelve and a half knots an hour, with a head sea running. No attempt was made to approach the speed limit of fifteen knots an hour, but the engines and boilers were found to be in firstclass condition, the average number of revolutions being 120 per minute, with a horsepower development of 8,500. Mr. Cramp said in an Interview: "The gratifying feature of the Indiana's run to this port was the surprising; lack of roll. The ship was as steady as a church, and surprised everybody on board by her admirable behavior." - Lieutenant Nixon was naturally enthusiastic over the ship's performance, as he not only designed her. but also superintended ner construction- He said: "The Indiana rolled so little that the officers detailed to observe that feature abandoned their measuring instruments and did not record any roll whatever." Commodore Selfridge, after reading a report ssnt to him by the members of the trial board who came around on the ship, telegraphed the Secretary of the Navy that the Indiana behaved admirably on the voyage from Philadelphia. Later, in an interview, he said: "They bring me very gratifying news regarding the steadiness of the new battle ship. With her heavy armor and armament, It was naturally expected. Judging from the experience of other countries with their modern battle ships, that we would have considerable roll to contend with. One of England's battle ships is said to have rolled forty degrees, whereas the Indiana does not record a roll of even one degree. This gives her an almost stationary gun p!atfo-m. a condition very much to be desired when the guns are used In action." . FATAL COLLISION. Fireman ana Drakeman Killed and Engineer Dangerously Injured. ALTOONA, Pa., Oct. 16. Two men were killed and one fatally and several slightly injured In a wreck on the Martinsburg branch of the Pennsylvania road to-day. The dead are: W. F. GOOD, of Henrietta, fireman of the Martinsburg train. J. Q. WOODRING. of Tyrone, front brakeman of the water train, both legs cut off and head crushed. The following were injured: David Arthur, of Altoona, engineer of the Martinsburg train, so badly scalded and injured Internally that he cannot recover; Henry Blackburn, engineer of the water train, seriously but not fatally hurt; William Jones, of Bucket Station, a passenger, thrown through a door and painfully injured; Benjamin Weyandt. of Roaring Springs, a passenger, badly cut about arms. Conductor Davis, of the passenger train, escaped with slight injuries. A number of others were more or less cut by flying glass. The wreck occurred between the Martinsburg mixed train, hauling milk and Altoona shop workmen, and a water train, a mile west of this city. The water train, consisting of several tank cars, had been ordered to proceed to the "Y" switch near HolltJaysburg to get water for the Altoona shops and was Just pulling from a siding to the main track when the Martinsburg train came around the curve at full speed. The collision demolished both locomotives and derailed several of the tank cars. The passenger cars kept the track. A confusion of orders 1 responsible for the accident, which is the mo.x serious that ever occurred on the Altoona division. Investment Insurance Company. ALBANY. N. Y.. Oct. 16. Superintendent of Insurance Pierce to-day transmitted to the Attnroey-ffeneral report showing the Long Island Mutual Fire Insurance Co.-po-ration of Patchcgu? to be insolvent, an! requesting him to take su?h proceedings as may be neceistry to wind ap the company's affairs.

IfciLe2nL CItUEL "WORK OF A MOB DETAILS OF TIIE FIENDISH TORTURE OP A TENNESSEE COLORED MAX, Jefferson Ellis Mutilated In a Ilorrlble Way, Hanged, Beheaded and the Body Suspended by the Feet. (MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct 1$.-The lynching of Jefferson Ellis, the Fayette county rapist, briefly announced this morning, was attended with brutal cruelty seldom equaled by Southern mobs. Details of the crime show that Ellis was strung to a telegraph pole at 1:40 o'clock this morning by S50'men within two hundred yards of the Bcene of his crime. Before hanging the negro the mob cut off both his ears and all of his fingers and mutilated him in a horrible and unmerciful manner. The mob, with their prisoner, reached the home of his victim, Miss Pratter, soon after mld-nlght. . The young woman identified him as her assailant. As soon as this was ?one an armed squad of men took Ellis from Constable Farrow and started with hlin for the pike where the public road crosses the Louisville & Nashville railroad. Here there is also a telegraph pole. A big fire had been built at the place, rnd around It the mob gathered in a circle. The handcuffed negro was on his knees before the Are. The leaders of the mob told Ellis to pray, but he only looked at them In a stupid manner. - Being told that he was about to die he raised his voice in a negro hymn. By tho time he had finished the mob was in an ugly mood, and the fiercer element waa In control. Cries of "Burn him!" were heard on all slJes. This fearful fate would probably have been fortunate for the negro, as subsequent events proved. Amid the shouts of the mob a man Jumped to the negro's side with a drawn knife in his hand. "Cut oil his ears!" somebody cried. "Give me a finger," shouted one man. "I want a thumb," cried another. The better element in the crowd drew off at this time, and said they were not in favor of doing anything but hanging the negro, ineir protests JWiaeejed. .Being urged on bythe fieicer element m the crowd the man with the knife cut off the negro's right ear and held up the bleeding trophy in full view of the crowd. The negro' screamed, but his other ear was cut off a few moments later. The . mob became madder at the eight of this work, and those who were mutilating the negro found ample encouragement. They next cut off all his Angers, and, tearing away part of his clothes, they mutillated him in a horrible manner. The negro was covered with blood, and his head looked like It had been scalped. The mob was not even then willing to end the negro's agony. They made him stand up so all the crowd could see him. Finally, fully thirtyfive minutes after the torture of the negro began, the rope was put around his neck. The telegraph pole was seventy-five feet away. The rope was a very leng one. The free end was taken by a man, who quickly climbed the telegraph pole and threw it over the cross arm. The crowd Jerked the negro to the foot of the pole, and while the mob shouted the bleeding artd mutilated form of the negro was swunsr to the cross Arm. Th ncnv nm lowered to the ground and his head was cut from his body with pocket knives. The noose was then put over the feet and the headless body was again swung up. It is intended to send the head to the family of the little girl the negro attempted to assault last Saturday In Mississippi. A placard was put on the negro's body bearine these words: DEATH TO TUB MAN WIIO : HTS HrM IWN BEFORE 6:30 : : TIII3 EVENING. : ............................,........... . The point where the lynching occurred Is a cross-road called Clifton Summit. The mob dispersed after doing Its work. Jen! Ellis, on the afternoon of Oct. 5, criminally assaulted Miss Bettle Prater in the presence of the latters' two little sisters. He escaped from a mob which had gathered to lynch him that night, but he was pursued unremittingly until he was captured Monday near .Mount Pleasant, Miss. He confessed to the assault on Miss Prater, to the outrage and murder of a. Mrs. Wilcox, of the same neighborhood, two years ago, and to an attempted assault on a little girl in Mississippi while he was trying to escape from the mob. At midnight the body of Ellis still hangs to an arm of the telegraph pole from which it was suspended after the mob had done its awful work this morning. To-day an inquest was held over the remains, but they were not lowered to the ground. A verdict of death at the hands of unknown parties was returned, and the re!atlves of the dead negro were notified that his body would be turned over to them If they desired. No reply to the notice was received. THREE CONVENTIONS. Carriage Dalldsrs, Carriage Accessory Salesmen and Ifarnens Retailers. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 16. At to-day's session of the carriage builders' national convention, ex-President C. F. Kimball, of Chicago, reported for the committee on good roads. Good roads, he said,' were not only a comfort to the community, but they added to the value of property and were always a wise and economical Investment. He urged the employment of convicts and vagrants on the roads and recommended the enactment of laws requiring the use of wide tires on vehicles, and he objected to the turning over of the country roads to trolley cars. Sterling Elliott, of the League of American Wheelmen made a plea for the furnishing of good roads literature to the newspapers, which was Indorsed by Mr. Kimball. The election of officers followed, resulting as "follows: President, Henry Tlmken, St. Louis; vice presidents, Henry C. Htaurer, Chicago; H. S. Holcomb, New Haves; Robertson. Denver; Schuyler Colfax, South Bend. Ind.: J. D. Dort. Flint. Mich.; M. Woodhull, Dayton: J. A. Scott. Uoston; C. O. Wrenn, Norfolk, Va.; J. C. Moon, St. Louis: secretary-treasurer, Henry C. McLear, Wilmington. Del.; executive committee, Channing M. Britton, New York; George M. Studebaker, South Bend; F. H. Hooker, New Haven. Conn.; trustee of the technical school, C. M. Britton, New York. The fifth annual meeting of the Carriage, Harness and Accessory Salesmen's Association occurred to-day. The organisation is benevolent as well as fraternal. The officers' reports showed only X& In the treasury and revealed the fact that the treasurer had not been able to pay a recent

Thomas Connelly, Dubuque: D. J.'Folger, Amesbury, Mass.; Joseph Colyer, Newark, N. J.: W. T. Jones. Carthajre. N. C: x.

death benefit. Thl3 stirred up a storm of indignation and brought out the further information that two-thlrda of the members had not paid their dues. There was a hot discussion and many present advocated d!sbandment. but a compromise was effected by ordering a special assessment of VI per member. Officers were elected as follows: President, W. W. Wood: vice presidents, Fred W. Gowan, W. P. Nolan, J. F. Lincoln, George Lee, W. F. Adams and C. F. Pratt: secretary-treasurer. It. D. Randall; executive committee, James MUburn. Jr., C. C. Hayes, W. B. Templeton. C. B. Beckwlth and C. E. Hopewood. The seventh annual meeting cf the Carriage and Harness Retail Dealers' Protective Association was also held hero to-day. The reports of the officers showed successful work In preventing the manufacturers from selling' as retailers. Several additional manufacturers were placed on the black list and the 3,100 members asked not to buy from them. Officers were elected as follows: President, L. E. Coolldge, Woodvllle, Mass.; vice president, B. D. Carpenter, Detroit: secretary. William Rankin. Troy, N. Y. The association adjourned to meet next year in New York. BILLIARD TOURNAMENTS.

Series Proposed by Maurice Dnlynnd Frank Ives $8,000 in I'rlxes. NEW YORK, Oct. 36. Maurice Daly and Frank Ives announce a eeries of billiard tournaments, for which they offer prizes aggregating $8,000. The , following was drawn up and signed this afternoon: "With a view of adding interest to the game of billiards, besides affording the players of the first, second and third classes an opporunlty to show the public their relative ability, most of these players having been hererofore deprived of an opportunity of showing their skill and believing that the public would appreciate an opportunity to see the best experts in the country compete In a tournament, we hereby offer: Three thousand dollars for a tournament, to be played In New York about the first week in December, 1S$, at either balk lines or cushion caroms, as the players may choose, to be divided Into four prizes; $3,000 for a tournament, to be. played in Chicago about the third week in January, 1SUC, on the same basis as the one in New York; $1,000 for a tournament, to tw played in Boston after the Chicago games; J1.00O for a tournament, to be played in either Cincinnati or St. Lbuls after the Chicago games. Entrance money $100 for each tournament, to go to the winner. All tournaments to be In the handicap basis balk line games for eight hundred points up and no player to be allowed more than four hundred point9 handicen; cushion carvm games to be three hundred" points up and no player allowed more than seventy-five points handicap; handicaps to be arranged by the contestants if possible; or, if they cannot agree, by a committee of three, to be chosen by the players. The prize money will be deposited with any responsible newspaper or person the players may agree upon. Entries close Nov. 9." It is expected that at least eight players will participate in tho affairs. Ives and Daly will, of course, enter. Billy Sexton and Tom Gallagher have signified their Intention of competlnsr. Slos?on will be seen at once and Schaeffer will be communicated with. The management of the tournaments will ' he in the hands of Maurice Daly. Among the experts not already mentfoned who are likely to enter are McLaughlin. Splnks, Catton. Hatley and Harrison. Possibly the name of some French player may be found among the list when the entries are all uu RACE WITH THE MAILS FIRST TRIP OF TIIE ST. LOUIS UNDER TIIE NEW POSTAL CONTRACT. Contest of Speed Between the American Liner nnd the White Star Line Stenmer Majestic. Ls3EH7. YOBIwDciJilTho new American liner St. Louis sped frcA the harbor to-day cn her race with the mills across the ocean. Sho left her pier la the North river four hours ahead of her. rival, the White Star liner Majestic, buTthat fact,will not In the least stifle the ambition of the craft to get her postal matter la London first. The St. Louis Is bound for Southampton, or 275 miles further than the destination of the Majestic, which Is Queenstown. This means from fourteen to fifteen hours extra steaming for the St. Louis, but in landing the mails at Southampton the Journey between that point and London is two hours only by mail. The distance between Queenstown and London, by way of Dublin, Kingston and Holyhead, is D04 miles, which Is accomplished in fifteen hours and forty minutes, Including the sea passage of four hours and forty-five minutes between Kingston pier and Holyhead. So it can be seen what a close contest It Is, all things considered. What lends additional interest to the Journey of the two ships Is the fact that through the medium of the St. Louis the American line inuagurates on this trip a postal contract with the United States government that will net the steamship company $044,800 per year, or $6,448,000 for the ten years In which the agreement will hold good. These figures are given on the'basls of one trip to Europe each week by any of the four greyhounds the St. Louis, St. Paul, Paris or New Y'ork. Each trip will be made over a course averaging 3,100 sea miles from dock to dock, the rate of compensation being $4 per mile, or 112,100 per trip. This postal revenue to the company Is exclusive of any that the British government may give for the home passages. Because of this subsidy and the big sum3 involved, the postal authorities of both continents will watch the inaugural trip with the greatest interest. Comparisons will be drawn between the performance of the St. Louis and the Majestic, which also carries United States malls, to observe whether the Yankee flyer will be able to get her consignment of postal racks in London before her British rival. Tho St. Louis has the advantage of having a postal clerk on board, a novelty that England has not yet adopted. This postal clerk, on the way over, will sort and distribute the mail, so that when it reaches the Southwestern railway station at Southampton it will all be practically ready for delivery. There being no postal clerks on the Majestic, the mall of that vessel will be delivered at Queenstown in the same crude shape in which it was put aboard to-day, and the sorting process will have to be done on tho other side. Maiden Trip of the St. Pnnl. LONDON, Oct. 16. The new American liner St. Paul,, Captain Jamleson, from New York, for Southampton, was signaled off the Lizard at 10:22 o'clock to-night. The St. Paul cleared the bar at Sandy Hook at 12:50 p. m. on Oct. 9 and twenty-four minutes later the lightship was abeam. Her time to the Lizard is seven days four hours and twenty-two minutes. Al lowing her seven and a half hours to complete the voyage to The Needles the time of her maiden trip will be seven days. eleven hours and fifty-two minutes. She will be seven hours and fifty minutes behind tho time made by the St. Louis on her first trip. To have equaled the record to Southampton six days, ten hours and fiftv-flve minutes, made on September. 1&)J. by the Fuerst Bismarck, the St. Paul waa due to arrive at the Needles at 55 a. m. to-day. She will, therefore, be about ono day and nfty-seven minutes behind the fastest voyage oi me iiamourg-Amencan racer. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Arrived: Zandam, from Amsterdam. LIVERPOOL Oct. 16.--Arrtved: Angloman, from Montreal; ocytma, from Boston. LONDON, Oct. 16. Arrived: Austrian, from 3ion:reaL BREMEN, Oct. 16. Arrived: Stuttgart, from Baltimore. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 16. Arrived: Lahn, from New York, for Bremen. Gov. Ccmbnck's Boole. Governor Cumback's book is having a rap i a etna. 41a um iua wkuiucuj tlon printed,

KOTHISC YET DOSE

GOV. CLARKE HAS NOT ARRESTED ANY OF TIID PUGILISTS. lie Visits Hot Springs and Holds t Star Chamber . Conference - irlth Court nnd Municipal Officers. SCHEME TO TEST THE LAW O'DOXXELL AXD MAIIEXl 3IAY DB CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. FKiilmmoni In No Harrr to Reach Arkansas Fruitless Effort to rumpr the Attorney-General. HOT SPRINGS. Ark., Oct. K.-"v7hether the meeting of James J. Corbett and Robert Fitzslmmons shah occur at Hot Springs on Oct. 21 is not yet dectdad, but from all in dications the chances are now exceedingly favorable. Governor Clarke arrived on the noon train from Little Rock, and this afternoon he met the local committee, together with the Gaxland county officers in private conference, to which not a newspaper man was admitted. In the conference with the Governor were Brigadier General Taylor, Circuit Judge A. M. Duffle, County Judge J. W. Jones, State's Attorney G. sV. Tague, Mayor W. W. Watts, Judge D. D. Kimball, Sheriff R. Houpt, Hon. W. H. Martin, city attorney; C. N. Rlx, John B. Varnadore, Col. W. J. Little, euperintendent of United States reservation; Capt. S. IL Stitt, CoL C. G. Convers, ex-Mayor R. L. Williams, Lyman T. Hay, L. D. Cooper and, possibly, several others. An eager crowd awaited the. result of the deliberations aft er the Governor and Judge Duffle left the rooms In search of Judge D. B. Hudgins, of -the Fourteenth judicial district, who Is In the city to consult with him about a dis puted point of law. Members of the conference, when button holed, said that it had been agreed In the meeting that nothing that occurred there was to be made public. From the best Information that could be wormed out of the reluctant conferees, It Is understood that the matter is to be left by the Governor in the hands of the local authorities, in whom he has confidence, to properly Interpret the law and carry It out. Pursuant to this. It Is generally understood that since Fitzslmmons has not appeared In the State as yet and. therefore. Corbett cannot be made sub ject to direst, O'Donnell and Maher, who are here, are to be arrested to-morrow on a charge of conspiracy to break the peace, the exacted bond of 15,000 will be refused and a writ of habeas corpus sued out which will come up for trial before Chancellor Judge Leatherman at once, and his decision Is to be considered as a test of whether there is a prohibitive law affecting prize fighting. The Governor himself says no such law exists, and Judge Hudgins confirms the opinion. This makes the prospect lor an exhibition of fistic skill here seem exceedingly roseate, provided Fitzslmmons comes to time. ' Manager Vendlg wired Fitzslmmons today to come at once or the contest would be declared off. Fitzslmmons replied that he -would "not cometm-the-may before 'the fight; Fitzslmmons or his representative ad promised to be here Monday, when a referee would be selected. On Friday the sum of $3,100, to make good the $10,000 forfeit, must bo in Phil Dwyer's "hands. The time is growing short. O'Donnell Is at Spring Lake, Corbett's training quarters, and Peter Maher Is installed at Hughes's wine gardens, to finish his training. The entire galaxy of pugilistic stars gave an exhibition to a packed house at the opera house tonight. Governor Clarke to-night sent the following message to the Little Rock Gazette, in reply to a telegram asking the Governor as to the truth of the rumor that he had changed his attitude toward the glove contest: "Any statement that I have in any wise changed my attitude In regard to the proposed prize fight is not true. I do not know what is understood by having turned the matters over to the local authorities. They have neither more nor less to do with the affair than they had prior to my coming. The status in this respect has not in any wise changed." THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. He "Will Not Express an Opinion Unless Asked by the Governor. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 16. Attorneygeneral Klnsworthy's opinion on the legality of the course adopted by Governor Clarke in connection with the prize -fight question will probably never be known unless the Governor calls on him for a written opinion In the regular way. A reporter eousht to Interview Mr. KInsworthy today, but th Attorney-general declined to eay a word and successfully resisted the pumping process for more thanthlrty minutes. "Has the Governor any lawful right," asked the reporter, "to declare martial law In a locality where there is a regularly constituted local government which has expressed confidence in its ability to maintain order without his assistance, and without being railed on for his aid or assistance by tr.e local peace officers?" "I decline to answer," replied the Attorney-general bluntly. T will not give an opinion on this subject," he continued, "to any private citizen or to the press. 1 shall say nothing unless called on by the Governor in his otiiclal capacity for a writtea opinion. If that Is called for it will remain for the Governor to mak it public if he desires." Mr. KInsworthy said that he had received upwards of one thousand letters from various parts of the State from citizens seeking his opinion on various subjects, and that he had ignored them all. He believed, he said, that the Governor had ample authority under the law to stop the fight, but should he venture an opinion In tho press, said he, in less than twentyfour hours half the lawyers In the State would Jump up with adverse criticisms. and he.dld not care to enter into any con troversy. When questioned closely Attor Key-general KInsworthy admitted that the Governor is basing his course of action on the law of 1& He further admitted that that law was silent on the subject of prize ngats. but maintained tnat. as applicable to riots and unlawful assemblages. It gave the Governor ample authority to not only stop, but prevent the fight from ever beginning. Is the executive or this 5tate," was asked, "competent under the law to say that an audience of people assembled for the purpose of witnessing a boxing match Is an unlawful assemblage or a body of riotcrsr' "I must decline to answer that question, said the Attorney-general. Further questioning proved fruitless, as the Attorney-general was firm in his reso lutlon not to be Interviewed. "Were I to submit to an Interview," he said. "I might say some things that would not agree with Governor Clarke's view of the matter. Should I do that he would come In here and Jump on me, and I'm not go ing to take any cnances on mat." It Is said here on good authority that Attorney-general Kins wortny has been ad vised by friends to say nothing until called on for an omciai opinion. MIL.ITIA NOTIFIED. All White Companies in the State Or dered to lie Ready to More. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. l$.-Colonel Hollenberg, commanding the - First Regi ment, Arkansas Guards, Issued orders last night to every company in his regiment to hold themselves In readiness, subject to a call to move to Hot Springs. In an inter view this afternoon. Colonel Hollenberg gold: There la no secret about the matter.

Orders have been sent to every company of white militia in the State, notifying them to be in readiness to move to Hot Springs on short notice. If the prize fight is not

caiiea on Derore to-nignt. & oennue umw iur moving the militia to Hot Springs will be decided on, and that time will be soon, as we do not propose to have any trick played upon us. If tho militia goe9 to Hot Springs the expenses will be paid. I cannot eay who will be resDonslble. If the managers of the fight continue in their determination to have the fight come off the militia will be called out and stop the fight. Whether the Governor be right or wrong, ir he senas the militia to Hot Springs the fight will be stopped. I cannot take any cognizance in the premises in deciding whether he is ngni or wrong. Just how the Governor proposes to pay the expenses of the militia in the event It Is sent to Hot Springs is not known. If Garland county calls for the militia, of course that county will be held responsible financially. If the Governor calls out the soldiers on his own hook. It is not known who will pay the militia's ex penses, as the State has no money appro priated for this." Sneaking of this matter. Judge Morris M. Cohn, one of the most prominent members or the uttie Kock bar, sau: "Tne general impression among the bar, as I have always understood it, is that the Governor is only authorized to call out the mllltla to suppress a misdemeanor or other riotous proceedings when called on by the local authorities of the community in which such disturbances occur. Regular and proper ad ministration of government contemplates that the county administrations shall be invested with the core of county affairs, in cluding the preservation of peace and order, and that this shall not be interfered with by any outside power unless called on by the county authorities." WANT NO IIIPPODR031E. Jnllan and Fitzslmmons Say the Fluht Mnst De a Real One. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Oct. Id Martin Julian leaves here in the morning for New Orleans, whence he will go direct to Hot Springs, fully prepared to carry out Fitzslmmons's part of the agreement with the Florida Atheletic Club. Both he and Fitz slmmons are very much surprised at the statement in Tuesday's papers at the change of the orginal agreement to a sparring exhibition with soft gloves. He In dignantly denied that Fitzslmmons would engage in any such exhibition. "Our con tract with the Florida Atheletic Club calls for a fight to a finish," said. Julian, "and the gloves f.re to be five ounces. We are ready to perform our part of the agree ment, but Fitzslmmons is not going to en ter any pugilistic hippodrome, ir any one gets a ticket and Fitzslmmons goes Into the ring, they will see him whip or get whipped before he comes out." Fitzslmmons said: "The proposed change of the rules Is a fake. Sucn a show would not be any credit to either Corbett or me. They are Just using us to let the Florida Athletic Club sell more ticKets, ana tne citizens of Hot Springs draw a crowd to town. Suppose the referee called the fight after Jim had landed on me or I had gotten in one of my 'chance blows,' as they call them, who would be champion? I came down here to fight Jim Corbett, and all I want Is the time and place without any bloody Interference. In the meantime, I shall continue to train here until such place and time is settled." Hew Mexico Barred to the Sports. SANTA FE N. M.. Oct. lw Governor Thornton, when approached by emissaries of the Florida Athletic Club, declared that under no circumstances would he. permit Corbett and Fitzslmmons to fight in this Territory. He added that he had confidence In every sheriff doing his full duty in the premises, but If need be, he would call on the national government to aid him in suppressing anything of this sort.". El Paso Rnlses $15,000. EL PASO, Tex., Oct. 16. A telegram has been received from Dan Stuart stating that the Corbett-Fitzslmmons fight would be pulled off In El Paso if this city would pay the Mexican concession. At a meeting of the business men of El Paso $13,000 was subscribed to pay for the concession. '". IRISH HOME BULJ2T Archbishop Walsh Offers a Safrjrestlon to rutrlotlo Sons of Erin. TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 16.-Archbishop Walsh, who recently returned from Ireland, has addressed to Edward Blake, M..P. for South Tyrone, a letter on the question of Irish home rule. After expressing regret that the state of Mr. Blake's health prevented him accepting a reception from the citizens of Toronto, he asks: "How Is the success of the Irish cause to be obtained? How are the Irish national forces to be focused Into a great center of strength and power? "It seems to me," he continues, "that to the solution of this problem, Irish patriotIsm and Irish statesmanship should now devote themselvesSurely Ireland must still have the power and vitality to shake off from her the fatal dissensions that have, of late, preyed upon her and threatened the extinction of her national life; surely she must not aLow herself, like a derelict ship at sea, to drift about aimlessly and hopelessly, a prey to the waves and storms of anerer passions and Internecine feuds. "My suggestion is this: Let a great na tional convention be held in Dublin, comnosed of chosen representatives of the clergy and people of Ireland and of an advisory representation of the Irish race abroad. in tne convention, let Ireland speak out her mind. Let not her voice be like a broken musical instrument, emitting dis cordant notes and Jarring sounds, but let it. on the. contrary, be clear, loud and em phatlc, insisting on unity and condemning faction, iet ner point out ana upnoia tne Darllamentary representatives whose meth ods and conduct ehe approves, and let her mark out and condemn those whose intolerance of control and personal jealousies and animosities have done so much to break the unity and waste the strength of the national party." To this letter of the Archbishop Mr. Blake replies by deploring the want of unity in the Irish party, more especially at a time when they are facing a government "which denied the right and tho ca pacity of Irishmen to direct their own aifalrs and the safety to the empire of home rule for Ireland, and which declares for the policy of perpetual legislation and administration of purely Irish affairs from Westminster. It seems to me our duty Is not only to maintain and strengthen the position of Irish home rule, but also to insist that those in power shall attempt to discharge the responsibilities such a policy involves. Those repsonsibillties are enormous. The Irish land question, with its numerous ramifications, retains, even by the acknowledgment of the adversary, the fore most place in the legislative programme. Rut Irish rural government, Irish icital franchises. Irish educa tion, Irish fiscal and financial relations, and other Important questions should also be pressed to the front. And there is thus Den to the Irish party, even In this overwhelmingly Tory and anti-home rule Parliament, an active, useiui ana non orable career. We may in the next five years do much good for Ireland, and we may, in tne aoing oi it ana wmw we ie doing it. materially advance the prospects nf that home rule which must ever remain our first and main object. But to do any ernnd at all. either in these or otner mat ters. or for the great cause of home rule, itself, it is more than ever necessary that we should act together. We are too few to quarrel." The significance of Archbishop Walsh's letter arises from the belief tnat it was dl rectly inspired, if not written by Justin McCarthy. MRS. WALLER AT NEW YORK. She Did Not See Htr Ilushnnd When She Was In France. XEW YORK. Oct. lS.-The steamer Am sterdam, with Mrs. Waller on board, ar rived at Quarantine at 10:30 to-nteht. Mrs Waller had retired, but consented to see a new5paper man. She said she left Mad agascar Aug. 12 last, and arrived at Mar seilles on . Sept. 2. She at once wrote to her husband, who was con.lne-J In a town la France, the name of which had eecaueJ her rrmory. She was directed by Emlmssalor lxstls to sail by the Amsterdam on Oct. 4, but up to the time of sailing she heard nothing from her husband. M Water wui accompanied, by her thpe Uiiffhurs ana ono young con.

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SIOIIAM-JrCDAXS DCCIARC A STOriH IS DREWXXa I TIRKKV, And that It May Sweep Array the Present Dynasty and Liberate the reople from Ilatefsl Thrnlldotu. TOPE FOR ARMENIA AT LAST XIEFORM SCimME OF XI in POWERS ACCEPTED BV SAID PASHA. alany Important Concessions Wmnr Out of the Porte Bayard's -Vote oa the Vcncinelan Question LONDON", Oct. .17. The Constantinople correspondent of the Times; In a dispatch to that paper this morning, dwells oa th vasue rumors current there, and on the feeling cf unrest manifesting Itself by a decline upon the bourse, by long faces In the bazaars, and by mysterious whisperings of massacres in the provinces, which are wholly unsubstantlateX The Times correspondent believes that the whole trouble is that the recent disturbances have accentuated the Mohammedan discontent with the oppressive palace governmentMohammedans declare that a storm is brewing which will sweep away the whois dynasty and liberate Islam from the thraldom of the hated Ilamidlan system, which cramps its energies and paralyzes all Its forces. The activity at the Dardanelles continues, and 10.000 additional men ore under orders to Join the garrison. New batteries are building at Dardcnoe, Xamaxleh and Madjldleh, armed with heavy guns. All th flannel la the town has been bought up for cartridge making and all the whitesmitht are busy making lanterns and canteens. Many Mohammedans have been arrested In different parts of Stamboul for using seditious language, Reforms for Armenia. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 1C Said Paslia has accepted the scheme for reform la Armenia drawn up by Great Britain France and Russia, and It now awaits the signature of, tho Sultan. The scheme is almost Identical with the proposals cf last May, which, in substance, were that the Governors and Vice Governors of Van, Erzeroum, Ditlls, Khartoum and Treblzond, be Christian or Mussulmans, according to the Inclination of the population; but either the Governor cr the Vice Governor is to be a Christian, and ths appointments are to bo confirmed by the powers. Local and not state ofUclal are to collect the taxes and enough money is to be retained before- it Is forwarded to Constantinople to pay the expenses of local administration. Complete changes will be made in tho Judicial cystem; torture will be abolished, and prisons will be under surveillance; the police will be composed of Christians and Turks, equally divided, and the laws against compulsory conversions to Islamlsin will bo etrlctly enforced. -The- embassadors of i the .-wrs esp'ct that the whole Question will be finally settled during the course of the week by the promulgation of an Imperial deere Contrary to general expectation the hlrh commissioner who will tx charaed with the execution of this scheme of reform will be a Christian. This was the harder! pill for the Porte to swallow and for a Jong time It threatened to bring about the most serious complications. A Russian war ship has arrived here. The sUuation at Ismid is critical. Ths Christians are apprehensive of a Turkish outbreak. Armenian Question Solved. LONDON, Oct. 16. The British Foreign Offlce, in addition to a dispatch from Sir Philip Currle, the embassador of Great Britain at Constantinople, announcing that Said . Pasha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, had accepted the scheme for reform in Armenia drawn np by Great Britain. France and Russia. Is In receipt of an unofficial telegram announcing that the Armenian question Is virtually settled. SSMBSBBBSSSBBSBSBHSnSBBBHSBSB' TUB VENEZUELAN QUESTIOT.

America's Representations to Britain Views of the London Times. LONDON, Oct. 1C The reporter for the Associated Press In this city has obtained from the best source the following statement as to the state of the Venezuelan question: The United States embassador, the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, presented a long note to the Marquis of Salisbury on the Venezuelan quetlon. some weeks ago. stating at length the views of the United States government and rules and policy by which it guided such questions arising between a Kuropean government and American republic Up to the present no reply has been given, and since it advances a doctrine of such great importance and wide application, the matter will engage the serious attention of tho British government for some time. The Times declares in an editorial that no change has occurred in the Venezuelan question sufficient to bring It within th scope of the Monroe doctrine. "It is cejrglng the question." says the Times, "to asw sume that the BrltJsh claim is for freth territory. The British case rests wholly on the vindication of our original riKht. The Britlfh contention is. as British Guiana becomes British by right of conquest from the Dutch, the British territory extends over , the whole area posse5ed by Holland. .Every year adds to the value of a settlement ia the colony within the Schomburg line. It is no longer possible to admit any question of a curtailment of British Jurisdiction beyond that line. We are now willing to submit the frontier question to arbitration, but a few years hence it may be equally Impossible to admit such a question anywhere within the limits which we bellevo to bo rightfully ours. It Is inevitable that a note such as the United States embxseador, Mr. Hayard. presented to the Marquis of Salisbury on this question some weeks ago should be drawn almot exclusively from Venezuelan sources. It therefore requires the fullest consideration before replying. The toleration which a strong power Is bound to display in dealing with weaker neighbors must have Its limit, and as far as American representations may afslst in inducing a settlement without recourse to unfriendly measures, they will not, we Imagine, be unwelcome. The Schomberg line, to which reference Is made In the Times editorial, was run in 1U0 by an English commissioner named Sir Robert Schomberg. who was sent to Venezuela for the purpose, but without the' knowledge or concurrence of Venezuela. The territory included la the so-called Schomburg line comprises a great part of the territory in dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela. STOLE SILVER IXGOTS. Well-Known London Silversmith Chartred with Robbery. LONDON, Oct. 16. One of the managers of Elklngton & Co., the well-known silversmiths of Regent street, Cheapside. Myddleton street, and of Calcutta, who claim the distinction of being silversmiths "by rpedal appointment to her Majfsty, the Queen, the Princeof Wales, tho Hmperor

of Austria and the King of the Belgians," has been arrested In connection with the robber of thirty-one ingot of silver, valued at J25,0, In transit over the Midland railway. The silver was stolen in broad daylight on Sept 23, last, on Utoso!son street, Somerstoan. London, with a hors and wagon In whl?h the bullion was leing conveyed from the Mid!and railway station to Messrs. Sharps & Wilklas. cf Cr

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