Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1895 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 189$.

Is an unconstitutional form of paternalism and does not Intend to be Instrumental In it If he can hel;i himself. soimaiiilv msMissnn.

PoatoCire Department Haiployrs "Fired for Cilvln Out Information. WASHINGTON". Dec. Postmaster-General Wilson has dismissal William W. Hill, of Mississippi, assistant superintendent of the freo delivery system of the Poatoffice Department; Samuel Bdght, of Indiana, a cleric In tho Free Delivery Bureau, and V.'. A. Sullivan, of Boston, now of the Dead Letter Ofilee. but formerly of the f re jjenvry bureau, lor Kivins qui oificial Information and conspiracy to belittle the dep?rtmnt."The premp:ory dismissal created a fensatiori'at the department. The action is the result of an Investigation that has been in progress for about a month. Information reached First Assistant Postmastergenerci Jones that the men dismissed were tampering with the records and were Improperly giving out to iariies not connected with the department information regarding the official records and the departmental business. ' Charges were made that this was part of a scheme to injur mt bring Into disrepute certain of the officers and employes of the postal nervtco. n "Is understood th information ua3 .furnished to members of Congress, the object being to bring about a congressional Investigation of the office. Assistant Posmaster-generil Jones promptly instituted, an Investigation and after securing evidence which he considered Ratmen to his oHe. At this hearing it is charged that the y ma'le connecting and false statement ard that finally, two of them, Clerks Beight and Sullivan, confessed and Implicated Hill. The investigation may be continued and possibly may involve other Important chansps. Hill, several years ago, was appointed I'nited states Commissioner to investigate the overtime claims of letter carriers throughout the 1Tnlted States. Tie had full charge of the work fnr a long period tuoush Anally being assigned an ns!tHnt "and was seldom fngacwl on his Potome Department duties. Sullivan vas for a long perlcd in the free delivery service, but charges of Incoordination and other misconduct caused his tranfer to the lad Letter Ofllce. All of the men dismissed have been Inthe sorvice for many years. INDIANA CO ( It H ? S M n X . Atl Will Conic Home for the IIo1IIhm 3lr. l!nnlyM Self-Snorlflce. Special fa the Indiampolls Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Mr. Henry Sfrohm. private secretary to Representative Hatch, has returned from his home (Kentland. and will now remain until the holiday adjournment.- All the members cxpec: to go home for the holidays, and thoso r.ho have not-brought their families with them will be accompanied by them on their return. The noliday adjournment Is expected to begirt Dec. 21. In the drawing by lot for the patronage which was apportioned to the Indiana delegation. Representative HarJy's prize was a nine-hunJrei-dolJar appointment as folder in the document room. He has appointed to the place Mr. Halph Dale, the grandson of Col. William Munson, of Mitchell, Lawrence county. Mr. Hardy has withdrawn from the con test for appointment on the committee on ublic buildings and grounds In favor of teprcsentative Henry, and concentrated his efforts on a membership of the commute on elections. Mr. Hardy lived a' number of years In Mississippi, and has had practical observation of the suppression of the colored vote In that itate. Among those who have waited on Speaker Red in Mr. Hardy's behalf, urging his peculiar fitness and value on this committee, are Senator 2odge. of Massachusetts; Senator Chandler, of N-jw Hampshire; George Gorham, formerly Secretary of the Senate, and ex-Senator Pitt Kellogg, formerly of Mississippi. Mr. Hardy will on Monday Introduce a bill appropriating Stt.ooo for a suitable public building at Vlncennes. Vlncennes Is historIcaJly one of the most Interesting cities of the State, and, being the most important in his district, it is to be expended that Mr. Hardy will spare no effort to secure proper recognition for it. In this connection it may bo adJed that the supervising architect f the treasury has abandoned all work on t.7-fujblie building at South Bend pending the passage of a bill to increase the present appropriation from JS.".000 to J100,0JO. WAXTS AX IXCOMM TAX. IT. S. Hall's Proponed Amendment to the Constitution. WASHINGTON, Dec. -Representative L S. Hal!, of Missouri, who was one of the most active advocates of the income tax feature of the Wilson, tariff bill, is determined 'not to abandon the fight for an income tax law. As a result of a careful inquiry Into the subject, an amendment to the Constitution was prepared and introduced by Mr. Hall yesterday. It is to be known as the sixteenth amendment, and is as follows: "All taxes, as well as duties, imposts and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States; provided, that all capitation taxes shall, and any other tax may be, apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting tho whole number of rersons in each- State, excluding Indians rot taxed." Such an amendment would retrieve from Clause of Section 2 and Clause 4 of Section 9 of Article 1 of the Constitution the Inhibition against the imposition of direct taxes." unless levied according to the population in the respective States, the Supreme Court having held that the income tax was a direct tax. "The Intention of the framers of the Constitution," said Mr. Hall, "was to prevent the Imposition of direct taxes which would not be uniform in all localities, and they were therefore to be laid according to tho rule of population. This was done to prevent a majority of the States from cornlining to assess exorbitant taxes on -the minority States. It has been found that all attempts to tax for federal purposes, according to the rule of apportionment, have been failures, and the only effect of these clauses of the Constitution have been to prevent any federal per capita or direct taxation. This amendment loaves the construction' of the uniformity clause of tne constitution otlll open for consideration; but after consultation with some of the moat eminent lawyers connected with the rdminlatrntlon. I do not believe there will be any difficulty In regard to that In tho farcre and it rrcms unwise to attempt anything more ihun to get rid of the antiquated ir.d Impolitic direct tax clause upon which Tiin cimxc-Tf COMMISSION. Americans on the Way to Investigate the OutrnscN on Missionaries. WASHINGTON. Deo. 7,-Ueports received ber from China Indicate that the American commission charged with an Investigation of the Cheng-Tu mission l near the end of Its journey. The commission started from Tlen-Tsin Oct. 6. with a fine escort cf twenty well mounted cavalrymen and numerous retinue, liefore It left all the notables called on Consul Read, Mr. Cheshire and Commander Merrill and paid their respects. The foreign elements in China speak in terms of praise of tho discretion shown by th United State department In the selection of the route to I e pursued by the commission, laying, as it Picotine neutralized 47 - ir m "BACCO T.'o Nerves Quaking Ho Heart Palpitating Ho Dyspeptic Aching L -UJ.U U-dyopeptic

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does, through the heart of China, and It Is believed that the passaeo of the party under its escort will do much to impress the Chinese with the necessity of observing their obligations toward foreigners resident in China. To give additional weight to the commission the Chinese government has ordered the highest Judicial authorities of Szechuan, the provincial Judge or nlchtal. to co-operate with it and he was expected to Join at the end of the route. The Chlneso authorities have already executed twenty-one of the participants in the rioting and hold an equal number for future punishment, but there Ls some complaint that these poor dupes have been made scapegoats m cover the evil doings of high Chinese officials. It Is charged that Chao-Cheng . Yu. the chief of police who was supposed to hive been removed In disgrace under the imperial edict for encouraging the riots, was really placed In tho most lucrative post In the Likin department and It Is alio said that the person actually responsible for the riots at Ku-Cheng was the viceroy himself, Tien Poach Wen.

POSTAL EMPLOYES WAItXED. Ther Must Xot Visit Washington to Influence Legislation. WASHINGTON. Dec. 7. An Important order was Issued to-day by Postmaster-general Wilson directed against the organization of postal employes to secure legislative action. Reports have been current for a comparatively long period that employes of various classes were combining and pooling funds to furnish expenses of com mlttees or otKer representatives sent to appear before congresisonal committees and In behalf of legislation. This action is now practically prohibited and a penalty of re moval -Imposed by to-day's order, which Is as follows: "Ordered, That hereafter no postmaster, postottlce clerk, letter carrier, railway postal clerk, or other postal employe, shall vs. It Washington, whether on lave with ot without pay, for the purpose of Influencing legislation before Congress. "Any such employe of the postal service who violates this order shall be liable to removal. .Postmasters and othr employes of the postal service are paid by the government for attending to the respective duties assigned them, which do not include efforts to secure legislation. That duty Is assigned to the representatives of the people elected for that purpose. "If bill arc Introduced In either branch of Congress affecting the postal service, upon which any Information or recommendation Is deslrfd, I am ready at all times to submit such as lies In. my power and province. WILLIAM L. WILSON. ' "I'ostmasUT-general." Ad in I nil IluneeM Squadron. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Admiral Dunce will sail with hl9 flagship. New York, on the 17th, from New York. Stopping at Hampton Roads, he will pick up the other vessels of the North' Atlantic squadron. and will head southward on a cruiso of tactics and evolution that will extend Into tho Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea. provided there is no call for their presence meantime In our home ports. This cruise simply is In continuation of the summer cruise along the shores of the Atlantic States, from Hampton Roads northward to New England, and is part of the original project planned by Secretary Herbert and Admiral Dunce last spring. Xevr Counterfeit "Five.' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-The Secret Service Rureau has discovered a new . photographic counterfeit five-dollar bank note on the Fort Dearborn National Dank of Chicago, aeries of 1SS2, bank No. 6197, charter No. 2CDS, portrait of Garfield. . The colors are poorer than the genuine. The Preldent Wlierenbontm. NORFOLK, Va,, Dec. 7. After anchoring for the night off Currituck light, the light"aouse tender Violet, with the presidential party aboard, left for the Southern ducking grounds this morning. It is understood that Mr. Cleveland will shoot at. Hatteras for two days. Genernl Xotea. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. William Carnduff was to-day appointed postmaster at Aetna, Lake county, Indiana, vice J. W. Smith, resigned. Robert E. Rragg, of Ratesvllle; L. A. Gunder, Daniel W. Rushnell. Charles S. Dennlson. Thomas M. Morris and J. Walter Sharp of Indianapolis, havr? all been appointed compositors in the government printing Qtlice under civil service rules. Lieut. C. M. White, of the revenue cutter Bear, who Is now In Roston, has resigned and his resignation ha9 been accepted. Lieut. White was among the oflicers in the Bering sea patrol service during the last season who made formal charges against Captain I It aly, of the Hear. His resignation was entirely voluntary. THE UXDERUUNN1SG TROLLEY. A Jadge Decide ttie Patent nelonjr to the General Electric Company, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 7. Judge W. K. Townsend, in the United States District Court, to-day rendered a decision for the complainant in the suit of Thompson Houston Electric Light Company against the Winchester-avenue Street-railway Company. The case was really an issue between the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric Company for an adjudication of Vand?rpoel patents, covering the under-running trolley. The petition was for a perpetual injunction restraining the use on Westinghouse roads of the under-running trolley. Judge Townsend grants an injunction on patent No. 4X443 and dismisses the petition on patent 44X83. The dtclslon gives tho General Electric Company the exclusive right to manufacture and sell the under-running trolley. The case will probably go up to the Supreme Court of the United States. Cable Notes. Enterprising American capitalists have obtained a concession which will allow the construction of electric tramways through the streets of Lima. Peru. The Spanish Minister of Finance. Senor Navorro Reverter, and the Bank of i-pain have agreed to prolong due treasury bonds for six months on the existing terms. The Pari police have searched the lodgings of Gilbert Lenoir, the man who tired a revolver In the Chamber of Deputies, and have found there rome anarchistic literature. Rut the general opinion is that the prisoner I insane. s Report have ben received from La Plata to the effect that a political scandal Is attracting unusual attention there. According to the rumors, a Bolivian minister has accused a secretary of selling important state secrets to the Argentine Republic. A dispatch from Tegucigalpa. Honduras, says: President Uonilla will demand leave of absence. It Is rumored, and start next month for the United States, whence he will send In Ms resignation as President. Congress and the press manifest great bitterness toward Ronilla. Sympathetic? Strikes. NEW YORK. Dec. 7. Sympathetic strikers, In riupport of the striking house-smiths and bridtfemen. were ordered out this morning on three buildings. The union plasterers and helpers, plumbers and gas fitters, steam fitters and helpvrs, marble workers, painters, carpenters and other mechanics employed on the large buildings at Broadway and Twenty-sixth street, the site of tho old Brower House, Thirty-second street Just west of Sixth avenue, and the northeast corner of Broadway and Eighth street, were notified by their respective delegates to quit work after this day. It was said that all tho union mechanics would obey the orders of their delegates and the Jobs would be tied up until the Cornells and Milliken Brothers recognized the Housesmiths and Brldgemen's Union and granted the demands of that body for a uniform and Increased scale of wage. nlIonnl Live Stock ExchtuiKe. CHICAGO, Dec. 7. At the afternoon ses slon of the national live stock conven tlon. the following cfhers were elected: President, William H. Thompson, Chicago; East St. Louis; J. G. Martin, Omaha; J. H. Nason, Sioux City; L. B. Doud. John Payne. Kansas City; W. E. Skinner. Fort Worth, Tex. The next annual convention will be held in Fort Worth. Perry 9. Heath Still Mnmiger. CINCINNATI. O.. Dec. 7.-U wa announced to-night that Mr. A. Howard Hlnkle has been chosen president and Mr. Perry S. Heath general manager of the Commercial Gazette Company, with the following directory: A. Howard Hlnkle, Perry S. Heath. Charles Flelschmann, Thomas T. Egan and - - - - . . Pfc- bid l ,VSII9 1 1 111-" arrangement have, through, the general uiiiiiuKer, utfn enu:ng ror several weekj. anl-be result Is the strongest directory ever given the paper.

treasurer, n. ifoud, untcago; secretary, Charles W. Raker. Chicago; vice presidents. D. N. McPalmer, St. Jxu1m; W. B. Sticknev.

SURVIVED THE GALE

STHAMCItS GORZDD AXD STRATHXEVIS IV OT LOST IX Till: PACIFIC. Former In Port and the Latter Strngffllns: Homeward In n Disabled Condition Storm In Europe. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. A dispatch to the Merchants Exchange announces that the British steamer Gorzdd, forty-five days out from Singapore to Tacoma, arrived at Port Townsend this morning. She is one of the three PacWc ocean liners long overdue. Reinsurance on Gorzdd was quoted at 80 per cent., and three hours after the posting of the quotation the dispatch was received stating that Gorzdd had arrived all right. The arrival created great excitement, for of all the ships of the overdue fleet, the Gorzdd was least looked for. She was forty-nine days from Singapore for Tacoma, or about twenty days overdue. Reinsurances on the Evandale Jumped to 4) per cent, to-day. The British ship Lord Brassey and the steamer Eskdale, of the Northern fleet, are causing the gravest anxiety by their long delay. About eight hundred miles east of the Asiatic coast the Gorzdd ran into the latter end of the storm, which was moving eastward, and for three days tho effects of the gale were felt. The Gorzdd was in ballast, high out of the water, and the mountainous seas ; swept over her decks. She was tossed on the seas like a chip and the blowing out of the boiler tubes necessitated much repairing and navigating to prevent the ship from being disabled. "Had the steamship not been of the stanchest character, new and carefully managed, she would undoubtedly have been wrecked." said Captain Meade. "Rut as It was the damage is nominal. Strong head winds were met during tne entire voyage." Captain Meade says he passed 13) miles south of th locality where the Strathnevis is In a disabled condition, as reported by the bark John Gamble, which arrived at Vancouver, B. C, to-day, from Java. The Gorzdd did not sight a vessel during the voyage. The Strnthnerls Spoken. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 7.-The British ship Strathnevis, which was supposed to have foundered in the recent November gales In the North Pacific ocean, was spoken a few days ago by the British bark John Gambles, which arrived at Vancouver to-day from Japan. The Strathnevis was in a disabled condition S10 miles northwest of Capo Flattery, being in longitude 143 west, latitude 48:40 north, and is on the sailing track between Puget tound and Yokohama. No particulars are given as to tho steamship's disability, except to advise tho immediate dispatching of a tug to render the vessel assistance. The Strathnevis was entirely disabled and in great danger. She is laden with passengers and has a valuable cargo of maize, bound to Yokohama from Tacoma. It is probable that two or three tugs will be sent out in search of the steamer to-morrow. When spoken the Strathvenls had drifted 1,600 miles, and as she does not carry sufficient steam to make steering possible, she Is probably being carried eastward by the Japan current. The main shaft of the Strathnevis is broken and she I moving under sail. All are well aboard, and she is well supplied with provisions and she has condensers on board for furnishing fresh water. Violent Cale In Kuropr. LONDON. Dec 7. - The exceptionally heavy weather which has prevailed during the past week over the British Isles continues to-day. There have been numberless small wrecks reported and considerable damage has been done to shipping, but the loss of life has been small. The lightship at the moutluof the , river Dee was blown away this morning, with her crew of five men. The telegraph lines In the northern part of the country have been damaged and communication is Interrupted. The gale Is very violent over the North sea, and It Is feared that the number of wrecks wllf be considerably added to. A dispatch from Antwerp says that tralflc In the streets of that 'city has been stopped, and that navigation of the Scheldt Js lmFoss!ble. The Bed Star line steamer Frleaand was, however, able to leave for New York. Several ships were ashore on the Dutch coast, and the German bark Llbertas, from Kotka, has been wrecked near Neuwedlep. Only two of her crew were saved, the remainder being drc'wned after the bark was driven ashore, where she soon became a total loss. The bodies of four members of her crew have been washed ashore. A dispatch from Flensburjr, Prussia, says the gale which has been doing much damage in that vicinity has finally become a regular hurricane, sweeping with great force over the entire coast. Since yesterday the storm Is on the Increase. Immense damage was caused by the bursting of the dams and dykes along the western shores. The results of the floods have been extensive and prolific with accidents. The storm has caused great damage at all of the towns along the coast of the North sea. Floods are universal. At Hamburg tramways are submerged and traffic has been stopped. High tides have flooded all the towns In northern and western Jutland. The towns of Nykjoblng. Struer and Lemvlg are inundated and the dyke at Frring has burst. Great damage has been done elsewhere. ' Pll otn Probably Drowned. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 7.-Whlle a pilot boat was attempting to put a pilot aboard the British steamer Cambrloman, which sailed from Boston, Nov. 27, off Point Lynas, this morning, she was struck amidships and badly damaged. Sixteen of the pilots on board became so alarmed that they took to a small boat and cut adrift in a terrlflc gale which was blowing. The captain of the Cambrloman says that a big wave threw the steamer and the pilot boat Into violent contact, and that three of the pilots Jumped on board the Cambrloman and that the rest of the pilots Jumped Into a punt and disappeared. The Cambrloman cruised about the spot where the punt was last seen for five hours, but no signs of the. small craft were discovered, but it is believed that she was swamped immediately after leaving the nllot boat. A tug boat picked up the pilot boat. Tlie Tfin I'nomelnlljr Tented. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-The battle shjp Texas, which went to sea at 7 o'clock this morning, returned to her anchorage at Tompklnsvillc, passing quarantine about 3:"jT o'clock this afternoon. A reporter boarded her and was Informed that no trial of the ship's actual abilities was made, the officers preferring not to work her engines to their full capacity until after her official trip, which will be. made unJer the supervision of tho builJers, the Richmond locomotive works. It was learned that the result of the unofficial test was up to all expectation. , Ilerl-herl Instead of Cholera. VANCOUVER. B. C, Dec. 7. The bark John B. Gamble, which brought news of the missing steamer Strathnevis, was held in quarantine here, as it was reported that she had cholera on board. Investigation showed that the disease wa beri-beri, and as the port physician did not consider It a contagious disease the bark wasreleased from quarantine. Movements of Simmers. NEW YORK. Dec. 7. Arrived: P. Caland, from Rotterdam; St. Louis, from Southampton; Etruria, from Liverpool. j QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 7. Arrived: Umbrla, from New York, for Liverpool. Protest A Kill list Lynrhluc LONDON. Dec. 7. At a meeting of the women's liberal associations, held at Southport, in the county of Iancaster, Mrs. Jacob Bright presided. The convention passed the following resolution: "Resolved, That we desire to enter a most emphatic protest against the barbarities known a lynching, burnings and all the other tortures practiced, more especially upon the colored population In the United States." . Knocked through n Window. MATTOON. HI.. Dec. 7. In a fli;ht at Windsor to-day O. Byrnes knocked Wallace Decker through a window, cutting his jugular vein. Decker will die. Place for an Ex-Editor. CHICAGO, Dec. 7. Thomas C. McMillen, formerly political editor of the Inter Ocean, was to-day appointed clerk of the United States District Court by Judxe Xrosscup. Mnniclern of Bicyclist to lie Punished MEXICO OITY, Dec. 7. Bicycle men are taking measures to protect themselis

against the brutalities of coachmen who try to run them down -after dusk In the city streets, and the killing of Paymaster Hill, of tho Mexican National railway, followed Immediately by the deliberate running down of a young French cyclist, has intensified the public indignation. A popular subscription has been raised to bring about the apprehension of the guilty coachmen. MMBSV4aMHWaaiMBa44MSSM4aSi IMPORTANT DECISION

One of Great Interest to Lenders of Mot.ey.ou Kansas Real Estate. TOPEICA, Kan., Dec. 7. The Supreme Court of Kansas to-3ay handed down an opinion of vast importance to the debtors of the State, sustaining the constitutionality of the law of 1SD3, which gives eighteen months to the debtor to redeem on all sales on execution or foreclosure of mortgage, whether the mortgage was made prior to the passage of the law ,or not. The Supreme Court last April had rendered a decision holding this law unconstitutional. Chief Justice Martin, seconded by Associate Justice Allen, reversed the April decision. Justice Johnson dissents. The importance of this decision to loan companies and mortgageors may be realized when it Is remembered that under the law of lKa the mortgageor may redeem his land for the amount for which It was bid in, and not for the amount upon which Judgment was taken or the amount of the money which he had borrowed. It forces the loan companies to bid up the full amount of the loan when buying In securities at sheriff's sale or else stand the danger of having the lands taken from them by repayment of a less sum than was originally loaned. The loans in Kansas affected by this decision amount to many millions, and the full force of it will be felt by companies which have loans in the western portion of the State. WANTS." IT DISSOLVED. SnJt Against Hie Waller A. Wood MowitiK and Ren plug Marhlne Co. NEW YORK. Dec8.-The World this morning: says: Application has been made to the Attorney-general of the State, asking that he take action to dissolve the Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping Machine Company, one of the largest Industrial corporations In' New York.. Mr. Hancock has ordered a hearing, on the. application tomorrow at Albany. The company was or ganized thirty years ago by ex-Congressman Walter A. Wood, and a great plant has been built up at Hoosic Falls. It was one of the pioneers In the manufacture of mowers and reapers and many men have be come rich out' of its profits. Fellows &. Wright have made the application for dissolution as attorneys for Mrs. Thomas Pattlson, of New Brighton, S. I. Her husband, tho late Admiral Pattison, of the United States navy, purchased 170 shares of the company's stock, which she now holds. A large amount of stock Is held by other New Yorkers, but the main interests are in Troy and Hoosac .Falls. The petition says that the company has remained insolvent forrat least one year, and a settlement with the creditors is desired. The capital stock amounts to fci.&X),000, and prior to . the surplus was fc!,500,000. The financial troubles are largely due to the failure of the Walter A. Wood Harvester Company, of St. Paul, Minn., in which, it Is alleged, nearly the whole surplus was sunk. Last July a statement of the New York company's affairs cvas made to the stockholders and a reorganization, plan proposed. It required so much sacrifice on the part of the stockholders that the present action resulted. The application says: "The grounds upon which this action is requested to remove the directors and call them to account are. In substance, that the said directors have abused their trust and have been guilty of misconduct therein." - ' v Mr. Fellows said yesterday that the reorganization plan required tho stockholders to surrender W per cent, of their stock In order to place tne company on a working basis, and this would not be acceded to by many of the creditors, - The company has millions Invested and its annual transactions amount to a very large sum. A great legal battle Is expected, as the application will be str ingly resisted by the directors, who claim that the company Is entirely solvent and will prosper in the future. Other Ilnslneas Troubles. NEWARK, N. J., Dac. 7. Application was made before Vice Chancellor ornery to-day, for a receiver for. th?7Entf rprlse Mining Company. .Tpe conrparr was incorporated under the 'laws of New - Jersey with a capital stock of i?2,500,000. The property and mines-of the company are situated In Rico, Col. John D. Wood and other stockholders made the application for the receiver. They allege mismanagement and also say thit since the repeal of the Sherman silver bill It ! impossible to work the mines at a profit. LIMA, O.. Dec. 7.The Century Oil Refinery, whose principal offlce Is in New Yoik city, was seized on an attachment amounting to $fB,243.13.' by John E. Borne, of Elizabeth. N. J.. whos refinery was bought by the Standard Oil Company a year or so ago, and for this reason the Standard Is thought to be behind the action. There are numerous other creditors. The company mad imbricating oil and parafflne. OBITUARY.' Dr. Gideon Lev Kunpin Proprietor of the Oneck Stable. NEW YURK, Dec. 7. Dr. Gideon Lee Knapp, proprietor -of the . Oneck stable, died at tho home of his brother to-day. lie had been suffering with typhoid pneumonia for several weeks. Dr. Knapp was one of the founders of the Jockey Club. He was a steward at the time of his death. He had been ldentifid with the running turf for a long time, but it was not until 1S92 that his stable began to take a prominent part. In that year the popular Sir Walter began his career. From that time until last season the purple gold squares had been familiar to Eastern race goers. Dr. Knapp was a famous wing shot and. was a participant la many matches. Other Deaths. READING, Pa., Dec. 7.-Lady Reed, whose maiden name was Miss Rebecca Potteiger, and who figured in an action for damages for alienating the affections of brewer George F.' Lauer from his wife, died here to-day, aged forty years, s'he spent many years abroad, where she married Sir John Reed, since deceased. PUEBLO. Col.. DecJ 7. H. K. Palmer, aged sixty-five, dropped dead In the Btreet to-dav. He was a brother of Senator Palmer, or. Illinois, and served with distinction as a surgeon In the Union army during tho war and spent several years in India as a medical missionary. SANTA BARBARA, Cal.r Dec. ".-Andrew T. Rates, formerly associated with Evarts. Choate & Beaman, a law firm of New York, and afterwards an instructor In Greek at Harvard College, died here yesterday He bad been in poor health for some time. DENVER. Col.. Dec. 7.-J. II. Ferguson was found dead to-day In his room at the Albany Hotel. Mr. Ferguson came to Denver from Pittsburg as the representative of the Pennsylvania Lead Company. ROME, Dec. 7. Cardinal Ignazio Perlsco, prefect of th? Congregation of indulcjences and Sacred Relic;, is dead. He was born in Italy in 182J, and was created a cardinal In 1893. SALT LAKE. Utah. Dec. 7-Major G. S. Erb, well-known hotel man and formerly proprietor of the Walker House here, died suddenly of apoplexy to-night at Mercur, Utah. CINCINNATI. Dec. Y Mr. Chauncey M. Stuntz, for many years teacher of chemistry in Woodward Hii?n School, died suddenly this morning from heart disease. AMESnURY, Mass.. Deo. 7.-Lemuel C. Loud died at his home in Merrimac to-day. aged llfty-eight years. He was prominent In the carriage trade. Mnckny to llnlld n Mnusnlettin. NEW YORK. Dec. 7.--The Advertiser tomorrow will say: John Mackay, president of the Commercial Cable Company, is 10 build an Imposing mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery. It Is now belns designed under the direction of William Tyson Gooch. of Harding & Gooch. architects, who planned the Postal Telogr.im building. The mausoleum will be built probably of Westerly granite and In Doric design. It will rest upon a granite platform and wilt be in effect a chapel with twenty chamber?. The interior walls will be of brick and blue stone; those of the main corridor white enameled brick. The ceilings will be arched and probably of granite. Each catacomb will be fitted with white marble doors, holding panels for inscriptions. The approximate cost of this structure is about J:0,CO0. ?.too,000 Loss by Flrr. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec. 7. Hoffman & Alexander, wholesale dealers In men's furnishing goods, were burned out to-night. The firm's large store on Market street was entirely destroyed, together with & saloon anil c.L. Haskell's saddlery stock. The total loxs will te about 00.000. well insured. Of this amount Hoffman & Alexander's share Is about 1200,000, The- cause of he fire is unknown,"

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Reported to Hare Keen Killed by Indiana In Arlsonn. FHOEXIX. Ariz., Dec. 7. News received here from Fort Thomas to-day says that three cowboys have been killed by Indians at Hampson's ranch, near the scene of yesterday's battle between cowboys and Indians. Lieutenant Dullock left Fort Thomas for Hampson's ranch this morning, and another party left Fort Grant. Hampson's ranch is on Eagle creek, about fifty miles from Fort Thomas. The troops have been ordered to search for Sheriff Wight and fiosse. who have not been heard from since eavlng Solomonvllle, Wednesday morning. In pursuit of the murderers of Murrlll ana his daughter. DENVER, Col., Dec. 7. General Wheaton, comandlmng'- the Department of Colorado, left to-night for the South. It was stated at army headquarters that he was going on a tour of Inspection of the military posts of New Mexico and Arizona, but in view of the startling rumors from the vicinity of Fort Thomas it is generally believed that he goes to that place to have personal supervision of the efforts to suppress the Apache uprising. THE MACHINERY OF POLITICS. The Voter "Feels Ills Oats," and Ills Power Is Certain to Increase. Atlantic Monthly. It is very certain that the great mass of the voters enjoy parties and party organizations; and however useful independency may be as a leaven, you cannot make a loaf of bread of nothing but yeast and salt. We shall continue to work by parties for. some time to come, and all 1 have said relates to the inefficiency of your present machinery, not to the immediate abolition of all machinery. I say that your present machines utilize a very small percentage of that enormous motive power, the spirit of the American people, which you ought to have at your conTInand; and I think I can make you see what I mean by a comparison. Twenty years ago there were two general methods of travel, by horses and by steam. Men walked, but it was chiefly for the sake of exercise, and rarely to get from place to place; at the other end of the line, ballooning was resorted to only In the last exigency, like the siege of Paris, and flying wasin the air. Nowadays, whaf with bicycles on the one hand and electric railroads on' the other, the whole matter of locomotion has been recast, and some sanguine people tell you horses and steam will never be used again, except so far as the former will feed wheelmen," and the latter run electric engines. Meanwhile. Prof. Langley and Mr. Maxim are determined sh&ll fly Now It is perfectly true that the action of a bicyclist is only the" combination Of human legs with wheels: and It ia as .true that no economical method of creating electric currents has been found except the old fuel and steam. Rut the applications aro so entirely novel that a" revolution has resulted. It is so in politlcsr-,there. ase. two great motive powers; the energy of individual action, which is like a man's using his legs, and the force of combined action for a common Interest, which is like steam. Politicians have got out of the latter all that their present machinery will efrect, and it does not satisfy the people; they are resorting more and more to independent work or chance combination; but, like the direct use of legs,, whether human or animal, these are not equal to national demands. Ueal nonpartisan politics is al-. most as much in the clouds as flying. We have got to take our lega and our steam our will, so indomitable if Irritated, our love of co-operation, so resistless when aroused -and utilize them by new methods, which shall do what the old ones, already strained and overstrained, are losing their power to accomplish. Great as have been the advances of electric travel of late years, the advance of bicycling has been greater. Men and women who wish to go from point to point are vastly more independent of public conveyances than they ever were in the days of walking and driving. It is so in politics. The Individual voter, the man of local and special organization. Is "feeling his oats" as he never used to do. His power is going to increase. At the same time the American people love combination; they love Joint action; they love to sweep on in great masses under the banner of some uniting cause; but those who study and manage and operate and control such Joint action must throw their old mechanism aside, and turn that mighty force, stored In the very hearts ot their countrymen, Into new channels, and consign their ancient go-carts to the political museums of the future. . A VKHY SAD TALE. It Was Told by th Editor of the Futnre to One of Her Staff. . Chicago Post. "It's a sad tale, a very' sad tale," said the editor of the future, reflectively, as she cocked her feet up on her desk and looked at the city editor over her glasses. "There's a chance for one of the girls to everlastingly throw herself in writing up' "How did you run across it asked the Cl"I dtdi?t' run across it; it Just walked into the office. You see. 1 used to know the woman In the old days, and ko she bunted me up. ?he came In here about half an hour ago to ask for the loan of a dollar for the sake of old times, and she was so changed in appearance that I was fairly startled and asked what had happened to The editor of the future paused and shook her head sadly. , "Ah It was a pitiful story of a wayward man's' heartlessness," she said. "This wreck of a once bright and prosperous woman had met a demure, blue-eyed youth and had loved him as only a strong woman can love. But It Is unnecessary to go into all the deta'ls The courtship was short and full of happiness for her. She dreamed of taking this beautiful young creature to her arms and acquiring the right to protect him from the rebuffs and the hardships of a cruel world. Then came the awakening. They were married, but. ah! how different was the life that they led from the one that the strong, earnest woman had pictured. Her husband really cared nothing for her and married only to Insure himself a good home. He proved to be a frivolous butterfly of fashion, who had no thoughts above dancing and afternoon teas. Yet the poor woman fairly worshiped him. and she worked herelf almost to death to buy him pretty clothes and Jewelry. She took almost a lover's pride in her beautiful husband, and seemed almost unable to deny him aything that he wanted. Rut she couldn't keep it tip-she wasn't rich enough and finally-" The editor of the future sighed and blew a whiff of smoke from her ciKr. "Finally," she said at last, "It ended as such stories always end. He wanted more money to waste on his clothes and she had none togive. There were reproaches, tears and he left her; ran away with a wealthy girl who had been attracted by his beauty and had promised him a life of cafe and uxurv. "And she the wife?" asked the city editor. "She lost heart," replied the editor of the future, "and drifted from bad to worse. She felt she had nothing left to live for and began drinking to drown her sorrows. Of course that had a bad effect on her business and in a little while she failed. Since then she has been a mere vagabond, a tramp, drifting from place to place and slowly drinking herself to death. Of course it is only another case of a promising young woman wrecked by a wayward and mercenary boy the old. old story, in fact but I think it can be dressed up for the Sunday paper so as to make a pathetic little story of life In a great city. I wl-h you would have It done by one of your jest girls." A few minutes later th-. editor of the future was deep In the details .of a halrpulllng match that was scheduled for the Chicago Athletic Club for that evening. A Little CHrPs Etiquette. New York Evening Sun. There Is a little girl uptown whose Christmas present Santa Claus selected long ago. Santa is a pretty shrewd old fellow, you know, and he has a way of finding out, not only of what people mostly want, but what they most need. This is the way he happened to find out what tho little girl wanted. She was telling her big sister about a call she was going to pay upon another little girl. The "other little girl" lived at a fahlonabe hotel. "1 told her I'd come next Saturday," she said, "and then, after I'd told her. I remembered that 1 had no visiting cards, so I Just said I'd see about It. You know I couldn't go without any visiting card, but what I thought was that, maybe, you'd let me have one of. yours oh, won't you. Rig Sister?" To which Rl? Sister said "Yes." The next day the little girl announced to Rig Sister that she had told the other little girl that she would come, after all, but that the other little girl mustn't be astonished when Rig Sister's card was sent up, for it was really Little Sister who would be down stairs. "The only thing that worries me now," went on the little girl, "is the man that takes up the card. I don't exactly like to explain It all to him. but I don't believe he'll know the difference, do you?" And Big Sister Mid, "Of course he won't," while Santa Claus made tip nla mind on the spot Just what to give Small Sister' for Christmas. ' Well Pot. Doston Transcript. Mrs. Llvermore expresses it concisely and forvibly when she says as to a future existence: "I have never seen anyone so ure that he did not wish to be more sure.

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