Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1896 — Page 2

THE INDIAKAPOLIS JOURNAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 4. 1S98. -

ot think quotations could be hold In the lace of the decline In the general ma:ket. Apparently the? hopes - ot the bulla rested on the size of that phort Interest. When the July account came to be .closed the carrying charges for turning stocks Into August account were very large, ?o largt. that faith was shaken in the existence of an extensive nhort Interest. The great part ef the capital with which the deal had been carried on had 1ern raled In New York anil New Cnglatid.. Iocal banking institutions! arc only moderately interested in the affair. Difficulty was experienced ovrlng to the general loss of conftdence in renewing some of these Kastern loans. Settlement !ay was successfully passed, however, and every one believed that in spite of the heavy carrying charges the bulls would still te in control of the situation. THE SLUMP SET IN. The stock came out, however, in enormous quantities. The Moores were almost alone in supporting the market, but they stood under it with remarkable courage. To-day the stock was held with hardly a waver at 222. but there was an outpouring of long stock which led the keen observers of the market to fear that the load might become too heavy, and the events later In the afternoon proved those fears were correct. The deal In Diamond Match was only part of this great speculative ojK-ratlon. The Moore Ill-other Lad organized the New York lilscuit Company several years ago, after tne lirst great success of the Diamond Match Company. The panic of 1W, hn4 hit the biscuit company severely, as it did all othei industries, and the stocK was far helow par. The success which was met with In speculative manipulation of Diamond Match led to a desire to see what could be done with New York Dlscult, and that tock wiui taken several months ago and advanced from To to Vfi. From that it dropped back to 92. and for weeks was held cloa- about that figure in spite of the sharp declines in other securities. Enormous quantities of this stock were also poured on the market, but they were taken with the same steadiness which marked the action of Diamond Match. The accumulations, however, represented a great sum In time, and the operations in that stock will add largely to the total of the amount Involved. It la rot at the present time possible to make any estimate of what the llguro is. The Moores have unquestionably purchased an enormous line of New York Uiscuit and Diamond Match. The high price at which Match has been selling makes the sum involved extremely large. The capital stock of the Diamond Match Company is JIl.OM.UM. and ot New Yor Discuit tf.000.iM). It is said the Moores have purchased half the capital of the Diamond Match Company, and these purchases of New York Dlscuit stock perhaps bears as larg a proportion to the total. William II. Mcore. the senior member of the firm, is at present in the East. James 31. Moore, who has been the immediate active manager of the speculative campaign, is in Chicago, but to-night declared that he was not yet in a position to make any statement as to the amount involved.

Another Illeyrlr Failure. BUFFALO. N. Y.. Aug. 3. Quickly following upon the failure of the Queen City Cycle Company comes application for a receiver for F. X. Muller, bicycle manufacturers, of thi.; city. Th nominal assets are 3t:;.24.4: direct liabilities. -$13,236.40, and contingent liabilities, $il.7.7.S0. Justice "Ward appointed a referee to take proof and report whether the company should be dissolved, and for the protection of the creditors, he appointed also a temporary receiver. Three receivers were appointed for the Queen City Cycle Company, whose liabilities are near $-00,000, during the taking ot proof. V. I). F.ntoii Fa I In for 9240,000. BOSTON, Aug. 3. The wool commission firm of AY. D. Eaton & Co.. of this city, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors to-day. Joseph W. Spauldlng is the assignee and the liabilities arc placed at $2io,(xo. No statement of the assets has been given out. The failure is attributed to the poor condition of the wool market. Receiver for Knlt-Goodn Concern. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. Judge Stover, of the Supreme Court, to-day appointed Jacob I Cullman receiver for Baron & Newman, manufacturers of knit goods in Brooklyn, in an action brought by Samuel Baron ugalnst Jacob Newman for a dissolution ot the partnership. Assets, fl.ow; liabilities. Jloo.OOO. Itcod Box. Company Fnlls. NEW HAVEN. Conn., Aug. 3. The Reed Box Company, incorporated In 15 with capital stock of J 10. OOP. went into the hands of a receivtr to-day. The liabilities are said to be about lo,C00 and the assets approximately the sarae. FIGHTING THE STANDARD. rrodocern' Oil Cuinpnuy Ilentrnined by a Pittsburg Court. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Aug. 3.-Col. J. J. Carty, of Titusville, Pa., tiled a bill in equity to-day in the county courts against the Producers' Oil Company, limited, in which he asserts that the company was organized with a capital slock of tfOO.OOO and that originally he owned $3,9J0 of this stock, but has since bought "5207,640 of the mock, which had been transferred to the National -Transit Company. lie says he is mow the bona lide holder 15,731 shares of stock. lie has demanded a transfer of this stock to him on the books of the company, but this has been refused him. He further states that his shareholding constituted a majority of the capital stock of the company and he was therefore entitled to elect the majority of the managers of the company, but in order to prevent him from doing so, the defendants, he alleges, have refused to permit the transfer and made certain deals with the Pure Oil Company by which he is defrauded of his rights. He asks that the defendant be restrained from sebing. assigning, discounting, transporting or disposing of the notes, obligations or considerations paid or delivered to the company by the Pure Oil Company until further hearing in the yuit was made; aiso that the Pure Oil Company be enjoined from disposing of any of the shares of the ltoducers and Refiners Oil company, lira Bed. until final hearing and that a receiver be appointed to taKe charge and control of the property of the Producers Oil Company limited until the. final hearing of this suit and the suit pending in Warren county, and asks that the sale of the stock of the Producers' and Refiners Company be set aside and reassignment made tir-the Producers oil Company limited. The defendants ciuim that Colonel Carty represents the Standard Oil Company and it Is his intention to transfer the property of the Cnited States t'ipe-llne Company (limited) and the Producers' and Reliners' Oil Company (limited) to that concern, thereby embarrassing the independent refir.eries and the United States Pipe-line Con.pany. On the other hand Colonel Carty avers that he alone is the interested person in the case pending. The entire oil producing and refining interests of four Slates win watch the outcome of the 5uit. The preliminary derroe asked for restraining any luil her transaction on the part of the defendants was granted, and Thursday next was set for a hearing in the case. OBITUARY. JudKe C alvln Prntt. NEW YORK. Aug. 3. Justice Olvin E. Pratt, of the Appellate division of the State Supreme Court, died suddenly to-day at Rochester. Mass.. aged sixty-eight. Justice Pratt went from his Brooklyn home to Rochester a week ago for his health, which had been poor for years, owisg to a wound he received in the late war. In politics Judge Pratt was a Democrat. He had a distinguished war record and left the army with the rank of brigadier general. Adolph Trallncr'n Remain. NEW YORK, Aug. 3. The body of Adolph Trattner, of Cleveland. O.. who died In Germany, was on board the Saale. which reach.! port to-day. Mrs. compankd the body. "rattner acJudge ChIvIii i:. Prntt. NE,W YORK. Aug. 3.--Judge C;flvin E. Pratt, of the Supreme Court of the State of York, died at his residence in Brooklyn to-day. He was born at Princerton. Mass., July 22. On the Popnllnt Ticket. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 3. Hon. William New all. of Olympia, ha announced hlmielf as a candidate for the Populist nomination for Governor. Mr. Newall was a member of Congress from New Jersey from 1547 to lttL He Is a physician, and -was on the floor of the House when John ' Qulncy A'ia.ms was stricken with his fatal lTlnss Feb. 23. 15iS. and attended the dying statesman. Newall was elected Governor of New Jersey In 1 .". was beaten for Governor of that State by George B. McClcIlan In K"T and was appointed Governor of Washington Territory by President Hayes

SYMPATHETIC STRIKE

rkport from clevelaxd that it 1VILL nB DECLARED OFF. Four Companies of Militia Camped Around the Drown llolntlns: Works to Prevent Trouble. CLEVELAND. O.. Aug. 3. One hundred and fifty nonunion men went to work at the Brown hoisting works this morning. They were guarded by four companies of militia and a large force of police. A big crowd of union men was present but no outbreak occurred. The big sympathetic strike movement which has been threatened ever since the strike at the Brown company's works began, eleven weeks ago, was inaugurated this morning. Eightyseven men employed by the Van Wagoner & Williams Company, hardware manufacturers, laid down their tools and walked out of the works. The men said their only grievance was their sympathy for the Brown Hoisting Company's men, and that employes of other concerns would soon follow their lead. Committees were sent out to other factories along the Jake shore to notify the men that they were called out cn strike. One of the leaders of the Van Wagoner strikers said that they would demand of Mayor McKlsson that the nonunionlsts be disarmed, and if this was refused the strikers would arm themselves and compel the nonunionlsts to give up their weapons by force if necessary. Later all of the men who struck out of sympathy with the Brown strikers decided to return to work to-morrow morning, and It Is not believed the strike will spread unless the Central Labor Union takes a hand In the trouble. A meeting of the Brown strikers was held this afternoon at which Master Workman James O'Connell made a speech in which he declared that the agreement between the Brown Company and the strikers had been misunderstood; that it was interpreted one way by the company and a different way by the men. He is reported to have said that the battle now on would bo watched with interest by the labor world"The Mayor, police and tin soldiers," he declared, "haw armed to crush us. We have a duty to perform that of self preservation." The authorities arc fully prepared for trouble and squads of milita were stationed In various parts of the city this afternoon to prevent trouolc when the nonunion men were taken to their homes. Striker Blow I'p n Honwc. BEREA. O., Aug. 3. At 1 o'clock this morning the people of this placo were awakened by a terrific explosion. Upon investigation it was found that the residence of Charles A. Seibert, a grocer, had been partially wrecked by dynamite, a charge of which had been placed under the house by some' unknown person. Fortunately none of the inmates of the house was injured. Seibert did not sympathize with the quarrymen in their late strike and refused many of them oYedit. It is generally believed that the dynamite was placed under the house by strikers. AVentern Pottery Work Closed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.. KOKOMO, Ind.. Aug. 3. The Great Western pottery works of this place, one of the largest concerns in the West of its kind, has banked Its fires and the proprietors say they will not resume until January. They pronounce business the dullest In the history of the trade and the most unsatisfactory, both present and prospective. The capacity of the plant is three hundred skilled "potters. Many of the operatives have moved away and others are preparing to go. Woolen "Mllln Open for Work. LOWELL, Mass., Aug. 3. The Collins woolen mill In Collinsville, giving employment to about 250 hands, was reopened for work this morning. The mill has bf en Idle for over two months and for the present will be operated only five days in the week. In accordance with the manufacturers agreement the Merrimac mills were closed this morning and will remain idle vntil Aug. 24. Pn Inter tind Decorators. CHICAGO. Aug. 3. The fifth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America opened this evening in the Council chamber of the City Hall. The report of the committee on ciedtntlals aroused a heated discussion and was referred back to the committee for reconsideration. The convention then adjourned till to-morrow morning. Carpet Mill Start. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. S.-The John and James Dobson carpet and plush mills at the Falls of the Schuylkill, which have turn idle for a month, started up to-day. It Is not known how lonsr they will be kept running. The mills furnish employment to 1,500 persons. Will Xot Accept Redaction. SHARON. Pa., Aug. 3. The furnace men of the Shenago Valley met here to-day and decided not to accept a reduction In wages. As a result all the furnaces will be banked. About -!00 men will be thrown out of employment. RlRT Textile Mills Closed. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 3.-Rhodes & Bros big textile mills on Chester creek closed to-day until further notice. Over COO hands are affected. The cause assigned is depression In the textile trade. Allen Print Works II en nine. PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Aug. 3.-Allen print works, ' situated at the north end of the city, started up this morning after a three weeks' shut down. Three hundred persons are employed. HOW FUSION WOULD WORK. Even If Broneht About It Would 'ot folve the Problem. Washington Special in New York Post. Tom Watson in his own newspaper has been making some remarks which will rather embarrass attempts at a fusion especially such a fusion as villi control the votes of the self-respecting elements of even the sliver Democracy. One of his recent gems of thought is this: "Dressing Billy Bryan up in Populist raiment makes Billy an attractive figure to our admiring gaze, but so long as he remains mixed in with the scrub sheep of the Democratic flock we are much inclined to say in the language of an ancient anecdote. We love you. Billy, but your com pany. Nor has the nomination soothed Watson's troubled spirits or made him less arrogant in his demands upon his newlv found associates. It is suggested that 'in case the fusion plan be successful, whep the Electoral College In any State assembles and it is found that the combined Bryan-Watson "p'1 "rvan-ScwnlI strength exceeds that of McKinley the Populist electors shall turn around and say: "You want lis to vote for Bryan; we are here to do so. but vou must first agree to join us in voting for Watson. The possibility of such an outcome as this is going to be before the minds of the Democratic voters in all fusion States from now till election, and not a few mav be deterred thereby from accepting that part of the fusion which will carrystrength for Watson and so make way for such an ending. . J . These and other consiJeratlons. which are bound to develop as the campaign proceed indicate that wherever there Is a fusion on the electoral ticket, on the basis of half Populist and half Democratic electors a widespread repetition of the experience' of New Jersey in is'llkelv to tjtke -Mace And under our electoral system there'js no other way by which a he'pfui combination can be arranged, ejecept such a division of the electoral candidates. Suppose for II-U-stratlon. that In West Virginia' which casts six electoral votes, the Bryan-Sewall men should agree with the Bryan-Waton men that each side should name three electors, and the entire six. if successful shou'd vote for Bryan for President and divide their support for Vice President between the Democratic and Populist candidates. The individual voter who went to the polls would see before him two sets of six electors each, as follows: 1. Bryan-Sewall. 1. McKInley-Hobart 2. Bryan-Sewall. 3. Uryan-Swall. 4. Bryan-Watson. 5. Rrvan-Watson. 2. McKlntev.Tinii-.iV 3. McKInley-Hobart. 4. McKln'ey-Hobart 5. McKInley-Hobart. 6. McKInley-Hohnrt 6. Bryan-Watson. Tf the voter Is sunnortlnr th namAA..i " r wutULiaii' ticket because of the intensity of his "regularity." he In likely to be disgusted with the Irregularity of Watson and the passing over of Sewall which that support Involves. He may then vote for the three Bryan and Sewall electors, and leave the remaining ones blank, just as did the Douglas Democrats In New Jersey in I860they voted for the three Douglas electors.

but allowed the Breckinridge electors to r beaten by their Republican opponents. It Is. moreover, possible that extreme Populists might act the fame part in the reverse order, and In either case the "combine" ticket would be weakened by so much. Party leaders may propose any sort of deals they please, but experience has abundantly proven that they cannot thus dlsoose of the political action of the army of Individual voters whose united support is necessary to the success of the deal. If such an arrangement as that depicted in the foregoing illustration should operate to lose Bryan as many electoral votes ill a State as had been conceded to the Populists, by the terms of the deal, the regular Democrats might well wish that they had had nothing to do with It. Of the possibility of such an outcome the Democrats will not be unmindful when invited to en--ter into the fusion arrangements, and the prospect is good that the two necessary parties to the contract will not be able to make terms In a goodly number of States. In the sure States neither Democrat nor Populist will care for such a fusion, and the douhful States where such a bargain might have a prospective value are the very places where the admission of Populist ejectors to comradeship with the regular Democrats would be most obnoxious to certain sections of the voting population. Indiana would be a good State for such a fusion, but the Hoosler Democrat will be pretty disgusted with Tom Watson's abuse and Billingsgate before election day, and with party pride boiling up, he would be pretty likely to scratch so much of his electoral ticket as stood for Populism pure and simple. Every dispute that arises between Democrats and Populists between now and November 3 Is going to cost fusion tickets support, and as the hostility waxes warm fusion itself may cease to be worth anything. Hence the nomination of Bryan at St. Louis can in no sense be regarded as an accomplished concentration of the silver strength of America. Nearly all the North Carolina Democrats in Washington have been interviewed on the question, and without exception they declare themselves opposed to any fusion on the electoral ticket. They say the adoption of the Chicago platform has produced so great a defection among the former third-party men that the Democrats will have nfl trouble in carrying the State, and since that is the case, Sewall might as well have all the electoral support as to give away part of It to the blatherskite Watson. THE DENTAL FACULTIES.

National Association Now In Session at Saratoga. SARATOGA, Aug. 3, The National Association of Dental Faculties, Dr. S. H. Guilford, of Philadelphia, president, resumed its annual sessions to-day. After being amended, the report of the committee appointed to revise the constitution and bylaws, was adopted. Dr. J". W. Brophy, of Chicago, presented a report showing the work done during the year. The report of the committee on schools, giving a statistical compilation of dental institutions, was submitted by Dr. J. A. Follett, of Boston. The National School of Dental Technics. Thomas E. Weeks, of Minneapolis, Minn., president, began its annual session here today. Dr. E. C. Kirk, of Philadelphia, read a Psiper on "Dental Pedagogics." and It was discussed by Dr. W. J. Brady, of Cleveland. A symposium on th technics of dental anatomy, also cavity and canal preparation, was introduced by Dr. W. H. Morgan, of Nashville. Tenn. The National Association of Dental Examiners be.gan Its annual session here today. The opening address was made by Dr. J. T. Abbott, of Boston. WRECK ON THE SANTA FE. Engineer llealy Killed nnd People Injured. EiKbt TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 3. Santa Fc passenger train No. 1. which was due in this city at 4:27 o'clock this evening, collided with east-bound local passenger train No. 18 near Dean Lake, Mo., shortly before noon to-day. Fred Healy. of Topeka, engineer on train No. 1. was killed and the following eight were injured: John McConnell, Bosworth, Mo., slightly; John W. Mudec, Rogers, Kan., not seriously; Mrs. Smith, Oklahoma, head br-dly injured; W. J. Morgan. Emporia. Kan., serlouslj- injured: Load? Bud way. Wells-Fargo messenger, seriously; Curtis Barber, Pullman porter. Chicago, slightly: James Illckcy. San Jose. Cal.. fatally; John MeCabe. news agent. Marceline. slightl-. Train No. 1 was ordered to wait at Dean Lake for the Kansas City local, but instead proceeded toward Bosworth. The colHsion occurred about half way between the two places. The dead and Injured were brought to Topeka to-night. WOMAN JURORS IN CHICAGO. Jndge Horton Accepts Two Criminal Court Case. In n CHICAGO. Aug. 3. Judge Horton, sitting in the Criminal Court, created a good deal of comment ajnong lawyers and others today by accepting two women as jurors. Their names had been taken from the poll lists by the jury, clerks. Both of the women said they were willing to serve, and were told to appear to-day. This is the first Instance of the kind in the history of this county. CRUEL LI HLNti CHANG. He Fooled the eriunn Mannfnctarers In True Oriental Style. Berlin Dispatch in London News. With, almost cruel persistency Li Hung Chang continues to declare that the hopes indulged in in industrial circles that he will give Important orders to German firms are vain. Now his right-hand man, the customs official, Herr Detrlng. a German, who has lived In China for many years, and accompanies the Chinese Bismarck as official interpreter, has expressed himself in private conversation at Cologne in a similar senv. China, he said, needed, above everything, war material, and as Krupp's. at Essen, was known as one of the best firms, it would, no doubt, obtain large orders. But no other German works could hope to have the Fame, for, as regards the material for railways and telegraphs, China was under political obligations to other powers, at least to the same degree as to Germany. The Viceroy's journoj, said Herr Detring. had rather the obieet of obtaining Information about the political situation in the various European states and their feeling; toward China than that of initiating commercial relations. These latest statements will not fall to Intensify the disappointment felt at Berlin with the result of the Chinese minister's visit. The man who loses is sure to be laughed at. and it is the Germans who. so far at least, have lost. From the moment set his foot on German soil. Li Hung Chang was treated by the Germans, not merely as if he were a crowned head, to whom Germany was greatly indebted, but as a sort of commt-relal Messiah, whose arrival wou'd give German exports, commerce and trade fresh impulse and unprecedented vigor. All the industrial establishments vied in honoring him, and neither trouble nor monej was spared to make his stav in Germany as pleasant as possible. He enjoyed all this with the air of a kind patron, and constantly gave expression to his heartfelt thanks. But the more he approached the western frontier of the empire the cooler and more reserved he became, ns regards the practical advantage the Germans might hope to derive from his visit. Certainly he previously made now and then some slight mention of the danger of overrating the importance of his visit, but only when he was about to shake off German dust from his feet did he destroy with unmistakable frankness the hopes so fondly entertained. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Aug. 3. Arrived: Steamers State of California and Anchoria. from Glasgow: Saale. from Bremen; Cevic, from Liverpool; Kensington, from Antwerp. BREMFRHAVEN. Aug 3. Arrived: Weimar," from New York; Aller, from New York via Cherbourg. GTBR ALTER. Aug. 3. Arrived: Kaiser Wllhelm II. from New York, for Genoa. Filibuster for Insurgents. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3. The announcement of the sale of the famous filibustering steamship Laurada. of the John D. Hart line, was made to-day. The ship was purchased by Antonio Rubens, of Wilmington. Del., who is the reputed attorney for the Cubans, and she will leave at once for her new sailing port, to be overhauled and repaired. It is stated that the price paid for the Laurada -was (33,000. Fertllltlnpr Works Darned PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 3. The fertrizing works of Daniel Pauh & Sons, on the Delaware river near Tasker street were almost completely destroyed bv fire at an early hour this rhornine. The fire originated' from a large boi'er of fat boiling over. The loss Is i stimated at $12-1.C00 and It U believed it Is covered by insurance.

TESLfl'S NEW INVENTION

HE CAN NOW TRANSMIT ELECTRICITY IX LARGE QUAXTITIES. Heretofore, When Sent Long Distances, It Has Been Costly and of Limited I'onrr-ome Benefits. New York Correspondence Philadelphia Press. When the Electrical National Exposition was held in this city In May It was then demonstrated for the first time that the electric current could be brought for a distance of five hundred miles from the place of generation and utilized for light and power. In Germany an experiment made over a line extending from the Falls of Neckar to Fiankfort-on-the-Main, a distance cf 110 miles, was only in part successful. 'The current was carried for that distance, but without any promise of commercial advantage. In California an lectric current has been carried from'tho 'alls of the Sacramento river to Sacramento 1ty, thirtyseven miles, with comm.-jr ial s.ucess. The direct current was used ?n that tate and until this New York exhibition this was the longest distance that-a current had been carried in such a manner as to justify the expectation of commercial profit. Tesla and Edison, twin wizards of electricity, were perhaps the most deeply Interested students of the electrical experiments and demonstrations which were made at this recent exhibition. But they were differently influenced. Edison was filled with enthusiasm, and perhaps some amazement tempered with that feeling. He declared: "The most amazing things, perhaps, everything considered, which I have seen at this exhibition is the demonstration of the ability to deliver here an electric current generated at Niagara Falls. To my mind it solves one of the most important questions associated with electrical development." Another man made immortal by electricity. Alexander Graham Bell, was even stronger In his expression of opinion than Edison, declaring that he was firmly convinced that this long-distance transmission of electric power was the most important discovery of electric science that had been made for many years. He, with Edison, looking into the future, realized that by means of this discovery cities and towns remote from the places of electrical generation would be able to sbtaln the services of this agent for those things for which it is fitted, with great economy, practical safety and far superior convenience than Is now possible. But the man whose genius had made this demonstration possible was, it is safe to say, the only person who witnessed these experiments who was not perfectly satisfied with them. It would seem as though Tesla, seeing in that exposition hall the realization in fact of the theories upon which he had worked and .in which he had firm faith, would have been content with this visible proof of their truth. Instead of that, he seemed to perceive that something remained to be done. He brought the current from Niagara; had shown that it could be utilized in New York nearly five hundred miles away from the place of its generation, and yet he felt convinced that In order to obtain sure and permanent commercial profit he had still two problems to solve. One was the reduction of expense: the other, the capacity for attaining greater efficiency, although each of thee problems involved a satisfactory answer of the other. OBSTACLES TO BE OVERCOME. In one respect the demonstrations were not all that were expected to be obtained, but this was due to Incidental and unexpected obstacles. When Mr. Frank W. Hawley, who was the first of the capitalists to have faith in the ability of the scientists and inventors to discover some means by which the Niagara force, transformed Jnto electricity, could be conveyed across the State of New York, determined that at this exposition there should be a demonstration made that the problem had been solved, he expected to bo able to cause a current generated at Niagara to drive a motor of not less than three-horse power. He was assureu that a current could be brought which would propel a motor of much greater horse power If there were a suitable plant. But a three-horsepower motor was considered to be well within the limits of safety. In this opinion, however, the Local Board of Lnderwriters disagreed. As tht wire over which the current was to be carried was an ordinary Western Union commercial telegrapji wire and as the apparatus which is employed in using this wire for ordinary business is adjusted to a very limited energizing force the underwriters were fearful that a current equal to the demands of a three-hore-poiver motor would prove to be too great for this apparatus and might cause danger of fire at some point on the line. Therefore the current brought in from Niagara was, at the demand of the underwriters, only a Uttle greater in volume than that ordinarily used for the transmission of telegraphic messages. It was sufficient to send the famous world-spanning message, written by Depew, over th.e land lines of this continent and to display some of the wonders of electricity which did not require great power. Tesla waa satisfied that, before capital could bo induced In large amount to Invest in plants designed for the tarnsmis sion Of the electric current for long distances, he must be able to state to capitalists: "I am ready to demonstrate that it is possible to convey great electric power for a distance of ftO miles, and to do It with such economy as to make it commercially protttaMe," He knew that he did not need further to develop his two-phase motor, which is now recognized to be, perhaps, the most important of all electrical inventions, but he felt assured that he needed to discover how the electricity, after it had been gen erated. could be communicated to the motor with great economy and efficiency. He determined to give all the time that he could spare from other engaging and important studies, such, for Instance, as are associated with the Roentgen rays, and his vacuum illuminator, to the solving of this problem. In plain English, he was to discover how. with a small quantity of copper, small enough to be within the limits of commercial advantage, he could nevertheless cause to be carried a volume of electricity equivalent, at least, to twenty thousand horse power. It is the copper which costs, and it is at the points of Interruption that the losses occur. It Is at these Interruptions that the current is reduced from a high to a low or commercial voltage, available for light, heat and power purposes. That i to say, whenever a purchaser of electric power draws his current from a commercial main, there the less of electricity occurs, and it is the saving of this which was the problem to which Tes'a devoted himself. THE SOLUTION FOUND. . Nearly three mcnths have passed since he began this work, and he now feels authorized to announce that he is convinced that he has found the solution which he sought. This he did emphatically and explicit In answer to a , question asked of him this morning by The Press correspondKent "I am now convinced beyond any question that it is possible to transmit electricity to commercial advantage over a distance of five hundred miles, and deliver the current at half the cost of generation by steam. This, of course, is a current generated by water power, and I only qualify this statement by adding that the quantity transmitted must be quite considerable. I am willing to stake my reputation and my life upon this declaration." It is very likely that, before Tesla felt willing to make this public announcement, he had already informed Inquiring capitalists that he had solved the problem. So great is the faith of capitalists in him. so perfectly have his assertions in the past, when positively made, been verified, that capitalists receive what he says as something which may be relied upon and Justify the liberal investment of capital. It is to be Inferred that this reliance has already been acted upon, for there is the best of authority for stating that within the last few days abundant capital has been offered for the construction and equipment of transmission lines from Niagara to New York city. Even the apprehension which the silver agitation has caused has not made capital timid, although Jt imposed the condition that the obligations be paid in gold of the present standard of weight and fineness of the United States gold dollar. Within sixty days the Cataract General Electric Company will have decided upon

one point In regard to the establishment of the plant, and when that is done the work of construction from -Niagara to Rochester, seventy-five .miles, will be begun and continued through the winter. The point to be decided is whether it Is better to carry the wires underground or overhead. That, of course, has nothing to do with the Tesla system ol tiansm.fJ-lon. It involves merely the question of the highest economy in establishing the plant. The subway proposed consists of two metallic tubes separated by a packing of paper fiber. The first cost of such a subway would be greater than that entailed by building overhead wires, hxxt it Is -believed that In the long run it will be found to he more economical for various reasons. WHAT TESLA'S INVENTION IS Precisely what Tesla has done which justifies him In making the explicit and emphatic declaration quoted ubo'.e.yhe of course, does not make public. He Is willing to speak with perfect faith of results, but piobably from motives of business prudence, as has always been his custom, does not describe in detail his Invention, and probably will not, until he docs it with t!:at elaboration of detail and statement which has characterized his explanation" of his other inventions. But it is to be inferred that he has discovered how he can use with commercial economj copper wire, capable of carrying for a long distance an electric current equivalent to 20.000 horse power. That capitalists are convinced f his ability to do what he claims em be done Is made evident from the fact that. n many of the towns along the "due of . the canals In this State, the local eUetric companies are seeking to cancel existing contracts and to secure in place of tiem new ones running for a long period of lirre. This Is a natural result of the desire ou the part of. these companies to protect tremselves from a competition which ;hcy see to be inevitable. But the impression here is thp.t ultimately, by some equitable arrangement, these local companies will abandon their own generating plants and purchase the power which is being transmitted over this long-distance system. Tesla's statement, that he Is satisfied that the cost of generating by water power and of delivering even so far away as five hundred miles electric current of this volume will only be 50 per cent, of the cost of generating electricity by ceal. of itself suggests the enormous saving which this new system may be capable of making possible. It also suggests that in the near future, perhaps as scon as the political and commercial disturbance caused by the silver agitation has passed away, the companies which have been organized for utilizing the water power of the Potomac, the upper Delaware, the Merrimac and Connecticut, and of the rapids of the St. Lawrence, will take advantage of their franchise and begin to establish their plant. Furthermore, it suggests that the problem which has greatly bothered the railway managers whether there would be economy in the use of electricity for long distance may be satisfactorily solved. Tesla, in his statements, vindicates the judgment of Mr. Frank Y. Hawley, who, when the possible long distance transmission of electricity was simply a subject of theory, declared his faith in the ability of the scientists, especially of his personal friend. Tesla, to solve the problem to commercial advantage. He stated his faith with all the assurance of conviction to a committee of the New York Legislature when application was before it for a charter authorizing the use of canal lands for the transmission of electric power. Many persons spoke, of him as a visionary, and it is very likely that the charter was granted in the belief that no man would see the things which the charter permitted ever done. Tesla declares now that he has made a fact what Mr. Hawley prophesied to that committee would assuredly be made a fact within a few years. TOM BROWN, MURDERER. Alleged Weak-Minded Kenluckian Slaughter His Family.

PROVIDENCE, Ky.. Aug. 3. News reached here at daylight this morning of a horrible family butchery near Clay, eight miles west of this place. Tom Brown, an insane husband, thirty years old and a farmer, terribly butchered his family, consisting of a wife, mother-in-law and baby, last night about 12 o'clock, using an ax. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Cash, was beaten with the poll of the ax. whV.c his wife was chopped with the blade. The baby was beaten in the face and heid. presumably with the clinched fist cf the infuiiatod midman and father. After the terribie atrocity had been committed Brown went to the house of Mr. Muir. his nearest neighbor, and told him what he had done and asked Mr. Mulr to shoot him. that he desired to die also. While the victims of this madman's rage were not killed outright, no hope is entertained for their recovery. Messengers were dispatched to this place fcr additional surgical assistance. Brown is of a feeble-minded family. He is in custody, a p'tlful wreck of human reason, and bewailing his condition, but divested of sufficient reason to realize the enormity of his crime. CITY NEWS NOTES. Otto Leppert. :t bicyclist, was fined five dollars and costs yesterday for knocking down a little child. Yesterday morning James Fisk, who was taken before a sanity commission, made a dash for his liberty after leaving the courthouse on his way to jail. He ran back to the courthouse, where detective Thornton caught him. Robert McGrew, known in the theatrical world as Bob Mack, at present manager of J. C Lewis's Si Plunkard Company, was married last night to Miss Effie Buchel. a young lady of this city. They were married at the residence of Mr. C. L. Hogle. the bride's brother-in-law, on Eighteenth street. Millard Nadder is the name of a queer chap who is being held at the police station on a charge of peddling without a license. He is an Arabian and has been selling cheap jewelry from house to house. He speaks just enough English to transact his business, but not enough to admit that he knew a license was required. Death of Cant. M. L. Stansbnry. Capt. Marcus L. Stansbury died at St. Vincent's Hospital Sunday night of heart disease. Captain Stansbury has been ill for the last nine months, and about two weeks ago his condition became so alarming that it was thought best to remove him to the hospital. His death Sunday night came as a surprise, as he had been feeling much better than usual during the day and up to the time he retired. Ills son was sitting at his bedside when death came, but had it not been for the strange expression of his father's face he would not have realized that he was dead, so quietly had he passed away. Mr. Stansbury has for a long time been a resident of this city, though for several years he was employed at Logansport in the insane asylum of that city. The body was sent to his old home in Ohio yesterday afternoon for burial. "Xo. l.VM Wheel Stolen. Leonard Byers, a bright messenger boy who delivers telegrams to the Journal, was the victim of a bicycle thief, who stole a wheel Byers borrowed from one of his companions at the Western Union telegraph office last night. At 9:20 o'clock Byers delivered a message to the Journal telegraph editor, leaving the wheel he borrowed from "No. 15" standing in front of the main entrance to the Journal bujlding. He was absent but two or three minutes, "but when Byers returned "No. 13' s" wheel was gone. Bvers was very much distressed. The stolen bicycle was a 1 boy's Grande and had one of the pouches the messenger boys use to hold their messages attached. A Soutb-West-Street Fiht. Last night, at about 11 o'clock, a neighbor of Captain Splan, of the detective force, who lives at Z2 South West street, complained to him that some people living further down in the same block were fighting. He wTent to the home of Joseph Dawson and arrested William Tyler, who was sent to the police station on a charge of assault and battery. Tyler and Dawson, with others, were drinking beer, when Tyler, who Is a nephew of Dawson, struck Dawson on the head with a heavy piece of metal. Dawson bled freely, but was not seriously injured. General Melvee to Investigate. The charges that members of the Indiana National Guard robbed a refreshment stand at the Cycle Park have been referred to General McKee and a full Investigation ordered. V. W. Martin, owner of the stand, has sent in a bill for $17.54. It seems to have been fully established that the South Bend band members are not guilty of the robbery, for they were several squares away from the place at the time the robbery Is alleged to have been committed. Mnat Answer u Perjury Churse. Dennis McCarthy was sent to jail for perjury yesterday by Judge Cox. The court thought he was lying- on the stand about a fight in which he was engaged.

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POLICEMAN HAD TO FIRE. Patrolman Carter Shot George Miller, a Colnmbln-AUey Tough. George Miller, one of the leaders of a gang of colored toughs, who make their headquarters on Columbia alley, was arrested last night by Patrolman Carter after quite a struggle. Columbia alley is the scene of many little lights, and has given the police so much trouble that it was deemed necessary to place an extra policeman in that district, whose only duty is to keep Yeace in that immediate neighborhood. Carter was detailed to do this, and lust night when Miller started trouble v.ith his family he was warned by Carter to keep still or he would have to arrest him. Miller continued his noise and cursing, and Carter attempted to carry out his threat. He took hold of Miller, who resisted him by kicking htm in the stomach and tbout the shins and succeeded In bruisi-ig him up badly. Carter saw that the man was getting the best of him and, drawing his revolver, warned Miller that he woaid shoot, but was not heeded. Miller continued his unruly conduct and Carter shot, the ball entering the calf of Miller's leg near the top and coming out lower down. This thoroughly frightened the man, who believed that he was hurt far worse than he really was, and he sur rendered. He was taken to the station house without further trouble. Dr. Courtney was called and dressed the wounds of both Carter and Miller. FIRE AT FLACKVILLE. Started in the' Burn Where a Murder Recently Occurred. The outbuildings on the farm of Hiram Miller, president of the Stat Bank of Indiana, near Flackvllle, were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars, Insured to the extent of 52,500. It is not certain how the fire started, but it was first discovered in the main barn, the large structure where William Perry, a farm hand in the employ ot Mr. Miller, recently murdered a fellow-em-njoye. Ieotus McCIain. As soon as it -."C.s seen that the tire could not be controlled by the methods available in the country, the city lire department was jcalled. and the No. 1 apparatus was sent to the place. Before it arrived, the fire had spread to the buggy shed adjoining the barn and also to two smaller barns. The farm hands had worked hard at removing the carri ages, wagons and farming Implements, and there was small loss on these, though the buildings were almost totally destroyed. AMUSEMENTS. The Park's Ilijr Oneninjr Yesterday. It was hanl work to get a seat at the Park Theater yesterday. The matinee audience, mad up largely of ladies and children, filled all available space upftaips and down, and there was quite a sprinkling of "standing roomers." Last night all the standing room space was occupied and several hundred people were turned away. It was a fine opening:, and the season of 18!6-97 was successfully begun. The theater is brighter and handsomer than ever. The improvement is noticeable at a glance and paint and paper has cut quite a figure in it. The attraction "McSorley's Twins" is one of the best opening at tractions the Park ever had. It Is one of those lively Irish farce-comedies so porular with the ParK's patrons, and has as much plot as is needed for entertaining purposes. Much de pends upon tne company and Manager Merrltt has made no mistake in selecting- his people. Terry Ferguson and Ueorxe timerick play the leading parts Dennis Mcfr-orley and Michael Clancy and the troubles of this pair keep the audience amused for nearly three hours. Torn Ripley has a tramp part that lie acts very cleverly. The audiences yesterday worked him almost to death In the first act. when he gave his funny descriptive songs. They wouldn't let him leave the stage until he had sung everything he knew. Miss Durham has a good soprano, and her son "The 'La Ft Watch" and "Ki.'s Your Tears Away." were enjoyable feature of the sec ond act. Pretty little Mina Genrvell.whO will he rerrembered as one of the chief attractions of Charley Lnder's "Oh, Wnat a Night" some years aro, has a couple ot catchy songs in the pecond act, "The Twentieth Century Girl" and "When Cupid Comes a-Knocklng at the Door." Then there was fcam Howes sonj? ana dance with harp accompaniment, a gavotte by half a dozen pretty girls, the "new woman voters." a song and dance by the same feminine sexteUe. the Gehrne hlsters in one of the most graceful dances yet seen here and several other sieclaltics. All these, with the encores, made up an entertaining lot of music. The comedy ejement is well sustained all through. The costumes are attractive in color and style, the scenery Rood, nnd the performance satisfactory. McSorley's Twins, Kate and Duplikate. who, by the way, are fat ?nd fair, will remain all week, with daily matinees. Next week "Oriental America" Isham's new production comes to the Park. A Xew Tlieatrieal Syndicate. NEW YORK. Au7. 3. A meeting at Hoyt's Theater, to-day. attended hy all the local manajrtrs and most of the traveling managers of theatrical companies, organized the United Association of Theatrical Managers, the object of the association leing matual protection. Frank McKee was selected as tmiorary chairman. A. J. Spencer secretary. A. A. McCormlek treasurer and Jack Hirst representative. A committee was ai pointed to perfect a permanent organization consisting of all the leading local managers of tl Is city, Boston. Philadelphia and Chicago, as well as the leading traveling managem, twentyfive in all. among them beins Henry Abbey and Claries Frohman. This Is the mst time such an organization has been form?d. The preset renditions in railroad rates and the fact that all other persons having connections with the theatrical profession musicians, actors and othcrt have ail formed associations to better protect their interests, are the principal reasons for the fcrmatlon of this organization. Grand-Georgia Minstrels To-XIght. To-night at the Grand the Georgia Jflnstrels will make their only ap:carance here this season. This troupe of colored comedian., vocalists and dancers elves an old-time minstrtl show. It consists of the usual first part, olio and afterpiece. Hilly Kersands is at the head of the organization, which Include, also, Moore tnd Kemp. Marsh Craig. James Lacy, Ilillman and Vernon, W. O. Terry, Jalvan, the balancer and jupxler. the Crescent City Quartet, some pickaninnies and other colored talent. Th company has been successful for a number of yeans. There will be a street parade this noon. Xote of tlie Stnce. Otis Skinner will play the classic drama a -a in tl is season. Melba seems to have outdone ai! her former triumphs In London. Steve Brodie'a new play will be ready for production in October. Francis Wilson will open his. next season In a ntw comic opora. "Half a King." Joseph Kawnrth will probably play the role of the hero In bret Harte's new drama, "Sierra." Yvette Guilbert will come to America again this fall, arid Indianapolis will likely have a chance to see her. . Olga Nethersole Is coming back next winter with a translation of Sarah Bernhardt' play, The Duches Catherine. The great Chevalier will make a tour of the United States this season under the management of Charley Frohman. He will appear here. Joseph and K. M. Holland are at Buzzard's Bay with Joseph Jefferson. Their tour to the coast begins ia September, and they will be een la "The Social Highwayman." , Lew A. Warner and Lawrence Earl Atkinson, late of the Armstrong Park company, left vesUr-

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Wolf Hopper, in his new oj-er, "Kl Itan." is the solidest success of the summer sen In Xew York. A tl.ltfi Ijouse is not unuual, and he has hern playing at the JJroadway Theater a Ion time. SqI Smith Russell is t produce a nw play hy Miss Martha Morton this season, jfe hss ewKtped Miss Bertha Creighton. who plyed wit"i the Hollands and in 'The Villa ?e Pojtmasder.-' to take the leading female role. All th colored- stars .In Isham's "Oriental America." including Mattle Wllke. II!e I,avK Pearl Meredith. Marasret Scott. Allie ::rgoyne, Mamie Galloway. Dessen Plato. Billy i;:dridjre, Harry i-'idler and Sidney Wood war i. appeared last hirht at Palmer's Theater. Nv York, for the benefit e-f the "Junior Republic." It was a big performance. . Charles Frohman has engaced the Abbot tiMr for Chevalier's company. They are amonK sensations of t!e reasm at the Kmpire Theater. londorf, and recently appeared before the royal family. They wlli remain in London daring Th si mmer and wl'? com to America in time f- r Chevalir' opening at the Garrhk Theater, n Sert. 7. Genre Richard?, who will go out in Hrt'i "A Temperar.c Town" next season In conjunction with Eugene Panfi'-ld. Is very much disturbed by the laiter's dlapparanre. II la searched Harlem and West Twenty-fourth rtr't for days without being able to ilnd any tra of his comical partner.- Rehehrna's are to b g:n shortly, and he is seriously -on idrin the jriv!sahllKy of putting a "lost, strayed r stolen" advertisement In the newsparrs. "Titenia." a dancer. whof c-laim for favor in based on her heinff th orlcinator and only lid" dancer executing a sand Jig cn hr toes, rn ii her New York debut. -Tun li. at II. minorstein's OJympia. Sh. v.-?s .spoken Mf a? "th embodiment of tjie poetry of motif:." and. according to the New York Tr-rj!. presented a descriptive toe dance that illustrate a 1ramatli episode. ana tory. accentuated by novel f sories and effects. She will head a vaudeville company this seain. Miss Laura Burt, who p'.avs the hroin wit Jacob Litt's "In Old Kentucky." has. during her vacation, been taking a course of studies embracing literature and the classics. During th coming season Miss Burt will tiar in a play by H. Grattan Donnelly, entitled. "TrLlly of LlandafT." which depicts th bripht s!1 of ljfe In Wales, and gives Hirs Burt opportunltv to create new stage character that of a voUr.? WeJsh girl. This will be xhe ftrt time a Wls i dialect role has been essayed by an American actress. Otis Harlan arrived rn th 13rten cn Saturday and Immediately left for Bayside. I- I . waere he will remain until t season orer.s. U kept out of th way of importers, who were anxious to Interview him about his firt trip nrrt the fK-ean and his adventures in Paris. Hi acquirement of French, considering his brif rejourn in France, is said to be ren.ark3bl. 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