Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1897 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 189T.

attention to the f tct that the 'rompanle made no attempts until he had returned from Iluropv. whro ho hai procured two estimatoH of th c't of armor ji:ite. "An Inspection of the prices paid th American companies." Mr. Herbert pays, 'will Indicate that they agreed with each other as to prices. They divided tho contracts of this government "between themselves, each bidding" lower on one-half of the armor required by th Kovernment." He speaks of the armor fumi.-hed by the companies to Ilussla. at tllO per ton. and later at $."0 per ton. and concludes from a comparison of prices that th-re is at least a "friendly unUerytandinflT or asrreement among the powerful armor manufacturers of the world to maintain prices at or about tne sam; level." In summing up. the secretary asks: "What will b a price sufficient to justify manufacturers In maintaining armor plan s? These two contractors hav already been rliaid the cost of th'ir plants, toother with fair profits. The Kovernment is under to obligation to pay them more than the st of their original Investment, but should pay them t-nougn to maintain the plants." ACTUAL COST OF ARMOR PLATES. It has been determined, he says, that the cost of labor and material in a ton of double-forced nickel steel Harveyized armor, including allowances for losses ani manufacture. Is J1CH.TC. This comprises every element In cost save maintenance of plant. He allows 10 per cent, for this, and says It Is enough and more. He csrt'rrates the cost of the plants of the two companies to bo Jl.riO.OOO, and an allowance of $150,000 per annum would bj sufficient for maintaining the plants. Supposing that 2,o00 tons of aimor is manu

factured year y, it gives an allowance of ICO ptr ton. rr iking in round numbers the co-it of armor plate ier ton. If 3M tens were manufactured the price could be ascertained by adding frt to the original ,cost per ton ($l!?i. or $248. He concludes that VZSi may be taken as the cost of a ton of armor when the companies have fair orders for work. This estimate is almost the exact figure which the Uethlehem Company bid tor furnishing armor to the Russian government. wnich was 2l"J per ton. The cost of transportation and Insurance was Jl per ton, and the nickel furnished, J2 per ton, leaving the not cost Jo per ton. which, the secretary says. If the company can barely make) armor at a cost of TJ) per ton was a loss of Ji per ton, or $.V,u on the 1,4ju tons furnished. He points out that in the last contract this company made with K'isslu the price was j:j70.2u per ton for 1.U7 tons, and says that the profits must have been very large. The secretary says that it is essential that these or other armor plants be kept in operation. . The Carnegie and Hethleliem companies have erected plants costing at least 11.000.000. but this was done upon the? faith of Immediate contracts guaranteeing then, large profits. If Congress shall decide, as the report recommends, that no such prollts as have heretofore been earned are to be allowed In the future, it is not probable that other business corporations will venture on the establishment of plants, although It has been shown by testimony that plants can be erected at a muchreduced cost. Should the present armor contractors refuse to make contracts at tha figure, decided on by Congress it is not probable that others would undertake the work. Mr; Herbert says it is not desirable that the government should manufacture armor, and for this reason very liberal rrottt.H should be offered to the present contractors to Induce them to continue their plant in operation, and he recommends as a fair profit .V) jnr cent, of th cost of manufacture, which would be $C7."i per ton. The secretary further advises that the contractors hereafter furnish the nickel, which now costs th government about $'"J per ton. making the cost ?X5 pr ton, or in round numbers. $100. This figure he believes a fair and lqultabl price to pay for the armor for the Wisconsin. Alabama and Illinois, the threo new battle ships last authorized. The report continues that this sum may Fe m a very large profit, but f.hat the government demands the very best armor, ine bcrar' says that in Hxlng a price he has performed a very delicate duty, and suggests that Congress keep in view all the considerations favoring liberal treatment to the Uethlehem and Carnegie companies. The government Is now paying JV3 per ton' for armor, ana with the nickel uauea ai mo prices suggested Dy 3ir. Herbert $.7)0,000 would be saved on each battle ship. In concluding his report. Secretary Herbert says that it is possible his conclusions are erroneous, and therefore suggests that If his methods of securing information are rot correct the facts can be, ascertained by an exhibition to Congress of the hooks of tho1 companies. If Congress should fix the prices, ho recommends that provision be made for a course to be pursued In case the companies refuse to mnke contracts at the prices determined on. Unless the present law in changed the secretary could not obtain armor for the battle ships already under contract if the companies rfu to bid within tho limit Congress might fix. To eliminate this difficulty Mr. Herbert recommends that upon fixing a price for armor Congress also authorize the secretary to rect or buy or lease an armor p!ant or a gim plant. If necessary. If this is done better results, he believes, could b obtained. . " $5,000 PUT UP. Dan Stnart Post I'art of the CorhettFltzxlni moim Prize Money. NEW YORK, Jan. 5. This afternoon Dan Stuart met Al Smith, who has been agreed upon as final stakeholder in the CorbettFitzsimmcns match, in Jersey City, and lasted with him J3.000 as a guarantee of good faith. This money will form a part of the purse in the event of the fight taking place. Should Stuart fail to brin' the men together as agreed upon the J5.0W will be forfeited. Traveling; ZO.tHH) 3Ile for $4,000. NEW YORK. Jan. l-George F. Carl, of San Francisco, has arrived in this city, having traveled eleven thousand miles in a twenty-thousand-mile contest against time and for u purse of $1,000. Carl started at noon May rt. without a cent, to cover twenty thousand miles In twelve months, with the customary limitation as to the manner in which he should meet his expenses. When he arrived here he was in excellent condition, having traveled most of the way by wheel. From New York he will sail to the West India islands, touching at Jamaica. Barbadoes, Trinidad. Guadeloupe. Martinique and a number of otner points. Alter that he will ride through a part of South America and then up via th Isthmus of Fanama to the Pacific coast and home to San Francisco. Score of Women llleyclc Riders. CLEVELAND. O.. Jan. 3. The score In days bike race for women riders at the cm? of to-night's racing was: Farnsworth. Anderson. Brown ind Keys, seventy-six miles, nine laps; Calgren, seventysix miles, nine laps; Alien, seventy-live miles nine laps. The pace to-night was somewhat slower than last night. Farnswcrth was first over the tape at the finish and Anderson second. Cotr.nn Street-Railway Trouble. BOSTON. Jan. 5. The citizens' committee appointed at a mass mtettnrr held ten days ago to act in behalf of tho employes of the West Kiid Street-railway Company who were discharged for participating in the recent strike, met this afternoon and tssued u Ions- naniffto to th public, acknowledging tho failure of their efforts and adding: "The victory which the corporation has Rained over their employes is decisive. Such a condition of things In Boston is intolerable. Is there no remedy?" The committee recommends that if no municipal power exists to aid the cmoloyes In securing their rights tnat application should be made for it to the legislature of the Commonwealth. Pad lit Cm life Favored. LONDON. Jan. 5. The Pacific Cable conference will iveet within a fortnight In order to idgn its report which is alreadyagreed upon. The draft of this report will soon be signed by! the Canadian and Australian delegates, who will forward copies to their respective governments, and a report on the same will be presented to the cretary of state for th- colonies. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. In regird to carrying out its recommendations. It Is seml-ofii-cially stated that the report Is unanimous in recommending that the cable be built as it H practically feasible and commercially and politically necessary. Canadians In Straits. MONTREAL. Jan. 5. Many Canadians are now in most distressing circumstances In Sao Paulo. Brazil, aa a result of listening to the glittering promises hdd out to immigrants by La l-ignio Brazilians and its agent. F. A. Guallio. fully peven hundred having gon there on the steamship Moravia last September under contract to Tork on the t o.Tt e plantations. The Meet Billet Market. PITTSHURr;. Jan. S. Tie special committer appoluted to eol'ect data and compi I.? it for the use of th steel billet pool did not agree nt the meetlrg in New York yesterday, und no date v. us fixed for a meeting of the pool. As a result the market, so far as steel billets are concerned wLU remain open until a me itinjr la held.

UNDER THE IRON HEEL

LCn.VNOX pkopli; i tiii: CIA Tt HCS OF A CiAS CORPORATION. Lntrs from Indiana Oil Field (irnnt . County Farmer Jilted After Taking: Out the lilcrnite. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind.. Jan. 3. A ms meeting of the citizens was held in the courthouse last night to decide on some plan of action to pursue in regard to a rule recently adopted by the Indiana Natural and Illuminating Gas Company requiring its customers here to pay three months in advance for cook stoves instead of by the month, as heretofore, and in case such is not done to add a penalty of l-'ijc on the regular rates. Speeches were made by Ceo. U. Jones, editor of the Reporter, Benjamin F. McKey, editor of the Pioneer. Elder J. A. Johnson and C. F. S. Neal. Nothing was done further than to apioInt a committee of two from each ward to notify citizens to attend an adjourned meeting Wednesday night, to which the City Council and city attorney will be invited. At this time the matter will be thoroughly investigated and a decision be reached as to the best plan of procedure. At present there is a strong feeling that legal means should be employed to prevent the gas company imposing any burdens on the jeople here. IMJIANA OIL FIHLD SUWS. The Prlee May Touch fiO CVntw Jteeent Xew Well Completed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER. Ind.. Jan. 5. The year of 1SD7 promises a general improvement in the oil and gas fields of this State. The price of tho product has been going downward for some time, with prospects of hitting the 50-cent mark before the opening of spring. The decrease in the price of the product is uncalled for, although looked for, as it is evident that the Standard is after somebody, and they intend to squeeze him hard. The decline has stopped a great number of wells, which have thrown out hundreds cf men. The Cudahys, of Chicago, have their pipe line completed to Kankakee, but so far it has done nothing for the Indiana producers. The owners must create a market for the product before they can expect to do any great amount of business, The line is completed, but the facilities for handling the crude is very bad, as the line is only a four-Inch one to start with, and the owners are already experiencing any amount of trouble in the breaking of the dne In various places, flooding the country with oil from tne breaks. When the line was first contemplated the outlook was that it would have sufficient facilities to be a thorn in the back of the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, but instead, it Is a help to the big concern, and Instead of the prico of the porduct advancing it has declined to 55 cents per barrel. The Northern Indiana Oil Company's well No. 2. on the Henry Schott farm, in Section 1MJ, Nottingham township, Wells county, is good for ninety barrels. Same company's No. 14. Brookhart farm. Section 31, same township, seventy barrels, while No. 10 on Settle farm. Section o. and No. 1. on the George Updegraft farm, in Section iVi. same township, are good for ten barrels. Thomas. Flynn & Co. finished No. on Aokerman farm. Section 1!. same township, for sixty barrels. S. W. Tait & Co.'s No. 13. Williamson farm. Section 7. Chester township, and their No. 14. same farm, are good for thirty barrels each; Carrett Bros'. No. 2. Noe farm. Section 8. same township, seventy barrels; A. Frban's No. 8, Shadle farm. Section Is. same township, twentj'-five barrels; Luton & Brandt's No. 7. Shadlo farm. Section 7. same township, seventy barrels; Ohio Oil Company's No. 1, Jellison farm. Section 17. same township, twenty barrels; same company's No. 1, Halley farm. Section 8, same township, fifteen barrels, while the second well on the Jellison farm. Just completed, is good for fifteen barrels. Boyd. Merring & Co.'s No. 4. McConkey farm. Section 12. Washington township. Blackford county, is good for twenty barrels: Ohio Oil Company's No. 1, Gard farm. Section 1. Jefferson township, Huntington county. 100 barrel?: Kerllne Bros. No. 1, Pontius farm. Section Hartford township. Adams county, thirty barrels; Judy & Burford's No. 4. Buchec farm, Section 30. Wabash township, same county, sixty barrels; Ohio Oil Company's No. 1. Creviston farm. Section 11. Van Buren township. Grant county, ninety barrels; same company's No. L Creviston farm. Section 12, same township, ninety barrels; James McCormick's No. 15. Studebaker farm, Section 11, same township, five barrels: George W. Bold's No. 2, Kngle farm. Section 1, Jackson township. Jay county, forty-live barrels; T. K. Dougherty's No. Halterman farm. Section 2, same township, fifteen barrels: Northern Indiana Oil Company's No. 1. Hardy farm. Section 13, same township, fifteen barrels. Gun Welln Become Oilers. Specfal to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Jan. 3. The first gas well drilled in this city and owned by tho Citizens' Gas Company has suddenly turned into an oiler and has been shut off from the gas mains and abandoned as unfit for gas purposes. This is a great surprise to many people in Hartford City and great hopes are entertained of finding oil in paying quantities within the city limits. The Utility Paper Company's gas well, which has been used to furnish fuel for its plant, is also producing about a barrel of oil a day. These wells are all bordering on the Lick creelc bottoms. Lick creek itself is covered with oil and it is certain that oil can be found here in abundance. When the two wells above mentioned wero first drilled they were regulas gas gushers without tho least sign of oil. Eastern oil men here have always contended that the whole Indiana gas lelt would bo In time one vast oil field and the showing of oil in the two wells here bear out their statements. 1XDIAXA OI1ITCAIIY. Mayor Hantlcl and Rev. Hnrcravc, Doth of Cmwfortlnvllle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. Jan. 5. Mayor Frederick Bandel died this morning about 4 o'clock, aged forty-six. Mr. Bandel hail been ill for over five weeks, hl3 ailment being peritonitis. He made a heroic struggle to recover, but his strong constitution gradually gave way. Tho funeral will be held Thursday afternoon. Mr. Bandel was born In Strausburg, Germany. April 26. 1SC1, and came to this country four years later, his parents settling at Mineral Point. O.. and afterwards moved to Springfield. 111. Mr. Bandol came to this city in l?. and worked at stone work on the courthouse. In a few years ho was married at Springfield. 111., and returned here, where he has since resided. His wife and six children survive. Mr. Bandel had served as a Republican councilman, anil was elected mayor in isr2. being re-elected in 14.. He belonged to the Odd Fellows. Knights Templars. K. of P., Red Men and was a Son of Tribe of BcnHiir. Rev. William P. Hargrave died List night of congestion of the stomach. He was lorn in this city June 1. 1SJ2. He graduated from Asbury. now De Pauw. University in ISM. practiced law at Evansvllle. anil served as circuit judge. He resigned his law practice and entered the .Methodist ministry, and was a soldier of the late war. His first wife was Miss Mattle Ersklwe. who died, and then he married Miss Martha O'Neal. Tho remains will be sent to Evansvllle tor burial. Mm. Emma IlagnnFpecl?l trv the Indianapolis Journal, s.. - GREEN C A ST L E. Ind.. Jan. ."..-Mrs. Emma Ragan. wife of the well-known horticulturist. Hon. W. il. Ragan. died ;t her home here this afternoon after an IIIiu-fs of several months. A FICKLE OHIO GIRL Went Hack on u Grant County Farmer After Promising to Wed. Sl?cial to the In!lanaiolis Journal. MARION. Ird.. Jan. 5.-Georgo W. Blox ham. a farmer about thirty years old. nine miles west of here, taw In a Cincinnati paper a few months ago that Miss Ollle Wiggins, of some place In Ohio, sought a correspondence with a gentleman with u view to matrimony. He replied, sent hl3 photo graph, received a photograph in return, ind. after the customary preliminaries. Miss Ollle came to Herbst. the home of Mr. Hloxham. met him, inspected him ami de clared her readiness to marry him. Blox ham came to Marlon, procuted a marriage license and returned home to find that Miss

Wiggins had fied. after writing him a note

Informing him that phe would return to Ohio and marry a handsomer man. Bloxham returned the license to the county clerk yesterday, asked for his $2 and got it. HACK IX SALEM JAIL. Detective AY ho Murdered John Rlppey Will Be Held for Trial. SrecSal to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Jan. 5. Brown and Sexton, the Louisville of!Icers who murdered John Rippey. were brought to Salem from the New Albany jail this afternoon. The prisoners were handcuffed and were in charge of Marshal Medlock and Deputy Sheritf 1'row. Few people knew they were coming, and there were only about one hundred at the depot and on the street. The men were put in the cells in the jail, and there they will probably remain until the February term of court. There i no danger of mob violence so long as no attempt is made by the prisoners or their friends and attorneys to thwart justice or move the case to other courts. They will be accorded a lair trial hfTC. Suit Against Greenfield F. and A. 31. FjrfHial to th IndianajolIs Journal. NEW CASTLE. Ind.. Jan. 3. The case of George W. and Jacob F. Heinzman against the Hancock Lod;je, F. and A. M., of Greenfield, to foreclose mechanic's lien and for $10,000, was begun to-day In the Henry county court. Heinzman Bros, contracted to build a Masonic temple in Greenfield for $40,0o0. They commenced the job, subletting parts of the work to others. As the building progressed the lodge committee made various changes in the plans, and when the work was almost completed the contractors put in a bill for the extra work, and. together with the subcontractors, filed Hens against the building. The lodge refused to pay. claiming faulty construction and bad workmansnip. The attorneys for Heinzman Bros, are Fertig A: Alexander, of Noblesville: E. W. Felt, of Greenfield, and Bundy fc Morris, of this city. The defendants and subcontractors have for their attorneys Marsh & t'ook. It. A. Black. Spencer & Binford, Downev & Hough. W. H. Martin and Sidney L. Walker, of Greenfield; F. E. Matson, of Indianapolis, and M. E. Forkner and Brown Brown, of this place. All tho attorneys are present, and a lively battle will be fought. Old Gun Welln Revived. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind.. Jan. 5. The claim that the. reason for decreased gas pressure was owing to the fact that the wells become clogged resulted in an experiment on two abandoned wells in this county to seo the effect. The casing was removed and the drill sent down. About one hundred feet from the bottom it struck a solid sub stance, which when drilled through was found to be pieces of shale and rock so tightly wedged and welded together by the pressure of the gas as to eflectually clog the fiow. When it had been pierced and the wells drilled deeper the fiow was greatly increased. The two wells are now hitched on the mains again and are assisting in supplying the consumers. It is claimed that the wells could be Improved if they were regularly cleaned out. Medals for Indlaua Ilidem. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 5. Ross Manly, of Summitville, has been 'awarded the Krietenstein century medal for riding the greatest number of centuries by any Indiana member of the Century Road Club of America during lOC. He made sixtyfive centuries, which is also the state record. W. L. Stover, of South Bend, won the Krietenstein mileage medal In the Indana mileage contest, having ridden 12.310 miles during the year. This Is the state record. Manly gets the meritorious ride medal for the most meritorious ride during the year. It was made on Sept. 27 and is considered by many the greatest ride, ever made in Indiana as for six hours during the century he rode in a rainstorm. DnekinK for a Burglar. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 5. Last night a burglar entered the residence of F. W. Woods in this city and secured a good sum of money and many valuables. When leaving tho premises via the back yard be stepped upon the temporary covering of a large cistern, which covering gave way beneath his weight and precipitated him into about seven feet of water. His cries for help were heard by some railroad men near at hand and he was rescued more dead than alive. His rescuers, seeing the booty and suspecting something wrong, at once turned him over to the police. The man refuses to give his name. He Is very ill. caused by being so long in the icy water, and may not recover. MrKlnlpy Club Indorses "Wallace. Hperial to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 5. Tho Boone County Veterans' McKinley Club, organized during the campaign, is to be conUi ed as a permanent organization. A num er of the members met last night and elected officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Nicholas Bennett, president; N. A. Perrill. secretary, and W. II. Wiley, treasurer. The election of vice presidents and the executive committee was postponed until Thursday afternoon, when a .al ed meeting will Lm held. The club had a membership during the campaign of nearly five hundred. Before adjournment last night the candidacy of Lew Wallace for the Sen-: ate was indorsed by a unanimous vote. John Gltferleli 1'ncnpes, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORU, Ind., Jan. 5.-John Gigerich, indicted for attempted murder, made his escape yesterday while In charge of officers trying to secure bail. On Christmas night Gigerich, in company with others, drove over to Mitchell and while intoxicated became troublesome. In the hotel there some difficulty arose and he oellbcrately shot Cecil Murray, the hotel man. The bullet glanced and Murray's injuries were only slight. Gigerich came back hero and was immediately arrested. Falling to securo bond be had been in jail up to this morning. His whereabouts are unknown. Father SclinelPn Temperance Work, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Jan. 5. Father Schnell, of St. Patrick's Church, administered the pledge to eighty young men at mass last Sunday morning. Father Schnell was born in France and German was the language of his youth. Ho became an American by adoption, was a soldier in the Union army and a priest by calling. He says that for many years he has believed that he can accomplish much good in temperance work and since he came to that belief he has been a total abstainer and a constant temperance worker. Wife CIinrel with .Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 5. A number of Important arrests were made late to-night in connection with the murder of landlord John Leinen in West Hammond last Friday morning. Mrs. Leinen. the widow of the murdered man. and Mike Leinen, her brother, were placed under arrest, charged with the tvime. and George Pede'n, Gustav Reko-.v. Peto Berg.strom and Minnie Leinen ale held as witnesses. The officers claim they have sufficient evidence to convict Mrs. Leinen and her brother. Accidentally Shot Ills Daughter. Siecial to the In11anaioHs Journal. WABASH, Ind., Jan. 5 Martin Engleman, a farmer living seven miles from this city, accidentally, and it is feared fatally, shot his eleven-year-old daughter about S o'clock this morning. Ho was getting his shotgun ready for a rabbit, when the gun was accidentally discharged, the entire load entering the abdomen of the child, who was standing about Hsht feet away. Dr. 11. F. Blount, of this place, was summoned and has been with the little sufferer all day. Siio cannot possibly re-cover. Attorney Ilrown Fatally Hurt. S;evlal to th IndlunajH-dia Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind..' Jan. 5. Samuel Hadley Brown, a prominent attorney of this place, junior member of the firm of Brown & Brown, fell down a long flight of stairs which lead to his office late this evening, his head striking the pavement at th foot of the stairway. He was rendered unconscious, and has since remained in that condition. A deep cut was also mada in the side of his head, and it is feared he is fatally injured. Will Hold a 1. O. Election. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Jan. 5. At a mass meeting to-night the Republicans of this city decided to hold a primary election for postmaster, the time being fixed for next Thursday. This action was taken over the protest of Congressman Steele, who repeatedly stated that he would not recognize an elec tion In recommending a man for the place. The most prominent candidates will take no part in the election.

TO SUPPRESS DUELING

IMPORTANT DECREE SIGNED BY THE E3IPEROR OF GERMANY. Rumor that Queen Victoria May Soon Abdicate in Favor of the Prince of AValet-Udy cotf Trial. LONDON, Jan. 5. The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that the following Is contained in the preamble by Emperor Villiam to a Cabinet order. The Emperor says: "It Is my will that duel3 between officers should be more effectively prevented than hitherto. Their occasion Is often trifling and amenable to friendly compromise without prejudice to professional honor." After then exhorting the officers in the army to avoid Injuring each other's honor Emperor William continues: "Where they have done so. through hastiness of excitement, the chivalrous course is to agree to a friendly compromise. It is equally the duty of the one insulted to accept the compromise as far as honor and propriety of conduct will permit. My will, therefore, is that a council of honor shall henceforth, as a matter of principle, co-operate in the settlement of affairs of honor. The council must undertake this duty with a conscientious endeavor to arrange an amicable settlement." A decree follows under nine separate instructions supplementing the order of May, 1S71. which Introduced regulations concerningcourts of honor for the Prussian army. It requires that officers shall report their disputes to the council and shall abstain from other action. It defines the pressure of the council, which is empowered to dictate a compromise or to dismiss disputes as insignificant. It empowers an appeal direct to the Emperor from cither tlecisicn. Should the council fail to arrange a compromise, recourse may be had to a court of honor, which can also intervene should reason be given by the subsequent conduct of either of the parties. All evasions or ignoring of tho court must be reported to the Emperor. Quarrels between officers and civilians are also to be referred to a council of honor. The Times correspondent says of the measure: "On the whole, the elecree goes to the furthest point, except actual prohibition, and if it is executed in the spirit of Chancellor Von Hohenlohe's assurances to tho Reichstag, it paves the way to complete abolition, if that be the Emperor's Intention. It should he explained that a council of honor consists of a captain and first and second lieutenants, a court of honor is composed of all of the officers of the regiment or battalion. The National Zeltung complains that the decree does not 'fulfill Chancellor Von Hohenlohe's promise. Inasmuch as the court of honor has no vower to give the insulted satisfaction or to punish the insulter by a declaration that his conduct Is dishonorable. The Vosslche Zeitung complains of the Insufficiency of the me-asure and savs It will require to be supplemented in the domain of criminal law." TRIAL OF LAD V SCOTT. Prof. George Santayuna Testifies in Favor of Earl Rnssell. LONDON, Jan. 5. At the Central Criminal Court this morning the trial of Lady Selina Scott, mother-in-law of Earl Russell, whp is charged by the latter with libel, in connection with John Cockerton, an engineer, and Win. Aylott, a valet, was continued. George Santayana. professor of philosophy at Harvard University, testified that he met Earl Russell in Harvard in ISM and that in June. 1S87. the time of the alleged impropriety, he visited Winchester at the invitation of his lordship. The professor described his own and Earl Russell s movements and said they then Joined Earl Russell's yacht on the Rhine. In 18SS. and went to Paris together. During tho whole voyage he occupied tho same cabin as Earl Russell and never heard of or saw any impropriety or familiarity between his lordship ana the crow. On cross-examination the professor said he had never requested to testify inthe case, but, he added, last September when the case was mentioned, he told Earl Russell .that he would testify. Further evidence was given of Cockerton and Kast swearing to; information of the alleged Indecency before a magistrate at Winchester, and the editor of the Hawk, in which the libel was published, testified to the fact that the proofs of the article were approved by Lady Selina Scott and her daughter. After the reading of the evidence of Rollo Russell and others, as taken at the trial of the matrimonial Fult of Earl and Countess Russell, in the case was again adjourned. TIPPEU TICKLES IIRITONS. Sir Charles Belittles AiuerleanH and Say Canucks Are Loyal. LONDON, Jan. 3.The complimentary banquet to Sir Charles Tupper and to Hon. Duncan Gillies and Sir Robert G. Herberts, agents, respectively, for tne colonies for Victoria and Tasmania, in London, at the St. George's Club to-night was a1 most successful affair. The hall was hung - with colonial Mags. Major General Sir Owen Burne presided and l."0 guests sat down to the table. Major General Burne toasted and eulogized Sir Charles Tupper amid great enthusiasm. Sir Charles Tupper replied and in turn eulogized Sir Donald Smith. Sir Charles also said: "I feel a great admiration for the United States, but I do not desire to possess their institutions. I feel that there is greater securty under British institutions for life, property and liberty. Canadians are greatly Mattered at the desire of the United States to possess Canada, but so deep is their loyalty and so united are the Canadians that the acquisition is impossible." This expression was greeted with loutl cheers. Sir Charles Tupper continued that the' knnv Canada would be the battle ground of any struggle between the United States and Great Britain, but there was not a public man or any other in Canada who would not do or die to maintain British unity. On this question all parties were united as one man. The speech of tho Canadian ex-premier was received with tumultuous applause. VICTORIA MAY ABDICATE. Rumor that Britain's Queen Will Retire In Favor of Her Eldest Son. LONDON, Jan. 5. -The Westminster Gazette this afternoon gives prominence to a report that Queen Victoria has decided to commemorate the fact that she has enjoyed the longest reign in English history by abdicating in favor of the Prince of Wales. Situation in Uruguay. LONDON, Jan. Z.X dispatch to the Times from Montevideo, Uruguay, says: "The tituation here is very disquieting and it Is the general belief that another and more formidabde revolution is imminent. The trnvernment is enforcing extraordinarv repressive measures ami refuse's to make any concession to popular demands. By this policy tne stagnation in muuness is increased. The customs receipts for lS.Hi show a decrease of $400.CChj. The locust plague has seriously affected the harvest. Mob of Paris Anarchists. PARIS. Jan. 5. There was a meeting in the Salle de Rivoli to-night to protest against the torturing of Anarchists in the prison in Barcelona, Spain. Violent speeches were made and at their conclusion r.() persons marched to the Spanish embassy In the boulevard de Courcellas singing the Carmagnole' and "Ca Ira.' and shouting "Conspuez Canovas." The police dispersed the mob rjid arrested sev eral of the members. Another Uprising In South Africa. CAPE TOWN, Jan. .".Advices from Vry burg pay that a trader, flamed Robinson, on the Mashona river, has been murdered by natives and his wife and children made prisoners. It is also feared that the whole of the Ualtoros tribe is revolting. The police station at Takoon has been abandoned and grave fears are felt for many of the settlers between the scene of the murder and Vryburg. Volunteers are starting for tho disturbed district. The Pope Well Again. ROME, Jan. 5. The Pope Is pronounced to be well again, after the slight indisposition resulting from. the exertions attendant upon his Christmas and New Year's receptions, and he will resume his duties tomorrow. Wanted to Quit Bulgaria. BERLIN. Jan. 5. The Kolnlsche Zeitung prints a hitherto unpublished letter from the late M. StambulofT, ex-premier of Bulgaria, addressed to Prince Ferdinand, at

Carlsbad, ten days prior to Stambuloff's

murder, entreating the prince s permission for him to quit Bulgaria, for which he bad already repeatedly applied In vain. The Kolnlsche Zeitung adds that Prince Ferdinand elid not reply to the letter. Right Hon. Henry Chaplin Injured. LONDON, Jan. 5. While hunting with the Meynell hounds to-day. Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, formerly president of the Board of Agriculture, who was one of the Prince cf Wales' party at the Duke of Sutherland's seat In Trentham Hall, was thrown from his horst and seriously injured. 4,(K0 Insurgents Routed. MADRID, Jan. 5. According to a dispatch receivctl here from Manilla, capital of the Philippine Islands, a force of four thousand insurgents has been surprised and routed by tho Spanish troops at Agouy and Olmansas. Armenian Assnsslnnted. CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 5. Be-dros Effini, the Armenian who was recently appointed suhkalmakan of Tscharsandjak, was assassinated two days after his arrival there. Cable Xotes. Madame Adelina Pattl has arrived in Taris. Andrew Perry Bennett has been gazetted British consul at New York. An Athens dispatch reports that there have been Mussulman attacks on Christians at various places in the Island of Crete, two having been killed and others wounded. The French Acclimation Society has just distributed to various institutions and pisciculturists a quantity of California salmon spawn, which was sent to it by the United States Fishery Commission. A Bombay dispatch reports that all of tho leading journals there describe the famine as the most widespread of the present century. It is the general opinion that the viceroy errs in refusing English aid. The correspondent of the London Times at Constantinople says that diplomacy there credits the palace with inciting the Asiatle provincial governors to foment demonstrations against the proposed reforms in the provinces. It was semi-officlally announced in Paris yesterday that there was no foundation for the report made public by the Tageblatt, of Berlin, Monday, saying that France and Russia would intervene at Washington in order to prevent a breach between the United States and Spain. In response to a letter signed by over eighty noblemen and gentlemen eminent in literature, science and art, including Mr. Gladstone, Herbert Spencer has consented that a fund shall be opened to paint his portrait for the British nation. Hubert Herkimer, It. A., has been chosen as the artist. M. Berthelot, member of the French Institute, former minister and a distinguished chemist, gives It as his opinion that gas fumes or cyanide of potassium are preferable to the American method of electrical execution for criminals, but he believes that France will never abandon the guillotine. ALL SEEMS SETTLED. (Concluded from First l'ape.) latlure to pass a bill putting the municipal electric-light plants of various cities in the hands of trustees, just as municipal waterworks plants and gas plants are conducted. There ate fourteen or fifteen cities in tho State owning their own electric-light plants, and while they remain untler the control of the Councils they are made the football of politics. The desire of the Logansport people is that they should be put in the hands of a nonpolitlcal board and managed ai business concern.. II. Wilson Smith's Appointment. B. Wilson Smith, of Lafayette, arrived yesterday. Mr. Smith has not been paying so much attention in his canvass for the speakership as he has to the preparation of an apportionment bill, which he has now completed. He declines to make it public as yet. but declares that he has succeeded in getting out an apportionment so fair that the Legislature will be carried by whichever party carries the State by as manv as thiee thousand votes: that is, presuming that the change is uniform throughout the State, and does not go in spots, as at the last election. Senate President Pro Tent. The question of who shall be selected President pro tempore of the Senate Is exciting some interest among the members. Senator New by served In this capacity two years ago. This year the men most talked of for the honor are Senator Shively and Senator La Follette. Neither of these gentlemen is taking any particular interest in the question or making a canvass, though either would probably appreciate the honor. Presidents of the Caucuses. Senator Ward Watson is a candlelate for president of the Republican caucus of the Senate, and is the only man thus far mentioned for the honor. B. M. Willoughby is mentioned as the probable president of the - - m . t 3 a M aL.. .2 ... I ... House caucus, ine presiueni oi me juuu caucus will probably be some member of the Senate, and an effort will be made to find some man for this who is not committed on the senatorial question. Packard Unmindful of Ills Boom. General Jasper Packard, of New Albany, who is frequently mentioned as a candidate for speaker of the House, was on tne ground yesterday shaking hands with numerous friends in the lobby. He declared that he was letting his boom take care of Itself entirely, and he did not know exactly how it was getting along. .Mr. Sefrlt Xot In the Race. Charles G. Sefrit, of Washington, yesterday decided not to permit the use of his name as a candidate for clerk of the House. Judge Taylor's Friends Aroused. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 5. The vicious attack In the Indianapolis Sentinel on Judge R. S. Taylor, candidate for United States senator, has aroused the indignation of the Fort Wayne people, and many who have not busied themselves with his candidacy are now taking an active part and have set to work for him. Several of his friends left for Indianapolis this afternoon. The article is a tissue of falsehoods and exaggerations from beginning to end, especially the charge that he has always fought the Allen county organization. On the contrary, he has always been in touch with them, helped them and been of service; to them. The statement that he handed the chairman a paltry VSS bill as a campaign contribution is not true. He donated $100 in one donation, besides his other political expanses. All over the northern part of the State Judge Taylor has been in demand for speeches during every campaign, and he invariably responded, and in doing so does good work. Indorsed General Wallace. Sj-ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind., Jan. 5. At a well-attended meeting of the Eoone County Veteran McKinley Club held in this placo last evening the candidacy of General Wallace for Fnited States senator was heartily endorsed and his election urged by a unanimous vote of the club. ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. A large and enthusiastic meeting of old soldiers was hold at Anderson to-night, at which V. T. Morgan acted as chairman and B. B. Campbell as secretary. Resolutions Indorsing the candidacy of Gen. Lew Wallace for the United States senatorship and commending him to tho favorable consideration of the Legislature were unanimously adopted. A NEW GAS LINE. Indianapolis May Get One Ohio-Indiana Company. If information from Muncie Is reliable, Indianapolis may have another gas company to supply the people here some ef these days. Yesterday there was filed In Muncie a mortgage for S2.000,OUO. given by the Ohio-Indiana Gas Company In favor of the Central Trust Company, of New York. The mortgage will be filed in all the counties between here and the State line at Jay county. This is the company that Is furnishing gas to Lima, Flndlay, Plqua. Springfield, Dayton and a number of other Ohio towns. Nothing is known of the company here, but the information from Muncie is to the effect that gas will be yumpi-d from the Jay county field through the Redkey pumping station. The German Merchants. A meeting of the German merchants of Marion county was held yesterday afternoon at Mozart Hall, but no business was transacted. Tho meeting adjourned until next week," when a day wMl be set for a conference, at which It Is hoped to effect a permanent organization. .

LflNGTRY DIVORCE CASE

INTERVIEW WITH THE 111 SO AND OF THE ENGLISH ACTRESS. He Says He Never Received a Penny from His Wl fc California Court's Citation Ilurned. NEW YORK, Jan. C. A pedal to the World from London says: Che statement cabled here that Mrs. La: ry is making a third effort to secure a divorce in California has prompteel quite contrary suggestions .n the London press; first, that her husband demands too large a price for his consent, and again, that the general belief that he has been receiving an allowance for his complacence must be untrue, since he would otherwise be very willing to receive the capita sum at once rather than depend on uncertain payments. Mr. Edward Iangtry, the husband. Is now living at Southampton, whero he was Interviewed by a reporter, to whom he said: T have seen in a San Francisco paper that my wife has given me a regular allowance of 350 a year. I want to state that I have never had a penny from her. If that Is of interest, let it be said to the furthest limits of the English-speaking people. I have lived on the rentals of the little property I have in the north of Ireland, supplemented by some newspaper and magazine descriptions of shooting and fishing experiences and our battles over the sea in a lifeboat in and about the rocks of South Stack." Before bringing the interview to a conclusion Mr. Langtry handed to the correspondent the following signed document: T have this day told the New York World's correspondent all he. facts and other matters regarding the citation served on me, which was issued by a judge in a San Francisco court. I deny all its allegations and beg to aver that 1 am not going to take any trouble to comply with the California court's citation, being an Irishman and utterly ignoring the judge's authority. As a matter of fact. I placed the document in the lire grate two minutes after I received it. I do not recognize the right of any foreign court to demand my attendance, nor will I comply. The claim for divorce on the grounds of desertion and such other matters makes the citation more absurd than it otherwise would have been. Truth will in this case prevail as certainly as it does in all cases where justice obtnins." At last accounts Mrs. Langtry was at Monte Carlo. No Money for the Naughty Princess. PARIS, Jan. 5. The newspapers state that the uncle of the Princess of Chlmay and Caraman has stopped all supplies of money till affairs are settled in regard to her elopement with the Hungarian Gypsy Rigo. The princess has Issued an inelignant protest against a scadalous interview by M. Catulle Mender, which was published in Le Journal. OPENING OF THE YEAR. The Advertising of the Present Time and that of the Jly-anel-Ily. Resolve to advertise. You have something to sell, money to buy it with, and all you need is something that will bring the buyer into the condition to buy. The great successes of Indianapolis, and the great successes of everywhere where there is business, always have said, and now are saying, and probably always will say, that advertising Is the only economical, convenient and successful connecting medium. The profit of business is not altogether in how cheaply you can buy or how economically you can run your business, although these conditions count, but the bulk of it is in the amount of business you can do, and the amount of business you ran do is due to the attention you give to informing the public that you are in business for business and reaely and anxious to do business. Until some other method is invented and successfully used, advertising, and particularly newspaper advertising, will stand as the only acceptable method of making, holding and Increasing business. I am not preaching the doctrine of advertising for any benefit to myself, because I am neither an advertising agent nor a publisher, and the volume of my profit Is not dependent upon the volume of advertising. For more than sixteen years I have stndled advertising from every standpoint, and have studied it, or at least have tried to, as a botanist would analyze a flower or a chemist mix chemicals. I have Feen in advertising a something which I did not understand any more than the ele-ctrician understands electricity, but the result of' that something, or rather what that something will do, impressed me at the start, and has ever kept me under its spell. I do not know the exact composition of advertising, and never expect to. I do not know what constitutes good advertising, and I may never discover its ingreelients, and I know that nobody knows what electricity is, although everybody has felt its power. As tho forces of nature refuse to live without tho activity of electricity, so it would seem that tho motion of business depends upon the exhilaration of 'advertising. Until business is successfully done without atlvertising I shall refuse to believe that business can be successfully done without it. Every thinking business man somewhere about the first of the year plans for the future, and his success largely depends upon the correctness of his preliminary decisions. As we do, so will our success be. As we plan, so will we do. The plans of the present control the actions of the future. The most important step in the curing of the patient Is not in the medicine he takes, but in his decision to take it. Advertising is both a food and a medicine adapted to the Indisposition of trade, and reasonably sure to cure. Your success for 1807 will follow the thought-out lines of January thinking. Success is sometimes thrust upon us, but mighty seldom. As we sow, so will we reap. As we plan, so may we realize. Already you have thought about increasing business, and you may have planned for a larger storo and for more clerks, and you have thought about more economical methods of business doing. Y'ou have thought about something to sell. You have considered the money you must use to buy it. You have thought about the place you will Fell that something in. You have carefully considered the ability of those who must sell for you. In your mind you have balanced four of the five points of trade, but perhaps you have not thougnt much about the fifth. I will not discuss tho eiucstion of whether the fifth ioint of trade is more Important than any or all of the other four, nor will I consider whether any of the other four can be considered the leader, for the strength of the whole is in the harmony of the parts, and the weakest point, if it be essential, is as important as all tho other points. United the five jolnts of trade must stand. Divided they always have fallen. In your plans for 1S0T plan in harmony. In consistency, and recognize each part of your business as though each part were all of the parts, and strengthen each part so that each part may attend to its own business and make the other parts the better mind their business. The fifth point of trade Is advertising. There never has been a failure where the five io!nts of trade touallv nulled the load of business. NATHANIEL C. FOWLER. JR. (Copyright. 15:07. by Publicity Publishing Co.. New York.J The RlKht und th- Left. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Mention Is made In this morning's Journ&l of four arrests made yesterday in your

city tinder a recent ordlnace "for driving to the left." This cu-lom all over our county seems to te embodied in th old statement. "Turn to the rl:ht. as the law

dlre-cts." Why do we turn to the rirht in this country, while in Great jmtain ana in British India they alway turn o tha left? Touching this m.-.tter. why did we ever begin doing he re differently from what custom had always led rei'plu to do in tho mother country? JOHN H. SHURRARD. Thorntown. Ind.. Jan. IRRIGATION DEFENDED. Reasons Why People of Western Kan Ran Should Have internment Aid. To the Editor rf the lndUnai li Journal: Your e-ditorial on "Uxpericnce with a Insert," In your IsMie of Dec. 16, and that item on Dec. which says 'irrigation can wait," strike your correspondent with peculiar force, because he was In that eager throng that In issi rushed into southwest Kansas and spent ten succeeding years iu the heroic but thu far fruitless attempt to blot a desert from, the map of the continent. Permit me to uo a little of your space in examining your position In connection with the facts of the case. You say that twenty-one counties have lost three-fourths of their population sinco 1SS7, and say further: "The inquiry is suggested why the government ever permitted these lands to be opt-ncd for settlement. In an indefinite way it was known fifty years ago that the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska were little better than deserts for the habitation of man." Let us assume that this is absolutely true. Knowing these facts, the government surveyed this "desert," and under pre-emption, home-stead and timber-culture laws offered It to the-public upon condition that the pre-emptor iuy a tiling fee of 1, and after six months residence pay Jr) per Quarter section, or J 100 if it happened to bo within the twenty-mile railroad limit. Tha homesteader must pay JH tiling fee, or J1S if within railroad limit, and he could commute, after six months' resilience, upon the same terms as the pre-emptor; or the government, would give him 1C0 acres of this "desert" if he would live on it live years. Tho timber-culture tiling cost the same as the homestead, but the law was changed st that if a claimant failed tu raise trees after dillgent attempts 'and continuous failure for a number of years he could prove tha facts and the government would give him a quarter section of desert for By means of these small contributions from settlers in western Kansas on government lands which wcro known to be "desert." JTnclo Sam has received probably J5o.lMj.Otf. The twenty-one counties to-day have onefourth of their former population. That remnant is composed of as heroic, faithful and hopeful ieople as ever contend d against adverse fortune arl climatic hit -drances. They realize that ten years is by far too short a time to develop any country. They now' understand the conditions which surround them and the adaptations of their locations. They know that the surface of western Kansas is a great inclined plane which ascends toward tho mountains at the rate of seven feet per mile, and that It is underlaid with a Vast body of sheet water which has a constant pressure and movement toward the east. They are not able Individually or col.ectively to develop a system of irrigation by means of this underflow. The government which sold these semi-arid lands to these settlers ivrmltted Colorado to come into the Union with a priority of water rights in rivers originating in their State. The shrewd foresight of the Inhabitants of tho "Centennial Ktatr" understood, the almost fabulous productive quality of Irrigated lands and tho necessity -of having an abundant supply at the proper time. Colorado irrigators now absorb the waters of the Arkansas and other rivers flowing into our State Just at a time when we need the most water. Now, in view of the fact that our government permitted these lands to be settled and received about TiO.WO.QuO from pioneers who in good faith moved themselves and their substance into this fdcjsert." do you believe that the federal government should refuse to spend the paltry sum of U or even 4 per cent, of what It has received !n order to develop a system which means so much to these people? They do not ak the government to dig thedr ditches, "but simply to construct a tunnel of .such, magnitude and durability into the water and quicksand as will permit a stream to constantly flow into their ditches. Whether this can best be done by a number of large well points, or by permitting the water' to be Torced through brick work or into tiling, will be part of the experiments. Your great Republican Journal purely would not pursue these settlers like a wild-eyed Populist does the money jtower. You would not have Uncle Sam say to them: "1 have your millions; I made a good sale of bad lands and will not give you a million or two. even if it would make a garden of all the West." Think of the appropriations in the river and harbor bill. Goose creek Is cleaned out so as to be made navigable for Matboats In time of high water. Ie-vees are built to protect the swamps of Ixmisiana from floods, but the average statesman works himself into a frenzy over a proposition to use federal money upon an irrigation experiment for Western settlers. You say the East Is not overcrowded, and .yet your correspondent knows that within nrty miles or Indianapolis land rents for 14 and Vt per acre, and will r.ot produce as much as irrigated Western lands, which can bo purchased with the amount paid for two or three years' rental in Indiana. You speak of what was known of this Western country fifty years ago. A little more careful investigation will show you that the desert extended further east than Kansas and Nebraska. A part of old Missouri was too far west for settlement, vet a part of that old desert nas actually 'been developed. But Kansas was bom to be talked about, slandered and praised. It Is certainly not an ordinary State, or it would not attract so much attention. It is the only State that ever raised wheat enough In one season to bread the inhabitants of the globe for more than a week. She continues to be a great corn country, although Mrs. Lease says that raising h I is more protitablc. She has natural gas. coal, s.tlt and m;ny undeveloped resources. The western portion of the State has a more fertile soil than the eastern part, and only needs a little more water in order to make It the garden of the Rlobo. Kansas will yet be all right. ALV1N CAMl'BLILL. Topeka, Kan., Jan. ". AGAINST GUS RAHKE. Verdict Against Illm for Money Lost In Ills Dive. At Shclbyville yesterday the case of Paulson against (Jus Itahkc to recover money lost In Rhakc's gambling house, was decided In favor of the plaintiff, judgment being rendere-d for IZ'A. This case was filed here, but was sent to Shelby county on a change of venue. The claim was for A Supposition. Boston Transcript. It is said that a kiss under the mistletoe was one ef the ineldents in the eourtsnlp of John Adams, but he probably didn't prize it half as much as the one be received under the apple tree by the front gate. Probably ot. Kansas City Journal. Queen Victoria's memoirs will be. widely read, but we doubt if tbev will create as much back talk as your t m le John Sherman's recedle-ctlons. NATIONAL Tube Works Wrougbt-froa Pipe for Cu, Steira and Water. ivtl r Tut. Cam a nd Malleable Iron 1 itu:ic(tu ant a:raiiU-l). Va!-. stof ixxkfi. llnpiae TrimmiiiK. Meant ;aiue, rip Tor jr I'll Cutt rs. Yin. st-i strain Tiai. Jhtii.s. h: Mien stnlk. llo. lMtii'C Pahtit Metal. M.WKr. W ti.lr J O.'.orrd Wlp n; Wai a4 all other sut( l tine I ia nne tlun w;th (ia. s:ratu anil Water. Natural etaa fcun-liei a (penalty, su-re beatiiic A;aratita for lutlle iJiul.llupu. Mur-MOWS Mil:, stioj, ketone. La j dries. Lumber Drjr-lloura, f tc. Oit anil Thread to orter anv iz U rougbt-lroa rij. from im-u to II lnhe diameter. KKIGHT & J1LLS0H, ft. vsLSh ;lvama sr.

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