Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1897 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1897.

ft downward tendency. There Is not much now. and no interference with traffic is anticipated.

SnounloniiH In France. PAIUS. Jan. 21. Severe snowstorms preTall over the whole of France, with the exception of a fringe along the- Mediterranean. COLD AMI t'AIII. Prediction and OhHcrvntionn of Local Forrrimtrr Wa ppenhnnn. Forecasts for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m., Jan. 2 Cold, fair weather on Monday. General conditions yesterday An imjmensely high barometric area central at Calgary. B. C. with 31.21 inches, extended rapidly south and southeastward over the country. With It a very cold Arctic current extended southward; zero to GO below zero (Montana) prevails southward to Wyoming, rsebraska. Iowa. Illinois and Indiana. Near the gulf coastthe temperature Is high, but the chansre Ia very abrupt, while at Abilene in the central portion of Texas, it is 12 degrees above zero. At Oalveston. on tht coas. it is 53 degrees. Clear weather predominates, but light snnw fell near the Kocky mountains, from Michigan and Indiana eastward to the Atlantic coast, In Texas. Arkansas and Tennessee. Quite cold weather will probably continue several Xuys in Indiana. GENERAL FORECAST. WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. The severe cold "Wave now extends as far east as the Ohio valley and southward to Texas, where the temperature has fallen from 20 to 40 degrees In the past twenty-four hours. It is below freezing in Tennessee and central Texas; It U below zero in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, and 2) degrees below zero over the Dakotas ami Minnesota Iight local snows are reported from southern New Kngland and southwestwardly over tho Ohio valley, Tennessee and northern Texas. The weather is generally fair in the Northwest and South Atlantic States. The Indications are that the cold wave will extend eastward am! southward over the Atlantic and gulf coasts Monday. The temperature will fall to near zero from Virginia northward, and f reezing weather will extend southward to the gulf and south Atlantic coasts. Sunday Local lrrvntinn. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. "a.ra..3.M 6 T." N'west. Snow. 0.07 7 p. m.. 30.41 1 2 N'west. Clear. T r t a . ....... jtiiiAimum temperature, t; minimum temperature. 5 below zero. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature ana precipitation Jan. 24: Temp. Prec. Normal mean 2- 0.10 Mean 0 0.07 Departure from normal 2S 0.0.1 Total departure since Jan. 1 74 1.2y Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENI IANS. Local Forecast Official. Yeatert!nyM Temperature. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta. Ga. 4S Hbmarck. N. D 21 2I Buffalo. N. Y 10 2 Calgary, N. W. T 2I 2H Cairo. Ill 20 20 11 Cheyenne. Wyo i d Chicago. Ill M2 10 12 oncordia, Kan Davenport. Ia 12 S 10 Det Moines, Ia M 2 6 Dodpre City. Kan 4 4 (Salveston. Tex 53 5S Helena, Mont '14 14 Jacksonville. Fla 60 S4 Kansas City. Mo 2 4 2 Little Rock. Ark 44 4S is Mtrquette. Mich 12 Memphis. Tenn 4 4 is Nashville. Tenn 42 42 16 New" Orleans. La 2 M New York 21 20 North Platte. Neb 0 4 Oklahoma. O. T 10 10 S Omaha, Neb 10 0 S PUtsburg. Ia I l5 v Qu'Appelle. N. W. T 24 24 Rapid City. S 10 S 8lt Lake City, Utah.... 2 42 36 St. Louis. Mo 6 6 2 SL Paul. Minn 14 1S Springfield. Ill 2 0 4 Springtleld.-Mo 8 S 4 Vicksburg. Miss 50 62 4? Washington, D. C 31 32 Indicates below zero. OBITUARY. BIr. Hunsferfortl, Known to Rentier of Fiction nn The Dnches." DUDLIN, Jan. 21. Mrs. Hungerford, the novelist, is dead. Mrs. Hungerford's literary iom de plume, "The Duchess," first became widely known to the readers of light literature through her novels, "Molly Bawn" and "Phyllis." Pretty tales of the joys and trials of lovers told In a light, chatty way. found favor on two continents and for many years the novels of "The Duchess'" have sold in many editions. Mrs. Hungerford lived at St. Brenda's liandon. county Cork. She married when very young and was early left a widow, with three small children to care for. In isxri she married Henry Hungerford, of Cahlrmore. Other Dentil. KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. Jan. 21 Mrs. J. B. Pound, wife of the publisher of the Knoxville Tribune. Knoxville Sentinel and Chattanooga News. died, suddenly here to-day. iMrs. 1'ound was a native of Georgia, and her remains will be shipped to Macon for Interment. MANCHESTER. N- H., Jan. 21. Rev. Harrison Closson. a prominent retired Universalis clergyman, died to-night, aged sixty-eight years ami six months. Murtiuelll Otliciutcil. NEW YORK. Jan. 24. Archbishop Sebastian Martinelli. of Kphesus. and apostolic delegate to the United States, celebrated solemn pontifical mass to-day in St. Agnes Church, in honor of the feast of the patron saint of the church. Archbishop Michael A. Corrlgan was present In the sanctuary during the ceremonies and Bishop McDonnell, of Brooklyn, and Assistant Bishop Farley, of this city, took an active part In the religious service. The apostolic delegate was assisted by a number of clergymen of the dioceses of New York and the Very Rev. Dr. Frederick Rooker. secretary of the delegation at Washington. Th Rev. Dr. Henry A. Braun, rector of the church, was master of ceremonies. Cycle .Men l!n Route to Chicago. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Jan. 2l.-No event since the 1. A. W. national meet last August has aroused such interest in local bicycle circles as the Chicago wheel exhibit at the Coliseum this week. A party of over thirty dealers and other left for Chicago this evening over the Monon. The excursion Is urder the personal direction of District Passenger Agent F. H. Bacon, of this city, who provided the linost Pullman in the Monon's service and made every arrangrsent for the comfort of the wheelmen. The party will remain in Chicago several days. Will Travel in Pullman Cars. CINCINNATI. Jan. 21 Vice President Egan and other delegates from the Ohio Valley to the convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, at Philadelphia, this week, leave to-morrow on a special Pennsylvania train, composed entirely of Pullman ears. Among the Cincinnati ctflegatca will be Charles Davis and Robert McGowan. who went to Mexico nearly a year ago for the association, as a committee of investigation Into trade conditions there. They will make their first report at the annual convention in Philadelphia this week. Pentecost Will Return. NEW YORK. Jan. 24. Elder Ralph E. Pryme. of the First Presbyterian Church, of Yonkers. has received a cablegram from the Rev. Dr. iVntr-cost. pastor of the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, in London, saying he would accept the call to the Yonkers church, and be lure to bo Installed at the meeting of the I'resbytery. April 12. The Yonkers church is one of the wealthiest In the denomination in this State. The pastor receives a salary of .0) a year and the us. of a magniiicent house. Eartlii'uakcw In Mevlco. CITY OF MEXICO. Jan. 21.-Earthnuik s continue In the State of Oaxaca. and that city has been shaken severely by the shock. Scientist- believe a volcano is forming among the hills, and the continued seismic movement has excittd alarm In several districts, while on the pacific coast the ocean is In a continual commotion, caustd by submarine explosions, sending hue waves on the shore and terrifying tisnermen who still boldly venture out. SIlnlMer AVHIU'a Remains. LOUISV1LLK. Ky.. Jan. 24 The remains of the late minister to Hawaii. Hon. Albert 8. Willis, reached here at 8 r clock this evening via the Pennsylvania railroad, after a long Journey from Hawaii. Mrs. Willis, with her sister. Miss Mr y Dulaney. Albert N. Willis. Jr.. and Co'onel James Tucker of San Francisco, accompanied the remains. The funeral will take place Tuesday morning at Cave Hill Cemetery In this city.

BAD EVANSVILLE BOYS

TIIREB YOLTIIS CIIAIlfiED WITH ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIX. Said They Wanted to Sec the Knsine Knock the Ohntruction-t-Ornnge County's Double Tragedy. Special to the Indianapolis Jourral. EVANS VILLE, Ind., Jan. 21-eorge, Lyman and Chatrick Allen, three brothers, sixteen, fourteen and eleven years, respectively, were arrested this evening charged with attempted train wrecking at a creek bridge near this city. Last evening they placed on the track of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway near the bridge three crosstles and a rail, and but for the fact that the engineer slowed up to allow some workmen to alight to make a repair, the train would undoubtedly have been wrecked and thrown down an embankment twenty-five feet high. The prisoners said they wanted to see the engine knock the obstructions. IXSAXE, OR FOIUiETFtL. Incident That In Thought to Prove Rev. HurweirM Mind In I n lm In need. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 24. There will probably always bo a question in the minds of the people here as to the Insanity of the Rev. J. H. Harwell. One of the Incidents tending to confirm the belief that he Is really unbalanced Is as follows Just before he was released from custody and placed under the care of his brother his attorney, Samuel C. Whitesell. said to him: "Mr. Harwell, all "your trouble has been brougUc on you by your writing checks on banks where you nad no deposit. You were warned against this by your ministerial brethren, and you did not heed their warning. Now 1 warn you against It. Never sign a check on any bank in which you have not a deposit of money, otherwise you will wind up in the penitentiary." "I will not," he replied. "1 will never again write a check on any bank where I have not a deposit." In a few minutes Mr. Whitesell said again: "By the way, Mr. Harwell, that telegram you give me yesterday to scnu to Mr. McKinley, authorizing him to send troops to Cuba, was not sent on account of the fact that there were some charges that had to be paid first." "How much were the charges?" "Just $7.70," replied the attorney, handing Mr. Harwell a. Second National Bank check book. Mr. Harwell at once said: "This is not my book." He then scratched out the words "Second National." wrote "Western Wayne," which is the Cambridge City bank on which he drew the worthless check, and filled out the check for 57.70. payable to Wm. McKinley. Mr. Whitesell said: "You have no deposit in that bank." "I know it. but it will be protected." "You told me not fifteen minutes ago that you would never write checks under such circumstances." But the preacher seemed not the least concerned, white the brother, who sat near by with tears running down his cheeks, said: "That will do. that will do." The leading local physicians pronounce the case one of softening of the brain. SECOXD POST MORTEM. Ilody of Mm. Van Hoorcheke Disinterred Again and Examined. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 24. The attorneys and friends of Barney Van Hoorebeke, the alleged wife murderer, are doing their utmost In his behalf to turn public sentiment in his favor. It was learned today that the remains of Mrs. Hoorebeke were exhumed for the second time yesterday and a second post-mortem examination made this time In behalf of Van Hoorebeke. The physicians who fd the work are among the most eminent in their profession In Anderson, being Drs. 11. E. Jones. J. C. Fattlc, G. F. Chittenden and F. J. Hodges. Their report will dift'er very materially from that of Drs. S. C. Willson and H. Severn, who conducted the original examination. The most severe wound found in the examination held yesterday was the fracture of the nose which the physicians will report in Itself of minor import. No wound or injury was found by them about the person of the dead woman calculated to produce death. There was no fracture of the skull discovered nor the slightest concussion of tho brain disclosed. Exiert medical testimony promises to cut an Important part in the trial of Van Hoorebeke and a clash of medical authority is on at the very beginning. ORAXGE COUNTY'S TRAGEDY. Sninnel KIrby and Wife Still Alive Excitement Intense. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRENCH LICK, Ind., Jan. 21.-Samuel Kirby and wife, the victims of Friday night's tragedy, are still alive, but little hopes are entertained for their recovery. The sheriff is on the ground, but so far has made no arrests. The Orleans bloodhounds followed the trail to Hillman. when they left the road and went straight to the residence of Charles Wlnlger. where they stopped and refused to go farther. Charles Wininger came to the door and was asked to show his left foot. The shoe was Identical with footprints seen in the snow near the house and in the branch along the trail. More than 300 people have been at the Kirby homestead to-day and the excitement is still intense. The Seymour bloodhounds arrived this morning but failed to reveal .anything new. It is more than probable that an arrest will be made before morning, and with the excitement as it is now, there is no telling what the result may be. Will Rebuild the Canning Factory. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON. Ind.. Jan. 21. A meeting of farmers was held here yesterday for the purpose of negotiating with N. S. Marte for the rebuilding of the Martz canning factory, that was destroyed by lire last summer. Mr. Martz submitted a proposition which was promptly accepted and they at once entered into contracts to put out 2uo acres of peas and 30 acres of tomatoes at a slight reduction of price paid a year ago. The farmers were enthusiastic and the required number of acres were promptly contracted for and work on the buildings will begin at once. The rebuilding of this factory was contingent on the election of McKinley and the promises made to the people are being faithfully carried out. Denthn at Muncle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 21. Mrs. Mary Moore, an aged woman, who was severely burned a week ago from smoking her pipe in bed, died yesterday from her injuries. Soon after the rfccldent her family reported that her sliver locks were turning jet black and that her wrinkled face was renewing its youthful apica ranee. She vriit to sleep with the pipe In her mouth, setting lire to the bed clothes. While visiting his son in this city yesterday John Vanarsdol. of Huntington county, dropped dead while walking in the yard, lie was nearly ninety years of age. Mrs. Amelia Humes, aged tignty years, died very suddenly last night, jut west cf Muncie. A "Wealthy Woman's Sacrifice. Special to the InJianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. Jan. 21. On Friday of this week Miss Emma Iimb, of Economy, will leave for Vancouver's island, and from there will sail for Calcutta where she takes up the work of a missionary. She is wealthy, well educated and possessed of every advantage but has accepted a call for which she had prepared and hela her; self lorg in readiness. She goes as the rep reseniaiive of the Richmond district of the M. E. Church and Is the lir.-t one to go from the district as a missionary. Tramp In u Church. Special to the Inliai.ai olU Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. Jan. 2!. For several nights Hear-by r s'd-n'.s rave noticed a light In tho Monroe-street Methodist Tabernacle, but thought services were In progress, the building being previously engaged by a traveling evangelist. Last nitrht. when the Janitor went to warm up the house for regular services to-day. he found the place full of tramps, who had turned on the gas and lights and taken full possession. The tiamps have been quartered there all week. Violated the Mcholson Law. Special to the Indianapolis wourral. COLUMDUS. Ir.d., Jan. 21. Thornton Bright was brought before Mayor Beck yesterday and pleaded guilty to a violation t the Nicholson law. Ha had been lier-

mittlng people to enter his saloon on Sunday. This Is the first conviction here under the Nicholson law.

Denled Damage. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind.. Jan. 24.-The jury in the erase of Noah Wilson vs. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for $5,000 damages, yesterday returned a verdict for the defendant. Wilson was run over and badiy injured while he was alleged to have been intoxicated. , Death of Levi Moore. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind.. Jan. 24. Levi Moore, of Hartsville, died at hl3 home yesterday morning, aged seventy years. He was one of the pioneers of the county, a very wealthy farmer and one of the main pillars of the Hartwell M. K. Church. SURPRISED IN CHURCH I SI. WISH SOLDIERS SLAUGHTERED I1Y CIHAX IXSITKGEXTS. Cnnnnn Rails Fired nt the Holy Edifice, and Weyler'n Men Shut as They Rushed Out of It. CINCINNATI, Jan. 24. The Commercial Tribune's special from Key West, Fla., says: Another defeat for the Spanish Is reported from Pelanos, In the southern part of Havana province. The place has 1,000 inhabitants, is well fortified and has a Spanish garrison of GOO men, with one field piece. Lieutenant Colonel Hernandez, in command of 500 insurgent cavalrymen, made a dash at the town Monday afternoon, while troops were at the church celebrating some local holiday. Before they could form the insurgents had possession of the blockhouse force. The cannon was trained at the church and before the Spanish were hardly aware of what was the trouble solid shot came hurtling through its walls, while cries of "Cuba libre" tilled the air. Out they rushed only to fall before a deadly volley from a strong force posted behind some neighboring houses. Colonel Muncio, the Spanish officer, bravely rallied his men. but as they formed for a charge he fell with a dozen balls through him. The second in command took his place but he too fell in a few seconds time, the sharpshooters of Hernandez dealing death with a rapidity that made tho troops panic-stricken. They made one more attempt to charge the blockhouse but Hernandez's cavalry reserve dashed at them, sweeping through their rans, cutting a bloody path with their sharp machetes. They turned and again they came through the crowded ranks of the Spanish, carrying death in their tracks, though many empty saddles spoke of thet'bravcry of the Spanish troopers. The Spanish then retired, it being a rout, though a portion stubbornly protected their rear, making stands until forced to retire by Hernandez's fierce charges. After pursuing" them nearly to Cajalo, on the coast of Hernandez, they withdrew. They burned the fort at Pelanos. The insurgents secured over 400 stand of arms, one cannon, $1.(00 in gold and $3,000 in paper money, besides ammunition and many valuable papers belonging to the Spanish commissary department. Havana officials knew of the defeat Tuesday night, but have kept it suppressed, and the palace officials say that the place has been "evacuated." FAKE STORY REVIVED. Two Englishmen Tell Mexican that Cubans Captured Santa Clarn. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 24. Various travelers just arriving from Cuba confirm the capture of Santa Clara by the Cubans and also bring news that the insurgents have been fighting in the near vicinity of Havana, and, a few days ago, wrecked a passenger train within two miles of that city. Two young Englishmen, direct from Cuba Harry E. York and L.ee A. Hervey have reached this city after having passed several weeks In Cuba, and with tho insurgent army part of the time and the remainder in the field with the Spanish troops. Hervey has received a shot through the left arm. They are preparing a report for Senator Cameron, which will be forwarded to Washington in a few days. The Cubans are not in want cf men, but money, ammunition and medicine. There are not over 25.000 Cubans, while the Spaniards and volunteers now number 2,0"K) men. mostly very young and not good lighting material. All operations re in the nature of guerrilla warfare and both sides are systematically burning plantations and the country will be reduced to barbarism. The Cubans are relying on being favored by McKinley and expect immediately on his inauguration he will recognize their belligerency if not their independence. Hervey glvts a graphic account of the capture of Santa Clara by the insurgents, where the utmost gallantry was displayed and the Spaniards being overcome by the magnificent valor of the patriots. Hervey says it was told him in the Cuban camp that Maceo had his lower Jaw shot away, but was alive and recuperating. General Gomez is not treating for peace, and although there is a peace partv among the Cubans it is a small one. The capture of the town of Agutec by the Cubans was a brilliant piece of work. Three thousand Spaniards held the place, but the Cubans showed better generalship. At Santa Clara the Cubans took and held the town just long enough to ruin it. Hervey does not consider there is any decided prospect of a victory for either side. , SKIRMISHES IN CI II A. Insurgents Defeated v In Several Fights, According to Spaniards. HAVANA. Jan. 24. Captain deneral Weyler was encamped last night at Bolondron in Matanzas province, and this morning continued his march. A number of skirmishes have occurred in Pinar del Rio. Havana, Matanzas and Santa Clara provinces, the Spanish columns fighting a number of insurgent bands and taking their camps, with arms, effects and documents. The insurgents left thirtysven killed, among thm being three prefects, and lost four prisoners, who were Immediately court-martialed. The Spanish lost three killed and two officers and twenty-six soldiers wounded. On Jan. 22 the Insurgents attacked the village of Balnoa. Havana province, six of the residents being wounded. The battalion of Leal ted has made a reconnolssance of the Jaraco district and has gathered in IU0 cattle. Colonel De Bosch, during tho reconnoissance at Jaca, in Pinar del Rio province, destroyed 200 huts and brought in twenty-five families to the town. Six insurgents were killed. The report heretofore circulated that the Insurgents had dynamited ana burned the magniiicent tobacco plantation of San Lino, in tho district of Clenfuegcs. is untrue. Lieutenant Colonel Dlez Vieary. with the Ct of the Battalion Espana and a local guerrilla forco of forty men under Lieut. Mem ndez. set out from Memagua. near Havana, and at the farm of Volcan met an insurgent band. The" guerrilla force attacked the insurgents, and. in a hand-to-hand tight. Lieutenant Menendez received two rille wounds, but killed his antagonist. Three of the guerrillas were seiiously "wounded. The insurgents did not await the coming of the column, but when it arrived upon their position it was found that they had left thirty-two dead, having carried off many wounded. The column had one soldier killed and tho captain, two lieutenants and rive soldiers wounded. Colonel Vicario also received bruises. Few Rebel Seen by Weyler. MADRID. Jan. 24. The reported attempt of the Insurgents in Cuba to capture Captain General Weyler Is declaied here to be unfounded. According to a Havana dispatch Captain General Weyler declarer that there are only a few rebels left In Havana and Matanzas provinces and that they can easily be dispersed. Very True. Kansas City Journal. It Is perhaps true, as a Harvard professor says, that "poetry cannot be taught." It is also true that a great deal of It cannot be read with any comfort.

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FAMINE IX SOJIH PARTS OF INDIA LESS SERIOUS THAN SUPPOSED. Observation! of the Government Inspection Party The Hon. Cecil Rhodes' Return to England.' (CepyriRht, 1S37. by the Associated Tress.) LONDON, Jan. 24. The special representative of the Associated Press, who Is traveling through the famine districts in India, accompanying the government party of Inspection, sends a dispatch to-day from Kolhapur. He says that the reports which have been sent to England and the United States of the acute famine said to exist in the southern Maharahasta states have been exaggerated so far as his observations have been extended. A scarcity of grain does, indeed, prevail in the extreme eastern portion of this region, but the people there were able to escape want by migrating, most of them, to the fertile Kancon plains and elsewhere, where the shortness of the rraln supply is not felt. Rice also is plentiful and means and measures for the relief cf the hungry are pronounced adequate where needed. The maharajah, in an interview with the correspondent on the prospects of his people escaping starvation, said that his state expected, famine every five years and was therefore not taken unawares or unprovided when it came. They were prepared, he said, to spend five lacs of rupees for relief in his territory. The British resident was also interviewed and confirmed the statements of the maharajah as to the situation, adding that the relief organization was most efficient in the Bombay presidency and that the difficulties from famine and of securing and distributing relief were lighter than in former famines. The resident summed up his views as follows: "My observation has been, in traveling over the whole western side, that the famine is not severe there, though it may increase towards June. But in the districts In which I have traveled I have not heard of a single death from starvation." The weekly official report from Governor General Lord Elgin of the famine outlook in India says that from one to three inches of rain have fallen In the Punjab, except In the Delhi district; light showers elsewhere. There is a slight fall in the prices in the northern Punjab, while elsewhere they are stationary. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Bombay says: "The actual number of deaths from plague is double the loose official estimate, and the malady is spreading slowly but surely. There are daily reports of fresh outbreaks." ADVEMTl'RER RHODES. England Divided in Sentiment no to the South African Dictator. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The World's London copyright cable letter from Ballard Smith says: The consequences of Cecil Rhodes's arrival in England are awaited with more curious, and In many quarters more anxious, expectation than has preceded any other event of the kind since Warren Hastings was brought home from India. Tho people of England in. fact, of the whole United Kingdom are, perhaps, equally divided In sentiment. On one side are those who regard the Jameson raid as a splendid achievement of British daring, and regret that it was not successful; on the other side are those' who believe it t was merely a morally squalid, though financially big, Stock Exchange move and a disgrace to British honesty and fair dealing with other people. But all of the influential newspapers, headed by the Times, and embracing even the Liberal Morning News, favor Rhodes, the South African Chartered Company, Jameson and his fellows. Against this sentiment in the press there is practically only the Radical Chronicle and Labouchere's Truth. Roundly speaking, the entire aristocratic, land-owning and speculative classes warmly sympathize with .Rhodes. How deep the anti-Rhodes sentiment is in the business middle class,- among the nonconformists and the proletariat thero is no means of knowing. Rhodes's effrontery in flouting the "unctuous rectitude" of these classes and the "orchids" of Chamberlain and the "Masonic influence" of L,ord Ripon seem significant of perhaps two things. He only has the evidence of Chamberlain's prior knowledge (through Sir Hercules Robinson and the Colonial Department officials in South Africa) of Jameson's intention, though everybody else in South Africa seems to have known of it: and, as I cabled three years ago. Lord Ripon, then tho Liberal colonial minister, was frightened into whitewashing the outrageous Matabele war on Rhodes's threat to declare the British South African colo nles Independent, uml to establish the United States of South Africa, taking in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State by persuasion or by force. Very little has been permitted to appear in the English press in regard to this last circumstance, but the German press has been full of it lately, and there have been occasional articles to the same effect in certain colonial newspapers. How will Rhodes be examined? Howsevere will the examination be? is the most interesting and picturesque question of the Immediate future here. To-day, for the first time since Sept. 3 last, have I been able to do any writing in my London house for any part of the day or to read my morning papers, except under the glare of thirty-two- candle electric lights There have not been seven days. I believe in these five months in which the sun has remained visible from rising to setting. There have been week3 of successive days with no gleam of tlu sun. There have been pea-soup fogs and almost continuous rains. Perhaps never in the history of any land was there such a succession of suicidebreeding weeks. No wonder England is tho one successful colonization country." Suicide of an American. NICE. France, Jan. 24. The fragments of a human body have been found on the railway near St. Laurent. With the remains there was found a torn bill of the Hotel Univers. of Nice. Only twenty centimes were found on the body. Inquiries show that the deceased was Mr. U. Lund, a merchant, of New York, and he Is supposed to have committed suicide. His trunk bears numerous hotel marks both of America and Europe. Russia May l'e French Arms. LONDON. Jan. 24. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to. the Times with reference to the rumor that Russia will spend 10,000.000 rubles in rearming the artillerv with the French quick-firing gun, says: "The report requires confirmation, but. although the powerful minister of finance opnoses the idea, his opposition would be of little avail against the minister of war, General Vanno vsky." The Sultan Dejected. LONDON. Jan. 23. The Constantinople correspondent of the Times says that the Sultan is dejected at the prospects of his Mohammedan subjects backing the European demands. His grand vizier and foreign minister are both exhausted with worry from the palace, and the grand vizier is seeking permission to resign. l.lOO Ilodiew Recovered. LONDON, Jan. 24. A dispatch to the Times from Teheran. Persia, reports that 1.41.11 bodies have been recovered from the ruirs which resulted from the recent earthquake on the Island of Kisham. in the Persian -gulf, the inhabitants of which were estimated to number ,W mostly Arabs. Solil Military Secret. PARIS. Jan. :t.-Ex-Captain Guillot has been sentenced to five years in prison for selling military secrets to foreign powers. Cable Xote. There has been a severe storm in the Gulf of Cadiz and twenty-four fishing boats have been lost near San Lucas. A Rome dispatch says that the Pope is considering the compromise clauses of the Manitoba school question. Emperor William, of Germany, has appointed Ben J'arker, of Southampton, to command his yacht, the Meteor. David N. Burke. United States consul general at Tansiers. at the request of the diplomatic body there is contriving a scheme for the formation of a police force in Tangiers. The London Times's Teheran correspondent affirms that the rumor that the brother of the late grand vizier of Persia had decamped with plunder from the public treasury, Is untrue. The Marquis of Dufferln, the retiring British embassador to France, has accepted the presidency of a committee to

celebrate at Bristol the four-hundredth anniversary of Cabot's discovery of America. Abbe Galraud. Constitutionalist, has been elected French deputy for, Brest to replace the late Mgr. D'Hulst. It was a three-cornered contest, the other candidates being the Comte de Blols. pure Royalist, and Dr. Loisel, Republican. Edward J.1 Ivory, alias Bell, acquitted of a charge of complicity in a dynamite conspiracy, and John F. Mclntyre. formerly assistant district attorney In New York city, who went to Ixndon In his defense, have sailed from Southampton for New York.

MURDER AT CINCINNATI. Mary Forplann Fatally Assaulted nnd Rohhcd of Her Savings. CINCINNATI, Jan. 21. Ettare Fontanori, a Tyrolean, was arrested yesterday for murdering Mary Forpiana, an Italian, and robbing her of $1,$00, which represented the savings of forty years from the proceeds of fruit vending. Soon after Mrs. Forpiana was found yesterday in a dying condition and her chest broken open. Fontanori was arrested. It is now learned that Enrico De Bols, an Italian, laid the plans for the robbery and hired Fontanori for $300 to break open the old woman's chest. De Bols was familiar with Lie premises. Fontanori did the job as directed, turned over the money to De Bois and the latter has escaped. Mrs. De Bois to-day inquired at police headquarters for her husband. Afterward Fontanori confessed. TO STOP SPITTING IX CARS. Active Measures to Re Adopted ly a Board of Health. New York Evening Post. Superintendent of local traction companies will receive notices from the Board of Health within a few days that the sanitary law against spitting in their cars is to be more actively enforced. President Wilson said to-day that he meant to put Inspectors on the cars of various lines with instructions to watch for violations of the law, and from complaints that have come into tho department lately It is expected that the first prisoners will be employes of the companies. He wishes therefore to give the superintendents a chance. to caution their conductors so that there shall be no excuse. The notices posted in the cars of all lines have been before the eyes of everybody now for a long enough time to have Instructed the merely careless or thoughtless. Those who still persist in breaking the law are persons who are incorrigible to hints reminders of the feelings of others, and assurances that spitting is dangerous to public health. They cannot be expected to learn In any other way than by punishment or tho spectacle of others' suffering. And that remedy Mr. Wilson proposes to apply, promptly and systematically. He says he wishes. to wait till the weather is clear and the streets comparatively clean so that wet and muddy tloors shall not tempt dirty people to Increase the evil condition. There must be no excuse that the lloor was unclean anyway. When the right kind of a day comes along he will send out two or three inspectors, who will begin .with the worst offenders, the employes and passengers of the loads on the extreme sides of the city. They will ride up and down the lines or till they get a clear case cf violation. Then an arrest will be made and the prisoner will be arraigned. The first charges may be dismissed, but the Inspectors will keep up the practice, moving from one line to another, till all the companies have been inspected and a large number of arrests and some convictions obtained. The publicity the newspaper can give to these cases will bring the matter more emphatically and more ger.eiaily to the attention of the habitual spitters. and the president thinks this public nuisance can be brought under control. He thinks the mere posting of notices in tha cars has done some good. It has at lecst furnished a ground of protest for outraged passengers, who otherwise might have to sit still and say nothing. But Mr. Wilson has heard lately that the conductors, on the elevated roads particularly, and on all the roads somewhat, do not heed the notice. Only two days ago a woman who complained of this was asked to get the number of some guard so that his company might have a chance to punish him. She went forth, and on the first trip caught one. She spoke to him, asking whether he was not aware of the notice. He said he was. but his answer was gruff, and after she left the car she looked back and saw him laughing heartily. Having taken his number, she sent it to President Wilson, who forwarded it. with her letters, to the manager of the elevated railroad company. This is but one of several such cares, and L the president is waiting to hear from the companies, what they have done with tnem, a report having been requested. The correspondent of a London newspaper called at the Health Department yesterday to make some inquiries about American spitting. He was referred to Dr. Tracy. He wished to know why everybody in New York hawked and spat. Dr. Tracy, who is very accurate about figures, hesitated a moment, coughed slightly, and then mado answer: 'It is the influenza, don't you know, which came from the other side." PAY OF PRIVATE SECRETARIES. Scandalous Abuse hy Many Members of Congress. Washington Special to Pittsburg Dispatch. "The economy that is practiced by some of the members of Congress Is exceedingly amusing," said an officer of the House to me the other day. "For instance, there is old Blank from Seroggins town, who has a little room over the hall in a little house near the Capitol. He doesn't like to spend car fare, you know. He pays jr a week for room and board, and the use of the parlor when any of his constituents call upon him. though that is very rare. He does all of his own correspondence, and then steps up every payday and draws his little hundred dollars f5r a private secretary, and swears that he is paying that amount for the labor of a clerk, as is required by law. His son is on the rolls as his seere-' tary, but his son is not here at all. The scheming in regard to these private secretaries is a disgusting fraud upon the government. While some of the members, a few of them, have more correspondence than can be done by themselves and their secretaries, the mass of them haven't a tithe of what they could do themselves. Why, would you believe it. there are members here who don't receive a dozen letters a month. They do their correspondence themselves, but arrange with some member of the family or other person to be enrolled as 'private secretary,' and assist them t in the fraud upon the government. Sometimes three or four members will club together and hire some speedy and needy typewriter to do all of their work for $10 to 520 from each one of them, and put the remainder of tho salary in their pockets. More than one member uses his wife's name as his private secretary, and bribes that good lady with a portion of the salary to assist him In his fraud. I tell you that in exorbitant mileage, in allowance for stationery and in salaries of private secretaries and other persons who are of no use. this government is paying out more than a million dollars annually. I am in a position to secure the figures, and know what I am talking about. Of course the dishonest beneficiaries will not ask for investigation, and those wrho really spend all of the moneys received for the benefit of the government do not llko to pose as reformers of their associates. And so the fraud goes on, 'and will go on." Improved Order R'i B'Ultb. BALTIMORE. Jan. 24. The tenth annual convention of the Improved Order of B'Nai B'RIth was begun here to-day. The roll call showed 105 delegates present, representing the States of New York. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland and the District of Columbia. President Wyan In his annual message recommended a number of changes In the endowment feature of the order. A discussion of the advisability of allowing women to form lodges and become members of the order took up some time. The matter was brought up at last year's convention in New York, when a committee was appointed to consider the matter. This committee made favorable report on the proposition, but upon Its being put to a vote to-day it was lost. Movements of Steamers. LIVERPOOL. Jan. 24. Arrived: Pennland; from I'hiladelphla; Gecrgic, from New York. QUEENSTOWN. Jan. 24.-SMled: Umbria. from Liverpool, for New York. HAVRE. Jan. 24. Arrived: La Champagne, from New York. NEW YORK. Jan. 24. Arrived: La Gascogne, from Havre. What Bryan Knew. Kansas City Journal. "Everybody." says a contemporary. 'except the young man himself, knew that William J. Bryan made a great mistake in not accepting that fifty-thousand-dollar offer from a big business firm." But probably the young man knew better than most everybody else that the offer was bogus. Peffer's Snccemor. Kansas City Journal. As if to make Mr. Teffer's humiliation as deep as possible, a man was chosen as his successor who hasn't a particle of whiskers.

INDIA'S FAMINE PROBLEM

SOME CAUSES OF THE PERENNIAL STARVATION OF .MILLIONS. A Plan for Utilizing Waste Lands and Doing Away with the Extortion of the Money Lenders. New York Sun. Few persons in this country are better Informed about the starving millions of India than Frederick Booth-Tucker, commander of the Salvation Army. Commander BoothTucker was born in India and has spent most of his life there. He has studied the people not only from an official viewpoint, but also from that of the native. He has looked at the situation through English eyes, through East Indian eyes, and through American eyes, eo that very little has escaped him. He has been able to do this because if there ever was a cosmopolite in blood-as well as feeling, the commander is one. During the French revolution ono of his great-uncles, the Count De Lautour, was guillotined, and his maternal grandfather left France and settled in India. The family established one of the now oldest banking houses in India. His paternal ancestors were English.. Some of them took a hand on the American side in the war of independence, fought in the early battles of the revolution, and afterward went to Bermuda, and came very near being shot by the British for their services to America. One of Commander BoothTucker's earliest childhood recollections is of the mutiny in India. It was the cry of an older sister, waking him up one morning with "Get up, Freddy! The mutineers are coming!" Ho and the other children were smuggled Into a waiting carriage, in order not to arouse the suspicions of the natives, and hurried off to a steamer, which bore the family to a place of safety. Soon after this he was taken to England to be educated. After being graduated from college ho passed the East Indian civil-service examination, received his commission, and returned to India. As a government official he lost no opportunity to study the natives and do missionary work among them. Finally a. copy of tho War Cry fell Into his hands. Alter reading it carefully he asked for a leave of absence. He went to London, and, after making a study of Salvation Army principles and work, threw up his East Indian commission and joined the army. Inat was sixteen years ago. feince then he lias been the commissioner v for the arrny in India most of the time, and he came directly from there to this country at the time of the split in the army last year. Whue In India Commander Booth-Tucker made two tours through the country with General Booth to look into the condition of the poorer classes, with a view to work ing out some scheme for their relief by the Salvation Army. The last tour was made the year before he came here, and the first four years previous. Couple these two tours witn his experiences, tne years spent in army work among both high caste and low caste natives, and It is no wonder

that the commander speaks with a clear understanding on this subject. "Famine? Have 1 seen it in India?" he said in response to a question. "There iire districts, and those somo of the fairest, where hunger is never absent, where cholera averages three hundred thousand deiths in an ordinary year. Starvation claims at least one million. The orticial. actual death rate 'of India amounts to 41 a thousand. That is the average. The local death rate ranges from 20 to SO a thousand. The death rate of the city of New York is about 24 a thousand, that of the State being less than 20 a thousand. The death rate of the entire United States averages only 12 a thousand. In other words, without the pressure of any special famine, under ordinary circumstances, 12.0o0.on0 people die yearly. It is certain that at least 1.000,000 of these die of starvation and its attendant diseases. MILLIONS ALWAYS HUNGRY. "Sir William Hunter, the historian of India, and tho greatest living authority on Indian statistics, calculates that from thirty to forty million people 'scarcely ever lose the sensation of .hunger In fact, do not know the feeling of a full stomach, except in the mango season. Even this exception, existing only over a few weeks in each year, needs qualification, since every mango tree is jealously guarded, and, barring the extra watchmen engaged, the hungry multitude goes hungry still. This preliminary want preceding acknowledged famine makes the latter the more terrible. "The population of India is almost entirely agricultural; that is, about 275 out of its 300 millions live In illage3 or country towns and are dependent ujon tho landsfcr their support. It is in these villages that the chronic want exists, and that the pressure of famine is most keenly felt. In the towns wages are higher, employment is more easily obtained, and the charity of rich natives obviates any serious amount of suffering. Hence, also, the existence and extent of the chronic suffering come to be doubted, as It Is judged largely from the comparatively nourishing condition of the cities. "The East Indians, no matter how poor, are a most polite, gracious, hospitable people. They address all government officials as 'mabap (mother and father) or 'gharibbarwar' (protector of the poor), and so wicked do they think It to turn a beggar away empty handed that they will give their last grain of rice and be compelled to pawn their eating or cooking vessels to get more. I shall never forget one experience in some villages. The country was a veritable paradise. To the ordinary European and official eye there was no sign of want. Indeed, the harvest had been abundant, the soil was pro'llfic. and everything appeared to be flourishing. But I was not there as an official. It was as a Salvationist, dressed in the native costume, with bare feet and begging bowl, that I had gone from hut to hut collecting my midday meal of cooked rice and vegetable curries. On returning to the thatched hovel which was the home of tne village Salvationist who was my host, he remarked that at one of the houses visited by me the last handful of rice they possessed had been emptied into my begging howl. I hastened to return It with interest, but could hardly persuade the givers to accept it. That night there was an outcry of Thief! Thief!" so common in these villages as to be almost taken as a matter of course, provided that it did not happen to be your bouse that had ben broken into. T discovered the next day that the robbery had been traced to the house of a man who had been without food for live days. Triven to desperation by the sufferings of his wife who lay helpless at home with an infant at her bosom, he had broken into a neiRhbor's house. ONE OF THE CAUSES. "A curious thing is that the greatest number of deaths from starvation occur in the most fertile districts. Now let us trace back the cause of the fearfal mortality. A trade union system two or three thousand years, old prevails in the illages of India. The center of very model village is occupied by the land owners. It is divided into five sections. One Is occupied by the cultivators of the land, another by the weavers, another by the tanners, tho fourth by the potters who make the cooking and eating vessels, and the last by the sweepers or scavengers. The system is sueh that every man, woman and child is taught to follow some profession, or. rather, occupation, and to assist at the harvests. Sometimes there are two harvests, again, three, in a year. No matter what the-.se people do. they are paid in food, that is, grain. Another source of wealth is the huge herds of bufialo that bring the landowners regular Incomes. "A clarified butter called 'ghl' is made from th milk, and this is shippeo to the cities. The castes who watch the cattle, and who make the ghi. a e paid every day in buttermilk. Every morning at 4 o'clock the housewives in the villages get up and you can hear them grinding the day's supply of corn. They throw a little of the flour into a bow i of watered buttermilk and make a food called ghens. Tne supply is always scant, for the housewife knows that if no rain falls she and her family will not have enough grain to carry them over to the next harvest. So it is always, stint, stint, stint, and when it isn't Mint it is starve. Could the landowners reserve enough grain to tide over these times of want? They could, but they don't want to do that. They turn it into money for themselves, exporting much of it. "The Salvation Army has a great plan of dealing with the root of this trouble. To begin with. In different parts of India there are vast tracts of fertile land lying idle. In British India alone the government returns show 146.000 square miles, while there is as much again to be found In the various native states. These lands are amply capable of maintaining in comparative comfort the whole of the starving population of the empire, and of meeting the natural increase for years to come, if the peoplo I

who need it could only placed upon it under conditions that would enable them at one to work It and partake of the resr.its of their labor. The government Is paternal, and administers honest Justice, and Its laws are among the won perfect of human laws, but the difficulty h re is that the starving masses are low-caste people. Suppose ono of these low-caste villagtrs applies to tho government for p. tract of waste land. Ho has to do so through native officers who are landowners, and bo toon finds that if any more is heard of his wanting to U a landowner he will suffer for it. However much the governments assessing this waste land may desire to have the poor rn-opie enjoy its benefits, and however anxious the poer people may be to avail themselves of tho opportunity, it is almoj-t universally admitted that the co-operation of some outside organization is necessary to effect the desired result. Now. this is our plan. Wo go to the government and ask for. say i.ivj acres of this waste land as near to the villages as pslble. Then we go to the landowners of a village and say: 'We have this land; your people are starving; let u have fifty families.' The landowner answers: 'What, you want fifty of my families? Never! You can't have them.' 'Very well, then.' the Salvationist answers. we will take a whede caste. They will follow us. God bless you. Then the landowner runs after the Salvationist and says: 'Please don't do that. You'll break up my village. I'll let you have the fifty families.' Soon enough people are transferred to our village settlement to fill it and the immediate result is that not only they, but tha people of the villages also have more labor and consequently more food. A TROPOSED REMEDY. "Again, near every model village in India are considerable tracts of waste land reserved for grazing purposes. Now when we ask a landowner for fifty families wa also ask him for, say, twenty acres of this land. 'But I need it for my cattle, he answers. 'Oh, give it to us, replies the Salvationist, 'and we will raise enough fodder on it, which wo will give to you. to keep your cattle from starving in time of famine. Have you a tank on it?' 'No. replies the landowner, with a shrug. Don't talk about it. We've been applying to the government for one for three years, and it will probably be longer than that before we get it.' Ah, that's because you can't deal directly with the government aa we can. Give us the twenty acres we want nnd we'll have a tank put on your place, This gets the desired land every time. "This land will be divided into small plot3 and allotted to the most needy families in the place. It is believed that the produce, of such allotment, added to the earnings of the occupier, would supply him with reasonable subsistence. While the land so obtained would be under the direct management of the Salvation Army so long as it was used for the purposes for which it was acquired, it would lapse to the village authorities from whom It was obtained in case of its ceasing to be used hy the poor people to whom It had been allotted. "Freedom of contract is the curse of India. Thj money lender is king of the situation. Nothing is much better known by the friends of India, nor much more to e lamented than the bondage in which the usurer holds tho bulk of the peasant population. The ordinary rate of interest charged In the villages is from one-fourth, to one-third of the amount advanced, in other words, from 2."i to j per cent. But it is common for the money lender, with clients who are so ignorant, and whose exigencies are so urgent, to charge a0, 73 and even 1i per cent. Now we proiose to wipe out this evil by means of the village bank or village brotherhood, known as the Raiffeisen system in Germany and. the Wolemborg in Italy. We have embraced their idea and adapted it to the particular conditions of India and the peculiar habits of her pror people. I say 'poor' because It Is only intended for those without credit, without property on which they could obtain an advance of money, however trilling, except by being plundered In the merciless manner that pervails. The success of tho plan in Germany and Italy would seem lncred'ble if it were not testified to by the most trustworthy witnsss and proved by statistics, the money lender in many districts having become all but extinct. Somo idea of the extent of its operations and tho value of its benefits may be gathered from the simple fact that In a few years the turnover in Germany has been 450.oui.jiit. with onlv forty defaulters. By this system we will le able to revolutionize the country and rescue the poor from the claws of the usurers without special legislation. It is admirably suited to the needs, of all agricultural people in every country. "It seems to me that the distress In India should appeal particularly to American people. American missionary societies own millionv of dollars' worth of property there, and have under absolute rule at least one hundred thousand British subjects. The government is most appreciative and grateful for the work done by American missionaries, for some of the very best missionaries there come from this country., and it has subsidized them to the extent of $100,000 for educational and medical work." Pitman's Invention. Chicago News. Sir Isaac Pitman, who died yesterday, was the father of the typewriter gill. Before his time shorthand was an arbitrary system of signs, the mastery of which meant a prodigious expenditure of industry and ingenuity. The labor of learning on of the old systems of shorthand is said to have been about equal to the learning of Chinese. But Pitman changed all that. He philosophized the subject, so that finally any cheerful young lady, with live or six weeks' incidental study. va qualified to enter an office and entangle her employer's ideas in a mass of perfectly philosophical, but often Illegible, pothooks. Pitman's invention was a big achievement. This ia evident from the fact that throughout tho popularizing and cheapening of shorthand that hes happened in the last twenty years all. or practically all. of the many new systems and Improvements are built on Pitman's alphabet. Pitman's Invention mado It possible for every business man to have his stenographer and the entire commoner practice of the profession owes its origin to him. It may be doubted, however, whether in the higher branches of the art Pitman's work was in its final effect so revolutionary us appears on the surface. In most cases the really expert stenographer writes a practically arbitrary system which has come to him through as long and as patient practice .as was needed to acquire one of the ante-Pitman systems. Pitman's work makes the beginning of shorthand incomparably easier, but the goal is reached much as before. Appreciated Its X'nvf uIucah. Puck. First Student The college library is a great institution, isn't It? Second Student What In the world were you doing there? First Student Went to look at an old newspaper to settle a dispute about the football game of "jZ. Trouble Already. Washington Post. We an- at a loss to understand why Atlanta should want to be called the "Chlcauo of the South." It would seem that Atlanta has a sufficient number of troubles of a dcme.stic nature.

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