Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1897 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1897.

VIEWS OF T. C. PLATT

m:v voitiv's si:atoh-i:m:ct ijisCtSSKS TOLITICS AM) LEGISLATION. Chairman Hnnnn and Other In Con fervnce with Mnjor McKinley llallotiiiK for Senator. ALBANY, X. Y., Jan. 21'.. The Republican:? of the State tendered a banquet to Thomas C. Flatt, .enator--lect from NewYork, to-night, at which v.ere present all the Republican State officer, all the party leaders in the State and many Republicans of national importance. Covers were laid for nearly one thousand, while as many more looked on from the gjaiieries and listened to the speech making. Mr. IMatt made it the occasion of his xormal acceptance of the 5enat.or.ship to succeed David 1. Hill. He said, ia part: "It is not without hesitation that I have atraln accepted the responsibilities of put!io office. Indeed, it se.-mtd as though the temptation to do fo had been put by and that the remainder of my life would have no other relation to public affairs than such as becomes every citizen. I hali be acquitted. I think, of any affectation about ollice-seekintf and oince-holding, bit it is a fact that I have not been a candidate lor the Senate. I have not asked any memImt of the Legislature to vote for me. I did not even intimate until after the caucus that I should accept the ottice if it were tendered. That it has come ur.'er these circumstances and with such generous expressions of good will and eontidence from Jlepubiicans throughout the State makes it a pleasing burden and a rich compensation for all that I have done and tried to do in my party's service. And so I shall go to Washington grateful to the Republican jarty, devoted to the State of New York, and earnest in resolution to exert whatever influence I may have or may acquire for the welfare of our incomparable country. "It is especially gratifying to re-enter the Senate coincidcntally with the inauguration of a Republican President. The Mipport given by the State of New York to J.Iajor McKlnley's candidacy abundantly testified to the high hopes which our people base on his patriotic wisdom. The success of his administration wilt be the suecesa of the Republican party, and no contribution that I can make to that great caue will b wanting "Sufficient time has passed since the November election to permit a close examination of its results. It cannot be said that they are wholly unsatisfactory. The bewildering programme of legislation proposed by Mr. Bryan obtained so great a popular support as to forbid the Idea that agitation in its favor will ! abandoned, and our Democratic friends who, without giving unqualified adhesion to Republican principles, were. nevertheless, constrained by their convictions on the money question to support the Rf publican candidates, should give sober consideration to this fact. "Jt is not yet certain that any plan for the relief of the treasury can pass the Senate as It will be constituted after the 4th of Iarch. Capital will not Invest, production will not increase, labor will not be adequately employed until laws are passed to Insure the treasury aprainst insolvency and to guarantee to the business interests of the country, a safe and reasonably permanent basis on which to operate. "If the change in the composition of the Senate row In progress fail to produce a majority that can hold together for the enactment of such legislation, we shall have the same light cut of which we have just come to make again four years from now under probably less favorable conditions. The lesson which this possibility teaches to the round-money Democrats and the duty it enforces upon them seem entirely clear. They can ilnd no home in the Democratic party. Their presence thTe is not wanted. whereas with us it is hc!d in just esteem. They must come into the Republican party, exert their due inlluence upon its politics and accept th'lr share of thi : responsibility for its work. And. without abardoring any vital principle, which tpy would not ask or expect, we must re k in ail we do to hold their confidence aid support. "Th'j people do not want the Wilson bill patched up. They -wafct it repealed and in its place their plain demand, to which the election cf two successive. Republican majorities in the lloue of Representatives sufficiently testifies. -is-for the enactment of an intelJisrenr. and consistent tariff based in every schedule upon the principle of preventing the foreign producer of goods that compete with American good; from wholesaling his wares In tire American market and compelling the American -maker of such wares either to go out of business or to red'ce the wnjres be pav'to his labor. "Jf there is no other respect in which t'ae country is to be congratulated uion the resirlt of Mr. Cleveland's administration, it may be admitted that since th" present secretary of state assumed th" direct on of cur foreign affairs the position of our country abroad has impioved. It has been demonstrated again that the consistent upholding of American interests in foreign lands does not necessarily involve disagreeable relations with foreign governments and that the just influence of our country can be preserved without offense to our neighbors. I have had no fair opportunity to examine the te;;t of the arbitration treaty or to consider th? possibilities that may arise under it? various provision ', but with the principle Involved it seems as'though all civilized men must le svmpathetic." Briefly referring to the Cuban question, ?.Ir.- riatt said: "The attitude of our government, however, cannot always express the sympathies of the peonle. It has its treaties to observe and its code of public law to respect. Acts of intervention moreover, involve responsibilities and these must be assumed with caution. We neither wish to govern Cuba nor to fieht Spain, and no act of government should be performed that leads us In the direction of either of th enterprises." ".'he other speakers were as follows: Cov-e-nor Iilack. General Russell A. Alger of Michigan. Hon. J .Sloat Fassett. Hon Chaur.cey M. Depew. I). I). Woodmar.se of Ohio, president of the National League of Republican Clubs. WiIIirm Pitt Kellogg of Louisiana. Lieutenant (Jovernor Woodruff was the last speaker and the banquet was over shortly after 11 o'clock. M'KIU:VS VISITORS. Mark lianna and Other Polttielnnn Confer with the Major. CANTON. O.. Jan. 26. National Chairman M. A. Hanna called on Major McKinlcy this evening. He came from Cleveland at SiM o'clock and will remain over until tomorrow. He had nothing to ray when called on by reporters. Mr. Clarence Rowen. a prominent publisher of New York city, and an intimate friend of Major McKinley. was a visitor to-day. lie s?id he was here on private business and his visit had no prominent political significance. Mr. Bowen lunched with the major ana returned to New York on an afternoon train. At noon live Brooklyn gentlemen called. The party consisted of Messrs. Walter R. Atterbury. R. Ross Appietnn, Theodore R. Willis, city works commission? r, K. J. Kaltenbach and George Roberts, jr. They are here in the li.terest of Congressman Francis 11 Wilson, of Brooklyn, and formally presented his name for Major McKinley' consideration. Mr. Appleton also presented the name of Andrew Jacobs for appointment as naval otiicer at the port of New i ork. Among other callers were W P Chamberlain, of Knoxvtlic. Tenn.." who said wany complimentary things about Hon Clay hvans as Tennessee's choice fo i Cabinet position; William L. Rohrer of Led lands Cab. who spoke rn behalf of udge McKenna; M. K. Mann, of Pinckneyvllle. 111., who probably came iti the interest of Senator Cull om; and George R'rnards. of Cincinnati, who merely paid 'his respects to Mr. McKinley. 1 It was definitely arranged to-day that the farewell reception to Major and Mrs. McKinley will be had on the afurr.oon 'f K; 22. The reception will be to Cantonims in general who wish to bid Major and Mrs McKinley good-bye. It will ie unde- the ausuies of the Business Men's Association which will arrange detail:-. At ! o'clock this morning the major received a mess.tgo from Mrs. McKinley announcing her x.ife arrivil ir Cilcago. The Ohio SenatnrMfiln. WASHINGTON. Jan. 26.--General Groa. venor. of Ohio, declines to-day to discuss the rumors from Ohio as to the probability that Governor I!uhnc!l will appoint Lieutenant Governor Asa Jones to the vacancy In the Senate on the retirement of Senator Sherman, except to say that the sentiment In Ohi; as expressed In the newspapers, r-ctmed to him overwheimlngly in favor of Mr. Hanna. With regard to the rumor ihm Henator Sherman mipnt reconsider his acceptance cf th state p.rtroll.j in ca?e Mr. Hanna wa:? not appointed to tucceed him. h e pressed htm.se if most emphatically. ".Vr. Sherman." iald be was tendered the premiership by Mr. McKinley on his own merits. He accepted and he would have no rlKht now to repuedute. his avccptar.ee because of dissatlitAC'lQU witii matter erouln out of his

retirement from the Senate and. moreover, I can say roost positively that he has no intention of reconsidering his action."

I'orly-Two Vote Cant fir nine. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 20 The seventh ballot for United States senator resulted: Cline. 42; Turner, CO; Denny. 2; Squire, 5; Daniel. 2; Winsor, C; Rogers. 2. Cline voted for Winsor. raying he fiid not believe he could be elected himself, and released bis friends from further support of him. This was done under the agreement that he was to be supjorted for a certain number of ballets. Thatcher Still lit the Lead. SALT LAKH. Utah. Jan. 2C. The joint J session of the Legislature took six bal!ot3 for United States senator at this afternoon's session without material change in tho situation. Three of the Populists changed from Iawrence to Hogan and the three Republicans voted for George M. Cannon. The last baliot was: Thatcher, 22; Henderson. 11; Rawlins, IS; Ilogan, 4; Cannon, 2; Rowers. 1. i:arle Got All the Vote but One. COLUMBIA. S. C, Jan. 2G. The separate houses of the legislature voted for United States senator to-day. Joseph H. Uarle, the nominee of tho Democratic primary, got every vote except that of R. S. Anderson (colored), the only Republican member, who voted for Congressman G. W. Murray, the only colored member of Congress. Only Five Vote Agrnlnnt Jodph. CARSON, New, Jan. 2f. John P. Jones was re-elected United States senator today. In the Senate the vote was: Jones, silverite. 12; Fitzgerald, silverite. 1: McMillan, Republican. 2. The vote in tho Assembly stood: Jones, 2S; McMillan, 2. I'opnliHt HarriN'n Election Assured. TOPEKA. Kan.. Jan. 2'!. The separate houses of the Legislature balloted to-day for United States senator. The combined vote assures the formal election of W. K. Harris. Populist, of Leavenworth, in the joint session to-morrow. J. C. Spooner Klecteu" Senator. MADISON, Wis., Jan. :. Both houses of the Legislature to-day cast their votes for John C. Spooner for United States senator. The election will be ratliied in joint conven. tion to-morrow. C'ltiKXPtt Gained Two Votes. ROISK. Ida.. Jan. 2G- Claggett to-day got 29 on the lirst ballot for senator and CI on tho second; Dubois 2J on each: Nelson 13 on the first and 12 on the second. COSTLY RAILWAY WRECK. Nearly $1,000,000 I'n Id to Victim, and .More Claim to lte Settled. CAMDEN. N. J., Jan. 2G. The railroad uccirtent which occurreel on tho Atlantic City meadows last summer, when a Philadelphia & Heading: flyer ran into a West Jersey train, and resulted in the killing of forty-four people and the injuring of about. 100 more, has proven a very costly ono to the railroads. Since the accident tho companies have been settling the claims for damages outside of courts. It is estimated that thus far they have paid out In damages a sum amounting to nearly Sl.uOO,W). One of the latest claims to be settled is that of Mrs. Samuel Mita. Sne b-ought suit for $:UOO damages for the death of her husband and one daughter, and the injuring of herself and a son. The company, it is said, has given her $3d,(XX) in settlement. BREWERY IN TROUBLE. Iteeeiver Appointed for the II. i. YenRliti'T Company, of Xpw York. NEW YORK. Jan. 20. Commodore Vetter was to-day appointed receiver for the D. G. Yengllng Brewing Company, and J. Campbell Thompson was appointed referee to pass upon the accounts of the corporation. The appointments were made on the representations of directors, bondholders, stockholders and creditors of the concern, which has been in ilnaneial difficulty for some time. The Immediate occasion of the action laken to-day was the sale of the real estate and buildings of the corporation on Twelfth I street and Tenth avenue', on which the Mu tual Life Insurance Company ho!d3 the first mortgage for $2vO,C".!0. There is a second mortgage on the property to secure an Issue of $l,H)O,e00 of bonds, of which $S' 0,C01 is heKl by John F. Beiz, unely of Iuvid !. Itr.glmg. the president, of the company. Tin; company oweS Mr. Belz i'0..tJ for money loaned and 41ir.0e to John r". Belz i Sons, niaisters. of Philadelphia. The other debts are small. It is hoped by those concerned in the steps taken to-day that a reorganization cf the company can be effected which vld permit of a continuation of the business. $ '"l he troubiei; of the company." said its legal representative, "are due partly to the legacies of debt trom the old company, but mainly to the injurious effect em the business of the ItalneM law. which took away a large part of the trade, and involved the raising of considerable sums of money for payments of license tes in order to retain the balance." The receiver has been given authority by the court to continue the business so as to preserve the good will which is the company's most valuab.e asset. Sulphite. Pulp and Mining Company. CANTON, N. Y.. Jan. 26.-The High Falls Sulphite, Pulp and Mining Company assigned this morning. The plant is said to havo cost SSno.ftjO. No schedule of liabilities has yet been tiled. The proprietors claim that all banks holding their paper will be protected. Mr. Usher, president of the National Bank of Potstlam, which closed its doors yesterday, was interested in the company. Mr. Price, cashier of the National Bank of Potsdam, said that the failure of the Pierccfield Paper and Mining Company started a run on the bank which they were unable to stand. He said the bank and its prcsiint. Mr. Fsher. have been closely connected with the company, but that the hitter's failure would not have affected he bank if tho depositors had not become alarmed. The bank was In better condition than for some time past, but did not have the ready cash to meet the demands upon it. Kxaminer Van Vranken, of the banking department. whe was snowbound at Norwood, reached Potsdam. The schedule of the Piercerit id Company will be fited at the clerk's olfice to-day, and will place the conpnnv's assets at M.'VK) and liabilities Ilnlldinp: Associations Involved. KNOXVILLK, Tenn.. Jan. 2J. In this city, where for several years have flourished six of the largest building and loan associations in the State, including the Southern, the largest one in the South, all but two have gone into receivers' hands within the past few days. The Supreme Court of Tennessee, at a recent sitting In Knoxville. rendered an opinion which wr..s very adverse to the interests of the associations. This caused hundreds of suits to be tiled against them to recover property and then came thousands of applications by stock and share ho'.Uers for withdrawals. The Southern was placed ia the hand of temporary receivers a few days ago. and at a meeting of the stockholders to-day, they asked that the receivers be mado permanent and the business be wound up. Other BuHlnen.H Trouble. CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 25. Homer H. Johnson was to-day appointed receiver for th" Vulcan Brass Company. The assets of the company arc placed at JIj.OcO. and liabilities at S-tVnfi. Trouble among the stockho'ders. it is said, led to the application for a receiver. NEWPORT. Ky.. Jan. 21. A number of tb? credltcrs of T. B. Youtzey, late cashier of tho First National Bank of Newport, who is said to owe the bank JISO.OJO. alUge th;.t Youtzey. who has made an individual assignment. Is managing h'.s aufairs so us to give undue advantages to certain creditors. They hae therefore applied to Judge Helm to appoint a receiver for Youtzcy'a personal aft airs or to refer the matter to a master commissioner. OLYMPIA. Wash.. Jan. 2u. The First Nj-ti-r.al Bank h:n closed. LlabwitU-s. a t:. 522:,C-W. The failure was caused bv (he v.-ithdtawal of the State deiiOiit of VIcDounM and .oyp Released. CHICAGO. Jan. 2C George T. McDonald r.p.d Edwin Noyts. who aided in the million. pound Bank of England robbery and v.ho.e arrest here a wee ago created a sensation, appeared for trial to-day. The pc'.ire were unable to bring any charge o gainst them and on motion of the prosecution the case was noila pressed. McDonal.1 and Noyfs assert that they will eater action for damages for false arreat.

RELIEF FOR THE POOR

CIIICAGO.WS nt:IOM)IG LI It Ell ALLY TO THE MAYOR'S APPEAL. Many .SnfTerinsf Families Supplied with Food and Fuel Snow to Succeed the Cold Spell. CHICAGO, Jan. 2-5. The quick response of the citizens to Mayor Swift's appeal has resulted in the relief of suffering in Chicago with rapidity and to an extent far beyond expectations. Through the systematic canvass of the police and the prompt attention to the cases reported by the ofiicers it is safe to say that but few persons suffered to-night In Chicago from cold or hunger. During the past forty-eight hours not less than 1,200 families were supplied through the police with food and fuel. The work of the police was to-day reinforce-d by that of the letter carriers, who, acting on Postmaster Hesing's orders, gathered the names of the unfortunates on their routes and turned them Into the substations, the superintendents of which then reported to the police. The work of the Salvation Army was far reaching and the information in the hands of the "slum" workers was used to great advantage in the relief work. Mayor Swift was busy all day receiving subscriptions to the relief fund. The Pabst Brewing Company, of Milwaukee, telegraphed Mayor Swift that it had sent $1,000 to help feed the hungry. The largest contribution so far made to tho public relief fund was by the officials and employes of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company, who raiseel $2,000. The lumber dealers of the city raised $1,300 in fifteen minutes today and promised that by to-morrow morning the amount would be $2,300. A large fund was raised among the exhibitors of cycles at the national cycle? exposition, now being held here. The list was he-aded by the Pope Manufacturing Company, with a contribution cf $1,000, anel will amount to a large sum when completed. Fully $35.0i has been raised for relief work in the latt two days by voluntary responses to Mayor Swift's proclamation. The weather moderated a trifle to-day and the mercury worked slowly up from 1C degrees below zero to zero, where it remained for the gre-ater portion of the day. In the evening it went down a little, but not over over from 2 to 3 degrees. The reports from the Northwest show a peneral rise in temperature about eeiual to that of Chicago. The rise was very slow, however. Iiiftt "What the Icemen "Wonted. CHICAGO, Jan. 2o. The coid snap which is causing suffering anel inconvenience to many has given employment to over 12,000 men. The cold weather has brought to the ico dealers just what they wantetl, as last week they were wondering if they would be able to cut the ice needed for next summer. Thirty-five ice cpmpanies have plants on the Wisconsin Central and Chicago & Northwestern Railroads, w:thln one hunelred miles of Chicago, and twenty of these firms began operations on the ice fields today. From this city 2.f00 men were sent to points along tho Wisconsin Central, and as many went over the Northwestern. The Ice tields south of Chicago were also opened up to-day. and before the week is over there will be about 7.000 men employed at ice-gathering within sixty miles sou;h from Chicago. If the cold weather continue? the ice men say they will have one of the Idlest crops ever gathered. The Ice Ilnrvent In On. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAMMOND, Inc!.. Jan. 2C The ice harvest In this county has begun and fully one thousand men aro at work storing away the supplj'. This force will be nearly doubled to-morrow, when cutting will begin at Cedar Lake. A great many of theso men will find work for the lirst time in several months. The wages will be reduced to $1 a day for common laborers. It is expected that if the weather continues favorable men will be at work by Thursday. They will be divided in three shifts of eight hours each, giving employment to all who apply. Salivation Army's Offer. NEW YORK, Jan. 2H. Mr. Booth-Tucker, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, telegraphed from Chicago to-day to Mayor Strong, offering to throw open the army's several barracks in this city to homeless men during the present e'old weather and subsequent distress. After consultation with the president of the Board of Charities Mayor Strong intimated that the offer would be accepted under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Health. Sleet nnil Snow at .ew Orleans. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 2o.-S!ect and snow fell for three hours to-day and still covers buildings and ground. The mercury has ranged from. CO to 35 above during the day, and to-night has fa'.lcn to 2. Dispatches received from the interior report that sleet and snow have fallen in the past twentyfour hours throughout the State and southeast and southwest Mississippi and southwestern Alabama, the mercury in some localities going down to 14. Florida Still Snfe. JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Jan. 20. The cold wave promised by the Weather Bureau has failed to materialize. At midnight the mercury registers with no indication of a lower temperature. A steady rain Is falling, which will serve as protection against frost. All fears of a repetition or' the disastrous freeze of two years ago are dissipated. Ice Ilrlriffc nt MiiRnrn. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Jan. 20. The cold is intense here and a glittering ice bridge has formed In the gorge. The frozen spray upon tho trees of the parks and tho faces of the cliffs present a dazzling spectacle. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY. Warmer, Clomly Weather mid Occasional Snow Predicted. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m. Jan. i 27 Warmer, cloudy weather and occasional snow on Wednesday. General conditions yesterday The area of high barometric pressure covering the country is diminishing slowly. A low barometric area approaches the Florida coast. The temperature has risen from the Missouri valley northward, the Ohio valley northward and near the Atlantic coast. Freezing temperature continued south to the gulf a id zero to IS degrees below zero southward to Wyoming. Colorado. Nebraska, Iowa anel Indiana. Saow: has fallen from Colorado. Kans.-.s and Missouri southward to the gulf, local snow near the lakes aval In Tennessee and rain is falling in Georgia. Alabama and Florida. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2o. For Ohio Fair in tha morning, with increasing cloudiness; probably local snows in tho afternoon or night; rot ro cold; north to west winds. For Indiana and Illinois Increasing cloudiness; probably light local snows; not so cold; north winds. The weather bureau issued the following: The temperature has risen slowly from the Atlantic coast westward over the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley and the Northwejt. It continues lev. and has fallen slightly in tiie Southwest, and it has fallen decidedly on the central gulf and Florida coasts, where it 1-3 below freezing. There has been little change in temperature in Florida up to S o'ciook to-night, and as this r.'slon Is covered with an area of rain. It Is prubebie that the cold wave may not exttr.d south of Jacksonville with sufMeient intensity to cause injury to crops, although the temperature may rtach treezinir in the interior ef ihc extreme northern portion. ' The tempt rature will remain Lbout station- S ary Wednesday in the middle Atlantic States north of Virginia, with fair weather, and it will rl.-e flowly in th central valleys, with light local snows. 'The barometer ha? risen in the St. Lawrence valley and New England an1 in the Southwest and it has fallen from Florida northwest to Montana. Tin re is a second elepression central over riorldu which Is apparently moving to the northeastward. The high winds which have prevailed on the Atlantic coast north of Hatieras, due to th depression in the lower St. Lawrence valley, ha.ve been succeeded by brisk northwesterly winds which

will continue Wednesday, the elepression having passed to the eastward of Nova Scotl?.. Triesdny Local Observation. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m..3U." 11 W West. Clear. 0.00 7 p. m..3u.33 2 i N'west. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature 0; minimum tempera t tire 12. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Jan. 2: Temp. Pre. Normal 2s 0.10 Mean 5 0.00 Departure from normal SI 0.10 Total departure since Jan. 1 S 1.0'J Below zero. Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS Local Forecast Otticial.

YeterdayH Temperature.

7 a. m. Max. 7 p. m. IS 2S 2s 2t 12 14 12 14 12 2i; s is .... 4 12 12 10 4 4 ...11 2 4 0 8 6 2 2 1 0 2 .... 4 S S .... 2S 34 2S ....20 10 1 iS 54 0 .... 2 4 4 .... 14 20 20 . .. .'lG . . .... 0 12 4 10 IS 14 (! .... s is i 30 2 2S ; 24 is G 8 4 S 12 10 .... S 2 0 .... 10 s 12 S ....1 2 6 22 30 22 2 S 6 .S 2 0 0 10 6 IS 24 20 :::: I a

Atlanta. Ga Bismarck. N. D... Buffalo. N. Y Calgary. N. W. T. Cairo. Ill Cheyenne. Wvo .. Chicago, HI Concordia. Kan . Davenport, la .. Helena. Mont Jacksonville. Fla Kansas City, Mo Little Rock, Ark Minnedosa, Manitoba Marauette. Mich Memphis. Tenn Moorhead. Minn Nashville. Tenn New Orleans. La New York, N. Y North Platte. Neb.... Oklahoma. O. T Omaha. Net Pittsburg. Pa Qu Appelle, N. W. T. Rapid City. S. D Salt Lake City, Utah St. I.ouis, Mo St. Paul. Minn Springlield, 111 Springfield, Mo Vieksburg. Miss Washington. D. C: Indicates below zero BREAKING SIBERIAN STONE. Sixteen American Sailor I'mlerKolng 1'iiiiiKltment for llleRul Sealing. NEW YORK. Jan. 2i. The World says: Seaman Matthew Hunter is one of the crew of the American ship Conqueror, which has just arrived from Japan and tied up on the outside of tho Atlantic dock, B.-ooklyn. Hunter shipped in May last out of San Francisco on the American bark Witna for Vladivostock, where they found sixteen American sailors and seal fishermen who were prisoners of tho Russian government, breaking stone on a fortification. Through the help of Mr. Smith, an American gun expert in the service of the Russian government. Seaman Hunter and three shipmates ecureil a short interview with four of the prisoners in tho presence of Russian soldiers with fixed bayonets. The sealers slipped two letters to their friends in San Francisco up Hunter's sleeve. In the letters, which Hunter was permitted to read before sealing and mailing them, they describe their hardships and abusive treatment in a Russian prison and the injustice with which the Russian courts dealt with them. Their crime wa3 clubbing seals on the Siberian coast. While their ship, tho Golden Fleece, ran to sea to escape a storm, the sixteen men were captured, thrust into a room twenty by twenty, with a dozen Chinamen and Cortans and four Russians, and kept for two days without food. The dungeoa was alive with vermin. Jan. 2 J. ISM, they were sentenced to live months imprisonment. But the Court of Assizes at Irkutsk tried them again and sentences! them to eighteen months imprisonment. When that term is finished the stone breakers expect to be resentenced Si in The crew of the United States war ship Olympia subscribed $12." for the prisoners, but the governor of the prison to whom the money was intrusted was transferred, and thev never got it, they said. The names of the sixteen are: Henry Ross, second mate of thu? Golden Fleece, now named the Salpan. A. B. Hill. James Hill, James Mahoncy, James McCarthy. James Riley, Charles Nelson. Harry-Carlsen. Andrew Andersen. Edward fiarkin. Charles Evans, Alexander Lerache. Stephen Brennan. Arthur Wiide. Charles Campbell. James Wilson and Edward Howe. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. Susan II. Antliony Deliver nn AdilroKK, and Other Officer Report. DES MOINES. Ia.. Jan. 26. The National American Woman Suffrage Association's annual meeting opened to-day with a fair attendance. Seventeen States were represented. , Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding secretary, reported over 2,0ij articles published during the past year in forty-nine States. Although national headquarters at Philadelphia had done good work during the past year at an expense of 1,3C0. she recommended the removal of headquarters to Nov.- York to co-operate with the national organization. Susan B. Anthony, president, delivered her annual address this afternoon. It was devoted largely to a statement of the work in California, which she regarded as very satisfactory. She said that California's defeat is simply victory deferred, for the Le-eislature is sure to resubmit an amendment and they will be victorious in November. 1S0S. Nevada, Oregon. Washington and Montana are also likely lo have suffrage campaigns, and prospects for success are good. She urged a more thorough local organization for the education of voters. What we need, she said, is house-to-house educational woik throughout even' precinct. We mav carrv amendments without education of this kind, but wc are not likely to. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, of Philadelphia, reported on the work in California, where she s'vnt most of the past year with Miss Anthony, sneaking twice daily for several months, and found only five places in the entire State v.hers tho largest hall would bold their audiences. Laura Ciav. of Kentucky, spoke for that State, telling of satisfactory progress in the recognition of women on State beards and in social legislation asked for by women. LOCATION OF THS "BATTLE." Corliett and Fitzslimnon to FIrIiI Probably in Ttevmln. CHICAGO. Jan. 2fi. The dispatches from Nevada as printed in the newspapers today on the passage of a bill under the provisions of which Dan Stuart could "pull off the Corbett-Fitzsimmons battle, set the sports here agog and all manner of gossip was indulged In. George Si'.er, who 'is to referee the big mill, and who, in conjunction with Mrdachie Hcgan. is to run a rpecial train from Chicago to the ringside, would not commit himself as to the location of the proposed ring. "All the world will know in a day or two just where the ring is to be pitched." said Slier. We have tho train already engaged, and yet the general manager of the road with whom we are doing business does not know, except in an approximate sort of way, just how far he will have to haul ur. I will say t hi much, however, we will be at the ringside sixty hours after we pull out of the e'epot in Chicago. Mr. Hogaa and myself have been kept busy for the pr.st week answering letters of inquiry from out of town. Thus far we have advbed our correspondents to bide their time and when the pre.per moment arrives v.e will acquaint them with all the detail they can make u? of. Th- sports from New York. Phlladelphi i. Boston, Washington. Pittsburg, Detroit. Cleveland and other cities rf.sd and north of C'hlcnro Trill undoubtedly o to the f.sht on our train from this city." Glove Coutest Bill I'afcced. CARSON, Nev., Jan. 16. The g'.ove contest bill introduced to permit the light between Corhett and Fltzsimmcns to take place in Nevada passed the Assembly today bv a vote of 20 to 9, the license being increased to Sl.tvO. Poisoned Her Husband. BALTIMORE. Md.. Jan. 2?. Mrs. Mary Trainor. w ho has t een on trial in the Criminal Court, charged with poisoning her husband, was to-elay convicted of munlaUfa'hter and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiaryFor Iypeisia l'e Horsford' Acid rhoiphnte. Dr. J. B. MeClellan. Murfrresboro, Tenn., says: "I find it a first-class remedy in dysDepsia."

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Superintendent Colbert heads the chorus that moves on tip-toe around the decrepit old building, ever and anon a "s-s-s-h-h-h" full-volumed as escaping steam, rushing across his lips, whereupon the keeneyed sleuths, marching in time with him, all follow his example and sibilate likewise. Then an intense stillness prevails, the sleuths all rolling tneir eyes ceilingward, till presently the chorus lunges forward, jerks heads about, and listens expectantly. The gentlemen who sleep over night in the bum room have reached a state of nervous collapse, for they cannot tell what It all portends. It is that air of mystery which breeds panic in any man's midriff. Tho bogie man is the harmless reporter in search of news. In the bosom of the superintendent and likewise in the bosoms of his trail of sleuths is one magnificent secret of all secrets, and if the bogie man should get one inkling of that secret all would be irretrievably lost. Ther is a clew in the Redmond mureler case that's the secret, and it is believed that the police have found the man who saw a man that knew a man that had a mustache last Wednesday, perhaps the most Important clew the police have obtained so far In their magnificent secret detective work. In one of the rooms at the station is or was a stranger, as mysterious as the Man with the Iron Mask eveh more mysterious for he is there and yet he Is not there, according to the best Information obtainable from .the superintendent. This stranger was dragged into prison before daylight yesterday morning, and a hurry-up telephone message sent to the superintendent, who in turn commanded the operator to "send Old Bill and the top buggy" up to his house. "Old Bill" made the snow tly as he whirled the superintendent to the station, and the police ottlcer, collarless in his haste, flopped out of the "top buggy" and in a trice of time was closeted with the mysterious stranger who may havo seen a man that knew a man who had a mustache last Wednesday. Or, maybe, this stranger himself was a man who had a mustache once upon a time. Be that as it may. the world will never have more definite information than is here imparted, for anything further Is embraced in the great secret which the superintendent and the sleuths carry in their breasts, and it will probably never be revealed. Inquiry upon inquiry, inquisitorial device upon inquisitorial elevice was tried on the superintendent In vain. He looked blankly and helplessly towards a distant wall, fearful that even his very glance might betray that secret of secrets. Was the man under arrest a suspect in the Redmond case? Nothing at all to say, nothing at all to say. ejuoth the superintendent, falteringly. And the detectives echoed his words. Was there a man really under arrest? Nothing at all to say. Was there apt to be any developments? Nothing at all to say. And so it wnt the livelong tlay. Chief, wagon driver, telephone man, bicycle copper all had the same refrain, "Nothing to say, nothing at all to say." This prisoner was brought in by Detectives Kinney and McGuff and was kept at the station till last night, when a private tip had it that he was gone, as mysteriously as he had come. Mr. Eldridge, who was robbed the night of the murder, was not even summoned to see if he could identify the suspect. That would hardly be in accordance with the ethics of artistic and high-class detective work. To-day the coroner will hold the inquest in the Redmond case and he may get some more definite information than that which it Is presumed the police may have The little red tape which Superintendent Colbert wove and put into use when the Board of Safety allowed him two men on bicycles at night and one eluring the day time, has spread itself over the entire department. The policemen, almost from the captains down to the wagon elrivers anel humblest patrolmen, are afraid to tell their names. Everything has to emanate from the office of the superintendent, or it does not emanate. A policeman elon't dare open his mouth about the mo.n trifling matter. He must now write eut a report of anything he may have and send it to the superintendent's office and from there the public Is given just what the department sees fit the public shall have. THE MINISTERS PROTEST. To Mnke a I'nited Crusade Agrnlnst Sunday Ball Measure. A special meeting of the Ministerial Association of the city was held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall yesterday morning for the purpose of protesting against the Sunday-baseball bill now pending in the Senate. The matter was discussed by the ministers present, all of whom were very decided In their opposition to the bill. Revs. R. V. Hunter, M. H. Appleby. T. I. Coultas, J. E. rounds and J. A. Sargent advocated that active and immediate steps be taken to defeat the bill. Letters of sympathy and co-operation in the attempt to prevent the bill's passage were read from Revs. G. A. Carstensen, M. L. Haines and C. C. Lasby.. A special committee, consisting of Revs. R. V. Hunter (chairman), D. 11. Lucas, M. H. Appleby, J. E. Shannon. G. A. Carstenen and O. D. Fisher was appointed to take active measures in opposition to this and other bills before the Legislature. It was also elecided to call a mass meeting to protest against the bill for next Sunday afternoon at one of the central churches. The city Christian Endeavor Union has secured over fifty petitions, with many signatures, to be presented to the Legislature. CITY NEWS NOTES. Tatrolman John Boyian returned from Cincinnati at midnight with Joseph Griflin. who i.s wanted here to answer to the charge of stealing an overcoat. Rev. Sam Small delivered two characteristic sermons yesterday at tho Y. M. C. A., one at 3 o'clock in tho afternoon to women and the other In the evening to a - large company of men. The sermon at night was a pungent exposition of the need to men of spiritual regeneration. The meetings continue daily at 3 p. m. for women and at S p. m. for men only. The monument which is being erected at the grave of John M. Butler, while being placed in position yesterday, fell and was broken In three pieces. Tne shaft was thirty-two ftet in length. Sidney Speed, of Crawfordsville, is the contractor, and wU loe 51.01.0 by the accident, which was caused by the breaking of a hook in the derrick. An I'nKlne Juxx.pi the Track. In making a running switch last night in the Monon yards Monon Engine No. 4 jumped the track near East street, and is now standing in the middle of East street, off the track, very much demolished. No one was hurt. Shortly before this an overheated stove In an L. E. & W. passenger car set It on fire, and the fire department was called out. The car is almost a total wreck, but it was an old one and not worth very much.

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The Model. : : : : : DUESTR0W MURDER CASE. Serious ClinrKcn Mode Agrnlnat the 3IlKSourl Supreme Court. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 2G. Governor Charles I. Johnson, Charles Noland and John W. Ilooth, attorneys for Arthur Diestrow, the "millionaire murderer," have completed their motion for a new trial of the famous case, and it will be forwarded to Jefferson City. The motion will prove a sensation. If the allegations contained in it can he substantiated it will involve the Supreme Court in a scandal of serious proportions. The principal ioint on which the motion for a rehearing is based is a direct charpe that the court did not read the record in the case, as is required by the statutes. The motion attacks the opinion itself, and claims to find in that document ample proof that the court never read the record of the case. Duestrow's attorneys, virtually charge that the State'r. prosecutor was allowed to write the opinion for the Supremo Court. WRECK IN NEW BRUNSWICK. Two Ieol Killed 11 11 I Six Injured lu a Itniltvuy Accident. ST. JOHN. X. B., Jan. 2. Word was received here from Dorchester, X. II., to-day that the Canadian express from Halifax, for Montreal, on the International Railroad line left the rails just before noon and went down an embankment. Two persons were killed and six injured. Those dead are: Arthur Edgecomb, of St. John, postal clerk; Mrs. Patrijurn, of Bloomiield, N. U. The injured are: James Linkelletter, brakeman, seriously: Hon. Dr. Borden, minister of militia: Charles Fawcelt. Saekville, N. 11. 1 R. J. Smith, express agent; Charles Thompson, train hand, and a Pullman porter. Wrecking trains have started for the scene. Alleged Jloodler Indicted. MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 2. There were developments in the municipal boodling scandal to-day when Building: Inspector John 1J. Gillman was arrested under a grand jury indictment. It is supposed that the charge is boodlinff in connection with the letting of contracts by the State Soldiers Hume board, of which Gillman is a member. Indictments have also been reuirned for two more aldermen. Mrs. Wliiftlow Soothing; Syrup Has been used over lifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and Is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether ari?lne from teethinc: or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of thf world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothinsr Syrup. 2." cents a bottle. Join the procession. If you have a cough or a cold join the crowds that are hurrying to the drug stores for Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. It is agreeable, quick to cure, and absolutely infallible. Sold by all druggists. Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minute. Whether' itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, cms ted, pimply, or blotchy, whether simple, scrofulous, or h' reditary, from infancy to ape, epeedily cured by irann baths with Cutictba Soap, qcntlo anointings with CcncuRA (ointment), the great skin cure, and mild doses of CuncunA Resoltbtt, greatest cf blood purifiers and humor cores. U otd threoehont tho wor".d. Pottee D. at C. Cosr., Rc'e froi Bosfcm. a" Uow to Cnre Every Iilood HcraorMree. face humors atEaasKas--GRAND To-Day-'2 r. s v M. M. Pudd'nhead : Wilson TIIKODftKK HAMILTON u DAVK WILSON KM1I.Y ItiGL as : : : : : ito.XY Ii:lCi:S 25c, 50e, f 1. Matinee same as nl?ht. To-Morrow 3 Nights, Sat. Mat. STUART KOIJSOX Thursday nnd Friday KvcnlntfK, nlio Saturduy .Mntlnte. Saturday NishtOnlv Time. Mit. c;ilmaSs vi:m)i(; AND MItS. PnXDKltllL'itY'S PAST, In which MR. RORSON and the grt tragic actrc-M. MAI AM JANAfSCHEK. will Jointly appear. I'RKTS Fide loxe. fl.:0: rrchtra. $1; dress circle. Too; balcony. .Vx; uai'.ery. O. MatineSide box?. ?!: orchr-ira. 7'c: dre? clrc.e, iOc; balcony. 2ic Seats Pembroke. Mow., Tucs., Wed. Feb. 1, 2, 3. Th Great Comedy lilt. My Friend From India, A JOLLY FHLLOA' IS HC X THIS THEATRE f DOES NOT ADVERTISE i IN THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS f ENGLISH'S TO-DAY U P. 51. 'H l 31. II .rt:a: Donnelly's ireat Tlay. 'ovircisj'r kusslv PRICKS ;.". ZZc. :"r, 7?. jl. Matir.ee VZc. lte. To-Morrcw 2 frights, Sat. Mat. The Conu ly Farce, Tlirv NANCY IIAXKS Presented ly the Corr.eOliar.f. MARTINETT1 TAN.NKHILL lONAOIO. FRANK. JR. And Ihelr Tamoim Coiiiuuuy. IT.K EF 1. lie. i(c, 75c. $1. Matinee loc. 7 H ! T THEATRE X DCtS NOT ADVERTISE IN THE IN2IAKAPCLISNEWS

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