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THE DAILY JOURNAL. SATURDAY, MAY 28, IS'JT, Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone ( niln. Dusim !-> 'ilHi :• 23S j Editorial Rooms...A S6 OF SI BS< HIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month t .70 Dally only, three months 2.00 Dally only, one year R.OO Dally, Including Sunday, one year KutO Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, singi* l copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year sl-00 Reduced Kates to flubs. Hul-scrtbe with any o l our numerous agents or ■end subscriptions to THE IN I>l \N \ I*OLIS JOI R.NAL, I ikl in nil I<>l is, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CEN’T postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-OENT postage •tanip. Foreign jostage is usually double these fetes. All communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it is desired that rejected manuscripts be returned, postage must in ull cages be inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOl It.NAL Can be found at the following places; NEW YORK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and. P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. It. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine. street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson tetreets, and Louisville Book Cc., 256 Fourth avenue. 6T. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.— Riggs House, Ebbitt House, Willard's Hotel ami tlie Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth 6treet, between Penn, avenue and F street. Until 1907 the postofflee address of Mr. John F. Johnson, formerly of Logansport, Ind., will be Columbus, O. While the Senate is making fair progress with the tariff bill, it should not forget that the country is quite impatient to have the subject disposed of. Mr. Johnson draws the line at speculating in mining stocks. That would not be good banking. He wants it understood that he lost all his stealings in grain speculations. It might not add to the dignity of the Senate, but if Senator Tillman should be selected to conduct a sugar scandal investigation picturesque scenes might be expected. Nothing could better illustrate the infatuation of gambling than “Johnnie” Johnson's idea that he could wipe out a debt, bequeathed to him by his father, of nearly SIOO,OOO by speculating in wheat with other people’s money. Logansport Johnson went the full limit in his speculations and he gets the full limit of the legal penalty under one indictment. For ten years he will be entirely removed from the temptation or opportunity of speculating with other people’s money.

Senator Tiilman, of “pitchfork” fame, has done very little to deserve commendation, but public s-entiment wliuapprove Kls effort to bring about a real investigation of senatorial stock gambling. The trouble about all such efforts is that they fail. The remarks of Judge Baker in sentencing Banker Johnson can be read with profit by others than the man whom he has sent to prison for ten years. If bank directors woqld makb a study of those observations there would be fewer bank irregularities. If all that Democratic statesmen and editors say about the Senate tariff bill were true they ought to desire its speedy passage without amendment In order that its worthlessness might be demonstrated and the defeat of the Republican party insured. People who art criticising President McKinley because he has not ushered in complete prosperity, appointed a monetary commission, formulated a definite Cuban policy and done several other things should remember it is not yet three months since be was inaugurated. Call at the mayor’s or controller’s office, Ed on Inquiry it will be found that $400,has been assessed for the improvement the land purchased for parks, so that the $50,000 which the people of the northeastern part of the city ask to have transferred to the fund for purchasing land in that quarter is not needed for improvements. It would be transferred if Mayor ■Taggart should recommend it. The latest thing in trusts is a church debt liquidating company. It is organized in New Orleans and consists of ten colored churches which have pooled their debts and debt liquidating capacity and propose to wipe out the indebtedness of each member of the trust, one after another, by a series of festivals, fairs, etc. As most of the churches in the North are more or less In debt this idea might be broadened. The remarkable nerve which Banker Johnson has displayed from the first did not desert him in Judge Baker’s court. His demeanor was that of a man who had failed in a great enterprise and not that of one responsible for a great crime. He even desired that the court and the public should understand that he had not been a pickle speculator, but had confined himself to the grain market. He has lost all the money in margins, if he tells the truth. His sentence of ten years did not appall the man. In fact, he showed a self-control which would have been admirable except In a criminal. In attempting to bring about a reduction of administration expenses in the state institutions Governor Mount has struck a good load. It is a field for retrenchment that has been neglected too long. There is a tendency in many of the public institutions to Increase officers' salaries and expenses, which, if not watched and resisted, will become burdensome to taxpayers. Some of the offices are ornamental and some of the salaries excessive, especially when it is considered that the recipients live in the institutions. While the Governor l- looking into this matter he should investigate the charges of nepotism against some of the institutions, Where it is said two or three members of tile same family are on the pay roll. As it is settled that the next Presbyterian General Assembly and perhaps future ones will be held at Winona Park, it may be well to straighten * out the confusion of harm s that bus developed during the present session. lit the first place, there is only one Winona in Indiana, and that is u post village in Starke county. Winona Park is In Kosciusko county. It Is about two miles from Warsaw on the shore of Eagle lake. The name of the postofflee is Eagle Lake, Winona Park being the designation of the place selected for a Presbyterian resort. The name la rather unfortunately chosen

because there is another Winona in the State, and the name of Eagle Lake postoffice cannot well be changed to Winona Park. It would not be surprising if some distant correspondence addressed to delegates to the assembly “Winona, Ind.,” had gone to Winona, Starke county. The confusion might be cured by getting the postoffice authorities at Washington to give the Starke county Winona anew name and change Eagle Lake postofflee to Winona Park. the mayor and the silverites. It is evident that the little coterie of silverites who have been organizing, or. rather, who think they have been organizing to conduct the municipal campaign upon the Chicago platform are really after the scalp of Mayor Taggart. It is equally evident from the fact that a gang of the Mayor's henchmen broke into the meeting of the coterie of silverites that the Mayor and his friends propose to summarily dispose of that small band of insignificant place-seekers at the outset. Doubtless the Mayor and his friends who are not really silverites have taken the measure of the strength of the Romus Stuarts, the T. J. Hudsons, the Charley Coopers, the T. Edward Johnsons and Charley Bridgeses and have come to the conclusion to squelch them at the outset. They, the Mayor's friends, know that he has more to lose by permitting these silver howlers to put a silver plank into the municipal platform than they can gain by the support of all the barnacles who are making spectacles of themselves by carrying national issues into local campaigns. And these, silverites, on their part, make a very grave mistake by assuming that they can muster the strength at the municipal primaries which they mustered for exGovernor Matthews when he and his inlluential supporters made the fight a little less than a year ago. As for the ex-Governor he is yet in politics, and having to choose between the official Taggart machine and the men known as the “push” will adhere to the power which has the organization. There is undoubtedly much silver sentiment among the Democracy of this city. This is becaus) it naturally takes to the worse side of any question; but the men who are anxious to make it an issue in the city campaign are those would-be Democratic politicians who have more time than anything else, and consequently loaf about town. They are incapable of learning anything, else they would know that the party managers in Chicago kept the silver issue out of the municipal platform and out of the canvass. Mr. Bryan was there during Carter Harrison's campaign, and would have been delighted to have made a speech, but he was quietly hustled out of the city. These fellows have not learned this fact; on the contrary, they are telling on the street that it was otherwise. The Mayor and his organization are relying upon the expenditure of money upon the park system to carry them through the election. They are already enrolling men at the office of the park commissioners, with the promise that they shall have employment. With that power in their hands they care nothing for the coterie of placeseekers who are shouting for the silver bullion monopoly. Doubtless the method taken to scatter the silverites was the best, since the Mayor is the best judge; but to the Journal It seems a high-handed proceeding to have his henchmen seize the hall of these silverites and practically drive them out of it. They may be a bad lot, but the worst, so long as they do not plot against the security of society, should be protected in their right to hold meetings in peace.

MONEY ENOt UH FOR IIISINESS. The bank statements issued about the middle of the month in response to the call of the controller of the currency show that the deposits in the national banks in the centers of trade were never so large in the aggregate. In New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and the cities of the next rank the banks have more funds than at any one time. The condition is justly called plethoric. The banks of London are full of money for which the owners are seeking investment. It is said that manufacturers in the West are often telegraphed from Now York and asked If they can use considerable amounts of money and pay 3 per cent, for it. Such loans are, of course, temporary, as money holders expect something better ere long. When money seeks investment it is evident that there is uncertainty in industrial interests. Careful men will not borrow capital for investment until they see that there is no danger. Just now tariff legislation is the cause of uncertainty. There is no doubt that a tariff law will be enacted, but the date of enactment has much to do with the starting up of business. If the change is not made for several months the uncertainty will be longer. If, on the other hand, the law could go into effect near the beginning of the fiscal year which begins July 1 that general improvement which President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania system, predicts as the result of a trip over the country will come. One constant promoter of uncertainty is the agitation of the free coinage of silver, should it reach any considerable magnitude. There is not a particle of reason for such agitation, except on the part of those who own silver mines which they wish to sell. Good politics looks to the public welfare; consequently that must be the worst politics which is a menace to business and industry. There being an abundance of money for the putting of all the industries of the country into active operation, there is no possible excuse for silver agitation on the ground that more money is needed. Even if more money were needed to carry on the business of the country, the free coinage of silver would surely have the effect to decrease the supply, since all experience teaches that dollars made of metal worth 100 cents the world over would not remain in a country which makes such dollars the equals of dollars the metal in which is worth less than 50 cents. What is needed now is the settlement of the tariff question on a basis which will give the treasury ample revenue and protect the home markets to home labor and capital. When is fully employed in the industries of the country there will be better times, because there is money enough of the best quality to pay such labor, and when earned as wages it will be spent for the products of home labor. Governor Mount has been asked to have the murderous assault upon Adjutant Havens, of the State Soldiers’ Home, investigated. There is nothing to investigate. A man, perhaps under the influence of drink to some extent, went from his quarter* two hundred yards to where the superintendent and adjutant were standing. In his hand he had a knife as sharp as a razor. It was his purpose to murder the superintendent, but in stepping back that otfleer fell over and Mr. Havens came to

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his relief. The man stabbed him savagely, and, had his knife struck an inch lower, would have killed him. as he intended. For weeks no officer had had a word with the would-be murderer. For some cause he had at one time been ordered before the trustees. There is no cause lor investigation except by the court which must try the offender for an attempt to commit murder. In this connection it may be said that the State Soldiers' Home is under the direction of five Intelligent men of public spirit, each of whom was a good soldier. The superintendent and his adjutant are specially fitted for their positions. Such is the testimony of all men of intelligence who investigate. If the trustees have made a mistake it has been in not observing the utmost care at the outset in the persons received at the home. If any criticism can be made now it is that in their kindness they have retained a score or so of no, y, quarrelsome, and intemperate men whom they should turn out. They should do this because the home was intended for veterans and their wives who are of good character. From the first a few persons who have not been given places at the home, or who have not been able to sell the officers merchandise, have made war upon the management. A number of disreputable persons who have been turned away have found papers to publish their complaints, which were shown to be slanders. Any fair-minded person who will visit the home or make himself familiar with its management will be satisfied that it is efficient and humane. It seems that the country has not got rid of Senator Call, of Florida. He failed of re-election, but is now back in Washington circulating a petition which asks the President to give him an office, Democrat and silverite as he is. When told there was no office suited to him he is reported as saying that one should be created for him because he has been made a victim of trusts. Still, it is a gain that Mr. Call is no longer in the Senate, where he was something of a nuisance. Mr. William Scott, in his service on the Board of School Commissioners, has demonstrated more than usual fitness and capacity in a position where these qualities are of the utmost importance to the public welfare. He has given strength to the board, and if he will consent to serve another term the voters of the Second district could do no better than to nominate and elect, him. Iit,RULES IN THE AIR. Backyard Repartee. “This,” said the iceman, "is the time of year when I cut considerable ice.” "You,” said the kitchen lady, “don’t cut half as much as you are paid for.” W oman's Wiles. Mrs. Potts—l see your husband has bought a bicycle suit. I thought he was determined never to wear one. Mrs. Watts—l got him to get them by telling h m he was too old to wear anything of that kind. He Told the Truth. “That brute,” said the indignant buyer, “balked for three hours the first time I took him out.” “Well,” said the seller, as he chewed a straw, “I told you he wars a horse of wonderful staying ability, didn’t I?” Alarmed. “Every woman, no matter how humble,” said the lecturer, “may shine in some situation.” Whereat, at least 7 per cent, of the feminine audience made surreptitious dabs at the ends of their noses, for the hall was warm. HF DIED AT HIS POST

MANY LIVES SAVED BY A BRAVE LO C O M OT I V E EN GIX EE It , * Who, with His Fireman, Met Death While Trying to Save a Trainload of l'aNsengei's. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col., May 28. An extra freight on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad going west ran upon the Cabasa siding at 7 o'clock to allow No. 4, passenger, the Atlantic express, to pass. The switch was left open. The first section of No. 4 ran into the opc*n switch, derailing the engine, mail and baggage coaches and one passenger coach. Engineer John West and fireman Denny Donohoy were instantly killed. The passengers were badly bruised and shaken up. Some had to be rescued through holes cut in the coaches, several were cut with glass and badly scratched, but it is thought that none are seriously injured. All the passengers of the wrecked section were brought on the second section to Glenwood. Those requiring medical attention are: MRS. IMOGENE BROWN, Los Angeles, Cal., head cut. MISS PORTER, of Maine, arm crushed, nervous shock. MRS. S. A. AYRES, of Minneapolis, limb crushed, badly bruised. SIX-YEAR-OLD SON of Mrs. Melker, of Lincoln, Neb., gash in side of head. MRS. SARAH B. BARROWS, missionary from Moulmein, India, injury to spine and nervous prostration. Mrs. Barrows is on her way to Garmouthville, Me., to visit her brother, who is pastor of a church there. She will remain in Denver until she recovers. All the blame for the accident seems to attach to the brakeman of the freight train who left the switch open. As soon as engineer West discovered the open swatch he blew his whistle and reversed his engine. He remained at his post, and but for his prompt action in the last moment of his life many more would now be numbered among the dead. West was one of the oldest and most faithful engineers on the road. The point where the accident occurred is a very dangerous one, just on the bank ol Grand river, where a little more momentum would have precipitated the engine and train into the water, which is now' very high. Engineer and Fireman Killed. PHILADELPHIA, May 28.—An engine and five cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad were derailed to-night at Fifty-ninth street and Lancaster avenue, causing the death of Martin Furlong, fireman, aged twenty-five, of Green Tree, Pa., and George W. Taylor, engineer, aged forty-five, of Philadelphia. Airs. Douglass, of Ardmore, Pa., a passenger was slightly injured. The accident was due to the breaking of a switch rod. RIOT ON COLLEGE GROUNDS. Serious Fight Between Militiamen, Students and Policemen. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 28.—While two companies of local militia were standing their annual inspection on the athletic grounds of the South Carolina College here this afternoon a foul ball struck by a student. engaged in a game of baseball at the other end ot the grounds struck the horse of Mj. B. B. Evans, an officer on Adjutant General Watts's staff. The militia had been given permission to use only half of the grounds, but General Watts immediately requested the ball players to withdraw until the troops could march past to leave the field. This the students refused to do, and, the police declining to interfere. General Watts ordered the troops to advance. The students resisted and some broke through the line. A general riot followed, in the course of which a policeman was knocked senseless and a student named McColl had his head crushed, from the effects of which he may die. Professor of History U. Means Davis, interfering. was knocked down by a student, as were two soldiers. The soldiers wa re hardly to blame. They obeyed orders. The police being powerless, the faculty finally quieted the students and the soldiers were marched back to their armories.

PLACES FOR HOOSIERS —♦ —■ — GOOD OFFICE SECURED BY MR. FAIRBANKS FOR W. L. FENFIELD. * Circuit dodge of De Kail* and Steuben Cuuiitie* to Be Solicitor for the State Department. *— LAPORTE MAN ALSO IN LUCK • —— F. XV. CIH MPACKER TO BE SURVEYOR GENERAL OF NEW MEXICO. ■ © • • Gossip About a Rumor that General Harrison May Be Asked to Accept a Mission to Spain. ■ ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 28.—Judge William L. Penfield, of Auburn, Ind., has accepted the tender of an appointment to the position of solicitor for the State Department. The President has had Judge Pentleld's name on his preferred list for a first-class appointment, but it was not until last evening that he decided where he could best place him. The judge was asked if he would take the office of solicitor of the Department of State, and this afternoon wired an affirmative response to Senator Fairbanks, who communicated the contents of the message at once to the White House. The appointment of Judge Penfield to this position will create a vacancy on the Circuit Court bench of De Kalb and Steuben counties, but there is an abundance of legal talent available for the judgeship. Judge Penfield has made himself a name and a reputation by his aggressive campaign against the wholesale conspiracy organized for the commission of frauds in De Kalb county. He is considered a very able man and his cause was warmly espoused by Senator Fairbanks, to whom, more than any other man, he owes his appointment. The elevation of Judge Penfield to the office mentioned will be a great surprise to the people (*f Indiana, for it has not boon generally known that he was in the field for a federal office. * * * Frank W. Crumpacker, of Laporte, has been appointed surveyor general of New' Mexico. Mr. Crumpacker owes his appointment to his indorsement for the position by Senator Fairbanks. He was fernerly a state senator and has been an influential politician in northern Indiana lor many years. * * * Fourth-class Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day as follows: Lookout, Ripley county, G. H. W. Schutte, vice T. F. Schutte, removed; Mooreland, Henry county, John Wrightsman, vice U. G. Pierce, removed; Ogilville, Bartholomew county, C. R. Taylor, vice W. R. Cox, removed. * * The President to-day nominated Ferdinand W. Neumann, of Illinois, to lie consul at Cologne, Germany, and Max Bouehsein, of Illinois, to be consut-of the United States at Barmen, Germany. * * * The Senate to-day confirmed the following nominations: James Edmund Boyd, of North Carolina, to be assistant attorney general; Francois S. Jones, of Louisiana, to be secretary of the legation of the United States at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic; Commander Charles O’Neil. United States navy, to be chiefs of the Bureau of Ordnance in the Navy Department.

THE SPANISH MISSION. Unconfirmed Iteport that General Harrison May Be Aatk,eil to Take It. ■Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. May 28.—1 t is within the range of possibilities that President McKinley may ask ex-Presideht Harrison to representXilm personally in the conduct of important diplomatic negotiations between this country and Spain, but it is pronounced extremely improbable, not to say absurd, that he would invite his distinguished predecessor to go to Madrid as a plain minister or embassador. The report is rife that the Indiana statesman,has been asked to accept formal appointment to Spain, contingent on the raising of the post from the rank of minister to that of embassador, but there is no basis for the statement, although it Is true that the President has General Harrison iii mind, and might call on him later should the occasion arise requiring the employment of the services of a man of his established standing, lofty patriotism and splendid diplomatic abilities in the settlement of questions vital to the w r elfare of the country. No such contingency is now in sight, but events may force this government into a position in which there would be valid excuse for drafting the former President into a service he could accept without loss of dignity. Up to date, however, the administration has manifested no disposition to get panic-stricken over the contemplation of bridges to be crossed in the future, and the talk connecting the name of Gen. Harrison with possible diplomatic dealing of momentous importance can only be regarded as interestingly speculative. PLACE FOR OGDEN MILLS. He AVill Be Seeretnry of tlie Special Embassy to Victoria's Jubilee. WASHINGTON, May 28.—The President has added another member to the special embassy which will attend the sixtieth cele - bration of the accession of Queen Victoria to the British throne, in the person of Ogden Mills, of New York. Mr. -Mills goes in the capacity of secretary and attache to the special embassy. The commission for the members will be beautifully engrossed, and altogether the occasion is special in every respect so far as the State Department is concerned. Whitelaw Reid bears the title of special embassador on special mission as the representative of the President, and General Miles and Admiral Miller will have special commissions. The embassador himself will carry for presentation in person to the Queen a letter from the President which in general terms will be similar to that addressed to her on the occasion of her jubilee celebration ten years ago. It is formal, yet kindly in tone, and expresses he appreciation of the President of the great good that has followed- the long reign of her Majesty and hopes of a continuance of her health. Another Effort in Collin's Behalf. Si ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 28.—Charles F. Coffin, father of Frank Coffin, the Indianapolis bank wrecker, visited the Department of Justice a day or two ago and made an abstract of all papers on file in that office that had been submitted In behalf of a pardon. H'his is the first move that has been made since Attorney General McKenna turned the papers back to the paroon division without recommendation about six weeks ago. It is not known what further steps will be taken for Frank Coffin's pardon, but it is surmised that another crusade on his behalf is being organized. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 28.— Pleasant Bond, of Indianapolis, is in the city for a few days, the guest of Judge Stanton J. Peelle. A monster petition, said to bear the names of lli.ouo citizens of Philadelphia, favoring Cuban independence, was presented to the Senate to-day. W orld’s Bowling Record. LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 28.-Mr. Frank Senn. of the West End Bowling Club, loweied the world's record here last night at Byrne’s bowling hall. Mr. Senn made twenty successive "strikes” before leaving the alley. The previous world's record was eighteen successive strikes. Intercolletglate Athletic*. NEW YORK, May 28.—The Intercollegiate Athletic Association began its twenty-sec-ond annual field and track events at Berkeley oval this afternoon. There was a very small attendance of spectators, but as only trial heats are run off on the opening day a large attendance was not looked for by the management. The track and infield were In splendid condition, und the weather

was almost perfect, the only drawback being a fairly strong northwest wind, which blew directly down the stretch and interfered not a little with the runners' time in the sprints. DESIRO BRUNO DEAD. Well-Known Bicyclist Killed in a Peculiar Manner. CHICAGO, May 2s.—Desiro Bruno, the well-known bicyclist, was killed to-night by a fall from bis wheel. While he was riding home, carrying around his neck the frame of a biae. the front fork of his wheel broke, he was thrown violently to the ground and received injuries from which he died shortly afterwards. ALL VANITY"AND SHOW —i—♦ COM MEXt'E MEXT BECOMES HUMILIATING TO POOR GRADUATES. Jefferson y 1 lie Schools May initiate a Move so Do Away vitli the Exercises in the Future. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.. May 28.—A movement is on foot in this city to do away with the annual high school commencement exercises. The school trustees have taken an advanced stand in the matter, and the probabilities are that the commencement exercises last night were the last which will take place in this city. The principal objection is that the event has become nothing more nor less than an opportunity for a fashionable display, and there are often worthy pupils who graduate and because of their financial circumstances are greatly embarrassed by their inability to purchase a costly graduating outfit. Naturally they do not like to appear on the stage in a costume which does not compare favorably with that of their companions, and the hardship has only one alternative, that of great humiliation. Chorus of 200 Voice* Assisted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, lnd.. May 28.—The annual commencement exercises of the Muncie High school took place at the Grand Opera House last night. The class lecture was made by Dr. Robert Mclntire, of Chicago. A feature was the chorus of over 200 voices from the High School under the direction of Miss Nannie C. Dove, musical director of the schools. Miss Dois Cecil Hobson, a member of the class, sang “Dost Thou Know that Fair Dand.” To-night the alumni banquet was attended by nearly 200 ex-graudates, nearly every class since ls>6B being represented. The graduates are: Estella Ball, Winnie E. Beli, Nora Lee Bradbury, Maud Case, Linnie O. Coffeen, John A. Deam, Carrie E. C. Eastes, Kathleen Fay, Ellen Hastings, Walter O. Haymond, Myrtle D. Hed-rit-K, Lois Cecil Hobson, Billie Belle Houze, Mary E. Hurst, Arthur R. Kelley, Inez Koerner, Reba E. Koons, Douise Maddy, Albert O. Martin, Edna A. McDowell, Fred Metis, Elizabeth Betty, Mabel E. Shaffer, Wilbur E. Sutton, Bertha E. Smith, Maggie Smith, Loring H. Tyner, Emma L. Walling, Lula E. Warrick, Omar G. Weir, Margaret B. Windsor, Carl H. Wright, Arthur C. Meeks and Clifford R. Taylor. Close of Year at Hartford City. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., May 28.—The fifteenth annual commencement of the Hartford City High School took place at the M. E. Church last evening. The following are the graduates: Ida Dale, Laura Gottschalk. Pearl Goodman, Nettie Jackson, Tennis Ashbaugh, George Newbaucr and William Arndt Lyon. The following teachers have been engaged for the coming year: Charles H. Drybread. principal and teacher of science; Jennie E. Hoover, Latin; Prof. William Reed, mathematics and physics; Lulu Sours, English and common branches; Francis M. Brisco*', Anna B. Conrad, Lulu Hadden, Endies K. Scott, Mary McDonald, Fanchon Moffett, Lena Hale, Emma Sudwarth, Ella Troute, Blanche Ervin. Ida Manis, Florence M. Brady, Ada McCready, Mary Emshwiler, Wyopa Fargo, Clara Hemminger, Stella Dildine, Chauncey Edwards, Anna M. Brown, Lose Luitem, Edwin C. Ford. Aldah Leach, Anaise Laitem, Opal Wilson. John A. Slater and Winnifred J. Draper. Mrs. Florence M Brady, of Indianapolis, will be principal of the south building, and Miss Rose Laitem principal of the South Hartford building.

Ada McMahan Wins the Medal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Incl., May 28.-The twentylirst annual commencement of the Anderson High School was held to-night at the opera house, Hon. Z. T. Sweeny making the address on “The Cornerstones in the Temple of Life.” Miss A.da McMahan won the class honors and the Bulletin gold medal for scholarship. The graduates are: Ross Beaver, Laura Black. Fred Brakeman, C.otilda Buettner, Lenni Burner, Ruth Campbell, Blanche Carpenter, Nellie East, Josephine Eldridge, Robert Kills, Wade Free, Orville Harvey, Anna Hubbard. Garland Hurley, Murray Ingalls, Obed Kilgore, Blanche Lee. Lee Longfellow, Ada McMahan, Clyde McMahan, Clarence Merryman, Bessie Morgan, Henrietta Newton, Edward Paulin. Birdie Rose, Auttie Sherman, Piper Smith, Mac Sullivan, Eva Swank. Grace Taylor, Ethel Townsend, Raymond Thornburg, Ophelia Vannuys, Marie Vanriper, Hope Whitcomb. Greencastle High School Class. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 2S.—The. eighteenth annual commencement exercises of the Greeacastle High School were held to-night in Meharry Hall. The following speakers were assigned places on the programme. The class numbers twenty-nine graduates, as follows: Charles Adams. W ill D. Alexander, Earl Blakley, Thomas A. Bryan, Laura Christie. Roscoe Darcy. Mamie E. Day, Heber H. Ellis, Earl Ellis, Alfred Evens, Jennie Geiger, Edgar A. ilewk. Harry G. Kennett, Hallie Landes, jlarv Elizabeth Lane, Ivah Linebarger, Edward O. Little, Berta Robinson McCoy, Reka I). Miller, Charles Smith Preston, Lucv M. Sandifur, Drew Seller, Daisy B. Smith. Laura L. Stoner Florence L. burner, Mary Almeda Stoner, Lela Esther Walls. Rav Webster and Nellie Williams. After the graduating exercises the annual alumni banuuet was licld at Ladies Hall* Covington’s Seventeenth Exercises. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., May 28.—This evening the city schools closed the most successful year in their history, graduating the largest class ever graduated frjm the High School. The exercises were held in Pythian Hall. The class numbered thirteen, inc luding the following: Lawrence Froyd. Mary Bilsland, Mary Savage. Gertrude Hanes. t >ra Blakelv Loyola McComas, Mary buffer, < harles Baldwin. Inez Dryden, Marie Bryant. Minnie Harris, Lulu Schwln, Vernle Glascock. Or. Swain Made the Address. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCKVILLE, Ind.. May 25.-The annual commencement of the Rockville schools was held to-night at the opera house. The graduates were Edna Roth. Bess Harris, Effle Cox Bill McCampbell. Lida Hummell, Svl’via Cox, Mvrtle Morris, Frank Brilton and Hugh Maxwell. Dr. Joseph Swain, of the State University, delivered the class lecture. Following the exercises Miss Bowman. of the high school, honored the graduates with a reception. One Colored Graduate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSHVILLE, Ind.. May 28.—The high school graduated nine girls and three boys last night. The members of the* class are: Nellie A. Conner. Delphia E. Dawson, Nina Ford, Hannah L. Fritter, Effle M. Irvin, Alice Megee, Mary E. Moses, John F. Summe rville. Marietta Taylor. Mabel 1.. Thomas, William E. Pearsey and Walter C Stephens. John F. Summerville is colored. the first to graduate from the high school here. Fnirtuount Academy Field Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FA IRMOUNT, Ind., May 28.—The annual field day exercises of Fairmount Academy were held to-day near the school grounds. Sixteen events were on the programme. A large crowd viewed the exercises from the campus. Whiie no records were broken, all contests were In good time.

FOUR UNRULY IRISHMEN . JOH\ E. REDMOND SUSPENDED IN THE HOI SE OF COMMONS, And J. J. Clancy, \V. Redmond and NV. • Field Put Out by tlie Ser#ennt-t-Arius—French llimetallists. * LONDON, May 28.—John E. Redmond, the Parnellite leader, was suspended in the House of Commons to-day owing to his persisting in an irregular discussion of the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland. John J. Clancy, member for the north division of Dublin county; William Redmond, member for West Clare and William Field, member of St. Patrick’s division of Dublin, for similar conduct, were removed from the House by the sergeant-at-arms. The disturbance took place during the committee vote for the maintenance of the harbors. John E. Redmond opposed the vote and discussed the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland. The chairman called him to order, and-when Mr. Redmond persisted in speaking he was ordered to resume his seat. This he refused to do, whereupon he was named. The president of the board of trade, Mr. Ritchie, moved Mr. Redmond’s suspension, which was adopted by a vote of 223 to 32. When the House resumed regular business the matter was reported to the speaker, and the House confirmed the suspension by a vote of 23$ to 32, several anti-Parnellites supporting the Parnellite minority. The House then again went into committee, and Mr. Clancy persisted on the same lines as Mr. Redmonds The chairman ordered him to withdraw; he refused to do so. and the sergeantfat-arms was ordered to remove him. William Redmond adopted the same policy as Air. Clancy, and was also removed by the sergfeant-at-arms. Air. Field, after having been repeatedly called to order, was told to withdraw, which he did. saying: “I obey.” The House in committee then resumed discussion of the votes. ♦ FREN CH BI META LUSTS. They Expect Much from the Election ami Attitude of McKinley. PARIS, Alay 28.—There were four hundred delegates present to-day at the annual meeting of the National Bimetallic League, Deputy Fougoirot presided. M. Threy, secretary of the league, read the report. It set forth that the leading event of the year was the election of President McKinley, which gave great satisfaction to bimetallists. He dwelt on the necessity of bringing the movement to a definite issue before the expiration of President AlcKinley's term of office. The French government had done excellent work, which the international negotiations would reveal. It had persevered in seeking the co-operation of Great Britain, because the latter’s participation would disarm the worst opponents and give international bimetallism a permanent and solid basis. The report added: “The English horizon is less dark than asserted. The presence of the American delegates in Paris will greatly hasten a. solution of the question. France and America could easily come to an agreement if England was inclined to a serious effort in favor of silver, and Germany would follow her example. It is on this that the question of International bimetallism, therefore, depends for its solution.” An elaborate banquet was given to the delegates of the National Bimetallic League at the Hotel Continental this evening. Senator Wolcott, former Vice President Stevenson and General Charles Jackson Paine, the American commissioners, occupied the seats of honor.

“Lnliby” Causes Another Scene. LONDON, Alay 28.—There was another scene to-day in tlie committee room of Westminster Hall during the examination of Alfred Beit, a former director of the British Chartered South Africa Company, before the parliamentary committee appointed to inquire into the Transvaal raid. Air. Beit demanded that Henry Labouchere should prove or withdraw the charges he had made against him in Truth. Thereupon Air. Labouchere proceeded to question the former director regarding transactions on the stock exchange, saying: “Do you challenge me on this?” “I challenge you on your vile attacks on me,” retorted Air. Beit. “Then T will prove them,” replied Air. Labouehero. _ , The chairman, William L. Jackson, pointed out that Air. Labouchere himself had withdrawn the charges referred to. Mr. Labouchere, however, persisted in say .ng he had not done so. On motion of Mr. Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonics, the committee rocm was then closed. The committee soon afterwards adjourned. Tlie Law of Association Bill. BERLIN. May 28.—1n anticipation of the second reading of the bill amending the l.iw of association, the lower house of the Prussian Diet was crowded to-day. After a brief discussion, the motion of Count Lim-berg-Stirrum, Conservative, to insert a clause allowing the police to prohibit meetings which might bo expected to endanger the security of the state or public order, was rejected. The lower house of the Diet, after a brief debate, then rejected Clause 1 of the bill, amending the law of association, providing for the disvsolution of meetings threatening the safety of the state and public order. A Conservative motion, altering the wording of the clause, was lejected. A Free Conservative motion, making the clause applicable only to wooial Democrats and Anarchists, was also rejected, the vote being 206 to 193. Announcement of this result was greeted with prolonged cheers from the Leftists and hissing from the Rightists. Plea of a Would-Be- Assassin. ROAIE, May 28.—Pietro Acciarito, the iron-worker of Artegena, province of Udine, who attempted to stab King Humbert on April 22 while his Majesty was on the way to the races, was put on trial to-day. The courtroom was crowded and there were many ladies present. In the course of his examination Acciarito violently attacked the prevailing social conditions. He said he had acted alone and in despair, as men did when they committed suicide. The object of his attempt on the life of the King, he explained, was to stiike the representative of the class living in comfort. His act, he affirmed, was unpremeditated or otherwise he would have thrown a bomb. Not Ready to Bury the Hutehet. PARIS, Alay 28.—A number of people who have been interviewed by representatives of the Gaulois on the subject of Emperor William of Germany visiting Paris during the exhibition of 1900 agree that his .Majesty's visit is inadmissable as long as the question of Alsace-Lorraine exists. COLONIZATION SCHEME. Ex-Governor Nortlien Working in tlie Interest of Georgia Railways. ATLANTA, Ga., Alay 28.—Ex-Governor Northen. of this city, in carrying out his theory for the practical solution of the agricultural problems of the South has just begun with Messrs. F. C. V ance, of Louisville, Ky., and F. F. Putney and L E. Welch, of Albany, this State, the location of another large colony of people on forty thousand acres of land near Albany, Ga. The lack of educational facilities and social advantages In the country has done much to drive the rural population into cities and towns, and cx-Governor Northen has devoted a great deal of time and thought to this problem. His idea for years past has been that farms at the South could Vie diverisfied in crops and made very much smaller in area than at present. He had advocated community of village farming, as is practiced in Europe. This plan he has somewhat developed in the location of the Grand Army colony at Fitzgerald, Ga. The lands now taken in hand will be divided into farms ranging from ten to one hundred acres, to be devoted to fruits, melons, vegetables, grain, grasses and stock, with one large city, covering one thousand acres, located in the center of the lands, together with numbers of small communities or villages, in which educational as well as social advantages may he had, while the farmers at the same time live upon and cultivate their farms. About $250,000 has already been put into this development and $20,000 will now be expended in locating the city, the villages and the

small farms. The surveys will Virgin early next month, and the grounds are to Vie made really a garden city. When J*. H. Fitzgerald, the originator of the scheme, for colonizing the ex-soldiers in Georgiu, was shown the above dispatch he said the action of Mr. Northen had no connection with the colony at Fitzgerald, Ga. Air. Northen. he said, is simply acting in the capacity of a promoter for Georgia, and is in the employ of several of the great railroad systems that operate in that State. He is being compensated by the State also for his work in this direction. Air. Fitzgerald said that while this action of Mr. Northen would have no effect on the soldier colony in Georgia he was sorrv that anew colonization scheme had been inaugurated. He thought that perhaps some of the settlers in the colony already built would leave for the new one if it offered better facilities or making money. EL PASO" ASKS AID Want* Congre** to Vote SIO,OOO fop Relief of Flood Sufferers. EL PASO, Tex., May 28.—Over five hundred homeless families, or 2,C00 peopie. were on the streets of El Paso this morning searching for shelter. Their furniture, clothing, cte., were piled up all along the principal thoroughfares of the city. Last night the waters continued to rise, and before day had dawned reached that portion of the city in and around San Antonio street where prominent business and professional men reside. After 11 o’clock last night the flood swept over six more blocks. The waters were full of struggling teams hauling out property from the flooded houses. The Texas & Pacific Railroad had thrown up a dyke to protect its track near the roundhouse, and this backed the water up over San Antonio street, flooding a number of houses and threatening to cross the street and flood hundreds of the prettiest residences in the city. Six prominent citizens residing in the vicinity, headed by Collector of Customs Captain Davis, armed themselves with Winchesters, and, crossing over the river levee, cut the dyke, letting the backwater out, and it began to recede from San Antonio street. A* troop of the Fifth Cavalry, from Fort Bliss, came down to the city to-day and offered their services to guard pn>erty of homeless people, which was piled up in tha streets. The city tmard of health met this morning and appointed a committee of six leading physicians to take charge of a relief hospital being established for the homeless and sick, and the physicians are taking them to the improvised hospital. Colonel Van Valzah, of Fort Bliss, loaned tne city fifty-three tents, and citizens’ committees were out to-day with wagons gathering provisions for distribution among the destitute. At least four hundred out of the 520 families whose homes are under water are without the necessities of life. This morning the City Council held a meeting, authorizing the mayor to wire Texas senators and representatives In Congress to secure an appropriation of SIO,OOO for lelief of the flood victims. The War Department has been appealed to for more tents.

TARIFF AND CURRENCY * TWO TOPIC’S DISCUSSED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Authorized Statement in Behalf of President McKinley and His Administration. > ♦ CINCINNATI, Alay 28.—The programme of the closing day of the union meeting of the Commercial Clubs of Boston, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati was interrupted some by inclement weather. Still the electric cars started for the Kentucky highlands at an early hour with over two hundred prominent business men aboard for the outing. At Fort Thomas the visitors witnessed a salute of colors in honor of Secretary Gage, who was in the party.* At noon luncheon was served at the clubhouse on Latonla race track, at which tlie famous Kentucky burgoo was among the soups. To-night there was a banquet at the Clifton mansion of Alexander AlcDonald. who was host for the Cincinnati Club. Among the speakers was Secretary of the Treasury Gage. He said in beginning his remarks that before coming here he had called on the President and asked permission to say for the administration that there must bo proper revenue raised, and there must be a sound system of eurreney established. The President said: “That is exactly what I want you to say.” Continuing, Air. Gago said: “As I have observed and listened to the w'ords passing from lip to lip among the members of the commercial clubs gathered here, I discover two particular themes which have a first place in the thought of all. These two themes are the tariff and the public finances. Upon the settlement of these two questions enterprise waits and industry languishes. Over fifty times have 1 been asked, ‘When will the tariff discussion end and the measures proposed receive the final vote which will formulate the measure into law?’ Over fifty times more I have been asked, ‘Have the financial reforms for which the people struggled in November last been forgotten?’ Now, it is not to he wondered at, that you who have so lung borne the burden of anxiety and fear, who have so long waited and watched for the restoration of conditions upon which some secure estimate of to-morrow can be made, should grow nervous and impatient over every act or word which seems to suggest doubt or delay in the establishment of such conditions. • , "I have thought that on this occasion I could do no better service than to give you needed assurances and hope. As to the great fabric now before Congress known as the tariff bill, I have nothing to say in detail. I want to bear testimony, however, to the zeal and good faith of those in both houses, who have that measure in charge. They are fully conscious of their great responsibility and are working faithfully to discharge it. Nor do I think that the opponents of these measures are likely to oppose with willful and unjust obstructions the course of legislation. Protest, there will Ik\ more or less fencing tor position must be exepected, but having now cornu into contact with many of the representatives of the people in both houses of Congress, 1 deem it my duty to bear witness, so far as it may have value, to the honoi - able and patriotic motives that inspire the minds of the majority whether upon one side of the house or the other, anti I prophesy an early result in the national councils to which this great commercial question is now committed. ...... “I make these remarks, not to defend a body for whom 1 hold no commission to speak but to correct, in one direction, if I may the operation of an injurious sentiment—a sentiment which is sewing evii seeds in .many directions. It is dividing classes, destroying unity and breeding hatred. The one word for that sentiment is distrust.' Faith and courage lead to conquest and victory. Distrust paralyzes and destroys. . . "As to the financial question, to which I have already referred. 1 must content myself with few words. I am glad that they may be words of assurance. If any of you harbor the suspicion that the administration, but just now' installed into the responsibilities of high office, has forgotten or is likely to forget the mandate of the people whose voice in behall of honest money and sound finances rang out loud and clear In November last, put that suspicion ,aside. It is unjust and uniounded. In good time, and in proper order, the affirmative evidences of my declaration w'ill appear. In the meantime, my friends, do your F irt to help those charged with legislative and administrative duties. Do not let the inertia engendered by fear and distrust creep o\er you. We have been passing thiough a pc riod of great trial and nobly w’f have endured the strain. The future is not dark with foreboding, it is illumined with rational hope. The revival of Industry is near, and with the establishment <>t a revenue law sufficient to bring into the ** amount adequate to meet the rtas_onabl needs of our government, and with thi establishment of our finances on a sound and enduring basis, nothing foreseen can delav the recovery of past losses, and the inauguration of a now forward movement along* 1 the fines of material advancement and social progress which we may humbly trust is in the benevolent mind of God to bestow upon the American people. Movements of Stenniern. NEW YORK. May 28,-Arrlved: Normunnia, frorrt Hamburg; St. I anils, from Southampton; Lueania. from Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN, May 28,—Arrived: Campania, from New York, for Liverpool. ROTTERDAM May 28.—Arrived: Amsterdam, from New York. BREMERHAVEN, May 25.-Arrived: Saaie, froun New York. HAMBURG. May Ralatia. from New' York.