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ning expenses, ai'd that a due regard is necessary to the relation of the national expenditures to the national revenues. '‘The department therefore recommends that the authorization of new ships by the coming Congress be limited to one battle ship for the Pacific coast, where, after the five now under construction are completed, there will be only two, while on the Atlantic there will be seven: and also to a few torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, botn of which are comparatively of little cost, and more of which tire desirable in order to bring this swift, mobile and handily effective arm of the service up to its place in the general echeme for coast deli nae.” The nnttle Ship lona. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The naval trial hoard has made a report on the recent two days' trial of the big battle ship lowa at sea, that thoroughly sustains Commodore Dewey’s comment that the ship was as fine a type of a ship of her class ns there Is in the world. The beard says, in part: “The vessel, under all circumstances, behaved well, being very steudy, and rolling anu pitching but a few degiees. Her high free board forward adds greatly not only to the comfort of the men, but to her seagoing efficiency and the power of firing ner guns under ail circumstances. Altogether, her sea-going qualities appear to be excellent.” 'ihe board was particularly impressed by the personnel of the lowa, and attribute much of the fine appearance of the ship and her crew to the excellent management of her captain, Sampson, and his staff of officers. The speed rfiade was 13.45 knots, but this was under natural draught and with a poor quality of coal. The machinery worked well in every particular. Some fault was found with the priming of the six-pounder shells, and attention is called to an unduly large portnole. which might prove a danger to the snip by admitting shot and shell, but on the whole thereport is as favorable as any report on any of our ships. The Brooklyn Dry-Doeked. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The armored cruiser Brooklyn was dry docked to-day in the timber dock at the New York navy yard in Brooklyn. Because of the ship’s immense displacement the task of getting it into the dock was looked forward to with some anxiety. It turned out, however, that, with the exception of the port bilge keel fouling the side of the dock and cutting through the timber for a foot, the Brooklyn was docked in Up-top condition. The dry dock used is the one the caisson of which gave way a year ago. It is the same dock that the Texas smashed with her bilke keels eighteen months ago. THE CABINET MEETING. Points In tlie Fresldeht’s Message Considered by His Advisers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. — I The Cabinet meeting to-day called together every member of the President's official family and lasted fully an hour longer than usual. Notwithstanding this, it was said that the proceedings were generally of a routine nature, and that Cuban affairs was not touched on beyond a congratulatory reference to the fact, reported to the State Department, that tho last of the Americans who have been held prisoners in Cuba has been released in the person of Luis Someland. The President has not finally completed his message to Congress. The matter, however, is in such shape that it can be put in form for the printer at a day’s notice, but this notice has not yet been given, and the Cabinet spent most of the time of to-day’s session going over once more certain portions of the document. One of these portions was the very first chapter of the message, treating of the foreign relations of our government. It is the intention at present to devote much attention in his message to the subject of trade relations and reciprocity, so that there was some talk today respecting the positions aasum t by the great European sugar-producing countries that the laying of a countervailing duty on sugar to offset the home-paid bounty amounts to unjust discrimination. It is certain that the arrangement of reciprocal agreements under the tariff law which Congress directed should be prepared as speedily as may be is retarded by considerations growing out of these bounty questions.

Mil. GAGE’S REPORT. It Will Be Sent to Congress Soon After the President’s Message. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The annual report of the secretary of the treasury, according to present plans, will be sent to Congress either on the first or second day of the coming session. As to the secretary’s plans for the reform of the currency, enough has been learned to give confidence that the President is in full accord with his ■views and recommendations, although in his official utterance, as expressed in his forthcoming message to Congress, he may not give a complete and specific indorsement to ail the propositions covered by the secretary’s report. There will, however, be no differences between the President and the secretary. It is also understood that the forthcoming report of the monetary commission will cover recommendations not essentially different from those embodi'Hi in Secretary Gage’s report to Congress. Those most familiar with both of these important papers give assurance that the difference between them will be easily reconciled and that to the support of the propositions so harmonized the monetary commission will be able to bring the powerful influence of the great body of business men which the commission represents. M. Patenotre Says Gool-Bye. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—1 t has come to be understood, apparently, that the President is too busily engaged with the matters that he must bring to the attention of Congress to devote much time to the consideration of candidates for public office, so this morning there was only one congressional caller, namely—Representative Harmer, of Philadelphia. About fifteen minutes to 11 o’clock Secretary Sherman came over to the White House from the State Department, accompanied by the French ambassador, M. Patenotre, with the secretary of the embassy, M. Thiebaut. The party was shown into the Blue parlor, where President McKinley waited by appointment, and the ambassador presented his letters of recall. He made a felicitous speech expressing his regret at the termination >f his pleasant official relations with the authorities here, and the President, in turn, made a few remarks in the same strain. M. Patenotre goes to Madrid to assume the position of ambassador there, and will be succeeded here in a few weeks by M. Cambon, the former governor of Algeria. Meanwhile M. Thiebaut will act as charge. "Sooner*" to Be Kept Out. WASHINGTON. Nov. 26.—Secretary Bliss has taken prompt action to avert u possible Invasion of the Wichita reservation, in Oklahoma, by whites, with the idea of forcing upon Congress the opening of the country to white settlement. Reports have just “STRONG MAN IRVINO” Agreed with Other Athletes on Points in Diet. Montgomery B. Irving, who is said to be one of the strongest men in the world, in a recent interview with the Baltimore, Md., News, said, in regard to diet: ‘ Keep away from coffee. It should be taken off the market." Whenever one talks with athletes nowadays, fie finds the same expression in regard to coffee. It weakens the heart, shortens the wind, and unless one is very strong in the digestive apparatus, interferes seriously with that portion of the body. If it is necessary for a strong man to avoid narcotics and drugs of this character, it would seem especially important fer the brain worker or the highly sensitized and delicately organized woman to avoid them as they would any other poison, if they feel the slightest desire to maintain their health and a comfortable poise of the nervous system. True, many people seem to use coffee without a direct harmful effect, but a little careful inquiry will nearly always develop the fact that coffee users have some disturbance of the body, which they always attribute to some other cause than coffee, but which, by a curious law, is likely to be helped if they cun ever bo induced to abandon coffee for ten days to a month, and take on Postum Cereal Food Coffee, which, instead of narcotizing and destroying the nervous system, furnishes the food elements demanded by nature to rebuild the gray matter in the nerve centers throughout the body. Postum is widely Indorsed by athletic trainers, famous bicycle riders and boxers, as well as thousands of well-known men and women who earn their living by mental occupations. • ••••• Postum is the only Cereal Food Coffee >et discovered, with a coffee taste, that is Hurc and free from low-grade coffee or oth--ar drugs.

reached the department that certain persons are declaring their intention to organize a large party in the State of Kansas or lsewhere to invade the Wichita lands with the object stated. Instructions have been wired to all the agents and inspectors in that section to make inquiries and ascertain as far as possible the truth of the rumors and report here. The agents are called on to exercise great vigilance to prevent any such invasion, and in case of necessity, where the Indian police force is inadequate, military assistance will be promptly furnished. This action is more of a precautionary measure than in anticipation of real danger. Officials, while taking proper steps to meet the contingency, do not apprehend any serious disorder. Pay Warrant for f18,104,618. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.— Assistant Secretary Vanderiip to-day signed what is known as a pay warrant, directing the treasurer of the United States to deposit in the treasury the sum of $18,1514,618, representing the proceeds of the sale of the Union Pacific sinking fund bonds and the uninvested cash in that fund, which have been transferred to the treasury as part payment of the settlement of the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific road. This operation is merely a book transaction in the treasury, and while it does not of itself result in formally taking up the amount as a treasury receipt, it is an important step, which leads to placing the sum in the treasury cash, where it is beyond recall and cannot be withdrawn, except in consequence of an appropriation made by law. The full transaction will not appear in the statement of treasury receipts until the close of the present month. Flocked lty Office Brokers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—M. Golden, of Guthrie, O. TANARUS., nephew of Senator Thurston and protege of Senator Quay, has terminated his quest for an Indian agency by notifying his brother that he has squandered SB,OOO in trying to land the appointment. Golden fell into the hand of office brokerage sharps who bled him of most of his money by a process of false pretenses that would have brought the blush of shame to “Hungry Joe" and other professional confidence men. These wolves pervade the Washington hotels and fleece unwary office seekers out of their money. They make fat livings at the beginning of every administration and prey off greenhorns by selling their alleged boundless influence with the appointing powers. Golden, of Oklahoma, was the best pluckling they have had this year, so far as known. Marble Monastery to Be Erected. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Work is about to be commenced on the foundations for an immense marble monastery which is to be built on grounds contiguous to the Catholic University in Washington. It is to be erected by the Franciscians and will be under the direct patronage of the Pope, who has contributed a large sum of money for the' enterprise. The site comprises fiftyfour acres of land purchased for the purpose about six months ago. The plans for the monastery are being drawn in Rome and will be forwarded to Washington in a few weeks. The ground for the foundation is being cleared and everything put into readiness for the construction. The colony which w ill occupy the monastery will come from Italy. Levee* In Danger Again. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—The secretary of war has received an appeal for help from Louisiana, where the levees are said to be in danger opposite New Orleans. The matter has been referred by the secretary of war to General Wilson, chief of engineers, and by him has been sent to the Mississippi River Commission, although it is said there is no warrant for federal interference in the matter. Recently there has been a large caving of bank in Algiers, opposite New Orleans, within the corporate limits, and forming a most important part of the shipping interests. New Indiana Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The President to-day appointed .Wallace K. Deem, postmaster at Knlghtstown, Ind. . _ . Isaac; R. Lee was to-day appointed postmaster at Swayzee, Grant county, Indiana, vice David P. Long, removed. kiencrnl Notes. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows; Available cash balance, $215,149,459; gold reserve, $156,654,510. Orders were issued to-day by Secretary Alger to advertise for proposals for Luilding the breakwater at San Pedro harbor, California. This is irrespective of the decision of the controller of Ihe treasury, who has been asked whether there is any available fund from which the expense of advertising can be paid. The Austrian minister to-day had an interview with the secretary of the treasury in behalf of the forty-eight Austrian stave cutters recently arrested in Mississippi and Tennessee for violation of the alien contract labor law. It is not thought that the representations made were sufficient to change the secretary's determination to direct their deportation. . , , Ex-Attorney General Judson Harmon appeared as counsel to-day before the secretary of the treasury in an important inter-nal-revenue suit involving the classification under the tariff law of cherries preserved in spirits. .

HOW BAILEY BEAT BARNUM. And tlmt at the Veteran’s Own Game of Advertising;. New York Press. One of the elephants that were put aboard the Massachusetts Friday with the Bar-num-Bailey circus was the means of making the fortune that Mr. Bailey is credited with possessing. It was as a baby phenomenon that the pachyderm did the good turn for the successor of “the Great and Only Barnum.” Columbia is the name of the creature, and of the hundreds of rare animals in the aggregation none is treasured more highly than she, now a huge, ungainly and overgrown creature, with not half the wit possessed by the smallest elephant connected with the circus. It was away back in 1880, when the news got around that the first elephant born in captivity was living and traveling with the Bailey show. Mr. Bailey was a struggling young circus owner then, battling against fearful odds. Barnum was at the height of his most remarkable career—at the very topmost notch of circus fame. Mr. Barnum, quick to see the advantage of having so important an attraction as a real American baby elephant, telegraphed to Mr. Bailey as follows: “Will give SIOO,OOO for your baby elephant. Must have it.” Mr. Bailey wired in answer: “Will not sell at any price.” , , This seemed a daring thing for Mr. Bailey to do, for SIOO,OOO would almost have purchased the entire show. Even Mr. Bailey’s best friends, whom he consulted in the matter, advised him to accept the offer. Instead of doing that he refused it and hustled East with his circus to meet Barnum on his own ground. By the time that the Bailey circus reached the'East the whole country was billed with posters on which was printed "What Barnum Thinks of the Baby Elephant.” Underneath that heading was printed Barnum’s telegram to Mr. Bailey. As the Bailey show followed in the wake of the Barnum circus each town in which the Barnum aggregation appeared was billed with the Bailey posters. Probably the Bailey advertising did not affect the attendance at the Barnum circus. Mr. bailey has since said that he thought that it did not. But the advertisements staring the veteran showman in the face everywhere he went worried him, and finally, to dodge the huge posters he changed the route of his circus, although that route had been determined upon nearly twelve months in advance. He jumped from New York to Kansas City and surrendered the whole Eastern field to the Bailey show. The next year the two shows were consolidated, and have been one show ever since. Mr. Barnum’s one joke with Mr. Bailey as long as the shrewd old circus manager was alive was “Well, have you any more baby elephants that you do not want to sell?” Col. George A. Butt Missing:. DENVER, Col., Nov. 26.—C01. George A. Butt, a prominent mining man of Telluride, Col., is missing, and his friends in Telluride believe he was murdered, as he had a large sum of money when he left that camp. He visited his friend. Judge Hallett, in this city Aug. 24, and so far as is known none of his frineds has seen or heard from him since that time. He told Judge Hallett that he intended to go to Excelsior Springs, Mo., or to Arizona, for three weeks. Probably Fell from a Train. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26.—Madison C. Stookey, of Belleville, 111., deputy district internal revenue collector, and one of the best known men in southern Illinois, was found dead to-day under a trestle crossing Wamser creek, a mile beyond Columbia, 111. it is supposed that he fell from a train Thursday night, but much mystery surrounds the case. Mr. Stookey was until recently superintendent of the Belleville water works.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1897.

A HOLE IN THE GROUND ALL THAT IS LEFT OF SIXTY QUARTS OF NITROGLYCERIN. - Review of the Indiana Oil Field Shows that the Pern Boom Is Dying Out—Other State News. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHESTERFIELD, Ind., Nov, 23.—There was an explosion of sixty quarts of nitroglycerin on the farm of James Gold, a half mile; from this city, last night, where a gas well is being drilled for the Richmond Natural Gas Company. Drillers James McGuire and Marion Henry, of Muncie, had placed the explosive in, some warm water near tho engine to thaw it out ready for use in the well this morning. The water was kept warm by the exhaust steam from the engine, and. it is now believed that it became too hot. The two men chanced to be 200 feet away from the well and were stunned badly. The engine was nearly demolished and tho gas well derrick ruined, the tools falling into the well. A hole several feet deep was torn in the earth, and several houses were all but ruined in the immediate vicinity. Daleville and Chesterfield residents thought there was an earthquake. The large frame house owned by James Gold. 100 yards away, was badly wrecked. The windows and doors were badly shattered, and the plastering was knocked off the ceiling. Uriah Makepeace, twenty years old, was thrown from her bed and rendered unconscious. The windows in the Chesterfield schoolhouse were broken and the walls were badly cracked, as was also a number of residences in Chesterfield. The jar was perceptibly felt for ten miles. Fire followed the explosion, but the flames were quickly extinguished. The damage to the gas drilling outfit will amount to *I,OOO. The damage to Gold's farmhouse is about SSOO, while the damage resulting to other buildings in the vicinity will altogether aggregate S4OO. PERU’S RICH OIL FIELD. It I* Now Definitely Settled thnt tlie Pool Is Playing Out. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind., Nov. 26.—The future of the Peru oil field can now be seen at a glance. The town-lot operations have been hemmed in with dry holes, showing that this field is just what it was first termed, “a pool by itself.” It has proven a very rich one for the time being, but the later wells are small producers, and will never pay out. The money makers were the first wells completed, as they have had an opportunity to produce a large amount of oil before the rock was so heavily drained. For some weeks the Standard was purchasing Part Black’s oil, thinking it was the clear crude, but when it was steamed it would shrink to at least a hats, owing to the large amount of water that the gauger’s “devil” would not detect, and it could not be detected in any other way but by the steaming process. Some fifty strings of tools are at work here yet, and at least two wells a day are being completed, but they are not such large producers as the first wells in the pool. Os late there is a growing feeling among oil men that the market will take an upward' turn in the near future. The Klondike Oil Company has completed a well on the Harrington property, and it shows for a fafcvly good producer. The sand was struck at the depth of 554 feet. The Bennett Switch Oil Company has disposed of its pipe and other material in the well on the \V llliam Coucher farm to the farm owner, who will put a pump at,work and supply water for his stock. The Wall-street Oil Company is removing its derrick from the McCaffrey lot to the Wilson land, on the Blair road, west of the bagging mills. New Well* Completed. Special to tho Indianatiolls Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., Nov. 26.—Operations are somewhat quiet in the Montpelier section of the great Indiana oil field. The Diamond Oil Company appears to keep the ball rolling, and is enjoying the usual good luck. This company has completed another well, which is No. 11, on the Godfrey reserve, and it is rated close to the hundred-barrel mark. This company has been operating this lease for a little over a year, and 72,000 barrels of crude have been sold from the land, making it one of the richest pieces of oil property In the State. Another well is under way for the same company on the Meyers farm. The Manhattan Oil Company has a well under way on the J. P. Williams farm, west a short distance from Hartford City. The Ohio Oil Company has located seven wells in this field, and now has three strings of tools at work. The report of a five-hundred-barrel well near Matthews is without foundation. It has slight indications of oil, and may never make a paying producer. The Carroll Brothers Oil Company has completed well No, 1 on the E. Mccullam farm, in Section 19, Jefferson township. Huntington county, and it started at tifty-nve barrels. The Northern Indiana Oil Company’s Nq. 1, on the Joel Fields farm, in Section 28, Hartford township, Adams county, started at fifty barrels. Kerr, Lineman & Co.’s well No. 9, on the S. Boust tarm, in Section 1, Jackson township Wells county, started at thirty barrels. The Ruby Oil Company has completed No. 4 on the John T. Brusn farm, in Section 26, Harrison township, Blackford county, and it did fifty barrels. The Acme Oil Company's No. 2, on the Catharine McCaffrey farm, in Section 27, Chester township, Wells county, started at twenty-five barrels. The Beatty-Brady Gas Company has completed a gas well on its property at Hartford City. The tin-plate company has just completed a good-sized gas well on its property, and will have sufficient fuel to suppiy the factory. The Kerline Brothers have their gas line completed to Liberty Center, and have about a hundred fires connected so liar for the winter. Harris Lost Money nt Pern. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FINDLAY, C)., Nov. 2S.—Another oil gusher is just added to the list of Ohio wells by the completion of No. 2 W'ell on the Geo. \V. Roller farm, in Section 6, Big Lick township. Hancock county. It did eight hundred barrels the first twenty-four hours, and is owned by oil magnate Mr. Carey C. Harris, of this city This well will do much toward making* up his great loss in the Peru field, where he paid fabulous prices for some leases that were hardly worth the paper they' were written on; at least, all the wells he nas completed there show this to be the fact. He got the wrong property at Peru. He purchased two lots there for sl,ooo, ana drilled a very small well on them, and he pij; up a bonus for 159 acres, which was 2,w0, and has nothing to show for the cash paid out, Will Drill in Porter County. Spscial to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 26.—An artesian well, 1,950 feet deep, in the brickyards of the Chicago Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, at Porter, for several weeks has shown gas pressure strong enough to blow the plugs and water several feet into the air at frequent intervals, and the board of directors nas voted an appropriation to sink the well to a depth of nve thousand feet, if necessary to demonstrate whether or not there is gas or oil in paying quantities. At Kouts the citizens are raising a purse to put down an oil well, as oil has been found on the surface in different localities.

INDIA*A OBITUARY. Janies U. Harrison, fur lliirtj United Staten Commissioner. to th*? Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Nov. 26.—James G. Harrison, deputy clerk of the Unittd States District and Circuit Court, and United States commissioner for the New Albany district for the past thirty years, died this afternoon after an illness of several months of cancer of the stomach. He was born at Xenia, 0., in IWS. and had resided in this city since he was a boy. He had been a member of the Board of City School Trustees for the past fifteen years. During the civil war he held a position as assessor of internal revenue for the southern half of Indiana. He was county recorder one term and served one term in the City Council. He leaves a wife and three sons, G. W., J. B. and Walter T. Harrison. He was a member of New Albany Lodge, No. 1, 1. O. O. F. Other Deaths in the State. RICHMOND. Ind., Nov. *.-Mrs. Ellen Greenhoff, aged seventy-four, died to-day of

spinal trouble. She was the mother of Alex. Greenhoff, this city; Henry Gr.?enhoff, Lightvllle. O.; Mrs. Will Grodzicke, Denver, and Mrs. Henry Grodzicke, Fort Wayne. VINCENNES, Ind.. Nov. 26.—News was received here to-day of the sudden death of Miss Jennie Fay, a young heiress of this city, at Phoenix, Arfz., where she had gone to spend the winter. Her body will be brought here for interment. SULLIVAN, Ind., Nov. 26.—Mrs. Noah Crawford, wife bf Noah Crawford, president of the Citizens’ Electric-light Company, died here this morning of rheumatism of the heart. CLODFELTER’S FIRST CAR. It Will Ran Into Fnlrmonnt To-Day for Construction Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FAIRMOUNT, Ind., Nov. 26.—The article which appeared in this morning's Journal from Anderson, stating that the Fairmount Council had granted the proposed Codfelter electric railway an extension of their franchise through the corporate limits of this city, is untrue and entirely without foundation. Last Tuesday morning the Town Board of Summitville granted Clodfelter an extension of his franchise from January until July, and not Fairmount, as reported. The Clodfelter franchise does not expire until Dec. 31, and the company has not asked for an extension. This company has one mile and a half of track laid through tho town, but when the receiver was appointed the steel was covered up completely. This afternoon a large force of workmen went to work uncovering the tracks and putting them in shape to receive the first car, which will arrive to-morrow. The cars used on this line will be self-generat-ing gas motors. The first car will be used in the construction of the line. A force of workmen are engaged in putting down a switch from the 0., I. & E. Railway to tho Clodfelter tracks, and every indication points to the completion of the road in. short time. K. of P. Rally at Noblesville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 26.-The Knights of Pythias of Hamilton county 1. *d a rally at this place to-day and to-night. Delegations from Westfield, Carmel, Sheridan, Arcadia and some ledges outside of the county were present. The exercises began in Castle Hall of Bernice Lodge at 2 o’clock. Chancellor Commander W. pt. Longley made the welcome address and responses were made by representatives from the different visiting lodges. At 4 o’clock a street parade was given by the Uniform Rank and members of the different lodges, headed by the Military Band of this city. This evening exercises consisted of third-rank work by Sheridan Lodge, and a lecture on “Third Rank,” by Prof. Milo H. Stuart, of Sheridan. After these exercises came the banquet. Mr. L. S. Baldwin was toastmaster. The women's committee held entertainments at Odd Fellows’ Hall at 2 p. m. and 7 p. m. Counterfeiter Crow Arrested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PAOLI, Ind., Nov. 26.—Sheriff Lindley Jones to-day arrested Henry Crow for counterfeiting. Crow is an itinerant clock tinker, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher and a mechanical genius. He has been making large quantities of the “queer,” mostly dollars, and a half dozen agents to handle the stuff are said to be in hiding. The sheriff claims to kndw where the counterfeiting tools are secreted, and says he and Deputy United States Marshal Andrew Fite will seize them to-morrow. Crow was arrested for the same offense about eight years ago, along with others, and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The rest of the gang escaped with little or no punishment. He says now that he will never again carry the whole load. PuNseuxer Coaches Telescoped. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 26.—This morning No. 1, fast mail train on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, was derailed near Pierceville, telescoping the mail, baggage, two day coaches and one sleeping car. No one was seriously hurt. Passengers were transferred around the wreck, and No. 1, due here at 11:30 o’clock, did not arrive until 3:30 o'clock. The wrecking crews from Storrs, Washington and this city were called to the scene. Whether the wreck was caused by spreading of the rails or the jumping of a truck is unknown. Covington, O; < rutvlord.sville, 4. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., Nov. 26.—The Covington football team has not lost a game this season. Yesterday Crawfordsville was the heavier and had the advantage, but by a series of brilliant end plays the home team succeeded in making a touchdown, which was followed by a successful goal kick. The visiting eleven also made a touchdown, but Johnny-Fry, who made on the Indiana University field the most difficult punt over goal ever made in the State, failed on goal, though it seemed easy. The score was 6 to 4. Dr. Riolimond* Birthday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Nov. 26.—Dr. Corydon Richmond, of this city, one of the best known physicians in the State, celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday anniversary this week. He practiced in Indiana for sixty years. He is the oldest resident of Kokomo, and has served two terms as mayor of the city. He lost his sight five years ago. He remembers the war of 1812, was present at the meeting of Generals Harrison and Lafayette in Cincinnati in 1825, and was an acquaintance of Henry Clay. Accidentally Shot Through the Heart. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Nov. 26 Markle Haymaker, aged twenty, son of Charles Haymaker, one of the most prominent men in the county, accidentally shot himself through the heart this afternoon. He had been hunting and was getting into a skiff with the intention of viewing the wreck of the steamer Telegraph, which lies eight miles up the river from here, when his gun was discharged.

New Terra Cottu Plant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 26.—A syndicate of Indiana capitalists, headed by Secretary of State W. D. Owen, purchased the plant of the Garden City Brick Company, west of this city, to-day, together with a quarter section of land adjoining. They will establish the largest terracotta manufacturing plant in the country. State Geologist W. S. Blatchley pronounces the clay beds in this county the finest in the State. Trained Nurse Found Unconscious. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Nov. 26.—4ames Hannall was found unconscious on West Main street this morning. His mind is a blank and he is unable to account for his condition. No marks were visible to indicate violence. He is a trained nurse and has been waiting on Thomas Jenkins, who is .-uifering with spinal disease. It is feared Hannah has contracted the disease. The Prize Sugar Beet. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 26,-The government experiment station at Purdue University has found at Hamlet, Stark county, a sugar beet raised from seed and under working directions furnished by the station which yielded 29.9 per cent, of sugar and had a purity co-efficient of 84.5. This is the best sugar beet ever raised in Indiana. The yield to an acre of washed and trimmed beets was fourteen tons. Ncrto Shot by an Officer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 26.-Frank Taylor, colored, was shot and seriously wounded here to-night ip running from Sheriff Buntin, who had him under arrest. Taylor refused to halt and the officer brought him down with a bullet. Indiana Notes. The Fairmount High School eleven defeated the first team of Summitville, Thursday, by a score of 22 to 0. Dr. J. H. Barnett, of Vincennes, and Mrs. Hattie Behymer, a wealthy widow, of Fairfield, 111., were married at Flora, 111., on Thursday. It was a surprise to all their friends. Th* annual meeting of the Delaware County Educational Society is in session at Muncie. with Dr. B. F. Hinsdale, of Michigan University, and Dr. W. L. Bryan, of Indiana University, as instructors. The fifteen-round eight-ounce glove contest between Jack Smith, formerly of Chicago, and Jimmie Kelley, of Cincinnati, came off In the Wabash Athletic Club room Thursday night, resulting in a draw.

END OF A LONG STRIKE NORTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS H.VVE RESUMED DIGGING COAL. Increase of About lO Cents n Ton Granted 12,000 Men—Strentor Diggers the Only Strikers Now Out. CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—The coal mining strike in the northern Illinois district ended to-day. Twelve thousand men have gone back to work in the Coal City, Braidwood, Carbon Hill, Spring Valley, Bodi, Seatonville and Oglesby fields. One thousand men remain out at Streator, the only point where miners and operators have not agreed. A settlement there is expected within a week. Victory is with the miners, although they have not won all they asked for. Their chief demand was for a “mine run” price—that is, a rate per ton as the coal comes from the mine unscreened. This has been conceded in some places. Where the rate remains fixed on the price per net ton of screened coal, a substantial advance has been won. The increase in wages all through the district amounts approximately to 10 cents a ton over the schedule made last May. ' The strike had been on since July 4. It started as a part of the general strike ordered by the United Mine Workers of America. The Pennsylvania and Ohio miners settled their difference early in September. In Indiana work was resumed about the same time. The 30,000 miners of Illinois refused to ratify the terms of the agreement made at Columbus, 0., and continued the strike. Strike of Cloak Makers. NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—A strike which involved two hundred cloak makers occurred to-day at a Delaney-street shop. The cause of the strike was a threat alleged to have been made by the employing contractors to reduce wages. This is the first result of the expiration of the peace contracts entered into three months ago between the eight hundred contractors and nine thousand organized employes in the cloakmaking industry. According to the agreement these contracts became obsolete today. A series of meetings will be held to outline plans to avert, if possible, a general conflict between employes and employers. Salaries Restored. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26.—Vice President Warner, of the Missouri Pacific, to-night said in reference to the reported general advance of salaries: “There were only a very few men who were cut in 1893. Engineers, conductors, trainmen, telegraph operators, agents, operators and machinists were not cut then. It has been decided to restore the 10 per cent, to such otrice clerks and a few officers who had held their positions unchanged from IBy3, when reductions were maue, to date, the total amount of which will be between $3,000 and annually.” Britain's Labor Dispute, LONDON, Nov. 26.—The conference between the representatives of the employers and the delegates of the striking engineers that began Wednesday morning behind closed doors, after many weeks of negotiation, has taken a decided step toward a settlement of the points in dispute by an acceptance on both side® of the principle of noninterference in the management of either the trades unions or the employers’ workshops. An adjournment was taken to Tuesday next, when the discussion of details will proceed.

AMERICAN FLOUR IN THE ORIENT. Our Product Growing in Favor in Cliinu and Japan. Washington Special in New York Post. The Asiatic market for American wheat was brought prominently before the public in the recent tariff debate. The original Dingley duties on Japanese mattings and certain other Asiatic products were materially reduced when it was shown by James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, that their imposition would close up the markets for our wheat in the countries concerned. In view of the important part which this argument played in the subsequent discussion, recent consular reports concerning American wheat in the Orient become of special interest. It seems that wheat itself does not find a very ready market either in Japan or China, for the reason that it costs too much for transpc rtation to these countries, but flour made from American wheat is rapidly gaining in favor, and the future market for it will be limited in its expansion only by the price. If the natives can afford to buy wheat they v ill do so. Rice is still the principal food in Japan and China, but the residents of these countries are beginning to depend upon the American “staff of life.” The lower grades of flour are used to a considerable extent in making paste in the enormous paper industries of Japan, such as the manufacture of screens, fans, kites and other articles for which a low-priced and substantial paste material is desired. The higher grades of American flour that go to Asia are chiefly for the naval vessels and the foreign bakers who supply the local market with bread and cakes. Almost all of the American flour consumed in Japan is the soft-wheat flour of Washington and Oregon. There is very little demand for hard-wheat flour. The Japanese, accustomed as they are to the white flour made from rice, object to the dark color of the hard wheat. Almost all of the wheat flour imported bv Japan comes from the United States, and, to show how rapidly Us use is increasing, it is found that in 1.890 the United States exported to that country 11,862,582 bushels, valued at $199,087, and in 1896 31,408,314 bushels, valued at $519,509.09, or an increase of nearly 300 per cent, in six A portion of the increase for the year 1390 is accounted for by the fact that it has been recently discovered that a steady rice diet encourages the tendency to a disease known to the natives as “kakke. ’ If wheat is occasionally used this danger is greatly lessened, and the Japanese authorities have ordered the occasional use of flour in trie army and navy. The methods of manufacturing flour are primitive, compared with our own. The rice or w'lieat, after being cleaned, is ground to a pow’der of proper consistency by means of a stone mortar. The pow r er is usually furnished by waterl l ln China conditions are slightly different, but American flour, since its introduction, has continued to grow in popularity. The duality and the color both commend it in the Chinese markets, and it is easily superior to anv flour imported from other lands. Although rice is generally regarded by the Chinese as the main breadstuff® staple, a large quantity of wheat nus been used from the most ancient times, and in the earliest historic classifications wheat is named as one of the five grains. In the northern provinces, where rice Is not grown and can only be purchased by the well-to-do, wheat is the great common cereal, but it is of a very poor quality. Blasted heads are seen in large numbers every year, and, according to consular reports, ergotism is a disease very freer lit among the poor. This native flour is coarse and dark, chiefly used in the form ct vermicelli. which, when steamed, makes a good substitute for rice, and is a very sa- ' Within a few' years the importation of American flour has rapidly increased in the district of Shanghai, where ten veacs ago it was almost unknown. Now bags of Arnerloan flour may be seen stacked in large quantities In the shops of the inland cities an over ihe empire. It will doubtless seem that where so much wheat is grown as in China it is only necessary to Impo. t mill machinery to manufacture on the. spot all the flour that can be consumed, but unless the quality of the domestic wheat is materially improved the demand for American flour iA likely to continue to increase The flour from America is shipped almost exclusively in bags holding twenty-five pounds, a packing much preferred for the Chinese trade. A NOTABLE SOUTHERN DU EL. Meeting of Louis t7NYifffall and Trenton S. Brooks. Augusta (Ga.) Herald. In the Savannah river some eight or ten miles above Augusta was, fifty or sixty years ago, a large and dreary sandbank, known as Goat island—covered with drifting and shifting dunes—the home of the crane, the kingfisher, and the heron. Precisely fifty-six years ago one of the most noted duels that ever illustrated the ade of honor took place on Goat island—a -ort of neutral ground amenable, perhaps, neither to the laws of Georgia nor South Carolina. The principals and seconds In this duel, save one. were all Edgefield men, of high descent and of the cavalier class, who believed in and practiced the code duello. The principals were two handsome and

brilliant young lawyers, Louis T. Wlgfall. aged twenty-three years, and Preston S. Brooks, aged twenty-two. The causus belli In this famous duel grew out of political strifes and ambitions. Wigfaii’s second was John Laurens Manning, of Sumter county, South Carolina. Brooks’s second was Pierce Mason Butler, of Edgefield. All these four men became famous characters In the history of their State—indeed, in the history of the South—as is abundantly proved by the chronicles and encyciopediaes that have been written or amended since. In the very earliest hours of the dim. gray dawn of a fall morning of the year 1841—to avoid notice and perhaps arrest — two close carriages are' driven out of Augusta. They leave the door of the late Thomas Barrett, esq., who is himself an occupant of one of the carriages. These two coaches convey Wlgfall, Manning, Barrett, a physician and three colored men servants to the vicinity of Goat island. Brooks and Butler, with their physician and servants come from the Edgefield side, accompanied by the late Major Andrew Hammond, of New Richmond. The duel took place at 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon. The actors in the bloody drama wire taken from either shore to the island in one of the long pole boats of that day. Two shots were exchanged. The result of the second shot was the wounding of Wigfall through both thighs and the whizzing of a bullet into Brooks’s hip, the bullet ranging round into his back and lodging there. Both men were painfully and very seriously wounded. Both sank to the ground and soon became almost unconscious from loss of blood. Both wounds having been temporarily dressed, both men were lifted tenderly into the pole boat, and, lying almost side by side, were rowed down the night-mantled stream to the city. In this boat with the wounded men were the seconds, Mr. Barrett, Major Hammond, the physicians and five negro men. Arriving at Augusta, Louis T. Wlgfall was taken to the residence of Mr. Thomas Barrett, whose wife and mother-in-law, the late Mrs. Harriet Glasscock, were family connections of his, and there nursed back into life with tender care and motherly watchfulness. Preston Brooks was taken to Beard’s Hotel, in Hamburg, whence, after a few days, he was taken to his home in Edgefield. Louis T. Wigfall married a brilliant belle of Providence, R. 1., and, after living in Edgefield a few years, subsequent to this duel, removed to Marshall, Tex., which State he very soon represented in the United States Senate, where he achieved a national reputation as an orator and statesman. The war, of course, found him devotedly and enthusiastically on the side of his native South. He became a hero in the memorable and initial siege of Fort Sumter, a brigadier general in the Confederate army, senator from Texas in the Confederate Congress, and an intimate friend and adviser of Jefferson Davis. He died in Galveston, Tex., some ten or twelve years after the close of the war. Preston S. Brooks married a daughter of Governor Means, of South Carolina, and continued to live In Edgefield. He became so popular among the people of Edgefield and the neighboring “districts” that they sent him to represent them in Congress. Previous to this, however, he had led Company D, of the Palmetto Regiment throughout the Mexican war, and had reached the highest rank as a wise and brave soldier. While he was a member of the lower house of Congress, his cousin. Judge Andrew Pickens Butler, was South Carolina’s senator. In the Senate about this time —it is a matter of national history—the famous Massachusetts senator, Charles Sumner, made a speech reflecting in an insulting manner upon Senator Butler, who was a man many years his senior. This insult to his venerable kinsman so aroused the ire of the fiery Brooks that he publicly caned Sumner in the Senate chamber. The matter became almost a national issue, nnd aroused in the Northern mind much of that hatred of the South that led to the war. Preston S. Brooks, in his third term as congressman, died in Washington in ISo7. Pierce M. Butler became Governor of South Carolina, then United States commissioner to the Indians, and subsequently the devoted and illustrious leader of the renowned Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican war. He fell at the head of his regiment, with a bullet through his brain, at the memorable siege of Churubusco. John Laurens Manning married an aunt of the present Gen. Wade Hampton. He was at the time the wealthiest and the handsomest man in South Carolina. He became Governor of his State, at; his father and grandfather had been before him, and proved himself throughout all he yearss a hero and a patriot of the highest type. He died eight or ten years ago.

AN ETERNALLY UNFINISHED TOWN. Complaint from a New York Writer of the Condition of the City. New York Commercial Advertiser. A countrvman in town said thav the most characteristic thing he saw in New Yor was a parcel of fools tearing a own eight-story buildings to put l *P story buildings in their place. Indeed, it is a bit fatiguing to see the restless forever at work making over New York One wonders if the town will ever be finished. You rarelv meet a block which the buildei-s will long admit to be done. The puffing crane is at work everywhere. All over town there are stretches where the sidewalks ar© transformed into tunnels. Everywhere are dirt bustle, giant iron beams dangling m the air, sidewalks partly or wholly impasThen they are reconstructing the streets. Happy is the block where there is not a parcel of men tearing up the paving stones and upraising a mound while they do something or other to the pipes. The Traction Company is tearing up whole avenues to lay subterranean trolley wires. Gen. Collis's steam roller has at length slowly trundled half its way up Fifth avenue, and left a beneficent track of asphalt behind it. But the roller has still a weary and dreary road ahead of it. This wearying sight of a great city being made over and rendered hideous to look at in the process has no end in sight. No one can say when the town will be even approximately finished. Broadway will not cease to be just as much a scene of bricks, mortar and sidewalk tunnels when the Smith building is done or the Jones building. Some avenues will be ripped up by the mile when the wheelman is skimming over asphalted Fifth avenue from Washington Arch to the park, and the business man is conveved by underground trolley from the postoffiee to the Grand Central Station. The town is prety sure to remain in its present state of transition indefinitely. It is all right, of course. The disturbance is worth going through for what is to come after it. People want the new buildings

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