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abundantly testifies. Since he has been settled at the island Dreyfus ha.* only been Tarely visited by the governor 01 other officials. Eleven warders are told off to guard him night and day, a couple at a time, who are relieved every two hours. They are strictly enjoined never to speak to the prisoner unless for some imperative reason for so doing. Thus Dreyfus spends days and weeks together precluded from converse with fellow-creatures. Until July he dwelt in a hut situated in the lower part of the island, but he was then removed to a plateau higher up. The structure he now inhabits is about thirty feet in length, ten feet in brtadth. It is divided into two rooms almost of equal size, one with but two windows looking out. One. a sort of courtyard Is reserved for Dreyfus's egress from it, being through a dobr in the partition which sejKtrates It from the other chamber where the warders are posted. In front of this hut is a bit of ground som* forty yards in area. Inclosed by a vry thick palisade sixty feet in height, so the prisoner cannot catch a glimpse of the surrounding scenery, but has only a dead wail to gaze upon. The wretched man tried to convert the grounds into a little garden, but the soil was too poor and pebbly, and he had to give up the idea. When he arrived at the lie du Diable he used to beguile his time working out algebraical problems on a slate, but after awhile he abandoned the practice. He now passes hours together in reading and writing letters. The provisions with which he is supplied are reduced to fresh meat, alternating with bacon. white bread, vegetables. salt and pepper, the last even regarded as a favor, complete the miserable list. Owing, however, to money he is permitted to receive from France £2O a montn, with this Dreyfus is able to supplement this meager diet. Such Is the life or rather the existence led by this unhappy man, and from which his relatives and friends are endeavoring to free him while clearing his character as well. MORE SILVER THAN COLD. Alchemist Brice’s .Manufactured Metal Assuyecl anti Found Wanting, CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—There is a horrible suspicion that Alchemist Brice, who claims that he has found the philosopher’s stone, and who boldly asserts that by Tuesday he will have conjured 12,900 pounds of gold and ■liver bullion from little more than a. like quantity of antimony, has conquetted with the credulity of the public. A fragment of a piece of Brice bullion, which one of the wizard’s assistant solemnly asserted contained gold to the value of S7O, was put to the test yesterday by an assayer. It was found to contain silvr-r to the value of 2 cents and 8 mills and gold worth 1 C-10 mills. There was ascertained to be silver to the amount of 2.1.7 ounces per ton, worth $14.22 at the current ounce rate, and .04 ounce of gold, worth 82 cents, gold being now eiuoted at $20.67. This revelation docs not perturb Mr. Brice In the least. "By Tuesday morning,” he said, "I expect we sha!l have about six tons of manufactured bullion. When the impurities arc removed this will produce about 531 ounces of pure gold. We have made arrangements to ship this gold directly to the Bank of England. Under the English law the Bank of England is compelled to accept ail pure gold brought to it at the market price. As soon as it has the government stamp upon it this gold will pass the same as money. The reason we send the gold to the Bank of England Is that it will not be ■o difficult to convert it into money.”

SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE. Most of the Fast Hitlers of the World to Participate. NEW YORK, Nov. 28,-The entry list for the six-day bicycle rttce, to begin in Madl-Bon-square Garden next Sunday night, is now complete. All the fast of the world are to take part, and an effort will be made to break Hale’s record of 1,910 miles, made last December. Forty men will face the starter. Following is the full entry list: Teddy Hale, of Ireland; John S. Rice, Wilkasbarre; Albert Schock, Brooklyn; Gaston Rivierz, Paris; Fred W. Schinnecr, Chicago; A. Etienne Stephene, Paris; Thomas A. Barnaby, Boston; Oscar Julius, Sweden; John M. Reading, Omaha; Burton D. Blakeslee, Boston; Rudolph Gartner, Austria; James Busteed, Jersey City; Edward Beacom, New York; W. H. Hicks, jr., Brooklyn; G. Emile Rivierre, Newark; Charles lshinger. New York; 2*red Foster. New York; Frank Waller. New York; Burns W. Pierce, Canada; D. McEeod, New York; Andrew Johnson, Bong island; Frank Albert, New York; Peter Golden, New York; Harry D. Eikes, Glens Falls; Theo. Backe, New York; L. J. King, Bloomffeld; Albert Enterman, Brooklyn; J. F. E. Gray, IC.’W Yo r k; W, C. Moore, Philadelphia; John Scnuessler, Neiw York; Harley Davidson, Canada; Fred Titus, New York; Gen. Cartwright, England; Austm M. Luce, Buffalo. , Quaker W hist Players Won. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25.--The eighth match for the American Whist League trophy, the contestants in which were Philadelphia and Cincinnati, was concluded at a late hour last night. The home club won by the score of 32 to 17. The teams were: Philadelphia Whist Club (holders) —Messrs. C. W. Hill, F. P. Magridge, W. H. Wilson and W. C. Work. Cincinnati Whist Club (challenger)—Messrs. C. Collins M. T. Watts, H. Van Ness and Col. William Tetcher. The Philadelphia team played a much stronger game than it put up against Cleveland the week before, and was fortunate in having some of its pet plays come off for big gains. The three-echo netted three tricks on deal 32: the calling card system used by Philadelphia was also the cause of a couple of nice gains, and the jack lead from a long suit. headed by jack, ten, aided the Quakers’ total. The Cincinnati quartet had a little luck In having distinctly poor whist score some gains for them. On the whole, however, the Cincinnati team played very clever whist, the individual performances being better than the team work. CARGO WASHED OVERBOARD. Tempestuous Western Voyage of tlie British Steamship Kensington. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.—The British Kensington, Captain Fraggett, arrived to-day from London, after a tempestuous voyage that lasted all the way to the Delaware capes. Her decks were broken. bridge smashed, stanchions b'*nt and twisted and her entire deck cargo of thirty drums of naphtha and a large quuntitv of phosphorus washed overboard. The vessel had scarcely put to sea when the bad weather began. It kept up incessantly and on the 35th It had developed into a hurricane. The ship was then off Scilly island. The seas were washing completely over her, and the drums of naphtha, each weighing half a ton. had broken loose and were being tossed about. The heavy drums dashed against the ship’s rails and broke them to pieces. The blow then began to subside, but until the Delaware capes were reached no pleasant weather w T as experienced. Gale ami Hail Squall*. LONDON, Nov. 28.—A heavy northwest gale, with territic hail squalls, has done much damage at Holyhead and near Liverpool. Man) yachts and small crafts have Keen sunk at their moorings and some bulldogs have been Injured. At Holyhead tugs and a lifeboat rescued with great difficulty the crew of the Nova Scotian bark Alert, which was in danger of running on the rocks. The wreck of Lord Nelson s old flagship, the Foudroyant. supposed to be rtrmiy imbedded off Blackpool, lias been dashed to pieces. The gale nas been felt generally along the English coast, but only a few casualties are reported from the English channel. Another Ship for the Alaskan Trade. NEW YORK, Nov. 28. The steamship South Portland, formerly the Caroline Miller. which was once seized as a filibuster, has been purchased by a syndicate and is t" tit’ put in commission for service between Seattle and St. Michael’s, Alaska. The South Portland, being of light draught, will at all times be able to navigate the Yukon. The steamship, after fitted out in Brooklyn, will carry a suitable cargo and passengers from this port to Alaska. Movements of Steamers. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 28.--Sailed: Campania. from Liverpool, for New York. HAVRE, Nov. 28.—Arrived: La Guscogne, from New York. Chamber of Commerce to Be Sold. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 28,-The Detroit Chamber of Commerce building will be sold next Wednesday under the hammer in default of payment of a first mortgage of *io held by the New York Life Insurance Company, and Interest. W. S. Crane, president of the Chamber of Commerce As■ociatlon, said to-day: “I do not see how the ■ale can bo postponed or avoided. The officers of the association have exhausted •very resource at their command to avert this undesirable end, but without avail.”

JUMPED FROM R TRAIN ESCAPE OF A MAX WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Desperate Leup in the Dark—An Indiana Marshal Hoodwinked— Sunday Trains Demanded. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Nov. 28.—E. J. Tobcn, wanted in Chicago for embezzlement and forgery and for whom a rew’ard of $lO9 was offered, made a flying leap for liberty from a Panhandle train going forty miles an hour just west of this city at 3 o’clock this morning. Toben was in charge of A. J. Harris, marshal of Union City, at which place he had been identified and arrested. Toben had been pretending to drink heavily on the trip and the marshal supposed that he was thoroughly intoxicated. Shortly after the train left Logansport for Chicago he stepped back to the water tank and seeing that the marshal was not watching him opened the car door and sprang out into the darkness. The marshal immediately pulled the bell rope and stopping the train walked back In search of his man, but secured no trace of him. He came on to this city, about two miles, and, securing the assistance of the sheriff and a force of deputies spent the day' in searching for his man. At a late hour to-night no clew had been found. Retaliating Against the Big Four. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 28.—The people of the towns on the Cairo division of the Big Four are threatening ail manner of retaliation against the railroad company for abandoning Sunday trains. They say they can stand the loss of the one passenger train each way on week days, but they do not want to be cut off from the outside world altogether on Sunday', and especially to be deprived of the Sunday newspapers. At some towns there is a sentiment in favor of doing’ what Danville, Ind., is proposing to do in regard to the deprivation of train service on the St. Louis division there—that is, have freight hauled from another town on another road. The merchants and shippers of Robinson, 111., who say their freight business amounts to $4,099 a month to the Big Four, have sent a petition to General Manager Blue, of the Indiana & Illinois Southern, to run a Sunday train from Effingham over his road. They pledge themselves to divert all freight possible to his road, and all they' ask is that he make sure to have the Sunday newspapers in Robinson by noon. He has consented to do so. Pension Examiner for Noblesville. Special to the Indianapolis Journnl. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 28. Representative C. B. Landis, of the Ninth congressional district, has succeeded in securing another special pension examiner for this district. A letter from Hon. H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, brings this Information. The special examiners now at work In Indiana are far behind with their work. The Ninth district is one of the strongest soldier districts In the State, and Mr. Landis made a proper showing to the commissioner of pensions and demonstrated that It was no more than fair to the soldiers of his district that an additional special pension examiner ho appointed in order that the oases referred to special examiners might be acted on more promptly'. The new' special examiner will be stationed at Noblesville, this being the strongest soldier county in the Ninth district. The soldiers are greatly elated over the action of tho commissioner of pensions. Indiana Teachers’ Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 28.—The school officers and teachers of this city are making vigorous preparations for entertaining the next annual session of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ Association at this place this winter, the time of which has been fixed for April 7, 8 and 9. Superintendent Woody, who has been in communication with all the county associations of the State, says the teachers will be here two thousand strong to attend .the annual gathering. The enrollment at Elkhart last year was 1,500, and If the same ratio of increase is maintained the attendance here will reach, if not exceed, two thousand. Already the local educators are hard at work preparing to make it pleasant for this immense body of instructors, who gather in session annually to compare work, exchange ideas and advance the cause of education. Not Gobbled by the Standard. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 28.—The report sent out from the Indiana oil field that the Buckeye Pipe-line Company, or Standard Oil Company, had purchased the holdings of the Cudahys or the Indiana Pipe-line and Refining Company is positively denied by representatives of both concerns in this county. The Buckeye Pipeline Company has notified producers here that, beginning Dec. 1, the name of that corporation will be known as the Indiana Pipe-line Company. It is presumed that the change of firm names was found necessary in order to keep the business in Indiana separate from that in Ohio, conducted under the same name heretofore.

Workingmen’* Social Club, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 28.—Anderson laboring men met in mass meeting this afternoon and effected the preliminary organization of a social club. It is proposed to open a complete club in this city. Any laboring man believing in union organization will be eligible to membership. The club will have parlors, library, pool and billiard rooms. The rooms in the opera house block formerly occupied by the Anderson Normal University will be secured. The new organization will start out with a membership of 500. The initiation will be only sl, the fees but 25 cents a month. Christian Church Rally Closed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 28.—The annual rally of the Indiana Christian Church Association closed here to-day, after a week's session. The work was largely missionary. Among the speakers were the most noted missionary speakers of the United States. The closing sermon W’as by A. McLean, of Cincinnati, secretary of the National Missionary Society. Other speakers were Jabez Hall and Burris Jenkins, of Indianapolis; B. L. Smith, of Cincinnati; A. M, Atkinson, of Wabash, and G. W. Muckley, of Kansas City. State Dairy Association. The Indiana State Dairy Association will hold its next annual meeting at Lewisville, Henry county, on Dec. 29 and 30. Prof. T. L. Hacker, of the Minnesota agricultural experiment station, and Prof. C. D. Smith, of the Michigan experiment station, will be the speakers from a distance. Some twenty addresses will be given during the session. A butter and cheese show vill be held in connection with the meeting, and many valuable premiums are offered. C. S. Plumb, Lafayette, Ind., is secretary. AYilliam Sunday Convert* Salem. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SALEM, Ind., Nov. 28. —The great revival meetings held here by Messrs. Sunday and Oliver will close to-morrow’. No revivalists ever before awatkened such religious enthusiasm in the city. Asa result nearly two hundred conversions have been recorded. The business men have all agreed to sell nothing on Sunday, and an effort is being made to slop the sale of liquor entirely. William Sunday's eloquence is working wonders. Richmond Interested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 28.—Much Interest Is taken here in the movement to stop the waste of natural gas. Richmond is not in the gas belt, but Is supplied with gas from Madison and Delaware counties. It is probable that a mass meeting will not be called, but a petition to Governor Mount will be put in circulation. Mayor J. S. Ostrander will go to Alexandria to-morrow to attend the meeting of city officials. Farmer’* Body Found. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VEVAY, Ind., Nov. 28.—William Montgomery, a wealthy farmer of Ghent, Ky., who suddenly disappeared from the steamer Lizzie Bay on the night of Aug. 6, while re-

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turning from a business trip to Cincinnati, and for whose recovery a reward of SSOO was offered by his relatives, was found by two fishermen, buried in the sand, one mile above here to-day. The coroner will hold an inquest. Work Fonnd for Striking; Miners. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 28,-Many of the striking miners at the Cabel mines, in Washington county, are finding work in this locality. The Coal Bluff Company is bringing them to Fontanet, and at other points they can find work. It is thought that in this manner the Daviess county difficulty may he overcome without further strife. Football Player Injured. Special to the Indianai>olia Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 28.—Homer McCoy, a student of the New London High School, is reported irl a serious condition as the result of an Injury received in a football game with the alumni yesterday. His collar bone was broken in the crush and he was otherwise badly hurt. His home is at Shanghai, this county. Suicide’* Body in Pigeon Creek. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Nov, 28.—Chris Haller, who had trouble with his wife a week ago and then disappeared, was found to- • ,y in Pigeon creek, near the city. His hat was found near the spot a few days since. It was a case of suicide. Indianu, Note*. The date previously given for the K. of P. district meeting at Winchester was erroneous. The date of the meeting is Dec. 9, not Dec. 6. Telegrams received by relatives in Anderson and at Daleville state that James Horne, of Spartansville, is expected to die of blood poisoning. A week ago he was bitten by a rat. Deputy United States Revenue Collector W. H. Harkins and Ernest Guild, of Portland. and a dozen residents of Rochester, have associated themselves in an oil company to drill in the Adams county field. As Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges, of Salem, stepped from the stairway to the floor Saturday evening she fell and broke her hip bone. Mrs. Hodges is eighty years of age and lives with her only daughter, Mrs. J. A. Kemp. Her age makes recovery very doubtful. Congressman C. L. Henry announces that the gas belt electric railway may not bo completed to Summitville this winter, as was at first planned, and that there is also a doubt whether cars will be run into Alexandria by Christmas. Both depend largely on the weather. The Montgomery County Teachers’ Association held a two days’ session at Crawfordsville on Friday and Saturday. Addresses were made by Rev. A. W. Connor, of Danville: Prof. Elwood Kemp, of Terre Haute; Rev. Fred Stouvenour. of Portland, and Prof. O. E. Vessells, of Rockville. The plant and machinery of the Haynes Wheel Company, at Portland, will he offered for sale on Tuesday by the receiver, S. A. D. Whipple, in. order to satisfy indebtedness amounting to about $15,000. It Is thought the plant will be bought In by local capitalists, and will again be started to running. FIRE AT FARMLAND. Several Building* Burned Till* Morn-ing-Aid Sent from Muncie. Special to the Indianaiiolls Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 28.—At 12 o’clock tonight fire broke out in the heart of the town of Farmland, twelve miles east of Muncie, and the entire business part of the town was soon threatened with destruction. Muncie was called on for assistance, and fire engines on flat cars left for Farmland at 1:30 o’clock a. m. 1:30 a. m.—The Are started in the rear of Robert Meek’s drug store, which has been destroyed, as has also G. B. Watson’3 grocery, Branso.t’s hardware store and J. D. Davis’s general store. The new opera house, postoffice and Big Four railway station, it is thought, will be destroyed, as the town will be at the mercy of the flames until assistance arrives from Muncie. Farmland is a town of 2,509 population, with only a hand chemical engine as protection against fire. ....

OBITUARY. Col. John Luing, n Noted Civil Engineer of Two Continent*. BALTIMORE, Nov. 28.—C01. John Lalng, a noted engineer of England and America, died at his home in this city last night, aged eighty years. John Laing was born in Edinburgh, became a civil engineer, rose high in his profession, entered the British army as an engineer, and won distinction and the title of lieutenant colonel in the Crimean war. He was afterward chief engineer of Birmingham and other English cities and surveyed a number of railroad lines. His next field of labor was in South America, and he w r as the chief engineer and superintendent of construction of several railroad systems in Brazil. In 1837 he came to Baltimore and surveyed the route of the Western Maryland Railroad over the Blue Ridge mountains. He was also the chief engineer of the Union Railroad Company and built the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under the city. The construction of these tunnels was one of his greatest undertakings. He was also chief engineer of several other railroads in Maryland. Mr*. Adrnin Iselin. NEW YORK, Nov. 28,-Mrs. Adrian Iselin, sr., died last night at her home, in this city, aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. Iselin was Miss Eleanora O’Donnell, the daughter of Columbus O’Donnell, of Baltimore, and was born in that city. She was married in the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Baltimore to Adrian Iselin. The couple celebrated their golden wedding on Dec. 11, 1895. The children are C. Oliver Iselin, owner of the yachts Mohawk, Vigilant and Defender; William E. Iselin, Columbus O’Donnell and Adrian Iselin, jr., Mrs. Delaney Astor Kane and the Misses Emily and Georgiana Iselin. Mr. Iselin has been a resident of New York city for more than fifty years and prominently identified with the financial community. The family is known for its liberal gifts to the Catholic Church. Four years ago Mrs. Iselin built St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church, one of the most picturesque church buildings on Long Island sound, at a cost of $300,000. Gen. Forge mo? De Bostqnennrd. PARIS, Nov. 28.—Gen. Forgemol De Bostquenard is dead. Gen. Forgemol Bostquenard ’ was born at Azerables on Sept. 17, 1821. After complet ing his education at the Ecole de Saint Cyr, in 1839, he went into the military service of France In Algeria, where he passed the various grades of promotion up to colonelcy, which he reached in 1870. When the FrancoPrussian war broke out he was recalled from Algeria and appointed general of brigade, being subsequently confirmed Sept. 16, 1871, in command of the subdivision of Aisne, with the collateral rank of secretary of the superior council of war. In 1878 he was placed in command of the Department of Seme-et-Oise, and in 1879 was promoted to the rank of general of division. In 1881 he commanded a division of the Tunisian expeditionary corps, which occupied Jaffa. He was then appointed chief commandant of the corps of occupation in Tunis, where he remained until 18-3. He had the decoration of Legion of Honor and received the Grand Cross May 4, 1889. L. Roswell Hart Rochester. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—L. Roswell Hart Rochester, treasurer of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died suddenly at his heme in Englewood, N. J., last night, aged forty-six years. He had returned from his office in the Western Union building, In this city, In apparently good health, and was readlngtln his library when stricken with heart tailure. He died within a short time. New “Shell” Game. Philadelphia North American. Artificial oysters are now’ on the market. This Is a brand new “shell gome.” TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Brcmo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money If It falls to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet.

WARNING TO GERMANY ♦ ■ UNCLE SAM WILL NOT TOLERATE AGGRESSIONS IN HAITI. Ambassador White Instructed to Serve Notice that There Must Be No Attempt at Annexation. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—The State Department at Washington has requested United States Ambassador White to ascertain exactly the intentions of Germany with respect to the claims of Herr Lueders, whose recent imprisonment in Haiti has caused friction between the German and Haitian governments. Mr. White has also been instructed, if any schemes of annexation exist, or if there is an intention to make an excessive demonstration with a view of unduly punishing Haiti, to intimate to the German government that the United States could not tolerate either of the courses before mentioned, though in principle having no objection to Germany obtaining satisfaction. BARON MOUNT STEPHEN WEDS. He Marries Ml** Tufnell, a Favorite of the Royal Family. LONDON, Nov. 28.—At the Church of St. Margaret, Westmlnter. yesterday, Baron Mount Stephen was married to Miss Gian rufned, daughter of the late commander, R. G. Tufnell. R. N. The ceremony had been fixed for an earlier date, but was postponed on account of the death of her royal Highness, the Duchess of Teck. Four children acted as bridesmaids. Although many relatives and friends of the parties were present, the ceremony was not marked by any special display, out of respect to the memory of the duchess, to whom Miss Tufnell had been lady in waiting. The bride is a great favorite among the members of the royal family. She is in her thirtieth year. Baron Mount Stephen is in his sixty-ninth year, having been born June 5, .1829. He is the son of Mr. William Stephen, of Montreal, and formerly of Dufftown, Banff, N. B. In 1553 he married Miss Charlotte Kane, daughter of Mr. Benjamin Kane. She died last year. In 1850 the groom of to-day went to Canada, where he became director, vice president and president of the Bank of Montreal; president of the St. Paul & Manitoba Railway, and finally president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. He was created a baronet in 1886, and Baron Mount Stephen, of Mount Stephen, British Columbia. Canada and Dufftown, peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1891. Lord and Lady Mount Stephen have gone to Paris on their honeymoon. Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief, was present at the ceremony. Wedding gifts were received from the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Duke and Duchess of York and other members of the royal family.

DEFIED THE CHURCH. Ex-Ambaßiailor Hoard's Cousin Wedded it Divorced Man. LONDON, Nov. 28.—The movement in the Church of England against the remarriage of divorced persons received a remarkable though diverting exemplification last week. Miss Leila Bayard Crooke, cousin of the late American Ambassador Bayard, was to be married at a fashionable church in Kensington by Canon Grant, who came especially from Portsmouth to perform the ceremony, aA Canor\ Pennefather, the vicar of the churh, refused to officiate. Thirty clergymen gathered in the church to protest against the ceremony, as the bridegroom, Fitzroy Lyon, an officer of the First Life Guards, had divorced his first wife. The bridal party did not appear, and the band of protesting clergymen congratulated themselves on the glorious victory. However, they learned to their deep chagrin later that while they had been waiting in St. Mary Abbots the ceremony was being quietly performed at another church a quarter of a mile away. The action of these clergymen has caused a violent controversy in church circles, their opponents contending that they have no right to adopt these intimidating tactics. Their conduct would be brought before the ecclesiastical courts were not the church authorities afraid an adverse judgment would cause irreparable dissension among the clergy, an increasingly large body of whom is opposed to remarriage of divorced persons. Tlie Khedivah’* Second Daughter. CAIRO, Nov. 28.— I The Khedivah has been safely delivered of a daughter. The Khedivah, prior to her espousal by the Khedive, on Feb. 19, 18S5, was the favorite in the harem and known as Lady Ikbul Hanum. She is about twenty-six years old, and, therefore, about four years older than the Khedive. This daughter is the second she has borne. Almost immediately after the birth of the first Abbas liilmi signed a marriage contract with her in the presence of the Egyptian ministers, that act constituting a marriage to a slave, and there bring no public ceremony. It was expected, even in native circles, that he would follow the European custom in espousing her; but there were, complicated questions of Egyptian law Involved. Seed* of the German Navy. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—The Reichsanzeiger, in a communication setting forth the motives which actuate the government in its intention to present a naval bill at the opening of the Reichstag this week, points out that the naval interests of the empire abroad require for their adequate protection two large cruisers for Eastern Asia, one large cruiser for Central America and South America, three small cruisers for Eastern Asia, three small cruisers for Central America and South America, two for East Africa, two for the South seas, two gunboats for Eastern Asia, two for West Africa and one guardship for Constantinople. Gnnpowdcr Labeled “Arms.” LONDON, Nov. 28.—Eight barges loaded with cases of gunpowder, falsely labeled “Arms,” have been seized by the customs officers in the Thames. They emanated from Russia, and were about to be transferred to the steamer Baluchistan, for Persia. It is suggested that the ammunition was destined for the Afrldis. Gladstone at Cannes. LONDON, Nov. 28.—Rt. Hon. William E. Gladstone and Mrs. Gladstone arrived today at Cannes, France, where they are the guests of Lord Stuart Rendel. Cable Note*. M. Schpeyer, Russian charge d’affaires and consul-general of Korea, has been appointed Russian minister to China, succeeding Count Cafcsini. the new Russian minister to the United States. The close of the flat racing season in England sees Mornington Cannon at the head of the winning jockeys, with 145 successes, Loates second and Wood third. The London papers comment at length on the remarkable success ’of Tod Sloane, the American jockey, during the present month in England. Sloan’s victories for November numbered twenty in fifty-eight mounts. I’lmlen Will Not Assist Lnetgert. CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—Attorney Albert Plalen, who became prominent through his connection with the defense of Adcipn Luetgert and who was to nave been chief counsel for the sausuage maker in ids second ’.rial, withdrew from the case to-day. His withdrawal was due to the retention of Attorneys Harmon and Rlese a assistants in the case, contrary to his a-lvice. The case will be called before Judge Gl.y to-morrow. Attorneys Harmon and Rlese will announce the retirement of Mr. Phalen, and ask tor a further continuance, on the ground that they are not familiar witn th? case. Post office Clerk* Organize. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Nov. 23. Delegates representing the first ami second-class postoffice clerks of the country met in convention here to-day and formed a permanent organization with the object in view of bettering the condition of this branch of postal employes. A bill was framed looking to this end, which will be submitted to Congress at the coming session. The following officers were elected: President, Joseph P. Healy, of New’ York; vice president, W. T. Shaw, of Baltimore; treasurer. S. E. Connolly. of Pittsburg; secretary, W. 11. Hart, of Philadelphia. Fireman Injured. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 28.—The millinery and furnishing stores of Apt Bros., Nos. 39 and 41 North Eighth street, were damaged by fire to~<lay to the extent of about $75,0J0, on which the linn carried. $50,000 insurance.

The building', which fronts on Filbert fetreet as well as Eighth. and which Is owned by the estate of George S. Lang, was damaged to the extent of slo.ofX>. covered by insurance. Tho origin of the fire is unknown. George Cost, a fireman, was badly burned about the face during the fire, and Bethel Partridge, a laddcrman, suffered a broken leg. BOILER EXPLOSION. One Man Killed, One Fatuity Injured and Four Less Seriously. PITTSBURG, Nov. 28. One man was killed and five others badly injured this evening, the result of a boiler explosion, al the old Moorhead & McLean blast lurnace, operated by Laughlin & Cos. The victims are: Dead—John Mullen. Injured Seuford Armes, fireman; John Pierport. John Karsey and William McCarthy, firemen, and a colored man, name not known. Mullen died soon after the accident, after suffering intense agony. His body was literally cooked by the escaping steam. Armes’s face, arms and legs are badly scalded. His condition is critical. The others will recover. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. MR. HEMENWAY’S VIEWS HE DOES NOT EXPECT FINANCIAL LEGISLATION THIS WINTER. ♦ The Roonvillc Statesman Strongly Opposed to Maintaining the Present Civil-Service System. * v Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Representative James A. Hemenway, of Boonville, Ind., arived to-day and is registered at the Riggs House. Mr. Hemenway is a member of the committee on appropriations, and is here ahead of time for the purpose of being present at the first full meeting of that committee, which takes place to-morrow in the committee room at tho Capitol. It is the intention of Chairman Joseph Cannon to hold daily meetings of the appropriations committee during the week, and he hopes to have matters well in hand for presentation to the House during the first week of Congress. Mr. Hemenway is a member of the subcommittee, which has charge of the sundry civil bill, a measure which carries the appropriation for the Civil-service Commission. He was asked what he though. A the prospects for the incorporation of the civil-service item in. the appropriation bill at the approaching session of Congress and of its passage. To this inquiry, to which was added the remark that this clause was to be made the object of especial attack by the opponents of the system, Mr. Hemenway said: “I cannot speak for the committee, but if it were left to my vote, and if I could decide it, there would be no appropriation reported to this Congress for the maintenance of the Civil-service Commission. The Republicans of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio are overwhelmingly against the civil-service system as it is now conducted, and I would be misrepresenting my constituents if I favored it.” Mr. Hemenway expressed the opinion that there would be no financial or currency reform legislation by this Congress. Colonel Clilpley's Condition Critical. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—C01. W. D. Chipley, of Florida, who was operated on for a carbuncle several days ago, is iri a very critical condition, and it is feared that his illness will terminate fatally. Mrs. Chipley and the colonel’s son and daughter have arrived in the city. NEW TRUNK LINE. Vanderbilt System to Have Another lioute from Chicago to New York. CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The Tribune says this morning: John Jacob Astor and a distinguished party of Eastern capitalists and railroad magnates arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon from New York to take steps for welding several short lines of Western roads into anew trunk line from Chicago to New York. The new route is to find its terminals over the Nickel-plate and the Illinois Central. It is abut another giant link in the Vanderbilt trunk line system, having for its special purpose an invasion of the Pennsylvania road’s Ohio and Indiana territory and to provide more adequate terminal facilities in this city for the Nickel-plate road as well as the practical construction of a double track for that road from Cleveland to this city. Those in the party were Mr. Astor, A. B. Ely, George Chapman and G. F. Hawkins, of New York, and W. T. Rainey, of Philadelphia. With the exception of Mr. Hawkins, who is Mr. Astor’s private secretary, they are all directors of the Findley, Fort Wayne & Western Railroad, a short line of only eighty miles, extending from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Findlay, O. The railway men arrived in an ordinary sleeper and left at 11:30 at •night for Findlay in two private cars, together with Vice President Hanrahan, of the Illinois Central, and Traffic Manager T. J. Hudson and Chief Engineer David Sloan, of the same line. In Findlay they will meet Dr. Seward Webb and James R. Roosevelt, of New York, and C. M. Bisseil, of Findlay, also directors of the Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western road, and it will be at this meeting of the directors that the line of action proposed will be decided upon.

PRAISED AND CONDEMNED Spaniard* Divided on the Question of Cnluin Autonomy. MADRID, Nov. 28.—A deputation of Cuban autonomist deputies waited on Senor Sagasta, the premier, yesterday, and congratulated him on the sincerity of purpose evinced in the autonomy decrees. Senor Moret, the minister for the colonies, has received numerous dispatches from the provinces and from the Antilles congratulating the government. The Official Gazette will publish to-mor-row the decree granting autonomy to Porto Rico on lines similar to Cuban autonomy. The Chamber will consist of thirty-two members, the Council of Administration of sixteen, of whom eight will be elected. The two chambers of commerce in the island will take part in the elections. The decrees have been received wuth conflicting impressions, but most Spaniards are disposed to accept the change as dictated by the necessities of the situation. Marshal Martinez Campos warmly approves the decrees, and is willing to go to Cuba if necessary. General Azacarraga reserves his opinion until he sees the effect of them upon the rebellion. The Carlist organ, El Correo Espanol, describes the decree as “national treason.” The organ of the extreme Conservatives, La Nacional, asks whether the nation will tolerate such a policy. Both these papers will be prosecuted for their utterances. Weyler at Palma. PALMA, Island of Majorica, Nov. 28. Lieutenant General Weyler, on the Montserrat. arrived here this morning and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. Clubbed by a Policeman. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—lames Kennedy a young man, died to-nignt at a hospital from the effects of a clubbing which he nail received early in the day from Policeman Henry Woodly. The latt >r admits the clubbing of Kennedy, but says that he had been attacked by the young man and three of his friends and was forced to defend himself. Shipment* of PittHhurg Coni. PITTSBURG, Nov. 28.—Over 1,000,000 busheds of coal left this port to-day for Southern markets. There are in the neighborhood of 8,000,000 loaded awaiting shipment, and it is expected between 5,000.000 and 6,000.000 bushels will get out on the present rise. Football Player Dead. BATH. N. Y., Nov. 28.—James W. Beveridge, who was injured in ,t football game at Hammondsport Thanksgiving afternoon.

died here to-day. His leath 1? supposed to be due to a kick in the stom ich, received at the game. He was nineteen yeurs old. EXPERT TESTIMONY. Reasons Why It Shonld Not He Classed with that of Ordinary Witnesses. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Concerning the ruling of courts that any person experienced, skilled and scientific in any profession or calling, on demand of court, must give expert testimony for no other remuneration than the ordinary witness fee, I crave your indulgence to discuss the subject from the standpoint of the medical profession. The Supreme Court of Indiana so ruled several years ago. and recently the Supreme Court of Illinois confirmed the lower court ruling wherein a doctor at Springfield, 111., was fined $25 for contempt for refusing, while on the stand as an ordinary wdtness, to give expert testimony. His plea was that it required the exercise of knowledge that had cost him much money, time and experience to acquire, and it was unjust to require the communication of the same for no other compensation than the ordinary witness fee. Tho supreme judge was very positive in his affirmation of the lower ruling, and the ground for these rulings seems to be wholly this—it is a discrimination in favor of one special class of citizens to pay an expert more than an ordinary witness, and that by so doing the “ends of justice” would be hindered and equal rights infringed. I undertake to say that every physician who desires to uphold the dignity and honor of the profession, as well as his own professisonal integrity, will do just what the Springfield doctor did—prefer to pay a fine for contempt rather than attempt to give expert testimony as an ordinary witness. The* thoroughly educated and experienced medical expert values his professional standing and the honor of his calling above every other consideration. When he engages his services in a suit in court he has it distinctly understood that he is to testify only to the medical, surgical and pertinent collateral scientific facts involved in the case, and if the larger number of these facts are in favor of the litigant paying him for such service, so much the better for that side, but if not, the expert is to be held in no wise acccountable. No thoroughly competent and honorable expert of any kind can afford to engage in a case without such a contract. And I contend that there is as much good old-fashioned honesty in the medical profession as in any other calling. While we admit that medicine in general cannot be called an exact science, and, like law, much present advantage may be gained in court by the subterfuge of senseless and unjust technicalities, yet the fact is that ail that is ever required of an expert is, first, common, plain honesty and pride in his professional integrity; next, thorough acquaintance with the most advanced and accurate theories and practice of his profession. If with these are combined years of ripe experience and observation the testimony will be unimpeachable, though he is adequately paid by one side. The writer has not infrequently known the attorneys of the opposite side to take a medical expert by the hand and say to him: “Although your testimony was against us, yet I want to shake hands with an honest man; I congratulate you on the fairness and accuracy of your testimony.”

The true facts in any given case are always obtainable, but it requires much time, patience and unbiased investigation by the expert. This he cannot and should not be asked to do without adequate pay. The medical expert requires more preparation, as a rule, for his ease than the attorney does. In his investigations, as well as on the witness stand, he loses sight of either plaintiff or defendant. In a case of alleged damages for personal injury, for instance, the expert will depend almost 'wholly upon the objective symptoms and conditions those which he can see and learn by diagnostic instruments—and pays little attention to the subjective symptoms the pains, aches, etc., that the patient himself describes. These he patiently and conscientiously differentiates and classifies as to the present and remote effects upon his client’s health. For his guidance in this he has anatomy, physiology, pathology, surgery, therapeutics, etc., all of which in the present advanced state of knowledge should enaole him to come to conclusions and opinions which, if he keeps on the safe side of truth, no amount of “badgering,” brow-beating or other methods of shrewd cross-examination practice can shake. Carl any reasonable mind claim that such testimony would not be more accurate, reliable and valuable to “the ends of justice” than that of a person caught up as an ordinary witness, without any preparation? The fact is that the man who is conscientious and thoroughly competent as an expert, when on the stand as an ordinary witness and expert knowledge is demanded of him by a court, will answer: "The question requires of me knowledge gained only by a scientific study of the case and a comparative examination of the best authorities on the questions involved, which knowledge I am not at present in possession of.” As to discrimination and the principle of equal rights, I contend that the present ruling is not only opposed to civil rights, in that it demands of the individual his time and knowledge—personal possessions—against his will, without adequate compensation, but it also discriminates against the sick and helpless, in favor, perhaps, of a vicious criminal, at least one who is in less need of it, by compelling the physician to leave his patients, sacrifice Ids pecuniary interests. and await the pleasure of attorneys and court to extort from him his hardearned knowledge for the paltry fee of $1.25 per day and board himself —a “stand anu deliver” policy, respectable, because sanctioned by law. It is presumed the honorable judges who make these rulings if critically sick, would deem it no hardship to give up their trusted favorite family physician while he went to a distant town to give expert testimony to aid in defending some murderer. , , Ninety per cent., at least, of the lawmakers are gentlemen of the legal profession. and the fact of their profession being amply provided for is only human. I do not deny that had the medical profession the same vantage ground they would be less mindful of the craft. Nevertheless, the ends of justice” has become a taboo that overrides every other consideration, but it always ends with a good big attorney s fee, and sure pay. The most vicious tramp in the land, unable to hire an attorney t'V“efend him. is furnished one by the court, and the State, or county-the people-must pay him a full fee for ills services I do not deny the right of the poorest citizen to a fair trial and ample defense, but an undlseriminating court should not vide for attorneys fees and compel a clan to leave his sick patients and sacrifice time, knowledge and money at sl.&> a uay and find himself. No one ever heard of a judge being called from his bench or an attorney from his clients and lucrative busito loaf about the courtroom for nays to roast out of lain ' Xpert knowleago_ on rSffi'a r ‘S e 'v?".sfXr , v.b h. and these honorable judges rule that it is el ? il itmv r T U voice the sentiment not only J n^verv 1 large maioritv of the medical profession bit of all right-minded legal gentlemen, as well as all good people who gtimeri eii t j, e question, when I sav d that the above method of obtaining expert test “non y is unjust: that it does not obtain efficient testimony, and is therefore unlust both to the litigant and the medical profession or any other calling from which such testimony is thus extorted without sufficient preparation and inadequate remuneration; that the appointment of experts bv court, of employment on salary by tho State—the European plan—wouid not insure against favoritism, political preferment and bribery; that legal restraints of any kind never make an honest man or one who is inherently dishonest. ‘The I*ixirer is worthy of his hire,” and it is as vniust and discriminating to compel a skilled mechanic to work for the same wages as an ordinary laloier as to compel an expert in anv skilled calling to give testimony as such for ordinary witness fees. No phvslcian has ever, to my knowledge, re,fused to go on the witness stand and testify fully and freely to all the ordinary facts and transactions within his knowledge that were deemed pertinent to the case. They have made, and are willing to make, all necessary sacrifices as an ordinary witness in the cause of justice. And ell we ask is that the courts recognize the fact that there is a distinction between testimony as to ordinary facts and common transactions as they daily transpire and are witnessed and understood and expert testimony requiring the exercise of knowledge gained by study, practice, experience

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