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Court held that as the United States had no property outside of the three-mile limit the law prohibiting the destruction of seals “in the waters of Alaska” did not apply to pelagic sealing on the high seas. In consequence. poaching by American vessels was In effect legalized, and quite a number of American vessels have been sealing in Bering sea, although the government has been seeking to show that this sealing was uniustlflable. It is expected also that this step y the United States will have a salutary effect on the negotiations now in progress with Great Britain and Canada. Mr. Hitt will call the bill up at the meeting of the foreign affairs committee and 1 is purpose is to have it reported and passed with the least delay possible. JINGO ALLEN TALKS. He Criticises McKinley and Asks Congress to Declare Cuba Free. WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—To-day's session of the Senate occupied less than an hour, the time principally being consumed by the members in the presentation of memorials, resolutions and bills. In his invocation at the opening, Rev. W. H. Milbum, the chaplain, delivered a brief but touching eulogy of the late Senator George, of Mississippi. Mr. Davis reported from the committee on foreign relations a bill prohibiting the killing of fur seals in the north Pacific ocean. He asked immediate consideration for the bill, but Mr. Hale objected, on the ground of the importance of the measure, and asked that the bill be printed. Mr. Allen, the Nebraska Populist, presented a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that Congress should, with all due and convenient speed, acknowledge by appropriate act the political independence of Cuba. Mr. Allen said that he had long urged the United States to recognize the independence of the Cuban insurgents. He would not be content with the recognition of belligerency, but would insist on the acknowledgment of absolute political liberty. He was satisfied that the people would not be content with the course advised by the administration. Inasmuch as the Cubans, for more than two years, on many battlefields, had demonstrated their valor and love of liberty, he felt that they had earned recognition of their political liberty, and that it ought to be accorded to them without further temporizing. If necessary this recognition should be backed with a fleet of American vessels in Cuban waters. He expressed a belief that the owners of Spanish bonds in this country, American citizens holding property in Cuba, which had been injured or destroyed by the insurgents. and the carrying trade of the country which might be affected by such a step, I ad Joined to prevent the recognition of Cuba's political independence. Mr. Allen expressed the helief that President McKinley's statement in his message, that the recognition of the belligerency. of the Cuban insurgents is now unwise and. therefore, inadmissible, would be a great disappointment to the members of the Republican party throughout the United States. The national convention of that party had declared in favor of The independence of Cuba, going further than the simple recognition of belligerency. Me thought that the President was under obligations to carry out the pledge which his party had made—n pledge which had been made to seventy-three millions of the people. The President, Mr. Allen thought, had been lulled to sleep by the declaration of Spain that she would give Cuba a semipolitical existence. He expressed the belief that the President’s neglect to take such action as would insure the political independence of Cuba was an exhibition of rank hypocrisy” and a “flagrant neglect of public duty,” which would he corrected bv the all-ruling power in his own good time. At the conclusion of Mr. Allen’s remarks Mr. Hoar presented a resolution expressing the regret of the Senate at the news of the death of Representative Ashley B. Wright Os Massachusetts, and providing for an adjournment as u further mark of respect. At 12:oo the resolution was adopted and the Senajte adjourned. OBITUARY. Bev. Dr. Atkinson, Author of “We Shall Meet Beyond the River.” NEW YORK, Dec. B.—The Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, pastor of the Methodist Episcoal Church at Haverstraw, N. Y., died at !at place to-day, aged sixty-three years. Dr. Atkinson has held pastorates In New Jersey, Chicago, Bay City, Mich., and Adrian, Mich. He was the author of the hymn, “We shall meet beyond the river," and of numerous works on church affairs. Dr. Campbell Morfit. LONDON, Dec. B.—Dr. Campbell Morfit, the distinguished American chemist, died here to-day. Dr. Morfit was born in Herculaneum, Mo., Nov. 19, IS2O. He early applied himself to the study of chemistry, and was connected with several colleges. In 1861 he went to England. His work included researches in guanos, salts, sugars, the analysis of coals, gun mesquite and glycerin, accounts of which he published in the scientific journals of the time. Since his residence abroad he had devoted more attention to the improvement of technical processes, notably in the preparation of condensed food ration, the manufacture of paper, the refining of oils and other similar work. He was a member of various scientific societies and a fellow of the Chemical Society of London and of the Institute of Chemistry. Beside writing numerous scientific papers he was joint author with Jas. C. Booth of a report to the United States Ordnance Department on gun metal in 1853, from investigations by him in a laboratory that he established on his own plan at Pikesvillo Arsenal, Maryland.

Sluter Anthony. CINCINNATI, Dec. B.—Sister Anthony, for many years mother superior at the Good Samaritan Hospital, this city, died at St. Joseph’s Asylum, iri Norwood, to-day, aged eighty-two. Her name was Anthony O’Connell, and her birthplace Limerick, Ireland. When a child she carao with her parents to the State of Maine. In 1835, at the age of twenty, she entered the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of Charity at Emmettsburg. Mil., in which she became distinguished in after life. During the civil war she was conspicuous in the hospital service, notably at Nashville. The Good Samaritan Hospital in this city became widely known as Sister Anthony's hospital. She was a woman of universal acknowledged ability. Other Deaths. FRESNO, Cal., Dec. B. It has been learned that W. W. Treadwell, who died in the hospital in this county on Sunday last of consumption, was connected with a millionaire family in New York State. The remains of the deceased have been embalmed by a local undertaking firm for shipment to Alanzon Treadwell, of Jersey City, N J., the father of the dead man. The arrangements for the shipment of Treadwell’s body was made through Vice President Poster, of the Chase National Bank, of New York. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Dec. B. Capt. George T. Walker, until a year ago, Inspector of steamboats and barges lor the port of Philadelphia, died in this city to-day of heart failure. Mr. Walker came to Colorado Springs in June. 1895, on account of pulmonary troubles. He was thirty-five years of age. He formerly conducted one of the largest steamboat and barge businesses in Philadelphia. The remains will be taken East. CHEYENNE, Wyo„ Dec. B.—Chief Justlce Conway, of the Wyoming Supreme Court, died early this morning. He had been sick about three weeks with the grip, but no one supposed that he was seriously 111. He was elected in 1890 at the first state election. NEW YORK. Dec. S.—Benjamin Lichtenstein. proprietor of the Harlem Opera House and Music Hall, and head of the cigar firm of Lichtenstein Brothers & Cos., died at his home In this city to-day.'He leaves a large fortune. CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 8. John G James, assistant general freight agent of the Lake Shore Railway, died to-day at Pueblo. Col. Mr. James had been with the company twenty years. C'hltiewe Robbed of $7,000. ST. LOUIS. Dec. B.—Until six months ago twelve Chinese were doing a grocery business in this city under the firm name of Quong Wing. Lee Cos. Wu Yung, a trusted member of the firm, ran away with 17,000 belonging to his partners. Many of them are dcstiute. but will not accept work Jn any of the laundries for fear of being deported, us they are in this country solely ajs merchants. To-day the destitute Celestials applied to United States Commissioner Gray for papers permitting them to remain and work for their living, but he declined to do so. To Fix Date of Iliicauipiuent. Da., Dec. B.—Commander-In-Chief Gobln. of the Grand Army of the Republic, has called a meeting„of the executive committee of the national council, to be heM in Cincinnati, on Dec. 15. to fix the date of the next National Encampment. For Bronchia I, Asthmatic nitd Pulmonary Complaints, Brown's Bronchial Troches have remarkable curative properties. Sold only in boxes.

SUGAR BEET CULTURE THE KANKAKEE VALLEY FARMERS FORM AN ORGANIZATION. - Gov. Mount Advises Them to Go nt the Netv Business Carefully—Window* Glass Fires Started. NORTH JUDSON. Ind., Dec. B.—About five hundred farmers of the Kankakee valley held a convention here yesterday, and last night organized an association for the promotion of sugar-beet culture and the establishment of a factory for the conversion of beets into sugar. The following officers were elected: President, Jacob Keller; secretary, H. A. Ellingson; treasurer,. Bert Lightcap. Among those who attended the convention were: James A. Mount, Governor of Indiana; Prof. H. A. Huston, of Lafayette; Richard Huncheon, of La Crosse, who represented 7,000 acres of land in the Kankakee valley; Franklin Landers, of Indianapolis, representing 1,500 acres; General Superintendent Raff, of the Illinois Central Railway; W. L. Ross, general traffic manager of the Indiana, Illinois & lowa Railway; J. D. Couffer, chief clerk of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway; General Superintendent Coe, General Passenger Agent Forward and Traffic Manager Hackett, of the Chicago & Erie Railway; Isaac D. Dunn, of Dunnville, representing 1,500 acres; Robert B. Lomax and George Lomax, of Chicago, representing 2,800 acres; J. J. Kleinman, Chicago, representing 300 acres. The convention w r as the largest public meeting ever held in this part of the State in the interest of any industrial enterprise. It was not the intention that a stock company be formed on this occasion for the establishment of a factory. It was rather to let the farmers of the vast swamp lands along the Kankakee river know to what profitable use those swamp lands could be put other than to the raising of slough grass that brings only about $3 a ton. The information given those farmers was not alone general information concerning the cultivation of the beets. It was the result of systematic experiments, carried on by twenty-five farmers in Stark county and Prof. Huston, who is the chemist of the agricultural experiment station of Purdue University. The sessions were held in a hall that was decorated with samples of the beets grown in Stark county, some of which weighed as much as eight pounds each. But such monsters of the sugar producers were low in the percentage of saccharine matter contained. Prof. Huston detailed the results obtained from his experiments in several years of familiarity with beet culture in Indiana and other States. He briefly sums up the advantages of this part of Indiana for beet culture in the words: “This is the tenth crop I have taken off, and during the present year we have had a very much greater interest here in the matter than ever before. The results are such as to indicate that the Kankakee valley is the most promising section of the State for the establishment of a beet-sugar factory. The yields and the quality of the beets are both satisfactory. In quality the beets exceed those obtained this season from any other parts of the State.” Judge George W. Beeman, of Knox, Ind., followed Prof. Huston. Governor Mount was inclined to extreme caution, if not skepticism, upon the project of going into the sugar industry without the example of one of the companies already established in other States first testing the Indiana fields. The following are scattering utterances from his talk.: “The question before you is a business problem. I believe that this State is as favored a locality as can be selected in the United States for the growing of sugar beets and the manufacture of beet sugar. Notwithstanding that the United States has been favorable for the manufacture of beet sugar, there has been failure in the past and there will be failure in Indiana. Not every factory located in the State will l>e successful. You find successes and failures in all departments of life. The farmer that farms to-day by sitting on a dry goods box telling what kind of law's should be made to make success would not make a success of raising sugar beets. You can grow a sufficient quantity of beets. But will you do it? You must grow beets rich enoughin sugar to pay the manufacturer. Will you grow that kind of beets? The farmer of the United States farms on an extensive plan. But the farmer who grows sugar beets must farm on the intensive plan. When you are ready to grow sufficient beets and cultivate them properly, you are ready for a factory. I predict that in the United States we are going to manufacture all the sugar that can be consumed here, and I hope that Indiana will take front rank in this industry." Others speakers were E. L. Furniss, of Furnissville, Jnd.; F. F. Tissal and H. T. Furnham, of Chicago, and Slm6n Bybee, of North Judson, Ind.

SHOT DOWN LIKE A SLAVE. How Dr. Grigsby Proceeded to Discipline n Tcnnnt. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SULLIVAN, Ind., Dec. B.—Coroner Maxwell returned yesterday from holding the inquest over the body of Henry Schwally, who was killed by Dr. Grigsby, and states that four of the witnesses whom he examined all agree that Dr. Grigsby and Schwally quarreled over Schwally turning his horses In tho stock field. Schwally picked up a scantling and started for the doctor, then changed his mind and stood leaning on the stick. Dr. Grigsby told Schwally to turn the horses out or he would turn them out over his dead body. Grigsby then called his tenant a vile name and Schwally replied: "So are you.” Grigsby then drew a pistol and shot him directly through the throat. Schwally w-as still leaning on the piece of wood when he was shot. No weapon of any kind was found on the body of Schw'ally. Coroner Maxwell has the bullet which was found in Schwally’s neck. Dr. Grigsby gave bail for $5,000. Dr. Grigsby left for his home in Ohio yesterday. He is a resident of Washington Courthouse, 0., but was formerly a resident of Oaktown. Knox county. He owns a large amount of land in this county and also in Ohio. Henry Schwally. whom Grigsby killed, was a German and came to this county from Ohio a few years ago. He leaves a large family In destitute circumstances. QUEER DEMOCRATIC DEAL. Tipton Recorder Sned on a Contract for Hnlf Hlm Salary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal TIPTON, Ind., Dec. B.—A suit filed in the Tipton Circuit Court as a result of the campaign of 1896 has exposed a queer anteelection Democratic deal. It is alleged in the complaint that Luther Welshons, who was a candidate for the office of recorder on the Democratic ticket, had entered into a contract with W. L. Berryman that if the latter would pay half the campaign expenses Mrs. Berryman should be deputy recorder and receive for her services half the salary of the office. Welshons was elected by a very small plurality and Mrs. Berryman at once entered on her duties as deputy recorder. At the end of the first year Welshons refused to allow her one-half the salary, and settled with her on the basis of sl9 a month. The salary of the office Is $1,450, and suit was brought for the difference between the amount paid ana half the salary of the office. Mrs. Berryman refuses to surrender the deputyship during the pendency of the suit. Prominent attorneys express an opinion that the recorder violated the election bribery law' and that he can be thrown out of his office. TWENTY TOOK THE VEIL. Ceremony by Bishop Chain rd at St. Mary's the Woods. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. B.—Twenty young women to-day took the habit of the Sisters of Providence, at St. Mary's of the Woods, the mother house of the order in the United States. The names of these who appeared before Bishop Chatard In the chapel In bridal costume, heard his address, and, after retiring to a side room, reappeared In the somber habit of the order, are as follows: Sister Gertrude Marie, Gertrude Howell, Lafayette: Sister Agnes Cecil, Julia O’Connor, Saginaw, Mich.; Sister Emilena. Emma Blubaugh, Fort Wayne; Ulster Mary Domitila, Mary Sullivan. Lafayette; Sister St. Helen, Catherine Duffy, Lafayette; Sister Mary Ursilina, Helen Schick, Lafayette; Sister Mary Carmilita, Sadie Moran. Boston; Sister Rosa Mina, May Kenny, Boston; Sis-

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ter St. Agatha, Frances Cassidy, Montgomery. Ind.; Sister Alary Redempta, Sadie McGauly, Indianapolis; Sister St. Morentia, Flora Blackburn, Salt Lake City; Lister Bomorosa, Mary Reagin. Cincinnati; Sister Alphonse Murie, Anna Casey, Chicago; Sister Anna Marie, Rote Clark, Chicago; Sister Bertrand, Anna Collins, Chicago; Sister Mary Bonaventure, Anna Hoffman. Rome, N. Y.; Sister Aloysius Theresa, Marcella Sullivan, Chicago; Sister Stella, Stella Kane, Fort Wayne; Sister Emma. Francos Corcoran. Chicago, and Sister Mary Zoe, Alary Burns, Chicago. TOWN COLD AND DARK. Frankfort Gas Station Demolished and People Without Fuel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., Dec. 8. Frankfort has been without fire during the day. and is in cold and darkness to-night. This morning at 3 o'clock an explosion occurred at the gas station in the tuburbs of the city, and the house and machinery were destroyed. Workmen have been engaged since in trying to make the necessary repairs, but they are not completed. The electriclight plant and all places using natural gas were compelled to stop and the people are burning lamps and candles. Gas Regulator House Demolished. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PETERSBURG, Ind., Dec. B.—The nat-ural-gas regulator house was demolished this afternoon, caused by an explosion of the accumulated gas. Superintendent Warner was painfully, but not seriously, injured. He was blown twenty feet. JUDGE DYKEMAN’S ERROR. Democratic Political Enthusiasm Caused Him to Misrepresent. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Dec. B.—The Panhandle railroad men here are quite indignant at Judge D. D. Dykeman’s statement with reference to the shops in this city at the meeting of tho Democratic central committee Tuesday. Air. J. T. Brooks, vice president of the Panhandle road, did not, in his speech here last year, make any promises of any kind whatever. Notwithstanding that fact, he might safely have done so, as the records show the number of hours' daily work have been increased from seven to eight, and, in many instances, to ten hours. The wages paid employes at the shops here are 3 per cent, more than a year ago. The increase has been steady and gradual. A During Negro Robber. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. B.—A daring but unsuccessful attempt at bank robbery occurred this morning when Cashier Fred Klusenkamp, of the Indiana machine works, entered his office and unlocked the vault. There was no one else in the office until a negro rushed in and opened the safe door, but the compartments were locked. He then commanded the cashier to write for him a recommendation and sign R. J. Fisher, secretary of the Bass foundry and machine works. Klusenkamp wrote the letter, but refused to sign it, which provoked threats from the negro and he caught sight of a knife on the desk, but the cashier was too quick and got it first. The telephone bell rung, but the cashier wa3 afraid to answer it as his back would be to the negro. The bell rang again, each time the negro ordering him to go to the 'phone. Refusing the negro went for his revolver, but at this moment two clerks entered the office and the negro escaped by another door and ran to the Lake Erie & Western road and boarded a train and got out of the city. Fires Started In Glass Works. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. B.—Evidently satisfied in their own minds that there will be no more trouble with the workers in signing the wage agreement, many gas belt window glass manufacturers lighted their fires today and prepared for resumption. In Anderson the Victor Company made this move, and also prepared for the first melt. All of the plants have been closed down since June. They will operate from Jan. 1 until July. By an agreement entered into by the manufacturers several months ago no manufacturer was to put his plant in operation under twenty-one days after the wage scale was signed. It is thought that this will he modified and they will be allowed to start on Christmas day. The Indiana committeemen of the workers and manufacturers left to-night for Pittsburg to sign their scale agreements according to the vote of the workers, which was announced this morning. Indiana and Illinois Mines. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. B.—The Indiana operators and mineifi cannot account for the delay in calling the joint conference which, it was agreed at the Columbus meeting, that brought the big strike to an end, should be held in the middle of this month, to adopt a wage scale for the new scale year, beginning Jan. 1, and it is probable that Indiana will try to agree with Illinois on a scale, disregarding the old interstate arrangement. It is among the probabilities that the two States may cut loose from the interstate or national organizations. There is a growing feeling in this State that the national officers of the miners’ organization are too much controlled by the situation in Ohio and Pittsburg to give proper consideration to the welfare of their members in Indiana and Illinois.

Case Against nn Aged Justice. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CROWN P01N.7, Ind., Dec, B.—The sensational case against Justice of the Peace Henry B. Crawford, of Hammond, charged with embezzlement and altering record books, came up in the Lake Circuit Court this morning for trial, with special Judge Biggs, of Warsaw, in the chair. The defendant is eighty years old, and has been on the bench at Hammond for a score of years. When the grand jury, two months ago, ordered all justices and their record books before them for investigation they claim they found many irregularities in the aged justice’s records, and for safekeeping they were taken away from him and locked in Clerk Eder’s office vaults, and to-morrow the state will introduce his own books in evidence against him. The case is being tried by a jury. 1)110,000 Verdict for Two Leg*. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. B.—A jury in the Superior Court, late this evening, gave John P. Walker a verdict for SIO,OOO against the Globe Accident Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, the full amount sued to recover. Walker carried a policy in the company and he met w ith an accident several months ago by falling from a train and having both legs cut off. He v'orked in the offices of the Louisville, Evansville & St Louis road, at Louisville, and came to his home in this city without a ticket or pass. For the injury sustained his policy called for SIO,OOO. The company withheld payment, claiming he was at fault when injured by trying to jump from the train, which was within the city. The case was bitterly fought and will be appealed to the Supreme Court, Lawyer Bo*wortli Lose* Ills Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Dec. B.—The jury in the case of Thomas Bosworth against Flora Evans has been decided in favor of the defendant. The case is a peculiar one. The Evans girl was run down by a Lake Erie & Western train and lost an arm and a foot. She brought suit for $50,000 damages and in the United States Court was given $7,000. Os this amount Judge Baker allowed the attorneys. Bosworth among them, $2,000 for their services. Bosw'orth claimed, however, to have a contract and sued for $1,700 additional. The case was taken from here to Decatur on a change of venue and the Jury was out for a long time before returning a verdict. The girl invested the $5,000 received by her in a farm. Postmaster Is a Fighter. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. B.—Postmaster George W. Dunter, of Huntertown, this county, was arrested to-day on a charge of assault and battery on T. W. Johnson. Both men are farmers, and several days ago had a quarrel over business matters. Johnson charges that while engaged in writing a letter in the postoffice to-day the postmaster came up behind him and dealt him two blows on the head, knocking him down and seriously injuring him. Ridding for Armor-Plate Plant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. B.—The Commercial Club to-day received notice for the city of Anderson to file Its bid for the proposed government armor plate plant, this city having been selected as one of the favorable sices. The communication is signed

by Secretary Long of the navy. One hundred and sixty acres of land will be required and there will be ten large steel buildings. The city of Anderson will file a bid which will be the largest yet offered for any concern located in the gas belt at present. Anderson is the only Indiana city that filed her application to bid for the plant. It is understood that of the bidders but ten cities have been selected for the final bid. Want to Break Baslck’s Will. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Dec. B.—Allen G. Busick, of Winamac, Ind., to-day brought suit in the Wabash Circuit Court to set aside the will of his foster father, the late Joseph W. Busick, president of the Wabash National Bank and one of the wealthiest citizens of Wabash. The foster son was cut off with a thousand dollars, the estate, amounting to SIOO,OOO, going to Mrs. Busick, Gillen Busick. of Kokomo, and Airs. Madge Bailey, a daughter, of Watmsh. Undue influence and unsound mind of the testator are alleged. No Franchise for Clodfeltcr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Dec. B.—The County Commissioners to-day refused to grant a franchise to the Clodfelter Indianapolis & Marion Electric Railway over the roads of the county from Elwood to Alexandria. Tomorrow the company will offer SI,OOO cash and a $2,000 bond to keep the highway in repair. Gant’s Opera Honse Damaged. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD DEPOT, Ind., Dec, B. Fire broke out In the rear of Gant’s Opera House about 1 o’clock this morning, destroying the stage and gutting the carriage room beneath. Loss, $3,000, with no insurance. Indiana Obituary. FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. S.—W. P. Griffin, aged seventy-six, one of the leading men of the county, died this morning at his home southeast of the city. He had been a citizen of the county for sixty-six years. He was the father of George Griffin and Airs. A. G. Thomas, of Martinsville; Airs. W. C. Henson and Airs. L. S. Lakin, of Indianapolis; F. E. Griffin, of Roekport, and John, Charles and Eibert Griffin, of this county. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., Dec. B.—William J. Fisher died last evening, after an illness of nearly a year. He was born in Kentucky and came to this county in 1 3. He leaves a wife and six children, Joseph E. Fisher, Mart B. Fisher, of Frankfort; Mrs. J. A. Armstrong, of Mrs. George Anderson, and Mrs. E. G. Horton, of Pittsburg. The funeral will be held Friday. SEYMOUR, Ind., Dec. B.—Air. George Bohall, aged seventy-nine, died last night of heart failure. He had been a resident of this county over sixty years. He leaves two sons. The body will be taken to Alount Pleasant. WARSAW, Ind., Dec. B.—William Henry Smith, one of the pioneers of this section of Indiana, died at his home at Milford this morning, aged seventy-five. Indiana Notes. Daniel Delhagqn, of Greensforlc, has received wmrd from Cincinnati that by the death of his father he is heir to SBO,OOO. An interesting find has been made in a gravel pit near Williamsburg on the Lewis farm. Workmen there unearthed what appears to be a prehistoric pottery or lime kiln. In It w r as a piece of material much resembling metal glass, and also sun-baked brick. Numerous evidences of a prehistoric people have been found in Wayne county. Suit was filed at Richmond yesterday against George W. Roberts, trustee of Greene township, on his bond and to enjoin him from paying any more money to the Alassillon (O.) Bridge Company, and also to recover money that he has already paid the company. The suit is brought by the taxpayers of Greene township, and the complaint alleges that Roberts contracted for a fourteen-hundred-dollar bridge without getting proper authority from the County Commissioners.

PROBABLY BASELESS RUMOR. British Troop Ship Avocn Reported to Have Foniulered. LONDON, Dec. B.—A rumor cubical from Halifax that the British troop ship Avoca, bound from Jamaica to Cape Town, with a thousand troops on board, has foundered is not credited here. According to a telegram received to-day from Teneriffe the Avoca, supposed to be the troop ship, had arrived at Ascension island, the date of arrival is not given It is noted as bearing on the two dispatches that the First battalion, Liverpool Regiment, consisting of • eight companies, is under orders from Jamaica for Cape Town. The Yantic at Detroit. DETROIT, Dec. B.—The long-anticipated United States ship Y'antic arrived at 1 o’clock this morning, after a vexatious voyage from Boston. The ship is now in possession of the Detroit Naval Reserve. She will be docked and overhauled. Her false forward woodwork, which was taken off in order to get the steamer through the St. Lawrence canals, will be replaced, as well as her spars, rigging, etc., which is now piled on the decks. Crowds of people visited the new acquisition of the lake navy to-day. The vessel is thirty-three years old, but sound and well adapted for a training ship. Bis Steamer Adrift. VALETTA, Dee. B.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Clyde, Captain Gordon, which left Marseilles on Dec. 4, and which was due to arrive at Alalta on Monday last, is missing, and a government tug is searching for her. It is thought in shipping circles that the Clyde’s detention is due to storms. LONDON, Nov. B.*—The British consul at Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, telegraphs that the Clyde has been seen drifting near the Corsican coast. The passenger list of the Clyde shows a hundred passengers. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Dec. B.—Arrived: Teutonic, from Liverpool; Spaarndam, from Rotterdam. Sailed: Germanic, for Liverpool; Southwark, for Antwerp; St. Paul, for Southampton; Bremerhaven, for Antwerp. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. B.—Arrived: Spree, from New York for Bremen; Paris, from New York. Sailed: Saale, for New York. ANTWERP, Dec. 6.—Arrived: Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia. AMSTERDAM, Dec. B.—Sailed: Amsterdam, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Dec. B.—Arrived: Catalonia, from Boston. A Defective Federal Law. MADISON. Wis., Dec. B.—The case of Lizzie Denomle, a young Indian halfbreed from Lae La Flambeau, was before the Federal Court to-day charged with assault with intent to kill two Indians, and her case brought up an important oversight in the federal laws. The assault was committed by Lizzie at a dance Aug. 22. After the girl had spent 115 days in jail here Judge Dunn to-day dismissed her case on a motion for want of jurisdiction. Congress in 1885 passed a law to provide punishment for assault committed by Indians on a reservation. but left it to the other statutes to settle in what courts and in what manner the offense should be tried. On investigation it was found that there is no other statute which contains these provisions, and the court was without jurisdiction. The decision is one of national importance. Mexico to Issue Silver Bonds. CITY' OF MEXICO. Dec. B.—The Chamber of Deputies has approved the bill authorizing the minister of finance to issue anew series of 5 per cent, silver bonds of the interior debt to the amount of §20.000.000. making the total authorization s6o,(M>.v/iO. The bill is now before the Senate. These bonds are issued to convert the floating debt into the form of subsidies, port works, payments, etc., and as a means of making the internal debt uniform. These bonds are always in active demand in Europe, where they are mostly held by small investors, who regard them as an excellent form of placing their savings. The bonds are quoted at 78 to 8u in this market. No Special Tax on Newspapers. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. B.—Judge Prentis has rendered a decision in the case of the Norfolk Virginian and other daily newspapers against the city of Norfolk, in which the plaintiffs sue for permanent Injunction restraining the city from collecting a special tax on newspapers. Judge Prentis makes the temporary injunction perpetual on the ground that the city cannot levy a tax which the State does not impose. The case will be taken up to the Court of Appeals. Woman Shot by Robber*. KANSAS CITY. Mo., Dec. B.—Mrs. Emma Schumacher, keeper of a grocery at Eighteenth and Campbell streets, was fatally shot to-night by robbers, who demanded the cash in her money drawer. In attempting to defend her property Mrs. Schumacher drew a revolver and was shot down by the robbers. The two men then ran out and drove away in a buggy. The woman is shot in the abdomen and at the City Hospital it is stated she cannot recover.

WAGES TO BE REDUCED OPERATIVES IX COTTON MILLS TO BE CUT ABOUT 10 PER CENT. Only Great Industry That Has Xot Felt the Wave ol Prosperity—2B,ooo Toilers at Fall River Affected. TALL RIVER.-Maps., Dec. B.—At a general meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers’ Association to-day it was voted unanimously to reduce all wages in the mills of the city, the amount and time of the reduction being left to a committee, which for some time has had charge of the matter. It is understood that the cut will be not less than 10 per cent, and that it will go into effect on Jan. 1. The cut will affect 28,000 operatives, who are paid an aggregate weekly wage of SIBO,OOO. For some months the executive committee of the association has been investigating the situation in this city. The price of print cloths for a long time has been the lowest in the history of the trade, while the demand has been only fair. Under these conditions the mills have been selling at a loss and the stock of goods has been increasing. The committee obtained the signature of every manufacturer in the city, except one, who is understood to be D. A. Brayton, of the Durfee mill, a private corporation. As no reduction could be ordered without the consent of every mill, the committee decided to report back to the association. This was done at the general meeting to-day and the committee received the unanimous approval of the association on its suggestion that a reduction be made. It is anticipated that the price of weaving a cut of print cloth will be reduced from 18 to 16 cents. In August, 1894, a cut of 10 per cent, was ordered, but in April of the next year an advance by the Fall River Iron Company of the same amount necessitated similar action on the part of the rest of the mills and wages have been paid on this basis ever since. The attitude of the employes on the matter can hardly be stated until they have had a chance to will say much about the subject until meetings have been held. The feeling is prevalent that before the matter is settled there will be a strike, but how large a proportion of the operatives will take part it is impossible to say. Every effort, however he made to avert such action. The Carders’ Association to-night deferred action on the cut until a special general meeting is held after the Manufacturers Association announces the change in schedules. The carders do not think a reduction warranted. The Spinners’ Union referred the matter to the executive board, with power to act. The spinners do not think a cut will relieve an overstocked market, but if the manufacturers can prove that it will they will accept. They will probably ask for a conference with the manufacturers, and prominent members tonight predicted a strike, which will be a bitter fight. PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Dec. B.—Alfhough no statement of the action to be taken by Rhode Island cotton manufacturers on the wage question could be obtained from any t to-daw, it is the general belief that the Rhode Isrand manufacturers will pursue a waiting policy for the present. WOMEN’S CLUBS’ SESSIONS. PlnnM Already Made for Federation

Meeting. Philadelphia Press. The next biennial convention of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, which will open in Denver, Col., on June 21, 1898, will have for its chairman Mrs. Edward Longstreth, one of the most active leaders of Pennsylvania’s women’s clubs. Some radical changes from past methods will be made, and all the details will be arranged well In advance by Mrs. Henrotin, of Chicago, president of the General Federation, and Mrs. Longstreth. The Denver committee has been divided into thirteen subcommittees, which cover almost the entire sphere of women’s Interests. Mrs. Longstreth’s executive ability found wide recognition during the recent Louisville assembly, for which she conducted the business women’s department to a fair plane of success. Her appointment to the board of managers immediately followed, in which responsibility another honor was thrust upon her—that of chief executive of the biennial. Her first decision was to depart from conventional methods and propose a conference as the ideal of the next federation reunion. So there will be no essays or speeches at next June’s session. Subjects for discussion will be introduced by competent speakers in brief remarks, and then submitted to the audience for debate. The audience will be made up of club presidents and delegates who have been trained to speak, so Mrs. Longstreth anticipates inspiring results. Board and council meetings will monopolize Tuesday,'*? sessions. The Governor of the State, mayor of the city, president of the Denver Woman’s Club, Mrs. Sarah S. Platt, and state correspondent, Mrs. E. M. Ashley, will make addresses of welcome on Wednesday. Mrs. Henrotin will respond. Education, studied from four view points—ethical, manual, university extension and education per se—will be Wednesday evening. Mrs. Mary E. Mumford, Mrs. Ottley, of Georgia, and Mrs. Coray. of Utah, have been invited to speak on their specialties. The balance of the week will be occupied by highly interesting sessions. Two Views of tlie Library. Washington Post. Two men from out of town were among the visitors at the new library of Congress Thursday afternoon. One was a slightly bored-looking man, with that intangible something about his dress and manner which stamps the New Yorker. The other was a shabby little old man with a long, white beard. The dissatisfaction of the New Yorker began with the bronze figures of the fountain. They were entirely out of scale, he said. The front of the building, he saidj was simply an overgrown sideboard design and ought to be done in beveled glass and quartered oak. The entrance looked like a storm door. The decorations inside were overdone—lacked depth of tone, boldness of drawing; strength was sacrificed to overrefinement; things did not hang together. The little old man with the white beard followed him about the building, but I am sure he did not hear the New Yorker’s remarks. They came out together. “What do you think of the building?’’ asked an official near the door. The New Yorker looked haughty. “Some tremendously fine points,” he said, “but on the whole ft’s a stupendous nonument of wasted opportunities.” The shabby little old man simnly turned his head to look back, when the official spoke to him. His eyes glistened. He drew a long breath. “Sir,” he said, solemnly. “I think it gives one something to live for.” Fires and Loss of Life. OWOSSO, Mich., Dec. B.—Fire which broke out in the Owosso casket works about 3 o’clock this morning destroyed one life and 930.000 worth of property. Frank Wilcox, night watchman, aged twenty-seven, and the support of an aged mother, living in Detroit. was suffocated while trying to quench the fire with a hand extinguisher. Insurance, $1,600. NASHUA. N. H., Dec. B.—The interior of the four-story block on West Pearl street, owned and occupied by C. B. Pease, dealer in house furniture, was damaged by fire during the night. Loss estimated at $35,000. Taxes of Banks Increased. CLEVELAND. 0., Dec. B.—Under an order from the State Board of Equalization the basis on which the banks of this city are taxed has been heavily increased. The taxable valuation of the twelve national banks has been increased $1,154,000. and that of the twenty-six state banks $272,000. This action is taken because the present valuation of the banks on the tax duplicates is much lower than that shown by the reports made by the national banks to the controller of the treasury. The banks claim that they are legally entitles! to the offsets which have been allowed heretofore, and they will fight the matter in the courts. Failure of a Hardware Firm. CHICAGO, Dec. B.—Horton, Gilmore, McWilliams & Cos., _wholesa!e hardware dealers. Nos. 172 to 176 Lake street, assigned to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank to-day. The assets are $300,000 and libillties $210,000. The establishment was one of the largest ol' the kind in Chicago; It is said the firm has been doing a losing business for three years. The Newest In Bonnet*. New York Evening Sun. Bigger and bigger and undoubtedly more beautiful grow the Victorian bonnets every week. They seem, however, the exclusive property of very young, slender girls, whose skins are fresh enough to need no screen of

tulle, since veils are never worn with this headgear. There was a tendency recently to do away with hat-wearing bridesmaids, but this winter’s brides have not been able to resist the blandishments of the Victorian shape and its picturesque possibilities. In one hat. against a shape of violet-colored beaver, long, pale-blue plumes are laid, and with cream lace, pink silk popples and Ivory white satin ribbon, this crown of millinery glory Is made complete. In sharpest contrast to the towering structures and all the other tribe of large winter hats that, without exception, flare exaggeratedly up from the face, are the novel walking hats—caps they should rather be called—made all of birds’ breasts and clinging like a military fatigue cap all about the head. On one side, of course, a fountain of mingled osprey plumes or a tuft of ribbon bows rise high, springing invariably from a wheelshaped brooch of steel, or large circular jeweled pin. THE NATIONAL GUARD. Action of the Interstate AssociationLobby to Be Sent to Congress. ST. LOUIS, Dec. B.—At to-day’s session of the Interstate National Guard Association General Bell, the president, anndvnced the following executive committee; General Reese, of Illinois; General Bend, of Minnesota; General Snowden, of Pennsylvania, and Colonel Curtis, of Indiana. This committee will go to Washington to urge on Congress the necessity of appropriating $2,000,000 yearly for the National Guard. A number of resolutions were passed, among them being one asking the secretary of war to detail one officer from each branch of the regular service to attend future meetings of.the association. Another resolution adopted was as follows: "As the organized volunteer forces of the various States are the first reserve corps to the United States army, and is, as an organization and individually as citizens, interested in the integrity and maintenance of our institutions, therefore, be it “Resolved, That as an association representing the organized volunteer force it is the sense of this body that we favor a closer relationship between the regular and volunteer forces of the United States, and that we favor all such legislation as will place the United States in a better position to maintain its position as one of the great nations of the world.” By a vote of 21 to 14 Chicago was selected as the place of meeting in IS9B, and the convention then adjourned. A Woman’s Explanation. Washington Post. And speaking of calling, or of paying visits, which I believe is the ultra-correct way to express the idea now, a young foreigner who makes his home in Washington for the present, tells me that Washington is the only capital in the civilized world where men who are really good form make evening calls. One does not do it, he says, in Paxis or Vienna, or London. It is not good form in Boston, it is not fashionable in New York, and Chicago men do it apologetically, but in Washington a man may pay calls after 6 o’clock in the evening, and be perfectly correct. The young foreigner attributes the custom to the lacc that Washington is a Southern town, but I asked one charming woman about it, and the answer she gave me seemed perfectly logical, reasonable and comprehensive. “My dear.” said she, “it is the custom, and long may it wave. It is founded on the eternal truth that every woman looks better by artificial light than she does by sunlight, and Washington women are sensible enough to stick to it.”

Oscar Wilde In Destitution. Harold Frederic, in New York Times. The Paris Journal the other day contained an editorial appeal for money for Oscar Wilde, tvho is described as living in Naples in the most pitiable distress. Os course, the Journal also described him as a victim of the atrocious cruelty of British Philistinism, but that is not to the point. I learn from friends of Wilde here who helped him when he came out of prison, but who will have nothing further to do with him, that he is undoubtedly in sore poverty in Naples, and Is likely to remain so. But it is through nobody’s fault but his own. His wife was enabled to make him an allowance of sls a week when he left England, which was to be continued solely on condition that he was not to see young Alfred Douglas again. When he was fairly settled In Naples Douglas joined him, and on this being discovered it was concluded to let them starve together, and his allowance was permanently stopped. The Economy of Shopping;. Philadelphia Record. It is a law of Nature, as Henry George observes in his new book, that men seek satisfaction of their desires with the minimum of exertion; and this principle, he adds, is the fundamental law of political economy. What is true of men is just as true of women. Take the task of Christmas shopping—it might be so laborious that all but the Amazons would shun it. But the stores have done all that is possible to minimize the exertion required; and their chief agency in that line is the advertisement. No other human agency has done so much to bring desire and satisfaction so close together. Sirs. W. W. Dudley’s Will. Washington Post. The will of the late Mrs. Theresa F. Dudley, wife of Gen. W. W. Dudley, executed Sept. 17, 1897, was filed for probate yesterday. The entire estate, with the exception of the wardrobe, laces, jewelry, diamonds and gems, which are given to a daughter, Theresa, are given to George G. Tarbell, of Boston, to hold in trust. It is provided that General Dudley, husband of the testatrix, Is to be allowed the use of. the estate, including premises 1212 Eighteenth street, northwest, during his lifetime, and at his death the estate is to be divided among the children. The trustee is also appointed executor. One Killed and Two Fatally Hurt. NELSONVILLE, 0., Dec. B.—One man was killed and two men fatally hurt at Floodwood, 0., this afternoon. The victims were: Riley Powell and son Will and Peter Klinesmith, of Logan. The two Powells were working in the mines of G. V. Shafer & Son, and were victims of a blast bursting through the ribs of an adjoining room. The younger Powell was instantly killed and the father will die. Klinesmith was bossing a gang of workmen engaged in tearing down the old furnace, when a pulley gave way and fell upon him, fatally injuring him. Murderer Confesses. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. B.— David A. Weeks, jointly accused with Charles A. Bonai of the murder of George M. Nichols, of Daniel Farms, made a full confession of that crime to-day. Bonai is on trial and Weeks was called as a witness for the state. The confession implicates Bonai in a long list of robberies, as well as in the Nichols murder, and in the shooting of Mrs. Caroline Booth, at Botsford. Conn., on April 10. In this latter crime Weeks said the shooting was done by James A. Tuttle, who has been under arrest on suspicion, and who lived in the same house with Mrs. Booth. Edwin G. Nourse Killed. ROCK ISLAND, 111., Dec. 8.-Edwin G. Nourse, assistant engineer in charge of the construction of the new Crescent bridge, was instantly killed by a falling derrick this morning. Mr. Nourse was one of the best known and the most successful scientific engineers in the West. He designed the railroad terminal at the world’s fair grounds in Chicago. For many years he was chief engineer of the Chicago & Evanston Railroad. and was identified with engineer departments of the Milwaukee, Northwestern and Santa Fe systems. Tlie Henry George Democracy, NEW YORK, Dec. B.—On a call Issued by the executive committee of the Thomas Jefferson Democracy, which was organized by the late Henry George, a conference of the assembly district leaders took place tonight. All the boroughs in Greater New York were represented by the 150 delegates present. It was decided to continue the organization, and Henry A. Golden was chosen permanent chairman. Jmiiped from a Bridge to Death. CHICAGO. Dec. B.—John Sehwinon, sixtytwo years of age, committed suicide this afternoon by hurling himself from the high bridge in Lincoln Park to the ice fifty feet below. His act was witnessed by fully one hundred people, but none was able to prevent his action. His body went nearly through the ice. which was three inches thick. Sehwinon was out of work and despondent. The Way of It. New York Evening Sun. The elderly gentlemen who marry very young girls are having a lively time of it just now. In such combinations the saying of M. Antoine Dupuy is established: “Some men marry to make an end; some women to make a beginning.” What's In a Names New York Evening gun. When Mr. F. Hopklnson Smith deserts literature and art, and builds lighthouses, he calls himself Francis H. Smith. It is unusual to introduce the Jekyll and Hyde theory into the occupations of dally life.

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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Minneapolis Board of Education has decided to clo.se the schools in Minneapolis March 1, 1898, because it has no money and no legal right to borrow. The Marquis Villamejor, a member of the Senate, has written to Senor Sagasta, the premier, offering £IO,OOO ($50,000) to start a national subscription for the increase of the fleet. The Zanes\dlle, 0., Street-railway and Electric Company went into the hands of William Chrjstie, receiver, yesterday. The bonded Indebtedness Is $200,000 and the floating debt s(s,—. John Thomaschuetz, convicted of killing hls sweetheart, Miss Annie Rausch, has been sentenced by Judge Zachritz, of the Criminal Court, at St. Louis, to be hanged on Jan. 12 next. Mynatt Lynch was hanged at Clinton, Anderson county, Tennessee, yesterday, for the murder of J. D. Heck, superintendent of the Royal Coal and Coke Company, of Coal Creek, on Feb. 17 last. The Commercial Cable Company has sent out the following notioe: “We are advised that the Chinese authorities give notice of the closing of the telegraph office at Kiaochau, in the province of Shan-Tung.” George H. Pullman, for the past three years associated with the American National Red Cross Society, has resigned hla connection with that organization, other engagements demanding his entire time. Roy Erickson, a maker of wicker baskets, was murdered at Sioux Falls, S. D., Tuesday night. William West, whose daughter Erickson was accused of having ruined, and James Garrahan were arrested for the crime. Michael Spangler, of Denver, who was terribly crushed Tuesday when being hoisted In the shaft of the Crown Point mine, near Idaho Springs, of which he is receiver, is not dead, as reported, but no hope of his recovery is entertained. Governor Black, of New York, has made a requisition on the Governor of Ohio for the extradition of Samuel Jacobs, who is under arrest in Cleveland, having been indicted in New York city for defrauding Max Bernstein out of $12,192 on a bogus gold-dust scheme. The United States steamer Algonquin, which was built for the revenue cutter service on the lakes, was launched yesterday at Cleveland. The Algonquin is a duplicate of the Gresham. As she slipped into the water Miss May Childs broke a bottle of champagne across the bow. John Harlong, an aged farmer, who was tortured and robbed of SBOO by three masked men at Greentown, 0., last Thursday night, died yesterday. Harlong was eighty-seven years old. His principal wound was a deep cut on the head made by an iron wedge. There is no clew to the murderers. George W. Vanderbilt, bound on a tour of the world, was a passenger yesterday on the American liner St. Paul, which sailed from New York for Southampton. It Is his intention to visit India on a hunting expedition. Later he will go to Japan. W. B. Osgood Field, his friend, accompanied him. J. Havelock Wilson, M. P., and Edward Harford, representing the British Trades Council, both of whom are delegates to the congress of the American Federation of Labor to be held at Nashville, Tenn., soon, arrived at New York yesterday from Liverpool. They were met by a delegation of labor men. The Kansas City Transportation Bureau, at a special meeting yesterday, voted unanimously to oppose in every legitimate manner the passage of any railway pooling measure by the present Congress. W. P. Trickett, the bureau's traffic manager, will go to Washington as spokesman for the Kansas City shipping interests. At Detroit yesterday Frank Fadellin was found guilty of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to imprisonment in the Jackson penitentiary for life. Fadellin shot his son Frank the night of Sept. 28 because his wife and son would not admit him to the house, he having failed for some time previously to support his family. The fight which has been going on between the Ogden Gas Company and the Chicago Gas Company has. it is said, been adjusted. The Ogden Company will not extend its mains to the West and South Sides of Chicago. The Chicago Company, in return, will no longer resist the extension of the Ogden mains on the North Side. The epidemic of measles in Springfield, 0., is admittedly beyond control. A total of 1,188 cases have been reported In the last six weeks. Quarantine has been decided useless because of negligence of parents and physicians in not reporting cases, and has been abolished. Os all the cases reported, however, there has been but one death. Miss Frances E. Willard, as president of the World’s W. C. T. U.. has accepted the resignation of Mrs. Josephine Butler as superintendent of the purity department. Leaders of the movement say that “after the clear and explicit statements made in the recent resolution at Toronto, and in the president’s annual address, it would be useless to endeavor to express with greater clearness the opposition of white ribbon women everywhere to any form of license involving social vice.” A Plenty. Washington Post. Hon. Thomas B. Reed declined to talk for publication, with an abiding confidence that there will be no opinion deficit. There are others.