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party worker is the Republic’s best friend In time of peace, and should war come he would be the first man to organize a company in his township, a regiment in his county and a brigade in his district. (Loud applause.) Continue to discredit party politics. continue to sneer at men who take an Interest in party organization, and the time will soon come when congressional elections will lie little more than rich men’s reunions, and both branches of our national Congress nothing less than bankers’ clubs.” MR. LANDIS’S REMEDY. In response to persistent demands from Mr. Johnson that the speaker state what he would suggest as a remedy for what he was pleased to call abuses of the civil-service system, Mr. Landis said: “First of nil, 1 would undo the work of the Logan Carlise and Albert leaker crowd. I would then have the appointments of chiefs of divisions, private secretaries, chief clerks and those whose relations are of a confidential nature entirely free frond legislative restrictions. 1 would fix a limited tenure cf office of, say six or seven years, for employes in the various departments, placing in the hands of the heads of departments the power to reappoint such employes as are essential to the efficiency of the service. I would apportion the officers in fact and in truth to each congressional district, Territory and the District ot Columbia, and I would not have the law by implication or otherwise disc: - , dit active interest in party politics. I w’ould make ail appointments probationary. If at the end of the probationary period the appointee proved efficient and demonstrated the same before an examining board in the department in which he was employed, he would then lie appointed for the full term, at the expiration of which he would leave the government service. As an evidence of good faith and to retain his residence, I would make it obligatory upon every male officeholder outside of the district of Columbia to return to his home at every congressional election and vote, thus emphasizing the fact that the accredited resident of a State who does not take enough interest in politics and in his country to vote is not qualified to hoid office.'' (Loud and prolonged applause.) Mr. Landis concluded thus: “The professional civil-service reformer, who is responsible for the perversion of the great principle he would so zealously champion, is the child of the Pharisee. He would have us believe the public service is a reproach, political ambition an infamy, political success the epitaph of self-respect. \ r et he fs always holding office himself, and is never supremely happy unless writing reform philippics on government stationery with one hand and affixing his signature to the permanent pay roll with the other. He assumes that he is the monopolist of wisdom, the guardian of the conscience *nd integrity of Christendom, the gentle shepherd of peace and hope and progress. His only argument is a sneer. His library is the rich and fertile garden in which fads bloom and blossom. To him history is a lamentation. With him public virtue begins and ends. He is supremely sorrowful when he thinks that some time the world will have to get along without him. He is unreasonable and malicious. If you would save this principle, civil service reform, from absolute extinction, you must rescue it from the hands of this zealot; you must wrest it from his clutch and the consequences of his rapacious folly; you must bring it in harmony with the faith of the fathers and close to the hearts of the people. This is the way to make patriots. We are asked to define a patriot; I would say that it was he who carried a gun in time of war and took an active interest in party politics in time of peace.” (Long applause.) MAY LAST A W EEK. Debate in the House Promises to Be Lengthy and Warm. Associated Press Dispatch. Jan. s.—The civil-service debate began in the House to-day, based on the item in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill for the maintenance of the commission. It promises to continue at least until the ebd of this W’eek, with a possibility that it may run longer; but it is generally admitted on both sides that the appropriation in the bill will stand, as the anti-civil-service reformers do not seriously contemplate an attempt to strike it out. The debate, therefore, is only preliminary to any programme which the enemies of the law may agree on. The members of the House are divided into three camps on this questioh—those who stand by the law, those who advocate its entire repeal and those who desire its modification. These divisions were apparent in the debate to-day, the nature of which was not as stirring as had been anticipated. Messrs. Moody <Rop., Mass.), Grow (Rep., Pa.), and Greene (Pop., Neb.), defended the law; Messrs. Dockery (Dem., Mo.), Robb (Dem.. Mo.), and Pearson (Rep., N. C.), opposed it outright, while Mr. Landis (Rep., Ind.) favored modifications of the law. At the opening of the session it was proposed that Mr. Moody and Mr. Dockery control the time for and against. Mr. Hepburn suggested that it was a three-cornered contest. "The Democrats,” said he, “desire the entire repeal of the law. Some of those on this side desire it to stand as it is, while a large body of us desire a wholesome modification of its provisions.” "Why does the gentleman aver that all the Democrats on this side of the House desire the entire repeal of the law?” inquired Mr. Clark, of Missouri. “Simply because that would be wrong, and your side is always wrong,” retorted Mr. Hepburn, amid great laughter. AH suggestions as to the control of time failed at last and the chair recognized Mr. Grow, who spoke for twenty minutes in support of the general principle of the civilservice law. Mr. Moody then mado an elaborate defense of the civil-service law, which, he said, protected officials who received $70,000,000 in salaries per annum. Yet, he said, he had no sympathy with those who believed the law was perfect and should only be modified by extension. He thought those who were placed under the protection of the law by executive order should be compelled to submit to a test of their efficiency and he also believed that some method should be found to preserve, if not restore, the efficiency of the service. He defended the administration of the law and the character of the examinations of the commission. In conclusion, he declared that the hostility to the law was superficial. The sentiment of the Republican party, he insisted, was overwhelming in favor of the party keeping the solemn pledge it had given to the people. Mr. Docktry opened the debate in opposition to tho law. which, he argued, was odious to the American people and should be repealed to. He pointed out that the striking out of the appropriation for the commission would accomplish nothing, as the commissioners could sue in the t’ourt of Claims for the salaries. The courageous thing to do. he said, was to pass a bill aimed directly at the law. Mr. Robb and Mr. Pearson followed in opposition to the law. The latter, who has been very active in his hostility to the civilservice law. contended that life tenure inevitably meant a civil pension list. whether the pensions should be paid directly nut of the treasury or indirectly from a retiring fund collected from the employes for that purpose. Mr. Clark (Dem., Mo.) asked whether the Republicans who were hostile to the law intended to bring In a bill for Its repeal, to which Mr. Pearson emphatically replied in the affirmative. "Will you gentlemen on the other side use your best endeavor to secure consideration for it when it is reported?" asked Mr. Clark. "We will make desperate efforts.” nnswered Mr. Pearson. "We will go to the ext-cme and vole with Democrats to secure consideration.” (Applause and laughter.) Mr. laindls favored a modification of the law. which, he said, would doubtless earn for him a reputation as a spoilsman. He sneered at the professional civil-service reformers. He had never known those who called themselves the "bett r element,” who were not narrow, selfish, bigoted and dangerous. They had bulldozed and cowed national conventions and hypnotized Presidents. while they managed themselves to sit continuously at the banquet table. He denounced Mr. Cleveland's methods In his second administration, describing particularly what took place in the government printing office, to the head of which, ho said. Mr. Cleveland appointed a man who wouid do the "dirty work.” On a single day. he said. Public Printer Benedict discharged 750 m*n. That was known at the government printing office as "Bloody Monday.” On another day he discharged 420. When 1,800 removals had been made and 1,800 Democrats appointed. Mr. Cleveland pressed the button and the civil-service blanket was thrown over them. He read what purjKirted to be a literal transcript of the reasons assigned for the discharge of the Republican employes in the secret record of Mr. Benedict's private secretary. Pome of them were very amusing and kept the House in a roar. When he had concluded the reading, Mr. Perkins (Rep., Pa.) asked if it was proposed to return to u system which made such a recital possible. "No,” replied Mr. Landis, "but we want to modJf> the law.” Mr. Henderson (Rep., la.) protested against the production of the record of one (•vui iu condemnation of th bast *y*luu

yet devised for the purification of the government service. He said the Civil-service Commission did not indorse such work. Unless the law was modified by Its triends, Mr. Landis said, a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress would destroy it root and branch. The law must be rescued from the clutch of the zealots. Mr. Landis was vociferously applauded when he concluded. Mr. Strode (Rep., Neb.) closed the debate for the day with a speech in favor of civilservice reform. He criticised Mr. Landis, who, he said, urged the abuses or tne spoils s>stem as an argument for a return to tnai system. Mr. Richardson (Dem., Tenn.), in reply to Mr. Landis, asserted that the record showed that when the civil service was extended to the government printing office only' 31 per cent, of the employes had been appointed under a Democratic administration. while 14 per cent, had been appointed by a Republican public printer. At 4:55 p. m. the House adjourned. DEBATE IX THE SENATE. Civil-Service l.niv unit Its Working's Discussed at Length. WASHINGTON. Jan. s.—The presentation of replies of the members of the Cabinet to the resolution calling for information as to the application of the civil-service law' to the various departments of the government, together with consideration of the I*lll establishing a bureau for the tw'elfth census, precipitated a sharp civil-service debate in the Senate to-day. Mr. Cullom, the author of the resolution, thought that modification in the law r ought to be made, as the authorities had drifted far aw T ay from the original intention of the authors of the civilservice law. Mr. Allen charged that the law was openly and daily violated and said it was a hiss and a byword among the people. Mr. Cockrell declared that it was presumptuous in Secretary' Sherman to make recommendxitions to Congress that certain positions in his department should be exempted from the classified service, when the President had full authority to make the exceptions he recommended. He thought an effort was being made to tie the President’s hands. To-day’s session began w'ith a speech by Mr. Allen on the immigration bill. He declared in favor of consular inspection of immigrants. Mr. Carter then called up the bill to provide for taking the next census and argued against making the appointments through the Civil-service Commission, saying it was a preliminary measure and provided only for thirty-two places. Mr. Cockrell replied, declaring that the Republican party' was backing squarely down from its position on the civil-service question. Mr. Teller (Col.) spoke at some length in support of the idea that the Census Bureau should not be a partisan bureau and that Its employes should, therefore, be placed in the classified service. He was particularly anxious that honest, competent men should perform the work of the next census because he had knowledge of intentional misstatements and intentional fraud that had been perpetuated by one statistical department of the government in making out that the world’s production of silver was ten millions of dollars larger than it actually was. He was prepared he said, to establish this statement, # necessary, to the satisfaction of a jury. If the men whose appointment is provided for by this bill are competent they ought to have the protection of the classified service. Properly administered, said he, the civil-service law is a wise measure. It has, how'ever, been badly abused and thus brought into disrepute. Civil service has come to stay in this country. It will stand and only reasonable modifications of its application will be made. Some such modiHeations may be desirable. Mr. Chilton, in an extended speech, in which he discussed the w r ork of the previous Census Bureau, and indicated the enormous amount of work, unnecessary' and irrelevant, that had been performed, declared that it was a scandal to have issued so many volumes as seemed necessary to cover the work of the census of 1880 and 1890. He expressed a hope that the efforts of the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Hale) to reduce to reasonable proportions the topics to be handled by the twelfth census would be successful. Quite unexpectedly a lively civil-service debate was precipitated just at the close of the session. Mr. Carter, in charge of the bill, said that he would have the measure printed, with the amendments that had been offered to it. and tor that purpose would consent to have it temporarily laid aside. He then moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of executive business. Pending the passage of that motion the Vice President laid before the Senate the reply of Secretary Sherman to the Senate resolution requesting information as to the application of the civil-service law in his department. Mr. Cockrell was on iiis feet instantly upon the conclusion of the reading of Secretary Sherman’s communication. “Coining from Secretary Sherman, who served long years in Congress, this communication must be regarded as a very remarkable document,” said he. “The President himself. as Secretary Sherman well-know s, has ample authority to modify the law in accordance with the recommendations of his secretary of state. The extension of the operation of the law has been made from time to time by executive ar.d not by legislative action. For the secretary of state to come to Congress for such relief as Mr. Sherman requests, when his own chief, the President of the United States, has full power to act, is presumptuous.” Mr. Allison said that in making his reply Secretary' Sherman had simply complied with the explicit request of the Senate, and he had the resolution read to show that it called for recommendations or suggestions for modifications that Cabinet officials might have to make. Mr. Allison did not think senators ought to criticise members of the Cabinet for furnishing to the Senate precisely what it had asked for. Mr. Cockrell thought it was a “catch” resolution w’hich had been framed by the senator from Illinois (Mr. Cullomh but he thought it was unnecessary to consume the time of Congress in the discussion of this question, unless there was a desire on the part of the President’s party to tie his hands.

Mr. Cullom. the author of the resolution calling for the information, in the course of some remarks bearing on it. said in a general way that he w’as in favor of the civil-service law. He was free to say, however. that modifications in its application might be made with advantage. Mr. Cullom was interrupted by Mr. Allen with the charge that the civil-service law was openly and daily violated by the heads of the government departments. “As it is now administered.” said he. “it is a hiss and by-word among the people.” Resuming. Mr. Cullom said he had no information as to specific violations of the law. but he would like to have the whole matter investigated, as he was satisfied that the authorities were very far from carrying out the original intention of the authors of the law. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, declared that it was evident that the authors of the law had not intended that inefficient persons should not bo removed by the heads of government departments. He held that the executive heads of departments ought to have the right to remove Incompetent employes without reference to tho action or opinions of the Civil-service Commission. At 3:10 p. m., on motion of Mr. Carter, the Senate went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. General Hundley Not a Duelist. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. s.—Gen. George J. Hundley, who was arrested last night on the charge of being alxrnt to engage in a duel with Col. John Cussons, was before the Police Court to-day. General Hundley made quite a lengthy statement in court, in which he declared that he was opposed to dueling and had no intention of breaking the peace. The case was continued an 1 General Hundley was bailed in the sum of SI,OOO. Colonel Cussons has not yet been ai re sted. Three Miner* Killed. WILKESBARRE. Pa.. Jan. s.—Three men were killed at the Avondale mine of the Delaware. Lackawanna A- Western Coal Company to-day by a terrific explosion of gas. They were: David Powell, miner, aged twenty-tight, leaves widow; David E. Jones, agt and thirty-tight, miner, survived by widow' and seven children; John Even Jones, laborer. single. William Brennan, a driver boy, was badly l urr.ed and o.herw.se injure!, bat will recover. Long Talk by ’Phone. NASHVILLE. T*nn.. Jan. s.—it is believed the long-distance telephone record was broken to-day at Gallatin, this State, when John H. Cross, representative of the Bell Company, talked with the operator In Norfolk. Va. The circuit used passed through Nashville. Evansville. Terre Haute, Indianapolis. Pittsburg. Philadelphia, Washington and Richmond to Norfolk, making fully fifteen hundred miles. Type Foundry Damaged by Fire. NEW YORK. Jan. s.—The six-story type foundry of A. D. Farmer & Son. on Beekman and Gold streets, was damaged by fire to-night to the extent ot $50,000.

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REFORMATORY CROWDED * MOKE CONVICTS AT JEFFERSONVILLE THAN THEY HAVE CELLS. ♦ Rev. G. W. Switzer Selected for Chnplain—Roy Strikers May Be Joined by tbe Girls. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 5.-The population of the Reformatory is 90S, an excess of 14S over the cell accommodations. The number is rapidly on the increase, and it is predicted will reach 1,000 by June 1. Any number above 760 must be stowed away in the corridor on cots. The number of inmates is greater at present than at any time in the history of the institution. The Rev. George W. Switzer, pastor of the M. E. Church at West Lafayette, has been tendered the position of chaplain at the Indiana Reformatory and will probably accept. The salary' attached to the position is $1,200 a year. There has been no regular chaplain for some time, the pulpit being filled by different ministers. Rev. Switzer preached a forcible sermon at the Reformatory last Sunday. He is a prominent Mason, having been an officer in the Grand Commandery of the Krright Templars. Boy*’ Strike Still On. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 5.-*-The striking boys at Ball Brothers’ fruit-jar works continued to stand firm at 10 o’clock to-night, when it was believed that a majority of them would return to work. Every department of the factories is working full blast. The boy's’ places have been filled with men, some of them old enough to be grandfathers of the oldest striker, and at wages much above the $4 a week asked by the boys. They have been hired for a week, and in the meantime the firm believes that the boys will conie back to work. To operate the factory to-night it was necessary to have some of the day men who are employed in other departments work in the strikers’ places. One reason, above all others, for the strike is the fact that the limit on the number of jars each blower shall make each day has been removed and the fact that some blowers who made $6 and $8 per day are now making $lO shows the increased amount of work of their assistants, the boys. To-night it is impossible for some of the men to do the work and keep pace with the blowers. * The Lehr boys joined the strikers to-day, causing the worst trouble to the firm. They want $1 a day. It is reported to-night that 150 girls employed in the grinding room will also quit if not given an increase. The state labor commissioners believe that the boys have lost their strike. County Jobbery Growing Less. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. s.—The Madison county stationery' and printing contract for the coming year has been given to the Bulletin Printing Coir oany, of Anderson, over eight competitors. The bid w r as a fraction over $1,7C0. The n* xt nearest bid was $1,960, by Baker & Thornton, of Indianapolis. Burford bid $2,163. Before Republicans obtained control of the affairs of the county the yearly contract ran from $3,000 to $4,000 per annum, and then the county did not require as much supplies as at present. Burford held the contract for many years. Two years ago the Herald Company', of this city, cut it down to less than $2,000, and last year a Logansport company took the contract at about the same figures. Both gave good satisfaction. Tax Ferret Question. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RENSSELAER, Ind., Jan. s.—This county is considerably stirred up on the “tax ferret” case. Judge Simon P. Thompson has issued two orders restraining the Board of Commissioners from employing or paying the “ferrets.” The board has shown an inclination to avoid the injunctions, and the whole matter has been referred to the grand jury, and there is a fair prospect of indicting the Board of Commissioners as well as the ferrets. In instructing th< grand jury on the subject of assessing and valuing property Judge Thompson called attention to the matter of taxing property, and if any officers having the matter i,i hand were shown to have neglected their duty, indictments will be returned against them.

Slock Buyers “Held l'p.” Special to the Indianapolis’Journal. VINCENNES, Jnd.. Jan. s.—Elijah Ford and H. L. Fisher, two well-known farmers and stock buyers of Crawford ‘county, Illinois, were held up and robbed a short distance west of this city last night. The two men W'ere badly pounded. In their haste the robbers overlooked $l7O on Ford. Ford is a stock buyer and usually has considerable money, which his assailants were after. Henry Byers, of this city, was arrested to-day. charged with being one of the footpads, and has made a partial confession. implicating others. Other arrests will follow'. Ijums’s Views on “Hopples.” Sjiecial to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. s.—President Ijams, of the American Trotting Association, says that if the Kentucky Breeders’ Association believes there should be a rule against the use of hopples and also one to shorten the distance, the latter to prevent the laying up on heats, the Kentucky association can set the example, and if it is a good one the other associations will follow it. This was his answer when asked about the petition from the Kentucky association that the American association take such action. Receiver for Glass Work*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MA&ION, Ind.. Jan. 5.—M. W. Coate has been appointed receiver of the Opalescent Glass Company of this city, in response to the application of F. G. Seitz, one of the principal stockholders and creditors. The petitioner and the receiver own 90 per cent, of the stock, and the change is made with a view to more harmony in operation of the plant. It is not improbable that it will be operated in connection with the Marion Flint Glass Company, the owners of which hold stock in it. _* Triumph nf American Till. Sixalal to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. s.—An annual review' of the tin-plate trade just completed shows that the past year has witnessed a practical revolution in the industry. The American market is held almost exclusively by home manufacturers, and the Welsh makers appear to have given up the struggle. The American product is selling much below the Welsh plate. Was Alexandria Counted Out? Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. Jan. s.—ln this city last night the Anderson bowling team won the second set of games and the series from the Alexandria team. The scores were 1,098 to 1,011 and 1,200 to 1,195. in favor of Anderson. The Alexandria men claimed an unfair count, and a serious general melee w’as narrowly averted. An Old Landmark Burned. Special to the lndiunajxdis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Jan. s.—One of the oldest landmarks in Bartholomew county, a house on the farm of R. H. McHenry, near Azalia, burned late yesterday afternoon. It was one of the oldest homesteads in this section. The loss was only SSOO. A Carbolic Acid Bath. Special to the IndianajKdis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 3.—The four-year-old daughter of Alonzo Hinds got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid and poured the fluid in the baby's eyes, causing blindness and probably death. ImliauH Obituary. ROCKVILLE, Ind.. Jan. s.— Mr. Henry Simmons, aged eighty, an old resident of Rockville, died this morning. He was a pioneer Mrs. _ imuei Pike, the mother of Deputy Auditor S. A. Pike, is dead. She was eighty years old. SEYMOUR. Ind.. Jan. s.— Mr. William Duve, aged eighty-four, a farmer, died yesterday of liver trouble, south of the city. He was a pioneer of the county and had resided on the farm where he died for fifty years. He leaves five children. GRBENCASTLE, Ind.. Jan. s.—The death of Arch Collins, an old resident of Bain-

bridge, this county', occurred last night. His age was seventy-eight years, and he was a pioneer of Putnam county. Indiana. Notes. The selection of a jury' ai Marion for the trial of Noah Johnson for the murder cf Tacie Mang is still going on. Hon. J. W. Lovett and others of Anderson have begun the organization of a trust company with a capitalization of SIOO,OOO. Mr. Lovett has headed the list with $20,000 stock. LAST PAYMENT MADE Purchasers of the Union I’neltie Road Now Own the Property. NEW YORK. Jan s.—The last payment to the government by the Union Pacific reorganization committee for the l nion Pacific Railway' was made to-day, a check for $8,500,000 (round figures) being deposited at the subtreasury. The payment concludes practically the financiering of the Union Pacific reorganization and the payment of the debt of $58,000,000 to the government. The reorganization committee and the reorganized company are now entitled to take possession of the road. There are some over-due first mortgage bonds to be paid off (about $1,500,000), the holders or which refused to assent to the terms of the reorganization committee and deposit their bonds. The master in chancery fixed Jan. 20 xis the date for the payment ot these bonds. The holders of these bonds lost almost 15 per cent, by not participating in the reorganization. They will receive par and interest for their bonds now, or almost 103%. The bonds which were deposited are now selling at 116. For these the holders will receive par in the new funds and 50 per cent, in new preferred stock. No Danger of n Stringency. WASHINGTON, Jan. 0.-In answer to inquiries as to the redemption of outstanding currency sixes Assistant Secretary Vanderlip to-day said: “There need be no fear that the treasury will contribute to any stringency in the money market. Possibly the treasury in the matter of receipts on account of the sale of the Pacific Railroad has obtained from one to two million dollars more than it has paid out on account of the currency sixes which have been redeemed up until to-day. At this time currency sixes have been redeemed amounting to, principal, $19,108,952, and interest, $373,265.56. Os these amounts $16,078,270 have been paid by cheek, mostly on New York, and it is safe to say' that $15,000,030 of this amount has been made available in the market. The payment to be made to-day by the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific Railroad to the government amounts to $8,538,401, all of which will be paid into the assistant treasury at New York. The last payment of a similar amount w r as not all placed in the treasury, but $4,000,000 were deposited with the National City Bank. January payments on the 4-per-cents, of 1904 have just been made amounting to $6,000,000. nine-tenths of which goes to New York. January pensions of some $12,000,000 are also being naid, and $9,000,000 of this will be paid by New York. Os course this money is not all immediately available to the market, but day by day it comes into circulation and in the course of a month it is safe to say much cf it will be in New York banks. On the whole, then, the balance is largely against the government. The Union Pacific settlements are practically a set-off. and pay'ments on account of interest and pensions are contributions to the volume of currency in circulation. If, therefore. there should by any stringency in the market it must arise from some cause independent of treasury transactions. There is no prospect of immediate withdrawal of government deposits in New' York banks on account of the purchase of the Union Pacific Railroad. These funds will be withdrawn gradually as the money is needed and will depend upon conditions existing at the time of withdrawal. The balance of the currency sixes outstanding to-day, $10,796,000. includes $7,500,000 held by New York banks as security for deposits. Os course when these are surrendered there will be merely a transfer of funds and no real money transaction.”

L. A. W. POLITICS. New York State Division Pledges Its Votes for 1. It, Potter. NEW YORK, Jan. s.—The committee of the New York State Division, L. A. W., which is composed of Walter S. Jenkins, M. M. Belding, jr., and W. S. Ball, and which was authorized to pledge votes of the state division at the coming L. A. W. election to the best advantage for the division, to-night declared for Isaac B. Potter for president and T. J. Keenan for vice president. The committee issued a statement, in which it said: “Mr. T. J. Keenan, of Pittsburg, having been indorsed by the board of officers of the Pennsylvania division for a place on the executive board or committee of the L. A. W., it was mutually agreed that an alliance between these two States w'hereby the votes of both should be pledged for the New York candidate, Mr. Potter, as president, and Mr. Keenan, the Pennsylvania candidate, as first vice president, would meet with favor on the part of the New York division and insure their harmonious unity, besides accomplishing the election of both said candidates, and, said committee from Pennsylvania having been fully empowered and authorized by the Pennsylvania delegates to that end. it was therefore mutually agreed and pledged by the joint action of our committee that the votes of the delegates from New York and Pennsylvania to the St. Louis national assembly should be cast for Isaac B. Potter, of New York, for president, and T. J. Keenan for the office of first vice president.” Taylore AVlii Knee Sttirhnek. NEW YORK. Jan. s.—Edouard Taylore, the little Frenchman who was defeated by Michael, has been anxious for another race since Saturday night. To-day he was matched against Frank Starbuck. The race will be run on the Sangerfest Hall track. Philadelphia, Jan. 15. The track is a small one—twelve laps to the mile—and Starbuck will have an undoubted advantage in being familiar ’with its peculiarities. SHOT BY A COURT BAILIFF. Ex-Deputy Sheriff Killed While Walking Along a Street. CHICAGO, Jan. s.—Edward M. Hunt, an ex-deputy sheriff, was shot and killed this afternoon by W. Ray Smith, a bailiff in Judge Horton’s court and a nephew' of the judge. The men had quarreled some time ago over a small sum of money due from Smith to Hunt, and to-day as Smith was walking along the street Hunt jumped out from behind a building and fired. Smith held up to protect himself a quart brick of ice cream which he was carrying, and Hunt’s first bullet was stopped by it. He then drew a revolver and both men fired as rapidly as they could. Hunt was hit in the side and died in a few minutes. Smith was shot in the left hand and right leg. He surrendered himself to the polite. Heikes Challenged by Rudd. DAYTON. 0.. Jan. s.—Roila O. lleikes, who, on New Year’s day. successfully defended the cast-iron medal in the one-hun-dred-live-bird race with Grimm, to-day received a challenge from Charles W. Budd, of Des Moines, la. Heikes will probably name Feb. 22 as the date for the match, to be shot in Fairview Park, near tnis city, 100 live birds each man and SIOO a side. He Bled “Blind I’lgN.” CHICAGO. Jan. Ex-Police Lieutenant Samuel C. Rank was found guilty to-day of extorting money from "blind pig” proprietors in the Hyde Park prohibition district. The extreme penalty is a fine of SSOO and sfx months’ imprisonment. Pending an application for anew trial Rank was allowed his liberty on bond. He claims to be ♦he victim of persecution. Against David C. Robinson. ALBANY. N. Y.. Jan. 5.-The third Appellate division decided against David (’. Robinson, son of the late Governor Lucius Robinson, and for the Mutual Life Insurance Company in ten cases, involving sl.500,000. The cases developed sensational charges and countercharges. The Pan-American Exposition. BUFFALO, N, Y., Jan. 3.—The contracts for the main or permanent buildings of the Pan-American Exposition have been let to the Grace & Hyde Company, of Chicago and New York. The contract price calls for the expenditure of something more than $700,000. Populist in Trouble. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Jan. s.—James B. Mcßride, a meml>er of the Populist national committee, and prominent in Michigan Populist circles, was arrested to-day on the charge of embezzling S3OO from a client.

GEN. SEGURA DISGUSTED NOTED SPANIARD DOES NOT LIKE PANDO’S METHOD IX Cl HA. * ' • He Believe** the Inland 5* I.oNt to Spain and Will Retnrn Home— Senor (anal jus Hissed. * HAVANA, via Key West, Fla., Jan. 5. Senor Canaljas was coldly received at Santiago de Cuba. The Spanish Casino refused to tender him a banquet, and he was hissed on the streets. It is understood that the opposition to him is due to the fact that he is the editor of El Hcra’do de Madrid, which has violently attacked General Weyler. It is reported that his impressions regarding Cuba are pessimistic and that he will advise the Spanish government to abandon the island. To-day General Blanco, General Parrado and General Pando called on General Segura, at the Hotel Florida, to try to induce him to remain on the island. He refused. He did not wish to be responsible, he declared, for the future development of the “disgraceful Spanish rule in Cuba.” General Seguna is an int</lligent and honest fighter, and is wholly disgusted with General Pando’s method of campaign. He says Pando spends more gunpowder in greeting autonomy than in fighting insurgents, and adds that in his opinion Cuba is lost to Spain unless the government sends General Polavieja or returns General Weyler. The latter he considers out of the question, because General Weyler was relieved of his command at the request of Washington. General Polavieja. he holds in high esteem, believing that officer could end the war if an extermination policy were adopted. General Segura also believes war Inevitable between Spain and the United States, and that the pretext for it will be the filibustering expeditions. Senor Marcos Garcia, civil governor of Santa Clara, reports that 890 reconcentrados died in that city during December last. He predicts that about the same number will die during the present month from lack of fodd, clothing, shelter and medicine. General Pando’s campaign along the Cauto river was a total failure.. General Molina will probably soon return to Spain. The local Conservative press comments editorially on the circumstances of swearing in the new colonial ministers*. The company that assembled to witness the function was small and very cold, and there were no crowds in front of the palace, as usual. The new Cabinet hesitates to remove the existing office holders, who are acquainted with the work of the departments, and to substitute inexpert officials. More than this, among the old employes are many Cubans. Consul General Dee to-day called upon Genera! Blanco with regard to the distribution of food and relief to the reconcentrados in the province of Santiago de Cuba. At Serrayo, that province, five persons are sick in a small hut, without medicine or food. According to reports from Pinar del Rio many r* c* ncentrados there live in caves, for lack of other shelter; and one family of three ' omen is living under a tree. The eport of the death of the insurgent leader, Luis Delgado, is believed to be unfounded. it is understood that he is now in the Carmen hills, this province, where he was summoned by General Alejandro Rodriguez.

Epidemic of .Malaria. HAVANA, Jan. s.—There has been an alarming spread of malarial fever at Puerto Principe, both among the inhabitants of the city and in the garrison. No fewer than 2,560 persons have been affected by the o’sorder. In the cases of the soldiers the hydropathic treatment has been resorted to with good effect. Will Xot Be Prosecuted. MADRID, Jan. s.—The question of calling General Weyler to account for protesting to the Queen Regent against the wording of President McKinley’s message is closed, the public prosecutor having informed the supreme war council that there is no ground for prosecution. CHILD SLAVERY IX FRANCE. Disclosures a* to Sale of Italian Boys to Agents of Glass Works. New York Sun. Public attention has been turned to a form of slave trade now carried on in France and Italy by disclosures which are being made on the subject. The victims are Italian children who are bought from their parents by padrones and forced to work in glass factories, chiefly in the central part of France. Formerly large numbers of these children were sold into virtual slavery as beggars, when mutilations were practiced upon them to excite sympathy, as musicians and as chimney sweeps. That slave trade was suppressed, but the law does not reach the present form. The children bring from 100 to 150 francs (S2O to S3O), and are sold for a period of three years. It is so much money found and a mouth less to fill, the peasants say. The contracts are duly executed before a notary, and the village priest blesses the departing convoy of little ones. There are no statistics of the mortality among them, but it was calculated formerly that of one hundred children taken from their homes by padrones twenty returned home at the enl of their period of slavery, thirty settled permanently in their new surroundings. and the other fifty died; and, in view 7 of the conditions in which they find themselves at the glass works, there is no reason to suppose that the mortality is any less now. Their ages vary from eleven to eighteen years. The French law forbids the employment of children less than thirteen years old at such work, but that is evaded easily. Their services are sold tc the manufacturers at from $7 to sl3 a month, according to the locality, and they work ten hours a day. The padrones pocket all their wages and sometimes even the gratuities that may he distributed among the employes of an establishment upon special occasions. Their condition in the factories is described as shocking. They work in a superheated atmosphere, charged in addition with noxious gases, and are constantly exposed to severe accidents, while their injuries do not receive proper treatment. They are especially subject to lung troubles. Bad as their normal state is, in many cases it is aggravated by the brutality of the regular workmen, who hate them both as being Italians and as working at far below the regular scale of wages. They are. naturallv, ill fed. A magistrate who was called upon to make an investigation in a certain case found that their chief fare was soupe aux legumes and bread, with occasionally a bit of cheese and some wine, but never any meat. It is estimated that the cost of sustenance of these children ranges from 5 to 8 cents a day each to the padrone. In one case the cost of feeding thirteen of the little slaves was found to be 40 cents a day. The children are as wretched in appearance as is to be expected. They are clothed in rags, for toe padrones do not permit them to carry any luggage from their homes, to save expense. The number of these children can only be guessed at. It is estimated that in two departments 1.300 are employed. More children are constantly being brought into France from Italy to take th- place of those who die or become incupac.tated for work and to supply the increasing demand for cheap labor. So great has the demand become of late that girls as well as boys are being sold by their parents. The attention of the French and the Italian governments has been called to the matter, and the trade will be regulated if not suppressed. Losses t*y Fire. SAGINAW. Mich.. Jan. s.—The lumber yard of the Saginaw Lumber and Salt Company. at Crow island, three miles below the city, is oh fire. The yard contains sixteen million feet of lumber and the mill plant is valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Steamers from Sagirtaw and Bay City have been sent to Crow island. The fire started in the south end of the yard and thus far detits all efforts to stay it. The company carries $200.0)0 insurance on lumber and the mil! and salt works are understood to be well insured. The entire property and plant are threatened with destruction. OTTAWA, Ont.. Jan. s.—The east wing of Ottawa University (Catholic) was destroyed by tire to-day. Loss on the building, s'i>.otX>; on contents and other damage. $20,000. There is $200,000 insurance on the institution. All the sacred vessels and statues were got out of the chapel. The tire originated mysteriously in the dormitory, which was unoccupied. Major Bntterwortir* Condition. THOMASVILLE, Ga„ Jan. 5.-Dr. Mclntosh reports Mr. Butterworth’s condition as improved to-day. He recovered consciousness this morning for the first time since he was attacked with uremic convulsions on Monday and has been conscious all day. Mr. Butterworth’s wife and son Frank arrived in this city to-day from Washington, D. C., and another son William and his wife from Illinois. Mel. Hanna's condition is also better. Murdered by un Indian. WICHITA. Kan.. Jan. s.—Mrs. Julia i*t;axd, a white woman, was murdered by a

Seminole Indian yesterday evening, four miles east of Maud. Oklahoma Territory. The crime was committed In the presence of the woman s children. Earlier in the afternoon Mrs. Leard had frightened the Indian away, threatening him with a rifle. Later she stepped out of doors, carrying her baby, and the Indian moi? into the house, sec a red the rifle and attempted to shoot her, but the cartridge failed to explode. The Seminole then attacked her with the butt of the gun, clubbed her to death and ravished her body. He hurled the baby into the house through the open door. WILL RESIST THE CUT. Spinners' Union Decides to Strike Against a Redaction in Wages. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 5.-The Spinners' Union to-night unanimously voted to resist by a strike the proposed reduction of wages. The union members in this city number 430 steady spinners, one hundred spare spinners and 150 doffers. The meeting to-night was attended by both spinners and do/fers. At the outset Secretary Ross offered a suggestion to the meeting as to the advisability of postponing action in the mutter of reduction until the feeling of other unions could be learned, but the meeting would not hear of postponement. The general sentiment was expressed that the weavers and card and picker room associations would strike any way and it was not necessary to wait to find out what action the other unions would take. The informal ballot favoring a strike was not made formal, as it was decided to wait a few 7 days to see if a way of effecting a settlement was possible. Committees on conference with the manufacturers and with committees from the other labor unions in the city in case of a strike to arrange for the management were appointed. Samuel Ross, of the local Spinners* Union, who is also secretary of the National Mule Spinners’ Union, will call a meeting of the executive council of the national union to be held in Boston next Sunday, when the question of sanctioning a strike by the spinners in this city will be settled. t’omliine of Coni Operators. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—A permanent organization, called the Illinois Coal Operators’ Association, was perfected at a secret meeting held in this city to-day. The officers e'ectea were: President, S M. Dalzell, Spring Valley Coal Company; vice president, J. C. Simpson, Consolidated Company of St. Louis; secretary-treasurer, C. L. Seroggs, Whitebreast Coal Company, Chicago. When the joint interstate conference of mine owners and miners convenes in this city Jan. 17, the men who dig the coal in Illinois will find themselves confronted by a solid organization of operators. The operators will have decided a plan of action, and will be ready to say just what they will do and what they will not do. The position of the operators in the various Illinois fields will be made certain at a meeting which will be held to-morrow, and to which subcommittees, representing the northern, southern and middle fields, will report concerning rates. There are between sixty and seventy operators at the meeting, representing nearly 125 mines.

LORD FAIRFAX'S STRONG BOX. The Story of an Interesting Relic of the Early Dayit of Virginia. Washington Evening Star. In one of the apartments of the Hotel Raleigh, now occupied by Mr. Philip W. Avirett, is a remarkable relic which has a history of great interest. It is nothing more nor less than the iron strong box of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, first lord proprietary of Virginia. The box, or chest, is made of heavy wrought iron, into which have been welded iron straps crossing each other at right angles. The slight ornamentation on the front of the box show 7 s it to be of Italian workmanship. The box is in a state of remarkable preservation. The keyhole is in the center of the massive lid, and a large, heavy key, black with age, turns easily in it. A wonderful thing about the lock is that the key in turning sends sliding bolts out from all sides of the lid to cling beneath heavy extensions of the four sides of the box itself upon precisely the same principle as that upon which the modern bank-vault lock in universal use today is managed. The history of the relic is romantic. The strong box was buried by Lord Fairfax at his home, Greenaway Court, near Winchester, Va., where he died. The reason that Fairfax buried it was that he had filled it with money collected by him in the shape of revenues for the erow 7 n, but he died before he had an opportunity to take it up and enjoy the treasure. The only person who knew about the burial of the box was Dr. Thomas Woodcock, of Winchester. After the death of Lord Fairfax Dr. Woodcock dug it up and took it to Philadelphia, where he gave it to the agents of the Bank of England, who sent it to .England, still filled with money and muniments of title. When the contents had been removed the box was given to the Fairfax heirs in England. The Fairfax heirs sent it back to Dr. Woodcock, filled with silver plate, and the strong box eventually passed from Dr. Woodcock to Mrs. Hannah Dunbar, of Winchester. At Mrs. Dunbar’s death she willed the box to her daughter, Mrs. Philip Williams, of Virginia, during her lifetime, and provided that it should then descend to Mrs. Williams's heirs, among who was Mrs. Avirett. wife of Rev. James B. Avirett, formerly of Silver Springs and now of North Carolina. During the late war the chest was again buried by those who had it in possession at Winchester, and a large quantity of valuable silver plate was placed in it in order to protect it from possible seizure by the soldiers. Several years ago the box was dug up again, its whereabouts having been discovered through information received from a former slave named Granderson, who had helped to bury it, but who preserved the secret of its location until he found death was near, when he divulged it to the proper party. The heirs of Mrs. Philip Williams gav,e the strong box to Mr. Philip Williams Avirett, who now has it in hhi possession. Among the treasures which were contained in the strong box at the time it was buried during the late war was a miniature portrait of the late Philip Williams, painted on ivory by Rembrandt Peale. The miniature is incased in a quaint oval silver locket, and Is also in the possession of Mr. Avirett. Authorities on such matters have expressed the opinion that the miniature is as fin a specimen of Peale’s marvelous art in miniature portrait painting as there is extant. CRYSTAL BUILDING AT PARIS. Brilliant Glass, Water ami Electric Effect Designed for 11)00 Exposition. New York Journal. A brilliant idea for a Paris exposition novelty emanates from M. Zowieski, the wellknown architect of the Russian National Theater, and pupil of the celebrated Baron Ferstel. It provides for the erection of a crystal building over which will fall cascades of water from hundreds of fountains and jets. The building will be made entirely of glass and will rival in beauty of construction and originality of design the famous Crystal Palace of London. The Paris palace of glass will be shaped somewhat like the minaret-topped structures that are so much admired in Oriental cities. It will cover an area of 6,0)0 square yards. On each corner will be crystal towers, and in the center will arise a minaret of beautiful and original design. Such a structure will be flooded with light iu a manner calculated to show 7 off the fine points of exhibits, and the managers have decided to concentrate in the crystal building exhibits that require perfect light conditions in order to enhance their beauty. Here will be seen art gems that require no shadow to conceal imperfections, rare paintings, the curios of earth and the treasures of the ocean. But it is the outside of the building that will be the greatest wonder by night and day. Water will be conveyed by a line of piping from every point where it is possible to do so without interfering with the beauty of the building. Wherever a jet can be added or a fountain made to play without destroying the general harmony of the whole or overdoing the wonderful watery effect there the jet and the fountain will be placed. Thus the whole structure of glass will be enveloped in a veil of liquid beauty. From all sides the water will spurt up in rows of jets that siring from the ground and rise over the roof at uniform heights, to fall back on the building in graceful showers of spray. These rows of jets will entirely surround the structure, so that visitors can pass inside the glass case and see the rising waters through the crystal framework. Meeting these rising jets will he falling fountains whose water will hurst from the roof in graceful showers, mingling brilliantly with the jets that rise from the ground. There w r ill be flowering devices formed by the bursting waters, wheels of liquid loveliness, trees of glittering spray, new ami novel patterns traced in sparkling drops on the glass background of the palate. ard fanciful figures innumerable formed of dashing, leaping, failing, bursting spray. During the day the sun will strike the gushing waters and paint them in rainbow colors, making each drop a crystal gem of constantly changing hue. At night the glass palace will be illuminated bv electric lights in all the most beautiful colors imaginable. Insiue and out It will be a blaze of splendor. Showers of crystal drops will meet the white, blue, green, red and yellow light of electricity in every direction, miniature yev.

sers will burst from the fountains surrounding the foundations of the building and cross and criss-cross the dazzling rays, appealing to the senses ot both sight and hearing, for in addition to the beauty of the scene that will delight the eye the ear will catch the soothing sound of softly falling waters as the showers of spray fall back on the crystal roof and are washed down, curtaining the building In a Niagara of sparkling liquid. The designs wifi be changed frequently, so that on each day and night of the week there will be a different arrangement of watery patterns. Or. if it be desired, the patterns can be changed at intervals during the day or night. A Story That Still Fits. New York Evening Sun. If there is one story dearer than another to the heart of the woman suffragists, it is the old yarn about the man who. when his wife asked him for $25. replied: “Well, what can a woman possibly want with $25?” Although worn threadbare years ago. the tale is still to be heard at suffrage meetings, the sole variation upon the original version being the amount of money named. Only in very conservative localities does it still stand at $25. In places where interest in the cause runs higher it is “What can a woman possibly want with $20?” more radical neighborhoods desire it to be “$15.” yet more radical “S10,” and so on down to the very strongholds of women's rights, where the phrase is quoted and accepted as: "What can a woman possibly want with 5 cents.” However told, or by whom, though, the story is not without foundation, and any one who fancies that it all belongs to a bygone, long-since vanished stage of feminine existence, ought to have been w'ithin earshot of a certain pair at a certain glove counter one day last week. The man wasn’t a bit a big. grnlT-voiced. savage-looking brute whom the stiffrageists would have us believe all husbands are. and the woman wasn’t in the least the little, low-voiced, timid-looking woman wfiom the same authorities declare the average wife to be. They were a reasonably welldressed. well-looking pair, to all appearances no different from thousands to be seen at Christmas shopping times. Nevertheless, this is what the husband was saying- “Gloves, indeed! And what do you want with a pair of gloves?” The woman’s answer was inaudible. Not so the man’s reply: “But you’ve got a pair on: I don’t see what you want with another pair. Too shabby, eh? Well, but look here, Maria,” (how the suffragists would have chortled at the accents) "w-here are those gloves I gave you last Christmas?” •Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. s.—Arrived: Bovlc, from Liverpool: Massillia. from Marseilles. Sailed: St. Louis, for Southampton: Germanic, for Liverpool; Westernland, for Antwerp. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. s.—Arrtv?d: St. Paul, from New York. Sailed: Lahn, for New York. NAPLES, Jan. s.—Sailed: Augusta Victoria, for New York. LIVERPOOL. Jan. s.—Arrived: Majestic, from New- York. AMSTERDAM, Jan. s.—Sailed: Edam, for New York. BREMEN, Jan. s.—Arrived: Weimar, from New York. Convicts to Be Flogged. OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. s.—Acting Warden Coster, of St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary, at Montreal, has suggested to Minister of Justice Mills that flogging should be permitted to put down the rioting in that institution, and Mr. Mills has decided to permit this to be done. The idea of Mr. Coster is to take some of the ringleaders and flog them in the presence of the other convicts. Sankey Bound for the Holy Land. NEW YORK, Jan. s.—Among the passengers who sailed by the Normannia this week was Ira D. Sankey. the well-known evangelical singer and author of songs. Mr. Sankey was accompanied by a large party of friends, who form the advance guard of a large Palestine expedition next month under the guidance of Rev. Russell H. Conwell, of Philadelphia. Suicide of Simon Hernslielm. NEW ORLEANS. Jan. s.—Simon Hernsheim, the head of the large Hernsheim cigar factory, committed suicide to-day by taking cyanide of potassium. The death of his wife and other family troubles preyed on his mind and he sought self-destructiou as an escape. He was a wealthy man.

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