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lug the border of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory to co-operate with the Indian Territory officials in quelling the threatened outbreak. Twenty-Five Mnimacrcd. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. TANARUS., Jan. 11.-There Is an uprising in the Seminole Nation, and one hundred armed Indians have killed twenty-live citizens of Pottawatomie county, this Territory. The Indians are seeking to avenge the recent burning of Lincoln McGelsey and Palmer Simpson, two Indians of the Seminole tribe, who were accused of murdering and outraging Mrs. Leard, of Maud Postoffice. A special trainload of armed citizens has gone to Earlborough, ten miles from Maud, and excitement is higher than ever before known in the Indian Territory. Burning and Killing. DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 11.—A special to the News trom Shawnee, O. TANARUS., says: The report has just reached here that 250 Seminole Indians are on their way to Earlsboro, burning and killing as they go, wanting revenge for the burning of the two Indians a few days ago, reports of which have already been given. The sheriff and a party of men are on their way to protect the Earlsboro people. THE HI MORS DENIED. Reports of an I,prising Denounced as Without Foundation. WE WOK A, I. TANARUS., Jan. 11.—To-day United States Commissioner W. T. Fears and Mr. J. F. Wisdom, chief clerk to Indian Agent Wisdom, accompanied by C. P. Lynn, the national physician of the Seminole Nation, went to the farm of Henry Taylor, a Seminole Indian, where the bodies of Lincoln McOeisey and Palmer Simpson, the two Seminole Indian boys who were burned at the stake by a mob, are buried, and opened the temporary grave where the charred bodies were resting. Only the trunks of the bodies remained. The legs and arms were entirely burned off and the bodies were unrecognizable. A common trace chain was around the neck of each and secured by a padlock. The chain was removed and brought back to Wewoka. It will be used as evidence in the investigation. Commission Fears is thoroughly investigating the matter. Mr. Wisdom is here to report what takes place to the Interior Department. The report that the Indians are uprising is wholly false and without foundation. rumored that the people along the •Oklahoma line are much excited and fear she Indians will cross the line and endea'or to avenge the death of their brothers. This, however, need not be feared, as is quiet and serene in the Seminole Nation. Yet a feeling has been created by the cruel ana hasty action of the mob. Second Chief Hulbutter has directed the band chiefs of the Seminole Nation to urge the Indians to be quiet ar.d not commit any reprehensible acts. Sensational reports as to the Indian outbreak are not to be relied on.

ANOTHER GLOOMY DAY. Cloudy Weather and Oeeaniunal Rain Predicted for Indianapolis. Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for twenty-four hours ending 11 p. m. Jan. 12— Cloudy weather and occasional rain on Wednesday. General Conditions Yesterday—The low barometric area west of the Mississippi increased In energy during Tuesday; central over eastern Oklahoma, It extends over the country east of the liocky mountains, except near the Atlantic coast, where the barometric pressure is still moderately high. The temperature rose in front of the low barometric area from the eastern gulf northward to the lakes, and it fell in most localities west of the Mississippi. Rain fell in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois. lowa and near the Atlantic coast. Snow fell in Colorado and near Lake Superior; heavy rain fell <l-5*6 inches) at Memphis, Tenn*, and 1.04 inches at Little Rock. Ark. Local thunderstorms prevaile ' in Oklahoma, Arkansas and northwestern Missouri. FORECAST FOR THREE STATES. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. For OhioKain; light southerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois Rain; southeasterly winds. Local Observations Tuesday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 550.05 37 01 S’east. Foggy. 0.00 7p. m.. 28.88 40 03 S’east. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 47; minimum temperature. 36. Following Is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Jan. 11: , Temp. Free. Normal >6 09 Departure from normal *l6 —.09 Departure since Jan. 1 t... *46 *.2l •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperatures. Stations. 7a. m. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta. Ga 62 72 68 Bismarck. N. D 8 20 14 Buffalo, N. Y 28 42 40 Calgary. N. W. T 20 28 16 Cairo. 11l 14 62 62 Cheyenne, Wyo 14 36 26 Chicago. 11l 32 44 44 Cincinnati, O 40 50 50 Concordia, Kan 32 36 32 Davenport. Ia 31 42 38 jjto Moines, Ia 32 38 36 Dodge City. Kan 20 34 32 Galveston. Tex 64 68 66 Helena. Mont 10 22 20 Jacksonville. Fla 58 so 68 Kansas City, Mo 38 44 3S Little Rook, Ark 54 68 CO Minnedosa. Man *lO Memphis, Trim 58 60 60 Marquette, Mich 14 30 30 Moorhead, Minn 14 Nashville, Tenn 38 66 64 New Orleans, La Cos 78 To New York. N. Y 34 40 36 North Platte, Neb 26 40 34 Oklahoma, O. T 56 74 50 Omaha, Neb 32 34 32 Pittsburg, a 3S 4S 46 Qu’ Appelle, N. W. T 6 22 2S Rapid City. S. D 8 : 14 Salt Lake City, Utah is 22 20 St. Louis. Mo 38 56 56 St. Paul. Minn 24 32 28 Springfield, 111 34 50 48 Springfield, Mo 52 58 58 Vicksburg, Miss 68 SO 74 Washington. D. C 32 38 38 •Below zero. FOREIGN MISSIONS. Sixth Conference of the lloarilM of the t utted States 11 nd Canada. 4 NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—The first session of the sixth conference of the foreign mission boards of the United States and Canada was held in the Methodist building at 2 o'clock this afternoon. There tire thirtythree foreign missionary societies of the evangelical churches of the United States. The work of these societies includes 1,093 principal stations. 6.247 outstutions, 3.574 American laborers, 15,564, native laborers, 3,836 churches, 430,266 communicants, 34.870 additions last year, 232.563 children and young people under instruction, native contributions lust year $348,150, and a total income lust year of $4,233,611. These statistics are exclusive of the work done by some of the societies in Protestant Europe. There are six foreign missionary societies in Canada whose work includes eighty-nine stations, 227 outstutions, 242 Canadian missionaries, 506 native laborers, 112 native churches, 9,141 communicants, 1.040 additions last year, native contributions last y. ar $32,339, and contributions in Canada last year of $283,706. The first paper read to-day was by the treasurer of the American board, F. H. Wiggins, of Boston, relating to “Legacies.” TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative llrotno Quinine Tablets. All druggtefs refund money if it falls to cure. 2ic. The genuine has L. li. (J. on each tablet.

DISTRESS IN CUBA HORRORS OF THE SITUATION DEPICTED BY AN AMERICAN. * e Pitiful and Heartrending Scene* Witnessed by Charles VV. Russell, us the Department of Justice. _e THOUSANDS WITHOUT FOOD ♦ SCORES OF PEOPLE STARVING AND OTHERS DYING OF DISEASE. ♦ Nearly 400,000 Reeoneentrados Herded In the Cities Without Mean* of Supporting Themselves.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Hon. Charles W. Russell, assistant United States attorney In the Department of Justice, returned to-day from Cuba, where he has spent two weeks investigating the conditions prevailing on the island. To a reporter Mr. Russell said: “I am very glad to be interviewed on the subject of Cuba, because I feel it a solemn duty to humanity to endeavor to make the American people realize the terrible distress which exists there. Much has been written on the subject, but judging others by myself, I feel quite sure that because we do not commit and have not in our history committed such atrocities as Spain is committing on that island, the American reading public regard the reports as biased by the preconceived opinions of newspapers or greatly exaggerated. “I spent just two weeks in Cuba, visited Havana, went south to Jaruco, southeast to Guines, northeast to Matanzas, eastward about two hundred miles through the middle of the country to Sando Mingo, Santa Clara an<j. Sagua la Grande. I visited Marianao, a short distance west of Havana, and saw along the ratlroad thirty or forty towns or stations. In Havana I visited the Fossos, the hospital prison Aldecon, where I talked with the father of Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, and a place called the Jacoba. I found reeoneentrados at all three places, and begging everywhere about the streets of Havana. The spectacle at the Fossos and Jacoba houses, of women and children, emaciuted to skeletons and suffering from diseases produced by starvation was sickening. In Sagua 1 saw some sick and emaciated little girls in a children’s hospital started three days before by charttable Cubans and saw a crowd of miserable looking reeoneentrados with tin buckets and other receptacles getting a small allowance of food doled out to them in a yard. In the same city, 4n an old sugar warehouse, I saw stationed around the inside walls the remnants of twenty or thirty Cuban families. In one case the remnant consisted of two little children of seven or eight. In another case, where 1 talked to the people in broken Spanish, there wore four individuals, a mother, a girl of fourteen and two quite small girls. The smallest was then suffering from malarial fever. The next had the signs on her hands with which 1 had become familiar—of the beriberi. These four were all that the order of concentration had left alive of eleven. LIVING IN CABINS. At San Domingo, where two railroads join, the depot was crowded with women and children, one of the latter, as I remember, being swollen up with the berl bed, begging in the most earnest way from the few’ passengers. San Domingo is little more than a railroad station in times of peace, but at present It has a considerable population, living in cabins thatched with the tops of palm. The huts are arranged close together in a little clump and the concentrados order required, and apparently still require, these people to live within a circle of small block houses commonly dignified in the dispatches by the name of forts Os course they had no work to do, no soil to till, no seed to plant, only begging to live on. “I do not know the exact measure of the deadline circle drawn around them, but there was certainly nothing within it upon which a human being could subsist, and also certainly, if any order had newly permitted them to go a short distance further out, they had not gone and were not going. Practically, they are prisoners. At every one of the numerous stopping places along the road a similar collection or huts could be seen, and at most beggars, often nice looking women and beautiful children, invaded the cars. Between the stations, although I traveled always by daylight, as the trains do not run at night, and was observing as possible, I saw no signs of the reeoncentrados going away from the forts. If they had gone, it takes seed, instruments, land, and three or four months to raise the vegetable which could be soonest produced, and nowhere, from the blockhouses was there any sign of vegetables growing. Near the larger towns the circle of concentrados seemed to be somewhat larger and some planting of vegetables, tobacco, etc., seemed ft* be going on. At this a very few persons, possibly some of them reeoneentrados, found employment. “All along the railroad, as far as could be seen, w’ere stretches of the most fertile and beautiful country, with very few trees, even on the low mountains, and most of these royal palms. I saw many dozens of burned cane fields, and one evening, going from Guines to Havana, saw the sky lighted up all along the road with fires, principally of tall grass of the country, but partly of cane. The whole land was lying idle, except that I saw’ two or three or four sugar mills where cane was growing, but in all such instances the mill and cane were surrounded by the forts, manned by soldiers, who are paid, as I was told, by the owners. NO RELIEF AFFORDED. “Except in the cities, I saw no indication that any relief whatever was being afforded to the starving people. Never in Havana nor elsewhere did any priest, religious women or other person seems to be paying any attention to the wants of starving, except at the Fosses and some other places charitable Cubans were nursing the sick. The ehurch. being a state institution, was. so far as I could see, leaving the victims without either bodily or spiritual relief. In fact, the general air of indifference to suffering whch seemed to prevail is astonishing.” "As the country was stripped of its population. by the order of concentration, it is easy to believe that 400,000 persons were gathered behind the forts without being given food, medicine or means of any kind to earn a living except where in the larger cities some few could find employment in menial offices. Judging by the orphans I was shown at the Jacoba. Aldecoa and elsewhere. and from all 1 saw and heard, I believe that half of the four hundred thousand have died as the result of starvation. 1 know from the official register of the city of Santa Clara, which ordinarily has a population of about 14,000, that the number of deaths for November were over a thousand, and the number of deaths for December was fOO, and shows an increase considering the loss of the former thousand from its total population. The exact figures for December are 917. At that city the government wras distributing 500 single rations per day out of a total appropriation for the purchase of $15,000. This was not relief, but a mere prolongation of sufferings of a small 4 art cf the reconcentrauoes of that city. “So far as any evidence cf relief was visible to my eyes there was even heard of by me in all my talks on the island, the surviving two hundred thousand people are in the same condition and have the same prospect of starvation before them as has been their kindred who have died. There is as much need of medicine now’ as of food, and *hey are getting neither. “The reason given by the Spanish sympathizers in Cuba is that the troops must first be fed, and it is certain that many of the soldiers are sick and suffering for want of proper food. I saw many myself that looked so. I was informed on all sides that they had not been paid for about eight months, and that most of the civil officials had not been paid for a similar period. It is. therefore, most probable that Spain is practically unable to supply tne millions which are immediately necessary to prevent the death of most of the surviving concentrados, but this leads to political questions, which I desire to avoid. “I wish merely to state In such a way as to be convincing that, in an accordance with the concentration of the people, some 200,000 Cubans are daily suffering and dying from diseases produced by lack of nourishment, in the midst of what 1 think to Ik- the most fertile country in the world, and that

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something must be done for them on a large scale, otherwise they will be exterminated.” “There was no inaication of a cessation of hostilities by the insurgents. If they do not voluntarily cease their tastics as such Spain cannot conquer them, if at all, before the reeoneentrados will have had the finishing stroke, but even the speedy termination of the war would not save many of them. What they need is constant pecuniary assistance to the extent of SIO,OOO a nay distributed by our consuls. Whether Congress should make an appropriation as in the ease of the San Domingo refugees and other cases, is not for me to say; but I beg the charitable to believe the statements of fact which I have made and to try to realize what they mean.” A MOTHER’S'CONFESSION. Mrs. Wollert Says She Killed Her Young Step-Daagliter. ALGONQUIN, 111., Jan. 11.— Mrs. Christopher Wollert to-night confessed that she had killed Louise Wollert, her thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, who was at first thought to have been murdered by a tramp. Early this morning Mrs. Wollert, who lives on a farm near this place, reported to her neighbors that a tramp had killed her stepdaughter. Investigation by the Chicago ponce later in the clay upset the tramp ti.eory, and the woman was arrested and confessed. She choked the child into insensibility tvith her apron strings and then tired several shots Horn a revolver into the girl’s body. The killing resulted from a quarrel. Tne police feared a lynching to-night and took the woman to Woodstock.

ALPHONSE DAIDET, The Last Day* of 3lun of GeniusTen Years of Acute Suffering'. Paris Letter in London News. Daudet’s death was sudden, though long apprehended. He had suffered for over fifteen years from locomotor ataxia. The disease was acute for nearly ten years, and had been nothing less than torturing for the last four or live years, but it did not interfere with his intellectual faculties. As the paralysis ascended the brain seemed as if on the defensive, and putting forth ail its power to resist, but it became hypersensitive. It was almost painful to sit in bis company at a luneneon or dinner where there were persons with v. nom he was in touch. They stimulated him to that degree that he became like a burning house fanned by a frosty wind and with no fire engine to play upon it. There was no incoherence in the talk. It was more exquisite-. perhaps, than anything he wrote, but his afflatus had escaped his control. He went on as though impelled to put forth his most brilliant gifts. When the company began to drop off there was a collapse, and the torturing malady became irresistible. But lie was able to write books and to arrange about revivals of his piays. He very seldom, in the closing years of his life, went to the theater or into society. At Champrosay, near the forest of Senart, where he spent his summers, he used to be wheeled into the garden and to wiite. Then he longed to be able to ramble along the Seine or through field and forest. He was forbidden to expend what vitality remained to him in driving. Having lost the power to assimilate food easily, he could not recoup his strength. He was, in consequence, worn to a skeleto,..* The attenuated. wan face was most pathetic. All life seemed concentrated in the eyes, w’hich were less lambent, but more blazing black than in youth. They revealed tile intensity of his cerebral life. His spirit also seemed to have undergone an alteration. He was naturally of a playful humor and saw the worid gilded with sunshine. But Daudet the paralytic, in losing the mirthful play of fancy, gained in insight and pathos and tragical feeling. There was a toucli of Hamlet in those colloquial monologues in which he thought aloud. The death last year of his old friend and master in the literary art, Edmond De Goncourt, was a severe blow to him. It took place at Champrosay. where Goncourt was staying on a visit. Daudet was down stairs and his guest lying ill on the first floor. Mme. Daudet came down to say that Goncourt was dying. Under the startling effect of the news he rose, and, stepping from his wheeled chair, went upstairs unaided. The paralytic state quite disappeared, to return when the collapse set in with redoubled force. His morbidly quick ear heard the death agony as he climbed the stairs. He eould hardly believe that the white, rigid face was Goncourt’s. A uoctor was standing by the dying man, “What’s the matter?” asked Daudet. “Simply this: After passing a good night the pulse suddenly became quite wild, the heat increased to fever pitch, the face became congested and delirium set in.” As he spoke the doctor injected ether into the dying man’s arm, and Daudet, bending down, embraced him, m.ngling (as he said himself) his tears with the cold sweat from Goncourt’s forehead. He conjured him to look once more at him and spoke endearingly to him, but no sign was given. At length Goncourt cast off spasmodically Daudet’s hand, as if wishing to be let alone. He apparently did not want to be retained, but to start at once on his solitary journey. The reaction of the death scene on Daudet was cruel. It was plain that it had given a fatal shock. Daudet lived for some lime on a lifth floor without a lift in the Rue de Bellechasse. He had a fancy for rooms on upper stories. He hoped that his malady might yield to medical treatment when he took this flat, but climbing the stairs was too much for him. He was thus, when in Paris, a prisoner. When he was last summer in the country Mme. Daudet found a first floor between a court and garden in the Rue de l’Universite. He was not allowed to go to any trouble about the fitting, but he could not help fidgeting and worrying. When he was brought from the country to pass the winter at the new’ place he was pleased with all the arrangements, but found that he missed sadly the old dwelling to which he had become accustomed. He was as if amputated in the new one. The feeling wearied him. All sorts of little counterirritants or distractions were devised by the devoted wife and children to take his mind from this subject. Very intimate friends were invited to come and chat with him about the revival of “Sapho,” his book that he had just finished and the work he was engaged at. The prevailing cheerfulness around him seemed to have a happy influence. He was in better spirits than usual when he sat down yesterday to dinner. Suddenly he heaved a sigh and fell back in his chair unconscious. His wife ran to help him. but found there was no response. The children and servants gathe !* and around him. Drs. Gilles de la Tourette and Potain were fetched in haste. They both said that death had come, though he was not yet dead. A priest also was summoned, and, falling on his knees, prayed. Then the face grew gradually rigid, and the nostrils that had been pinehed and faintly quivering expanded and were motionless. Electricity was tried. The tongue for an hour was drawn rhythmically from the mouth. Artificial respiration was found useless. He was no more. But his family could not realize this, or reconcile themselves to the idea of having lost him. They implored the doctors to persevere and refused to give up hoping, though there was no reasonable ground for hope. Daudet looked forward to spending a merry Christmas. Mile. Rejane, who is playing the part of Sapho, and Mme. Calve had been invited to sup with him on Christmas eve. Daudet was formerly a man of the quietest manners. He was a beautiful person, with one of those Saracenic heads which one often sees in the south of France, l’he black hair, of which he had quite a shock, was glossy, and fell an his shoulders. Those beautiful black eyes of his were extremely nearsighted, bat he learned to look well at everything within (jheir range of vision, and thus cultivated the visual memory which stood him in good stead as a writer. He seemed to lie in ambush for his characters, and to sketch them slyly. He thus sketched in “Le Nabab” the Duo De Moray and that excellent vulgar M. Bravet. the deputy, who figures in the novel as the Nabob. Daudet owed to his good offices his admirable and accomplished wife. She is the daughter of a cabinet maker, who had a contract to furnish the palares of the Khedive Ismail. The author denied that “Le Nabab” was a novel with a key. He would have been unfaithful to his principles had he not draw’n from nature. He was able to study the types in that novel arid in “Les Rois en Kxil” when a secretary of the Due De Morn/. Before he obtained the post at the Petit-Bourbon he used to dine at a cheap table d’hote with Gambetta. That statesman was brought into another novel as Numa Roumestan, though Daudet himself disclaimed the identification. Avery exalted lady—indeed, a lady with an only son doomed to a tragical death—did not suspect when she visited the De Mornys that Daudet was in ambush there. He portrays her with some slight differences in “Jack.” He was brought up among pious Catholics and Royalists. His aesthetic sense held him in the Catholic Church. None the less, he was q Freethinker. Many 0/ the newspapers are in mourning for him. They are unanimous in lamenting his death as a loss to France. Bezcnali Bested by Gardner. WHEELING, W. Va.. Jan. 11.—Oscar Gardner, the “Omaha Kid,” and Eugene Bezenah. of Cincinnati, met in a sixteenfoot ring before the Metropolitan Athletic Club to-night. The. men fought well. At the first Bezenah had the advantage, but after the tenth round Gardner did the most execution. In the fifteenth round Bezenah was twice sent to the floor. By a mistake twenty-one rounds were fought* Both men were standing and fighting at the time, but an agreement made, before the battle was that a decision should b< given at the end of the twentieth round. The decision at the end of the twenty-first round was in favor of Gardner. Fifteen hundred people saw’ the contest.

TILE FACTORY IN ATOMS ONE KILLED AND TWO HURT IN GAS EXPLOSION AT DALEVILLE. Indiana Cement Maker* Threaten to Go to War— $5,000 ter diet Against Tolleston Gun Club. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 11.-At 9 o’clock tonight the town of Daleville. eight miles west of Muncie, was given another severe shaking by gas explosion. Window panes fell out and buildings seemed ready to topple over. The trouble was caused by a natural gas explosion at B. F. Letter’s tile factory, in which one man was killed and two others dangerously injured. The tile are baked in kilns with natural gas. When a kiln is ready to fire the gas is turned on in the several furnaces under the kiln and a torch is applied. The gas main leading to the kiln had been frozen, but it thawed out, and to-night, when the torch was applied, the kiln was full of gas and the explosion followed. The kiln was torn to pieces and sides of sheds in the yard were blown in, while the three men—John Rinker, Reek Carbrick and Mr. Letter —were all buried under the debris. Carbrick was the least hurt, but is injured internally and badly burned. Lefter is Injured in the breast, cut in the head, and both eyes are swollen shut. He has not regained consciousness and will not recover. It required a half-hour for two hundred men to dig Rinker’s body from the debris. He was thirty years old, and leaves a wife and two children. * CEMENT TRUST ATTACKED. It I* Expected to Retaliate with < ut Price* Next Year. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, lnd., Jan. 11.—Within the next year there promises to be an upheaval in the cement industry in this county that will amount almost to a revolution of the trade. There are thirteen mills in the county, eleven of which are members of the Louisville Cement Association or trust, and the remaining two are independent. The trust factories are all closed down for the winter, while the independent mills are running and scarcely able to till their orders. The trust people say that the nonassociation factories are keeping up because they have cut the price. It is quite likely the trust will light back with the same kind of w’eapons next year and it is expected that the price of cement will drop several points on the barrel. The Standard mill, located at Charlestown, is an anti-as:,oeiatlon factory and has all the business it can handle. Those who claim to know say that the Standard is ready for war and will meet all cuts with a deeper one. A company headed by Jacob Weaver is making preparations to erect a mill at Sellersburg. and also anew mill is soon to be built by Mr. Charles Goetz, of St. Louis. Both will be run Independent of the trust. Mr. Goetz is a large dealer in cement and has an established trade that will furnish a market for his output. His coming into the field as a manufacturer will help to p/ecipitate the light. The trust people look on him us being the most formidable rival they have had. His mill will be erected on land adjacent to the famous Black Diamond mill, which is known all over the country for its first-class product, it is also reported that some of the operators of Clark county mills are interested in a mill that is soon to be built near Connersville, lnd. It is an open Secret that the cement industry in Clark county is far from being as profitable as in former years. Business depression and competition have robbed the old mill owners of a vast amount of revenue, while Portland cement made in America, has become a rival on account 06 its cheapness. There are two factories in Pennsylvania and one in Ohio that are making Portland cement equal to that imported and a great deal cheaper. This cuts a large figure with the Clark county mills. A few years ago all of the Portland cement was made in Europe and was high priced. When Indiana cement could possibly be substituted it was done, but now’ the prices are so nearly the same that American Portland is being* used instead of the cheaper grade. This fact is causing the Union Lime and Cement Company to seriously consider the building of a Portland plant at Bedford. Ind. The backers have been experimenting and find they have the oolitic stone, the clay and the kaolin in abundance there These have been tested by a chemist and pronounced to equal any in the country and with them Portland cement, equal to the German, can be made. The manufacture of Portland cement requires the constant attention of a chemist. He must mix the ingredients. By this time next year it is expected that the Union lame and Cement Company will have completed a Portland mill at Bedford. Originally Portland cement was made only in England, out of clay found in the vicinity of Portland, and from this it derived its name. The finest field for the manufacture of this cement is said to be certain pans of Arkansas, but for some reason none is made there. Anew factory has recently been started at Chicago, but it is necessary to have all the raw material shipped in.

SPIRITUALISTS UNMASKED. Two Fraud* Exposed at a Greenenstle Seance. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, GREENCASTLE, Ind., Jan. 11.—Two alleged spiritualists, w’ho have been having remarkabia success here for ten days, were exposed to-night by a number of citizens and students, who had suspected them as frauds. At a seance at the residence of Dr. H. H. Morrison, at a given signal, the mediums were grabbed and the lights turned on. The expose caused great excitement. and the large number who had been duped were so angered that tar and feathers w r ere threatened. The men. who gave the names of J. H. Coates of Mattoon, 111., and J. G. Coates, of Chicago, were arrested and placed in jail. Some of the most prominent citizens have taken great interest in their work, which has been clever enoueh to make them a number of converts. The men have been following the business for years, and claim this is the first time they have been caught. For Scientific “Point*.” Special to the Inclianapo*.- journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 11.—Lovers of the fistic art had a good time in this city last night, several bouts for scientific points being pulled off. The events were given in Athletic Hall, which was crowded to the w’alls. “Spider” Kelley, of California, was matched against Harry Burden, a colored lad of this city, for six rounds. The contest warmed up as it proceeded, and Burden succeeded in knocking Kelley down twice, the black man going down once. Burden w T as not in shape to spar and made some bad breaks toward fouling. George Bryan, of this city, and Tommy Murphy, of St. Louis, went on for three rounds. It was a rather tame affair. Kelley and Murphy gave three rounds of the biff-bang style, which set the erow’d wild with enthusiasm. Verdict Against Tolleston Clnb. Special to the Indiananolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. 11.—The damage suit of Theodore Prowl against the Tolleston Gun Club, of Chicago, for $25,000, w’hich has been on trial since last Wednesday, was given to the jury last night, and to-day it rendered a verdict giving Prowl judgment for $5,060. Prowl and a number of Lake county farmers were hunting near the club grounds last spring, when they were shot at by the club’s game wardens. Three other similar suits are pending. The club is composed of a number of wealthy Chicagoans, among them being John V. Farwell. Hempstead Washburne, Dr. Nicholas Seem, Edwin F. Daniels and John L. Kunert. 'Fhe ease will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Judge Baker XV a* Easy. Special to the Indiananolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 11.—The January term of the United States Court adjourned to-day. Judge Baker dismissed Clara R. Wood, of this city, charged with sending an obscene postal card to a Louisville woman, and Thomas and Francis Basinger, of Tell City, charged with violation of the internal revenue laws. Fourth District Democrats. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NORTH VERNON, Ind., Jan. 11. The Democrats of the Fourth congressional district met In this city to-day, with Joel A. Matlock, district chairman, In control. Mr. Miller, of Brown county, W’as secretary. Resolutions ware adopted indorsing the

Chicago platform, W. J. Bryan and Parks M. Martin, and commending the services of Mr. Matlock as district committeeman. The names of Lincoln Dixon, of this city, and Charles If. Wilson, of Ripley, were presented as candidates for district chairman. Mr. Dixon received 104 votes and Wilson fourteen. I. nlon Stnte Bank Prosperou*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MORRISTOWN. Ind., Jan. 11.—The Union State Bank, of this place, has just closed a successful year's business, paying an 8 per cent, dividend. This bank was organized as the Commercial Bank a few years ago as one of the chain of the firm of Dwiggins & Starbuck. When Dwiggins went to the wall this bank was closed only one day. The bark was reorganized with local capital. Charles T. Williams has been the presieient ever since the reorganization and L. E. AlcDonakl has been cashier. Mr. McDonald now goes to Greenfield, where he becomes cashier of the Capital State Bank there, which has just been reorganized. Freight Cur Burglars. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCHELL, Ind., Jan. 11.-Kaphael and Frederick Burton and Abe Martin were arrested at the instance of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway detectives, charged with breaking into a sealed car near here and taking several pairs of shoes. The boys are all under seventeen and are sons of highly respectable people, who gave bond for their appearance in court. Robert Prosser and Roy Lindsey were also implicated, but escaped arrest by running away from home. Boy Strikers Compromise. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. at the Ball Bros, factory have all returned to work on the offer made cy the manufacturers and rejected last week. The boys will receive the 60 cents increase on the week’s work, making $4, but the advance does not begin until March 1, and the amount of the increase will be held until the close of the season. Like compromises were made in the other departments of the work where the larger boys quit on a strike, and the factories are now' running full force. Bieil of Blond Poisoning. Si>ecial to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Jan. 11.—William H. Creed, aged thirty-nine, died this morning of blood poisoning after a few days’ illness. He was a scientific horseshcer and a few days ago discovered a small abrasion on his cheek. While at work he brushed it with his hand and in this way became poisoned. He was a Knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow' and carried a SI,OOO life insurance. He leaves a wife and one child. Masons in New Lodge Booms. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Jan. 11.—The Masons of this city for some months have been remodeling and refurnishing their lodgerooms. To-night the hall was thrown open for the inspection of a large number of invited guests. There were speeches and music, followed by refreshments and a social. The lodge now has a very attractive temple. The Bowling Fever. Special to the Imliananolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 11.—The Anderson and Wabash bowling teams have deposited purses of SIOO and will enter a contest lor the championship of eastern Indiana, the purses ar.d the gate receipts. The first series of games will bo played m this city Friday night. Dry Goods in a Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER. Ind., Jan. ll.—Fire was discovered in the Shull & Leonard block last night in the large room occupied by M. I. Daniels & Cos., general merchants. The flames made rapid headway and almost completely ruined the entire stock. Loss, $4,000, partly insured. Indiana Obituary. ELWOOD. Ind., Jan. 11.—Miss Josie Harting. a popular young woman, is dead, after a short illness. She was the daughter of Andrew llarting and had a large circle of friends. Mrs. George Antle, wife of a prominent citizen, died this morning, after a lingering illness, aged forty-seven. MOORELAND, Ind.. Jan. 11.—William Conaway died last night, aged sixty, after a long illness. He had lived in Henry county since his boyhood. He was a practical farmer and accumulated a large estate. He leaves a widow ancl several grOw r n children, all married.

Indiana Note*. At the eorone.'s inv.s ig- tion on the cLuth of Harry Toliver at Mitcheil the evidence was such that a verdict of suicide was rendered. A carload of shovels for Chinese government work was forwarded yesterday by the W right Shovel Company, at Anderson, Ind., to Hong-Kong. William Bdnks and John M. Privitt, of Anderson, left yesterday for Dawson City. A dozen will leave Anderson within the next thirty days. The Starke County Farmers’ Institute is in session at Knox. The lecturers are O. F. Dane, of Greencastle, and Colonel Husselman, of Auburn. The Franklin City Council last night elected Edward Middleton city engineer. He succeeds Preston Reynolds, who has gone to the Southwest for his health. At the annual meeting of Kokomo national banks yesterday all the old directors were re-elected, as follows: Nathan Pickett, president, and John A. Jay, cashier, of the Howard National; Richard Ruddell, president, and G. E. Bruner, cashier’, of the Citizens’ National. “John,” the family horse of Senator O’Brien, of Kokomo, perhaps the oldest horse in that section of the State, died Monday. “John” was thirty-four years old, and tho owner had driven him for more than thirty years. Tho animal was one year older than “Old Bob,” the war horse owned by Poulard Brown, of Kokomo. Since the burial of “Old Bob” live years ago, with military honors, his grave is always remembered on Decoration day. “Bob” went through the war, carrying his gallant rider safely through a score of battles. UNITED MINE WORKERS. Ninth Annual Convention of the Great Organization Opened. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 11.—The ninth annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America opened in this city this morning at 10 o’clock. The convention is tho largest In the history of the organization, about three hundred delegates from the States of Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana and West Virginia being in attendarce. President Ratohford presided. The morning session was given up to the organization of the convention. The report of the committee on credentials was presented at the afternoon session. It showed 464 votes in the convention, representing about 60.000 miners. The votes distributed as follow's: Ohio, 153; Illinois, 138; Pennsylvania, 83; West Virginia, 32; Indiana. 51, and Alabama and Kentucky, seven. The following were the important committees appointed: Resolutions—J. H. Kennedy, Indiana; John Mitchell, Illinois; W. H. Haskins, Ohio; Patrick McGowan, Pennsylvania, and M. V. White, of West Virginia. Scale—W. G. Knight. Indiana; J. M. Hunter, Illinois; T. L. Lewis, Ohio; Patrick Dolan, Pennsylvania; H. Stevenson. West Virginia; Warner Wilson, Pennsylvania; George Schackert, Indiana; John Morgan, Indiana; John Greene, Indiana, and Frank McDonald, West Virginia. Constitution—Chris Evans, Ohio; Samuel Anderson, Indiana; A. D. Ryan. Illinois; W iliiam Warner, Pennsylvania, and J. W. Taylor, of West Virginia. Coining Conference of Miner*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Jan. 11.—Much speculation is going on here between the operators and miners as to the outcome of the joint conference to be held at Chicago next Monday. The miners’ delegates that have been selected are understood to be instructed to contend for the adoption of the the five-day plan, making Saturday a holiday. A prominent operator said that he was in favor of the plan, and would use his influence at the conft rence to secure its adoption. The advance of 10 cents asked by the miners and the adjustment of the machine question will call forth considerable controversy, and it is thought the meeting will last for a week. The day m*n are also asking to be paid at the rate of Uiree tons of coal a day, instead of two anu one-half tons, as they now receive. An effort w-11l be made by the Indiana operators to effect a closer alliance with the Illinois operators, and not altogether be governed by the prices paid for mining coal in Ohio and Pennsylvania, as heretofore. The operators here contend that the Illinois fields are their closest competitors, and it is necessary for the Indiana men to affiliate with them in making prices to enable them to get Into the Western markets.

ESTERHfIZY NOT tGUILTY * — “WHITEWASHED” BY A COI RT-MAR-TIAL of his fellow-officers. End of . Case That Wan Worked by tlie Frlendti of Captain Dreyfus— Colonel Piequart Criticised. PARIS. Jan. 11.—Esterhazy has been “whitewashed" by the court-martial which yesterday began its trial of the French army officer who was charged with writing letters defaming his country and with plotting to betray it. A conviction was not expected, for the officers comprising the courtmartial was unfriendly to Captain Dreyfus, the alleged traitor who has been exiled to the Devil’s island, and who was sent there, it is believed, through the instrumentality of Count Esterhazy. To-day’s proceedings of the court were conducted in secret. Col. Piequart continued his testimony and it is said there was great excitement in court when Colonel Piequart was confronted with General Gonse, subchief of the general staff. It is alleged that sensational incidents followed Colonel Piequart making revelations of exceptional gravity. The taking of the testimony ended at 5 o’clock this afternoon, when the government's representative briefly addressed the court. Counsel for Major Esterhazy followed. The secret deliberation of the courtmartial which followed terminated at 6:15 p. m., when the president put the following question to the court: “Is Major Esterhazy guilty of having dealings with a foreign power, or its agents, to incite them to commit hostilities or undertake war against France*or procure the means of doing so?” The court declared unanimously on the question that the accused was not guilty. The president then ordered Major Esterhazy to be liberated. Mathieu Dreyfuss, on emerging, was not by the crowd. Colonel Piequart, who followed him, was accompanied by some friends. Major Esterhazy appeared alone at 8:20 p. ni. and proceeded to the prison of Cherche Midi. The crowd greeted him with cries of “Vive l’armie.” “Vive le Commandant Esterhazy,” and tried to shake hands with him. The police have arrested and imprisoned Mme. Jouffrey D’Abbans and her paramour on the charge of blackmailing an army captain. A large number of letters supporting the charge have been seized. Mme. Jouffrey D’Abbans is said to have been formerly known as a doubtful character, passing under the name of Chabol. She married and has since been divorced from an elderly nobleman, M. Jouffrey D’Abbans. She pretended to be Major Esterhazy’s “veiled lady” and was examined during the inquiry. 'I he evidence behind closed doors, it is understood, completely crushed Colonel Picquart, the testimony of the staff officers, notably Colonel Henry, chief of the Intelligence Bureau, being unfavorable to him. * BRITAIN’S TERMS TO CHINA. NMII Loan $100,000,000 if LI Hung Cliang Is Restored to Power. LONDON, Jan. 11.—The Chinese loan negotiations are progressing. Great Britain lias informed China that she is willing to find the money required, and the details are now being discussed. The amount will probably be £20,000,000. Great Britain asks for certain changes in the administration of China, including the restoration of Li Hung Chang to power. British ••IlUfal” with Menelik. LONDON, Jan.Tl.—The Birmingham Post, the organ of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, says: “The treaty which Mr. James Rennell Rodd, principal secretary of the British agency and consulate general In Egypt, negotiated wdth King Menelik of Abyssinia contains a clause binding King Menelik not to allow any obstacle to emanate from Abyssinian territory with the object of blocking the Egyptian advance on Khartoum. Asa quid pro quo. King Menelik secures a certain rectification of the frontier when the Khalifa is subdued.” DOVER, Jan. 11.—The greatest enthusiasm and activity prevails at Shorncliffe, from which tamp the Third Hussars has been ordered to proceed to Cairo. Large drafts from other British regiments are also preparing for foreign service.

Kaiser’s Speeeli to tlie Diet. BERLIN, Jan. 11.—The last session of the present Prussian Diet was opened to-day with a speech from the throne, read by Chancellor Hohenlohe. After stating that the current budget shows considerable surplus the speech announced the introduction of a bill which contemplated abolishing the obligation of public officials to furnish security, rearranging and improving the emoluments of the clergy of both confessions, regulating the position of private lecturers in universities, increasing the capital of the central co-operative fund, increasing the colonization fund of Posen (West Prussia), and extending the peasant succession law' to Westphalia and some of the Rhenish districts In addition further funds will be provided to prevent floods and to mitigate their effects.’ Claimed Diplomatic Privileges. LONDON, Jan. 11.—The Maidenhead County Court to-day issued summonses against Spencer Eddy (secretary of the United States ambassador. Col. John Hay), and J. E. White (son of Henry White, secretary of the United States embassy), for bicycling on sidewalks. The cases were adjourned in consequence of the Home Office telegraphing to the magistrate that Henry White claimed diplomatic privileges for his son. THE MONETARY REPORT. Highly Commended sin a StateMinunlike Document. New York Financier. The report of the monetary commission appointed by the executive committee of the Indianapolis sound-money conference forms a document the importance of which is not to be underestimated. An academic presentation of our complex monetary problem, it is based on fundamental principles, and in reasoning, logic and conclusions ranks with the famous bullion report which had a large part in shaping British financial legislation early in the present century. Dealing, as it does, with a subject as exact as a mathematical formula, the work of the commission does not offer anything startlingly new, but the mere fact that it was found necessary to reaffirm in plan language facts that are apparent to all students of finance, measures, in a way, our errancy from correct doctrines. Whether the labors of the commission will result in a return to basic principles is doubtful, but this does not in the least detract from the strength of the report, nor impugn its accuracy. The report, as we take it, was not formed for the specific purpose of Influencing pet plans of legislation. It does recommend general outlines, but these are capable of endless amendment, and so rich is the mine that it can he drawn on indefinitely without exhausting its resources. For all that the report is voluminous, this does not mean that it is intricate. Starting with the blunt declaration that the gold standard is a fact of civilization and that government, if it is wise, accepts this fact and records it as law, the commission goes on to show wherein our present system of currency has violated all true principles of finance without openly confessing what is, nevertheless, true to ali—that a nation cannot in its monetary standard have two things at once, any more than a man can be honest and dishonest at the same time. This proposition ought not to require argument. In anything but a question of public fiscal policy it would be accepted without dispute. The commission, answerable to no constituency but it own sense of right and conscience, takes its stand on this line and invites criticism, assured in advance of ultimate victory. The recommendations in detail are the deductions of minds skilled in finance, but are submitted us the mere

groundwork of a final plan that may bo evoived from th< m. The suggestion that the treasury should be separated into two divisions—one of revenue and another of issue and redemption follows Secretary Gage’s idea. The treatment of our mass of heterogenous currency, a subject as delicate and complex as any the commission had to deal with, is perhaps open to criticism in one or two particulars, but as it concerns facts as they are, rather than ideal conditions, it remains for such criticism to point a better way. The most serious problem—in fact, the only one aside from the maintenance of a standard—with which the commission had to deal was that of reducing the volume of demand obligations issued by the government and the establishing of a bank.ng currency which not only would fill the vacuum caused by the retirement of the greenbacks, but at the same time supply urgent needs of all sections alike. Without going into details it can be said that the banking currency proposed by the commission is safe. The restrictions thrown around its issue and redemption guarantee stability. The only question is the application of the plan outlined by the report ad also by the hill embody ng its i rovis.cn. since ii.t.o n;ced in Congress. Now', the only reason for an elastic currency is fiat the scattered threads of credit, as represented by the industrial activity in varying periods of a community, are best enhanced by the mobilization of such credit in a central institution which i.i recognized as being worthy of it. In other words, the credit of a bank makes its promises to pay universally acceptable, and its notes, bearing this piedge, perform a function that an individual cannot well duplicate. But it follows as a corollary that there should never lie an oversupply of this credit. Otherwise it not only defeats its own mission, but leads to confusion and worse. Quite as necessary, therefore, as the method of issue of these notes is the manner in which they are to be retired. Whether the redemption at subtreasuries (which means practically redemption in New York city) as outlined by the monetary commission will accomplish the purpose is doubtful. The objection to the present currency system is that it drives money to the great centers. If notes for retirement came direct there might be no danger in the new plan, but passing from bank to bank on the way it is very much to be feared that the redemption would be prolonged over an indefinite period, therefore defeating one of the chief aims of the bill. Second 'hought would suggest tl at the notes should vve an Immediate cancellation after having done their work, and that other banks should be able to liquidate them immediately, once they were paid over as deposits. This is done in the Canadian system. where banks force till notes other than their own into retirement when they come into tlnir | ossess o . TANARUS! e advu' t ages* of his are obvious. The Suffolk system was even more complete and satisfactory. Perhaps the commission argued that the tax on extra bank circulation and the faciliti sos modern commerce would regulate the matter. but an ideal credit currency involves a redemption that absolutely prevents a glut of money at one center and a famine at another. Some will argue that the plan of the commission throws the burden of general gold redemption on the treasury rather than on the hanks. Without discussing this point at length it will he conceded that between the' treasury and the banks there will be no div’lsion. Unless specifically pledged by law, banks here and in other countries will never assume the burden of supplying gold in response to international demands when the public treasury is open for that purpose. The banks can protect their gold when necessary much easier titan the government. Tills is a delicate po.nt and will require careful handling if we arc to have financial laws of the character outlined. But the commission appears to have thrown many safeguards around the treasury now absolutely lacking. BANKER KILLED. I*. A. Larger. of Butte. Mont., Shot by Thomas J. Riley. BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 11.—Patrick A. Largey, president of the State Savings Bank, and one of the well-known citizens of Butte, was killed in the bank this afternoon by Thomas J. Riley. Riley called Largey to the cashier’s window, where the two talked for five minutes. Suddenly Riley drew a pistol and shot through the window at Largey. The bullet struck the latter in the left arm and shattered the bone. Largey stooped down, and had he continued in UrnA position he might have escaped with his life, as he was protected by the counter. However, he rose partly, and as he did so Riley fired a second shot. the bullet striking Largey in the forehead, and he fell on the floor dead. The murderer escaped to the street, where he was arrested. Threats of lynching caused his removal to Deer Lodge penitentiary. The murderer has but one leg. He lost the other in a nowiier-house explosion, which cost fifty-six lives. Largey was manager for one of the companies whose warehouse exploded, and Riley vjas seeking redress for his injuries.

Movement!) of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Scotia, from Marseilles. Sailed: Trave, for Bremen; Bovic, for Liverpool; Alsatia, for Marseilles. , BREMERHAVEN, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, from New York. BOSTON, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Pavonia, from Liverpool. BREMEN. Jan. 11.—Arrived: Dresden, from Baltimore. MARSEILLES, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Alesia, from New York. NAPLES, Jan. 11.—Sailed: Patria, for New York. California Orange Crop. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Jan. 11.—The orange crop of Southern California, now being harvested, is in prime condition. Aituojgh there was an expected fall of snow yesterday, the fruit was not damaged. The snow was light and soon melted. It was followed by a rain, which will do much good to growing crops. A Mucnnwlior Concert. The Maennerchor will give a concert Sunday evening at its hail. Among the soloists will be Miss Paula Kipp, piano, and Mr. Walter Kipp, flute. Many persons cannot take plain cod-liver oil. They cannot digest it. It upsets the stomach. Knowing these things, we have digested the oil in Scott’s Emulsion of Codliver Oil with Hypophosphites; that is, we have broken it up into little globules, or droplets. We use machinery to do the work of the digestive organs, and you obtain the good effects of the digested oil at once. That is why you can take Scott’s Emulsion. 50c. and SI.OO, ail druggists. / SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists. New York. NATIONAL Tube Works Wrought-Iron Pipe for Gas, \| / -9 Steam and Water. Boiler Tubes, Cast anil Malle Kfcovptflr' JBL able Iron I itting*(bl&-k and galvanized), Valve*. Stop T Cocks. Engine Trimming, I •x* tS Steam Cannes, I’lih* Tongs. IfivjG ” l’i|>e Cntters. Vises, Sinew fijj K j 1 Plates and Die*. Wrem lies, f Steam Traps, Pumps, Klt. nKj fcsdi * s,, iks. Hose. Belting, Bab- £ B rit bit .Metal. Solder. White ami r. fj Colored Wiping Waste, ami Hfl liic all other Supplies used m W (and connection with (las. Steam iw R,1(l Water. Natural tins | —J Supplies m specialty. Stearnfa t"| heating Apparatus for Pubjj I"M lie Buildings, Store-rooms, j MilKShops.lr'actories, l.aunra L-, I dries. Lumber Dry-Houses, , * etc. Cut and Thread to (orJ ISI der any size Wrought-Mron 9 fc l Pipe, from H inch tq 11 ; s Inches diameter. fi 1 KNIGHT & JILLSON, ■■ KB 7& and 17 . ™ U. I'ENNSVIiVAN l|A SJ,