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000. A complete list of the companies Involved cannot be obtained at this time, and thu exact amount will not be known until th<‘re Is u meeting of the underwriters. The Union Storage Company's building was six stories high and occupied almost the entire block between Twelfth, Thirteen! ii and Idko streets and Mulberry alley. The first floor front was occupied as offices m the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company and local office of the Union Storage Company. The second floor front contained the ••tables of the Chautaqua Company, and in the Twelfth street they had their ice-mak-tng plant, which occupied the three first fit i>rs. This was filled with valuable icemaking machinery and other property of the Chautauqua company. The remainder of the building was occupied by the storage company. COULD NOT OPEN DOORS. Immediately upon the discovery of the fire an alarm w r as sent in and was responded to promptly, but owing to the construction of the building it was practically impossible to fight the fire from without while the volume of smoke inside the particular division in which the fire occurred made it impossible to fight It from behind. The only opening in the three fire walls dividing the great buildings were closed by heavy iron doors, and these were locked. For three hours the firemen worked, scarcely knowing what they were doing. The iron shutters were impregnable to their attacks. The smoke that found its way out of the building filled Mulberry alley and Pike street, stifling the firemen and rendering them practically sightless. It would clear for a moment or two, and they would again maneuver to make some headway, but to no avail. Finally, at 11 o’clock, the flames burst out through the roof and shot upward a hundred feet In the air and making that part of the city sis light as day. This was the first note of alarm that started the flight of residents from their homes in Pike, Thirteenth and Twelfth streets. Women and children started forth barefooted and in their night clothes, foliow’ed by their husbands hearing what little they could • arry in their arms of their household offs ets. The police were w'atchful, and the crowds were kept back by fire lines and the fearful he-U of the flames. Suddenly, above the roar of the flames and the puffing of the fire engines, which were everywhere, came the more powerful noise of an explosion. The din of falling walls foretold destruction and death In thunderous tones. Those within the fire lines were seen to fall in all directions. Those outside the lines were not without the reach of danger. The great puff of air created by the explosion seemed to make everything sway and shake. Those not knocked down by the ttrst awful blast started to run, and were knocked down by the reactionary waVes of air, as the falling walls created a vacuum that seemed to draw in everything. Jt was on the Mulberry-alley side where the least danger was anticipated—the greatest volume of smoke ar.d preliminary outbursts of flames having come out of the Pike-street side—that the force of the explosion was the most severe, and there the greatest number of fatalities took place. The falling walls crushed in the rear of buildings which have fronts on Pennsylvania avenue. The side of the Hoeveler building, on Pike street, was also crushed in. and\an entry made for the flames. At the Thirteenth-street end of the warehouse the most terrible effect of the explosion was manifest. That entire front was oiled into the street. Explosion followed explosion for about half an hour between 12 and 1 o’clock. The lire, after a report like that of a cannon, burst through the walls in all directions. Burned-out walls dame toppling down, and firemen, policemen and spectators were rendered almost powerless to act sense of awe and terror which she scflle inspired. NARROW ESCAPE OF FIREMEN. The old brick houses albng Penn avenue, from Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, caught from the rear and burned rapidly. Only a few streams could be used on the Penn-ave-nue fronts of these houses, and the crowd was slowly driven off the opposite side of the avenue to greater distances. A whole company of firemen was throwing a stream into the great storage house from a narrow courtyard in the rear of Penn avenue, from which a much narrower alley led to the street. About 1:30 a particularly heavy explosion occurred, and part of the heavy wall of the storage house toppled over on the roofs of the houses and into the courtyard. The firemen at work there escaped by the narrowest chance. In the meantime, the scene in Pike street was an even more awe-inspiring one. The Instant following the first big explosion the warehouses of Hoeveler & Cos. caught fire, and this was followed by the falling in of the wu.llia.of the building of the Chautauqua Lake* Ice Company. Here the firemen also had narrow escapes. Through the Hoeveler warehouse the flames swept like a dust cloud before the wind. The building, though r.ew, was of ordinary construction, and presented all that was needed in the way of material for a fierce fire. Added t.o this was the nature of its contents, 600 barrels of whisky. One after another of these barrels exploded, throwing blazing beams and rafters, masses of stone and brick into the air and scattering the firemen, police and spectators. From the blazing timbers, which were burled in every direction, the fire was communicated to the adjoining buildings. McKallup & Co.’s grain and feed warehouse, on the corner of Pike street, caught in the rear, and. despite the efforts of the firemen, the flames worked their way into the center of the building and then mounted ly the elevator shaft to the roof, through which it was soon pouring. The building was filled on every floor with flour, feed an 1 grain. On the ground floor was stored set eral hundred tons of anthracite coal. So fierce was the fire that this was soon burning, and under the draft, influenced by the heat, was pouring out gaseous jpumes that spread through the building and almost overcame the firemen who were working to keep back the flames. Following the last explosion, in a moment it seemed the flames leaped across the narrow space that separated the great warehouse from the rear of the buildings facing Penn avenue, and were most dangerous around the building occupied by G. Gloekner as a saloon, at No. 1247. In less than five minutes this shell-like structure was a blazing mass, and from each side the flames rapidly ate their way into the adjoining buildings. The store occupied \by the Country Milk Company next • aught, and went up like tinder. Laudau’s bargain store, at 1242. went next, and this was followed by J. S. Wilson's barber shop, at 1241. No. 1231, a great four-story building, occupied by a grocery company, then caught from the rear, and in less than five minutes the entire structure was in tyimes. and was soon in ruins. It was 3 o’clock a. in. before the fire was under control. During the morning it was reported that at least twenty or thirty people had been killed at the fire, but this proved to he an exaggeration. As fast as the bodies of those killed by the explosions and falling walls were recovered they were taken to the morgue, while the injured were carried to the Homeopathie Hospital. The scenes at both places were harrowing, the dead being badly mangled and burned, while the broken bones of some of the injured protruded 'through the tlesli. Some of the victims were buried under tons of debris, while others, who were at an apparently safe distance when the explosions occurred, were knocked down by flying bricks. I.ate to-night the headless body of William McGonnigle. assistant engineer of the Chautauqua Ice Company, was taken from the ruins and Identified. The body at the morgue supposed to be John Scott has been positively identified as that of the young man. Fire Loss at St. Louis. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 10.—The five-story building at No. 1052 Locust street, occupied by the Tamblin-Powers Clothing Company, was almost destroyed by fire this afternoon. The stock of the Leonank Rous Fur Comjany, in an adjoining building was drenched with water. The loss on the building amounts to $50,0(10 and $25,000 will probably cover the damage to the stocks of clothing and fur. .1 Jenloui Lever’* Crime. NEW HAMPTON. la.. Feb. 10.-List night, a few miles northwest of here. William Christoph fired two shots at Emil and Minnie Boos, but both took effect in the girl’s side. He then went home and shot himself twice in the chest. Chn <.h and the girl are In a critical corvdltif *isappointment In love was the cause. % f liipperton Inland Ownership SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.—The q: e-’.on of the national sovereignty to whlco Clipper ton Island belongs was preset?wd to Judge Seawell In u case on trial bes .* • him to-day of Captain Permlen, the of the Island, against the Oceanic chosphate Company, to whom he sold it. Vou l>er Abe Abduction Case-, PITTSBURG, Pa.. Feb. 10.-The Vo" der Ahe abduction case came up in the United Slates Court again this morning. Several witnesses were examined, including W. A. Nimick and Detective Bendel, after which Judge Buffington continued the case until to-morrow. rder at a Dance. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 10.—Charles Brown, a seventeen-year-old boy, shot and killed Clint Suttler at a dance on the outskirts of ti e city last night. Both young men were veil known. Huttler was notorious, ar.d has always been regurded as a dangerous man.

WEALTHY MAN MISSING CAME TO INDIANA FROM CALIFORNIA AND THEN DISAPPEARED. Last Seen at North Vernon with a Roll of Money-Negro Miners Still Carry Arms at Washington. ♦- Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 10.—George Cook, a wealthy and eccentric old bachelor of San Francisco, has disappeared while visiting in this county, and it is feared that he has met with foul play. He is almost seventy years old. The story of his appearance and disappearance is a strange one. On Jan. 12 he arrived at the hotel in Elizabethtown, five miles south of Columbus, which is in charge of W. M. Newsom. He showed that he was an own cousin to Mr. Newsom's father, T. C. Newsom, who has been dead for ten years. For somfe days he remained about the little village, and made many valuable presents to the children. He said that he was worth about SIOO,OOO. This fortune consisted of forty acres, partly in the city of San Francisco. The remainder was invested in government bonds. He said that ha had no direct heirs and proposed that if Mr. Newsom would go with his family to San Francisco and care for him the reremainder of his life, he would make Mr. Newsom his heir. Newsom agreed to this, provided the story was true. Mr. Cook referred him to San Francisco bankers. On Jan. 19 he went to North Vernon to visit an old acquaintance, William Day. He found Day’s daughter and was directed to her father’s home, a short distance from that city. From that time he has never been seen. He had about SSOO in his pocket when he left Elizabethtown. While at Mr. Newsom’s he insisted on paying for his board, and paid more than the regular rate. Newsom had made all arrangements to move to California, even to chartering a car for his goods. READY FOR THE LEAGUE. Lafayette 'Will Be Republican Hcadqnarter* To-Morrow. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—This city is ready for the coming of the State Lincoln League, which meets here Saturday, and is calculating on the entertainment of 1,500 to 2,000 visitors. General Wallace will open headquarters at the House to-morrow evening, and Judge Taylor will be here if not called to New York on legal business. J. Frank Hanly. of course, will be on the scene. A reception to all arrivals will be given Fridajr night at the Lincoln Clubhouse, where a “smoker” and a programme of short speeches and music has been arranged. A special and urgent Invitation was issued to-day to Chairman Hernly, of the State committee, and he is expected. Chairman Hernly Will Attend. Special to the IndlanApolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Feb. 10.—Chairman Hernly, of the Republican State committee, will Inaugurate, at once, a vigorous campaign, and to that end he will attend the meeting of the Lincoln League at Lafayette Saturday and participate in the celebration of Lincoln’s birthday anniversary. He expects to meet and counsel wdth many of the party leaders mere and lay the foundation for the summer’s work.

A MISER’S MONEY DIVIDED. Son of the Brown County Recluse Gets the Fortune. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 10.—About $7,000 of the fortune found in gold and notes on James H. Wilson, the Brown county miser, who died in the Columbus Hospital three years ago, will go to the old miser’s son, whose identity has been acknowledged. About a hundred claimants to Wilson's estate appeared, consisting in alleged wives, offspring and more distant relatives, but the court has given the bulk to Theodore IT. Wilson, of Columbus, 0., who is believed to be a son of the dead man. Other claimants will receive small amounts. For years Miser Wilson had lived alone in an old hut in Brown county, near Weed Fateh hill. One night some men passing the place heard groans and entered the little cabin and found Wilson in great agony. He was brought to Columbus and placed in the hospital, where it was found that he was suffering from gangrene in the foot. He would not let his clothing go out of his sight. Dr. A. J. Banker thought Wilson had money, and after his death Banker Irwin, with the doctor, examined the miser’s clothing and over SB,OOO was found in bills and gold. Court costs and taxes have eaten up a part of this since then. James 1.. Hilton, of Nashville, was made administrator, and before he had filed his bond dozens of claimants appeared for the miser’s money. It has now been proven that Wilson was married in Virginia, and that Theodore H. Wilson is his only child. He Is a mechanic at Columbus, O. — * STARTING A GINSENG FARM. New Industry for Siook Buyer 11 timer, of Seymour. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., Feb. 10.—Leonard Hibner, a prominent stock buyer of this city, has started in to convert his ICO acres near this city into a ginseng farm. “Sang diggers” at one time were common enough in this county, but the destruction of the forests, the natural home of the ginseng, has created a scarcity in the article and made the business of “sang digging” unprofitable. Mr. Hlbner has commenced the cultivation of the plant in the forest on his farm. Last year, after searching through the forests of several counties, he gathered together 1.200 ginseng plants which he transplanted. Besides the plants he sowed 15,000 seeds. The seed was purchased in New York and averages 7,500 to the pound, costing sl6 a pound. The plants collected are from one to eight years old and have given aim a good start in the business. This spring Mr. Hibner intends planting another acre, which will require 40,000 seeds, the hills being made one foot apart. The plants, are of very slow growth, it requiring eighteen months for a seed to germinate. Alpha Cox, u druggist of this city, who has been experimenting with the plants on a small scale for a number of years, says that a three-year-old plant is from eight to twelve inches high, according to the location and the soil; and that the fruit, which ripens in September, is a scarlet berry, one-eighth of an inch in diameter, and has imbedded in its fleshy pulps three round, hard seeds. Mr. Hibner will have to use the product of 13.334 plants in order to secure seeds to plant an acre, the value of which is about SBS. It requires from five to seven years for a plant to fully mature, and the root of each healthy plant will weigh from onehalf to three ounces. The root is shipped to China, where it is considered valuable for medicinal purposes. Prominent medical men of this country have found the root of little value for medical use. The Chinese believe the root holds a supernatural influence on the human system, capable of curing all manner of ills, preventing plagues, and, especially, prolonging life to extreme old age. Lockhart, in writing of the value of ginseng root in China, says: “ill price it varies front $6 to sl2 to the enormous sum of S3CO or S4OO an ounce. Root of this quality can, of course, only be purchased by the most wealthy, and the greatest care is taken of such pieces by the vendors.” CABBL MINE RIOTERS, Another of the Armed Negroes Arrested nt Washington, Ind. Special to tne Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—There has been another outbreak at the Cabel mines at Washington, with the result of still further exciting people, and it is the fear of the law-abiding citizens that serious rioting may ensue if the negroes are retained at the mines and especially if they are permitted to carry weapons at all times. Another one of the six who terrorized the town last Saturday night has been arrested. He was on the outside of the jail consoling his two friends who had been arrested and who were awaiting trial, and as he waved his arms about in his excited talk he displayed a revolver in his pocket. He

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was arrested for carrying concealed weapons and afterward recognized as one of the rioters of Saturday night. Postoflice Removal Fight. to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Feb. 10.— Merchants and business men of this city are involved in one of the most intense, good-natured contests the town has ever experienced. About two years ago the postoffice was removed from its location on Broad street, where It had been for half a century, to a room on Main street, the old room not being large enough. The new location has not been satisfactory to all and they looked forward to the change of postmasters for another move. In the meantime the old room had been enlarged and fitted up and it was hoped that the office would be relocated there. No sooner did the matter begin to be agitated than the Main-street business men offered to buy a complete new set of postoffice fixtures at a cost of about SI,OOO if the office would be kept in its present location. The Broad-street m< n heard of this and they offered to do the same, provided it was moved. The inspector was summoned and the matter was thoroughly investigated by him. but his report has not been made public. At any rate new fixtures will be a certainty. New Barnett Hotel Sold. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 10.—A. C. Barnett and wife have transferred to Dr. M. A. Jordan one-half interest in the new Barnett Hotel property for $13,000 cash, Jordan to assume half of a $12,000 mortgage held by the Union Trust Company, of Indianapolis, and advance $3,500 with which to pay insurance, taxes and interest. Shortly after the transfer was made it developed that Barnett and wife had made a contract in writing to sell a half interest in the hotel to George B. Forgy; that a deed had been executed in pursuance of this contract and placed in the safe of Judge Windfield for safe keeping, pending the completion of the deal. Mr. Forgy insists that his purchase was bona fide, and that his contract is legal in every respect and binding. This afternoon Mr. Forgy, by his attorney, filed a complaint asking the enforcement of the contract. The case raises the question as to whether Barnett sold to Forgy and Jordan each a half interest, or whether he has sold to Forgy| and Jordan the same half interest. Excursion for Gas Syndicate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 10.—This afternoon a special train was run by the Fort Wayne Natural Gas Company to Bluffton, in charge of General Manager Henry C. Paul, of the gas plant that feeds the city. His principal guests were: C. D. Dieterich, of the New York syndicate that controls nearly all of the Indiana gas fields; A. B. Proal, also of New York; James Murdoch, of Lafayette, and John R. Pearson, of Indianapolis. Besides these Mr. Paul had-as his guests two hundred prominent business men of the city. The object was to witness the practical operation of the extensive gas pumping station completed this winter at Bluffton for furnishing an additional supply of gas to this city. Returning home Engineer Dan O’Niel made a fast run on the Lake Erie & Western, covering the twentyfour miles in twenty-six minutes, exclusive of stops. Movement to Parole- Goodman. Special tv The Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 10.—Capt. Coburn, ex-chief of police and the deputy who led the posse that rounded up the Goodman gang at Summitvilie three years ago, and who, in the firing that was indulged in, was shot through the side by Dick Goodman, the leader, whom he wounded in several places, to-day took the initiatory in obtaining a parole, if not a pardon, for the leader of the notorious gang. Goodman and his mother always had the tenderest regard, for each other and she is fatally ill now and calling for her son. Goodman himself is in the hospital and has been there all the three years he has been in the penitentiary. The wounds inflicted that night at Summitvilie have formed abscesses which are taking his life away and he always will be a physical wreck. Coonty Medical Society. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKLIN, Ind., Feb. 10.—The County Medical Association, held its third annual meeting afternoon and evening. There were visiting physicians from the southern part .of the State. The principal speakers were Pr. George Cook, of Andianapolis, Dr. Hurty. of the State Boar®of Health, and Prof. J. M. Mathews, of Louisville, president of the Kentucky State Board of Health. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Dr. Wishard, of Greenwood, president; Dr. Accie Mathews, of Franklin, vice president; Dr. J. H. Lanham, secretary, and Dr. Dobbins, treasurer. To-night a banquet was given at the Leland Hotel.

Oil Men Leave Madixon County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 10.—Oil men have ■wholly abandoned this county for the time being. At present throughout the several fields, including that around Alexandria, not a drill is going and indications are that there will be no further activity in this county until the present cases pending in the Supreme Court are disposed of one way or the other. At present sixteen wells are running and the production is about six hundred barrels. Gas escapes and is wasted from each of these wells. Over in Delaware county a few drills are prospecting, but there are no startling discoveries. Mrs. Gladden Commits Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—Mrs. John R. Gladden, of Clark’s Hill, this county, shot herself through the heart this morning with a revolver secretly taken from her husband’s store two or three days ago. Since December she had been inconsolable over the death of a young daughter, but suicidal mania had not been suspected. While her husband and children were at the front gate, bidding farewell to some friends who had called, Mrs. Gladden went into the kitchen and fired the fatal shot. She was fifty-four years old. Her husband is a candidate in this county for the Republican nomination for recorder. Echo of John F. Johnson Failure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 10.—The State National Bank case against Joseph T. McNary and Jfcohn F. Johnson was dismissed to-day at the plaintiff’s cost. The suit was brought on two promissory notes amounting to $17,500, signed by “MeNary & Co.,*' the allegation being that MeNary and Johnson were partners and had overdrawn the bank account. Judge Chase ruled that these notes could not be produced in evidence. on the grounds that no evidence of the alleged partnership had been presented. The dismissal is said not to mean an abandonment of the old bank’s purpose to recover the Maple Grove property. Labor Commissioner* Take a Hand. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 10.—The State Labor Commission has /interfered in the tin-plate strike at the Irondale mills, at Middletown, and State Commissioner McCormack went to the seat of trouble today. He is an advocate of arbitration and will attempt to get both sides to submit their affairs to a board. The men are still out and the tin plant shut down. The trouble arises over a proposed reduction in wages. Routine Family Poisoned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Feb. 10,-The family of John Romine, an employe of the gas company, was poisoned at supper last night. The condition of Romine, his son and his aged mother is serious, and other members of the family are ill. Three hogs which were fed from the table leavings have died. It is not know yet which article of food was poisoned, but it is thought to have been the meat. Verdict Against the Vnndnlla. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—Younger Pruitt was awarded $2,000 damages by a jury to-day in his suit against the VandaKa. He was a brake-man and fell from a freight car and a wheel rolled over his hand. The fall was due to a defective hand rail on the car. In Jail for Stealing Hi* Children. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., Feb. 10.-Dr. C. L. Pray, a well-known itinerant i .nysician, was sentenced to forty days’ in jail to-day for the abduction of his two children from the city

schools. Airs. Pray, who lives in Kokomo at the home of her father, missed the children from school one day this week and employed officers to pursue the fugitive. Pray was arrested at Greentown Wednesday evening. A Ram Kills a Child. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. INGALLS, Ind., Feb. 10.-Last Thursday afternoon, white playing among a herd of sheep, Henry Johnson, the six-year-old son of Milton Johnson, a farmer three miles north of here, was butted in the stomach by a ram. At the time no serious damage seemed to be done to the boy, but night before last the boy was taken with severe pains and died in twenty minutes. Lafayette Wants a New Deal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Feb. 10.—A movement is on foot in this city, backed by the Commercial Club, for a reorganization of the municipality on a basis similar to that enjoyed by Indianapolis under the new charter. The plan of campaign has not been perfected, but it is certain that the next session of the Legislature will be asked to take action in this direction. Died on the Way from Church. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WILLIAMSPORT, Ind.. Feb. 9.—Last night as Mr. and Mrs. Philip Nordruft, of this place, were going home from church, Mrs. Nordruft had an attack of heart failure, and was carried into a residence near by, where she expired in a few minutes. Mrs. Nordruft was about sixty years olij. Sweeney Not to Leave Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, lad., Feb. 10.—Elder Z. T. Sweeney wishes it known that he will not resign his office as fish commissioner of Indiana. as he has only accepted the call to the Christian Church at Richmond, Va„ temporarily, and may conclude not to remain there permanently. New- Chareli In Crnwfordsvtlle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 10.—The Memorial Presbyterian Church has been organized at Crawfordsville with sixty members. The building was the gift of Mrs. Joseph Milligan. A Call to Rev. George Simmon*. Special to the Indiananolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 10.—The First Baptist Church has extended a call to Rev. George Simmons, of Louisville. He is at present engaged in evangelistic work at Jackson, Mich. Morgantown Schools Closed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 10.-The Morgantown schools have been closed on account of diphtheria appearing among the pupils. NEW AMERICAN COUNTESS. Mi** Anioinetto Woerislioflfer Weds Carlo Yon Seilern, of Austria. NEW Y’ORK, Feb. 10.—Miss Antoinette Woerishoffer, a granddaughter of Oswald Ottendorfer, was married to-day to Count Carlo Von Seilern, of Austria, at the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation. Bishop Henry Satterlee, of Washington, officiated, assisted by the rector, Rev. Wm. M. Grosvenor. Baron Franz Riedl Von Riedeman, of the Austro-Hungarian legating at Washington, acted as best man. Count and Countess Von Seilern will visit several Southern cities on their wedding tour, witnessing the Mardi Gras festival at New Orleans, and will return to this city probably in March. They will sail for their future home in London about the middle of April. RACE WAR In’oKLAHOMA. Whites Say Blacks Will Not lie Permitted to Live at Blackwell. PERRY, O. TANARUS„ Feb. 10.—Blackwell, O. TANARUS., a town thirty miles north, of here, not located on a railroad, is, on the verge of a race war. The people of Blackwell have never allowed a negro to live in the town. Some days ago Colonel Blackwell, founder of the town, procured a colony of negroes to settle in Blackwell and gave each family a residence lot. The negro families have commenced arriving at Blakcwell, and the w r hites declare they shall, not live there, and the negroes say they will stay in the' town in spite of the whites. Trouble is expected.

SENATOR MURPHY CENSURED. And a- Resolution Offered for Impeachment of McKinley. ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 10.—In the Assembly to-day when the Weeks resolution asking for the resignation of United States Senator Murphy as called up, Mr. Weeks offered a substitute which censured, but does not demand resignation. A protracted discussion was precipitated and Mr. Oliver, a Democrat, introduced a substitute calling for the impeachment of President McKinley for aiding in the election of United States Senator Hanna. The resolution censuring Senator Murphy was finally adopted by a vote of 79 yeas and 63 nays. Obituary. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10.—Mrs. Kate R. O’Neil, wife of ex-Congressman J. J. O’Neil, of this city, is dead and her husband dangerously ill at- the Mullanphy Hospital. Several weeks ago Mr. O’Neil was taken sick and his wife’s illness resulted from overwork and w-orry on account of his condition. Owing to his weakness, Mr. O’Neil has not been notified of his wife’s death. DELAVAN, Wis., Feb. 10.—Dr. Frederick L. Von Suesmith died to-day. aged seventyseven years. He was one of the foremost specialists in Wisconsin. He was a thirty-third-degree Mason, and at the time of his death w-as treasurer of the Grand commandery and of the Grand Lodge. WILMINGTON, De'., Feb. 10.—State Senator Robert J. Hunby, who has been prominent as leader of the Addicks faction of the Republican party in Delaw-are, died suddenly this morning at his home in Holly Oak. Del. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.—Rev. Dr. Wm. C. Cattell. former president of Lafayette College, died at 1:45 o’clock this morning after a long illness of a complication of diseases. He was seventy-one years of age. NEW YORK. Feb. 10.—The death of Henry Ward Johns at his home at Park Hill, Yonkers, was announced to-day. Mr. Johqs w r as well known as the pioneer of the asbestos industry in this country. TORONTO, Out., Feb. 10.—G. M. Rose, president of the Hunter Rose Company, one of the largest publishing houses in Canada, died of paralysis to-day, aged sixty-nine. Severe Sleet Storm. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 10.—A sleet storm of unusual severity prevailed last night and to-day in Lincoln and throughout the southeastern ard central part of Nebraska. The damage in this city is considerable, telephone and telegraph companies being the greatest sufferers. In country’ districts the storm was even more severe, thousands of fruit and shade trees being broken down. The weather is colder, and unsheltered stock will suffer. A heavy snow has fallen throughout South Dakota. Stove Companies Deny Trust Rumors. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10.—Officials of all the Detroit stove works request the Associated Press to denv in their behalf the statement recently , telegraphed by correspondents of certain papers to the effect that a “stove trust” or any combination of stove interests in this city has been or is being effected. The stove companies have formally demanded retraction from such newspapers as published the rumor mentioned. Boarded by a Hoge Wave. HALIFAX, N. S„ Feb. 10. -The steamship Gallia, from Liverpool, passed through a terrific hurricane on Feb. 1. A tremendous sea. boarded the vessel, carrying away two boats and davits, smashing in the side of one of the iron d§ck houses, carrying away the ventilators of the engine room, skylights and doing other damage. The cabins and holes were flooded. The carpenter and fojur men were seriously injured, while clearing away wreckage. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxatbe Bromo Quinine Tablets. AII drugglut* refund money If it tails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet.

WHAT DO CANUCKS FEAR? THEY WILL SOT LET OIR SOLDIERS ESTER THE KLONDIKE. Review of tlie Correspondence Between the War Department and the Dominion Authorities. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—In view of the apparent disposition of the Canadian authorities to prevent United States troops from accompanying the relief expedition into the gold country, a brief review of the correspondence that has taken place between the two governments mpy be in order. The negotiations proper started Dec. 30 last between acting Secretary Meikeljohn, of the War Department, and Mr. Sifton, minister of the interior for Canada, then in Washington. The official report then was that a complete agreement, as it was understood at the time, was reached as to the course to be followed by the expedition and its escort. Soon after Mr. Sifton’s return to Ottaw r a a question arose as to the free admission of supplies to be taken in by the government expedition in case they were to be sold at cost, which was disposed of by a prompt telegram from Mr. Sifton, in answer to Mr. Meikeljohn, saying that it was intended to charge no duty on provisions to be sent in. Mr. Sifton also reminded Mr. Meikeljohn of the stipulation between them that no unofficial or unauthorized persons should accompany the expedition. To facilitate free entry he asked for a certified list of the persons and an inventory of the outfit of the expedition. In confirmation of this came a note from Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, confirming the statement as to the free entry of goods, and having this important paragraph as bearing on the present controversy: “Also, that convoys may be accompanied by such reasonable escort as the United States government may desire to provide for them, and each convoy shall be likewise accompanied by a Canadian officer, the expenses of such Canadian officer being borne by the Dominion government.” Supposing that this understanding was perfect, it came as a surprise to the War Department when Mr. Sifton wirote on Jan. 27 that he took it for granted that the fifty-live enlisted men who were to accompany the expedition were not intended to go beyond the boundary line, w'hich, lie says, “is provisionally at the summit of the mountains, about tho middle of the pass.” Mr. Sifton added that the arrangement into which he had entered was that he should furnish escort for the American expedition, and he had accordingly sent forward the men for that purpose. In reply, under date of Jan. 3f, Mr. Meikeljohn suia that his understanding was that the entire escort designated by our government should accompany the expedition to its destination as necessary to render assistance in overcoming anticipated difficulties, subject to Canadian law, and to be accompanied by a Canadian officer. Enlisted men, instead of civilians, were selected as more available, more amenable to discipline and costing less. It is proposed to withdraw them after getting the supplies through. The escort is not regarded as a military expedition, but on Canadian soil its service will be of a civil nature. Mr. Meikeljohn thereupon reminded Mr. Sifton of the agreement with Sir Julian as to the “reasonable escort” to be permitted. He pointed to the conditions that would confront the expedition if it arrived on the Canadian border with supplies and had to go beyond to meet hungry And desperate people without a single arm for the protection of the expedition, its supplies or equipments. So far no further communication has been had with the Canadian government on this subject. The route to be followed by the expedition is, therefore, uncertain.

BLOW AT CANADIANS. Bill to Prevent Tlieir Vessel* Stealing: Our Counting Trade. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Senator Frye to-day secured the passage by the Senate Os a bill amending the navigation laws in Important particulars affecting the coasting trade of this country. The bill is of general application, but is intended especially to prevent Canadian vessels from securing an undue share of the carrying business between Alaska and other American ports. It will prevent Canadians gaining part of our coasting trade. Complaint has been made that Canadian vessels were attempting to participate in the trade by starting from their own ports and then stopping successively at more than one American port and taking on passengers and freight from one American point to another on the theory that all were embraced in one voyage. The bill passed by the Senate to-day provides for the forfeiture of any merchandise shipped from one American port to another, either directly or via a foreign port, in any other than an American vessel. A like provision is also made in regard to the transportation of passengers by a foreign vessel from one American port to another, except that the penalty in this case* is placed at SIOO each. The penalty under the existing law is $2. The bill authorizes the secretary of the treasury to prescribe regulations for the transshipment and transportation of merchandise imported into the United States by sea for immediate exportation to a foreign port by sea or by a river and also amends the present law found in Section 3109 of the Revised Statutes so as to read as follows: “The master of any foreign vessel laden or in ballast, arriving, whether by sea or otherwise, in the waters of the United States from any foreign territory adjacent to the noithern, northeastern or northwestern frontiers of the United States shall report at the office of any collectior or deputy collector of the customs, which shall be nearest to the point at which such vessel may enter such waters; and such vessel shall not transfer her cargo or passengers to another vessel or proceed farther inland, either to unload or take in cargo, without a special permit from such collector or deputy collector, issued under and in accordance with such general or special regulations as the secretary of the treasury may in his discretion from time to time prescribe. This section shall also apply to trade with or through Alaska. For any violation of this section such vessel shall be seized and forfeited.” The bill is made to take effect one month after its passage. Left for UnulnsUa. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Feb. 10.-One hundred men, forty of whom live in this city, left at 8 o’clock to-night on a special train over the Illinois Central fotl Jnalaska, where they go to put together the four boats built by Capt. E. J. Howard for the Alaska Commercial Company, for use on the Yukon river. They go via New* Orleans to San Francisco, where they take a steamer to the Island of Unalaska. The last shipment of the boats was made by Captain Howard a week ago. The men will be gone eight months. Several of the men will go to the gold fields* from Unalaska. C. A. Johnson, general manager of the Excelsior Yukon Gold Mining and Transportation Company, of Chicago, has been in the city for several days arranging witli Captain Howard for building a eboat for his company, to be used on the Yukon. The company owns a number of ipines at Circle City and also conducts a transportation business. The boat will be constructed here and then shipped in parts to the Pacific coast, where it will be put together. Lynclier* Waive Examination. SHAWNEE, O. T.. Feb. 10.-At the continuation to-day of the examination of five men charged with complicity in the burning of the two Seminole Indians at the stake, the culprits caused surprise by waiving further hearing and giving bonds for their appearance before the United States grand jury. Six others were brought in today, charged with the same crime, among the number boing Nelson Jones, a deputy United States marshal. All waived preliminary examination and gave bonds. Twenty others, it is said, will be brought in tomorrow. Nearly fifty members of the mob will then be under arrest. Fainter* ami Decoratur*. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.-The fourteenth annual convention of the National Association of Master Painters and Decorators closed Its sessions to-day. The following officers were elected: P. J. Urankin, of Philadelphia, president; Daniel T. Holland. of Troy, N. Y., vice president; Joel Kennedy, secretary and treasurer, and the following members of tho executive board:

Charles.j_ Fowler, of Philadelphia: T. C. Rocnels.-jf Thomas Williams, of ] New I or. j B Hand, of Baltimore; Alex- j ander of Providence: William McCleland, owashington; D. L. Peterson, of Milwaukee Bidney i rren e, of Louisvl le; W. A. Bogart, f New Jersey: S. C. Barker, of Maryland; . and. Tobin, of St. Louis; Emil tertig. of I lianapolls; M . j. Doherty, of Illinois. Cinvjjjatj was chosen as the next place of To-night the local delegates entertain t h e visitors at the Bourse. DE 10iE p'fICKING UP. <Conelmleo~ from First Page.) and devoid -of ny mention of politics. After the banquet-, e was spoken to In relation to the De Lnie episode and asked what action, if any. t n e Senate was likely to take. “That is a ar( j question," he replied. “As yet the ma ter has not come up. Whether it will or something the next few days will develop.” Senator Hanna then went n to'say that the feeling against the Spani:-, minister in congressional circles was exU m ej y bitter, but that the majority of the nr, re conservative members were with the Pre; den t in the decision not to split Hairs oveitfie manner of De Lome’s retiring, so long he departed from the country, and that qickly.

THE RESIGNATION ACCiprED. Action of the SpantHh Cal* net and Comment* of the Madrid Ires*. MADRID. Feb. 10.-At a meetiiir of the Spanish Cabinet, held to-day under presidency of the Queen Regent, the ninister for foreign affairs, Senor Gullon, read \ dispatch from Senor Dupuy De Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, saving that the published letter to Senor Canale#.*? was written by him, and that his position, consequently, had become untenable, ant he begged the government to accept his resignation. The Cabinet decided to accept the resignation of Senor Dupuy De Lome, and the ministers subsequently met and decided to telegraph to Senor De Lome, accepting his resignation, and intrusting the first secretary with the conduct of the current affairs of the legation. After the Cabinet council the prettier, Senor Sagasta, told the correspondent of the Associated Press that Senor Dupuy De Lome had “bravely” admitted the authorship of the letter. t* For some time past the authorities have been taking extra precautions in guarding the residence of the United States minister. Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, which is on the outskirts of the city. On Sunday the guard was reinforced by twenty-four men, and the Heraldo says that even this was not considered sufficient. Additional precautions were adopted, evidently under the impression that public order might be disturbed, and a number of mounted civil guards were posted in the vicinity. Thereupon the Heraldo asks, Whence the necessity for these precautions, since Madrid has offered absolutely not a single symptom of justifying such measures? Senator Sagasta, the premier, and other members of the Cabinet state publicly that the De Lome incident will not affect the relations between Spain and the United States and that anew envoy, competent to conduct the commercial negotiations will be selected. The candidature of Senor Muruaga to succeed Senor De Lome has been abandoned. The government maintains its reserve, desiring to secure the approval of Washington according to diplomatic custom, before appointing Senor De Lome’s successor. The papers all discuss the De Lome incl • dent and the possible successor of the retiring minister at Washington. La Correspondence de Espana mentions Senor Muruaga, but says it is believed that nothing has been as yet decided. El Heraldo de Madrid deplores the incident, but remarks: “Here w r e are obliged to endure not confidential complaints like Senor De Lome’s, but attacks and accusation of every kind, in American official documents and in Congress upon our country, generals, government and even our highest representatives of state.” El Correo recognizes that Senor De Lome’s position became untenable when the letter was published. El Epoca says: “Senor De Lome’s resignation having been accepted the international question disappears. Nevertheless the Cuban insurgents have succeeded in chasing from Washington a representative of Spain who has always displayed great zeal to prevent filibustering expeditions. but they have done so by tricks only employed by the clients of penitentiaries.” Correspondeneia Militar says: “The government should not have accepted Senor De Lome’s resignation. The American attitude is offensive and humiliating to Spain.” El Correo Esi anoi, the Cailist organ, says; “Events precipitate themselves and we are at the beginning of the end of our respect for the United States.” La Nacional, the Weylerist organ, reproaches the government for yielding to the exigencies of Washington and adds: • “The Americans have become our lords and masters.”

LONDON PRESS COMMENT. Views of Editorial Writer* and Correspondents In America. LONDON, Feb. 11.—The Times this morning, in an editorial echoing the views of its New York correspondent, Mr. George W. Smalley, says: “It is from every point of view deplorable and lamentable that so useful a career should have been terminated by an act of the basest treachery. Senor De Lome has long been the object of profound detestation to the Cuban ring because he frustrated their deep-laid plots. Honest men, whether in America or in England, must regard with contempt too profound for wArds a party w hich sinks to such methods of warfare. That party,” the Times continues, “is doubtless exulting in its success, but it cannot abolish the good work Senor De Lome has actually accomplFshed. It must bo recorded to President McKinley’s credit that, although he might excusably feel personal resentment, he has lefused to exaggerate the incident in any way. This has greatly disappointed the Cuban ring.” The New York correspondent of the Standard says: “President McKinley was the coolest man in Washington and almost exaggerated the slightness of the personal offense in order to steady raging congressmen.” The Standard editorially says: “The responsibility for preventing the affair reaching a dangerous phase appears to lie wholly with Spain. The sympathy of observers will be with President McKinley rather than Senor De Lome, whose letter shows that he is destitute of the qualities required by his profession. We confess we should like to know the facts as to the alleged theft of the letter, whose opportune production looks suspicious. But if its use were designed to hasten the crisis the designers seem likely to have gained nothing beyond a change of ministers.” The New York correspondent of the Daily News says: “Senor De Lome was sometimes troublesome on account of his disposition to assume a high manner over Cuban affairs, but he usually subsided when he found it unsuccessful. A less tactful successor may precipitate a crisis, for the situation is full of dangerous elements, but trouble may be avoided if President McKinley holds the affair completely in his own hands.” The Daily Telegraph editorially censures Senor De Lome’s “injudicious and ill-timed letter.” The Morning Post says, editorially: “The Cuban Junto lias quite unconsciously done President McKinley a considerable service. Amid the breakdown of his fiscal policy and the gloomy prophecies as to the coining elections, the De Lome letter is a happy discovery. It enables the Cabinet to assume an air of outraged dignity, and then insist upon reparation from Spain without in any way committing itself on the genet al question of Cuban politics. The letter was quite natural for Senor De Lome to send, and the impetuous and high-handed proceedings of the Washington government form another illustration of the total contempt for good manners which characterizes the State Department. In this case their energy Is stimulated by the opportunity to please the rabble of their party without actually provoking Spain to declare war.” De Lome Criticised by lot Lncha. HAVANA. Feb. 10.—La Lucha, commenting on the De Lome affair, says: “At various times during past years we have said that Senor Dupuy De Lome is not the man Spain needs at this moment in Washington. In spite of this, the most prominent Madrid politicians have not thought so. We have

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The Buccaneer"* Fine. HAVANA, Feb. 10.—The government has offered to remit the fine of SSOO imposed on the American yacht Buccaneer for breaking the Naval Department regulations” on condition that she will not return to Cuba. Her owner has instructed his captain to give bond for the fine under protest, but not to accept the conditions offered. The Buccaneer probably will sail to-day. H. E. Teachdu, vice president of the Home Savings Bank of Des Moines, la.: James \V. Hill, president of the Commercial Bank: J. Beyer, a merchant, and L. F. Ross, of Livingston, 111., arrived at Matunzas yesterday for the purpose of visiting the country. Blanco Loses a Niece. HAVANA, Feb. 10.—Captain General Blanco is mourning the loss of his niece, who has just died in Spain. To-night lie received visits of condolence from United States Consul General Lee, Captain Slgsbee, of the cruiser Maine, many officers of the army and of the volunteers and other persons prominent in political and social circles. HOAXED BY A MOTTO BUTTON. Inimigrunt Thought “You C'an’t l.osd Me, Charlie,” Wns a Passport. New York Evening Sun. Among the immigrants landed at the Barge Office a few days ago were two lusty young men from Finland. They were brothers, and were on their way to West Superior, Wis., to work on their uncle’s farm. They were not unlike hundreds of other immigrants, and woulu have passed! through the inspection process without attracting especial notice nad it not been for a button which the younger one had fastened on the tippet about his neck. Ho seemed very proud of it and anxious to keep it continually in sight. The button was one of those so common during the political campaigns of the past few years, and the inscription on It read; “You can’t lose me, Charlie.” % “Some cunning Scotch sailor on the vessel which took them from Finland across to Hull, England, has put that thing on him for a Joke,” remarked one of the registery clerks. The Finlander said through an interpreter that a man on the ship gave it to him, and told him that it was a passort, and that if he would go ahead of his brother and alw r ays keep the button in sight they would reach their uncle’s house in safety. He was not undeceived, and wore the button at his neck when he left the Barge Office for the railway station b-"’ind West. Both young men were pro\.ded with through tickets and. of course, would not need to ask questions.

Movement* of Steamer*. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 10.—Arrived: Germanic, from New York, for Liverpool; Belgenland, from Philadelphia, Sailed: Majestic, for New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Arrived: Saale, from Bremen. Sailed: Stuttgart, for Bremen. LONDON. Feb. 10.—Arrived: Britannic, from Philadelphia; Manitoba, from New York. MARSEILLES, Feb. 10.—Arrived: California, from New York. CHRISTIANSAND. Feb. 10.—Arrived: Norge, from New York. COPENHAGEN. Feb. 10.—Sailed: Thingvalla, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.—Sailed: Switzerland, for Antwerp. GLASGOW, Feb. 10.—Arrived: Ethiopia, from New York. Germany’* "Mailed Fl#t.” Now’ York Times. Everything connected with Prince Henry’s voyage to China has been funny, but the funniest feature of the whole enterprise will be his reception by the Chinese at Shanghai, a port where he will be practically the guest of Englishmen, and where the Chinese have about as much power as they have in Berlin. Here he is to strike the dreadful blow at British Interests—if his supply of British coal ever takes him that far—and here he is to begin to preach the gospel of his brother’s consecrated person. The Chinese are a solemn race, but they will be less than human if they don’t laugh at a spectacle like this. Two On tin we Killed. BONHAM. Tex., Feb. 10.-In an attempt to arrest William Green and Bob Hunter, outlaws, to-day, both men were killed, and Officers Tom Milstead arid Chas. Bridges were so budly injured that they will likely die, Pingree Makes Shoes. Chicago Inter Ocean. We merely notice it. Pingree has not yet added shoes to the list of things whose price is to be determined by legislative action. 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. yoc. and si.eo, ait dniggim. SCOT!' & BOWhfc, C’temists, Nc\** Yarik /