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rot only be liable to corrosion, but everybody on the island would get an idea of their positions. The delicate nature of these defense torpedoes seems hardly to havs been realized by theorists as to the Maine explosion. It is incomprehensible to me that the Spanish government in times of peace allowed high power torpedoes to lie at the mercy of the water in Havana harbor. It would be against the judgment of all experts and the practice of all governments: for, nowadays, these weapons can be laid at the shortest notice. Although I don’t think Havana harbor was mined, I knew there are torpedoes in Morro Castle and the naval arsenal that can be put in position very quickly.” The return of the court of Inquiry Is wearily awaited, especially by the officers of the Ma'ne, who will have been here a month next Wednesday'. They have been expecting to go to their homes cn every boat of late, and now the hope deferred, added to the fact that they are still without adequate wardrobes, makes them thoroughly discontented. Their orders, which are here awaiting the court's pleasure, provide that they shall return to their homes and await orders, which probably means a month’s leave. The impression is growing here that the report of the- court of inquiry will not be presented for some time yet. More torpedoes are expected, and some of these will be taken to the Tortugas for submarine defense. The torpedo boat Winslow has arrived from Charleston, and the schooner Harry A, Bruner, Captain Hewitt, from Philadelphia, is here with 1,300 tons of coal for the fleet. The fleet is reported stationary. The American yacht Buccaneer arrived here this morning from Havana, and the United States coast-survey vessel Bache silled this morning for Havana. The newspaper dispatch boats Dewey, Echo and Confidence arrived here from Havana and •hortly afterward returned to that port. ♦ SOME HAVANA RUMORS. (Another Battle Ship M.-.y Visit the Harbor—The Coart of Inquiry. HAVANA, March 14.—The day w*as sultry kind cloudy. During the morning there was no session of the United States naval court of Inquiry Into the loss of the battle ship Maine, the members of the court sitting on the poop of the Mangrove discussing various matters in connection with their ■work. One unidentified body was recovered to-day from the wreck. Rumors are in circulation here to the effect that Italian war ships are to arrive at this port and it is further reported that the United States government will send either the battle ship lowa or Indiana to this harbor to stay two or three hours. No cause is assigned for the latter story nor can the report be confirmed officially. Arrangements are in progress to discontinue a number of the relief stations in Havana which are open only at certain hours, and to establish instead one large central station, which will be open for relief at all hours of the day with four suburban stations. Lists have been secured of the names of the towns near Havana, of the number of their inhabitants and of the destitution in each These lists will be extended throughout Cuba to embrace all the localities where suffering exists. A Uareful estimate, it is hoped, will be made of the total number to be provided for, so that the amount and variety of the daily rations can be fixed according to the money available. It is believed that the long-es. tablishid hospitals and asylums of Havana can be made much use of if assistance is judiciously given to their regular managers. It is further hoped that by spending SIO,OOO in Das Cosas, now the principal place here for the relief of the reconcentrados, it can be made a model refuge, with new beds, good kitchens, etc. Louis Klopsch, of the New York Christian Herald, has given the correspondent a check for SI,OOO in American gold for transmission to United States Consul Brice at Matanzas, and another check for the same amount to be forwarded to United States Consul Barker at Sagua la Grande. Both checks will be forwarded to their destinations by messenger. Mr. Klopsch says he would prefer that the money be used for the relief of the “silent sufferers,” otherwise, . • se who are in great poverty but who lira too proud to make their wants known. Finally, Mr. Klopsch will give Consul General Lee SI,OOO for direct expenditure and $2,500 for the relief fund. Important factions of the autonomists of Matanzas and Santa Clara, representing all races, have agreed not to take part in the general or local elections next month. In some places the opinion is expressed that this agreement is the result of discontent caused by the fact that the autonomist government has been unabla to give employment to the excessive numbers of people who have been seeking positions In the government offices. The Marquis Garcia, the governor of Santa Clara, tried to induce these factions to promise that they would -take part in the elections, but he has been unable to change their resolution. Captain General Blanco has ordered that the sum of $30,000 be spent in reconstructing the Pando Railroad bridge, near Gibara. In the province of Santiago de Cuba. The bridge, which was destroyed by dynamite, Is needed to estabish a line of communication. In the district of Vinales, province of Pinar del Rio, tobacco to the value of $700,<MO has already been gathered. The other large estates nave not been harvested. According to Spanish advices, a government force, protected by the gunboats Venaditto and Galicia, operating between Portillo, Niquero, Cama rones, Vicana arid Cabo Cruz, on the southwestern coast of the province of Santiago de Cuba, has been engaged with an insurgent force at Dei Toro inlet. The Spaniards are reported to have lost three men killed and to have had twelve men wounded, while it is added, they captured eleven prisoners and some arms and ammunition. The Spaniards have, it is announced, commenced military operations at La Sierre Maestra, and on both sides of the *4 v ® r Cauto, in the province of Santiago de Cuba. General Bernal is In command of the troops operating in the direction of Bairom and Cantilados. Reinforcements to the number of 1,500 troops have arrived at Santiago de Cuba from Spain. The train from Matanzas, for Havana, when near Jaruco. about twenty-five miles out. was fired on to-night. Three men were wounded. George Barnu <, an American, of Savannah, received a slight flesh wound in th? arm. The secretary of the Matanzas municipality was moro severely woundeJ. The Spanish surgeons on the train were very kind. Mrs. Bamum was with her hustime he was shot. As soon as the tiring began all the passengers threw themselves on the floors of the cars. According to advices from Matanzas It is hoped to get some of the stores from the Fern distributed to-morrow, but many hitches occur and the distribution may be delayed until Wednesday. The authorities have been ordered not to discharge from the warehouse the stores that came on the Bergen until the custom house authorities permit. There is no objection to the Fern’s cargo being quickly delivered, and Consul General Lee. who has been telegraphed to on the subject, thinks he can arrange the Bergen matter. The committee of the doctors and the local firemen are ready to issue ceders on United States Consul Brice, and say they have complete lists made up of alt tne needy, but have feared there might be some mistake. But whatever happens now the hungry will soon be fed and want will b relieved. CUBAN LEADERS SLAIN. Alleged to Have Been Slain Because They Intended to Surrender. HAVANA, March 14.—The military commander of Santa Clara reports that as the Insurgent leaders Caylto, Alvares, Nunez and others were on the point of surrendering to the Spaniards near La Esparanza, province of Santa Clara, they were surprised by the Insurgents under Roberto Bermudez, and a collision occurred. Later, on the farm of Luzo, a force of guerillas found the naked bodies of Alvares, Nunez arid Major Espineza. of the insurgent army, who bad evidently been killed by the Insurgents who discovered their intention of surrendering to tho Spaniards. The bodies wore buried at La Espernza. i insurgent Colonel Vivente Nunez, acting Iwltfi Ida brother. General Nunes, has dev-

asitated great districts In the province of Santa Clara, La Esperanza, San Diego, Jleotea and Santo Domingo. MADRID, March 14.—A great sensation has been caused here by an official dispatch from Havana saying that the insurgent leaders Caylto, Alvarez and Nunez have been killed by other insurgents while the former were on their way to tender their submission to the Spaniards. Official circles here claim that the action of Caylto and his companions is proof that an important section of the insurgents is anxious to accept the “legal regime.” Cabans Being Exterminated. JACKSON, Miss., March 11.—Secretary of State Powerton has received a letter from United States cfonsul Barker, at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, enumerating the needs of the starving Cubans in his district. In concluding his letter Consul Barker says: “In my humble judgment substantial relief can come to this people only through peace alone. Stop the war and stop it instantly, if not the Cuban race will soon be extinct.” ANOTHER MINERS' STRIKE. About 20,000 Pennsylvania Diggers May Quit Work Soon. CLEVELAND, 0., March 14. —Concerning the possibility of another great strike of coal miners, Thomas Yo ing, manager of the M. A. Hanna Coal Company, extensive operators In Pennsylvania, is quoted as saying to-day: “A strike involving about 20,000 miners will probably soon he in full swing In central Pennsylvania. The operators declare they will not pay .b Chicago scale and the miners announce r intention to strike. There will be a mendous rush for coal with the opening of navigation on the lakes. It is probs * that the Hocking valley operators will •„ i. the scale rather than lose their share c 1 the spring business.” The Defense-Fund Vote. COLUMBUS, 0., March 14.—The proposition for the establishment vs a defense fund for the United Mine Workers of Alfierica has been lost by a vote of the members of the organization. Some time ago a special committee submitted a plan for a defense fund and it was sent out in circular form for a vote of the members. The ballote have now been received and tabulated by National Secretary Pearce with the following result: For. Against. Pennsylvania 311 1,650 Ohio 2,455 3,971 Indiana 1,767 1,692 Illinois 2,278 2,345 West Virginia 444 178 Kentucky 114 244 Alabama 136 2 Missouri 28 Wyoming 126 Totals 7,533 10,214 Returned to Work. TAUNTON, Mass., March 14.—The eleven hundred operatives of the Whittenton cotton mills returned to w T ork to-day after a strike lasting five weeks. Ten of the loom fixers who organized the strike will not be given employment. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Floods in western Ontario have done much damage at London, Brantford and Galt. The Harvard-University of Pennsylvania football game has been set for Nov. 5 at Cambridge. The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, sailing for Europe from New York to-day will take out 264,000 ounces of silver. The total amount of gold engaged by New York bankers for shipment from Europe to this country' since the recent movement began is $20,975,000. Jim Judge, of Scranton, Pa., and Frank Bartley, of Binghamton, N. Y., fought a twenty-round draw at the American Sporting Club, in Scranton, Pa., last night. Kid Lefeber, of Cincinnati, and Tommy Gavanaugh, of Buffalo, N. Y., fought a twenty-round draw at the Dayton. Ky., Athletic Club last night. The fight was one of the gamest and cleverest* seen here. William Tutt, a negro, was found guilty of murder at Mayfield, Ky., yesterday, and sentenced to hang. Tutt murdered his wife last fall because she wanted to go to a barbecue. Two futile attempts were made to lynch him. Final arrangements were completed yesterday for the manufacture at the United States mint at Philadelphia of the souvenir medals that will be used at the Omaha Transmississippi Exposition, w'hich will open on June 1. Everett E. Box, a young white man of Hillsboro, Tex., a follower of race horses, killed Jim Sanford, a negro, at New Orleans yesterday. Sanford, who was a giant in strength, had frequently abused Box arid the shooting was in self-defense. The Arkansas board of Omaha exposition commissioners has decided to reproduce the famous Albert Pike mansion, of Little Rock, as a state building at the exposition. Col. R. W. Richardson, of Omaha, exposition commissioner, attended the meeting. The board of managers of the New York Cotton Exchange yesterday decided in favor of an amendment defining causes of suspensions. Among the things prohibited is the publication of advertisements requesting “money to be sent as margin for operating on discretionary orders.”

Alleged Confession for Sale. SAN FRANCISCO, March *l4.—'The Examiner says that a remarkable incident has developed in the case of Albert Hoff, the aged Russian, who is now on trial for the murder of Mrs. Mary Clute. Two attorneys of this city, Benjamin W. Mclntosh *arm Edgar B. Haymond, are trying to sell an alleged confession of a man who Is on trial for his life. The lawyers insist that they are acting as agents for Hoff. They declare that the prisoner will take nothing less than $2,000 for his self-accusation. The confession, it is represented, was made to Mr. MoTntosh, who is now defending Hoff in co'irt. It is characterized as an unqualified olegraphic confession of not more than three hundred words, of the murder of Mrs. Clute. Albert Hoff denies with all the vehemence he can command that he has ever made a confession or ever Intends to do so. Many Cases of Smallpox. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., March 14.—The smallpox situation here became so dangerous that the United States government sent Passed Assistant Surgeon Dr. Wertheimer, of the United States army, to take charge of the pesthouse. The state medical authorities surrendered only on orders from Frankfort. The county refused to support the pesthouse and the inmates were on the verge of starvation. There are seventy smallpox patients and four hundred suspects. This entire community is alarmed and almost demoralized. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, March 14.—Arrived: Mohawk, from London: Spaarndam. from Rotterdam; Georgic, from Liverpool. GIBRALTAR, March 13.—Arrived: Saale, from New York. Sailed: Fulda, for New York. SOUTHAMPTON. March 14.-Sailed: Bremen, for New York. ANTWERP, March 14.—Arrived: Noordland, from New York. Tramway Over Chtlkoot Pass. PORTLAND. Ore., March 14.—The DyeaKlondike Transportation Company of this city to-<day received advices from Dyea that their upper tramway from Scales to the summit had been completed and that freight is now' being taken over the Chilkoot pass. Tho price of transporting goods from Dyea to the summit is now 7 cents per pound. The cable of the tramway is about 3,460 feet in length. Wages Advanced. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 14.—The Dayton Coal and Iron Company, at Dayton, Tenn., has announced an advance of 10 per cent. In the wages of its miners, 1,100 in number, to take effect April 1. Other laborers had their wages advanced to-day from 12 to 15 per cent. This is the carrying out of an agreement between the operators and miners entered into in January, just after the strike was settled. Bank of Abbeville Closed. ABBEVILLE, Ga.. March 14.—The Bank of Abbeville assigned to-day. President J. G. Mehegan was absent at the time of the assignment, and the cashier, H. T. Latham, left on a train for Savannah immediately after the assignment. Max E. Lang was appointed assignee. The safe has not yet been opened and it is said the wrong combination has been given. There is much indignation among the people here. Racing on Indiana Soil. CHICAGO, Match 14.—Racing will begin in this vicinity May 5. The management of the Lakeside track, in Indiana, trade this announcement to-day. The meeting will be one of fifteen days only, all the law' allows, with no purges less than S4OO. Dick Dwyer will officiate ug starter. The programme books for the meeting will bo issued by Secretary Martin Nathanson April 1.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1893.

YOUNG RECORD BREAKER BENSON EGGERS MARRIED FOUR TIMES AND ONLY NINETEEN. Franklin County Official Rottenness Being: Exposed—Seymour Democrats Turned Down. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, Inch, March 14.—Benson Eggers, w'ho probably holds the matrimonial record of the State, was remarried last night to his third wife, who now becomes his fourth. Eggers is only nineteen years old. Tho young man has figured considerably in the press and courts recently. He married at the age of eighteen and his wife secured a divorce. He maryied again, and wife No. 2 left him. Thinking she was deed, he married a third time. Then wife No. 2 arrived and sued for divorce, and the third marriage w'as declared void, it being understood that he would marry No. 3 again when ho was legally separated from No. 2, which he has now done. $ . INDIANA OBITUARY. Judge Thompson, President of Moore’s Hill College Trustees. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., March 14—Hon. John K. Thompson, of this city, died Sunday morning after an illness of twenty-four hours of paralysis. Judge Thompson was sixty-seven years old, and had been practicing law for about forty years. Ho was president of the board of trustee of Moore’s Hill College, and a member of the executive committee of the State Bar Association. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Thomas Jackson, Aged Ninety-Nine. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 14.—The death this morning of Thomas Jackson removed one of the oldest pioneers of Indiana. He was born near Paris, Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 28, 1798, and last year his relatives and friends to the number of a hundred gathered and celebrated his ninetyninth anniversary. Preparations were already under way for the celebration on May 28 of this year of his one hundredth milestone. Mr. Jackson had always b££n rugged and strong, and worked up to within a few days of his death at outside labor on his farm. He married Miss Sarah Wood on July 4, 1822, and their license was the first that was issued in Putnam county, in one of his reminiscences Mr. Jackson related how the minister in charge made a mistake in pronouncing the ceremony the first time, and that he returned in about two weeks and married them a second time. By this union there were three children, two dying early in life, and a son, Andrew Jackson, dying several years ago. Mr. Jackson made his home with his daughter-in-Jaw, six miles east of this city, on tne land that he entered when he first came to this State, which ho did on foot in 1820. His family is composed of one daughter-in-law, eleven grandchildren, twenty-five great-grandchil-dren and three great-greut-grandchil-dren. He voted twice for Andrew The funeral will be held Tuesday at Fillmore, James E. Lewis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., March 14. James E. Lewis, one of the best-known men ini this city, died this morning of Bright’s disease. He was an expert telegrapher and was for years employed on the old J., M. & I. road. Later he studied law and graduated from Louisville Law School in 1884, after which he was for four years d§.im agent for the Air-line. Mr. Lewis was born in this city forty-eight years ago and in 1881 married Miss Elizabeth Cope, of Boston, who survives him. Mr*. Mnriuli Chadwick. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MORRISTOWN, Ind., March 14.-Mrs. Mariah Cottingham Chadwick, widow of the late Marcus B. Chadwick, is dead, aged sixty-five. Her husband was a prominent Republican politician and in 1862 was on the ticket for representative from this county. Mrs. Chadwick was a native of Franklin, Warren county, Ohio. She leaves a daughter, a Mrs. White, of Indianapolis.

John Harris. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., March 14.—“ Uncle” John Harris, of this city, one of the pioneers of eastern Indiana, died at his home in this city to-day. He was one of the first men to settle in Anderson in 1824. He had seen Anderson grow from a settlement of a dozen to a city of 25,000. His stories of early Indiana life were very interesting. Rev* W. T. Jolly. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., March 14.—A telegram received here to-night announced the sudden death of Rev. W. T. Jolly at his home, in Richmond, Va. Rev. Jolly was for many years pastor of the First Batfiist Church in this city, and was present at the Baptist semi-centennial anniversary here a week ago, in his usual health. A. S. Lune. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., March 14.—A. S.JJaue, one of Vincennes's most prominent business men, died last night. He was for fourteen years grand secretary of the Knights and Ladies of Honor of Indiana. He was fiftysix years old and was born in the principality of Lippe Delmont. Germany. Mrs. Julia Applegate Hazelrigg:. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG, Ind., March 14.-Mrs. Julia Applegate Hazelrigg, a bride of a year and the wife of Dix Hazelrigg. formerly one of the proprietors of the Greesburg Standard, and new a local correspondent, died to-day of consumption. NEW DEMOCRATIC TRICK. How Jackson County Machine Expects to Perpetuate Itself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., March 14.—Local Democrats are worried considerable on account of the actio t of the creatures of the courthouse ring in the adoption of rules regulating the coming county primary election, which were passed at a meeting of the county committee last Monday. The rules adopted read about 125 gold Democrats out of the party and forbid anyone voting who did not vote for Bryan in 1896. Another one of the rules adopted was that each candidate’s vote in the various townships shall be prorated on the basis of the Bryan vote. The object in adopting the rules was to prevent the nomination of any candidate favorable to the removal of the county seat from Brownstown to Seymour. It means to the Democrats of Jackson township that no matter how many votes may be cast at the primary for a Seymour man that he cannot expect to receive credit for more votes than was cast for Bryan. The trickery in the adoption of this rule is better shown when one examines its intent. Take for illustration a township in the western part of the county which cast 300 votes for Bryan. At the coming primary only 50 votes are east, but instead of only 50 votes being counted the entire 300 votes are to be prorated among the candidates in accordance with the vote received by each candidate. The Democracy here fully understand that a Seymour man has no show of getting many votes in the western townships and that the adoption of such a rule is only for the purpose of curtailing the power of the Democrats in the eastern part of the county. The withdrawal of the committeemen from this city from the county committee is unanimously indorsed by local Democrats and there is little prospect of a compromise being effected, previous to the primary election. The Seymour Daily Democrat, after reading the riot act to the bosses, concludes its article with the following significant sentence: “Jackson township Democrats withdraw for consultation.” The breach in the party which began last Monday was evidenced by the action of the Democratic Board of County Commissioners in their refusal to grant an election

on the question of the removal of the county seat from Brownstown to this city. The excuse of the commissioners that an election had already been held on the question and that therefore the law was void is very flimsy. John B. Burrell, one of the commissioners, and D. A. Kochenour, county attorney, who advised the commissioners to refuse to grant the election on the foregoing grounds (both residing In Brownstown), were two of the principal lobbyists working against the passage of the hill before the Legislature. To show that their refusal to gram another election is only for delay, can be seen from the fact that when the bill was up for second reading in the low’er house they attempted to have it amended so that if the first election was not carried by the removalists no other election could be held for five years. This amendment and other amendments which they' presented that would have invalidated the bill were tabled and the bill was passed in the original form as passed by the Senate. The foregoing facts being known to every resident here, they are opposed to any scheme emanating from the ring which deprives them of having a fair show' in all matters pertaining to county affairs. The rupture in the Democratic ranks indicates the end of the courthouse ring which has been able to control conventions, and when unable to command enough votes at the primaries they have manipulated the figures so that ring candidates were counted in. Four years ago there was great dissatisfaction among Democrats here on account of Henry' Brunlng. candidate for auditor, having been counted out. Mr. Bruning is now a candidate for county clerk and the bosses are aware that he would receive the nomination if the matter were left to a fair vote. Seeing that Bruning’s nomination was inevitable they have adopted a rule which counts his vote before it is cast and leaves him as near the nomination as he was before announcing his name. For many' years the Republicans of Jackson county have been laboring to break up the courthouse ring, but have failed to command sufficient strength to accomplish its overthrow. The indications now point to the downfall of the ring at the hands of members of its own party, all of which will be welcome news to Seymour. Fonntain County Convention. Special to the Indianapolfs Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., March 14.—The Fountain county Republicans held their convention Saturday, with Perry Lewis chairman. The following delegates were chosen to the congressional convention: George W. Boyd, W. W. Layton, Roy Smith, O. P. Lewis: alternates, Ed Davidson. Ira Parrett, Willard Smith and George Crane. The delegates to the state convention are Julian Martin and J. L. Allen; alternates, Banks Hendricks and M. Adamson. Refused to Instruct for Landis. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. MELLOTT, Ind., March 14.—At the convention, held here Saturday to select delegates to the Ninth district congressional convention, to be held at Crawfordsville, May 24. a motion to instruct the delegates to support Landis for renomination was defeated. There is a great deal of opposition to Landis in this part of the district on account of some of the postmasters that he had appointed and his views on the civil service. Capt. C. W. Elmore for Mayor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March 14. The Republican city convention was held to-night and nominated the following ticket: Mayor, Capt. C. W. Elmore; treasurer. Todd Hills; clerk, James A. McClure; marshal, John J. Brothers; councilmen, Mdreland Binford, Harry Naylor and Dr. N. W. Morgan.

HIDING THEIR BOOKS. Franklin County Officer* Called on to Explain Extravagance. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAUREL, Ind., March 14.—Flora & Broddus, a Connersvill law firm, lias been employed to bring mandate proceedings at once against Auditor King and Treasurer Brokman, of this county, compelling them to surrender their books, for Inspection by experts. Some very serious charges have been made, week after week, n the Laurel Review, '-gainst Thomas Brown, commissioner, and other officials. These charges were based cn entries in the county records and on the published reports of allowances. The failure to deny these charges other than by personal abuse of the editor made it possible to raise a large fund with which to employ experts. About one-third of this fund has been subscribed by Democrats. Now that the officials refuse to let the books bo seen, the feeling is intense, and almost general, that something must be wrong. For fully fifty years the Democrats have had undisputed sway in this county, and though a number of county' treasurers have defaulted, there has never been an investigation of the records. The average taxation is $1.54 on each slo6—B cents higher than the State average, though the county does not owe a dollar, and has not been in debt for years. There is but little done in the way of improvement. All but a few of the roads are dn a wretched condition during bad weather. The prices paid for bridges are extremely high as compared with some other counties, and favoritism is openly shown in letting contracts, in this (Laurel) township there Is a 14-oent “poor tax” and but six months school. More than 25 per cent, of the school fund interest was allowed to lapse last year, and the deficit, amounting to $1,756 w r as taken from the general fund. The commissioners have been, according to their published reports, drawing two days’ pay each month for auditing trustee warrants, when the late law plainly says they are entitled to but one day’s pay. But this is only one item in many that look queer. ♦ SPENT SUNDAY IN JAIL. Sad Fix of Dr. Marqni* Bn|hnnan Riding: .on Freight Cars. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., March 14.—Marquis Buchman, a veterinary surgeon, of Masillion, 0., and owner of three farms, on one of which Is a productive coal mine, and all near Massillon, was arrested Saturday night and held in jail here over Sunday, for stealing rides on Pennsylvania freight trains. He tried to tell who he was, but because he had S2OO the police suspected him of being the Orrville, 0.. express robber. He pleaded not to be held over as he had urgent business at New Paris, O. He said he boarded the freight train at Massillon because it started near his house and it w-as moro convenient than to walk to the passenger depot. Ho was fined $13.50 for train climbing, although he fully established his identity bv telegrams from Massillon. He threatens to sue the city for detaining him when he had money to pay his way. Stuck Illtten by Mad Dogs. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Ind., March 14.—A strangle malady, supposed to be hydrophobia, exists among the cattle owned by farmers living in Wabash and Patoka bottoms. The animals are dying by the hundreds and the disease Is spreading at an alarming rate. When the recent high water drove the farmers and their stock to the hills a mad dog made its appearance and bit several other dogs. Before it was killed it had also made victims of horses and sheep. It was noticed that the animals soon began acting strangely and a veterinary surgeon pronounced the disease hydrophobia. It is feared that thousands of dollars’ worth of fine stock will have to be killed. Another thing which is causing uneasiness is the belief that a well-known’ farmer named Scott Gammons Is a'.icted with the terrible disease. When one of his horses became sick he attempted to drench it and some of the animal’s saliva fell on the back of one of his hands, which was covered with sores. Shortly after the occurrence his hand began swelling, and it is feared that he has contracted the disease. Mrs. I.nl u Harrlicn Smltlmon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., March 14.—A few days ago Mrs. Lulu Harrison Smithson, of Chicago, said good-bye to her husband, I. N? Smithson, a well-known insurance man, declaring she would never see him again, and that she would be dead in a short time. On arrivirfg in this city, where she came to visit friends, Mrs. Smithson, although in apparent good health, repeated the evil forebodings, telling her friends she had but a few hours to live. Wednesday Mrs. Smithson was attacked with intestinal strangulation. Five physicians were in attendance, but death resulted Saturday morning, as she had predicted, despite all efforts to save her. She was the only child of the late Gen. Thomas J. Harrison, of this city, and for twenty years she was the daughter of the Thirty-ninth Indiana Regiment. of which her father was commander In the late war. She attended all the reunions of that regiment and was a general fayorite in G. A. R. circles throughout the State. She was buried beside her father in

Crown Point cemetery to-day with G. A. Rhonors, conducted by Thomas J. Harrison Post. Explosion Wrecks Hotel. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSONI Ind.. March 14.—The North Anderson Hotel, a three-story brick structure in the North Anderson factory district, was badly wrecked by an explosion of natural gas early this morning. The gas escaped from a broken pipe in the cellar and accumulated in a room on the first floor. Tho concusssdon was so great that it blew out any fire that might have existed, and this no doubt saved the lives of many. The hotel was filled with people, and most of them were in bed. None was seriously injured. The office furniture was blown out into the street and the walls were bulged out. They have not. however, fallen as yet and are being braced. The hotel is owned and operated by Gus Quartermont. It was rumored at first that it had been dynamited, as the people of North Anderson are fighting saloons, and Quartermont proposes to put one in the building. Gns-Delt Rail League, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., March 14.-H. T. Mote, promoter of the proposed Indiana Gas Belt League, has completed the work of organization in five of the six cities, and to-day Issues a call for a meeting at the Anderson Hotel, In this city, on the 22d, for the purpose of effecting the league organization and making the schedule. The cities that will compose the league are Anderson, Muncie, Marion, all above 20,000 in population, and Alexandria, Elwcod and Kokomo, all over 10,000. All are within twenty miles from Elwood as a central point. The league will open its season about May 4, and will close Sept. 15. The salary limit will be S6OO. It is thought that Bob Berryhill, who last year captained and managed the Burlington, la., Western League team, will manage the local organization. Sunday ball will be played. Another Oil Well Failure, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., March 14.—The failure to find oil in the J. P. Wlllman well, in Section 15, Licking township, was a bitter disappointment to the men who are developing the Hartford City field. After drilling the well 110 feet in the sand it was abandoned this afternoon. The outcome was a great surprise, as the Willman farm adjoins the Carrell land, on which is located a one-hundred-barrel producer. Some of the pioneer oil producers believe that the only pool west of Hartford City is directly under the Harry Carrell farm. Wells have been drilled on nearly every side without success. The Cudahy Company has a rig up on the Jak'* Wiliman farm. The Manhattan is also reeling a derrick on the Dr. Cronin farm, rnd the same company will shoot its well on the Sarah Frasly farm with 300 quarts of nitroglycerin to-morrow. Finish Fight To-Night at Windfall. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Ind., March 14.—The glove contest between Frank Sanders, of this place, and Cal Mcßride, of Kokomo, to be held at the opera house here to-anorrow night, is creating considerable of excitement among the citizens of this place and vicinity. The churches here have been holding a series of meetings during the past week, passing resolutions and circulating petitions to tho authorities asking that legal steps be taken to prevent the contest, out indications now are that the contest will go off all the same. Special trains will be run from Kokomo and Elwood for the occasion, and 500 people are expected to witness the contest. This will be Sanders’s first light. Mcßride is said to be a professional. They are both in the heavy-weight class, and the match is expected to be to a finish. Too Mucli Mother-In-Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., March 14.—Noble C. Burdge’s suit against his wife’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Altemyer, of Jonesville, for $5,000 for alienating his wife’s affections, was called here to-day. The case came to this county from Jackson county on a change of venue. The plaintiff, his wife, his sister and three sisters-in-law cried while the attorneys were making the opening statement to the jury. Altemyei is a rich German farmer, and Burdge is a poor school teacher. Mrs. Burdge held an eight-month-old baby on her lap to-day, which the father watched with dramatic interest. The couple have lived apart for almost a year. The case will be bitterly fought. Arrested for Tax Dodging. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, ANDERSON, Ind., March 14. —E. R. Weeks, of Alexandria, was arrested tonight on an affidavit charging him with turning in false tax lists to the assessor. He is reported to be worth $50,000, and it is claimed he turned his personal property in at $5. It is claimed he owns lands in Wisconsin and oil lands in Jay county, and that he also holds bonds for sßo,<XiO, which he also failed to turn in. Making false returns is a felony in Indiana, and he will be prosecuted for perjury.

llenson Barrett Shot Skotski. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., March 14.—Ed Skotski, the prize fighter who was shot three times by Lon Barrett on Saturday, is still alive, but has little chance of recovery. It is given out that in his antemortem statement made to Prosecutor Blair he made some very sensational revelations in regard to the many robberies in this city recently. Barrett had been accused of the robberies some time ago, and Skotski’s sisters say this is what caused the shooting. Killed by the Pay Train. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind., March 14.—This afternoon as Henry Vondilengen was crossing the railroad at what is known as Farmington he was struck by the pay train on the Pennsylvania Railroad and instantly killed. One horse was killed and his hay wagon split into kindling, while the other horse escaped without a scratch. Vondilengen was thirty years old and leaves a wife. President Barns Wins for L. A. 300. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., March 14.—The window glass manufacturers’ national arbitration board to-day conceded all points in the pending labor trouble to President Burns, of the blowers and gatherers, holding that cutters and flatteners could be employed who were members of the L. A. 300. Burns came here to-day for the arbitration This is national. Co-Operative Plant Organized. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MONTPELIER, Ind., March 14.—The stockholders of the co-operative plant have organized under the name of the Montpelier Steel and Sheet Company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The organization was perfected Saturday and officers were elected. The plant will employ about 300 men. The mill will turn out copper, brass, lead and steel plate. Voted Money for Decorations. pecial to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., March 14.—The Board of County Commissioners to-day voted five hundred dollars to be used by the G. A. R. encampment decorating committee in putting the courthouse in a holiday dress. The encampment visitors will be guests of the best dressed city that ever entertained a state meeting of the G. A. R. Minn McCurdy Took Poison. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., March 14.—Nora McCurdy, the twenty-one-year-old daughter or Hugh McCurdy, one of Harrison township’s best known and most well-to-do farmers, committed suicide this afternoon by taking strychnine. The direct cause Is unknown. Indiana Notes. William H. Rogers, an old soldier, and Charles J3. Bell, both strangers, was sentenced to prison at Richmond yesterday for stealing overcoats. Frank Lamar, son of County Recorder Nathan Lamar, and a well-known teacher, has been called to the chair of science in Wilmington College, Wilmington, O. He will begin his duties next year. Edward H. Cates, assistant cashier of the Union National Bank, has been appointed guardian of the venerable Jonathan Roberts. the aged Richmond Quaker, who was declared insane on Saturday. He gave a bond of $40,000. Harvey Townsend and a boy, both living northwest of Richmond, were In a wagon yesterday morning en route to that city. In crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks their wagon was struck by a fast train.

They saved themselves by jumping, but the wagon was demolished and one horse badly hurt. The commencement exercises of the Pennville High School took place Friday night at the M. E. Church, in that town. Professor Rawles, of Bloomington, gave the class address. The graduates were Charles Williams, valedictorian; Edgar Hoover, Carrie Hester. Ethel Sharp, Grace Hoover, Mary Bosworth. Fay Horn, Sarah Eberly, Tina Dewees, Daisy Edmundson. Messrs. Merl Russel. Rufus Mason, Guy Mendenhall. Charles; Cartwright, M. M. Swigert and Walter Thomas. WILL FIGHT AGAIN. Buzhnell and Knrti Organizing Against Hanna and McKinley. CLEVELAND. 0.. March 14.—J. W. Holcomb, one of the members of the Republican committee of fifteen in this city and an active lieutenant of Senator Hanna in the recent senatorial contest before the Legislature, is authority for the statement that the Bushnell and Kurtz forces are marshaled for another battle. Delegates to the next Republican state convention will soon be chosen. Those from this county will be selected In county convention next Saturday. Mr. Holcomb says he has evidence to shoxv that Mayor McKisso.i will try to capture the county convention; and that: the Bushnell and Kurtz men will do the same thing tho State over. With the State convention in their hands the alleged plan is to indorse the action of the Republicans who bolted Senator Hanna in tho Legislature, condemn the election ' of Senator Hanna as brought about by improper means and appoint a State Republican committee which will be antagonistic not only to Senator Hanna, but to President McKinley, one of the aims alleged being to embarrass the President as much as possible if he comes up for re-election. Rhode Island Democrats. , PROVIDENCE, R. 1., March 14. The Democratic convention which met here today nominated Hon. Daniel Church, of Tiverton, for Governor, &nd Fayette E. Bartlett, of Burrellville, was named for lieutenant governor, Miles McName for secretary of state and George T. Brown, of Providence, for attorney general, and Edmund Walker, of South Kingston, general treasurer. The platform scores the Republicans for the manner in which the businesss of the State has been conducted during the past year, and condemns the attempt of some of the Republicans of the General Assembly to do away with the ten-hour law. HARMONY SOCIETY WINS. Report of tlie Master in the Equity Suit Against Mr. Duss. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 14.-The report of the master in the celebrated equity suit brought five years ago against John S. Duss, senior trustee of the Harmony Society of Economy, Pa., and others, for causing tho dissolution of the society and the distribution of its assets among the heirs of the original members has just been completed and will be filed this week. It is a vindication of Trustee Duss and the others connected with him who were attacked in the bill. The society wins on all points, and the recommendation is made that the bill bo dismissed at the cost of the plaintiffs. The society has dwindled to a total of eleven members, of whom four or five are so old as to be practically helpless. The society owns 3,(XX) acres of land at Economy, perhaps the finest tract in the upper Ohio Valley, aiul has other possessions worth something less than $1,030,000. The heirs es the deceased members and of those who joined and afterward left the society, number hundreds.

DIFFICULT JOURNEY. Admiral Walker Failed to Examine All the Nicaragua Canal Route. Correspondence of the Associated Press. COLON, Colombia, March s.—The work of the United States canal commission is almost completed. Col Hains will leave in a day or two for the United States, but Admiral Walker will remain behind to attend to some routine work. On the first day’s march from Ochoa to the sea Admiral Walker, after three hours’ gallant struggle, was forced to abandon tho trip and went to Greytown by canoe. Col. Hains says this part of the work of the commission was most difficult. After tramping thirty-eight miles through the jungle, the colonel and his followers reached Greytown exhausted. They had to cut every foot of their way through the undergrowth with the machete. Engineeer Arthur P. Davis, who has res’gned from the commission and is now in this country, said there was no possible chance of getting in a report this year, as the commissioners have not yet obtained sufficient data. A WAR SHIP IN ACTION. Sights, Sounds, Smells and Sensation* Without Parallel. New York Tribune. People who read about modern war ships in action, of the thunder and deafening noise made by the ponderous guns and the clouds of smoke and steam by which the iron fighting machines are enveloped, have only a faint idea at best of the real state of affairs, and no picture can do the matter full justice, if reports of those who have been there may be believed. A member of the naval reserve who has studied the subject and is thoroughly posted and equally enthusiastic said that a wellconducted target practice on one of the battle ships is similar in many respects to a naval engagement. Everything is made shipshape, decks are cleared, and the same precautions are taken as in actual contests; and although there is full assurance that no enemy will appear the decks present a warlike appearance, and soon after the exercises have begun the ship resembles anything more than a pleasure craft. To the novice the discharge of a big gun is a startling thing, and may be followed by unpleasant results unless the usual precautions are taken. The men brace themselves for the shock which follows the discharge of a big gun by holding the arms rigid and the hands well away from tho body, to give the lungs free play. They also keep the mouth open, and by that means equalize the pressure on the lungs, head and ear drums. “It is a question which admits of some argument,” said the naval reserve man, “whether the discomfort comes from outward pressure in consequence of the concussion or from the vacuum created after the shock. The fact that men who use cotton in their ears experience more trouble than those who use no external protection shows that there is much to fear from vacuum and the natural pressure from within. Burst eardrums and ruptured blood vessels are less likely to follow the discharge of big guns when those who stand near by keep their mouths open and their arms extended from the body.” To illustrate the force of air concussion it was stated that during target practice on board the Atlanta seme time ago a sheep was killed outright by the shock following the discharge of an eight-inch gun, although the gun was behind a barbette and the sheep thirty feet away. At another time, also on board the Atlanta, two sixinch broadside guns were discharged several times, and then it was discovered that the cutters end whaleboats which were suspended on davits fifteen feet over the guns and to the rear of the muzzles opened in the joints, although they were well built and seaworthy small craft. Another similar circumstance was mentioned in connection with target practice on board the New York. The two 8-lnch guns in the forward turret have a range of about 120 degrees on either side of the keel, and on this occasion one of the guns was ranged about thirty degrees forward of the beam and fired with a reduced charge. Twenty feet away wore several signals, and near these was a signal chest with all the ship's signal paraphernalia. All of these, chest and all. were scattered in all directions by the discharge of the gun and rendered useless. The noise made by the discharge of heavy pieces is less painful to the sense of hearing than that produced by smaller arms. “The roar seems to envelop one,” said the enthusiast, “and the man who stands in the turret, which shields him to some extent, becomes oblivious to it. The excitement connected with handling the guns or passing the charges does much to make one forget the noise, and the smell of the burning powder has an intoxicating effect which lends a charm to the situation. A man who has charge of an 8-inch gun is allowed about three minutes to load and fire his piece, and he and those who form the gun’s crew are kept constantly busy. Smaller gur.a are fired more rapidly, und I have seen a 5-lnch gun shoot at a target two miles away so rapidly that five shots were In the air before the first one struck. That is work over which any one will forget his surroundings. “But the surroundings change as soon as

fiusiness man, who ork at nine in the orning, takes an tur for lunch and aves for home at ur or five in the ternoon, little understands the hardships of the life of the farmer, who starts to work at break of day and frequently works on into the ht by lanternman to endure hardships of a ner’s life, must be robust physically at the outset, and if lie would live a long life, always keep a watchful eye upon his health. He should remember that it is the apparently trifling disorders that eventually make the big diseases. It does not do for a hard working man to neglect bilious attacks or spells of indigestion. If he does, he will soon find himself flat on his back with malaria or crippled with rheumatism. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is the best of all medicines for bard working men and women. It makes the appetite keen and hearty, the digestion perfect, the liver active, the blood pure and rich with the lifegiving elements of the food, and the nerves strong and steady. It builds firm muscles and solid flesh. It is the greatest of all blood-makers and purifiers. It cures malarial troubles and rheumatism. It is an unfailing cure for bilionsness and indigestion. An honest dealer will not try.to substitute some inferior preparation for the sake of a little additional profit. “ I was a sufferer for four years with malarial fever and chills." writes Robert Williams, of Kiowa, Barber Cos., Kan. " Four botttos of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cured me and I new weigh 160 pounds instead of 130, my old weight." Costivenes9, constipation ?nd torpidity of the liver are surely, speedily and perm?nently cured by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They are tiny, sugar-coated granules. One little r ‘ Pellet ” is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. They never gripe. They stimulate and strengthen the jaded organs until a regular habit is formed and may then be discontinued without a return of the trouble. They stimulate, invigorate and regulate the stomach, liver and bowels. Medicine stores sell them, and have no other pills that are “just as good.”

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Immediately after the smoke from the first shot has cleared away ail tho exposed brasswork on board the ship, which a few minutes before was as bright as anew dollar, turns green and gives the ship a business-like appearance. But the change becomes greater as the shooting continues. Immediately after a piece has been discharged a man opens the breech, which belches smoke and soot, and when this has cleared away the whole inside appears covered with a red mass which looks like so much clotted blood. This is the residuum from the burnt powder. Small particles of slow-burning powder are liable to be left in the breech-loading mechanism, and to extinguish these and to clean away the red mass a man stands ready with a swab, with which and liberal quantities of water he proceeds to clean the gun. The dirty water runs back upon the deck, it spatters the men, and this operation adds another element to the ‘tough’ appearance of men and ship. The more smoke, the more noise, the more dirty water on the decks, the less the men heed the noise. The powder fumes do certainly add much to the spirit of abandon which comes to all men who inhale them on board a war vessel.” The powder smoke which comes from the ship’s cannon discolors not only the bright metal on shipboard, but other things. A man who is well known in yachting circles came aboard a cruiser last summer with several friends, and they were on deck while some of the guns were discharged. The men wore neat white straw hats when they came on board, but the color of these had changed to a cross between gray and green by the time they went away. Why Havana Womeu line Powder. Letter in New York Mail end Express. Every woman in moderate or well-to-do circumstances powders. This fact is one of the first to strike an American. The more the wealth the more the pcAvder. Rouge is unknown, even among those who think it unnecessary. But powder is’as valuable as quinine and just as generally used. The face is coated over with the stuff from brew to neck covering, and even the hands are sometimes decorated. The costotn is the wonder of feminine visitors, as it is the surprise of the men. The afternoon is usually the time for Spanish and Cuban belles to enjov their promenade, and in the most striking colors, with faces completely covered with powder, these go about from store to store, with their faithful colored domestic by their sides. “Why do your ladies powder in such an outrageous manner?” inquired an American visitor of a Spanish army officer yesterday. “Their dark skin is simply beautiful and would be more attractive without the addition of powder. “Our ladies,” said the officer, "do not powder to improve their appearance. Unfortunately they have no choice in the matter. Accustomed as they are to this warm climate, it is strange that they suffer greauy from the heat, but that they do so is a fact. Perhaps it i3 due* to tight lacing, as 1 have heard, or it may be their warm Castilian blood. 'At all events, they more than enough, and to offset this they believe it necessary to powder. That is the only reason for their doing so.” F.iictneer Menoeul 111. NEW YORK, March 14.—Civil Engineer A. G. Menocal, of the navy, whose courtn.artial was to begin to-morrow, is still undor the care of a physician. The trial probably will be postponed until further orders. Mr. Menocal is to be tried on two charges, one of culpable inefficiency in the performance of duly and the other neglect of duty. Both are founded on the work done in the construction of the new dry dock. Mr. Menocal recently returned from Nicaragua, where he had been with the commission appointed by President McKinley to inspect and survey the canal and its tributary waters. He suffered a slight stroke of paralysis while on his way home, but is new rapidly recovering. Railway Men Injured. DALLAS, Tex., March 14.—W. G. Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, and Henry Hamilton, a business man of Dallas, arrived here last night from El Paso. Both*are badly bruised and cut as the result of a wreck they were In on the Mexican Central Railroad near Chihuahua, a week ago. They are confined to their rooms by their injuries. Miltary Bicycle Tournament. NEW YORK. March 14.-The second annual military bicycle and athletic tournament' was opened to-night at Madiiionsquare Garden. The garden was brilliantly decorated with flags. Owing to the inability of General Miles to be present the grand uarade and review of the sixteen files of the Military League was postponed until Wednesday. The attendance was not large. Cauze and Effect. Collier’s Weekly. Captain Eulate, before the Vizcaya took him away, expressed his astonishment at the inhabitants of this city. Ho declared that the women are all beautiful and the men qll in a hurry. The circumstance should not have astonished. It is an excellent example of cause and effect. • Puzzled. Harper’s Bazar. “I don't see where I come In on your scheme,” said Uncle Silas to the fire Insurance agent. ”If I pay you a hundred dolihrs I lose the hundred; and if my house burtts down, I lose the house. Seems as if I was doomed anyhow "