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will not land In Spain In organised condl--t.’or, but in semi-disbanded fragments and Unarmed.” The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says: "The issuance of the royal decree suspending the constitutional guarantees and virtually proclaiming a state of siege is evidently intended to check Carlism. The Carllst organ, El Correo Espanolu, was prohibited to-day for the publication of an insulting article.” The Madrid correspondent of the Dally News, who believes that the activity of the Carlists in the northern provinces is the real reason for suspending the constitutional guarantees and proclaiming a state of siege, says: ‘ Some ot the ministers assert that tho pretender has a regular organization of sa'aried agents to prepare the country for a movement in his favor and above all to raise armed bands to be ready when the time corner for the King to ‘get back his own.’ The Carlists, it is said, have lately been supplied with funds from an unknown source. Don Carlos is not, as has been asserted, thinking of abdicating in of his son, Don Juan, but urged on by his wife, is said to be ready to take prompt action.” THE MARTIAL. LAW DECREE. The Madrid correspondent of the Times says: “The royal decree temporarily suspending throughout the Spanish peninsula the rights of individuals as guaranteed by tho Constitution will probably make a greater impression abroad than at home. The Spanish people know very well that, like its predecessor, proclaiming a state of siege, which was Issued immediately after the news of the disaster at Cavite, the decree will be very sparingly applied, and will not inconvenience the quiet and welldisposed portion of the population. The news of the capitulation of Santiago was received too late for comment by the morning papers. It causes disappointment, because it was hoped that, although General Torai was in a desperate condition, the spread of yellow fever might in a few days have compelled the Americans to raise the siege and retire. Official information regarding the conditions of surrender is anxiously awaited. "The government’s unusual reticence concerning the long dispatches received from Captain General Blanco causes anxiety. The correspondents note, as a signiilcant fact, that a certain Cuban magnate who had always declared that he would remain in Cuba as long as he had hope of the island being preserved to Spain has left Havana for some unbioekaded port, where he is to find a neutral ship to take him to Europe. "Regardng the prospects of peace Senor Sagasta, interviewed by a representative of El Correspondencia, is represented as saying: ‘lt is certain, most certain, that the government has endeavored to ascertain extraofflcially the disposition of the Washington Cabinet respecting a pacific solution, but for the moment I can say absolutely nothng because the enemy might wrongly euppose that we desired peace at any price and accordingly show himself more exacting. I have read the proposals cabled to El Imparelal, which are supposed to have been communicated by President McKinley to M. Cambon, the French ambassador at Washington, These conditions are so hard that I considered them inadmissible. The government has news of other proposals that are much more acceptable.’ "In reply to a question as to whether he Intended to remain in office to conclude peace, Senor Sagasta said that such was his intention, and he added, respecting the ministerial crisis, this statement: ‘I can affirm categorically that it does not formally exist and that there is no danger of Its arising so easily as the pre 4 ss indicates.’ “The Official Gazette publishes a memorandum from the president of the Council to the Queen Regent explanatory of the royal decree suspending the constitutional gtwrantecs and briefly sketching the military situation. It dwells especially upon the fact that the command of the sea is now completely in the hands of the enemy and that the probability is that an American squadron will soon appear on the Spanish coast. The memorandum draws the conclusion that the time has arrived when the administration should strengthen itself.” NAVAL BATTLE EXPECTED. The Gibraltar correspondent of the Daily News say3: "A naval battle oT the Spanish coast is considered Imminent. The suspension of the constitutional guarantee is a symptom of the distracted condition of Spain. The nation wants peace; the army wants a victory. Spain cannot continue to struggle, yet peace will be the signal for revolution, and the European intervention formerly desired is now dreaded. The government, through El Epoea, advocates direct negotiations with the United States. The military press indignantly characterizes peace as treason. Wealthy families are deserting Cadiz, Seville and Malaga. Supplies are shipped from here to the American consul at Tangier.” The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says: “I learn on reliable authority that the Austrian court was informed to-day that Spain was prepared to cede Cuba and to pay indemnity, but not to abandon Porto Rico. Senor Sagasta trusts to be able to retain the Philippines as a Spanish possession, tho powers preferring the islands to remain in Spanish rather than American hands.” —~-The Vienna correspondent of the Times, discussing the Hispano-Ameriean situation s.t considerable length, remarks: "It is a favorable circumstance that the war seems to have diminished, rather than increased, the estrangement of the two peoples. The Americans have a greater respect for the Spaniards, and their considerate conduct and frank and cordial recognition of Spanish gallantry has created a good Impression in Spain and Austria. It ts noticeable also that the public feeling in Ameriea is much calmer than it was, and It is believed that the United States will not insist upon severe condltons or exorbitant Indemnity. Spain has everything to gain by hastening peace. Should Commodore Watson’s squadron secure a footing in the Canaries, the situation would be greatly complicated, while the longer the American forces remain in Cuba and the Philippines the more familiar the Americans will become with the Idea of colonial expansions end the less inclined to surrender their hold upon an acquisition whose value is being emphasized by the covetous glances of European powers. It is believed here that the powers would not actively interfere to prevent American annexation of the Philippines. because Great Britain would not cooperate."

BLANCO CHANGES ATTITUDE. Row Willing to Let Home Govern* iny 11 1 Decide lor Peace or War. LONDON. July IG.—All the dispatches from Madrid to the London morning papers agree that Captain General Blunco and his staff are now willing to let the decision as to peace or war rest with the home government. This change of attitude is supposed to be due to the lack of provisions and equipments. The Times, commenting editorially this morning on the statement of Lieutenant General Correa, the Spanish minister of war, as to tho terms on which he thought peace might be arranged, says it is afraid that none of the terms General Correa suggests has any chance of acceptance at Washington. It will probably be realized at Washington that the chance of getting a money indemnity is extremely remote, and as a business transaction the Americans will probably take any indemnity they think proper in the form of territory should any colonies be left in Spanish possession at the conclusion of peace.’* HtARE AT BARCELONA. People Expect Commodore Wateon to Bombard the City. LONDON. July 15.—1 tis announced In a special dispatch from Barcelona this afier-

noon that the inhabitants of that city are panic stricken. They believe the Americans will select defenseless Barcelona as the first point to bombard. The local banks are removing their specie to the country, the merchants are sending their goods to places of safety and many of the citizens are leaving. The governor of Barcelona has informed the people that they cannot expect help from the government. MARSEILLES, July 15.—A number of Barcelona steamers have taken refuge here, fearing an American attack on Barcelona. Cadiz Also Excited. CADIZ, July 15.—There is great excitement here owing to the expected coming of Commodore Watson’s squadron. Many are leaving. The Spanish mail steamer, plying between this port and Tangier, will cease to run next week. Presage* the End. LONDON, July 15. The weekly papers express great satisfaction dver the fall of Santiago de Cuba. The Speaker thinks the event presages the end of the war, but describes it as “a stroke of good fortune which the Americans had no right to expect." It adds: “The terms of surrender are not dishonorable. They reflect credit upon both sides.” The Saturday Review explains its change of attitude in favor of America and declares its original antagonism was prompted by America’s aggressive humor, while its present attitude is a somewhat tardy, but ungrudging, admission of American courage and humanity. The paper proceeds in terms of high praise of the United States a t ong the lines of its article a week ago. Spain’* Hoar for Peace Ha* Struck. PARIS, July 15.—The Temps this afternoon says: “The hour for opening the peace negotiations has struck with the fall of Santiago, particularly as the appearance of yellow fever will dispose the Americans to receive them favorably. Spain ought not base the slightest hopes on the Irene incident, which w r as merely a misunderstanding.” A dispatch to the Temps from Madrid says: "The prefects report that the Carlists are making preparations for an outbreak in the northern provinces.” * NO OVERTURES FOR PEACE. President McKinley, However, Hope* for nn Early Cessation of Ho*tilitien. WASHINGTON, July 15.—The subject of peace was not mentioned at the Cabinet meeting to-day, and it can be authoritatively stated that the President has not received an intimation “from any official or even semi-official source that Spain desires peace on any terms that can be entertained by the United States. One prominent member of the Cabinet said that Spain was rapidly losing ground by not seeking to make terms, and added that “she seemed to have no ability to make war or capacity to make peace.” It is stated by Secretary Day that there is no truth in the published report that peace negotiations have been opened at Washington, led by Sir Julian Pauncefote, assisted by the Russian ambassador and other diplomats. President McKinley, however, gave expression to-day to a strong hope for an early peace. Responding to congratulations on the success of the Santiago campaign, lie said: “I hope for early peace now.” In the course of other interviews, he gave voice to the same sentiment, not expressing his entire belief, but a strong hope, that peace would come. The dispatch from Madrid announcing the royal decree suspending individual rights in Spain was quickly communicated to the President, and was read at the Cabinet meeting, hut not discussed. As In Madrid, it was generally taken to mean imminence of a move by the Spanish government for a cessation of hostilities. It was received in this interpretation with great satisfaction, but in the absence of definite official assignment of the Spanish motive, the administration, while strongly hoping for it, is not entirely expectant of so satisfactory an outcome. One member of the Cabinet expressed his opinion that the issuance of the decree at this time indicated the end was not far off, but he was not sure that that was the Spanish intention. He cited the frequency of misconstruction of Spanish motives and the intentional misleading as to the course it intended to pursue. At tho same time he took a hopeful view of the situation, and thought the royal pronunciamento might, in the exigency of the Spanish case, prove to be the entering wedge in a peace movement. Senator Cannon, of Utah, who had a talk with the President, does not take an entirely roseate view of the outlook. "I hope for peace as a necessity,” he said, "but not by the willing and voluntary action of the Spanish Ministry and royalty. Whoever makes the first proposition there ruins himself. He only builds a bridge on which others will cross. There are few with the nerve and courage to undertake the initiative in the present temper of the Spanish populace.” He believed, however, the royal decree possibly signilied a move in that direction.

VIEWS OF GEN. HARRISON. He Does Not See How Spain Can Avoid Asking for Peace. NEW YORK, July 15.—Former President Benjamin Harrison, in an interview regarding General Toral’s surrender, said last night: “Whether the fall of Santiago will lead to peace proposals on the part of Spain is a difficult matter to conjecture upon at this moment. Spain is not a country you can reason with, except by force. Now, if it were any other country than Spain with which we were at war, I would have no hesitation in thinking that an event such as happened to-day, in the face of previous disasters, would mean the cessation of hostilities. Another thing one has to consider in discussing the probability of peace is the peculiar position Spain is in. From the beginning her government had to make the choice between foreign or civil war. That was the only alternative left to her, and she chose foreign war. The question of peace now turns mainlv on the situation in Spanish politics. Impoverished and disheartened by the reverses they have sustained, I think that if the Spanish Ministry could depend on the army at home to put down any insurrection that might arise, they would at once sue for peace. By continuing the war, Spain is only inviting further disaster. Her navy has been destroyed. She is no longer a naval power. Nothing she has left could even cope with a detachment of our fleet. Camara would be wiped out by a small squadron of our ships as completely as was Cervera. Without ships to defend them all her possessions arid even all her home ports are open to capture or destruction by our navy. In the face of these conditions it is difficult to see what other course can be taken by Spain than to ask for peace. “In any event, the subjection of Cuba is simply a question of time. While further resistance may be made, it is more apparent than ever that there can be but one issue to the war. Moreover, the successive great losses Spain has suffered tend to make the home situation easier for the Spanish government. These losses make the people over there realize the utter hopelessness of the struggle and will open their eyes to the fact that the longer the w’ar is protracted the greater will be their humiliation." General Harrison declined to give an opinion as to the policy the government should adopt in the matter of retaining the Philippines and other conquered Spanish possessions. It would be invidious for him to discuss any subject which world become part of the peace negotiations. TREASURE FROM DAWSON. Million Dollar* Thnt the Mysterious Privateer Did Not Get. SEATTLE, Wash., July 15.—A private dispatch from Victoria, B. C., says that the steamer Cottage City arrived there to-night from Alaska with a number of passengers frem Dawson City who have a large amount of gold dust and drafts estimated at SI,Ojt),QOO. The gold was brought up the Yukon fn steamers and overland to the Lynn canal. Reliable Pianos, cheapest, at Wulachner's.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1893.

TRAGEDY AT A CIRCUS * FRANK BROOKS STABBED TO DEATH BY AN IRATE HUSBAND. * King of Glass Blower* Was Among the Victim* on La Bourgogne— Bottle Blower*’ Convention. • * Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., July 13.—Thursday evening Frank Brooks, who was selling tickets to a show being exhibited at Waldron, was killed in the presence of a large crowd of witnesses by Charles Wilson, who grabbed his victim and plunged a knife into his throat before any one could interfere. Jealousy is assigned a9 the cause. Wilson is the husband of the woman who runs the show, and Brooks was her manager. All the parties are well known about Waldron. The Wilsons are Mexicans. WilHon’* Previous Record. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LIBERTY, Ind., July 15.-Sheriff Crist this morning was notified that James Wilson, who recently broke jail here, had murdered his wife’s paramour, near Shelbyville, by cutting his throat with a razor, and was at large, Wilson attacked his wife at Brownsville some months ago and a lively time followed, the former husband getting shot in the side for his meddling. He was placed in jail here, awaiting trial, when he succeeded in getting away, and has not been heard of until the tragedy occurred as narrated. The Wilson people are showmen. —* INDIANA OBITUARY. W. H. Austiel, Wlio Served Under Gen. Lew Wallace. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., July 15.—W. H. Austiei, one of Elwood’s oldest citizens, and the Populist candidate for county treasurer, died last night after four days’ illness of paralysis. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon. Mr. Austiel was born in Rushville in 1842 and moved to Elwood in 1877. He was a gallant soldier during the war, serving three months in the Eleventh Indiana under General Lew Wallace, and the remainder of the war as a member of the Twenty-first Indiana. The. G. A. R. and Odd Fellows will have charge of the funeral. Dr. Innlali A. Cooper. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., July 15.—Dr. Isaiah A. Cooper, an old resident and practitioner of this county, died at his residence in this city at 11 o’clock to-day of apoplexy, aged forty-eight. A wife and two sons survive. One of the sons is Corporal Orson Cooper, of Company L, One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. He is expected from Chickamauga to-night. Other Death* In the State. PORTLAND. Ind., July 15.-Mrs. Keziah Bosworth. one of the best-known women in this section, and the wife of Augustus Bosworth, died this morning at her home south of this city, aged seventy-one. She was the mother of six grown children, two of whom are ministers. Mrs. Bosworth will be buried Sunday afternoon from the Salamonia f’hureh. Revs. Fred Stevenour and Daniel F. Spade officiating. COVINGTON. Ind.. July 15.—Benjamin Gardner, seventy-eight years old. died here this morning. Mr. Gardner was born in Ohio in 1820. and came to Indiana in 1545. He was engaged in pork packing with James G. Hardy until 1872. Mr. Gardner leaves a wife and four children, Lance, Charles and Lincoln Gardner and Mrs. Julian Martin, all of this city. SULLTVAN, Ind., July 15.—William H. Blue, one of the oldest residents of this county, was found dead in his bed this morning at his home in Meroni. Mr. Blue was past eighty-five years. He was the father of P. P. Blue, general manager of the Indiana & Illinois Southern Railroad. * ESCAPED CONVICT MASON. One of NVnrden Harley’* Men Held for Mnrder in the East. New r York Post, Tuesday. William Mason, alias "Big Bill.” who was arrested Monday at Eleventh avenue and Forty-second street, with "Red” Spencer, James Coffey and Thomas Reilly, and who had boasted that he would never be captured alive, has become subdued since his arrest by Detectives Fogarty and Stripp, and he said this morning that he had been "licked, and that was all there was to it.” Captain McClusky has received the following dispatch from Superintendent of Police Linden, of Philadelphia: "Bill Mason wanted for murder. Requisition papers with officer being prepared.” A later dispatch stated that Mason had been indicted for robbery and larceny in that city. There was also a dispatch from Warden Harley, of the Michigan City, Ind., prison, stating that Mason was wanted there, having escaped from that prison. Mason is wanted chiefly for the murder of Major Wilson, the Philadelphia librarian, who was; found murdered and robbed last August, in a circulating library in Philadelphia. The police of that city have always believed that Mason did the work. Captain McClusky thinks the capture of Mason and his three companions the most important arrests the taffice has made in some years. He expects to hear from Troy, Baltimore and Newark to-day, where saferobberies have been committed recently, and which the four men are suspected of having been engaged in. He said this morning that he will recommend some kind of a reward to be made to the detectives for their work in capturing Mason and Spencer. The fight, he said, was a desperate one. Mason and Spencer drew revolvers on the detectives. Fogarty caught both wrists of Mason, while Stripp knocked Spencer down, and then went to the aid of Fogarty. Spencer arose and was about to shoot when he was again hit. Stripp then took Spencer’s revolver and struck Mason in the face with it. Both were then captured. The men were again arraigned and remanded to-day.

HAYES'S ELECTION CERTAIN. President Qf the Bottle Bloivers Will Be Continued in Office. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., July 15.—The glass bottle blowers’ convention to-day discussed proposed changes in the by-laws and other matters of interest, which are kept secret. Thomas Blackburn, secretary of the Central Labor Union of Indianapolis, and Hugh McCaffrey, of the same city, were before tho convention presenting the facts relative to the boycott that meat cutters of that city have placed on the goods of Kingan &: Cos. The re-election of President D. A. Hayes, of Philadelphia, and the other officers of the association is now assured. There was some opposition to the present head of the big organization, but for two days he has been whipping them into line in his customary manner, and this evening the delegates are practically solid. ♦ WALTER RYAN STORY. The Young Man Did Not Enlint with Suicidal Motive*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., July 15.—The Washington dispatch in the Journal this morning with reference to the enlistment of Walter Ryan, of this city, in the electrical department of the navy, taking service on the Vermont, v. as a source of annoyance to the relatives and many friends of the bereaved and very popular young man. Walter Ryan is the youngest child of Hon. John W. Ryan, of Muncle, for many years United States commissioner and a leading lawyer. Young Ryan, after graduating from the High School, was for some time electrician at the Indiana bridge works, but for two years has held a similar position for the Midland Steel Company, where electricity is extensively used. He was married a few weeks ago at Bridgeton. N. J.,und brought his wife to a newdy-prepared home here. He had prospects most bright, when his bride was stricken down with fever and died. The young man was greatly bereaved, but he did not enlist from suicidal motives, as was made to appear in the Washington dispatch in to-day’s Journal. When he left home it was to accompany the corpse of his wife back to her former home on the Atlantic coast, after which he intended to enlist in the army if he could get the position to which he was appointed. His sister married a brother of Lieut. Charles Marsh, of Muncle. who is private secretary of Admiral Sampson, on the flagship New Y'ork, the young man having been in Washington

for several years. After the close of the war with Spain Mr. Ryan will get a position on a reguiar war cruiser. Latest News from Winona. Special to th* Indianapolis Journal. WINONA LAKE, Ind., July 15.-This morning at the assembly the memory of the horrors of the old Southern prisons was recalled by a lecture on Libby Prison by Rev. E. S. Scott. To-night a recital was given by the class in elocution of Mis3 Jennie Ormsby, from Fort Wayne. Miss Ormsby is a member of the faculty of the summer school, and in winter she is a teacher of elocution and physical culture in Westminster Seminary of Fort Wayne. The chorus class has been organized and is under the direction of D. A. Clippinger, of Chicago. The chorus will give “The Creation” some time during the season. Little trouble is found in obtaining members for the chorus, as ail who join are furnished with season tickets. The Winona Orchestra gives open-air concerts occasionally. The department of athletics is receiving considerable attention this year. Prof. T. B. Barnes, of Omaha, has been engaged as physical instructor and instruction is given in all branches of athletics. Among the latest arrivals at the Winona Hotel are: Mrs. Franklin W. Hoyt, Indianapolis; James Whitcomb Riley, Indianapolis; James Swift, James D. Bird, B. M. Bice, J. D. Shroch, members of the Imperial Quartet; Mrs. Martha De Hoff, Chicaf°; Mrs. James Holder. Carrollton, O. At Minnewawan Inn, the following are among the latest arrivals: Robert Humphreys and family, Logansport; Mrs. I. B. Arnold, Bourbon; Miss rionora Davis, Bourbon; Wiliiam B. Streator, Indianapolis; J. B. Gregg and wife, Ada. O.; J. A. Funkhouser, Hagerstown, Md.; J. G. Robert. Chicago; A. W. Macy and wife, Chicago. Klngr of Gin** Blower* Drowned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., July 15.-It has Just been learned here that among the victims of La Bourgogne, the ill-fated French line steamer, was big Joe Lariaux, a glass blower employed at the Hartford City Glass Company’s plant, and one of the best known window-glass blowers in the world. He was recognized as tho finest and fastest workman in this or any other country. He was a giant, standing six feet four inches, and could neither read nor write. His savings at the close of each lire amounted to $5,00). He was crossing the ocean for the thirtythird time. Chasing; the McCoy Murderer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., July 15.—Sheriff Harves has returned from a fruitless three days’ chase over the Kentucky mountains after William McCoy, the murderer of young H.?nry Rhatts, and a brother of McCoy. M. C. McCoy, their father, now in jail on the charge of being an accomplice, is a relative of the notorious McCoy family of Hattield-McCoy feud fame in eastern Kentucky. He was warned to leave Kentucky and did so. For a long time he has led a mysterious life, making long trips in a wagon at night. What his business was no one knows. He always had plenty of money. G. A. R. Post May Split. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., July 15. —There is a split on in the G. A. R. post in this city. Part of the members proposed to change the name from Major May Post to Major Doxey Post in honor of the late C. T. Doxey. Those who served under Major May oppose the change. There is considerable feeling over the matter, and indications are that half of them will withdraw and establish a Major Doxey post. Cigarettes Did It, of Coarse, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., July 15.—Glen Seagraves, the fifteen-year-oid son of George Seagraves, a prominent merchant, has become a raving maniac, requiring four men to hold him. A week ago after smoking a box of cigarettes he dived from the top of a tree into the river, a. distance of nearly fifty feet. He guttered no apparent injury at the time, but later his alarming condition developed. Muncle Ga* Company Sold. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., July 15. —The sale of the Muncle Hear, Light and Power Company's natural gas plant was made to-day by James Boyce and others to a company headed by, H”, C. Zeigler, of Montpelier, and George J. Marrott. of Indianapolis, the former being elected president and the latter secretary and treasurer of the new company. The price paid was nearly $30,000.

Farmer Easton Takes Poison. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BEDFORD, Ird., July 15. Jam.es Easton, a prominent farmer near this city, Is lying at the point of death from a dcse of Paris green taken with suicidal intent. No reason is assigned, except that he is tired of living. This is the third attempt and will probably prove fatal. White Caps in Dresses. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ARGOS, Ind., July 15.—White Caps at Pierceton. last night, went to the residence of William Kelley, pulled him from his bed, took him out of his house and gave him fifty lashes with a “blacksnake.” He was punished for abusing his wife. The outlaws were dressed in female attire. Only Two Graduates. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., July 15.—The annual commencement of the Indiana Normal College was held this evening at the M. E. Church in this city. There were hut two graduates, Edith May McClellan and Florence Gertrude Hall. Killed in the Oolitic Quarry. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SPENCER, Ind., July 15.—Morrison Goens, head foreman of the Romona oolitic stone quarry, near here, was instantly killed this afternoon by the breaking of a derrick. The channeler which it was lifting fell on hint. Hoop Factory Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 15.— I Tho Noblesville coil hoop factory, owned by John W. Durflinger, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The flames were of incendiary origin. Loss, $5,000; insured for SI,OOO. Seymour Gets Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., July 15.—The Republican chairmen to-day selected Seymour as the place for the Fourth district congressional convention, to be held Aug. 18. Indiana Crop Items. The hum of the threshing machine can be heard on all sides, and the farmers are well pleased with the quantity and quality of the wheat that is being threshed.—Edinburg Courier. Quite a good deal of new wheat has been coming in, but the local buyers are not expecting any great rush until later on. Generally speaking, the wheat crop throughout the county is large.—Henry County Republican. The hard frosts of Saturday and Sunday did considerable damage to crops in this vicinity. The corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes. watermelons, etc., on low grounds were almost entirely destroyed.—Lagrange Standard. Reed Sharp has demonstrated that land In what is called “the barrens,” two miles > southeast of Corydon, will produce good, crops. Mr. Sharp sowed seventy acres of wheat last fall and realized 1,700 bushels, machine measure.—Corydon Republican. The farmer was favored with most excellent weather this year during the most of haying and all of the wheat harvest. Certainly the farmer ought to be thankful for this, and no doubt he is. In the meantime, his corn and potatoes are taking care of themselves.—Steuben Republican. Farmers all over the county are threshing wheat and making hay. The w'heat is excellent and some farms are averaging as high as twenty-five and thirty bushels to the acre. The hay crop is exceedingly heavy. Prospects for a big corn crop are excellent.—Hartford City Times. Wabash county dealers in harvesting machines. such as reapers, threshers, etc., say that the farmers throughout the county made more purchases this season than for several years past. Some dealers say they found It impossible to fill the demand for threshing machines.—Wabash Plain Dealer. E. B. Wingate has threshed three acres of wheat on his farm in Hendricks township that turned out 139 bushels and 12 pounds, or a fraction more than forty-six bushels to the acre. At 70 cents a bushel this wheat would bring $97.44, or $32.48 per acre. That Is r.ot so bad, especially when “farming don’t pay.”—Bhelbyville Republican. A Selling “Combine.” PITTRBUP.G, July 15.—The Times to-mor-row will ay; “A selling combine of all flint-

glass bottle manufacturers of the Pittsburg and Western districts have been successfully started In Pittsburg, and already the hearty co-operation of manufacturers controlling 9o per cent, of the products has been assured. The new combine will take the place of the American Flint Bottle Manufacturers’ Association, and will be even a closer corporation. A central selling agency will be established.” SENATOR KENNEY’S DEFENSE. The Delaware Statesman's Account of His Dealings with Boggs. WILMINGTON, July 15.—United States Senator Kenney to-day went on the stand in his own defense and detailed at length his connection with Boggs, the defaulting cashier. Senator Kenney stated that in 1893 Eoggs engaged him as counsel, and that until 1894 he knew absolutely nothing about Boggs’s shortage in the bank. It was not, he said, in 1895, as Boggs testified. When in that year Boggs came to him and confessed to him that he was a defaulter Senator Kenney said he was surprised, and was horrified to learn he had lost it playing card 9. Boggs asked for witness’s advice, and Mr. Kenney told him the best thing would be to go to his friends and get them to fix the matter straight. Boggs, he said, did not tell him to what amount he was in default. After that time witness said he heard nothing more about the shortage, and presumed, accordingly, that Boggs had taken his advice and got the money from friends. Mr. Kenney then gave some interesting information on his operations in Bay State Gas. Checks aggregating $3,030, representing dealings in that stock, were lound uncharged to Senator Kennfcy’s account in the bank. He knew absolutely nothing of the failure to charge them, and supposed they had been charged. The remainder of Senator Kenney’s direct examination was a general denial of any knowledge or complicity in the manipulation of the bank’s funds, and that while witness was aware of overdrafts in his (witness’s) accounts, he always made good immediately upon notification. He was then turned over for cross-examination. Mr. Kenney was submitted to a most rigid and searching cross-examination, which failed to shake his examination-in-chief. He persisted in the statement that, although he was Boggs’s counsel up to the time of the flight, yet he never knew of the defalcations, only those testified in his direct examination and w hich he' thought had been settled. He contradicted Boggs’s testimony in many particulars, denying especially that he consulted with Boggs as to his defalcations, and in regard to Bay State Gas deals.

SWINDLER SENTENCED. “Baron” Von Arnold Punished for Fraud in England. LONDON, July 15.—Joseph Arnold, a private detective from San Francisco, who married Jennie Young in that city during the month of April, 1897, and who deserted her in this city, was sentenced to-day at the Newington Sessions to a year's imprisonment. having been convicted of obtaining £146 from a hairdresser under the pretense that he, Von Arnold, was a baron and heir to a large estate in Germany. Arnold posed as a count when he married Jennie Young. It is alleged that the prisoner has four wives. 118 Chinese Drowned. SEATTLE, Wash., July 15.—The Iliago, published at Japan under date of June 20, just received by the steamer YamaguichiMaru, contains the news of the sinking of the Chinese torpedo boat Hee-Ching at Port Arthur a few days before the paper was printed. It is stated that there were 118 men aboard, not one of whom was saved. No details are given. Ilia Holiness in Good Health. ROME, July 15.—1n consequence of the persistent and sinister rumors in circulation, Dr. Lapponi. the physician of the Pope, has issued an emphatic denial of the report that the Pontiff is suffering from a paralytic attack. On the contrary, tne doctor asserts, his Holiness is in good health. Cable Notes. A mysterious illness seized the soldiers at Alona, Pauma, after dinner Thursday. Yesterday 165 were in the hospital. An official examination of the food is being made. Frank C. Partridge, the United States consul at Tangier, has started on his way home. Pending the arrival of Mr. Partridge's successor the affairs of the consulate will be in charge of Mr. Lilly, secretary of the consulate. OBITUARY. Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn Linton, English Novelist and Essayist. LONDON, July 15.—Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn Union, the novelist and essayist, widow’ of the late William James Linton, the celebrated wood engraver, is dead. The late Mrs. Linton, who was born at Keswick, Feb. 10, 1822, was the youngest child of the Rev. James Lynn, vicar of Crosthwaite. She married Mr. Linton in 1858. As early as 1845 she embarked on an independent literary career in London. Among her publications are, in addition to innumerable essays and short stories not collected, ‘‘The World Well Lost,” the ‘‘One Too Many,” ‘‘ln Haste and at Leisure.” “The Girl of the Period,” “Grasp Your Nettle,” "Sowing the Wind.” “Through the Long Night” and “Under Which Lord.” ( apt. H. B. Montreville. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 15.—Captain Hubert B. Montreville, one of the best known newspaper men in this city, Is dead. He had been ill for five w’eeks with tuberculosis. Captain Montreville was a native of France and came to this country when a young man. He was sixty years old and his whole life was spent in newspaper work. Among the papers he had been connected with are the Cincinnati Post, Detroit Journal, New York Tribune and several journals in this city. Janies A. Roosevelt. NEW YORK, July 15.—James A. Roosevelt, aged seventy-six, the well-known banker, and uncle of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, died to-day suddenly on a Long island railroad train while on his way to Oyster bay, where he has his country residence. The bursting of a blood vessel in his brain is supposed to have been the cause of his death. For Aged and Infirm Negroes. Washington Post. We are very glad to see that Senator Pettigrew has secured the passage by the Senate of the bill to provide a home for aged and infirm colored people, and we trust that nothing will be allcAved to delay its enactment into law. It is to the credit of the Senate that this excellent measure encountered no opposticn from any quarter. The fact proves that all parties recognize the country’s obligations to a race enfranchised under stress of a great national crisis and saddled suddenly with the responsibilities of citizenship. There can be no doubt that we owe much to the negroes, and that, morally speaking, we are bound to take care of the afflicted and the helpless among them. The generation that has sprung up since the war may perhaps be left to look after themselves, but many of those who were emancipated and enfranchised thirty years or so ago suffered much more than they gained in the transaction. They were deprived of their natural protectors and furnished with no compensation for that loss. Unprepared for freedom and self-support, trained to dependence, destitute of any fitness for the struggle of life, they were presented with the mysterious bauble of emancipation and at the same time left like so many children to encounter the complex difficulties of existence. What Senator Pettigrew has noto achieved should have been done long ago. It is only because the colored people are so kind and generous among themselves and so averse to posing as objects of public pity that we have not had this matter brought home to us before. It remains only to organize the charity so that it shall be conducted on a high plane, apart from political or personal considerations. The institution is called for by every consideration of duty and propriety. The one thing needed is to have it operated with intelligence and honesty. The Way He Knew. Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Naborly—So your name Is the same as your papa’s. Harry? Harry—Yes’m. Mrs. Naborly—How do you know when your mama calls who she means? Harry— Oh, she always calls me kind of coaxing.

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MAY RESUME FIGHTING. (Concluded from First Page.) larger question of the permanent status of this tract. If the precedent of Manila is followed, in which case General Merritt was sent as military governor, then a military official will be designated to administer affairs at Santiago City and thereabouts. But It is appreciated that the conditions are quite different at Santiago from those in Manila, as the government has disclaimed a purpose to make territorial acquisition in Cuba, and has directed Its efforts thus far to making Cuba free and placing the Cubans in control. This condition may lead to a consideration of the expediency of allowing the Cubans themselves to establish an administration at Santiago, thus giving them the opportunity to try their ability at directing civil affairs, and also giving them a foothold on the island. In that event General Garcia, being on the ground, would doubtless figure prominently in the administration, although President Masso and his Cabinet are said to be In the adjoining province of Puerto Principe, and readily accessible to Santiago. No determination has been reached, so far as can be learned, as to the form of administration, for until the surrender itself Is completed the authorities here are not disposed to settle the details of questions which naturally follow the surrender. It is felt, however, that an important question of general policy hinges on action at Santiago, as it is the first Cuban territory to be acquired by our army, and to some extent the determination as to its method of civil administration will serve as a precedent for the civil administration of other parts of Cuba when it is overrun by our army.

■ TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM. Spaniard*! Will Be Sent Home Under a Neutral Flag. WASHINGTON, July 15—Colonel Hecker, who is in charge of the transportation service of the War Department, is now busy trying to arrange for the conveyance home to Spain of the Spanish soldiers who surrendered in Santiago. There is a disposition to appeal directly to the great steamship transportation lines to make bids to carry these people. The adoption of such a course would relieve the government of a great responsibility. It would put the Spaniards under a neutral flag, which would insure their reception without difficulty at home, and it would relieve our government of the necessity of sending with the prisoners the heavy guard that would be required if they were conveyed on United States transports. Economically, it was thought the proposition was a sound one. Assuming that the companies charged the usual passenger rates for soldiers, the transfer could be affected at a cost not to exceed $500,000, a sum which is probably less than would be the cost of the service If undertaken directly by our government. But a disagreeable complication has arisen from the fact that reports indicate that yellow fever exists among the Spanish troops as well as among our own, and it is feared that if these reports are well founded it may be difficult to induce transportation companies to undertake the task o£ conveying sick soldiers and those who had been exposed to infection. There is also doubt whether the Spanish authorities would allow the men to land on Spanish soil. Adjutant General Corbin said that all the necessary rations to care for the Spanish soldiers were now in place for immediate delivery at Santiago. It is presumed that the quartermaster’s officers wfill avoid the enormous undertaking of transporting these supplies over the mountain trails by sending these supplies by vessels into the harbor to the city of Santiago. This, it is believed, can be done safely, as the terms of surrender will doubtless require the Spanish to indicate the location of the mines in the harbor. It is expected that the great body of refugees that fled the town on the threat of bombardment will now return, and great distress is expected to result from the lack of food supplies. General Shafter has been allowed to exercise his full discretion in dealing with these refugees, and while he will not assume the responsibility for their maintenance, he will, without doubt, spare as many rations as possible from his own stores to aid these unfortunate people, OFFICIAL DISPATCHES. Message** from Sliafter, Miles, Greenleaf and Jones. WASHINGTON, July m—The following statement was issued to-day by Secretary Alger from the dispatches he had received from the officers at Santiago: “The commissioners on the part of the United States named by General Shafter were Generals Wheeler and Lawton and Lieutenant Miley. Their discussion lasted until late last night and was taken up by them at 9 o’clock this morning. This surrender covers a great area of the eastern part of Cuba. Os course the details may take some little time, but they are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible.” The following dispatches from General Shafter, General Miles and others were posted at the War Department: “Headquarters. Santiago, via Playa, July 15.—Sei\t you several telegrams yesterday, as did General Miles, In regard to the surrender. General Toral agreed yesterday positively to surrender all the forces under his command in eastern Cuba, upon a distinct understanding that they were to be sent to Spain by the United States; that this surrender was authorized by General Blanco and its submission to-morrow was merely formal. The commissioners to arrange detahs were appointed—Wheeler, Lawton and Miley for the United States. Points were immediately raised by the Spanish commissioners. The discussion lasteu until 10 o’clock last night. My commissioners think the matter will be settled to-day. The commissioners met again at 9:33 o’clock this morning. There are about ten thousand troops in the city, and about as many more in the surrounding districts; twenty-five thousand in all will be transported. General Miles was present and said the surrender was as absolute as possible. It cannot be possible that there will be failure in completing arrangements. Water famine in the city is imminent: have supply cat off. This was told Lieutenant Miley by English commissioner. Will wire frequently while negotiations are progressing. SHAFTER, “Major General, Commanding.” Baiquiri, July 15.—Commission on behalf of the United States was appointed, consisting of Generals Wheeler ami Lawton and Lieutenant Miley. with Spanish commission, to arrange the details for carrying into effect the capitulations. I will reach Siboney tomorrow. MILKS.” “Playa, July 15. —The commissioners appointed to arrange the details for the surrender held a meeting yesterday, lasting until a late hour. They meet again this morning at 9:30 o’clock and it is supposed the terms will be settled to-day. JONES, Signal Officer.” Siboney, July 15.—Only twenty-three cases of yellow fever and three deaths reported within the past twenty-four hours. Type of disease mild; camp site moved whenever practicable. Have taken vigorous sanitary precautions to prevent the dis * “Assistant Adjutant General.” General Brooke at the Capital. WASHINGTON. July 15.— Major General John R. Brooke, commanding the troops at Camp Thomas, arrived here to-night from Chickamauga over the Southern Railroad. He was summoned to Washington for con-

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ference with the President and Secretary Alger. The prominence with which his name has been connected with the approaching Porto Rican campaign suggests that he is here to consult with the administration regarding that expedition. Ready to Embark for Porto Rico. CHARLESTON. S. C., July 15.-Ordera have been received here for the troops under General Wilson's command to proceed to Porto Rico, but there are no indications that they are to move at once. THE STORY OF A REPUBLIC. A Bit of the t'nedifylng; History of Haiti. Collier’s Weekly. Haiti’s refusal to cede a coaling station approaches the proportions of a joke. Apart from its discovery the land nothing to Spain except, of course, the elimination of the original inhabitants. The tactics observed toward the latter were the same as those observed toward the inhabitants of Porto Rico. Highly logical, these tactics consisted in smple demonstrations. By way of major premise the Spanish proclaimed themselves Immortal. By way of minor premise they announced that the aborigines disappeared. They literally evaporated from Blrcquen, as Porto Rico was then known. From Hispaniola, as Haiti was first described, in three years three million were removed. The tactics were not merely logical, there was magic In them. There was slaughter and sorcery combined. Both islands then were bare as your hand. But there were mines to be worked, lands to be tilled, chores, In short, that no selfrespecting immortal has ever performed. Asa consequence, cargoes of blacks wer® brought from the cape. The present republic is the result. Haiti was not built In a day. Its history would be pathetic were It not absurd. As was the case with Porto Rico, buccaneers landed there. Only they happened to be French instead of English, and what they took they kept—until, indeed, what they had taken was taken back ar.d in the process their heads to boot. Then into history during a period comparatively brief there emerged one after another three men for whose counterparts one may search in vain. First was Toussaint l’Ouverture, who wrote Napoleon a letter which he addressed “From the first of the blacks to the first of the whites.” There the parallel began and ended. Napoleon had mingled with men, Toussaint with nature. Once captured, the latter refused to speak, while on his rock the former chattered like a magpie. He wanted to explain. The second was Dessalines—the one human being who, born a slave, became an emperor. But Solouque ran him close. Not a slave, yet the son of one, he began life with a dust pan and ended it with a scepter. At the age of fifty he was still a valet, very fat, very black, ignorant as a carp, unable to read, unable to write. He could make his mark, though, and did. Caught in torrential revolutions, on their crest he was tossed, carried and flung into power. On his return after some sable Marengo, the president of the local senate capped him with a crown of pasteboard and saluted him Faustin I. Solouque sent to Paris for a real crown, sent for two—the second for the drab that had become his empress—and while he was about it sent for a scepter, for a throne, a fine robe of ermine, ail the tra-la-la of state. Therewith he created a civil list, a series of decorations, and a nobility. l,abiche imagined nothing more farcical, Mellhac nothing more opera-bouffe. It should have been set to music and put on the stage. The court chamberlain was the Due De Bonbon, the lords-in-waitlng, three in number, were honored, respectively, wi:h the titles of Prince of Lemonade, Marquis of Marmalade, and Viscount of lee Cream. Their share in the budget was placed at a hundred gourds—one hundred and sixty dollars—per annum. When they asked for it this black Caligula had them shot. If imperial, he was close. One day he held a review of his grenadiers. Georges d’Alaux, a writer who was there at the time and who has left a book on this Offenbach monarchy, states that the helmets glittered with plaques on which were inscribed "Sardines a l’huile, Barton et (fie, Marseilles.” Like the Emperor,.the grenadiers were unable to read. Presently it was discovered that they were unable to tight. Projected against neighbors by whom they were demolished, Solouque said it was good riddance. Thereat, to while away the time, he created mire decorations, more nobility, parodied the coronation of Napoleon, ordered a general massacre, abdicated, fled to Kingston, and grotesquely died. Wfilh him the monarchy died also. That was twenty years ago. Since then, until quit® recently, the Haitians have amused themselves with insurrections, revolutions and devilishness, black and bloody, of every kind. If they don't want to cede a station let then, keep it and be hanged. Movements of Steamers. LIVERPOOL, July 15.—Arrived: Britannic. from New York. Sailed: Cevic. for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, July 15.—Sailed: Fuerst Bismarck, for New York. BOULOGNE. July 15.—Arrived: Edam, from New York. NEW YORK, July 15.—Sailed: Mongolian, for Glasgow. QUEENSTOWN, July 15.—Sailed: Canada, for Boston. Hail Reminiscences. Puck. “War,” said Private Jones. as h® munched his hard tack, “is no picnic.” “Oh. I don't know!” replied Prlvat® Brown; "I’ve attended some rural picnics where the provisions didn’t have any th® best of hard tack!” A Competent Witness. New York Evening Sun. “The modem maiden is almost irritatingly free from the fierce tempers which shook the women of former generations. ’—London Glob®. It would be well to ask her little brother about this.