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unities for transporting the wounded, he *ald that they were taken in wagons. General Beaver—Do you know if any of the wounded were lying exposed to the weather? General Miles—Some were exposed in being sent down to the hospitals. I saw one train of wounded men driving along in the rrenching rain with nothing 'to shelter them. General Miles had taken measures personally to correct matters ami on July 12 had iHegraphed for a well-equipped corps of bridge-builders, etc., and had ordered places Inirned. General Miles said the transportation facilities were used to carry supplies to some fifteen thousand to twenty thousand refugees from Santiago and about live thousand Cuban troops. ••This," he stated in answer to a question, “was not expected, because I had cautioned General Shafter to keep his men out of the Spanish buildings of every character and to keep the men away from the natives. Had lie not done as he did, the army would have been much better supplied. The general’ army in Porto Rico, he said, had been supplied, in a way, with quartermaster’s and commissary stores, but not in the best way. At Porto Rico he had asked that fixed rations be sent, but Instead they were sent down in hulk, without bills of lading, and in many instances stores were spoiled in the hold and thrown away. This caused great embarrassment and loss of utores and deprived troops of food. He asserted that the scarcity of food largely caused the distress of the troops. He had advised against the shipping of beef to Porto Rico, both because there was an abundance of It on the island, as w'ell as btfan.se of his belief that it was defective. He characterized the refrigerator beef, of which there was 527 tons sent, as "embalmed beef.” and said the canned fresh b-cf. of which 198,000 pounds had been shipped there, was condemned by officers w hose commands used it. “Who fixed the beef as an army ration?” '•you'll have to ask someone here in ■Washington. You had better ask the secretary of war or the commissary general. It was sent as. food. It they had not taken that they would have had 10 go hungry. If they had sent paymasters down there, as I osked, we could have bought food, but they did not do that.” General Miles suggested that the food was sent to his large army •under pretense of an experiment. BEEF PLENTY IN PORTO RICO. General Miles called attention to the fact that good fresh beef could be bought in Porto Rico for 6 cents a pound, American money, and he suggested it might be interesting to compare the cost of the refrigerated beef together with the expense of transportation. He said he did not know but what the chemicals used in treating the beef were responsible for the great sickcm in the American army. Reports which he had received concerning it were to the effect that this beef had an odor like an embalmed dead body. Captain Howell—Were these reports ever brought to the attention of the commissary general? General Miles—Reports were frequently sent in to him. But he seemed to insist that the beef be used. Captain Howell—Was the matter ever brought to the attention of the secretary of war? General Miles—l requested that no more of it be sent. If a supply of It were sent to the men in this country I would prohibit their use of It. lam having an investigation now of the matter, ( thought you gentlemen would get onto it. He said he had never complained to the secretary of war as to the condition of the beef, but had asked that the supply be stopped. * General Miles stated tho first plans for sending troops to Cuba were not his, as be was opposed to sending troops there until Cervera’s fleet wan located. The question at the outset was a naval problem: and the dispatch of troops, in his judgment, then hinged on which fleet should destroy the other. If the Spanish had destroyed the Vnited States fleet the United States would have been blocked for a number of years. "If we had had a farce in Cuba then we Would have lost it. as it would have been impossible to get it back here." He was opposed also to sending a large force to places like Havana or Matanzas, because of the large i>ercentage of yellow fever deaths there. He said the destruction of Cervera’s fleet settled that problem. He said he wanted to operate with a small force against the Spanish forces by harassing them during the sickly season, aiding the Cubans ami not endangering the lives of bis own force. He also at first favored taking Porto Rico to prevent the Spanish from using that as a base of operations. General Miles gave details of the Porto Rican expedition. organization and obstacles. Concluding with his opinion of camp sites ht said the first he knew of the selection of t’amp Alger. Va., the most objectionable camp, in his mind, was when the regiments began reaching there. As to Chlckamauga he had recommended mobilizing the regulars there, but he never anticipated 75,000 men would be sent there, and when he found it overcrowded he had recommended distribution eff the forces among other localities. MERRITT’S TESTIMONY. General Merritt was the first witness of the afternoon. He begun his testimony by a description of tho operations around Manha prior to its capture. Owing to the smaFn'ss of his force, he said the army was compelled to operate along the sea front in co-operation with the navy. Had there been a larger American force on land the city could have been taken from the high ground inland, but this was tactically impracticable, without leaving our base at the mercy of both Spaniards and insurgents. The city’s defenses were good. The Spaniards had excellent arms and plenty of ammunition. All they lacked was "sand.” The engagement lasted not over two hours. The army had both Spaniards and insurgents to contend with. “The insurgents were very anxious to take part in the attack.” said General Merritt, “but they were not notified when the attack would be made, and I was sure the entrance of the Filipinos Into the city would mean unnecessary bloodshed and some looting.” General Merrill sa<d that American losses ■were not correctly stated in the press reports. They were about 120 officers and men killed Hnd wounded. No accurate account of the Spanish loss was ever obtainable. The American force, however, captured over 15,C00 stands of modern arms, and the Spanish loss was known to be severe. There was some discussion by the commission over the relative merits of the Springfield and the modern small-caliber ritfis. This drew from General Merritt the statement that personally he should prefer the Springfield with the smokeless powder to the "caliber 300" or the Mauser. ‘‘However, tome of the lino officers would be better judges of that than I.” he added. As an instance of the lack of the “stopping power” of the small bore rifle, he said one of his officers was shot through the leg in the Manilla fight and did not know It till the next morning. General Merritt said, in reply to questions, that the volunteers were as effective end as enthusiastic as could be desired. He regarded them as very excellent troops. The mipplles were satisfactory at all times, except as to ice and milk for fever patients. He explained this by saying that there was apparently no milk-producing animal in that region. There were some small cattle, apparently imported from China, but they gave no milk to speak of. As to medical supplies and hospital conveniences General Merritt said he had heard no complaint. On ■entering the city the army took possession of all the good houses and turned them over to the medical department. The sick and wounded were tints well provided for. The army on the island depended upon local stock for transportation. This proved quite satisfactory and he doubted the advisability ■of importing American horses or mules. Asked if lie had the cordial and effective support of the administration. General Merritt said: "From the President I had the most hearty sympathy and support, and this applies also to the various departments. The only thing of which I might feel I had a right to complain was not having some contingent of regulars to act as a nucleus, even if they had to be taken from Tampa. I should like to have hnd that Fifteenth Regular Regiment, hut I was told I could not have it unless I furnished something to take Its place. But I made tho best I could of the situations and distributed my staff officers to aid and train, first the volunteer officers, and then the men. This worked very well and I was personally thanked, as were my staff officers, for this service.” General Merritt paid quite a high tribute to the civilian staff officers, as did General Shafter the previous <lay, saying "they weie good officers—intelligent, anxious to learn and to work.” STRANGE AFFLICTION. Girl Who Hum Not Spoken or Moved for Five Months. MILWAUKEE, Wig., Dec. 21.-One of the strangest cases which has ever come to the notice of Tocai physicians is that of Miss Tony Broscheit, who has neither moved nor spoken for five months. One morning last July her mother went to her room to call her. The giri was lying on the bed with eyes wide open, but all that the mother could do would not rouse her. Ever since she has been in the same condition, and medical science is unable to do anything to relieve her. Bile is twenty-three years of age. Bhe never appears to sleep, but lies all the time with her eyes wide open. TO CUIUS A COM) IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromb-Qulnlne Tablets. All drugrta refund the money If It falls to cure. 25c. 'liie genuine has L. B. Q. oa each tablet.

TOO PROUD TO ASK AID THE MARCHIONESS OF DONEGAL IN A LONDON WORKHOUSE. # 111 and Destitute, hut 1 nwilliug to Communicate with Wealthy Friends —Hall Caine’s Impressions. LONDON, Dec. 21.—The marchioness of Donegal will eat her Christmas dinner in a London workhouse. 111, miserably clad and apparently in acute destitution, she applied yesterday for admittance to the Great Northern Hospital, from which place she was removed to the Islington workhouse infirmary. She explained that she was homeless and not willing to communicate with her wealthy friends or with her husband, who is suffering from pneumonia. The story of the life of the marchioness Is painful. She left her husband in 187 U and in 1889 instituted separation proceedings, with which counter charges of misconduct were made. Unsavory details of their conjugal life were also bandied about. The marchioness failed to obtain a imony and h. a since received assistance from her friends. She was last heard of in May of the present year, when she broke her leg in a hotel elevator and was taken to a hospital. The marquis has had a troubled financial career. He was declared a bankrupt in 1889 with liabilities estimated at £518,815. He then said he considered he was justified in raising half a million of money in view of the fact that he had prospects of succeeding to an estate of £50,000 a year. But owing to the entail he only succeeded to £IBO a year. He was mixed up in financial flotation this year when he lent his name to a company prospectus, which caused the Star to criticise him as a peer who disgraced the order to which he belonged. ♦ HALL CAINE’S VIEWS. The NoveliM’* “Personal Impressions of the United Stilted.’’ LONDON, Dec. 22.—Hail Caine, the novelist and playwright, who returned from the United States by the White Star Bteamer Majestic, which reached Liverpool on Tuesday, interviews himself this morning in the Daily Telegraph to the extent of four columns, giving his “personal impressions” of America. Os American journalism Mr. Caine speaks highly, though he is “surprised at the small and fleeting impression the war has made on the minds and conditions of American people.” He thinks there is "no great life in the controversy on the expansion question,” for he. doubts "whether anybody feels keenly either way.” Regarding the relations between Great Britain and the United States Mr. Caine says: “I believe that the feeling in America toward England is the same as it was three years ago. Certainly there has been no such extraordinary change as can be observed in England towards America. Nobody in the United States appears to want an alliance or an understanding. Good feeling for England is deep and widespread, but the English traveler in America is made to feel that we in England are much more vocal on the union of the Anglo-Saxon race than our compatriots In America are yet prepared to be." Mr. Caine discusses pleasantly and admiringly most American Institutions.

Prince George at Corea. CANBA. Island of Crete, Dec. 21.—Prince George, of Greece, tho high commissioner of the powers, arrived ,at Suda bay to-day, escorted by the British. French, Russian and Italian flagships. He was saluted by the forts and was welcomed by immense crowds of people on landing. As soon as the Prince was ashore a procession was formed and he came. here. The route was lined by the international troops. The Prince and his party stopped before the church, where aTe Deum was sung. He then proceeded to the government building, where the Cretan flag was hoisted and saluted by the war ships. Prince George has issued a proclamation promising to govern with justice and impartiality, securing liberty to all without distinction. This evening he drove through the brilliantly illuminated streets, and was enthusiastically cheered by the inhabitants, many of whom carried torches. - | Trouble In Satiuw. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec. 21.—Advices received here from Samoa, under date, of Dec. 16, say there is serious trouble in connection with the election of a King. The supporters of Mataafa have become warlike, and it is reported that the German consul is supporting Mataafa in spite of the agreement arrived at between the consuls to remain neutral and allow the chief justice to decide the question of the succession. The foreign residents fear there will be an outbreak of tribal war, without the chief justice pronounces his decision ajiout the end of the year, and they are anxious for naval protection. Anti-Anareliimt Protocol. ROME, Dec. 21.—The anti-Anarchist conference which has been in session in Palazzo Oorsini for some weeks under the presidency of Admiral Canevaro, Italian minister of foreign affairs, closed its sittings to-day. The delegates appended their signatures to a protocol. It is understood that a number of practical resolutions were adopted, but the proceedings have not resulted in a convention binding the states represented. Will Be Grunted More Time. COLON, Colombia, Dec. 21.—Dispatches received here yesterday from Senor J. M. Marroquin, Vice President of Colombia, now at Bogota, and from Senor Zubieta, confirm the report that the Colombian Congress will grant the Panama Canal Company such an extension of time under its concession as may be necessary to complete the canal. Tlie Pope Appeal* to Don ('nrlon. LONDON, Dec. 22.—The Rome correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says: "In response to another appeal from the Queen Regent of Spain, tho Pope has confidentially written to Don Carlos, asking him to stop the Carlist agitation.” ENDLESS CHAIN OF PRAYER. Scheme of Religions Hnlhuulnufii to Make Life Weary for Postmen. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Religious enthusiasts at Philipstown, Putnam county. New York, have started an endless chain of prayer. The plan is to write five copies of the prayer and to mail a copy to five friends, earnestly asking each to read the, prayer aloud and then to write five copies and mail them to friends. If every one who receives the prayer reads it aloud and forwards five copies, on the prayer’s twelfth round 244.140.625 people would be raising a chorus of prayer. There are some seventy million people in these United States, so on the twelfth round there will be prayers for all these, men. women and children, and plenty over for Cuba, Porto Rico and the heathen in Guam and the Philippines. Obttnnry. NEW YORK. Dec. 21.-Thomas S. Marlor, of Brooklyn. Conn., said to he a millionaire, died suddenly to-day at Park-avenue Hotel of heart failure, aged fifty-nine years. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange. was a presidential elector from New York in 1886, and has a brother, Thomas, in the Treasury Department at Washington. CLEVELAND, Dec. 21.—Joseph C. Shields, who was captain of the • Nineteenth Ohio Battery during the civil war, died to-night, aged seventy-one. Shields’s Battery was one of the lighting organizations of the Union army, and It won a notable reputation. Movements of Steamers. LIVERPOOL, Deo. 21. —Arrived: Waesland, from Philadelphia. NAPLES, Dec. 21.—Arrived: Augusta Victoria. from New York. SOUTHAMPTON. Dec. 21.—Arrived: Paris, from New York. ROTTERDAM, Dec. 21.—Arrived: Rotterdam. from New York. NEW YORK. Dec. 21.—Arrived: Teutonic, from Liverpool. Another Accident In a Fog. WORCESTER. Mass.. Dec. 21.—Two fast moving electric cars collided on the Worcester & Suburban road near Leycester this afternoon in a dense "fog. John Kerrigan, aged forty-five, of Cherry Valley, a weaver, and Walter H. Holbrook, of Leycester. aged nineteen, a m wspaper man, were killed, and a dozen other passengers were more or less seriously injured. Woman and Hoy Shot by Soldiers. MERIDIAN. Miss.. Dec. 21.—Lucy Thomas and a four-year-old boy were shot at Eutaw,

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Ala., to-day. by soldiers of the First Mississippi Volunteers, who were mustered out at Columbia, Tenn., yesterday. The child was shot above the left eye and is not expected to recover. The mother received a painful wound in the arm, above the elbow. The soldiers were drunk and disorderly, recklessly shooting into every house as they passed in a train. EPIDEMIC OF THE GRIP THE DISEASE NOW PLAYING HAVOC ON THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. 1 Ten Thousand Case* In Louisville, and Aluny in Ohio CltieM—More Mild than In Former Years. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 21.—1 tis estimated by the health department that there are 10,000 cases of grip in this city. The ravages of the disease have been so widespread in many cases business has been seriously Impeded. The public schools especially have suffered, many of the teachers having been obliged to abandon their duties on account of sickness. The state of the weather, which has been wet and foggy for ten days past, is given as the cause of the spread of the disease by physicians. Grip, this year, has not been so fatal, however, as it was during the famous epidemic of several years ago. St. Louis Gripped hy the Disease. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 21.—There are two dozen cases of grip in the City Hospital and about one hundred cases in East St. Louis. The number of reported suspects is daily increasing. So general have the cases become that the physicians of the city agree that an epidemic of the grip is at hand. No deaths have been reported so far, and the disease exists in comparatively mild form. The physicians believe that the return of dry cold weather would terminate the annoying malady. Two Cabinet Officers Now 111. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The list of official invalids has been increased by Secretary Long, who is suffering from a cold contracted during his visit to the South. He has been confined to his apartments ever since his return to the city, and has attended to all his official duties there. He probably wili be all right again in a few days. Secretary Hay remained at home today and is said to be improving. Male Children .Suffer. CINCINNATI, Dec. 21.—The grip, which seems to be prevalent In some Ohio cities north of here, has made its appearance in Cincinnati in a very mild form and to a comparatively limited extent. Adults are rarely attacked. The disease shows a preference for male children. It is not attended by the usual sore throat, and the fever is so slight as to be barely noticeable. It yields readily to simple treatment. Less Severe tlmn Formerly. COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 21.—An epidemic of “grip” has struck Columbus, and it is estimated that there are several thousand cases. Local physicians all report the malady prevalent in their practice, though not In as severe a form as the epidepiio of 1891. Public institutions are severely afflicted. Hasn’t Reached Indianapolis A el. Indianapolis has been fortunate thus far in escaping the dreaded grip epidemic which seems to have suddenly seized neighboring cities, but it is probably well not to offer congratulations too early, for a certain suspicious sneezing has been prevalent, particularly among women. In the last two days. While this has been attributed to the change in the weather, it is recalled that the first appearance of this epidemic in Indiana nine years ago was first marked hy this general tendency to sneeze. Several of the doctors report no apparent increase in the grip, which is present to some extent every winter. Dr. Theodore Potter, bacteriologist, had several typical cases of the grip yesterday, and while he thinks it may be slightly on the increase, he does not see, as yet, indications of an epidemic.

FAST TRAINS COLLIDE SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE PENNSYLVANIA NEAR RAHWAY, N. J. ■ Two Men Are Killed and Ten Ollier* Receive Severe lnjurle*—The C'usnuJty Due to Heavy Fog'. • ♦ NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Two of the fastest express trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad came into collision early this morning at Colonia, a small station in New Jersey, just beyond Rahway. The early Washington express, going at the rate of forty miles an hour, crashed into the rear end of the Pittsburg flyer, a Chicago and New York through train, tearing the rear car into kindling wood, killing two persons and badly injuring ten others. A heavy fog prevailed at the time and the Pittsburg flyer was going slowly, while the engine driver was endeavoring to read the signals. The engineer of the Washington express supposed he had a clear track. —The Dead.— WILLIAM O. DE WOLFF, of Parkersburg, W. Va., clerk in the accountant’s office of the Ohio River Railroad. L. LI. Knight, colored, porter of the Pullman coach Bartholdi. He had relatives in Boston, liis home. —The Injured.— MRS. JULIA LEVY, Brooklyn. N. Y., bruised about body; taken to New York Hospital. J. E. WELSH. Jersey City, conductor of Pullman coach Bartholdi, both legs broken; taken to Christ Hospital, Jersey City. B. F. MEAD. Brooklyn, N. Y., left leg broken: taken home. FRANK IRISH. traveling passenger agent of the C. & N. YV. Railway, collar bone broken; St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City. L. F. KEPPEY, Brooklyn, N. Y., slightly injured; taken home. J. VANDERORIFF, of Philadelphia, engineer of the Washington express, cut about the head; St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City. S. ZANE, Princeton, N. J.. fireman, Washington express, scalp wounds; St. Francis Hospital. Jersey City. G. T. ROBERTS, of Newark, N. J., slightly hurt. C. B. EWING, of Newton, Pa., mail clerg, cut about arms; sent home. J. G. GEARY, of Harrisburg, Pa., mail clerk, injured about head. About twenty persons were cut and bruised, and nearly an of the occupants of both trains in collision were thrown from their berths. The collision occurred between train No. 10, known as the Chicago and New York express, and train No. 6, known as the Eastern express. When three miles from Rahway, N. J., shortly before 7 o'clock, the Chicago and New Y’ork express was stopped, according to its engineer, by signal. A rather heavy fog prevailed. The Eastern express, coming up from behind at about twenty miles an hour, dashed into No. 10, sending a baggage car off the track and crushing through into the Pullman sleeper Bartholdi, which contained fifteen passengers and the Pullman conductor and colored porter. The engine of No. 6 did not come to a stop until half of the sleeping car was kindling wood. The colored porter and De Wolffe were caught up on the top of the boiler, their bodies twisted together with debris and much mangled. The engine of No. 6 was badly damaged and the tender was thrown from the track. Beyond the smashing of a Southern Express car and car platforms, train No. 6 suffered no damage and none of its passengers was seriously hurt. Previous to the collision John Vandergriff, the engineer of train No. 6, and his fireman jumped off. Both received scalp wounds. Train No. 10 was composed of mail and express cars. Tne Bartholdi was the only passenger car it carried. The rear baggage car was empty and proved but slight impediment to the engine of No. 6. which forced its way through. The passengers In the Bartholdi were thrown forward amid broken woodwork, escaping steam and flying glass. The car toppled over on its side and lay slanting against the bank. The unhurt passengers scrambled through the windows. For two hours two women and two men lay pinned down by debris, suffering from their injuries. It was impossible to get them out until after the arrival of the relief train, which came about 8:J0. The passengers of both trains were brought to Now Y'ork on other trains. The engineer of No. 6 blames the thick fog for the accident.

HOW HE LOVED HIS WIFE DYNAMITE PLACED UNDER THE HOUSE TO BLOW UP MRS. GREEN. Two Men Supposed to Have Reen Burned to Death In Terre Haute Fire—Sympathy for a. Murderess. • ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Dec. 21. George Green Is in jail, charged with the murder of his wife on the night of Nov. 9, at CementvUle. Someone called Mrs. Green to her door that night and then shot her. She lingered a week and then died. Green was suspected and evidence is now piling up against him. It has been found that either Gieen or someone else had prepared to blow up the house occupied by the family. Yesterday a fuse was found protruding from the ground under the edge of the house. .An Investigation proved that the fuse was connected with six sticks of dynamite. The condition of the fuse indicated that an attempt had been made to ignite it. Had the explosion taken place, not only Green’s wife, but his children, also, would have been blown to atoms. Telephone Agent* In Session. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PARIS, 111., Dec. 21.—Twenty-five representatives of independent telephone exchanges in Illinois and Indiana held a meeting here to-day at the instance of the Bell Telephone Company, to discuss a proposition looking to the Interchangeable uife of its lines with those of the independent companies. The meeting was called to order by Dr. I. A. Lumpkin, of Mattoon, president of the association, and the question of any prospective amalgamation with the Central Telephone Company was discussed with considerable warmth. Finally, to test the sentiment of the meeting, a resolution was introduced by Ramsey, of Crawfordsville, rejecting in the most positive terms the overtures of the Bell company, and declaring that neither now nor at any future time would any proposition for the interchangeable use of lines be considered. The representatives comprising this association have over ten thousand telephones in operation. Mr*. Black Will Go Free. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 21.—1 t is now believed Mrs. Lavina Black, who is on trial for the murder of farmer John Bailey last month after falling to convict him on a charge of assault, will be acquitted on the plea of insanity. William H. Jones, a brother of her father, who resides in Mt. Pleasant township. to-day testified that Mrs. Blacks lather and one uncle. John W. Jones, residing near Y'orktown, is now of unsound mind, ttiat Ambrose Reese, her great uncle, died insane and that Charles Jones, her grandfather, was for several years Insane. Her great-grandfather. Timothy Jones, died In the poorhouse forty years ago, with a rich estate belonging to him. and believed that, he was too poor to live out of the infirmary. Hundreds of women crowd about the defendant daily, while not the least Interest is shown the murdered man’s wife, who sits beside the state’s attorney.

No More Divorce* by Default. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHEI jBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Judge Buckingham has made a ruling in his court to assist in reforming the divorce evil. Heretofore in cases of divorce by default applicants have appeared, offered testimony and been granted a divorce without evidence from the defendant, being introduced. Judge Buckingham, now proposes in cases of default that the prosecuting attorney shall defend the suit in the name of the State. As it is now, the parties to a divorce are not legally separated until all the costs have been paid, and several times second marriages after divorce have had to be repeated to avoid trial for bigamy. In some terms of court here about as many divorces have been granted as marriage licenses. EiiKinc Too Heavy, for Bridge*. Ppei-ial to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind,, Dec. 21.—Since the washout of the bridge on the Monon yesterday morning, trains of that road have been coming to this city over the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway from Mitchell, and thence north over the Pennsylvania to Indianapolis. Last night they sent to this city a freight, which was pulled by one of their twelve-wheel, eighty-ton engines. W r hen the freight reached here the Pennsylvania Company refused to permit the engine •to pass over its tracks. The officials claim that the engine is too heavy for their bridges and trestle works. The Monon sent a smaller engine here from Indianapolis and the train was then allowed to pass over the Pennsylvania line. Caught the Thieve* iu n Hurry. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Ind., Dec. 21. —City Attorney P. L. Turner received word by telephone yesterday afternoon that his cottage at Eagle lake, just across the Michigan line, had been burglarized. After notifying Deputy Sheriff Ferguson, he and his partner!” Capt. O. T. Chamberlain, drove to the cottage, met the deputy, set out after the burglars and captured them with the booty. The prisoners were taken to the. Cassopolis jail and to-day received sentences on a piea of guilty. James McGee got eight years, and Thomas Johnson six years in the penitentiary. Thomas Carlisle got three years in the house of correction. Two Death* In Terre Haute Fire. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Claude Herbert, an employe of the Havens <& Geddes Company, is now known to have perished in the big fire of Monday night. Herbert was acting as Santa Claus in the toy department of the store when the fire broke out, and by heroic efforts succeeded in safely conducting the children who crowded the aisles to a place of safety. He was a member of Company H, One-hundred-and-tifty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, during the late war, and the ex-soldiers are now engaged in searching the ruins for his body. Henry Nehf, of the firm of Swope & Cos., jewelers, is missing, and it is feared that his body is beneath the ruins of the Ford & Overstreet building. Fault of a Bad Sidewalk. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 21.—Mrs. Edward Watson will bring a $10,009 damage suit against the city of Columbus on account of a fall that killed her baby and injured herself. Mrs. Watson was walking on the sidewalk carrying a baby in her arms, when her toe caught on a raised block of cement sidewalk and she fell headlong, fracturing her knee cap and injuring her spine. The baby was made unconscious and died yesterday of .concussion of the brain. Mrs. Watson may be a cripple for life. The block of cement pavement was raised by tree roots growing underneath it. Gan Company Fined for Low Pressure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21. Mayor Elmore, to-day. in the suit against the natural-gas company for failure to have sufficient gas pressure, in accordance with the city ordinance, found the company guilty on fifteen epunts and assessed a fine of $750. The ease was appealed to the Circuit Court. The gas company claimed that it must he a willful failure or else the case should be dismissed, but the mayor thought differently. The franchise ordinance puts a fine of SSO for every day there is not a suffici?.it pressure. The next thing the city will do is to enter a suit under an ordinance to regulate the pressure. A Soldier Mystery. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Dec. 21.~The unknown man killed at Chilllcothe. 0.. yesterday proved not to be Fred A. Knapp, a member of the One-hundred-and-sixtieth Indiana Regiment, of this city, as was at first supposed. Knapp is in Anderson. Ind., and word was received to-day by his mother that ho is alive and well. On the dead man’s body was found a card bearing Knapp’s name, but ..ow it eome into his possession has not been learned here. Austrian Miner Kill* Hl* Wife, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ROCKVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21.—Joe Mehook, an Austrian miner, aged thirty-three, shot his wife through the heart last night. With his nephew. John Mehook. he went home intoxicated from OoxvlUe and quarreled with his wife, shooting her aiul then making Ids

escape. Mrs. Mehook was thirty years old and had three children, the youngest being two months old. John Mehook, who saw the shooting, refused to talk, and the sheriff brought him to The Rockville Jail. Suicide of an Engineer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. Carmen, a prominent locomotive engineer, formerly in the employ of the Pennsylvania company, committed suicide in the rooms of the Soldiers’ Club this morning. He was discharged by the company for leaving his engine at Bueyrus and permitting the fireman to run it to the terminal at Crestline, and has been unable since then to get employment. He leaves a wife and one son. BIK Window-Glass Center. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Dec. 21.—The new Jones window glass factory of this city was placed in operation yesterday morning. The plant is a ten-pot concern, giving employment to seventy-five men. This is Hartford City’s third window factory, and the combined capacity of the three concerns Is greater than any other city in Indiana and the third largest ill the United States. Hoosler Disappears In Mexico. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Dec. 21.—Frank Roster and George Weddle, of New Albany Division, Order of Railway Conductors, have gone to Mexico in search of William Shea, a weli-known railroad man of this city, who went to Mexico several weeks ago. Nothing has been heard from him, and rumors have reached here that he had met with foul ilay. Weddle and Roster were selected to investigate Shea’s disappearance. An Ag;ed Farmer Falls Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DUBLIN, Ind., Dec. 21.—Nathanial MoMeans, aged eighty-one, a farmer living near Strawns, a village four miles west of this place, dropped dead to-day while feeding his stock. When found he had been dead about three hours and fn his hand he held a pigeon. It is supposed he had reached over to pick it up and in doing so burst a blood vessel. He leaves a wife, son and daughter. Oldest Masonic Secretary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 21.—T0-night’s election of E. G. Chamberlain as secretary to a local blue lodge of Masons makes him the holder of the record for having served longer In one position in the same lodge than any one else in the country, this being his fifty-third year as secretary of Goshen Lodge.

Oldest Vincennes Native Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES, Ind., Dee. 21.-Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, colored, died to-day, aged ninety-five. She was the oldest native of Vincennes, having been born Dec. 25, 1808. Mnsser Waiting; for tlie Verdict. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Dec. 21.—After thirteen hours of speech making, both for the state and defense, the Musser murder case was given to the jury to-night. Indiana Obituary. DUBLIN, Inu., Dee. 21.—Mr. Joel M. Gilbert? aged sixty-eight, a resident of Dublin for forty years, died this morning after having been stricken with paralysis a week ago. Mr. Gilbert was a member of Friends’ Church, a prominent Odd Fellow and a veteran of the civil war. He enlisted with Company C, Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. and served for three years. He was in the battle of Chiekamauga and sixteen others without being injured. He has been afflicted six years with deafness and frequent spells of insanity. He was born in 1830 at Hopewell, a small Quaker settlement about three miles north of Dublin. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., Dee. 21.—Andrew J. Baxter, one of the best known citizens of Jeffersonville, died this morning, after a brief illness, of pneumonia. He was born in this city Oct. .>O. 1823. Two daughters. Mrs. Minnie Ormsby and Mrs. Ida Taylor, reside in Indianapolis. SHELBYVILLE. Inti.. Dec. 21.—Absalom Green, who fell on the slippery sidewalk in Shelbyville last Thursday, died yesterday. Mr. Green was born in Ohio in 182(fand canie to Shelby county in 1824. He leaves an aged widow and six children. SEYMOUR, Ind.. Dec. 21.—'Mrs. Elvina Brandt, aged seventy-four, died last night of the injuries received in falling down stairs a week ago. She was the mother of Edward Brandt, of this city. WORTHINGTON. Ind., Dec. 21.—Mr. H. S. Shouse. a prominent citizen of this place, died to-day, aged about sixty-five. Indiana Note*. The Fort Wayne Wholesale Drug Company has been organized, with a capital of SIOO,OOO. D. E. Speiker, of Urbana, Wabash county, has just made a large shipment of seed sowers to Germany. The new Grand Hotel at Anderson will soon be opened for the public under the management of the Prustman brothers, of Hoopeston, 111., and will be run as a temperance hotel. The Ross Textile Manufacturing Company. at Madison, has received a contract to make $20,000 worth of dark blue soldiers’ blouses for the government. This will give employment all winter to 165 workmen. Anew lodge of Odd Fellow's was instituted in Wabash Tuesday night, there being a large number of visitors from other cities. The degree work was conducted by delegations from the lodges in Muncie, Marion and Peru, and at (he conclusion a banquet was served. Grand Patriarch McCoy, of the Grand Lodge, had charge of the ceremonies. St. Anastasia Mesnil Lodge, the old organization. has a membership of three hundred, and the new lodge will start out with sev-enty-five. APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE. The Melrose, a Chlrngo Building;, Destroyed—Lons, Over SIOO,OOO. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—The Melrose apartment building, the largest structure of its kind on the South Side of the city, was almost completely destroyed by fire to-night, entailing a loss that will exceed SIOO,OOO. Flames which had been smoldering In the structure for probably more than half an hour before they were discovered suddenly burst forth from the northeast corner ot the structure. From floor to floor the flames ran rapidly until they had reached the top of the structure. At the beginning of the lire the occupants of the building were notified and they escaped without difficulty. A number of them, however, lost their furniture and valuables. Scores of occupants of the building were saved from probable death or injury by fire by the heroism of Paul L. Fischer, the elevator boy employed in the structure. Through choking clouds of smoke and almost unendurable heat the boy made ten trips with his car and carried those on the upper floors to places of safety. Then, exhausted from his efforts, he staggered out of the building and was taken care of by those whom he had rescued. Old landmark Burned. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Continental Hall, an old landmark of Paterson, N. J., was destroyed by fire to-day. The building, which was three stories high, was occupied on the ground floor by storekeepers, while two families lived above. Flames, starting in the basement, gained headway so rapidly that the occupants of the building, awakened by the smoke, had narrow escapes from suffocation and burning. Loss, $75,000. FIGHT NEAR FLAT TOP. Three Revenue Ollleers Maid to Have Been Killed by Moonshiners. RICHMOND. Va„ Dec. 21.-A Big Stone Gap, Wise county, special reports a fight this morning near Flat Top, Letcher county, Kentucky, between revenue officers and moonshiners, in which Sam May, of Coburn, Wise county, one of the revenue raiders, and two of his companions were killed. The fatalities among the moonshiners are not known. The fight occurred at the place where Captain Gates, of Ixiuisville, and one of his men were shot about a month ago. The moonshiners are thoroughly organized and have served notice that all informers will be ambushed. Captain Gates, with a party, was to have effected a Junction with the raiders tired on this morning, but his plans miscarried. Railway Employes Mangled. SANDSTONE. Minn., Dec. 21.—0n the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad near here to-day a train rounding a curve ran Into a handcar, on which was Section Foreman Larson, a section hand named Smith and Agent Riese, of Partridge. The three men wen hurled from the track. lanrson and Smith were killed and Agent Riese Is seriously Injured.

LABOR COMMISSION’S PAY IT WILL ASK FOR LESS MONEY.THAN IT IS NOW' RECEIVING. Fixed Salary Might Remove Temptation to Encourage Strikes in Future Year*. A bill is being prepared asking the Legislature to change the method of paying the state labor commissioners from a per diem for actual service to a flxed annual salary. This plan was agitated originally by the commissioners themselves, who offer several reasons for the move. The present arrangement under which the labor commissioners work Is that for the actual time they are engaged in adjusting differences or consulting with discontented parties on labor matters, they receive a per diem of $lO, with all expenses. Under these conditions, during the last year, Commissioner McCormack has earned about $2,700, while Commissioner Schmid lias drawn about $1,500 out of the treasury. According to the labor commissioners, the reasons for asking the change from fees to salary are not because the place does not return a large enough revenue, for the salary to be asked under the new bill Is less than the amount of money earned by the commissioners during the past year. The principal reason for asking that the system of remuneration be changed is, that, as it stands now, there is room for abuses which will, in time, work untold harm to many elements which go to make up the prosperity of the State. Under the present law regulating the pay of the commissioners every incentive is given for making trips for the settlement of labor troubles, whether large or small, real or fancied, and while the commissioners would look on it as undesirable that money not actually earned should be drawn from tho state treasury, the Injury, in their opinion, that would result from this filching of a few hundred dollars from the State, is not to be compared to that which would follow an organized plan on the part of future commissioners to draw pay for every day in the year The laboring men would be the largest sufferers from this abuse of the office and not the State. The labor commissioners have it in their power to hold open strikes by simply blocking the way for conciliation, if they choose, and the result cun be imagined were future unscrupulous commissioners to keep the industrial situation stirred up so that they may earn their $lO per diem by the suffering of the participants in strike? which they are paid by the State to settle. The legislative bill will ask for a salary of SI,BOO to each commissioner, with all expenses, and it will be pointed out tint under these conditions the incentive will be given the commissioners to work for a record for quick settlements of strikes rather than to keep them open for weeks in order that their own places can be made paying ones. It is also stated as a fact that several legislators have in hand a plan for the consolidation of the offices of state statistician, state factory inspector and the labor commissioners into either one body, or affiliate them in such a way as to bring the work of the three offices under one general supervision. Under the existing law it Is a part of the duty of the state statistician to compile the labor statistics in his annual report, but the results have led several members of the legislature to believe that they could be more comprehensively presented were the three offices consolidated. As it is now, the report of the statistician deals almost entirely with the soil and its products and sa>s practically nothing of the labor which has worked the former and produced the latter. The office of the factory inspector, while It must, necessarily, always be a separate institution, it is thought will be more productive of good if brought into a closer touch with the statistician’s office. All parties agree that the industrial interests of the State will be better served if a report covering all three fields can be pluced in the hands of the peonle in a comprehensive manner. Just who will draft the bill is not known at present, but every indication points to its emanating from Vigo county.

NEW WAR TALE. (Concluded from First Page.) batteries would be exposed to a flank fire, or to the fire of our big ships at short range, where the secondary batteries would have full effect. Even under these circumstances the ships must have such a heavy fire that the men in the batteries would be overwhelmed bv its volume. Before the Puritan and Amphitrite arrived I was not entirely sanguine of the success of such an attack. Since their arrival yesterday I have little doubt of its success. "Although the monitors are weak iu secondary fire, I expected to put a cruiser, with heavy secondary tire, In the interval between each two of them. In this way I do not think the Spaniards would be able to fire. They would be driven away from their guns and kept away, w’hile the fire of the ships would so injure the guns or mounts that they \\ould be unserviceable. Although the defenses west of the entrance are stronger than those east, the first has the advantage for us that all the projectiles which miss the batteries will fall in the city and furnish an additional inducement for the surrender of the city. CLOSE BLOCKADE SUGGESTED. “In the memorandum which I furnished to the commanding officers of ships I provided that if our ships were not numerous enough or the Spaniards proved better than I expected, we were at once to haul off and substitute for the direct attack a dose blockade of the port, which was to he extended east and west to adjoining ports as quickly as possible. Having silenced the western batteries it would be quite practicable to shell the city, which I would do only after warning given twenty-four hours in advance. “I see the force of your reasoning that we would have no troops to occupy the city if it did surrender, yet, Mr. Secretary, it will be very unfortunate, besides a great loss of time, if we must delay until the rainy season is over. Probably a close blockade would terminate the trouble before October. I shall do my utmost to carry out your wishes as set forth in your letter. At the same time I hope you will consider the plan I have here outlined. I have discussed the matter freely with Captains Evans. Taylor and Chadwick, and all unite with me that the direct attack is sufficiently promising to warrant its trial.” There is a most lively report from Captain Sigsbee of the engagement between the St. Paul, under his command, and the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror, which resulted in the flight of the latter in a sinking condition into the harbor, where she was run aground to prevent her from sinking. Captain Folger, of the New Orleans, testifies to the damage done by the shot of the St. Paul, repeating the testimony of an English resident of San Juan, who examined the Terror. An unpublished report, up to this time, is one by Admiral Schley, dated June 1, giving an account of the bombardment by his fleet of the fortifications of Santiago the day before Sampson arrived on the scene. The admiral says, in part: "None of our vessels were struck, although the shots fell over and around them. I have learned from insurgent sources that the Reina Mercedes was struck by a shell and eight men were killed, also that a number of shots struck the Morro. The reconnolsance developed the fact that the Spanish vessels are in the harbor and that the fortifications are well provided with long-range guns of large caliber.” An interesting feature of the report is diagrams showing the day and night formation of the American fleet at all times and the various orders of battle, all arranged in advance, against the outcoming of the Spanish fleet. There is also included the -tegs of the Spanish war ships and the reports to Madrid of a Spanish commander upon the action resulting in the destruction of the4r ships. The Mereedes to Be Raised. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The Merritt & Chapman Company has made a contract with the government for the raising of the Spanish war ship Reina Mercedes. At the company’s office, in this city, the firm declined to discuss the contract further than to say that one was signed. DUEL AT CHICAGO. Detective Killed by a Milk Dealer In a Crcvwded Street. CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—1n the midst of crowds of pedestrians on Kinzie street, close to the passenger depot of the Northwestern Railroad, to-night, two men engaged in a desperate encounter with revolvers. One of them was killed, and the other probably owes his life to the fact that his antagonist’s weapon contained an empty cartridge Dennis E. Riley, a detective employed by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, is the victim of the encounter, and his slayer is Joseph A. Mayer, a milk dealer at Pleas-

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FAVORS EXPANSION. Colonel Roosevelt Advocate* HcWtlon of tlie Philippine*. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Over two hundred members and friends of the New England Society, of Brooklyn, assembled at the Pouch mansion, on Clinton avenue, at the nineteenth annual dinner of the organization in celebration of tlie landing of tlie Pilgrims. Among the guests were Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Rev, Minot J, Savage, St. Clair McKelway, Willard Bartlett and CapL John R. Bartlett. United States pavy. Colonel Roosevelt was introduced as the first speaker, responding to the toast, “Tho Day We Celebrate.” The speaker declared himself unequivocally in favor of assuming control of tne Philippines, the Inhabitants of which should be controlled until they were taught to govern themselves. They were not New Englanders and, therefore, could not be governed according to New England principles. Colonel Roosevelt referred to the work of Major General Wood, as Governor General of Santiago, and said that it was the men of his stamp who were fitted to govern our newly-acquired possessions, that they should be unhampered except to exact good results, and that the islands should not be given over to the spoils of the politician. If we fail we shall be infinitely more unworthy than Spain, for we shall sin against the light, seeing the light. He was not afraid of the experiment or the responsibilities incurred. Blow AT “16 TO 1.” lowa Silver Democrats Want Ratioi Omitted In Next Platform. DES MOINES, la., Dec. 21.-About fifty of the leading members of the Silver Democratic party of lowa held a conference in this city to-day. While no definite resolutions were passed declaring the principles of the party as they have been changed to meet new conditions, an understanding was reached as to the issues upon which tho party will unite and which will doubtless be incorporated in the next state platform. Briefly summed up the declarations acceptable to a majority of those in conference were as follows: Opposition to fusion wit in any other party; Chicago platform may l.e indorsed, but there should be no repetition of the words "16 to 1;” greenbacks should not be retired: placing of national currency in hands of private corporations or national banks should be bitterly opposed: trusts condemned: policy of imperialism and annexation of Cuba and Porto Rico unadvisablt; standing army must not be increased.

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