Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1899 — Page 3

A Difference of Opinion Kxlsts as to the food value of '‘whole wheat” or ‘ white’’ flour. Our Princess Patent has no equal as a high-grade ‘‘white flour. Our Whole Wheat Flour is correctly milled and makes excellent bread, biscuits and pancakes. Ask your grocer f6r our products. BLANTON MILLING CO. Fall Styles, Fine lowest Prices# Geo, J• Marott, -•! nnd E. Washington Street. DFNTRT Dr ‘ A - E - BUCHANAN l/LlUlkJl 3 2.33 When Building, AMUSEMENTS. Pf-Fr-e the curtain went up on the last performance of the Bostonians at English's Saturday night Henry' Clay Barnabee made a speech, explaining to the large audience t: reason for Jessie Bartlett Davis's abh nee from the company during the engagement. Mr. Barnabee also unjustly attacked a statement in Saturday’s Journal, by sayJ: c the writer intimated that Mrs. Davis I -il no'good reason for not appearing. Mr. | :ii e should have attacked his mani at-r, rather than the Journal, for this pa--1 published all it could learn regarding Mis. Davis’s indisposition. Mr. Barnabee’s flu: aager had declared that Mrs. Davis was ieiek abed, and then later the manager truthfully said Mrs. Davis was as well as anybody, but that her voice was in such bad shape that she was unable to sing. This was afterward found to be true, but the manager procured no statement from a doctor, and it was not until Saturday night that Dr. Runnels, of his own volition, sent word to this office. Mrs. Davis, always one of the most obliging of women, is known to have felt hurt because the proper explanation did not reach the newspapers, but the Bostonians have no one amt their manager to blame. They had ■ aken the money of theater-goers for three lag houses before reaching the city', when plrs. Davis had already been off two nights, Set they opened Friday night with no explanation to the audience. The local management Insisted that the situation should he explained before the curtain went up nnd the manager of the Bostonians promised to make the announcement froyi the stage, but omitted to do so, leaving the local management to stand the blame of the disappointed patrons. Mr. Barnabee’s speech w'ould have been in better taste had it 4< n made on Friday night. Jessie Bartlett Davis is the best single attraction in the Bostonians, and hundreds of people buy tickets because they expect to hear her sing. These people should have been offered their money back before the first performance. If they consented to remain after that then no blame could attach to the local management. Mr. Barnabee said in ids speech Saturday night that the people knew him well enough to know he would not permit any member of the Bostonians to lay off if able, to sing; yet on Saturday afternoon both Mrs. Davis and Mr. MacDonald laid off, and the largest audience of the engagement had to take a somewhat unsatisfying performance of “The Serenade” with two understudies in principal roles. Mr. MacDonald was in splendid voice at. both night performances and was in perfect health in the theater on Saturday afternoon. Indianapolis theater-goers paid the top price of $1.50 to see the Bostonians in perfect form, and if it had been known that understudies were to be run in it would have been hard to get the people to turn out at $1 a head.

The Grand Stork Company will begin Its New Year’s we<-k with a special holiday matinee this afternoon, presenting William Gillette’s comedy “The Private Secretary." The story of this comedy is filled with farcical incidents, which the master hand of Gillette knows so well how to handle. Mr. Sheldon has the role of the muchabused “secretary." while Mr. Kirkland and Mr. Conger are seen in rollicking, reckless young characters. The comedy is excellently cast and Ls expected to make a hit with the Grand’s audiences this week. It has been so long since “The Private Secretary- ’ was put on here that it is practically anew production. “The Belle of New York.” which opens the new year with a matinee at English's to-day, and remains for five performances, is the only show’ one can name which needs no advance agent in this city. Theatergoers have been eager for its return ever since its first appearance last season shortly before it was sent across the ocean to make the greatest hit of any American production ever taken to London. While the New York Casino management now gives Pan Daly the official rank of a star, his stellar position was conceded on his former visit. Those familiar with the manner in which his company has been received this season in other cities know the “The Belle" is more than duplicating its last year success. being classed as equal to if not better than last season’s big New York Casino production. The Hopkins Transoceanic Star Specialty Company, which will commence its week’s engagement at tho Park with the New Year’s matinee, is among the best-known vaudeville organizations in the country. Its standard has ever been kept high, the management never permitting objectionable features to mar the excellence of its programme. Asa consequence it is such a performance as attracts theater parties, the ladies enjoying it quite as well as the men. Tills season Manager Fulgora presents as ids chief feature Kara, the juggler. Caron and Herbert, the Nawns and other artists of equal reputation are also on the bill. Frank M. and John B. Wills will open tin? afternoon at the Empire in their new musical comedy, “In Atlantic City.” V new acquisition to the cast of “The B. He of New York - ’ Company is D. L. Don, who is filling the role of the polite German lunatic, whose ambition seems to be to kill 1 habod Bronson, in the person of Dan Duly. At intervals during the action of the piece Don appears, conspicuously dis- ! tying a huge knife, which he suavely ass its he would like to insert in the anatomy ■ f Mr. Bronson. Hifc several meetings with t . latter and their burlesque encounters are invariably the signal for outbursts of laught’T from the audience. It was during one • th< many efforts of Daly to escape from t! is character that the elongated comedian r t with his serious accident in Boston last f ~m. Since then the danger has all been e iininated, and now good humor for the r diene, s is the rule whenever the two a'tors appear. Alice Nielsen, as a comic opera star, is a great, r surprise than was Della Fox when t at little soubrette made her debut. Fox had heen looked on as a star for years, hut Alice Neilsen was a minor member of ti ’* Bostonians not so long ago. She made I r first stellar appearance at Wallaek's v.er as Irma, Fedor and Musette, a trio "t h iracterg in “The Fortune Teller," and * "n and a success so pronounced as to secure h r position in the musical world at once. M - Nielson has been on the stage only a lew years and her progress has been truly i - ' n;ark. ble. She was born in Nashville and ii.-aeu to Kansas City when she was but ,:r ars old. She sang in the choir in -• p City until she was sixteen and after : - Joined an amateur opera company. Her i.rst appearance in opera was as an amaaf Bie Coates Opera House, in Kansas n ‘‘Batlence,’’ and her professional ■but was at the Tivoli, in San Francisco, it. T. a ? whll< 2 singing Lucia there that Mr. L-i.nauee of The Bostonians, heard her. her f 1 Proposition to join that orpanuahon, which she accepted, and opened KL"*% ema i ,t 413 Annabelle in “Robin . e fvUwlng season she played a.d Marian, which role she filled with frra., “H Cf T SB- When “The Serenade” was Lrann r‘ii sh *r v,as * iven the principal sonown ‘U, wh J ch she Sained such reiS2^. an .2i a f. h W a position which many xmnv vi"l ght , se t ! pro , ud to attaln aftor Os ° f effort - The press criticisms K or ? ancffl wherever she has ap* have been unanimously favorable.

and in many canes she has been heralded as the most attractive soprano on the light opera, stage. Manager Frank L. Perley has, it is said, surrounded her with an organization strong enough to succeed as a stock company, and Harry B. Smith and Victor Herbert have, in the book and music of “The Fortune Teller,” given her the opportunity of a lifetime. It is doubtful if Mansfield will visit more than five or six cities next year. Unlimited time is at hfc, cisposal in New York and, with a clientele in Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia w’hteh makes from live to seven weeks an all too brief engagement in any one of those cities, his season is quickly booked. It is impractical for Mr. Mansfield to travel much with such an extensive production as he carries this year for , Cyrano. T here are 150 people in his travellist, w hich includes actors, supernumeraries, stage mechanics and attaches. The great actor and his organization travel by special train of twelve cars, made up of his private car, a dining car, four sleepers and six ears of scenery, baggage, costumes, armor, furniture and properties. Anna Held sent her private car to the New Jersey shops for repair and the moment it was deprived of the warmth of her presence the water pipes froze and burst, ruining several hundred dollars’ worth of costly rugs and carpets. The car is again In service, renovated and redecorated, and more than ever like the bower of a fairy princess. William A. Brady, of the Manhattan Theater, New York, is a versatile actor manager. One night last week he was directing his Way Down East” company in Baltimore The next night at ten minutes’ notice he scored a laughing hit in his own theater as the poster painter in “The ■£“ r V<L _ having temporarny replaced Leo Ditrichstein, who fell on the stage and severely injured his spine. Next week Brady goes to San Francisco to conduct a six-day cycue race, with Champion Miller and all the cracks among the contestants. Brady’s production of ‘‘Way Down East” continues to be enormously successful. The rustic play now' goes to Chicago for a three run aE the Grand Opera House, and will be put on in a spectacular way for the whole of next season at the Academy of Music, New York. Nellie Lynch, the agile dancer and sprightly little Miss Muffett of ‘‘Jack and the Beanstalk,” is a Chicago girl, and gained great popularity with Chicago audiences while she w r as a member of the Henderson extravaganza forces. In “Jack and the Beantsalk” she does an acrobatic any gymnastic swooning act that excites .wonder and never fails to make a hit. Following the traditional story of Mother Goose she sits on a tuffet to eat of curds and w'hey, when a monster spider drops from the flies to the stage, and this is what causes the acrobatic swoon. Harry Kelly, who plays Sinbad, is there to revive her, but before he succeeds in doing so Miss Lynch does more fainting “stunts” than the most emotional of repertoire actresses can accomplish, even in the hysterical flights of “Camille,” “Miss Multon” or “East Lynne.” Mr. Kelly, whose duty it is to attempt to hold her while she throw’s ttiis extraordinary series of “fits,” retires from the scene w’hen it is finished in a thoroughly limp and w’orn-out condition. Kelly made the hit in “Jack” when it was seen here last year. Clay Clement recently completed an engagement in New Orleans with his new play, “A Southern Gentlemen,” and, according to the newspaper reports from the Crescent City, he scored as big a success as he had in the North with his impersonation of Baron Hoenstauffen. Th Tiines-Democrat says; “As the play Is distinctly Southern In its character. Mi. Clement honored the Dangb ters of the Confederacy by dedicating it to them, and upon its presentation, rear the scene of the prologue, Mr. Clement extended an invitation to the performance to every member of the chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in this city. The invitation was generally accepted, and in return for the compliment Mr. Clement had paid them the Daughters determined to give Mr. Clement the pleasantest possible remembrance of his visit to New Orleans. Upon his response to a prolonged curtain call, after one of his most pow'ei ful scenes, Mr. Clement was presented with a cluster of red and white roses for himself, his wife and Miss Neil McEwen. the pretty, talented young niede of Mrs. J. Pinckney Smith. After accepting the flowers with a bright, happy speech Mr. Clement retired, to appear subsequently with further acknowledgments for a handsome silver-headed silk umbrella, which had been attached to his flowers and encased in a red and white cover, the present of the Daughters of the Confederacy.”

Syndicate Again Has Francis Wilson. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. I.—lt was announced to-day that Nixon & Zimmerman, the theatrical managers, have signed a contract with Francis Wilson by which they become managers of and half owners In all of that comedian's operatic business. Mr. Zimmerman to-night stated that the contract will continue for five and a half years. After the comedian has fulfilled his existing contracts with other managers his business will be controlled by Nixon & Zimmerman. Wilson’s new opera, “The Little Corporal,” is said to be one of the best productions he has ever made. PERSON AND SOCIETY. Miss Edna Harter, of New Castle, has concluded a visit with Miss Gertrude Veach, 317 East Vermont street. Miss Lida Brunton, of Richmond, Tnd., will spend to-day with Mrs. J. A. Furgason, 510 North Capitol avenua The Largo Club will keep open house at the residence of Miss Rose Vinnedge, 834 Beatj’ street, to-day, from 2 to 5 p. m. The Marion, Club will be open from 4 to 10 o’clock and the ladies who call will receive a floral souvenir. An orchestra will furnish music. Miss Elizabeth Stevenson will give an exhibition of oi! paintings in her studio Jan. 6. 7 and 8. from 10 to 3. Her studio is at 1404 North Pennsylvania street. Messrs. Thomas F. Winn, of St. Paul, Minn., and H. R Kendall, of Terre Haute, are visiting Theodore Deming and family on North Delaware street. Mr. William Dudley Foulke has accepted an invitation to address the Century Club at the meeting to-morrow. Subject: “Why We Ought to Take the Philippines.” Mr. hnd Mrs. Joseph Solomon have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Gertrude Louise, and Mr. Louis J. Levy for Wednesday evening, Jam 11, at the Americus Club. The Commercial Travelers’ Club will keep open house at their new quarters. 237 North Meridian street, from 9 a. m. until 10 p. m., to-day. Ail traveling men and their wives and lady friends are invited to call. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Briekley will continue to be at home to their friends at No. 1624 North Illinois street. Mrs. Briekley is slowly recovering from a severely sprained ankle which has kept her indoors the last live weeks. Misses Mabel and Lillian Pfrimmer, of Kentland. Ind.. Mesdames David Reed and William Swisher, of Lebanon, Ind., and Miss Virginia Gorman, of Braddyville, la., who have spent the past week with Miss Bessie Miller, of Prospect street, have returned to their homes.’ Mr. and Mrs. George Catterson will be at home between 3 and 6 o’clock this afternoon. An unsatisfactory messenger service in delivering cards has caused Mr. and Mrs. Catterson some embarrassment, and so this afternoon they will be at home informally to their friends. Mrs. Louisa Ricketts, of Shelbyville, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Wilia May. and Prof. Charles Wesley Hodell. of Baltimore. Md. Professor Hodell is at the head of the English department in the Woman’s College of that city. The wedding will occur in April. HUGH ES— FI SH ER. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VALPARAISO, Ind., Jan. I.—Forrest EX Hughes, a prominent attorney of Michigan City, and deputy prosecuting attorney of Laporte county, and Miss Minnie Fisher, of this city, were united in marriage yesterday afternoon. Rev. J. B. Flemming, of the Presbyterian Church, officiating. Blanche Wood Took Morphine. Blanche Wood, living in Room 63 in the Cleaveiand block, took a large dose of morBhine lost evening. Dr. Foutz, of the City ►ispensary, was called, and after working with the young woman a short time he left her recovering. She had quarreled with her husband, the doctor was told. The Under Side of Thing*. Chicago Tribune. Mabel (after the caller had rone)—Did you notice the pained expression that came over Mr. Hankinson’o face when he shifted his chair ? Maud—No. What was the matter? Mabel—l think he found where I had stuck my gum. A paper on Tennyson’s memoirs will be read this evening before the Indianapolis Literary Club by H. J. Milligan.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1899.

TWO STORMS FAR APART pAVY FALL OF SNOW AND COLD WEATHER AT PHILADELPHIA. Part of the Pacific Coast Bnrled Cutler the “Benutifnl”—Severe Gale Rasing;. # PHILADELPHIA, Jan. I.—Eight inches of snow fell in this city and vicinity between 6 o’clock last night and 6 o’clock this morning and was accompanied by a falling temperature, which all of the day registered between 10 and 15 degrees above zero. To-night the thermometer is still falling slowly. It was the coldest day this winter. Wesley White, aged fifty-four, who took shelter from the storm in a barn in the extreme southern section of the city, was found frozen to death at daylight, and Mrs. Ellen Sorensen, while delirious from illness, left her home and was found an hour later unconscious from exposure to the storm. She died shortly afterwards. The storm for a time interfered with railroad and street-railway traffic, but there was no material delay. Along the coast the wind almost reached the proportions of a gale and snow fell all night. Storm on the Pacific Coast. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. I.—A general storm prevails throughout the northern portion of California with every indication of extending to the southern counties to-mor-row. In addition to generous rains in the valleys, there has been a heavy fall of snow in the higher altitudes. On the Oregon line snow' has fallen as far south as Red Bluff and rain at all points between there and Sacramento. Dunsmuir, during the last twenty-four hours, has accumulated thirty inches of snow anu there is almost as much at Redding. On the Central Pacific line snow has fallen to-day as far down the mountains as Colfax, with rain from that point westward. From Colfax eastward to Reno the snowfall has been very heavy, with indications to-night for its continuance. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. I.—The worst storm in this section since 1592 has been raging for the past twenty-four hours. The snow fall is almost unprecedented and a strong northwesterly gale has blow r n the snow’ into impassable drifts. Tram ears and railway traffic is at a standstill. Telephone service is impeded. In the suburbs householders are storm bounu. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. I.—The new year was ushered in by a heavy snow' which has already reached a depth of twelve inches. Thus far there has been but little delay to railroad traffic. All Puget sound steamers have been delayed from six to seven hours. FAIR AND WARMER. Winter Will To-Day Loosen ni® Grip on the Whole Country. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours for Ohio, Indiana and Illinois—Fair; warmer; fresh south winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast —Tho temperature has fallen in the Atlantic States, remains tetatlonary in the west gulf States, and has risen from the Mississippi valley to the Pacific coast. A disturbance of considerable intensity appears to be developing off the southern point of Florida, and high northwesterly winds induced by it will moderate the temperature in Florida Monday. A storm of great intensity has moved upon the north Pacific coast, a pressure of 29.34 inches being reported from PortGre., and south to southeast winds of thirty-six miles an hour from San Francisco and Winnemucca. Rain has fallen in the south Atlantic States and snow in the middle and north Atlantic States and lower lake region: snow in northern California and the north Pacific States. Rain may be expected in Florida, increasing cloudiness and rain in southern Georgia and South Carolina, increasing cloudiness in the middle Atlantic States, snow' from the middle and northern Rocky mountain regions to the Pacific coast, and generally fair elsewhere. It will grow’ warmer from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Storm signals are displayed on the Atlantic and gulf coasts from Jacksonville to Cedar Keys and at Eastport.

Local Observations on New Year’s. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 30.77 7 90 N’west. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m.. 30.75 20 66 South. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 22; minimum temperature, 7. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Jan. 1: Temp. Pre. Normal 32 0.10 Mean 14 0.00 Departure from normal —lB —O.IO Departure from Jan. 1 —lB —O.IO ♦Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Tempera 1 nres. Stations. Min. Max. 7p. m. Cairo, 111 10 26 24 Cheyenne, Wyo 2 38 22 Chicago, 111 0 16 16 Cincinnati, 0 12 22 20 Concordia, Kan. 8 Davenport, la —2 IS 16 Des Moines, la —1 22 18 Kansas City, Mo 8 30 26 Little Rock, Ark 12 30 28 Memphis, Tenn 12 28 26 Nashville, Tenn 12 24 22 North Platte, Neb 0 34 22 Oklahoma. O. T 8 36 28 Omaha, Neb 0 24 22 Pittsburg, Pa 8 12 10 Rapid City, S. D —6 24 16 Salt City, Utah .... 24 40 36 St. Louis, Mo 8 28 24 Springfield, 111 4 24 20 Springfield, Mo 6 30 24 Vicksburg. Miss 2S 34 32 FIGHT WITH A DEVILFISH. Itattlc Hetwcen an Octopus and a Diver Who Was Working on a Wreck. New Orleans Picayune. Captain Conrad, the local diver, has recently returned from a voyage to Central American waters. During the month of August the fruit ship Oteri went ashore on the coast of Ruatan, in the tropical sea. Other divers tried to float the ship and failed. He was engaged, and started for the dangerous coast. There was a choppy, mean sea running all the time, which made work difficult. The vessel had gone ashore head on. The stern was in deep water, and just aft of midships the coral reef showed itself. At that point she was hard aground, with a hole stove in her. The keel was broken in three places, and the ship was really in a bad way. However, he went to work, put the patches over the holes, and began the pumping. The vessel was soon pumped out enough to almost float her. It was evident that the effort would be successful. One evening the ship began to leak again with renewed energy. The leak came from a point about midships and near the keel, just under the bilge. It was a bright summer afternoon, about 4 o’clock, and he realized that the hole would have to be stopped at once. He called his assistants, ami they anchored the diver's boat with the apparatus. Everything was got ready for the work, and it was evident that it would be a task of hours. As he reached the surface of the water his attention was attracted to the beautiful coloring of the coral and the thousands of fish swimming round among the reef. . Tropical waters usually give a weird and beautiful light to the surroundings, for waters are so blue and clear. Tuat day the picture seemed exceptionally enchanting, and the diver gave himself up to its enjoyment and thoughts of things which happen away down in the blue sea, out of sight of the world. Slowly he approached the ship, thoroughly preoccupied, and ho. was getting down under the bilge near the point where the work was necessary when a long, dark arm shot across his face glass. He had been in tropical waters before and knew the sign. He realized he had the fearful devilfish to tight —the real octopus, which is feared by all divers, and given a wide territory whenever met. The attack was so sudden and the sight so vivid that the diver lost his courage for a moment, and gave the danger signal. He was entirely unarmed, and was pulled to the boat as rapidly as possible. When once on the smail boat he removed the big brass helmet for air. He was a white as a sheet and perfectly exhausted. His attendants crowded round to know the cause of this sudden flight. When restored to his usual strength for Captain Conrad is a man of magnificent physical endurance, he quietly told of the submarine enemy. He thought over the situation. The ship was leaking badly, and could not be allowed to remain over night without assistance and careful attention. The work had to be done and done at once. He called for a heavy harpoon, which was on board the boat, and cut the handle, making the weapon about three feet in iength. Armed with this, he went down in the sea again. This time he had but one object in view, a fight. The. fight was necessary to continue the work. He was very careful. He did not

pay much attention to tha varied and exquisite coloring of the coral and fish, and the way the wonder-struck tribe watched his every movement. He waa looking for a foe. and one of the most dangerous the sea divers know’. Slowly he approached the ship and the spot where the octopus was hidden under the bilge of the vessel. It was still there, and was also w'atching him carefully. As he approached the animal moved from under the vessel, gathering itself for the attack. There were four or five feet between the coral reef and the vessel at this point, and Capt. Conrad settled himself for the battle. It was not long in coming. The snakelike creature moved forward and reached out with one of its long arms, only to be met by a vigorous blow from the harpoon. The sea creature was quick and avoided the blow and touched the diver on the hip, but lost the arm at once, one cut severing it clean. Then the fight began in earnest. One or two blows were given wfith but slight effect, but fortunately the harpoon was driven deep into a vital spot. When injured, these creatures discharge a dye which colors the water perfectly black. When hit this time Immediately the water became inky, and having his vision cut off, Capt. Conrad rushed for safety. He managed to get bevond reach with but little difficulty, and again gave the danger signal. •For a long time he remained on board the tender boat, and the coloring discharged by the octopus came t.o the surface. Within a few' minutes it had cleared away and again Capt. Conrad went down to resume the battle. The devilfish was dead, however, but remained close under the hull of the vessel, just at the point where work was necessary. The harpoon was driven deep into the body, but the animal weighed more than the diver could move, A rope was attached to the harpoon, but those on the coat could not pull the fish away. Capt. Conrad, w’hile speaking of his remarkable adventure, stated that the octopus was about three feet broad, and its body was twice that length, while its arms extended some eight or ten feet. When there was no longer danger from the octopus he resumed his work and lay on the back of the animal when driving home the rivets over the hole in the hull. The work was completed that evening, and next morning the body of the animal was gone was the first and last experience he ever had of the kind, and he sincerely hopes there will be no more.

DON ROMERO’S FUNERAL ♦ SERVICES OVER THE REMAINS OF THE LATE MEXICAN AMBASSADOR. * Low Mas® Celebrated In St. Matthew’s Church—President McKinley and Cabinet Present. WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Public funeral services over the remains of the late Don Matias Romero, the ambassador from Mexico to the United States, who died Friday morning, were held at St. Matthew’s Church to-day. Distinguished honor to the memory of the deceased was manifested in the presence at the ceremonies of President McKinley, Vice President Hobart, nearly all the members of the Cabinet, representatives of the entire diplomatic corps, officers of the army and navy, and private citizens. At the conclusion of the service the body was taken to Mount Olivet Cemetery and placed temporarily in a vault pending its removal to Mexico. Before the body was taken to the church there were brief services at the house, attended mainly by the official staff of the legation and the relatives and immediate friends of the family, those present including the mother and brother of the lato Mrs. Romero, and members of the brother’s family. Mrs. Garcia, the sister of the ambassador, and an aunt living at the embassy, wore unable to attend because of illness. The honorary pallbearers also assembled at the house and at the conclusion of the services there accompanied the remains to the church. At the church, the casket, preceded by the President and Cabinet, the honorary pallbearers and other distinguished persons, was borne to the body of the church in front of the altar rail, and placed on a catafalque. The •Prentdertt’ *wns met at.-the door by Senor lV>n Josh Godoy, tho first secretary of the Mexican embassy, and escorted to a seat reserved for. him. Representatives from the State Department, the army and navy and diplomatic corps acted as ushers. The services at the church were very brief, consisting of a low mass followed by absolution services. Father Charles M. Bart, assistant pastor of St. Matthew’s, was the celebrant. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the casket was placed in a hearse and, accompanied by relatives and friends, was taken to the cemetery and placed in a vault, Father Bart conducting the final services. Many handsome floral tributes were sent to the embassy, only a few of which could be placed on the casket. The President and Mrs. McKinley contributed a wreath of camellias and other white flowers; from the State Department there came a wreath of white roses, and from the Bureau of American Republics an appropriate design. Others who sent floral remembrances were Senor Arriago, the Gautamalan minister; Mrs. Sartorls, Mr. Frederic Emery, of the Bureau of American Republics; the Costa Rican minister, Representative and Mrs. Hitt, Mr. and Mrs. Westlnghouse, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Thompson, Mrs. Grant, Richard Wells. Hon. ,T. W. Foster, the Ecuadorian minister, Mrs. Hearst, the Venezuelan minister, the Chilean minister and members and relatives of the deceased. The honorary pallbearers were the German ambassador, Secretary Hay, Secretary Gage, the ministers from Gautamala and Venezuela, Senator John T. Morgan, Representative Hitt, ex-i Secretary J. W. Foster and John W. Thompson. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, had been announced as an honorary pallbearer, but was unable to attend because of indisposition. Death of ( lies® Master Vorath. NEW YORK, Jan. I.—A. Vorath, the wellknown chess player, composer of problems, and who was a director of the Manhattan Chess Club, died at his residence in Hoboken this morning. Vorath was well known as a strong chess player. He was the stakeholder In the match played in this city between Steinitz and Gunsberg, and was a great promoter of chess contests. At one time he held the chess championship of the State of New Jersey. Death of an Old Educator. SHELBYVILLB, Ky., Jan. I.—Dr. B. P. Tevis, an old educator, died here this morning, aged seventy-four. He was the son of Mrs. Julia A. Tevis, founder and for fifty years principal of Science Hill Girl’s High School. Through that institution’s alumna he was w’ell known in nearly every part of the Union. IV. M. Irish Drop® Dend. YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Jan. 1.-William M. Irish, manager for the Standard Oil Company at Olean, N. Y., dropped dead at a railw’ay station here to-day while waiting to take a train. He was seventy years old. Judge NVllllnm Patterson. NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Judge William Patterson, aged eighty-one, died to-day at his home in Perth Amboy, N. J. He was five times elected mayor of Perth Amboy. South-Side Grievance®. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Citizens of the South Side have at divers times been annoyed and grossly insulted by a class of hoodlums who monopolize public corners, insult passersby, using profane language, sneering remarks, breaking window lights, destroying private property, throwing missiles and snowballs, all against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth. These indignities have been going on for a number of years. The police authorities have been appealed to. Time and again they have made attempts to break it up. Warrants have been served and persons arrested. They have almost always been acquitted before Judge Cox. In one case a gang of church disturbers were arrested for misdemeanor at Barth-avenue Church, but they were all acquitted. The other day these same samples of our rising generation w’ere up before his honor for throwing snowballs, and I believe these were the words that fell from the judge’s lips: “This is a case I don’t think should hare been brought. I dare say there is not a person in this courtroom who has not been guilty of Just such things, and I see no particular harm in it. Boys, you are discharged ” If boys are allowed to ply their nefarious acts by pelting everybody with snowballs or missiles; if ii is understood that is the law, we will appeal to a higher tribunal. It is hoped public opinion will so caution his honor that the next time any complgdnt of this character comes before him, he will not only punish the culprits, but admonish all others that law and order murt be obeyed. SOUTH SIDE CITIZENS. Indianapolis, Jan. L

MANY NEW YEAR HONORS ♦ CROMER MADE A VISCOUNT AND CI’RRIE AXD HAWKINS I’IiERS. Other EnKlixhmen Rewarded for Politfeal Service*—Famous I’ninter Honored by the Kaiser. . ... 4 LONDON, Jan. I.—The list of New Year’s honors includes many names. Baron Cromer, former minister plenipotentiary in the diplomatic service and business agent and consul general in Egypt, recently appointed Governor of Malta, is created a viscount. Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador at Rome, and Sir Henry Hawkins, who recently retired from the exchequer division of the High Court of Judicature, are raised to the peerage. Sir Henry Thompson, the distinguished pathologist, received a baronetcy. The remaining honors are of the usual type—rewards for political service and merit promotions in the civil, diplomatic, Indian and colonial service. Majot General Gascoigne, former commander of the Canadian militia, is appointed a companion o£ the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Aged Painter Decorated. BERLIN, Jan. I.—Emperor William has conferred the Order of the Black Eagle upon Herr Adolph Menzel, the famous German painter, now in his eighty-fourth year. Herr Menzel is thus raised to the nobility. In a dispatch accompanying the decoration Emperor Williaht explained that this mark of honot*was the highest ever given to an artist. “It is intended,” he said, “as a token of my gratitude for services rendered my house, and also as a stimulus to the younger generation of artists in the domain of art in which you have so conspicuously shone.” Emperor William, who is confined to his bed by an attack of influenza, was represented at the New Year’s reception at the palace by Prince Frederick Leopold and the Imperial Crown Prince Frederick William. The function, which was largely attended by the public, marked the debut of the crown prince. The Kaiser to the Czar. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. I.—At a banquet given yesterday at the Military Academy of Medicine, Lieutenant General Kuropatkin, in obedience to the Czar’s command, read a letter from Emperor William to Emperor Nicholas, expressing the former’s congratulations upon the celebration of the academy's centenary. The letter concluded as follows: “I am very pleased to renew to your Majesty assurances of my high esteem and unalterable friendship, in all of which I am your good brother.” The reading of the letter was received with resounding cheers for Emperor William. Naval Officers at Lima. LIMA, Peru, Jan. J.— United States Minister Irving B. Dudley this afternoon presented the officers of the United States squadron, under Captain Barker, now at Callao, to President Pierola at the presidential new year reception. The Americans w ere received with the greatest cordiality. They then went to pay their respects to Senora Pierola, by whom they were pleasantly entertained. Afterward they calk'd upon the minister of war and marine, Senoi M. J. Coaduros, then returning to Calloa. Porter <'it lln on Fanre. PARIS. Jan. I.—Gen. Horace Porter, the United States ambassador, and his staff, made a New Year’s call upon President Fanre, who, when responding to the congratulations of the diplomatic body, tendered through the papal nuncio, dwelt upon the love of France for peace and her endeavors to maintain it. General Zurlinden, military governor of Paris, at the head of a visiting party of officers of the Paris garrison, assured M. Faure of the army’s fidelity and devotion to the republic. THE STAR OF SOUTH AFRICA. A Pipe and Five Pounds of Tohneco Nearly llougiit the Beautiful Stone. New York Sun. “It was a Kaffir boy named Pombe who found the great diamond afterward called the Star of South Africa,” said A. C. Tromridge, who spent twelve years in South Africa, going there in 1864, three years before the discovery of the diamond fields. “This boy worked as a shepherd for Van As weld, a Boer living at Oaktown, in Griqua Land. 500 miles from Cape Town. It was in 1869, two years after the first finding of diamonds, but the boy knew nothing of the value of his find, and his master but little more. I was freighting to Kimberley, in charge of six wagons, and I went into camp one night near Van Aswcld’s place. I had known the old fellow’ for two years, and after I had seen that everything was right for the night in the camp I went over to his house to make him a call. Van Asweld, though friendly enough, received me in the stolid ha!f-sus-picious way characteristic of his people in meeting an Englishman. He gained confidence as we talked, and at last, just as I was about to go, he fetched from a. chest something wrapped up in a dressed lambskin, w’hich he unrolled and displayed to me. “ ‘Vat you teenk of dot?’ he asked. “It was what seemed to be a crystal, the size of a walnut. A sort of crust of earthy material inctlosed it. but through this crust l saw in the larhplight some gleams of color and brightness. “ ‘Oh. it may be a pebble or it may be a diamond,’ 1 said. ’Where did you pick it up?’ “ ‘Dot boy Pombe, der Kaffir, find it vhen he drife der sheep to der kraal. He come to me und say he a mooee chttee has found —a beautiful stone, as you say. -And I has it. Vat you teenk? Is it somedings vurt?’ “I looked carefully at the stone again and fancied Us color as I turned it In the lamplight. ‘l’ll give you this pipe—it's meerschaum from the block—arid five pounds of plug tobacco for it,’ I said. “The Boer pondered on my offer, then rolled the stone up in a lambskin, put it aw ay and did not return to the subject again that night. The next morning, as T was inspanning my teams. Van Asweld came over to the camp, bringing the lambskin and its inclosure. Unrolling it again, he asked me: “ ’Vat you teenk to-day? Is it der pipe and der tobacco vurt?' “In the daylight the stone under its crust looked as dull as glass. I was busy with my men and oxen, all calling for my attention a dozen different ways at once, so I merely glanced at it. Van Asweld had always been friendly to me. I did not take much stock in the stone, but I saw that he had taken a fancy to my pipe and I w’as willing to please him. “ ‘Yes, I’ll stick by my offer,’ I said, expecting that he would take me up, but not at all desiring that he should. It was his Dutch slowness of thinking only. T believe to this day, that kept him from doing it. But he had to ponder the proposition over again before he could come to a decision, and, as luck would have It. he seated himself in the shade of a tree. Now. there are two things that bring out the tints of a diamond in perfection: the lights of a chandelier and the shade of a tree in a bright day. The sunbeams, you see. sifting down through the moving leaves give just the play' of light that brings out everything there is in the stone. Van Asweld’s eye caught the depth and glow of flame under the stone's crusting that I had seen by the lamplight the night before. “*1 dakes my voo 7 . to Cape Town next month,’ he said at last. ‘I show der stone to Lillifeldt und find vat he say to it.’ He rolled the stone up once more in the lambskin, and my chance for getting the “mooee clittee’ was gone. Os course I did not know what I was missing, and the whole thing passed out of mind. I did not think of the stone again until mv meeting Van Asweld. three months later, in Cape Town, reminded me of It. “ ‘Der lustre stone; you gif me der pipe and tobacco for it now?’ he said, with perfoot gravity. “ ‘Oh you brought it to Lillifeldt’s, did you' 7 ’ I said. ‘He told you. I suppose, that it was a crystal worth two shillings for a curiosity?’ A , . ... “ ‘Yaw it vas a crystal—a diamond like a crystal big—und he say he gif me £10,091).’ " ‘Ten thousand pou- dsl’ 1 repeatel. thinking that someone had been playing the old fellow a joke. ‘Of course they paid you the money down.* “ ‘Naw. I not dakes it,’ he answered. “It was the simple truth he told me. Lillifeldt & Cos. had offered him £IO.OOO for the ‘mooee clittee’ and he had refused the ofTer. He took It back to Valetown with him, and there he squared matters with Pombe. who found the stone. It was the customary' agreement of Boeis with their Kaffir employes that when a lad had served out his time with a master he should receive from him ten sheep, a yoke of oxen, an ax and some trinkets and yards of c&llco cloth. With these he could go back to his people, buy a wife or two and set up as & man of consideration in the community. Van Asweld gave Pombe three hundred sheep, for-ty-eight goats, a wagon and span of sixteen oxen, which wasneealth for a Kaffir. “The LilUfeldts got the ‘mooee cUtteef at

last, paying Van Asweld £II.OOO for the stone, which he was once within an ace of parting with for a meerschaum pipe and five pounds of tobacco. If he had not gone under the tree to think my offer over I believe the great diamond—it weighed eighty-three and a half carats uncut—would have gone to me. Lillifeldt & Cos. called the stone the ‘Star of South Africa" and sent it in the mal! steamer Celt to London under £30,000 insurance. There it w'as cut down to forty-two carats, and of its history after that the European diamond buyers and connoisseurs can tell you better than I can.” NEW PROJECTILE. Won’t Explode in the (inn, nnd More Destructive than. Dynamite. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. I.—A new projectile for war ships has been invented by John V. Rice, jr., a young engineer of this city. Its chief value, the inventor says, is that it cannot be exploded until it leaves the gun. “A shell fired into a magazine filled with my projectiles.” he declares, “would not explode them. They' develop on explosion a pressure of 220 tons to the square inch, and are much more destructive than dynamite shells, and, unike dynamite, develop he<jt capable of setting fire to anything with w’hich they come in contact.” Mr. Rice is only twenty-six years old. At seventeen he devised a triplecylinder gas and steam engine, which was at once placed on the market by' a Wilmington (Del.) firm. Since then he has taken out more than forty' patents. NEWYEAROBSERVATIONS ♦— SENATOR FAIRBANKS ON THE SPLENDID VICTORIES OF PEACE. Ho Hopes to See a Great Advancement in 1899—View* of W. T. Durbin and G. F. McCulloch. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—lndiana is well represented in New' Year's day “signed statements” in the New York pgpers this morning. Senator Fairbanks tells of the victories of peace in a brief note to the Herald as follows: ’’The new year opens with exceptional promise. Confidence again possesses the people and the new year will observe not the triumphs of war, but the splendid victories of peace. The American heart is full of gratitude for ** • blessings which, after war, rest upon Discord and division have disappeared 1 a united people enter the new year wi. i high hopes. Let us trust that when it is old It will witness the greatest advancement yet made in a single year, in amity, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of intelligence, the development of the arts and sciences, the enlargement of our commerce and the wholesome influence of the great Republic.” National Committeeman W. T. Durbin is thus quoted on the next presidential nomination: “President McKinley holds the Republicans of Indiana and they want him renominated and re-elected. I think it is too early to talk of issues ” George F. McCulloch, state chairman, Is quoted on the same subject as follow’s: "William McKinley, say the people of my State, will be their choice for the Republican nomination. The issues will be protection to American industries and American labor, reciprocity, sound money and a liberal foreign policy as to territory and commerce, with everything else that is right.” Mr. Turjile Still 111 'with Grip. Social to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Senator Turpie is still suffering from grip, but will not admit for a moment that he is in actual danger. BRIDES AS VISITORS TO WAR SHIES. Why Newly Married ConplcN Like to Wander About on War Vessels. New York Sun. There was a leaden sky overhead and a gray mist all about the big battle ship Indiana, on whose yellow’ upper works an occasional raindrop spattered. Wrapped in his overcoat, the officer of the deck tramped up and down, stopping every' few minutes to look over the dreary' stretch of soggy' soil and the yellow navy-yard buildings beyond. It was Tuesday of last week. The officer of the deck was a young lieutenant. He was in a grumpy mood, for deck duty on a day' like Tuesday is far from pleasant. A sailorman approached him with a request for shore leave. ‘ Are you on the liberty list?” he asked, and when the bluejacket answered affirmatively he looked disappointed. “Go ahead,” he said, sourly, and the sailor hurried down the gangway and made tracks in the mud up the yard. All of which impressed an onlooker with the idea that the young lieutenant was a sour-spirited and unpleasant person. But he wasn’t. He was simply w’et and cold. His real nature rose to the surface a few minutes later when a party of three emerged from the superstructure. They were a y'oung man, a young woman and a ’prentice boy. A smile wrinkled the lieutenaqt’s mouth and sparkled in his eyes as he saw them. The young man was a very ordinarv young man in a very extraordinary frame of mind. His glance never strayed from his feminine companion. She was comely and rosy-cheeked and clad in a gray something that harmonized with the mist, and one of her little hands rested confidingly in the right hand of her companion. In his remarkable state of mind the ordinary young man walked plumb into the officer of the deck.

“Oh. T bop: ynur pardon!” he said. “I thought you were the gate.” “John!” said the little woman, as the-color spread from her cheeks to her forehead and chin. The ordinary young man became a trifle embarrassed himself and stammered: “I mean 1 thought—l thought we were going. going, you know, to the gate of the ship.” “There it is, over there. ” said the. lieutenant, pointing to the gangway. The young man and woman walked off, hand in hand. “Ts I had told them it was astern they'd have walked overboard,” said the lieutenant. The 'prentice boy stood on the deck and grinned. “What are you laughing at?” asked the officer, turning on him sharply. “That’s a pair.” answered the boy. "How do you know, you young rascal?” “Kin tell be the cut o’ their jib, sir.’ “Get in off the deck.” commanded the lieutenant, and the grinning boy vanished. “Funny.” said the lieutenant, ns he turned to the Sun reporter. “Think of anybody coming down here on a day like this. If wo didn’t have to be here, you and I, we would be in a nice, warm room, with a pipe and a mug of hot punch, I imagine. But that was a honeymoon pair. Great Scott! Here’s another of them.” Truly enough, another couple was approaching the ship. and. “be the cut o’ their jib.” as the ’prentice boy said, they were new wed. They walked up the gangway and were turned over to a boy who was ordered to show the ship to them. “The number of brides that come to visit the ship is amazing; that’s what it is—amazing!” said the officer of the deck. “You can see a dozen honeymoon couples in the yard any tine day. And on days like this, well, as you see, we’ve had two couples on the ship to-day. “How can we tell them? Why, that is very easy. In tho first place, they have new clothes. The man always has new gloves, and they never look at anything but each other. I remember in September there was a swarm of them. We poor devils of sailors could not help envying them, they were so happy. We tried to interest them in the guns and machinery, but, bless you, we might as weil let them alone; they would be interested in nothing but themselves. “At first I wondered why they came down here at all, but that soon became plain to me. I was standing on the deck one day when a young fellow and a girl boarded us. The girl was very, very pretty. They had the telltale look on their faces, and the young man approached me very politely. “ ‘Pardon me, sir,’ said he, ‘but are you the captain?’ “I said I was not. ‘I should like to see the captain,’ he said. ‘I want someone to show me around the ship.’ I was interested and I discovered why newly married couples like to visit war ships. You see, we have so many secluded places where they can stop and embrace, so many companion ladders where it is necessary for the husband to hold his wife's hand. And they take advantage of all the opportunities. We were down in the steering room, below the protected deck, and I was explaining things generally. “ ‘You sea,’ said I, ‘lf the upper works are shot away, we can work the vessel from this room. A man stands at the telephone and receive# orders from the commander, which he transmits to the man at the wheel, who——* •* ’Darling!' ** 'Sw§6t)i€ftrt f* "The Interruption came from behind me, and X turned to see my auditors, with hands

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LOOKING All HAD. How the News Will Look Forty Year* Hence. These imaginary extracts from the New York-Chicago Terrestrial 'JYibune of June IS4B, are contributed to Puck to illustrate the expected cxpansi.n of the United States: DEWEY CITY, Isle or Luzon, June 7. (Soeclal.)—At the Republican state convention held here this afternoon Philip Majiejos, Jose Fernez, Poti Jiblji and Maurice Morrissey O'Shaughnessy were chosen delegates to the national convention at San Francisco in, July. These men are opposed to the candidacy of Hobson on account of his age, and, while having no expressed choice for the presidency, they are opposed to any plank in the platform condemning the substitution of hemp for tobacco in the inanuf.icture of cigarettes. The factional quarrels in the northern part of the State over postoffice appointments have created considerable dissension in the Republican state cominitte. CANDIA, Territory of Crete, July 7.—f Sp Sultan has appealed to the Americans for protection against bands of predatory Armenians, his last bordereau calling attention in a respectful way to the agreement made by the American army to police the borders of all that part or his former domain now under the Yankee protectorate. General Smiles has sent a detachment of the Twelfth Arizona Cavalry to the scene of trouble. This is the same colored regiment to which the Sultan gave his youngest son as a mascot. Little Abdul, whose mother was a McManus, will accompany the troops. The ladles of the harem gave a euchre party last week for the wives of General Greene and his staff. Mrs. Major Plains, of Skaguay, Alaska, won first prize. OO LONG, State of Wang Hu, Juno 7. (Special.)—The Asiatic trial heats for the bicycle championship of the United States were run ors this morning on the bamboo track of the old LI Hung Chang summer palace. All the elite were present and the L. A. \V. colors fluttered from many a queue. E. Lung. Gi Sung and E. Dald qualified for the finals. A protest has been lodged against the former on the ground that ho is not a native born American, hi# father having lived under the Grand Llama while Lung was a child. BMITHVILLE, Spitzbergen, June 2.—(Special, delayed in transmission.)—The weather observer reports a cooler wave for June 8 to 15. The thermometer at 7 a, m. to-day is 42 below. Early vegetables are reported injured by heavy frosts. The weather has had no appreciable bad effects on the Neapolitan cream industry. ESKIFORTH, Iceland, June 7.—(Special.— Commodore and Mrs. Usterbilts are now in their summer home, the Fjord. The new United States Naval Academy at this place has brought the society people to the north in droves, every incoming steamer being ballasted with Saratogas. The United States man-of-war Schley us due here Saturday. A pretty rivalry is pn among the matrons for leadership in the swagger set, and the old days of Newport, hack tn the early part of the century, promise to be repeated. Mrs. Tiremaker, of New York, held undisputable sway till the Kskaggens came here from Greenland. The wealth of this latter family is fascinating the young bloods, although the women whisper around that the Eskaggens’a granfather made his money tn cod-liver oil and whalebone*. MOZAMBIQUE. State of McKinley. Jun# 7. (Special.) The American and British ccmmissicners have agreed on rMativt boundaries for the sphere of Inllueta-e of th* two nations in South Africa. Great Britain will retain Madagascar, despite the sentiment of the natives in favor of annexation to the United States. United Stales depreciated silver dollars are selling at $1.75 on tho bourse. Healthful Food. It 1# a safe practice to select a bratid of/ baking powder of well-established reputation and then make sure that it exclusive!* is used in the kitchen. The economy in use of the Royal Baking Powder, a# *ho\r by the government report, is worthy of c w slderatlon, but this Is of minor imports' . compared with the greater purity wholesonveness of the food when the If is employed. Health officers and phy*rconwho nave used it in their families thß< quarter of a century are Us most ••or—if elastic advocates and recommend 1 safeguard against the alum danger.

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