Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1899 — Page 3

: New York Store FMablUbfd 1 M.Vb i! Sole Agent* for Rutlrriek l'aftern*. { TO-DAY... j Our Great \ Annual Sale of ! j Embroideries 10.000 yards of Remnants alone, in ; Cambric, Swiss and Nainsook edges < and insertions—in lengths from 1* to $ 5 yards —at from ) 2c to 15c a yard—or 3c to 75c < apiece. ’ Regular prices oc to 20c a yard, or 8c ; <to $1.45 apiece. —Center Aisle. t Dry Goods Cos j ARK YOIT LOOKING for Underwear, Wight Shirts, Pajamas or Hosiery? You will find everything in this line here, from the best manufacturers, marked away down in price. Our Clearance Sale of $1.50 and $1 Fancy Shirts and Imperial Four-in-Hands, for rSO cents, are rare bargains. See window displays. Paul H. Krfuiss 44 East Washington St. Hobson’s Choice “Take that or nothing:.’' At the close of the nineteenth century competition has induced dealers to treat their customers better. Princess Patent flour will be delivered if ordered by your dealer. Do not accept any brand of so-called “patent” flour as the equal of Princess. Every package guaranteed as to quality and purity. Ask your dealer for it. BLANTON MILLING CO. Hot Water Bottles. All Sizes, All Prices. Huder’sDrug Store WASHINGTON AND PENNSYLVANIA STS. Open alt night. NFNTTCT Dn A* E* BUCHANAN PIJU 110 1 3 2.33 When Building. AMUSEMENTS. After several weeks of negotiations the Grand stock company has secured the leading man it has so long wanted, and yesterday a telegram from him announced that he would arrive here to-night, coming direct from New' York. This is Howell Hansel, who for a number of seasons played prominent parts in somo of the best Frohman companies, and who recently created one of the leading parts in Marie Correlli’s “The Sorrows of Satan,” in New York. In the cast of this production he was associated with Miller Kent, Grace Filkins, Ida Vernon, John Kellard, Mary Barker and others. Mr. Hansel has been a member of the Brooklyn stock company for some time. He is a man of fine stage presence, tall and good looking and one of the best of the younger actors. He will appear for the first time Monday night with the Grand stock company, playing the part of Jack Pailen In “Friends.” This is the character heretofore assumed by Edwin Milton Royle, the author of the play. Mr. Paulding, who is playing Strebelow in “The Banker’s Daughter” this week, was engaged temporarily. He is under contract with the Miller stock company, of Milwaukee, and will return to that city Sunday. Paul Wilstach, who is Richard Mansfield’s Hoosier press agent, was in the city yesterday for a few hours looking after some early business prior to the performance of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” which comes to English's for one performance Monday night, Jan. 23. Indianapolis will he the fifth city to have this famous production since it opened in New York. The Park has a change of bill this afternoon, when “John Martin’s Secret” will he seen for the first time in this city. It tells a strong dramatic story of the diamond mines of Africa, and contains a thrilling sensational effect where a womafa jumps tw'enty feet and is caught by the heroine, who is speeding along an elevated car in a mine. Clay Clement, in his new play, “A Southern Gentleman,” will be at English's the last half of next week. Mr. Clement's two engagements In this city last season gave a most favorable introduction of this excellent actor to Indianapolis theatergoers. He returns in his second play, written and staged by himself. Franz Ebert, the star comedian of the Ulilhtians, who bring their new play, “The Golden Horseshoe,” to English's Friday night for the rest of the week, has become a bridegroom since he w'as last seen in this city, his wife being one of the little comediennes in the Ltliputian company. “In Old Kentucky," with its band of original pickaninnies, its famous horse-race scene and the other novel features of this successful melodrama, will be at English's next Tuesday and Wednesday, with Eulu Tabor in the principal role for the first time In this city. Mr. B. A. Myers, manager of the Bowery Burlesquers, which will be at the Empire next week, is here In udvance cf his company. The Empire is dark, theatrically, the rest of the week, the sporting events o' to-night and Saturday night being the only attractions. Ilr*. 'lnrin Anderson Dcail. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Mrs. Maria Anderson, widow of David C. Anderson, the comedian, and friend of Edwin Booth, is dead at her home in this city, aged seventyeight years. PnntnnilmiNt llnvel Dead. NEW YORK. Jan. 11.—Auglique Ravel, the star of the famous Ravel family, French pantomimists, and the last survivor of the family, died in this city, aged eighty-five years. Ao Street-Car Development*. William J. Tunrer, of the Citizens' Streetrailroad Company, was asked last night whether there had been any developments In the street car situation through the day.

He replied that there had been no developments whatever, he having spent most of the day with the attorneys of the company. City officials asserted that neither company had made any proposition for a compromise. City Attorney Kern said that he had seen neither the stockholders of the street car companies nor their attorneys. Controller Johnson seemed to believe that something was being done, notwithstanding denials of various street car stockholders. Mr. Turner said last night that he hoped to be able to return to Philadelphia to-day. PERSON SOCIETY. Mr. George W. Julian is ill at his home, In Irvington. Miss Frances McElwee returned to school at Oxford yesterday. Mrs. Charles H. Pierce, of Lafayette, is visiting friends here for a short time.’ Mrs. Dahmen, of Berlin, Germany, will come in a few days to visit her sister, Mrs. H. J. Eddy. Mrs. Alice W. Peirce is expected home in a few days from Europe and Persia, where she has been since June. Mrs. John W. Holtzman and sister, Mrs. Stevens, went to Chicago yesterday to spend the remainder of the week. Miss Margaret Carey has gone to Pittsburg to visit Mrs. William Mac-lay llall, and later she will go to Memphis, Tenn. Two plays—" Six to One” and "The Marble Arch'"—will be given the last of the month at Mrs. D. M. Parry's for the benefit of the Boys’ Club Mrs. Henry Bliss entertained a few friends at progressive eucher yesterday afternoon. Miss Young, of Louisville, and Mrs. Ovens, of Columbus, 0., were .among the guests. Mrs. I yeah P. Ramsey gave a family dinner last evening in honor of her granddaughter. Miss Margaret Malott, and Mr. Paul H. Y\ hite. The Ramsey, Malott and Fletcher families were the guests. All of the appointments for the dinner were white, carnations being used for the floral embellishment of the table. The name cards were water colors with a head on a. medallion in the center and a daisy crossing it. They were painted by Miss Leah Fletcher, who also w-rote clever lines on the reverse side, the words beginning witli one of the names of Miss Malott or Mr. White. A week from to-day Mrs. Seguin will entertain for Miss Malott, and a week from to-morrow Mrs. Arthur Voorhees Brown will give a company in her honor. I ,E V Y- SO r JO M O N. The Amorims Club was the scene of a large wedding last evening, the bride being Miss Gertrude Jvouise Solomon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Solomon, and the groom Mr. lyouis J. la>vy. of St. I#ouis. The ceremony was performed at 8 o’clock by Rabbi Messing. Mr. Abraham Solomon, brother of the bride, was master of ceremonies and preceded the bridal party to the palm-decorated parlor. He was followed hy the ushers, Mr. Henry Solomon and Mr. Jesse Solomon, brothers of the bride, Mr. Samuel Levy, of St. Jyouis, a brother of the groom, Mr. Morris F. Cohn, Mr. Edward A. Kahn and Mr. Lee L. Simono, of Louisville, the groom, attended by his best man. Mr. Max Neustetter. of St. IyOtiis, and the bride with her maid of honor Miss Lillie Solomon, and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Levy, of St. Louis, parents of the bride and groom. The bride wore a gown of ivory satin with high corsage, trimmed with point lace and pearls, a tulle veil and carried lilies of the valley. The maid of honor wore cream mousselaine de sole and satin, with tulle sleeves, and she carried an arm bouquet of Meteor roses. Mrs. Solomon wore black lace over green, and Mrs. Levy black silk and white satin. As the ceremony proceeded the orchestra - , which had played the wedding march, gave the intermezzo from "Cavelleria Rustieana.” A supper was served, 125 being seated at once, and toasts of congratulation and good wishes were offered. The tables wore decorated with ferns and flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Levy will go to St. Ixmis, where they will be at home at No. 4033 Cook avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph will give a large reception there for their son and his bride. Guests from out of town were Misses Esther and Anna Prince, of Marion. COUGHLEN—ALLOW AYS. The marriage of Miss Anna L. Alloways, daughter of Mr. James M. Alloways, and Mr. William F. Coughlen took place last evening at the family residence on St. Joseph street. Only the members of the two families were present to witness the ceremony pronounced by Rev. Joseph A. Milburn. The bride wore a handsome gown of blue silk crepon, combined with white satin, and carried a single American Beauty rose. The rooms were prettily decorated with palms, carnations and roses for the occasion. The only guest from out of town was Mrs. Edward Lentz, of Louisville, a sitter of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Coughlen will go at once to housekeeping at No. 1207 College avenue, where they will be at home to their friends after Feb. 1. CERAMIC CLUB ELECTION. The annual election of the Ceramic Club was held yesterday with Mrs. Welch, of College avenue, and the following officers were chosen: President, Mrs. W. S. Day; vice presidents, Mrs. J. H. Orendorff, Mrs. Albert Henley and Mrs. T. B. Adams, of Shelby vllle; recording secretary, Mrs. Charles Eichrodt; assistant, Mrs. Willis Fugate; corresponding secretary. Mrs. YVilmer F. Christian;, treasurer. Miss Alice Brown; assistant, Mrs. Benjamin Booth; historian. Miss Katherine Sickles. The retiring historian, Mrs. Charles Eichrodt. read a resume of the year's work. The club will become a member of the National Ceramic Decorator’s Society and will participate in the exhibit to be held in Chicago this year. ALLEN—MAIN. Mr. Arthur Ward Allen, of this city, and Miss Amy Main, daughter of the late Judge Main, of Elkhart, were married at the home of the bride’s mother in Elkhart, at 5 o’clock last eve*ning. The wedding was a quiet one, only the families and close friends of the bride and groom being present. Rev. William Galpin performed the ceremony. Mr. Allen has been connected with the Journal’s advertising department for several* years, anil is a member of the German House and Marion Club. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have gone on a short bridal trip, end will be at home after Feb. 1 at 1426 Central avenue. STANTON—RUDDELL. Mrs. Mary H. Ruddell and Mr. Ambrose P. Stanton were married yesterday .afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the home of the former, on North Pennsylvania street. The event was marked by the utmost quiet and simplicity. Rev. J. A. Milburn officiated. The wedding gown was a handsome traveling dress of brown cloth. Mrs. Ruddell is the daughter of the late Almus E. Vinton and a sister of Mrs. Henry D. Pierce. Mr. Stanton is a well-known lawyer of this community. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton left at once for an extended Southern trip, and they will return to this city for residence. SAMUELS-OTTO. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AUBURN, Ind., Jan. 11.—Miss Clara Otto, of this city, and Mr. John M. Samuels, of Muncie, were married at noon to-day at the First Presbyterian Church. Misses Clara Fry, Frankie Lehr and Flora Heier, Messrs. Henry Rehling, Harry Harvout and Homer Carpenter were present from Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Herbert Scott, of Indianapolis, and Miss Frances Otto, of Bluftton. The bridal party left for Muncie this afternoon. CA R MODY-SHEHAN. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KLWOOD, Ind., Jan. 11.—The social event of the season was the marriage this morning of Joseph Chrmody and Miss Nora Shohan. The ceremony was performed at St. Joseph’s Church by Rev. Father Riegel. Mr. Carmody holds a prominent i>osition in the tin-plate works and Miss Shehan is one of Elwood's most prominent society women. They will go to housekeeping in this city. CITY NEWSJOTES. 'Mr. George G. Gabbert. father of Mrs. Daniel G. Williams, of this city, died at Gate, O. TANARUS., Jan. 9. His remains will be taken to Columbus. Ind. Mr. K. D. Braden and Mrs. Minnie G. Wilson, of this city, were married in Chicago on Monday and will make their home for the present at the Hotel English. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Roberts Park Church will meet with Mrs. C. E. Bacon, V 2 North New Jersey street, to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Patrolman Todd arrested Bert Brown, of No. 344 Mil* y avenue, yesterday, charging him with stealing 2Urt cigars from Buchanan's barber shop, at No. 2101 West Michigan street. The annual meeting of Plymouth Church will lie held this evening at 6:30 o'clock instead of Friday evening, as published. There will be supper in the parlors of the church preceding the megting. >o Stamp* cm Mortgage Release*. At the local revenue office information has been received as to the last ruling of the department on the question of revenue stamps tor mortgage releases. It is now announced that stamps are not required for these documents. Quit-claim deeds do not require revenue stamps where there is no actual conveyance.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1899.

THE STORY SENSATIONAL EX-SEN ATOR RAKER. OF MARION. DENIES A BIGAMY IMPLICATION. An Alleged It us*inn Countess. It I* Said, Charge* Him with Being Her Husband. Ex-Senator O. A. Baker, of Marion, was seen at the Dension last night in relation to a sensational story printed yesterday by an afternoon paper of his city in which it was intimated that he had been guilty of bigamy. Mr. Baker denounced the whole story as false. He said he had never heard of the woman who it is claimed has made the charges against him, and said he had never been married but once and this was to his present wife. The story printed by the Marion newspaper, which on the face of it jseems “fishy,” is to the effect tiiat there is a woman in Madison, Wis., who claims to be Mr. Baker's wife. He has a family in Marion, the members of which are well known. The paper says it first became aware of the existence of the Wisconsin woman from a letter received, telling of the alleged treatment of a wife at IMadison. Living at 524 State street, in Madison, is a woman of Russian birth, who claims to have been Countess of Nazimow in her native land. She says she is the lawful wife of O. A. Baker, of Marion. The story of her marriage is a romantic one as related by her. She says she was married to exSenator Baker before she ever saw him, by proxy; that he was attorney for a Russian syndicate having large investments in that county, in which she was financially interested, and that she began a correspondence with him on matters relating to those investments; that the correspondence continued; that she fell in love with him by his handwriting, as she expressed it, and that the marriage by proxy resulted, she being regularly married in Russia, with a representative of ex-Senator Baker taking his place at her side as bridegroom. This, she says, is an authority marriage in the Greek Church, to which she belongs. Immediately after this ceremony she came to America, In October. 1896. Mr. Baker, she claims, met her in New York city and they were married again in a little Presbyterian church in some small place near New York. She does not remember the name of the place or the preacher, and while she says the marriage certificate was* issued, she further says that Mr. Baker has it, with other papers. After the marriage, she says, he went to Marion, and she lived for some time in Sturgis, Mich., where her baby boy. was born, died and was buried. She went to Madison, and claims Mr. Baker accompanied her about three months ago. He visited her there at Christmas time, she says. She claims that the reason Mr. Baker does not want to publicly recognize his marriage with her at the present time is that it might interfere in the approaching marriage of one of his daughters. She says he showed her a decree of divorce issued by a North Dakota court more than two years ago. The Bakers reside in. a handsome residence on Delphi avenue, Marion. Mr. Baker was in the Senate two years ago. It is claimed that the first intimation of the Wisconsin woman's story came to his family yesterday morning in a letter to one of his daughters. The letter was from the alleged Russian countess. Information from Marion last night stated that Mrs. Baker asserted yesterday that her husband lived in North Dakota four months last summer. Mrs. Baker says if he secured a divorce from her there it was without her knowledge. A dispatch from Marion says that the Baker family is heart-broken over the news. Mr. Baker has been a good husband and father, and his family cannot believe he has been leading a double life. Mr. Baker was positive in the assertion last night that he had never known a Russian countess. He said a friend of his at Marion wrote to him yesterday, intimating that there was a story in circulation there about him. He said he understood the story concerned this Wisconsin woroan.| Mr. Baker is a lawyer, and is well known over the State. He said last night he would return to Marlon to-day. He was evidently greatly puzzled last night when told of the ■Wisconsin story and pondered long and deeply before he concluded to say anything. MR. HARRIS WILL ACCEPT. New Minister Cheered hy Law School Student*. Addison C. Harris announced yesterday that he would accept the appointment of minister to Austria-Hungary. The students of the Indiana Law School cheered him mightily yesterday morning when he appeared to lecture, and he made a short speech to them. He received many congratulations from all over the country. Congratulation* for A. C. Harri*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., Jan. 11.— I The appointment of Addison C. Harris to the AustriaHungary mission is a matter of general congratulation here, as he is a native of Wayne county and is most highly thought of. Mr. Harris’s father, Branson Harris, is still living and occupies the farm on which his son was born. Mr. Harris is the chief attorney for the people in the gas litigation that is now in progress here, and for which he was to receive a fee of $2,500. Mr. Harris as Office Boy. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The unexpected nomination of Hon. A. C. Harris to an important foreign mission recalls my first acquaintance with him. One cold morning in the early sixties I called, about 10 o’clock, at the law office of Barbour Sc Howland, then in two small rooms over No. 4 West Washington street. The entrance was by way of narrow stairs, which landed you at the door of the back room. Passing through this room I saw a young man wrapped in a heavy coarse overcoat absorbed in a book. He seemed not to notice me, and I passed on to the front room, to find Mr. Howland tinkering with an old cannon office stove, trying to evoke some heat from it by the aid of poker and tongs. He was evidently not in his most amiable mood. The stove seemed to defy his manipulations, for it needed a thorough cleaning out, pipe, stove and all. and the office would have looked more tidy with a little sweeping and dusting. “We expected the young man who is reading law with us to build the fires and sweep out—it was not in the contract, however. He started the fire this morning for his own comfort, but finding it not disposed to burn without extra trouble he has deliberately put on his overcoat and taken his books into the back room and left the fire to its fate. He will make a first-class lawyer some day, but as an office boy he is not worth a continental,” was the way he explained the situation. Indianapolis, Jan. 11. U. L. SEE. O'er the Logan sport Route. The County Commissioners, with County Attorney Brown, yesterday rode over the proposed route of the Indianapolis, Logansport & Frankfort Electric Railroad between this city and the county line. The railroad company is after a franchise over the Michigan road, and the commissioners went out to look over the ground. The railroad company has proposed that its track shall run in the center of the road, but farmers all along the line have objected to this. They think the track should be built at the side of the highway. The enmmissioners, after driving over the route, agree with the farmers. They say there is plenty of space along the west sale of the highwiu', and if the franchise is granted the ruilroail company will have to agree to build the track at the side of the road. But one man along the Michigan road has objected to the proposed electric line. He is a farmer who tms built anew house on the west side of the highway and has a fine lawn. The commissioners say lie has taken more of the highway than he is entitled to ami if the road is built along the west side it will perhaps interfere with his lawn. He is willing to accept the road if the commissioners will grant a franchise on the east side. Ilemlrlck* Block Crap Game. J. E. Spellman complained to the police that Richard E. Tally had induced him to go to a room in the Hendricks block and had cheated him out of S3O in a crap game. Tally and Siveliman were hoth arrested and their cases were continued in Police Court yesterday morning until to-morrow morning. A Lecturer on the Indian. There were just twenty-eight persons in the audience that greeted Prof. Charles H. Bartlett, of South Bend, at Plymouth

Church, last night, and heard his lecture on "The American Indian.” It had been announced that the lecture would be given for the Century Club and the Indiana Historical Society, and that 200 tickets had been sold. The lecturer described graphically nearly all the phases of Indian life—the wonderful sign language, the method of warfare, the arts, etc. AN INDUSTRY LANGUISHING. Secretary North** Report on the Condition of YY oolen Buatnes*. BOSTON, Jan. 11.—The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National Wool Manufacturers’ Association was held here to-day. William H. Haile was re-elected president, Benjamin Phipps treasurer and S. N. D. North secretary. Secretary North's report was an exhaustive review of the year. “With all classes of mills,” he said, "it has been a year of small business, of much anxiety and often of hardship and embarrassment. The chief exceptions have l*een in mills where large orders for the army and navy have been obtained, but the extraordinary demands of the government have failed to exert any such influence upon the market as would ordinarily have followed them. The number of failures and assignments in the wool manufacture have beet 1 irgor probably than in any previous year since tlie panic of 1857. These many disasters among woolen mills are not due merely to the had business conditions of the current year. They are the culmination of a series of years of short business at less than living prices, in the year and a half since the new tariff became operative the imports have been the smallest in quantity for fifty years, and not of tlie character to disturb the market for staple goods. The year's experience has again sharply raised the question whether it is not possible by concerted action to provide, and enforce some remedy for the vicious methods of business which have crept into the trade. There is no valid reason why a contract should not he a. contract in this industry as binding and final as in any other." The secretary then gave statistics showing the total foreign value of the imports of woolens of every description for consumption under the present tariff, under the McKinley tariff and under the Wilson tariff, and said: "These figures enable us to be sure that foreign goods are no longer a serious element in the market situation except as a few of those eighteen months' okl importations may be still unsold.” Ohio Wool Grower*. COLUMBUS. 0., Jan. 11.—The Ohio Wool Growers to-night adopted resolutions asking Congress to revise the wool and woolen goods schedule of the tariff law so as to equalize the protection to manufacturers and to wool; advocating the establishment of depositories for marketing wool, and opposing the appointment of ri. N. I). North, secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, as superintendent of the census, for the alleged reason that his sympathies are adverse lo the wool growers. Judge Lawrence, of Rellefontaine, was reelected president, and W. N. Cowilen, of Quaker City, secretary. FIRST TRIP SINCE THE WAR. Former Cruiser Harvard Starts for Southampton—A Disabled Steamer. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—The American liner New York, formerly the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, started to-day on her first passage since the Spanish war as a merchantman to England, and the transatlantic service of the line w r as thus saved from interruption. The Dutch steamship Rotterdam, which arrived to-day from Rotterdam and Boulogne, reports that on Jan. 7, at 12:45 a. m., in latitude 50, longitude 28:30. the lookout saw two steamers, one of which had a tar bucket, or something similar, burning near the funnel, and had no masthead or side lights burning and seemed to be disabled. Captain Yan de See. of the Rotterdam, was unable to get any reply to his offers of help, and proceeded on his course, convinced that the disabled vessel had proper assistance. Movement* of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Ems, from Naples; Cymric, from Liverpool. Sailed: Ocean, for Antwerp; Nomadic, for Liverpool; New- Y'ork, for Southampton; Majestic, for Liverpool; Noordiand, for Antwerp. SOUTHAMPTON, Juh. 11-Arrived; Paris, from New York. Sailed; Lahn, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11.—Arrived; Waesland, from Liverpool. MARSEILLES, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Burgundia, from New York. GLASGOW, Jan. 11.—Arrived: Anchoria, from New York. STETTIN, Jan. ll.—Sailed: Thingvalla, for New Y'ork. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 11.—Sailed: Cufic, for New Y’ork. AZTEC TEMPLE IN TEXAS. Ruins of an Ancient Building Found in the City of El Paso. EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 11.—An Aztec temple long buried beneath the surface of the earth has been uncovered within the limits of this city, according to Dr. Leo Berson, a graduate of Oxford University and an archaeologist of note, who is connected with the Prepato University of the City of Mexico. At his solicitation he was sent by the Mexican government to search for the remains of an Aztec temple and village which he learned from ancient records in the archives of Mexico were situated somewhere near here on the left bank of the Rio Grande. Recently the scientist unearthed several stones covered with hieroglyphics within the corporate limits of the town, and at a depth of ten feet a wall of solid masonry was uncovered. The scientist is confident he has discovered the Aztec temple, and expects to unearth many relics of great, value. I>r. Berson has discovered many valuable Aztec relics in Mexico, among them the famous god Paxt, now in the City of Mexico, and a number of tablets of stone covered with hieroglyphics winch, when deciphered, proved to be of great benefit historically. MODEST ST. LOUISIANS. Want emigres* to Appropriate Jjt5,000,000 for Their Centennial Fair. ST. LOUIS, Jan. Jl.—The convention of delegates from States and Territories in the “Louisiana purchase,” which yesterday selected St. Louis as the place to celebrate the one-hundridthi anniversary of that event in 1993, completed its business and adjourned to-day subject to the call of the chairman, of the executive committee. David R. Francis, of St. Ixiuis, secretary of the interior under President Cleveland, was made chairman of the executive committee, with James Knox, also of this city, secretary. It was decided to ask Congress for an appropriation of $5,060,000 with which to help build the exposition. Governor Francis's position corresponds to that held by Director General George R. Davis, of the world’s fair at Chicago. Lively Fight In Nevada. CARSON, Nev., Jan. 11.—The senatorial contest for the seat now occupied by Wm. M. Stewart is being vigorously waged. The rumors to the effect that the partisans of both Stewart and Congressman Newlands have imported gun fighters and desperadoes to take part in the fight is strenuously denied by principals and followers. Predictions as to the probability of personal encounters at the meeting of the silver state < antral committee to-morrow are likewise discredited. A number of the members of both houses arrived to-day and a caucus is announced for Sunday night. To Avoid a Danger. AH concede the danger to health from the use of alum baking powder. But how to avoid it? It is difficult to identify the alum powders, and the danger is increased by their close resemblance to a cream of tartar powder. Then the grocer, unaware of their true character, sometimes recommends them because of their low cost. It is a startling fact that brands of baking powder which are labeled alum when sold In those States where the law requires alum powders to be so branded, are sold in this city as pure cream of tartar powders! It is a safe practice to select a brand of baking powder cf vvell-establisht and reputation and then make sure that it exclusively is used in the kitchen. The United States government, after elaborate public tests, placed the Royal at the head of ail powders for purity and strength, and health tiffieers and physicians who have used it in their families for a quarter of a century arc its most enthusiastic advocates and recommend it as the safeguard against the alum danger.

CLASH IN JAPANESE DIET. The Mikado's Legislators Trying to Outdo French Deputies. VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 11.—The steamer Empress of Japan, which arrived to-day from Hong-Kong and Yokohama, brought news of a serious clashing in the Japanese Diet. Recently Tanakana Shozo became so violent that he had to be removed from the House of Representatives. Then Kudo Kchan ascended the rostrum and gave details of the forcible dissolution of a meeting held that morning at the Maple Club by antitaxationists. On the conclusion of the speech a scene of serious disorder and confusion ensued. The president demanded order, but his voice was drowned by yells and shrieks. Momma, Sato and Sugeno were ordered to leave the house, but refused. Momma shouted at the top of his voice: “I have an urgent motion.” The sergeant-at-arms and several assistants were then called into the chamber to remove Momma, whom they tried to pull out by the arms, but he refused to go. taking hold of a desk, still crying: ‘‘Urgent motion.” Sato and Sugeno. who sat on either side of Momma, were finally removed by force from their seats on refusing to make room for the sergeant. Then all the progressives left their seats and surrounded the disturbers ready to strike them down if they resisted. Confusion had reached a climax, when some person from the peers’ hex in the gallery encouraged Momma to proceed. The latter was, however, ordered by the president out of the chamber, and the president, announcing a reeess, quitted the chamber. Then Mr. Tanakana ran up to the platform and rushed out of the chamber in pursuit of the president. When the House reassembled the president ordered Momma to be handed over to the disciplinary committee and the House rose. The following day the rioting was renewed for a short time. BOTH ARE IMPROVING. Nelson Dingley and John U. Younts Miiy Recover—Stanton's Condition. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Greater encouragement for the recovery of Representative Dingley is felt by his physicians tonight than for some days. This is based on the wonderful manner in which he has kept up in his desperate illness and the remarkable vitality shown. Save for new complications, which are not now looked for, the family feel very hopeful that the worst is past. The patient has been fairly comfortable to-day, has taken nourishment freely and is resting well to-night. The condition of Hon. John Russell Young, librarian of Congress, who hits been seriously ill for the past two weeks at his residence in this ity, has shown a gratifying improvement in the last two days, llis principal affection is an acute attack of rheumatic gout, complicated with an exhausted condition induced by overwork. While his malady is a very painful one, yet he is able to give some attention to office matters, but with the best possible improvement. he will be confined to his room for several weeks. Paymaster General Stanton, of the army, is seriously ill at his home here with pneumonia, resulting from the grip. Because of his age, nearly sixty-four years, some apprehension is felt, although to-night he is resting well. Both Hon. John W. Foster and Hon. Wayne MacVeagh are better to-day. The former is now able to sit up at times. ARCH PLOTTER. i (Concluded from First Page.) here on Jan. 7, defeated a column of 200 of the state troops on Nov. 4 and captured Kalambari on Nov. 14, in addition to killing two officers, one sergeant and 200 native troops, captured fourteen whites, two guns and ammunition and a quantity of baggage. In addition five whites were kilted at Kalambari, which is the chief town of the district. It. was garrisoned by 800 men, who deserted. Vice Governor Wangernee, who is now at Stanley Falls, is raising a force of men to proceed against the Bateielas. SLAIN IN A DUEL. Civilian Killed ly an Officer of (he Bavarian infantry. LONDON, Jan. 12.—The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says: “In a duel at Metz on Monday Lieutenant Sehlickmann, of the Bavarian infantry, shot and killed Herr Tillman, a civilian. In accordance with the Emperor’s decree, duels are allowed only in exceptional cases, and by the consent of the court of honor. Tillman, who w’us shoved off the sidewalk by some officers last May, struck one with a stick and boasted of it in the restaurants. The court of honor decided that, as he was a member of a wealthy family, he could give satisfaction, and selected Lieutenant Schlickmann to represent the regiment. The father of Tillman vainly appealed to the police to stop the duel.” Spanish Cortes to Be Invoked. LONDON, Jan. 12.—The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Mail says: “Senor Sagasta denies that any negotiations are in progress for the sale of the Carolines, remarking that the previous consent of the Cortes w’ould be necessary. This is not to be taken, however, as indicative of any intention to sell. The premier intends to convoke the Cortes as soon as the United States has approved the peace treaty.” BARCELONA, Jan. 11. —El Dlario de Barcelona urges such a modification of the custom?. dues as would allow Russian petroleum to compete with American. It also insists upon the necessity of the government aiding the development of tobacco culture in Spain, as otherwise Spain will have to pay the United States for the tobacco she consumes. The Pope’s Lament. LONDON, Jan. 11.—The Rome correspondent of the Times says: “The Pope in a letter to the American bishops of the Latin race, dated at Christmas, convokes a council to be held during the coming year at Rome. His Holiness observes that he has long wished to give them another proof of his feelings for them, and has been considering seiiously how best to benefit the Latins, who occupy the greater part of the new world. ‘We grieve,’ he says, ‘that in the condition in which we are now' we are unable to entertain you at Rome as we would.’ ” The W ar Lord on Parade. BERLIN,'Jan. 11.—Upon the occasion of the jubilee appointment of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria as honorary colonel of the Kaiser Franz Grenadiers, Emperor William paraded the regiment to-day. The Austrian Emperor telegraphed to his Majesty his sympathy w ith the latter and with the army and wishing the regiment a brilliant future. Emperor \\ illiani replied that the regiment was honored in having in the Austrian Emperor a shining example of a man of soldierly virtues, and that it would always proudly seek to honor the name it bore. Gang of Criminal* Sentenced. PARIS, Jan. 11.—The Assize Court imposed sentences to-day upon fourteen members of a gang of thirty young criminals known as the "Neuilly band,” convicted of numberless robberies, hold-ups and outrages upon women, and suspected of murder. Several bodies have been found in the Seine of late of supposed victims of the band. The sentences ranged from two years to life imprisonment at hard labor. The other members of the band were acquitted. An American Scheme Approved. OXFORD, England. Jan. 11.—At a largelyattended meeting of the trades council here to-day a resolution was passed heartily approving of the scheme for establishing a college for labor leaders at Oxford, to be known as Ituskin Hall, and pledging the members of the council to furnish every assistance possible in the matter. C. A. Baird, one of the promoters of the plan, explained the objects of the new college. The Albany Ready for Launching. LONDON, Jan. 11.—The United States cruiser Albany, purchased here previous to the war with Spain, will be launched at Nw Castle on Saturday. Henry W hite, the United States charge d’affaires. Lieut. Colwell, the United States naval attache here, and a number of distinguished Americans will attend the ceremony. The Albany will l o christened by Mrs. Colwell and will sail fur the United States in April. Germany Cannot Slile with France. BERLIN. Jan. 11.—The National Zeitung, referring to French comments on Emperor William’s visit to the French ambassador here, the Marquis De Noaliles, says: ‘ By the Anglo-German agreement in regard to South

Africa all cause for an Anglo-German conflict in that part of the world is removes!. Therefore, there can be no question of Germany in any way siding with France against Great Britain.” Crusade Against Ritualism. LONDON, Jan. 11.—At a meeting held in Westminister Hall, London, this evening, where a thousand members of the National Protestant Church Union were in attendance, a resolution, proposed by Ird Kinnard. was unanimously adopted appealing to the Queen to use her influence against the ritualistic tendencies in the established Ciiureh of England. A Progressive \ leeroy Censured. PEKING, Jan. 11.—The viceroy of NanKing. Lion Koun Yi, has memorialized the throne, recommending the proper training cf military officials and the discarding of ancient weapons and drill in favor of modern methods. Asa. result an edict has been issued severely criticising the memorial and censuring the presumption of the viceroy. No New Naval Programme. BERLIN. Jan. 11.—Vice Admiral Tirpitz. the secretary of the navy, informed the budget committee, of the Reichstag to-day that there is no intention in any quarter of introducing anew naval programme. He said the authorities have agreed that the existing naval scheme should be carried out within the prescribed limits. Four Rulers to Meet. I/ON DON. Jan. 12.—Emperor Nicholas, according to a dispatch to the Daily News from Odessa, is planning to meet Emperor Francis Joseph, Emperor William and President Fauro early in the spring to impress upon them his disarmament proposals. The place of meeting has not yet been decided upon. OBITUARY. Col. Geortee P. Webster, Prominent Brave of the Tn in many Tribe. NEW YORK, Jan. 11. —Col. George P. Webster, a well-known lawyer and a prominent member of Tammany Hall, died at his home in this city to-day. He was born in Connecticut, but in early life went to Newport. Ky. He served several terms in the Kentucky Legislature, and was one of those who voted against secession. Colonel Webster entered the Union army and was assistant quartermaster. He removed to New York city about twenty-five years ago. < apt. Michael Carbine. VICKSBURQ, Miss., Jan. 11.—Captain Michael Carbine, of New Orleans, a steamboatman well known from St. Paul to New Orleans, died on board the steamer Chalmette a few miles south of Lake Providence this morning. Carbine was fifty-eight years of age and had been on the river for the past thirty-seven years. Jesse De Long. NILES, Mich., Jan. 11.—Jesse DeLong, the well-known horseman, died to-day at his home at Fairland, five milek north of this city. His death was caused by the grip. Mr. DeLong was owner of many celebrated running horses and was known on pearly every track east of the Mississippi. ■ MANGLED ON THE TRACK. Four People Run Down by an Express Train and Killed. PITTSBURG, Pa., Jan. 11.—Four persons were run down and Instantly killed by express train No. 13, near Larimer Station, on the Pennsylvania, tw r enty-five miles east of Pittsburg. The dead are: Mary Miller, Thus. Miller, Albert Wilson and Walter Brown. The train dashed into the group of unfortunates at full speed and the bodies were terribly mangled. After being gathered up, the remains were taken in charge by friends. On account of a freight wreck near Larimer, it was necessary to switch the westbound passenger trains to the east-bouml tracks. The express was running at full speed and the engineer blew the whistle, but the alarm was unheard, as the victims evidently thought the train would run on the west-bound track as usual. They were all residents of Larimer. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Freedmen’s Aid Society of the Methodist Church is holding its annual session in Cincinnati. • The steamer Mariposa, which arrived at San Francisco yesterday, brought $2,7/00,000 worth of English sovereigns for California and New York banks. The seventh annual convention of the National League of Commission Merchants of the United States is in session at New Orleans. Over 400 delegates are present. . Attorney General Cunningham, of Loulsiana, has commenced proceedings to prevent the Cincinnati Debenture Company, organized under the laws of Ohio, from doing business in Louisiana. Mary Keima, of No. 8 Berg street, Cleveland, was shot yesterday by Anton Stano, of Jerome alley, and cannot live. Jealousy is the cause. Stano is a married man and Mary Keima has two children. The trustees of the general convention of unlversalists met in New York yesterday. The chief business was the appointment of a missionary to Japan, appropriations and the election of a financial secretary. The executive committee of the Photographers’ Association has selected Celeron, on Lake Chautauqua, as the place, and July 17 to 22, as the date for the next annual convention and exhibition of the association. J. W. Miller has been arrested for the murder of Daniel H. Wilson, an old rancher, who was assassinated on the night of Oct. 19, 1896, at his own door in Sotano county, California. Miller is a brother-in-law of Wilson. A movement is in-progress for a consolidation of the interests of the leading American manufacturers of gas and electric light fixtures. The value of the total annual output of these fixtures in the United States is about $6,000,000. The troubles between Captain B. M. Shaffner, commanding the naval militia of Illinois, and Commander E. H. Harrison, of the first battalion, culminated yesterday in an order mustering out of the service the entire first battalion. Mrs. Henry Haskell Fowling, manager of the Star hosiery mills, at Hagama, N. Y., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Her assets are given at about $150,000 and the liabilities at about $140,000, of which $89,000 is secured by mortgages. Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, has received an opinion from Judge Advocate General Lieber, of the United States army, in which he decides that soldiers of the war with Spain may be buried in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, sailed on the White Star line steamship Majestic from New York yesterday for Liverpool. His visit abroad is in connection w r ith a meeting of the Venezuelan boundary commission, of which he is a member. On board the steamer Colon, which arrived at San Francisco from Guatemala and South American ports yesterday, was Signor Roma, minister from Guatemala to the United State/s. Minister Roma will proceed to Washington at once to assume his duties. C. D. Firestone, proprietor of the Columbus Buggy Company and the Peters Dash Company, has sold the dash department of tho business to the McKinnon Dash Company, of Buffalo, N. Y., which owns the consolidated dash companies of the United States. The Engineering atjd Mining Journal, in its compilation of mineral statistics for 18;ts, places the world’s production of gold in the year at $286,218,954. To this total the United States contributed $64,3*0,000, Russia $25,136,000, South Africa $73,476,000 and Australasia $61,480,000. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has adopted a series of resolutions, among which is one indorsing the action of the National Board of Trade against the provisions of the war revenue tariff act which calls for stamp taxes on sales made on commercial exchanges. Clifton Sifton, Canadian minister of the interior, has received a report from Commissioner Ogilvie, of the Yukon, stating that there would be no starvation in Dawson this winter, although the government would have to assist a number of persons who went into the country without means. The Dutch steamer Rotterdam, which arrived from Rotterdam yesterday, reports that during the embarkation of passengers the police authorities made a search for Count Walsln Esterhazy, who was said to be. stopping tn a hotel at Rotterdam, trying to escape to America. Wealthy Couple Married. CLEVELAND. O. Jan. 11.—Mrs. Seville H. Pickunds, fifty-two years old, of this city, and Jay C. Morse, sixty years old. of Wheaton, ill., were married to-day at the home of the bride bv Rev. George H. McGrow, of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Mrs. Plckands Is tho widow of Col. James Pickunds. a wealthy Iron-ore dealer, who was known by iron men throughout the country

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Wasson & Cos. | General ; j | - Arthur i 100 CIGAR lOc | For Sale Everywhere. | j DESCHLPR : : : : Distributer > ■■ , . .■ *"■■. ■<■■■— ■ ■ /..i. ■■■■> ju*l who died about two years ago. Mr. Morse is a widower and a millionaire. and was a business associate of Colonel Picriands. Mr. and Mrs. Morse have gone on a wedding trip. They will make their home at Wheaton, 111. CANC ELED STAMP FR AI D. It A\'as>Sown In Honor, hot It Hus Been, liaised in Dishonor. Now York Press. Like the poor and unfortunate it professes to serve, the “one miiiian canceled postage stamps wanted” fraud is ever with us. The first of these advertisements, it is believed, appeared in London about fortyfive years ago, and was genuine. At that time London had a daily newspaper in which anybody could insert advertisements for. nothing, its owners relied for its profits on its sales to people who wanted something, and for a number of years the paper prospered, though finally it decayed through bad management after its founder died, and his heirs tried to run it their own way. Tho curiosity of the charitably-minded was aroused one day by an advertisement that appeared in this paper, stating that a crippled boy, the son of an old sailor, would be grateful to people who would send him postage stamps, which were then a novelty, as his one pleasure while his father was away at sea was in collecting them. The advertisement said that the lad had no mother and few friends, and lived by himself in a cheap garret down by Rotherhithe. The boy’s name was given as Hobson. The collection thus formed by Use sailor’s son was genuine, according to a stamp col- • lector of this city, to whom the collection came by purchase many years later. The collector from whom he secured it had bought it from young Hobson in his thirtieth year for £2OO. It was a fine one, as old sailors who received letters in strange countries had been generous in their contributions to the collection of a sailor's son. The boy, youth and man never pretented to want the stamps for any other purpose than to own them, and sold them only when ho knew, from the positive assurance of hiß doctor, that he could not live another year. His father had then been dead, it is said, two years, and the poor fellow was destitute. A few years after Hobson started his collection on this novel plan other collectors of the same order cropped up in Great Britain and on the continent. Later a bright American began to collect slumps In this manner, and his imitators have been many, and even now, when the novelty of the scheme is somewhat w'orn, some new rival of the crippled son of the English sailor comes forth. The demand for stamps has come to be regarded as a fraud. It is generally a nuisance, and often both. Sampson on Naval Victories. Baltimore American. Admiral Sampson, in his speech at the Colonial Club banquet in New York, on Saturday night, said: "Victories were not won by excessive bravery, although bravery was an important and necessary thing. The thing to do was to i/ring a superior foice against the force of the enemy. Without that the chances of victory are small.” From the destruction of the Spanish Armada to the present moment nine-tenths of the naval victories have been due to the courage and coolness of the commanders who achieved them, and in very many, if not a large majority of Instances, the weaker force has whipped the stronger. This was the case in England’s conflict w'ith the Armada; it was so in nearly all of Nelson’s battles, and in those of John Paul Jones; and the early naval history of the United States abounds in instances where the American commander won against odds. In Dewey’s light at Manila, the Spaniards were not as strong as the Americans, but the marvel of that encounter was not in the fact that the Americans won, but that they annihilated the enemy wit horn any Injury of note to themselves. It was tho cool, calculating work of the commander, which so directed the forces at his command as to acomplish these results. It was the same way at Santiago. There the forces were nearly equal, but the cool, calculating courage of Schley directed the forces under him and annihilated the Spanish fleet without receiving appreciable damage. Playing Roles t hanged. NEW YORK. Jan. 11.—The American Bov.ding Congress has adopted a large number of < hanges in the playing rules of bowling. Jn the dispute in the Chicago la-ague, where a club failed to play a schedule, game because, of removal to anew alley, the gams was ordered rolled over. With the exception of the executive committee last year's officers were re-elected for 1899. The executive committee consists of Julius Myers, of Boston; Van Tbiesen. of Brooklyn; George P. Weed, of Dayton. O.; Thomas Curtis, of Brooklyn; T. C. Johunsmeyer. of New York, and J. TL Zwangzer. of Haitimere. The next congress will assemble at Baltimore, Jan. 9, 15*00. Dynamited flic Jail. COLUMBUS. Neb.. Jan. 11.—Four desperate crooks, who are held in jail here for shooting tin officer and wholesale robberies, dynamited the jail to-night. The attempt to obtain liberty failed, howevi r. and two or the thugs were seriously, if not fatally, injured. One. Waters, will lose his eyesight. The jail building is considerably damaged. It is supposed pals of the crooks supplied the explosive. Insurance Companies Reindicted, FRANKFORT. Ky., Jan. 11.—The 101 tir insurance companies doing business in Kentucky, which were indicted lost fall by the Franklin grand jury for combining to keep up rates, were again indicted by tho name body to-day for similar off* ns >s. The old case was tried at this term of court, and if the indictments are held good it will result in the collection of at least SIoO.OOO in lines. Tr dting Mare Emily Sold. LOUI3VVILLK, Ky., Jan. 11.—A telegram received to-night from Ed A. Tipson, at Chicago, announces the purchase of the great trotting maro Emily (2:11) for Marcus Daly. While the price was not announced, it can be stated with authority that the sum was the largest ever paid for a trotting mare, with the single exception of that tor Nunojr Hanks, and that is near $20,000.

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