Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1899 — Page 2

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submit to you my sworn statement wPh the abiding faith that your commission, having all the facts before you, will decide the points at issue justly.” ♦ THE WAR INVESTIGATION. Gen. Humphreys and Captain* Irvine and Awpintvnl! Bxnmined. WASHINGTON, Jan. ]6.—Gen. Charles F. Humphreys, who, was in charge of the water transportation at Tampa for Santiago, was chief quartermaster on General Miles's staff and was with General Shatter prior to General Miles's arrival, was the main witness before the war investigating commission to-day. Prior to his appearance, Frank K. Vogel, representing the Nelson Morris Packing Company, and vice president of the Fairbanks Canning Company, testified that his concern had sold about $i30,000 worth of canned roast beef to the government, used at Chiekamauga. and said it was all of good quality. No complaints ever had been made to him. nor had any beef products of his concern been chemically treated. Captain It. J. C. Irvine, Eleventh United States Infantry, commissary on the Panama at the time that transport was in charge of Surgeon Daly, who wrote a report on the beef, condemning it In the most sensational language, testified that the vessel sailed from Ponce on Sept. 1 or 2, and on the 7th there was a well-marked odor, as of something that had been "closed up.” He was not prepared to say the odor was like that emanating from a dead human body injected with chemical preservatives, as Surgeon Daly had reported. As soon as complaint was made of the beef, he said it was examined and found to be very odorous. The beef was thrown overboard. The men were then put on the rest of the rations, living without fresh beef. The witness said the lack of it was not felt by the men. All the beef carried was refrigerated beef. The ice taken aboard had not been sufficient to preserve the beef, "even.” as the commission asked, "if it had been received in good condition.” It was received in fairly good condition, however, the witness said. After the beef was thrown overboard, he had thought it must have undergone some change before it was brought aboard, or while aboard before it was on ice. The board of survey that examined the beef condemned it because it was spoiled, nothing to any other effect being adduced. Its report said that the beef was not received in good condition and It exonerated Captain Irvine from responsibility therefor. Despite the finding, witness said he Insisted that he believed the beef w r as in condition fit for immediate use when received, and it was used for three dr four days. He cited the absence of refrigerating facilities aboard and admitted the beef was not as good as could be gotten at first-class restaurant, as it had not the fresh flavor. THE CONGESTION AT TAMPA. General Humphreys, the chief witness of the day, said the congestion at Tampa was due to the inability of the roads to handle the cars. "Did you assign the troops in advance of their arrival at Tampa to the different vessels?” asked General Wilson. "No.” "When the troops came to you, were they then assigned for the first time?” "Yes. sir, because that was necessary.” Continuing, he said that under the circumstances the transports at Tampa were as well fitted out as they could have been. Each vessel carried its full complement of ordnance, quartermasters’ and commissary stores in fact, all that could be taken. There were 114 mules and seven ambulances taken. "Why were no more mules and ambulances taken?” asked Mr. Wilson. “Because the vessels were full,” was the answer. “Would your reply, then, be lack of transportation?” "I would not like to say that.” All the wagons, said the witness, were landed at Santiago, but all were not set up. Utters, he said,, should have been landed before the battle of El Caney, because they were regimental, and he believed they must have been. Witness was aboard the Seneca for two days and said she looked all right to him. “I know' there were people aboard the Concho who ought not to have been,” he said in reply to queries as to passes for outsiders to come north on these vessels. He thought duplicate issuance of passes for foreign attaches and others might overcrowd the vessels, and had protested that only one person should furnish passes. After the vessel was turned over to the medical department, he said, he had nothing to do with these ships. Asked as to serious complaints that had been made of improper conditions of the Seneca, Concho, Breakwater and the City of Washington, witness insisted the responsibility rested with the medical department. When the Seneca, Iroquois or the City of Washington sailed for FAIR AND MUCH COLDER. Indianinns Promised Another Taste of Winter Weather. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 8 p. m.— Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Rain, probably turning into snow on the lakes; fair oh Tuesday night; much colder; light variable winds, becoming northwesterly and increasing. For Indiana and Illinois—Threatening weather followed by fair; much colder; brisk to high northwesterly winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast —The storm central last night over Lake Superior has moved to Lake Ontario and a second storm has developed off the Middle Atlantic coast. An area of high pressure of great magnitude has moved to Manitoba and has caused a decided fall in temperature In the middle Missouri valley, Bismarck reporting a fall of 24 degrees in twen-ty-four hours, and to 2 degrees below zero. Rain has fallen in the Atlantic and gulf States and the lower lake region and middle and North Pacific coast; light snow in the Missouri valley and light rain or snow In the middle Rocky mountain regions. The temperature has remained stationary in all districts, including the Pacific coast, except a fall in the Missouri valley and upper lake region. Rain may be expected in the Atlantic States, clearing Tuesday night; fair and much colder Wednesday; clearing and much colder in the lake regions, the Ohio valley and middle and west gulf States; threatening weather and much colder in the middle Atlantic and upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Fresh southeasterly winds might be expected on the North Atlantic coast and fresh variable winds on the middle and South Atlantic coast. Local Observation* on Monday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m.. 29.86 39 81 South. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m..29.84 45 84 N'west. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature, 38. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Jan. 16: Temp. Pre. Normal 28 0.09 Mean 44 0.00 Departure from normal *l6 —0.09 Departure from Jan. 1 *73 *I.BB •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’* Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta. Ga 46 30 50 Bismarck, N. D —2 10 —2 Buffalo, N. Y 38 3) 44 Calgary, Alberta 0 10 4 Cairo, 111 44 36 52 Cheyenne, Wyo. 28 42 39 Chicago, 111 34 38 36 Cincinnati, 0 40 59 48 Concordia, Kan 32 44 34 „>avenport, la 30 48 40 "Jtes Moines, la 28 46 30 "Galveston, Tex 52 62 58 Helena, Mont 30 44 40 Jacksonville, Fla 56 68 64 Kansas City, Mo 34 52 42 Little Rock, Ark 42 62 56 Marquette, Mich 22 28 24 Memphis, Tenn 48 62 58 Minnedosa, Man —6 Moorhead. Minn 4 Nashville, Tenn 46 56 52 New Orleans, I-a 56 66 64 New York, N. Y 38 46 44 North Platte, Neb 20 402! Oklahoma. O. T 32 62 54 Omaha. Neb 26 40 26 Pittsburg, Pa 38 52 46 Qu’ Appelle, Assin —l6 —2 _J6 Rapid City. S. D 14 24 14 Salt Lake City, Utah ... 34 44 42 St. Louis, Mo 34 54 50 St. Paul, Minn 16 24 2> Springfield, 111 36 48 42 Springfield, Mo 38 56 52 Vicksburg, Miss 48 68 f,l Washington, D. C. 32 4$ 42 —Below zero.

home with the sick, he said, they had no ice, unless the Red Cross had a little. The first ice schooner, he said, reached Santiago July 30. There wras a long wrangle over the responsibility for the loading of the transports for the sick. "If the Concho.” asked ex-Governor Woodbury, "was overcrowded, was it because the government had not provided sufficient transportation or through an error of judgment by the medical department “Why, the medical department, certainly,” replied General Humphrey, emphatically, "because there were two more ships, each as good as the Concho, available.” TOO MUCH BEEF. General Humphreys resumed his testimony at the afternoon session. Asked about his experience with the refrigerated beef, he, said the first he saw was at Santiago. “The trouble was there w T as too much of it,” said he, "but what I saw was pretty good. I think it was all good when landed at daylight each morning, but I know nothing about its condition when it reached the troops. I heard some of it spoiled.” “How about the tinned roast beef” “That I know did not give satisfaction, possibly owing to intense heat.” “Did you hear an intimation that it might have been chemically treated?” "I did not. In a joking way I heard that Armour had extracted the juice from the roast beef for his beef extract.” Captain Homer F. A spin wall, quartermaster of the Manitoba, which carried the refrigerated beef that was dumped overboard on the return voyage from Ponce, testified that the beef w r as tested when it was placed aboard ship. His engineer, he said, was familiar with the shipment of beef in the transatlantic trade, and w'as a little nervous about the temperature of the refrigerator. It was new business to him (Aspinwall). The engineer said it was impossible to get the temperature of the "boxes” below 33 Fahrenheit. The average temperature on the trip w'as 34. He arrived at Ponce Aug. 10 and ran aground. While aground one of the pipes choked and the temperature in the boxes went up to 46. The pipe was choked for four hours. At Mayaguez he opened the boxes for the first time. There were 1.500 troops there. The beef was good. At Ponce, Colonel Smith, chief quartermaster, agreed to take 5,000 pounds a day. By mistake the lighter came for the first installment of meat at 5 o’clock in the evening instead of 5 in the morning. It was kept ashore over night and issued. There was one complaint that a portion of the meat hgd spoiled. It was buried by order of the surgeon. But the rest was good. Major Birmingham, of the hospital at Ponce, said it was the hest beef issued to the hospital. No further beef w r as issued at Ponce. With the quantity used aboard ship, about 50.000 of the 300,000 pounds of the heef were issued. Two days before he reached New York the stew'ard reported that he was obliged to cut away a third of each quarter in the boxes, which had spoiled, and threw it overboard. He said the officers aboard ship continued to use the meat. He heard no complaints, although he would not have been surprised had there been complaints. At New' York he reported the beef spoiled. A board of survey was appointed and condemned the beef Sept. 17. He received orders not to dispose of the beef until he got instructions from Swift Cos. He thought there was more beef aboard than could have been consumed by the troops in Porto Rico before some of it spoiled. He heard no intimation that the beef had been chemically treated. General Gilmore told him when he arrived at Ponce that they did not want the beef, that they could get plenty of beef in Porto Rico. He heard many complaints among the soldiers about the character of the fresh beef issued to them It was slaughtered in the morning- and was often issued while the flesh still quivered. He felt annoyed because the beef from his own country was being refused and the bulls of Porto Rico accepted. Baptist* Indorse Miles. BOSTON, Jan. 16.—General Miles to-day received an indorsement of his course in the controversy with Commissary General Eagan from the Baptist ministers of Boston. At their meeting Rev. J. D. Fulton offered the following resolution, which was passed: “Resolved, That the Baptist ministers of Boston and vicinity recognize with devout pleasure the magnificent bearing of Nelson A. Miles in the crucial ordeal through which he is passing as the friend of the soldier, as the cultured officer and as an illustration of American manhood.” TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Benton MeMillin was inaugurated as Governor of Tennessee yesterday. In the pool tournament at Chicago last night Eby defeated Horgan by a score of 125 to 115. But one game was played. A. F. Copeland, of New York, the prominent Manhattan Athletic Club athlete, has been engaged as trainer of the Yale track team. Santiago Murphy was arrested at New Orleans last night. He is charged with having obtained $70,000 from the Mexican National Bank on forged securities and drafts in April last. The consecration of the Rev. Samuel Cook Edsall, D. D., as missionary bishop of North Dakota, will take place Wednesday, Jan. 18, at St. Peter’s Church, Chicago, of which Dr. Edsall has been rector for a considerable time. Frank Wallach. salesman, has filed a petition in bankruptcy at New York, with liabilities of $59,256 and assets of $35 in cash. All but $25,000 of the liabilities was as a partner in the firm of Daters & Cos., at Cheyenne, Wyo. The Ohio centennial commission’s special committee started from Columbus for Washington yesterday, accompanied by about eighty prominent Ohio citizens, to urge Congress to make an appropriation for the centennial. Howard J. Rogers, of Albany. N. Y., deputy state superintendent of public instruction, has been appointed director of the department of education and social economy for the United States at the Paris exposition in 1900. Joe Bates, a farmer, living near the Washita river, in Arkansas, started to church with his family in a wagon. In attempting to ford the river the wagon was swept away and his wife, child and a young woman w'ere drowned. At a meeting of the Church Congress of the United States at New* York, Rev. Dr. Cornelius B. Smith, of New Y'ork, was elected to take the place of corresponding secretary lately made vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. John W. Kramer. The trial of young Jesse James, son of the noted border outlaw', under indictment at Kansas City, Mo., for complicity in the robberv of a Missouri Pacific train at Leeds, Mo., In September last, has been postponed at the request of the prosecution till Feb. 16 next. On last Friday Prof. W. T. Sedgwick, of the Boston Institute of Technology, delivered an address in which he was said to have cast reflections upon the moral character of the students of the University of Virginia. Professor Sedgwick denies having slandered the students. W. C. Gates, a Yukon miner, who is in Ottawa on business with the Canadian goyernment, says that Commissioner Ogilvie has made a recommendation to the Canadian government that the 19 per cent, royalty now collected on the gold output of the Yukon be reduced to 2% per cent. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the decision of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Allegheny county in the case of William Hillman, who was convicted in October last of murdering Bertha Spiegel, a fifteen-year-old girl, in Pittsburg. Hillman had been sentenced to death. Detective J. S. Billings, of the Pinkerton Agency, has recognized James Gilmore, John Allen and Harry Howard as the three men who robbed the Great Northern train in Minnesota last November. They are held at St. Joseph. Mo., on the charge of robbing James C. Davis, a lawyer, last November. It is announced that the board of trustees of Cornell University will appoint T. F. Crane present dean of the faculty of arts and science, to perform the duties of President J. G. Schurman during the latter’s abscenee in the Philippine islands. President Schurman’s leave of absence will extend to Jan. 1, 1900. All doubt as to the identity and manner of death of Herman E. Black, clerk to army Paymaster Bullis, who was found dead at Savannah, Ga.. last Saturday, was removed yesterday by the discovery of proof that Black was Charles H. Johnson, of Waltham, Mass., and that he committed suicide with cyanide of potassium. A resolution has been introduced in the North Carolina Legislature protesting against the seating of Congressman-elect B. H. Roberts, of Utah. The resolution calls on the senators and representatives in Congress from North Carolina not only to oppose the seating of Mr. Roberts, but to pass a law covering all such cases in the future. (nil Extended to I)r. llilltx. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—A meeting of the Plymouth Church congregation was held tonight ahd a call issued to Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis. of Chicago, to serve as pastor of the church. There were 246 votes for him, six against and three blank. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo-Qulnine Tablet*. All drugflats refund the money if it fallß to cure. 2ic. The genuine has L. D. Q. on each tablet.

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MAKING SLOW PROGRESS MINERS WILL NOT BE READY TO MEET OPERATORS TO-DAY. Resolution Opposing;' Annexation of the Philippine* Voted Down—Demands of Coal Diggers. p PITTSBURG, Jan. 16.—When the convention of United Mine Workers resumed today it was announced that the scale committee had not completed its work, and all members who had suggestions were requested to present them to the committee. The committee on constitution reported several amendments to the constitution. Among the most Important changes were the following: An increase in the executive board from six to eight members, exclusive of the president, vice president and secretarytreasurer. No district having less than 5,000 members shall be entitled to representation on the executive board: time of holding the national convention the third Monday in January instead of the second Monday. These amendments were all adopted after some little opposition. Resolutions were then presented opposing the annexation of the Philippines on the ground that they are inhabited by 8,090,009 persons mostly of the coolie labor class, and their admission would be most threatening to American labor and to the organized trades of the country; also, opposing the indorsement by the convention, of any political party or candidates who are opposed to tho principle of common ownership. Both resolutions were defeated. A resolution to put forth efforts to organize the miners in the anthracite region w r as adopted. Contrary to expectation, the result of the balloting for officers was not announced at the afternoon session. Unfavorable action was taken on a resolution to Increase the per capita tax so that each member may be lurnished with a copy of the United Mine Workers' Journal. After several committee reports of minor importance had been read acting President Mitchell said it would be impossible to get through with the business in time for thq joint interstate convention arranged for tomorrow'. He moved that a committee be appointed to wait on the operators and request a postponement of the joint convention until Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. The motion was carried and John Mitchell, Philip Roberts and Dennis Sullivan were appointed. An announcement was made that the scale committee would not be ready to report until to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock. It is understood that the operators at the joint meeting will energetically oppose an advance in the price of mining and will fight to the end any agreement looking toward an increase in the present wages. The business, they admit, has been better during the last ninety days than for a long time, but they are hampered by a lack of cars for the transportation of coal. Some of the miners’ delegates say they will insist both upon an advance in wages and the eight-hour day. They claim that nearly all the mines of the country are being worked to their full capacity and that there is a scarcity of miners in many districts. Michigan iron ore operators are sending agents through the coal mining districts of Illinois, engaging coal diggers to go to the iron mines. Altogether the situation, they say, warrants asking for more money. Some of the delegates even w'ent so far as to hint that if their demands were not complied with a strike of greater magnitude than the country has seen for years would be inaugurated next summer. Indiana operators held a caucus to-night and decided to uphold the eight-hour clause of the interstate agreement, which will be opposed by all the other States. Will Not Attend. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 16.—1 t was officially announced to-night that the Hocking valley operators will not attend the joint convention in Pittsburg. Mr. J. S. Morton, one of the leading operators of the valley, stated to-night that he w'ould not attend and he did not know of any others who would be there. The Hocking valley operators claim that when they entered into the joint agreement a year ago it was with the understanding that the miners W'ould organize the State of West Virginia and advance the price of fnining there. This promise of the miners, it is claimed, has not' been kept, and, as a result, the Ohio operators have suffered severely by competition wdth West Virginia coal, though they have maintained the price of mining under the agreement, W age* Reduced 12 Per Cent. MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Jan. 16.—The Middletown Plate Company, manufacturers of silver plated ware, announced to-day a general reduction in w'ages of about 12 per cent. The company employs about 300 hands and is one of the few concerns that is not a member of the International Silver Company. The managers claim that dull business forced them to it. M’KINLEY’S AIM. (Concluded from Firwt Page.) teentii Minnesota Regiment also. The convalescents were taken to the dL'ision field hopitals. Those who are too ill to go home Immediately will be retained there. The others will go on to to their respective homes as soon as they can be provided with suitable clothing. The following passengers were in the Ohio’s cabin: Lieut. J. O. Barber. William W. W. Hill. Col. J. H. Fredericks, Captain Vickers, Mr. V. Lady, L. A. Crothers of the Red Cross Society, R. Kibble of the Red Cross, Lieut. B. Holcomb of the United States navy. Lieutenant Stanworth of the United States navy, P. H. Jones of the United States army, Surgeon C. L. Mullins, Lieut. J. M. Wiley, R. Durst of the Red Cross and J. H. Heiss. The Astor Battery left for New York on the overland train last night. POWERS MIGHT rIIOTEST. What a British Official Say* About the Exchange of the Philippines* LONDON, Jan. 16.—Diplomats refuse to take seriously the revival of the report cabled from Washington that the United States is willing to exchange the Philippine islands for the British West Indian islands. A high official of the Foreign Office characterized the statement as absurd. He said that while the continental powers appeared to be willing to permit the United States to hold the Philippines as spoils of war, they would not be likely to remain passive spectators of a change in the balance of power in the far East which w'ould result from Great Britain’s acquirement of those islands, particularly so at this critical time in the struggle for domination in China. The official quoted further remarked that he did not believe Great Britain or the United States courted the inevitable protests and complications which would result from the proposed exchange. If such negotiations are on foot the officials of the United States embassy here have no knowledge of them. All Cablegram* Censored. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Commercial Cable Company to-day issued the following notice: “The Eastern Telegraph Company advises us as follows; ‘We beg to Inform you that we have this morning received advices from Manila stating that the American government now notifies us that censorship is applicable to all outward and homeward telegrams containing political news.’ ” Movements of War Ship*. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The Navy Department was informed to-day that the Bennington sailed from Honolulu on the 7th inst. for Guam, in accordance with the orders of the Navy Department. On the w’ay over she will stop at Wake island and take possession of it for use as a cable station. The Castine sailed yesterday from San Juan de Puerto Rieo for Gibraltar. She is going to the Philippines to reinforce Dewey's fleet. To Confer with the President. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16.—The three emissaries of Aguinaldo, who arrived here on Saturday, have departed for Washington, D. C., where they will confer with President McKinley regarding the government of the Philippines. Engineer on Trial. DETROIT, Jan. 16.—After more than three years’ postponement the trial was begun to-day of the man who was indicted under charges of responsibility for the explosion which wrecked the Journal building and resulted in the loss of thirty-seven lives. The respondent, Thomas M. Thompson, who was engineer of the building, 1* charged with permitting u great steam pressure and with absenting himself from his post of duty.

The trial has been delayed by raising various points of law' longer than any criminal case In the history of the State. GILLET WILL RETURN. Creditor* of the FnsHive Cattle King Will Not Prosecute. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Jan. 16.—Grant G. Gillett, the Kansas cattle plunger, will return to the United States and face his creditors in Kansas City on or before Feb. 1, according to a statement made to-day by Charles F. Hunt, who came here from Chihuahua, Mexico, several days ago, and who has had nuemrous conferences with Gillett’s principal creditors. Hunt departed for Mexico this evening, and just before his departure he admitted for the first time that he came North as the representative of the Kansan, w'hose failure for over a million dollars so startled the financial world a few weeks ago. Mr. Hunt stated that he had arrived at a thorough understanding with Gillett’s creditors, that Mr. and Airs. Gillett would come north at once, and that there would lie no prosecution on account of alleged questionable mortgage transactions. In fact, he declared that Gillett had never had any fear of the outcome of the matter should he be brought before the court, and that his object in seeking refuge in Mexico w'as to avoid the expense and annoyance which he would have been subjected to in the event of arrest. Mr. Hunt stated also that Gillett had no large sum of money, as had been reported, and that he will make no big payment to his creditors. On the contrary, according to Mr. Hunt, Gillett will be serviceable to his creditors principally in assisting them to straighten out his tangled affairs, and to convert into cash his cattle and other propel' scattered over southern Kansas and the Territories. Gillett. he says, desires to wind up the whole affair and begin life anew. Mr. Hunt declined to state the basis of the settlement with the creditors. In referring to the settlement he stated to a Times reporter that one Kansas City hank held over $300,000 of Gillett paper. Officials of the bank, when seen later, denied his statement in the most positive terms. Other known and supposed creditors of Gillett have persistently denied that there will be any understanding by which Gillett will he permitted to return and be free from prosecution. SHELVED FOR A MONTH. French Deputies' Refused to Discus* tlie Piequart (use. PARTS, Jan. 16.—At the opening of today's session of the Chamber of Deputies the premier, M. Dupuy, demanded, amid applause, the immediate discussion of the budget. M. Firmin Faure, revisionist and anti-Semite, representing the First division of Oran, Algeria, desired to discuss without delay Co-lonel Picquart’s appearance before a court-martial. The premier, however, suggested shelving the matter for a month, but as M. Firmin Faure insisted, a vote was taken, and the Chamber supported the premier by 422 to 74. The budget was then commenced. M. Loew, president of the criminal branch of the Court of Cassation, in an interview published in the Journal to-day, estimates that three weeks will elapse before the Court of Cassation will hold a public hearing of the Dreyfus case. The judge also declares that the statement that the court is in possession ol’ documents furnished by Major Count Esterliazy is inexact. LONDON, Jan. 17. —The Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that Count Ferdinand Esterhazy is expected to arrive in Paris to-day (Tuesday.) “BADGER” MOORE IN PRISON. Fayne Stralin, Hi* Wife, Arraigned anil Sent Back; to (lie Tomb*. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—William A. Moore, the husband of Fayne Strahan Moore, was to-day taken from the Tombs to the Grand Central depot, where he was put on a train for Sing Sing, to serve out a nineteen-year sentence. Mrs. Moore, in whose recent trial for complicity with her husband in "badgering” Martin Mahon tho jury disagreed, was to-day arraigned before Justice Fursman in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court. The purpose of the arraignment was to place the case on the February calendar. Mr. Levy, counsel for Mrs. Moore, asked that the case be set down for the second Monday in February. Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre objected to this, on the ground that there were several cased that should be "tried first, demanding immediate attention. Justice Fursman upheld Mclntyre and placed the ease down on the calendar to take its regular order thereoa. Prior to the departure of Mrs. Moore from the Tombs, Mrs. Strahan, the mother, who came up from Atlanta, Ga., saw her daughter in the Tombs, cried over her and said: "Cheer up, my child, we shall soon get you out of this.” Then Mrs. Strahan called at the district attorney's office to try to get her daughter’s hail reduced, hut without success. NICARAGUAN SPITE. The Little Republic Will Hereafter Purchase Supplies in Europe. Correspondence of the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 20.—The government of Nicaragua, probably, it is alleged, “in resentment of some recent acts of the United States,” has arranged, so it is declared, to hereafter purchase the supplies it needs for its machine repairing shops, railroads, steamboats and electric light, telephone, and telegraph establishments in Europe. A large percentage of these materials has for years past been purchased through Nicaragua’s commercial agent in New York city. The government of Nicaragua has organized a special bureau of engineering under the name of the "office of public works,” and has appointed as its chief Senor Don Jose Carmen Munos, a graduate of Princeton University. The office is to have charge of land surveying, topographic surveys, public construction works, etc. Double Murder in Missouri. LYNN CREEK, Mo., Jan. 16.—The authorities are unable to find a clew sufficient to justify an arrest in the case of George W. Anderson and Lizzie Wisebach, who were found murdered with an ax in their home, three miles east of here, Friday night. Hogs had mutilated the body of the woman. Money and other valuables found on the body of Anderson indicates that the motive for the crime was not robbery. Anderson was a member of the notorious Quantrell band during the war, and had the reputation of being a “bad man.” Mr. Plant’s Condition. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Henry B. Plant, the steamship and railroad owner, who has been ill lor some time, left with his physician to-night for Tampa, Fla. It was said that if Mr. Plant soon recovers his strength he will go from there to the West Indies to further a plan for steamship lines between Cuba, Porto Rico and Jamaica, which has been under consideration for several months. His physician said to-day that Mr. Plant’s physical condition was all that could he expected for a man in. his eightieth year. Curbon Trust Incorporated. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 16.—The National Carbon Company, with an authorized capital of $10,000,000, was incorporated here today. The incorporators are: W. H. Lawrence, Myron T. Herrick, James Parmlee, Webb C. Hayes, all of Cleveland; J. C. Van Blarcum, of St. Louis: A H. Young, of Brooklyn: J. M. Humbird and D. D. Dickey, of Pittsburg, and Hugh M. Hamill, of Trenton. St. Anne’* College Burned. DIG BY, N. S., Jan. 16.-St. Anne’s College was burned early this morning, and in their labors to secure safety for all the inmates of the dormitory Fathers La Dore, Chaisson and Canon were seriously injured. The 110 pupils and thirteen professors escaped without the slightest confusion. The college cost about $75,000, and the furniture and personal property was worth probably $25,000 more. The college will be rebuilt. Joint William Plunkett. LONDON, Jan. 16.—John William Plunkett. Baron Dunsany. representative peer for Ireland since 1893, died to-day in his fortysixth year. Tho deceased peer at one time sat In the House of Commons for the Thornbury division of Gloucestershire in the Conservative interests. He is succeeded by his son, Hon. Edward John Moreton Drux Plunkett, now in his twenty-first year.

FATHER CHINIQUY DEAD # FAMOUS PRIEST WHO WAS DEFENDED BV ABRAHAM LINCOLN. * Founded the Town of St. Anne, 111., Quit the Catholic Church and Became an Apostle of Temperance. MONTREAL. Jan. 10.-Father Chiniquy died to-day. To the end he adhered to the Protestant faith. Charles Chiniquy, the “apostle of temperance,” was born in Kamouraaka, Quebec, July 30, 1809. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1833. In ISSI he visited Illinois, and in tho following year the village of St. Anne, in Kankakee county, w r as founded. Father Chiniquy and his superior, Bishop O’Regan, became involved in long-drawn disputes, leading to legal action, in which the former was defended by Abraham Lincoln. The quarrel was also carried to Rome and laid before the Pope. In 1858 the entire village of St. Anne, with the exception of fifteen families, withdrew from the Roman Catholic Church, and the dissenters later decided to unite with the Presbyterian Church. On April 15, 1860, the Presbytery of Chicago adjourned their meeting from Chicago to St. Anne, where Father Chiniquy presented the names of neariy two thousand converts, who were received into full communion. Father Chiniquy then embarked on a career which made him known around the world. In 1878 lie visited the Western States and afterwards spent two years lecturing in Australia and the antipodes. In his lecturing tours he experienced many exciting incidents and narrow escapes. For eighteen years he was kept under bail as a criminal, in 1884 he was mobbed while holding religious services in Montreal, in connection with the Salvation Army. The army leaders were brought before the courts, and the old French laws (granted in 1714) were called into requisition to forbid the. army doing duty in the city. The judges held that the army was not at enmity with Catholicism and discharged the leaders. Lewis Henry Bout ell. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Lewis Henry Boutell, father of Representative Routell, of Illinois, died here to-day of heart trouble, after an illness of about ten days. Funeral services will be held at the son’s residence in this city to-morrow and the body then will be taken to Evanston, 111., for interment. • Major Boutelle was born in Boston, Mass., in 1826. He was a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, and after leaving tho latter practiced law at Boston until the outbreak of the civil war, when he became connected with the signal corps. Later he assisted in raising the Forty-fifth Missouri Regiment, and was given the rank of major. After the close of .the war he w'ent to Chicago, where until? recently ha practiced law. Col. S. W. Eld ridge. LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. 16.—C01. S. W. Eldridge, one of the foremost men in early Kansas history, died at his home here today, aged eighty-two, of a complication of diseases. In 1855 he was proprietor in Kansas City of a noted free state hostelry. In 1856 he purchased a free state hotel in Lawrence. For a time he acted as conductor for parties of New England emigrants coming to Kansas. Prof, lieu r y G. Perry. CHICAGO. Jan. 16.-Prof. Henry G. Perry, grand chief of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and well know f n in Masonic circles, died in this city to-day. Deceased had been ill with arterial sclerosis for more than a week and a sudden attack of la grippe led to complications which resulted in death. George Gcnmnder. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—George Gemunder, one of the most expert violin makers in the country, is dead at his home in Astoria, L. 1., aged eighty-three. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany. He had resided at Astoria, L. I„ lor a quarter of a century. EIGHTEEN DAYS AT SEA. Fears Felt for the Safety of the Steamship Marquette. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Atlantic transport liner Marquette, which left London for New York Dec. 29 last, has not yet been reported. None of the incoming transatlantic vessels of the first class which left the other side a week later than the Marquette saw any trace of the belated steamer. The Marquette should have sailed on the return trip to London last Saturday. Anxiety is felt for her safety, as she has now been eighteen days at sea. The Marquette is in charge of Captain T. F. Gates. The chief engineer is G. Simpson, and the ship’s surgeon is H. Clock. The crew numbers 130. Following is the Marquette’s cabin-passen-ger list: Mrs. Ursula Ancher, Mr. Bennett, T. F. Oashart and wife, Mrs. L. Creswell, Mrs. Dick, Mrs. C. M. Dicott, Vere Finch, Mrs. Lyall, Miss Phyllis Lyall, A. D. E. Lyman, wife and daughter, F. S. McCarthy, T. L. Morton, A. H. Whitefield and wife. There are no second-class or steerage passengers. The German steamer Catania, from Hamburg, for New York, Dec. 28, for whose safety anxiety was felt, put into St. Michael, Azores, to-day, short of coal. Mexican Steamer Probably Lost. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16—The steamer Vera Cruz, a Mexican liner belonging to Romanos, left the port of Vera Cruz on Dec. 23 for Tampico. The trip takes only two days and the vessel is now twentyone days overdue. It is feared in shipping circles that she is lost. The Vera Cruz was a freight and passenger boat and carried several passengers on this trip, but the agents refuse to give information regarding the passenger list. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Arrived: La Bretagne. from Havre; Augusta Victoria, from Naples; Servia, from Liverpool; Weimar, from Bremen. NAPLES, Jan. 16.—Arrived: Fuerst Bismarck. from New York. Sailed: Alesia, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 16.—Arrived: Aurania, from New York; Pavonia, from Boston. GLASGOW, Jan. 16.—Arrived: Siberian, from Philadelphia. Valparaiso's Anti-Saloon League. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In a late number of your paper, under the caption of “Anti-Saloon Methods,” some statements were made which call for an answer. It is true that our city has been considerably wrought up over our antisaloon agitation. Lines have been sharply drawn between those who favor the strict enforcement of the laws and those who do not. It is a mistake to say that the work “culminated in the filing of twenty-nine affidavits against druggists and saloon keepers for the illegal selling of liquor," for while that many, or about that many affidavits have been filed, there are as many more still to file. The culmination is yet to come. it is true that the league secured the services of a Chicago detective, and that he visited the drug stores. It is not true that he claimed to be sick, as the druggist who was tried testified in court. He testified that he only supposed the detective to be sick, since he called for blackberry wine. No question was asked whether he was sick cr not. Nor was he in any case asked whether he had a doctor’s prescription or not. The druggists did not need to be “induced” to sell the liquors. While we did not obtain a conviction in this case, it was because the jury disregarded the law and the evidence. I am credibly informed, however, that the jury, when it went out, stood nine to three for conviction, and only after the jury was out fourteen hours was a verdict of acquittal returned. It is not true that the league hired minors to disguise themselves and buy liquor in the saloons. No detectives were hired, except the Chicago detective, and none of the minors who volunteered their services

ever was disguised in a Valparaiso saloon. Nor was any question asked any minor as to age in any one of the twenty cases in which they bought liquor. In the first saloon ease which was tried before a justice the defendant was found guilty on four counts of the indictment. Moreover, it is not true that during the trial of the druggist Judge Uillett took occasion to denounce the method employed by the league in securing evidence. He did not say that it had “a tendency to degrade the law.” The evidence had been submitted to the Jury and the prosecutor had asked that he might have some information concerning what the instructions would be to the court. The jury was instructed to retire, and after it had gone out the lawyers and court fell into a discussion concerning the case, when the defendant’s lawyer said to the court, “But you do not mean to say that you will instruct the jury to find the defendant guilty.” The court replied that he should instruct the jury that they might, if they saw fit, disregard the instructions of the court. He did not want to be understood as saying that he fully sympathized with the methods of procuring evidence. He did not say he did not sympathize with these methods. He did not say that these methods “had a tendency to degrade the law.” Your Informant takes occasion to slur those who have had charge of the movement by citing other ministers’ names. It is true that Rev. J. L. Brandt, of the Christian Church of our city, did not unite in the union meeting addressed by Rev. H. H. Russell. This was because only a short time before we had had a union meeting of all the churches in the interest of the AntiSaloon League, and because the official members of his church, which is a very large church of 1,800 members, did not feel that it was right to surrender their evening service for any cause. It was not because either Mr. Brandt or his official board disapproved of the reform work. Not one word was said in either of our city papers on the Saturday evening preceding the service in Mr. Brandt's notices about “disapproving of the work of the league.” It is true that Mr. Brandt has done all that he could in a. quiet way in the interest of our reform work. The statements accredited to the Rev. J. B. Fleming, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, are of an equally misleading character. In the morning service of that Sabbath he did not “denounce the methods of the league” in measured terms. He did not say he “did not approve of the manner in which it was conducted, and w r ould have nothing to do with it.” What he did say was this: "I have no special enthusiasm in this union service, but I do have an interest in the Anti-Saloon League. I am interested in any honest and honorable effort to suppress lawlessness in our community, but 1 would not resort to a dishonorable or unjust method, even to beat the devil.” Any good man would echo his sentiments; no dishonorable or unjust methods were used. The correspondent also misrepresents the relation of a certain Frank Smith to the Anti-Saloon League. It is not true that he has been acting as a private detective for the league, or that he was even a member of the league, nor did he know, barring myself and Dr. Tucker, who were members of the league. It is not true that by associating with the reformers he secured a position in a hardware store. I trust you will publish these statements in the interest oi truth and justice. I have set forth the facts as they occurred in our work in this city. W. E. STORY. Pastor Baptist Church, and First Vice President of the Anti-Saloon League of Valparaiso. \ rlparaiso, Ind., Jan. 14. ARMY ORGANIZATION. Objections to Military Bill Now Before Congress. Harper’s Weekly. The important facts, so far as the army is concerned, that were developed by the war with Spain were the splendid quality of the line of the regular army and the inefficiency of the staff. We say nothing of the volunteers, for nothing was added by the war to the knowledge of that class of troops of which intelligent military men vvqjre not aware before the war broke out. The tifficers and men of the line were an honor to the country, and added new glories to the flag under which they serve, with sterling loyalty and courage and with great self-sacri-fice, in peace and war. Os all our public servants, the officers and men of the army and navy are, as a body, the most faithful and the most devoted. Those who love their best are stimulated to hope for the greatness of its future when they read of the splendid achievements of its soldiers and sailors. It is so to-day; it has been so throughout our history: and these citizens in uniform are types of the plain American citizen who never serves the country except when service means sacrifice and danger. We shall never tire, we hope, of sounding the praises of our valiant regulars, for when we do we shall have lost faith in American institutions and in the worth of American character. It is strange that there should be need of any plea in behalf of the line at this time, when its achievements are so fresh in the public mind, but that the plea is needed must be clear to any one who will take the trouble to analyze the bill which has been reported to the House of Representatives by its military committee. We shall not discuss this measure in detail now. hut we shall return to the subject again. We shall content ourselves now with the statement that this bill is for the promotion of inefficiency, for the exaggeration of the very evils whose existence was disclosed by the war—evils from which the officers and men of the line are the chief sufferers. It is a bill for the increase but not for the reform of the staff. It makes places for volunteers, some of w r hom are, indeed, worthy of recognition, but not one of whom should be appointed into the regular establishment at the expense of regular officers. It makes places, also, for the appointment of civilians even into the engineer corps. It embodies a direct and vicious attack upon the artillery arm and upon its instructed officers, who have earned their commissions in that arm by good work as cadets at the academy. It is a bill, indeed, in which fitness and training are not considered at all, cr inadequately considered, for examinations for the determination of mental efficiency are not to he required even where efficiency is most requisite. In preparing this measure so much were the volunteer and the civilian in mind that, as the bill originally stood, there seemed to be no place for regular officers in the staff corps, and no exemption as to the age limit that was expressly devised for the benefit of volunteers. Therefore, an amendment was submitted in effect putting regular army officers on an equal footing with volunteers and civilians. If w’e are to have any increase the line should be the first consideration, and if there are to be rewards and honors scattered about—and well there may be—let them be for those who won the battles in Cuba against the Spaniards and despite the staff. TIIE GREAT ADMIRAL. The Lust Yankee Ship to Leave Manila Before Dewey Came. Boston Herald. “Yes, sir, he’s the same man who was the last sea captain to get out of Manila harbor before Dewey went in,” said the shipkeeper on board the Great Admiral the other day. “And. by chowder, he fooled those durned Spaniards so that they could not catch him after he did get out. Come over and see him after he gets back from down East, and he will tell you how the critters followed him out of the harbor in a gunboat, hut lost him in the dark.” Tho Great Admiral was lying at Mystic wharf, taking on a cargo of lumber for Buenos Ayres. The boat is one of the best known which ever sailed out of Boston harbor. She has caused much favorable comment by reason of her large size, handsome model and general appointments, and whatever port she puts in at she is sure to be visited by a large number of ship men who are interested in such work. Yesterday, when a reporter called on Capt. Sterling, on hoard the Great Admiral, he found that officer in his cabin, just as his shipkeeper had said would be the case. When asked if his wars really the last boat to leave Manila harbor, previous to the entrance of Admiral Dewey, the captain modestly allowed that it was. Then the reporter wanted to hear the story, so Captain Sterling told it about as follows: “It would take too long to go w T ay back and tell everything, but the first real trouble started when I got loaded up and tried to get my clearance papers. The authorities told me that w’ar had been declared between the tw’o countries, and that, instead of allowing me to go out of the non, they would seize my cargo. That made me hot, and I saw Admiral Montojo. and he said the same thing, and I thought that my ship would be

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All this time a Spanish gunboat had followed us. and kept circling around the boat, but I did not have much fear that they would molest us. for 1 had been assured that 1 would be given twentyfour hours. After we were cut off from the towboat I turned about in an opposite direction from that which I wished to take, with the gunboat in close pursuit. They probably intended to capture us as soon as the twenty-four hours were up. But it got dark soon, and when the war ship was shut out from sight we immediately turned about and doubled on our track. We ran with all possible speed to Hong-Kong, where we remained thirty-eight days. At that time we heard that Dewey had made mincemeat of tiie Spanish fleet in the Pacific, while another fleet of the enemy was bottled up in Santiago harbor. “While at Hong-Kong we spent a part of the time getting stores on board. We intended to get them at Manila, but the sudden order to get out left us no time, and it was very fortunate that we were able to get to Hong-Kong, as we were so short of food and coal that we- could not have got along for many days longer.” The Real Trouble wltli the Army. Washington Post. From the military point of view, General Eagan’s extraordinary attack upon General Miles would prove a blessing in disguise if it could arouse the President and Congress to a realization of what the real trouble with the army is. Every military textbook of any value lays down as the fundamental theory of army organization a system of accountability by which every soldier and officer is subordinate and responsible to someone else, up 10 the commanding officer, upon whom rests the final responsibility for the army’s efficiency and value as a fighting machine. This vital principle, never fully carried out in this country, because of the peculiar position of the civilian secretary of war. has practically been abandoned ever since President Grant reduced the position of the commanding general to a mere sinecure, gave the secretary of war powers never intended for him, and made the adjutant generally really the most influential officer of the army, instead of merely the military secretary of the commanding general, as he should be. Asa result of this we have the present situation, in which staff generals like Eagan not only pay no attention to the commanding general. but actually declare themselves totally independent of his authority. One need only think of what would happen to any large dry goods house which let every chief of department run his part of the business independently of the others and of the firm, to see how utterly preposterous it isf to try to run a great national department, let alone a military one, upon such principles. Stupid Beauty. Washington Post. I thought of the princess who wondered why they didn’t eat cake when I heard a’ few days ago of a remark a very beautiful voung woman made to a famous woman writer who lives here. The beautiful young woman had paid the famous writer a visit, and when they met some time later, the writer apologized for not having returned the call sooner. „ ~ „ . “It’s been such weather,” she said, and it’s so hard getting about without a earrl”l suppose It must be,” replied the beauty. “I really don't see how’ people who haven't a carriage can visit at all.” I*rof. G. 11. Bell Killed. BATTLE CREEK. Mich., Jan. 16.—Prof. G H. Bell, a teacher in the Seventh-day Adventist College and well known all over the United States among Adventists, was killed to-night by a kick from his horse. Professor Bell was the author of several schoolbooks. He was seventy-five years old. Natural Inquiry. Cleveland Leader. “Adlai E. Stevenson,” says an exchange, “has come out against territorial expansion.” Where did he come out from?