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conclusion the tremendous syllogism of which their work was the premesis. THE REPUBLIC’S TASK. “God did not make the American people the mightiest human force of ail time simply to feed and die. He did not give our race the brain of organization and heart of domination to no purpose and no end. No He has given us a task equal to our talents. He has appointed for us a destiny equal to our endowments. He has made us the lords of civilization that we may administer civilization. Such administration is needed in Cuba. Such administration is needed in the Philippines. And Cuba and the Phlippines are in our hands. “If it be said that, at home, tasks as large as our strength await us—that politics are to he purified, want relieved, municipal government perfected, the relations of capital and labor better adjusted, I answer: Has England's discharge of her duty to the world corrupted her politics? Are not her cities like Birmingham the municipal models upon which we build our reforms? Is her labor question more perplexed than ours? Considering the newness of our country, is it as had as ours? And is not the like true of Holland—even of Germany? "And what of England? England's immortal glory is not Angincourt or Waterloo. It is not her merchandise or commerce. It is Australia, New Zealand and Africa reclaimed. It is India redeemed. It is Egypt, mummy of the nations, touched into modem life. England’s imperishable renown is in English science throttling the plague in Calcutta, English law administering order in Bombay, English energy planning an industrial civilization from Cairo to the cape, and English discipline creating soldiers, men, and finally citizens, perhaps, even out of the fellaheen of the dead land of the Pharaohs. And yet the liberties of Englishmen were never so secure as now. And that which is England’s undying fame has also Te n her infinite profit, so sure is duty golden in the end. “And what of America? With the twentieth century the real task and true life of the Republic begins. And we are prepared. We have learned restraint from a hundred years of self-control. We are instructed by the experience of others. We are advised and inspired by present example. And our work awaits us. “The dominant notes in American history have thus far been self-government and internal improvement. But these were not ends: they were means. They were modes of preparation. The dominant notes in American life henceforth will be administration and world improvement. It is the arduous but splendid mission of our race. It is ours to govern in the name of civilized liberty. It Is ours to administer order and law in the name of human progress. It is ours to chasten that we may be kind. It is ours to cleanse that we may save. It is ours to build that free Institutions may finally enter and abide. It Is ours to hear the torch of Christianity where midnight has reigned for a thousand years. It is ours to reinforce that thin rod line which constitutes the outposts of civilization all around the world. “If ft be said that this Is vague talk of an indefinite future we answer that it Is the apeclfic programme of the present hour. < 'ivil government Is to be perfected in Porto Rico. The future of Cuba Is to he worked out by the wisdom of events. Ultimately annexation Is as certain as that Island s existence. Even if Cubans are capable of selfgovernment. every interest points to union. Wo and they may blunder forward and timidly try devices of doubt. But. In the end, Jefferson’s desire will be fulfilled and r ’uba will be a part of the great Republic, But, whatever befalls, definite and Immediate work awaits us. Harbors are to be dredged, sanitation established, highways built, railroads constructed, postal service organized, common schools opened, all by or under the government of the American Republic.

PHILIPPINES ARE OURS. “The Philippines are ours forever. Let faint hearts anoint their fears wdth the thought that some day American administration and American duty there may end. But they never will end. England’s occupation of Egypt was to be temporary; but events, which are the commands of God, are making it permanent. And now God has given us this Pacific empire for civilization. The first office of administration i3 order. Order must be established throughout the archipelago. The spoiled child, Agulnaldo, may not stay the march of civilization. Rebellion against the authority of the flag must be crushed without delay, for hesitation encourages revolt, and without anger, for the turbulent children know not what they do. And then civilization must be organized, administered and maintained. \ji\w and justice must rule where savagery, tyranny and caprice have rioted. The peo- * pie must be taught the art of orderly and continuous industry. A hundred wildernesses are to be subdued, llnpenetrated regions must be explored. Unviolated valleys must bo tilled. Unmastored forests must be felled. ITnriven mountains must be torn asunder and their riches of gold and iron and ores of price must he delivered to the world. Wo ae to do in the Philippines what Holland does in Java, or England in New Zealand or the cape, or else work out new methods and new results of our own nobler than any the world has seen. All this is not indefinite; it is the very specification of duty. "The frail of faith declare that those peoples are not fitted for citizenship. It is not proposed to make them citizens. Those •who see disaster in every forward step of the Republic prophesy that Philippine labor will overrun our country and starve our workingmen. But the Javanese have not so overrun Holland. New Zealand’s Malays, Australia's bushmen, Africa's Kaffirs, Zulus end Hottentots and India’s millions of Burplus labor have not so overrun England, whips of scorpions could not lash the Filipinos to this land of fervid enterprise, sleepless Industry and rigid order. “Those who measure duty by dollars cry out at the expense. When did America ever count the cost of righteousness? And besides, this Republic must have a mighty navy in any event. And new markets secured, new r enterprises opened, new resources in timber, mines and products of [he tropics acquired and the vitalization of nil our industries which will follow will pay back a thousandfold all the government spends in discharging the highest duty to Which the Republic can be called. AS TO UNCONSTITUTIONALITY. “Thoso who mutter words and call it wisdom deny the constitutional power of the Republic to govern Porto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, for if we have the power in Porto Rico we have the power in the Philippines. The Constitution is not interpreted by degrees of latitude or longitude. It is a hoary objection. There have always been those who have proclaimed the unconstltutlonality of progress. The first to deny the power of the Republic’s government were those who opposed the adoption of the Conetitutlon Itself, and they and their successors have denied its vitality and intelligence to this day. They denied the Republic’s government the power to create a national bank; to make internal improvements; to issue greeenbacks; to make gold the standard of value; to preserve property and life in States where treasonable Governors refused to call for aid. L*et them read Hamilton and understand the meaning of implied powers. them read Marshall and learn that the Constitution is a people’s ordinance of national life capable of growth as great as the people’s growth. Let them learn the golden rule of constitutional interpretation; the Constitution was made for the American people; not the American people for the Constitution. Let them study the history, purposes and instincts of our race and then read again the Constitution, which is but an expression of the development of that race. Power to govern territory acquired! What else does the Constitutiona mean when it says: ’Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property of the United States? But, aside from these express words of the American Constitution, the Republic has power to govern in the Pacific, the Caribbean or in any other portion of the globe where Providence commands. Aside from the example of Alaska and all our Territories, and the experience of a century, the Republic has the power to administer civilization wherever Interest and duty call. It is the power which inheres in and is a part of government itself. And the. Constitution does not deny the government this inherent power residing in the very nature of all government. Who, then, can deny it? Those who do write a ne ’or-'iMU on of their own and interpret that. Those who do dispute history, r-ote . no uu are alien to the insincts of our race. "All protests against the greater republic are tolerable except this constitutional objection But they who resist the Republic's career in the name of the Constitution are not to be endured. They are juggiers of words. Their counsel is the wisdom of verbiage. They deal not with realities, neither give heed to vital things. The most magnificent fact In history is the mighty movement and mission of our race; and the most splendid phase of that world-redeem-ing movement is the entrance of the American people as the greatest force in all the earth, to do their part in administering civilization among mankind. And they are not to be halted by a ruck of words called constitutional arguments. Pretenders to legal learning have always denounced all virile interpretations of the Constitution. The so-called constitutional lawyers in Marzhall’s day said that lie did not understand the Constitution, liecause he looked, not at its single syllables, but surveyed the whole Instrument nd beheld. In Its profound meaning and Infinite scope, the sublime human precoeeses of which it is an expression. 'JktM Constitution is not a prohibition

on our progress. It is not an interdict to our destiny. It is not a treatise on geography. Let the flag advance; the word ’retreat’ is not in the Constitution. Let the republic govern as conditions demand; the Constitution does not benumb its brain nor palsy its hand. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. "The Declaration of Independence applies only to peoples capable of self-government. Otherwise how dared we administer the affairs of the Indians? How dare we continue to govern them to-day? Precedent does not impair natural and inalienable rights. And how is the world to be prepared for self-government? Savagery can not prepare Itself. Barbarism must be assisted toward the light. Assuming that these people can be made capable of self-govern-ment, shall we have no part in this sacred and glorious cause? “And if self-government is not possible for them, shall we leave them to themselves? Shall tribal wars scourge them, disease waste them. Savagery brutalize, tlfcm more and more? Shall their fields lie fallow, their forests rot, their mines remain sealed, and all the purposes and possibilities of nature be nullified? If not, who shall govern them, rather than the kindest and most merciful of the world’s great race of administrators, the people of the American Republic? Who lifted from us the judgment which makes men of our blood our brother’s keepers? "We do not deny them liberty. The administration of orderly government is not denial of liberty. The administration of equal Justice is not the denial of liberty. Teaching the habits of industry is not denial of liberty. Development of the wealth of the land is not denial of liberty. If they are, then civilization itself Is denial of liberty. Denial of liberty to whom? There are twelve million people In the Philippines, divided into thirty tribes. Aguinaldo is of the Tagai tribe of two million souls, and he has an intermittent authority over less than fifty thousand of those. To deliver these islands to him and his crew would be to establish an autocracy of barbarism. It would be to license spoliation. It would be to plant the republic of piracy, for such a government could not prevent that crime in piracy’s natural home. It would be to make war certain among the powers of earth, who would dispute, with arms, each other’s possession of a Pacific empire from which that ocean can be ruled. The blood already shed is but a drop to that which would flow if America would desert its post in the Pacific. And the blood already spilled was poured out upon A e altar of the world’s regeneration. Manila is as noble as Omdurman, and both are holier than Jericho. Retreat from the Philippines on any pretext would be the master cowardice of history. It. would be the betrayal of a trust as sacred as humanity. It would be a crime against Christian civilization and would mark the beginning of the decadence of our race. And so, thank God, the Republic never retreats. AWAKENING OF THE PEOPLE. "The fervent moral resolve throughout the Republic is not ‘a fever of expansion.’ It is a tremendous awakening of the people like that of Elizabethan England. It is no fever, but the hot blood of the most magnificent young manhood of ail time—a manhood begotten while yet the splendid moral passion of the war for national life filled the thought of ail the land with ideals worth dying tor and charged its very atmosphere with noble purposes and a courage which dared put destiny to the touch; a manhood which contains a million Roosevelts, Woods, Hobsons and Duboces, who grieve that they, too, may not so conspicuously serve their country, civilization and mamtlnd. Indeed, tnese heroes are great because they are typical. American manhood to-day contains tne master administrators of tne worui. And tney go forth tor tne healing of the nations. They go lorth in the cause of civilization. They go lorth for the betterment of men. They go torth and the wold on their tips is Christ and His peace, not conquest and its pillage. They go forth to prepare the people through decades and may bo centuries of patient effort for the great gift of American institutions. They go tortn not for imperialism, but tor the greater republic. “Imperialism is not the word for our vast wont, imperialism as used by the opposers of national greatness means oppression, and we oppress not. Imperialism as used by the opposers of national desuny means monarchy, and the days of monarchy are spent. Imperialism as used by the opposers of national progress is a word to frighten the faint ot Heart, and so is powerless with the fearless American people. Who honestly believes that the liberties of 80,0<A>,uw Americans will bo destroyed because the Republic administers civilization in the Philippines? Who honestly believes that free institutions are stricken unto death because the Republic, under God, takes its piace as the first power of the world? Who honestly believes that we plunge to our doom when we march forward in tne path of outy prepaied by a higher wisdom than our own? Those who so believe have lost their faith in the immortality of liberty. Those who so believe deny the vitality of the American people. Those who so believe are infidels to the providence of God. Those who so believe have lost the reckoning of events and think it sunset when it is in truth only the breaking of another day—the day of the greater republic dawning as dawns the twentieth century. “The Republic never retreats. Its flag is the only flag that has never known defeat. Where that flag leads we follow, for we know that the hand that bears it onward is the unseen hand of God. We follow the flag and independence is ours. We follow the flag and nationality is ours. We follow the flag and oceans are ruled. We follow the flag and in Occident and Orient tyranny falls and barbarism is subdued. We follow the flag at Trenton and Valley Forge, at Saratoga and upon the crimson seas, at Buena Vista and Chapultepee, at Gettysburg and Mission Ridge, at Santiago and Manila, and everywhere and always it means larger liberty, nobler opportunity and greater human happiness, for everywhere and always it means the blessings of the greater republic. And so God leads, wo follow the flag and the Republic never retreats.’’ At the conclusion of bis address Mr. Beveridge was given three hearty cheers and the assembly rushed forward to congratulate the speaker. Mr. Beveridge left for New York this afternoon, but will return to-mor-row in time to attend a dinner given in his honor by President Darlington, of the Union League Club. There will also be a reception at the University of Pennsylvania, at which the distinguished Indianian will be the central figure.

FAMILY OF THREE BURNED. No Trace of Mail Carrier Marte, Ills Wife mid Infant Son. CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—There seems be no doubt but that three persons were burned to death in the fire last night which destroyed the Arlington flats, at the corner of Forty-first street and Grand boulevard. Those supposed to have perished are: Fred A. Marte, a mail carrier, Mrs. Fred A. Marte, his wife, and their infant son. Marte, who was a mail carrier, did not report for duty to-day at the postoffice,'and, as every source of information in regard to the possible wherealiouts of the family have been looked into without success, ali hope for his escape has been given up. Other Fires. NEW YORK, Feb. 15. —Fire to-day at Nos. 117 and 119 Prince street, this city, destroyed the establishment of Joachim & Finkelstein, cloaks and suits; Hyman, Ossusky & Cos., laces and silk caps; Gustav Mendelssohn, infants’ wear; Gustav Reno, iaees; Adolph Miller, dress skirts, and the Novelty Tea Gown Company. Van Keuren &. Thornton, white goods, suffered considerable loss from water. Several firms in an adjoining building suffered from damage by water. The total loss is about $76,000. AKRON, 0., Feb. 13.—A fire that broke out at 10:30 o’clock to-night destroyed the Immense plants and office building of the Thomas Building and Lumber Company. The property loss will amount to sluo,ooo or more, largely insured. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.— I The bicycle factory and machine shop of I. Silverman & Bros., at No. 109 West Fourteenth street, was partly destroyed by fire at 4:30 o'clock this morning, causing a loss of about $75,000. AUBURN, N. Y., Feb. 15.—Fire in the scythe manufacturing plant of David Wadsworth & Son to-nighi did $75,000 damage. Dellenlmnigh Asks New Trial. CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 15.—Counsel for Judge Dellenbaugh to-day filed a motion for anew trial. It is asked tint thj charges be vacated for the following reason: First, the findings, so far as they con- era ej ec.l.cation third of the charges against the respondent, are contrary to law ; second, ti e findings are not sustained by the evidence; third, for error of law occurring during the trial of the cause m the admission of evidence pertaining to the findings; fou>.ler tlie rejection of evidence pertaining t He findings during the trial of the case; fifth, because of the error that ■.inclines in regard to the third specification should huv- leen for the respondent and not against him. Comiiiundrr Booth-Tucker 111. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Commander BoothTucker, of the Salvation Airay, is said to he seriously til at his home in this city, the result of overwork a-d exposure in the directing relief work during the recent blizzard.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1899.

BARRETT MURDER TRIAL 1 THE PRISONER’S EX-WIFB AND DAUGHTER ARE AGAINST HIM. Can* County Girl Kidnaped by Rejected Suitor on Eve of Her Wedding , —Chaplain Newton Dead* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 15.—There was increased interest in the Jesse Barrett murder trial to-day, and every bit of space in the large courtroom was occupied by witnesses and spectators from here and Indianapolis, Alexandria, Anderson and Muncie. The defendant spent the day beside his trio of attorneys, using a tablet of paper taking notes of the testimony. One of the first witnesses was Mrs. Daisy Maddison, Barrett’s six-teen-year-old daughter, who was married three weeks ago, after securing the consent of her father, and Is alleged to have agreed to testify in his behalf. To her is credited the real cause of the murder of her stepfather, Jack McFall, as the father is alleged to have learned that McFall had driven the girl out of the house. The girl stated that before her mother had secured a divorce she had heard her declare her love for McFall and that she would marry him. Mrs. McFall, the widow of the murdered man and divorced wife of the defendant, was on the stand nearly all day. She said she married Barrett eighteen years ago and they had lived in Columbus, St. Louis, three times in Indianapolis and twice in Alexandria. In February, 1887, she went to Alexandria from Indianapolis and purchased a boarding house from her sister-in-law, Mrs. Snowden. She and Barrett had often quarreled and he did not come to Alexandria until the fall of that year. He quarreled again and then left her. In the meantime she had fallen in love with McFall. Her daughter Daisy and son Lawrence went to Indianapolis to visit their father, and she went there and lived with him a week to induce him to come with her to Alexandria. She failed and McFall started to come after her, but she met him at Fisher’s Station, where they stayed a week, returning to Alexandria. The divorce was granted on Jan. 19, 1898, and she and McFa.ll were married a week later at Alexandria. She stated that she never saw Barrett after this visit to Indianapolis until the day of the tragedy. Mrs. Mattie Snowden, sister-in-law of Mrs. McFall, testified that when Barrett first came to Alexandria after his wife had purchased the boarding house from her that he attempted to coax her (Mrs. Snowden) to run away with him. Other witnesses today were Dr. Strauss, of Alexandria, who held the post-mortem on McFall; Mrs. May Cartel and Mrs. Nora Carr, of Alexandria; S. E. Sells, ex-coroner of Madison county; Taylor Hopkins, a boy; Mrs. Lulu Fauset and Clinton Greer.

INDIANA OBITUARY. The Rev. Riclinrti A. Newton, Chaplain of the 12.*1d Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Ind., Feb. 13.—The Rev. Richard A. Newton, a superanuated minister of the M. E. Church, who was for a period of forty years an active minister in the Methodist Church, and who has been a resident of this place since 1860, after a week’s illness with grip and acute Bright’s disease, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. D. A. Lindsay, last night. Father Newton, as he was commonly called, was seventy-seven years old. He had been superanuated for about ten years, though he was an active man of his age, preached many funerals, and was chaplain of the G. A. R. pest for the last ten years. He was a veteran in the One-hundred-and-twenty-third Indiana Regiment. He was a man of great natural ability and a scholarly minister, and was loved by all who knew him. Mr*. Margery McKew. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RIDGETVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15.—Margery MeKew, widow of Arthur McKew, died at noon to-day of grip, aged seventy-eight. Mrs. MeKew was a daughter of Jacob Ward, one of the founders of Newton, now Ridgeville, who settled on the south bank of the Mississinewa river near Ridgeville, in 1819. He raised a family of fourteen children, six of whom are still living. In 1821 Margery was born and in about 1840 was married to Arthur McKew, who died in 1883. Mrs. McKew and her husband were closely identified with the developments of the town, making a number of additions, besides donating the college campus and a largo number of lots and considerable money to Ridgeville College. She was the mother of five children, one surviving her. Veteran Operator Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VINCENNES. Ind., Feb. 15.—C01. Dewitt C. Seders, aged sixty-seven, died to-day of paralysis after two weeks’ illness. He was a manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company here and was probably one of the oldest telegraph operators in this State. He began in the Western Union office in 1848, when dispatches were received on a roll of white paper, indentures of characters being made on the paper as it was drawn out of the machine. During the civil war he was stationed in the South in the signal corps and his service for the Union army proved to be most valuable. Oilier Deaths in the State, BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 15—A telegram from Heltonsville, announced the death of Lewis Utterback, which occurred last night. He was thirty-five years old and was debilitated by an attack of typhoid fever over a year ago. He was a wellknown citizen here, a member of the Knights of Pvthias and Modern Woodmen, and was at Heltonsville on an extended visit. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 15.—Mrs. John Lynn, wife of a leading land owner, died to-day of injuries suffered Saturday in falling down cellar. She was unconscious from a short time after the accident until her death. Mrs. Lynn was nearly eighty years old and the mother of the treasurer of Wabash county. The funeral takes place Thursday at 2 o’clock. COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 15—Joseph Stanley, a well-known resident of this county, died at his home in Walesboro late last night of lung trouble, aged ftfty-nine years. KIDNAPED A BRIDE. Com* County Hero and Villain Sirngple for Fannie Bishir’s Hand. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 15.—The marriage to-night of Miss Fannie A Bishir and James Jester at the home of the bride’s father, Albert Bishir, a well-to-do farmer of Boone township, ends a story that reads like a chapter from a yellow-backed novel. Jester, accompanied by the girl’s father, was in the city yesterday getting the license and while here told their story, which was, in substance, that the bride-elect had been kidnaped Saturday night by a rejected suitor who was a favorite with certain members of the Bishir family. According to Mr. Bishir, John Ingalls, a young man of the neighborhood, who figures as the rejected suitor, accompanied by a friend, Melvin Gill, drove up to the Bishir home at 8 o’clock Saturday night and called for Miss Bishir. When the young woman appeared Ingalls got out of his buggy and she was approached, seized and, placing her in, whipped up the horse and was out of hearing before the startled Jester and the girl’s father, who had witnessed the whole performance, could interfere. Jester gave chase as soon as he could procure a horse, but the kidnapers eluded their pursuers. After several hours’ fruitless search Jester returned to the Blshir home to find his betrothed there ahead of him. According to her storv. after getting her into the buggy, Ingalls and Gill had taken her to the home of an uncle named Worden, but finding that she was determined to marry Jester they arranged with the uncle to take her back to her home. Bishir was waiting at the gate armed with a shotgun when the buggy drove up and declared he would have fired had it contained the two young men. Monday morning a constable appeared at the Bishir home and arrested the father and lover for threatening to kill Ingalls and Gill. The case was called before a Justice of the peace at Royal Center and dismissed as soon as the court heard the particulars. Ingalls and Gill were tht*n arrested for abducting the girl. They were placed under bond, but this charge was later dismissed and they pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery, paid their fines and were released. From the story of Jester and the girl’s father it seems that Ingalls was a favorite of a grandmother of the girl, who used every influence she could to make a match. Ingalls is pretty well fixed, and It is said that he offered the father a money consideration if he would use his influence with his daughter in his behalf, and offered the girl a wed-

ding present of forty acres of land. Failing in this he resorted to force to get an unwilling bride. After a short visit with relatives in this county Mr. and Mrs, Jester will go to Potomac, IIL, where the groom resides. Poultry Show Meeting. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Feb. 13.—The annual business meeting of the North-Central Indiana Poultry Association was held in this city last night. Officers were elected and Kokomo was chosen as the place for holding the annual exhibit next year. The annual exhibit of this association for the past two years has been held in this city, and the exhibits in point of number of entries, both in the poultry and bench departments, have each year been exceptionally good, while from a financial standpoint the exhibits have been unusually successful, the association closing the recent one with a handsome balance in the treasury. For the past two years Richard Twells has been president and Sol D. Brandt, secretary, both of this city. The new officers are: President, L C. Hose, Kokomo; vice presidents (one for each county in the district), Cass, Horatio Thornton; Miami, Abe Reese; Howard, M. Kenworthy; Carroll, A. I). Wood; Wabash, S. A. Noftzger; Jasper, Mrs. A. A. Stoner; Pulaski. C. V. Keeler; secretary, E. E. Sanders, Kokomo; treasurer, G. W. Newall, Kokomo. Executive Committee— C. M. Barlow, W. W. Cole and Lee Albaugh, of Kokomo; J. S. Kreider and J. C. Bridge, of Logansport. The next exhibit will be held at Kokomo, Jan. 17 to 24. How the Gas Has Been 'Wasted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Feb. 15—The extreme cold weather of the past week has suddenly aroused the people of the gas belt to the stern fact that the gas pressure is steadily waning. The efforts to make an oil field out of a gas district has had a distressing effect on the supply, and the extension of the oil field is now proving a detriment to the field. Millions and millions of cubic feet of gas have been wasted, first by the flambeaux and since by the oil operatora The history of other gas fields testify to the fact that gas is a temporary blessing. Gas wells in this city which a few years ago showed a pressure of 350 pounds have now dwindled to 220 pounds. Waste from the oil operators alone was enormous, and it is astonishing that steps were not taken long before to stop tha shameful waste. Oil and salt water are making rapid w r ork in quenching the gas flow. There is no douDt that $10,000,0(0 worth of natural gas has been wasted since it was first discovered in the State. Residents of the gas belt for a number of years refused to admit the supply was falling, but they are now face to face with the reality. •loiln Holman Four Years* MUsing. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 15.—John E. Holman, the Kokomo lawyer, who left the city four years ago, was sued for divorce to-day by his wife, Eva Holman, who asks the custody of their two children. The whereabouts of Mr. Holman Is not known, as he has not been seen or heard of since his sudden disappearance, under a cloud, Feb. 1, 1893. He was a defaulter for a small amount with an insurance company, but the shortage was paid by friends and there was no necessity for his remaining away, as prosecution was dismissed. The continued silence of the missing man leads to the suspicion that he may have committed suicide or have died in some foreign land under an assumed name. He was devotedly attached to his family. Mrs. Holman has given up all hopes of her husband’s return, and asks the court to grant her divorce, on the ground of abandonment. A report is current that Holman had been seen in Cuba and was an officer in tho insurgent army.

A\ oulri-Ile Bandits Run Away. Special to the Inllanapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. 15.—Ernest Wilhelm and George Martin, thirteen-year-old sons of prominent parents in this city, have gone West in the hope of acquiring fame as leaders of a band of boy bandits, or, failing In that, try their hands as pirates on the Pacific. They left home last Saturday with SIOO in cash, four revolvers, four deerfoot knives and all the other weapons they could carry, telling the envious chums they left behind that they vvould soon be heard of as the most successsful and daring adventurers on the frontier. The fathers of the boys, David Wilhelm and George Martin, sr., are now out in pursuit of the would-be banditti, tracing them to Indianapolis, Connersville and finally to Hamilton, 0., where the scent was lost. The parents are on the warpath themselves, and if the youngsters be caught their career as wild Westerners will dissolve fnto a scene at the hot end of a skate strap. Mysterious* McCoy Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Fob. 15. Charles McCoy died at Flint Ridge a week ago of a pistol wound and mystery surrounds his death. While his wife claims he committed suicide on account of jealousy, there are many other theories, the strongest of which is that he was murdered in his ow T n home. Coroner English, of New Washington, who conducted the inquest, returned a verdict of death at the hands of unknown persons. McCoy’s wife said her husband came home and began cursing and abusing her. He then asked her for his revolver, wnich she gave him. She then told how her husband had placed the weapon to his head and tired. Monday night the widow took her children and went to spend the night with a neighbor and returning the following morning found her house in ruins. It was evidently destroyed by Incendiaries. Too Late Now for Investifvntion. PERU, Ind., Feb. 15.—The Deiterieh natural gas syndicate to-day made a proposition to the City Council for the appointment of a committee to take charge of all the mains, regulators, wells and tho office in this city to verify the statement that the present pressure at all cities controlled by them was all that could be furnished. There have been indignation meetings in various cities over the suffering resulting from the cold wave, and insinuations were made that the pressure was cut down for the purpose of influencing legislation and the suit of this city against the company now in the United States Court. A committee will be appointed. The question is a vital one, inasmuch as 90 per cent, of the Indiana gas is controlled by this syndicate, which supplies twenty odd cities and towns. An Old Sfradivarins Recovered. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AUBURN, Ind., Feb. 15.—After searching for eleven years, Dr. S. U. Tarney, of this city, has again come in possession of his 166-year-oIQ violin. The instrument was loaned eleven years ago, the borrower dying a few days after, and the instrument was never returned. The doctor has since kept watch on all violins and yesterday succeeded in trading a young man out of this particular one, which he remembered by certain cracks in the top and by the inscription “Stradivarius, Anno Domino, 1736,” pasted in the bottom. Mr. Tarney’s violin is worth the best eighty-acre farm in this county. It was brought from Germany twenty-five years ago by Dr. Roscoff. Must Bea Carp or Buffalo. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Feb. 15.—What is said to be the largest bass ever caught in northern Indiana was landed Monday on the farm of John Summexland, ex-treasurer of this county, in Pleasant township. There is on the place a. little lake covering six or seven acres. A fisherman angling through a hole In the ice felt a prodigious jerk which almost took him under, and after playing with the fish for a quarter of an hour drew it up to the surface, grasped it by the gills and dragged it out. The bass weighed fourteen and three-quarter pounds and measured twenty-eight Inches. It was found to bo unfit to eat after it was cooked, the flesh being strong. The head Is now nailed to the wall in the postoffice at Disko. Quail* Frozen to Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 18.-Reports by farmers from all parts of the county state that all kinds of birds have suffered severely by reason of the recent cold weather. Hundreds of quail have been killed. As an instance a flock of nineteen was found dead in one place. Other birds have also suffered, and in the woods and under cedar trees the frozen bodies are lying on the snow. Arrested for Removing a Mixer. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAW’FORDSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15.—The natural gas people are convassing the town and inspecting the gas stoves to see if the mixers are removed or bored out. They find many mixers off. and in each case give

the consumers an hour to replace them. "Bige” Bayless refused to put his mixer back on and would not let them shut off the gas, so the /company had him arrested for burning gas without a mixer and the trial will be to-morrow. The Motion Railroad has donated a carload of coal for the poor, which is being distributed to-day. New Odd Fellows’ Lodge, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind.. Feb. 10.-Dr. William Peck, of Frankton, district deputy, and Senator Cranor, of Muncie, grand master of Indiana Odd Fellows, are in Anderson instituting anew lodge of Odd Fellows in Una city. The new' chapter begins with a charter membership of sixty and the services were followed last night with a banquet. Anderson and Pendleton teams are conferring the degree work. The officers elected are: Past grand, James Arnold; noble grand. Dr. A. H. Sears; vice grand, Joseph Delaplaine; secretary, D. H. Webber; recording secretary, Grant Westerfield; treasurer, Henry Aronstein; trustees, Samuel Rhoades, Joseph Richards and Samuel Clark. A Restaurant Blown Ip, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 15.—At Albany today the restaurant owned by Mites Miller was destroyed by a gas explosion and several persons were slightly injured. Miss Myrtle Hobbs, employed in the restaurant, was directly over the place where the explosion occurred and was thrown a distance of fifteen feet and is believed to be seriously injured. There were eight patrons at the counter at the time. The floor was torn out, the walls and ceiling sprung and the glassware shattered. Aged Pioneers Dying-. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL* Ind., Feb. 15.—Three of the oldest persons and earliest settlers of this place are nearing death’s door. Uncle Johnny Nutter, as he is familiarly called, who settled in this county in 1842 and has resided In the town ever since its organization, who is eighty-two years old, is critically ill with Bright’s disease. Mrs. Sarah Smith, who has been a resident of this place and vicinity for the last fifty years, is in, a dying condition with grip. Siie is ninety-four years old. Robbed n Saloon .Safe. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALEXANDRIA, Ind.. Feb. 15.—The Milwaukee House saloon was robbed yesterday of $157.65. In the morning about 9 o’clock the keeper of the saloon counted the money and put It in a shot sack and placed it in a drawer. He intended to put it in the bank, but was too busy. In the evening about 6:39 o’clock when he went to get it to pay a creditor from Anderson, he discovered that the money was gone. Someone sometime during the day had taken the money and there is no clew. Swallowed Hl* False Teeth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 15.— Frank Nolting, of this city, swallowed his false teeth last night while in bed asleep and came near dying. He soon went Into spasms, and his wife telephoned for Dr. Banker, who soon came with Drs. Hawley and Moore. Nolting was chloroformed and the set of teeth was removed from his throat. B. F. Coombs’s Resilience Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Ind., Feb. 15.—The fine residence of B. F. Coombs was partially destroyed by fire to-night. Loss estimated at J3.C00; insurance, SI,OOO in Rockford, of Rockford, 111.; SBOO in Delaware, of Philadelphia, and S6OO in Royal. Origin of lire unknown. Young Steele Instantly Killed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Feb. 15.—Word has Just reached this city that James Steele, son of John Steele, a prominent business man of this city, was instantly kilted on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, near Lagrange, this morning.

Indiana Notes. Charles Linke’s large farm residence, near Clifford, burned yesterday. Loss, $1,500, with SSOO insurance. Col. A. A. Sprague, general agent for P. P. Argersinger & Cos , of New York, is at his home in Crawfordsviile very sick with grip. Frederick Weller, an employe of the Wabash Paper Company, injured ten days ago while at work in the mill, died yesterday of peritonitis. There is an effort at Portland to organize a commercial club for the purpose of inducing manufacturing interests to locate in Portland. It is expected to raise an eighteen-thousand-dollar fund. The firm of Cronin & Winters, of Hartford City, and one of the largest mercantile firms in northern Indiana, dissolved partnership Tuesday. E. I. Winters purchased the interests of his partner for $13,250. Elmer Stoner’s large barn, near Salamonia, burned Tuesday, with all supply c.f grain, farming implements, one horse and a number of hogs and sheep. Loss not known, but insured in the Farmers’ Mutual of Hector. Over five hundred Boone county Republicans celebrated Lincoln’s birthday anniversary with a banquet Tuesday night in Lochinvar Hall. Judge T. J. Terhune presided as toastmaster. Hon. W. R. Jewell, of Danville, 111., delivered the address. The Shelbyville taxpayers’ committee has filed its second suit to enjoin the County Commissioners from carrying out the recent contract with A. E. Smiley, of Rushville, and the New Castle Bridge Company for six bridges in different parts of Shelby county. The taxpayers claim that the last contract was let without any competition. The Cambridge City Council granted the Cambridge City Interurban Electric Streetcar Company a franchise this week for a street car line through the principal streets of the city. Cambridge City will be the central point for this company, which will have lines operating to Hagerstown, Dublin, Germantown and Milton. The terms on which the franchise was granted include the location and maintenance of a SIO,OOO steel plant, to employ not less than fifty people. OBITUARY. Lawrence E. Myers, a Fnmons ShortDistance Runner. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Lawrence PI. Myers, the famous short-distance runner, died suddenly in this city last night of pneumonia. He would have been forty-one years old to-day. He was born in Richmond, Va. His running records, which still stand, no runner, professional or amateur, having equaled them, are: 350 yards, 36 4-ss, Philadelphia, Oct. 15, 1881; 400 yards, 43 5-Bs, New York, June 3, ISS2; 660 yards, lm 225, New York, July 17, 1880 ; 800 yards, lm 44 2-ss, Brooklyn, Sept. 16, 1882 ; 840 yards, lm 48 3-ss, London, England, July 6, 1885; 1,000 yards, 2m 13s, New York, July 8, 1881. Mr. Myers had been amateur champion of America at one distance or another ever since 1879. Other Death*. COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 15.—R. 11. Johnson, general manager of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and iron Company, died suddenly at his residence here to-day from apoplexy. The deceased was one of the most prominent coal men in Ohio. He was born in New England on April 14, 1844. The funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is understood that the body will be taken to Brooklyn, N. Y., for interment. PARIS, Feb. 15.—Thomas Burnside, a grandson of the late Senator Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, died here last evening. He had been prominent in social and newspaper circles in Chicago, came to Europe ten years ago and married an English actress. The deceased lived in London for several years, where he was a leading spirit in the Savage Club, but he had latterly resided in Paris. DENVER, Col., Feb. 15.—John A. McMurtrie, the millionaire railroad contractor, who built the Rio Grande Railroad over Marshall pass and through the Grand canyon, died here to-night of blood poisoning caused by an abscess. COLUMBUS. 0., Feb. 15.—Henry A. Mithoff, a representative and substantial German citizen, died to-day rather unexpectedly, although he had been failing for some months. Interment will be made here Saturday at Greenlawn. FORT WORTH. Tex., Feb. 15.—F. N. Woodworth, a prominent Chicago capitalist, eu route to Mexico, dropped dead in a hotel at Beaumont to-day. LONDON, Feb. 15.— I The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph M. Chitty, a lord justice of the Court of Appeal, is dead. THE GRI I*~CU RE TH Vi' DOES CURE. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets remove the cause that produces Ixi Grippe. The genuine has L. B. Q- on each Tablet. 25c.

AN OLD RUMOR REVIVED ARCHDUKE JOHN, ALIAS JOHN ORTH, SAID TO BE ALIVE. Reported to Be Living on the River Parana, in South America, with His Morganatic Wile. LONDON. Feb. 16,-The Paris correspondent of the Times says: "According to a letter just received here from Argentina, the Austrian Archduke John, alias John Orth, is now residing with his morganatic wife on a farm on the River Parana, and is more than ever resolved to renounce the prerogatives of his birth.” Solution of tlie Samoan Question. LONDON, Feb. 16.—The Melbourne correspondent of the Times says: "The Samoan correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes that the only solution of the difficulties there lies in an immediate annexation of the islands by Great Britain. He says the natives throughout the entire group are almost unanimously favorable to such a step and that it is also ardently desired by the British and American residents. Failing annexation the complete disarming of the whole population is imperative and In the opinion of the correspondent of the Argus the abolition of the kingship is absolutely necessary to prevent constant disturbances. The rival chiefs, he believes, would be satisfied if appointed to rule their own districts with small salaries.” Rochefort Returns anil Riot Follows. MARSEILLES, Feb. 15.—The return here to-day from his Algerian trip of M. Henri Rochefort, editor Os the Intrinsigeant, the Radical organ, led to a renewal of the antiSemitic demonstrations and street fights which marked his departure for Algiers on Feb. 4. Abbe Daniel was hooted while on his way to church and another priest attacked while going to a convent. Windows in several churches and synagogues were smashed. The “Guinea Pins’’ Will Stay. LONDON, Feb. 15.—1n the House of Commons to-day the debate on the address to the Queen, in reply to the speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament on Feb. 7, was resumed. The amendment introduced last evening by J. Swift Mac Neill, Nationalist member for the south division of Donegal, on the subject of "guinea p:gs in government,” was defeated by a vote of 247 to 143. I’lugne Pnnle in Gold Field*. OMBAYO, F’eb. 15.—A plague panic has occurred in the southern Kolar gold fields of Mysore. About 2,500 coolies have bolted, and it is feared this may tead to a -uspension of the work. There have been sixty cases of plague in southern Kolar, arid for-ty-nve deaths from thai d'sease have been reported. Cable Notes. Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, twelfth Earl of Home, has been appointed a knight of the Order of the Thistle in succession to the late Lord Napier. The seventieth anniversary of the birth of Carl Sehurz will be celebrated in Berlin on Feb. 25.’ Theodore Barth will preside and Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador, will attend. According to the Madrid correspondent of the London Daily Mail, the question of selling the Carolines and the Ladrones is still undecided, because no power has yet made a definite offer, and the idea of abandoning them altogether may be considered if no offer is forthcoming. The British government has appointed Baron Edward Lx MaeNaghten, lord of appeal in ordinary; Major General Sir Charles Ardagh, director of military intelligence, and Colonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdish, superintendent of frontier surveys in India, to form a tribunal to arbitrate the Argentine-Chile frontier dispute. William Tumour Troinas Poulett, the English organ-grinding claimant to the earldom of Poulett, says that he has received offers of money with which to fui’ther his claim from a gentleman in Massachusetts. He also asserts that other offers of a like character have come to him from Montreal and elsewhere in America. The Constantinople correspondent cf the Standard says: "During the recent festival of Bairam, Oscar Straus, the American minister, insisted on the custom house being opened to clear a cargo of flour from the United States, After some difficulty his request was complied with, but the incident caused great annoyance in Turkish aides.”

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. President Diaz, of Mexico, la confined to his bed with the grip. There is no yellow fever In the Island of Jamaica nor has there been any for mora than a year. The directors of the National Biscuit Company have declared a regular dividend of 1% per cent, on the preferred stock. George Panzeter, of New York, while Intoxicated last night, shot and kilted his wife and John Goeltz, a cigar maker, who boarded in the house with Mrs. Panzeter. Panzeter escaped. Nearly all of the leading professional and business men of Brattleboro, Vt., have joined in a tetter to Rudyard Kipling, expressing gratification at the writer’s return to this country and the hope that he will make Brattleboro his home as heretofore. At Milwaukee last night Hali Adali, the Turkish wrestier, defeated Captain Tom Shields, Bert Scheller and Tom Cannon inside of ninety minutes, according to agreement. Shields was thrown twice and Cannon and Scheller once each. The bouts were catch-as-catch-can. The Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, of New York, will pass into the control of a Cleveland syndicate. C. B. Squire, W. F. Powers, R. M. Parmaley, Daniel Myers and others have secured a majority of the stock, and P. B. Armstrong and others associated with him in the management of the concern will retire. Only 1,250 miners are at present on strike In the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf mines in the Indian Territory, but the prospects are that a general strike in all the mines in Arkansas and the Indian Territory will be declared in a few days. The miners ask reinstatement of discharged men arid other concessions. The Minnesota Democratic state committee yesterday adopted the following resolution: “That the Democratic state central committee do hereby reaffirm and indorse the national Democratic platform adopted by the Democratic national convention in Chicago in 1896, and the principles of the Democratic party as therein enunciated.” Collis P. Huntington, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, says two steamships for its service are to be built by the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Company. Each is to cost $1,750,000 and is to be 550 feet long, 63 feet beam and of 12,000 tons. The vessels are intended for the Pacific basin passenger, freight and mails, etc. Augustus Van Wyck has been appointed receiver for Eiseman Brothers, New York siik jobbers, in an action brought by Moses L. Eiseman against his brother Samuel for a dissolution of partnership. The sales of the firm during the year 1898 are stated in some of the affidavits presented on the hearing of the motion to have amounted to more than $3,000,000. fn recognition of the distinguished service of the late Senator Justin S. Morrill to the cause of education, the executive committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges has appointed next April 14, the anniversary of his birth, as a day to be observed with appropriate exercises by all the agricultural and mechanical colleges of the country, organized and established under the so-called Morrill act of 1862. Amateur Billiard*. NEW YORK. Feb. 15. —The big gymnasium of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club was taxed to its limit to-night to accommodate the billiard enthusiasts who gathered to witness the third game in the Class A amateur championship billiard tournament. Wilson P. Foss, of Haverstraw, and Wayman C. McCreery, of St. Louis, were the contestants. Results: Foss-4, 9,3, 10, 0,40, 0. a 5, 0. 13, 1,40, 0,2, 4, 21. 12. 0. 1, 31, 3, 77. 4,2, 2. 14, 0. 0,0, 3,0, 8,8, 5, 20, 5,9, 4. 14-400. Average, 9 31-41. High runs, 77, 40,40, 31 and 26. McCreery—l, 12, 22, 0,2, 4. 6. 2,5, 10, 0. 40, 1. 0,5, 0, 1. 4, 22, 6, 0. 0,1, 31, 0,4, 22. 13, 0,0, 0,0, 1, 9, 1. 0,9, 37. 22, 4 , 22—319. Average, 7 32-11. High runs, 40, 37, 22, 22 and 22. Score* of Bicycle Itiiler*.. SAN FRANCISCO, I’eb. 15.—The score at 8:54 p. m.. the forty-sixth hour of the international bicycle run, was as follows, the previous record being 790 miles and 1,232 yards, made by Pierce at Madlson-square Garden last December: Gimm, 843 milts, 4 laps; Miller, 824 miles, 6 laps; Barnaby, 802 miles, 3 laps; Fredericks, 800 miles; Nawn. 795 mites, 2 laps; Hate, 787 mites, 7 laps; Pierce, 785 mites. 3 laps; Aaronson, 776 miles, 5 laps; Albert, 763 miles; Lawson, 744 miles, 6 laps; Piikington, 724 miler; Julius, 692 miles, 5 laps; Ashiiiger, 674 miles, 7 lap*

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A good deal of damage appeared to have been done to the fruits and breadstuffs in other stands by th® smoke, according to the firemen. Our “White Man’* Harden.’* (With no apologies to R. Kipling.) “Take up the White Man's burden!” What hollow words are these? 'Tis the croak of the ink-pot raven That flits on the seven seas. “Take up the White Man's burden!” Why, who are you to prate To those who swept the desert FTom Maine to the Golden Gate? Who gnawed the crusts of famine Beneath Virginia skies, Till the white mans blood ran water. But never the white man’s eyes? “Take up the White Man’s burden?” Who set their backs to the main. And sent the sons of the forest To skulk on the treeless plain? Who harried the fiends of torture. And gave their sons to fight With the poisoned arrow by daytime. The brand and the knife by night? Who shackled the scalp-locked chieftains, And bade them abide in peace. And housed them and cl thed them and taught them. And gave them the land's increase? Who fondled their sons and daughter* And showed tl em the way of life. While their fathers crept out of the mountain* To flood the valleys with strife? Go look at the long, red rtutter Os dead in our rank and file; Yet we nurture and pray and are watting At Hampton and Carlisle. Who struck the fetters of thralldorn From off the limbs of the slave, And thundered the anthem of freedom Through cloister and choir and navet We gave the blood of our fathers— We children who cast out Spain— To pay white debt to the black man. And we split our home in twain. "Take up the White Man’s burden!” Gods! was a Lincoln's death The pause of a life of shadow. The end of an empty breath? An era of white men's burdens Ran out with that one life’s sand; And the sweat of that day Is heavy On the brow of our Southern land. "Take up the White Man’s burden!” Oh, well have we borne our stiare. Till our heart-strings cracked with the straining! But we knew not how to despair. And now if the load has grown greater. Well, we have grown greater, too; We’ll tread our measure in South and East, And we ll ask no help of you. —W. J. Henderson, in the Criterion,