Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1899 — Page 5

Fair weather. Men’s Odd Suits at Half Here’s a time when five dollars counts as ten, and ten as twenty in the price. Will you protit while you may? The name assures good, serviceable, satisfactory suits. $20.00 ones for SIO.OO SIB.OO ones for $9.00 $16.50 ones for $8.25 These aren’t suits caught up here and there to sell cheap, but our make reduced to close out what is left of former popular lines. A good A No. 1 Suit for one-half usual money. $15.00 ones for $7.50 $12.00 ones for $6.00 SIO.OO ones for $5.00 We can still promise most any size. In© 1 tlm

BONDS WK OFFER—SI7,OOO Indianapolis Gas Cos. 6s. $19,000 Jackson County, Ind., ss. $21,000 Scott County, Ind., ss. SIO,OOO Belt R. R. and Stock Yards Stock Com. Prices and particulars upon application. >\e Offer 107 for New Government :t’. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO. 205 Indiana Trust Building. Invtilicl Cliairs Os all kinds and accessories for the sick room. Trusses made and ptoperly adjusted. Store open every Saturday night. VV.M. H. ARMSTRONG A VO., <New No. 127. TANARUS! 8. Dltnols St., Indianapolis. Ind. inary Association was brought up on a divided committee report Senator Gill yreated considerable amusement by declaiming against it at considerable length. lie said _ a State Board of Veterinary Examination and Registration was unnecessary and that as he had allowed the lawyers to control their own business by specifying the method of examination of lawyers and the doctors had been given their own way in every measure pertaining to their business it was only fair to allow the farmers to control the legislation touching on “horsery.” This amused the senators so much that the bill was killed by an almost unanimous vote. Engrossed House bill No. 450, legalizing the settlemup* made by the Madison County Board of Commissioners with the county auditor sevetal years ago was passed under a suspension oi the rules. The same bill was passed by both houses of the late General Assembly, hut was vetoed by the Governor because of a technical error. The present bill was amended to remove the objections, and will be signed by the Governor. Senator Ball’s bill, providing for the weekly payment of wages by all employers, except railroad companies, was advanced to engrossment. Senator Nusbaum's bill, reducing telegtaph rates from 25 cents to 2b cents for ten words for private telegrams and onesixth of a cent for press telegrams, was called up for passage and precipitated the same arguments for and against it as were advanced at the time it was up for amendment. The bill was finally defeated by a vote of 22 to 20. House bill No. 541 was called up by Senator Shea and was passed under a suspension of the rules. The bill provides that the recent measure limiting the amount of Indebtedness which may be incurred by a tax district in the construction of roads shall not apply to roads already contracted for. A SENATOR EXPLAINS. The regular order of business was departed from yesterday morning to allow the introduction of bills, but about 11 o'clock come one moved to return to the regular order of business, and o* it being done. Senator Nusbaum secured recognition and at once explained his defection from the ranks of the supporters of Senator New's county bill by saying that, while he had been a friend to the bill heretofore, the matter had reached a fork in the road where the interests of the Marion county senator and his own diverged. He said he had, since he last considered the bill, been among the people who sent hirn to the Senate, and, as representing them, he could net agree to support the bill which created so many new officers at salaries which were entirely inadequate to secure the class of men needed. Senator Hubbell suggested that the creation of so many county officers at insufficient salaries would perhaps be regretted, inasmuch as the chances w’ere that they would all be lobbying in the next Assembly for largely Increased salaries. He felt that the bill had been drawn up in response to a demand for reform, and therefore felt that it should pass. Senator Minor briefly said thac if the senators voted to pass the bill they would live to regret it. During the call of the roll several senators explained their votes. Among them was Senator Wood, who said that while if his vote had been needed to pass the bill, it would be doubtful if he would give it. he felt that the bill would pass easily, and he would therefore vote for its passage. The bill was passed, twenty-nine voting for it to fifteen against it, the detail being: Yeas—Agnew. Ball, Binkley. Brooks, Charles, Culbert, Corr, Crcgor, Drummond, Early, Gilbert, Gochenour, Goodwine, Guthrie. Hawkins. Hogate, Hubbell, Hugg, Johnson of Madison. Johnson of Jay, Joss, Keyes. Lambert, Miller, New. Newby, Osborn, Shea, Wood. Nays—Campbell, Gwin, Heller. Horner, Keeney, Kell, Legeman, Leieh, Minor, Nusbaum, O’Connor, Patten, Purcell, Stroup, Winfield. The absentees were: Stillwell, Ryan, Inman, Gill, Goar, Burns. NEWBY'S MEASURE) FAILS. Senator Newby's bill authorizing boards of county commissioners to appropriate money up to- $5,000 to establish county historical societies brought on a little discussion, in which Senator Drummond charged that its purpose was to increase the burden of taxation on poor property owners, who at present had all they could do to live, to Fay nothing of paying out money to support libraries which they would have no opportunity of enjoying. Senator Newby jnalled attention to the fact that the bill had nothing to do with libraries, but simply allowed the county commissioners, at their discretion, to set aside any available room for the collection of historical data, and in the event there is no such vacant room in a public institution the bill then allows them to build a suitable building. On the first vote the bill failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority. New bills were introduced and referred as follows: No. 412. By Senator Agnew: Providing that where one railroad crosses another, and it is thought necessary to put in an Interlocking safety plant, and one road refuses to bear its proportion of the expense, the matter shall be referred to the county auditor for settlement; judiciary. No. 414. By Senator Agnew: legalizing A FUSC GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR POWOER DU BAKING POWDER Awarded Highest Honors, World’s Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair

the incorporation of East Chicago; cities and towns. No. 415. By Senator Burns: Providing for a special charter lor the city of South Bend; cities and towns. No. 416. By Senator Goodwine: Prohibiting the holders of chattel mortgages from collecting more than the legal rates of interest; banks. No. 417. By Senator Gwin: Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Georgetown, Floyd county; passed under suspension of the rules. No. 418. By Senator Drummond: Giving the attorney general the authority to search for sequestered property, and, if found, place it on the tax duplicate; judiciary. No. 419. By Senator Hogate: Placing the state oil inspector on a salary of $2,500 and placing his appointment in the hands of the Governor; judiciary. No. 420. By Senator Hogate: Providing for the npnointment of a commission to represent the State at the Ohio centennial celebration, to be held at Toledo. Passed under a suspension of the rules. No. 421. By Senator Hugg: Providing for a uniform system of negotiable paper; judiciary. „ No. 422. By Senator Hawkins: Providing for two new : elevators in the Statehouse; public buildings. No. 423. By Senator Johnson, of Madison: Allowing county commissioners extra pav for clerical assistance; judiciary. No. 424. By Senator Keyes: Regulating the number of employes and their salaries at the State Soldiers’ Home; soldiers’ monument. No. 425. By Senator Keeney; Regulating the acts of tiie councils of cities and towns; judiciary. No. 426. By Senator Legeman: Giving the county surveyor the right to clean ditches at any time it may be considered necessary to do so, and charge the cost of the same to the abutting propery owners; swamp lands and drains. No. 427. By Senator Legeman: Preventing the councils of cities of from 50,000 to 100,000 from granting extensions to streetrailway companies: judiciary. No. 428. By Senator Leich: Prohibiting the playing of any game of sport on Decoration day; judiciary. No. 429. By Senator Miller: Abolishing the boards of managers of the reformatory and penitentiary and providing for the appointment by the Governor of a nonpartisan board of managers to control both Institutions; benevolent institutions. No. 439. By Senator Miller: Regulating the method of paying for the construction of ditches extending into more than one county; judiciary. No. 431. By Senator Minor: Allowing township and city trustees to levy a tax. on the expression of a favorable sentiment from the people, for the establishment of a free lecture course; judiciary. No. 432. By Senator Osborn: Prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in the vicinity of the Marion Soldiers’ Home: judiciary. No. 433. By Senator Patten: Compelling peddlers traveling from town to town through a county to pay a county license; judiciary. No. 434. By Senator Shea: Making a recent law limiting the debt which may be incurred in the building of gravel roads at 4 per cent, of the taxable property not apply to roads already contracted for; Judiciary. No. 435. By Senator Stilwell: Amending the charter of the New Harmony Library to enable it to receive a donation of $45,000. Passed under suspension of the rules. No. 437. By Senator New: Permitting aid to be voted by counties having a voting population of 40,000 or more toward the establishment of universities; city of Indianapolis. No. 436. By Senator Shea: Providing for the placing of a statue of Thomas A. Hendricks in Statuary Hall, in the Capitol at Washington; federal relations. County nml Township Hills. The county and township reform bills, which were passed by the Senate, reached the House yesterday and were referred to the committee on county and township business. This committee acted an them last evening and will report both to the House to-day without a minority report. The majority of the committee will recommend the passage of the bills and these reports will be signed by Messrs. Blankenship, Huff, Somers, Artman, Mull and Titus. Mr. Reser and Mr. Green, who presented the minority reports on the bills when introduced into the House, will not present minority reports on these bills, although they will not sign the majority reports. The hills will be reported to-day and will be ordered printed. Such was stated last evening to be the arrangement agreed on and the contest will come when the bills come up for second reading. Two*Gent-Fure Bill To-Nlht. The first evening session of the House will be held to-night, when the 2-cent-fare bill will come up for consideration on the committee report. The report recommends the indefinite postponement of the bill and the friends of the measure will make a strong attempt to have the recommendation of the committee set aside. The bill on which the test will he made is that by Mr. Neal. BUILDINGS TOO HIGH. Sew York Inquiry Committee Favors Their Limitatlon to 2IKI Feet. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—After three years of inquiry, study and consideration the special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation has submitted a report in which it recommends that the height of buildings in this city should be restricted to two hundred feet. This report has been presented to President Coogan, of the borough of Manhattan, with a proposed ordinance. The committee had conferences with the chiefs of the fire, health and building departments as well as with architecture and business men. The report recommends that on the widest streets no building should be higher than two hundred fe<;c and proportionately lower on narrower thoroughfares and that dwellings be not higher than eighty feet. Approvul of a Reform Movement. Chicago Post. Mrs. May Wright Sewell has made an adm.rable suggestion to the convention of women in Washington, in effect that a commission of women shall be :ynointed to visit our new possessions, to study the conditions therein existing and see in what way the dusky ladies can he aided bv the introduction of American feminine methods The scandalous pictures sent to the American press by Mr. McCutcheon and other war artists sbow r that a great state of demoralization exists, and that we cannot move too quickly in the interest of unfortunate women who go about clothed in smiles and a crash towel. It seems likely that we shall eventually annex these ladies, and in this case they will properly demand representation at mother convocations in Washington and at the nuttings of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. Conceive then, the consternation in Handel Hall at the appearance of a kindergarten teacher from Iloilo in what she may call her ralnvday costume. Mrs. Sewali is a farsighted woman and she knows the value of union suits and petticoats and shirt waists as reformatory agents. The commission should be appointed without delay, and should consist wholly of women. No honorary mothers should be permitted to “study conditions” or trusted to “prosecute intelligently” the studies necessary. A great problem confronts tho earnest women of the United States. We do not remember when the question of dress reform ever before appealed so strongly to us. Stopped by the Police. HARTFORD. Conn., Feb. 13,-The police stopped the Maher-Conroy fight in the seventh round to-night. Maher had the better of it all the way through.

tTiE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FERRUARY Hi, 1899.

CONGRESS MUST ACT + SPECIAL SESSION WILL RE CALLED IF ARMY RILL IS NOT PASSED. i Joint Resolution Continuing Present Arrangement* Will Not Re Satisfactory to the Administration. a NEGOTIATIONS FOR NAUGHT CANADIANS WANT MORE THAN AMERICANS WILL CONCEDE. • ♦ Col. Miller, of Iloilo Fame, Promoted, and S. J. Harrows Nominated for Librarian of Congress. * WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The President has conveyed assurances to some of the party leaders in Congress, in addition to those given last week, that he will certainly call Congress together in extra session if it fails to pass the army reorganization bill at the present session. In answer to repeated inquiries, the administration has been obliged to decline all propositions looking to the tiding over of the needs of the army by passing a joint resolution, simply extending the appropriations on the basis of the present organization, holding that this device would be utterly inadequate to meet the absolute necessities of the case. The status of the volunteers would, it is said, be extremely unsatisfactory and there would be absolutely no assurance that the President could retain them in the service even when the emergency is great. The same statement would apply to the regular army soldiers who enlisted for the war. Avery serious objection to the joint resolution programme, too, according to the War Department officials, would be its failure to supply the staff and line officers absolutely needed. These officials say that the pending Hull hill provides for just 822 original appointments of second lieutenants and it is declared to be the policy of the administration to divide these places among the States and Territories on the basis of the population. The Senate committee on military affairs was in a deadlock to-dav on the army bill. This was due to the absence of Senator Proctor, who holds the balance of power in the committee. He is in Cuba and went away without leaving authority to vote for him on the bill. This left five Republicans and five Democratic members on the committee. When an effort was made at tne forenoon session of the committee to secure a favorable report on the bill the Democrats objected and were able to prevent action. Several conferences w'ere held between the opposing sides. These resulted in an agreement that the bill should be reported tomorrow’ practically without recommendation. The Democrats simply agree to let the bill be reported, reserving the right to make a statement of their position and*showing the committee to be evenly divided. * * * The text of the naval appropriation bill became availab’e to-day. It authorizes the President to have constructed, by contract, three sea-going coast-line battle ships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of 13,500 tons, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the largest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $3,600,000, and three armored cruisers of about twelve thousand tons trial displacement, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, to be sheathed and coppered and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $4,000,000 each; six protected cruisers of about 2,500 tons trial displacement, to be sheathed and coppered, and to have the highest speed compatible with good cruising qualities, great radius of action, and to carry the most powerful ordnance suited to vessels of their class, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $1,141,800. The provision as to armor and armament places the limit of cost at $545 a ton. * * * Patents were issued to Indianians to-day as follows: Clarence V. Burch, Terre Haute, cartridge implement; Edward K. Chapman and G. B. Rubens, Indianapolis, swivel display fastener; Thorras J. Lindsey, Lafayette, bicycle frame; William F. Maurer, Harmony, nest for fowls; James A. McKim, Indianapolis, fire-proof building; Joseph N. Morgan, Crawfordsville, machine for gathering and destroying bugs; William 11. Northam, Evansville, bottle-sealing device; William H. Trammel, Huntington, hose-holder: William E. Wyenn, Barnard, air-brake for vehicles. * * * William Pearson was to-day appointed postmaster at Hopedale, Carroll county, Indiana, vice D. W. Hoover, resigned. * * * Whether or not the negotiations looking to the settlement of the dozen or more issues between the United States and Canada by means of the joint commission now in session ultimately will fail entirely, can scarcely be foretold here at this moment. But. regardless of the outcome, it can be stated on authority that the American commissioners have not, as represented, refused the concessions asked by the Canadians. On the contrary, the American commissioners have listened with the greatest patience for the past six months to every argument that the Canadians cared to present in support of the important concessions they desired and, so far from refusing these, the Americans have granted some of the most important, concessions that, it is admitted, are so broad as to make it difficult .for the American commissioners to assure themselves of the supoprt of their government and Congress in allowing them. It is said further, and this statement, is borne out by the open declarations of the officials of both the United States and Canada, that while a. number of propositions, nearly all of importance, w’ere agreed on by the tw r o governments as proper subjects to be considered by the joint commission with a view to their inclusion in the projected treaty or series of treaties, it was not expected, although. of course, it was hoped that final agreement w'ould be reached on all of these subjects Just such a state of affairs as that expected, apparently, has now been reached on some questions of the first importance, including matters that have been the cause of constant friction between the United States and Canada for many years. On some other questions the commissioners have not been able to get together; it is even probable that they never will. The question is, whether, in view of this partial agreement, the two governments will consider it worth while to attempt to base a treaty on those matters that have already been agreed upon. The commissioners are not bound to do this unless they see fit. as it is understood that in such negotiations there must be always more or less “trading;” in other w'ords, concessions must be made by one party on one point to secure a concession by the second party on another, and it remains to be seen whether both the United States and Canada will regard the agreement so far reached as constituting a fair adjustment. • * The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Samuel J. Barrows, of Massachusetts, to be librarian of Congress; David L. Geyer, receiver of public moneys at Roswell, N. M.; George W. Wilson, of Ohio, now’ deputy commissioner of interna] revenue, to be commissioner of internal revenue. Regular Army—Col. Marcus P. Miller, Third Artillery, to be brigadier general; William B. Parker, private Company B, First Infantry, to be second lieutenant. General Miller commanded the military forces which captured the city of Iloilo without the loss of a man or an arm, and bis promotion is in recognition of his meritorious service on that occasion. The new brigadier general is a native of Massachusetts, and was graduated from West Point ir, 1858. He served throughout the civil war with conspicuous gallantry, and was brevetted three times. r>ater be ser\ed gallantly on the frontier fighting Lilians. • * • Private John Xofwit, Company K, Seventh United States Volunteer Infantry, having been tried and found guilty of murder by a general court-martial convened at Camp Haskell, Macon. Ga., was sentenced

“to suffer death by being shot at such time and place as may be designated by the reviewing authority.” The record of the proceedings of the general court-martial in this case having been submitted to the President for his action, he commuted the sentence of death to dishonorable discharge from the service, forfeiting all pay and allowances and to imprisonment for life. The United States penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., was designated as the place of confinement. * * * The Senate committee on appropriations has reported the postoffice appropriation bill, increasing the total appropriation of the bill over the amount as it passed the House to the extent of $333,283, and raising the total to $106,533,638. The principal item of increase is that of $171,238 for increased mail facilities on the trunk lines between New York and New' Orleans, via Atlanta, An increase of $137,000 was also made in the allowance for clerk hire. A provision was insei .ed requiring bidders for star route contracts to reside contiguous to the joutes on which their bids are made. * * Senator Davis, of Minnesota, reached Washington this morning at 2 o’clock, having been snow-bound at Boyds, twenty miles from Washington, for thirty-six hours. Senator Foraker, of Ohio, is snow’bound at Parkersburg, W. Va. These senators went to Dayton to be present at the meeting of the Ohio Republican League last Saturday. * • * The Senate to-day confirmed these nominations: Edward R. Meek, United States district judge for the Northern district of Texas; Frederick C. Perkins, register of the land office, Durango, Col.; S. S. Tull, postmaster at Monon, Ind.; Lieut. Col. Lloyd Wheaton, Second Infantry, to be colonel, and other army and navy* promotions in the minor grades. • * * The Bureau of Statistics to-day made public its statement of exports and imports for the month of January, 1890, and for the seven months of the present fiscal year. The statement show’s that the total exports of merchandise for January, 1899, wore $115,515,954, as compared with $108,426,674 in January, 1898, and the imports $58,472,315, against $50,827,714 in 1898. making* an excess of exports over imports for January, 1899, of $57,043,639, compared with an excess of exports in January 189S, of $57,598,960. For the seven months ended Jan. 31, 1899, the exports were $749,472,465, against $718,367,407 in the same period ended Jan. 31, 1898, and the imports $367,175,925, against $340,016,539 for the seven months of the previous year, the excess of exports over imports for the seven months ended Jan. 31, 1899. thus being $382,296,540, against $377,750,877 for the corresponding seven months the year before. The gold exports In January. 1899, were $2,330,503, and the imports, $6,066,080, making an excess of imports of against an imports excess in January 1898, of $3,834,751. For the seven months ended Jan. 81, 1599, the excess of gold imports w’as $50,994,794, against an excess the corresponding period of the previous year of $22,449,230. The exports of silver in January, 1899, w-ere $5.358,900 and the imports $2,501,718, an excess of exports of $2,767,182. against an excess in January. 1888, of $1,766,359. For the seven months ended Jan. 31, 1899, the excess of silver exports was *14.435,705. against an excess for the same period ended Jan. 31, 1868, of $14,238,859. * * * It took a power of persuasion to induce Representative Overstreet to serve on the Republican caucus committee to devise a plan of monetary legislation for the digestion of the Fifty-sixth Congress, but he has filially consented. Mr. Overstreet gave up about six months of his time last year to work on the congressional campaign committee and he felt that he should be relieved from service on the caucus committee. His pleadings w'ere of no avail. He was drafted and w’ill serve.

* * * Speaker Reed and Chairman Hitt, of the House committee on foreign affairs, being against further action on the McEnery Philippines resolution, it is not likely it will make much progress in the lower branch of Congress during the few remaining days of the session. * * * The only member of the court of inquiry to investigate the charges relative to the meat furnisned to the army to reach Washington up to this afternoon was Colonel Gillespie, who came over from New York. General Wade, president of the court, is somewhere between here and Denver; Gen. George W. Davis reported by telegraph that he had got as far north as Hiciimond, Va., while Col. George B. Davis, the recorder of the court, is at Pittsburg. * * * An agreement for the adjustment of the debt of the Central Pacific Railroad to the government may soon be rea'ched between the government committee and the bankers representing the railroad. Mr. Speyer, the banker, and Secretary Bliss and Attorney General Griggs were at the White House to-day in conference with the President. It is understood that the plan contemplates the payment of $58,000,000 to the government in semi-annual 3-per-cent, notes, the last expiring ten years from date. These notes will be secured by a deposit of Central Pacific 4-per-cent, bonds. The agreement w’ill not be signed for several days yet, and it will depend on circumstances wffien it will be finally concluded, though its general terms have been outlined. Secretary Gage, one of the members of the government committee, is out of the city, and, of course, final action will not be taken in his absence. • * * The War Department has been informed that the Twelfth Infantry, which has been snow bound while en route East, has reached Martinsburg, W. Va., where it will remain during the night. It is thought there will be no difficulty in resuming travel tomorrow. The men are well provided for and no uneasiness is felt on their account. * • * A heavy overdose of a proprietary preparation containing chloral nearly resulted fatally to Mr. Albert Berg, secretary of state of Minnesota, at the Raleigh Hotel here to-day. Mr. Berg had been ill yesterday and his physician prescribed the chloral compound for tho secretary's highly nervous condition. Mr. Berg took tw’o ounces of the preparation under the impression that It was a harmless effervescent nerve tonic. It was with the greatest difficulty that he was relieved, but he suffered agonies from the use of the stomach pump and other heroic remedies necessary. Secretary Berg came here some time ago with Governor Merriam on business. * * * The Senate has disposed of the House census bill by substituting the Senate bill for it and asking a conference with the House. CHANGE IN PORTO RICO. Messrs. Elliott, Nixon hiii! Mnrifl* to Establish New Postal System. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Captain W. H. Elliott, of New Castle, Ind., director of posts for the Island of Porto Rico, will sail from New York to-morrow for San Juan on the transport Mississippi, together with Messrs. Macias and Nixon, his confidential assistants. He carries instructions to institute an independent form of postal government on the entire island on March 15 next. This will be the adoption in its entirety of the postal system of this country and will be identical with the postal system just inaugurated in Cuba. It will place Porto Rico on the same postal status with respect to the United States as all countries belonging to the Universal Postal Union. Orders w’ere given to-day for the printing of a complete set of stamps for Porto Rico, simply surcharging the United States stamps by printing the words Porto Rico across the face. All postmasters will close their accounts in the name of the United States, furnishing a statement of all transactions and returning all stamps on that date and open accounts afresh, The international money order rates will continue permanently, both as applies to Cuba and Porto Rico, and when Chief Clerk Gadsden, of the money order system here, detailed as special commissioner to those islands, finishes his work in Cuba he will proceed to Porto Rico, probably by March *ls, and establish a domestic money order system there. The Dostal commission dispatched to Cuba to investigate and report recommendations have submitted their report to the postmaster general to-day. The main points in reorganizing the service and Americanizing the management and methods of postoffices have already been mentioned. Dentils In Cnbn. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The War Department to-day received the following report of deaths in General Brooke’s command at Camp Columbia, Havana: Robert Payne, Second United States Engineers, smallpox; Private Charles O’Donnell. Company B, Twelfth Infantry, assassinated by stabbing. At Santiago: Spencer White, Company C, Ninth Volunteers, apoplexy. *IIOO,OOO More- for Knox College, GALESBURG, 111., Feb. 15.—At the close of founders’ day exercises at Knox College to-night President Finley announced the contribution of an additional endowment of $109,000 by friends of the college. Among the contributors are D. K. Pearson, of Chicago, $25,009, and S. S. McClure, of New York, SIO,OOO.

TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN BLOCKADE OX EASTERN RAILWAYS PRACTICALLY RAISED. The Pennsylvania, Baltimore * Ohio anil Other Rends Trying to Restore Their Schedule*—Weather Forecast. ♦ PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.—The snow blockade on all the railroads entering this city is to-night practically a thing of the past. All divisions on the Pennsylvania and the Reading roads are making an effort to run on schedule time, with the exception of the Stony Creek, Frankford and Newtown branches of the Reading, which are still experiencing difficulty, but trains are sent out at irregular intervals. Trolley lines in the city are generally open to-night, but suburban roads are still snow’-bound. PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 15.—The railroad blockade between Pittsburg and seaboard cities is gradually being raised. The first train to reach the East from this city since Sunday was train No. 10, on the Baltimore & Ohio, which crossed the mountains last night, arriving at Baltimore at 10 o’clock to-day. Traffic was resumed on the Pennsylvania road to-day, and all the regular trains departed on time. The first train from the East over the Pennsylvania arrived at 0:40 o’clock to-day. It was made up at Harrisburg yesterday afternoon, and W’as scantily filled with passengers. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—The obstacles to railroad traffic resulting from the recent blizzard have been overcome to such an extent as to w'arrant the companies operating trains to the North and West in announcing that traffic will now be resumed practically on schedule time. It has been an almost herculean task for the railroad companies to remove the great drifts of snow and clear the tracks, but this has been accomplished and passengers again will be enabled, to travel without discomfort or danger. All trains on the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania that were detained by the elements have arrived, and those which started from New York and intermediate places to-day have also arrived, though more or less belated. BALTIMORE, Feb. 15.—The railroads reaching Baltimore are rapidly assuming their normal condition, and by noon tomorrow it is expected that both the. Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania will run at least their passenger trains on schedule time. One track of either line is open between Washington and Philadelphia, and several New York trains arrived to-day with long overdue passengers and mail aboard. Several Western trains also pulled in over the Baltimore & Ohio, and reports from along the line indicate that a number of them are pushing their way eastward. Their progress is necessarily however, as there is but one track nearly the entire distance between Baltimore and Cumberland. Several trains started for the West to-night with good prospects of making fair time. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Traffic was resumed on all the railroads this evening and all through trains are running close to schedule time. Nearly all the surface roads are in operation to-day. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 15.—The railroads have succeeded well in opening up their blockaded lines, and trains are now moving with some approach to regularity. Effect of the Freeze In Florida. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 15.—The Associated Press, in response to a request for accurate information as to the damage done in Florida by the freeze of Monday night, to-day received the following from Jacksonville: “The snow' covered all of Florida as far south as Tampa on the west coast and St. Augustine on the east. Vegetables were generally killed. It is difficult at this time to estimate the damage done to orange graves, but where protective measures were not taken it is considerable. The trees were in bloom and the blossoms were killed, and the prospects for a crop next fall are destroyed in a large portion of the orange belt.”

FORECAST FOR TO-DAY". Fair Weather, Except Probably Rain In Southern Indiana. WASHINGTON. Feb. 15, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Generally fair; fresh to southerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois—Fair, except probably rain in southern portions; southeasterly winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast—Since Tuesday night a low area has developed in the Gulf of Mexico and is central to-night off the middle gulf coast. As a consequence the barometer has fallen rapidly in the gulf and south Atlantic States and rains are in progress to-night as far as the South Carolina coast. It is snowing, also, in northern and central Mississippi. The low area in the Northwest is also developing to the southeastward, but without precipitation, except light snows in the upper lake region Tuesday night; elsewhere east of the Rocky mountain region fair weather has prevailed. The temperatures have risen generally, except in the lower portion of the west gulf States, and are everywhere above the freezing point, except in the lower lake region, the middle Atlantic States and New England. In the plateau and Pacific coast regions there have been light snows and rain, respectively, in the northern portions, followed by fair weather, except in the eastern portion of the middle plateau, where light snow has continued. Fair weather has continued in the southern portion. The following additional information relative to the cold wave of Monday and Tuesday In Florida was received to-day from the Weather Bureau official at Jacksonville: “The severest cold wave In the history of this State. Temperature at Tallahassee Monday (13th) morning. 2 degrees below zero. At Miami Tuesday morning temperature fell to 29 degrees, killing vegetables and damaging citrus fruits where most heroic protective methods were not practiced.” Rain is Indicated for the east gulf and south Atlantic and increasing cloudiness, with snow or rain in the middle Atlantic States and New England. Snow or rain is also indicated for the Ohio valley. It will probably clear in the west gulf States and will be generally fair elsewhere. The temperature changes will be unimportant. Brisk south to east winds will prevail in the New England and middle Atlantic States and brisk to high northeasterly winds in the south Atlantic States. Storm signals are displayed on the gulf coast at Mobile and Pensacola, and on the Atlantic coast from Jupiter to Cape Henry. Local Observation* on Wednenday, Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m..3U.27 16 76 South. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m..30.24 35 06 South. Clear. 000 Maximum temperature, 37; minimum temperature, 15. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation on Feb. 15; Temp. Pre. Normal 32 0.13 Mean 26 0.00 Departure from the normal. —6 —0.13 Departure from Feb. 1 —320 —1.41 Departure from Jan. 1 —322 —0.87 C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday’s Temperature*. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. Atlanta, Ga IS 40 34 Bismarck. N. D 20 32 42 Buffalo. N. Y 14 24 22 Calgary, Alberta 28 42 36 Cairo. 11l 24 44 28 Cheyenne, Wyo 26 40 36 Chicago, 111 18 42 36 Cincinnati, O 16 38 34 Concordia, Kan 24 54 42 Davenport, la 22 48 4o Des Moines. Ia 22 50 44 Galveston, Tex 404 t 44 Helena, Mont 26 40 33 Jacksonville, Fla 34 62 5.8 Kansas City, Mo 26 50 42 Little Rock Ark 32 44 42 Marquette, Mich 14 26 32 Memphis, Tenn 30 38 . 34 M*nnedosa, Man 8 Moorhead, Minn 12 Nashville. Tenn 23 38 36 New Orleans, La 38 42 38 New York 8 28 26 North Platte, Neb 26 46 38 Oklahoma, O. T 24 56 42 Omaha, Neb 24 52 46 Pittsburg, Pa 12 36 34 Qu’Appelle, Assin 24 34 34 Rapid City. S. D 28 50 36 Salt Lake City, Utah.... .34 42 40 St. Louis, Mo 24 46 42 St. Paul, Minn 18 42 40 Springfield, 111 18 42 34 Springfield, Mo 24 44 40 Vicksburg, Miss 30 26 34 Washington, D. C —6 34 30 —Below zero. Rev. Dr. John S Lindsay, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Boston, has declined the office of general secretary of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church,

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TWO MISSING STEAMERS * XO NEWS YET OF EITHER THE BULGARIA OR THE PAVOXIA, One Y’essel Sighted Towing Another on Feb. 10, but Their Name* Not Known—A Narrow E*cupe. LONDON, Feb. 15.—The British steamer Koodistan, Captain Simpson, from Savannah on Jan. 26 for Bremen, passed Cowes to-day and signaled that she spoke the disabled Hamburg-American line steamer Bulgaria in longitude 43 west. She di l not mention the date the steamer was signaled. The British steamer Hampton, from Alexandria on Jan. 28 for Southampton, has arrived there and reports having passed on Feb. 10, in latitude 32 north and longitude 9 vvesi, a steamer towing another steamer. No signals were visible. The White Star line steamer Majestic. Captain Smith, from New York on Feb. 8 for Liverpool, arrived at Southampton today and reported having experienced stormy weather during her passage across the Atlantic. A sharp lookout was kept for the disabled Hamburg-American line steamer Bulgaria, last seen during a severe storm 800 miles from the Azores islands, and for the overdue Cunard line steamer Pavonia, from Queenstown on January 25 for Boston, last reported about 300 miles from the Azores in a disabled condition. No signs ol the two steamers were seen. The Cunaru line this afternoon dispatched a powerful tug to the Azores islands in search of the Pavonia. Two Hooslerw on the Bulgaria, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DECATUR, Ind., Feb. 15.—Two Decatur people, Adam Brown and John Yager, are on the ill-fated ship Bulgaria, adrift and probably sunk off the coast of the Azores. Mr. Brown was the junior member of the firm of Brown & Hank, stock dealers, and was a wealthy and prominent citizen of Adams county. John Yager was the only son of Dan Yager, proprietor of the Park House, and had accompanied Air. Brown simply for a pleasure trip. AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE. The Canard Liner Etruria. Narrowly Escapes Collision with a CTnl**r. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—The Tribune says: “The passengers of the Cunard liner Etruria, which arrived yesterday, hud the exciting experience on Monday morning o? narrowly avoiding a collision with the United States cruiser Marblehead. At 10 o’clock on the morning named, when about seventy miles from Sandy Hook, the officers on the bridge of the Cunarder were startled by the apparition, as Captain Ferguson described it, of a large vessel looming out of the thick clouds of driving sleet and snow, on the port bow, only a few lengths ahead of the Etruria, and making directly across the bows of the latter vessel. Chief Officer Barr was the officer on watch and was on the bridge with Captain Furguson. Instantly Mr. Barr, divining the danger that threatened, signaled to reverse the engines. Then, when the Etruria had slowed down a little the order was given to go full speed ahead and, with the helm hard a starhoard, the Cunarder passed closely under the stern of the Marblehead. So close, in fact, were the two vessels that, despite the mist, the officers on the bridges waved their hands to one another, in thankfulness, no doubt, of the escape from ihe collision which for a few minutes seemed so imminent. At the time the cruiser was headed to the eastward. She left Boston for Havana about the middle of last week. On Friday, however, the Marblehead, covered with ice, was reported to have sought shelter at Provincetown, Mass. That she was in the path of the incoming liner would seem to indicato that she had resumed her long journey southward, but had been caught by the blizzard and was riding it out on the Long Island coast. Captain Ferguson, of the Etruria, was averse to saying much about the escape, but he remarked that if his vessel had struck the Marblehead abeam, as would have happened undoubtedly if the engines had not been reversed, the cruiser must assuredly have gone to the bottom.” NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—The United States cruiser Marblehead, which arrived from Boston to-day, reports that she was badly knocked about by the gale. One boat was carried away and another was smashed, davits were wrenched from the places and one big wave broke through the engine room grating, pouring below and driving the lliemen and oilers up on deck. John Connors, a seaman, had his leg fractured by being tossed across the deck. The Marblehead will proceed to the navy yard for repairs. Shipwrecked Mariner*. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.—The powerful sea tug Eureka, the first vessel to force her way up the. Delaware through the Ice blockade, arrived here thus afternoon with nineteen shipwrecked mariners, eight of whom had been taken from the barge Newport, which was cut through by the ice and sunk in the Swash channel, and the others from the barge Gibson, which was driven ashore on the Delaware beach. The Eureka also picked up the crow of several abandoned oyster boats. Two large steamships broke the ice blockade to-day and came up to port. They were the Windsor line steamship Parthian. Captain Snow, from Boston, and the American line steamship Waesland, Captain Ehoff, from Liverpool. The United States collier Sterling left the breakwater at noon for Boston. Tlie Pretoria Towed In. PLYMOUTH, England, Feb. 15.—The Hamburg-American line steamer Pretoria, which sailed from Hamburg on Jan. 29 for New York and which was reported passed the Lizard Jan. 31, arrived here to-day, being towed in by tugs. Her steering gear is damaged. Tho Pretoria reported that she encountered a heavy southwesterly gale on Feb. 3 in latitude 48. longitude 30. during which the rudder shaft broke. It was temporarily repaired and Japtain Hopff decided to return. On the way hither a succession

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