Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1899 — Page 2

2 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 1899.

who Inspected both the Grant and Sherman at Gibraltar. They were surprised, not only t tho number of men who were housed on ;i single transport, but at the complete arrangements that were made for their health and comfort. The government now has thlrty-or;e vessels In the service which it owns and fourteen others under charter. The ordnance otlicials of the War Department declare that the criticisms passed upon the department In some quarters because all of the troops In the Philippines are not equipped with the Krap-JorKcnsen rille are based upon a misapprehension of the facts. It Lj not denied that the Spanish ilauser has a longer range than the 4.Vcaliber Springfield, even when the latter is i:ir.g smokeless powder. Hut the military commanding offlcers in the Philippines were lven the option of using thf? Springlield or the Grag-Jorgen.son, and they decided in favor of the former, at least for the time being. That is why the t,tA Krag-Jorgen-pens are lying at Denecia Arsenal, California, subject to the requisition of 'Major General Otis, and It Is not because the de

partment is either unwilling or unable to 1 transport them to .Manix am or ine regular troops now at Manila and now on the way to that place are armed with the magaine rille. The volunteers have the SpringHeld, U-cause the military commanders in th Philippines regard it as the better weapon, when used with smokeless iowder, for the .skillful handling of volunteers. The difference in effective range is really not very great, and the Springtield 4 ball Is almost sure to kill where the small ball Mauser only wounds. Aside from this there is one great advantage in the Springlield, namely, its simplicity and strength. The volunteer soldier linds the complex mechanism of the modern rifle difficult to care for and to use, white the Springlield will stand any amount of rough handling and it is this reason more than any other that has inclined the more experienced army efflcers to refrain from arming the volunteers with a weapon with which they would Hot become familiar before the expiration of their terms of enlistment. The officers of Dewey's fleet have preferred a claim for double the amount oC Jiead money which It was at first believed they were entitled to receive, as the result of the victory over the Spanish forces at Cavite last May day. The law provides that shall be allowed to the victors for each person on the captured or destroyed vessel. By that calculation almost jO.OW would Its divided among Dewey's sailors. But it is hIso provided that where the conquered force was superior to the attacking force, then the allowance shall be ?'-0 per head. While Dewey's claim is not based on any superiority of the Spanish fleet, it is asserted that the fleet, fighting in conjunction with the shore batteries at Cavite. did constitute a superior force in the meaning of the law. The point Is a new one and is now in consideration by the Judge advocate general of the navy. The Navy Department has been Informed that the care which Admiral Dewey has plven to the Meet on the Asiatic station is rhown in the condition of the vessels, which Is much better than could be expected in view of the long service they have underprone for from repair stations. With the Fame information comes reports that the phops at Cavite have been established and that under the direction of American mechanics the native workmen have been able to make all the ordinary repairs which the f hlps need. For cleaning the bottoms they have to be taken to Hong-Kong and docked, rut tho other routine work has been done at Cavite. Regarding the administration of .Admiral Dewey, the Olympia is cited as a Fhip that has been in Asiatic waters for three years. Is still in good condition and lias needed little in the way of repairs. Ofrirern Fnmllle Must Stay nt Home. WASHINGTON. March 11. Tbe War Department to-day Issued the following order from General Miles: "The following cablegram has been received from General Otis: iManila not safe place for officers families. Great difficulty experienced in caring for those now here, and their safety one of the chief causes of enxiety. Officers families should, remain In the United States "Under such conditions the secretary of war regrets that no more families of officers or enlisted men will be permitted to accompany troops. Families of officers and all noncommissioned officers, for which quarters are legally provided, will be permitted to retain their quarters at the posts from which troops depart, according to the proVisions of memorandum circular dated adjutant general's office, Jan. 10, 1S00." A copy of this order has been sent to all peneralu commanding departments of the army. Tng for Dewey. SAN FRANCISCO. March 11. Three tugs for use in Manila bay and among the Philippines have been purchased by the United States government in Hong-ICong. They ere the Kar Shun, Le Fat and Kum Hing at present, but Admiral Dewey-Avill probably rechristen them. Kach tug is luO tons burden. They will be used to transport troops from point to point when necessary. vr, ChnplMn for Crnler Unltlmore. YOUNG STOWN, O., March 11. Rev. Linroln Davie, pastor of the Central Christian Church, received notice to-day from Secretary Iyjng that he had been appointed a t-haplain in tho United States navy. Itev. Davis has been assigned to the cruiser Ualtimore. of Admiral Dewey's squadron. Loyal Mohammedans. Washington Special. Tho dispatches from Manila saythat the Sdohammedan inhabitants of the Island of -Ilndanao, which is one of the largest of the Philippine group and the Sulu archipelago, are declaring their loyalty to the United states and readiness to support the American army against the followers of Aguintldo. This is believed to be due largely to . the influence of the Sultan of Turkey, who ? BAD WEATHER TO-DAY. $ln!n, Mnch Lower Temperature and HI gb orthwest Wind.

WASHINGTON, March 11, 8 p. m. Forecist for twenty-four hours: For Ohio Itain; colder by night; increasing south to west winds. For Indiana Riin; much colder; winds Bhlfting to high northwest winds. For Illinois Rain, probably turning Into mow flurries; much colder; winds becoming high northwesterly. Weather Conditions and General Forecast The storm in the West has moved jiortheastward to western Illinois, with preatly increased intensity, the depression extending eastward through the Ohio valley and lower lake region. Snows and rains have been quite general, except in tho Ohio valley, mid-lie and south Atlantic and east gulf States. The tem;eratures have fallen from 6 to degrees in the upper Mississippi and lower Miouri valleys and slope, region, and a cold wave covers the Missouri valley to-night. There was also a cold wave Saturday morning in the central Rocky mountain region. Warnings for these co.d waves were distributed Friday. It has grown warmer from the east gulf and south Atlantic States northward, and the temperature over these districts are from " to 10 degrees above the seasonal average. Rain is Indicated generally east of the Mississippi river, changing to snow In the northern portion of the Mississippi valley. It will also rain and snow ia the upper lake regions. The temperatures will fall decidedly in the central valleys, will remain high in the Fast and South and will rise slowly in the West. On the Atlantic coast Increasing east to couth winds will prevail. Local Ohervatloii on Saturday, Rar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m..2f.irj m Fouth. Pt.CIdy. 0.W 7 p. m..'20.2i r-2 S cast. Clear. 0(J Maximum temperature, TO; minimum tempi rat u re. ri Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation March 11: Temp. Pre. Normal 4 0.11 Mean 61 0.00 Departure from normal 2l 0.11 Departure since March 1 23 0.1 Departure since Jan. 1 313 1.1S Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Temperntnre. Station?. Min. Max. "p.m. Cairo. Ill M 64 IA Cheyenne. Wyo S M 21 Chicago, in (A n Cincinnati, O hZ To M Concordia. Kan 25 2 2 Javenport. Ia If) fit I Pes Moines, Ia Z .11 Kansas City, Mo Z Z IS Little Rock. Ark t M 54 Marquette. Mich 2i Memphis. Tenn It T) ft) illnnedoa. Manitoba M Nashville. Tenn IA T2 w North Platte, Neb 12 25 Zi Oklahoma. O. T 41 Omaha. Neb IS 22 IS Pittsburg. Pa f 70 C Qu'Appelie. N. W. T 1S Rapid City, S. I 12 3 1 Kalt Lake City, Utah.... 24 0 . s St. Louis. Mo .V ; 5 h'pringfield. Ill 50 iv 11 Springfield, Mo 2i 64 s Vicksburg. Miss W 7 65 Below zexo

is the spiritual head of the Moslem Church and exercises religious authority over. all the adherents of that faith. Abdul Hamld II has always been friendly to the United States, and has been greatly impressed by the achievements of our navy during the war. During the hostilities he frequently expressed his sympathy to Minister Straus, at Constantinople, and it Is believed that as soon as Manila surrendered he found means to communicate with the tribal leaders of his faith in the Philippines and admonished them to support the .United States. There are supposed to be about two million Mohammedans In the Philippine archipelago and their loyalty can be depended upon. THE PAVONIA IN PORT.

Arrlrnl of the Storm-Ilnttered Vcfel at LI erpool-( Iiarjje Denied. LIVERPOOL, March 11. The Cunard line steamer Pavonia, Captain Atkjns, which became disabled and had to bo towed into tho Azores-, arrived here to-day. There was a remarkable demonstration on the arrival of the Pavonia here. Crowds of people gathered on the quays and cheered her lustily. The steamer presented a very battered appearance, her rails being carried away or twisted, and her top mast gone. There were affecting scenes between the wives and other relatives of the crew, many of the women weeping with Joy. The officials of the Cunard line refused to allow reporters on board the steamer, saying that the whole circumstance of the Pavonia's break-down will be investigated in due course of time. The company, however, denounces the charges of cowardice against Captain Atkins and Chief Kngineer Duncan by passengers of the Pavonia. who reached New York on March 7. by the Portuguese steamer Vega, from Ponta del Gada. Azore islands, as being "wicked, malignant and unfounded." Tho officials of the company also declared that the details of the break-down of the Pavonia, already known, sufficiently refute the charges referred to. - Mednln for II rave Suitor. LONDON, March 11. Lloyds has presented medals to sixteen members of the crew of the Atlantic transport line steamer Menominee, Captain Bocquet, which arrived at New Yorlcon Jan. 19, after having rescued Captain Honeyman and twenty-two members of the crew of the British tramp steamer Glendower, which was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition on Jan. 12, while bound from Philadelphia, for Sllgo, with a cargo of maize. Steamnhlp Floated. HAMBURG, March 11. The North German Lloyd steamer Friederlch der Grosse, which was reported o ground yesterday off Schulau. in the River Kibe, has been lloated and reached this port. Movement of Steamer. NEW YORK. March 11. Arrived: Etruria, from Liverpool; St. Paul, from Southampton; Island, from Stettin. Sailed: Lucania, for Liverpool: Pennsylvania, for Hamburg; Ra, Champagne, for Havre; Ethiopia, for Glasgow. LIVERPOOU March 11. Arrived: Taurlc. from New York. Sailed: Campania, for New Y'ork. QCEENSTOWN. March 11. Arrived: L'mbrla, from New York, for Liverpool. COPENHAGEN, March 11. Arrived: Norge. from New York. PHILADELPHIA, March 11. Arrived: Corean, from Glasgow. SO UTHA MPTOX, March 11. Sailed: St. Louis, for New Y'ork. HAVRE. March 11. Sailed: La Touralne, for New Y'ork. ANTWERP, March 1L Sailed: Noordland, for New York. MANY CATTLE BURNED. Strip of Indian Territory Prairie Swept by Fire, EL RENO, I. T., March 11. A strip of country three miles wide and four miles long. Just north of the Darlington Indian agency, has been devastated by a prairie fire. It took twelve hours' work on the part of a section gang and all the employes on the agency reservation to subdue the fire. which was driven by a fierce gale. Many head of cattle belonging to the Indian farmera were burned so badly that they had to be shot, and much damage to property was done. The buildings at the Cheyenne school, at Caddo Springs, was saved with difficulty. It is reported that a squaw and three Indian children were burned to death. Many Firm Suffer. CHICAGO, March 11. Stock belonging to more than a dozen firms was destroyed thU evening by a lire that demolished the sevenstory building at Nos. jS to 211 Jackson boulevard. Fanned by a strong western wind, the flames, which started on an upper floor, raged furiously. The total loss re sulting from the fire Is estimated at more than ?1T5,0 J. The building, a complete loss, was valued at $H0,0i. The building was in the h!urt of the wholesale district, standing directly in the rear of tho wholesale store of Marshall, Field te Co. The principal losses are: Boston Rubber Shoe Company, $25,oi); Greeley, Frost & Cushman, dry-goods commission, ,OA; Wachussett-Short Company, Reedsburg Woolen Mills Company, $oMJ; Jenkins, Kneer fc Co., dry-Roods commission, Jo.ouo; L. Meyers, clothing, $5.Ui0; Pershing & Co., clothing, $3,0u0; Warehouse Point Silk Company, K0; J erirtg, -Milli-ken &. Co., woolens, JTi.va); McPherson & Laurie, threads, 7.CX There were a number of small agencies, chiefly of dry goods, in the building, and their loss was in samples only. Other Fire. MARYSVILLE, Cab, March 11. The Marysvllle woolen mill has been damaged $1, .-) by fire. The insurance amounted to J71.4VO. During the progress of the tire Frank Peck, of Yuba City, a well-known bicycle rider, entered tho building and was overcome by the smoke and burned to death. The burned mill was probably the oldest of its kind In tho State, having been operated continuously since 1S7. It employed TC0 hands and was capitalized at $2u0,0w. MOUNTAIN GROVE. Mo.. March 1L Eight brick business buildings, with contents, were destroyed by tire to-day. Walter H. Ijoomls, editor of the Advertiser, fell from the roof of his two-story building, receiving injuries which may prove fatal. Loss to stocks of goods will aggregate $100,0w. SUMMERVILLE, 111., March 11. The Eisenmyer Hour mill, capacity ; barrels daily, burned to-day. The property ws insured. Killed Htm in III Wife Iloom. WACO. Tex.. March 11. Ed Fogg killed to-night Lee Pearson, whom he found in a room with Mrs. Fogg, and was himself severely wounded. Fogg crawled through a transom Into the room, and In the dark he and Pearson opened fire. Fogg sprang toward the Hash of antagonist's pistol and by chance seized the weapon just as lie was shot through the shoulder. He then p!aeed his own weajwja against Pearson's heart and killed him. He surrendered to the authorities. The Hooe-llingley Weddlnff. LEWISTON, Me., March 11. The marriage of Miss Edith Dingley, daughter of the late Congressman Nelson Dingley, of this city, to Col. James Cecil Hooe of Washington, took place at the home of the bride's mother In this city to-day. Hon. John Wesley Gaines, member of Congress from Tennessee, was best man and Miss Lucy Rlcker of Lewlston was bridesmaid. Mr. Hooe has charge of the interests In Washington of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow of the late Senator Heart of California. Sitnatlon at Shnwneetovrn. SHAWNEETOWN, III.. March 11. There Is little change In the situation here. The river has risen one foot during the past twenty-four hours, and there is little less dry land than yesterday. It is believed the rise will end to-morrow at a stage of fortyfour feet. It is cloudy, and the wind is in the south, which will probably bring rain bv morning. This will not affect the river here unless the rain extends a considerable distance toward the headwaters. Hot Poker, Powder Explosion, Etc. CANTON. O., March 11. At Ueidlers, a mining town in Vuscarawas county, John Salfas was constructing a pigeon brx, and mado several holes in the structure by means of a hot ioker. A spark from the burning wcod ignited powder in a can near where the work was being done, and a terrific explosion occurred, fatally burning Salfa?, throwing his wife- a distance of fifty feet, injuring two ipfctatora of the work and wrecking the house. nnr' Shine Shot. COLUMBUS. O.. March 11. F. W. Itfider shot and killed "llufV' Shine at the Halga Mis!on. where smallpox suspects have been detained, late this afternoon. The men. the former of whom is clerk at the mission, and the. latter a puspect. got Into an altercation, when Shine threatened Relder, who drew a revolver and ehot Shine in the abdomen. Shine died almost immediately. Both ere ColussSus people.

BLIZZARD IN THE WEST

FIERCE SNOWSTORM RAGING IX NEBRASKA AND IOWA 3Inny Rulldlngrn Wrecked In Oklnhomn Several People Injured by FallInsr Slsns nt St. Lonls. OMAHA. Neb., March ll.-Another blizzard ' struck Nebraska this morning and raged fiercely- all day, and at midnight showed no signs of abating. The snow in this city was very wet and stuck to the rails of tho street car tracks so closely that but two lines operated after dark, and they only at irregular intervals. The snow was accompanied by a northwest gale, making it impossible to distinguish objects half a block away. Railroad trains camo in late, and out in the State the operation of the lines was a difficult task. The temperature took a marked drop this evening and the indications are for a very cold Sunday. Furious Windstorm. ST. LOUIS, March 11. A wind with the velocity of forty-five miles an hour swept through St. Louis to-night and five people are reported injured In different parts of the city from falling sign boards, but none fatally. In tho west portion of the city sheds were unroofed and in the manufacturing districts a number of iron smoke stacks were razed. The wind blew steadily till midnight and then abated. It was preceded by a short heavy rain. Many people were panlcstricken, thinking another tornado was upon tho city. Trolley wires were blown down and walking for a time was hazardous. A policeman stepped on a fallen trolley wire and was knocked senseless, but recovered. Worst of the Season. DBS MOINES, Ia., March 11. Rain today turned to snow this evening, which, at midnight, has developed into one of the worst storms of tho winter. Some four or five Inches of snow have fallen, which Is being drifted by a thlrty-miles-an-hour gale. Street car traffic is tied up and other railway operations impeded and telegraphic and telephonic communication interrupted. Tho temperature is falling and bids fair to get to ztro, a change in twenty-four hours of about sixty decrees. Reports from other points tell of similar conditions. Sedalla Suffers. SEDALTA, Mo., March ll.-A. windstorm of unusual severity swept over Sedalia this afternoon. Roofs of many residences were carried off, smoke stacks demolished andchimneys torn down. The roof of the amphitheater at Liberty Park was carried over the half-mile track and set down in the paddock. In the city plate glass was shattered and telegraph wires were carried away. William Wright, jr., aged seventeen, living six miles north, was struck by a falling chimney, which fractured his skull. Storm Damage In Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T.. March 11. A terrific windstorm visited this place to-day, coming from the southwest. For half an hour it blew a perfect gale, while the rain fell in sheets. Nearly one hundred houses were blown down. The oil mill and compress were damaged and nearly every smokestack in town Is down. A number of plateglass fronts were smashed. The damage is estimated at &0,OiO. No lives were lest, but thero were several narrow escapes. DIED IN A RAILWAY STATION Congressman W. L. Greene, of Nebraska, an Kx-Resldent of Indiana OMAHA, Neb., March 11. Congressman William L. Greeno died suddenly in this city to-night while on the way to the BurPngton depot to take a train for Lincoln. Heart failure is given as tho cause of death. Mr. Greeno arrived this morning from Washington and spent the day with friends in the city. At 7:43 he left his hotel for the train in company with three friends. On arrival at the depot he was unconscious and soon expired. William L. Greene was born in Pike county, Indiana, in 1MD. He attended an academy three years and was admitted to the bar in 1STG. In 1SS3 he removed to Kearney, Neb., where he has since resided. In 1S1G he was elected judge of the Twelfth judicial district. He was elected to tho Fifty-fifth Congress as a Populist and re-elected last fall. Ho leaves a widow and two daughters. Dr. Henry Parker Qnlney. BOSTON. March 11. Dr. Henry Parker Qulncy, one of the leading professors at the Harvard Medical School, died at his homo in this city to-day. Ho was well-known in the medical profession throughout the United States. Andrew C. Fowle. NEW YORK, March 11. Andrew C. Fowlo died to-day ef heart failure at hi home in Newark, N. J., aged seventy years. In 1S62 he constructed for the government tho tirst geometrical lathe for bank-note engraving. Other Deaths. ST. LOUIS, March 11. Word has been received that Mrs. Cornelia J. McNair, daughter of the first Governor of Missouri, is dead at Pass Christian, Miss. She was the widow of Antoino De Richie McNair and the mother of Capt. A. R. McNair, of the United States navy, H. C. and John G. McNair. The remains will. It is understood, be brought to St. Louis for interment. BOSTON, March 11. George Young, founder of the well-known hotel in Boston which bears his name, is dead at his home in this city as tho result of a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Young was eighty-one years of age. He had retired from business some twenty years ago. NEW BEDFORD. Mass., March 11. Edward S. Tabor, president of the Morse Twist Drill and Machine Company, president of the First National Bank and one of the leading business mn of the city, is dead from pneumonia. Ho had been ill for about a week. MUST NOT WEAR BLOOMERS. Salvation Army Lender, Nominated for Mayor, Promises to Fine Women. WICHITA, Kan., March 11. James W. Tapp, a rich merchant and leader of the local Salvation Army, has been nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for mayor. Mr. Tapp promises reform as follows: "Ten dollars fine for any girl wearing bloomers on the street. "Any policeman heard swearing will be discharged, and all are required to carry Bibles. "Religious services will be held twice daily in the city building. "Free street-car service will be given on Sunday morning to all church-goers. "Sunday theaters and baseball games will be forbidden. "Spitting tobacco Juice on the sidewalks will be a finable offense." These and other reforms, it is said, will be instituted if Mr. Tapp is elected. He has many friends. YOUNG SCIENTIST HONORED. Dr. F. J. J. See Given Charsre of the Government Nautical Almnnnc. CHICAGO, March ll.-Dr. T. J. J. See, the eminent young astronomer of the University of Chicago and widely known as the discoverer of double stars, has been appointed by President McKlnley to succeed Simon Newcomb, in charge of the National Almanac, a government astronomical almanac. Dr. See will bear the rank of senior lieutenant of the line and title of professor. He is perhaps the youngest man ever appointed to this important post, as ho is not yet thirty-three years of age. He was born in 1SGC, near Montgomery, Mo. Mrs. Kclfer IIui a MnLinpr Spell. SPRINGFIELD. O.. March 11. Mrs. J. Warren Kelfer, wife of General J. Warren Kclfer, hail a sinking spell this afternoon and it Is feared tho end Is at hand. Her condition ! extremely critical, although friends still havo hope. Dr. Loving, of Columbus, has been called into consultation. Central Kelfer and eon, C&pUla JXciXer,

cabled from Havana that they would sail at non to-day, but they cannot arrive in thl3 city before Tuesday or Wednesday at the earliest. ROW AT STRIKERS' MEETING

Fight Between Socialist" and AntlSoelalUts nt Plttabarff. PITTSBURG, March 11. The striking employes of the Schoen pressed-steel car works held a meeting this afternoon, which was broken up by a general fight between tho Socialists and anti-Socialists, resulting in nothing more serious than a few black eyes. While the row was at its height Captain Thornton, with a large detail of police, raided the hall and arrested about elxty of the participants, among the number John F. Nellson, leader of the antls. As the prisoners were being taken away in patrol wagons they cheered, while the crowds lining the sidewalks loudly responded. There 13 tonight considerable drunkenness among the foreigners and agitators, but the police have matters so well in hand that anything like a riot is hardly probable. Jersey Giants Blower Trouhle. PHILADELPHIA, March 11. The executive board of the National Glass Blowers' Association took no action to-day regarding the troubles of the glass blowers of the southern New Jersey towns. President Hayes, of the national board, said to-day that tho glass blowers in that section, who are all nonunion men, are working for wages much lower than the union rate. He said the board will endeavor to organize these nonunion men, and will instruct them to ask their employers to pay the union rate. If their demand is refused, the board will, in all likelihood, admit them Into the union and support them in a strike which may follow. A committee of these nonunion men consulted with the executive board yesterday, and, it is said, asked for the board's support in their demand for increased wages. Will Ask 10 Per Cent, Increase. PITTSBURG. March 11. The employes of all the different mills controlled by the National tube works, of McKeesport, are preparing to make a request for a 10 per cent, advanco in wages. The employes of the tube works proper were notitied on Thursday of an advance, which affects 5,000 men. There are about 5,000 more who want a similar increase, who are not employed in tho tube works, but in plants controlled by that concern. Aftnntiltcd hy Striker. afcSSILLON, O., March 11. Half of the clay miners of tho Masslllon Stone and Firebrick Company struck to-day for an Increase in wages. The strikers assaulted the men who remained at work with sticks and stones, but failed to bring them out. The places of the strikers have been filled and more trouble is expected. $7,000,000 IN SIGHT. An AlnHkan Lake Whone Rottom In Virtually Paved with Gold. JUNEAU. Alaska. Feb. 27, via San Francisco, Cal., March 11. The property of the Pande Basin Gold Placer Company is reported to have been leased for five years to F. P. Voorhees, who Is said to represent a New York syndicate. The rental Is fixed at $2,GC0,000 and $00,000 Is alleged to havo already been paid down. The remainder is to be paid in quarterly. Installments. In Pande basin Is a lake, out of which, early last January, was drained sixty-one feet of water through a tunnel in order to leave exposed gold-bearing riand on the beach. A new mining expert named Turner, of New York, reported, it is said, to the New York syndicate, represented by Voorhees, that tho sand would yield JS3 to the ton, and that there was then, on that average, at least $7,000,000 in sight. Many mining men hero are incredulous over this deal. NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. Law Declared Invalid Hecnme It Gave Preference to ExSoldier. CHICAGO, March lL-Judgo Gibbons today declared that the act'of the Legislature of Illinois, passed in 1S'J7, giving veterans of the civil war preferment over other candidates in civil service examinations, is void, because It gives a special or exclusive privilege, and because it is inconsistent with the basic principles underlying the nature -of our institutions. John Maloney, a candidate for tho oiilce of superintendent of the water-meter mechanical department, brought suit to review the acts of the civil service board in giving the place to Aaron L. Brown, a veteran of the Seventy-first New York, whose examination average was thirteen points below that of Malonej'. An appeal was allowed to secure a final adjucation in the Supreme Court. TRIED TO WARM HER. Three-Yenr-Old Girl Darned to Death hy Her Yonnjr Brother. MARSHFIELD, Wis., March 11. A shocking tragedy has occurred at Milladore. Mrs. Erhard, a widow, left her home to call on. a neighbor and locked her two children, a girl and boy aged three and five years, respectively, in tho house. The little girl went to bed and complained of being cold. Her little brother thereupon went to the stovo, scraped a few live coals together and laid them on the bed beside his sister. The bed clothing ignited and burned the little one to a crisp. NOBLE COLORED TROOPS. Soldiers Will Rescue a Train That 1Ih Been Snowed Up Sixteen Day. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. March 11. One hundred colored soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry at Fort Russell have volunteered to go out as shovelers to rescue the passenger train on the Cheyenne & Northern Railway, which, with forty-two passengers, has been snowed In at Iron Mountain station for sixteen days. They will go out tomorrow, and it is hoped to release the train before night. GNAWED BY SEWER RATS. Two Sleeping Children Probnhly Fatally Injured hy Hungry Rodent. BOSTON, March 11. Sewer rats attacked two sleeping children to-day in a house in Dorchester and Inflicted probably fatal wounds. Mrs. Woodward left her two children Elsie, aged three years, and Emma, aged one year asleep in their bed while she went to the grocery store. Returning half an hour later, she found them covered with blood, and examination showed parts of the faces and limbs had been partly eaten. Turned Her Toe Out. New York Commercial Advertiser. She was a pretty girl. A fluffy boa circled her neck, and her dress was becoming without being tailor-made, and she didn't wear her hair pompadour. Still, she was decidedly good to look at by the tired eyes of men that had been poring over ledgers or the accounts of the things the reporters don't know about the Cornish case. But and it was sad to see she turned in her toes. Opposite her was a man. a plain sort of man. a man that hated to see a flaw in what was otherwise so good a production. He might, perhaps, have been a newspaper man or something like that. He looked at her. and she caught his eye. He turned, cast down his eyes to her feet, and she did not take hers away from his face. When he looked up again she was still looking at him, and he gravely but politely shook his head, then glanced down at her feet again. She blushed a Mrs. Lawson pink, and and turned out her toes. nieycle Notes. Now Is tho time to havo your wheel overhauled. The repair shop of Tom Hay, 83 Monument place, Is one of the most complete in the city. An Ideal' bicycle Is the Clipper Special, with Falmer tires, at 140. Parties wishing to rent wheeli can obtain them of Thomas Hay, 23 Monument place. Ladles are earnest advocates of chainless btcrclcs. and the Ladles' Chalnltza CliPPtr I la fcttractias atteatlca. ;

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WI.V TUB TRIANGULAR MEET WITH CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS. Field Content In, Honor of Notre Uame'i New Gymnasium Wires Tapped and Poolrooms Robbed. SOUTH BEND, Ind.. March U. Notre Dame wcn the triangular meet with Chicago and Illinois universities here to-day. The final results were: Notre Dame, CO; Chicago, 2S; Illinois, 25. Each event was hotly contested and the victory was not won until the last event had taken place. The meet to-day marked the dedication of the new Notre Dame gymnasium. The games were witnessed by l,Xfc) people. The sensational work of tho day was In the milo run. Connor made a brilliant spurt on the last lap and was just ready to keep ahead of Smith, when ho fell from exhaustion within three feet of the tape. Besides the regular medals offered for first and second places, a magnificent loving cup was presented to the Chicago team for winning the relay race. Each victor was also presented with a crown of olive leaves as a special honor. Ofllcials of the meet were: Dr. Georgo K. Hermann, First Regiment, Chicago, referee; judges, Georgo Worthen, jr.. University of Illinois; Earl P. Wagner, Purdue; J. E. Raycroft, University of Chicago; starter, C. O. Duplessis, A. A. V. Summaries: 40-yard dash; Borden, Illinois, won; Fair, Chicago, second; Donoghue, Illinois, third. Time, M 4-5. One-mile run: Smith. Chicago, won; Russell, Chicago, second. Time, 4:J9. Running high jump: Powers, Notre Dame, won; Smith, Illinois, second; Lyme, Chicago, third. Distance, 5 feet 11 inches. 440-yard race: Maloney, Cnicago, won; Ilerrick, Illinois, second; White, Chicago, third. Time, :D7. Pole vault: Powers, Notre Dame, won; Herschcnberger, Chicago, second; Smith, Illinois, third. Distance, 10 feet. 40-yard hurdles: Hoover, Illinois, won; Boyd, Illinois, second; Calhoun, Chicago, third. Time, :0o 4-S Sixteen-pound shot- put: Powers, Notre Dame, won; Eggeman, Notre Dame, second; Sutter, Illinois, third. Distance, 41 feet 6 inches. Running broad jump: Powers, Notre Dame, won; Keator, Illinois, second; Glynn, Notre Dame, third. Distance, IT feet G?i inches. ITJj-yard dash: Duane, Notre Dame, won; O'Brien, Notre Dame, second; Fair, Chicago, third. Time, :25 2-5. &y)-yard run: Maloney, Chicago, won; Herbert, Notre Dame, second; Corcoran, Notre Dame, third. Time, 2:21. One-mile rlay: Chicago won; Notre Dame second. Time, 2:2L Pool Room Robbed by Tapped Wires. SCRANTON, Pa., March 11. The tapping of a wire between this city and New York city yesterday cost the poolroom men of this city and Wilkesbarro $2,500. The races were liberally played and there were many surprises when it was announced that Baratara at 4 to 1, Friar John at 5 to 1 and Nemo at 5 to 1 were the winners of the big races. The betting had been heavy, and in this city the poolroom lost $1.2u0. The discovery that wires had been tapped was not made until too late, and now tho betters on the winning horses will have their claims satisfied at a further loss to the poolroom men. Where the w4re was tapped is not known. The horses staked at heavy odds were made the winners by the wire tappers, and their friends liberally backed the right ones. Dosed Fifteen Rounds. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 11. Eugene Bezenah, of Cincinnati, and Perry Queenan, of Chicago, lightweights, boxed a fifteenround draw in the West-end Club to-night. The mill was spirited throughout. Tommy Ryan, who seconded Bezenah, leaves for Cincinnati to-night, where ho meets Paddy rurtell next week. Cincinnati Reds in Georgia, COLUMBUS. Ga., March 11. The Cincinnati baseball team, twenty In number, arrived in Columbus last night to spend a month here in spring practice. The club is accompanied by a number of newspaper men. Tho men will settle down Monday to a month's hard work. To Re Sold on Tuesday. ST. LOUIS, March U. Tho disposal of the Sportsman's Park and Club property at sheriff's sale will take place from the front door of the St. Louis courthouse on Tuesday next. On that day it is announced all the players of the Cleveland club have been ordered to report in St. Louis. Tod Sloan Sails for England. NEW YORK, March 11. "Tod" Sloan, the jockey, called for England to-day on the Lucania. He will ride for the Prince of Wales at the Easter races, and will also continue to ride for the Bercsford stables. General Sporting News. At the Pelican Athletic Cub in Brooklyn last night Billy Needham, of St. Paul, and Billy Whistler, of Philadelphia, fought a draw. Captain Tebeau announces that he has signed Mike Griffin, of last year's Brooklyns, to play Center field for Cleveland in place of McAleer. "Mysterious" Billy Smith announces that he will retire from the ring in July. He will fight Walcott and possibly Tom Tracy before he casts the gloves forever. Mike Griffin, who refused to sign with the Brooklyn Baseball Club for less than $3.5no. has been released to Cleveland for $4,ou0. He has been asked to report to President Robison on Monday. Cornell's rcwing authorities yesterday announced the date of the Cornell-Pennsylvania second 'varsity crew race as MayJV). It will be decided at a meeting to be held in Philadelphia on Monday whether the crews will meet on the Schuylkill river or on Lake Cayuga, at Ithaca. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Elmer Rallley, of Lexington, Ky., has lost by death his seven-year-old horse Gaylon d'Or, by Rayon d'Or, dam Arabella. Frank N. Sheldon, on trial at Auburn, N. T., for the second time for the murder of his wife. Eva M. Sheldon, committed suicide in the jail. Louis Lowman, formerly a resident of Cincinnati, fell overboard and was drowned on March S while returning from a trip to Hawaii. His home was at Los Angeles, Cal. Four of the men who robbed the bank at Amherst, Wis., of $5,Xa) Thursday night were captured at Wausau yesterday and practically all of the money was recovered. It is reported that Dr. HeViry D. Van Dyke, president of the Brick Presbyterian Church, in New York, will accept the offer of the new professorship of English literature tendered him by Princeton University. Jean W. Holtslander, the Chicago church Janitor who was arrested on suspicion of having murdered his hired housekeeper, Cora Henderson, two weeks ago, was given his liberty on Friday. The identity of the murderer is still a mystery. The Louisiana purchase world's fair committee tendered a banquet at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, last night to the members of the Missouri Legislature to set before them tho proposition to hold a Louisiana purchase centennial in St. Louis in VjXL Another death resulted at Lexington, Ky., yesterday after six hours' illness from cerebro spinal meningitis. Physicians report a number of persons ill from fear of contracting the dread disease. It has broken out among the negroes. The Board of Health has ordered the isolation of all cases. Strong efforts are being made to Induce L President McKlnley to visit Chattanooga on his return from l nomaavuie. it Is hoped that his return will le about the time the dedication of the monuments of Kentucky. Georgia and Illinois at Chickamauga. and the date of the Chattanooga spring festival. Judge Lacorcbe. of the United States Circuit Court at New York, yesterday appointed Arthur H. Masten master to examine the accounts of the New York Security and Trust Company as trustee of the Security Mortgage and Trust Company of Dallas. Tex., and to wind up the affairs of the latter concern. Hall House, Chicago. Self Culture. Ono of the landmarks of Chicago on the West Side of the city Is the old Hull House, at the intersection of Halsted and Polk streets, in what is now the nineteenth ward. The house was built by Mr. Charles J, Hull. In ISiS. for his family residence a substantial, roomy, two-story brick building. In its earliest days there were trees and a lawn about It: then a erowth of ona nri

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built by American, Irish and German men of small means. In 1S71 the Hull family moved to another part of the city, and during the next eighteen years the old houso was used as a Washingtonian Home, as a home for Little Sisters of the Poor, and as a tenement house. In September, lSb9, two young vromen made their abode in three rooms of the house, and Hull House, the social settlement, came quietly Into being. They had chosen the place as a convenient center for the work they had in mind to dowork based upon the creed that social Fervice to those destitute of social privilege must be personal service. At this time there were several families In the building; a part of the first floor was a cabinet shop; near by, to the right of the house, was a saloon; and the building upon the left was an undertaker's shop. The growth of the Hull House settlement has been as quiet as was Its birth. Nothing Is undertaken before the need of it arises; nothing is made permanently a part of the work until Its usefulness has been tested. The first residents made friends with the children, and through them with the mothers. A story-hour for the littlo ones, a few afternoon teas, an evening class or two. a widening circle of acquaintances, the making of a few friends, would have been the record of the first few weeks. There are now forty-seven evening classes meeting at the house weekly, twenty-five evening clubs for adults, sventeen afternoon clubs for children, the Hull House Music School, a choral society for adults, a children's chorus, a children's sewing school, a training school for kindergartneifc, a trades-union for young women. SUMIOXKS FOR CONSUMPTION. What Those Article Are and IIott Ther Utilize Them. Melbourne (Australia) Argus. What is a "sunhox?" is the question, that was asked of Dr. Duncan Turner, the query being elicited by the remark in his appeal for aid for the consumptive sanatoria at Kchuca and Macedon. In that appeal he said that money i wanted to provide eunboxeF for the patients. A sunbox Is a structure about six by ten feet, made with a frame of quartering and a covering of weatherboards. If you haven't got boards, bark will do. "Why, I lived in a sunbox for years when I first came to the country, but we used to chM it a hut in those days," some readers will be ready to exclaim. There is this difference, however, between a hut and a sunbox, that the former Is a fixture, unless a bush fire or a hurricane comes along, whereas a sunbox should be; constructed on a pivot, or, failing that, on wheels, so that its front may be readily turned away from the wind. The reason Is that while fresh, pure air and sunlight mean renewed health to the consumptive patient, the wind is injurious. If you have r.o punboxes, the patient must be taken Indoors whenever the wind bJows. but given your sunbox to present its back to the wind, no matter what quarter it comes from, and the patient may remain there all day. In each of these boxes from two to three patients are placed on mattresses, end there they He all day lonfc and drink In the pure mountain air. If they are weak their food is taken to them, otherwise they get It In the home. The sunboxes do not cot much probably from r to 10 each. Placed in a pure, sunny atmosphere, these simple appliances are the wry latest that medical science has to rfeommnd for th cure of consumptives. The patients, of course, must be given abundant food. Some of the photographs show the treatment being carried out risht up among the gleaming mountain snows, with the convalescent patients engaged, apparently. In snowballing. It Is a wonderful revolution of the ideas which prevailed even a few years since as to the treatment of this disease. A Violin Maker of Fame. New York Letter. If Gemunder, who was great enough to be known simply by surname, had been a writer o a painter or an actor, he wou'd have obtained the fame which is the tribute of genius. Uut he was only a maker of fiddles. He died a day or two ago in his home in this city, reconlzd by musicians as worthy to rank with those masters of violin making who lived in the seventeenth century or earlier.

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