Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1899.

nine-tenth? of the sole leather were taken by Eurorcan countries. The following tr.ble shows the export and imports of manufactures In March for each year from 1SG3 to 1S: Tear. Exports. Imports. J14.533.2n . 533.17D.0G6 PSt 15,572..6 2'J,fiOA.4r9 1V3 lo.5TR.T5 2".T1.631 15 J9.125,7h. 27,025.601 1Sj7 23.ST6.SG1 28.312,158 lSr-S... . 3.214.4:0 23.13.S26 1X0 36.023,733 24,313.310 The following table shows the exports and lmrcrts cf manufacturer In the nine months ending with .March in each year from to 2K.O: Year. Exports. Imports. lf3 $112,974,419 J27S.309.274 14 12S.T9I.WI 18I.S29.2T5 lv 13?.40f.7fc4 22-i.M4.738 1VC 13.17.12 2tf7.933.151 17 200.00.$ ' 2fC.6Sl.732 1:$.... z&.mswt i7Z,&.v ISM 242.8S3.643 1W.22C.635 The fifteenth annual report of the Clvilservice Commission, under date of Nov. 1. 1S3. has been presented to the Prssident. The total number of persons examined during the year "was 43.712. of whom 30.GT0 passed. This was a decrease of 4.S59 In the , number of examined and a decrease of 5.9S5 Li the number who did not pass, as compared with the previous year. In the departmental branch of the service 2.100 persons were appointed through educational examination and through the- noneducatlonal or registration examinations. Two hundred and two persons were appointed In the custom houses. 2.73s in the postoffices, 29 In the internal revenue offices, and 225 in the Government Printing Office. The commission also issued certificates for the reinstatement of 1.133 persons during the year. In discussing appointments in our recently acquired territory, the following language is used: "it will be a satisfactory discharge of our . duties to give simply a better government to these Islands than the government which we replaced, but we must give a government, equal to the best. Tne commission thinks It proper to publish in the appendix to this report an authentic account of the colonial governments. We will learn the following valuable lessons from a study of these governments: ' "First That they are not disturbed by political changes In the home government, the tenure being determined by good and efficient service only. Second That the men sent to govern colonies are selected because of special fltt ne?s and arc promoted, generally from the smaller colonies to the larger, after demonstrating ability to deal with diQcult problems. "Third That the officers charged with the collection of revenue, both internal and customs duties, are promoted to those place after faithful and efficient service in minor grades, and are never appointed as a reward for political services at home; that the clerkships in the custom.! and other services are filled by open competitive examinations: that the pay is commensurate with the duties performed, and that persons In the colonial service are prohibited from engaging in business enterprises in the colonies. "It will be teen that Spain has lost her colonies through an application of the patronage system of government; and by contrasting her mlsgovernmen.t with the excellent government of Holland and Great Britain we will see that one is expensive and forces the home government to maintain large armies to keep in subjection the natives, while in the other the government is economically administered, the people are contented, and only a small military force Is necessary. For instance, Spain, with two hundred thousand men, was not enabled to keep In subjection the- island of Cuba, with a population of a million and a half; while England in Jamaica has quieted, by good government a more turbulent population, and only keeps, in the important garrisons of that island, less than 4V British soldiers. "In th Island of Ceylon, with twice the population of Cuba, the entire British force Is less than fifteen hundred men: while Sir Andrew Clarke, by his wise government In the Straits Settlements of the Malay peninsula, has been able to bring order out of chaos and misrule, to put an end to tribal warfare, and bring prosperity to the people without the aid of any British soldiers. These examples show in sharp contrast the application of sound, honest business principles on the one side and the application of the patronage system of government on the other. If the positions in our recently acquired territory are given as a reward for political service at home, we may expect dlwontent. misrule, and expensive admlnlsiratlon. . rIf, on the contrary, men are selected because of their ability as administrators, and th service Is put upon a basis of ascertained fitness for the duties to be performed, and tenure and promotion are made dependent, upon efficiency and honest service, then we may expect our administration to be a boon to these islands, and we will have cause to b proud of our share in supplanting the misrule of Spain with a government in accord with the 'aspirations of modern civilization. The commission desires to express the opinion that provision should be made and the necessary steps taken whereby as soon as practicable the rvll positions in these islands may be filled . in .rcordance with the principles of a merit , system." To meet many demands for Information as to the status of American miners in gold fields of the Atlln lake region of British

Jolumbia, the State Department has pubSHOWERS AND COOLER. Rainy Weather and Utah Southerly Winds Predicted for Indiana. WASHINGTON. April 30. 8 p. m. Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio Cooler on Monday, with fair weather in southern and showers In northern portions; probably showers on Tuesday; brisk to high southerly winds. For Indlna and Illinois Showers and cooler on Monday; high southerly winds. Fair on Tuesday. Weather conditions and general forecast During Sunday a storm of marked energy advanced from Colorado to the middle Missouri Talley, attended by showers from the western lake region, over the upper Mississippi and middle and lower Missouri valleys and the middle Western States. Showers were also reported in the middle and northern plateau and middle and nothern Pacific coast districts. Very high temperature prevailed in the Ohio valley, with a maximum of Ix) degrees at Parkers-burg, W. Va. In the region north of western Montana the temperature Sunday evening was 10 degrees below freezing. The indications are that the Missouri valley storm will move northwestward to Lake Superior, attended by high winds and severe squalls over the western lake region and by showers and lower temperature in the States of the upper Mississippi valley. air weather will prevail in the middle and south Atlantic and gulf States Monday and showers will probably occur In nothern New England and northern New York. Brisk rcutherly winds will prevail along the Atlantic coast north of Virginia, From Virginia southward the winds will be brisk from east to northeast. Storm signals are displayed on Lak;s Michigan and Pepin. Local Observations on Sunday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a.m. 3).M tt South. Pt. cl'dy. .00 7 p.m. 20.S2 S W 8 west. Cloudy. .00 Maximum temperature, 85; minimum-temperature, Comparative statement of temperature and precipitation on April 20: Normal M .13 Mean ?$ .00 Departure from normal 1S .13 Departure since April 1 C3 2.37 Departure since Jan. 1 311 2.7$ Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official.

Yesterday Tempera Stations. MIn. Atlanta. Ga Btsmsrck. N. D Buffalo. N. Y Calgary. N. W. T Cairo. Ill 70 Cheyenne. Wyo S3 Chicago. Ill U Cincinnati. O H Davenport. Ia IA Des Moines. Ia 41 Galveston. Tex Helena. Mont Jacksonville, Fla Kansas City. Mo 61 Uttie Rock. Ark 61 Marquette, Mch Memphis, Tenn 1 Nashville, Tenn (A New OrUans. La... New York. N. Y North matte. Neb 42 Oklahoma. O. T 0 Omaha. Neb 4 i Pittsburg. Pa CJ Qu Appelle. N. W. T fU'.t Lake City, Utah 24 trU Iuls, Mo..... CO 13 1. Paul. Minn prlr.gnld. Ill &l Fprincflcld. Mo ;.. 70 VlcksDurg. Ml.5 Z .T.'i2tiS5t03, D. C

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lishdd a report from Consul Smith, at VictorM embodying a copy cf the plaoer-min-Ing act passed by the Legislative Ansembly of British Columbia Jan. 18 last. This act prohibits the holding of claims by aliens, and Its passage has done much to complicate the settlement, by negotiation, of the Issues over the boundary question. The consul says that there has also been trouble since the discovery of the Atlln lake gold fields over the loosely defined boundary between British Columbia and the Northwest Territory. At first these fields were believed to be in the Northwest Territory. Now they are declared to be In British Columbia. The immediate result is that a number of American citizens are to be dispossessed, although they hold their claims under certificate of the gold commissioner. . Consul Smith includes in his report an interpretation of the laws In regard to the holding of claims by aliens in United States territory. This was obtained by him upon application to Secretary Hitchcock, of the Department of the Interior. In substance the secretary's opinion is that the right to occupy and purchase mining claims within the United States is reserved exclusively to citizens and persons who have declared intention, and this statement Is not modified by the provision of the act of March 2. 1S97, which declares that the act shall not be construed to prevent aliens from acquiring and holding mining claims and also the provision authorizing Canadian citizens to acquire in Alaska the same rights enjoyed by United States citizens in British Columbia and the Northwest Territory. As to this latter section. Secretary Hitchcock says it has been found impracticable thus far to promulgate or enforce any rules or regulations to give it effect, for the reason that, while the Canadian law permits the leasing of mineral land upon royalty, the United States law has no such provision. There is, therefore, a conflict that cannot be reconciled. SIGNS OF "PROSPERITY

WAGES OF FITTSBCRG STREET-R AILWAY E3IPLOYES ADVANCED. Notices of Increase Posted at Sharon and Sharpsville Furnaces and at Prick's Connellsvllle Coke Works. PITTSBURG, April 20. Evidences of good times in and around Pittsburg are shown by the following notices of wage Increases: The Consolidated Traction Company, of this city, to-day posted notices granting their more than 1,000 employes an advance In wages of 11 per cent., dating from tomorrow. This advance will give the conductors and motormen 20 cents an hour. Which is said to be the highest wages paid by any traction company in the country. The company's men who are employed in the power houses, where the work Is hard and exhausting, will be granted a reduction of hours without any decrease of pay. A dispatch from Sharon says: "Notices of increase in wages of 10 per cent., taking effect May 1, are posted at all the furnaces in Sharon and Sharpsville to-day. Nearly 1,300 men will be benefited by the advance. This is the second voluntary advance at the furnaces within thirty days." Connellsvllle, Pa., tends this Item: .The H. C Frlck Coke Company surprised and delighted its twelve thousand employes by posting notices this morning at all its plants in the Connellsvllle coke region, announcing a general advance in wages, to take effect to-morrow. May L Every one of the employes of the Frlck and McClure plants, which are also controlled by the Frlck Company, will receive an advance ranging from 6 to 12 per cent. The maximum rate of increase will be paid to the employes receiving the lowest wages and the minimum increase will be paid to the employes receiving the highest wages. The n-ew scale will be the highest ever paid in the Connellsvllle region. Strike of Iron 3Iolders. PROVIDENCE, R. I., April SO.-The strike of the iron molders will be practically begun to-morrow morning. In this city, when the gong rings for the workers to start up, the foundry shops will be idle so far as the union men are concerned, and they claim at present there are not ten molders In the city who are not members of their organization. Four firms have already made an agreement entirely satisfactory to the molders and will proceed to-morrow as usual. These are the New England Butt Company, Brown & Sharpe, the Corliss works and the Burnside, as it is called, the two latter being the plants of the Hoadly syndicate which are to be started to-morrow. The foundries where the 6hops will be Idle to-morrow mornlnr are Alva Carpenter & Son, the Household Sewing Machine Company, the Builders iron foun dry, the Fuller Iron works, the Colvin Foun dry company, the Miner iren worKs, tn8 Franklin Foundry and Machine Company and the Phoenix iron foundry, and in Pawtucket the J. S. White Company, the Vulcan foundry and the American Machine Company. Advance of 25 Cents a Day. JOLIET. 111.. April 30. Six hundred employes of the Western Stone Company, in the Jollet, Rockport and Lemont quarries, will to-morrow receive an advance of 25 cents per day. Other quarries will also make a similar advance. INJURED AT A FIRE Ore Man Fatally Hurt, Four Severely and Two Overcome by Heat. DAYTON, O., April 20. One man was fatally injured and four others severely hurt here to-day at a Are which destroyed a third of the lumber yard of the A. Gebhardt Lumber Company, gutted the St. John's Lutheran Church and destroyed four loaded freight cars. The Injured are: Thomas Lawier, Matt Link, Charles Chamberlain, Burkhardt Kunkel and John Maley. Two firemen were overcome by heat. The fire originated in the lumber yard. High winds carried sparks to the roof of the church, two blocks away. Link and Chamberlain, who were working on the church roof, were cut off from escnpe by the ilames and attempted to slide down the lightning rod. The rod broke when the men were thirty feet from the ground. Lawier, Kunkel and Maley were struck by falling timbers and tricks. The loss Is about $73,000. Fire Department Suffers. BOSTON, Mass., pril 30. A five-story brick building on Dover street, occupied by a number of manufacturing firms and on the ground floor by the Boston fire department for storage of extra apparatus, was destroyed by fire to-day. Loss, $100,000. The fire department had a number of pieces of valuable apparatus in the building, and two engines and a number of hose carriages in the rear were buried by the falling walls. Another portion of the building was occupied by the fire-alarm branch of the fire department, and the loss was almost complete. On the upper floors were the Electric (ias Light Company, the New England Screw Company. Goodwin & Cummings, manufactures of sofa beds, and Hubbard & Hardy, manufacturers of picture frames. Struck by Lightning-. NORTH VILLE, Mich.. April SO. During a heavy electrical storm early to-day lightning struck the Globe Furniture Company's plant and the four-story factory building was destroyed. Tho American bell foundry and electric light plant, which adjoined, were also completely destroyed. The total loss is about mO,uX), with insurance of about $26,000. The Globe Company recently sold to the American school and church furniture syndicate for $.S0,000. HASTINGS. Mich., April 30. The Tyden car seat factory was struck by lightning and burned to the ground early to-day. Zmm $40.u: partly covered by insurance. The firm will rebuild as soon as possible. Loss of f73.000. MONTREAL, April 30. Fire to-day badly damaged the former Hospice cf St. Francis Xavier. a large stone building on St. Catherine street, now occupied by about a dozen traall manufacturing concerns. Loss, JTtVW. Asks 1 00,000 Damages. BUTTE. Mont.. April CO. State Senator w . ..... t 1 I- .11.1 IIL .1 II r rel niieyia nas mr-j a uoei mih HKainai United States Senator Clark for $IW.X. The ult grows out of recent bribery charges. Bad Complexions Need Cnamplln's Liquid Tearl. foe. A lovely, Jiarcesi teautillcr. No ea,ual,

BURNED TO THE GROUND

COOPETtAGE ESTABLISHMENT AXD STAVE FACTOIIY AT COLLMJJLS. Heavy Loss Suffered by George Sch inner cr, -with Little InsurnnceDry , Sunday at Terre Haute. Ereclal to the Indianapolis Journal. COLUMBUS, Ind., April 30.-George Schlnnerers large cooperage establishment and stave factory caught fire at 1 o'clock this morning and the who.e tmllding was in flames in a few minutes. The structure and contents were destroyed. Including several car loads of newly made barrels and seasoned stave timber. Four surrounding houses and three other buildings caught from the big fire. After a several hours fight with the flames, the local fire department succeeded in getting the fire under control, although it was still smouldering today. The cooperage establishment was one of the largest in southern Indiana and the total loss caused by the fire is between $15,0 and $23,000. with only $fi.000 insurance. The fire was- undoubtedly the work of incendiaries, it is said that Mr. Schinnerer will rebuild his plant. Two Justices Illegally Appointed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., April 30. It has Just developed that James J. Maddox and Philip Kearney, who have been officiating as Justices of the peace, were appointed to office illegally and that all their decisions have consequently been illegal. In accordance with an act passed by the late Legislature the number of Justices of the peace shall not exceed two for each township and one in addition thereto for each incorporated town and city. There were already three Justices of the peace when Maddox and Kearney were appointed by the commissioners last March. Maddox is a freesilver Republican and Kearney a Socialist, and the places were given them by the Democratic commissioners for services rendered during the late campaign. Clgnr Dealers Protest. Special to the Indlanapclls Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April SO.-The instructions received by Collector Henry from the Washington department, to the effect that dealers who have on hand cigars which had been sealed with the counterfeit stamps from the Lancaster, Pa., factories, may make offers to the government for settlement, which will impose on them not only the navment of the tax hut the mst and a penalty as well, have caused a great deal of 1 naa reeling. 1 he innocent purchasers who have paid for the cigars in good faith must either lose them oriay what in most capes will be half as much again for them. The tax alone will be $3.G0 a thousand and the original purchase price of many of the brands was as low as $3. The Keller Suit to Be Tried. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON. Ind., April 30 The $50.or0 damage suit filed by Maggie La Hue, nee Keller, against George V Thomas et al. will be called for trial next Tuesday. The case has been pending In the courts for the past two years. The defendant took an active part in the prosecution of the Kellers In the famous Clara Shanks murder caFe and tried to bring the guilty parties to Justice. Maggie Keller and her brother George and his wife were acquitted of the charge. Maggie thought her character damaged to the amount of $50,0u0 and accordingly brought Wayne County Council. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind., April 30. Judge Henry C. Fox, of the Wayne Circuit Court. ha compiled with the new county reform law by appointing the following county council: Republicans Leroy Keller, city: John Hageman. Iublln; John M. Hartley. Hagerstown; Dr. William M. Helms, Williamsburg. Democrats-Dr. J. J. Rife. Boston: Thomas J. Study, city, and William Doney, Cambridge City. Terre Haute Saloons Closed. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April 30.-A11 the saloons In the northern part of the cltKwere closed to-day for the first time in years. The closing was brought about by the clergymen in that portion of the town and a meeting of the ministers has been called to effect tha Sunday observance throughout the city. The saloon men are circulating a subscription list and the cases arising out of the crusade will be carried to the highest courts If necessary. Death of a Regular Soldier. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON, Ind., April 2ft The remains cf Albion Ziegler were brought here to-day from Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Ziegler was one of the young recruits who recently enlisted in the regular army at this place. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ziegler, who reside north of this city. He died at noon Tuesday of an attack of acute Brlghfs disease. Indiana Notes. Company E, One-hundred-and-sixty-flrst Indiana, will be given a hearty welcome home on its arrival at Jeffersonvllle on Tuesday. Dewey day was observed yesterday in Terre Haute with a free band concert at the fair grounds, where, there was a large attendance. Twelve hundred or more mortgage exemptions were taken out in Wayn-? county and it is estimated the loss will amount to fully half a million dollars. The body of Conrad Kraut, who Jumped from the wharfboai at Madison into the river, Feb. 26, was discovered , floating down the river above Utlca Saturday night by William Colon and Dexter Lewis, two fishermen. Arrangements are practically complete for the reception which will be given the members of Company F, One-hundred-and-sixty-first Indiana Regiment, when they return to Richmond on Wednesday. The city will be profusely decorated. The trustees and medical staff of St. Stephen's Hospital, Richmond, will open a training school for nurses. The object is to equip nurses for service as a public benefit. A two-years' course will be given and diplomas presented. Joseph C. Ratliff, of Richmond, the Wayne county correspondent of the Agricultural Department, says the prospect for wheat in that county has greatly improved within the past few days and he predicts a large yield. The prospect for fruit, as a general thing, also seems to be flattering. HYPHENATED 1IYDIIID IMPOSSIBLE. No Man Can Slmultaueously Maintain True Allearlnnce to Two Nations. New York Press. The Coghlan Incident has been an excellent test of hyphenated nationality. No man can be loyal to both sides of the hyphen. He may appear to be when he foregathers formally to advance colonial principles under the convenient shadow of the stars and stripes and listens for once to a Teutonlzed version of the "Star-spangled Banner." But when the blood is up, no matter by how small an Incident stirred, the hyphen breaks and the man shows what he is either a German or an American. The Herald has been at some pains to secure some examples of the effect of the incident cf hyphenated patriots, and from it we quote. The St. Louis Westliche Post says: -Judging from the silly. Infinitely insipid parody song on the Germans with which the notorious kicker Coghlan amused the 'educated' rabble of New Y'ork, he is a braying Jackass, and our neighbors of Belleville, which city he audaciously calls his native home, should at the first opportunity pull hi long ears." The "Nestor of the German-American press" of the some city. Dr. Em 11 Pretorlous. darkly intimates that revenge at the polls which we are accustomed . to hear whenever an immigration, excise or school law meets with "German-American" dlsfavor. "Captain Coghlan is reckless, ignorant and vicious. Ills act is an insult to a na tion ar.d to 2.0OO.OOO German-American voters, who have been tteated In the most shameful manner by the Mclvinley administration." The Nestor also threatens the President with the wrath of "COO German-American newspapers." The Blinds Staats Zeitung contents Itself with demanding Captain Coghlan's dismissal. "The American government." it says, "should get rid of officers of the kind of Cwghlan." The Morgen Journal, of this city, the German edition of a print which calls Itself "an American paper for the American people' adopts the toplof ileal "Euro-

pean" air of social superiority remarking scornfully, "With German officers and in German society such an occurrence ia unthinkable." There are other expressions showing tho break of the hyphen at the other end. Americans of German descent in Cleveland, Philadelphia. Washington and even Chlajo speak, as do Americans of other lineage, deploring or Ignoring Captain Cophiaa's speech, but all taking Instinctively the attitude of American citizens commenting on the conduct of- an American officer. There are. In brief, revealed by the incident Germans and Americans, but no "GermanAmericans." The hyphenated hybrid is an impossibility. No more can any man malitaln allegiance to two nations than faith in two deities. JOHN P. ALTGELD ILL.

Dr. Nicholas E. Senn Says the Ex-Governor Is a Very Sick Man. CHICAGO, April 30. Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld has fought his last political battle, according to information furnished by Dr. Nicholas E. Senn. "The ex-Governor is certainly a very sick man. and it seems true beyond all question that he has fought his last political flghtA" said Dr. Senn to-night. "In addition to his Illness, which is in itself serious, the ex-Governor, I am sorry to say, is completely broken down In spirit and Is despondent to the last degree. Not that I want to be understood as saying that the defeat sustained by Mr. Altgeld at the Chicago election a few weeks ago has wrought this discouragement from which he Is now suffering. On the contrary, he seems to have lost no faith in his political fortunes or the triuitph of principles with which his name haa become Inseparably associated. "The chief cause of his despondency is his realization of the fact that his present Illness Is but a development of his old ailment, locomotor ataxia. In this knowledge, which has had an unusually depressing effect upon him, is the great danger. For if the Governor could be induced to look upon the cheerful side of life and take an extended trip for rest and change of scene he may be benefited. But In any case it is clear that he can never be a strong man or sufficiently restored to health to wage another political fight. "His case is extremely sad. as he cannot be persuaded to believe there is any hope for his recovery from his present attack. Still, unless complications set in, he may linger longer than anyone would expect." Dr. Senn said that Mr. Altgeld's despondency, as well as the hard work he has recently been doing, has brought on a state of physical collapse which can only be described as complete nervous prostration. CORRIGAN TO THE POPE THE ARCHBISHOP'S REPLY TO THE PAPAL BRIEF ON AMERICANISM. Only One of the Catholic Hierarchy In This Country Who Indorses Ills Hollness's Letter In Full. NEW YORK, May 1. A dispatch to the World from Washington says: "The text of the letter which Archbishop Corrlgan,, of New York, addressed to the Pope in reply to the Papal brief on AmericanUji' reached this city a few days ago. Its transmission has caused a sensation in Catholic circles. It shows that, the archbishop alane, of the entire American hierarchy. Indorses in full the Papal brief. Cardinal Gibbons in his reply to the Papal, .admonition repudiated certain doctrines and said he was not aware that such teachings pasped current as Catholic doctrine. Archbishops Ireland and Keane said practically the same thing, as did a number of other prelates. Even such leaders of the German party as Archbishop Katzer, of Milwaukee, and Bishop Hortsmann, of Cleveland, solemnly protested to the Pope that the errors which he had designated as 'Americanism had no place in the American Catholic-Church. Catholics her think tha; the New York prelate did another remarkable thing in signing the letter in the name of all the suffragan bishops of New Y'ork province. According to the usual etiquette each bishop haa the right to reply to the Popo In his own name. It is known here that at least four of the suffragan bishops do not Indorse the sentiments In their archlbishop'a letter. "Another matter which causes comment is the recollection of the fact that Archbishop Corrlgan gave the imprimatur, or ecclesiastical sanction, to the book on Father Hlckey's life, which Is the primary cause of the present disturbance. The churchmen say that it Is supposed that when a prelate formally Indorses a publication he stands sponsor for its soundness. They are therefore surprised that Archbishop Corrlgan should now refuse to defend the doctrine which his previous action caused to be spread broadcast among American Catholics. The archbi3hop's letter Is in part as follows: Most Holy rather We Rmnot express in words the feelings of admiration, of joy and of gratitude with which our heart has been penetrated towards your Holiness in reading the masterly ' and admirable letter, which you have deigned to address to us on what, for some time past, has been designated under the name of "Americanism." It is with the greatest wisdom that your Holiness has united into one group the many and fallacious errors which would like to pass for good Catholic teaching under the spacious title cf Americanism We receive then, and accept for ourselves, our clergy and for the communities and for congregations which, with us, work for the salvation of souls as well as for all faithful, your Hollness's doctrinal letter 'Testera Benevolentee.' We accept It. and make it our own, word for word and sentence for sentence. In Its regard we shall never make, "or shall we ever permit that others depending from us, either directly or indirectly, should make any reservation or tergiversation. Your Holiness has spoken: the question is therefore ended. ' "We can say also that the monster which. In order to obtain a lasting abode, to acquire the rights of citizenship among us, assumed to itself the fair name of Americanism, has on its first appearance been struck down dead. But it is to you that the glory of this happy result Is due. If your Holiness had not opportunely come to our aid with your admirable letter, how numerous might have been those who, through ignorance rather than through malice, would have been caught In the trap. And now, with our heads high, we can repeat that we are Americans as truly as any one whoever he may be. Y'es, we are and we glory in it." Alger and Wheeler at Church. DETROIT. Mich.. April SO.-The First Congiegational Church was crowded this evening by a congregation comprising exclusively members of patriotic societies, participating in the religious service preliminary to the tenth annual congress of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Daughters of the American Revolution and other auxiliary societies, the Loyal Legion and the G. A. R. were all represented. Secretary Alger and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler were in the congregation, also a hundred delegates to the congress from other cities. Harmony In the Porcupine Country. VANCOUVER, B. C. April SO. From the Porcupine district comes news that at a recent meeting of the United States miners much indignation was expressed at the rumors spread about of friction between themselves and the Canadian police, and a committee was srpointcd to write to the Kress to mrcrm thv people tnat tne " utmost armony prevail in this district between tho miners and the Northwest mounted police notwltfrstanding malicious reports to the contrary." Snowsllde In Alaska. VANCOUVER, B. C. April 30. Officers of the steamer Cutch, which arrived from the north last night, report that as the Cutch was steaming into Juneau a big snowsllde took place on the shore opposite the Treadwell mine. The slide .jappened in the dead of night, and huge masses of snow and rock swept down toward the water and carried trees and everything before them. It was not knDw if any damage to life or property was sustained. Slight Shake In New Hampshire. LACONIA, N. II.. April S0.-A distinct earthquake shock was felt here at 12:24 o'clock this afternoon. The disturbance was of only about a second's duration and was abrupt and deep. Houses were Jarred and dishes and other movable objects were rattled. Tho mercury reached ninety degrees.

CHINA TO BE DIVIDED

PROBABLE MEANING OF THE ANGLORUSSIAN AGREEMENT. Beginning: of the End of the Flowery Kingdom Lord Charles Beresford's Prediction Recalled. LONDON, April 30. Pending detailed Information the London papers comment approvingly, but cautiously, upon the news of the Anglo-Russian agreement regarding spheres of Influence In China. The Daily Chronicle points out that this agreement will probably produce similar arrangements with Germany and France, resulting in the partition of China, which Lord Charles Beresford predicts will bring about war. "America," says the Daily Chronicle, "will apparently be left out In the cold and she really deserves no sympathy, for, if her statesmen had been willing to Join us at an earlier stage In keeping China open to the world, the present situation would never have arisen." The French papers comment also upon the Anglo-Russian agreement. La Liberie says: "There are millions of French capital embarked in commercial and industrial undertakings in the Yang-Tse region and we refuse to believe that Russia has so completely disregarded the interests of her ally as to recognize Great Britain's sole right of commercial exploitation in that valley." Wllhelms Generous Impulses. LONDON, May 1. The Berlin correspondent of the Times says: "Emperor William has once more shown how entirely his most generous impulses are made to subserve the alms of state policy and-how far his ideas of foreign policy are exalted above the petty rancors of an Influential section of the German press. It ought to be noted that the telegrams between Emperor William and President McKinley regarding the German cable were both published In the original English text. On the very eve. of the Kaiser's telegram certain papers published a dispatch from' New York declaring that Captain Coghlan's dismissal was under consideration, but that Dr. Von Holleben 'did not Insist upon it.' The truth Is that many of those who make the most noise in German foreign politics do not In the least realize the necessities of the situation. Germany has become deeply committed to a policy of commercial rivalry with Great Britain and the United States, and in authoritative quarters it is considered imperative that in the meantime at least Germany should maintain political friendship with these two powers. The Berliner Post, pointing this out, says that what Germany needs is a respite In order to develop her naval power and to shape her policy with a view to ultimate, if ctlll remote, advantages." Spain Reducing Her. Debt. LONDON, May 1. The Madrid correspondent of the Standard says: "The Bank of Spain has accepted, in part payment of advances to the treasury, all bills drawn on the United States for the Philippine indemnity. It takes the bills as equivalent to 115,750.000 pesetas. Though the rate of exchange at the time was over 19, the indebtedness of the treasury to the bank is thus reduced to 43.00.000 sterling. The Deutsche Bank of Berlin and several Paris bankers have offered to take over a portion of the bills from the Bank of Spain, which intends in this way to strengthen its gold reserve." Concession to Russians. BERLIN. April 30. According to a dispatch from St. Petersburg ,to the Lokal Anzelger, the Shah of Persia, on March 1. signed a concession to a Russian mining company covering the whole province of Ozorbaijan. the most northerly province of Persia, having an area of 30,300 square miles. The concession is for seventy years. The province contains rich copper deposits and the company will exploit the tract for metals and gems and construct railways, roads and harbors. The Imperleuse En Route Sonth. COLON, Columbia, April 30.-The British first-class armored cruiser Imperleuse, flagship on the Pacific station, with Rear Admiral Henry St, L. H. Pallsler, which recently arrived at Panama from Acapulco, Mexico, and which is to be relieved by the first-class armored cruiser Warsprite, left Panama to-day for the South Pacific en route for England. The German protected cruiser Geler is now at Panama. The Tranrvaal'a Gold Output. PRETORIA, April 30. In the course of his speech yesterday at the opening of the Volksraad President Kruger announced that the Transvaal was now the largest goldproducing country in the world. He said the output In 1M was 16,240.635, being an increase of 4,5S6.905 over the output of the previous year. Spain's Economic Situation. MADRID, April 30. Spain's economic situation, according to El Liberal, is unfavorable, tested by the official returns for the quarter of the current year. The imports showed an increase of 45.000,000 pesetas, while the exports fell off 43.000.000 pesetas. The customs receipts showed x a heavy decrease. Cable Notes. Count Baworoskl. a well-known gentleman rider, was accidentally killed Saturday at the Alagrag races near Buda-Pesth. Bellamy Storer, the newly appointed United States minister to Spain, will present his credentials to the Queen Regeni next Thursday. The Prince of Wales on Saturday received Joseph H. Choate at Marlborough House on his appointment as United States ambassador to Great Britain. A serious fire broke out yesterday in Krupp's Germania dock' yard, at Kiel, resulting In the destruction of several storehouses and workshops and doing damage to the value of 100,000. Two German men-of-war that are in process of construction in the yard, were saved with the utmost difficulty. Right Rev. Henry B. Whipple, bishop of Minnesota, preached yesterday morning at St. y Margaret's. Westminister, London, before a large and fashionable congregation. Including Sir Michael -Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, and many other members of the House of Commons and parliamentary officials.OTIS IS WARY (Concluded from First Page.) Artillery and the Twentieth Kansas of my brigade while yet the day was young, and by the First Montana later on. The enemy's center had been pierced." "And then?" "The victorious march continued right along day after day until Malolos was reached. The rivers were crossed by the Infantry either by fording, swimming or on improvised rafts or temporary bridges. The artillery and supply trains passed the streams on the railway bridges, which the enemy could not burn and had been unable to blow up for want of time because his burning parties had been chased off promptly by our Intrepid advance guard. Besides the streams, lagoons and marshes that had to be crossed or flanked, thorny bamboo thickets, dense banana forests and difficult stretches of tangled charparal must be penetrated and cleared under fire. "At Malolos Itself there was only feeble resistance by the enemy, whose warriors had by that time grown discouraged and became demoralized by their repeated and unvarying defeats, and had proved themselves the "premier sprinters of our new colonial possession. "Just before we entered Agulraldo's abandoned capital it was fired, as all the towns had been fired, by the rear gurd of the retreating enemy. My brigade marched in on the side where the government palace is located, and by the time the advance had reached the public square the large building and scores of smaller ones were enveloped In ilames and too far gone to be saved." COL. EGBERT'S REMAINS. Body of a Philippines Hero Brought to San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. April 30. After having been twenty-four hours in quarantine the cabin passengers on the transports Sherman and Grant were to-day allowed to land, the health officer being convinced that there Is no further danger of smallpox, from which dlseare one of the firemen on the Grant died on April 23. A fireman of th

Sherman while en voyage was taken sick with varioloid, but recovered. The transports will be in quarantine at least a day cr two longer, and meanwhile army privates and able-bodied seamen must remain on board ship. The transport Sherman brought from Manila the remains of Col. H. C. Egbert, of the Twenty-second United States Infantry, who was killed In the attack on Mallnta. They will be placed in the mortuary chapel of St. Paul's Church until the arrival of the late officer's family from Philadelphia. The dead officer was a brother-in-law of Major Field, Inspector general of the Department of California. The Sherman also brought the remains of Captain Gregg, of the Fourteenth Infantry, which will be sent to Pennsylvania for interment, and the body of Private Ritchie, cf the Third Artillery, who died on the voyage of consumption. Spaniards Anxious for Peace. MADRID, April SO.-The prospect of peace In the Philippines is hailed with satisfaction, as likely to lead to the early liberation of the Spanish prisoners In the hands of the Filipinos. aaaaHBaMBBaHBSBsaaiMBBaiHB TROUBLE IN A CHURCH.

Trustees Quarrel with the Pastor and v Resign in a. Body. NEW YORK. April 30. Differences In the West Presbyterian Church between the pastor, Rev. Dr. Anthony H. Evans, and the board of trustees have resulted in the resignation of the entire board. The announcement of the trustees withdrawal from active work in the church was1 read by the clerk of the session at the morning service to-day. In the letter of resignation the trustees say they "are unable to understand upon what action of theirs the charge that the work of the minister Is hindered by the present financial management of the church and by the Influences now at work lessening his usefulness is based, and they cannot consent to remain officers of the church while such lack of confidence exists. The trustees heve been unanimous In their financial management and the responsibility for such management rests equally upon all. They therefore severally resigned the office of trustee to take effect Immediately after their election in May." The trustees are: E. H. Perkins, jr.. president of the Importers' and Traders' National Bank; Russell Sage, Henry M. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Company; Selh E. Thomas, the clock manufacturer; Robert Jeff ray, Jr., S. C. T. Dodd, lawyer; Alfred H. Smith, a diamond dealer; W. h. Wheelock, a broker, and S, Newton SmltL. HANGED BY ARKANSANS. Willis Sees, a Negro, Taken from Jail and Lynched by a Mob MEMPHIS. Tenn., April 30.-Information was received in Memphis to-night that Willis Sees, a negro, aged about thirty years, was taken from the jail at Osceola, Ark., Sunday morning at 1 o'clock and hanged in the Jail yard by a mob of forty men. Sees was !n Jail on a charge of barn burning. After being suspended in midair twice the negro confessed the crime of which he was charged and he was then hanged. Several houses have been burned in the neighborhood of Osceola recently, and this is given as the reason for the mob taking the law into Its jurisdiction. PLACE FOR A CROKER. Nephew of the Boss Now Acting Chief of Fire Department. NEW YORK, April SO.-Edward F. Croker, Richard Croker's nephew, and deputy chief of the fire department, was made acting chief, owing to Hugh Bonner's resignation, by Fire Commissioner Scannell tonight. Commissioner Scannell announced that the appointment was temporary and would be in force only until a permanent chief was selected. THE BOY KING. Unpleasant Prospect for Young Alfonso of Spain. London Mail. One of the most Interesting figures of today is Alfonso XIII. King of Spain, who belongs entirely and exclusively to the twentieth century. The years that he has passed on this side of 1900 have been few and Irresponsible. He does not take up the reins of sovereignty or assume the cares of kingship until 1S02, and between now and then revolutions mary overwhelm his hapless country. But he already sits upon a dignified throne, and though at present he is unknown outside his own palace, he has a near prospect of ruling the destinies of 20,000,000 subjects. Few kings, even of Spain, have begun life under worse auspices. His name is unfortunate; his number a pledge of bad luck. His unhappy father was dead before' he came into the world, and his mother, the daughter of an Austrian archduke, was confronted with the hateful task of ruling an antipathetic country. So far the mother has emerged from an Impossible situation with a certain distinction, if without much glory. But the son will have a harder task set him than ever fell to his mother's lot, and he will face the music inexperienced and untrained. His aspect is familiar to everyone in Madrid, and his presence has never yet succeeded In arousing enthusiasm. Now. and again, as the guard is changed outside the palace at Madrid, a pale, harassed face Is seen gazing from a window. The face appears suddenly, and as suddenly passes from your sight. "There is the King," murmurs a lazy onlooker, and the King It is, w-ho looks out upon his people uncheered and almost unrecognized. So, too, you may meet him driving in the afternoon in sad solemnity. No one raises a hat or does reverence to the boy who has succeeded to some of the honors which were PhillD I Vs. F.ven if thA raciial PQhmnn j makes room for the royal cortege, he does it I With a haH trra ro nnrl wltVi tViiv rf who has gone out of his way to pay a compliment to mediocrity. And yet in this king of thirteen years there should be all the elements of romance. He is young, unfortunate and a monarch. If his people does not love him, surely he might stir pity. He inspires neither pity nor love. He passes unnoticed that Is all. The truth is. bA has npver tnnohol tv Spanish heart, and unless he be endowed with unexpected tact and talent he Is never likely to touch It. The circumstances of his life have fought against his success. In the first place, his appearance arouses an instant antipathy. lie is too blonde, his hair is too light, his forehead is too high to correspond with the national type. "He is no Spaniard." says one citizen in contempt; "he's an Austrian." Another asks Indignantly: "Why should we be ruled by a pale-faced boy, who doesn't seem to carry in his veins a single drop of true Spanish blood r Again, he is placid, almost inert. In his manner. His hand is seldom raised in a gesture of excitement: his eyes do not seem to burn with enthusiasm. The true Spanish boy, said a detractor once, is never still. So long as he has an old rag in his hand he can play at bull-fighting in the streets. Or he need never be dull if the side of a house and a tennis ball suggest a game of pllota to his active mind. At any rate, he must always be running about, or devising a new sport. The time will come soon enough when he shall hide himself in the shade or gossip idly at the street corner. But the young King is never taken off his guard. He seems overweighted with the duties of the future. He is familiar enough to the inhabitants of Madrid yet nobody ever saw him run about, or laugh the gay. emptyilaugh of childhood. Yet. if the Spaniard would but remember the past he should esteem the young King for this very solemnity. Indeed, it may be said that Alfonso XIII is only upholding the tradition of his high office. When Spain was mistress of the world her Kings held laughter a disgrace, and at the end of the seventeenth century the poor bride of Charles II. who did not easily forget the manners of her own French court was condemned 10 hatred for her frank hilarity. But the Spaniard has either forgotten his tradition or changed his view. In his dislike of the young King he reproves the precocious dignity which the contemporaries of PhHlp IV would have esteemed above all the talents, and If Alfonso XIII Is ever to win a national popularity he must make some sudden, brusque appeal to tne people's heart. If he would only profess an active admiration of bull fighting, or. better still, descend into the ring, his future would be secure. But he Is never likely to kill an Andaluslan bull with his own hand, as did Philip IV, and so he must keep patience and wait upon luck. Unfortunate Jn his presence, he Is doubly unfortunate in his epoch. During his brief reign his ktngdom has suffered a terrific disaster, and when the regency is over he win succeed to the management of a far smaller empire than that over which his father ruled. Cuba, the irtand. which no Spaniard believed could ever be taken away, is now governed under another flag, while the Philippines, which rim fei! under the iron hand cf Phtllp II. and which two years since seemed reconquered, are Spair.'s no more. Moreover, he Las no hope cf reconquest.

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The truncated Spain over which he will presently rule he will hand down truncated-to his t ucceFsor. It is a sad destiny, but a destiny imposed by years of forgetfulness and misrule. German Lutheran Evangelical Synod. ST. LOUIS, April 83. According to a report made at the general conference of the German Lutheran Evangelical Synod of the United States and Canada, now in sessioi! here, the synod during 1H and the f.rst part of 1S?9 disbursed J205.615 for missions and charity. Among its charges the synod numbers charitable institutions, orphans homes, hospitals and homes for the aged, nine educational institutions of a .high order: missions among the negrces. emigrants, deaf mutes, Jews and heathen in India. In the synod there are 1.627 pastors and professois, 2.019 congregations. 6S5 preaching places. 96.731 persons. 1.671 parochial schools, Tsl school teachers and $?,775 school children. To-day many of the visiting ministers who are delegates to the general conference filled the pulpits of local churches of their denomination. On. Monday the conference will resume its sessions and transact the business for which it is holding a ten-day meeting. Among other business to be transacted will be the election nf candidates nominated to fill different offices and serve, on the committees of the synod. Lonaj-Llved Popes. Leslie's Weekly. i.-i ' The recovery of the nonagenarian pontiff, after an illness followed by an operation, which within a day brought 10.OX telegrams to his bedside, reveals his marvelous vitality and recalls the fact that out of a total of 2B3 Pontiffs, sixteen only have seen their eighty-first year. Pius IX.. Leo b predecessor, lived until he was ninety years old, and was the only one cf all the Popes who surpassed Peter's quarter of a century on the papal throne. Clement XI died in hts ninety-third year, Paul IV at ninety-three end Gregory IX was all but a centenarian. Commenting on these facts, the Lor, dan Lancet saj-s that Pope Leo's example -adds another to the many Instances of patriarchal years attained by hard-working men, professional and other. In whom "mind and soul according well." with a physique unbroken by excess and braced by manly exercise, have resulted in that "old age" Immortalized by Wordsworth as "beautiful and free." . Suicide of Prof. Carl A. Slyer. ALBANY. N; Y.. April 30.-Prof. Carl AMyer. eighty years old. professor of German languages at the Albany High School and assistant teacher of that study at the Albany Fenale- Academy, was found dead to-day in a lonely spot on the Kenwood road. He haa shot himself through the heart. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. April 30. Arrived: Menominee, from London; La Normandie, from Havre; Rotterdam, from Rotterdam and Boulogne. HAVRE, April SO. Arrived: La Touraine, from New York. Comet Cycle Company Falls. TORONTO. Ont., April 30. The failure is announced of the Comet Cycle Company, of Toronto, one of the oldest and largest bicycle manufacturing firms In Canada. No statement has ya been given as to .the firm's financial condition. , ''Drummers Hay Fight Trusts.. TOLEDO. O.. April SO.-The United Commercial Travelers, who meet in this city May 27. are planning to take special act' on on trusts which are cutting of traveling salesmen. Vigorous measures will be taken. Was ot Successful. Mrs. Agnes Mohler, 1C North Missouri street; became so despondent, she claimed, over the treatment given her by her husband. Rush L. Mohler, a waiter at Homer Smith's restaurant, that she tried twice yesterday to jump Into the canal. Each time Bhe was prevented from so doing by Charles Moore, 413 West Ohio street. Mrs. Mohler, who is a daughter of Robert Hazellet, a carpenter at Greensburg, Ind., says she was married in 1S05, on Christmas day, to a man named Beason, from whom she was divorced September last. On Oct. 23 she married Rush Mohler and they lived together about three months, during which time she says they had considerable trouble. Then, they separated. She said he had always supported her, but she had been told of airother love affair of his and one which she believed, though he denied it. The woman in the case was a former sweetheart. Sha said she loved Mohler very much and was often blue. Yesterday afternoon Mohler visited her and after he left she went to the home of Charles Moore, 413 West Ohio street and ate. supper. Both before and after the meal references were made to her trouble and she says considerable levity was indulged in at her expense. The question arose as to what the different peop.e present would do in case they wished to kill themselves and various methods of selfdestruction were discussed. Mrs. Mohler says she started to go home, and young Moore said he would go with her. At this time she had no thought of drowning herself, but just as she got to the canal the thought it would be a good time to end all. So she attempted to throw herself into tho water, but young Moore held her. She then went home and later again visited the Moore home. Again the folks made fun cf her. and two songs. "Just as the Sun Went Down" and "She's More to Be Pitied than Censured" were sung, and these served to make an Impression upon her. She told the Moore family she wes going home to sleep. They objected, however, and said she must stay with them. Mrs. Mohler, however, left the house in company with the young man who had before kept her from jumping in the canal. When the again saw the water she was once more seized with the desire to end her troubles and made a second attempt to get away, but tha young man held her. Mrs. Moore, after the young "woman had been brought back to her house, telephoned for the police and she was taken to the nation, where & charge of Insanity was made. The Moore family say she has acted In a very peculiar manner for some time and they believe she la not mentally sound. Baraiar In a Coal OClce. A burglar managed to force his way Into the office of the Coburn Coal Company, on East Twenty-second street, late Saturday right. He evidently Intended to break into the safe for he brought n crowbar with htm. Th-s night watchman discovered him. Tha burglar beat a hasty retreat. A fire early this morning In a shed at SO Keystone avenue spread to a house adjoining and a total loss cf about H.A was in curred. J. L. Davis was owner and occu pAUL .

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