Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1899 — Page 1

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GE.V. MACARTHUR BEGAX ASSAULTING SAN TOJ1AS THIS 3IOHNING. Americans Are Fighting for Possession of the Ilrldee and the Filipi nos Arc naming the Town. REQUEST OF REBELS REFUSED 7iO PEACE AT THE TERMS rnOPOSED DV THE E31IS3AHIES. Statement Blade by Argneleses nna Dernal that They Ilepreaent Aeulnnldo instead of Luna. LAST CONFERENCE FRUITLESS OTIS WOULD HOT RECOGNIZE THE INSURGENT GOVERNMENT. Views of Commissioner Schnrman Seven of the Yorktovrn's Missing Sailor Unaccounted For MANILA, May i. noon.-General MacArthur Is now assaulting the town of San Tomaa, about five miles northwest of Cal-umpit-The Americans aro fighting for the bridge and the rebels are burning tho town. REPRESENT AGU1NALDO. Filipino Envoy Not from Lona'i Camp an First Reported. MANILA, May 3.-The Filipino envoys. Major Manuel Argueleaes and Lieutenant Jose Bernal, have abandoned the pretense under which they came to General Otis that they represented General Antonio Luna, and to-day they announced that they came as representatives of Agulnaldo himself. The emissaries used all their wiles to secure a reply from General Otis to the letter from Senor Mablnl, Aguinaldo's prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the dictator's Cabinet, which they presented to General Otis on yesterday, but General Otis refused to make any reply on the ground that to do so would be equivalent to a recognition of the so-called government of the Filipinos. Major Argueleses - said that Agulnaldo knew he would be overpowered in time, but that he would be able to continue the fight for months, and that he would do to unless he secured what MaJ. Argueleses termed peace with dignity. The conference to-day lasted two hours. General Otis adhered to his refusal to recognize tho so-called government of the Insurgents. The Filipinos asked for a truce of . three months to enable Agulnaldo to summon the Congress and consult with the Insurgent leaders of the other islands. The envoys admitted the contention of General Otis that Agulnaldo has little control over affairs outside of the Island of Luzon. Concerning the release of Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos mentioned. Major Manuel Argueleses, the chief member of the deputation, said that he considered them as being in the same category with the Americans, the United States being the successor of Spain In dominion over the Island and acquiring by treaty all Spanish rights and obligations. After the close of the conference with General Otis, the Filipino envoys had a consultation with the United States Philippine commissioners. Mr. Schurman, the president of the United States Philippine commission, expresses the opinion that the interviews accorded by General Otis to the' Filipino rep resentatives will have a good moral effect, as tending to convince Aguinaldo's repre sentatives that the American authorities mean to give the Filipinos a good govern ment and not one of the Spanish sort. Cer talnly it has had a civilizing Influence In Inducing them to observe the amenities of war and consent to the Americans furnish lng focd for American prisoners. The exodus of natives from the Insurgent lines continues. By filling in the roads where it was re quired, putting canoes on the rivers and plowing fields south of Malolos. the army Is in a fine position for the expected de clslve blow. General MacArthur has moved his headquarters to San Vincente, across the Itlo Grande. General Whcaton's brigade ' has advanced beyond Alplt. General Hale has returned to co-operato with General Lawton. At Ballnag last evening there was a running fight. In the course of which one Amer ican soldier was killed and three were nwuuucu. iuc itwiris scauereu oeiore ucn. Lawton and General Hale. On yesterday, whllo Captain Wheeler, with a detachment of the Fourth Cavalry, -was covering General Hale's advance, he discovered a iarge ooay oi reoeis at run as - m . ... lan. The cavalry opened fire, but tiure was no response. Thinking that the rebels wanted to surrender. Lieutenant Bell went forward to parley with them. The Filipinos replied that they did not wish to surrender, hut that they had been ordered to refrain from fighting during the negotiations. They asked what Lieut. Bell wanted, and in re ply were told they could have half an hour In which to retire. A Spanish prisoner who escaped from the American lines re ports that after General Hale's advance on Qulngan two hundred Filipinos were buried. This is the iarfctsst number of rebels that have been killed in any engagement for several months. OTIS' CASUALTV LIST. Large Number of Soldiers Wounded, bat Not Reported nt the Time. WASHINGTON. May 3.-General 0.is. under to-day's date, reports the following cas ualties, not heretofore reported: Wounded: April & Brig. Gen. Irving Hale, leg, alight. First South Dakota Comnanv H. CantCharles if. Engleby. shculder. slight; Com pany u, sergt. l rank Carsey, leg. slight. Tenth Pennsylvania Col. Alex. Perkins. arm. slight; Compmy II. First Lieut. Blaine Aiken, arm, slight; sergt. John Thompson, face, slight. Fifty-nrst Iowa Company M, Private Fred JE. strong, scaip, plight: April Zj Company M. Private Samuel J. Tlltcn, shoulder, sngnt; April zr company ii. Private Bertram Grace, foot, slight, accidental First North Dakota April 12: Company K, August liansii, leg. Plight: nth. Company I, Private r.mii j'eptce, cnest. severe. First South Dakota April 21: Company G. Corporal Charles J I. Green, ear. flight; 2-th, Company O. Second Lieut. Walter S. Doolittle. foot, slight; Company I. Private William II. Iiarrl5on. shoulder, slight; Comvtanv L" T?v 1 W i nn 1 a, st il!i7hf First Montana April 27; Company C, Private Gottlieb Molcan, arm slight; Company If. Copt. Frank 11 Green, hand, slight; company i'nvaie v. Aumea, eurm.

slight; Company K, Robert Murphy, phoulder. slight; 2h, Company B, Private Andrew Davis, cheek, plight: Charles L Thompson. leg. flight; Company F. Martin It. Hall. ear. slight: Company M. Corporal James O. Iary, shoulder, slight. Fourth Cavalry April 24: Company I, Private William Heer, hand, severe. Twentieth Kansas April 23: Company K, Sergt. Joseph Dewald. neck, slight; 27th, Company K, Private Oscar Nesbit, wrist, slight. Third Infantry Second Lieut. Charles C. Todd, thigh, severe: Company F, Private Oscar Bevan. shoulder, severe. Thirteenth Minnesota April 28: Company K. Sergt. William D. Burlingham, knee. First Colorado May 1: Company K. First Sorpt. Clifford H. Bowser, arm. severe. Third Infantry May 2: Company C, Corporal Jacob Fisher, abdomen, povere; Com

pany ai, iTivate reaericK jauier. imgn, severe. . -Killed :- Thirteenth Minnesota May 1: Company F, Private Frank Smith. - SEVEN UNACCOUNTED FOR. Dewey Trying to Find Out Where Ills 3Illng Men Are. WASHINGTON, May 3.-The following cablegram has been received from Admiral Dewey: "The following are the Yorktown pris oners at insurgent headquarters at San Isedro: Lieutenant Gllmore. Chief Quartermaster William Walton. Sallmaker's Mate Paul Vandert. Coxswain John Kllsworth. Apprentice, third class, Albrrt Peterson. Landsmen S ivlo Brisoiese. raui Luwarus and Fred Anderson. Provisions have been sent to them by Otis. Am continuing inquires as to the fate of the other seven." The names of the men unaccounted for. with such data relative to their enlist ment, nativity and kin, as the records of the Navy Department show, are as follows: John Dillon, landsman, enlisted at Mare Island, Cal. Charles Albert Morrlssy, landsman, enlisted at Mare Island; born at Columbus, Neb.; next of kin, Mrs. J. C. Morrlssy, Lincoln, Neb. Ora Z. McDonald, ordinary seaman, en listed at Mare island; born at Cormal Valley. Cal.: next of kin, P. McDonald, father, Monterey, Cal. William II. uhlnders. coxswain, ennstea at Mare Island: born at Amsterdam. Holland; next of k!n. Mrs. N. H. Nyhouse, cousin, &20 Connecticut street, San Francisco. Orrison W. Woodbury, seaman: enlisted at Gloucester, Mass.; born at Lynn, Mass.; next of kin, J. G. Woodbury, father, 143 Maplo street, Lynn. Denzell D. George, apprentice, enlisted at Mare Island; next of kin, El Marsh, Belwood. Ore. E. J. Nygard. gunner's mate, third class. enlisted at New York: born Warsaw, Russia: next of kin, Sophia Nygard, wife, 1631 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. It is said at the Navigation Bureau that there Is every reason to believe that these missing sailors are not dead, or at least, not all of them. The naval officers here be lieve that some of the Yorktown's crew succeeded in making their way into the lines of the Spanish garrison at Baler, where they would be well treated. Admiral Dewey Is now striving to get Into communication with the garrison at Baier. - AS VIEWED BY OFFICIALS. Belief Expressed that Insurgent in the Ranks Will Sue for Peace. WASHINGTON, May 3. General Otis made no mention in his report to the War Department to-day of the progress of the negotiations with the Insurgents for the ces satlon of hostilities, but that fact did not abate the confidence of the officials in the ultimate success of the pending attempts to arrive at an understanding. There Is a be lief at the War Department that the Fill plnp leaders', are thoroughly discouraged, and It Is expected that the next step in the peace negotiations will be a wholesale ef fort on the part of individual Filipinos In the insurgent ranks to make terms for themselves. ;jvithQut reference to others. Meanwhile, there may be some small en gagements between the outposts, but nothing like a general battlo is expected. The reported junction effected between the forces of Lawton and Hale gives great sat isfactlon to the officials here. They have been apprehensive over the length of the line of communication between Lawton and Manila, but, as a short route Is open now to Malolos, on the railroad, there is no longer any reason to fear that supplies can be cut off. . Smallpox on Transports. SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. Two cases of suspected smallpox have appeared on the United States transport Centennial, which arrived from Manila on May 1, and one case has manifested Itself on the transport Sher man. The vessels have been quarantined and the patients removed to the quarantine hospital on Angel's island. A large body of workmen on board the transport will be kept in quarantine for two weeks unless more cases develop. In which case their re tention will be prolonged. On Monday forty-seven Invalid soldiers who returned here on the transport Sherman wero sent to the Presidio hospital. One of these men, Private George Godley, Com rany O, First Colorado Regiment, has de veloped smallpox. He was placed in an lso lated tent under a guard and to-day removed to Angel's island. Twelve soldiers and two hospital stewards who were In the same ward with Godley have also been quaran tlned. The other soldiers who came on the Sherman are confined in u ward by them selves in order to prevent any possible Infection. The Centennial will not be held In quarantine, but will be sent back to Manila as soon as possible. Broke Their Pledge. NEW YORK, May 3. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Manila says: "The gunboats Princeton and Tetrel left Manila this morning to patrol the southern islands. A brief cable message to Admiral Dewey from the commander of the Bennington announces that on April 20 he found three schooners on the beach at San Jose, on the eastern side of the Island of Pa nay. The Insurgents promised to surrender, but during the night they crowded Into the schooners and the next day offered resistance. The Bennington shelled the schooners and the trenches in the neighborhood." Cargo of Soldiers and Mules. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 3.-The steamer Leelanaw sailed for Manila to-day with 200 government mules. She will also carry seventy soldiers under command of Lieutenant Klppard. of the Fourth Artillery. SHE HAD A GLASS EYE Bat that Was Not Cause for Divorce, and the Woman Got the Decree. CINCINNATI. O.. May 1-Judge Jelke today granted a divorce and alimony to Catherine Kraus from Charles Kraus. When Mrs. Kraus sued for divorce her husband's attorney filed an answer setting forth that his wife had a glass eye and had deceived him, as he did not know of the glass eye till after their marriage. Court held that facial or other physical blemishes were not grounds for frauds in marriage contracts. PROMPTLY ACQUITTED. George Diivls Not Guilty of Shooting; Ex-Cougresaman Wulker. BRISTOL Va., May 3. To-day in the case of the commonwealth against George Davis, charged with shooting ex-Congressman James A. Walker, only two witnesses were examined. Their evidence was nat material and at 4:20 o'clock the Jury brought In a verdict of not guilty and the prisoner was discharged. An attempt at applause was quickly suppressed.

BIG CONCERNS

TRUSTS WITH ENORMOUS CAPITAL INCORPORATED IN JERSEY. Papers Filed In Behalf of the Repub11c Steel Company, a $70,000,000 Consolidation. ITS INTERESTS WIDESPREAD TWELVE INDIANA STEEL PLANTS AND ROLLING 31 ILLS IN THE LIST. Works at 31uncle, Alexandria, Marlon, Frankton, Netr Albany, Brazil, Terre Huate in the "Combine." HIDE AND LEATHER COMPANY WITH AN AUTHORIZED CAPITAL OF SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS, National Light and Power Company, with 15,000,000, and Other Nevr Concerns Ready for Business. NEW YORK, May 3. The Republic Steel and Iron Company, whose capital Is $33,000,'XX), filed incorporation papers in the county clerk's office In Jersey City to-day. Of the stock $25,000,0uo is preferred, bearing 7 per cent, and payable quarterly. The principal office Is given as In Jersey City, and the incorporators were Thomas Mills Day, Jr., Hamilton II. Durand, Edwin C. Holter, John J. Treacy, all of Jersey City. The company is empowered to produce and deal In iron and steel, mine ore3, construct and purchase pipe lines and operate the same so that water, gas and electricity may be utilized. Furthermore, the company can. build railroads and operate canals. The incorporators mentioned to-day are only temporary. The permanent officers and board of directors of the company will be chosen Monday. Thirty-five companies located In the West and Southwest were absorbed by the combination, as follows: The Andrews Bros Company; the Brown-Bon-nell Iron Company; the Mahoning Valley Iron Company, of Youngstown, O.; Cherry Valley Iron Company, Leetonla, O.; Atlantic Iron and Steel Company, New Castle, Pa.; Lake Erie Iron Company, Union roll ing mill, Cleveland, O.; the Corns Iron and Gteel Company, Masslllon, O.; the Toledo Rolling Mill Company, Toledo; Mitchell Tin and Iron Company, Incorporated, Clncin nati; the Eagle Iron and Steel Company, Ironton, O.; the Indiana Iron Company, the Muncio Iron and Steel Company, White River mills, Muncie, Ind.; Union Steel Com pany, Alexandria, Ind.; the Marion Steel and Iron Company, Westerman-Stewart Iron Companj, Marion, Ind.; Wetherald Rolling Mill Company, Frankton, Ind.; In diana Forge and Rolling Mill Company, New Albany, Ind.; the Central Iron and Steel Company, Brazil. Ind.; Wabash Irpn Company, Terre Haute, Ind.; Terre Haute Iron and Steel Company, Terre Haute, Ind.; Tudor Iron works. East St. Louis, 111.; the Springfield Iron Company, Springfield, 111.; Inland Iron and Forge Company, Chicago; Sylvan Steel Company, Moline, 111.; Minne sota Iron and Slcel Company, Minneapolis; Birmingham Rolling Mill Company, Ala bama Rolling Mill Company, Birmingham, Ala.; Cambria Mining Company, of Mich igan; Lille Mining Company, of Michigan; Franklin Iron Mining Company, of Minne sota; Pioneer Iron and Manufacturing Company, Birmingham, Ala.t Connellsvllle Coal and Coke Company, Pittsburg, Pa., and Croton Lime Company, New Castle, Pa. A charter was granted by the New Jer sey secretary of state to-day to the Amer lean Hide and Leather Company, with an authorized capital of $70,000,000, $30,000,000 of which Is 7 per cent, cumulative preferred and 140,000,0(0 common. The Incorporators are Robert 3. Green, Elizabeth, N. J.; Fred erlck P. Voorhees, and Edward F. Miller, of New York. The company Is to manufac ture all kinds of leather goods. The National Light and Power Company, capital 115,000,000, was incorporated to-day In the county clerk's office in Jersey City. The Incorporators are Carl Roswell Miner, Frederick L Austin and Frank W. Dobbins, of Jersey City. A financial news bureau reiterates tc-day the reports that a large steel combination will probably be formed on a basis of $323,000,000 capitalization, to take in the Carnegie Steel Company, the Rockefeller, the Mesaba Iron Interests, the Federal Steel Company, the American Wire and Steel Company, the National Steel Company and the American Tin-plate Company. J. W. Seligman & Co., J. P. Morgan & Co. and a national bank are named as the financial agents for the proposed combination. The Times, to-morrow, will say: Further progress toward consolidation of the big steel interests of the country was made yesterday at a meeting held at the Holland House, in which Judge W. H. Moore, of Chicago, II. C. Frick, representing the Car negie Interests, and other prominent steel men of the country took part. After the meeting there was a rumor that an offer of $130,000,000 had been made for the Carnegie interest and that Mr. Frick had taken it under consideration for consultation with Mr. Carnegie. At the offices of one of the largest concerns In the country, whose offi cers have been, for several days, negotiating with the promoters of the big combine, it was stated that there were good grounds for this report. The statement was repeated by one of the biggest officials In the com pany, who said the offer had been made, but with what probability of acceptance he could not say. Neither Mr. Frick nor Judge Moore would say much on the subject. Judge Moore simply saying that there was nothing more in the various rumors afloat than the desire of the different steel companies to 'harmonize' their Interests for the financial benefit of alL It was also said, yesterday (Wednesday), that offers had been made to the Federal Steel Company and the American Steel and Wire Company to join the combine, but that, so far, noth ing definite had been decided upon. John W. Gates, president of the latter company, to night left the Waldorf-Astoria, where he has been staying tlnce his sudden return from Europe last Saturday and wwis said to have gone to his home In Chicago. Before leaving. Mr. Gates said he had not become a member of the consolidation, but' there was 'no telling what might happen The deal, It was variously reported, would probably be concluded on a basis of from $."-3.-000.OCO to $700,000,000; moreover, that it would

be financed by the National City Bank. J. P.

Morgan & Co. and J. W. Seligman & Co. WITH 3,000,000 CAPITAL. Lcadlntr Manufacturers of Plows About to Form a. Trust. CHICAGO, Iiy 3. Representatives of the twenty-two leading plow manufacturing con cerns in the United States are assembling in Chicago to await the result of their committee's action In New York. If all goe5 as is planned, the American Plow Company, with a capital of $.000,00O, will take its place among the giant combinations of the country. At a meeting held In this city April 11 and 12, all of the Western concerns except those at South Bend were represented end plans for the combine were submitted. Since then It 13 understood that the South Bend establishment, the Oliver chilled plow works, has an option which will admit the formation of a trust with every Important concern m the country included. At the preliminary meeting the concerns represented were the following: Mollno Plow Company, Parlin & Orendorf Company, Derre & Co., Kingman Plow Company, Gale Manufacturing Comrany, Syracuse Chilled Plow Company, Peru Plow and Wheel Company, Sattley Manu facturing Company. Pekin Plow Company, Rock Island Plow Company, Fuller & John son Manufacturing Company, J. I. Case plow works, Buehlcr & Gibbs Plow Com pany and the St. Joseph Manufacturing Company. It Is estimated that a very close valuation on tho entire property covered would exceed $30,000,X)0 and might easily run up to $43,000,000 without making ony large allowance for good will and other intangible assets. To rroaecute Trusts. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.. May 3. The House to-day passed and sent to the Governor for his signature two bills Intended to give the attorney general a most unlimited power In the prosecution of trusts. One permits that official to require officers of corporations whom he may believe have formed a trust, and against which companies he may desire to proceed, to appear to give testimony in regard to the matter. The penalty for failure to appear is Imprisonment for contempt. This bill is Intended to make the officers furnish testimony to convict themselves In advance of proceedings against them. The other bill enables the Supreme Court to fix a place In the States where the officers of other corporations against whom the attorney general is proceeding for violation of the anti-trust law can appear and testify. This bill Is intended to prevent the necessity of the at torney general to go all over the United States to get testimony as was done In the case against insurance companies. Axle Trust Enjoined. CLEVELAND, O., May 3. In Common Pleas Court, to-day, the Hess Spring and Axle Company, of Cincinnati, secured a temporary injunction against tho Vehicle Manufacturers Association, otherwise known as the axle trust. On account of some difficulty with the trust the Hess Company withdrew from It. Then It was notified, the plaintiff alleges, that it had been fined $7,300 for selling goods below the established rate and for selling more than It was entitled to sell. It Is declared that the association is a trust and exi3ts in violation of the laws of Ohio, and, therefore, Its contract with the trust is illegal. The plaintiff asks the court to compel the trust to give up cash and notes amounting to $5,3CO, which it deposited with the combine when It joined the organization.-- ;' - Nntional Coopers Association. CINCINNATI, O., May 3.-The National Coopers' Association, which has been in executive session here two days, with a full attendance, concluded its work tonight. The principal topics for discussion were the great advance in the price of hoops and also the scarcity of timber. Hoops have advanced 100 per cent, in the past four months; staves and heads 20 per cent.; bar rels accordingly. The following officers were elected: R. L Wlrthltn, president, St. Louis; L D. Ault. vice president, Cincin nati; Walker L. Wellford, secretary and treasurer, Memphis. After a general discus sion everything was left to the executive committee to report at a full meeting of the association in Chicago June 11 To Oppose Window Glass) Trust. CLEVELAND, O., May 3. H. B. Van Cleve, formerly president of the Van Cleve Glass Company, and a number of other Pittsburg and Cleveland capitalists, have organized a company under the name of the Pennsylvania Window Glass Company to oppose the window glass trust.. The com pany will construct a plant at Kane, Pa,, which will be the largest window glass fac tory In the country outside of the trust. Hiram Palmer, an extensive lumber oper ator of McKean county, Pennsylvania, is president of the new company. Fruit Packer Combine. SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. The Califor nla Packers' Association has been incorpor ated, with a capital stock of $2,500,000. It Is composed of some of the largest fruit packing Interests in the State, and its object will be to control and regulate the prices of canned fruits which it will ship to all parts of tho world. It Is probable that some of the concerns interested will be closed, while others will limit their output to a single variety of fruit. Only three es tabllshments remain out of the combine. May Heed the Arkansas Law. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 3. There was a break in the Insurance situation here to day, when four of the old-line companies announced that they would at once resume business in this field. All insurance de sired can now be obtained, and It is be lleved that in a short time all the companies which recently withdrew will be doing busl ncss in compliance with the new law. Woaren Advanced by Pomp Trnst. CINCINNATI, O., May 3.-Walter Laidlaw, managing director of the International Steam Pump Company (the trust), has assumed charge of the works at Tweedvale, recently operated by the Laldlaw-Dunn-Gordon Company. All the employes at $2.23 a day or less have been advanced 10 per cent, and the rest 5 per cent. NOT BOYCOTTED. Sirs. Perry nelniont Entertained by Kentucky Society Leader. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 3. Hal P. Headley, of this city, acting for his wife, states that the statement Is without foundation as sent cut from hero yesterday that Mrs. Headley would refuse to recognize Mrs. Perry Belmont while she is in this city with her husband to inspect his thoroughbreds quartered at Mr. Headley's Beaumont and La Bell stock farms. Mr. and Mrs. Belmont are shown every courtesy possible by Mr. and Mrs. Headley. Twentieth Century Educational Fund. SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 3. The third session of the Twentieth Century Educational Fund convention opened this morning. Speeches were made by Bishops Bowman and Merriam and others. There was a genplea for money for education. It being said that it was th hope of the country in this sinful and doubting age. About six hundred persons are iu attendance. Elshon Kinds cpoke this afternoon.

MANY FRAUDS

OUR FOOD AND DRINK SAID TO BE NEARLY ALL ADULTERATED. Fully OO Ter Cent, of What We Conunie, According: to Dr. II. W. Wiley, Is Not What It Is Claimed to Be. MILK IS OFTEN WORTHLESS AND PRESERVATIVES ARB SOMETIMES USED TO KEEP IT SWEET. Honey Is n Much Abused Article, and Lard la Frequently Mixed with Cheaper Vegetable Oils. COFFEE BERRY OFTEN BOGUS MOLASSES AND FLOUR MOLDED INTO DECEPTIVE COUNTERFEITS, Fully TO Per Cent, of the Deer Sold In This Country Made from Sonie Other Article than Malt Maple Sugar. CHICAGO, May 3. According to Dr. II. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the United States Department of Agriculture, who was called to the ctand to-day to testify before the senatorial pure-food investigating committee, now in session here, fully 20 per cent, of the articles of food and drink manufactured and used in this country are frauds. All kinds of dairy products, he said, as well as nearly every variety of condiments, including even coffee In the berry, were adulterated. Senator Mason did the examining of the witness. Dr. Wiley was the first witness before the committee, which opened its first session today in the Grand Pacific Hotel. Senator William E. Masou, chairman of the committee, was the only member present. Senator Harris will not arrive until to-morrow and Senator Wetmore Is 111. In his testimony before the committee Dr. Wiley gave in detail the methods of manufacturers in adulterating different articles of feed. Foods and drinks which contain ingredients that are deleterious to health wero reviewed by him at the afternoon session. In milk, he said, the most common practice is the abstraction of the fatty substance in taking away the cream. A. common practice among dealers was the adulteration with water, and In addition to this preservatives are used to no small extent to prevent the liquid from, souring. In butter the common way of defrauding the public was the substitution of other fats, both animal and vegetable, for the natural fat of the milk. Both cottonseed oil and high grades of lard were employed In this work. Honey, Dr. Wiley said, probably was a more abused article in the line of adulteration than any other. The principal method of adulterating lard is the mixing of vegetable oils with the natural fat of the hog. All kinds of pUre oils, he said, were heating to the system a3 well as great aids in digesting. Another fraud which Is carried on to a very great extent is the selling of cot-ton-seed oil for olive oil. Probably among all the foods mentioned by Dr. Wiley none attracted greater attention than the adulteration of coffee, even in the berry. In recent Investigations he has found molasses and flour molded into berries, bolored, mixed with the genuine and old as high-grade coffee. According to Dr. W'liey there Is very little pure beer made In this country. Fully 70 per cent, of the beer which is sold In this country la made of some other article than malt. In regard to the exclusive use of glucose, witness said that it was not objectionable for foodpurposcs if used in moderation. Very little pure jelly is manufactured. There also is a great amount of adulteration in the manufacture of vinegar. Dr. Wiley said Vermont maple sugar was manufactured in Davenport, la., out of brown sugar and an extract of hickory bark, and 'it was not deleterious. In fact, he said, it was impossible for chemists to distinguish the two. The sugar was the same and tho natural ether that gave the maple sugar its flavor and distinctive quality was too infinitesimal to segregate in an anaylsls. The extract of hickory, he said, was about the same as the maple's' flavor. Spices, he cald, were adulterated, and peanut shells were palmed off as ground cinnamon. MAJOR LEE AT GREENCASTLE. Allies Friend Believes the General Charge Were Proved. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE, Ind.. May 3. Major Jesse M. Lee, of the United States army, is here, visiting relations for two weeks, and will then return to Sackett's Harbor. His regiment has received orders to prepare to go to the Philippines and will leave for San Francisco immediately after his return. Major Lee talked this morning about his work as General Miles's representative before the board of inqu'ry which has been investigating charges against the beef supply. It has been at work since February and sent its report to the secretary of war Saturday. It will be retained in the secretary's possession until the President Is ready to receive it. "What will be the result If the finding is adverse to Secretary Alger?" was asked the major. "There will be no action of any kind. The criticism contained in such a finding will be all the punishment there will be about it. It the board should report adversely to General Miles, that would also probably end the matter. General Miles has done all In his power to show to the War Department that beef, refrigerated or canned, is not a fit food for troops in action in a warm climate. Any one who has watched the proceedings as reported in the papers will know that he his fully proved this. Ills wide experience In active army life demonstrated this to him before he could get the War Department to take any action toward an investigation. It was simply sn experiment. The rcast beef that was furnished as suppXes to the troops at Camp Alger was intended a9 traveling ration?, as it was thought by the commissary general that they would be ordered to Porto Rico or Cuba. They did not go, and it had to be eaten anyway, although some of it had already spoiled." Loyal Legion Officers. ' 1 NEW YORK. May 3. The Military Order of Loyal Legion of the United States held Its annual election and banquet to-night at Delmonlco's. The following, the regular ticket, was elected: Commander, Rear Admiral WInfield C Schley, U. O. N.; senior vice

commander, Bvet Brig. Gen. Henry L Burnett, U. S. N.; junior vice commander, Lieut. Col. John W. Clous, U. S, A.; recorder, A. Noel Blakeman. late U. S. N.; registrar, Maj. Alfred Wagstaff, U. S. V.; treasurer. Paymaster John Furry, U. S. N. (retired); chancellor. Capt. Charles C. Curie, U. S. V.; chaplain, First Lieut. Nathaniel H. Vanarsdale, U. S. N. Gen. Grenville Dodge presided at the banquet. Covers were laid for 430 members and guests, and nearly that number sat down. Rear Admiral Schley was not present. There were no set speeches. GERMANS OBSTINATE

Refuse to Slffn the Proclamation for an Armistice in Samoa. APIA, Samoa, April 27, via Auckland, N. Z., May 3. Mataafa, the rebel chieftain, has accepted an armistice. The Germans, however,' declined to sign the proclamation. WASHINGTON, May 3. Officials at the German embassy say that up to the close of office hour3 to-dify no recent information had been received of events in Samoa. Evidently nothing of an Important nature was expected for some time, as Ambassador Von Holleben has left the city for a visit of several days to New York. Fuller reports of affairs leading up to the armistice are awaited with much interest, and the hope 13 confidently expressed that the Mataafa element has decided to submit and await the decision of the joint commission now on its way there. Germany, it was stated, was anxious that there should be an end to hostilities. SEDITIOUS LITERATURE EDWARD ATKINSON'S DOCUMENTS SEIZED AT SAN FRANCISCO. Were. Addressed to Dewey, Otis and Other at Manila The Chief Plotter Not Alarmed SAN FRANCrSCO, May 3. The local postefflce officials to-day seized some of the pamphlets sent out by Edward Atkinson, vice president ' of the Anti-Iraperiallst League of Boston. The pamphlets are addressed to Admiral Dewey, Gen. H. G. Otis, General Miller and Professors Schurmann and Worcester, the latter two gentlemen being members of the Philippine commission. Postmaster Montague had received instructions from Washington only yesterday to seize and hold, subject to further orders, any pamphlets mailed to Manila by Edward Atkinson. These directions apply only to third-classmatter, no authority being given to seize under f uspicion any letters or other sealed matter. In accordance with these orders from tho postmaster general Mr. Montague to-day ordered a rigid inspection of all mall lying in the office en route to Manila. The search revealed the presence of the "printed documents which had been mailed to the military commanders and to the members of the Philippine commission. On the wrapper of each near the address are uho words: "If not delivered within Sve days return to Box 112, Boston." In-an interview in Boston Mr. Atkinson admitted sending the pamphlets to Admiral Dewey, Generals E. S. Otis and M. P. Miller and Professors Schurman and Worcester. He claimed they are cimply private editions of documents ordered printed by the United States Senate. Two of the pamphlets are entitled "The Hell of War" and "Criminal Aggression." . The third has no specific title and contains copies of speeches delivered by Senator Hoar, ex-Governor Boutwell and Judge Edmunds. Postmaster Montague has ordered that a close watch be kept on the mails and that all the objectionable pamphlets from Edward Atkinson arriving here en route to Manila be seized. Not the League's Documents. BOSTON. May 1 Ex-Governor George S. Boutwell, of the Antl-lmperlallst League. stated to-day that the league was not In terested in sending out the pamphlets han dled by Edward Atkinson, which have been ordered taken from the malls by the United States authorities. Ex-Governor Boutwell said: "Mr. Atkinson Is a member of and is Interested In the Anti-imperialistic League, but the league is rot Interested in the private work of Mr. Atkinson. He is sending out his pamphlets as private matter and we have nothing to do with it. Not that the league repudiates or approves the course. The league has taken no action on a matter in which it Is not interested. We shall keep on sending out our literature. I believe that we still have the use of the mails." Traitorous Junto Denounced. SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 3. The G. A. R. encampment of the Department of California and Nevada, now in session here, today passed resolutions upholding the course of President McKlnley in his conduct of tho war. The following resolutions were adopted: "Resolved, That wo denounce the traitorous junto of so-called educators united with a handful of political demagogues which is giving substantial aid and comfort to our enemies in the war and which is prolonging the war in the Philippines and increasing the daily death roll of our army. "Resolved, That In common with every citizen of the United States In whose veins runs one drop of true American blood, and In whose heart dwells one spark of patriotism, we hereby record our detestation of the work of these Incipient traitors." Senator Chandler View. WASHINGTON, May 3.-Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, speaking to-day of tho order prohibiting the sending of the literature of the Anti-imperialistic League to the Philippines, said that in his opinion the sending of such literature was undoubtedly treasonable, "but I think it would be very foolish to prosecute Atkinson and his associates," said he. "The literature might havo created dissension among our troops in the Philippines. That is all we cared about; but with ;.he prospect of peace we do not care much about that now." Atkinson Won't lie Punished. HINGHAM. Mass.. May 3. John D. Long, secretary of the navy, was asked to-day for an expression of opinion in regard to the exclusion of Edward Atkinson's pamphlets from mails destined for the Philippines. The secretary replied: "The administration would no more think of interfering with the personal liberty of Edward Atkinson than with that of Daniel Pratt, the great American traveler, if he were still alive." Atkinson Ha Not Yet Fled. BOSTON, May 3. Edward Atkinson said to-day that he sees no reason why he should concern himself further about the stoppage by the postal authorities cf circulars addressed by him to persons In the Philippines. He said he had received Inquiries as to whether ha would have the country, Tout would pay no attention to thtu

SHOT TO DEATH

ALEXANDER 3IASTERTON KILLED IS A NEW YORK HOTEL. Murdered by James Neale Plumb, Who Made Preparations for the Crime and Decoyed His Victim to a Room. REAL MOTIVE IS UNKNOWN STATEMENT PREPARED DY PLU3ID BEFORE COMMITTING THE DEED, . In Which He Charges Ills Victim wltU Ruining- Him Financially and Tryluff to Destroy III Home ASSERTS HE WAS WRONGED THAT MASTERTOVS DEATH WAS DECREED UV AN OUTRAGED GOD, t And thtt Plumb Wa Merely tho Chosen Instrument of Wrathful Vengeance The Statement NEW YORK, May 3. Alexander Masterton, a director of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company, and seventy-two years of age, was shot and killed this afternoon by. James Neale Plumb. In the Burlington Hotel, on West Thirtieth street. Masterton was chot five times, and died within an hour or two. The murder was premeditated, as evidenced by a voluminous statement written in advance by Plumb and given out aft er his arrest. V At present the real motive of the crime is unknown. Plumb. In his statements issued "to the public" and entitled "Why I, J. Neale Plumb, shot Alexander Masterton,M declared that he had been actuated to dor the shooting because of a systematic hounding of him by Masterton. Plumb declared further that Masterton had not only ruined him financially, but had attempted to alienate the affections of his wife and children and to causa his social downfall. Plumb's statements, one of which waj addressed to the Associated Press, deals with a period of his career embracing the past thirty-five years, are rambling in many places, and concludes with the following: 'No man has a higher regard for humaa life than I have. Dut the Just and righteous punishment of Alexander Masterton Is decreed by an outraged God, and I am simply the humble instrument in Ills hand,' as He has selected me as His ctaoscn instrument of wrathful vengeance. I have rid t;he world of a man who was not fit to live, ind whose death a thousand- limes -over could never atone for the monstrous wrong me." Masterton and Tlumb met by agreement In the Burlington Itote! at 1:30 p. m.. In the apartments occupied by Manager Cole. They had been there but a short time when five shots were fired In rapid succession. Plumb then came out and walked Into the reception room awaiting arrest. The murderer was taken before Follce Captain Price, of the Tenderloin district, of whom he Is an intimate friend. He was later taken befor a magistrate in the Jefferson Market Police Court and held. Nothing was brought out at the hearing hat could be accepted as a reason for the killing, beyond the statement made by Plumb that Masterton had hounded him for many years. PLUMB'S STATEMENT. In his statement, Plumb writes as follows: "The reason for taking this serious step was that, for upward of thirty-five year? commencing as far back as 1SC2, at tho time of my marriage engagement, this man has followed me like a sleuth hound from that time to this, and yet I was never able ta discover the cause or motive of his vlndlctlvo animosity towards me, as, when he commenced to attack me, I had never secQ the man nor ever heard of him. Again in 1SS3, on my return from, California, after three years' absence, he at once rcntwedi the intrigues against me In my family and in public, secretly doing me all injury in hi power, socially and financially. After all these years, down to 1ST6, this man was constantly plotting and conspiring against me endeavoring to undermine my wife's confidence In me by covert insinuations and! endeavoring In every' way to alienate the affections of my wife and children, and he of my wife's large estate." In 1S77 Mrs. Plumb died In Paris andi Plumb returned hero and went to live at Isllp, L. I He recites a number of circumstances showing Mastcrton's alleged conspiracy to alienate the affections of his children, a French maid acting as a spy. fnr Masterton. Plumb refers to anothcr 'conspiracy" begun In 15S5. which he saya Is known to his friends In New York ana Washington as the Washington conspiracy, where his eldert daughter Minnis laid j trap for Masterton, and . his lawyers, by means of decoy letters and telegrams, and that his enemy fell into the trap and d!3 not know he had been trapped until his daughter displayed the motive of these telegrams In Surrogate Rollins's court during an action brought In connection with the case. After reciting the story of the marriage of his son, J. Ives Plumb, in 1SS3, with a woman named Anna Burton, of whom ha speaks in no complimentary terms, and laying the blame for this undesirable marriaga at Masteiion's door, he refers to what he calls ,the last "conspiracy of Alexander Masterton which has culminated hi lone years of cruel, vindictive oppression by his punishment decreed by an outraged God." HIS DAUGHTER KIDNAPED. He says that soon after his son's "disgraceful marriage" he went to Europ. intending to make his homo in Southampton, England, and he and his daughters were a happy there as they could be with- a cloud hanging over them in the moral death of hl3 son. He next refers to the kidnaping of his daughter Leonlta in 1SSS, after they had returned to New York. She was forced Into a carriage by the agents of Masterton, he avers, and taken to the Victoria Hotel. Later she was taken to Troy. She subsequently regained her freedom. The objtct of this abduction, Plumb claims, was to force the girl to give up her father, riumb declares that the wrongs which Masterton, had done him no law could reach. Ills words arc: "The man who brought all thia trouble In my declining years no law can reach." In addition to these conspiracies Flunb goes Into lengthy details regarding ths alleged efforts of Mastertca and cthrra to bring about a marriage between ens cf ULf