Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1899.

Ms original price of J13.2X.000 cash, or its equivalent, JIT.Kti.OGO In 4 per cent, bonds. In addition to the failure of the negotiations at the present stage, the legal situation is uncertain. The State Supreme Court is now preparing Its decision tn a proceeding against the com m!ss Sorters to test the constitutionality of the McLeod act. An Injunction suit to restrain the commission from action is aL pending in a local court. 31nyor Jonen'i Scheme Defeated. TOLEDO, O., May 9. By a majority vote tho City Council has virtually "turned down" Mayor Jones's municipal ownership plan for tho Shore-line Railroad and accepted his scheme for selling city franchises i the highest bidder. Members of the Council committee on railroads, after inspection of the proposed route of the road and spending several da's pondering over the quUon. laid tho matter before the Council. The mayor's supporters made a fight to support his muncipal ownership plan, but the measure was beaten and today the city clerk was instructed to advertise the franchise for sale in the principal newspapers of the Eat and West, as well a the local papers. THE $MiHM4.HM TIllST.

Proposed Combination of Iron and Steel InduMrleM Making Profcreas. CHICAGO. May O.-The Tribune will say tomorrow: "Representatives of two of th tj5 corporations which rumor has associated with the proposed JW.000.000 combination of iron and steel Industries declared to-day material progress had been nifle during the day. The plan, already exploited to a considerable degree. Is to absorb roine.f. mills, railroads and factories. The two representatives In question, said the following corporations, giving the capital stock of each, were to be Included: The Carnegie companies $250,000,000 Federal Steel .Company 100,000.000 American Steel and Wire Company 90rfv),000 National Stel Company ."tf.ono.OOO American Tin-plate Company 5rt.on0.00i) Republic S'eel Company 50.nno,noo American Steel Hoop Company.... 33,000,000 "The figures given of the Carnegie com- ' panie are less than the accepted estimate of the amount invested. It Is said that If the great trust Is formed the Carnegie oonrerns will represent no less than ).y) of Its capital. The Federal Steel Company has an authorized capital of $200,0Tw. but only one-half of It will be taken. It Is said. One thing it Is proposed the trust shall do. the rpnrpnfatlVM stated, la to take in the Iron and steel plants of importance which are still Independent concerns. None of these is large when compared with the trusts, but they are considerable industries. The largest of them ere: Jones & Laughlln Company. Pittsburg, capital. Jir).Mv; Cambria Steel Company, capital. O.ono; Scranton Steel Cornpan, capital. $3.'oo.fl0n. "Several of the promoters assembled at the office of John W. Gates, president of the American Steel and Wire Company, during the day. They said satisfactory results were rot far off. Several asserted the consolidation could obtain business that none of the trusts Is able to control. It will undertake to capture the business of European concerns, they contended, and furnish rails and steel plates for European railways and war shin8. No foreign company, they assert, is big enough to be a formidable competitor. MO.NXETT'S STORY DENIED. Ills Bribery ChnrRpft Resented by Charles . Ilarfkell. TOLEDO. O.. May !. Charles N". Haskell, whom Attorney General Monnett accused of being a party to offering him a bribe to quit prosecution In the Standard Oil cases, said to-day thai he absolutely had nothing to do with offering a bribe to any one. He stated that he was in no way connected with the Standard Oil Company, and over Ms signature gave out the following state ment: "I do not know Mr. Monnett and never had any communication with him. direct or indirect. I do not know Mr. Charles B. Squires, his alleged briber, nor have I ever had any communication, directly or indirectly, wltli him. I am not now and never was the holder of any stock in the Standard Oil Company nor of any other company connected with it. I am not now and never was interested in any way with said StandadL OIL Company. I have never known of ncr nave 1 ever been In any way connected with any attempt to influence or control the action of the attorney general of Ohio in any proceeding against the . Standard Oil Company or in any other matter. I characterize and denounce as absolutely falre any and all statements connecting me In any way with the litigation or attempt to influence the litigation of the State of Ohio against the Standard Oil Company. I courr. the fullest investigation at the earliest possible moment, and I do this in . Justice to myself, my family and my friends." o Plow Trout Yet. CHICAGO. May 9. Dispatches received here to-night contains denials from the Oliver and South Bend chilled plow companies of South Bend, the J. I. Case plow works of Racine and the Mollne Plow Company, of Moline, 111., three of the largest concerns of the kind In the country, that SHOWERS TO-DAY. Partly Clondy and Cooler "Weather on Thursday-High Southerly Wind. WASHINGTON, May S. 8 p. m. Forecast for twenty-four hours: For OhioIncreasing cloudiness, with . showers In western portion on Wednesday; Thursday showers and cooler; brisk southerly winds. For Indiana and Illinois Showers on . Wednesday and Wednesday night; partly cloudy and cooler on Thursday; brisk to high southerly winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast Tho Atlantic coast storm has disappeared In the direction of Nova Scotia, and showers have been followed by fair weather along the middle Atlantic and northeast coast. A i storm of marked strength Is central this evening over Manitoba. Showers and thun- - derstorrts nave occurred within a trough of low barometric pressure which extends . from the Northwest storm center over the Missouri valley. Kansas and northern Texas. The temperature is above the seasonal average except from the northern Rocky mountain region to the north Pacific coast. During Wednesday showers and thunderstorms will occur in the upper Mississippi and middle and lower Ohio valleys and the western lake region, and by Thursday the rain area will probably 5 carried over the middle Atlantic States. High southerly winds are Indicated for Wednesday over the western lake region and for Wednesday night over the eastern lake region. Along the Atlantic coast the winds will be variable Wednesday and will shift to southerly by Wednesday night. Local Observations on Tuesday. Bar. Ther. R.II. Wind. Weather, rre. T tt.m. ZO OS 53 T N'wejt. Clear. O.no t p.m. 63 43 South. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature. 74; minimum temperature. 4S. Comparative statement of temperature and pre- . clpitatlon May 9: Temp, pre. Normal C4 0.13 Mean tl 0.00 Departure from normal 3 0.13 Jieparture since May 1 i7 o.or. Departure since Jan. 1 264 2.70 Plus. C. F.R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Temperatures. Ftations. Mln. Max. Atlanta. Ga 64 M r.ismarck. N. D M 72 Ituffalo. N. T. 42 CaJgary. N. W. T.. ............. 34 60 Cairo. Ill 60 75 Cheyenne. Wyo 3S 64 Chiearo. 711 M 64 Cincinnati. O 58 74 Concordia. Kan 60 f lavenport, la 54 72 I)es Moines. Ia Si 74 (Ulvecton. Tex 74 SO Helena, Mont 46 ri Jacksonville. Fla 79 $3 Kaneas City. Mo M 74 Little Itock, Ark f. ti Marquette. Mich 42 6S Memphis. Tenn 64 M Nahvtlle. Tenn M 74 New Orleans. l.a 72 (9 New York. N. Y hi 7 North Platte. Neb E2 n Oklahoma. O. T 62 7S Omaha. Neb 5 74 PltUburr. Ta 54 74 Qu' Apf-ei'Ie, N. W. T 44 6) TlapM ''Ity. S. D 64 fait Lake City, Utah 44 M f t. Vcmltt, Mo i 7 ft. Paul. Minn IZ 74 f prinefleld. Ill :2 72 t"; rlrrr.ei.1, 5fo 61 72 Vlckvburf. Mifs 7') J .?i:r;icn, L. C li 7i 7 p.m. 74 62 58 U 70 K 68 72 6 ft 74 S4 S5 70 S2 44 78 -t t m 71 70 74 74 to CK 44 72 V. M

a combination of plow manufacturers has been formed, as was reported last night. These interests declare yesterday's meeting was a session of the Northwestern Plow Association, held to consider the advisability of raising1 the price of plows to meet the advance in raw materials. C. II. Deere said to-day an advance of 15 per cent. In prices would be announced soon. At South Eend it was said a proposition was made for a combination with a capital of S.'ACMXOOO; that some of the manufacturers favored the plan, but that few options were given.

Contempt Cae Dlamlawert. COLUMBUS, O., May 9. The Standard Oil Company won a point in the Supreme Court to-day when a decision was handed down dismissing the contempt proceedings against Malcolm Jennings, a newspaper man. Jennings was subpoenaed as a witness in the Standard Oil suits by the attorney general,, who endeavored to show that the witness was conducting a news bureau in the Interest of the Standard Com;uaiy. When asked to give a list of papers to which he furnished such matter Jennings refund and was cited for contempt. The Supreme Court held that the information a tired the witness was not important and that it would not tend to throw any light cn the question at issue. The court held, therefore, that witness was not in contempt in refusing to answer the question. IIot-Alr Furnace 31en Organize. PITTSBURG. May 9.-The hot-air furnace manufacturers of the country have organized a central association for the purpose of maintaining prices. The manufacturers complain that they have been competing so closely that the buslne.- has come to he carried on at a loss, and thai some sort of an agreement Is necessary to keep them going at a very small margin of pront. A committee has been appointed to revise the scale of prices, and an ironclad contract has been signed to respect the scale that the committee prepares Havana Commercial Company. NEW YORK. May 9.-The Havana. Commercial Company is- now fully organized with a capitalization of $20,000,000, of which f7..V0.000 is preferred and 12,500.ono is common stock. The officers of the company are: H. B. IIoIlin9, president; Francisco Garcia, vice president and resident director In Havana; Ferdinand Hlrsch, managing director, and Ford Huntington, secretary and treasurer. The business of the company at present is confined to the manufacture and export of Havana cigars and cigarettes and Cuban leaf tobacco. Gat at 75 Cents l.OOO Feet. NEW YORK. May 9. The Municipal Council to-day passed an ordinance fixing the price of gas at 75 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, the same standard to exist as that now prevailing. The Council claims that under the preface of the charter the Municipal Council has the power to regulate the price. Drastic Anti-Trust mil Paased. AUSTIN. Tax.. May 9. The Senate of the state Legislature to-day passed finally its" anti-trust bill. When originally introduced the bill was identical with the Arkansas law. It has been materially emended, however, and 13 decidedly more drastic in its provisions. Incandescent Light Company. TRENTON, N. J.. May 9. The Kern Incandescent Light Company, capital $12,000,0CO, was incorporated here to-day. The incorporators are Ernest F. Ayrault and Charles W. Dayton, of New York, and J. P. Murray, Jersey City. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Grand Court of Foresters of America is In session at Tacoma, Wash. The Fifth Immune Regiment, 600 strong, left over the Lehigh Valley Railroad yesterday for Camp Meade, Pa. A portion of the International Saengerfest building, at Cincinnati, collapsed yesterday, but the damage was quickly repaired. Rudyard Kipling and his family left Lakewood yesterday for Morrlstown. N. J. Mr. Kipling has almost entirely recovered his strength. The Hamburg-American steamer Brasilia arrived at Halifax yesterday from Hamburg with 1,400 immigrants, all bound to the Canadian Northwest. Rev. Dr. Rose F. Alsopp, of Brooklyn, who wan recently elected general missionary secretary of the Episcopal Church in America, has declined the position. Dispatches from various sources deny the rumor that P. D. Annour has been stricken with apoplexy. Mr. Armour is at Nauksin, rive miles from Homburg, Germany. Adolph" Kuffier. doing business at New York under the name of A. KufHer & Co., dealers in leaf tobacco, yesterday made an assignment. Liabilities $90,000, assets el06,000. At the meeting of the New York Board of Aldermen yesterday, an enthusiastic resolution calling for an official reception of Admiral Dewey on his arrival in that city was adopted unanimously. It is said that the Whltney-Widner-El-kins syndicate, otherwise the Metropolitan Street-railway Company, will operate the line of automobile stages to be introduced on Fifth avenue, New York. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed at New York yesterday by Charles B. Corwin. manufacturers' agent, formerly a memt-JT of the firm of Stephens, Corwin & Co., which failed in June, 1S7. Liabilities $56,500. Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of Cornell University, whose name was mentioned among the candidates for the presidency of the University of California, said yesterday that he was not h candidate for the position. Bernard W. Layton. assistant sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, is lying dangerously injured at St. Vincent's Hospital. Toledo, O., the result of a fall at a bowling alley. Mr. Layton's phsicians hope the injury may not be permanent. The funeral of Gen. Manning E. Force will be held at Cincinnati on Thursday and the burial will be at Sprir Grove C'.-metery In that city. To-day there will bo simple services at the Soldiers' Home In Sfcndu.ky. of which General Force was commandant. Dr. J. C. Banner, head of the department of geology . at Stanford University. Cal., with a party of students, left yesterday for the purpose of studying the -coral formations along the Brazilian coast. The data gathered by the expedition will be publisned by Harvard University. It is understood at the Annapolis Naval Academy that the department is contenv plating a change In the uniform of officers and an order to that effect will be issued in a day or two. The style of blouse, ana helmet In place of white cap, are said to be the projected changes in the regulation dress. C. A. Walsh, secretary of the Democratic national committee, arrived at his home In Ottumwa. Ia.. yesterday from the Klondike, where he has Bfen the past eighteen months. He laughs at the story that he cleared 2,000 to 1100,00. but admits he has a valuable claim. He will return to Dawson City in June for a short stay. Mr. Walsh still owns the Klondike Advertiser. American Library Amioclatlon. ATLANTA. Ga.. May 9. The conference of the American Library Association began here to-day, with 250 delegates present. At the morning session the address of the president, William C. Lane, of Harvard, was read and the reports of Secretary Carr, Treasurer Jones and members of the standing committees were submitted. Among those present were Herbert Putnam, librarian of congress; 11 H. Anderson. Pittsburg; H. Frledenwald and J. C. Adler. of the congressional library; Melville Dewey, of Albany, N. Y. ; Wesley Flint, of Washington, and R, R. Barker, of New York. Two More Spanlh Drafts Paid. NEW YORK, May 9. The second and third drafts drawn by the United States treasury against the subtreasury to the order of the Spanish government, amounting to JIO.OOO.OCO, passed through the clearing house to-day. The transaction made the subtreasury a debtor to the amount of JlO,-590.542.-The National City Bank, which presented the drafts for payment, had a credit balance at the clearing house of $13,4&Vio. No time has been Eet for the payment of the fourth and last warrant. Mnety-Mne-Yenr Sentence. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 9. Fred Linderman, a young barter from St. Louis, was to-night sentenced to nlnetv-nine years in the penitentiary for the murdr of Belle McKlhaney. a eventeen-year-o'.d girl whom IJnderman came to Kansas City with from St. Iui3, and whom he shot when she sou8ht to leave him. IJnderman pleaded insanity. li. Cleveland Probably GuunltiE. PRINCETON. N. J.. May 9. Former President Cleveland left Princeton to-day and went In his private car to Philadelphia. There he took the Ba'tlmore & Ohio Railroad for the West. It is thought he is on another gunning trip, as he went West by the same route last year for the ame purpoie. . DmiI Complexions Need Champlln's Liquid Pearl, 50.;. a lovely, harmless tcautiGer. No equal.

SAMOA IS NOW QUIET

rLOPLC ALL WAITING OX THE JOIXT HIGH COM3IISSIOX. Arrival of Dr. Self at Apia Scene Created by John Kenalt In the Arcbleplscopal Court at London. APIA. Samoa, May 1, via Auckland, N. Z., May 9. Everything la quiet on the Island, operations have been suspended pendfng the arrival of the joint commissioners from San Francisco. After the cessation of hostilities a detachment of British soldiers visited the battlefield of Vaillma, where they recovered an American machine gun that had been captured by the rebels. The rebel lines at Lottopa and Vallima were two miles long and of great strength, being reinforced by trenches and rifle pits. It was found that several rebels had died in the trenches from the shock of bursting shells, but without having been wounded. After the armistice had been agreed 01 the rebels left the forts singing war songs of the vanquished. The country is being scoured by British and American soldiers in search for lead from which the natives might make bullets. A British planter, who has been a prisoner of the rebels for six weeks, has arrived in Apia. His experiences during his captivity were frightful. Many times tho rebels threatened to behead him. Captain Sturdee, the ranking British naval officer here, in, company with a missionary, went through the- rebel lines unmolested. They found everything quiet pending the arival of the Joint commissioners, who are to arrange terms of peace. The British third-class cruiser Royalist has sailed for England, by way of Sydney. Dr. Self, the newly-appointed president of the Mur4eipal Council, has arrived here. He will remain inactive until the commissioners reach here with instructions. Five officers for the United States cruiser Philadelphia have arrived here on board the steamer Mariposa. The United States armed collier Brutus will remain at Apia all this month. An American sailor while drunk was shot with a revolver by a marine, who was arresting him. The wound is aot serious. JOIIX KEXSIT PROTESTS, nut the Archbishops Adjourn for Refreshments and the Scene Ended. LONDON, May 9. There was a scene during to-day's sitting of the archleplscopal court, which convened on yesterday for a hearing of the charges of ritualistic practices against the Rev. Henry Westall. icar of the Church of St. John, Tlmberhlll, Norwich. During the proceedings John Kenslr, the noted anti-ritualist, arose from his seat at the back of the guardroom of Lambeth Palace, where the court is sitting, and r.houted: "I wish to protest against the holding of this court." Mr. Kensit then began to read a written protest against the so-called "spiritual court." and especially against an inquiry "by your graces, who for years have deliberately set at naught your solemn ordination vows, and allowed and often promoted well-known lawbreakers in the church." A storm of hisses greeted the protest, and the Archibshop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Frederick Temple, cut Mr. Kensit short by adjourning the court for luncheon, amid cheers and derisive laughter. ItOYAL YACHT LAUNCHED. Dachess of York Severed the Cord and the Boat Slid Into the Water. LONDON. May 9. The Duchess of York, accompanied by the Duke of Connaught and George J. Goschen, first lord of the admiralty, and others, launched the new royal yacht Victoria and Albert at Pembroke this afternoon. After the usual prayers the duchess severed a cord and the yacht glided into the water amid vociferous cheering. The'seene attending the launching was one of the gayest imaginable. The docks, the nelghborlngs buildings and all the vessels in the harbor were elaborately decked with flags and bunding. Among the spectators were many naval and military officers and members of the civil government uniformed or in their robes of office. There was an enormous concourse of people in and about the yards, and the greatest enthusiasm w-as manifested. Dreyfus Case Report on May 21. PARIS, May 9. M. Ballot de Beaupre, who succeeded M. Quesna de Beaurepalre as president of the civil division of the Court of Cassation, and who, on March 6. was appointed by the united chambers of the court to report on the application for a revision of the Dreyfus trial, announced this evening that he expects to make his report about Whitsuntide (May 21.) The public hearing of the demand for revision is expected, therefore, to open on May 29. The speeches will probably occupy four days, Tfl the decision Is to be given on June 2 or 2. To-Dny'w Drawing; Room. LONDON, May 9. At the drawing room to-morrow Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, wife of the United States ambassador to Great Britain, will present Mrs. and Miss Bates, wife and daughter, respectively, of Col. W. E. Bates, the military attache of the embassy, the wife and daughter of Mr. Wm. F. Osborne, consul general of the United States at London, Mrs. John B. Mott, Of Indiana, and Mrs. Ingraham. Disraeli Thrown from IIU Wheel. LONDON. May 9. Mr. Coningsby Ralph Disraeli, nephew and heir of Lord Beaconsneld, and member of Parliament for the Altrincham division of Cheshire, was thrown from his bicycle at High Wycombe to-day. He struck upon his bead and was -o badly injured that he had to be conveyed In a cab to Hughendcn manor. Cable Notes. Admiral Von Diedrichs has been granted a leave of absence of three months. The procedure for a divorce Initiated last month by Comtesse Esterhazy was passed at Paris yesterday by default and the final degree will follow in July. The Cairo correspondent of the London Times says: "General Lord Kitchener intends to open the Sudan to all traders on the completion of the railroad to Khartum and foreign goods will be admitted free of duty." In spite of precautionary measures, virulent smallpox !s spreading in Berlin. The disease was imported Into Germany by Russian laborers and has already spread to Iserlchn. Wuersburg and Hanover. Fresh cases are alo reported at Quedlinburg. Reltsch and Neuhaldensleben. There have been twenty cases thus far reported. "OXE COXTIMOt S MISTAKE. We Have Favored Too Many Porto Rlcan Unseals. W. V. Petit, in the May Atlantic. It is without the slightest desire to criticise our army and navy that I speak of their treatment of the Porto Ricans as one continuous mistake. Our officials have shown from the first an Intense desire to demonstrate to the natives the reality of that golden era which awaits them under the rule of the United States. However laudable the motive, that was not the part of wisdom. The error lay In ascribing too much importance to the native Porto Rican. General Miles, when embarking upon his initial campaign, took with him a motley collection of nondescripts called the Porto Rlcan Junto. By their own account, they were political exiles and refugees. Their mere urgent motives for quitting the country, however, traverse a category of offenses in which politics played but an insignificant part, the graver charges being manslaughter, thieving and embezzlement. Gen. Miles, of course, soon saw through their pretense of being prominent citizens, and they found it advisable to scatter, but not before one of them had donned a uniform, and employed his newiy-aequlred authority for the furtherance of private ends. The interpreters of the commission that we sent were not of the most savory reputation, but by odds better than that of the army's earlier interpreters. One of those worthies belonged to a prominent Porto .Ri?an family, had studied in the United .States, while here having become naturalMzed. Returning to Porto Rico, he took an active part in the politics of the island. Joining the Puros and opposing Rivera. with fervid vehemence. Whenever threatened by his enemies, he would throw- himself back upon his American citizenship. Some time before the outbreak of war . he Kas informed y our vice consul In San vjuan that, if arrestfd. he could expect noald from the consulate, as he had forfeited his

rights to American protection by mixing in the political affairs of a foreign country. The man left San Juan almost Immediately, and. taking" residence in New York city, remained there until the close of the war. While in New York he represented himself as an American citizen who had been obliged to leave Porto Rico, barely escaping with his life, because he had refused to join the volunteers and bear arms against the country of his adoption. Favored ty the state of American feelir.g at the time, he received no little sympathy, and personal friends easily helped him to obtain the position of interpreter to the commission.

ELEVEN LIVES LOST. o Trace of the Schooner Loyal and Her Crew and Passengers. SEATTLE. Wash.. May 9. It now seems probable that the schooner Loyal, which sailed from Seattle one year ago for Kotzebu Sound, Alaska, with eleven persons on board, Is lost. A letter from St. Michaels, Cated Sept. 10, 18, stated the schooner would sail for Seattle in two or three days. The letter has Just been received by Mi s. Isaac Taylor, of this city, whose husband was aboard the schooner. Capt. C. D. Jones, of the schooner Moonlight, who sailed from St. Michaels Sept. 24. says the Loyal sailed before him. He report the schooner to have been in bad conditio 1. Those who sailed from here on the lxyal are: F. E. Adleman, leader of the expedition. He has a wife and five children living in this city. O. D. Butterfield, formerly chief of police of Seattle. A Scandinavian named Captain Johnson, who was chief navigating officer; Hagen E. Wickes. assistant navigator: Stevens: Nelson, of Seattle; Donohue, of Seattle; Isaac Taylor, a cigar maker. Seattie: Bake well, of Seattle. There were thre9 others whose names are unknown. Stevens was a prisoner In the state penitentiary at Walla-Walla, where Adeleman and Butterfield were turnkeys. He claimed to know of a spot dn Alaska where gold could be found. Friends secured his pardon and organized the expedition. It developed from letters received after the expedition left here that Stevens had misrepresented things. Owing to the trouble he caused he was put ashore on an island this side of Kotzebu sound, with a supply of provisions and his personal effects. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK, Mav 9. Arrived: Amsterdam, from Rotterdam: Furnessia, from Glasgow and Movllle. Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, for Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg; Taurlc and Aurania, for Liverpool. CHERBOURG, May 9. Arrived: Pennsylvania, from New York via Plymouth for Hamburg. HONG-KONG. May 9. Arrived: Empress of Japan, from Vancouver via Yokohama. QUEENSTOWN. May 9. Arrived: Pavonla, from Boston for Liverpool. PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-Arrived: Belgenland, from Liverpool. RODMAN GUN EXPLODES. Bursts While Officers Are Testing? Gathman Safety Fuse. NEW YORK. May 9. The Gathman safety fuse was tested by Major Heath, of the ordnance department, at Sandy Hook to-day. A fifteen smooth bore Rodman gun, charged with 100 pounds of smokeless rowder and filled with wet sand and a case containing SO pounds of gun cotton, to which was attached a Gathman fuse, w;as buried in eighteen feet of sand and exploded by means of electricity. The gun was shattered, but portions of the gun cotton were found unexploded. Tho officers believe the test was successful; Heretofore the drawback In discharging gun cotton with the aid of powder has been the danger of a premature explosion. The Gathman fuse is made to operate and explode the gun cotton by a system whose success depends upon the revolving motion of the shell. To explode, the shell must be fired from a gun with a rifle bore, simple concussion not being sufficient to do it. The charge of powder was an excessive one and was for the purpose of bursting the gun without exploding the gun cotton. When an ' examination was made of a piece of the muzzle of the gun it was found that the Inner side near the muzzle was coated with phosphor bronze from the shell, and the belief Is that the shell was partly dislodged and at least reached the muzzle of the gun before the shell burst. The officials who were making the test found the pressure gauge of the gun, but it was po badly twisted and bent that it was impossible to tell the force of the discharge. A score of laborers was set to work to dig down to the pit, where, it is believed, a large miss of the unexploded gun cotton will be found. It will be some days before the task will be accomplished. Among those who witnessed the test was Rear Admiral Charles O'Nell, chief ordnance officer of the United States navy. A IILIVD GlIDC Not Politics That Causes Lynching In the South. Philadelphia North American. Governor Candler cannot befog the peofle outside of Georgia, even If he can deude himself. He is Just as well aware as anybody that it is not politics that underlies the lynchings in that State. His statement that giving the negro the ballot swelled his head and made him a bad citizen Is only an opinion, but it Is an opinion in the last stage of decay. Giving the negro the ballot has not altered the character of the white masses in the old slave States. Chattel slavery brutalized the white people in those States. They are no. more brutal now than they were forty years ago. What else can be looked for in a community where one of the most numerous and pretentious religious organizations, through its preachers, publicly declares that the lynching of Hose and Strickland was Justifiable. because of the nature of the crime? The Rev. Thinkield has no words to expresses horror of the crime of Hose, which is well enough paid. But the reverend gentleman has no horror to express of the mutilation, drenching with oil and the burning of Hose. Nor does he condemn the brutal murder of Strickland, who was only suspected of instigating a murder, and who was believed to be innocent by Major Thomas, his employer. Mr. Thinkield was In favor of action for the protection of the whites rather than in behalf of the negroes. He may live to learn that the Lest and the only way to protect the whites Is to condemn every breach of law, whether the offender be white or black, and to punish murderers without distinction of race and color. His Christianity Is of the same quality as the paganism of Nero. As the churches South were the most implacable supporters of chattel slavery, so they seem to-day to be the supporters of the evil consequences of slavery. This is not true of ail the Southern churches, but it is true of some of them. And there is a lack of fibre In the religion of the South so apparent that we may consider It apart from the religions that prevail In more advanced communities. The Actor's Life. Philadelphia Times. ' Rose Coghlan, clever, deep-thinking, bright-talking Rose Coghlan, is with us again. Some months ago when she was appearing in a lurid melodrama at the Walnutstreet Theater, she began to talk of the loneliness of stage life. And what she said is worth repeating: "Very often women who ought to know better," she said, "rave to me about the jolly companionship of the stage, of the immense fun and never-ending excitement that comes to those who take up acting as a profession. They do not know of the loneliness of it all of the narrow, encompassing line that Imprisons us and makes us beings apart from the great body of men and women, as far as enjoyment ind friendly companionship in concerned. The footlights flicker, burn high, burn low, yet we and our world stay on one side, and the easy-going theater-loving folks on the other. No Brahmin-like code of caste 19 more rigorous than are those little lights that fringe the stage. They speak their edict to us and tell us that while there Is another world beyond our make-believe one, with Its powder and paint, its silk and rags, we must not relax our efforts to enjoy it, even temporarily, or our work will suffer. Jolly, isn't It? Jolly to sit alone in one's dressing room, when not acting; to go to one's hotel, to sleep, to work, rehearse and then to act again! Oh. yes, if jolly as jolly as was poor St. Simeon up on his pillar. We have to simulate joy and sorrow, tears and laugiv ter so often that we never, have time to give our real emotions real sway. We are often Invited to teas, receptions, dances, which we cannot attend and yet we mimic them. pre. tend to have them while the audience that sits in front says. 'Oh. how they seem to enjoy life'.' Jolly? Oh. yes. tne life of ar. actress is one continual round fcf intoxicating pleasure." - Another Victim of Trusts. St Louis Globe-Derrocrat. ' If Andrew Canute should sell out for Jlco.OCO.eoo cr more, the interesting question arises if he will poee as another victim of trusts.

SITUATION AT BUFFALO

XO DISTCRBAXCES AT THE DOCKS REPORTED YESTERDAY. Progress Made Towards a Settlement of the StrikeTestimony Before the Industrial Commission. BUFFALO. N. Y.. May 9. While the strike situation remains unchanged after a day of quietness, there Is still hore for a speedy settlement of the trouble. To-night it was learned that the Lake Carriers' Association and Contractor Conners are willing to make liberal concessions to the scoopers. To-night, at a big meeting of. the grain shovelers, held at St. Bridget's Hall, President McMahon made a report of the doings of the conference committees. He stated that the proposition submitted by the grain shovelers had been laid on the table by the representeatives of the Lake Carriers' Association, and that the latter had made a counter-proposition. The lake carriers, Mr. McMahon said, had agreed to accept all of tho terms contained in the proposition of the grain rhovclers, with the exception of the abrogation of the contract which Mr. Conners had. They had agreed to take the entire supervision of the work out of Mr. Conners's hands, to let Bishop Qulgley appoint a superintendent, to give the power to the grain shovelers of appointing their own boss scoopers, and they agreed to the appointment of a local board of arbitration. President McMahon announced that the committee of the strikers had refused to accept these terms and the grain shovelers unanimously approved of the committee's action. The situation on the docks has not changed. Mr. Conners claims to have more men at work now than at any other time this season. Wm. H. Kennedy, the boss scooper, who was shot last Tuesday during a disturbance on the docks, died this morning from his injuries. "Buck" Skinner, suspected of doing the shooting, is in jail. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. Statements in Behalf of Printers and Granite Cutters. WASHINGTON, May 9. S. B. Donnelly, president of the International Typographical Union was before the industrial commission to-day. Referring to the strike of the stereotypers In Chicago, last year, Mr.. Donnelly said it was a failure because It did not have the sanction of the general order. He thought strikes were diminishing. The witness estimated that there were about four thousand Mergenthaler machines in use In the United States and said they had displaced twelve thousand workmen. The printers had accepted machinery in their work as Inevitable, but he considered them detrimental to their business, under existing circumstances. Mr. Donnelly opposed the incorporation of trades unions, because he was afraid of the courts. "The banking system seems to permeate everything," he said. "Not only legislatures move In the direction Indicated by the bankers, but the courts must do the same thing." Mr. James Duncan, of Baltimore, secretary-treasurer of the Granite Cutters National Union, said that state arbitration had not been satisfactory, as a rule, because the disposition of arbitration boards was to reduce wages wheae they were higher than in other places. Mr. Duncan complained bitterly of what he called "the accursed padrone system." He said that in New York the law required the payment of U per day to granite cutters for public work, but that the padrones furnished men upon an agreement that they should return $ of the amount received at the end of the week, thus evading the law and reducing the wages to $3 per day. He also complained that the customs officials refused to enforce the anti-contract law as vigorously as they should, and In this connection criticised the executive action of President Harrison in reducing the fine of the contractors on the Texas state capitol from JSS.ooo to $18.ono. Mr. Duncan criticized the United States Senate "as a place of redress for millionaires." mentioning the defeat of the eighthour bill of the last session. Stove Manufacturers. CINCINNATI. May 9. Following the executive session here yesterday of the auxiliary known ss the Western Association of Stove Manufacturers the Stove Founders National Defense Association met to-day with a large attendance. - President Chauncey H. Ca&tle, of Qulncy, III., presided and T. J. Hogan, of Chicago, was secretary. This association considers the question of wages and had less to do this year than usual, as the executive committee advanced wages 10 per cent., effective April 1, and the association to-day 5imply ratified that action. As 9) per cent, of the stove manufacturers of the country are in this association its advance of 10 per cent. In wages caused other manufacturers also to advance wages 10 per cent. This afternoon the National Association of Stove Manufacturers began its annual convention nnd will continue in session the rest of the week. It includes all the auxiliaries- and considers prices and all other matters of interest to the trade. Stenm Engineers. PHIIaADELPHIA. May 9. The Supreme Council of the American Order of Steam Engineers, which is holding Its thirteenth annual convention in this city, devoted much time to devising means of extending the order. It was decided to send out a number of organizers through the country. At present the order has councils in eight States, with nearly four thousand members. It was also decided that in the future more publicity shall be given to the principles of the order, which state that "the order shall at no time take part in strikes nor in any way interfere between employers and employes." Federation of Musicians. MILWAUKEE, May 9. The American Federation of Musicians opened its fourth annual convention here to-day with about forty delegates In attendance. The feature of the first session was the address of President Owen Miller, of St. Louis. He urged further work In the line of organizing new branches. The Federation, he said, had a membership of 9.563. The National League of Musicians will meet this week, when action toward consolidation with the Federation will probably be taken. Railway Conductor. DETROIT. Mich., May 9.-Jrand Conductor E. E. Clark, of Cedar Rapids, la., called the twenty-seventh session of the Grand Division Order of Railway Conductors to order this afternoon. The total attendance is about 1,"ju0. An increase in membership of two thousand was reported. The Ladies' Auxiliary branch of the association began sessions this afternoon with one hundred delegates present. To-night a public reception was held in Light Guard Armory. Strikers L'se Dynamite. DULUTH. Minn., May 9. At 11 o'clock to-night rioters attempted to blow up a West Duluth street car with dynamite. There were ten passengers in tho car and they all received slight bruises. The car was thrown violently on its side and its trucks blown to pieces. No arrests have been made. LOCOMOTIVES FOR EXPOnT. They Embody Lessons In Mechanical Ecsthetlcs for Foreigners. New York Times. Orders for American locomotives are now arriving almost dally from abroad, and it is pleasant to see by a picture In Engineering News of one of the engines about to be shipped to England that the great machines are not only ot American make, but that in most respects they embody American ideas as to how a locomotive should be constructed. This means not only that our manufacturers are profiting pecuniarily by foreign orders, but also that they wilf give Europe some much needed lessons In mechanical aesthetics. More than that, these locomotives will spread the doctrine that locomotive engineers and firemen can perform their duties, even if they are protected from rains and snows by a roof over their heads and are provided with seats on which to get an occasional moment of rest. The railway managers tn most other countries than the United States have always had grave doubts about the wisdom of making their drivers" and "6tokersM codtratdy.

comfortable, but the engines they are now importing all have American "cabs" and a dozen other devices invented here for lightening the work and increasing the safety of the men who handle tnem. The machines for export look unfamiliar to the layman only. Indeed, In that they lack the so-called "cowcatcher." It is replaced by two strong rods hurg from the front of the frame, perpendicular to and almost touching the rails. The change gives an awkward and unfinished appearance to that end of the engine, but otherwise they look exactly iike those which are seen here. But the American locomotive of to-day. handsome as It is in comparison with its foreign rivals is an ugly thing In comparison with the American locomotives of fifteen or twenty years ago. No more does the sunshine glitter from polished brass and sieel, and the once swelling and impressive smokestack is now little better than a length of stovepipe. Of course, the new engines are good, but they are what down East folks call "dreadful plain." SURGICAL LIFE SAVERS

A REVELATION OF NINETEENTH CENTURY GENII'S AND SKILL. Graphic Description of Scenes Observed in a Hospital Operating1 Room Scientific Triumph. G. W. Steevens. in London Mall. The theater was full of the piercing uraell of iodoform. About its lowest tiers lounged a dozen students. On the floor stood a doctor, gray-bearded, motionless, hands thrust into his overcoat pockets. Everybody else on the floor was all strained attention and swift movement the two elder students behind the tables with bright steel instruments in small tanks of water-made antiseptic; the nurse at the table with the sponges and basins of water some clean, some pink, some scarlet; the probationer at the sink and tap; the nursing sisters handing things to the surgeons; the two surgeons themselves, shirt-sleeved, arms bare to the elbow, covered up in big white aprons. Between their swift movements you could see lying on the slab In the center a human body. Man or woman you could not say, for over the whole face was a large leather cap. and growing out of It a brown bladder like an empty football; the chloroformlst held It tight over mouth and nose. Suddenly the baldheaded surgeon, stepping aside, lets In a glimpse of an amputated arm. There hung from it a bunch of what looked like little steel skewers. These were the clips with which they catch up and close the ends of the severed vessels. The arm was off from above the elbow, and the second half of the operation was in rapid, almost stealthy, progress. You could hardly follow the surgeon's hand as he took a bit of salmon gut from the watching attendant; before you saw it was whipped round an artery and had tied it up. The clip was off and passed back to the hand waiting to receive it. One after another the clips came back into their tankThen the surgeon's brisk word of command broke the dead silence: "Hot lotion." he said, without looking up. It was there, ready.-ln the slight sister's hand; in a second, as by jugglery, it was in the surgeon's, and being passed over the wound. Then the flaps cf skin were drawn. "Iodoform" and by another hardly perceptible piece of legerdemain a pepper caster was shaking yellow powder on the wound. "Bandages" and they had sprung up in the sister's hand, and In a second the lightcolored antiseptic dressings were being strapped on hastily, firmly, with exact precision. Now you saw the leather cap was off the face; it was a young man. beardless, very pale, rolling his head over on the pillow, with a twitter of returning life, very ill from the ether. SWIFT AS MAGIC. But before he had time to realize what had happened the maimed arm was strapped to his side; a door had opened noiselessly, and a bed had trundled In; the bundle of blankets was lifted swiftly but gently by two attendants catching him up on the same side so as not to jar the shattered body back on its bed. In an instant the bed was away and the door was shut. And, looking round, you saw that all the paraphernalia, the tables and Instruments, sponges and basins, had disappeared too. It was like a dream of magic, a fairy tale of the end of the nineteenth century to come in from the everyday bustle of London and find such wonders being wrought in the midst of it. The work was so silent, so quick, so self-possessed; it seemed to move by itself smoothly, infallibly, as If those engaged in it had ceased to be separate men and women. No hitch, no hesitation, no pause; everything In Its exact place, everything at its exact time. Almost before you have had time to wonder another bed has come in by another door. The patient on It is a woman, whitehaired, seventy years old. But her face is placid and quite unafraid as she is lifted on to the operating table; indeed, there is nothing visible to frighten. But as she is laid down the noiseless miracle begins again. Suddenly the instruments and attendants are all In their places again. The patient is breathing in anodyne insensibility from the cup and bladder. The surgeon, tall, grav, bushy-bro-ved, his long hands a model of delicacy linked with strength. Is explaining the case to the students. It Is cancer and he has authority to cut it away. It is part of the miracle only by now you have ceased to be surprised that he has finished his explanation expetly at the moment the patient is ready for him. He steps up to the body, gives a keen glance at the stain on the arm, touches it. "Scalpel," he 6ays, without looking up. and the keen blade is instantly in his hand. His hand is traveling over the arm but surely not cutting? The flesh seems to divide before it. so exquisitely edged is the knife, so firm and true the fingers and wrist. Little streams suddenly well up and trickle down the arm. "Sponge." and a sponge has appeared and swept them away. "Clip," and a clip has gilded from its tank, and has stopped the cut vein. Gradually it is only seconds, but they are packed with the interest of hours there grows a deep red gash behind the ever-moving scalpel. It moves a shade more slowly now; It is picking its way among arteries, and a hair's breadth to left or right may mean death. No sound, but the sharp orders, and the perpetual gush of water from the tap where the probationer la emptying the reddened water and refilling the bowl for the clean sponges. There remains the crimson chasm fringed with slips. Now comes what we have seen before; the clips come off one by one as the blood vessels are tied up: the lotion washes all clean, the gash, which looked as If half the arm had been cut out, clones up to a natural form and size. And as that dimly waking woman Is whisked away, the surgeon, calling for the basin, and passing it around, resumes his remarks on the cancer. AROUSES ENTHUSIASM. The next case is cancer, too, 'only it is cancer In the mouth and Jaw. Cheek and jaw are to be cut away; to keep the man alive yet insensible the while he must tyave chloroformed air pumped Into his lungs. The chloroformlst has got a long tube with a bladder at the end. The sponges in this case are small, and held on long clips. He I3 an obscene-looking old man, his face dyed with drink, and two front teeth gone. As he Is strapped down, the wet, sticky smell of chloroform begins to conquer the iodoform; it is being sprinkled on to the cloth over his face. As it gets hold of him he starts muttering In a thick, drunken tone, then struggles, and tries to sit up, while the mutter swells Into a half-articulate curse. But now he is ready, and "Scalpel" calls the surgeon. He bends over, and you see the blade gleam. Again it is not like cutting. The man Is sobbing and moaning now, his cries ilsirg and falling as if with the violence of the pain, though he cannot really feel anything. As the moan rises louder to a muffled yell the surgeon pauses to let the chloroformed cloth lie over the mouth for a moment; then comes the time to cut the bone. The long, keen saw is so fine that but for the grinding of the bone you might have thought It a simple steel rod. Everybody is working now for the man's life; the lithe swiftness of movement is almost dazzling. Left hands and right hands seem each to be thinking for themselves the sponges are handed with breathless baste; the sister slips them in. now over a shoulder, now under an arm to the ready hand that must not wait half a second surgeon, assistant or chloroformlst. who ever has a hand to spare, nips it up and plunges it down the subject's throat. Then the shining shears plunge in too. and grip the bone; the veins stand out on the surgeon's hands as he forces the sharp blades together with every ounce of his strength. Crack from somewhere inside. Then another grip, another wrench, another crack: "basin" and the lump of bone comes away. It Is over now, the clips stickle UP c ut ot tbs throat disappear aj

MUNYON'S INHALER

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