Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 199, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1899.

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fore given. There are forty-one plants and 53 mills. Indiana stands third in the list with fifty-three mills and 3,113 workers. Colonel Stone, who 'was sold out in the .Kentucky Democratic" convention by the successful aspirant Goebel, has proclaimed Goebsl a liar and notified him tljat his address is Kuttawa, Lyon county, Kentucky, which, In the days of the Clays and the Marshalls, would have been followed by a duel. ' On the whole Governor Pingree has made a serious blunder in his championship of 3-cent fares in Detroit. The blundering began when be agreed to have the city pay $17,000,000 for a plant which could be duplicated for one-third that amount. This price involves a large sum as the value of a franchise held by one of the companies for which the city was paid nothing. Among its Republican . exchanges the Journal has found but one paper which doubts the wisdom of the passage of a currency bill including these three propositions: First, making gold the money standard of the United States; second, prohibiting the paying out of greenbacks by the treasury except for gold; third, permitting banks to issue circulation to the par value of the bonds held as security therefor. The business men of the country very generally ask for such legislation, so there can be no reason why Republicans in Congress should not vote for a bill embracing these propositions. The railroads in the Northwest are hurrying the completion of dozens of elevators for the care of the grain crop'; every blast furnace about Tlttsburg is producing to its full capacity; every oven in the coke region is producing; no new .orders for rails can be filled this year; the lumber business of the past year in the northern and central districts Is the best on record; the exports of domestic merchandise during June were $04,823,722; the copper production is largely in excess of any preceding year; the receipts of fifty leading postofflces for June were $135,133 in excess of the exciting June of last year. Thus the New York World recapitulates, and concludes that these facts mean "a general, normal and stable prosperity, which is the best kind cf prosperity that a country can have." Sometimes the World is right, and this ii one of the times. The report of the Interstate-commerce Commission, abstracts of which have been printed, is the record of the business for a year which ended in June, 1S0S. It is not, therefore, aa index of the business of the year which ended last June. But, as a yearold record. It contains several facts showing the effect of the general revival of business. On June 30. 1S93, S74.53S persons were employed by the railroads. This Is a larger number of men than were in the Union army at any one time except the last year, and exceeds the male population of half the - States of the Union. No standing army of Eurcpe, except, perhaps, that of Russia, cceeds the number of men employed by American railroads. The number of employesJune 30. 1SDS, was 51.0S2 in excess of the number a year earlier, and 83,334 in excess of the number employed June 30, 1S9S. This means that the railroads were employ ing over 10 per cent, more persons June 2 133$, than three years earUer. These figures show how the quickening of business and the revival of industry quietly absorbed the men turned out of employment the first year cf the Cleveland administration. The gross earnings of the ral.'roads the year in ques tion amounted to $L2l7.J2S.e21. of which $135.-

Cu",G15 was paid directly as wages to employesthat is, nearly two dollars of every five earned by the railroads are paid to employes. When the other items of operating expenses are considered, iron, coal, etc., it Is safe to say that half of the vast amount of money earned by railroads is paid for labor and service. THE 31 AM LA CENSORSHIP.

The protest of the newspaper correspondents against the severity of the censorship exercised over the war news sent out from Manila is likely to strike the American public as Just and reasonable. The right of the military authorities to exercise a proper censorship no one will deny. When the dispatches sent are likely to convey dangerous information to the enemy they should be withheld; when they contain exaggerations or misrepresentations of the truth or are otherwise "yellow," they should be suppressed. During the Cuban campaign it was unwise for the movements of our forces on land and sea, and the purposes of the commanders, to be published in advance, since the news gave instant advantage to the Spanish leaders. No sensible person grumbled over thLi restriction; the public, in deed, was well satisfied, believing that when information was given out under these circumstances it could be relied on. But con ditions in the rhilippines are different. Ac cording to the correspondents' statement no attempt Is made to keep Information from the Filipir:o3, and, indeed, it would probably be Impossible to do this, inasmuch as their facilities for securing all necessary knowledge of the movements and intentions of American troops are ample. The censor ship in force Is, as General Otis admits, entirely for the purpose of withholding a full knowledge of the actual facts from Americans at home. Thl3 is quite unnecessary; is, indeed, sure to produce a distrust and uneasiness greater than accurate and positive information, however discouraging, could do. Mystery and uncertainty are more agitating than a full understanding of the situation can be. A feeling has prevailed for some time that the truth about affairs in the Philippines was not all being told, and the effect has been to create an apprehension no doubt far beyond what conditions there warrant. Once let the people understand that they ere not told all that they should know and they will imagine the worst. There can be no good reason why there should be any secrecy concerning affairs in the islands. General Otis need not fear that "the people at home will be alarmed." The people at home, with unimportant exceptions, understand the position of the government In regard to those islands and are ready to sustain it. They know that they came into possession of the United States unexpectedly, and that, having them, it Is our government's duty to enforce order and secure the safety of the inhabitants. But they have a right to know exactly how this work progresses. The censorship should be lifted and all the facts be made known from this time forth. THE ANNOUNCED RAILWAY COMBINATION. Not long ago it was asserted that the railroads would be the greatest sufferers by the organization of trusts controlling the entire business of the country, for the reason that all demands for different lines of merchandise would be supplied from the nearest factory controlled by the trust, thus saving a large amount of money that has hitherto been paid for distant shipments. This may be true; but If the great railroad combination of which so much Is being printed is effected the railroads will be in position to take care of themselves. The plan as announced embraces about all the lines in the country. The proposed combination has been called a trust, but it is not, since there will be no change of ownership or control of existing lines and no division of earnings based upon a total capitalization. If what is alleged to be going on is a reality, the groups of railroads controlled by capitalists are simply entering into a tacit agreement to make railroads better property than they have been. The design of the announced organization is to put an end to rate cutting and to establish rates which will make railroad property valuable. It contemplates, in the first place, the immediate cutting down of the expensive passenger department, with its costly system of advertising. Fast freight and other lines. Involving more expense than profit will be abandoned. The traveling freight agent will be abolished, and no rebate will be given to large corporations to the detriment of other competitors. The organization will co-operate with the Interstate-commerce Commission in the maintenance of the law relating to rates. It is also announced that thi3 combination will establish a grain tariff from the West to the seaboard based upon the prevailing market price of the cereal. That is, when grain is low the rates will be lower, and when it is high rates will be higher. This is a very comprehensive plan. If it can be fairly put Into operation it will not only make railroad securities' desirable Investments, but will give a stability to the commerce and trade of the country which is impossible under the rate-cutting policy. If such a combination will establish the principle of charging all shippers the same price for similar service it will render a valuable service in checking the growth of combinations, which has been stimulated by a system of .rebates which has given them a great advantage over competitors who do not receive such favors. Very naturally, a great outcry will attend the organization of such a gigantic combination. At the present time there is no certainty that such a scheme will be put into operation. DOING BUSINESS AS TOri'LISTS. The real question for Democrats to decide is whether they intend to do business as Democrats or as Populists. That decided, they can have smooth sailing. The foregoing is significant because it appeared In the columns of the South Bend Times, ono of the sturdy Democratic papers of the State. Its editor did not fully believe in the Bryan platform in 1S06, but he fell into the procession, kept step to the lS-to-1 music and shouted for the dollar of the sliver mine owners trust. As a prosperous man of affairs he evidently did not believe in the free coinage of silver, but as a Democrat he yielded personal convictions to the behest of party, hoping that the Judgment of a convention was wiser than that of the Individual. Now the South Bend Times is one of the few Democratic papers in Indiana whose editors are sufficiently rational to see the folly of making 16 to 1 the leading issue of the party In 1900, and making Altgeld. Allen W. Clark. George Fred Willlams, John G. Shanklin and the late Republicans. Towne, Teller and Pettlgrew, the dictate s of the Democratic policy. It Is the element which demands that silver be made a prominent issue that the Times calls Populists, while party men who recognize that the silver platform of 1S36 Is a departure from' what has been the Democratic doctrine since the days when Jeffer

son declared that the legal ratio must correspond with the commercial ratio, are, in the estimation of the Times, Democrats. The real question, "whether Democrats intend to do business as Democrats or Populists," is now under consideration. If the editor of the Democratic Times reads the views expressed by nine-tenths of the socalled Democratic papers In Indiana since the interview of the editor of the Sentinel, he must be forced to the conclusion that, so far as Indiana is concerned, those who have called themselves Democrats have answered the question by declaring that thej will do a strictly Populist business. While it is probable that the Democratic pres3 in Indiana does not reflect the sentiments of Democratic business men, it does reflect the opinions of the local leaders in most of the counties the men who manage the conventions and make, the campaign speeches. It may be added that the Populistlc element will do all It can to force the Democracy to do business as Populists at the meeting of the national committee in Chicago on Thursday. The Altgeld faction will hold a silver meeting at the outset, and delegations of 16-to-l howlers will surround the committee to prevent any action that may Indicate a purpose not to make the free coinage of sliver the leading issue. Those men, the Altgelds, the Clarks, the Wllliamsesand the Shankllns are Just as wild and vehement for sliver now as they were three years ago. They will not listen to prudent suggestions or conservative advice. To all those who suggest a modification of the platform they shout, "traitor," "Judas," and the worst and crowning epithet,"goIdbug." It Is not because these ranters are so much sllverites as that a change which relegates silver to the rear sends them to the rear as discarded leaders. It must grieve the editor of the Times to find that Mr. Bryan is favoring those whom he refers to as Populists. Will the editor of the Times and the thousands of sensible Democrats who voted the Bryan ticket in 1S9G against their convictions, "do business as Populists" again in 1900?

Mr. Poultney Bigelow, who has been criticising our army and its officers and who keeps himself mostly in Europe, recently read a paper at the Royal Service Institute on "The Yankee Soldier," in which he stated, among other things, that last year an apothecary's clerk was given a commission as colonel of engineers in the American army instead of the one he sought in the quartermaster's department. The statement fell under the notice of Captain Crozier, United States army, who is one of our representatives at The Hague. In refutation of the statement he has written the United Service Gazette that every colonel of engineers appointed during the late war was a graduate of West Point and had served years in the engineer corps, in the regular army. A man of Mr. Blgelow's information should know that a man without education and experience in engineering would not be commissioned to that branch of the service. If he had heard such an improbable story he should have investigated It before going abroad to make the declaration in a British military school. If ho were a good American he certainly would have done so. Mr. Bigelow has a way of giving the impression that he considers himself too fine to be a citizen of the United States. When a man becomes a defaulter to a large amount the history of his crime is apt to run something like this: He began by "borrowing," without the knowledge of the owners, a small sum out of the trust funds within his reach. He interded to replace it, but spent the money or speculated and lost, then borrowed a little more to take another "flyer." This went on until the amount had grown beyond the possibility of repayment, and discovery came. The cashier of the Perth Amboy, N. J., bank, who owns up to having used $110,000 of the bank's money, did not app'roach tho Jumplng-off place gradually, but dashed in boldly and at the very beginning appropriated $23,000 In order to take advantage of a "gilt-edged tip" on stocks. He had the nerve of a man with a Jimmy, and should have precisely the same brand of justice measured out to him as If he had broken into the bank's vault with dynamite. It is related by the dispatches, however, that he is being treated with great consideration by the president and other officers, of the bank. The professional burglar, compared with this variety of rascal, is a person to be respected. ' There is a queer disagreement between the coroners of adjoining counties in Illinois. A man was killed on a railway track, the legs being left In one county and the body carried into another. The coroner in the county where the body was found telegraphed the other coroner for the legs and the latter refused to forward them. It appears that two inquests are to be held, one on the legs and one on the body. Should the two verdicts not agree there may result some confusion. Should the leg inquest discover guilt and criminality and the trunk inquest discover an accidental death, it will be established beyond doubt that some ono cut the man's legs off in one county and that tho railroad company killed the same man accidentally in the next. Or it might be discovered by these learned sticklers for a $10 fee that the man died of mortification in one county over having lost his standing in another. They'll settle it some way. Who ever heard of a legal opinion that was not correct? The Indianapolis Sun reproduces without correction an article from a recent number of the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post relating to General Lew Wallace and saying of his mother, "revered of .women club members the world over," that she died recently. Mrs. Zcrelda Wallace, the general's stepmother. Is here meant, of course. It Is certainly true that this distinguished and remarkable woman is revered wherever known, and especially in temperance and reform circles, but she is still in the land of the living and In full enjoyment of her keen mental faculties. Being now past eighty years of age and somewhat feeble, she has retired from public life, but probably no one is better Informed than she concerning the affairs of the day or takes a livelier Interest In them. The Sun should have been better posted than to assist in disposing of this well-known lady so prematurely. A showman in South Dakota is held for murdering a creature In his charge called "the missing link." The grand Jury is puzzled as to whether the victim of the murder was man or "beast.-As the keeper killed the freak with a club, in a fit of temper. It would appear that the prisoner furnishes as much of a zoological puzzle as does the victim. The Relic Fiends. Kipling's thumb has been dogbltten In the town of yellow fog; Now the rabid relic-hunters Will be searching for the dog. . Mr. M. E. Ingalls denies the story that he has been made general arbitrator f half

a dozen railroads, but it must require some effort for a man to deny even a rumor of a $73,000 salary. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Surgical Mnnla. "Watts These doctors are given too much to cutting, I think. Potts Right. W'henever an open question

as to a disease arises the next thing is an open patient. Not a Rooter. "But what are your objections to Sunday ball?" "If they don't play on Sunday I won't hear so many people on Monday talking about the game." Another Chi.mplon. "What Is that there medal, friend?" asked the sociable barkeep.: "I win that," answered the man who was leaning against the bar. "for beatln everybody out by llstenln to a piano for thirtyeight hours." ' Why Notf "And do you think it right that a woman should play Hamlet?" asked the seriousminded person. "I don't see why not," answered the rude Individual who goes to vaudeville shows only. "No man I ever saw could make anything of it but a roast." Gas-Belt Iteientment. To the Editor cf the Indianapolis Journal: . It Is recorded in the Sunday Journal that President English, of the. Commercial Club, has appointed a committee "to secure manufactories contemplating removing from the gas belt if gas gives out." I would suggest, as a saver of time, money and patience that this committee, before making its onslaught on the industries of the gas belt, confer with a committee some time ago appointed by the commercial body of Terre Haute for the same purpose. The former committee will be able to inform Captain English's committee that gas for manufacturing purposes exists In ample quantities; that the factories located in the gas belt are permanently located, whether gas remains or becomes exhausted, and that they are not built on wheels ready to move to wherever a bonus is offered. The appointment of such a committee for such a purpose not only displays poor business' sense, but is ungenerous in the extreme to that portion of the State which has nearly doubled the taxable wealth of the State during the past twelve years, and has contributed to the prosperity of Indianapolis more than all the balance of the State combined. The appointment of such a committee for such an avowed purpose is unfair to the gas belt in that it is an insinuation that there ts an unrest among the factory owners as to the future, and an intimation that our factories are only temporary concerns. So far as Madison county is concerned this is not true, and the great factories of Anderson, Elwood and Alexandriasome of them the largest in the world of their kind are located for all time, no matter what kind of fuel the whirligig of time may determine shall be used. An effort now for Indianapolis to toll away the Industries of Anderson would be as reprehensible as that a man should endeavor to rob a brother of the chastity of his wife. Why have designs against the gas belt? Suppose gas should become exhausted? The cities of the gas belt would simply find themselves on a common footing with the cities which never had gas. nnd in that case Anderson would be able to hold its own along with Indianapolis; Elwood wouldn't surrender to South Bend, nor would Alexandria succumb to Richmond. This talk of spiriting factories from the gas belt is the sheerest nonsense. It Is a fact that in Anderson the factory owners are doing more things to indicate permanency of location now than --In any year since gas was discovered. I hope Captain English will accompany his committee to Anderson when it starts out on its mission. They will not only be given the freedom of the city, but I promise for their entertainment a first-class snipe hunt and arrangements for a sufficient number of bagholders to make it interesting. J. O. HARDESTY. Anderson, Ind., July 17. Views of a. niack Man. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: As a negro I am very glad there is one white man's paper that 'has the courage to print some truths about 'the '.negro that do not end with "the negro' brute," but truths about the negro that are actually encouraging and pleasant for negroes to read. It is something out of the ordinary in this day of lynch and mob law practiced on the negro to hear a paper belonging to and printed by white men speak so favorably and truthfully about the negro characteristics generally. Haying been born in the South myself. It Is very pleasant and encouraging to me, if to no one else, and I certainly will show my appreciation for, the publication of these truths and facts which cannot be disputed, because every negro who can read and has any Interest at heart for the advancement and success df the race knows these facts to be true. It is true, he Is everybody's friend, and this alor.e is one of the great hindrances that serves to keep the negro race down. He is a friend to every other race but his own. I am a negro, and know what I am talking about. I do not mean to censure my people, because they were taught this at the commencement, thirtyfive years ago. While I appreciate all races, yet, like all other races, I love my people better than all else. Generallly speaking, if the negro had more love for the success of his own race In a business way we would have fewer criminals, because idleness breeds criminals in either white, black or any other race; therefore, If negroes who have money enough to Invest and would invest it In business enterprises our young men and young women who are coming out of our schools of learning could use their learning to the advancement of their race; there would not be s5 many gamblers and crap shooters to shame and disgrace us in the face of our white benefactors: it would show them how highly we appreciate the knowledge gained through their instrumentality, and it would be the means ot gaining for us a better social s-tandlng among the higher class of civilization. It would make us worthy of their recognition and give us a, - better right to claim social equality. I could say a great deal more, but I am afraid I might offend some of my more sensitive brethren, who don't like to hear and read the naked truths as they are. JOHN A. WOODIN. Indianapolis. July 17. The Flower of Our Manhood. Philadelphia Record. . The six hundred commissioned officers for the twelva new regiments of volunteers will be selected by the War Department officials from a list of about fifteen thousand applicants, in which are included many good soldiers and experienced tacticians who were penned up In camps during the brief war with Spain. It should be an easy task to pick from such a gallant company a band of officers not less brave and noble than the Immortal six hundred who rode Into the Jaws of death at Balaklava. Wc are to send the very flower of American manhood out on next winter's Filipino battue. Uses of Golf Accidents. New York Commercial Advertiser. A man was nearly killed by a golf ball in New London yesterday, and other accidents from that gentle frame help to fill the papers every week. The etiquette of golf, which seems to the beginner so ridiculous, 13 mostly for the safety of the players; so that if a man is polite, in a golfing way, and Insists on politeness from others, he will neither injure his friends nor be injured. These accidents, deplorable as they are, perform one useful work: they disabuse the ignorant public of the Idea that golf is an old man's game, halfway between croquet and a sewing society. rienty of Work. Baltimore American. The newly-started automobile Industry promises to open up as large a field for the employment of mechanics, as did the electrical industry. With the constant developments being made in such lines, and the starting of new industries, there is not much reason to believe that the workingmen of tho country are going to suffer for some time, at any rate. Shifted the Prnyer Meeting. Oklahoma Letter. Thursday night has been designated as "darky night" by the management of Guthrie's new park, and In order that, the brethren may enjoy the vaudeville attractions, the negro churches have changed prayer meeting night to Wednesday. Not that Many. Kansas City Journal. Brazil will send $30,000 worth of snakes to the Paris exposition. In the estimation of people we know, there are not that many snakes in the universe.

THE . GOSSIP OF MANILA

A COrY OF "FREEDOM," A BRIGHT, NEWSY SHEET, RECEIVED HERE. Soldiers Depositing Money Characteristic Scenes About the City The Departure of Dewey. A copy of Freedom, an English newspaper published in Manila, was yesterday received by the Journal. It was sent through the malls to "The Leading Newspaper in rndianapolis." The copy is marked "United States Edition," and was Issued on Thursday, June L The first page contains long articles on "McKlnley's Proposal," an account of the meeting of the American commissioners and the Filipino envoys, "A Talk About Foods," or suggestions as to what the soldiers should eat; "Flour Mill in Manila," which Is an account of the mill now In operation there and in which the statement Is made that the wheat is all Imported from the United States and principally from California, and two other articles. One, on the money distributed In the Philippines, Is as follows: "The government, through the chief paymaster, pays its employes in the Philippines over $l,4O0,i00 bimonthly. Of this enormous sum fully one-fourth Is 9ent home, chiefly through the paymaster. American soldiers aren't spendthrifts, after all. If this amount were paid wholly in Mexican silver there wouldn't be wagon trains enough upon the islands to carry It about to the men. The pay of a colonel would aggregate thirtyseven pounds, while a private in the field would die of exhaustion in a day's march. Gold Is heavy enough, too heavy for those who are responsible for the transportation of quantities of the precious metal. "The chief paymaster, for the convenience of all concerned, asked the government to send him the bulk of wage money In treasury notes. First, however, he secured the promise of the banks not to discount them below gold. All soldiers who have silver dollars to the-amount of $3 or over will find the chief paymaster always ready to exchange for a money which they can trade at the existing gold rate. WHERE SOLDIERS DEPOSIT. "In the way of deposits there are three large safes in the palace, placed there by the kindness of Colonel McClure, In which every soldier may deposit any valuables. which he may wish to secure. Soldiers in the field and Just going to the front have been especially glad to take advantage of this privilege. If a man should be killed his property will be duly receipted and accounted for and sent to the proper authorities. These safes alone contain value almost sufficient to pay the army for a month. They hold deposits from General Otis down to the private soldier. They are the nucleus of tho first American bank in the Philippines." The military life is described in an article of which one line of the heading is, "Sights and Scenes Among the Soldiers Who Are Chasing Aggie." The description Is aa follows: t " 'Oh, this isn't so bad, said a lone Iowa picket, at San Fernando, to a Freedom correspondent the other day. 'We are getting a rest now, and there's no guard but outpest duty once In twelve days or so.' The sentry was the last one out on the Calumpit read, and the treacherous Amlgos were coming in across the fields in bands' of twenty-five and fifty, but he sat in his chair under the shade of a mango tree as unconcerned as you please. "The troops are well quartered in San Fernando. When the natives fled the Amer-. leans gracefully and promptly took possession of all that was left. The larger nipa huts are occupied by companies, the smaller by squads. With the aid of the remaining furniture and the native cooking utensils the boys are rapidly becoming accustomed to life a la Filipino." TAKING THEIR CHOW. "It strikes the stranger as truly novel to see a whole city full of soldiers, who live very much as the natives did. During the day, when their company is not detailed for outpost, they He about in the shade smoking cigarettes or washing their much-worn and only suit of clothes. At meal times tLey all dip into the erstwhile family pots and squat about the little Filipino tables to take their chow. When the sun goes down behind the hills opposite Aggie's hollow mountain, the men come out of. their casas to enjoy the cool of the evening, squatting all same Filipino in the street, they swap war stories or have a showing of sore feet. Not a man that has fought his way from Manila to San Fernando but can show feet covered with bruises, sores and blisters. Very few are marked off duty on this account, and the majority stick pluckily to the front, although hardly able to wear their shoes. After dark the rude native lamp shines from every bamboo hut, and American soldiers write letters home on insurrecto paper, with lnsurrecto pen and ink, upon insurrecto tables the tables which have turned. You may walk down the narrow streets and hear, to the twang of insurrecto mandolins and guitars, the most unforgetable of American songs. Sometimes in the shuffle from battlefield to battlefield that American soldier's passion and Joy, the well-thumbed card. Is lost. What then more natural that that captured decks should supply the place of those lost? True, many an innocent lamb does noiunderstand the ways and wiles of the JFilipino playing card, but there are always plenty of gentlemen about from the land of the cacti, where Mexican monte is the pass-word to good society, to shear the lambs." DEPARTURE OF DEWEY. A reference to the departure of Admiral Dewey Is: "It would do Agulnaldo good had he been In the Audencia on Saturday to see twenty Filipinos salute Admiral Dewey in true American style as he left the building. These Filipinos, who are employed in and around the Audencia where the Uni pd State commission hold its sessions, are drilled every evening in American calisthenics (for pleasure's sake), by Sergeant Burns, of the Twentieth Infantry, who Is orderly to the commission. Knowing that Admiral Dewey was about to bid good-bye to the commissioners the sergeant had his Filipino contingent formed In line under the sally port at 9:30 a. m. As they stood at 'parade rest cleanly clad and well sized from right to left, they presented a tolerably good appearance. About 10 o'clock the admiral descended the big stone steps leading to the sally port, and as he approached his carriage the Filipino company sprang to attention and executed as pretty a 'righthand salute' as any officer would wish to see. The admiral was all smiles and returned the salute only as a hero can." The local department also contains an account of a strike in a tailor shop, not for higher wages, but because the men had too much money. The Filipinos were paid off and refused to go to work until their money was gone. A SHOT AT "AUNTIES." The American "aunties" are fired at by the editor at Icng range in the following editorial, headed, "He Is a Traitor:" "God must get awfully weary with the prayers that some things pester Him with. It came to pass that one Frank Stephens, a person living in Philadelphia, In making a speech before the Manhattan Single Tax Club, prayed that the god of battles would visit the Eighth Army Corps with swift and overwhelming defeat. Stephens Is an enemy to his flag and a traitor to his country, and, in all seriousness, we think he ought to be taken out on some dunghill and shot at sunrise. Great God! Is it possible the thing knew what It was praying for? Overwhelming defeat of the American army in the Philippines would mean an overwhelming slaughter. It would mean the death of thousands upon thousands of the bravest and truest men on earth, the making of thousands of widows and ten thousand orphans. If the dastard's prayer were answered, sorrow and misery would hang like a pall over the whole United States. Mothers, fathers, wives and sweethearts would mourn for their loved ones, but worst of all, the flag, the dearest, the grandest old banner that was ever kissed by the breezes of land or sea, that has gone through every war honorably trlumnhant. and that has never yet been lowered by an enemy, or gone unavenged when insulted, would droop, with humiliation and under the scorning glance of a now friendly world. Yes, we think Stephens should be shot." A LADY. AND A-FILIPINO. The experience of a lady from Manila with one of tho generals of the insurgents Is thus related: "A lady, very well known among the reeldents of this city, has Just returned from an enforced residence of months in the province of Camarines, In the southern part of Luzon. She reports that Agulnalda's agents there are robbing and terrorizing the natives until the entire population ts praying for the coming of the Americans to drive out the oppressors. This lady had gone to viiit friends in Camarines for her health.

When the rebellion broke out here 800 of Agulnaldo's men, under one of his generals. Landed in this province. It is said that some 200 of the band are armed with rifles, while the others carry boloes. "With their advent the reign of terror began. They took possession of houses outright, demanded indemnities from the rich and levied burdensome taxed upon all, this in the name of ye god, Agulnaldo. Armed with his so called authority, they plundered to their hearts' content. The lady, who had been acquainted with the general when he was but a muchacho in Manila, says that he once told her that he was as anxious as the peaceful natives for the Americans to come. Then he would seize his opportunity of slipping away to Hong-Kong with the ISO.OOO which he said was his share of the mulcting of the inhabitants. "When the lady asked him how Agulnaldo was going to get his share, the general snapped his fingers and replied: 'Oh, Agulnaldo can whistle for his money.' She further says that the natives are wild to have the Americans send forces there to punish the invaders. They are not agreeable to putting up with the kind of liberty to which they have been subjected for the past months." " A notice that is given a prominent place In the paper reads: "Insurrectos, turn your guns and be good Americans. An order has Just been Issued from headquarters that every Insurrecto who will voluntarily turn In hi arms will bo given 30 pesos for his gun. unless general expectation Is disappointed Mauser rifles will soon be pouring in like an influx of wildcat money. Instructions are to be given along the lines to disseminate this information as widely as possible through the Insurgent territory." Many American products are advertised. KILLED HIS RIVAL.

Joseph Hough Charged with MurderIns Henry Chadwick. CHESTER, Conn., July 17.-Harry Chadwick, aged twenty-four, of New Britain, was murdered last night by Joseph Hough, aged thirty, who then attempted to kill himself by cutting his throat. Chadwick' body has not been found and the details of the tragedy are not fully known. Chadwlck came here on Saturday night to Visit Miss Mary Smith, to whom he was paying attention. Hough, who boarded with the Smith family, was also enamored of the young woman. Chadwick left the Smith house about 10 o'clock last night and this was the last seen of him. This morning a ladder was found leaning against the window of the room . occupied by Hough. There were epots of blood on the ladder, and when the roan's room was entered Hough was found lying on the bed in a pool of blood. He had a cut five inches long in his neck. His bicycle was also found to be covered with blood and an Investigation was begun. In Tylerville searchers found the bicycle owned by Chadwick and his watch .and cuffs. There were several pools of blood and evidences of a struggle. It looked as if a man's body had been dragged through a potato field near by and the trail was followed to the river, where it was found a row boat had been taken. Late hls afternoon it was stated Hough had admitted to Alden Smith, a brother of the girl, that he killed Chadwick and threw his body in the river. He is said to have stated that he sought to scare Chadwick, and that an altercation resulted, during which Chadwick drew a razor and cut him on the side of the face. He then choked Chadwick until, as he supposed, he was unconscious, but later found he was dead. He then dragged the young man's body to the river, where he threw It in. Riding home he took his own razor, intending to commit suicide, when he felt himself growing faint and called for help. When the family entered his room a razor was found in his hand. He is in a critical condition. It is believed Hough left the house by means of the ladder before Chadwick and waited for him at the top of a hill up which Chadwick was obliged to walk. It Is believed an altercation took place, during which the vounser man was killed and his body was then dragged to the river, where, 1 from a rowboat, it was thrown overboard. The river is now being dragged for the body. Later Hough, who was better to-night, made a full confession to the coroner. MADE POISON FOR CORNISH. Sensational Affidavit Furnished by a New Haven Chemist. NEW HAVEN, July 17. High on a hill overlooking Morris Cove and Lighthouse Point, the popular summer resorts of New Haven, there lives a man who declares that in March and October of 1897 he compounded for "H. C. Cornish" preparations sufficiently poisonous to cause the almost lnstani death of the man or woman to whom they were administered. To the truth of this statement he has made sworn affidavit, and now that he has done so he says a great load is off his mind. This is the new evidence in the Mollneux case upon which the lawyers expect to secure his release from Imprisonment. The man who made this affidavit is Walter S. Swayne, of the town and county of New Haven. He is a chemist and Is sometimes employed to make chemical analyses or compound preparations of all sorts of ingredients. He was once a druggist in Philadelphia, operating two stores in that city. At present he is in the greenhouse business about four miles from New Haven. He lives In a big square stone house on the top of Spring Clear hill. He la of gqod family. He originally came from Boston and married a sister of Richard 11. Dana, the poet and author of "Two Years Before the Mast." He is thus allied with some of the best blood of Massachusetts. "I have been unfortunate financially," he says, "but I am getting upon my feet again. I am perfectly willing to go to New York and testify, but first I want to see Cornish or his picture and get a chance to analyze that powder which is part of the evidence in the case. If they want me to do that, and will pay my expenses. I will do it, but I cannot afford to settle the cost out of my own pocket. Something tells me that Mollneux Is innocent, and 1 could not rest after I found that I knew something that might have a bearing In solving the mystery of the death of Mrs. Adams. I am a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and have always been an ardent chemist." CONGRESS OF DRINKERS. LIqnor Makers and Bartenders Will Hold an Exhibition. k NEW YORK, July 17. A grand international congress of drinking men. drink mixers and drink manufacturers has been called to meet in New York city on Dec. 6 at the Grand Central Palace. The managers announce that it will be the greatest alcoholic incident that has happened since the beginning of the world. It will take In everything, with beer, wine, whisky and cider. Excursions are being arranged from all points and enormous bodies of convivial citizens will be transported to New York to Join In the exercises. The promoters of the International drinks exhibition say that the show will be held under auspices and patronage of the various protective associations of the "Allied Drinking Trades ' of the United States, Canada and Mexico. These promoters cent out 10,000 postal cards all over the country to brewers, bottlers, distillers, wine manufacturers. Importers, wholesalers and retailers asking tnem to boom the scheme. The main object of the exhibition, it Is explained, is to gather under one roof a sample of every material, machine, utensil or invention of whatsoever nature that Is made on this continent or imported for use in the "allied drinks manufacturing trades." An immense supply market of samples will be arranged for examination, criticism and comparison. There will be long bars, the best bartenders and drink mixers who can be brought Into camp, and everything to make it worth while for drinking men to flock from every part of the country and sample the things. Besides these professionals there will be large numbers of amateurs to participate In the free distribution cf beer and rum, which will be made upon the floor. Landsmen Wanted for the XaTy. CHICAGO, July 17. Lieutenant B. W. Wells, In command of the naval recruiting station here, to-day received orders to recruit 250 men. mostly landsmen, for service in the navy. This is the largest order received here since the office was opened nearly a year ago. One hundred men are to be enlisted here and the rest In Buffalo and Cleveland. For Stealing; the Carranza. Letter. MONTREAL,. July 17. George Frederick Bell, the mar ""ho swore he stole the Carranza letter X for whoe arrest a warrant was iss:' .on Saturday, charging htm with theft otthe letter, surrendered himself to-day. He was released on SSOO ball for his appearance at a preliminary hearing next Monday.

FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS

SIX OFFICERS BEATEN OFF BT V THREE ALLEGED TRAIN nOBIlERS Sheriff Killed and Tito of Ills rosso Wounded One or More of the Dan dlts Thought to Have Been Hit. .

EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M.. July 17. Meager details were received here to-day of a fight between a sheriff's .oosse and the gang of outlaws who held up a Colorado Southern passenger train, at Folsora, N. M., a few days ago. The affray occurred near Cimaroon. W. J. Farr. of Walsenburg. CoU Deputies Love and Smith, of Springer, N. M., were probably fatally wounded. W. IL' Reno, chief of the secret service department of the Colorado & Southern Railway,' was also wounded. The robbers were uninjured. They escaped to the hills. Another posse was organized at Cimaroon and is now in pursuit of the robbers. Marion LItrell. live stock Inspector, arrived here at 1 o'clock this afternoon, bringing further details of the fight -at Cimarron., as he had learned them at Springer. "It occurred this morning," he ald. "in the canyon above Cimarron, In a very rough piece of country. The news was telephoned to Springer from Cimarron Just before I left there. The posse was led by Sheriff Ed Farr, of WaLsenburg. and United, States Marshal Foraker, of New Mexico. The posse numbered six men. Th force divided, three members advancing on the oultaws from opposite directions. One of the outlaws was a dead shot. Sheriff Farr was killed and Henry Love and a man named Smith, members of the pose, were wounded. Love was h4t twice, one shot going through his thigh. Foraker returned to Cimarron and telephoned that all of his posse had been wounded." The Identity of the outlaws is not known, but little doubt is entertained of their bein.? the men who held up the train at Folsom a few days ago and also a year or more ago. While Mr. LItrell did not learn the exact location of their camp. It is believed to have been comparatively close to Cimarron, prob- . ably two or three miles away. Cimarron is r " lace of about 200 people, situated close t le mouth of the canyon, twenty-three i from Springer. The outlaws have been i ad hanging around in the vicinity for . so. 2 time past. Sneriff Ed. Farr, who was killed. Is well known among live stock men. He and his brother have rather extensive cattle interests in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Word was received here late to-day that the dead body, of one of the train robbers had been conveyed to Cimarron. N. M., from the scene of the fight and was afterwards taken to Springer, where an inquest was held to-night. The dead man is known by the name of William McGinnls. alias W. G. Franks, and came from Magdalena. N. M., where he is known as Broncho Buster. He Is six feet two inches tall, weighs about two hundred pounds and is of light complexion. The other two robbers abandoned their horses and are being pursued in the hills by a posse of twenty men. Later accounts of the fight state the train robbers were overtaken at about 5 o'clock; Sunday evening In the canyon ten miles above Cimarron. They were preparing to go Into camp and refused to surrender. A right then ensued in which about fifty shots were exchanged. Sheriff Ed Farr received the first wound in the wrist, but bandaged It and renewed the battle. He was shot a second time through the body and fell dead. $ F. H. Smith, another member of the posse, was shot through the leg. H. N. Love suffered a dangerous wound through the thigh. The firing lasted about forty-five minutes. Special Officer Reno remained on the scene until 8 o'clock Sunday night and then left for Cimarron to secure medical aid. whlcii was secured at Springer. It took him nearly four hours to make the trip to Cimarron, a distance of ten miles, through the heavy rain and Intense darkness. The attacking party consisted of Sheriff Farr, Special Officer W. H. Reno, of Denver; F. H. Smith, of New York, who was at Cimarron and volunteered to go; H. N. Love, an employe of . Charles Springer; Stockman J. H. Morg and Perfecto Cordova, of Colfax countv, N. M.; Capt. Thacker, special agent of the Wells- argo Company at Springer, under the .direction of United States Marshall Foraker, of New Mexico. Train Wrecked and Engineer Killed. : MUSCOGEE, I. T., July 17.-At Wybark, " on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, last night, a freight train in charge of Engineer McCune, of. Parsons, Kan., was wrecked and McCune killed. The switch lock had been battered to pieces, the switch) turned and the light taken up th track a short distance, signaling a clear track. It was doubtless the work of men whohad intended to derail and rob the M., K. & T. passenger which preceded the freight. DELUSIONS OF A WOMAN.

Mrs. II. 31. Flagler Thinks the Csmr Will Marry Her. NEW YORK. July 17. The fact of the insanity of Mrs. 11. M. Flagler, made known yesterday,' Is learned with deep regret by; her friends and those of her husband. Mrs. Flagler was committed to Dr. MacDonald'e sanitarium in March, 1897, pursuant to an order of Judge Gildersleeve, of the Supreme Court, based on the certificates of Dr. Shelton and Dr. Frederick Peterson, both of whom declared that her condition was such as to Justify her detention in a private Institution for the insane. She had been in the sanitarium of Dr. Choate at Pleasantvllle, N. Y., for several years before her commitment to Dr. MacDonald's Institution, but she was removed from there for a time and was taken care of at Her country home at Mamaroneck, being under the personal charge of Dr. Roland du Jardin and several nurses. In an affidavit made by Dr. MacDonald he declares that Mrs. Fiagler Is laboring under the belief that she t. the lTlncess Ida Alice van Shotten Teck and that she bears evidence of royal heritage in her arm. She also entertains a delusion that efforts are being made to poison her; that she was never married to Mr. Flagler, also that her husband Is dead. She believf-s at times that she is much younger than she really Is. She is fifty-one years old. In addition to these delusions the physicians say she Imagines the Czar of Kutsla intends to marry her. She imagines also that she holds communication wan him frequently through an unseen agency. Still another delusion is that she was divorced from Mr. Flagler two years ago and will never see him again. She has a delusion that her brother, Charles Francis Adams Shourds, a Boston merchant. 1s a Judge of the United States Supreme Court and that he was Instrumental in obtaining the divorce for her. She also believes she Is a great musician and poet, and beyond this she collects largj quantities of stones and pebbles, which ne regards as rare and valuable gems. These she keeps in silken tags under the delusion that they are of such great worth that they con be fold for large sums of money, in affidavits Drs. MacDonald and Shelton state that Mrs. Flagler's disease Is 'progressive. Incurable, delusional Insanity. Mrs. Flagler owns In her own right property, which Is mainly Standard Oil securities, valued at about $1,200,000. She also has several hundred thousand dollars In bank, and in addition to thts owns real estate at St. Augustine. Fla. GOV. MOUNT INVITED. Illinois Slontaraents at Chlcksmsngs to Be Dedicated in the Fall. CHATTANOOGA, Tcnn., July 17. The Illinois Chlckamauga Park Commission. In session here, to-day passed a resolution exten ling invitations to President McKinley, Secretary Alger, Governor Tanner, ex-Gov-error Altgeld of Illinois, Governor Bradley of Kentucky, Governor Mount of -Indiana, Governor Candler cf Georgia. Governor McMlllln of Tennessee and Governor Johnson of Alabama to be present at the dedication of the monument here Nov. 24 and 23. Several thousand dollars will be spent on the dedication. The last of the Illinois monuments on the battlefields about this city were completed to-day. The bronze figures for the group statue at Bragg' hill. Mission Ridge, have been placed. The figures represent the four arms of the service, to be placed at the base, the whole to be surmounted by a bronze figure of the Goddess of Peace. With this monument finished Illinois has nearly two hundred markers, fifty-two regimental monuments and two group monuments erected, at a cost of $75.ouo, on the government .reservktiona about the city. '