Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1899 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1899.

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Established 1S53. Sole Agrnii for IJnltrrlck Patterns. Sale of CIoggWright Umbrellas At about 60 cents on the dollar starts at 8 o'clock this morning. Don't miss it - Pettis Dry Goods Co Modesty and Money Are very desirable. Modesty In a good housewife adds to her charms. Money adds good things to her pantry. Princess Patent Flour Is reasonable In price, and unequaled In quality. Every package guaranteed. BLANTON MILLING CO. 3 All the year round the masses find the best vaiues la shoes at tha second largest shoe store In the wcrld. 12, 24, 26 and 23 East Washington St ALL OVER TWO CHICKENS. Nine Horse-Thief Dcteetlvea Made a Valiant Capture. Eugene Gordon. l&M Archie street, a janitor In the Lombard building, and Fred Morton, a barber, living on Harlan street, were locked up at the police station last right and charged with petit larceny. They are both colored and -were brought In by nine excited men, members of the West Newton Horse Thief Detective Association. In the buggy were two dead chickens, one of which was shot by one of the men in front of S. Weddel's home, about eleven miles southwest of the city. The men were driving In a buggy and when about three rods from Weddel's house one of them shot Xrcm the buggy. He handed the lines to the ether and got out. ran a short distance, tcok off his hat. dropped It and then picked it up and ran to the buggy. Weddel found chicken had been shot and gave chase. Others Joined and the men were followed Into Hendricks county and there arrested by the horse thif association and brought back and turned over in this county to the West Newton branch.. - 4 PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Miss Laura Ballard, of Terre Haute, Is visiting Miss Nellie Mclrugh. on Harrison street. Mrs. Ada Bradford, of Washington, Ind., Is In the city, visiting Mrs. Sharts, on Park avenue. Mrs. W. C. Franklin and daughters, of Kanktn. 111., are visiting W. D. Franklin, No. 2013 Broadway. Miss Alice Short, of Newark, N. J., Is visiting here with her cousin. YV. N. Short, and will remain until Aug. 20. Miss Gra'ce Itiley, of Connersville, is visiting her cousin. MI33 Nellie Van Bergen, at 112 West Fifteenth street. Mrs. Henry K. English' and daughter Edna go to Maainkuckee this week, to te there the rest of the season. Miss Ida and Miss Grace Sharts, of Washington, Ind., are visiting relatives and friends in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Tt. L. M. Parks, of Savannah, Ga., and Mrs. M. R. Morris, of Augusta. Ga., are visiting Mrs. Edward C. Simpson, of North Delaware street. Prof. H. B. Dates and wife, of Potsdam. N. Y., are visiting Mrs. Dates's father, Mr. J. E. Haskell, at No. 2014 Ash street. Mrs. Dates was a teacher In No. 32 school of this city for several yean. Mrs. Adam Bolton and daughter Bessie, of Bt. Paul, Minn., and Misses Jcanette. Inez and Gladys Woollen, of Chicago, are guests of Mr. James A. Miles and family, North Senate avenue. CHINESE WASTED THE BIBLES. Hat the 3Itslonnry Found They Were Used In Maklnc Firecrackers. Leslie's Monthly. "Independence day reminds me," said the missionary from China, "of the most encouraging and the most disillusionizing ex perience in my life. I had labored hard in the work of converting the Chinese to Christianity and there was unfeigned rejoicing among all the missions in China and the churches In America when the demand for Bibles on the part of our converts culminated in orders for S4.000 Bibles in one shipment. "The remarkable number of new Christians thus Indicated, while it occasioned much thankfulness In America, caused the heads of the missionary associations to set on foot an Inquiry as to the methods employed In saving the souls of such an unusual number of Celestials and the uses to which they put the Bibles s nt them. "You may know that in China the majority of the firecrackers with which we celebrate our day of national independence are made by the Chinese in their homes. Contractors for fireworks give each man a certain amount of powder and that must be made Into a given number of crackers The paper used In the manufacture he Lays himself and paptr is not a cheap commodity In China. The powder furnished seldom fills the required number of crackers, but that does not disturb the Ce lestial In the least; he turns in his quota an me same, ana tne American roy in consequence Invariably finds in each package of firecrackers a few that 'won't so off.' "I discovered that Yankee thrift had been absorbed by the heathen Chineo with much more readiness than Yankee morals- In contributing his labor toward our festival occasions he hit upon an expeuknt wrereby a considerable profit accrued to himself. In other words, our great shipment of 84.0OO moles naa literally 'gone up in smoke.' They were to bo had for the asking and the Celestial conscience seems never to have suffered a pang as to their disposal ior nrecracKtr wrappers.' Loftt. Philadelphia North American. Mrs. Talk-Spreader She lost her husband during the war. Mrs. F.lankey-BIank Tn Cuba? Mrs. Talk-Spreader No; North Dakota. While she was acting as nurse he went there and pushed the thing through. Msna of It. Ut. "I declare." Mid the attenuated cloud, as He passed swiruy ry nis heavier companion on the summer Dreeze, "you lock prosper ou?." "Yes, Indeed." replied the other, "I have teen saving up ior a rainy cay. Colnmliu Oversight. Richmond Religious Herald. That was a wise schoolboy who, when the master asked. " hy was It that his rreat discovery was not properly appre ciated until long after Columbus was dead?" promptly .replied, "It was because ht didn't advertise, air",

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KRLGER MIST YIELD TO ALL SIR ALFRED 3IILNEirS DE3IAIVDS. Ultlandera Given to Understand There Will De Xo Abatement Dewey Takes a Drive. LONDON, July 21. The Times Pretoria correspondent says the ultlanders hare been given to understand that no abatement of the demands made by Sir Alfred Mllner, Governor of Cape Colony, and British high con Issloner for South Africa, will be ac ceptable to the imperial authorities. A crisis, therefore, is now held to bo in sight. SATURDAY'S ATHLETIC CONTESTS. Comments of the London Press on the Outcome. LONDON, July 21. All the morning pa pers publish editorials expressing congratulation on the athletic meet at the Queen Club on Saturday and expressing the hope that It will not be the last of such contests. All compliment the members of the American team upon their splendid perform ance?. The Daily Graphic thinks the .climate had something to do with the result, and says: "It Is easy to believe the rumor that Illness was the cause of Harvard's record holder In the half-mile event running far below his form." The Standard says: "Any hostility which may ever have existed between the two peoples has been owing to their ignorance of each other, and nothing Is better calcu lated to remove it than such meetings as that of Saturday. Diplomacy and commerce create jealousies quite as often as they remove them, while nothing but good Is likely to result from the social approximation which Is now springing up between those in whose hands will he the snaping of the Anglo-Saxon race. We trust the meeting may take firm root as annual gatherings." The Daily Telegraph says: "Both coun tries ought to be proud of their representatives. Such scenes are worth going miles to see, not solely for their own sake, but for all they imply of keen, brotherly competition between two sections of the Anglo-Saxon race." Dealing with the defeat of the muchdreaded Burke, the Dally Telegraph says it Is only fair to admit that he was by no means In good trim. The Daily Chronicle says: "ir international athletic trials were common, diplomatists might be driven to move a peace conference to lay an embargo on them. Jaundiced observers on the continent who hope for a breath of the Anglo-American understanding will not find It at the Queen's Club. Harvard and Yale are shorter In the wind than Cambridge, but Thor himself might be Jealous of Boal of Harvard." The Times says: "Englishmen would not have grudged the Americans their triumph In the least degree if the fortunes had been reversed. As it Is, they will feel that a victory is a very little thing: compared with the pluck and sportsmanlike spirit displayed by both sides, and with; the friendly relations between the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, of which they trust this match is a token. The sporting papers are unusually enthusiastic over the brilliant euccess of the meeting and much pleased at the proof that Englishmen are not deficient in stamina. The Sportsman and Sporting- Life each devote nearly a page to a description of the meeting. Dewey Enjoying Himself. TRIESTE, July 23. It has been decided that the United States cruiser Olympia shall remain here ten day3 longer. Crowds visited the cruiser tc-day and were shown over her by the pallors, who explained everything about her to the visitors. Admiral Dewey, accompanied by the American consul, made an excursion this afternoon In a carriage to Opoina mountain. LONDON, July 24. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mall fays: "Mascagni's hymn. In honor of Admiral Dewey, was performed at Pesaro on Sunday for the first time before an audience of 2.000 persons. It was greatly appreciated and is considered one of the finest hymns Mascagni has written." Try In sr to Conciliate Japan. LONDON, July 21. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times, referring to the Chinese mission recently sent to Toklo with valuable presents from the dowager Empress, ostensibly with commercial alms, but really empowered to discuss a Chino-Japanese alliance, says: "The recently adopted reform tendencies of the dowager Empress aro attributed rather to a desire to conciliate Japan and to obtain Japanese support for the Chinese dynasty, than to secure recognition of the necessity for reform." Date of Dreyfus Conrt-Martlal, PARIS, July 23. It Is announced that the Dreyfus court-martial at Rennes will open on Aug. T. Cable Notes. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has left Venice, ostensibly for Austria. Sir Thomas Llpton's America's cup challenger Shamrock arrived at Rothesay, Island of Bute, yesterday. One of the boilers of the Austrian torpedo boat Adler exploded yesterday while the vessel was off the island of Torcola, in the Adriatic sea, killing a lieutenant and four members of the crew. STRANDED GOLD SEEKERS. Safferlncr and Hardship of Kansans Who Went to Alaska. FORT SCOTT, Kan.. July 23. The members of the Sunflower Mining Company, who left this place for Alaska eighteen months ago. sailing In their own steamer from San Francisco, are stranded at St. Michael's on their way home. The company started with plenty of money and provisions and for two years spent the winter cn Koyokuk river, 2,300 miles above St. Michael's and 400 miles above the farthest point that could be reached by boat. The first news from them for many months was received today, and it tells of suffering and hardships. All their money was spent in prospeotlng, but no gold was found. There were from one, to three deaths in all the companies in that region. Two men became helpless from scurvy. The doctor said only vegetable food would rave them and two companions went 110 miles for potatoes. Exodus from Damon, Srecial to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. July 21-George Hower, a Wayne county boy, in Alaska, writes to relatives as follows: "The government has given away 1,400 tickets to Skagway, to men who are poor and sick, to go on first boats up the river. They are making everybody In Dawson clean out yards around houses, and are digging sewers to prevent sickness this summer. They have prevented all sates of frozen meats, old bacon and damaged goods. There is a stampede on for Nome, a cape about eighty miles from St. Michael's. Everybody that can get away is going to the new gold helds on Snake river. Dawson City will be deserted In two months If this stampede holds out that long. I saw Kphriam Saur9. (Alo a Wayne county boy.) He Is on his way out." The letter was written under date of June 17. Telegraph Line to Five Fingers. SKAGWAY, Alaska. July 18. via Vancouver, B. C, July 23. The Dominion government telegraph line is now completed to Five Fingers and is progressing so rapidly that messages may be sent over it to Dawson in less than two months from date. Two representatives of a company which claims to have a concession for a cable from Vancouver, B. C. to this port, are now here. They say steps will very shortly be taken to begin the laying of the cable. Much London capital Is said to have been subscribed for this cable, in order that the mining market of Iondcn may be in Olographic communication with the gold fields of the interior. Many Steamers for Sale. SEATTLE, Wash.. July 23. Late arrival from Alaska report that there are at St. Michael's about 40 email river steamers for sale. They are the property of the unsuccessful prospecting parties that wintered on the Koyukuk and other branches of the

Yukon. In many instances their owners depend on their sale to secure means to obtain passage home. The steamers are for sale at any price, but none have thus far been reported sold. Several vessels are reported aground on the Koyukuk river.They will not be able to get away until the river rises.

Arrival of the Rosalia. VANCOUVER. B.C., July 23. The steamer Rosalia arrived to-day from Skagway with two hundred passengers and $110,000 in golddust aboard. William Braid, a local merchant, brought jao.ono and Seattle men owned the remainder of the gold. Braid, who is conversant with government affairs, ?ald that nearly Jl.W.WO had been collected in royalties, and he placed the total output of the country at $20,000,000. . Eldorado. Do minion and Bonanza creeks were supplying nearly all the gold. ANOTHER BIG TRUST. All Compressed Air rower Companies May De Combined. NEW YORK. July 23. The World tomorrow will say: "It Is stated on good authority that there is to be a complete reorganization of the various compressed-air-power companies and affiliated concerns, and that they We all to be merged into one central corporation, with Harry Payne Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, as president of the new company. The companies said to be affected are the following: The New York Autotruck Company, capitalized at $10,000,000; American Airpower Company, capital $7,000,000; International Air-power Company, capital $7,000,OuO; Denver and St. Louis Autotruck Com pany, capital $5,000,000; Philadelphia Auto truck Company, capital $10,000,000; Pneu matic Carriage Company, General Carriage Company, Kelly Rubber-tire Wheel Com pany. The capitalization of the central company. It Is said, will be in the neighborhood of $100,000,000. When the Auto truck Company was incorparted In January last It was declared that within a short time the concern would have 2,000 com pressed air trucks in operation in this city. The International Air and Power Company, which has plants at Worcester, Mass., and Providence, was to manufacture the ve hicles used by the auto-truck company. The American Air Power Company Is owned by William C. Whitney, Thomas Dolan, P. A. B. Widener, W. L. Elklns, Thomas I. Ryan, A. A. McLeod and others associated with Mr. Whitney in the control of the Metropolitan Street-railway Company- and kindred corporations. The American Air Power Company has been experimenting for some time on an Invention to operate street cars with compressed air. J. H. Hoadly, the present president of the auto-truck company. Is chief owner of the compressed air motive system which all of the abovenamed companies plan to use. AT WAR WITH CHURCH FILIPINO PRIEST INCTJRS THE VICAR GENERAL'S ENMITY. Excommunicated for Advocating the Overthrow of Spanish Clerical PowerCaptain Byrne's Fight. MANILA, July 23, 6:13 p. m.-A Filipino priest named Gregorle Agripay, with the Insurgents, Is trying to lead a movement for the Independence of the church in the Philippines from the Spanish priesthood. He has issued a proclamation declaring himself the vicar general of all the Filipino priests In the districts outside of American control on the Island of Luzon, and is inciting the priests to disobey the regulations of the church and brotherhoods. The archbishop of the district has Issued a bulletin excommunicating Agripay, and this action has Increased the feeling between the Filipinos and the church. The archbishop threatened to excommunicate the owners of Spanish papers publishing announcements of Protestant and Masonic meetings, whereon an American paper warned him that he might be bundled out of the island like any disturber of the peace If he should incite religious animosities. The Dominican friars have begun the publication of a newspaper under title of the Llbertas, for the purpose of defending the brotherhood. The United States transport Zealandla, which sailed from San Francisco June 24 with four companies of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, 150 recruits and a large amount of provisions and supplies for the army on board, has arrived here. Cavalry for the Philippines. CHICAGO, July 23. War Department orders were received at Fort Sheridan to-day to place L Troop, Third Cavalry, in immediate readiness for active service In the Philippines. The same dispatch announces the administration's purpose to Use cavalry more freely in the fall 'campaign. Major James B. Ayleshlre, who purchased the government's cavalry horses for the Spanish-American war, has instructions to buy 3,000 animals. He will look to the Chicago market first and then. It is said, a selection will be made of Texas ponies calculated to endure the tropical climate. The drove will be shipped to Seattle and embarked on a fleet of sixteen transports which will sail for Manila, via the Aleutian islands, Alaska, and Nagasaki, Japan. The idea of the roundabout trip is to give the horses intervals of rest. Troop commanders at Fort Sheridan state that the chosen route solves the problem of successful transit of horses to the Eastern hemisphere. Dyrnes's Fleht with Robbers. WASHINGTON, July 23. The War Department to-day received from General Otis another dispatch giving additional particulars of the fight between Capt. B. A. Byrne, with seventy men of the Sixth infantry and robber bands in the island of Negros. It shows that the victory of the soldiers was greater than that reported in General Otis's dispatch of July 21, and that the loss suffered by the robbers was considerably larger than before stated. Much satisfaction is felt by General Otis over the results of this preliminary effort in dealing with this disturbing element in the island and he repoTts it already as having a salutary effect on the other bands infesting the locality. Thinks the War Will Cud Soon. INDEPENDENCE, Kan., July 2C.-Under date of May 31 Emil G. Etzold. of Company G, Twentieth Kansas, writes from Manila to his sister in this city. Among other statements, he says: "They say that our regiment will be relieved in a few days, but I think we are In for it until it Is finished. I think it will not be long now until this war Is over, and that the volunteers will go home. There were two of Agulnaldo's officers here yesterday to negotiate on peace terms and nobody knows yet what they did about It. They are pretty anxious to have the war stop, and our government has offered $C0 in Mexican money for every man who will come In and give up his gun." COLUMBIA AT BRISTOL The New Cup Defeudcr Ready for Her Steel Slast. BRISTOL R. I.. July 23. The new cup defender Columbia came up from Newport this afternoon In tow of her tender and anchored about half a mile off the Herreshoff dock. The new steel mast Is completed and ready lor stepping, but first the Columbia will be hauled out on the ways fcr a short distance that her underbody may be cleaned. The cradle for hauling her out Is all ready, and it Ls expected that as soon as the pine mast is taken out she will bo hauled un for cleaning. The steel mast will not be stepped until she is again in the water, which is expected to te about Wednesday. It is expected that the changes in her riggin will be all completed by Thursday or .Friday and that she will ba ready to race, the Defender again on Sat urday off rscwDOrf : -

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IIAV NA AUTHORITIES WILL AT TEMPT TO PURIFY THE CITY. Cuban Capital Overrun with "Sports" from the United States and Mexico Relief Farms. HAVANA. July 23. The commission cf. prominent Cuban lawyers appointed by Gen. Ludlow to decide on and report as to the best methods to be adopted for checking public gambling, recently made a complete report, which was referred to Mayor Lacoste. It seems that the old Spanish law was perfectly able to cope with the entire matter, but that It was rarely enforced, owing to the large revenue received by the government for hospitals and other charitable Institutions from the proprietors of gambling establishments.' Occasionally the Governcrs would enforce the law and all gambling would stop for a few months, only to break out again and be carried on with more freedom than before. The committee recognizes the fact that gambling has how assumed proportions which it Is desirable to check and sets forth in its report that the Spanish law only requires the co-operation of the police to bring about the desired reform, but General Ludlow, the Military Governor, insists that the fault Is not with the police, who, on several occasions, have made arrests and seized gambling outfits, only to have the judges quash the proceedings and return the outfits to their owners. The committee suggests police interference, particularly with a certain class of clubs, socalled, which are mere gambling hells and are frequented by many persons. It does not consider, however, that it would be advisable to Interfere with the legitimate clubs, where whist and other games are played merely as a pastime, but only with those which are run as gambling hells and for the profit only of professional gamblers. General Ludlow referred the report to Senor Lacoste, who is enthusiastic in his desire to suppress the evil, believing that it has had a bad effect upon the morals of the citizens The mayor declares that he will exercise to the full the powers vested In him. Consequently, it is expected that many arrests will shortly be made, not only of the native gamblers, but of others who are in the field with the sole object of fleecing Americans. Many gamblers with unsavory records are In the city, among them being Americans, Mexicans and men of other nationalities. If the Judges do their duty, It is expected that the city will shortly be purified. William Willard Howard, general manager of the Cuban industrial relief fund, speaks hopefully of the work being done at the two relief farms at Cieba Mocha, twelve miles west of Matanzas, where the managers have more applications for employment than they have funds enough to provide. Mr. Howard says that crowds of destitute persons come to the farms at daylight and beg for a day's work. None of them beg for food and never ask for it without expressing a desire to pay for It by Working. Mr. Howard also says that numerous small farmers in the neighborhood are anxious to obtain loans for the purchase of animals and implements with which to resume the cultivation of their fields, offering to pay for such loans at the rate of 12 per cent. According to Mr. Howard, many who applied to General Wilson for assistance have been referred t6 him. General Wilson is a great friend and helper of the fund and is strongly in favor of aiding with cattle and agricultural implements the small farmers. In fact. It was at nis Instigation that Governor General Brooke recently called a meeting of all the governors of the provinces to take action in the matter. All except General Wilson objected to the plan proposed, believing that It savored too much of paternalism. . Mr. Howard asserts that near the large cities there is little progress being made In the cultivation of land but that farther in the country the evidences of the devastation wrought by General Weyler are as plain as ever, thus showings that- there has been no change since Aprtif "when the correspondent of the Associated Press crossed the island from Santiago, on horseback. The difficulty is, Mr. Howard says, a lack of funds. The small farmers have not been helped except by the issues of army rations. The society desires to increase its funds in order that it may enlarge its sphere of usefulness. An organization is being formed by some of the Spanish residents here with a view of securing American citizenship. The originators of the movement claim that in this way their property and interests will secure protection. Many Spaniards are willing to pay $50) each to become citizens of the United States. American banking methods are becoming extremely popular with the merchants of Havana, there now being on deposit with the North American Trust Company, fiscal agents of the United States In Cuba, over $4,000,COO, exclusive of the government funds. Several alleged counterfeiters have been arrested on the charge of issuing spurious silver dollars. The coins, which it is asserted were made by . the prisoners, were produced by primitive methods, being cast in plaster of parls molds. The local papers unanimously complain of Mayor Lacoste's order directing the closing of the stores at 6 o'clock in the evening. Owing to the intense heat which prevails In the afternoons, ladies, the paper asserts, find it impossible to do their shopping before the hour named for closing in the order. They advise that the hour set be changed to 10 o'clock for the summer month.. The Society of the Congo has petitioned Governor General Brooke for permission to hold a ball at which African dances will be performed. The request has been referred to Mayor Lacoste. There was an extremely heavy rainfall this afternoon and the lower portion of the city was practically flooded. The Havana Chamber of Commerce has voted to send a special commissioner to the Philadelphia exposition. The maximum temperature to-day In Havana was 91 degrees, the highest registered this year. LAWLESS ACTsT JConclnded from First Pace.) asked that a treasurer be appointed to act as treasurer of the fund to be raised to aid the strikers. This was done, and delegates of various unions then pledged sums ranging from $100 to $500 each, and gave assurances of more money if needed. It was decided also to institute a boycott against the Second-avenue line, the line affected in the present strike In New York. There was further talk on the strike, and one of the delegates denounced the Board of Aldermen, saying: "They had $150,000 to give to entertain Admiral Dewey, but not a penny for the poor strikers. For them there were policemen's night sticks and prison cells." . : ANOTHER BIG STRIKE. Fourteen Thouiand Clothing? Workers May Be Idle To-Day. NEW YORK. July 23.-About 2.500 clothing workers in three branches of that industry struck to-day and a member of the executive committee of the Tailors' Progressive Union, No. 11, said to-night that 14,000 will be out within twenty-four hours. Twenty-five thousand may be on strike within two weeks. One thousand members of the Tailors' Progressive Union, No. 11, in sixty-two shops struck for 25 per cent. Increase in wages. They have been earning $S a week and they want $10. Six hundred ccat presiers went on strike in the afternoon. Seven hundred more will go on strike to-morrow. They have teen getting 7 cents apiece for coats and want 2 cents more. The pressers press, on an average, twenty coats per day. Eight hundred tasters held a meeting to-day and about three hundred men went out on strike. The basters have been working fourteen and sixteen hours a day. They want the work day shortened to ten hours. Twelve thousand men connected with the United Brotherhood of Cloak Makers will hold five hundred hrm meetings within the next two weeks for the purpose of formulating new wage lists. It Is believed that it will be necessary to order siriKes to enforce tne new schedule. Joined the Thread Trust. MILLS BURY, Mass.. ' July 23. The Fln-layson-Iionsneld Companv'. limited, of Graf ton. has joined the thread combine and the property was transferred to the trustees of the trust yesterday. The price as shown on the revenue stamps upon the deed was 1227.w;o. The mills win ce.run as usual and about 5U hands are employed. Grand Circuit Races To-Day. CLEVELAND. 0 July 23. The outlook for the Grand Circurt trotting races, which

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tions are now for fair weather, and there is likely to be a lively contest for the purses, which aggregate -$40,000. The card to-morrow will include the 2:14 trot, purse. S3.U00: 2:1 pace, purse, $2,50.); 2:27 pace, purse, $1,000. and the 2:19 trot, purse. H,2u0. About 40j horses are entered in the various events. ONCE LINCOLN'S SWEETHEART Death of 31 rs. Mary Lawless, a Belle Many Years Ago. LEXINGTON. Ky.. July 3.-Mrs. Mary Love Lawless died here to-day In the eighty-second year of her age. She was a sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln and a reigning belle of her day. Her maiden name was Joplin and her home was at Mount Vernon, Ky. Her husband is James R. Lawless, a Mexican war veteran, who survives her. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Scott, widow of the late Lieut. John Scott, of the United States army. HARPER'S WORK ABROAD SAMPLES OF GOODS COLLECTED IN NEARLY ALL COUNTRIES, And to De Placed on Exhibition at Philadelphia for Benefit, of United States Manufacturers Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, July 23. William Harper, chief of the Bureau of Information of the Phila delphia Commercial Museum, Is about to re turn homo at the conclusion of one of the most important missions ever connected with the export trade of the United States. A year ago the American Congress appropriated $50,000 for the purpose of collecting samples of the principal goods which the countries of the World Import from other nations. The object of this appropriation was to give American manufacturers an exact idea of the goods they were called upon to produce in competition with other countries, whether they be agricultural Implements or ladies' slippers. As the Philadel phia Commercial Museum had, under State and municipal endowment, been collecting foreign data for American Boards of Trade, the appropriation was intrusted to their agent, who, with his assistants, has recently visited almost every capital of the globe from St. Petersburg to Johannesburg, and Melbourne to Honolulu. As a result of these journeys Mr. Harper is now busily engaged in .forwarding to the United States for exhibition before the International Commercial Congress, at Philadelphia, next October, one of the most varied cargoes of samples ever handled by a commercial trader. In conversation with a representative of the Associated Press last nignt, Mr. Harper said: "I am compelled to run over to St. Petersburg to-morrow, but shall start homeward from Paris within a fortnight. The work I have done for the museum has taken me Into almost every corner of the world, where I have not only obtained impossible information concerning the wants of buyers of American goods and have obtained samples of the goods now used and exact models of macninery with photographs and specifications, but have made a careful study of the American consular service as well. It is safe to say, however, that considering the general era of prosperity upon which, following the Baring failure and consequent panics, the world is now entering apparently, the United States must mere and more look" to its export trade as the market for its superfluous products. I have studied this matter pretty carefully, as you may imagine. England, Germany and France are pushing their goods as rapidly as possible, but the United States is coming into the race at a period when those older countries are more or less exhausted. ... "With our Immense natural resources of coal and iron, our improved machinery, capable of turning out such great quantities of manufactured goods, and the capacity for intelligent work displayed by American mechanics, we have more than even chances of controlling the world's markets. The fact that one Philadelphia firm is supplying England this year alone with eeventy-two locomotives shows our capacity to meet the mother country on her own soil, and to-day England and the English colonies are the greatest consumers of American products. The soil has, however, so-far only been scratched. Hundreds of opportunities for competition have , been overlooked simply because American manufacturers have not been able to learn just what sort of article was required for specific localities and purposes. A hay rake that will work In Minnesota will not do for Russia. A Pennsylvania 'Mogul locomotive requires certain changes for use on the, London & Northwestern. And in hundreds of other cases American goods have sought competition abroad because the maker could not use the native article and did not know the llttlo details that made the proffered machine a success or a failure. That is what the congress is now supplying. "Broadly speaking. Europe is buying its manufacturing machinery, shelf hardware, tools, bicycles, typewriters, cash registers and agricultural implements from the United States and I am taking back 2.OU0 pounds' worth of samples of these goods. Then we are breaking into the Malchester market in textiles, and In Turkey and Asia I found a great demand for Information regarding our work in that line. "One of the most interesting and profitable interviews of my trip I enjoyed with Prince Chilkoff, minister of ways and communications of Russia, and a great friend of the Czar. Prince Chilkoff got his training in the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad and is doing all he possibly can to develop American trade with Russia. He told me of the great pleasure with which he watched the erection of the new Westinghouse factory in Russia, where the good3 are in great demand, he having been through the original plant in Pittsburg. "Another most interesting interview was one with President Kruger, whom I found greatly interested in American political and commercial progress. I had told Dr. Leyds that I desired to talk with President Kruger, and President Kruger said: 'Tell him to come at 5 a. m.. to-morrow. It was winter in Pretoria then, as it is now, and when I reached the President's cottage it was still dark. Ills wife had prepared breakfast and President Kruger had talked with several members of the Itaad when I called. Through an interpreter he told me how anxious he was - to give America .every chance to develop trade and urged me to go and see how a real burgher lived. Thq next day I went twenty miles into the country to call on this burgher, who lived like a patriarch, amid his family and servants, all of whom attend prayers and dined together. One of most wonderful things I discovered was the wide advertisement that the Paris exposition has already attained. I verily believe that the whole world will be in Paris next year. The exposition is as well known in Central Asia as it Is in New York, and I heard it talked of from Cape Town to Buenos Ayres." . Movements of Steamers. DOVER. July 23. Passed: Frledrlch der Grosse, from Bremen for Southampton and New lork. QUEENSTOWN. July 23. Sailed: Etru ria for Liverpool and New York. LIZARD. July 23.-Pa?sed: La Norman die. from New ork for Havre. PHILADELPHIA. July 23. Arrived: Pennland, from Liverpool. NEW YORK. July 23. Arrived: La Gas cogne, from Havre. BOSTON. July 23. Arrived: Catalonia, from Laverpooi. BREMEN, July 23. Arrived: Bremen, from New lork. He Rebelled. Chicago Times-Herald. "They say Buxton and his wife have sep arated. "Yes. They expect to be divorced in a little while." "What's the trouble?" "Oh. they quarreled because she refused to go away for the sumraer unless he went along. New Point In Mnrder Cases. NEW YORK. July 23 A dispatch to the Herald from Montevideo says: "A jury has ior ine secona ume acquuiea Avoiino Aredondo. the murderer of President Bordea. Among the arguments brought forward in the prisoner's behalf was one that It was not proved that the President's death was caused directly by the shot, as no autopsy Continuous Performance. Chicago Record. "i spent the wnoie dy to-day helping j una Duy a nai. "What kind did she get?" "Oh: this was onlv th flrsf dv ch never makes up ; her mind until after the xniru uay. Sm ... .... -

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DEVOTED SERVANT "WON THE HEART OF COUNTESS MARIE WY'ANOFF. She Was the Favorite of the Csar and Sought After by Many, but Selected Her Honest Atteudant. New York Journal. The beautiful woman whom Carolus Duran enshrined in his picture, "The Kiss." is the Russian Countess Marie Wyanoff. She has just astonished Europe by marrying her footman. Behind the marriage Is a romance of a most novel character. The countess was wearied and rerplexed by many rich and noble suitors. Did she love any one of them? Did any one of them love her? She could hardly tell. One day she caught the footman surreptitiously kissing her por trait. She learned that he had been secretly in love with her for years. Here, at least. was a man about whose devotion there could be no doubt. That settled It. She married him. The countess was born In Toland, whose daughters are famous for their beauty. At the age of eighteen she married Count Wyanoff, a Russian nobleman of fabulous wealth. Among his many possessions he had a palace near St. Petersburg and another in Paris. All his riches he lavished upon his young wife, whom he adored. She took the fullest advantage of his generosity. She wore the most splendid Jewels at the Russian court, which Is probably the only, place In Ihe world where one may see more of them than at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She had a priceless collection of furs, Including a set of Russian sable? that the Czarina herself miglt envy. She had two hundred horses In her stables and sleighs of every shape, size and style, many being beautifully ornamented and fitted with silver. . The countess was always a creature of reckless generosity and unrestrained impulse. At the opera one night she threw a necklace of three strands of great pearls to a singer who pleased her. The countess early developed a fondness for the society of artists. Painters, musicians and actors were welcomed at her board wherever she might be. Naturally they showed a profound artistic appreciation of a countess who was amiable, beautiful and inexhaustibly rich. Their presence was a source of annoyance to some of her aristocratic friends, but her indulgent husband did not rebel. At last the husband died and left his whole vast fortune to his wife. It included gold, silver, copper, malachite, iron and coal mines, the income of which is almost Incalculable. Among the countess's friends was Carolus Duran, sometimes called "the splendid Carolus," the painter of beautiful and fashionable women and the recipient of the largest income earned by any living artist. He first knew the Countess in the days when he was painting works of art simply, and not portraits of fashionable women for the largest sums of mcney obtainable. The Countess is a perfect example of blonde loveliness, "a daughter of the gods, divinely tall and most divinely fair. One day Carolus Duran begged the Countess to pose as a model for him After some modest protests the Countess consented. When tha nature of the picture in which she was t figure became more apparent to her sho made some further protests but again shd yielded. In doing so she only followed the example of many great ladies of ancient and modern times who have posed for artists in a manner that would seem shocking to the bourgeois mind. The Countess Wyanoff enabled Carolus Duran to paint his great picture, "The Kis?," the most Inspired work he has ever produced. It Is full of passion, grace, tenderness and realism. A beautiful, fair-haired woman, with upturned face, is about to be kissed by her lover. The fair-haired woman of this picture is the most perfect portrait of the Countess Wyanoff ever painted. The countess by no means confined herself to the artistic society of Paris. She never allowed a season to pass without going to St. Petersburg and taking the part In court festivities to which her rank entitled her. After the present Czar's accession and marriage she became a lady of honor to the Czarina. During all this lime the countess was besieged by innumerable suitors for her hand. Among them they possessed every qualification that could be considered desirable in a husband. The fact Js that she was embarrassed by the number and quality of her admirers. Then a strange thing happened. Among her very numerous suite of servants was a footman, a young Frenchman, dark-eyed, clean-cut and muscular. The countess noticed that he was an excellent servant and singularly devoted to his duties, and that was all. "Do footmen have feelings?" the countess mused one day as she noticed the footman at work, and then turned once more to comb her Schipperke dog. The countess noticed another thing, and thought but little about it. Every day for a whole season she found a great bouquet of violets, her favorite flower, upon her dressing table. She regarded it as the act of some thoughtful servant, and presumed that the flowers were paid for out of the money which she allowed so lavishly to her household. Suddenly a great light broke In upon her. One afternoon she walked quickly and silently into the favorite room of her palace. There she saw the footman passionately kiting her portrait in a copy of the great picture painted by Carolus Duran. Then she remembered his devotion, the flowers on the dressing table and many other things. She found out later that he had been wont to gaze upon her picture every day as If he' were enchanted. The man was atrhast when he saw that he was surprised. He expected to be immediately banished from the presence which had been his only happiness for years. The countess had very different views. Here she had discovered a man who really loved her. and was contented to do so even without hope. Here was an escape from her dilemma. As Francois was about to back out of the room the countess asked him, In gentle tones, to stay. He did so. and being quickwitted, he saw that the happiness that he had only dreamed of was within his grasp. He embraced the opportunity and the countess. She consented willingly to an immediate marriage. The lovers went to Vienna, where the countess purchased for her husband an estate which carries with it the title of count. He Is thus ennobled and will be received 'generally at European courts and in good society. They are slid to be very happy, and the husband has shown that he married his wife for love and not for money. STOLEN nY REDFERN. Chief AVIIkle Tells Hoir the Carranxa Letter Was Obtained. Washington Special. John E. Wilkle. chief of the Secret Service, makes a statement over his signature reciting the history of the capture of the famous Carranza letter, which has been the subject of a remarkable story, related by a man named George F. Bell, of Montreal. In which he alleges that the letter was altered after It had been seized. Mr. Wilkie's narration of the facts In the case best establish the falsity of the charges, but. in addition, he says there is absolutely no foundation for the statements made by Bell. No deal was entered into by the Washington office with anyone outside the service, and no one saw the letter until after Mr. Wilkle had removed it from the envelope containing it. Senor Quasada did not translate the letter, and, as he says, he has never seen it, and only recently met Mr. Wilkle for the first time. It is manifest that Bell depended upon statements which have been made in the press relative to the letter and not upon a personal observation. His description of the envelope, for instance, 19 incorrect. Following is the story of the capture by Secret Service agents of tlie letter, told in Mr. Wilkle s own language: "The story of the capture of the Carranza letter Is a simple one, and wa merely an Incident In the onerations of the American agents of the Secret Service In Canada. Operative Itedfern was one of the men stationed In Montreal who had been looking after the movements of Lieutenant Carranza and Captain Du Bosc, and to who?e lot it fell to visit the house occupied by the two Spanish gentlemen a! No. 42 Tupper street. In order that suspicion might not be aroused by the visit, be secured as companions an American gentleman and his wife, who were at that time attached to an American theatrical comrany playing in Montreal. Beth of these people had been known by him for years and were known to be absolutely reliable. They knew he was in the service of the United States government and were perfectly willing to go with him for the purpa of covering his movements. Permission to examine the premises was secured from Mrs. Simpson, the agent for the house, and together they presented themselves about 11 o'clock on the morning of May 2S. "The lady In the party presented the card of permission Issued by the agent and a maid escorted them first to the upper floors. Carre nza and Du Bosc being at breikfast on the first fi vor. As they went through the sleeping rooua occupied by Lieutenant Car-

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Western Military Academy UPPER ALTON, ILL. Twenty-firttyear. Founded a Wymaa Tr.ftltot. Taeiculled in home-like nurroundinr. healthful ne, leTaiing Influent-, and continued fatronre. Nam ber limited to eigt.tr. Ten eble and etterlence Instructors. Graduate ia the leading collec and Uclvenitiet. the Army and tha Nary, latitat lA.rtiatin and eompariaon. A. M. JACEiOX, A. 3L, BaU Dental College Department of Dentistry, University of Indianapolis S. W. Corner Delaware and Ohio Siszs. Receives patients from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m for all kinds of Dental work. The fees are to cover the cost only. ranza. Operative Tied fern noticed . a latge, official-looking envelope on the drefser. as the maid led the way into an adjoining room Itedfern fell behind his companions, v'ao screened him from the view of the maid, and slipped the letter Jn his pocket without attracting attention. The examination of the house being completed, he left his companions at the corner and proceeded to tha office of the United States .consul, general. explaining. to him where h had been and showed him the letter. he had obtained. "Not caring to trust the missive to Canadian malLs, he arranged with the American engineer of a southbound express train to carry tht letter, which he inclosed in a larger one addressed to me at Washington, requestlrg that at the firS opportunity after reaching the United States the letter be placed in the United States mall. The engineer, carrying out his instructions, mailed it in a postal car at St. Albarw, and from that point it was carried in the mall In tts ordinary course to Washington, where It waa delivered on the morning of Decoration day. "Up to the time I received the letter it had not been opened, but was In exactly the condition as when found by Itedfern. I had spent the day down the river and obtained the letter on my return to the city early In the evening. I went at once to tha offlce. opened It. and in order to secure Its) Immediate translation telephoned over to the War Department and requested Lieutenant Wilcox of the bureau of military Information In the adjutant general's office to come over. The lieutenant gat down on one side of my desk and made a running translation of the letter, which I wrote as he read. The mibfitance of the letter was given to Secre tary Gago over the telephone that evening, and the original, with; a full translationhanded to him the following morning." Give Alger Ills Dae. New York Press. When all is said and done there are two things to which army officers will testify. General Alger, as secretary of war, did more to wipe out sectionalism Ly fraUrnlxing Northern and Southern volunteer regiments than any other man since the days of the civil war. He clipped more red tap than any other man the Army Department has known. One of Secretary Aider's first rulings regarding sick soMkrs was that a captain of a company should take care of his men and Ket what they needed regardless of rountine and regulations. 'Take care of your men first." was his rule; "take care of the reflations afterward." The man who has done the executive and administrative work of the Army Department is General Corbin. It is for the President, acting with and through his secretary pf war, to adopt policies and to lay down laws. It is for the adjutant general to carry them out with the utmost expedition, the swiftest uccecs and the moft efficient results. Directly, he creates no policies, but he puts them into execution, He docs not give orders as the fountain head; he Issues them and sees that they are enforced. In his work the adjutant general, by reason of his tremendous executive ability, his marvelous capacity for work and his certainty of purpose, has had no suierior in his department within the memory of Americans of to-dar. Ignorant people have criticised him. Envious people have hated him. Small peopla have minimized him. None of them have understood the functions of the adjutant general, none of them have known what they were talking about. Fuu lu the rhlllI,Inea. Leslie's Weekly. A typical Yankee trick was played on tht enemy over at I'aombong tha other day. There is a church over there, which Is Just across a narrow stream from the hou occupied by our extreme left cutpest of twenty-eight nun from Uattery 11. Third united States Artllltry, who tire ecrvlnc htre as inrantry. The sentry on duty on the church hide of the river conceived the Idea of tying a long roie to ihe clapper of the bell in the teifry, carrying the rope over to his post in the road. Just as he had anticipated, the Filipinos came sneakln down close to the church the other morning, an hour or so before daylight. The gentry heard them coming, and promptly rang the bell. In a twinkling th Filipinos opened on the belfry, and that and the church are now well dented by bullets. The outposts refrained from answering the tire, which was doing no harm, but after every volley at the belfry the sentry with the rop gave the bell twu or three frantic peals. Believing the outposts to be still in the belfry and sorely pressed, the lnsurrectos crept nearer and pound in. as they thought, a tstill more deadly tire. All this time the men of the outpost kept qul't. noting Jyt where the enemy were. At dav light our soldiers opened fo briskly that sixty or sevtnty Filipinos found tluir error and hit the road briskly back to their own outpost, carrying several wcunded men with them. The handy rop has been extended to reach across the river. Kpvtorth 1-enKue' Iteporta. 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