Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1899 — Page 5

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(EXCLt'SIVELV i i Offer 016,160.00 Jennings County, Ind., 4i2 Bonds. Interest payable ml-annuallr. May 15 and Nov; 15. Dener jatlon Principal due. each six months, beginning May 15. 1500. to Nov. 11, 1313. Amounts and maturities to suit purchaser. Price to net you 4 per cent, per annum. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO. Stevenson Building. SEASONABLE RUBBER ARTICLES Bath Caps. Air Pillows and Bleaching Cloves. W3I. II. ARMSTRONG &, CO. (New No. 127) 77 S. Illinois st. Indianapolis. Ind." SflNTO DOMINGO'S RULERS HORATIO VAQUEZ IS MADE PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT. Fall Cabinet Also Appointed Jlmlnes, Who Hopea to Head the Government, En Route to the Cuplt&l. SANTO DOMINGO. Sept. l.-The revolut uonisis nave iormea me ionowing provisional government: President Horatio Vasquez. Minister of the Interior Jose Brache. Minister of War Ramon Cacceres. Minister of Foreign Affairs Domingo Ferreras. Minister of Finance Samuel Moya. Minister of Justice Jose Ma Noel. Minister of Agriculture A rturo Zeno. Minister of Posts 'and Telegraphs Jose Fro Guzman. The seat of the provisional government up to the present has been Moca. There was some disorder hce last night. The residences of Amiama Damiron. former Minister Herriuez and that of former Governor Pichardo were stoned. Nobody, however, was injured. Henrlquez has resigned, and It Is supposed that the other ministers will do the same. A commission, composed of A. Patlno, Mariana Cestero and Alvaro Logrone, has been appointed to maintain order. The French warship Cecille has left this f)Ort. The Dominican warship Restauraclon s still on the rocks at Macoris, and will probably prove a total less. Santo DomlBKO'i Financial System. NEW YORK. Sept l.-The Santo Domingo Improvement Company, whose offices are in , this- city, expresses no concern over the revolution in Santo Domingo. Vice President C. W. Wells said that he had perfect confidence that the contract between the company and the existing government would be respected by the new authorities. He Intimated that the power of the United States government would be exerted, if necessary, to that end. Since 1SD3 the Santo Domingo Improvement Company, by virtue of a contract with the Heureaux administration, has- exercised a large measure of control over Dominican affairs. By virtue of this contract it became the agent for the payment of the Dominican debt, amounting to 1.236,750, the principal and interest being payable in gold in London. The rate of interest on the Dominican bonds varied from 2 to 4 per cent., and the company has established a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the obligations, some or which have nearly one hundred years to run. According to a prospectus issued by tho company, the revenues of the gdvernment In the year before the contract became operative, amounted to Jl.305.0uo, the Mexican sliver dollar being the standard. Since then there ha3 been a steady Increase, and in 1S33 the Income amounted to J3.4OJ.C00. AH of the revenues are collected by the company, which turns over J13.0X) a week to the native authorities for the support or the government, retaining the remalnde for expenses, interest and the sinking fund. Of course.; the company hopes to reap a large profit: from the arrangement. Jlmlnes to He President. CAPE HAITI EN, Sept. l.-A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba announces that Gen. Juan Isldro Jlminez left, to-day. for Puerto Plata. Santo Domingo. He will be made President on his arrival at Santo Domingo city. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Spt. l.-Arrived: Augusta Victoria, from Hamburg; August Orft and I. hn. from Hretnen; He?peria. from Mediterranean ports; Campania, from Liverpool; 8t. Paul, from Southampton. HAMBURG, 8ept. 1. Arrived: FuersrBlmirek, from New York, via Cherbourg ana Southampton; Patricia, from New York. CHERBOURG. Sept. 1. Sailed: Columbia, from Hamburg and Southampton, for New York. LIVERPOOL, Sept. 1. Arrived: Lucanla, from New York. UOSTOr. Sept. X. Arrived: Canada, from Liverpool.

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you want to wear go outing somewhere. fOQ need. WHOLESALE.) EXPLOSION AND FIRE FIVE 31 EX KILLED AXD SEVEN FATALLY OR BADLY INJURED. Bar Mill of the Republic Iron Work Partly Wrecked House Crnnbed by a Fortlon of the Boiler. PITTSBURQ. Pa., Sept. L A boiler explosion at the Republic Iron works shortly before daylight to-day killed five men and seriously injured seven others. Fire which broke out following the explosion added to the horror. The mill was partly wrecked and the entire plant was compelled to close down. The list of killed and injured follows: Killed David Matthews, Thomas Beavens, William Thomas, John Warmnskl and an unknown man, crushed almost beyond recognition. Injured MalachI Donohue, fifty-eight years, puddler, not expected to recover; Neal Donohue, his son, twenty-eight years, burned about head aAi breast, will die; Frederick Hertz, a helpfr, forty-eight years old, skull fractured and burned all over body, will die; Stephen Malacaski, a laborer, bruised and. cut, will recover; Henry Sanders, a puddler, not serious; Peter fcJchnitzer, a helper, not serious: John Evans, cut about head, left the hospital without giving his name. The explosion occurred Just as the night force was leaving and the day force was coming on duty, so there were only a few men In the mill at the time. If It had happened a half hour later the list of dead and injured would have been appalling. ( It occurred In the fourteen-inch department, and the concussion was terrific. Buildings were shaken a mile away and dust filled the air for two or three blocks. It entered open windows and nearly suffocated persons who were aroused by the roar and the shock. Immediately following the explosion the wreckage took fire and this added to the difficulties encountered in rescuing the burned and mutilated victims. A fire alarm was quickly sounded and in a short time the flames were under control, after which the firemen were employed in searching the rains for the dead and injured. The first two bodies taken out were identified as those of Beavens and Matthews. The bodies were lying against their wrecked furnace. The men had been knocked down by the flying bricks and were roasted to death by the heat of their own furnace. The others were found soon after and sent to the morgue. The injured were removed to the South-side Hospital, where they received prompt attention. When the boiler burst a section of It weighing four tons was blown through the roof and crashed Into the side cf the house of Gregory Sanders, on Wright alley, about two hundred yards distant. The building, which was of frame, was wrecked, but the occupants escaped with a bad fright. This flying portion of the boiler tore down the central supports of the roof, which fell In and partially burned some of those injured. The collapsed roof and torn and scattered pieces of machinery and masonry formed a mass .of wreckage in which the work of searching for the bodies hidden beneath was slow and tedious work. ' The bar mill! in which the accident took place, is in a part of what is known as the old Wharton mill and the present owner, the Republic iron works, is a department of the National tube works, recently merged In the tube combine. The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined. The damage to the plant was heavy but the firm could not estimate it at this time. Tree Killed and Fonr Fatally Hurt. MANISTEE, Mich.. Sept. 1. The boiler in Chapman & Sargent's bowl factory at Copemlsh. thirty miles north of here, exploded this afternoon, killing three men and fatally injuring four others. The dead are: Chas. Handy, Perry Melafont, George Estabrook. The fatally injured are: Oliver Sanders, Robert Peterson, Charles Taylor and Howard Ketcham. George Rice was severely but not fatally scalded. The building was tc tally wrecked, debris being scattered for eighty rods around. Water was immediately thrown on the ruins and fire prevented. Handy, who was fireman, was found with his head blown off. The other men were working at the machines In the mill when the explosion occurred. All but three of them leave families. The loss to the factory will be J3.O0O. PRESENTED BY OHIOANS. Silver Service Given to the Gunboat Marietta by Gov. Dashnell. BOSTON. Sept. 1. Governor Bushnell. of Ohio, In behalf of the citizens of Marietta, presented a silver service to the gunboat Marietta at the Charleston navy yard today. Governor Bushnell was accompanied by a delegation of Marietta citizens. On leaching the navy yard, the Governor was received with a ralute of seventeen guns, and under escort of marines proceeded to the dry dock In which the vessel lay deccrated with flag and bunting. The crew of the Marietta, officers of the navy yard, and the invited guests we-e assembled on the deck. After Governor Bushnell had presented the gift. Commander Green, of the Marietta, responded, and short addresses were made by Rear Admiral Pickering, commandant of the navy yard. Colonel J. Payson Bradley, representing Governor Wolcott, and Mayor Qulncy, of Boston.

AGUINALDO'S REVOLT

STRONGLY DENOUNCED BY THE DICTATOR'S FORSIER PARTNER. Instead of Seeking? Independence, the Insurgent Leader Is Said to Be Trying: to Enslave the Filipinos.' VIEWS OF GENERAL FUNSTON HE DOES NOT THINK THE REBELS WILL SOON SURRENDER. Only Solution, He Says, Is a Good Whipping Gen. Wheeler Said to Have a Grievance Against Otis. WASHINGTON. Sept. l.-Somethlng akin to an Insurgent "round robin" has recently came to the attention of the War Department officials in the budget of mall advices received from Manila. This is in the form of a published letter from Isabel Artacho, who is described by the Manila paper as a man of importance, and the "former partner of Agulnaldo." His statement was made under oath and bears date of July 19. It is, in part, as follows: "That the present rebellion, he constantly affirms, far from aiming at the true emancipation of the country, is carried on to gratify personal political ambitions, mean and spurious affectation in order to perpetrate with impunity, under the guise of a so-called political system established under the name of a republic, acts eminently barbarous, tieacherous and despotic, and crimes unknown in the code of penalties throughout the world. "That the . present rebellion against the sovereignty of the United States of North America, while having for Its professed object the absolute independence of the people of the Philippine islands, is, in reality, a movement' to bring the people under the most intolerable slavery domestic slavery and to place in the hands of an individual the sacred ' attributes of God. country, king. "That the present rebellious movement does not have the support of the best elements of the inhabitants of the Islands, those who are free to exercise a wise and honest discrimination, for they recognize that, instead of bringing them desired happiness and prosperity the assumption of independence will lead to self-murder, for the state of chaos , that whl result will bring misery and ruin to the people. "That consistent with his convictions and Ideas, as all free and constant men should be, he has confidence In his heart that the powerful and generous United States of North America, whose governing institutions have for their basis the principle of the most ample liberty of thought in all its manifestations of reason and Justice, will establish her sovereignty In the Philippines in accordance- with the obligations to which she has pledged herself before the world. Inter alia, restore peace and order in the Philippines, to establish liberal institutions there and to lead the people along the path of progress to individual and national prosperity. "The deponent hereby dictates this declaration as a token of hl3 unconditional adhesion to America and to all sensible and honest Filipinos, whilst protesting In the name of reason, of Justice and of a sincere patriotism, against the atrocities, despotism, crimes and shameful exaggerations perpetrated both In the Philippines and In other places by those who falsely arrogate to themselves the right to speak in the name of tho Inhabitants in the Philippine islands." MUST BE WHIPPED. General Funston Says the Insurgents Will Not Surrender. MANILA, Sept. 1. Of the troops about to return to the United States the Kansas men will leave on board the transport Tartar, the Washington regiment on board the Pennsylvania and the Nevada cavalry on the Ohio. All these departures will take place within the next week. Eight hundred men of the Kansas regiment will return and two hundred will remain at Manila, 130 of them re-enlisting. Three officers and thirty men of the Kansas were killed and nineteen officers and men died from disease during the smallpox epidemic, while 123 members of the regiment were wounded. Of the Washington 873 men are embarking, while 8 officers and 206 men will stay, most of those remaining re-enlisting In the new regiments being formed here. One of the 'officers of the regiment was killed, one wounded and one died from disease; 24 of the men were killed, 12S were wounded and 9 died. General Frederick Funston and Mrs. Funston are with the general's regiment. General Funston has undergone an operation necessitated by an injury resulting front a fall from his horse' while serving in the Cuban army with General Gomez. In the course of an interview General Funston remarked that he would not mind staying in Luzon. He dislikes war, but -inasmuch as there is fighting he would like to remain and aid in bringing it to a close. Speaking of the future, he said: "The only solution of the problem will be through whipping the insurgents. I do not think they will surrender. When we begin active operations against them on a large scale In the autumn we will scatter them into small bands and I think when the soldiers composing these bands see they are persistently pursued they will throw away or hide their guns and return to the pursuits of peace. A year hence small bodies of armed men will be able to go. anywhere in Luzon. The island was always infested with bandits and was never safe for Europeans to travel In. Probably after the end of the fighting the highwaymen will be more numerous because the members of Agulnaldo's army, who have lived for years with guns in their hands, have acquired a taste for bush life and would rather continue as highwaymen than return to work. "Cavalry is greatly needed here. The country, when dry. Is superb for cavalry operations. The Insurgents have none. One of their strong points is their ability to, retreaty rapidly. Cavalry could overtake and hopelessly scatter and punish them, and could subsist largely on the country. When cavalry is once here it should be given a chance to go ahead and not be kept in towns for guard duty. Our greatest successes have been gained when the regimental commanders have been allowed to quickly follow up the advantages gained in battle. Small bodies of Americans operating freely and commanded by officers of dash and energy could badly break up the enemy. The capture of Agulnaldo by cavalry would be a less difficult proposition than the capture of the Apache chiefs in Arizona." COL. HAWKINS'S FUNERAL. Burial of the Rematnsof the Manila Hero Memorial Services at Pneo. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 1. The remains of Colonel Henry Leroy Hawkins, commander of the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, who died on shipboard en route from Manila to San Francisco, were burled with military honors In the family lot at the cemetery at Washington, Fa., to-day. The services at the cemetery were in charge of Chaplain Charles A. Hunter, of the Tenth Pennsylvania. Fully twenty thousand people were present. MANILA. Sept. 1. In accordance with Adjutant General Cortln'a suggestion, a

memorial service was held to-day at the graves of the Pennsylvania soldiers at Paco Cemetery. Captain Sutherland eulogized Colonel Hawkins. Colonel Alexander Hawkins, commander of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment, died July 13 last on board the United States transport Senator, which was on its way to the United States, and left Manila on July 10 last.

WHEELER'S C03IFLAINT. "Flghtlnc Joe Thinks Otis Is Trying to Side-Track Him. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. Private advices from Manila state that Gen. Joseph Wheeler in a conversation last Monday said he had repeatedly applied to General Otis for something to do. Otis, he declared, had staved him off under various pretexts, with the evident determination of side-tracking him. General Bates will return to Jolo to continue the negotiations for the pacification of the south archipelago and to post the garrisons in the various towns. General Otis is arranging to begin the publication of a newspaper next week. The soldiers who have been assigned to duty In the composing room complain that as they have been ordered to set type they want typesetters pay. Taussig Ordered. Home. WASHINGTON, Sept. l.Commander Edward D. Taussig has been relieved of the command of the gunboat Bennington by or ders of Admiral Watson, and ordered home from Manila. He is said to have differed with the admiral as to the management ot the fleet and his criticisms led to the action above noted. Unless the offlcer, upon his arrival in the United States, should seek to pursue the matter and ask for a court of inquiry, it Is likely there will be no further steps in the matter. Departure of the Para. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. The following cablegram has been received at the War Department from General Otis: "Nine hundred and twenty-four discharged soldiers sailed on Para yesterday. Final statement in possession of Lieut. Gordon, signal offlcer, acting quartermaster of transport, who will identify men to paymaster at San Francisco. Advisable to make full preparations for prompt payment on arrival of the Para." Signal Corps Snlls for Manila. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. General Greely, chief signal offlcer, received a cable from Manila to-day saying the Nineteenth Volunteer Signal Corps has sailed on the City of Para yesterday, and that the Fifteenth Corps would sail on the Newport on' Sept. 5. These are the last volunteer signal corps soldiers in the Philippines. WHISKY MEN FIGHTING WAR BETWEEN THE GREAT TRUST .AND INDEPENDENT HOUSES. Cut of 4 Cents a Gallon Announced on the Peoria Hoard of Trade "Wholesale Price Now $1.22. PEORIA. 111., Sept. 1. On the Board of Trade to-day whisky was quoted at $1.22 a gallon, the price being on the basis of finished goods. Inasmuch as the market has practically stood at 11.26 on the same basis for over a year, the sudden decline of 4 cents is not only sensational, but is regarded as very significant. It is the trust product that is quoted on the Peoria board, so the change Is authorized by the Distilling Company of America, the gigantic combination of all the trust houses recently formed and the officers of which were elected only a few days ago. While those men who are directly ' identified with the affairs of the trust are not disposed to admit it, a number of prominent commercial men who keep in close, touch with the . whisky market say that this sudden movement means the beginning of a hard fight with the independent houses. In the past year the whisky market has seen some slight fluctuations, but a decline of 4 cents has not happened for a long time. In fact, it Is such a decided innovation that the Board of Trade men, and more particularly the distillers, are making it their chief topic of conversation. About one year ago there was a fight on between the trust and the Independents and for several days It was a struggle to see which element would furnish the official quotation and what that quotation should be. After a general see-sawing the trust price was recognized as official and has since been quoted exclusively. Since that time there has been a comparative calm and the price has hovered very close to the $1.26 mark. But with the reorganization of the trust interests comes. Without warning, this phenomenal drop in price. Two interpretations are put on it. Commercial men, not personally Interested, do not hesitate in giving the opinion that the price is cut by the trust in order to compete with the independents, or. In other words, the independent houses have made such sacrifices in order to cut Into the trust's business that the latter is compelled to quote less rrlces to retain its patrons. On Paper Only. TERRD HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 1. Fred B. Smith, president and general manager of the Merchants' Distilling Company, the biggest anti-trust plant in the country, stated to-day that the recent decline in the price of spirits as made by the trust is on paper only. The trust, he says, whose published price for several months has been $1.26, has for some reason decided to publish a price of $1.22; It Is known to the trade that the trust, as well as outside houses, has been selling at $1.21 for the past six weeks or two months, and the statements sent out that spirits has declined sharply is mere fallacy. The cut is made, Mr. Smith says, to endeavor to shut out the Merchants' Distillery Company, but that concern is running 4.500 bushels a day, ahd will increase Sept. 10 to five thousand bushels. Mr. Smith prophecies the disorganization of the trust within the next twelve months, for, he- says. Its methods are modeled after those of tho other distilling and cattle-feeding company, which failed disastrously. Speakers at Trust Conference. CHICAGO, Sept. 1. The following persons have been invited to speak at the conference on combinations and trusts and some of them have accepted the invitation: A. J. Van Landlngham, Chamber of Commerce, St Louis; Hon. William Lindsay. Frankfort, Ky.; Hon. John G. Carlisle, New York; P. E. Dow, president Commercial Travelers' National League, New York city; Hon. T. S. Smith, attorney general, Austin. Tex.; M. M. Garland, president Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, Pittsburg. Pa.; Hon. W. J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.; Hon. Edward Rosewater, Omaha, Neb.; ex-Senator W. V. Allen. Madison, Neb.; ex-Governor Alva Wymanst Pueblo. Col.; ex-Governor W. A. McCorkle, Charleston. W. Va. The Glass Tableware Combination. PITTSBURG, Sept. 1. Notwithstanding the fact, as announced last night, that the projected combination of the glass tableware companies Into the National Glass Company had been abandoned, there is probability of a new combine being formed. At a meeting to-day it was decided to reduce the rroposed capitalization from $7,000,000 to $3,000,000 and form an organization under the original name without the co-operation of the United States Glass Company, the stumbling block In the way of the first plan. The promoters of the latter scheme say they do not expect the United States company to change Its position, but they feel confident the organization will be consummated. Snlt Affalnst School Furniture Trust. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 1. A suit has been filed In the District Court by Attorney General Smythe, the petition of which declares the existence of a school furniture trust and asks that the unlawful combination be prohibited from doing business in Douglas county or in the State of Nebraska. The defendants in the suit are twenty-two school furniture companies, nearly all located In Ohio and Michigan, which, the attorney general states, have formed a combination under the title of the American School Furniture Company.

OPINIONS OF CUBANS

COMMENTS ON PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S CENSUS PROCLAMATION. Manuel Sanguilly Alludes .to Its Stinging Dryness and Intimates It Is Neither Frank Nor Explicit. PEOPLE IN NEED OF A LEADER POPULAR 3IAN COULD EASILY BRING ABOUT ANNEXATION, Idea of a Protectorate Growing: Stronger Every Day, According to Mr. Williams Gen. Lee's Report. HAVANA, Sept. 1. La Lucha, referring to President McKlnleys census proclamations, says: "A careful study of the proclamation does not reveal, as some seem to think, reasons for ringing the bells. It is not a matter of any consequence that Secretary Root has made some ambiguous statements, for the census inspectors. If the United States government desires, will say anything." Manuel Sanguilly, in a letter to the Discusclon, says: "The census proclamation has heen the cause of surprise and dissatisfaction. The first time the President of the United States speaks to the Cubans he speaks with the most stinging dryness. The proclamation is the greeting of a friend rather than the disdainful order of a superior. Cubans would have welcomed brevity and even rudeness, if only the document were frank and explicit. Obviously It does not refer even remotely to the joint resolution of Congress, which we had a right to hope would be referred to, nor even to the time when the military occupation is to cease. It is obvious from the proclamation that the United States government has some plan, the ugh it is not clear that the plan includes the fulfillment of the joint resolution. Everything Is reduced to a question, of patience. Very probably Congress will favor the independence of the Cubans and be disposed to give loyal aid to the President in all his undertakings In Cuba." At a club where he spent last evening, Sanguilly remarked to a friend that if there existed one real Cuban leader he could sweep the country. for either a protectorate or annexation. The Heraldo prints the proclamation, but makes no .comment on it further than to publish the views of other newspapers, winding up with the remark: "Now bring on the census." Colonel Carlos Cespedes says the Cubans in the city of Havana are false to their best ideals, but that those in the provincial districts remain true to them. Mr. Ramon Williams, former United States consul general here, thinks the idea pf a protectorate Is growing stronger every day. He believes that the Nuevo Pals, the principal advocate of a solution of the Cuban problem through a protectorate, represents very largely the feeling of the influential classes. He says the paper has . always been a conservative and well-edited sheet, employing some of the best-informed Cuban writers. A good deal of surprise Is expressed at the exceptional honors shown Colonel Cespedes by General Gomez and his adherents on his arrival In Havana. This tribute is Interpreted as going to show tne truth of the earlier reports that the Gomez party intends to nominate Cespedes for President if Gomez proves unavailable as a candidate. General Gomez is deeply grieved at the reported decision of Governor General Brooke not to pay anything more on the supplementary rolls of the Cuban army. He declines, however, to express a further opinion until he has conferred with General Brooke on the subject. Gen. Ruls Rivera, civil governor of Havana, has written Senor Domingo Mendez Capote, secretary of the government, to the effect that he is in receipt of numerous letters from Cubans residing in France and Spain, who request him to nominate consuls of Cuba In those countries, or to ask the consuls of the United States to protect the Cubans until a permanent arrangement has been made. The United States transport Ingalls, formerly the Clearwater, will be converted Into a gunboat for work against the pirates along the south coast and also to prevent smuggling. Lieutenant Commander Young, captain of the port, who has charge of providing her armament, has made requisition on the ordnance department for two sixpounders and a Colt . automatic 38-caliber gun, the latter to be used with the Ingalls launch. The Heraldo to-day says: "Hitherto much enterprise in agriculture has been blasted or prevented on account of the absence of good roads. Before making main roads the authorities should construct and mend roads around the towns, so as to enable the small farmers to sell their produce." The work on the lieutenant governor's palace is still suspended, owing to the masons' strike, although vigorous efforts are being made to arrange a settlement of the difficulty. Senor Capote has indorsed and referred to the Governor General a petition of the mayor of the city of Pinar del Rio, asking a credit of $10,000 to be applied In repairing roads. At 3 p. m. the temperature in Havana was 86 degrees. General Lee's Recommendations. CHICAGO. Sept. 1. A special to the Times-Herald from Washington says: "Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has made an elaborate report on prevailing conditions In the territory In Cuba under his jurisdiction, and takes strong ground for an independent government for the Cubans under an American protectorate. He recommends a republican government, with a president, vice president and a congress. He would have this established soon, and advises the holding of a general election, for the selection of these officers. He says nothing about a constitution, leaving It to be inferred that he either overlooked that step or would have it left to the Cuban congress to provide after its installation in office. In this connection he lays stress upon the need of a system of Jurisprudence suitable for an independent government, and so guarded as to secure justice to the people. General Lee evidently foresees that, while the United States might provide Cuba with a model system of government, the natives would be likely to spoil it in the administration, and he has submitted suggestions for keeping the government machinery running along lines that commend themselves to the American mind. He says the United States should keep a strict supervision over Cuba until its republican government is completed and firmly established. Even after relieving the Cubans in part of American protection, he would have United States troops maintained In the island to protect Americans and other aliens in the enjoyment of their personal and property rights." CAPTIVES TORTURED. Bodies of Mexicans and Americans Mutilated by Yaquls. . PHOENIX. A. T.. Sept. l.-Harry Logan, formerly of Phoenix, returned to-day from a trip to Sonora, Mexico, leavilng there two weeks ago. He was three miles from the seat of the first, Yaqul uprising when it occurred, and the shooting, and yells of the Indians were plainly audible. He says the uprising was a great deal more serious than was reported by the-newspaper correspondents. It was difficult jo trace the operations of the Indians, and many lives were lost which were not' reported. The Yaquls tortured a number of captives. Logan was one of a party which discovered the bodies of several Mexicans and two Americans on the Yaqul river, and the way the victims met their death was apparent. Their ears had been cut off nd other sections of therr bodies removed with knives. After this tho soles of their feet were removed and the unfortunates compelled to

dance over beds of cactus. When rendered unconscious by pain their heads were split open with axes. Indians Defeated Again. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. L-The news to-day from the Yaqul country shows that the Indians have been again encountered by the Mexican troops under General Torres and twice defeated and dispersed, taking refuge in the mountains, where they are being pursued by the troops. The hostile bands are relatively Insignificant and settlers are regaining confidence. There is little news from the campaign In Yucatan, but work on the Southeastern Railroad has been inaugurated, and when the road is built It will be easy to subdue the hostile Indians, whose menace prevents the fullest development of that fertile region. BEZENAH KNOCKED OUT.

Sent to the Floor by Joe Gans In the Tenth Round. NEW YORK, Sept. l.-Joe Gans. of Baltimore, whipped Eugene Bezenah, of Cincinnati, at the Broadway Athletic Club tonight. The men met for a twenty-flve-round go at 123 pounds. For the first three rounds Gans' confined himself to sizing up his opponent. In the fourth Bezenah went to the floor, but got up Instantly and threw a right swing which landed In the middle of Gans's back. In the next round Gans punished his man in the short ribs and over the kidneys, forcing Bezenah to the ropes and floor. Bezenah was very wild in the sixth and fought blindly. Gans was cautious in the seventh until he saw an opening, when he sent his right in and Bezenah remained on the floor for nine seconds. Bezenah's legs seem to give out in the eighth and after receiving a kidney blow he staggered all over the ring and went down three times before the call of time. Rights and lefts were showered on Bezenah in the ninth and the end came in the tenth. Gans shot his left hard on the face and followed it with two rights on the Jaw, which put the Westerner on his back and he was counted out. Time of last round, two minutes twenty-three seconds. Sam Bolan, of this city, finished Herman Miller in three hounrs. Then Frank Carroll, of Chicago, was pitted against Bolan for six rounds and the result was a draw. Declared a Draw. CHICAGO. Sept. 1. One of the fastest and most scientific fights witnessed here in years took place at the Fort Dearborn Club to-night between Harry Harris, a local Impounder, and Jimmy Barry, who up to his retirement last winter was conceded to be the peer of any bantem weight. The points were so evenly divided in the end that the referee declard the bout a draw. In the preliminary Frank Noel, of St Louis, knocked out Dave O'Connor, of Pittsburg, in a minute and a half of the first round. Tommy Ryan, of Syracuse, and Joe Choynskl were matched to-night to meet here in a six-round bout Oct. 6. Jeffries to Flsht Dundalk. NEW YORK. Sept. l.-JIm Jeffries, of California, and Tom Sharkey, of Dundalk, Ireland, will fight for the heavy weight championship of the world . at the Coney Island Sporting Club on Oct. 23. This was decided to-day at a meeting of the managers of the pugilists. Only two bids were received for the contest and the managers of the clubhouse by the seaside having given the better Inducements, secured the bout. The Coney Island Club offered 63 2-3 per cent, of the gate receipts with a guarantee of $30,000 and deposited a certified check for $2,500 as a forfeit. OPENING GUN OF CAMPAIGN. Mass Meeting of the National Independent Labor Party. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The mass meeting of the Independent Labor party, held in Cooper Union auditorium to-night for the purpose of ratifying the party's platform, was largely attended. Wi-liam J. O'Brien, who was made permanent chairman, declared that this was practically the opening gun of the campaign of 1S99. The platform, he said, had the hearty indorsement of 150 trades-union In this city, whose members were prepared to throttle the politicians who have been throttling labor for feo long a time. Addresses were made by a number of prominent labor men, and Mayor John C. Chase, of Haverhill, Mass. Mayor Chase said: "This gathering is a manifestation of the spread of socialism. I am not here to advocate the surrender of the SocialistDemocratic party, neither am I here to say that it Is the only party in the country." He said he was not opposed to trusts and monopolies, but on the contrary he would be glad to see one of them formed every minute In the day. He asserted that if the vrorkingmen want to emancipate themselves, they must do it themselves, or stay In the mire all their Uvea The platform of the party, which was made public two weeks ago, was then read and declared ratified, after which the meeting was adjourned. WILL CONVICT DREYFUS. Views of a Hebrew Clergyman Who Has Just Returned from Europe. CHICAGO, Sept. L "Captain Dreyfus will again be convicted of treason to France," said Rev. Dr. Emll G. Hlrsh, a prominent Hebrew clergyman, upon his return to Chicago from Europe to-day. "After a dispassionate review of the case I am forced to the conclusion that Justice to this Jew will not obtain, though thero is not tho slightest doubt in the minds of honorable and thinkable men of Europe France included that he should be honorably acquitted. The French people are bound to have Dreyfus found guilty and guilty he will be found, though a terrible wrong be done," continued the minister. "Not alone are the people of France as a whole set against the suffering captain of artillery, but the entire military arm of the public service, with few exceptions, may be said to be solidly arrayed against him. The whole of Paris echoes and re-echoes day by day with the ravines of the anti-Semitic forces, until the visitor from abroad, no matter from what country he may hail, is forced to the belief that the people of France are in a frame of mind which causes him to doubt if they are rational." CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED. Twelve People Injured and Animals Scattered In All Directions. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. I.-A dispatch to the News from Tolner's . Station says a special train bearing Cooper's circus was wrecked there this morning by the bursting of an air brake hose and twelve persons were more or less Injured and circus property and animals scattered In all directions. No doctors are obtainable at that place and it is impossible to tell the extent of the injuries. None is thought to be fatally hurt. Air Brakes Refused to Work TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. I. The Union Pacific west-bound overland passenger train which left here at noon was wrecked at 8Ilver Lake, twelve miles from this city, by running into the rear end of a freight train. The airbrakes of the passenger train failed to work. The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping. Beyond a bad shake-up, none of the passengers was Injured. FIVE BATHERS DROWNED. Man, Three Girls and One Boy Got Beyond Their Depth. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 1. One man and four children, three girls and one boy, were drowned at Black Rock to-day, while sea bathing. The dead: Elijah Meddlebrook, of Easton, Pa.; May Meddlebrook, fourteen years old. his daughter; Tony Cohler, fourteen years old, of Easton; Ethel Hltt. of Bridgeport; Florence Hltt, fourteen years, her tlsur. The five victims, with Andrew Cohler, father of the drowned boy, and Louis HltC of this city, father of the two drowned girls, were spending the day at Black Rock. While bathing they all got beyond their depth. Only two succeeded in getting ashore. Three of the bodies were recovered.

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NOT THE OLD TAX LEVY TAGGART AD311XISTRATIO TvTLXJ SOT Cl'T DOWN ITS INCREASE. Probably 65 Cents Will Be the Best Rate It Can Reach The Estimates. Mayor Taggart and City Controller John son had a talk yesterday evening in the office of the controller. Part ot the time the doors were closed and locked. The controller had before him on his desk the estimates submitted by the different departments of their probable expenses next year. The mayor and controller did not leave the office until after 5 o'clock. Mr. Taggart said they had been going over the estimates to' see where they could be reduced without Impairing the usefulness of the particular department where the reduction would be made. The city controller said he would probably not announce the "figures' submitted by the different departments until rext Monday night, when he will send them to the Council for the consideration of that , body. The controller will also communicate to the Council what he thinks the tax levy should be for next year. Mayor Taggart said yesterday that he was still "hopeful" of reducing the levy to 60 cents, but he was in doubt about being able to do so. He thought, however, that the rate would be very close to 65 cents. In estimating Its revenues for next year the administration is counting on receiving 30.0ft) from the street-railway company, and $,00a from the New telephone company. The Board of Safety. In asking for Its appropriation, requests that provision be made for twenty-five more policemen and an additional flre-englne house. Paving Question Goes to City Attorney The city attorney will, be asked to decide the Bellefontaine-street paving question. Two petitions were sent to tho board, one asking for asphalt and another for a wooden block pavement. It was found that the asphalt petition contained a majority of the resident property owners, but those Interested in the block petition declared that eleven petitioners had withdrawn their names from that petition. They raised the point that this was not a legal proceeding, and the city attorney will have to decide lu , BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE. Final Action Taken. The board heard remonstrances and took final action for the cementing of the sidewalkibf Meridian street, from South street to Russell avenue. Appraisement Ordered. Albert Sahm, John H. McMorrow and Joel A. Uaker, appointed to appraise the aggregatevalue of real estate abutting on tho proposed line of improvement of Ringgold avenue, from Orange avenue to Minnesota street, with gravel roadways, brick gutter and curbing. Contracts and Bonds Approved. The board approved contracts and bonde for the following improvements: In behalf of Daniel Foley, for gravelingthe roadway, bricking gutters, cementing sidewalks and curbing. Twenty-seventh street, from Northwestern avenue to Clifton street. In behalf of Daniel Foley, for graveling the first alley east of State avenue, from. Orange street to a point 2S8 feet north. In behalf of Daniel Foley, for graveling the first alley cast of Woodslde avenue, from the second alley north of Southeastern avenue to Southwestern avenue. In behalf of John Moore, for graveling the roadway and cementing the sidewalks ofNew . York street, from Oriental street to Arsenal avenue. In behalf of J. C. Vlney. for paving with cement the sidewalks, next to curb, of Pratt street, from Pennsylvania street to Illinois street. In behalf of Henry T. Noltlng. for graveling the roadway and cementing the sidewalks of Morris street, from Sheffield avenue to Tremont avenue. Privilege Granted. On recommendation of the city engineer, the board granted the Columbia Club the right to lay an eight-inch sewer on Wabash street to connect with the sewer on Meridian street. . Petition Filed and Referred. For Investigation and report for construction of a local sewer In the first alley east of New Jersey street, from Tenth street to Eleventh street Vapor Llsjnts Ordered. The Sun Vapor Street Light Company was ordered to locate a lamp nt the Intersection of the first alley west of Illinois street, and. one at the southeast corner of Villa avenue and Prospe:t street. CITY NEWS NOTES. Mr. James Hunter, clerk of the Criminal Court at Memphis, Tenn., and a prominent politician of that city, is at the Hotel English. He Is with General Vaughn, a wellknown West Tennessean, who came here to be treated and is critically 111. The pulpit of the Central-avenue M. Ev Church will be filled by the pastor. Rev. Dr. Lasby. The musical programme will Include a solo by Miss Jeannette Judson. "But the Lord Is Mindful of His Own.', and a quartet, with alto by Miss Jeffries, "Far from My Heavenly Home." SSBBBSBISBSSBHSSBaSSBBBSBBBBBBSBBBBBBnBSBBBBV Delegates to 31. E. General Conference The Indiana Annual Conference of the M. D. Church, which will meet at Greeneaetle cn the 13th Inst., will elect an equal number of lay and ministeral delegates to the General Conference of the church, to meet in Chicago in May next. This will largely ircrease the delegation for the General Conference, giving seven delegates each of ministerial and lay members. As one prominently connected with the lay movement for this equalization, the friends of Captain J. B. Conner have suggested that he should go as lay delegate to the general body from this district. nSBSBBBSBSnSlBBBSBSBBBBBSBBSBSSBBHSBSBBBBSBBISBBSSBBt Kashner Dies at West Baden. . The funeral of Alonro R. Kashner, who died at West Baden of jaundice, will take place at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from his late residence, 1230 East Sixteenth street. He was connected with the Arthur Jordan company for several years, but recently engaged in the grocery buelness on East Sixteenth street. He leaves a widow and four children. r Drl vicar Club Track Record Broken.. At the Bulsness Men's Driving Club races yesterday afternoon D. B. Shideler's Major paced an exhibition half-mile in 1:05. lowering the record. 1:06. which was set by Emma Wilkes a year ago. 11. H. Gates drove Major. Major is six years old. Incorporated. The Standard Shoe Company, of Coluabus, was yesterday incorporated, with a capital stock of $30. 000. The directors are William L. Questel. F. D. Euth, W. H. Brockman, Arthur Overstreet and J. L Irwin. Hi mm m How to Pro tcrvo, Purify end Decu tify the Skin and Complexion The dearest, softest, whitest akin, free from pimple, spot, cr blemish. Is produced tj Cctjccsa 601F. It prevents plnpto, blackheads, blotches, red, roagn, and oily tMn.and other facial blemishes, ras3,ta4 erupticrj, becacre it pre rents lnHx-sr-.ttitq aad clcjiB5 ef the Poars, tlj cri cZ nrr5