Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1899 — Page 5

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SEASONABLE RUBBER ARTICLES Patx" Caps, Air Pillows and Bleaching does. Wit. II. AimsTitoxr. fc CO. Nr No. 127) 77 S. Illinois at.. Indianapolis. Ind. BiNTHEIM IS POSITIVE JIJ REITERATES HIS STORY CO.CEIl.MXG Sill. FLORSCHELT. Bum the Latter "Was the Medlnm by . Which French "War Secrets "Were . Sent to German O Ulcers. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 6. Charles E. Bentielra to-day reiterated to the representaive of the Associated Press the absolute ruth of his statement Involving Vice Coniul Florscheutz in the German secret service work between Berlin and Paris. "Of course Florscheutr will deny this," said Benthelm, "but it can be easily fastened on him. The point Jn question Is really this: Inquire In the right direction. There is no going to Florscheutr about this thing. He will naturally deny It and the rage of the Germans will turn on us. If Florscheutz denies his connection with this matter let this question be put to him: 'For what purpose did Florscheutz hand over to me (Benthelm) a fnoney order calling for 1,500 marks, signed by the Emperor?' "What the honorable secretary of state, ,Jlr. Hay. says about the vice consul at Sonneberg is absolutely correct. Florscheutz -was vice consul beginning in 1SSS. The German government wanted him made consul, but this position he was not allowed to fill because he was a German. I do not know positively that he was cashier of the bank at Sonneberg. He was a director; Franz was a director and his bank often figured In the handling of the secret service funds, as I have told you. I will be willing to respectfully submit to the honorable secretary of . state the direction in which to look for convincing evidence of all that I charge. 1 say again: Florscheutz was using his official position as vice consul and deputy consul to aid the German secret service in obtaining the information from France. He placed his services at the disposal of the German secret service and between the ' years 1890 and 1SJH he was actively engaged as confidential agent of the secret service. "Let the honorable secretary of state request the American ambassador at London to get permission from the commissioner general of postofflces in London and go to the village of Holmrook and examine the postofflce records there which are not destroyed. Evidence there In black and white will show the truth ol' every assertion I have made." "What course do you suggest for the securing of information regarding the German branch of this service?" "It would be manifestly impolitic to make that public. As I say, I am willing to respectfully submit any suggestions to an accredited representative of the United States government regarding a way in which this matter may be ferreted out. Once our hand is shown the German government will effectually destroy every bit of evidence which will yet confirm what I say. While it will be difficult to prove from physical evidence furnished by the papers themselves that the letterheads and envelopes were used by Florscheutz because these papers are In the secret archives in the War Office in Berlin, yet evidence can be secured. If It can be proven between lbOO and 1S94 that Florscheutz was engaged In the purchase of French War Office merchandise the presumption that he prostituted his office will be strong. This can be proven. Florscheutz did handle the German secret service money In this matter. I can give dates and details regarding the handling of this money which cannot be disputed." Benthelm Is evidently a man of remarkable memory. The facility with which he mentions names and dates could come only of long association. He is a man of attainments and polished manners. He says he wants no money for anything he may have in the way of knowledge in this matter and modestly protests against the prominence which has been given him. He claims to be a Jew and Is believed by the few people who have met him to be one. He speaks with a strong German accent, yet there is a trace of Hebrew in the lines of his face. His manner Is that of a frank and honest man and at no time does he eurcest evasiveness. Regarding the charge made bv somebody that he enlisted In the United States army under an assumed name. Benthelm says: 'That is nonsense.- The steamer which brought me over here in 1K8 was the Russia. She sailed from Bremen. I don't remember the name of the line, bu a perusal of the books of the company in New York will show my name there If the documents are properly kept." BenthHm was pressed further for his recollection of the disappearance of the documents from the French War Office. "I can recall many of them." he said, "and I thlnH If I were to put myself to it I could write you a description of the war vessel as handled by me. You know at the top of the sheet describing a certain boat wo.uId be the word 'Rapport.' This would be underscored and on a line by Itself. Under this was generally written: Sur les experiences, faitcs avec le "Goubet." Bateau sous Marine Here would follow the mode of construction .and method of maneuvering the boat. Over at the left hand side of the paper a border of. say two Inches, was clear. This was used for comment on the matter in the report. For instance, ruch notes as 'Could not get model. 'Minimum l.Onfl. etc., would be seen. These comments were found In the description of the submarine boat Goubet. In a case where the Information was not complete this paper would be taken by Slgl. who would write In this border: 1.000. 5,000, l.ooo This meant marks and was to be used In procuring further detail. This showed what the German government was willing to pay for It. If the man in whose possession the information was held wanted l.Ono france the the groups 1.000 and 5,000 would be marked off. This was the way the matter of pay In a branch was made known, but there wa nlways an effort made to keep from writing anything more on the documents." Denthelms Story Discredited. GALENA. Kan.. Sept. 6. Hon. E. C. TVellep. ex-consul to Sonneburg. Germany, says of the Benthelm interview, sent out from Atlanta, Ga.: "I cannot believe Benthelm's ctpry. He implicates one Herr Alvin Florscheutz In the matter. -When I was consul at Sonneburg Mr. Florscheutz was my clerk and had been a clerk at the consul office for a number of years, and on my recommendation was made vice consul Benthelm says Florscheutz . was recommended by the German government to our govrrr.ment as consul of the United 8tates at Sonneburg and he was accepted. Tills is not true, Although he was vice consul under me. Our laws do not allow a foreigner to

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act as consul in foreign lands. He must be a naturalized citizen of the United States at iast. which Florschuetz was not. Also, Benthelm makes another error when he states documents were received in the regular United States consular envelopes with the usual 'official business only printed on them, as such envelopes are not transmissible in the malls of the old country unless stamped, so that the American consular seals could not have been used as a safeguard." Mr. Wellup was consul at Sonneburg during President Cleveland's first term. SCORED BY A JUDGE. Methods of Bank Assignee rinnkln- ' ton Severely Criticised. MADISON. Wis., Sept. 6.-Justice Winslow, of the Supreme Court, in an opinion handed down on the recent Milwaukee Planklnton Bank decision, warmly scores the methods of the assignee, William Planklnton, in his methods of conducting the affairs of the assigneeship and criticises the lower court. Among other things the opinlon'says: ' "We are compelled to say. In the present case, that the fundamental rights of the creditors seem to have been systematically Ignored by the assignee and by the court. If any additional order could have been deVised which . would more completely and thoroughly prevent the investigation of the transactions of the assignee we do not know what it could be. The creditors 'ound themselves out of court and the doors barred to all future entrance except for the purpose of considering the question of the compensation of the assignee. It seerns to us manifest that there has been in this case a denial of several ibsolute and valuable rights which the law guarantees to the creditors of an insolvent estate. The arm of this court is now nerveless, because no writ is found in the form books go framed as to meet the emergency. The writ will be framed to meet the exigencies of the case and the court will discharge the duties of the trust reposed with it by the people, though it becomes necessary to modify and enlarge the terms of the ancient writ." NAVAL VETERANS SPLIT SEW YORK AXD SEW JERSEY DELEGATES TO START SEW SOCIETY. Hovr Over the Admission of Heroes of the Spanish-American Wnr to Membership Bars 3fot Let Down. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6. There were lively tlme3 at to-day's session of the fourteenth annual convention of the National Association of Naval Veterans. A resolution providing for the admission of participants in the Spanish war to membership in the association started a rumpus, and the result was that there is now a spilt In the organization. At the convention held in Cincinnati last September the resolution above mentioned was Introduced, and. under the rules, was laid over until this year. There was much discussion among the members as to the advisability of admitting the Spanish war veterans, and-when the resolution came before the association to-day everybody was ready to fight for or against it. The leader of the forces in favor of the proposition was Past Rear Admiral B. S. Osborn, of the Farragut Association, New York city. lie delivered a passionate address, in which he said that the Naval Veterans Association should be perpetuated by admitting the men of the late war, and not let the organization die with the veterans of the civil war. He was followed by Surgeon A. Trego Shertzer, of Baltimore, who stoutly maintained that the association was organized for the sailors of the civil war only, and 'hat It should die with them. A number of other speeches were made and the vote on the resolution was overwhelmingly against admitting the men of the late war. When the result was announced the Farragut delegates, from New York, and the delegates from the Admiral Boggs Association, of Newark. N. J., walked out in a body. It is their Intention to start an opposition association, to be known as the United States Veteran Navy, and the headquarters will probably be in New. York city. The bolters claim that they will get nearly two hundred members from the Naval Veterans Association and will admit to membership all those who were in the navy during the Spanish war. Outside of this episode the convention was a harmonious one. Rear Admiral Foss, of Minneapolis, was in the chair and made a very able address. A resolution was adopted abolishing the title of rear admiral and giving the highest officer in the association the title of commodore commanding. The proposition to parade with the Grand Army of the Republic each year was defeated, as was also a resolution providing for the organization Of a beneficial society within the association. The convention will be visited to-morrow by Admiral Sampson, of the North Atlantic squadron, now in the city. At the meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary, Naval Veterans. Mrs. Hannah Green, a descendant of the Indian chief, Mlantonomah, was present. The greater part of the day's session was confined to extending the limits of membership. Hitherto the wives, sisters, daughters and nieces of veterans of the war of 1312. the Mexican war and the rebellion have been eligible. To-day descendants of the revolutionary veterans were added, and on the Spanish-American war it was decided to await the action of the men's association. Officers were elected as follows: Captain commander. Mrs. A. R. Sears. Baltimore: commander. Mrs. Lena Raddatz. Philadelphia; lieutenant, Mrs. E. A. Wltcher. Jersey City; senior lieutenant. Mrs. Harriet Yeabulon. Philadelphia; Junior lieutenant. Mrs. Hannah W. Green. Providence; paymaster, Mrs. Traverse. Providence: fleet chaplain. Mrs. Cora B. Stone. Baltimore; secretary, Mrs- Jennie Laird. Providence. To-night the association held a "dog watch." Movements of Steamers. QUEENSTOWN. Sept. 6.-Arr!ved: Aurenla. fronvNew York, for Liverpool; Belgenland. from Philadelphia, for Liverpool; New England, from Boston, for Liverpool. NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-Arrlved: Ems, from Genoa: Servia. from Liverpool. Sailed: St. Paul, for Southampton: Southwark, for Antwerp; Teutonic, for Liverpool. SOUTHAMPTON. Sept. 6.-ArrIved: St. Louis and Saalc, from New York. Sailed: Trave. from Bremen, for New York. CHERBOURG. Sept. 6. Arrived: Graf Waldersee, from New York, via Plymouth, for Hamburg. BOULOGNE. Sept. 6.-Arrived: Amsterdam, from New York, for Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL. Sept. 6. Arrived: Ccphaloniu. from Boston. BREMEN. Sept. 6. Arrived: Prinz Regent Lulipold, from New York. LONDON. Sept. C-Arrlved: Marquette, from New York.

BROAD RIPPLE STORM

TERRIFIC WIXD BLOWS OVER 3IOST OF THE OIL DERRICKS. On the White River Company's Lease Fifteen Ont. of Seventeen "Were Destroyed. A HEAVY DOWNPOUR OF HAIL A BRIEF .RESPITE FR03I ANOTHER HEAT RECORD BREAKER. Warmer Again To-Day How the Mercury Traveled Up and Down Yesterday. Yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock when people in tho city were hurrying to their homes and places of business on account of a threatened severe storm, the village of Broad Ripple and the surrounding country was being deluged by rain and hail. The heat was very oppressive in the morning and about noon clouds began to gather In In the west. At 1 o'clock the heat of the sun was .such that many were obliged to seek the shade, and about 2 o'clock a heavy storm bore down from the northwest. First came rain in huge drops, followed by heavy hail and rain. The wind was terrific and some of those out. In the storm said they were not able to see more than ten feet. After the first gusts of wind from the northwest,, the wind shifted and for some minutes seemed to come from all directions. . The storm lasted not more than twenty minutes and the sun appeared again, and the heat was more unbearable than before. There was but little damage done in the town, but In the oil country near by many derricks were blown over, and last night it was said that but few were standing. On the White River Oil Company lease on the east side of the river, south of the river bridge, fifteen out of seventeen derricks were blown down. All of the derricks on the Henry Hessong farm, where the first wells were found, were destroyed Reports from north of Broad" Ripple were that much damage had been sustained in that direction, where apparently was the center of the storm. John H. Holliday, living north and east of town, lost a barn roof. According to the reports received the derricks on the Claypool farm were the only ones uninjured. They were all guyed with heavy wires. About the time the storm was raging at Broad Ripple, residents of the northern part of the city suddenly experienced relief from the heat in the breeze that seemed to come from some great refrigerator. Within a few moments the thermometer showed a difference of about seven degrees. It did not last long and the mercury took a bound upward almost as quickly as it had dropped, only to go down again more gradually. The change was no doubt due to the cooling of the atmosphere by the hail which fell. WARMER THAN IN 28 YEARS. 3Iercury Worked Itself to OS Before the Storm Arrived. Yesterday arid Tuesday were the two record breaking September days of the last twenty-eight years. According to the Weather Bureau, there 13 nothing on the records to show that during the last twentyeight years the thermometer had ever before reached a higher point than 96 on any September day. What yesterday afternoon might have been it is not known, for, just at the time when it seemed as though the thermometer had become fixed at &S, a storm appeared in the distance, and, although it never reached this city in full force, a few drops accompanied by strong wind sent the mercury down rapidly. Tuesday night was a distressing one to nearly everyone who tried to sleep, and many people spent the night on porches or in easy chairs, where what little breeze there was would strike them. Yesterday started in hotter than ever. At 7 o'clock the Weather Bureau thermometer stood at 78, which was five degrees lower than at the same time the day before. At 8 o'clock it was 81. at 9 it had soared to S7 and at 10 it was 92, or four degrees higher than at the same time Tuesday. At 11 o'clock it had reached 95, and it rose to 96 at noon. By 1 o'clock it was at 98. and then the storm came up. At 2 o'clock it fell to 90, and from that time on the register of hours up to 7 o'clock last night 6howed marks of 86. 80, 77. 78. Old residents remarked that within the last sixty years.no such weather had been known at this time of year. A Story of the Heat. . In connection with the hot weather of the last few days an unusual story is related. It is claimed- that a young man named Morris had his clothing burned by the fierce rays of the sun reflected from a window across from the monument. As the story goes, the sun burnt a hole in Morris's clothing and his skin was scorched. Train Flashed In Time. A passenger on one of the Big Four trains which arrived here yesterday evening told of a heavy storm about seven miles north of this city. He said a large tree was blown across tho track and the train was stopped Just in time to avoid accident. A man who discovered the tree realized the danger and flagged the train. Robert Gibson Overcome. Robert Gibson, living at 433 Minerva street, and employed at the Indianapolis Stove Company, was overcome by the heat yesterday afternoon and was removed to his home In the city ambulance. 102 at 2:40 p. m. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 6. The government thermometer to-day registered 102 degrees at 2:40 p. m., the highest temperature recorded here with the exception of Aug. 12, 18S1. when 105 degrees was reached. For three hours to-day the mercury remained above the century mark. Half a dozen piostrations are reported, but cne resulting fatally. The victim was George A. Jones, an old newspaper man. Extremely hot weather Is reported from all over the State. Driven Insane by Heat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 6. Exhausted from overwork and prostrated by the heat Mrs. T. Sweeney went Insane this morning. Sh ran into an alley and fell and rolled in the dust, and .then getting up raa to the river bridge, but was prevented from Jumping by neighbors. She is in a serious condition. She is the daughter of Alexander Ferguson, aged 107 years, the oldest man In the State. Mercury Touched 104 1-2. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 6. The heat in western Indians, to-day was terrific and the thermometer exceeded its record of 1034 yesterday. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the mercury touehed the highest point of the day. 1044 degrees. There were several prostrations on account of the heat, but only one serious case, that of Edward KadeU a chemlt, who was taken to his homo in an ambulance. Touched 105 at Covlneton. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COVINGTON Ind., Sept. 6. This has been the hottest day for year downtown. The thermometer registered at 2 p. m. 105 in the shade. Business for a while was at a standstill. Hottest Spot In the Country. LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Sept. 6. The Weather Bureau's1 dally bulletin for the

twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning shows that the District of Arkansas, of which Little Rock is the center, was tho hottest spot In the United States. The average maximum temperature for the district was officially reported at 102.1. To-day was equally hot. FIRED BY LIGHTNING.

Robinson's Opera House Damaged Dnrlne n Storm. CINCINNATI, Sept. 6. Robinson's Opera House was set on fire by lightning to-night. A large relay of the fire department was called to the scene and the fire was put out with trifling loss. The indications are that the fire was communicated through the electric wire system in the house from a stroke on the wires In the street. Electric lights were put out by the same stroke at other places in the city. Fortunately the theatrical season had not yet opened In that house, as It had in every other theater in the city. Oil Derricks Blown Down. BOWLING GREEN, O., Sept. 6. Bowling Green barely escaped being torn up by a tornado shortly before midnight last night. Just north of town" a strip, two miles long and half a mile wide was cleared of almost everything. One person was seriously hurt and two others slightly injured. Fifteen or twenty oil-well derricks were blown down, a couple of barns unroofed, windmills demolished, orchards destroyed and the crops badly injured. Corn in the wake of the storm was riddled by hail and torn up by the roots. Courthouse Wrecked. WIN FIELD, W. Va., Sept. 6. At 3 p. m. a heavy storm passed over Winfield, completely wrecking the courthouse, a large brick building, and doing considerable other damage. A blockade . prevailed in the streets, as trees and tangled wires made them impassable for some time. No loss of life has been reported, but the damage to crops and farm property Ls considerable. ' Two Men Killed by Llffhtnlns;. GARFIELD. Minn., Sept 6.-John L. Larson, John Lundstrom, Albert A. Larson and Henry Eggan, of Garfield, and O. C. W. Westman, from Belle River, threshers, while returning from Brandon this afternoon, were struck by lightning. Lundstrom and Westman were killed Instantly. The others were more or less Injured, but will recover. WEATHER MAN RELF.NTLESS. Says To-Dny Will Be Warmer In Northern mud Central Indiana. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Forecast for Thursday and Friday: . For Ohio Fair and warmer in northern portion, probably local thunderstorms on Thursday In southern portion. Friday fair; fresh easterly winds. For Indiana Generally fair on Thursday and Friday; warmer on Thursday in northern and central portions; fresh east to south winds. For Illinois Generally fair on Thursday and Friday; warmer Thursday in extreme northeast portion; fresh east to south winds. Local Observations on Wednesday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Pre. 7 a. m 30.04 79 E3 S'west. 0.00 7 p. m 30.03 78 . '0 N'east. 0.03 Maximum temperature, 88; minimum temperature, 78. Following: ls a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total rainfall for Sept. 6: Ther. Pre. Normal . " 01 Mean ..: S7 0.03 Departure 0Departure since Sept.' 1 62 0.07 Departure since Jan. 1..... 112 . 4. 5 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENIIANS, Local Forecast Official. Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Mln. Atlanta. Ga ...i 7 Bismarck. N. D , -50 Buffalo, N. T.. .I..'. 60 Calgary. N. W. T 40 Chicago. Ill iCairo. Ill 7 Cheyenne. "Wyo 53 Cindnnatl. O 74 Concordia. Kan 78 Davenport, la 70 Des Moines. Ia 74 Galveston. Tex 82 Helena. Mont 44 Jacksonville. Fla 72 Kansas City, Ml 7 Little Rock. Ark 74 Louisville, Ky Marquette, Mich 52 Memphis, Tenn 74 Nashville. Tenn 74 New Orleans, La .". 80 New York. N. Y.............. 6 North Platte. Neb 72 Oklahoma, O. T 72 Omaha, Neb .. 74 Pittsburg. Pa ". 72 Qu' Appelle, N. W. T 44 P.apld City. S. D 54 Salt Lake City, Utah.. 50 St. Louis, Mo 82 St. Paul. Minn 5 Sprinjrfleld. Ill 74 Springfield. Mo 74 Vicksburg, Miss 72 "Waihington. D. C 70 Max. .S2 78 t& 62 74 98 84 SS 100 94 9S SS 60 90 9S 96 102 5S 96 9S 90 82 88 9 98 86 66 74 74 102 (to 96 98 94 94 7 p. m. 82 72 60 54 74 8 74 8 94 K0 90 S4 58 SO 92 90 58 90 82 82 .70 80 92 92 78 50 70 72 96 78 88 92 88 82 I0WANS TO SAIL SOON LAST OF TIIE VOLt'XTEERS PREPARING TO LEAVE THE PHILIPPINES. Insurgents Harasslno Americans at Imus Dato Mandl's Fight frith Rebels Otls'a Casualty List. MANILA, Sept. 6.The Iowa regiment, the last of the volunteer organizations on duty in the Island of Luzon, has been withdrawn from Calculet to the barracks at Calucan, preparatory to departing for home. The number who will sail is 806. Less than 300 of the regiment -were left on duty at the front when the order came for their relief, 406 being on the sick list. The regiment has undergone hard outpost duty for three months, during which it has been very L much exposed to the rains. Eighty-five members of the regiment have re-enlisted. Although the Iowans participated in some of the fighting between Malolos and San Fernando, not one of them was killed in battle. Thirty-nine members, however, were wounded and nine died of disease. The insurgents continue to make demonstrations in the vicinity of Imus. The American outposts "were obliged to fire volleys the past three nights. Mall advices from Zamboanga report that the town has been practically deserted. The facts concerning the recently reported fighting between Dato Mundi and the Insurgents are that the insurgents attacked a village in the Dato's dominions on neighboring islands, killing two of the villagers. The Dato's men subsequently drove off the insurgents, of whom several were killed. The recent Issue of Filipino paper money amounts to $3,000,000. The acceptance of this issue is made obligatory and the bills are made redeemable in three years. The Insurgents have Issued a call on property owners in the Interior to supply gratis to the insurgent army carts, horses and cattle. Casualties In the Philippines. WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. General Otis cables the following casualties: Killed Thirty-sixth Infantry, near Rio, Sept. 3, Company A, John G. Doerlng. Wounded Twenty-first Infantry, at Calamba, July 26. Sergeant James Conley, ankle, severe: Sixth Infantry, at Bobon, Negros. Sept. 19. Company K. Albert C. Jenks. throat and Jaw, severe; Ninth Infantry, near San Fernando. Aug. 9, Company C. Edward Gorman, groin, slight; Thirty-sixth Infantry, Sept. 3. Company A, Frank Hathmaner, loin, leg and foot, severe. Costly Hlockade. CHICAGO, Sept. 6. Iron and lake shipping men estimate the loss caused by the blockade of Lake. Superior navigation through the sinking of the vessels. Houghton and Fritz, in the St. Mary's river will amount to over 11,000.000. The blockade comes in the height of .the iron-ore trade business, and it will probably be several days before the vessels can be raised.

M. CAMILLE BARRERE

AMBASSADOR CAMDOX'S POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR AT WASHINGTON. Frenchman Who Has Gained Fame In . Diplomacy and Science National Capital Notes. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.TThe French embassy has no confirmation of the cable report that M. Camille Barrere, at present French ambassador at Rome, has been appointed ambassador at Washington to succeed M. Cambon. The latter Is now in Paris. Madame Cambon has never been able to take the voyage to this country and the ambassador has reluctantly felt that he would have to take an European post in order to be with his family. In case M. Barrere comes here it is probable M. Cambon will succeed him at Rome. If the reported' transfer proves correct M. Cambon will return to Washington in order to present his letters of recall. The officials here regret to hear that he may go to another post, as the relations with him have been exceptionally pleasant and productive of Important results. . M. Barrere has had a notable diplomatic career, although one of the comparatively young men of the foreign service, being now forty-eight years old. His first official service was as French delegate to the European conference which framed the treaty on the navigation of the Danube. He entered the diplomatic service In 1S82 and has been minister at Stockholm and Munich and ambassador to Switzerland. M. Barrere' s most notable service has been In Egypt, where he was president of the commission which adopted plans for the liberal use of the canal, and he also signed the conference agreement on the financial affairs of Egypt. As a scientist he has taken much interest In sanitary affairs. To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available ca.h balance, $278,39 3,333; gold reserve, J243,8S5,014. President McKinley and party arrived from the Grand Army Encampment at Philadelphia at 7:30 o'clock this morning. The trip home was made without Incident, and all seemed to be in excellent spirits. Indiana postmasters were appointed today as follows: Coloma, Park county, A. C. Woodward, vice J. G. Cox, resigned; Tecumseh, Vigo county, W. II. Otto, vice J. Ward, resigned. Rural free delivery will be established at Wingate, Ind., Sept. 13, and Fred W. Royalty and John B. Doss will be appointed letter carriers over the proposed new route, which has a circuit of twenty-seven miles. Congressman Crumpacker has made application at the Postofllce Department for establishment of rural free delivery for the people residing north of Parker, Randolph county. The matter is being investigated, and if conditions warrant the request will probably be granted. Bids made on devices for closing mall bags and for the general improvement of the equipment of the mail transportation department of the Postofflce Department were opened to-day. There were about forty bids, all of them supplying information concerning the devices proposed and giving the amount of royalty required. They were all turned over to a committee of experts appointed by the postmaster general to examine them and report on the 14th Inst. In case the committee recommends the adoption of any particular device the postmaster general will' take up the question, and if the device be adopted the proposal made in the bid will be accepted. The department does not commit itself to the use of any especial device, but reserves the right to readvertlse every, four years. Consul Ragsdale, at Tien-Tsln, has- furnlsed the State Department a detailed report of the condition of the national debt of China, showing that there are loans outstanding, to Germany, in 1SS7, of Sl.190,000; to the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank, in 1S94. of $8,306,000; in 1895 one for 14,866.500, to Jardlne, Matheson & Co.; one for the same amount to Arnold, Karberg & Co.: one for $24,322,500 to the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank, and one to Russia and France of $77,200,000. England and Germany , lent $77,8G4.000 each. United States Minister Buck, of Toklo, has notified the State Department that the government of Japan has opened to foreign trade twenty-two additional ports under the operation of the new treaties. Admiral Dewey.. will be given his real home-coming welcome at Washington on the night of Oct. 2. The next day, between the hours of 3 and 4 p. m., he will be presented by Presllent McKinley, on behalf of the Nation, the sword voted him by Congresa A letter was received from the admiral to-day, dated at Villefranche, France, Aug. 27, in which he stated that he would arrive here on that date. General Miles has consented to act as grand marshal of tho parade. Mrs. J. J. Hayden, who has been dangerously 111 for some time, has been taken by her husband. Judge Hayden. to Walker's Park sanitarium, in the mountains of Pennsylvania, in hope that pure, dry atmosphere will soon restore her to her usual health. She has many friends and acquaintances in Indianapolis. The German ambassador gave a dinner tonight to Mr. Chambers, the chief justice of Samoa, and the fact ls taken to Indicate a b6tter state of feeling now that there is fuller knowledge respecting the course of Mr. Chambers in Samoa. OUTBREAK IN VENEZUELA. Cruiser Detroit to Proceed to Lasuayra. to Protect Americans. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. After an unusually long period of peace, trouble has again appeared in Venezuela, and a revolutionary movement is now in progress. The information has come to the State Department from an unofficial source, but one believed to be trustworthy. . The extent of the movement ls not known here, but as there have been, for some time past, rumors of discontent, It would not be surprising if this last manifestation should prove to be of large proportions. The first duty devolving on the government here in such case is to safeguard the interests and lives of American citizens. Orders will therefore be Issued to the cruiser Detroit to proceed at once to Laguayra. The Detroit is with Sampson's fleet at Philadelphia. Mr. Pulldo, charge d'affaires of the Venezuela legation, says he has received no information from his government as to a new outbreak. The last information was to the effect that the revolutionists in Los Ando3 province had been defeated and scattered and that their leader. General Castro, was wandering in the mountains. A New Telephone Company. ST. LOUIS. Sept. 6. Hopkins J. Ilanford, general manager of the lvinloch Telephone Company, came to St. Louis from Minneapolis. Minn., yesterday to arrange rr.fr s and profiles for a gigantic r.vw lrr.g-dis-tance telephone enterprise. "A'hlch will ovor all important points in he Mississippi valley. Mr. Hanford was seen in the Urion Station last night prior to his dtparture again for the North. He said: "The proposed company will be incorporated Oct. 1, with a capital stock of $l.u0O.XH raid up. It will be known as the Kinloch L ng-dis-tance Telephone Company, mi uill extend many miles to the north, cast, south and west of St. Louis. The company is the outgrowth of the Kinloch Telephone Company, of St. Louis, which organization has lecently made a large extension in its local service. Involving an additional expenditure of $212,000 on its switchboard llities. Postoffice Clerks Choose Officers. MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Sept. 6. At the third day's session of the National Association of Postofflce Clerks the most important business wa the selection of officers, as follows: President. Thomas J. Donnelly,- of Brooklyn, re-elected: first vie president. Walter Herron, of Memphis. Tenn.; second vice president. Arthur Eastus. of Muncle. Ind.: third vice president, Theodore Wilkle. of Topeka. Kan.; secretary. Edward S. O'Connor, of Utica. N. Y.; treasurer, Mark B. Green, of Cincinnati. An important step was taken in the direction of amalgamation with the United Association, a similar organization to the

National Associaton. by the appointment of a committee to further that end ROMANCE OF THE CLOTH.

Catholic Priest Weds a Frotestsnt Who Nursed Htm Baclc to Health. QUINCY. 111., Sept. 6.-Father Charles Brady, a priest of the Catholic Church, was taken sick In Qulncy three weeks ago and was nursed back to health by Miss Addle Gwinn, a Protectant nurse. It ls announced here to-day that Father Brady and the nurse were married In St. Louis a few days ago. The wedding was a quiet one and was performed by a Protestant minister. The marriage means the retirement of the priest from his church. Father Brady, who is wealthy, was educated for the priesthood at Rome. Several years ago he was assistant rector of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Later he was transferred to Liberty, a small town In this ccunty. He was known to have been dissatisfied with his charge at Liberty, thinking the bishop had discriminated against Mm in not sending him to a larger town. He came to Qulncy to attend a retreat of prayer and fasting by the Franciscan Brothers at Saint Francis College and was taken sick. He refused to go to the . Catholic hospital here, and was taken to an hotel, where Miss Gwlnn attended him. The bride is about thirty years of age and has lived In Qulncy all her life, GOMEZ GIVES ADVICE TELLS CUBANS TO ADOPT A POLICY OF UNION AND CONCORD. Spaniards Should Be Considered Friends and the Past Be Forgotten Speech hy General Arango, HAVANA, Sept. 6. General Qulntln Bandera visited General Gomez to-day and the latter recommended a policy of union and concord. He said he had given many thrusts with his machete, but now he wished to give as many ert braces. He advised Bandera to inaugurate in the eastern provinces a policy of conciliation. Gen. Gomez said: "Now that the war is over the Spaniards should be considered friends and the past should be forgotten. We and they should live together as brothers, with a common language and similar customs. In our attitude towards the Americans we should give them full credit for a desire to reconstruct the Island. I feel confident that such a gallant soldier as you are could subordinate a natural antipathy for a former foe to your desire to serve your country and that your influence now paramount among the fighting Cubans of the eastern provinces would go far toward healing the differences that exist among those who took opposite sides in the great rebellion, so successfully concluded by the valor of the Cubans with the assistance of their American allies, to whom the greatest gratitude is due. It would be a great mistake to found a party in which the racial question would be prominent. All colors in Cuba fought with equal valor. All fought in the spirit of fraternity. All sacrlfled everything to bring the Cuban flag through a sea of blood to its present spotless purity. I trust that flag will never be disgraced by racial differences, which are likely to lead to civil war." Both generals were profoundly affected by the interview. Juan Gualberto Gomez says thaf their conference was an object lesson In brotherly love to all Cubans, especially in view of the fact that a few months ago they acted as If they wished to cut each other's throats. General Arango, at a recent meeting of the Spanish Club In Sagua, where Cubans and negroes were present, said: "The sailor Cervera is the Maximo Gomez of the sea. He has earned more laurels than the Yankees ever will, for the Yankees would never face a fleet of Ironclads with four wooden ships. Some clowns have called the Spanish troops cowardly. I deny the charge. The Spanish army is the bravest in the world. If it were not so it could not have made headway against the extraordinary bravery of the Cubans. The time for unity has come. Cursed be the Spaniard who does not love the Cuban, and cursed be the Cuban who does not love the Spaniard. The Americans are now in Cuba through their want of shame. If Cuba ls to be lost to the Latin race on account of America's ambition, God will punish the Cubans by sending His lightning to destroy their fair land. May He also prevent the Insatiate American cormorant from sullying Ills chosen isle." , . m Referring to a prize fight that has Just taken place here between two comparatively unknown pugilists, El Dlaro de ia Marina remarks that the "refining and elevating prize fight is apparently to take the place of the so-called degrading bull fight." Former Lieutenant of Police Cassln, the former Rough Rider who was accused early in the year of murder and had been in Jail ever since, was to-day removed to an Insane asylum. Deaths In Cuba. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. General Brooke, at Havana, reports the following deaths: At Santiago, Annie H. Campos, former contract nurse, died Sept. 2. malarial dysentery; at Pinar del Rio, Edwin Sawin, musician. Company C, First Infantry, died Sept. 4, cerebral hemorrhage. Gov. Mount's Labor Address. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To characterize Governor Mount's labor address In a word, and say it was Just what might be expected of him, would convey an adequate idea of its merits only to those who know him and his methods of thought and expression, and to express a wish that It might be put in cheap, but attractive form, so that the millions who are studying the yet unsolved social problems might have the benefit of his figures and philosophy ls to express the wish of all who will read it with care; yet to my mind it lacks one thing to constitute it the supreme text-book of the period on the labor question yes, two things, but there are places in which these two lacking ideas may be inserted in the revised edition Intended for world-wide circulation. First The address seems to indorse the prevailing sentiment that work is a hardship to be avoided, if possible a sentiment more or less the outgrowth of a silly perversion of the early history of the race which is made to teach that work ls a curse pronounced upon us all because of Adam's transgression. It is nothing of the kind. Adam was a working man long before Eve led him astray, tending garden and looking after things in general. To work Is the normal condition ol man and that which most differentiates him from inferior animals, and this truth should be taught among the first things taught in the nursery, whether that be in the cot of the poor or the mansion of the rich, and it should be taught as being not merely a source of income, but as the means of attaining the highest ends of life; that a life without labor ls not worth living, not merely because want may follow, but because any life is a failure that does not contribute to the general welfare of all. It is all wrong to teach the child he must work to live; teach him he must live to work if he would live to a purpose. Secondly He caters to the sentiment that no man lb a working man whose life is not spent in manual labor. Many of the hardest workers are men who never handle a tool. Governor Mount never worked harder In hU life or more deserved to be called a laboring man than during the last three years. It is a mischievous distinction to make the manual laborer the par excellence working man. He ls not. and it is especially mischievous to tolerate without rebuke the claim that only those who are organized deserve to be recognized as manual laborera even. The Govenar touches this question gingerly; it shoald be dealt with heroically, for the labor qiestlcc will never be settled until every man who wants to work shall be permitted to work wherever he can find work and at such wages as he and his employer may agree upon. If he shall revise and enlarge his address and make it a standard treatise upon the whole subject he should also correct tcs popular distinction between capital and

labor, and show that even since a division of labor was known every man Is In turrt a capitalist and a laborer, an employer and an employe. The shoemaker plays the capitalist when he employs the tailor to makea coat, and so on through the whole business world, and the fhocmaker is an oppressor of labor when he requires the tailor to work too cheap, and vice versa; and tho tailor may rebel against the shoemaker as n employer whenever he. the tailor, docs not buy his shoes at the cheap counter. But no treatise on the labor question will be ideal that does not recommend the Bible rule render to the employe that which ls Just and equal. That implies a moral condition not yet attained by the masses except as it may be enforced, but the Go7ernor's facts and figures show that strikes -nd boycotts will never bring about this condition In the labor market. But even without these amendments that address should be published in permanent form. Indianapolis. Sept 6. U. L. SEH .. Will Cumback and Lay Delegation To the Editor ef ths Indiinapoll' Journal: The election of Will Cumback as & laj" delegate to the coming session of the) Indiana Conference, to bo held in Greencastle next week, is another recognition of his valuable and efficient services in behalf of this great denomination. It calls to mind the prominent part he has ever taken In the Important subject of lay representation Iri the. General Conference. " For the first seventy-five years or more of the history of Methodism the general- congress of th church was made up exclusively of ministers. About a third of a century ago the laymen demanded" a representation In the lawmaking body of the church. Mr. Cvmback took an active part In this movement and went to Chicago, Cincinnati and other places and made speeches on the subject. These speeches attracted general attention and wero published In both ? church and secular papers. In Cincinnati, at that time, the Methodist Book Concern was located on Main street, distant from all other business In the city, and consequently very Inconvenient of access. There were no street cars In the city at this time. In his speech he ridiculed the whole arrangement as being far Inferior and beneath the dignity andt importance of so jrreat a matter as the publishing interests of the church. The address seemed to bear immediate fruit, for at once the book committee set about to procure a new site. As a result grounds and building were procured on Fourth street, hero the concern has conducted one of the largest and most successful publishing houses in the West. As a first step in the direction of lay delegation, the church allowed about onethird lay to two-thirds ministerial representation. This was never satisfactory to Mr. Cumback. so he has kept up almost a constant agitation ever since. He wrote many articles for the church papers on the subject, but many of them were deemed too radical by the editors and were cut down by them until his best recourse was to tho secular press. Here he found a cordial' welcome, till finally the laymen began to wake up to a better and a fuller appreciation of the importance of the question. Two years ago. when a large annual conference In Indiana voted the proposition down almost unanimously, he drew up a call for a state convention of Methodist laymen and about fifty of the most prominent lay members of Indiana united with him in this call. In due time a convention was held at Incianapolis. It was a calm, dignified and representative body. Addresses were mad by prominent men and were published and distributed throughout the church. Other conventions were held of like character throughout the -entire country as a result of the Indianapolis convention. In connection with the Hon. J. B. Conner, he then drew up a call for a national convention, and it was circulated In all parts of the United States. This call was signed by hundreds of men in different parts of tho country. . Meanwhile, the spring conferences, seeing what was coming, voted for equal representation. In the following autumn the movement became successful by the vote of a large majority in the annual conferences, so that the General Conference next May, to be held in Chicago, ls expecting to bo graced by equal lay representation. REPORTER. Greemsburg. Ind.. Sept. 6.

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