Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1899.

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An. excursion to Knoxville, Tenn., lias been'providedT to follow the meeting. JOHN R. SIMPSON, President. W. W. AIKEN'S. Secretary. The meters which most worry Mayor Taggart are those which , will be In the voting booths next Tuesday. eSBBBBSBSBSBBBBBBBSBSSBSaBKSSSSBSSBBBBBSBBBSSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Evidently Mr. Taggart cannot tell why he paid $112,800 for the lands assessed for .1,000. So he talks of gas meters. Nobody knows' how Mr. Taggart stands on the money, question, but his speeches show that he la an adept In Issuing irredeemable promises. Even the -Taggart ring had to yield to the popular protest against the transparent trick of placing new-fangled vptlng machines in six Republican precincts. The large' and growing demand for American horses, andi mules for use In South Africa will .turn a healthy stream of British gold Into 'American pockets. The mayor is the foe of expansion the expansion of the. number, of voters hostile to him, which has been going on so rapidly of late. ' - ' It is quite possible that in Captain Carter's case the United States Judge may hold that a civil court will not undertake to construe the articles ' of war against a military tribunal. . . The citizen who votes any other than the Republican ticket to strike a blow at the misrule of Taggart practically gives him the benefit of a vote which could have been against him. When Mr. Taggart pretends that the introduction of natural gas meters Is an issue In this election he insults the intelligence of the people. No party and no candidate bdvocates them. Now that Mr. Bookwalter and seventeen X)f the twenty-one Republican candidates for the Council have declared against gas meters there is no longer a pretext to exploit that bugaboo. The use of voting machines, provided by the. ordinance of Mr. Taggart's Council. ! was so obviously an outrage that the official ?wno urew it nas discovered that it was a tad piece of work. S BBBBBSSSiaaBSSBeSBSJSBaSaBBSSSSBSaSSSSBBSBBBBSSBSSSSBBBBSSSSB President Kruger, of the Transvaal, should cot place too much confidence In the assurance that "the Lord directs our bullets." The Doer sharpshooters will have V more to do with It. The Republican ticket, from top to bot tom. Is every way far superior to the Demccratlc. Every voter who feels that two terras cf. Taggart are enough should vote lhat ticket In Its entirety. The hauling down of Admiral Dewey's flag cn the Olympla ends his connection with the ?xiow famous warship, and probably his sea service as well. It Is quite likely he will jiever make another cruise. ; "When Mr. Taggart succeeds in making an issuer of the gas-meter question he should spring the charge that Mr. Iiookwalter Ls in favor of making the curfew law apply to adults and putting a stamp tax on city .-water. . The advice of a city attorney Is sometimes Very convenient In opening a line of retreat from an untenable position. The discovery that the action of the Council regarding the voting machines was not binding came in very handy. - ' Mr. Taggart boasts In his speeches of the advantageous compromises he has made for the city. A public official has no right to compromise nubile Interest?. It L his duty to enforce rights and contracts, not com promise them. ' "One of the favorable Indications for the "republican ticket is the interest manifested In, ward and precinct gatherings which are not reported in the papers. Some of the largest of these meetings are in the Republican wards, and these are attended by men who are not always active in campaign work. BBMHBSBSSSBSBSSaBBBBBBBSBSSBBBBBBBSSaSSSWBSBSSMSaSBSBSSSBBBB Republicans must not forget that they must Lo very careful In marking their bal lots. 'Evpry Rt publican who appreciates the necessity of unusual carefulness should cau tion others. To make no mistake make an X inside th circle over Mr. Bookwalter's . name with the pencil furnished by the elec tion officers. Speaking of the welcome of Admiral Dtfwey the New York Journal, th Eastern champion of Bryan in 1SW, Bays: "What the welcome really means, aside from the cppreclatlon of the charm of Dewey's perronallty, U that the vast mass of Ameri can approve with all their souls the consecu:r.ces of his victory. Suppose, for la-i rr.ee, tlat the fleet had been ordered to

sail home immediately after the battle and that the Philippines had been left to Spain, does any one suppose that Dewey would have had a place in our national Pantheon that he now occupies? The manifest truth is that the people who cheered for Dewey were believers in expansion, as he Is himself." This Is true; but It does not seem that the Journal will be able to convince Its party leaders that It is not good politics to fight expansion. YAH SPECULATIONS.

At the very beginning of our war with Spain, when it was generally thought that Spain was better prepared for war than the United States, and the relative strength of the two navies and the ability of our coast defenses to repel attack were matters of conjecture, some of the English papers, friendly but somewhat apprehensive, said that while there could be no doubt as to tha ultimate outcome cf the war, Spain would probably give us "an ugly quarter of an hour at the beginning." Many Americans thought the same, and the waiting for that ugly quarter of an hour, which never came, was an unpleasant experience. In a spirit of dispassionate judgment the game remark may be applied to England in the early stages of war with the Transvaal. As to the final outcome there can scarcely be a doubt, but the Boers may give the British an ugly quarter of an hour at the beginning. They are ugly fighters, especially from ambush, and with their superior knowledge of the country and the advan tage of chosen positions they may inflict some hard blows on the British at the beginning. They have done it before, and it they are permitted to adopt the same style of fighting they will be apt to do it again. Great Britain is a formidable power, but her greatest strength and best hold ls on the sea. In a naval war she would almost be a match for the rest of Europe combined. But this will be essentially a land war and in a distant country. The Transvaal Republic does not possess a water craft of any kind, and probably not one in a hundred of the Boers ever saw salt water. In a war with them England's navy will be as useless as cavalry would be in a nava! war. Therefore Great Britain's Immense advantage and best hold will be eliminated from the problem at once. And on land she is, not a very formidable power except In a long war that would give her time to mobilize all her forces and draw upon thb resources of distant parts of the empire. Her total fighting strength was reported last year as 653.344, divided as follows: Regular forces at home and in the colonies, 143,874; army reserve, 78,142; militia, 120,084; yeomanry, 16,184; volunteers, 236,065; Brltlsn soldiers In India, 76,905. Of the 40,105 British troops in the colonies in 1898, 10.628 were stationed at Malta, 5.404 at Gibraltar, 6,447 in Cape Colony and Natal, 1,971 in Bermuda, 3,279 in Jamaica, Barbadoes and St. t.ucia. 1.784 at Halifax, 3.44S at Hong-Kong, l,65o in the Straits Settlements', 1,769 in Ceylon, 1,219 in Mauritius, 1.657 In' West Africa, 136 in Cyprus and 749 at SU Helena. The total number of troops in the. British Islands at the same time was 100,641. It will be seen, therefore, that England's regular army of trained soldiers is not very large and Is very widely scattered. Her so-called army reserve, volunteers and militia, who constitute much the largest part of her fighting strength, are not equal to our militia and volunteers in respect of raw material and aptitude for war, and little If any superior In point of drill. It has been a long time since England has been called upon to put a large land force in the field. In the Crimean war. 1S54 to 1S56, she furnished only 27,000 troops to the allied army operating against Russia, and the transportation of these troops tested her resources In that regard to the utmost. This was considerably less than naif us many troops as we will soon have In the Philip pines, and the work of transportation was nothing like as great. England has revet mobilized and moved a long distance as large armies as the United States did during the war with Spain, and more recently to the Philippines. It might be added there is no equal number of officers and so'diers In the British army the world oer who have seen as much service and done as much fighting as our little regular army. At present England has in Natal about 8,200 troops, including 2,000 volunteers; in Cape Colony about 11,000 troops, including 8,000 volunteers, and on the ocean en route to Africa, about 8,000 troops who have been dispatched from England, India and Egypt, making a total of about 25,000 troops, largely volunteers, which she will have In Africa at the beginning of the war. Against this force the Boers can put in the field 40.000 men, every one of. whom ls a sharpshooter, an athlete, acoustomed to life in the open, with a thorough knowledge of the country and a dogged determination to fight to the bitter end. A majority of these troops are fairly well drilled, and the artillery especially is said to be thoroughly organized, with guns of the newest patterns and trained gunners. In the war of 1SS0 the Boers Inflicted terrible punishment on the British, in one fight almost annihilating a British regiment. and in another, that of Majuba mountain, storming and capturing a fort held by the British with a loss to the latter of 83 killed, including the commanding officer, and 1S4 wounded. The Boers are much stronger and better prepared to fight now than they were then, and while England may have twice as many troops In Africa now as she had then, the Boers will have more than three times as many. It Is reasonably certain, therefore, that If war comes the Boers will give England an ugly quarter of, an hour and perhaps a very black eye before she gains any advantage. If she were wise she would send twice as many troops to the scene of action as she is doing. Wlir HE TALKS OF CiAS METERS. When Thomas Taggart became mayor the bonded debt of the city was Jl.364.500. By the report of the controller the bonded debt was. on Jan. 1. 1S99. $2,017,400. Of this amount $112.00 was assumed by the annexa tion of West Indianapolis, Haughvllle, Brightwood and one or two other suburbs. so that the real bonded debt of the city, outside ot that due to annexation, was Jl,"04.500. Deducting from the last figures the bonded debt of the city when Mr. Taggart became mayor ($1,264,500), the increase dur ing the past three years of Mr. Taggart was $540,000. or a fraction short of 40 per cent. What has Mr. Taggari done with this $.".40,000? In 1X15 the mayor's Council, on his recommendation, issued $60,000 improve ment bonds and the next year $150, 000 for the Lallding of the police station, which has been exploited by the mayor and Ms assist ants. The improvement bonds were used to purchase fire apparatus. The other $3T0,000 was expended, for the most part. In the purchase of land for Riverside Park. The it police station did not cost the entire $0,000, but the remainder went Into current ex penses. What has the city to rhow for the 40 per

cent. Increase of the city debt by Mr. Taggart? Some fire apparatus, a station house worth 1100,000 and several hundred acres of land which could not be sold to-day for $100,000. Moreover, the land which he purchased, before it can be a park, will require an outlay, not in one year, but year after year, of a sum which cannot be even approximated. The city desired park extension. It is truo, but it did not dream of the purchase of a site which would require vast sums to improve. The Increased bonded debt of the Taggart administration bears 4 rer cent, interest, which means an annual expenditure of $18,000 as interest. The current expenses of the city during the last ten months of Mayor Denny and the first two months of Mayor Taggart were J7)2,ttj0, while the current expenses of the year 1S98 were $944,635.66. That ls, in three years Mr. Taggart increased the current expenses of the city $1S1,700.0G, or almost 24 per cent., which comes very near being an increase of one-fourth. The permanent improvements of the streets, which have cost the taxpayers, largely in anti-Taggart localities; hundreds of thousands of dollars, are not Included In the increased expenditure?. In view of such acts as the foregoing, ls it any wonder that the mayor labors to divert attention from his expenditures to impossible gas meters? AX ABSURD REQUEST.

Agulnaldo says that as soon as the Independence of his government is recognized he will accept the sovereignty of the United States and the autonomy which has been offered. There are those who will say if this is all that ls required to bring peace and a recognition of the United States, why not comply with his request? There are many reasons why this cannot be done, the chief of which Is that the President hag no authority to recognize an alleged government occupying American territory. Another Important reason ls that the treaty with Spain which gave the United State sovereignty over the Philippines provides that the civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants shall be determined by Congress and not by the President. Other provisions of the treaty impose obligations upon the United States. We are under obligations to see that Spanish subjects residing on the islands shall have the same rights as other foreigners. In another section of the treaty we are obligated to see that all the inhabi tants of the islands are secured the free exercise of religion. In another section is a specific, promise that for a period of ten years Spanish merchant vessels shall have the same privileges as American in Philip pine ports. Thus it is clear that we cannot in honor furl our flag in the Philippines nor recognize the independence of a few tribes which have no real government while they occupy our territory and are resisting our authority. In this connection it may be added that there is neither sense nor justice In the statement of Mr. Bryan in Nebraska a few days ago, that "the President has trampled on tlie Declaration of Independence and has carried on a war for conquest and greed," when he knows that the war was forced upon this country by Agulnaldo before the, treaty had been ratified. When the treaty had been ratified the President was In duty bound to suppress insurrection against the authority of the United States. As for the treaty, when It was pending Mr. Bryan was In Washington to urge its ratification, and in. addresses at the time favored ratification. The following is from a circular issued by the Indianapolis Municipal League: The present mayor has served two terms and ls a candidate for re-election for a third term. He has. during his time, built up two machines; one, partisan, which enables him to control his party primaries and secure his own renomlnatlon; the other, a nonpartisan machine, composed of men of both parties, which controls the city business and which ls counted on to secure his re-election. With a machine dominating pol itics fair conventions cannot be expected, and with a machine controlling the city's business affairs fair dealing cannot be expected in its business. When the city charter concentrated ex ecutive power In the hands of the mayor it was on the theory that such power should be exercised exclusively for good govern ment and the public welfare. This, In turn, presupposes a mayor in sympathy with the charter and municipal reform. A mayor not in sympathy with these objects can use the large powers conferred on him by the charter for purposes very different from those contemplated by Its framera He can use them for the creation of a machine and the promotion of political and personal ends Instead of the public welfare. Ihis Is what Mr. Taggart has done. Never at any time in the worst period of councllmanic government, before a reform charter was thought of, was the city government as completely dominated by ma chine rule and bosslsra as it Is now. The almost autocratic power of the mayor has been used for purposes never dreamed of by the framers of the charter. At thi3 distance the holding of a Demo cratic carnival in connection with an agricultural fair in Texas so that Bryan, Belmont and other notables are put on exhibi tion on the same grounds with Texas cattle causes curiosity. Texas is so Demo cratic that it could almost run two Democratic parties, so that there seems no need of raising a campaign fund in an off year. But there must be two parties in the State at some stage of the contest, and there are two Democratic parties quarreling over the nomination of State officers. Governor Sayers has not pleased the whole of the rarty, and that carnival-cattle show has been held. to promote the Interests of the antl-Sayers element. But why should Mr. Bryan go thither when he is wanted so much in Kentucky and Ohio? The energy of the War Department In stnding forward the new regiments appears In the fact that last week a ship sailed from San Francisco each day for Manila, loaded with troops and material. On Mon day four more transports passed through the Golden Gate and four more sailed away the present week. These ships carry 9,543 men, including all of the first ten volunteer regiments. To carry the last ten regiments thirteen ships are assembling at San Fran cisco, having a total capacity of 12.2S6 men. Horses for the cavalry and mules for transportation have been provided, 3.000 having been shipped and 1.50O more are to follow. so that when the next campaign opens there will be a cavalry brigade of 3.G00 men. The course which the officers of the United States treasury are pursuing to acquire the square of land for the Federal building furnishes a contrast to that of the mayor. As soon as it was discovered that the owners were disposed to ask more for the property that it is worth the treasury officials set the rnachlney at work to compel them to take a reasonable price under the law authorizing the condemnation and appraisal of lands wanted for public uses. When the owners of the Riverside land

persuaded tha mayor that there was no other site for a park they more than doubled the price and the mayor made undue haste to pusih the ordinance paying that more-than-double price. Mr. Lucius B. Swift states the municipal situation clearly when he says: "Any man In office who has been recreant to his trust should always be defeated. Any new man is better." In other words, the chances are very strong that Mr. Bookwalter, a new and untried man, would be an improvement on one that has been tried and found wanting.

BUBBLES I THE AIR; The Man and The Bore. The Solemn Bore Have you ever reflected that there will be no "more time? The Busy Man I haven't got any now. Wanted to Know. Tommy Say, paw. " Mr. Figg Well? "If Dewey was elected President, do you reckon he would go'and get inaugurated on the 3d of March, instead of the 4th? Unconvlaced. The Anti But you know very well those Filipinos are not the ignorant savages they have been represented to be. , They are a highly intelligent and reasonably well educated people. The Expansionist Well, if that is so, we must have them for citizens. The Only Horace He Knew. "Some one," announces the current Issue of the Plunkville Bugle, "has thought to be smart and sent us a piece of poetry called an imitation of Horace, but we were not born yesterday, and we happen to know that the venerated and lamented Greeley never was a verse writer in his life." CHICAGO'S FESTIVITIES COURT OP HONOR THROWN OPEN TO CURIOUS SIGHTSEERS. Mexican Band Did Not Tiny, However, and a Dig Crowd Went Away Disappointed. CHICAGO. Oct. 4.Wth music, streams of light and patriotic enthusiasm Chicago's fall festival was formally opened this evening in the presence of a vast throng. At 6 o'clock the cords binding the banners lining both sides of the court of honor were cut and 25,000 yards of red and white bunting were released. .Ten minutes later the festoons connecting the Venetian masts, decorated with 11,000 incandescent bulbs, were glowing with light and State street, between Van Buren and Lake streets, presented a brilliant picture. At 8 o'clock a promenade concert was given at Madison and State streets. The court of honor was packed with an immense throng of curious sightseers until midnight. Thousands or people came down town to hear the Mexican band play, but went away disappointed. Through a misunderstanding the Mexican organization did not, participate in the promenade concert in the court of honor, as had been announced and a local band was substituted. - The electric light decorations on State street are beyond anything in that line ever attempted in Chicago, andalthough not all of them were in working order to-night, the effect was beautiful. Tne evening concert and illumination will comprise the festival programme until the arrival of President McKlnley on Saturday nlfeht, when the first parade, that of the bicyclists, will be held. vice I'resident Mariscai. with the Mexican party, will arrive ,nre on . Frida y. Governor Tanner and staff will meet them at Mattoon, 111., accompanying the party to Chicago. A letter received to-day from the Chinese minister announces that the latter and two secretaries will accompany the diplomatic, corps from Washington to this city. Arrangements for the banquet in honor of Postmaster General Smith, at the Audi torium, on Oct. 10,. have been completed. Five hundred postmasters from various parts of the country will be In attendance. The list of speakers for the banquet and the toasts to which they will respond is as roiiows: Toastmaster, Charles U. Gordon; "The President." Charles Emory Smith: "Postofflce Management,"' Perry S. Heath, nrst assistant postmaster general; "Railway Mall and Foreign Mail Service." W. S. Schallenberg. second assistant postmaster general; "Registry and: Special Delivery systems, fcawin c. Madden, ihird assistant postmaster general; The Postmasters' As sociation," r. u. Dickerson, postmaster, jjetroit -rne Executive Officer in the Post office," Joseph Crow, postmaster, Omaha; "ine uiencai service." Thomas L$. Hicks. postmaster. Philadelphia; "The Early Days of the Railway Mall Service." E. W. Kevs. postmaster, Madison, Wis. ; "The Country j'osimasier, nicnara r j? Lawson, postmaster, Effingham, III.; "Veterans of the postal service," Gen. Smith D. Atkins, postmaster, i-reeport, nr., The Mexican Party. SAN ANTONIO, Tex.; Oct. 4. The hand some special train bearing Minister Mariscal. Vice President of Mexico, and his party arrived here this afternoon from Eagle Pass, which place they, had left shortly be fore 11 o'clock this -morning. There were nearly 2,000 people at the depot to greet the distinguished party The train stopped here for an hour and durinsr that time a con tinual stream of people passed through the train to shake Minister -Mariscal's hand. The party held a levee on the back platform of the rear coach and when the train pulled into the depot the presidential nartv bared their heads to the immense throng of people which eurrounded the coach. Minister Mariscal thanked all of the people for their courteous treatment and expressed resrret at not being able to prolong his stay In this city. The presidential train left for Houston, its next stop, at 5 o'clock. As the train slowly passed Fort Sam Houston an ambassador's salute or nineteen guns was fired by Bat tery K, First Artillery. CAPT. CARTER IN COURT. Hl Counsel Maintains Ills Punish ment Wur Excessive. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Oberlin M. Carter, the former engineering captain, who Is under sentence of five years. Imprisonment after conviction on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government, was taken from Governor's island to the United States Circuit Court to-day on a writ of habeas corpus in his behalf obtained last. Monday. Judge Lacomb was on the" bench. The army was represented' by John W. Clous, judge advocate general of the Department of the East; Colonel O. B. Davis, of the judge advocate general s office, and General Bur net. United States district attorney. Capt. Carter was represented Dy A. J. Rose and It. L. Kellogg. Mr. Rose, in opening for his client, said there was no contention that the court-martial which had tried the charges against Captain Carter had acted illegally in its findings on the charges. On the question of the sentence, however, it was claimed that the court nad acted in ex cess of its powers, beyond its jurisdiction ana contrary to law. cc'onei Clous neia tnat action of a court-martial cannot Le reviewed by any. civil court , lie added that the court-martial had vowr to fix the sentence and that in the exercise of such power the court had power, under the first cia ge to impose a fine jpon Carter; und?r the second charge to sentence Mm to imprisonment: under the hlrl charge to 1isnlj him from the army, and unJer the iJirth charge to impose a sentence of fine or imprisonment or both. Counsel submitted briefs. Judee Lacombe reserved decision on the writ and ordered Captain Carter back to the custody or Captain KODerts, or uovernor s island. Contracts to Be Relet. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. The secretary of war to-day directed Captain Gillette. In charge of the -harbor of Savannah, to ad vertise for a new Droiect for that work. the contract with the Atlanta Contracting Company made by Captain Carter having been annulled. A similar order was issued to Captain McKlnstry resarding the work at Cumberland sound. Georsla. for the saoe reason.

SPLIT BARELY AVERTED

TROUBLE IN PAN-PRESBYTERIAX ALLIANCE OVER A RESOLUTION. Doer Delrffnte Threatened to With draw, but Wan Finally Placated Other Religions Bodies. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-A split on politi cal lines was narrowly averted in the meeting of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance today. The trouble grew out of a resolution yesterday favoring arbitration as a solution Of the difficulty between Great Britain and the Transvaal. Objection to this resolu tion was raised on the ground that arbitra tion was out of place between a sovereign state and one of its dependencies. There are two South African delegates to the meeting Rev. P. C. J. Meierlng, of Johannesburg, and Rev. II. S. Bosman, of Pretoria. Mr. Bosman left here on Monday for Africa in response to a cablegram begging him to come back to his people be cause of the threatening war outlook. Dr. Meiering, soon after the session opened this morning, presented a letter to the chairman

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of the meeting ill vw 1 a w m r a m m w bb liiviBi reading to the business committee. Though its contents were not made public it was soon known that It was a request from the Boer member to have his name stricken from the rolls as an evidence of his displeasure at the slight put upon his country. At the afternoon session, however, an adjustment was reached. Dr. Meiering was induced to withdraw his letter of resignation and the chairman presented the follow ing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: "m view of the present distressing situa tion between Great Britain and the Trans vaal it is the earnest hope and prayer of this alliance that a peaceful solution or tne present crisis may be reached." On the adoption of this resolution It was moved that a prayer should be offered for the consummation of this much-desired event. The chairman, therefore, called upon I he venerable Dr. Cavan, 'the father of the alliance," who offered a simple, heart felt prayer for peace. Aside from the political flurry caused by the action of Dr. Meiering there was little of interest in the day's session. It was decided to establish a permanent office of the alliance in London. Reports were heard on the mission work of the alliance in Europe and South America. Dr. Matthews, in presenting the European reports, declared that there had been large withdrawals of both priests and members from the lloman Catholic Church in trance ana Austria. Dr. Matthews also commented se verely on the practice which, he said, obtained among English and American tour ists, even ministers, of making the Sabbath a day of sightseeing and travel, never lend ing their presence to the services ot tne Protestant mission churches and incidentally setting a bad example to the population among whom the missionaries were trying to inculcate Sabbath observance. At to-night's session Rev. Drs. H. M. Klefer. of Easton. Pa., and T. M. Hamlll, of Belfast. Ireland, made addresses on recent historical anniversaries. The delegates then attended a reception given In their honor by Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage. FOREIGN MISSIONS. Synopses of Reports Presented to the American Board. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 4. The annual convention of the American Board of Com missioners for Foreign Missions was con tinued to-day. The report of the commit tee on the treasurer's department was pre sented by the chairman, Luclen N. Warner, who outlined a plan for the distribution of legacies over a series of years instead of exhausting them by consuming them in the year in which they are severally received. The annual survey of the work of the board by the foreign secretaries, the Rev. Dr. Judson Smith and the Rev. Dr. James E. Barton, both of Boston, was presented. Secretary Barton read the report of the European Turkey and the eastern Turkey missions, Marathi, Madura and Ceylon mis sions in India, Japan, Austria, Spain and Mexico. The report showed that every post brought appeals for larger liberty and a more aggressive policy in the work of evangelization. Among other things Dr. Barton said: "Since tne war the mission aries in Spain have traveled freely and have carried on their work as beiore without the slightest word or look upon the part of any one that any ill will was entertained, while Mn some places it has been made most evi dent that the people were especially eager to greet and honor Americans. Secretary Smith s department was sur veyed by nimseir, in suosiance as xouows: "The missions included are eleven in num ber, two in Asia Minor, the western Turkey and the central Turkey missions, three in Africa, the Zulu, the west central Africa and the east central Africa missions, two in the Pacific islands, the Jdicronesian mis sions and the work of the board In the Hawaiian islands and four in China the Shansi, the north China, the Foo-Chow and the south China missions. The event of the year in Micronesia is the ending of thjj Spanish occupation oi ponape ana tne transfer of the Carolines to the German em pire. This undoes as far as that can be the events of 1S87 and 1S90 which banished the missionaries from Ponape, and opens the way to the Immediate and energetic reoccupatlon of this Island as a station of the board. "In twenty missions, so distributed among the great continents ana nations ana islands as to encircle the globe, and offering the cospel to more than lw.ww.uuo souls, a force of 529 missionaries, assisted by 3,155 native laborers, in 1,147 strategic points preach the gospel in twenty-six difierent lansruafes: Avs orKanizea cnurcnes nave a present membership of 49,782, of whom 5,047 have been received on confession this year, and 1,021 Sunday schools gather 65,003 pupils every Eord s day; H3 colleges ana nign schools train 9,088 picked youth of both sexes, and 1,137 common schools provide instruction for 43.920 pupils, while mission presses send out their millions or pages to instruct tne nnsiian communities, anu hospitals and dispensaries minister relief to 120,000 patients, to every one of whom the gospel message is given." At the aiternoon session a report oi me committee on the home department was made by Hon. S. B. Capen, of Boston. The Evangelical Association. ST. PAUE, Minn., Oct. 4. To-morrow mornlne Blshon Escher. of Chicago, will open the twenty-fourth quadrennial conven tion of the Evangelical Association, a re ligious organization which has been in ex istence for almost a century. The conven tion will continue for three weeks. There are 115 accredited delegates to the confer ence and practically all of them are now in the city. The delegates from China, Jaoan. Great Britain, Switzerland and Canada, foreign countries represented, ar rived in St. Paul at i o ciock mis even ing. In addition to the delegates there are as a matter of course a lare number of strangers In the city attractea by tne con vention. One of the principal questions to come before the conference will be tne proDiem of missionary work In China. The work In Janan is already progressing satisfactorily. but four years ago the conference appointed a special missionary agent to investigate conditions in the flowery kingdom and his renort will be one of the features of the present meeting. The meeting will be pre sided over in rotation by the four bishops of the church. Bishops Escher and Bowman. of Chicago, Bishop Horn, or Cleveland, and Bishop Breyfogle, of Heading, ra. Women'a Mlslonary Societies. WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. The convention of the International Union of Women's Missionary Societies of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches was continued at the Church of the Covenant to-day. Mrs. Thomas Belt, of the English Presbyterian Church, presided. The day was devoted to reports, addresses and discussions. It was generally conceded that the provisions for taking care of retired missionaries was inadeauate. It was suggested that the English plan of relief societies for these workers nhould followed here. Kxperts in the mis sion field declared that there was just now more need of women than money to prose cute the work successfully. The final ses sion of the union in the afternoon was followed by a memorial missionary meeting of the Christian Endeavor Societies of the city at night. Missionaries Sail for Asia. BOSTON, Oct. 4. Sixteen missionaries sent by the Baptist Missionary Union sailed on the steamer Victorian to-day for, posts In Asia. Arsons thera are these youns mls-tion-rits. who ere Just entcrlrr; Cii ctrvlss;

Miss Julia CI. Shlnn. for Ranroon. Burmah:

Miss Julia IL"' Stlckney. for Hentada; Miss Bertha Davis, for Toungoo. Burmah: Mr. J. A. Curtis, for Kaniglry: Carolina W. Coates. M. D.. for Nellore; Miss Harriet Sipperty. for Hanamaccnda. India. The other missionaries on board the Victorian have been foreign missionaries many years and are returning to their respective stations. The following named are destined fr stations in Burmah: Rev. Dr. Alorto Bunker and Rev. Dr. Trumsm Johnson, Loikaw; Rev. Horatio Morrow and Mrs. Morrow. Tavey; Rev. 11. I. Cochrane. Toungco; Rev. U II. Mosler, Prome; Mrs. I. II. Mosler. Prome: Miss Melissa jarr. Sandowa; Rev. and Mrs. W. E. Boggs, Sattanapali. India, Rev. George H. Waters will sail, from San Francisco Nov. 9 for Swatow. China. ' FARMERS' CONGRESS. Deles-ate Dlscnun Methods of Gettlnar Best Results from Fertilisers. BOSTON, Oct. 4. The Farmers' National Congress to-day amended the constitution, placing the selection of the place of meet ing in the hands of the legislative Instead of .by agreement of the congress. W. B. Powell, of Shadeland, Pa., gave the first ad dress of the morning on "Inventions for Farmers," and the discussion which fol lowed was largely on the need of greater knowledge cf the best methods of securing fertility in air, water and earth so as to save the cost of artificial fertilizers. I W BW BBB-Bl vm-r 4 V V A I a m m i bt m m m v bv.hbvbv biibbi b REFUSES TO DISCHARGE WESTERN UNION 3EN FOR FRIDAY'S MISTAKE. Says the Service to the Cotton Ex change Would Be Jeopardised by Taking Snch Action. NEW YORK, Oct. 4. President Eckert, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, to day telegraphed the following statement to President Parker, of the New Orleans Cot ton Exchange, in reply to the coraunication of the latter official published this morning: 'Dear Sir I am In receipt of your mes sage of yesterday, in which you charge that the quotation service of last Friday was no less criminal than if it had been the result of willful and corrupt deception, and in wnicn you demand that the official or Officials whose neglect of duty permitted such conditions, and the operator or operators who sent the dispatches without no tice or-change should be made known to the world and promptly dismissed. I beg to say: "First That we cannot admit that an? criminality can be attributed to the action or omission of any official or operator of the company. The explanation already sent to you frankly and exactly states the cause of the confusion in the reports and tnat cause must he free from any imputa tion 01 tne cnarge or intentional neglect or willful misrepresentation In anv form or degree. Secon It is the purpose of the Western Union Tevgraph Company and its officials to insure v the New Orleans Cotton Ex change, an all other exchanges, the most efficient and reliable teleeranhlc service- nnssible. icur lcvg experience makes you cog- I nlzant of the Vitricacies of that service and will also contArm the fact that for mora man twenty veVrs it has been nerformed with exactness. ellabilitv and nromntness. ihis result has only been reached by tha euucauon oi men especially adapted to It. "Third The instant dismissal of the men or any of them who were on duty last Friday would not accomplish any good purpose, but might, on the contrary, by the necessary substitution of inexperienced men, put tne correctness of the service in pern, to the equal disadvantage of the exchange and the company. In the absence, therefore, of anv possible susnicion of dis honesty, of motive or action, and because or our wisn and purpose to preserve the high quality of the service that has alwavs been rendered, with the one accidental ex ception or last Friday, we must request you ana. tne memoers or your exchange to believe that we have already applied such discipline to the officials and operators In tne commercial news department as will best guarantee the improbability of anv In terruption in any way to the excellence of tne service 'Fourth This decision has been reached after the most careful examination of all concerned in the service of Friday and with aue consideration or the importance of th service to your exchange. While aonreclatmg tne conauions wnicn dictated your message we cannot but believe that your own reconsideration of the subject will lead you W. C. T. U. PROGRAMME Features of the CoiiiIdk National Con vention at Seattle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CHICAGO, Oct. 4. The programme of the National W. C. T. U. convention, to be held at Seattle, Wash., Oct. 20 to 23, ls nearly completed. The meeting opens at 9:30 Fri day morning. The annual address of the president, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, is the most important item for that morning. The reports of the corresponding secretary, Mrs. S. M. D. Fry, and of the treasurer, Mrs. Helen M. Barker, are given the same after noon. The evening is devoted to welcome addresses and responses. The Governor. Hon. John R. Rogers, and the mayor, Mr. Thomas J. Humes, will speak for the city and State. On Saturday afternoon will be celebrated the silver anniversary of the organization of the National W. C. T. U. The signers of the call for the first convention tnd the members of that convention are to give Drier aaaresses. Among tnis number are Mrs. Mary Bynon Rease, Washington; Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, New York; Mrs. Sarah M. Perkins, Ohio; Mrs. Sarah A. McClees, California. Brief addresses on "What My State Has Done in Twenty-five Years," will be made by the presidents of all the States represented at the first convention In Cleveland, 'in 1874. Saturday evening belongs to the young people, Mrs. Ella A. Boole. New York, . presides. The addresses will all be made by young women, recitations and club, swinging varying the programme. State songs are to be interspersed through the exercises each evening. Mrs. Katherine Eente Stevenson, president of Massachusens, win preacn tne annual sermon on Sunday afternoon. Monday evening will be state benent night. The programme Is made up by those presidents who have made a net gain of live hundred members during the year, ine prize banners will be pre sented uy .miss uoraon. An innovation ls made this year by giving over Tuesday to the organizers. Short. pithy speeches and appropriate songs will make a bright programme. Wednesday evening ls platform night, when straight temperance speeches will be in order. Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, of New Jersey; Mrs. Xarcissa v hite-Kinney. Oregon: Mrs. Ltouise S. Rounds. Illinois; Mrs. Lucy Thurman. Michigan and Mrs. Marlon H. Dun ham. Iowa, are the orators. This year will see the executive committee enlarged from. sixty to one hundred as the superintendents were admitted to the executive committee at the last convention in St. Paul. Among other important matters to be brought up will be the proposition to move the headquarters from the Temple to Rest Cottage. Kvanston. Making 1 T. E. sec retaries members of the convention will re ceive attention and also discussion will be held on the subject of admitting the organ izers to the executive committee. These latter topics are brought up as amendments of tho constitution. The whlte-rlbbon train out of Chicago will be decorated and fully equipped. Many are planning to take It. It leaves tne urana central btation tne evening of Oct. 13, at 11 o'clock. Original Crusaders Reorganise. PITTSBURG, Oct. 4.-The Original Cru saders of 1873 and 1S74. of Tittshurg and Allegheny, reorganized to-day and inaugu rated a movement to secure the national convention of the W. C. T. V. for this city in 1900. Their Invitation, which will be pre sented to the Seattle convention Oct. 20. h Wn slened bv all temperance so cieties, ministerial associations, Young Peo ple's Christian Associations and the mayors or the two cities. MeKlnleys Seplifw to Wed. YOUNGSTOWN, O.. Oct. 4. Card have been issued for the marriage of Miss Viole Deetrick and William McKinley Duncan, of Cleveland, a nephew of President McKInlev. The wedding is to occur on Wednesday. Oct. 18, at the home of the bride. In this citr. ci iTt:I-:-t M:::i3l;y trill cttf

PLENTY OF GAS THERE

3IARION IS IN VERY GOOD SHAPE FOR THE WINTER . SEASON. ' - City of Pern and the Local Om lany Have? Compromised Their Trouble und Pence Rrljxn. c-peciai to me in-iianapoils jcurnai MARION. Ind.. Oct. 4. While otbr cities in the gas belt are complaining of a short age of gas, and many of the operating companies have refused manufacturers attd large mercantile establishments the use of the fuel, holding It in reserve for private consumers, Marion has an abundance of the fuel. Gas men say there is little doubt that Marion is surrounded by the best field of gas territory of any point in the belt. Th contention certainly is sustained by prtsent conditions. The Mississlnewa Mining Com pany, of this city, is refusing gas to v one. and has an abundance of fuel. Altout, fifty wells supply this company, and seven1 wells are ready to be turned in at any time. This company has epent many thousands of dollars developing Its field and perfecing its Piam m tin city during the vsi'uw . , i months. Mr. Kuntx, the president of the company, says there is plenty of fuel for the present . demand, but is somewhat alarmed over the way the Chicago Pipe Line Company is developing Its field In tha southwest corner of this county.' He says he believes It soon will be necessary for his company to erect a pumping station in its field, 'adjoining the Chicago company's field, In-tns southwest rart of the county, to pump the gas to the city. J. C. Leach, state gas Inspector, while In Marlon to-day, was told of Mr. Kuntz's prediction, and h replied that he thought Mr. Kuntr was right, and that not only would It be neces sary for the MIsslssInewa Company to make such a step. Put also of all the gas com panies In Anderson and the other cities drawing gas from this section of the State. The pressure of the wells In this part of the gas belt, at the present time, averages about 160 pounds each, while three years ago a three-hundred-pound well was con sidered the average producer. Several of the large manufacturing Industries of Marlon are supplied by the MIsslssInewa company, and this year meters were placed in each, one for the first time. The result Is that the Thomas Evans glass factory, one of the largest manufacturing concerns In the city, is using an eight-ounce pressure, while last year it used a pound and a half pressure. The same condition exists at the Marion flint-glass' factory and several of the other big concerns. The MIsslssInewa Company has about ten thousand acres of undeveloped leased land around Marlon. This Is much consolation to those in this city who are afraid the fuel will give out. It has cost the company con siderable money to secure these leases, the Chicago Company, the Dleterlch syndicate and the Indianapolis Company having made a hard struggle for the land. The company Intends to finish three or four more wells before winter begins, and with this number believes it will nave no trouble in sunnlving all consumers. The Citizens' Company has twenty wells in operation, four more ready to be turned in and three being drilled at the present time. It has four thousand acres of undeveloped land leased. The companies, at the present time, are engaged In renewing the contracts with their consumers for the coming winter. Although both companies have increased their rates I about 18 per cent, they are having very few complaints from their customers, the people peing anxious to secure the fuel. With all these assurances from the gas companies the public is not depending too largely on gas. but is putting In a supply of coal and wood, in case of emergency, and a local stove dealer says that the demand this year for stoves is wonderful. , A COMPROMISE AT PERU. Snlt of the City, to ne Withdrawn, Company I'aylns; the Costs. Special to th InlUnaiolis Journal. PERU. Ind., Oct. 4. The Logansport. Sa Wabash Valley Gas Company, the local branch of the Dleterlch syndicate. Is following out Its first announcement by sending a personal notification to everybody but private residence consumers to the effect that natural gas Is to be chut off Nov. 1 on ac count of insufficient pressure to supply all patrons equally. The receipt of their notices Is creating a general feeling of alarm and has induced an effort at protection. Everybody concedes that the losing of gas for the churches, schools and other public build ings would be a great Inconvenience and that the loss to the large and small manulacturing concerns would entail serious changes for the worse, but the chief fright comes in the prospect of losing the gas for the oil field. Such a movement would mean absolutely the abardonment of the entire oil enterprise elnce none of the operators could afford to continue. Gas engines are now operated for pumping oil at Sli a month and it is estimated that It would take 2170 a month to change to coal with a fireman. aa required. The HZ.OCO a month which the output brings would thus be lost to the community. This situation has caused the busi ness men of the city considerable uneasiness. To-daythey held one of several consultations with - General Manager Jamea Murdock and Local Manager R. It. Bouflcg with the result that a compromise is under way. The merchants will call the attention cf the City Council to the situation and re quest Immediate action. ine propositions practically agreed to this afternoon are that the city will cease all efforts to bring about a one-third reduction in gas rates, an action which has been pushed for years and which ls cow In the United States Supreme Court; that the company will pay the $10.u0 costs so far incurred by.rY city: that it will Install a SW.000 pumping station, and that it will herearter furnish gas in unlimited quantities to all consumers of whatever claw, as long as any other company in the field is also able to iurnifh gas. REMARKABLE SHOOTING. j. A. II. Elliott . .Kills 1(H) Birds Straight with a Pomp (inn, KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct. 4. At Exposi tion Park to-day J. A. R. Elliott defeated W. R. Crosby, of Batavia. N. Y., in a race for the St. IjuIs Republic cup. killing ono hundred birds irtralght. to Crosby's ninetyseven. This establishes a new record for the Winchester pump gun. although Elliott already ' hod a record of cne hundred straight kills, made in this city several years ago. In a match with Dr. Carver. Al though a drizzling rain feU during tho shoot, Elliott's work was perfect. When he killed his ninety-eighth straight, which cinched the race, a cheer went up from tho stand, and when he grassed his last one, a fast right-quartering. outgoing itrd. a, hearty round of applause was given the champion. Crosby lost his forty-ninth bird and his nfty-eventn ana ninety-seventh fell dead outside the bounds. Elliott's work yesterday and to-day Is considered remarkable. In the two matches he killed 197 out of two hundred. Crosby killed 155 out of two hundred. MURDEROUS REVENGE. Rejected Lover Kill a Bride and Groom and End Ills Own Life. MONTGOMERY, Mo.. Oct. 4.-Frank Walker and his bride were murdered today by Charles Rankin, a disappointed lover, who then killed himself. The murder occurred at the home of James Cook, where the couple and their friends had gone to eat the wedding supper. The bride and groom sat side by side at the head cf the table, in front of an uncurtained window. Rankin fired through the window with a fhotgun. killing his victims nt the ilrft hot. The only member of the Cook family wounded was a child. Rankin turned his weapon cn himself and fell dead beneath the window. Liuhted His Own Funeral Pyre. TOLEDO. Q.. Oct. 4. Eouts Westtrtnan lighted his own funeral pyre at the county infirmary this morning by starting a blaze In a haystack with his pipe. As soon as the flames spread he jumped in. He whs burned to death and iZS) loss to a barn and tr.r-Iv ments was eAi'sed before ths Cants c -!'? . i - -