Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1699.

vals for the year ended June Z 1S, as 511.71a. an increaso over the next preceding year of rills, or 2i per cent. The opinion Is expressed that at least 2i,cuu person were not listed in this number through a defect in the law, as well as an lnaetermlnate number trom Canada and Mexico, who are not, under existing regulation, accounted for. The Increase over the figures for last year Is represented largely, by Immigration from Europe. cpecUlcauy irom Italy, Austria-Hungary at.d Russia., which show gain, respectively, of IV;, 22.&H and 21.1M. Of the total arrivals Europe 5upplies ZD. Asia. 8.512, Africa 51 and all omer countries i,'M. The distribution as to sex was 11&227 males and 11S,4:JS females; as to age, were under fourteen. 243,151 from fourteen to forty-flvo and l?,34i of forty-live years or older. As to illiteracy, 0,4W could neither read nor write and l,2 could read but were unable to write. As to the amount of money brought. 33.071 had each $JO or over and 174.613 had each less than P. The totai amount of money exhibited to officers was &.414.4o2. There were returned to their own roun-. tries within one year after arrival 2,622. In addition to 7l paupers and 7ff alien contract laborers debarred from the Canadian and Mexican borders," there were refused admission 1 idiot, l'J insane persons, 2.3i9 paupers or persons likely to become public charges. 2ii diseased persons. 8 convicts, 82 assisted immigrants and 741 contract laborers, making a total of 3,7'jS. The number of contract laborers debarred last year rxceeded the number for the next preceding year by 77 per cent. Legislation is recommended to enable the commissioner general to have investigations made at the centers of labor in this country to which contract laborers are destined. The recommendation of last year is repeated as to the necessity for transferring the immigration stations at Canadian ports .to certain designated points on our northern boundary, which shall be the only ports of entry for aliens coming through the Dominion. This recommendation is sustained, it is said, by figures showing that the Immigration through Canada has largely Increased and that the care exercised by the Immigration officials at the American ports is merely diverting the tide of immigration through a channel offering llttl obstruction. It is also recommended that information be collected showing the number of aliens annually leaving for foreign countries; also that the authority of the bureau be extended so as to include the subject of naturalization to such extent as may be necessary to prevent fraud. A severance of the connection between tne customs and Immigration branches of the government is urgd. With regard to the Islands now held under military authority as an outcome of the war with Spain the opinion is expressed that the prompt extension of the immigration laws to them by order of the secretary of war will avoid many embarrassments. It is also recommended that the authority of the secretary of the treasury be extended to the arrest and deportation of aliens in this country in violation of any law, as well as to such as have landed in disregard of the provision of the alien contract labor laws; to extend from one to rive years the time within which aliens who have become public charges or Inmates of penal or reformatory institutions may be tie-ported on condition that those seeking relief from the burden during the four additional years defray the expenses of the deported alien to the port of departure, the bureau defraying the tost of steamship transportation. It I also recommended that authority be grajiL-d allowing the manifests of cabin rassengers to be made up during the voyage and their certification on arrival at an American port before an Immigration inspector. It is also recommended that to fsrevent a defeat of the purposes of the aws through the claim of passengers to be visitors merely and not Immigrants that the laws be extended to all aliens, including seamen on foreign vessels after discharging at a port of the United States. The cost of enforcing the alien contract labor laws during the year was $37,725 and of the immigration laws 2$S.0G2. GENERAL MXD OFFICE.

Annual Report and Ilreommendntloni of Commlloner Hermann. WASHINGTON. Oct. 25. The annual report of Commissioner Hermann, of the General Lan3 Office, made public to-day, shows a grand total of S29.20S.068 acres of unappropriated and unreserved public lands In the United States. The disposals of public land3 during the fiscal year show an increase of 728,516 acres, as compared with the aggregate of the previous5 year. The total cash receipts of the service increased $732,142 over last year. Original homestead entries showed a decrease of 2S,870 in area Involved and final entries an increase of 39,132 in area. There were 150,41 acres certified or patented as swamp lands during the year, an increase of almcst 70,000. Indian and miscellaneous land patents issued aggregated 212.S4S acres and 420.760 acres selected by the various States and Territories were approved and certified for educational and other purposes. Under the several railroad grants made by Congress there were certified and patented last year 504.631 acres cf land, together with tW.S acres for wagon road construction. The commissioner makes a number of recommendations looking to the betterment of the land laws and their administration, and suggests the enlargement of the Mount Itanier National Park, in Washington, and the Yellowstone National Park la Wyoming. Protection against forest tires Is especially urged. It Is estimated that the average yearly loss from this cause Is not less than S20.OiJO.000. The pioper utilization of the grazing lands on the public domain is ,also urged and it is pointed out that so long bs the laws require millmen and other lumbermen to pay a fair price to the government for timber supplies drawn from fiuhiic land there should be an equal charge cvied on the grazing products cf public lands. The goverrment, It is urged, should derive a revenue from leasing such lands. The adjustment of the Northern Facltic grants shows 2S.S70.XO acres as the quantity of lands to which that company is entitled and there is still due the company 14.S51.W2 acr9. The whole area of the grant to the "Union Pa-clflc is found to be 12.129.M3 acres, 'of which 5.153.Cit; acres are mill due. The whole area of the grant to the 6t. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba Company is 1.27.22$ and the company has actually received an excess of 10.973 acres. The adjustment c-f the Northern Pacific grant shows thero will be a deficiency of more than half a million acres by the grant of May 31. 170. A deficiency also may e found under the grant of 16-1. The United States training ship Alliance, from Tangier and Madeira, has arrived at St. Thomas. D. W. I. WEATHER FORECAST. Italn and Cooler In Southern Indiana To-Day Fair To-Morrcw. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. -Forecast for Friday and Saturday: For Ohio Rain and cooler on Friday; fair On Saturday; fresh northeasterly winds. For Indiana and Illinois Rain, followed " ty fair in northern portions; rain and cooler In southern portions on Friday; fair on Saturday; fresh northeasterly winds. Local Observations on Thursday. Dir. Ther. R.H Wind. Pre. 7 a. m a1 6 67 South. .00 7 p. m 30.12 6a C6 South. .00 Maximum temperature, 74; minimum temperature. 61. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for Oct. 24: i Temp. Pre. Normal 12 0.10 2!ean 68 O.OO Departure 16 0.10 Departure since Oct. 1 1..7 1.03 Xteparture since Jan. 1 2S 5.91 'Plus. C. F. R. WAPPEN1IANS. Local Forecast Official.

Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations- . Min. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta. G.i 6 74 68 JUsmarck. N. D 2i S4 41 IJufTalo. N. Y 0 t W Calgary. N. W. T 21 4 . 24 Chicago. Ill 52 52 f.2 Cairo. Ill 64 7S 6-S Cheyenne. Wyo 22 4 3S Cincinnati. 0 54 7S 70 Concordia. Kan 4o 54 m Davenport, la TO 54 f Dcs Molnc. Ia 48 12 52 Galveston. Ttoc 7 S2 7; Jlelena. Mont 31 4S 4o Jacksonville. Fia tS 7S 72 Kansas City, M V 12 50 little Itock. Ark 2 80 72 Marquette, Mich 40 42 4 J Memphis. Tenn f M 73 2'tuhvUle. Tenn 62 7 72 New Orleans. La M z 70 New York. N. Y f.4 CS &; 2'orth IMatte. Neb 28 XA M Oklahoma. O. T 60 M f.maha. Neb 50 E4 CO Pittsburg. Pa Lti 7J 7'J Qii' Appflie, N. W. T... 2S 40 21 Jl;ipM City, S. D 21 v 4 Fall Lake Uy, Utah.... 32 SO 4; St. Louis, Mo 62 74 61 Wf. J an', Minn M 4I 44 Firrlrgfleld. Ill 60 6 f t'prlnpHeld, Mo s gj Vicksburg, Mia 63 tl 7; Was hlnston, D. C 4i 7$ CI

MILITARISM DENOUNCED

rilOTUST Afi.U.NsT TIIC THIMTMEVf OF COELIt irALU.Ni: MINIMIS.. Slaas Meeting ut Which Samuel Gompers Spoke, and Strong Resolution Were Adopted. CINCINNATI, Oct. 25. An enormous meeting was held to-night at Music Hall, the officers of which were of the Central Labor Council of Cincinnati and the speakers were Samuel Camper?, president of the American Federation of LaLor, and Edward Boyce, of Butt Mont., president of the Western Federation of Miners. Fully C.O00 men remained during th?. tv'o long speeches?. The announced purpose of the meeting was to protest against the treatment of prisoners held in the Coucr d'Alcne region in the "bull pen." Before the speaking began the resolutions were read. The iir?t resolution was a demand of the President of the United States to enforce the Constitution, especially in the sixth Ejection, which, they claim, has been violated. The secor.d resolution demanded of the President the withdrawal of the United States troops from Shoshone county. The next resolution demanded a court-martial of General Merriam and his subordinate officers. The last resolution was that all the federal, the military and civil officers responsible for the alleged illegal acts committed by them should be held to the strictest accountability. President Gompers said the present afforded a great opportunity for laboring people. He said this enormous attendance and the passage of these resolutions would have a far-reaching effect and would do much to relieve the oppressed in Idaho and to bring the oppressors to Justice. President Gompers said that he was in the mountain region near the scene of the uprising in Shoshone county but a few days before it occurred, lie said that by conversation with men who knew about the situation he learned the condition of affairs at Wardner, Hunker i i a1 SuHlvan minea. He vehemently denied that labor organizations had anything whatever to do with that uprising. The labor unions had been locked out by the operators, who went outside and brought in inrerior and dangerous nonunion men and set them to work in the mines. These ignorHnJLmls' uPused to the ways of the union, demanded union prices and were denied. U(??cr,? related a story of what follow ed. including the dynamiting of the 5 yj ..Slme one In the audience shouted, Liood. Mr. Gompers responded. "No; not good. Organized labor cannot stand for such acts of violence. Organized labor is the great conservator of peace." He described the bull pen and said it utterly ignored the sanitary wants of those corraled in it. and that it stinted them in food and exposed them to the weather. It would go down in history as the black hole and the Andersonville of Idaho. He said that the charge of the operators that the violence was the work of labor organizations was maliciously false. The operators were compelled to make that charge to screen themselves from being the cause of the violence by bringing ignorant nonunion desperadoes to take the places of union men. The case In Idaho, he said. Is but a symptm of militarism and despotism which met with prevalent favor on the part of capitalists and the great money powers. He asked the question: "How can we preserve the liberty of this country?" A voice in the audience said "Elect Jones." The voice was promptly squelched. After Mr. Gompcrs's speech Edward Hoyt, president of the Western Federation of Miners, gave a plain, straightforward, exhaustive history of the troubles, covering seventeen or eighteen years among the miners In Shoshone county. After his speech, which was finished very late, the resolutions were adopted with a roaring aye and then with a standing vote, BRICKLAYING SUSPENDED Pending the Settlement of the Color Question at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 26. There was no bricklaying to-day in Kansas City. The refusal of the masons and bricklayers employed in the erection of the Cudahy packing houses, on the Kansas side, to recognize the hod-carriers' union? which is composed largely of negroes, but which affiliates with the Building Trades- Council, provoked all the union hod-carriers to quit work to-day, thus compelling the bricklayers to suspend operations. This action was taken to force the bricklayers unions to affiliate with the Building Trades Council. The Builders Helpers Union, a new organization of white hod-carriers, is doing the work at Cudahvs and the union is receiving the support of he bricklayers. Strike Narrowly Averted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 26.-A strike at the National tin-plate plants in thl3 city was nipped in the bud and the workers, who went out at noon, returned to work this afternoon, pending an Investigation. A nonunion man named Jllson has been employed in the pickling department and his outspoken opposition to the union resulted to-day in all the union men going on strike and demanding his discharge as the price of their return. The matter was Immediately taken up and the men returned to work with him pending a final settlement of the affair. Falrruonut Barbers on Strike. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FA1RMOUNT, Ind., Oct. 2G.-The union barbers of Falrmount walked out to-day and took their tools with them. ThLs action was caused by the refusal of the master barbers to guarantee a $10 weekly stipend, which the Journeymen as-ked in lieu of the 70 per cent, of receipts hitherto paid. Xonuntonlst Indicted for Murder. CLEVELAND. O., Oct. 26. The grand Jury to-day indicted Ralph tlawley for murder in the second degree. Hawley was a nonunion conductor on the Broadway line during the street-railroad strike. On July 24. during an attack on a car. ho shot and killed Michael Kornswelt, a boy, who was riding by on a horse. HAHPER-M'CLURE ALLIANCE. Official Statement of the Changes It Will Ilrln About. NEW YORK, Oct. 25. At the office of Harper & Bros, to-day it was denied that the alliance with Doubleday & McClure had led to a revolution in the older house. It was admitted, however, that Mrs. Margaret Sangstcr had retired from the editorship of Harper's Bazar, her successor being J. H. Seers. The change took place July L The Round Table, a paper for boys, had never been profitable and long ago It was determined to suspend its publication and In its place issue a new monthly magazine to be called the Franklin Square, under the editorship ofAlbert Lee. Still another Har-per-McClure magazine will be issued, with James Finley as editor. Henry Loomls Nelson retired from the editorship of the weekly about July 1. Henry G. Faine is now editor. When the Harper-McClure alliance was announced it was inferred that the McClure Company was to Le absorbed by the older tlrm. However. Mr. McClure and Mr. Doubleday seem to be the dominant force in the allied concern. EXPLOSION OF NITRIC ACID. Fonr Student and Tuo Profenor of Chicago Inlvcrslty Injured. CHICAGO. Oct. 26. Four students and two professors of the University of Chicago were injured In an explosion oT chemicals In Kent laboratory to-day and many others were almost overcome by smoke and the fumes of nitric acid. The injured are L. A. Iligley, M. J Irons, William Inpham. It. CS. Myers, Professor Alexander i?mith and Professor Lengfelt. It Is thought that none of the injuries will result fatally. For Counterfeiting Foreign IV r fn me. MILWAUKEE. WK. Oct. 2C Anton Heusier. charged with dealing in counterfeit foreign perfumes, was arrested In Milwaukee to-day by internal revenue ciHcirs.

Heusier is accused of selling domestic perfumes In bottles stamped with counterfeit labels Indicating that their contents were of foreign manufacture. It is said he has for pome time len di?poing of his goods to dealers in Chicago. Pittsburg, New York. Philadelphia and Washington, the sales footing up many thousand dollars. A DISGRUNTLED CUBAN.

American Denounced by the Editor of the Havana Trlbunn. HAVANA. Oct. 26.-The Tribuna, edited by Senor Aleuan. formerly prominently identified with the Cuban revolutionary movement said to-day: "Cuba is now in the midst of anarchy, which is aided and abetted by the government of that Republic whose President pretends, in the name of liberty, to spread the military supremacy of the United States all over the world. This plan, proposed by the business men of America, i3 now being carried out by Mr. McKInley. Cubans are not such fools as to believe that the reports sent to Washington by the military governors do not contain more thnn appears in the American newspapers. The reports sent to Washington are craftily worded. They show how false and double-minded are the intervening authorities who govern Cuba at the pleasure of the military commanders. They have even informed Washington that our newlyformed political parties are not worthy of the name and that the men who direct them have no prestige, but have undertaken to form parties without programmes." The Epoca, discussing the wants of Cuba, says: "What Cuba most needs are free compulsory education, white immigration exclusively, with special inducements to families, radical improvement of modes of living in the country and towns, free trade with the United States and state sovereignty, similar to that enjoyed by the States of the American Union. Otherwise our country will remain as it was before the war an asylum for beggars. If those who love Cuba do not wih the island to become something worse than a home for the insane, they will everywhere preach the doctrine of annexation." It turna out, after investigation under instructions from Governor General Brooke, that the orders recently issued by the municipal authorities at Pinar del Rio to the Syrian residents there did not contemplate their expulsion from the province, as they understood, but merely their temporary evacuation of their houses in order to allow a thorough disinfection of the premise?. The notification was for a five days' withdrawal, this course being considered necessary. Under an absolute misapprehension of the meaning of the notice their priest complained to General Brooke that they were being persecuted. The editors of La Discusclon and El Cabano have been summoned to appear in court and answer charges based upon alleged offensive articles recently published in their rei?pective papers. IndaNirinl School for Boys. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Oct. 26.General Leonard Wood, military governor of the province of Santiago, issued an order today establishing an industrial school for boys, orphans of Cuban soldiers, in the Spanish military hospital, which was abandoned by the American troops last June. Some two hundred bo$-s will receive instruction in various trades and an education in elementary English branches. Competent American teachers will be engaged. The building, the largest and finest ever used for hospital purposes on the island, has been repaired at an expenditure of $10,000 and turned over to the civil authorities. The quartermaster has received instructions for the Immediate shipment to the Philippines of a large number of surplus mules. i Resignation of Itivera. HAVANA, Oct. 26, 9:23 p. m. Gen. Ituls Rivera has resigned the civil governorship of the province of Havana. The post has been offered to Gen. Emilo Nuez. but his friends say they doubt that he will accent. Should he refuse it will probably be offered to Senor Fernandez de Castro, civil governor of the province under the autonomist regime. In explanation of General Rivera's resignation it is said that his nominations had not received the recognition he thought due them. LORD PAUNCEF0TE. Well-Known Diplomat Taken III Seat In Parliament. LONDON, Oct. 2C Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to the United States, took his seat in the House of Lords this afternoon for the first time. He was introduced by Lord Russell of Klllowen, the lord chief Justice, and by Lord James, of Hereford, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster. Lady Pauncefote and her daughters were In the peeress gallery. Mr. Henry White, secretary of the United States embassy, and Mr. Charlemagne Tower, the United States ambassador to Russia, were also present. German !Vnvy to De Increased. BERLIN, Oct. 26. The correspondent here of the Associated Press learns authoritatively that the conferences between the secretary of the admiralty. Admiral Tlrpltz, the minister of foreign affairs, Count Von Buelow, and the Imperial chancellor. Prince Hohenlohe, related solely to the increase of the German navy by speedier and larger ships than contemplated under the existing programme. Tills is due to the radically changed political situation of the world. It Is not intended as a threat to any one. The conferences did not refer to sending warships to South Africa, and no decision has been reached as to in what shape the new naval plans will reach the Reichstag. Cable 'ote. Colonel Pando has been elected President of Bolivia in succession to Senor Severo Fernandez Alonzo. According to the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail Emperor Nicholas and Emperor William will meet at Darmstadt before the Kaiser goes to England. Henry Peartree, president of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, has been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his active participation In the negotiations of the Franco-American commercial treaty. The French public prosecutor has abandoned the charges in the RnyalLst conspiracy case against MM. Monicourt, Parneral and Glrard. but upholds those against MM. Buffet, Guerln, Deroulede, Count SebrauPonteve3 and eleven others. The Deutsche Colonial Zeitung publishes an article strongly deprecating any suggestion that Germany should renounce her claims in the Samoan Islands and declaring a hope that wherever the German Hag floats it shall float' forever. MASON WILL RESIGN If Republican Convention Falls to 3Ieet llin Filipino Views. CHICAGO. Oct. 26. William E. Mason. Junior United States senator from Illinois, declared to-day that he would resign if the Republican national convention in 1500 did not declare against "criminal aggression" in the Philippines. Mr. Mason even vent so iar as to say he would resign if the convention favored offering the Filipinos "canned freedom," as he thought it might do. There must be no evasion pn the vital issue of pure and unadulterated freedom or the senator will &tep down and out. Then Mr. Ma?on proposes to stand for i re-election, to see whether the Illinois General Assembly sides with him or with the policy, of the McKinley administration. "I have talked the ma-'ter over with my wife and a few intimate Irlends," said Senator Mason. "I will not talk for publication on the policy of our administration in the Philippines until after Congress convenes and the question comes before tha. body. I am opposed to criminal aggression, but not to expansion. If it develops that 1 am not In touch with the people who made me their t-enator there would be only one thing for me to do, resign, and give the party a chance to select another for the last two years of my term. I will serve through the coming session and wait until the national convention enunciates its platform? It probably will offer the Filipinos canned freedom. If the platform on this Issue does not meet my views I will resign. But I want to serve notice right now. however, that 1 shall be a candidate for reelection." Women Secure Their Parsonage. MILLER. S. D.. Oct. 2. The Methodist parsonage affair is now closed, except for the .trials of the arrested parties, which are now going on. The building was placed on Its foundation here to-day and the la-

dies celebrated by giving a free supper and the townsDeoDlp irave a serenade witn'-nfe

r a An1 r 1 MANY HEAR "TEDDY." Thousand) of Ilnltlniorean" Listen to Governor Roosevelt. BALTIMORE, Oct. 26. A most enthusiastic crowd assembled In and about Music Hall to-night to hear Governor Roosevelt, of New York, who to-day. closed a most successful tour of the western counties of the State expounding Republican principles. Seven thousand persons were massed in the building when Charles J. Bonaparte arose to introduce Colonel Roosevelt, and of the several thousand of others who were turned away 3,000 remained to attend the overflow gathering that was held on the plaza in front of the building. The Governor addressed both audiences. He asserted that the campaign in Maryland was being fought on national as well as on state Issues, and declared the war with Spain was well worth the' cost, since it united the North with the South, the West with the East under one flag. His address, . which was in line with others he had made in the State, was generously applauded. Bryan' Nebraska Tour. OMAHA. Neb., Oct. 2i. W. J. Bryan's special campaign train will start on its tour through Nebraska to-morrow morning, and the free-silver orator will deliver sixty-six speeche? to the voters of the State in seven days. The first speech will be at Syracuse to-morrow. The last speech of the campaign will be at Lincoln on the evening of NOV. 4. FIVE CASES, TWO DEATHS. Latent Yellow Fever Report Received from Key West. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Reports received at the Marine Hospital are that there were fives- cases of yellow fever at Key West to-day and two deaths, one a soldier in the garrison there and the other a Cuban child. At Miami to-day one new case was reported. E. II. W 111U Dead at Svrlnharn Island. NEW YORK. Oct. 26. E. H. Willis, the yellow-fever patient, died at Swlnburn Island to-day. Willis arrived from Havana on Tuesday on the Ward line steamer Nia gara and was transferred to Hoffman island with ten of his feilow-passengers. He developed yellow fever and was sent to the hospital at Swlnburn island. Willis's home was at Oakland. Fla. (Unless relatives ob ject, his remains will be incinerated in the crematory at swlnburn island. ; Three Sen Cases ut Jncknon. JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 26. The Board cf Health issued the following official bulletin to-night: "Three new cases of yellow fever have been reported to the State Board of Health for the past twenty-four hours." MM APPEAL TO THE COURT. Bankers Object to a Rnllnnr by the Internul Revenue Commissioner. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2G.-A committee appointed at the national bankers convention, headed by F. W. Haves, of Detroit, is here to obtain,' if possible, a reversal of opinion rendered by the commissioner of internal revenue, holding that express companies selling domestic and foreign exchange are" not compelled to pay the $30 annual war tax exacted of bankers dealing in such paper. The bankers j-ay this decision operates to their disadvanrage and is a discrimination against them by the government. A hearing on tha subject was originally set for Oct. 20, but as Secretary Gage was absent frcm the city that day the hearing was postponed until Oct. 27. To-night, when the committee met, it learned that the commissioner rad cecided the matter on the rlrst-nannd date In favor of the express companies. The tankers will Insist on being beard tc-momw, and If refused will test the matter in the courts. ' ' ' ' ' BARBER'S WIFE IN TROUBLE. Woman Who Claimed to lie Heir to $3,500,000 Indicted for Larceny MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 26. Mrs. Hcttie B. Gats, the barber's wife who claimed to have fallen heir to a fortune of $3,500,000 from an uncle in Cornwall, England, has been indicted by the grand jury for grand larceny in the second degree and is now in custody. Mrs. Gates has for more than a year obtained unlimited credit among local tradesmen and others on the strength of the alleged legacy. Investigation showed that there was no fortune. Mrs. Gates maintains that it is all a conspiracy, and that If there was- fraud she was the victim and not the' beneficiary of it. PRICE WILL NOT BE RAISED. Springfield Coal Operators Arrive at that Conclrslon. SPRINGFIELD. 111. Oct. 2G.-A meeting of the operators of the Springfield subdistrict was held to-day to discuss the question of raising the price of coal to the retail dealers. After considerable discussion It was decided not to raise the price. The miners of the Springfield subdlstrict held a delegate meeting last night, at which it was decided if the operators should raise the price of coal miners would demand a corresponding Increase in the price of mining coal. TERMS OF WILL. (Concluded from First Tnge.) . expressed at the smallness of the amount Senator Depew said it was not strange when It is remembered that Mr. Vanderbilt had been giving away perhaps half of his income for the last twenty-five years. The exact amount of the fortune that is distributed will not be known until It is appraised by the state officials. No schedule of the numerous Vanderbilt holdings of shares of stock is contained in the will. The inheritance tax will be very large. It is estimated by good authorities that it will amount to at least $1,500,000. Rev. Dr. D. H. Greer, who receives a bequest of fcO.OOO, is the rector of St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Vanderbilt was a member and a stanch supporter; Charles Clarke, who receives $25,000, was, for more than forty years, vice president and treasurer of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad; Franklin Allen, who receives $23,000, Is a cousin of Mr. Vanderbilt; Maud Gwynne Shepard Is a sister of Mrs. Vanderbilt; John Rutgers Leroy was a friend of Mr. Vanderbilt; Charles F. Cox Is vice president and treasurer of the Nickel-plate and Big Four Toads; E. V. W. Rossiter Is the vice president and treasurer of the New York Centran and Hudson River Railroad; George A. Hardburton, who receives $10,OX, Is the present secretary of the Railroad Men's Y. M. C. A., of this city; Robert R. McBurney, who was to have received $10,000, was the secretary of the main branch In this city of the Y. M. C. A. and died a lew months ago; J. XI. Hattmaker, who receives $10,000, Was private secretary to Mr. Vanderbilt for several years; Mrs. William Turnbull and John G. Earlc, who received an annuity of $1,000 each, were old friends of Mr. Vanderbilt: Mrs. Jeremiah Simonson, who receives an annuity of $1.2vW, and Mrs. Sarah Simonson, who receives an annuity of $X, are distant relatives of the family. Worried to Death. CINCINNATI, O.. Oct. 25. H. M. Guthardt. a pension agent, on trial to-day before the United States Court, charged with attempting to procure a pension for a soldier's widow by fraud, dropped dead in a saloon to-night from worry over his case. Beautiful Complexions by 1'nlne Chmplln's Liquid Pearl. Sue. pink or white. Delightful, marvelous results; harmless.

BURNED WHILE ASLEEP

FOURTEEN PEOPLE CREMATED IX THEIR IIO.MEM IX A LA HAM A Tivo IIoucn Occupied by Settler from Iowa Destroyed by Fire Six in One and Eight In the Other. MOBILE. Ala., Oct. 21. The startling news was received In this city to-day that fourteen people had been burned to death at a place known as Falres, in Baldwin county, about thirty miles northeast of Mobile. The information was brought to this city by Captain Joseph E. Jordan, who resided in the locality of the fatality. It appears that some time during Monday night last fire destroyed the dwellings of Harry Goodlow and Samuel Smlthson, burning all the occupants of both houses. The Goodlow family consisted of father, mother and Fix children. There were six persons residing In the Smithson home, the husband, wife, three children and a sister of Mr. Smithson. No cause could be discovered for the fire, and It is believed to Have been of accidental origin. The pir.e trees surrounding the houses caught fire from the flames and added tc the destruction. They also prevented any assistance from reaching the perrons in the houses. The charred bodies were found in the rooms where the different members of the family had been accustomed to sleep, thus rivin? the impression that death had come while the people were sleep ing. The families tormed part or a coiony of emigrants who had settled In this region. These two families had come from Iowa. Gooulow having been in the neighborhood tfr tome three years, wHle Smithson had ily recently reached thtf locality. Goodlow was highly esteemed by the settlers. The bodies weie Interred in the little graveyard of the settlement, one of the colonists acting as minister. TOWN SHELLED. (Concluded from First Paee.) why infantry officers fell into the enemy's hands at the same time, and it is assumed they were mounted infantry." In replying to Mr. John Dilion. Irish Nationalist, member for East Mayo, Mr. Wyndham declared that the British roops were not using expanding bullets, and had no such bullets. In the course of a reply relative to the arrangements made for the care of the wounded, Mr. Wyndham said there were ample stocks of medicines, etc., with all the British forces, but possibly, if they were forced to care for many Boers, the British resources would be strained, and the government was making provision for this contingency. On Oct. 23, he added, three Boer doctors, with assistants, arrived at Ladysmith and the Boer wounded were placed in the Dutch church in their charge. Those doctors expressed gratitude and satisfaction at the unexpected arrangements for the comfort and welfare of the wounded. The appropriation bill passed the committee stage to-day. Davltt's Aetlon "Sliod Pp." NEW" YORK, Oct. 26. "It is a fake. Mr. Davitt is playing to the galleries." That was the answer made by John E. Redmond, M. r., to a Times reporter at the Hoffman House, last evening, who asked him what he thought of the resignation of his seat in the House of Commons by Michael Davitt. "Mr. Davitt took no chances when he resigned," he continued. "He knows full well that his constituency will re-elect him." FIGHT XEAR KIMBERLY. Col. Tnrner Leaves the Town and Meets a 'Strong; Force of Boers. CAPE TOWN, Oct. 26, Evening. Official reports from Kimberley, dated Tuesday, state that Coloned Scott Turner, with 270 men, proceeded northward to MacFarlane's farm, where they unsaddled their horses. At 9 o'clock a party of Boers w seen on the right'fiank and was quickly scattered, Colonel Scott Turner opening fire on them and several of the enemy being seen to fall. The enemy moved to a sand heap and opened fire on the British, which was returned. Colonel ocott Turner attempted to prevent the Boers advancing against Col. Murray, but was met with a heavy fire from a dam wall six hundred feet to the left. At 11 o'clock Col. Murray ordered 140 men of the Lancashire Regiment to proceed to the north. An armored train is already supporting Col. Scott Turner. At midday Colonel Murray, started also, wHth two field guns and two Maxims and seventy mounted meti. One of the two guns opened suddenly upon the Boers, who were In an urfavorable poeitlon. The Boer artillery fire was brisk. Another armored train was held in readiness. At 2 o'clock the second train was sent forward with additional ammunition. The Lancashires behaved splendidly and Col. Scott Turner highly commended them. Commandant Botha and many Boers were killed. The British loss was three killed and twenty-one wounded. The engagement was a brilliant success for the British forces. FROM MANY SOURCES. Varlonn Belated Reports of the Recent Fighting In Natal. LONDON, Oct. 26. The dispatches from thr. front are fo diversified and contrary thiit it Is difficult to outline the situation with any degree of precision. Three or four main facts, however, stand out prominently. General Symons's fight at Glencoe was not anything like the decisive victory at first alleged, and General Yule would in all probability have been annihilated or met with the same fate as the captured Hussars if he had not retreated. General White's artillery duel at Rletfonteln was a very se.vere engagement in which the rifle did great execution and in which success was also achieved at a distressing cost. The Boers have got their Hussar prisoners safely to Tretorla. Altogether the campaign is being pushed by the Boers so strenuously and on such strategical lines that the t-ltuatlon of the British must in all probability give them cause for deep anxiety for some time to come. It is difficult to see how the concentrated force at Ladysmith will be able to take the aggressive Immediately. Apart from the fatigue, regiments like the Gordon Highlanders and Royal Rifles have been practically without officers since the last i!ght. and 133 additional officers have been ordered to leave as speedily as possible. The Transvaal force defeated at Elanddlaagte was the.Johannesburg corps. Special dlspatVies dwell' on the severity of the rifle fire at Kitfontein. They say that when the Boers finally retreated the Lancers cut them off from their horses and inillctid severe loss on them. The retreat, it is added, ended ;n a general rout. It is announced in a dispatch from IadyFmith, dated Oct. 2J, that strong reinforcements of infantry and artillery have arrived thcie from Pietermarltzburg. It was also reported that the Boers were again making near Elanl.'laagte and that a Free State force several thousand strong was occupying Bester's Station. A batch of delayed dispatches arrived here this morning from Pretoria, via Lorenzo Marquez. Under date of Oct. 21, the dispatches say: "Friday's fight at Dundee started at 5 o'oclock in the morning and lasted until 2 In the afternoon. The burghers, under Gen. Lucas Meyer, took up a strong position, but were compelled to retire to their laager after capturing a Maxim. The lighting was resumed at 1 o'clock this morning in the neighborhood of Glencoe and Dundee. Several Boer forces were engaged. The firing was distinctly heard at Dannhauser. "Newcastle i under martial law. The town Is quiet. The farmers, within a radius of three miles, have been called on to give an lnventnrv of thlr utnrk In case It is reJ quired, and the citizens have been ordered

to give up their arms. About three hundred complied. Guards are protecting property." TWELVE HOURS' BATTLE. . Under date of Oct. 22 Is the following from Pretoria: "The Johannesburg burghers, Hollander Corps, had a heavy engagement at Elandslaagte. The battle lasted twelve hours against heavy odds. Two hundred are missing and about one hundred burghers are dead or wounded. It is reported that Colcncl Senlel and Field Cornets Picnaar and Joubcrt were killed. "General Joubert reports that General Cronje, commanding the Free State and Wlnburg forces, had an engagement yesterday with the British at Elandslaagte. It started at i o'clock and lasted seven hours. Nine burehers were wounded and six were klPed. All the British retired to Ladysmith. "The Brltli-h prisoners captured on Friday night, near Dundee, were entrained at Dannhauser. They filled ten trucks. The oflWr traveled first class and a separate

van was provided for the wounded officers. An enormous crowd assembled at the station here to witness their arrival, but there was no demonstration. When they alighted the prisoners were received with funeral silence on the part of the crowd. The greatest order and dcorum prevailed while they were traversing the streets. The wounded were taken to a hospital while the other officers and men were marching to the race course, escorted by mounted burghers, and were encamped on the spot where Jameson's troopers were confined. The officers Lieutenant Colonel Moller, Major Grevelle and Captain Pollock, of the Eighteenth Hussars, and Captain Lonsdale. lieutenant Le Meseurier. Lieutenant Garvice, Lieut. Grlmshaw, Lieutenant Majendie and Lieut. Shore, of the Dublin Fusiieers looked in good health. They are quartered in a building apart from the men. On giving their parole they will be allowed the freedom of the whole Inclosure. The men appear indifferent and spent most of their time smoking. They sleep on the grand stand." A belated dispatch sent from Glencoe camp on the night of the battle in that vicinity admits that few Boer dead and wounded were found on the field and attempts to explain this by saying: "Throughout the flKht the Boers, In accordance with their custom, burled their dead and carried off their wounded immediately after they fell, those left representing only the casualties during the last moments of the fighting. Even the disabled cannon had been removed, although broken pieces of them could be seen lying about." Ex-State Attorney Koster. the defender of Von Veltheim. the murderer of Woolf Joel, at one time the partner of the late Barney Barnato. was among the killed at Elandslaagte. It is said that Colonel Schlel's German force was almost annihilated at that battle. THE REITFONTEIN FIGHT. Details of the fighting at Reltfonteln are coming in slow. A special dispatch from Ladysmith, dated Oct. 24. filed after the fight, says: "On discovery that the Boers were massed to the westward of the main road to Dundee an attempt was made by a train to recover the body of Colonel ScottChisholm. killed at Elandslaagte. The train was fired on and obliged to retire, and Gen. White moved out to attack the Boers, believed to bo Free Staters who should have joined the Transvaalers at Elandslaagte. General White commanded personally. The Fifth Lancers were placed on either flank. They first came in touch with the Boers below Modderspruit, where l.rOO burghers occupied a strong ridge, whence they opened fire at 1,200 yards, hitting several of the British. In the meanwhile the Erdsars and Natal carbineers advanced unscathed through an opening on the ridge under the fire of a Boer gun, while tne Imperial Light Horse took part of the crest of the ridge, the Boers retiring. At about 9 o'clock, however, a Boer gun stationed on the crest of Matawanaskop opened fire with great accuracy on the main force, which in the meantime had come up. but the shells failed to explode and the British artillery silenced the. opposition. The whole British force then advanced and the action became general. A large body of Bofrs occupied strong positions at Matanawaskop and the precipitous ridges surrounding. The British guns shelled the positions and the infantry advanced under cover of the fire. The Gloucesters and Devons crossed a fearful fire zone beneath Tuitanyonl hill, whence the Boers poured a withering fire with such effect that thirty of the attackers dropped within a distance of 2o0 yards. Seeing the peril of the Devons and Gloucesters. Gen. white dispatched the carbineers and Liverpools to take the enemy in the rear. "A fierce rifle and artillery duel was maintained for some time. The British Maxims rattled, but the Boers, under. cover of the rocks, remained cool and rerlled with an Incessant rifle fire. The British artillery swept the face of the hill and at length the shells became so destructive that the Boers retreated to another ridge, whence they were dislodged by the vounteers in the face of a galling fire. The Boers soon reformed and took up a position on another ridge, but the volunteers, dashing across the intervening plateau, again rushed the Boer position and drove them back to the main force occupying Matawanaskop. The British then shelled . the latter until clusters of Boers were seen leaving and retreating westward when the engagement closed." A special dispatch from Glencoe camp, dated Oct. 23. says: "After the victory Friday the British imagined they were free from further molestation ror rome days, but they soon found that the earlier reports of a sweeping success were exaggerated. The reported capture of all the Boer gur.3 was incorrect. The burghers sueceeled in recovering some of them before the British carried the hill, leaving nly the riflemen behind to cover their retreat. "On Saturday news was received of the approach of General Joubert's main column, threatening Dundee. General Yule, quickly recognizing the impossibility of defending both Dundee and Glencoe against such superiority of numbers, sent word to Ladysmith of his dangerous situation iir.d ordered the evacuation ofpun-lvJe. Most of the inhabitants went southward on Saturday. The British camp was aUo relieved, in anticipation of an attack on Dundee, which commenced with long-range firing by the big guns at daybreak Sunday. The Boers made excellent practice, and shells from a forty-pounder occupying the Impat! mountains dropped in and around the tov.n. In the meanwhile the British had reached Glencoe in safety. There orders reached General Yule on Monday to fall bark cn Ladysmith. At the same time he was informed that a large force was awaiting at Elandsgaate to assist his retirement. Glencoe camp, accordingly, wa? quietly ttcuated. The precarious Dosition of ma B:Jtish was not known to the Boers.' MEDIATION ritUCDt Holland Society Resolutions Presented to President McKInley. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The resolutions adopted at a mass meeting held in Carnegie Hall, New York, Oct. 11, urging the President to offer the friendly service's of the United States in mediation between Groat Britain and the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics, were pres?nt?d to the President thla afternoon by a delegation from New York, headed by Tunis G. Bergln, president of the Holland Society. Others of the delegation were: Alfred H. Love, of Philadelphia, president of the Universal Peace Union; the Rev. Dr. Evart Van Slyke. of Brooklyn; J. W. L. Pruyn. of Albany: Rev. Dr. Farrar, Fred W. Helnrichs and Samuel Rowland, of Brooklyn: James J. Whiteley. of Baltimore, and William Van Benthuyeen. of New York. Mr. Bergln. in his address presenting the petition to the Presllent, said the delegation had no desire to embarrass the friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain. On the contrary. It was because of that friendliness and good understanding that they presented the petition to the President In the hope that in the wise and good discretion of the executive a way might be found to offer the timely offices' of the government of the United States In an endeavor to allay the bloody conflict now going on in Africa. This would be in line with the new diplomacy enunciated at The Hague peace conference. The hope was expressed that honorable terms of peace might be secured, the honor of both parties be sustained and the names of two of our fister republics be not stricken from the earth. No people would welcome our good officf like the English people, the South African republics were ready for mediation and the United States, as the friend of both, iiould be the best mediator." Mr. Helnrichs and Mr. Van Benthuysen ppoke on the same line. The President. In rerpondlng. thanked the gentlemen present for appearing and fcr the sentiments, expressed in bfhalf of peace. Such sentiments had h! sympathy, but In a case where so many diverse interests are involved moves mu.t be made with great reserve-lest unwlttlnply Injury be done some of the parties. The fact, moreover, mU9t not be overlooked that America had Interests at stake. The President reiterated that he was for peace and assured the delegation that the petition would receive his most earnest consideration. OX THE WESTERN" BORDER. Boer Cordon Around Kimberley UrnuliiK Closer to the Town. LONDON, Oct. 2 There i little news from the western border. The cordon around Kimberley is drawing closer, but hopes are entertained that a Hying squadron of cavalry will shortly be sent to Its relief. The Boers have occupied Winsortem, an

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Advlces from Cape Town to-day show that the assembly at Putiatsu river was attended bv all the principal D.suto chiefs. The resident commissioner, Sir Godfrey Lagden, was present. The action of the paramount chief. Lerothodl. In pledging tho natives' loyalty was emphatically conttrmed by.tfco chiefs urging the claim that they be regarded as the Queen's soWIers and ba allowed to share in Great Britain's MruRgle. Three cheers were given for-the Quetnbjr thousands of natives led by Lerothodi. Tha British commissioner discouraged the idea that tbe British required assistant and bade the chiefs to quell the excitement aad beware of false reports. ' According to a dispatch received at Cape To.vn from Pretoria, in the engagement between the British forces led by Plummet" and the Boers at Rhodesia six Boers wera killed and four were made prisoners. The Portuguese authorities have reconducted over the Transvaal border 50 whlta and black prisoners whom the Bors released from their Jails and turned loosa In Portuguese territory. The transport Seayathla. whose voyage from Liverpool was delayed by difficulties with her machinery, has arrived at Cap Town with a battery and a half of field artillery. Her sister transport, with an equal force, which has been similarly delayed, Is dally expected. i: n ton nt the Doer Front. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2. The mtsslng newspaper man,,Easton, who was supposed to have been captured by the Boers, has been traced by the State Department and found to be all right. Consul Macrum. nt Pretoria, reports that Easton is at the front with the Boer forces. rretorlusi, the Boer Commandant. General Pretorius, who In reported seriously wounded and captured by the British troops in th battle of Elandslaagte, Is a good type of the Boer commandant.,. In peace he Is a farmer, though always ready to respond to the call to arms. For purposes of defense General Joubert. the Boer commander-in-chief, hat divided the republic Into seventeen military districts. ISach of ihe?e districts is under the charge of a commandant, of whom Pretorius is supposed to be one. Under each commandant are a num ber of field cornets, whose duty it is to summon the burghers from their farms when called upon to do so by the commandant. In rase of great urgency ihey light fir1 on the hilltops, and the burgher?, guided by the rmoke during the day and ty the fire at right, gather about them, equipped for lnrtant service. Fnnionn Surjreon Volnnleera. Sir William MacCormac, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, who has Just volunteered for service In South Africa, li no novice in service on the field of battle. He served as a volunteer surgeon during tha Franco-Prusjslan war and was ' present at the siege of Sedan. He has written a book describing his experiences In this conflict, which, had . a great Influence.. Jn Improving the condition of field"' hospitals au'd Ambulance service on later battlefields. He afterwards served in the Turko-Servian war and Is the posesor of many foreign decorations, given in recognition of his services. He Is now serving bis fourth term as president of the Royal College of Surgeons. In going out to South Africa Sir William gives up an enormous practice. He Is nearly clxty-four years old. Major Grey and Dr. Jameson. Dr. Jameson and Major Grey have landed in South Africa and will assist their o!d comrades in fighting the burghers. Major Grey was one of the leaders in the Jameson raid. He commanded the detachment of two troops of mounted men which was raised at Maf eking to co-operate with Jameson r.ga!nst the Boers. He surrendered with the rest of the Invading force and was sent back to England, where he was tried and sentenced to five months In Jail. Major Grey was formerly an officer of the Sixth Innisklllen Dragoons, and. after leaving the arms, was for a time the commander of the Bechuanal3nd border police. His long service in South Africa has made him familiar with the country and with the fighting tactics of the Eoers. LICENSE LAW UPHELD. Special Taxes May De Levied on Classes in Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 26. The Supreme Court to-day handed down a decision sustaining the Grtndeland law lequlrlng produce and commission men to take- out licenses and give bonds to the State? Railroad and Warehouse CommL'sIon. Two test casci had been carried to the Supreme Court, which decided both in the same manner, declaring the law to be valid on all points raised. Justice Collins, who filed the decision, says the whole matter turns on the question of class legislation, but the Supreme Court decides that It Is right and lawful to place dealers in farm produce and grain In a class by themselves, as Is done by the Grlr.delar.d law. Th- law was parsed by the Ian legislature after a hard contest and tles test c3m -ere Immediately started ia order to i-ettle its validity. Three Miners Killed. IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich.. Oct. 25. Charles Nelson. Richard Stone and Albln Forsterlson were killed to-day by an explosion of dynamite in the Cundy mine. The men were preparing a blast at the time. and It 1 supposed the accident was caused by carelessness in driving in the charge. Telephone Cable Lld. MARQUETTE, Mich., Oct. 2.-A private telegram from St. Ignace says the Michigan Telephone Company has tiniwhed laying Its cable across the straits of Mackinac. The system works perfectly and the company will now complete a lino from St. Ignace to Marquette ard Houghton. atnral Gas In West VIrlnla. CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Oct. .'-Information has been received here that the Fidelity Oil Company, of Boone county, whll drilling near Racine, at a depth of 1.3S3 feet, struck a large gas. well. The company Is composed of capitalists of this city and Corning, O. Iter. G. K. Morrison to Die To-Day. DALLAS. Tex.. Oct. 26,-Rev. G. E. Morrison, the wife murderer, will be hanged at 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon at Vernon. Governor Savers has refused to commute the death sentence to life imprisonment. Andrude In the Ilarhndoes. BRIDGETON, Barladoes. Oct. 2?. General Andradc. ex-PnM?nt of Venezuela, who was driven out of his country by Insurgents, has arrived here. A Conference To-Day. There Is to bo a conference at 10 o'clock thU morning between the County Commissioners and Experts Bookwalter and McCaslln. It Is expected that at this meeting the question of who 1 to complete the Investigation of county records -til be settled. Hoard of Appraisers Meets. The board of appraisers appointed to fix the value of Square 36 met last evening nd examined E. F. Claypool. George Hume. Frank A. Maus, J. A. Vajen. l. P. Erwln. Fred Fahnley, Henry Schnuil ana John C. WrighL .