Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 363, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1899.

cured creditors would receive a very small percentage of the par value of their claims. Little. If any relief, is untlclpatcd for creditors from Indorsements of commercial paper sold by the corporation and held now as unsecured claims. The statement Is made by the committee, lhat under direction of O. It. LI. Harvey, agent of the trustee and receiver now in charge of the property, operating expenses have been reduced 2u,in) per month, equivalent to a saving of interest on ,)",000. Mr. Harvey has reported to the committee that the total loss from the business during the first eight months of the present year was nearly $100,000. but that, owing to retrenchments referred to, he Is certain that the corporation is now earning Its operating expenses. Mr. Harvey believes that with proper management, free from custody of the courts, the business can earn In UxjO about $luO,Ci above operating expenses. The committee therefore recommends to the creditors that the business be continued under strong singlehanded control. The committee has assurances from the holders of practically all the bonds that with the concurrence ot the unsecured creditors continuance may be had upon a sound financial basis. The plan for the final readjustment of the corporation's affairs Is now in preparation nnd will be duly .suomltted to the creditors.

AFFAIRS OF THE SQUIRES. Jluatnesa of All the Concerns So TanKled Statement Can Re Made. BOSTON, Dec. 2S. The assignee of the John P. Squire corporation, which failed a short time ago, has issued a statement to the creditors of the firm and all Its branches and of Fred F. Squire, Frank O. Squire and John K. Squire, who have done business In their individual names and also as copartners In various firms, to the effect that the relations of John P. Squire & Co. with the other individuals and concerns named were so extensive and varied that tho affairs of no one of them can be settled Independently of the settlement of the affairs or John I. Squire & Co. The magnitude and complexity of the dealings In commerclnl paper and otherv.Ise between John P. Squire & Co. and other individuals, firms and corporations make it Impossible to render In the case of any concern a statement of assets and liabilities of any practical value without the tabulation of the assets and liabilities of tho different concerns taken as a whole, including John P. Squire & Co.. and of the relative rights and liabilities of the different concerns. An approximate statement may be exacted ehortly of the aggregate assets of all the Individuals and concerns, including John P. Squire & Co.. and of the aggregate sum required to pay all the creditors of all the individuals and concerns. The preparation of a statement ot affairs of the Individuals and concerns will call for very careful tabulation and will require some little time. XOTlIIXfi FOIl CIIKI1ITORS. Receiver Appointed for Mnhl & Strauh, Philadelphia Broker. PHILADELPHIA,' Dec. CS. Th committee appointed by creditors to investigate the accounts of Stahl & Straub. brokers, who failed Nov. 2D, reports that not a dollar's worth of available resources was found. The total liabilities amount to Sl.221,30. and the total assets $027,iTS. leaving a deficiency of These figures mean that creditors, the banks only excepted, can never hope to realize a dollar on the amounts due them from the firm. The statement shows that there is $$33,941 due to banks and that the amount is secured to the loaners by stocks and bonds estimated at the value of $61,437. John II. Straub, the Junior member of the firm. Is under ball on the charge of embezzlement. His partner, Mr. Stahl, is mi-sing, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Judge McPhcrson. in the United States District Court to-day. appointed Frank M. CrawYord receiver for the firm, fixing the tecurity at $3,000. Counsel for the creditors asked for a restraining order to prevent the transfer of securities and to have the firm adjudicated involuntary -bankrupts. Frank H. Vollum, the expert accountant in charge of the brokers books, said at a meeting of the creditors to-day: "This is the cleanest case of looting I have met with in thirty years." The heaviest creditor is Frank M. Crawford, the receiver. In the sum of $'8,0u0. Decision Involving Million. BUTTE. Mont., Dec. 28. The Pennsylvania mining suit, the first of the big cases between F. August Heinz and the Montana Ore Purchasing Company on one side and the Boston and Montana and other companies of the Amalgamated Copper Company on the other, was to-day decided in favor of Hein-: & Co. by Judge Clancy, of the District Court. It is known as the Pennsylvania case and so far as the District Court is concerned the decision is equal to $2.00C.00O. The ground and ore bodies Involved are valued at $1,000,000 and the ore already taken by Heinz Is valued at much more. The decision gives him the right to follow the ore bodies through the entire northern half of the Pennsylvania claim, which adjoins the Johnstown, owned by him. Several other suits are pending In the court in which the Boston and Montana Company Is plaintiif and su9 for about $$00,000 as damages for ore taken out of the ground by Heinz. Wholesale Grocers In Arms. CHICAGO. D4c 2S. A special meeting of the "Wholesale Grocers' Association, called by II. D. Lee, was held here to-day to take action on the alleged hostile position to ward Jobbers assumed by the Glucose Sy rup Refining Company, known as the Glucose Trust. Representatives of many of the largest wholesale grocery companies in the West and Southwest were present when the meeting was called to order. The cause of the action on the part of the wholesalers was a circular Issued by the glucose company a year ago notifying the Jobbers that the cash discount would be abolished and the guarantee ot goods witn drawn after Jan. 1. 1900. The wholesalers declare that they hold themselves respon FAIR AND COLD. X Change In Weather Conditions To-Day or To-3Iorroiv. WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. Forecast for Friday and Saturday: For Ohio Fair; continued cold on Friday and Saturday; fresh west to north winds. For Indiana and Illinois Fair: continued cold on Friday and Saturday; light to fresh west to north winds. Local Observations on Thursday. Bar. Ther. R II. "Wind. Ir. Weather. 7 a. m 30.35 ; 14 7 N'west. O.o Clear, 7 p. m 30.M :a 14 West. 0.00 Clear. Maximum temperature, 24: minimum tempera ture. 14. Following i a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation Dec. IS: Temp. Pre Normal 2S o.io Mean 18 o.uo Ieparture 11 4). 10 Unrture since Dec. 1 ,.. 33 ' .)$ Dtyarture since Jan. 1 L 3.7$ t'tua. C. K. R. WAPPENHANtf. Local Forecast Oiflclal. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. Atlanta. Ga ItiBmarck. N. D.. Kurralo. N. Y....

Mln. Max. 7 p. m. 3 40 30 12 2 I , l r. ii . 22 M 12 52 30 1 ! 4 " 33 . H 20 . 14 Zi 6 It 14 IX 14 M 16 60 2 14 10 M 74 60 14 22 1 25 3S 34 1) 24 3i 34 22 32 2S , 4S fc2 4S 22 2i 24 14 1 14 : 32 CD 11 16 14 24 2 IS S 12 it 16 12 , It 4 30 is :s z 0 14 4 12 24 2o 1 Ti 24 3 4i 42 II 2S It

'alary. N. W. Chicago, III .... Calm. Ill Cheyenne. Wjro Cincinnati O Concordia. Kan Iavenport. la .. 1 - Moines. la.. Cf3.1vyton. -Tex T Helena. Mont Jacksonville. Fla .. Kuziftas City, Mo... Mule Rock. Ark... Marquette, Mich ... Memphis. TVnn .... Nashville, Tenn ... New Orleans, Ii... New York. n. Y.... North Platte. Nb.. Oklahoma. O. T.. t maha. Net FMtttburjr. Pa lu- ApiM-lle. N. W. T ?t4&l3 city. 8. D fc'ait Lake City. Utah, fr't. Isuia. Mo.. t u Paul. Minn.... ( rlnn.M lt V i --k-burr. M!s CXhtngtoU. U. C

sible to the retailers for the condition of the syrup and other goods sold and they expect the same consideration from the manufacturers. A vigorous protest against the action of the glucose company will be made before the wholesalers submit to the order.

.ntlonnl Tin-Plate Company. PITTSBURG. Dec. 28. Stockholders of the National Tin-plate Company, chartered under the laws of West Virginia for the purpose of developing and improving a tin-plate-manufacturing process Invented by William Rogers, met to-day and elected the following officers: President, J. C. McDow ell; secretary. G. S. Lewis: treasurer. A. 15. Dally: directors. J. C. McDowell. II. E. Whitaker. W. II. Rogers (son of the in ventor) and A. 13. Dally. The plans of the company are not definitely settled, but a committee was appointed to-day to Inspect the several sites offered the company tor the erection of a plant. One of the members said if it should be decided to erect a general plant. Instead of disposing of the patent, the capital stock or tne company will be Increased from its present nominal amount to $3,000,000. Deeree In the IVimnn Case. NEW YORK. Dec. 28. Creditors of Erastus Wlman are about to be partially settled with at the rate of C8.163 of one cent on the dollar. A decree was signed to-day by Justice William F. Gaynor authorizing David Bennett King, as assignee, to make final settlement with the assets in his possession. The decree states that the'asslgnee has reduced the assigned estate to available funds and realized therefrom JS.3S0.70. From this SS4G.73 was deducted for expenses, Sirj.03 for the assignee's commission and $357.22 for fees, etc., leaving $3,058.70 This is to be divided among sixty-three creditors, whose claims in all amount to more than &13.000. The Produce Exchange Trust Co. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Actual charge of the affairs of the Produce Exchange Trust Company was assumed to-day by Edwin Gould and General Samuel Thomas, the new president and vice president, respec tively, of the reorganized company. They were at the offices of the company all day examining tho books and looking into everything pertaining to tho administra tion of the company up to the time of its suspension. Messrs. Gould and Thomas are said to have made assurances that fully 05 per cent, of the old depositors will remain on the books of the new company. Dehts. $S21,03:t; o Asset. NEW YORK. Dec. 2?. A petition in bank ruptcy has been filed by Russell Dart, jr.. formerly a partner In the Insolvent firm of Clarke, Radcllff & Co. He gives his liabilities, and also those of the bankrupt firm, at 1821.033; no assets. The debts, which mostly consist of money borrowed since 1SSS from national banks, are classed as secured to the amount of J102.1W and unsecured claims of $713,84.3. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Frank J. Ferrel. contracting gas and steam fitter. Liabilities $150,471, assets $52,The Xew Yrk Herald Company. TRENTON. N. J., Dec. 2S. Among the articles of incorporation filed here to-day was the New York Herald Company, capital $100,000, to publish newspapers and magazines. The Incorporators are James Gordon Bennett. G. G. Howland. William Jay, William C. Reick. Eyton S. Drone. Thomas II. Hamilton, all of New York, and R. W. Candler, of Short Hills. N. J. Mr. Bennett owns 991 shares and the other six incorporators one share each. Cotton Thread Dearer. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. It was announced at the office of the Clark Thread Company, in Newark, N. J., to-day that the concern had made an advance on the price of cotton thread to the extent of about 15 cents a dozen spools, in common with the other cotton, thread concerns. The increased price of cotton and the increase in wages in the New England mills is given as the cause of the increase in price to the retailers. Ills Assets Small. CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Henry L. MIllls. of this city, who was formerly connected with several large firms in Boston, filed in the United States District Court to-day a petition in bankruptcy, in which he schedules liabilities aggregating $768,891. His assets are placed at $10,000. A CORKSCREW BOAT. Inventor Says It Can Cross the At lantic in Three Days. NEW YORK. Dec. 2S. James Gresham, of Brooklyn, has found capital to demon strate the commercial value of his cork screw boat, for which is anticipated the speed of fifty miles an hour. A syndicate of New York capitalists has agreed to furnish $50,000 with which to build small boats on the corkscrew plan, with the further understanding that if it demonstrates its ability on a commercial scale to approximate the speed which the models have reached, the syndicate will furnish sufficient capital to build a mall boat. The ! inventor promises that his craft will cross the Atlantic in less than three days. The vessel, the construction of which is being arranged for at the Newport News shipyard, is not intended for passenger service. but only for the conveyance of malls and fast freight and for use at life saving stations. It is so sonstructed that it can penetrate the surf or the waves of the roughest weather. The boat is cylindrical in shape with a serpentine flange like a corkscrew, extending from bow to stern, and the outer shell revolves through the water, while the inner compartment maintains its equlpose. Xew Transatlantic Line. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The announcement was made to-day that arrangements had been completed, by Frederick Ley land & Co., limited, of Liverpool, for the establishment of a weekly passenger steamship service between New York and Liverpool. This new line, which will constitute the most important addition to transatlantic service In- recent years will have in operation within two months six big vessels and will conduct a weekly service similar in methods to those of the Atlantic transport line now running between this port and London. The vessels to be placed In the new service are the Winlfredian. Armenian. Cestrian. Victorian. Columbian and Georgian, several of them being at present used by the British government temporarily for transport service. These vessels average some 9,000 tons each and can make the voyage In about ten days. Their places in the Boston service will be taken for the time being by smaller vessels. From the Farm to the Sea. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. With 275 farmer boys from the West aboard, the converted cruiser Dixie left the navy yard for the West Indies to-day. When the Dixie comes back next July tho boys will be full fledged sailors. Before the Dixie returns home, she will cruise in the Mediterranean. Captain Charles Belknap is In command. Storm Prevents Landing; of Slatls. QUEENSTOWN. Dec. 2S.-Owlng to the storm the Dominion line steamer New England, from .-'Boston to Liverpool, was unable to land her malls here. Several barges have foundered in Qurenstown harbor and the clubhouse of the Royal Cork Y'acht Club is half wrecked. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Dec. 2S. Arrived: Italia, from Hamburg. Sailed: Ia Bretagne, from Havre; Rotterdam, from Rotterdam. BOSTON. Dec. 2S. Sailed: Ultonla, for Liverpool. Vnle Won at Ilaket Hall. PITTSBURG. De. HS.-Yale easily defeated Western University of Pennsylvania at basket ball In old City Hall to-night. Tli Anal score was: Yale, 26; W. V. P.. 10. W. U. P. lacked team work. Yale playing all around It In this respect.

MARRIAGE LAW CHANGE

FILIPINOS .MAY SOW HE WEDDED BY JUDGE OR PREACH CIl. Catholic Prlewt Xo Lontter to Enjoy a Monopoly FuiiHtnn to FJsht and Swim Under MneArtunr. MANILA, Dec. 29.-The order which has been issued opening to trade the ports of Zamboango. Cottabato, Davao and Isabella will apply provisionally to tne Jolo and Slassl ports. General Bates will appoint the customs officials. The authorities have issued a ruling which legalizes marriages performed by judges or the clergy of any religion. Under the Spanish regime only such marriages were recognized as legal as were performed by Catholic priests. General Frederick Funston will join Gen eral MacArthur's 'cpmmand. His brigade has not been designated, but it is thought he will be assigned to General Wheeler's. Two Henry C. Merrinnm. WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. A dispatch from Faribault, Minn., announces that Henry C. Merriam, of Company G, Sixth Infantry, who was reported by General Otis as dead from' typhoid fever, was a son of Captain Merriam, a retired officer of this city, and engaged to be married to Miss Bessie Ray, of Faribault. It appears from the War Department records that there were two men of the same name in the Philippines. The Henry C. Merriam, who died of typhoid at Manila on the 13th Inst., was a private In Company G, Twenty-first United States Infantry.' He enlisted at Plattsburg barracks, New York, on Jan. 24. He was not a son of Captain Merriam of this city. The son of Captain Merriam Is a commissary sergeant of the Sixth Artillery, now in Manila. Ho has not been sick a day since his arrival there and has been recommended for promtlon by General Otis. Return of the Tartar. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2?.-The transport Tartar arrived to-day after a run of twenty-nine days from Manila and eighteen and a half days from Nagasaki. She brought a number of discharged soldiers as passengers. The Tartar reports a very stormy voyage. When on the meridian she was caught in a cyclone that nearly wrecked all her upper works. The afterhouse was stove in, two of the l.'feboats washed away and two more smashed into kindling wood, skylights wer-j stove in, cabins flooded, starboard bulwarks carried away and the after steering gear smashed. The remains of four persons came up on the Tartar. They were tfioso of James Williams. Company F. Twenty-eighth Infantry; Sam Davis, Company G, and James Wigs, Company F, Twenty-eighth infantry, and Richard Ball, an army butcher. Captain Dorria Blninelena. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Dec. 28. Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers Bolles and Bulger have made their report in the case of the transport Morgan City, which wa3 wrecked near Kobe a few months'ago. After an investigation they held that Captain T. P. Dorrls Is blameless for the accident. The inspectors have learned that A. Mayers, the pilot who took the vessel through the inland sea when she was wrecked, had his license revoked by the Japanese authorities. At the time of the accident it was reported that the pilot was in no condition to handle the vessel owing to loss of sleep. The Morgan City was valued at $100,000. Well Cared for on Trnnnports. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. Adjutant General Corbln said that every regiment of the infantry last recruited, which has reached Manila, has made the remarkable report of the safe arrival of every man who started. This Is considered a very convincing proof of the care with which the men were selected. These troops have traveled by both routes, the Suez canal and by way oi San Francisco, and have been subject to great changes of climate and some vicissitudes, yet not one man has died of illness on the way. Manila Hallway Want Damages. LONDON, Dec. 28 The directors of the Manila Railway Company, limited, an nounce the suspension of Interest on the prior lien bonds. They point out that no revenue is available, as the line has been in the possession of the insurgents or the Americans since February last. They also aver that the United States government is liable for the guaranteed interest, having assumea sovereignty over the Philippines. The company has claims aggregating i;3i,wu against tne United States. The Late Major Armstrong:. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Major Frank C. Armstrong, who lost his life in the Philippines, and whose remains are to be brought home on the troop ship Thomas. with 'those of General Lawton and Major Logan, was a sergeant in the volunteer establishment attached to the Thirty second Infantry, lie was a native of Kansas, and served creditably In the Phil ipplnes prior to his appointment as sur geon or tho Thirty-second Infantry. Dooks for Guam. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-In answer to its appeal for contributions of books and papers for the garrison at Guam the Navy Department has received 9-8 books, 3,217 magazines, 2,143 illustrated weekly papers. seventy-two sets of dominoes, seventy-two sets of checkers and seventy-two sets of alphabet blocks, the last to be used to teach the native children. 3Inles nnd Horses Arrive. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Quartermaster General Ludington received a cable message this morning from Colonel Miller at Manila, saying that the transport Lennox arrived there Dec. 20, and the transport Slam Dec. 22. These vessels took out a cargo of horses and mules, the Lennox from New Orleans and the Slam from Hon olulu. OBITUARY. Charles H. Pike, Once United States Minister to the .Netherlands. ST. PAUL, Minn.. Dec. 28. Charles E. Plkedied late last night at his residence in this city. He was United States minister to tho Netherlands during the civil war. Charles E. Pike was a law; er and practiced in Maine, Massachusetts and Wisconsin for many years. He retired from active practice in 18SS, when he came to St. Paul. When he left New England he was one of the Free-sollers and one of the founders of the Republican party in Massachusetts. In 1S47. while a member of the Maine Legislature, he wrote the resolutions which, according to the custom of that time, brought before the people the name of Taylor for the presidency. He was one of the group of the first Republicans in the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1S59 he removed to Wisconsin and founded the Oshkosh Northwestern, which during the war was a radical supporter of Lincoln. In 1SS4 he was appointed solicitor of the Internal Revenue Bureau and assistant attorney general of the United States. Harry I2seombe. DURBAN. NATAL, Dec. 23,-Harry Escombe, former prem.er of Natal, died suddenly on the street this afternoon. The Rt. Hon. Harry Escombe was born at Nottinghill, London. Eng.. in 1SC3. He entered the Executive Council of Natal in 1872. was created attorney general in 1S03. and later became prime minister of the

colony. He was the commander of the Natal Xavat Volunteers, with the relative rank of lieutenant colonel in the volunteer force.

WILL EXHIBIT AT PARIS. Work of Students at Dental College to lie Seen at the Fair. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28. At to-day's session of the seventh annual convention of the School of Dental Techniques it was decided to have prepared an exhibit for the Paris exposition which would show the technical and scholastic work required of the students in the various dental colleges of the United States. It was also decided that an album be prepared containing pic tures of the best equipped institutions of the country with floor plans, which is to be made part of the exhibit. A committee will be appointed to arrange for the proposed exhibit. The major part of the ses sion was taken up by the reading of papers on technical subjects. The convention will adjourn to-morrow. The3e officers were elected: President, H. P. Carlton, University of California. San Francisco: vice president, George Hunt, Indiana Dental College, Indianapolis; secretary, H. J. Goslee. University of Chicago; executive board, W. E. Wilmont, General College of Dental Surgeons, To ronto. TANNER NOT IN THE RACE XXOntES HE IS OT A CANDIDATE FOR IlEXOMIXATIOX. Governor of Illinois Speaks nt a Re puhllrnn Love Feast nnd Pays His Respects to Cnllom. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 28. At the gathering of Illinois Republicans for their annual love feast a bombshell was ex ploded this afternoon by the declaration of Governor John R. Tanner that he was not a candidate for re-election. This declara tion .was made at a special meeting of the Governor's political friends, called by him self. He said: "I have not been a candi date for Governor from the time that I entered office, and I am not now a candi date for re-election." Prefacing this decla ration. Governor Tanner made a tart speech arraigning the newspapers which have criticised his course. The Governor said: "My good, old-time friend. Senator Cullom, has said at divers times that my rcnomlnatlon would not only endanger the electoral ticket, but result in the election of a Democrat to succeed him in the United States Senate. It is not my desire that a Democrat should succeed my friend Shelby M. Cullom. I am told my candidacy will result in the defeat and overthrow of many of my friends locally, and in some Instances I am led to believe that It Is true. I love my party first and my friends second. High above personal ambition and political ambition, I shall never Interfere with Republican success in Illinois or elsewhere." Although Governor Tanner's action is construed by some as leaving him open to accept the nomination should it be offered him in the future, the friends of the other candidates are making the most of his declaration. The fight Is lively between Hanecy, Reeves and Yates, with Judge Hanecy probably in the lead. Further developments may appear at the meeting tomorrow. Takes It All Back. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 2S.-Zachary T. Cason, a lawyer, of Butte, who testified In the Wellcome disbarment case that United States Senator W. A. Clark told, him that he would pay for votes for himself as senator, has recanted. A signed statement is In the hands of Mr. Clark's friends, in which Cason says his evidence was untruthful and that he gavo it for $100; that his family was starving and he had to have the money. Cason expresses regret at the wrong done and hope his retraction iray offset It somewhat. MR. BOUTELLE'S CONDITION. The Maine Representative Has ConKestlon of the Brain. BOSTON. Dec. 2S.-While the officials of tho McLean Hospital are extremely retl cent in the matter of giving details as to the condition of Representative C. A. Boutelie, of Maine, it was stated in re sponse to an inquiry to-night that Mr. Boutelie had passed a very comfortable day and that he was not considered in any immediate danger. A relative of Mr. Boutelie is quoted as saying that the latter's trouble is congestion of the brain, the result of continued strain and overwork in connection with his official duties. His condition previous to his removal to the hospital was such that at times he became delirious, and it was dlificult to keep him under control. It was deemed best under the circumstances to place him in an institution where he could receive the best possible treatment. and the McLean Hospital at Waverly was selected as such a place. The relative above mentioned expressed confidence that with the skillful treatment and the rest that are insured at the hospital the patient will quickly recover and be able in the near future to resume his duties at Washington The statement in a New York newspaper that Mr. Boutelie is aflllcted with paresis Is not confirmed. Grover Cleveland Bettter. PRINCETON. N. J.. Dec. 23. Ex-President Cleveland, who has been confined to his bed for the. last three days, was much improved to-day. The attending physician stated that the ex-President 'was up and able to get about the house and would soon be entirely recovered. . Gen. Ilutterfleld III. NEW YORK, Dec. 2S. Gen. Daniel But terfield is seriously ill In his home here. The general became ill on Dec. IS. His malady is of the stomach. The attending physician said to-night, however, that there is no immediate danger of his patient. THE HEALER'S GUARDS. Dowle, the Divine, Organises an Army for Self-Defense. CHICAGO. Dec. 28. The Tribune to-mor row will say: " 'Dr. John Alexander Dowle, 'divine healer, will ask no further police protection from the city. He is or ganlzlng a military company of stalwart disciples of his faith, who will carry firearms, wear uniforms and be paid as the professional bodyguard of ZIon. The company consists at present of three hundred men, chosen for physique and ability to use weapons. Governor Tanner has granted permission to Dowie to have his company. which is to bo called the Volunteers of Zlon, parade in Chicago streets and carry rifles next Sunday afternoon. The organ ization grew out of the Zlon Guards, which, two hundred strong, have existed since the first attacks were made on the person of Dr. Dowle last fall. Dowle decided at that time he would not trust his safety to the city authorities if it were possible to do otherwise. The East Indian congress lias declared its dissatisfaction wuh the currency meas ures of the government alleging that these have the effect of depreciating the v.ilue of the savings of the masses, virtually en hancing rents and Indebtedness and in juriously affecting manufacturers. It. E. Springsteen & Co., popular-priced tailors, North Pennsylvania street

VICTIMS OF THE PLAGUE

FIVE DEATHS FROM THE BIDOXIC PEST AT 1IOXOLCLU. Precautions nt San Franciseo to Pre vent the Disease Getting, a Foothold Hats Dnngeroui. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.-Mail advices to the Associated Press, received late last night, from Honolulu, give additional details of the bubonic plague, which has appeared there, and indicate that the conditions are not very alarming. Five deaths have occurred, one native and four Chi nese. No deaths have occurred since Dec. 2, when the disease first appeared. A quarantine system for island vessels was established and a district practically coextensive with Chinatown was put in quarantine. Volunteer Inspectors were called for and the work of cleaning up was begun. The next day the National Guard was called out, and has since been doing duty guarding the quarantine district. Chinatown, the seat of trouble, is nowundergoing a thorough cleaning, and it is believed that the scourge has been stamped out. It Is thought the germs of the plague were brought from Kobe. Japan, on the Norwegian steamer Thyenia, which arrived at Honolulu, Nov. 2S, with seven hundred Japanese emigrants. PLAC.IE TO HE KEPT OIT. Every Possible Precaution to lie Tnken at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Dec. 2S. The news of the breaking out of tho plague In Honolulu, brought here by the transport Contennial, has created some alarm among the State and city health official?, and every precaution is being taken to prevent a possible admission of tho disease into this city. The transports Centennial and Newport which arrived last night, and the Tartar which arrived from Manila to-day, are now at the uuarantine station undergoing fumigation and will be detained at Angel island for some time. The steamer Gaelic is due here to-morrow from the Orient via Honolulu, and will be sent to quarantine and held there until all possible danger is passed. There is no trace of the disease on the Centennial, and, as has been demonstrat ed, no likelihood of the plague finding lodg ment there, but still there are many Hawaiian rats that have made a home on the steamer and they have all to be caught and sacrificed before the vessel will be al lowed to dock. Rats are said to be the most prolific means of spreading the plague, ihey carry the germs from port to port. News from reliable sources from the Orient states that the disease Is prevalent In China and Japan to an unusual extent and that the ollicers at Manila have taken precaution to prevent the plague from getting a foothold there. News from Bom bay is to the effect that the plague 13 rampant in India, and in view of these conditions the authorities in this city and every port on the Pacific coast, will take strenuous precautions to prevent the Introduction of the bubonic plague on this coast. RiKlns in Xerv Caledonia. MELBOURNE. Victoria, Dec. 28. A passenger on the steamer Australia, who arrived here from Noumea, New Caledonia, where the plague Is raging, has ben quarantined, and eight others have been placed under surveillance. WILY AND WARY. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAG E.) parture had been cleared up by a letter from him to Representative Tayler, of Ohio, who represents the district from which Macrum comes and who secured his appointment as consul. But Mr. Tayler said to-day that he had heard nothing from Macrum except Indirectly through his letters to relatives. These give no intimation of the cause of his return, but speak of the excitement incident to the war and the hurried preparations on both sides. There Is nothing, however, to show a pro-Boer or an antl-Brltlsh inclination, nor Is there any discussion of the political aspect of tne war. Canadians Loyal to Mother Country. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 28. William G. Cannon. Q. C, of Montreal, is at the West Hotel to-day. In answer, to a question as to the true condition of Canadian sentiment In connection with the African war, he replied that it was truly represented in the newspapers of Canada, the only difference being that the newspapers were totally unable to express fully the extent and Intensity of the war spirit that pervades all classes of Canadian subjects. "In time of peace we are Canadians and British subjects," said Mr. Cannon, "but in time of war we are the British empire and that alone. The British flag is menaced and its supremacy disputed by a. government that merely figures as the monkey to handle European chestnuts. What the Boers are after through their mentors on the continent is African supremacy, which they will never pet so long as there are any men in the British empire fit to bear arms. I say this with full understanding that the whole Dutch population of the continent will probably be arrayed against us in fact as it now is In spirit." Boers Reernltina: In Kansas. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dec. 2S.-The British vice consul here, Mr. Burrough, made the statement to-day that agents of the Boers are at work in Kansas City getting recruits for the South African war under promise of free transportation, free lands and honorable citizenship after the war is over. The plan, he states, is to forward such recruits to Philadelphia, which, he says, is the rendezvous of the Boer recruits. It is Id 3 belief, however, that not very many men have been sent from here to Philadelphia. The British consul secured the names of the Boer recruiting agents here by having some one write to the Boer agents in Washington asking for authority to recruit a force in this city, with the result that the applicant was put in communication with the Boer agents here. Consul Burrough states that scores of men have applied at his office for enlistment in the British army. Hopes the Doers Will Win. BOSTON, Dec. 2S. The Common Council of Boston to-day, after a spirited debate, adopted a resolution of sympathy for the Boers. The preamble refers to "the magnificent struggle for independence and freedom from British tyranny which has been made by the Boer nation," says the Council believes the Boers ought to be a free nation and congratulates President Kruger and his people on "their many successes already achieved and that we fervently hope the war will end with a complete victory for the Boer arms." Not All Germans Pro-Boer. BERLIN, Dee. 28. Proofs accumulate that not all the Germans sympathize with tho Boers. Herr Gottfried Hagen, in Kalk, a suburb of Dcutz, Prussia, has accepted an order from England for the immediate manufacture of forty tons of lead bullets. At the British embassy large numbers of Germans apply dally for enlistment In the British army. The applicants when desirable are told that they may go to London, where they are sure of enlistment. Cineen Victoria nt Osborne. LONDON, Dec. 2S.-Queen Victoria arrived at Osborne. Isle of Wight, this afternoon. The water was very rough en route. Collector ShcoU Three l'rrxoiia. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 2S.-This afternoon a collector for an installment house, named Samuel Mills, attempted to seize furniture In the house of Mary Ve-

nable, colored, for a small debt. The

woman attempted to prevent It. and in the struggle that ensued Mills shot the woman and her little son and daughter, all seriously. It is thought the boy Is dying, his wound being in the side. Mills has been arrested. LEAVING NEW JERSEY. G1as Workers Coming; to Indiana and Other Western States. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2. Sixtyone glass workers have left their homes In Brldgeton, N. J., to accept positions in factories in the West. They came to this city in a body and boarded a special car at the Pennsylvania Railroad station for Pittsburg. According to their statement hundreds of others will follow In a few days. A member of the party said to a reporter: "Some of us are going to Belle Vernon, Pa., near Pittsburg, while others will go to glass factories in Ohio and In diana. All in the party are from Bridgeton, and about 5X men, all told, will leave that place, for the West. The cause of this is the decision of the syndicate not to open the Brldgeton factories this winter. . We make from $13 to $50 each per week during the season and closing the factories means the taking out of Bridgeton of about $10,000 each week." Conference of Railway Employes. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Dec. 2S. The executive board of the Federation of Railway Employes is conferring with the officials of the various roads In this city on the wage question. The original demands of the employer have been somewhat modified and the railroad officials are now figuring on them. The entire board will remain in the city until an answer has been received from the railroads. The menitM.rs appear to bo firm in the belief that there will be no trouble and that the matter will be adjusted. TICHB0RNE CASE AGAIN THE REAL SIR ROGER 3IAY BE IX AX IXSAXE ASYLUM. Case of "William CreMwcll" to lie Investigated hy the Xew South. Wales Government. VANCOUVER. B. C, Doc. 2S. The famous story of the Ttohborne claimant Is revived by advices' brought from Australia on the steamer Aorangi. Tho government of New South Wales is so impressed with the probability that an inmate of the Parramatta Insane Asylum, known as William Creswcll, may lie Sir Roger Charles Tichborne that it has appointed a commission to Inquire into the antecedents of Crcswell and to investigate the circumstances connected with the Incarceration. Popular opinion in Sydney Is favorable to the claim that Creswcll Is really Tichborne, and some members of the commission are strongly of the same belief. Details of the murder at his Samoan home on Nov. 13 last of Frank Cornwall, the wealthiest British planter in the Samoan group, are also brought by the steamer Aorangi. Cornwall was murdered while asleep by natives. Hitherto foreigners have felt secure in Samoa in times of peace because the Samoans have looked upon foreign lives as sacred and would never approach a white man with the deliberate put pose of harming him, no matter what aggravation there might have been. But this feeling toward foreigners has changed, and, although young Cornwall was generally popular, he is only one of several prominent foreigners whose lives have been threatened. At the request of the New Hebrides group a punitive expedition has been sent from Sydney to Tanna by Admiral Pear son, of the British navy. Advices of the outrages by the natives, brought here a month ago by the steamer Warrlmoo, are duplicated by the latest Australian papers. culminating in the attempted massacre of all the white missionaries and the actual murder of a native teacher. The warship Wallaroo was sent to Tanna.- but the blacks got word of the vessel's approach and escaped to the interior, which is inac cesslble tor whites. The villages where the offenders resided were burned by the blue Jackets. SEA GIVES LP SECRET. One of the Tragedies Which Are Slorc Xnmerous than Public Knows. Philadelphia Press. A peculiarly strange mystery of the sea has Just been solved, and the fate of the two well-known schooners, Howard II Hanscom and James B. Pace, which sailed from Philadelphia November, 1&0S, for New England ports and were never afterward heard from has been learned. Divers yes terday located both vessels sunk on the soutnern coast of Massachusetts, appar ently in collision. In both skeletons of men were found lashed to the rigging or to the rail, and while there was nothing left of tho flesh it is thought they can be recognized by the clothing. The gruesome discovery was brought about in a peculiar way. Several days ago a heavily laden steam ship, while running along the southern coast of Massachusetts, struck a sunken obstruction at a point where no obstruc tion should exist, according to charts. The captain of the steamship reported theoc currence and a wrecking party, with di vers, started off -to make an investigation. Upon reaching the exact locality where the menace was plotted on the chart by the steamship captain two divers were sent down, and within a short time came to the surface and revealed the story of their discovery. The news was telegraphed the owners of the missing craft and by thcra was transmitted to the families of the sailors. It is the opinion of practical seafar ing men that the vessels fouled each other while scudding before the mighty force of the great November storm of last year. The men. as discovered by the divers, were lashed to their posts and had not the slightest chance to escape death. At the office of the agents at this port of the -Howard H. Hanscom it was learned that she sailed from Philadelphia Nov. 23, 1S98. for Providence, with 1.100 tons of bl tuminous coal. She was commanded by Captain Joseph Holmes, jr.. of New Haven. Conn. At the office of the Philadelphia agent of the schoner James B. Pace it was stated that she left this port Nov. 25 for Boston with 1,023 tons of bituminous coal and was never heard from after passing out of the Delaware capes. She was commanded by Captain Garfield, a resident of West Den nis, Mass., from which place she hailed The two captains were bosom friends. It is considered not unlikely that after a year's slumbering at the bottom of the sea the two schooners may be brought to the surface, repaired and put into service again. The divers who made the preliminary visit have returned to the scene of the catastrophe with instructions to eecure for proper interment the bodies of those lashed on board the sunken vessels. At the same time they will make an investigation of the vessels and If conditions warrant Immediate steps to raise them will be taken. Troubles of the Johnsons Adjusted. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2S.-The differ c-nces between Albert Sidney Johnson, of Galveston, Tex., and his wife Alice. In which the possession of their thirteen year-old son. Robert Dabney Johnson, played an Important part, were adjusted to-day. Judge Dalngerfielu granted the wife a divorce. The boy Is to be placed in the custody of his paternal grandmother, who resides in Galveston, Tex. An Antontobile, Prohnbl). Shelbyvllle (Ind.) Republican. Saturday evening a man by the name of Fox and a companion named Bowman. their home being in Brandy wine town ship, went to Falrland in a buggy, leaving the horse hitched to a post. Soon after their arrival in that village the rig was stolen.

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in to w B. YES N9T L. VAN IA OPEN DOOR IN CHINA a ix xatioxs. except hi ssi a, have sk;m:i) a acjhcemcxt. Commerclnl Intercut of the United State In the? Orient Will Xot Be interfered With. CHICAGO. Dec. 2S. A special to the Beo ord from Washington says: "AH of the European Rovernmcnts except Russia have notified the Department of State that they are prepared to &ive in wrltinpr the guar antees required some weeks ago by tno merchants and manufacturers in the mar kets of China wherever their spheres o influence extend. This i the most important commercial proposition that has engaged the attention of our diplomatic service for many years, and it is the first time the United States has assumed or ex pressed a determination to assert itself in Oriental affairs. It marks ono more departure in our diplomatic policy and adds another to the long list of innovations which has characterized the present administration. "In the partition of China we have taken no part. England, France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Japan and other powers engaged in a struggle for commercial and political supremacy there have divided the territory among them and have agreed not to interfere with each other in the commercial and industrial development of the provinces they have selected. This allotment has been recognized indirectly by th government of China in granting railway concessions. A German syndicate, for example, has been authorized to build a line through certain territory to connect with an English road on the border of the British 'sphere of 'influence,' and the other end of the line meets the terminus of a French, railroad that runs up from the possessions of France in Tonquin. "While this division of the great empire has been going the United States has been invited by the powers to participate and has been appealed to by China to intervene for its protection, but it was wisely decided by the President and his advisers that American domination should not be extended any further than the Philippines. At the same time, it is the duty of this government to anticipate any attempt to establish a monopoly of the Eastern trade. Therefore the secretary of state Intimated to the powers of Europe that the United States would be pleased to receive assurance that its commercial interests, present and future, would not be interfered with. All of them were prompt in offering such a pledge, with the greatest pleasure, but when Secretary Hay asked it in writing they hesitated. Then followed an interesting volume of correspondence between the foreign offices of Europe and Secretary Hay and with each other, which had resulted in the preparation of a pledge in uniform language from each of the powers, except Russia, that an 'open door for trade shall always be maintained for the benefit of American merchants and manufacturers. These pledges have been submitted informally to our government and have boon approved, but with the understanding that they will not be binding unless Bigned by all of the European powers interested, and at this date none but Russia holds out." Triumph of the Celt. London Spare Moments. Dr. Nansen. the arctic explorer, came across an Irishman on one occasion who declared that he had traveled further north than anybody. "What nonsense!" exclaimed the doctor, getting angry. "Why. sir. do you know I calculate to have traveled as far as any human, being can possibly get." But still the Irishman persisted, and went on to say: "Now listen to this. How do you knour that ye've traveled as far as any human being can get?" "Because." replied the doctor. "I came to a huge wall of ice that no one could get around." "What did ye do then?" "Well. I conversed with my staff of men on the subject." "Ah. yes. begorra." exclaimed Pat. 'Ol heard ye. Ol was on th' other solde of the wall!" And he walked away in triumph. Steve Taylor, PuglHnt, Dead. BOSTON", Dec. 28. Steve Taylor, once a famous and skillful prize fighter, died at a hospital yesterday of pneumonia, after a long debauch. He was forty-seven years old. his real name was John Mahan, and w hen In his prime he fought at i70 pounds. On March 31. 1SS1. he essayed to stand four rounds before John J. Sullivan in this city but acknowledged defeat after two rounds. Afterward he toure- the country with Sullivan. Taylor trained Paddy Ryan for his fight with Joe v-oss, and was for a time Jem Mace's sparring partner. Carried It Too Far. ' Chicago Times-Herald. "Iook at me," said Rockingham; "Pra a self-made man. I ain't never had no hejp from nobody." "I believe you," said the young man who was applying for a Job. "You have even gone so far, apparently, as to make your own English." Appreciative. Washington Star. "I suppose you think I insist on having my own way a great deal," said Mr. Meekton's wife in a rather relenting tone. "Of course I do, Henrietta. You wouldn't be doing your duty by me otherwise. You might let me make some mistakes." Tne Canie of It Chicago Dally News. That talk in yesterday morning's papers about invading Canada indicated that somebody must have tampered with the Christmas eggnog. Probably the milk, like that Sol Smith Russell drinks in "A Poor Relation," was unusually strong Accommodating. Life. Editor (Icily) Here's this story of yours, young woman; I can't use it. Young Woman (encouraglngly)-Can't you? Oh well, never mind. I'll bring it around again some day when you are in a better humor. Hired, or the Otlierf Muncle (Ind.) News. Charles Tyler and wife, of Beacon street, have a new girl. Lord Mayor Tallon. of Dublin, has start. ed a movement to have a. life-vised but of Richard Crokcr placed in the Counclf chamber of Dublin. It is to be In recoffn tlon of his act of generosity in raiting tt Tammany Hall fund for the preservation of the Parnell e tatc at Avondals.