Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY,.-' APRIL 29f 1900.

but M. Constans and Senor ransa rejected the proposal. The newspaper criticisms and comments upon the attitude of Turkey in this affair are causing great irritation at the Yildiz Kiosk.

Think Tarkey Will Pay. NEW YORK, April 2S.-Pre?ident George "Washburn, of Robert College, Constantinople, who is. here, fays that force need not be used for the collection of the Indemnity from Turkey. "I believe that we shall have the money In six weeks," said he. "Some time ago I told the missionaries that If I were a business man and they gave me a commission of 10 per cent. I would collect what was due them without much trouble or loss of time " Rev. James I- Barton, foreign secretary of American l;oard of Missions and for many years a, resident in Turkey, said to-day: To any one who Is at all conversant with tfce situation in the Turkish empire It la apparent that If Arnerica hopes to maintain future relations with Turkey, either missionary or commercial, and If she experts that her citizens will be accorded rights granted by treaty and concession to the subjects of all leading powers reparation for losses must be secured." Foil ;ovi:itxou of Hawaii. President Dole and Harold Senrnll Are Prominent Candidate. WASHINGTON April 28. In anticipation of the final enActment of the Hawaiian government bill, the President Is devoting some attention to the selection of the various officials of ; the new government who are subject to executive appointment. It is the Intention to make these appointments very soon. In order that there may be no delay In the Inauguration eff the new government and to secure speedy relief from the serious embarrassments of the present anomalous condition of affairs. The Hawaiian contingent In Washington has not teen behindhand In suggesting suitable material to the President for his consideration in this connection. Particularly in the casp of the governorship have there been urgent representations. There are no less thsn four candidates in the field. The name of President Dole leads the list. Harold Seall, late minister at Honolulu, and now United States agent In the Islands. Is making a formidable canvass, backed by the Maine delegation, and there are two persons of Hawaiian birth, prominent in the affairs of the islands, whose names also are under consideration. There Is ground for the belief that of ail these candidates President Dele Is looked on most favorably,-: the President inclining to the view that, hv making such an appointment, he woul.H not only recognize the principle of hrrme rule, but also would" make suitable r.x'ognltion of the long-continued and effective efforts of Sanford B. Dole to secure he annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. t XXX The President, to-day, sent the following nominations to the Senate: Army Promotion, regulars: Second Lieutenant F. S. Prtee, Sixth Infantry, to be a first HeuVnantf Promotion, volunteers: Second Lleute-iant Arthur N. Pickel, Thirty-ninth Infantry, to be first lieutenant. Appointments in the volunteer army: Kleventh Cavalry, to be second lieutenants. First Serjeant George It. Sutherland. Troop M: IFirst Sergeant Edward R. Luthl. Troop C Thirty-seventh Infantry. First Sergeant Thomas W. Gunn. Company K, to be second lieutenant. Thirty-ninth Infantry, to bo second lieutenants, battalion sergeants Major Henry R. Casey, Sergeant Major lArcher W. Davis. xxx To-day's stattjnent of the treasury balances In the general fund exclusive of the $130.000,000 gold reserve in the division of rtdemptlon sho:s: Available cash balances. IH7.S43.631; gold, 7y,573,S57. XXX Orders were tont out to-day by cable to the Machlas at San Juan, P. R., to proceed to Chiriqai bay and Port Limon. She Is to take the place, in caring for American Interests in that section, of the cruiser Detroit, which sailed Thursday for Key West. The Philadelphia on the west coast of Central America has dropped down to Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, close to the Colombian bout.dary, and there is nowample naval rrorection for American interests in Colombia. xxx - Secretary Hitchcock to-day accompanied to the White Hjouse ex-Governor Francis, Representatives! Pierce and Joy and exRepresenetativeSeth Cobb and other members of a large delegation of Missouri citizens who are ne'e In the Interest of the exposition which U to be held in St. Louis in celebration of tjhe accession to the Union of the territory; involved In the Louisiana purchase In lSfjt. They were received in the Cabinet rrm. Ex-Governor Francis made a brief statement of the purpose of the projectors t the exposition and invited the Iresi:lent's co-operation. The President assured the delegtaion that he was in full syn pathy with the undertaking and wished them every success. xxx Hon. Charles Oenby, the member of the eld Philippine commission who has remained In Washington to complete the work qf that b;dy, saw the President today and reported that all the matter which will constitute jhe report Is now in the hands of the pointer and the most of It will be ready tJ submit to the President . within a short ;lme. A second volume of the committee's? report, with a number of Important maps! Is yet to be made public. ThU volume contains the matter upon which the commission's report was based. ; x x x The estimates ?for the general deficiencies In the public service, which will be Included In the general deficiency appropriation bill, were transmitted to the House today. They are included under the following heads: S'ate Department, $$7,000: Treasury Denartment. 154.1.20; District of Columbia. Ti.Z..ii war Department, JSS; Navy Department, $j,30t; Interior DepartHAIN PUT OFF AGAIN. Fair Wenther.Xow Predicted for ToDay und To-Morrou. WASHINGTON D. C. April .-Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Ohio Fair on Sunday and Monday; cooler on Mond 5 y in northern portion; va riable winds, mostly fresh easterly. For Indiana Fair on Sunday and Mon day; variable winds, mostly easterly. For Illinois Fair on Sunday and Mon day, .except pofibly showers and cooler In northwest portion; Monday fair: fresh east to south vinds, shifting to westerly winds. Loral Observation on Satnrduy. liar. The. H.H. Wind. Pre. Weather. 7 a- m..Cu.ll a- N rast. .0 Clear. 7 p. xn..30.02 73 i 51 East. .00 Clear. Maximum temerature. 7$; minimum tem perature. 62. Following Is a comparative statement of the mean tempoature and total precipitation for April &.: Temp. Pre Kormal j. .13 Mean 63 .00 Departure i $ .13 Departure sine April 1 11 1.52 Departure slnce; Jan. 1 176 1.84 Plus. C.V. R. WAPPENHANS, j. Local Forecast Official. Yeaterdi(s Temperature. Stations. ! Chicago. IK Cairo. II! i..Cheyenne, Wye .. Cincinnati, O .A ... Concordia. Kan;:... Min. Max. 7 C2 GO 7$ es 78 7$ TS 72 SO &2 C2 72 en CS CO 80 : 76 p. m. 4S 5S 76 50 US 40 0 ....53 ....50 ....54 ....62 ....64 "...M ....54 ....54 ....0) ....42 52 ....4S 72 64 Davenport. Ia Des Moino3, I t la . . i f. S o.., A lie Kansas City 70 Little Hock. A4 Memphis, Tennt... Nashville. Tennf ... North Platte. :?b, CS 4 60 66 Oklahoma. O. f Omaha. Neb 62 74 52 5 7 tZ 64 73 Pittsburg. Pa . ... Rapid City. S. p. Halt Lake Cit?.. Ft. Iuls. Mo. Springfield. Ill I... Pprir.gfie'.ä, Mo?... Vickaburg, Ml. .. W 62 t

ment, $3,460; Department of Justice, rl.l$S;

Postoffice Department, $2,560,. 63. xxx r A telegram was received at the Japanese legation to-day announcing that the mar riage of the crown prince to the Princess Kujo will take place on the 10th of May. The prince possesses many amiable per sonal qualities, and. apart from the ceremonial incident to the event, his marriage will undoubtedly be made the occasion for general rejoicing and for many demon strations of popular affection. The prince is twenty-one years of age and his prospective bride Is about seventeen. She is a niece of the late Empress Dowager. XXX On the recommendation of General Miles the secretary of war has ordered the following named batteries of artillery to take station at Fort Monroe, Va., for duty at the artillery school: Battery G, First United States Artillery, from Fort San Jacinto, Texas; Battery N, Third United States Artillery, from Alcatraz island, California; Battery N, Fifth United States Artillery, from Fort Hamilton. New York; Battery M, Sixth United States Artillery, from the Philippine islands, and Battery B, Seventh United States Artillery, from Fort Terry, New York. These troops are in addition to Battery B. Second Artillery and Battery G. Fourth Artillery, already under instructions at the school. The action of the department in this matter is taken with a view to increasing the efficiency of the artillery arm of the service, the impor tance of which has greatly increased by reason of the additions ar.d improvements in the coast defenses. xxx It appears from a recent report received at the State Department from Consul Dick on at Constantinople that the order pro hibiting the admission of pork products from the United States info Turkey Is not one of recent enactment, but was made about seventeen years ago, although only of late have efforts been made for its strict enforcement. Consul Dickson also tells of the strenuous efforts on tha part of himself and Minister Straus to have the order re pealed, which have not met with success, the Porte, in fact, giving notice that the order would be hereafter rigidly enforced. uuring some six months past the consul has secured the admission of several consignments of American bacon and other pork products at Constantinople, but other consignments during this period have been refused admittance at Smyrna and Beirut, one shipment spoiling at Smyrna while the question of admission was being discussed by the i'orte. Consul Dickson further states that it Is understood that a large part or the pork products that come into Turkey is American, but the shipments come by way of Hamburg. Liverpool and other large European cities, thus veiling the appearance of direct exportation from the United States, and are admitted without question. xxx Commissioner Wilson has issued the fol lowing circular to collectors of Internal revenue: "From and after May 1, 1300, the following articles, manufactured or pro duced In the United States, cannot be ex ported to Porto Rico in bond without the payment of tax, nor with the benefit of drawback as heretofore: Distilled spirits, stills and worms: tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes; fermented liquors. playing cards, oleomargarine, mixed flour, proprietary articles, medicines, bottled wine and all other products named in Schedule B of the war revenue act of June 13. 1S9S." SETTLING IN MICHIGAN. Thousands of Finns in the State and Thousand on the Way. HOUGHTON. Mich.. April 28. The vanguard of the 30,000 Finnish emigrants expected to enter in America this season gives promise of very heavy immigration. Five carloads entered the United States through Sault Ste. Marie Thursday, two carloads going to Calumet and two to Ironwood. Houghton county now his upwards of 15.000 residents of Finnish birth and parentage, and 6XX of Ironwood's 10,000 people are Finns. i OBITUARY. Dr. G. R. C. Todd, Brother of Abraham Lincoln's Wife. CHARLESTON. S. C, April 2S.-Dr. George R, C. Todd, formerly of Lexington. Ky., a brother-in-law of President Lincoln, died In Barnwell to-day. Col. S. MeClevey, of Illinois. CHICAGO, April 2S.-Col. Smith McClevey. of the Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers, died to-day in his eightieth year, of pneumonia. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. April 28. Arrived: St. Louis, from Southampton; Data via, from Hamburg, etc. Sailed: Thlngvalla, for Copenhagen, etc.; Palatla, for Hamburg, via Cherbourg ; Ivern'.a,- for Liverpool; Staatendam, for Rotterdam, via Boulogne; Trave, for Genoa. HONG-KONG, April 28.-Arrived: HongKong Maru, from San Francisco, via Honolulu and Yokohama. HAVRE, April 28. Arrived: La Gascogne, from New York. Sailed: La Champagne, for New York. LIVERPOOL, April 2S. Arrived: Campania, from New York. Sailed: Etruria, for New York. CHERBOURG. April 2. Sailed: New York, from Southampton, for New York. YOKOHAMA, April 26 Sailed: Sikh, from Hong-Kong, for Tacoma. BREMEN, April 28. Sailed: Maine, for New York, via Cherbourg. NAPLES, April 2S. Arrived: Werra, from New York, for Genoa. , BRISBANE, April 28. Arrived: Warrlmoo, from Vancouver. ANTWERP, April 28. Sailed: South wark, for New York. HAMBURG. April 2S. Arrived: Columbia, from New York. : GENOA, April 28. Sailed: Ems,- for New York. SBBBSBSSSSBBSBMSWSSSPMSlSBBSBSBSMSftBSSSSaSBBBSS) .McKinley Will Visit Canton July 4. CANTON. O., April 28. President McKinley will be In Canton on July 4. and preparations are being m.ide by citizens for a big celebration. Invitations have been sent to Governors Roosevelt and Nash, Senators Hanna and Foraker, Admiral Dewey and other distinguished men. The programme being arranged includes a civic parade in the forenoon and a military parade In the afternoon. i Play Writer and Opera Sinner Wed. NEW YORK, April 2S. Miss Margaret Townsend, tne youngest daughter of the late John D. Towrsend. was quietly married, yesterday, at her home. In this city, to Signor Giovanni Tagllapietra. for many years one of the most celebrated baritones In operatic circles. Mrs. Tagliapeltra is known as a writer of plays, she wrote "Cherry Diamonds," a "Modern St. An thony" and "A Stag at Bay." A Jealous Farmer's Crime. CALDWELL, O.. April 28. W. D. Dick Inson, a popular young farmer of Sharon township. Noble county, shot Miss Edna Wilkinson, a young school teacher, on the streets of Live Green, nine miles west of here last night. The shot produced a llesh wound only. He then turned the revolver upon himself and blew out his brains. A love affair with extreme Jealousy was the cause. For Manipulating Tax Receipts. CHICAGO. April 2S. Edward Blair, a former employe for years in the offlce of treasurer and county clerk, has been ar rested, charged with manipulating tax re ceipts and tax records, wh'ch may Involve losses to the county and property owners aggregating thousands of dollars. The grand Jury returned Indictments against lJlair and a companion known as "Harnes and officers are now looking for the latter Slother and Child Were Killed. M ILLINGTON, Mich.. Upril 2i-Mrs James Slmmonds deliberately jumped in front of a Michigan Central express train to-day with her two-year-old child In her arms. Both were terribly mangled, dying almost Instantly. Mrs. Slmmonds s mind had been unbalanced for feveral months. but her mania had not been considered dangerous.

SUBSIDY WENT THROUGH

OVERWHELMING MAJORITY IX nicimoM) for c. it. & m. road. The Seventh Suicide in a Week at 31 uncle Fire at Coatsrille Destroys Valuable Properties. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., April 2S. The election held in Richmond and Wayne township to day to vote on a subsidy of &225.000 for the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad resulted in an overwhelming majority for the subsidy, despite the bitter fight waged against it by the Chicago, Indiana & East ern road, which also claims to want to come into Richmond, and the route for which Is about the same as that for the C, R. & M. Boston township also voted a subsidy. and Harrison township. Union county, voted against It by a small majority. A new election will be asked for there next week. DOSE OF CARBOLIC ACID L'sedffn Consummating Sinncle Man's Self-inflicted Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., April 2S. The suicide craze " continues in Muncie, the seventh victim within the past few days developing this afternoon in Uie person of Cyrus Wilkenson, forty-three years old. The man resided Just east of Muncie and was a farmer. -He went to the barn at noon, swallowed a quantity of carbolic acid, and died before medical aid could bo secured, though his wife found him soon after the drug was taken. Brooding over business reverses and 111 health Is attributed as the cause. The victim left a wife and two children. Former Soldier Killed Himself. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind.. April 28. Louis Wiley killed himself to-night near Maysvllle. He had been working for John Killian, but lost his place, which was given to Hiram Lawhead. Wiley began drinking and started out to kill Lawhead, but. not finding him, turned his weapon on himself and sent a bullet through his own brain. He was thirty-live years old and was discharged from the army recently, having served five years In the cavalry. Showman Dangerously Stabbed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind.. April 2S.-Thomas Flnnegan, a showman, aged twenty-eight years, of Sumner, 111., was dangerously and perhaps fatally stabbed in the left side this afternoon at the National Hotel, and was taken to the hospital in this city. He accuses a young man named Al Lockridge. ELI FISHER ACQUITTED. Second Trial of the Wabash County Man Ended in Montana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., April . 28. A telegram was received here to-night from Benton, Mont., announcing the acquittal of EH Fisher, the young man, of Treaty, Wabash county, convicted last year of complicity In the murder of three ranchmen near Lewistown. Mont., and sentenced to death. Wil liam and James Calder were Fisher's associates, and Fisher contended that the Calders murdered and burned the ranch men, compelling him with a revolver to assist in the culmination. James Calder turned State's evidence, and his testimony convicted Bill Calder and Fisher, who were condemned to die last May. Six hundred do'Jars was raised by subscription here to secure an appeal In Fisher's case, and a retrial was granted, James Calder testifying for Fisher. Bill Calder was hanged in March. Depositions proving Fisher's good character were obtained, and the Jury acquitted him. Fisher and his father, who are very poor, started east to-night. He would have hanged a month ago but for the subscriptions of friends here. Mrs. Hassenfnss Found Guilty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. April 28. Mrs. Mattie Hassenfuss was found guilty of manslaughter. She poisoned Carl Westenfeld to get his money. The verdict was a compromise. EMPLOYES MAY STRIKE. Trouble Is Threatened on the Fort Wayne Traction Railroad. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., April 2S. The employes of the Fort Wayne Traction Company, operating the local street-railway lines, met to-night and may decide to call a strike. The employes' union has had grievances which threatened trouble, as the manager refused to meet a committee. Monday Mayor Scherer and a committee of citizens went to Cleveland and appealed to President Eells to prevent trouble. Mr. Eells promised to receive the committee, but today a notice was posted declaring that the union would under no circumstances .be recognized. Democratic Dennnrlamento. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., April 28. The Montgomery county Democratic convention was held to-day and the following nominations were made: Representative, W. W. Washburn; prosecutor, Clyde D. Jones; clerk, R. M. McMechan; sheriff, Ira Snyder; recorder, Charles O. Shannon; assessor. H. E. Griffith; treasurer. B. T. Merrill; surveyor. Walter Van Scoyor; coroneY, Dr. Peacock; county councilmen, Allen Byers. H. A. Foster, S. J. Sutton: commissioners, Wm. E. Everson and Henry C. Shobe. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the gold standard, England, McKinley, Congress, trusts, the Republican party and Governor Mount for recommending that July 4 be devoted to a study of local history. They declared for free silver and for the cause of the Boers. Shelby County Hydropathic Ticket. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ' SHELBY VILLE, Ind., April 2S- The Prohibitionists of this county to-day nominated the following ticket: Representative, S. D. Hawkins; sheriff, Lewis Boger; treasurer, Riley Zlke; commissioners, A. P. Wortman. William Nugent and James McKay; assessor, Wade Brant; surveyor, Jasper Hester; coroner, J. D. Keeling; councilmen. Conrad Boger, David Grubb, Washington Green, William Johnson, Geo. A. Wicker and O. N. Tull. Resolutions were adopted indorsing Prohibition principles. Women Play Basket Ball. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW ALBANY. Ind., April 28. The ladies basket ball team of Glendale, O., defeated the ladies' team of De Pauw College of this city last night at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium by a score of 14 to 6. The game was witnessed by several hundred people. The De Pauw College team was composed of Misses Laura Stotsenburg. Lulu and Bertha Schuler, Eva Hammersmith, Anna Lehmann and Kate Gordon. Gas Outlook Is Discouraging. SpeclaMo the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., April 28. A tour of the Indiana gas field from which the pipe lines of the Dleterich syndicate draws Its supply has Just been finished by Charles F. Dleterich and a party of natural gas officials. Without exception they pronounce the outlook in the gas belt anything but encouraging for consumers, and say that the days of fuel gas, even when delivery is

accomplished through, the aid of costly pumping stations, are" numbered. A considerable amount Is to be expended on the pipe lines and in pumps for the cities supplied by the companies represented by the party this summer, but the sum will be Insignificant compared with what It would be if there were any hopeful signs of a continuance of the gas supply for a series of years.

Graduates at Lebanon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON. Ind.. April 2S. The fourteenth annual commencement of the Lebanon High, School was held last night at the opera house. Seventeen graduates received diplomas. A miscellaneous programme was given. The class Includes the following: Misses Gertrude McColley, Viola Caldwell, Blanche Edens, Delia Rinehart. Ethel Caldwell, Ruth Campbell, Anna Lewis-and Lilllon Atkinson, Messrs. Thos. J. Gullion, Richard Beck. Blaine Porter, Frank Nealis, Alonzo McDaniel. Kenneth Foster, Charles O. White, Gilbert Anthony and Roy Rust. Preparing; to Begrln Work. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., April 2S.-The Barber Asphalt Company, which has held up Its $50,000 contract for paving a mile of Hill street. In this city, will at once begin work on the Improvement. The company filed a $25,000 bond to complete the work as per contract, . but has deferred action in the hope that the Supreme Court would hold the law constitutional and prevent any litigation. The decisions is well received here, and local contractors are preparing to rush street work that has been in abeyance. Objected to Chnrch-Golns. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind.. April 2S. Mary Thornburg was granted a divorce from John Thornburg to-day, after thirty years of wedded life. The wife complained that for several years her husband cursed and abused her In a shameful manner because she attehded church, making the statement that the preachers of all churches were the worst men living, and that their followers were little better. She says she concluded that It was give up the church or her husband, so sued for a divorce. Valuable Properties Ilurned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 28. Fire at Coatsville this morning destroyed the lumber yard of Campbell & Martin, valued at $8,000; Bourne's drug store, loss $800; Stanley & Campbell's wareroom. In which the fire originated, and Fred Stewart's, blacksmith shop. The fire Is thought to have been incendiary. Bourne's loss was covered by insurance, and Cnmptell & Martin had $1,500 insurance in the Phoenix. Commencement at Worthington. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WORTHINGTON, Ind., April 28. The twentieth annual commencement of the Worthlngton High School took place last evening at the Christian Church. The graduates were: Arthur Loder. Paul Carnahan. Edyth Dale, Raymond English. Elmer Harrel. Elsie Hodges, Grace Maywood. Claude Miller, Arle Owen, Philip Reuter, John Yockey, Manta Love. Manta Love took first honors and Arthur Loder second. Prof. Burris A. Jenkins, of Indianapolis, delivered the class address. Fortville ToWnshlp Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORTVILLE, Ind., April 2S.-The Republican township convention was held here to-day and resulted In the selection of James P. McCord, of McCordsville, for trustee and James C. Jordan for assessor. The ticket Is expected to be a winner, al though there Is a majority of 50 against It. De Pautv's Orator Chosen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENCASTLE. Ind., April 28.-At the primary oratorical contest at De Pauw last night to select an : orator, to represent the university In the next state contest, De Forest Cartwright was declared the winner, with Moreland Brown second and John Maxwell third. Indiana Obituary. MADISON. Ind., April 2S.-When John A. Zuck, teller of the National Branch Bank, went home at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon, he found his wife dead In bed. She was feel Ing unwell at noon and ate no dinner. The servant, thinking she was sleeping, did not call her. Apoplexy was the cause. The four-months-old child of a family named Patrick, residing .near Dupont, died suddenly of-strangulation to-day, while riding in a vehicle with its parents. WABASH. Ind.. April 23. Mrs. Mary GI1len, one of the oldest residents of Wabash, died this afternoon at 3 o'clock, of paralysis. Mrs. Gillen sustained a stroke nearly a year ago and had been in feeble health ever since. She survived the second stroke only a few days. She was born in Kentucky seventy-five years ago and came to Wabash In 1S41. She was the mother of ten children, six of whom survive. PORTLAND, Ind., April 28. Samuel Cunningham, a prominent Odd Fellow, died at ills home, three miles west of. here, at 10 o'clock last night, aged " forty-five years. Mr. Cunningham will be buried to-morrow afternoon under the auspices of Omega Lodge, of this city. Indiana Xotes. The home of William Fye, a farmer, living near Converse, was burned, yesterday, and Fye nearly lost his life In trying to save his furniture. The charge of embezzlement against Ira Overmyer, of Albany, has been dismissed in the Circuit Court at Muncie. It was preferred by a lodge of Modern Woodmen. Democrats of Jay county held township conventions yesterday and named township tickets and delegates to the state, congressional, representative and county conventions. Trapplsts to Leave New Brunswick. ST. JOHN, N. B., April 2S.-The Trappist monastery at Tracadle, N. S., is to be removed to Rhode Island, about June 1, and the farm at Tracadle abandoned, where the monastery was established in 1S14, when the house in France was broken up by the Emperor Napoleon. There are twenty-five monks at Tracadie, where the discipline is most rigorous. Bread and water constitute their diet, eleven hours a day are spent in prayer and the members are prohibited from speaking to one another. Time for a Chan ore. Nebraska State Journal. No use of talking, the time is here when the Presbyterian Church can no longer afford to be hampered by hanging to a confession of faith that denies the goodness and mercy of the Almighty. The organization has much to gain and nothing to lose by expunging from Its creedal code such portions as conflict with the sweet and wholesome religious thought of this glorious age. Change of Presidents. PETERSBURG, Va.. April 2S. An adjourned meeting of the directors of the Petersburg, Richmond & Carolina Railroad Company (Seaboard Air-line system) was held here to-day. E. Randolph Williams tendered his resignation as president and John Skelton Williams was elected to fill the vacancy. Killed All of Ills One Hundred Birds. MILWAUKEE. W'li; April 2S.-George Roll, of Chicago, defeated Dr. J. L. Williamson, of Milwaukee, to-day in a most remarkable live bird shooting contest. The match was one hundred birds each at the regulation distance of .thirty yards. Roll succeeded In killing every bird. Williamson's score was 95. Fitrgernld Broke Both Hands. NEW YORK, April 2S.-Harry Lyons, of Chicago, received the decision over Willie Fitzgerald in a twenty-round bout at the Greenwood Athletic Club to-night. Fitzgerald broke both hands in the seventh round and the referee awarded the decision to Lyons. AstroloKlst Arrested for Fraud. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. April 28.-MI1-dred Preston, an astrologlst, who Is alleged to have recently fraudulently secured $SU) from Miss Ethelyn Quimby, a society young woman of this city. Is under arrest at Dubuque, la., and will be brought back here.

SUGAR FED TO SOLDIERS

SWEETS OF ALL KIXDS HAVE GREAT MfSCLE-MAKIXG QI'ALITIES. Rigid Test Have Already Demonstrated the Food Value of Sugar Children Need It. Philadelphia Record. Sugar is generally looked upon as a flavor rather than an article of diet, but the careful experiments of the Department of Agriculture and of the German War Office, Just concluded, have shown that this Is erroneous. No doubt, people eat sweet things for their flavor, but this same tasteful article Is a source of muscular energy not surpassed by milk or the white of an egg, the usual representatives of all that Is perfect In foods. Aside from these carefully conducted scientific experiments there are the practical examples of the use of sugar as food by the Canadian lumbermen, and the plantation negroes, who gather the sugar cane, the Swiss guides and the Holland athletes. Professor Pfuhl, head of the physiological laboratory of the German army, last week concluded a series of elaborate experiments, which have confirmed the results of previous investigators, namely, that. sugar is a valuable article of diet, particularly for persons called upon to perform a large amount of muscular exertion, one of its salient points of merit being that It Is readily assimilated by the blood. Professor Pfuhl found that after long and fatiguing walks the soldiers recuperated in from fifteen minutes to half an hour if they were given several lumps of sugar. These appeared to remove all feelings o'f lassitude and to restore the muscles to their original elastic condition. Starch forms a considerable portion of our diet in one form or another, and all starch has to be converted into sugar by the saliva and Intestinal Juices before it can be assimilated. The action of these ferments breaks It up Into simpler chemical compounds, so that it finally reaches the blood and muscles as dextrose, a form of sugar which can be burned to yield heat and muscular energy. The change required in sugar for its assimilation is very slight compared with that required for the digestion of starch. It will thus be seen that the process of manufacturing sugar from its vegetable containers results in a product that for digestive purposes Is comparable to partially digested starch, so that it is evident the substitution of sugar for starch Is of advantage to the digestive system, since it does not burden the digestive tract and less force Is required for its digestion and assimilation. Unfortunately, however, nature will not tolerate man's attempt to present concentrated chemically sepanked pure foods all ready for assimilation, except in limited amounts, and this is true of sugar, as of peptones, partially-digested meats and similar foods. ITS VALUE CLEARLY SHOWN. Sugar now forms part of the rations of the soldiers of all the principal nations, the makeup of which, as Is well known, is scientifically proportioned to supply the necessary amount of muscular energy, heat and vitality of the soldier. Professor Mosso, an Italian Investigator, fs early as 1S93 called attention to the Influence of cane sugar In lessening fatigue. Last year the Prussian government took up the question and made thorough and complete ex periments with the ergograph, an Instrument which measured the amount of work done by the persons under test. The subject of each experiment was entirely ignorant of its nature, and the instrument which registered the amount of work performed was hidden from view, so that imagination could not affect the results. In addition to his ordinary diet he was given about six ounces of a sweet fluid. On certain days this was a solution of sugar, and on other days was only water sweetened with dulcin, a sweet-tasting chemical having no food value. When only ordinary muscular work was performed the effect of the sugar In the diet was not very marked, but when exhausting work was required of the subject of th experiment the "difference in the effect of dulcin and sugar became very apparent, the latter restoring to some extent the efficiency of the tired muscle, while dulcin did not." This is believed to. be due to the fact that with ordinary exertion a little more or less sugar in the blood does not make any special difference, but when the muscles are heavily drawn upon the rapid assimilation of this sugar proves of great advantage. Continuing these successful experiments the German army officials put them to practical test during their late maneuvers, the observations extending over thirtyeight days. A number of men were given ten lumps, about one-sixth of a pound, of sugar daily, and were compared in various ways with the men performing the same amount of work in marching and drilling, but whose food contained little or no sugar. The sugar was relished during the whole time, and proved of decided advantage to the men using it. On long marches it appeased hunger and mitigated thirst; a feeling of refreshment followed, which helped the tired man on his way, and none of the soldiers allowed sugar were at any time overcome by exhaustion. Both their pulse rate and breathing was less affected by exertion than was the case with men having no sugar allowance. RECOGNIZED BY SWISS GUIDES. The Swiss guides, it is asserted, fully appreciate the value of sugar as a stimulant, and always carry it in their kits, preferring lump sugar or highly sweetened chocolate. The muscular lumbermen of Canada consume an extraordinarily large amount of sugar during the season in the woods, taking it in the form of molasses. They sweeten their milkless tea with It, make cakes with It, and even add It to their fried salt pork, which Is the only meat they get during the time they are in the woods cutting lumber, and this is practically half the year. In the "black belt" of Alabama the staple articles of diet are also molasses, salt pork and corn meal. These simple articles form the diet day in and day out, year about, and yet the negroes appear to thrive on them. But It is on the sugar cane plantations, perhaps, where the value of sugar as an article of diet Is most apparent. A pamphlet entitled "Sugar as Food," recently issued by the Department of Agriculture, referring to this fact, says: "For months the chief food of the negro laborers on the plantations Is said to be sugar cane, and they are seen to grow strong and fat as the season advances. They go through the hard labor of harvesting the crop anu come out in fine condition, although they began it weak and halfstarved." It should be added, however, that the entire Juice of ripened cane is a more complete food than sugar, containing, as It does, other food constituents besides carbohydrates. With the Christmas season approaching, with Its accompanying candles, a great many people would like to be assured as to Just what can be said for and against eating sugar; that is, candy. Children have a natural craving for sweet things, and the sugar of milk, which makes up from 4 to 6 per cent, of it, forms an Important part of baby's first nutriment, taking the pitce of starch until the child's stomach Is able to assimilate it; so that a two-year-old child drinking two quarts of milk a day, consumes, in this way, about three ounces of sugar. Owing to Its ease of digestion, and the fact that It supplies heat and energy to the body, sugar would seem to be a natural food for children, and Is far more acceptable to most children than fat, which usually suppl'es heat and energy to adults. The question whether the use of too much sugar by children does not pervert their tastes from less highly-flavored and nutritious foods has to tw taken Into consideration. ANTISEPTIC AND GERMICIDE. Too much sugar la apt to interfere with and retard the digestive processes. Experiments made on the stomachs of dogs have shown that 5.7 per cent., solution reddened the mucous membranes; a 10 per cent, solution made it dark red. Indicating great Irritation, and a 20 per cent, solution caused the dog such distress that the experiment was carried no further. Much sugar has a laxative effect. Strong sirup acts as antiseptics and germicides, as we see In the preservation of fruits In syrup,

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terns, with mmm GERRITT A. so that when present in the stomach they retard the fermentation that constitutes digestion. There is no proof that sugar is harmful to the teeth, although sweet foods cling to the teeth, rapidly ferment and thus produce acids, which may attack the teeth. Sugar is very fattening if properly assimilated, and for this reason it should be tabooed by those of corpulent tendencies. Experience and experiment has, demonstrated, as pointed out, that 'sujgar Is a very valuable and readily assimilable food, though a highly-concentrated one, and for that reason it should be taken in, conjunction with other foods to dilute it 'and give It bulk. People who live in the Jopen air and perform great muscular exertion can add sugar to their diet at will, but those of Fedentary habits should not use it in larger quantities than three or four ounces a day. A lunp of sugar contains as much nutrition as an ounce of potato and Is far more easllf assimilated. In times of great exertloh, as are likely to occur in army life, thl feature is particularly valuable. In warm countries sugar takes the place of I fat, and either sugar or sweet fruits, as dntes, figs, etc., are eaten in large quantities In tropical climates. As a source of muscular energy sugar Is rapidly becoming recognized, so that training diets are sometime made to include large quantities of it. ai. for Instance, in the rowing clubs of Holland. v In conclusion, it may be added that the English-speaking people are thp largest consumers of sugar, ranging from eightyslx pounds per capita p?r annurrf in England to sixty-four pounds in tle United States. Denmark and Switzerland consume about forty-five pounds per capita, Germany, France and Holland, thirty pounds, while the poorer countries are near the end of the list, Italy, Greece and Turke5 with a consumption of less than seven pounds per capita. According to the bulletin above quoted, the world's annual consumption of sugar is between seven and eight million tons per year, and is only limited apparently by the amount that people can afford to buy. HORTICULTURAL WORK THE WHITE DLACKDERRY A NOVELTY RECENTLY DEVELOPED. Department of Agriculture Wants Consreii to Protect the Work of Men Who Croaabreed Fro It. "Washington Post . Among the legislation that will be asked of the coming Congress is a measure. of some sort for the protection of nurserymen and horticulturists who produce new varieties of fruits, grains and flowers which are of benefit to the race. One of the curious factors In this problem of protection Is that no one interested has yet been able to decide just what form such legislation should take, whether it should be an extension of the patent, trademark or copyright laws, or whether It should take the form of a. bounty to the producer without restricting the use of the plant or fruit to him or his assignees. Tnere is no question among scientific agriculturists of the need of some such measure, and sporadic efforts have been made at almost every session for several Congresses past to secure legislation, but no one has yet hit on a form satisfactory to all concerned. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, last session introduced a bill for one of his constituents, a New England fruit grower, who happened to be a lawyer as well, extending the trademark laws so as to cover the production of new plants, and at least give the owner of such a trademark some standing in court on which to make a legal fight in case his rights were Interfered with. Congressman O'Grady, of the Rochester district, in New York, is much interested in the subject this year, coming as he does from one of the greatest nursery centers of the Empire State, and he is now in correspondence with the Agricultural Department on the subject, but he has not yet formulated any measure of a practical sort. To talk of patenting or copyrighting a plant may sound rather queer to the average reader, but with its present advances In agriculture, such a course is apparently necessary to enable the nurseryman to enjoy the fruit of his labor. This is brought about by the advances that have been made in the past decade in hybridizing OT crossing. plants of all sorts. It Is a matter that has attracted the attention of scientists since the early part of the present century, and one sees the beautiful results in nearly all of the cultivated flowers which are made to vary in form and color, and to increase In size year after year, under the patient and skillful work of the scientific gardener. But this is the least important feature of the recent advances In this line. The crossing of various sorts of fruit trees and grains has produced some surprising results. One of the peculiarities of hybrids seems to be that frequently the offspring grows more rapidly than either of its parents. In fact, the case of the California black walnut, which has been crossed with the Eastern species, the hybrid plant produced a nut almost double the size of the parents, and the tree Itself grew more than double as fast as both parents together. The Immense California plums which now rule the Eastern market, and which are being exported to England and the continent, are the product of Luther Burbank. the originator of the Iturbank potato, and one of the most daring and successful of the present-day workers in this line. The Wickson plum, as it is known, is fully twice the tize of either of Its parents and a more prolific plant. Mr. Ilurbahk is working with several other plums, however, which promise to as far surpass the AVlckson as it surpasses the parent stock. PROCESS TAKES A LONG TIME. It Is not to be supposed, however, that the production of a new and superior species of fruit of any sort Is a work of a single season or merely of swapping pollen at - random among a lot of scrub fruit trees. The producer of hybrid fruit has his failures as Beau Brummel had with his neckties or as the famous bculist, who averred that he had "spoiled a hatful of eyes before he operated successfully on one." An Indication of this Is shown In a picture at the Agricultural Department, taken in the "Junk heap" of Mr. Burbank's California orchard, showing an immense pile of raspberry, currant and blackberry canes, big as a small cottage, containing 130,000 rejected specimens which had developed nothing making them worth preserving. When one does produce an Improved fruit, however, 1. pa" fr a good many failures. The catalogues of dealers In this line seldom quote a new plant at less than 1300 or 100. while the control or several new standard fruits, berries, plums, quinces and the like have been sold at as high as S3.00U. This was In the earlier years of the Industry, however. Recently.

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ARCHIBALD the dealers have decided that it was more to their advantage to keep control of the main steck of u new fruit and sell the new wood for grafting. Consequently this grafting wood of fine varieties is sold at from $ to $23 per foot, which Is not so high as it sounds, since especially fine large fruit In almost any sort always finds . already market at double the price of common stock. It not to be Inferred from the foregoing VrTcrences to Burbank that he Is the onlv "man In this line of business, though, he is one of the most prominent, and the name of his famous potato and the story of its development from a single seed has made him famous throughout the agricultural world. One of the most noted grapa experts, say twenty years back.was J. H. Rickets, whose work is known to all agricultural scientists. On his little half aero of ground at Newburg. N. Y.. he produced over a score of recognized varieties of new grapes, the control of one of which, the Empire State, he is said to have sold for $4.000. He was financially crippled, however. In the panic of 1S73, and is now cmployed In one of the branches of the government printing office. DEVELOPED THE STRAWBERRY. C. M. Hovey, of Boston, is another man who worked orchard miracles on a fraction of an acre of ground. It Is to hira that the United States practically owes Its entire strawberry Industry, Hovey having developed a commercial fruit from the old wild varieties that were hardly worth tha eating. Probably a score of other workers In this branch -of applied science could be named, all of whom would be familiar to every nurserymen In the country. Their number Is increasing rapidly, as the principles of hybridization are becoming more generally appreciated. One of the things that hold back men from devoting themselves to this line of research Is that there is no legal protection for the men who make an improvement In the vegetable world. Nurserymen say that If .by years of patient work a man can develop a prune twice as large as any heretofore known, and which Is correspondingly more valuable for packing and shipping, he certainly ought to bo protected In reaping the reward of his labor quite as much as the man who invents a r.ew horseshoe nail or a new pencil sharpener. But as the case stands, tha latter has the patent law to. protect him. while any one who can get hold of a singlo seed of the new prune or a single sprig of grafting wood has In his grasp a whole orchard of the new fruit, and there Is no law to stop him. This comparison happens not to be and idle simile, either. Just such a prune has been developed by one of the hybridizing gardeners in California, It promises to double the value of the prune Industry on the Pacillc coast in the next few years. Yet the man who developed this fruit has the choice of selling It outright for a few thousand dollars or of peddling out a few hundred feet of grafting wood at so much per foot. MADE BLACK WHITE. Even a worse case than this happened to another hybrid worker. He developed a white blackberry, the first of Its sort. a magnificent fruit and very valuable." He sold the control of the stock for a fair price to a big nursery concern, but before he got his money the firm failed. He had to take back his plants, but some of them had got out to the public In the meantime, and the result was that in a little while there were a dozen dealers offering white blackberry stock for sale at a quarter of what it would have taken to pay the originator for his five seasons of work and experiment. While the inducements to Individuals to go into this line of experiment are comparatively small the Agricultural Department Is not bounded by pecuniary considerations, and has done a large amount of this work on its own responsibility, giving the public the advantage of it. The seedless orange, which now practically dominates the American market, is one of the results of the department's work. Its development is a long and Interesting story In Itself. The department in the same way Is now working to develop, a frost-proof orange by interbreeding the sweet orange and the Japanese trifollata, which is as hardy as a pine tree. The crossing of the Japanese sand pear with American stock resulted In extending the latitude of profitable pear culture nearly 1.000 miles south In this countr), and the apple tree is gradually being developed by breeding till it can be successfully raised In Georgia, and it is believed it will be extended in time to all of the Southern States. rxiox losses ix the war. Awful Destruction of Life In the Four Yeara Con teat. Sandusky (Ohio) Register. A reader who has kept track of the losses of the British in South Africa and the losses on our side in the Philippines asks about the osses of the Union armies In the wor for the Union. The total number of killed has been variously estimated. There were 2.2C2 distinct battles and engagements. We lout seventy-three Union generals killed in action and thirty-five died of disease. The total number of Union officers killed was 6.3G5. The number of gunshot wounds treated in hospitals was 220.1&. The number of gunshot wounded who dlM In hospitals was 23.C53. The wounded who did not die immediately from the etiect of wounds was 275.175. The total number of deaths were as follows, according to the best estimates that can be madethat Is, deaths directly during the war: Killed on the field or died of mortal wounds, 110,070; of disease, 720; deaths from all other causes, 43,7ii. making a total of It is now gen erally understood that this does not include all who died of disease, and that instead of 209.000. the aggregate would be close to 4.000. Soon after the war the estimate of the number who died In prison was very much below the actual number. Subsequently a corrected list was made, but even that was believed to be below the actual number. It has often been stated that there was a very large percentage of the Union soldiers of foreign birth, but that is not true. Seventy-five per cent, were American born. 9 per cent, were Germans, g per cent. Irish. 2Vi per cent. British-Americans, and it cent, all other nations. Nearly one-half the total were farmers, the actual number as reported being Ki per cent. Reduced to a three years' standard, the number of troops credited to the different States and Territories during the war was 2.rS,l3. of which Ohio furnished 212.180, being outranked only by Nerv York and Pennsylvania. At the time of the surrender of Lee there were over l.CXO.OOO Union soldiers under arms and ready ior duty. The most destructive battle was Gettysburg, where the Union loi.t 2.070 killed on the field, H.4U7 wounded and mortally wounded, and 5.434 reported missing. This battle lasted three days. In the .ttlant campaign which continued from May 2 to Aug. 31, 1S61. a perloa of three months, the number kdled on the field way 4.423. and the number of wounded 22.822. and 4.412 missing, some of whom died In the effort to escape and some were captured. In tha battle at Spottsylvania and its vicinity the number killed was 2,725. and the number wounded was 13.406. This battle lasted from May $ to May 21. ls4. The heaviest loss reported by the Confederates was in the seven days' battle in Vir ginia In 162. The losse admitted were 3.47S killed. I5,2tl wounded, und S75 missing. The Confederate estimate at the tims of the losses at Gettysburg were 2.713 killed. I2,?1S wounded, and 7.4C mlsjir.j and captured. The combined losses at Gettysburg were 6.7S2 killed and 22.743 wounucd.

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