Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 302, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1900 — Page 1

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M'KI.NLEY .MAY HAVE VjO'2 VOTES IN THE ELECTOHAL COLLCUC .Vice Chairman Payne'a Latent Forecast of the Result of the Presidential Election. HE CONCEDES II R. BRYAN 112 AND SAYS Hi: HAS A CHANCE OF SECURING THIRTY-THREE MORE. Nebrnskn, Kentucky and West Virginia Placed In the Republican Column by Mr. Payue. WALTER WELIMAN'S ESTIMATE HE IS CONFIDENT M'KINLEY WILL GET 273 ELECTORAL VOTES, And Almerts the Number May Exceed COO Republican Popular Plural- . Ity Placed at 222,000. CHICAGO. Oct. 23. "McKinley and Ttoosevelt." says Vice Chairman Payne, of tho Republican national committee, "will carry every State north of the Potomac river, including Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky; every State cast of the Missouri river, including Kansas, Nebraska and both Dakotas, the three Pacific coast States and Wyoming. Bryan and Steveneon arc sure of nothing but the South, leaving out Kentucky, Maryland and West .Virginia. Missouri, Colorado and Montana are doubtful, but the chances favor their going Democratic Utah, Nevada and Idaho are in doubt and the chances of carrying or losing them are even." Mr. Payne's claim gives a tabulated elec toral vote forecast as follows: Sure for McKinley. California 9! New Jersey 10 Connecticut Delaware 2 New York 36 North Dakota 3 Ohio S3 Oregon ;.. 4 Pennsylvania 22 Rhodo Island 4 South Dakota 4 Vermont 4 Washington 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 32 Wyoming M 3 Illinois 2i Indiana 15 Iowa IS Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Maine .......... t Maryland Sj " 1 4. Michigan 14 Minnesota i Nebraska ... S New Hampshire , 4 Total 302 Sure for Bryan. Alabama 11 J South Carolina.. 9 Arkansas ... bjTennessee 12 Florida . 4,Texas 15 Georgia 13j Virginia 12 Louisiana S Mississippi I Total 112 North Carolina... 11 1 In Doubt but Favoring Bryan. Colorado 4Montana M.M 3 Missouri 17 Total 21 In Doubt Chances Even. Idaho SjUtah - 3 Nevada C Total 9 ANOTHER ESTI3IATE. It Give McKinley 273 Votes Sure, with n Probability of 281. CHICAGO, Oct. 2S. Walter Wellman, telegraphing to the Times-Herald from New York, says: McKinley and Roosevelt will carry the country a week from next luesday. Their electoral vote will surely be 273, or two more than McKinley had In 196. It probably will be 2SL or thirteen moro than in It may rise abovo 300. McKInley's majority of the popular vote "will probably be about 220,000 against 600.000 four years ago. The Republicans will elect a majority of all the members of the House of Representatives, the number of Republican representatives being estimated at 1DÖ, against 1S5 elected to the present House and 206 elected in 1SD6; 173 are needed to control tho organization. In but few of the actually contested States are the pluralities for cither party likely to be as large as four years ago. Bryan's big pluralities In the West will be cut down or reversed; McKinley will lose heavily from the tidal wave figures of 1S06 in the East and to a lesser extent In the middle West. Of all the States carried by McKinley four years ago he Is likely to lose none except Kentucky, and there the chances are regarded as about even. Maryland Is in some doubt, with the odds in McKInley's favor. Of the States which Bryan carried four years ago McKinley will now get Kansas, Washington, South Dakota and Wyoming, probably Utah, and possibly Nebraska and Idaho. The conclusions are based upon a great mass of information gathered from party manager and workers, much of it in confidence. The truth only has been sought, regardless of what Its rurport might be. Earlier in this campaign the writer was doubtful of Republican success. Just after the two national conventions he thought Bryan had an even chance to win. He has been forced by overwhelming evidence to the conclusion that Bryan Is now hopelessly beaten. It is often said that the politicians, men who make wagers, newspaper investigators, do not know anything about such a situation as we now have in the country; that they can only guess, and may guess wrong. Admitting th3 great difficulty of intelligently forecasting the way in which 13.000,000 men wil vote. It does not follow that we who seek only the truth must necessarily $ropo in the dark. There are many ways jn which the trmd of public opinion can Toe gauged .md the men who are skilled In the work rarely make serious mistakes. Tn 1K2 the writer had no doubt of the luccess of Cleveland. In 1S; he predicted that every State northeast of the Missouri river and In addition thereto the border States of Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky, would vote for McKinley. Now and theu there is a campaign in which signs fall and surprises follow, but neither nor ISM was of this character, and there is no reason to believe that ltVO 1. Khouhl Bryan win now It would be the greatest political surplice of the century. OUTLOOK IN INDIANA.. In regard to Indiana Mr. Wellman says: 'Indiana 1 no longer regarded by the Republican managers u doubtful. The Democratic .managen hn to carry It. but have no confidence. Six weeks agu Daniel

Ransdell, one of the shrewdest politicians of Indiana, reported to the national committee that the State was in danger. Three weeks ago he reported that the chances were about even. Now he says Indiana i3 safe for McKinley, and that the plurality will be about 13,000. Two weeks ago Mayor Taggart came here to see Croker. He said Indiana was hanging in the balance. If Croker would raise ,000 for him he believed he could carry the State for Bryan. Croker replied that he had troubles enough at home, and Mr. Taggart went back to Indianapolis empty-handed. Fvm that day to this the Democrats have had no real hope of Indiana. Chairman Jones has been appealed to for financial help; he says he has no funds. Eastern Democrats say the Democratic national committee is 'busted,' and they blame Senator Jones for it, though doubtless he has done the best he could. In ISM, the high-tide Democratic year, 7,000 was the best the Democrats could do for Cle-jIand, though they had everything in their favor and ample funds. That year they carried the cities (or the counties In which cities are situated) by 4,000, and the country counties by 3,000. In 1M the Republicans carried the city counties by 20.000, and lost the agricultural counties by 2,000. But In 1S.1S the farmers were coming around to the Republican party again, and, though the Republicans carried the city counties by only 13,000, the country gave them 4.500. This year precisely the same thing is going on Republican losses in the cities. Republican gains In the country. If the Republicans lose all their plurality of 13,500 in the city counties this year the country districts are likely to save the State by about 8,000 plurality. I have a great deal of information from both sides as to Indiana, and my Judgment Is that McKinley will get about 12.000 plurality." FORECAST TABLE. Mr. Wellman submits the following forecast, Baying it is based on information ?e(CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE.) THIS IS M'KIEEYISM

FIGURES "WHICH BRYATflTES MIGHT EXAMINE WITH PROFIT. What Manufacturers Are Doing Under the Administration of the "Advance Afrcnt of Prosperity.' INCREASE OF EIGHTY PER CENT. IS EXPORTATION OF FINISHED PRODUCTS IN LAST FOUR YEARS, While Importation of Raw Material, Not Produced at Home, Han Increased Fifty Per Cent. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The manufacturers of the United States are rapidly increasing their share of the foreign commerce of the country. Nearly one-half of the importations are now for their use and more than one-third of the exportatlons are their products. Their importations during tho nine months ending with September, 1900, amounted to 1281,000,000, a daily average of over a million dollars, while their exports of finished manufactures in the same time amounted to $333,000,000, a daily average of more than a million and a quarter dollars. Never before in the fclstory of the country have the manufacturers imported so much material for use In manufacturing or exported so much of finished manufactures. In tho corresponding nine months of last year the Importations of manufacturers material amounted to $242,000,000, or $10,000,000 less than in the nine months Just ended, and the exports of manufactures amounted to $277,000,000, or $,- 000,000 less than in the corresponding months In this year. In the nine months of 1S96, ending with September, the importations of manufacturers' materials amounted to $1S3,000,000, as against $281,000,000 in the corresponding months of 1300, and the exports of manufactures amounted to $1S1,000.000, as against $333,000,0)0 ' in the corresponding months of 1900. Thus the manufacturers during the four years have increased their importation of materials for use in manufacturing more than' 50 per cent., and Increased their exportation of finished manufactures more than SO per cent. Manufacturers materials a decade ago formed but 33 per cent, of the total importations; now they form over 43 per cent, of tho total imports; while finished manufactures, which a decade ago formed but IS per cent, of the exports, now form over 33 per cent, of the exports. The following table shows the Importations of manufacturers materials and the exportatlons of manufactured goods in nine months ending with September in each year from 1SS6 to 1900: Nine Months Materials Goods Ending Sept. 30. Imported. Exported. lSSC $17ä.S.x9,544 $101,625,414 1&S7 190,834,580 88,101,603 1SSS 170.7S4.StT &0.S42.972 19S.221.116 111.115,263 1830 20S,253,7)7 113,K9,K4 1S91 223.S07.2OS 126,511.057 1592 213,091.192 111.200,024 1S03 221,491,726 12y.90S.S43 ISO! 169.201.132 133.37S.CÜ9 1895 23S. 402.550 145.7D3.S34 1MM lS3,752.fc'3 1S4.S07.004 1S37 200.510.S33 212.47S.S10 1S1S 193.4S2.10U 227.S22.015 1S09 242.178.074 277,502,64;) 1500 2$1,673,013 333.678,243 HEW LABOR UNION. Organisation Effected by the PostofOce Clerks of Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct. 2S. Postofflce clerks of Chicago to-day entered the ranks of the trade unionists. The clerks have affiliated themselves with the American Federation of Labor and the new organization will l known as the "Chicago Potoffice Clerks' Union." It Is claimed that practically all the 1,400 postofflce employes In Chicago are Included in the move. Foremost among the objects for which the new union is to strive is the adoption of the eight-hour work day for letter carriers In Chicago and throughout the country. Another object to be given almost equal prominence will be th'i working up of an agitation In favor of federal legislation that will fix absolutely the rate of wages for letter carriers and other postoffice employes, taking that matter completely out of the hands of th "promotion boards" and other similar agencies. t Is to be a labor union pure and simple, and will direct its efforts solely to the problem of bettering the lot of the rank and tile of postofiice employes.

HARD FIGHTING

SEVERAL SEVERE ENGAGEMENTS IN THE PHILIPPINES nECEMLY, IIryana 'Patriot' Making a. Desperate Effort to Keep Their Cause Alive Till Election Day. CAPTAIN BEIGLER A HERO FOn3IEU CORRESPONDENT OF THE JOURNAL SLIGHTLY WOUNDED. Drove Off 400 Bandits, Killing Over Seventy-Five. After a Fight Lasting Two Honrs. GENERAL HALL'S EXPEDITION GREAT HARDSHIPS SUFFERED BV THE TROOPS AND PORTERS. Sensational Publication That I Said to Have Reen Inspired by 31 r. Bryan' Supporters. MANILA, Oct. 2S.-Whlle pcoutlng near Looc a detachment of the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth regiments, under Captain Belgier, were attacked by 4M insurgents, armed with rifles, under the commani of a white man whose nationality is not known to the Americans. The insurgents for the most part were Intrenched. After an heroic fight Captain Belgier drove off the enemy, killing more than seventy-five. The fight lasted for two hours. Captain Belgler and three privates were slightly wounded and two of the Americans were killed. An engagement took place Oct. 24 between detachments of the Third Cavalry and tho Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry, numbering sixty, and a force of insurgents, Including 400 riflemen and 1,000 bolomen. The fighting was desperate. Finally, under pressure of overwhelming numbers, the Americans were compelled to retire on Narvican. Lieutenant George L. Febiger and four privates were killed, nine were wounded and four are missing. Twenty-nine horses were missing. A number of teamsters were captured by the insurgents, but were subsequently released. The enemy's los3 Is estimated at ISO. i A civilian launch towing a barge loaded with merchandise, near Arayat, was attacked by a force of 150 insurgents under David Fagln, a deserter from the Twentyfourth Infantry. The American troops, on hearing the tiring, turned out in force before the boat could be looted and captured. Fagln, who holds tho rank of general among the insurgents, has sworn special enmity toward his former company. Of the twenty men he captured a month ago seven have returned. One was killed in a fight, his body being horribly mutilated. Fagln sends messages to his former comrades threatening them with violence if they become his prisoners. It was Fagin's men who captured Lieutenant Frederick W. Alstaetter, who is still a prisoner. General Hall's expedition, with a force of nearly SOO men, through the mountains to Blnangonan, Province of Infanta, in pursuit of the Insurgent general Cailles, although it discovered no trace of the enemy, encountered great hardships on tho march. Twenty Chinese porters died, and forty men were sent into hospital. After stationing a garrison of 230 men In Binangonan and visiting Polilla island, off the coast of Infanta province. General Hall and tho rest of his force embarked there on tho transport Uarronse. Reports from General Young's district how a daily Increase of Insurgents there, owing to the fact that recruits are going thither from the towns. Whilo a detail of the Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry was returning from Bangued on rafts it was fired upon by insurgents. Sergeant Berstaller being killed and two privates wounded. The Philippine Commission has decided to compile the revised Philippines customs tariff from its own investigations, assisted by the report of tho army board. The result will be forwarded to the United States for publication and discussion among those Interested in foreign commerce. When the details appear to be satisfactory and the draft has been approved by the secretary of war the commission will promulgate it here as a law. The measure has taken on a new and international commercial interest, and th? course of the commission is heartily commended here. Archbishop Chapelle, who recently left Manila, accompanied by several friars, for the northern districts of Luzon, under conditions that aroused the suspicions of the Filipinos here that he Intended to establish the friars In parishes there, was warmly -welcomed on his arrival at Dagupan. Mere than two thousand five hundred persons have been baptized. In view, of the protest of the parish against the appointment of a friar as parish priest, Mgr. Chapelle did not attempt to make it. NVAnRING FOR BRYAN. Filipinos Trying: to Assist the Popocratlc Candidate. "WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S. Further proof that the fighting In the Philippines is continued in the interest of W. J. Bryan and his followers Is found in copies of the Filipinos Ante Europa, published in Madrid, and Just received here. Printed in large type on the first page of the paper, and double-leaded, is the following: "Sensational notice, just received. "As this number goes to press, we have received an official communication from the assembly of the Philippine government of an important resolution to suspend hostilities without, however, surrendering arms, as noon as the notice la made of the election of Mr. Bryan to the presidency of the United States, in order to thus demonstrate that the Filipinos have never thought to fight against the-great North American republic, but only defend themselves from the, imperialists; however, if. unfortunately, Mr. McKinley should be reelected the war will be continued for four years more, or during the period during which he eerves again as President, unless he should meanwhile recognize our independence. "O God! does thy Justice require that this poor little Filipino land be subjected to another four years of hard trial? Give ua then strength to support it, and gufflcicnt shame that we may not cowardly surrender to our powerful fnemles." It is believed here that th publication was Inslpred by Bryan'u supporters in the

belief that it might be helpful in his campaign. In any event this frank statement of the attitude of the Filipino insurgents establishes the close bond of sympathy be

tween them and tho Democratic candidate for President. REPORTER IN A PULPIT. He Discusses the Ethical Side of the Newspaper Business. MILWAUKEE, "Wis., Oct. 2S.George F. Grassie. a reporter on the staff of one of the Milwaukee daly newspapers, occupied tho pulpit of Plymouth Congregational Church, in which he discussed the "ethical side of the newspaper business, or the philosophy of the press." Mr. Grassle's sermon was in reply to one delivered by the regular pastor of the church, the Rev. JudBon Titsworth, on "What a Preacher Thinks of a Newspaper.' The preacher thought the newspaper was influenced by too much commercial Eplrit, and thought the timo was soon coming when the editor would be guided by a more altruistic spirit, and then the influence of his paper, already great, would be greater. Mr. Grassie started out by quoting several passages from the Bible, coupling with them the words "Know thyself." In learning to know himself man must learn to know everything which in any way influences his life, the speaker contended, and it was within the province of the newspaper to teach a man to know himself by printing tho news and everything that was true news. In brief Mr. Grassie said: "It Is the duty of the newspaper to help the average citizen to know himself, to interest him in what Is going on about him, to give him just enough goodness and Just enough badness, Jost enough religion and just enough atheism, just enough spirituality and just enough pugilism, to keep him interested, and to thus make him know himself and. Incidentally, sell the paper." FRENCH PROGRAMME POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT OUTLINED BY NVA L.D ECK-ItO L'S S E A V. Statement Made at Tolnonse In Anticipation of the Reassembling of the National Parliament. EXPOSITION WAS A BENEFIT BECAT7SE IT GAVE THE PUBLIC TE3IPORARY INTERNAL PEACE. Position of the Conntry Abroad Strengthened ly Refusal to Abdiente Any "of Our Rights." PARIS, Oct. 29. M. Waldeck-Rousseau yesterday delivered at Toulouse the anxiously awaited speech outlining the policy and programme of the government in anticipation of tho reassembling of Parliament. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone of the new barracks there. The premier left Paris on Saturday and arrived at Toulouse yesterday morning. He was received by the mayor, senators and deputies of the department and other offlclals. The city was gayly decorated, and the populace cheered M. WaldeckRousseau, although a few dissentient voices were heard. The archbishop of Toulouse and generals of the army corps delivered addresses, assuring the premier, In behalf of the clergy and the army, of respect for him and attachment to tho republic. Replying to the assurances of the generals, M. Waldeck-Rousseau said: "The army awakens too many hopes not to be cherished by the country. We are too jealous of the future of the army not to strive to have France not merely follow the progress of other nations, but to outstrip them. Wo are sure that the army will respond to these efforts by devoting Itself entirely to its noble task, and will leave no place In its ranks or divisions which enly weaken It." The laying of the cornerstone took 'place in the afternoon. M. Waldeck-Rousseau reserved his principal effort for the banquet which followed the ceremony. This was given by the municipality in an ancient Jacobin convent, where the dining hall was decorated with the tri-color. Devoting the principal part of his speech to answering criticisms, he said he had not replied before because the Cabinet had received the widest and clearest mandate, because it was time to act, and not time to talk, and because he and his colleagues looked to the Chamber of Deputies alone for approbation or censure of their conduct. Alluding to the great demonstration of mayors in Tarls, which he described as "the most striking consecration any regime has ever received," he said that France had in this way shown how little she was moved by biased accusations against the Ministry. Referring to the support which the Socialists had given the government, he remarked that the government desired the support of "those who, having served the republic, are better entitled to defend her than those who have opposed her." Proceeding to sketch the gloomy situation that existed when the Cabinet took office "with agitation Increasing and nationalism engaging In dally battles with the police" he said that to face the condition of things a sincere concentration of Republicans was brought about, "yet not by conceding to each member of the Cabinet something which separated him from the others, but by excluding everything that tended to division and retaining all that tended to unity. It is said," he continued, "that we are leading the country to ruin, when really it would be only an exaggeration to fay that we have saved her from ruin." Going on to discuss the. government programme he said it did not Include collectivism, but that this did not signify that the policy of republican union excluded social reforms. He spoke of the success of the government in suppressing gystions, adding that the country might hope, during the present calm, to see marks of sincere repentance on the part of the antiRepublicans. Alluding to what he described as the "last act of the poignant Dreyfus drama," hp said the Judgment was given in com plete independence, and that the decision remained respected, but that, at the Fame time, humanity had found satisfaction in a "measure of clemency that has been rati iled by the generous heart of our great country, which awakens at last." Ho announced that he would ask the Chamber of Deputies, as he hud already a?ked the (CONTINUED ON SECOND PAQE.

CASH IS SCARCE

CHINA'S EMPEROR AND DOWAGER EMPRESS SHORT OF MONEY. Their Agents Trying to Collect Funds in the Southern and Central Provinces. MORE FOREIGNERS IN PERIL TEN MISIONARIES STILL EN DANDANGER ED AT CH EN-TE N-F lT. Eleven Americans nnd Four Britons 3Iasacred at Pao-Tlng-Fu by tle Boxers. TWO MORE HEADS DEMANDED EXECUTION OF YI AND YING NEIN REQUESTED BY THE ALLIES. Anglo-German Agreement Reported to Have Been Finally Accepted by France and Russia. LONDON. Oct. 29.-The Chinese imbroglio Is in a state of stagnation. Shanghai sends renewed rumors that the court from SI-Nan-Fu Is sending agents to collect funds in the southern and central provinces. Advices from Pao-Ting-Fu give harrowing accounts of the sufferings of missionaries at the hands of Boxers, and it Is reported that fen missionaries are still at Cheng-Ten-Fu. The correspondent of the Morning Post at Pao-Ting-Fu, wiring Oct. 20, says: "The Boxers declare that the provincial treasurer has ordered them to kill all foreigners. He allowed eleven American and four British to be massacred." Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times from Feking under date of Oct.-26, says: "The foreign ministers, in conference to-day, decided to add the names of Prince Yl and Ying NIen to those of tho seven officials whose execution France has demanded. It is said that the commander of the alllecl troops at Fao-Ting-Fu has arrested the provincial treasurer, who was chiefly responsible for the Ill-treatment of the rescued missionaries." . The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Express claims to have authority for the statement that when peace is restored Russia will hand back to Its owners the railway from Tong-Fu to Nlu-Chwang. Another dispatch from St. "Petersburg says: "The Russian sappers, who were employed to dig out and destroy the mines at Mukden, official dispatches say, found the whole district mined, and It was only the unexpected arrival of the Russians that prevented wholesale destruction. A special commission was appointed to investigate. The advices also say that the provincial treasurer escaped, and that the Chinese guerrillas had been looting extensively, their booty Including the Manchu throne, extensive libraries, collections of pictures and colossal archaeological objects, all of great value." The semi-official Politische Corresponded, of Vienna, asserts that France and Russia, after discussion, have decided to accept the Anglo-German agreement. Will Not Interfere with Russia. BERLIN, Oct. 28. The Berliner Post publishes to-day an Inspired article devoted to showing that the Anglo-German agreement will in no way interfere with Russia's Interests In Manchuria. "If England had not arrived at an agreement with Germany," says the Post, "she would have been compelled to do so with Russia. This would have been a serious blow to German trade. Germany, in her capacity of an honest broker, has served Russian interests." UNION SERVICES. Exercises in Memory of Mlslonarlcs A ho Were Slain In China. NEW YORK, Oct. 2S. A union service In memory of the Presbyterian missionaries, who were killed at rao-Ting-Fu on June 30 last, was held to-day at the Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church. The missionaries so remembered were George Yardley Taylor, M. D., Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Hodge, M. D., and Mrs. Hodge, and the Rev. and Mrs. Frank E. Simcox and their three little children. J. Asplnwall Hodge, Jr., of this city, a cousin of the late Dr. Hodge was present at the service. Five Presbyterian clergymen took part In the exercises the Rev. Dr. George T. Purves, pastor of the church, the Rev. Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, the Rev. Dr. George Alexander, the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, one of the secretaries of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, and the Rev. Maltby D. Babcock. . THE OEINOCO CONCESSION. Minister Looinin Replies to Criticism as to Ilia Nonaction. SPRINGFIELD, O., Oct. 2S.-Francls B. Loomis, minister to Venezuela, is here visiting at the home of Mrs. Loomis, and will remain till the latter part of next month. Referring to a dispatch from Minneapolis, In which it was stated by an employe of the Orinoco Company that a concession conveying the right of that corporation to exploit ten million acres of land in Venezuela had been annulled through the failure of the American legation to protest against hostile action on the part of the Venezuelan government, Mr. Loomis said to-night: "The official of the Orinoco Company who criticises the American legation at Caracas is under a misapprehension as to the usages sactioned by international law and the functions of diplomatic officers. The trouble between the Orinoco Company and the government arises from di?putes as to the construction of a contract. There can be no action on the part of the United States legation In contractual claims till a denial of justice In the courts of that country has taken place. This affair of the Orinoco Company has never in any way been brought to the attention of the legation, and when it Is properly presented no proper effort will be spared to secure every Just and legal advantage for ihe Orinoco Company. There has never been a time in the history of the United States when the

legitimate Interests of Americans abroad were more zealously and effectively watched and guarded than they have been during the last three Tears." FOUR CHILDREN DROWNED.

Became Frightened AVIien Their Boat Fouled a Fish Net in the Bay. PORT CLINTON. O.. Oct. 2S.-A quadruple drowning occurred near Plaster Bed on Sandusky bay, eight miles cast cf here, this afternoon. The drowned are: Douglass Stark, aged three; George Stark, aged five; Alfred Stark, aged eight: Henry Stark. agM thirteen. They were the children of William Stark. Mr. Stark and the children went for a boat ride this evening. On returning to shore the boat became fouled in a fish net and the oarsmen could not cither forge the boat ahead or go back. The children became frightened and, leaning over the side of the small craft, it capsized, resulting In the four deaths by drowning. ' Mi Stark came here from Toledo three weeks ago. He then had a family of a wife and ten children. Last week Harvey, aged four, died, and the week before another child, aged three months, also died. Drowned In Lake Washington. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 2S. Terry Carr, a son of R. O. Carr and brother of E. M. Carr, of this city, and Clark C. Carr, son of Gen. Clark E. Carr, of Galesburg, ill., were drowned in Lake Washington to-day while duck hunting, from a canoe. D0WIEITES DEPORTED. Ttto More Disciples of ZIon Run Ont of Mansfield. MANSFIELD, O., Oct. 2S. Deacon Kessler and Elder R. N. Bouck, Dowleltes, were forcibly deported to-day by the police. Bouck had been here nearly a week and held services. He objected to being put on the train, and had to be dragged out of the station and put aboard. MANY ARE PERISHING NATIVES OF THE ALASKAN COAST DYING OF A STRANGE PLAGUE. Ilex. John B. Rene's Account of the Epidemic and Efforts of Missionaries to Relieve Suffering. SIXTY DEAD AT HOLY CROSS AND NUMEROUS UNFORTUNATES AT OTHER FARAWAY PLACES. Over Twenty Million Dollars Worth of Gold Dnst Received at Seattle This Year. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.. Oct. '28. A special to the Times from Dawson, Oct. 11, via Tacoma, Oct. 28, says: "Recitals of the suffering of the plague-stricken natives of Siberian and Alaskan coasts and the lower Yukon by travelers who reached Dawson two weeks ago picture these mortals living in awful misery, that may be compared with that of the disease and famine-burdened people of India. Graphic pictures of the sufferings of a small part of the stricken on the lower Yukon, which will serve as a sample of the misery In which these people drag out an existence of affliction on the American continent, Is given by the Rev. John B. Rene, in charge of the Catholic missions and churches of Alaska, who has arrived at Dawson en route from the mouth of the Yukon to his headquarters In Juneau. He says: 'The condition of the natives is so miserable that one might say death would be a relief to them. On entering the tent one gee3 a man, his wife and three or four children and a number of infants and other natives, lying on a thin mat on the damp ground, all prostrated and afflicted by the plague. All aro coughing up blood. To aggravate their misery all the sufferers are wet day and night. The disease is a kind of Infectious la grippe or complication of influenza, measles and typhoid fever. "A sample of the solemn work performed and of the awful Invasion of the death angel and the sorrowing path that he leaves is drawn by Father Rene, when he describes the work performed at the Holy Cross mission by his people. He says: 'By the end of July there were sixty-nine Indians afflicted with the plague at Holy Cross and vicinity. Our Catholic fathers and mothers did all they could to relieve the distress. Father Parodl was busy giving medicine,- and another father was employed all day giving spiritual comfort and preparing for the worst. A third priest. Father Crotowas engaged In burying tho dead. He had six funerals in one day. Sixty died at Holy Cross alone. There were sixty children in the mission at Holy Cross, all of which were more or less afflicted, but good care prevented all but ten In the school from dying. Sister Mary Josephine, of Sacred Heart, who had been suffering from heart disease, overtaxed herself In her mercy work for the natives and died. The government furnished some assistance to the suffering natives, but It was inadequate, and now, with the approach of winter, the prostrated Indians find themselves without their customary rations of food from fishing and the chases, and the closing chapter in the tragedy is the coming of the keen winter.' " The lower Yukon has lost many natives at various places, but on the Behring sea coast they went by entire villages on the Alaska coast and on the Siberian side. Sheldon Jackson reports that half of the population succumbed. OVER TWENTY MILLIONS. Value of Gold Dust Received at the Seattle Assay Office This Year. SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 2$. A total of $20,ieW,CS7 worth of gold dust and bullion has been received at the Seattle assay office during the present year. Following are official figures showing the amount of gold dust and bullion received between Jan. 1 and Oct. 24, J&00: Number of deposits, 6.C2S; ounces of gold and bullion, 1.213.163.SS; total value of same. J20.1GÖ.-CS7.51-The aggregation of this total, lowing the districts the gold comes from, is: Alaska Cape Nome. T2.710.C7.01; other Alaskan points, $!62.K3.21. Total Alaska, $i,173.S2).S2. British Columbla-Atlln. $133.116.27: Yu- " (CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE.)""

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AND IT LEAVES NO HOPE FOR JEN NIE HOSM'IICITKirS SLAYERS. Statement Made by Dr. Thompson Concerning His Connection with the Patcrson Tragedy, WAS AWAKENED AT 2 A. II. AND REQUESTED TO SEE A GIRL WHO HAD BEEN INJURED. Found n Young Woman in a Carriage, Examined Her nnd Suit that Life Had Fled. NO DELAY IN INVESTIGATION i GRAND JURY TO PROBE THE CASE AND RETURN INDICT3IENTS. Social Conditions of Patcrson Said to Be Shocking Factory Girls the Prey of Designing Men. NEW YORK, Oct2S. It Is now raid In Paterson, N. J, that the present grand jury will take up the inquiry Into tho death of Jennie Bosschieter, for whose murder McAlistcr, Death, Campbell and Kerr are confined in jail. Whereas statements have appeared tending to rhow that there would be likely to be a delay by the 'authorities, it is now given out that the investigation is to be pushed vigorously. Dr. Townscnd. who refused to arpear on tho witness stand yesterday, will appear at the Inquest next Tuesday night. His reason for not answering the subpoena was an order from the authorities to testify regarding the visit of ths prisoners to him on the night of the murder. Dr. Townscnd now snakes the following statement of tho midnight call, and his connection with the case. "It has beep stated that tho four men made two calls at my office and that the girl was alive when the carriage first arrived. They came but once, and it was then too late to render aid to the uufortanate. I am positive of the exact time, of their arrival because when the bell rang at the head of the bed I looked at the clock on the mantel and saw it was 2 o'clock. Through tho speaking tubo I inquired the cause of the summons and was told that there had been an accident, and was asked to come at once. Through the tubo I asked particulars, and was met with tho word that tho patient wis In a carriage at the door. It was cold, but I waited only to don a bath robe and went down stairs. "When the door was opened two men vhom I knew as George Kerr and Walter McAlIster shoved me aside and quickly stepped inside. Then I was told that a young woman had been hurt, and both men declared that they would carry her in. But without further parley I brushed psst them and went out to the carriage. It was a two-seated vchlclo that I had often seen at the Erie station. I did not see the hackman. There were two men standing at the curb near the door of tho carriage. I knew Campbell by sight. Insido the carriage on a rear seat a young woman was half seated, half lying across the back of the seat. Her head lay Eldeways across her breast. I lifted her head and laid 'it back gently. It was limp and lifeless. Th clothing was disarranged, the hair hanging about her neck and shoulders. Her waist had been loosened and only the two top buttons of the waist were buttoned. There was no pulse. The heart beat had been stilled. THE YOUNG MEN ALARMED. When I climbed Into the vehicle to make a closer examination four men gathered at the side of the carriage. Their faces were white. The body was cold. 'Boys,' I said to them, T can do nothing; she is dead.' Thry seemed to draw back and were all together when I stepped within the door and left them In conierence at the curb. It was five minutes after 2 o'clock when I returned up stairs." Dr. Townscnd said the men had Insisted that the woman should be taken Into his office, even after she was pronounced dead. Early the next day he saw the account of the finding of tho body of Jennie Bosschleter near Wagraw bridge. During his examination of the young woman in the carriage it had been too dark to distinguish the features, and tho -circumstances of the position of the body with the gash In the back of the head and the fractured skull reported In the autop?y added to the mystery. On Friday afternoon he decided to peek the advice of professional friend?, who were made acquainted with the full details. "When it appeared that the ca?es ?ro identic.?.! the authorities were notified. Dr. Townwnd visited the chief of police and gave th information in his possession, and the arrest of Sculthorpe, Kerr, McAlister, Death and Campbell followed. The horrible social conditions In the city which have been brought before the public by the murder of Jennie Bosschleter are yet hardly appreciated. Only yesterday Ella N. Dealing, matron of the Florence Crittenton Mission for Girls, made the astounding statement that within the last eighteen months 150 half-grown girls and women, victims of the immoral conditions, have been received In the mission. She also said that the names of the four prisoners were familiar to her a long time before the story of the v'.eath of Jennie Bosch!eter was made public. "We have teen doing yeoman work here in this mission," the said. "But a certain class of men here have bien working faster than we could work, and as a result we sometimes feel that our work Is hopeless. I am now in communication with several philanthropic leaders here and plans are making for an organized effort to stamp cut an evil that has wrecked the lives of so many of our girls." Another young woman comes forward and adds her testimony to that of the five who yesterday told of being drugged by McAlister and bis crew. She is Il.s Emma Beck. Two years ago she became acquainted with young McAlister. She said to-day: "lie look me to a circus. I refused to enter a roadhou$e v. Ith him. nn1 he brought me Out a. k!?es of soda water. It must have been drugged, for I became tick after drinking it. I repelled his advances, and, sick as I was, got off the car and returned homo alone. As I got off a car in front of Kent's drug store, on Mala

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