Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1901.

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counties in IouIsiana. with a population of .ö.N!j. received only ZJ'A votes; ami, "Whtrt-as. It Is i. matUr of common rumor that other States have, for reasons oi her than tt!oc specified In the Constitution of the. I'nlted Stat-Js. denied to some fi their male inhabitants twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, the right to vote for members of Congress and electors lur iTcsident, a well as executive and Judicial otticers of sail iStute and members oi the legislatun a thereof, and no reduction has been made la the representation of any State in this House because of such denial; and, Whereas. The President of the United States has. by-message, recommended "That the Congress, at its present session, apportion the representation amonK the several Stales as provided by the Constitution, therefore, "Resolved. Section 1. That the committee on census shall be, and is authorized and required, either by full committee or such uD-ommlttee or subcommittees as may 1- appointed by the chairman thereof, to inquire, examine and report m what States the rlsht to vote at any election for the choke of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers ef a State, or the members of the legislatures thereof. Is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such States, twenty-one years of age and citizens of the Lnlted States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, and the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age In each such State." CHEATED A SENSATION. The resolution created a sensation. It .was a surprise even to several of the Republican leaders. The leaders on the Democratic side sought In vain to head of the resolution with points of order, but the speaker ruled against them. They then began a filibuster, openly avowing that they would tight every proiosltioii locking to the reduction of representation from the Southern States to the bitter end. Several of the Republicans were secretly la sympathy with them, and their indifference to the fate of the Olmstead resolution in the end gave the opposition the victory of the day. Many of them quietly paired with absent Democrats, leaving their atsent colleagues unpaired. As a result, when the question of consideration was raised against the resolution, it was defeated fcl to H3. The vote was a strict party one. Two Republicans Landis, of Indiana, and Mann, of Illinois answered present, but did not vote. The story of the defeat in found In the absentees on both sides who were unpaired. Thirty-two Republicans were absent and unpaired against sixteen of the opposition. Those absent and unpaired were: Republicans lioutelle of Maine, Brosius. Brown, liurkett, Calderhead, Clark of New Hampshire, Dahle. Samuel Davenport, Dick, Fowler, Gardner of New Jersey, Hawley. Hoffecker, Knox, Needham, OtJen. Parker, -Prince, Russell. ' Showalter, Smith of Illinois, Sprague. Stevens of Minnesota, Wcdswerth and Wager. Democrats Barber of Pennsylvania, Bradley of New York. Brewer, Caldwell, Catchlngs, Gaston, Gayle, Glynn, Levy, May Meeklnson, Shephard. Stallings, Wilson of South Carolina, and Zeigler. Silver Republican Wilson, of Idaho. The situr.'loii with reference to the apportionmen; bill is greatly complicated as a result of the injection of the Olmstead resolution. Chairman Hopkins, . however, is confident of victory for his bill. He thinks the Olmstead resolution may pass In a full House and investigation may be made, but that the matter will end there. Irrespective of the fate of the resolution, however, he will press the reapportionment bill and thinks it will pass on Monday. If possible he will displace private bill day to-morrow with his measure. Another resolution on the representation

question was introduced by Mr. Shattuc, oft Ohio, it follows: "Whereas. In order that the apportionment of membership of the House of Representatives may be determined In a Constitutional manner, therefore be it "Resolved, By the House of Representatives that the director of the census be directed to furnish this House at the earliest possible moment the following information: First, the total number of male citizens of the United States over twentyone years of age In each of the several States of the Union; second, the total number of male citizens of the United States over twenty-one years of age who by reason of state constitutional limitations or state legislation are denied the right of suffrage, whether such denial exists on account of illiteracy, on account of pauperIsm, on account of polygamy or on account of property qualifications or for any other reason. "Resolved further. That the speaker of the House of Representatives be authorized and directed to appoint a select committee of five members who shall investigate the alleged abridgment of the elective franchise for ..any of the causes mentioned in all the States of the Union In which constitutional or legislative restrictions on the right of suffrage are claimed to exist; said eommittee shall be authorized to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths to witnesses and to have hearings at such places as in the Judgment of the commlt1ee the desired Information can best be had. The committee is also authorized to employ a stenographer and such other clerical and expert assistance as it may lcem necessary. The expenses of the investigation to b? paid out cf the contingent fund of the House of Representatives over vouchers signed and approved by the chairman of said committee." DEBATE ON THE RESOLUTION. Sir. Olmstead Upheld by the Speaker on the Question of Privilege. "WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. When the House reassembled to-day. after the holiday recess, not more than seventy-five members were present. It had been arranged before the .House met that the consideration of the reapportionment bill was to be enFAIR WEATHER PROBABLE. Warmer, Except In Extreme Southern Portion of Indiana. WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-Forecast for Friday and Saturday: For Ohio Fair on Friday, except possibly snow flurries along the lake; warmer in northern portion; winds becoming southerly, fresh to brisk along the lake. Saturday fair, except possibly snow flurries along: the northeastern lake shore. For Indiana Fair on Friday; warmer, except In extreme southern portion: southerly winds, becoming southwesterly and fresh to brisk on the lake. Saturday fair. For Illinois Fair, except occasional snows near the lke; warmer in northvesiern and central portions, winds becoming westerly and brisk on the lake. Saturday fair. Local Observation on Tlinrsday. Rar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre 7a.m..3rs n s, N'east. Clear. 0.00 7p.ra..: 30.32 2U 62 S'east. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature. 31; minimum tcm perature. 10. Following Is a comparative statement of tne temperature ana precipitation Jan. 3: Temp. Pre normal 2n oio Mean 22 0.W Iieparture irom normal a n m Departure elnce.Jan. 1 u o.CO C. F. R. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecast OfflelaL Yesterday's Temperatures.

Stations. MIn. Max. 7 p.m. 'Atlant:!. Ga 'M 4 40 Bismarck. N. D S o i Buffalo, N. V 10 22 16 Calvary, N. W. T 26 14 16 Chicago 12 2S 26 Cairo, 111 CO 40 N ss Cheyenne. Wyo 4 43 so Cincinnati 16 34 22 Concordia, Kan IS 44 3G Davenport, la 10 31 30 Pes Moines. Ia 12 ?.? 3 Galveston. Tex 40 54 S2 Helena. Mont 10 8 1) J.icksomll'.e. FI 41 12 41 Kansas City. Mo 13 .42 3S Uttle Reek. Ark 34 41 42 Varqtiftte, Mich 0 JJ 15 .Merr.phls, Tenn 25 42 40 Nashville. Tcnn 2'J 43 S6 New Orleans 4') .. 50 New York 12 2 North Platte, Neb 0 42 24 Oklahoma. (. T 30 41 y Omaha, Neb p; 4) 3$ Tittshurg ., 14 . " Qu Appelle, N. W. T....22 IS llfixM City. S. D 6 "C fHlt T-ake City, Utah.... 22 m 4G Ft. Tu!s IS Z 34 Ft. Paul. Minn 0 2S it Fprtngfeld. Ill S 21 is FprlnjrfieM. Mo IS 41 34 Vlck"burg. Miss 32 f . 45 YAsMrjgton. D. C 20 SO 21 rlow zero. A

tered upon to-day. Immediately after the leading of the Journal, Mr. Olmstead, Pennsylvania, sprung his surprise. The reading of the resolution caused a flurry on th Democratic hide. Before it had proceeds far Mr. Kichardson, of Tennessee, the minority leader, jumped to hi. feet and interrupted the reading to as: whether the resolution required unanimous consent. "It does not," replied the speaker. "It is offered as a matttr of privilege." "I make the point thit the resolution dees not constitute a matter of privilege," said Mr. Richardson. "The reading has proceeded far enough to determine that po.nt," responded the speaker Mr. Kichardson took his seat, but before the clerk could proceed Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, was on his feet. "I make the point that there is no quorum present," said he. The speaker glanced about the House. Evidently there was no quorum present "The chair will count," he said. The House was counted and when the speaker announced HI present not a quorum Mr. Underwood Immediately moved an adjournment. The yeas and

nays were demanded and obtained on tnis motion. During the roll call there were hurried consultations. Many of the Republicans were taken as much by surprise as the Democrats. The latter were greatly agitated, and decided to filibuster against th? resolution to the last ditch. The motion to adjourn was lost 6J to l& answering pres ent, but not voting, 11; noted present, -'; total, 173. The speaker included himself in order to make up the quorum. The sneaker thereupon directed the cierK to proceed with the reading of the resolu tion. When It was concluded Mr. Richardtion aeain brouuht forward his point or crder that the resolution was not privi lege. . . . ... . Mr. Olmstead in reply argiea mai unuer th Constitution matters affecting the re-v apportionment of representatives were of the highest constitutional privilege, and cited opinions of SpeaketP Keif er and Randall in support of his position. The ilouse. he argued, could not act intelligently unless it was advised in what States and to what extent the suffrage of citizens of the United States had become abridged. Mr. Olmstead said the resolution touched the dignity of the House itself. If the suffrage had been abridged in certain States then members were unjustly and unconstitutionally holding seats upon the floor, and this constituted an invasion of the dignity of the House. The matter dealt with by the resolution might also affect the election of a President of the united states, a matter held to be a matter of hltrh privilege. But Mr. Olmstead was willing to rest his case upon the plain mandate of the Constitution. Mr. Richardson, responding, conceded that an apportionment bill was privileged, but contended that the resolution itself was fimply one of Inquiry to ascertain facts which might or might not be true. "The resolution clearly recites that in certain States suffrage had been abridged without reduction of representation," in terposed Mr. Olmstead. " 'Whereas makes such an allegation." replied Mr. Richardson, "but the resolution is simply one of Iniuiry." "How can we apportion cons titutionally. asked Mr. Mahon. of Pennsylvania, "if we do not know the facts? How can we ascertain the truth of the allegations that hundreds of thousands of citizens are disfranchised?" "An investigation can be made," replied Mr. Richardson, "but it must be made in the regular way." The speaker then announced that the question was clearly settled by Section 2 of Article 14 of the Constitution, whicn ho directed the clerk to read. It related to the reduction of representation In States vhere the suffrage was abridged. The reso lution and its preamble, the speaker said, alleged that certain conditions existed which the Constitution expressly prohibited, arid it must be passed upon by a higher rule than those of the House the Constitution of the United States. He said he never expected to pass upon a question more simple. He overruled the point of order. Mr. Underwood immediately raised the question of consideration against the resolution. On a rising vote it stood: yeas, 0; nays, 70. The yeas and nays were demanded and ordered. The speaker announced the vote 81 to consider the resolution, 83 against and 5 present but not voting not a quorum. He directed a call of the House, pending which Mr. Underwood again moved an adjournment, which was carried by 77 to 75, and accordingly at 2 o'clock the' House adjourned. PURIFICATION OF PARIS. Nearly 13,04M) Arrests of Drunken People and Vie ion Character. PARIS, Jan. 3. The sweeping police measures taken to purify Paris in conse quence of the alarming situation created 'by the closing of the exposition and the consequent throwing out of employment of thousands of people who were dependent on it for a living, and who in many cases were cast on the streets resulted in no fewer than 12,970 arrests during the month of December. The persons arrested Include six murderers, V2o thieves and footpads. 2.S70 tramps, 2,409 drunken people and 3.9S3 prostitutes. READY TO NEGOTIATE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) ies, shall have become a formal international agreement on the part of the powers at present engaged in this matter. NO LOOTING BY CHAFFEE'S MEN. Amerlean Troops Not Participating in "Punitive" Expeditions.. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-General Chaffee has cleared himself of any suspicion of participating in any of the looting expeditions which are said In some quarters to be going on in China, under the disguise of punitive expeditions. His report of the conditions under which he took his last excursion from Peking has been received at the War Department by cable from Peking. The officials here were surprised when they saw the press reports stating that the American troops in Peking, which were distinctly designated as legation guards, and as such were to have no part in ordinary military operations, had gone out into the country to co-operate with a German expeditionary force. From the nature of General Chaffee's cable gram it would appear that the ofllcials communicated with him on this subject ana invitea me explanation which is afforded in the following cablegram: "Colonel Theodore J. Wint returned Movement simply to verify rertort that Christians had been murdered and secure arrest guilty parties if allegation found true. Germans from Tien-Tsin had been in country. Take no part in offensive operations; patrol country between Pe king. Ho-Shi-Wu and Chang-KIawan. oc casionally, ior tne purpose or order. Missionaries 'Arraigned. LONDON, Jan. 4. The Dally Mall pub l'.shes a severe arra'gnment from Mr. Willard, a correspondent in Peking, of the European and American missionaries In China. Mr. Willard accuses them of urging the military to send expeditions to different points of the country ostensibly to protect native converts, but really to get an opportunity for wholesale looting. He de clares that the missionaries have had their snare in all the phases of loot, and eivrs the evidence of American officers. w;hose names he withholds, in support of his cnarges. tne whole going to show thnt in several cases American ofllcers declined to sanction. the urgings or the missionaries. Cnlla Wnldersee Ilmtal. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. S.-The Russian press either ignores the Chinese accept ance of the peace terms or affects skeptl clsm regarding Chinese sincerity. The Novoe Vremya calls Count Von Waldersee "a brutal ok -man." The Viadlvostock correspondent of the Novoe Vremya telegraphs that the Japanese and Russians ere fraternizing, the Japanese singing uussian songs. Prince Jaime de Rourbon. son of Don Carlos. t4ie Snanish tretender, whn f n lieutenant in the Russian imperial hussars and on the start or Vice Admiral Alexieff, has been sent to Nagasaki, suffering with lypnoiu lever. Mutiny on n Iln 1 1 Ienliip. HONG-KONG, Jan. 3.-Some trouble oc curred on board the British battle slip Barfleur, pwing to the stoppage of tin Christmas leaves. The men threw some o the gun sights over board, but it is no believed that the affair was serious, a! thouirh It is renorted that an omrer w as wounded and some forty men were plact t h under arrest. It is dlmcult to obtain t facts. The authorities pay the reports a exaggerated. An Investigation i procee lag. re

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GRAND JURY INQUIRY INTO AL LEGED HAMILTON COUNTY FRAUDS. No Illegalities Fonnd, Exeept rossibly In the Cuse of a Democratic Ronid In "Wayne Township. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLES VI LLE. Ind., Jan. 3. After being n session for about two weeks the grand Jury of Hamilton county adjourned today. It returned fifty-one Indictments, all of which were for minor violations f law. Most of the indictments were against saloon keepers. When the jury first met Judge Neal gave strong and urgent in structions for a thorough Investigation of all violations of law. He laid particular stress on the tally-sheet and other alleged election frauds, which Indianapolis papers had advertised to the world. No indict ment was returned for tally-sheet frauds. which exonerates County Clerk Horace Casey and the Republican party of this county. The trouble which caused the charges of fraud to be made all grew out of a bet between County Clerk Casey and Editor Isherwood, of the Democrat, of 1400 that Landis's plurality in this county would be 1,700. The plurality was 1,701, and Casey wen the bet. Isherwood and his Democratic friends immediately set up .a howl of fraud. A special Sentinel reporter came here and made a political mountain out of a mole hill, and the Indianapolis Independent papers followed suit, and made very serious charges against the Republicans of this county. In order to clear up the matter prominent Republicans urged and advised Judge Neal to call a special session of the grand Jury to investigate the charges. This Judge Neal did. and Instructed the jury to make a searching investigation and to spare no man guilty of crime. In regard to the tally-sheet frauds nothing was found, ex cept a few clerical errors that occur at all elections. It is understood, however. that among the indictments are four against persons of Wayne township for refusing to allow qualified voters to vote. At this preclnot the Democratic trustee of the township was Inspector and a ma jority of the board were Democrats. The grand jury was composed of some of the best men of the county, in whom the people have the utmost confidence for honesty and integrity. Composing this Jury were four Republicans and two Democrats. At the conclusion of its work the jury filed with the court the following report: "The grand jury would respectfully re port to and inform the court that it has diligently labored to perform its sworn duties without evasion, in accordance with law and pursuant to the general and particular instructions of the court, and that it has not sought to shield any person, but has tried to make the most careful Inquiry into all matters which it was their duty to investigate and consider." HITCH AT THE HAGUE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) fects than those obtained from pue solutions of chloride of sodium. "This fact is in no way a novelty, inasmuch as Professor Germain See put forward the same ideas in 1SG5 in a work on the blood. This had been somewhat forgotten by medical men, and Dr. Loeb has had the merit of having revived it. "To sum the matter up, when the blood is deteriorated or impoverished, it may bo given fresh vigor In some cases by a saline injection, but this will not give back life in the essential sense of the word. That is to say, the total amount of vital energy which each person possesses will not be augmented." French Ulshop "Warned. PARIS, Jan. 3. The Conseil D'Etat today rendered its decision in the case of the bishop of. Annecy, who had sustained the action of a curate of his diocese in refusing to assist at a funeral where Freemasons appeared with their Insignia. The bishop issued a notice to all the curates of the diocese that they at their discretion might decline to officiate at ceremonies where flags or purely secular banners were displayed. This was considered offensive to the government and the bishop's stipend was suspended. The decision warns the bishop that his course was not warranted, but it allows his stipend to continue. The result is unquestionably unsatisfactory to the government. Russinn Ambassador to Quit Paris. PARIS, Jan. 4. Le Siecle asserts that the Russian ambassador, Prince Ouroussoff, will shortly leave Paris for an unlimited holiday. A mysteriously worded note leaves it to be understood that the ambassador is lacking in some way In tact toward the government. "He is at perfect liberty to exercise his critical faculties on the subject of France," says Le Siecle, "but the government he represents has the exclusive right to know the results of his observations." Cr.pe to Cairo Expedition. " LONDON, Jan. 4. The Dally Telegraph's Cape to Cairo expedition has arrived at Khartum. Its members highly praise the promising work of the British South Africa Chartered Company and of the Sudan administration. The British African empire now arising, says the Daily Telegraph, will shortly stand as the crowning monument of a glorious reign. AVor Vessels In Collision. BREST, Jan. 3. The French gunboat Menhir collided In a fog this morning with the French torpedo" cruiser Fleuris at the entrance of the bay. The Fleuris was badly injured, having two deep rents in her port side. The use of collision mats enabled her to be towed into the harbor, where she was docked. Kruger Slightly Better. THE HAGUE. Jan. 3. Mr. Kruger wa disturbed during the night as a result of the slight attack of bronchitis, but he was better this morning. Reports are that the bronchitis Is following the normal course. Cahle Notes. The rice mills at Bremen have been organized into a syndicate with a capital of 4.CO0.ÜO0 marks. The appointment of Walter WTensky as German consul at Dawson City is announced at Berlin. Experiments will b made on the street cars of Berlin with Providence, St. Louis and Hunter fenders. John Alexander Dowle. the faith healer, has sailed for the United States on the Cunard ilner Saxonia. The business of the Berlin postofilce on New Year's day was double that -done Jan. 1. 1W0, IO.ISkOOO pieces having been mailed in Berlin for Berlin delivery. Additional failures were announced on the London Stock Exchange yesterday in ccnnectlon with the suspension of the London and Globe Finance Company, limited. They were those of A. S. May, A. II. Clark and G. Blundell. Jr. In addition to his donation of 5M.0OO marks to the workmen's invalid fund of the Krupp works, Herr Krupp has given 500,000 marks each to the otlicials pension fund and the fund for building laborers houses, making a total of 1,300,000 marks. Emperor William has ordered all universities, academies and other public institutions of learning 'in Prussia to celebrate Jan. IS, the bi-centennary of the foundation of the Prussian kingdom, omitting to celebrate his Majesty's birthday. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Iondon Times contlrms the reports of trouble among the students of the universities of St. Petersburg and Kleff. At the latter university 4 were expelled and will be sent into the army as private soldiers. "Reports from the Danish West Indies." says the Copenhagen corres;ondent of the London Times, "show u strong opposition to the sale of the islands to th United Slates. The question will probably le determined in the near future In the itlands themselves." The Berlin Voerwaerts, the Socialist organ, prints another Installment of "Sua

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painter, Herr Rochell. whom Emperor Wil liam sent to enma, on tne sian 01 count on aldersee. to nalnt striking scene3 during the operations. The German Jingo papers continue to attack the government for what they call it anglophiic policy. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung, discussing the Anglo-Portuguese relations, remarks: "England has acquired two allies at a very cheap price. Or.e is Portugal and the other Is Germany." The Rhine-Hessian Wine Dealers' Asso ciation, recently formed, has forwarded to Count Von Buclow, German Imperial chan cellor, a document approving the prohibi tion of artificial wine making, but decidedly objecting to government control over cellars. Other) wine dealers are making similar objections. Besides the three principal claims against Morocco previously settled, Morocco has agreed to pay for Germany 4l72 duros on account of other claims, and to comply with her other demands. The "duro" is the term applied to the former Spanish tllver dollar, a coin about equal in value to the United States dollar. Trince Henry, of Prussia, Emperor William's brother, has begun work in the German Foreign Office. Foreign policies will form the lirst subject of his study and later he will pursue his investigations among the various domestic ministries. Crown Prince Frederick William will soon begin to acquaint himself with the state of affairs in the ministries. A quarrel ha3 broken out in the Munich Art Society over the right of extraordinary members to vote at the society meetings. Herr Franz Von Lentsch. president of the society, and other leading painters favor giving them the voting privilege, but thej' were outvoted, whereupon they resigned. Herr Von Lentsch declares that he will probably settle In Berlin. Herbert D. Pierce, secretary of the United States embassy at St. Petersburg, has gone to The Hague to deliver to the United States minister to The Netherlands, Stanfcrd Newell, the voluminous documents composing the American case In the Rus-sc-American seal controversy, the preparation of which has engrossed Mr. Pierce's attention for several months. Emperor William, with Count Von Buelow and many high military officers as his guests, went to Hamburg yesterday to visit the Viktoria Luiz, his yacht All the vessels in the harbor and adjacent buildings were gay with flags. His Majesty breakfasted on board the yacht with his guests, and during the afternoon sailed rrcund the harbor and took a view of the Deutschland. MAIL S1EAHER WRECKED. Another Casualty in Alaskan "Waters, with Possible Loss of Life. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 3. The mall steamer Guy, plying on Lynn canal, was wrecked two miles below Skagway, Dec. 22. It is believed Captain Dickinson and crew, consisting of the engineer, purser and cook, attempted to make their way to Haines Mission in a small boat. As they did not arrive there it seems certain they were drowned. A storm was raging at the time. The Frolic Lost Her Foretopmast. BERMUDA, Jan. 3. The United States warships Annapolis. Frolic, Womapatuck and Piscataqua anchored in St. George's harbor shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. They left Norfolk, Va., at noon on Sunday last on their way to Manila, and had very stormy weather on Monday, during which the Frolic lost her foretop mast. During Tuesday and Wednesday the warships had fine weather. They will stay here for four or five days, as they have to coal and take on some fresh provisions. 3Iovenents of Steamers. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Arrived: California, from Glasgow; Manheim, from Copenhagen. Sailed: La Gascogne, for Havre; Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, for Bremen, via Cherbourg and Southampton; Oldenburg, for Bremen. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 3. Arrived: Montfort, from St. John, N. B.. and Halifax, for Liverpool. Sailed: Lake Superior, for Halifax and St. John, N. B.; Germanic, for New York, both from Liverpool. LIVERPOOL. Jan. .3 Arrived: Rhynland. from Philadelphia. Sailed: Pennland, for Philadelphia. ANTWERP. Jan. 3. Arrived: Switzerland, from Philadelphia. TRUSTS TO END A WAR. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) tie should end. But of one thing you may be certain Mr. Arbucklo will not give up the refining of sugar, nor will Mr. Havemeyer get out of the cofTee business. " 'How could a truce be brought about, then? he was asked. "Only by an agreement, I believe, was the reply. "The output of the Arbuckles refining plant would bo limited to a stipulated amount.' " PLOW COMPANIES MAY COMBINE. Proposed Corporation that May lie Capitalized at ?C3,000,000. CHICAGO, 111.. Jan. 3. The Chronicle tomorrow will say: "The combination of plow companies, of which there have been rumors for two or three days, will be launched next week, with a capitalization of $(3,000,000. Chicago men who have been prime movers in the preliminary negotiations stated yesterday that all obstacles to the consummation of the deal had been removed. Charles R. Flint, president of the United States Rubber Company, is the reputed financial power behind the combination, but it Is said the presidency of the company will go to a Western millionaire of practical experience In the manufacture of plows. Thirty-one firms are said to have agreed to enter the new concern, which "will probably be called the American Plow Company. The promise Is that the combine will be able not only to reduce the price of plows to the farmer, but also will turn into its own treasury a proiit greater by $5.000.000 or more than the total at present accruing to the manufacturers under their expensive methods of securing trade. Headquarters of the new company will be either In New York or Chicago. The Chicago end of the negotiations about to be concluded cover a period of three years, and have been conducted principally by F. M, Pease. He will start for New York to-day and as he is known to have agreements with the manufacturers essential to the closing of the transaction, it is supposed he will carry the papers whose signing will be preliminary to the incorporation of the company under the laws of New Jersey." IN CAPE COLONY. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) he hoped at the end of the war to be ablo to divide the remaining stock among the various sufferers. No one, he promised, would be sent out ot the country, but all who had fought fairly, including the leaders, would receive tho consideration due their rank. He advised the formation of local subcommittees to send out agents to the Boer commandoes, explaining that they could communicate through the central committee and the military governor, and could also come to fee him personally, if necessary. Lord KItchner bade them tell their iriends what they had heard him say, and assured them that they could place the most absolute reliance on his giving effect to it. The committee, which included General Crcnje's brother, cordially thanked Lord KItchner, and promised to print the speech in Dutch and to circulate it everywhere. Since the meeting orders have been issued against burning farmhouses, unless i should be proved that the actual Inhabitants had committed misdeeds. The first districts cleared under Lord Kltchner's plan were Jagersfontein and Fauresmlth, whose inhabitants were laagered at Fauresmlth. Rlsr Will FlKht In Prospeet. CINCINNATI, Jan. 3. At Nashville yesterday, after probating the will of millionaire Samuel Murphy, his widow, Anna H. Murphy, appeared in court and adopted Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Felder, thus making them Jhe heirs to the millions which were left to the widow. The late Dr. John A. Murphy, of Cincinnati, was a brother of Samuel Murphy, who also formerly resided here. The widow of Dr. John A. Murphy still resides here, and It was expected that her two daughters would become the heirs of Samuel Murphy. These three retained eminent counsel to-day and v.ill seek to break the will and to tet aside tho adoption of Mr. and Mra. Felder.

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HOT FROM THE "WIRES AND SERVED WITHOUT TRIMMINGS. A Little of EierythliiR, and Certain to Please the Palates of Readers Who Like Facts Cut to the Roue. A change for the worse was reported yesterday in the condition of General Richard M. Bachelder, formerly quartermaster of the army. The first cargo of American coal for Russian warships cleared Norfolk, Va.. in the British steamship Ferdine, for Port Arthur, jesterday. Senator Chauncey De pew. who ha3 been indisposed since Friday at his home in New York, from the grippe, was feeling better yesterday. Joseph Jefferson, the actor, has purchased a three-story apartment building in Chicago valued at $7.UO0. Mr. Jefferson paid $17,000 in cash and assumed a mortgage of $i0.000. William H. De Haas, a civil engineer in the employ of the United States Engineering Department at Pensacola, Fla. shot himself yesterday morning and died almost instantly. Edward T. Platt, elder son of United States Senator Piatt, has been elected general superintendent and manager of the United States Express Company. Senator Piatt is president. Duluth Is profiting by a cut-price flour war between local and Minneapolis millers. The price has fallen from $3.W per barrel wholesale to C.5U retail, though the price of wheat has advanced. At the close of yesterday's meeting of the directors of the United States Rubber Company in New York it was stated the board had decided to make a reduction in the price of manufactured goods. Former President Andrade, of Venezuela, who has been exiled since the last revolution, is at San Juan, Porto Rico. He expects to leave in the near future and It is believed he will join the Venezuelan insurgents. By the decision of Mr. Griggs, the United States attorney general, the term of the Porto RIcan Assembly will expire Jan. 31, Mr. Griggs pronouncing in favor of a sixty-day continuous session from Dec. 3. The Republic Iron and Steel Company has decided to ehgege in the manufacture of hoop iron and preparations are now being made to erect a hoop mill with a capacity of 100 to 150 tons per day in Youngstown, o. x The trustees of the Christian Church Association, in session at Dajton, O.. yestertias', accepted the resignation of Rev. W. D. Samuels as publishing agent and selected Rev. Jasper N. Hess, of East Chicago, as his successor. Commissioner of Charities John W. Keller, of New York, has suspended from duty Dr. John TV. Moore, who has been in charge of the insane pavilion and alcoholic ward, at Bellevue Hospital, for the last two months, on the ground of negligence. Emmett Phillips, aged forty years, a claim adjuster for the Kansas Southern Railroad, was found dead in a room in the Blossom House In Kansas City, Mo., last night. He had taken strychnine. He had been drinking heavily for several days. A rubber manufacturing company, with a capital of $1,000,000, will be established in Chicago to fight the rubber trust, according to Attorney Milton F. Foreman. Mr. Foreman says the company is to be known as the Western Rubber Shoe Company. More than 100 men have been confined to the hospital at the Brooklyn navy yard during the last week suffering from the grip. Col. R. L. Meade, commanding the barracks, and Capt. A. T. Marix and Lieut. Pickering are among the sufferers. A syndicate has been formed to control much of the slate output of the Bangor and Pen Argyl quarries in Pennsylvania. The companies in the "combine" are the Bangor, Excelsior, American and Star, in the Bangor region, and Alban at Pen Argyl. A mall sack containing a number of registered letters and valuable packages was stolen from the platform of the East Akron (O.) station of the Valley railroad Just before train time Wednesday night. A messenger placed it there to be thrown on board the mall train. The worst snowstorm since the winter of 1S89-90 throughout southern Oregon and northern California has raged during the last twenty-four hours. Telegraph and telephone communication has been paralyzed. The snow is from one foot to seven In depth. Trains are all behind time. The Jury in the case of Allen Andrews. Indicted at Masillon, O., in connection with the Dowieite riots last fall, returned a verdict, of guilty late yesterday. Andrews resisted the officer who was protecting the Dowieites. Others Indicted for participation In Dowieite riots will be tried. Morton Mortimer, actuary of the Provident Savings and Life Assurance Society, and John W. Von Klelk, assistant actuary of the same concern, who were arrested at New York last week on a charge of grand larceny, wrere held for the grand Jury yesterday. John Bazalnski, eighty-five years of age, and Bianipaer Genkinski, six months old, were found dead from asphyxiation at St. Anthony's Hospital, Chicago, yesterday. They slept in a room heated by a gas stove, which had become extinguished during the night without the flow of gas being stopped. A conference of steel plate manufacturers was held in New York yesterday to discuss an advance in the price of their product. It is understood the quotation will be increased 5 cents per 100 pounds. Steel rail manufacturers are expected to take action soon on the quotation of an advance In rails. An important meeting of the officials of the metal trades will be held In St. Louis on Jan. 15, for the purpose of arranging for a national movement next spring to establish a nine-hour working day. The trades interested are the machinists, pattern makers, core makers, brassworkers and boiler makers. - 1 Pittsburg capitalists will open at once a tract of 12,000 acres of coal land in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and build a railroad sixteen miles long from Clarion to Summervllle, on the Buffalo & Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The new line will cost $200,000 and will traverse a hitherto virgin territory. The new prices on window glass will not be announced either by the American Glass Company or by the new Independent organization until next week. The im1 resslpn Is growing at Pittsburg that the union' between the two big concerns has r.ot yet reached that stage at which a rerfect pool on prices is possible. About 73 per cent, of the striking structural steel workers of Pittsburg will go to work this morning at the new scale $.'! for a day of nine hours. The American Bridge Company acceded to the demands oi the men yesterday, and the union at a meeting last night declared the strike off so far as the "combine" is concerned. The 1,500 striking employes of the Louisville stemery of the Continental Tobacco Company decided last night to go back to work to-day. They will not get the increased wage? asked for, but their other demands, including abolition of docking and permission to leave the factory for dinner, were granted by the management. H. E. Webber, a well-to-do farmer, who lived near Lisbon, Me., blew himself to pieces Wednesday night. The head, arms and upper part of his body were found on top of the barn. Notes left by Webber Faid that the writer had decided to kill himself by exploding dynamite cartridges. He had been acting strangely for several weeks. After Jan. 24 the Pacific Mall is to handle all of its business between Central American and Mexican Pacific ports and New York and Europe by way of San Francisco and the Southern Pacific's New Orleans route. When extensive wharf facilities are completed at Guyamas, part of the business will be sent via that port and the Sunset route. Frank Tettlgrcw, son of United States Senator Pettigrew. of South Dakota, who has been ill at a Kansas City hospital since being assaulted recently by an usher in a theater. Is gaining strength rapidly, and will, it is said, be able to resume his journey to Arizona within a few days. Pettlgrew's right cheekbone, which was fractured, was reset. Much interest is taken at the City of Mexico in the case of George F. Topham, an American contractor, in prison at Tesultlan, for killing two Italian masons who were employed by him on the construction of the Santa Maria Railroad. The men tore down the arch work in the tunnels at night and it Is alleged plotted to kill Topham, who claims that he shot them in selfdefense. . At a mass meeting last night the coal miners at Erie, Col., decided to strike in sympathy with those already out at Loul-

vllle. Lafayette. Canfleld and Superior. Col. This completely ties up tho lignite fields of northern Colorado and makes the number of men on strike about 1,1 A coal famine threatens the district. The operators declare that they cannot grant the increased wages demanded. After an ali-day hearing of the case against Mayor Patterson, of Bismarck. N. D., who Is charged with connection with gambling resorts, Judge Winchester denied a motion to quash the charge. Motion for a change of venue was also denied. Attorney General Comstock. against whom the Prohibitionists made such a bitter fight in the last election, is prosecutor In the case against Mayor Patterson. The testimony of students In the inquest into the cause of deaths in the recent Stale Normal and Training School at Fredonia, N. Y., firo shows the lack of fire drills and instruction relative to the use of fireescapes. Principal Francis Palmer stated that in his opinion had Janitor Morns.

who perished, used the fire extinguisher he could have extinguished the blaze before it gained headway. If the present cold weather continues for another week Cheyenne, Wyo.. will have to submit to the inconveniences ami hardship of a coal famine. The lack of coal is due to the inability of the operators to fill orders. The order of "the government for over loü.tM) carloads of' coal to be delivered on the Pacific coast, placed last June, is now taxing the facilities of at least two mines at Rock Springs. - At the regular monthly meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce, yesterdaj', Gustav II. Schwab, for the committee on foreign commerce and the revenue laws, introduced a resolution (which was adopted) committing the chamber to favor the establishment of an American transpacific cable by private enterprise, and to the approval of "the "genera! principles embodied in the bill Introduced in the Ilouse of Representatives by Mr. Sherman." In sustaining a ruling of Judge Kohlsaat, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at Chicago, has fixed the status of a creditor who has received money from a bank superintendent within a period of four months immediately preceding the filing of a petition in bankruptcy. The judges of the higher courts decide that all money received in this way must be returned to the insolvent estate before the holder can receive his pro-rata share of whatever other sum may be due him. Edward J. Coleman, common councilman, and John J. McAndrew and Thomas J. O'Boyle, select councllmen, of Scranton. Pa., were arrested yesterday on warrants sworn out by the Municipal League accusing them of bribery and solicitation of bribes In connection with the granting of city franchises to telephone and streetrailway companies and in the license tax ordinance. Twelve of the city councllmen have already resigned their seats to avoid prosecution, and four others are under arrest. William Barry, a middle-aged and wealthy farmer, living near Milton, N. D., yesterday surrendered himself to the authorities, saying he had killed Andrew Mellen, his hired man. According to the story Barry tells he discovered that an intimacy existed between Melleji and his (Barry's) sister. During the night the girl left the house, and after a long search Barry found her on the prairie badly frozen. He told Mellen he must die and gave him the choice of a rope or a knife. Mellen refused either and Barry killed him. William L. Calwell, who has been In jail at Chicago since Sept. 28, pending extradition proceedings, was yesterday discharged from custody by Judge Kohlsaat on a writ of habeas corpus. Calwell was charged with assisting in the robbery of the safe of the Mexican Central Electric Railway Company, where he was formerly employed, $2,000 In cash, and SS.000 In bonds being taken at the time. Judge Kohlsaat held that the evidence furnished by the Mexican government would not warrant holding Calwell for extradition. J. N. Garner, special internal revenue agent at Omaha, has decided that cattle commission men come within the meaning of "brokers" under the revenue law of 1SD8. The act provides for a tax of $30 a year upon all brokers. Hitherto cattle commission men have not paid a broker tax. and a decision sustaining Garner wiy add several millions to the government 'treasury, as commission men all over the country will be required Jlo pay the tax, not only for tho current years, but the tax and penalty for the three years since the law went into effect. Beginning Feb. 21, and continuing .two weeks, the International Forest, Fish and Game Association will give a . unique exhibition in the Coliseum, Chicago. The Interior of the big building will be arranged to resemble an evergreen forest with inclosures filled with varied species of living game, animals and game birds, a complete live fish exhibit, fish hatcheries, Indian village, and a lake 115 feet long, in which all kinds of aquatic sports will be held. There will also.be an athletic carnival during the exhibition. The exhibition will be. given in the interest of the movement for the preservation and cultivation of forests and game of all kinds. Washington is to get the American replica of the Lafayette monument erected in Paris with the contributions of American school children. This was decided upon yesterday at a meeting of the Lafayette memorial commission held in Chicago. From the reports of the officers of the commission it was found that after meeting the expenses of the Paris monument there was a large surplus in the fund, and the monument in Washington was subgested as a most appropriate use of this surplus. It will be in marble and bronze. Just as the Paris production and In every detail the equestrian figure will be a facsimile. The work will be executed by the same sculptor. Miscellaneous Sporting: Note. Dan Stuart, the prize fight promoter, has arrived at Carson, Nev., in the enterest of a prize fight to take place In the latter part of May. j The victory of Saintly, a 25-to-l shot, was the surprise at Oakland. Cal., yesterday. He was almost entirely overlooked in thi betting, and won easily from Farmenion, the favorite. James J. Jeffries has announced some changes In his training plans for his fight with "Gus" Ruhlln, to take place in Cincinnati. He has decided to locate his headquarters at Loch Arbor, near Asbury Park, N. J., where he will put on the finishing touches. Yesterday's race winners: At New OrleansOrion, 7 to 5: Quite Right, 7 to 5: Brlghtie B., 9 to 2: Miss Hanover, 11 to 5; Palarm, 12 to 1: W. B. Gates, 3 to 2. At San Francisco Dandy Jim. even: Saintly. 25 to 1; Articulate, 7 to 10; Batteos, 6 to 1; Tiburon. 8 to 1; Lena, 7 to 1. The Company I basketball team of Kenton, O., defeated the Yale team at the former place, last night, by .a score of It to 10. It was a most exciting game. Yale was ahead up to the last five minutes ol -the game. ;Only eight fouls were made. A thousand people witnessed the game. The Tennessee Breeders' Association has announced the stakes to be run at its spring meeting at Cumberland ' Purk, beginning April 22 and extending to and including April 27, 1901. The stakes close Jan. 24, and are as follows: Turf Congress. $1,200 added; Country Club. $1.000; William Gerst stake, $1,000; Belle Meade stake, $1,000. In the second game of a series of four to be played with teams of the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, Yale was defeated by Duquesne, Pa., last night, by a score of 3 to 1. Yale was outplayed at every point. The game, Wednesday night, with the Bankers resulted: Yale, 5; Bankers, 5. Up to to-day forty-four nominations have been received for the Sheepshead Bay suburban handicap. Among the principal horses named are: Blues. IJonnllrt, Belarlo. Beau Gallant, Ildrim. Ethelbert, Banastar. McMeekln, Kilogram. Jack Joint, Withers, Klnley Mack and Prir.ce of Melbourne. Bobby Dobbs, who won the light-weight championship of England by defeating Dick Bürge, and "Kid Ashe, of Cincinnati, met before the Phoenix Athletic Club, at Memphis, last night, and fought twenty fast rounds to a draw. A wrestling match between Louis Baptlste. of St. Louis, and Eddie Donnelly, of Boston, was declared a draw. Superintendent of Public Instruction M. C. De Baca, of New Mexico, in his annual report makes a recommendation for the prohibition of the playing of football in the territorial institutions and the public schools He regards the game as more brutal than prize fighting. He has gatherej statistics showing that last year fifteen beys were killed and 2 seriously injure! in the United States while playing football. Crew for the New Russian Crnlner. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 3. On board the American line steamer Belgenland, which arrived to-day from Liverpool, were a chaplain, two officers and 212 seamen of the new Russian cruiser Variag. which is expected to leave Cramps' yard in about two weeks for the Czar's dominions. The two officers are Lieutenant Sergus Ilcmleff and Sublieutenant Ekinoff. The vovage crew, which Is now complete, a number of them arriving some time ago. Is comiosed of more than five hundred men all told.

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Telephone 1304. 44 North Pennsylvania St VICTIMS OF MINE GAS. Superintendent und Fire Hons Suffocated nnd Two Men Injured. WILKESIIARRI-:. Ta.. Jan. 0. An accident occurred at the Tine Ridge colliery, of the Algonquin Coal Company, to-day, which resulted in t lie death of two men and tho fatal Injury of two others. The mine, owing to a cave-In, had not been In 01 ration for some time past and considerable gas had accumulated in the wcrkirgs. This morning D. J. William.-, the superintendent of the mine, William Morgan, the assistant superintendent, and William Early and Martin Fortune, lire bosses, tntinvl tho mine for the purine of devising a plan to drive an aid way. They wer experienced men and prepared for an emergency. The party did not return to the surface at r oon and thre was some alarm aa to thtir safety. At 2 o'clock a searching party went down the mine to see what had become of tljO superintendent an I his men. Tho hearchera could not go f;ir, being driven back by the black damp. A rescuing party wax organized and they entered the mine. They were slow in returning and the grcattft apprehensions were felt th:it all had fallen victims to the foul ga.s. But at 5 o'clock the rescuers came to the surface. They reported they could find no traces ot the missing men. Another rescuing party of six men volunteered to go down. They were driven back several times by the tire damp, but finally managed to push their way into the workings and came across the dead bodies of Superintendent Williams and Fire Boss Morgan. After 'much difficulty the todies were brought to the surface. Later a fourth rescuing party went down the slope and found Early and Fortune. They were unconscious and when brought out phj'slclans, who were In waiting, said they could not recover. Tho rescuers were loudly cheered by two thousand people who had been attracted to the scene of the disaster. All the victims were married rr.cn with families. STEP OF A WOMAftY Mrs. nicliardson Says She Heard It Before Her Husband W'nm Shot. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 3.-Mrs. Frank W. Richardson's statement of th murder of her husband at Savannah, Mo., the night before Christmas, has been made. Shu made the statement for publication, and said she will tell the same story on th witness stand when she testifies at the coroner'.s inquest. "I do not know who killed my husband she said. "I did not see the murderer, but J heard footsteps in the back part of the house. I thought at tho time that the footsteps were those of Rcssle Phlli. the servant girl, and called to her. When my husband was shot I was within a few fe of him. I was sitting on the er.d of the lounge, Just inside the door, and he stood on the threshold. Then there was, a loud report and he fell. My first thought was that he had pretended to commit suicide. I ran to him. lie lay very still and the next thins I did was to relight the lamp on the dresser. After that had teen done I could not see his face, which was still ir. the hallway. I took hold of his knee and dragged him partly into the roora. In trying to lift him up' I put my hands lack of his head and that was the first I knew of the wound. I tried to tee it, but ctuld not. "After the shot was fired I heard Fome one walking in the back pnrt of the houe. I thought it was Uessle I'hllis pnd called to her, but there was no answer. The person who killed Mr. Richardson went out of tho house that way. "There w?s no revolver In our house ani we have not had one Flnce wt left the ranch ir. Texas. Mr. Richardson wanted to get one a short time ago, but I objected. He said his life had loeri threatened. He did not buy the revolver, however, and we have had r.one about the bouse. The doors were not locked." OBJECTS TO PAYING TAXES. Slnry S. Anthony Thinks 'Woman Should Have tue ItlRht to Vote. ROCHESTER. X. Y., Jan. 3 The latest development In the woman suffrage fight, begun over a quarter of a century ago, when Susan B. Anthony and her sister, Mary S. Anthony, were arrested and fined. Is tho rfand taken by Mary S. Anthony in the matter of taxation of her property. She sends notice to County Treasurer Ham. ilton that she will not in the future pay taxes except under protest, until she Is nllowed the rlsbt of suffrage. The action will likely result in a test case being brought in the court. The- ORIrrra Inallel. The oHcers of Delaney Post. Ö. A. R., wore Installed last right by Charles W. Wheat, nnst commander of Chapman Frt, assisted by Fremont Swift, commanderelect of Chnptnan Post. To Cure n Cold In One Dar Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets. AH drugsUts refund the money If It falls to cur, ü. W. Grove's signature Is oa escii bez.