Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1901 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1901.

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Democratic papers are profuse In headlines over the city elections in Ohio. Unfortunately for them, these victories do not come in years when they can be of any use to a national party. Nevertheless, no one need expect Edward Atkinson, Erving Winslow or tho Springfield Republican to take the oath of allegiance. They positively will not be reconciled to the government, so there! It is given out that the election of the Democratic candidate for mayor in Columbu3, O., will promote the candidacy of exBepresentatlve Lentz for Governor. If that is true, it was a costly victory for the Democracy. The Aguinaldo organs in this country are trying to make a case against General Funston because he made use of stratagems, including a forged paper. Since when did the deceiving of an enemy in war by any means become a crime? Senator Morgan is looking forward to the time when the negroes in the South will emigrate to Hawaii and the Philippines. If such a thing should come it will bring to the South widespread disaster because of the loss of its labor class. If J. Pierpont Morgan vill build a canal and give guarantees that his company will render good service, why should he not be encouraged by the government to do it? If a corporation will build a canal, why should the United States insist upon taking up the enterprise? It Is wise on the part of General MacArthur to keep a string tied to Aguinaldo, even though he has taken the oath of allegiance. The treacherous little wretch has never yet shown any indication of possessing a sense of honor, and nobody knows how much he would respect hl3 oath, if he were once at liberty. If the voting machine had been in use in Evansvllle on Monday there would have been no doubt about the result as soon as the polls were closed, since the canvassing and the counting of the vot3 would have been done and the record made so that no man could change it. With the machine, election boards cannot elect or defeat by rejecting ballots. It is. of course, the proper caper among the would-be literary elect to regard Tolstoi as a novelist of ability so transcendent that his name should be spoken with bated breath, but Philistines who read fiction for recreation and enjoyment only will feel that in being exiled he is meeting a deserved fate for producing so many horrors and calling them novels. To become a mayor, first pose as a reformer. I'ingree "worked" the Detroit people In that way, and now Detroiters turn pale at the very mention of reform in politics. Pringree passed out some time ago. but Toledo Jones Is to have another term and Cleveland has elected Tom Johnson. Meanwhile, actual reforms employ other means of getting themselves adopted. When Congress provided years ago that States accepting the grant for the aid of agricultural colleges should pay 3 per cent, interest cn the money States accepted because thirty-five years ago 5 per cent, was a lower rate than the United States wits paying on Its obligations. Now a 5 per cent, rate o:i the Purdue bonds is a tax cf 2 per cent, on the State, but Indiana must stand by the bargain. There will be a lot of "Mopping over" about Citizen Aguinaldo by the people who have been making a hero of him so long. Still, when it is remembered how the treacherous little savage planned to slaughter all foreigners in Manila after the army was disposed of there will remain tome who cannot luok upon him with pride. There ;nay be u doubt that he signed this order, out proof has not been furnished. A bill has been Introduced in the NewYork Legislature which has for its object the reduction of the salary 1 i t of New York city $20.0Vo a year. It provides for a commission of fifteen burin ss men w ho shall investigate ecry department of the city's service and recommend the number oi ofTlcers in ach which, in their Judgment, business men would employ to do the work, v-ith the proper compensation. The graduation on Monday of a cUss from the Indiana Vetorir.ary College calls alt. r.tiori to the increased demand for veterinary services of a H-!e:jt!tif sort. Until comparatively recent years the !. .etorir.fr of animals w.is done by amateurs. In uih neighborhood was usually to be found some man who was supposed to have especial skill in such matters, but they were ensealled upon when an animal of market value a horse or cow, usually was the ufferer. The amateur "hör doctor"

had no scientific knowledge of medicine or of the animal anatomy or constitution, and the treatment given, though sometimes effective, was oftener crudely experimental and useh-ys. Nov.' the greater importance of stock raising has made scientific veterinary skill essential on the frm and in the stable, and graduates from schools find abundant opportunities for their services and also find the profession a lucrative one. Their practice, too, is by no means confined to horses and cattle. JVt animals of all kinds dogs, cats, chickens, parrots, even canary birds come under their attention. The growing sympathy for animals and interest in them will tend to broaden this field of service. The veterinary profesMon Is an honorable and useful one, with ranks net yet full. A r. I INALDO'S A L L E G I A N C 1 3 . The announcement that Aguinaldo has taken the sweeping oath of allegiance recjuired of all Filipinos who have participated in the insurrection is as important as gratifying. Iiis action must have a wide and salutary influence upon all thoe who were disposed to resist the United States. "While there are those in this country who declare that there are other leaders who are as potential as Aguinaldo has been, and that they are ready to take his place, everyone knows that he has been the one man recognized by both sides as the leader of the Insurrection to such an extent that no man has been mentioned as his successor. The insurrection and the republic of the Philippines were his conception. He declared himself President. So prominent was he that it now seems that with his taking the oath of allegiance all organized opposition to the United States should fall to pieces, leaving the only Filipinos still for war the little bands in Boston and other Eastern cities who have not borne arms, but fought vindictively if not valiantly with their tongues and their pens. In the Island of Luzon, where Aguinaldo's influence has been the moat potent, bands of guerrillas may continue to harass peaceful people, but their purpose will bo plunder and not independence. The administration will be tendered all sorts of advice as to the proper course to pursue toward Aguinaldo, but those who hasten to advise are usually the least prepared to give advice. Here we do not understand the Oriental character. The Chinese are yet a puzzle to us and the Malay is an enigma. By him an oath of allegiance may be taken with mental reservations. General MacArthur and the Taft commission have had opportunities to study the native, and, consequently, are better able to determine the course to be pursued toward Aguinaldo. The reports which have reached this country regarding Aguinaldo as a man are conflicting. It is asserted by American that he saved the Gillmore prisoners from slaughter. It i3 said of him

bthat his policy toward prisoners has been in accord with the customs of European nations. At the outset he was charged with being the author of the fiendish plot to massacre all the European inhabitants of Manila in February, lS'JO. Subsequent investigation has caused those who held that opinion at the outset to entertain grave doubts if he or his subordinate, Sandlco, whose name was appended to the order of massacre, really signed it. Mr. Bass, who wrote the first full account of the proposed massacre, after acquaintance with Sandlco expressed the opinion that the order was the forgery of an enemy. But these reports, true or otherwise, do not affect the importance of this voluntary action of Aguinaldo. He will be intrusted with power if those who know most about him think It can be done with safety. Tili: PERSECUTION OF TOLSTOI. The banishment of Count Tolstoi by the Russian government furnishes one of the most remarkable instances of despotic methods and individual persecution of recent times. In the evidence it affords of narrow and vindictive methods on the part of a government It surpasses the Dreyfus case. The Dreyfus persecution vas the result of a conspiracy on the part of a comparatively few persons to make an obnoxious individual a scapegoat for the crime of another and to drive him out of the French army. The persecution of Tolstoi is the work of tho Russian government. One showed tho baseness of a few individuals representing a minority faction of the French people; the other shows the abominable tyranny of a great government and the abhorrent conditions that prevail throughout a vast empire. Count Leo Tolstoi Is one of the most Interesting personalities of the time. Of noble birth and independent means he has sacrificed all other prospects to the promulgation of his humanitarian principles. A college-bred man and of liberal culture he served as an olticer during tne whole of the Crimean war and then engaged in literature. Besides other writings he has written much on religious topics, his works including "Christ's Christianity," "Patriotism and Christianity," "Tho Four Gospels Harmonized, " and others of like character. He is profound' religious but not sectarian, and hence. In the opinion of Russian censors, not orthodox. Because he believes in the rights of man and is somewhat socialistic in his views he is regarded as a dangerous person. In Russia such views are considered as dangerous as a lighted candle in a powder magazine. A few weeks ago Tolstoi was officially excommunicated from the Greek Church, in a proclamation which cursed him from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet, and made him. as far as the authorities of the Russian established church could do it, a religious outcast. Now he is banished from Russia. The reason assigned for this act Is the attempted assassination of Privy Councilor Pobiedonostzeff, . chief procurator of the Holy Synod, who was shot at early In the morning of March 22 while sitting in his study, the attempt being attributed to a desire for revenge growing out of the excommunication of Count Tolstoi. Of cojrse there is no pretense that Tolstoi was in any manner Implicated In or privy to the attempted assassination. He is one of the mot harmless and philanthropic of men. His alleged connection with the attempted assassination Is too remote to be considered In any other country but Russia. But on this trumpery charge he is banished from his native count ry escorted to the frontier by gendarmes and sent forth an exile at the age of seventy-tive years. "One thousand ftudents of the University of Kieff," says a dispatch, "have forwarded a petition to the Holy Synod in which they ask to be excommunicated with Count Tolstoi." 'iheir request may be granted by the church with the additional punishment by tho government of banishment.

It Is no wonder that Nihilism flourishes in such a soil and atmosphere as that, or tnat the victims of such despotism should seeK to temper it by assassination. The Dreyfus case excited the indignation of the civilized world. Out the treatment of Tolstoi is far more infamous. The political system that permits It should be shattered to atoms.

The one thing which the United States needs in the Philippines more than anything else is an efficient and honest administration of affairs. So far as It has been under the control of regular army officers it has been clean thus far if not always efficient, the arrested officer being a volunteer. But in the civil service none but the best men should be sent to the Philippines, Such is the, purpose of the administration. The civil-service examinations for the Philippine service are very exacting. There should be no place In the home service for Inefficient or dishonest men, but when we go abroad to teach civilization to the benighted only the best should be selected. The Bathbones and the Neelys did us great injury in Cuba. The value of our exports during the first eight months of the fiscal year ending with February was $1,013,1&3,4'1, compared with 5;H9,473,4T1 for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year an increase of $l3,720,01S on the largest export ever known. The Imports during the same period were $31,03.010 less than during the corresponding period of last year, which makes the excess of the value of exports over Imports 51D1.CS.C12 tho last eigne months. Thus does the process of accumulating credits abroad steadily Increase. Three years ago, by this great preponderance of exports, we ceased to be a borrowing nation. Now the United States is becoming a lending nation. The public will watch the movements of Mayor-elect Johnson, of Cleveland, very closely, partly from Interest and partly' from curiosity. He is a unique and daring character, since few men who have made fortunes by -street-railway monopolies and high fares could become the champions of municipal control and low fares. "While it is not probable that he will meet the expectations of those who elected him, his election makes him a leading character in the Democratic politics of Ohio, and a rival who will be a foeman worthy of McLean. Plainly, this country is not to have surcease of expositions for some time to come. Of Buffalo we are hearing much, and now from Charleston. S. C, begins to come a variety of attractive pamphlets and other reading matter heralding the exposition which is to open there next December and continue till May, 1902. By the time that is over St. Louis will be talking loudly of its show. Congress, by the way, did not "play fair" with Chaileston when it refused the modest appropriation of $250,O"0 asked for by the exposition managers there and gave St. Louis five millions without a protest. On his own showing, Yalet Jones, who has turned state's evidence against Patrick, who is under arrest for the murder of Millionaire Rice, was a willing villain. He only needed to have a job of forgery, or swindling, or murder suggested to him to fall in with the plans. k The Muncie woman who successfully defended herself from an assailant by stabbing him in the face with a hat pin should serve as an example for other womenobliged to be out after dark. The hat pins in feminine hands is mightier than a sword. People who are fond of observing dramatic situations can find plenty of them outside of the theater. The Patrick trial in New York, for instance, Is quite prolific of them. China is holding off like a baseball player, but, like the ball player, , China will eventually "sign." She simply doesn't want to be too sudden. China's recent acquaintance with Mr. Adam-zad, the Russian bear, is not of a sort to increase its love for the beast. ER0M HITHER AND YON. Certainly Not. St. Louis Star. "Mr. Meeker, are you carrying any life insurance?" "Certainly not. Mrs. Meeker carries the life insurance. I merely look after the payments of the premiums." Lonth to CLniiKe. Life. Rank Carfder My dear sir, your bank account 1 overdrawn so often that we arc compelled to ask you to transfer it elsewhere. "Rut, good heavens, 1 don't knew any other bank that will trust me!" e. Matched Him. Crooklyn Life. "Smithers is as good a fish liar as anybody I know. I told him an awful whopper the other niKht, but ho matched it right away." "How?" "lie said he believed me." A Promising; Young- Financier. Jewish World. Little I.aac, who was barrly six years cM. was paid by his mother a penny per dozen for pins picked up from the curptt to kee-p the baby fium getting them. "Nurse," said little Isaac, "do you knov. v.-hat I am going to elo whin I get 10 cents?" "1 am going to buy a paper of pins and scatter them all over the floor, and then pick them up," replied the youn financier. A Little 1'iihle. Baltimore American. Once upon a Time there was a Wise Man who set up lu Rusiness as a Distributing Center of Knowledge. The-rs tame unto Him certain Smart Alecks who thought to Confound him by Asking: "Why does a Rabbit wijrslt? its Nose?" Rut the Wise Man slrnrly Collected two dollars and answered them thus: "Because tho Nose cannot Wtefclo the Rabbit." Moral: Do not get Clay with People who are Out for the Coin. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The news dispatches state that the robbers who burglarized an Ohio bank the other night were "well drilled." And It mik-ht have added that the bank was also well drilled. Logansport Journal. A Chicago newspaper man has just been declared a bankrupt with liabilities of $1.3.IM) ami assets of i3T. How he happened to have the $133 will probably never be satisfactorily explained. Pennvllle Corn and Glass. After the final analysis is made It will be found that the chief reason for Chicago's extreme wickedness lies with the ellkials charged with the administration of the city government. The people are usually nt"t worse than their rulers. Anderron Herald New York has a class of critics who are row grumbling that Carnegie's offer was not for free bath ho.isos. free snip house.? or s.rm thing else than the libraries he mention d. We will always have some people who will complain that the dedl tr they picked up was not a ten. Lafayette Courier. The enfranchisement of ignorant voters in Maryland Is being discussed with a good leal of Intelligence and discriminating judgment. The ucual party clap-trap is

conspicuously and pleasingly absent in most of the newspaper comments on the action of the Maryland legislators. South Bend Times. George M. Bay has announced that he will edit the Shelbyville Democrat from the Michigan City penitentiary. But his sisters who are the real owners of the paper have concluded tc run it themselves. They have greatly imnroved its tone. Mr. Ray's penitentiary editorials will probably go into the waste basket. Richmond Palladium. The Washington Post ascribes Hon. Tom Reed's beginning as an Anti-imperialist to the time when Hon. Joe Manley threw up the sponge and conceded the nomination of Mr. McKinley at St. Louis. Of course Mr. Reed knew nothing about Imperialism in 1MJ, but he knew something was the matter with him and diagnosed It later on. Terre Haute Express. Colonel Bryan has a queer Idea of th sums paid noted men for products of their pen. He is just now offering $5 for fiv hundred words written by Mr. Cleveland, covering the subject of true Democracy as he understands it. Mr. Cleveland is not a cheap correspondent, and we are of the opinion that Mr. Bryan will have to raiso h:s bid before he secures the coveted prize. Waterloo Press.

TRIBUTE OF COMRADES GEORGE II. THOMAS POST ADOPTS A HARRISON MEMORIAL. The -Military Career of the Late ExPrejtident Reviewed In Detail A Brave Soldier. At a meeting of George II. Thomas Post, last night, the committee previously appointed, composed of John B. Elam, Richard M. Smock and M. G. McLaln, submitted the following Harrison memorial: "When the war for the Union began Benjamin Harrison wuo twenty-seven years cid. He had already achieved a good position as a lawyer and public speaker, and had exhibited in a marked degree the qualities that have made him a prominent hgure la our national history. The conclusions of a mind singularly clear and aitrt wero acted upon with promptness and courage. His patriotism was high and his love of justice and freedom a passion. "When the call for SOl.lXH) volunteers came in lbu2, it was plain that there must be a i espouse from many who had no special fondness for military life and who must leave behind much that men value. Benjamin Harrison did not hesitate, but leaving his young wife and little children, his growing business and the public office to which he had been elected he took the lielel at the head of the first Indiana regiment raised to meet this call. With characteristic energy and devotion to duty he set about learning the business of a soldier and soon became a thorough disciplinarian and one of the most accomplished and efficient officers In the army, lie was constantly with his regiment, the Seventieth Indiana, until the close of the Atlanta campaign, but as senior colonel of the brigade was in command of It much of the time. In the desperate battle of Besaca. Colonel Harrison led the charge upon the enemy's brttery in person and was In the thickest of the fight. Engagements in which he took part followed in quick succession and Dalton, New Hope Church. Cassvllle, Burnt Hickory, Kenesaw and Peach Tree Creek became historic names. "At Peach Tree Creek General Hood assumed the offensive ond made a determined effort to break the Union lines. A gap in the line assailed was left by some mistake and a large force of the enemy were advancing to pass through it and cut Sherman's army in twain. Colonel Harrison, In command of the brigade, and our comrade (Jen. John Coburn. with his brigade, rushed their commands forward without waiting lor orders, and after a heroic fight closed the opening In the Union lines and prevented a great disaster. For his quick recognition of the crisis and prompt action in meeting it. Colonel Harrison was recommended for promotion by Gcenral Hooker, who commanded the corps of which his brigade was a part. "Acting under orders he left the army it Atlanta and returned to Indiana to engage, under tho direction of Governor Morton, In a ca.mpalgn of a very different kind, but r.ot less important. It was essential that Indiana should cast her vote for Lincoln and stand with tho North for the prosecution of the war, and Colonel Harrison with many others made such a campaign as has rarely been witnessed. "Immediately after the re-election of President Lincoln he started for his regiment and by a misshap narrowly missed the last train that went through to Sherman before the inarch to the sea. He was given command of a brigade under Thomas und took part in the battle of Nashville, whero Hood's army was destroyed. He then started to rejoin his regiment, but was delayed by Illness and reached his old command a few days before the surrender of Johnson. "All accounts of his military career agree p.s to his fine soldierly qualities. He led his men and all learned to trust him. Amid the sterner duties of a soldier he always found time to care for the comfort of his troops. Food and clothing had.carsful attention and his veterans speak feelingly ot visits to the picket line with hot coffee on the terrible New Year's of 1864, binding up wounds when surgeons were not at hand, lending his horse to tired and sick soldiers nnd many other acts of klndnesg and thoughtful sympathy such as go to make a commander that men willingly follow anywhere. "Whether the service was conspicuous or not, It was always performed with the most scrupulous fidelity. In later life the sterling qualities that rmv'e him a good soldier enabled him to add luster to an honored name and raise his State and Nation In the world's esteem. His memorial as a public man will be recorded on the pages of our country's history and the lesson of his life becomes a part of the heritage of coming generations. For him the last earthly tattoo has sounded ar.d he has gone to rest. Iiis comrades that remain will follow him one by or.e. The lesson of his great life is clear. Whenever we recall the name o Comrade Benjamin Harrison we must take on new devotion to every duty of life, and though dilficulties and darkness gather about us. go forward to the end with a steadier courage and firmer faith." Fl :STO, 31 A CAUTIH It, ET AL. Credit Given to alncArthur for Magnanimity. Washington Tost. It is high time to acknowledge, or rather to hall. Funston as the real hero of the Philippine war. Funston has captured and delivered Aguinaldo. There is reason to believe' that many military persons are jealous of Funston's success. The fact remains that, while Aguinaldo has been killed several times. Funston is the first and only man who has ever captured him alive ami taken a receipt for his delivery to the authorities at Manila. It's all right. It's . clean case. A pompadour hair-cut and eight strawberry marks are not to be poohpcohed. We have Aguinaldo. and that's all there Is about It. Those who are envious of Funston may gnaw files and five Into the mountains of Hepsidam and pool their lamentations with the stricken Whang Doodle. We've got him meaning Aggieand Funston is the man who did the job. 'I he others may as well leap Into the darkness and chew the pitiless north wind. Their jig is up. But there is one beautiful and tender feature of the incident to which all can give their reverent admiration. The fact that General MacArthur. although he Is in ci mmand of everything, ar.d although he has planned the whole campaign the fact that General MacArthur freely oencedes to Funston all the credit of the achievement which he directed and controlled will ever serve to remind us that magnanimity is the rule with American officers and caddishnss the contemptible exception. Whether Aguinaldo's capture be Important or unimportant. It Is what everybody has been trying to aecomplish for the past two years. Humbug or not, as the case may be. he has been th most sought-after person within the domalr. of our national activities. And now Funsion has caught him. and w hatever he 'may be worth has delivered him to Cpneral MacArthur at Manila, lie did what he was sent to do, and, although General MacArthur. in his capacity as the command-r-ir.-chief In the Philippines, colli 1 earily have claimed the credit tor every successful movement organized niio completed under his authority. Funston has received the cordial, unmeasured, generous an l manly recognition of his superior olficer. if the capture of Aguinaldo amounts to nothing more than the demonstration of MacArthur's chivalry it will still deserve the grateful plaudits of the American people. Tho Kansas man earned the reward which has come to him.

ALL MIXES ARE IDLE

THE MINERS SCALE, HOWEVER, 3IAY HE SIGNED TO-DAY. Gnu Uelt Situation Somewhat Mixed, Doth Carpenter and Contractom Gaining- Minor Points. EARLY AGREEMENT PROBABLE SETTLEMENTS PRACTICALLY CERTAIN AT ANDERSON AND MARION. Roger on Trial nt Terre Haute Noteworthy Gift to Methodist Chureh Jefferson County Toll Roads. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 2. The Indiana bituminous miners and operators reconvened this afternoon, and immediately referred the powder question to the joint scale committee. In turn It was referred to the subcommittee which went into session this evening. There is good reason for believing that the scale committee to-morrow will report an agreement which will include the clause requiring the miners to buy powder from the operators at $1.75 a keg. Eighty per cent, of the miners already were buying powder in this manner, and it is said their sentimental opposition to putting the clause in the wages contract will give way. The reports from the field in the State today indicate that no more than one-filth of the men complied with the informal agreement to continue at work until the yearly scale is signed. An Associated Press dispatch says: A general suspension of work took place toe;ay in the coal fields of Indiana and several thousand men are idle as the result of the operators and miners In convention he'3 lulling to agree on the wage scale for the year. Mass meetings were held Saturday in many localities and it was almost the unanimous sentiment that a firm stanu t.hould be taken against the operators' demands that the powder be purchased oi tnem. The miners will stand by their original demand to buy powder in the open market. The annual wage scale expired Monday, anu until an agreement is reached between 5,000 and 6,000 men will be idle. Nothing was accomplished at to-day's conference. A personal encounter took place at the conclusion of the conference this afternoon between an operator and miner over some remark made on the convention floor. Contractors Secure a Point. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., April 2. The contractors won a point to-night in the operators' strike, when all the lumber dealers of Muncie agreed to deliver no lumber until tho strike is adjusted. The carpenters had hoped that work would continue so that they could take jobs by the day, leaving the contractors out but work going right along, it is now impossible to get material and the men must quit work. This movement is threatened all over the gas belt. Muncie carpenters who came from Anderson to-night report that the scale has been signed there, but other reports deny the story. Many thousands of dollars of im-v provements have been stopped. ROGERS ON TRIAL. Slayer of Mllhuru Duty Defore the Court nt Terre Haute. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., April 2. The trial of Charles Rogers for the murder of Milturn Baty, his wife's stepfather, on March 10, was begun in the Circuit Court this morning. A jury was secured this afternoon and the State began calling witnesses. The State's opening statement was to the effect that Rogers had said he would kill all the family und that he went to tho house for that purpose. The defense has made known that it will endeavor to prove that Rogers had attempted to commit suicide; that the shooting of the wife was accidental, and that he shot Baty in slfclefense. Diilleulty Adjusted at Anderson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., April 2. Muncie, Marion, Anderson, Alexandria and Elwood were represented at a meeting of the Indiana Contractors' Association held here to-night. The contractors say they are ready to accede to the demands of the Carpenters' Union in the various cities and towr.s as to hours and pay, but in return ask that their organization be recognized and protected by union carpenters refusing to work for any but those who are members of the Contractors Association of Indiana. It was decided to carry the organization into every Indiana city until every contractor In the State is included. There will be no strike in Anderson, as the two organizations have agreed on the points at issue. The Carpenters' union passed a resolution requiring its members to refrain from making contracts or withdraw from the union. No Strike nt -Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ' MARION, Ind., April 2. The carpenters of this city will not strike. At a meeting lasting nearly all of last night between the carpenters and contractors, a settlement was reached and the articles between them were formally ratified at a meeting of both the Carpenters' Union and the contractors' organization to-night. The terms ot the new scale will be $2.25 for a day of eight hours. This sum the carpenters of Marlon have received for a day of nine hours during the last year, and their demands for the coming year were 30 cents an hour for a day of eight hours. Business will be resumed here to-morrow morning with every prospect of a prosperous and harmonious season. INDIANA OIIITUARY. Mrs. Adnllne Burton, Mother of Senator J. It. Rurton, of Ivniisus. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCHELL, Ind.. April 2. Mrs. Adaline Burton, aged seventy-one years, died at her home here this morning of pneumonia. She was the mother of Senator J. Ralph Burton, of Kansas; Airs. J. B. Myers, of Lexington. Ky.; Mrs. S. A. Reyman, Salem, Ind., and J. B. Burton, of Sanborn, Ind. Other Indiana Necrology. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April 2. The body, of Mrs. Louisiana Llston was brought hero to-day from Robinson, 111., for burial. She was born In I"; jn Nelson county, Ky., and came to Indiana when a child. She was a pensioner of the war of 1S12. her husband having served In the war. He was a scout for Gen. William Henry Harrison an l helped to build Fort Harrison, a few miles north of here. WINDFALL, Ind., April 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Huffman, wife of Peter Huffman, a pioneer of this place, elled at her home yesterday of dropsy. She was born in Germany in 1S37, and when fifteen years of age moved with her parents to the United States. She married Peter Huffman, who survives, In Columbus, Ind., on Aug. 17, 1SÖJ. , . TO RAISE St GAR I1EETS. Allen Connty Farmers Contracting with .Michigan and Ohio Factories. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. April 2.-Allen county farmers are signing contracts agreeing to raise sugar beets for the plants at Fremont and Kalamazoo, Mich., but as the latter plant offers $1 a ton. free on board cars at Fort Wayne, home weight, to $3.75 offered by the Fremont Company, the farmers naturally prefer the Michigan market. Tho movement began only within two weeks, after the farroem had arranged their Heids for the

year, hence there has been much less acreage contracted for than was possible a few months earlier. Thus far within a slight radius of Fort Wayne 200 acres have been contracted for, the largest single contract being seventy acres, which will be grown by John Johnson, son of Alexander Johnson, of the State institution here. The young beet raiser and a college friend expect to clear $23 an acre for their next year's college expenses at Bloomington. The Kalamazoo plant cleared $150.(00 last year on an Investment of $3oO.Oji) and Fort Wayne financiers are becoming enthusiastic for a sugar plant here next season. It is expected that another season will witness five thousand acres of beets growing in this county, equaling the record of Paulding county, across the Ohio line, this year. GIVES LAND TO THE CHURCH.

Auetl Goshen Mnn rrovides n Home for Methodist Orphans. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind.. April 2. John W. Bashor, of this city, to-day made a conveyance of all his realty, valued conservatively at over $00,000, to the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference. The conveyance is made for the erection of a Deaconess Orphans' Home. The terms of the de-ed provide that all realty be sold except thirty acres located on the west edge of this city, and the proceeds of the sale to go toward the erection of the orphanage theron. Mr. Bashor, who is a retired farmer, is childless, aged and feeble, with relatives all in good circumstances. Fort AVnyne Municipal Politics. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind.. April 2. The city election is about five weeks off and as yet no claimant for the Republican nomination has appeared. The city hall Democratic municipal ring has decided to make Henry Berghoff, at present the city controller, the Democratic candidate on an anti-charter amendment platform. This programme requires them to resist the new enactments in the courts, and it has become apparent that the new police boarel will have to carry the case to the Supreme Court. The Republican workers here have about concluded to nominate no party ticket, but to urge voters to support some independent Democrat. Suit for Violation of Contrnct. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., April 2. Thirty-eight farmers of Liberty township. Grant county, have filed suit in tho Grant Circuit Court against the Marlon Gas Company for violation of contract. The amount demanded as judgment is $3.000. The plaintiffs leased their land, amounting to 3,000 acres, to the company about two years ago for oil and gas purposes. The company was to pay $1 per annum per acre for five years. The money was paid for two years, but this year the company refused to pay the amount and relinquished Its leases. llonvy Enrollment of Teachers. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., April 2. Word was received to-day that the teachers of Greensburg, heretofore allied with the Southern Indiana Association, had decided to withdraw from that association and had made application for membership in the Northern Association, which will meet here this week. There have been 2.500 registered to date, and the enrollment is expected to reach 3,500 before the session closes. Epwnrth Excursion to California. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HAGERSTOWN, Ind., April 2. The Northern Indiana Conference Quartet, composed of ministers in the M. E. Church, announced last night at a concert given here that they had decided to run an excursion train to San Francisco to the Epworth league convention. The train will be under the management of the quartet and will start July U, returning abo'ut Aug. Improvement Franchise Granted. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CARTHAGE, Ind.. April 2. The City Council granted a franchise for city water works and electric lights last night, and also contracted for lights and hydrants for the town at $2.500 per annum for ten years, with the privilege of buying the plant at the expiration of the franchise. The franchise was granted to Ed N. Hill, who will organize a company. Chicken Thief Left Ills Teeth. Srcial to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., April 2. Last night Elwood McCracken, west of here, had all his chickens stolen. This morning when he opened his coop he found the chickens gone, but on the floor lay a set of artificial teeth that the thief had lost. ' Will Buy All the Toll Roads. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., April 2. Jefferson County Commissioners this evening voted to purchase for $113,0") all tollroads in tho county and make them free. Indiana Notes. Charles Powers, of Warsaw, was badly injured, Monday, by a fall of earth in a sewer in which he was working. He may recover. For the first time in a number of years Richmond has not found it necessary to make a temporary loan in anticipation of the spring taxes. The congregation of the Fifth-street M. E. Church, Richmond, has asked for the return of Rev. J. P. Chamness another year by the conference. Walter Randolph, arrested at Richmond on suspicion that he was Ezra Moore, wanted at Norwalk, O., for murder, proved not to be the man and was released. At Frankfort yesterday Judge Kent appointed Richard C. Clark receiver of the Central Energy Telephone Company, w hich has liabilities of upward of $30,000. The spring term of the State Normal School at Terre Haute opened yesterday. Registrations will continue until Thursday and are expected to exceed one thousand. Campbell. Wild & Co., of Indianapolis, bid in Marion street and alley bonds yesterday to the amount of $1S3,000 at a premium of $2.500 and accrued interest. There were seven bidders. One traveling deputy has been dropped from the pay roll of the Seventh internal revenue district at Terre Haute; the VIcennea subdlstrict has been abolished and the office merged with the Evansville district. " C. V. Stephens, a Carthage jeweler, is the possessor of a postal card on which a sixword sentence, containing thirty-five letters, was written 1,011 times, besides the r.ame and address of the writer, Morton Barber. Judge H. C. Ryan, at Anderson, has ruled against the right of the Indiana Nitroglycerin Company to erect a factory nea. Alexandria, on the ground that It would be n. nuisance and a menace to the public safety. Alonzo Scott, ex-commissioner of Wayne county, and a wealthy and well-known citizen, is lying at the point of death at Iiis home in Hagerstown, with diabetes. JL cannot recover, and his death Is hourly expected. Max Ehrmann, of Terre Haute, has made arrangements vwith the Bowen-Merrill Company for tne publication of another novel. "The Fierson Riddle." The Illustrations will be by Miss Virginia Keep, of Indianapolis. Major May Post, G. A. R., of Anderson, has Indorsed the candidacy of Mrs. Iiura Burr, ef that city. State president of the W. R. C. of Indiana, for the national presidency. Mrs. Burr has consented to run for the office. Miss Nellie Manning, of Muncie. was attacked' Monday night on a dark street by a man who dragged her up an alley. She useei a steel hat pin with such effect on her assailant's face that he released her and made his escape. Bert Swarms, twenty-three years old, is under arrest at Elkhart, awaiting the result of injuries he inflicted on Adelhert McCoy, sixteen years old. by an assault on March 23. while the two were cutting timber. Young McCoy Is not expected to live. There was a lively exchange of shots at Losantville. north of Hagerstown. Monday night, when the marshal attempted to arrest two men in a restaurant who are wanted for stealing live stock. No one was hurt. One man was arretted and the other escaped. The Terre Haute Ministerial Association has eleclded to make war on Sunday baseball and other Sunday amuse

ments this year. The recent movements by the clerks and barbers for Sunday closing has encouraged the ministers to take tho step. The Crawfordsville Hospital Association has elected the following oiheers: President, C. M. Travis; vice president, Mrs. L. F. Hornaday; secretary, M. R. Thomas; treas. urer, Mrs. Minna Goltia; attorney, A. D. Thomas. Ground will be boucht and a hospital built during the coming summer. The commissioners of Starke county hav ordered a special election in Wayne township, on May 4, to vote on the proposition to grant a subsidy of $20,000 to the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad, whic'a proposes to extend its line to North Judson, from Muncie. On the same day similar elections will be held in Liberty and Union townships of Fulton county. Alumni cf Splceland Academy have organized an alumni association, with Judgs W. O. Barnard, of New Castle, as president; Mattie E. Charles, secretary: Turell Wilson, treasurer, and Emma Charles, Henry W. Painter. Belle C. Estes. W. S. Moffett, Edwin Hale, O. H. Nixon and O. B. Reese, executive committee. Plans ars under way for an alumni meeting in the fall.

ANOTHER COMBINATION. Slannfaetnrers of Glass Lamps, Shades ' and Electrical Fixtures. PITTSBURG, April 2.-A new "combine" was practically launched here to-day. It embraces all large manufacturers of glass lamps, glass lamp shades and glass electrical fixtures. Ten plants are to be absorbed by the combine, which will be capitalized at something like $C,oi0,000. Nearly all these large industries are located in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia. At to-day's meeting eight concerns were represented. These eight plants will certainly go Into the combine, it is claimed, and options have been -secured on two others. LABOR AND INDUSTRY. J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, the steel trust promoter, will sail for Europa to-day. The coal operators at Canton. O., granted a temporary increase to four hundred miners, averting a strik? set for yesterday. The increase is to be effective until a conference can be held. It Is authoritatively stated that the demand made by the furnace workers in Sharon and Sharpsville, Pa., for IncreaeMi pay will be granted by the operators. The Increase will affect about 1,000 men. The deadlock between the miners and operators of the Springfield, 111., rubdistrict continues. The. miners Insist on aa Increase of from $2.10 to $2.23 per day for drivers. Operators declare they will not pay the scale. The Sharon steel hoop plant, at South Sharon, Pa., has just b?.n completed and will go into operation this week, giving employment to several hundred men. Order are booked to keep the plant in steady operation for six months. John Cudahy, president of the Paclfia Fisheries Company, said yesterday thatth report that it was to be sold to a syndicato was absolutely that the report "is tha work of a promoter, who is. no doubt, trying to get up some scheme." One of the largest redwood deals ever transacted In California has been made byIsaac Minor, sr., of Humboldt county, ho being the purchaser of some .",(K0 acres of virgin redwoods of the best quality. The deal involved about $1.0o0,00). At Danville. Va., the board of directors of the Riverside cotton mills yesterday refused the demands o'f their operatives for a ten-hour day. The operatives to-night formally declarer! a strike. This throws 1,boo operatives out of employmenL The six hundred men employed at the Oneida colliery of Coxe Bros. & Co., near Hazleton, Pa., have been locked out. Tho company wants the miners to report earlier for work, but the men refuse to do so. No move has been made for a settlement. The Cologne Volks Zeitung, calling attention to the establishment of a line of steamers between Chicago, Hamburg and Liverpool, says: "We may expect American comiM?titlon to become still sharper, particularly In grain and meat, and we may also expect damage for German shipping." Application has been made to the New York Stock-Exchange to list preferred and common shares of the United States Steel Corporation. $ööö.(h.0.CX0 of each. The application may be acted on at a special meeting of the governing committee, as the next regular meeting does not take place until a week from to-day. At a meeting of the stockholders of the American Beet Sugar Company, held at Jersey City yesterday, the old board of directors was re-elected. The annual report showed that the amount of sugar produced was 33.313. 3i0 pounds and the net profits $33, C 13.47. The preferred stock drew dividends amounting to ?2iO.O). The street railway employes of the Buffalo. Lockport, Niagara Fails and Lancaster lines asked the Buffalo Railway Company for a 10-hour day, 23 cents an- hour for motormen and conductors and certain modifications of the company's discipline. The company has announced an Increase of about 20 cents per day in wages. Among the passengers sailing from Liverpool for New York to-day by the While Star line steamer Majestic will be A. Keen, chairman of the Dowlals Iron, Steel and Coal Company, limited, and Windsor Richards, another director of this company, to study the American steel trust and Its probable effect upon British trade. In round numbers, $26.000.000 for improvement of the canals, making a barge canal' for 430-ton barges, Instead of a 3uo-ton barge canal, as recommended by the Gov ernor, is the plan that will be submitted by bill to the people of New York State. The proposed canal follows the line of tho old canal and is to be nine feet deep. A new scale of wages for employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's e'evated system went into effect ye: tetday. Men who have been in the service more thap three years will receive an Increase of 15 jrr cent., or $2.5S a day. Those who have worked three years will receive 10 per cent, and employes for two years an Increase of 5 per cent. A vast amount of building is in progress at East Liverpool. O.. and it Is likely to be brought to a complete standstill. All the painters and decorators and hod carriers struck on Monday, and a strike of carpenter and Joiners is not Improbable. With a strike of warehouse women at the potteries labor circles bid fair to be disturbed for some time. The Cleveland & Chagrin Falls Electrio Railway Company yesterday closed contracts for private right of way between Warren and Garrettsville, and It Is prolosed to build a line between these towns and have it In operation by Oct. 1. The building of this stretch of road will make a continuous electric route from Cleveland to Pittsburg. The striking marine engineers from Detroit and other points who went to Cleveland to confer with the Minnesota Steamship Company have returned to their homes, the men having refused to trrst with the company unless thejr union b recognized. The Minnesota Steamship Company is now a part of the United Stites Steel Corporation, which controls IT-' snips on the great lakes. The striking journeymen painters of Cincinnati are reporting remarkable success in their fight against the contractors who refuse to sign the new scale of $2.M per day. They have succeeded in gc-Ulrtg twenty-two firms, employing many men, to come to an agreement, so that over two hundred painters were again at work yesterday. Over four hundred men are ktlll out. but a :ettlcm;nt Is expected at an early date. The disaffection existing among the J Lanarkshire (Scotland) miners and en gineers, jo,ii or wriom are idle owing to a strike for an eight-hour day, is having an adverse effect on the steel and iron works In Scotland. Some of the ironmasters have taken steps to damp down their furnaces, while the steelmakers will stop their niils. The railroads, enabled bv th I slackness of work, are sending engineers eirue Miumris lei ouae oi me mine-. l--om of the smaller collieries have granted the eight-hour day demanded by the strikers. Presiding yesterday at a meeting of th Barrow Haematite Steel Company, th Duke of Devonshire, lord president of the British Council, took a pessimistic view ct American and other foreign competition. He said the total orders for rails given to uritisn manors in j: had not renrhd ) per cent, of the orders given during the preceding four years. Competition did net account for the whole dcreae. Either lss rails were requird or buyers were waiting In expectation of low r prices. Woman Cut In Two. AKRON. O.. April 2. Mrs. Lucy Fuller, of Barberton, was hurrying to her home to-day to prepare dinner when a freight train blocked the Baltlnure & ehlo crossing. After waiting a few minutes the woman attempted to crawl underneath tho train, when it started up suddenly and her body was cut comuleteiv