Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1901 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1!3I

r!ty. The n ppraranee of th" plague In tiilaterlor wouM be a matter if some surpri - to the ollicia!? of the ser I e, ;i- tli.it .jckrcss 1 more- apt to manifest it If at the c.ijort e itles. TO TEST IIIIITIMI cattle.

Canadian l'.nrt I l.oiulon Will Innjift shipment t(t Aiiierlen. WASHINGTON. April "-Am a n-s--f.lt of M cotl atl-ms between Secretary of Agriculture V:lvn ari l th- inadl .i mini.-ter of egricultur' an atrro mnt lias 1 n reu hd tftween the two administratives ly which t'.inaili is to li.te a It r.-t -t i.u v-t rina ri in Mat'oned In England to test for tt.b-rcit-l sis all Eritish cattle f hipp d to this c ountry yla 'an.n'a. The in idi.iri ndrnlnistratlon want'-il cattb- to 1.- admitted from Canada, without t4ts at th'- bonb-r by American experts. Th" department ut "Washington would riot agree4 to this. Se -rotary Wilson Fair!, however, that If Cm1.1 would J-nl to England an ;.Knt who should have suM! ii r.t expert knnwlcil- of the subject the l"nt"l States would ;i.lmi cattle upon his certificate that th att 1 ha! been tested ami found fre-e of tuberculosis. ThSa was agreed to liy the Canadian minister . It is o'lielally explained that about per cent, of tlve liv.- .stock in the 1'nlted States and about 4' pr cent. In (Jrcat Eritaiu liavc tuberculosis. The cattle on the continent of Europe are so disrated that this Ecvernmcnt will not permit the admission of any animals from there. "WntelilnKr Foot und Month UNfnitp. WASHINGTON. April 7.-The officials of the Agricultural Iep(rtment are closely watchlng all reports from abroad ret; irdlng the extent of the foot and mouth disease, a fatal malady that is raging among the live Btock In almost every country throughout Kuro;e. For the last three years the outbreak has been general on the European continent, and the reports constantly arriving from various foreign points do not indicate any diminution in its extent. ThM government, as it has done since the epidemic reached such alarming dimensions. Is refusing to admit any cattle, sheep or swine, except from the iJritish isles. This Is lone not only to protect the vast live tock interests of this country, but also to protect our $r,!).)).oi or JHimUhjQ annual export trade in. cattle. DEFIES THE LAW. Archbishop Ilrtichc! Defines His Position In the Del pi t Case. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 7. Archbishop Uruchesi to-day Issued a pastoral letter dealing with the judgment In the Delpit case, which declared marriage of Catholics by non-Catholics legal. "All unions," says the archbishop, "contracted with invaliding impediment for which competent authority has not granted dispensation, even though civil power looks upon such unions as valid and legal, must be considered as null and invalid. This is u point f)( doctrine that cannot be denied without faith be shipwrecked." The archbishop concluded by pronouncing sentence of excommunication on all those who disobey the laws of the church concerning marriage, reserving the right to himself and the vicar ge neral to absolve those who become guilty of such a fault. WARRANTS FOR DEFALCATION Issued Against Prominent Colorado Investment ltrokers. COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., April 7. A. 13. Moulder and George S. Cheesman, brokers of Colorado Springs, disappeared two weeks ago and warrants have been Issued lor their arrest on charges of defalcation. The firm. It is alleged, held stocks an 1 securities for various clients to the amount ot They did business under the name of the Mouleler-Cheesman Investment Company, and were supposed to be in good l'nanclal condition. Moulder is a bachelor and was a prominent clubman here. Mr. und Mrs. Cheeman were social leaders. SHOT A WITNESS. Sinn Inder Indictment at Columbus Objected to Testimony. COLUMIiUS, O.. April 7. Charles Miller, tinder Indictment for highway robbery, this afternoon attempted to kill Jacob Tinderman, a saloon keeper, to prevent the latter testifying against him. Ilinderman, it wa3 said, would give damaging testimony against Miller, and when the former refused to Fay that he would not tell what he knew Miller shouted: "Then 1 11 kill you," and drawing a ' revolver shot at limderman, who received the bullet in his arm. Hystanders disarmed Miller and punished him severely, breaking his jaw and inllicting other injuries that necessitated his removal to the Emergency Hospital. Strikers Accept it Compromise. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. April 7. The' journeymen painters and decorators compromised on their strike, and to-morrow morning, it I announced, all the men v. ill return to work. There were several things the men struck for, but the most important feature was for an increase in wages. They ciemanded cents an hour, but this morning agreed to accept U2i cents an hour. WEATHER FORECAST. Prohn bly Fair To-Uny, with it Prospect for Showers To-.Morrow. WASHINGTON. April 7,-Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Ohio Generally fair on Monday. Tuesday cloudy; probable showers; fresh north to east winds. For Lower Michigan Fair on Monday. Tuesday partly cloudy, probable rain in northern rmrtion; fresh north to northeast winds. For Indiana and Illinois Fair on Monday. Tuesday cloudy, probable rain; fresh north to northeast winds. For Kcntucky-Partly cloudy on Monday; probably warmer; north to cast winds Tuesday showers; probably colder. Local Observations on Sunday. r.ar. Thr. H.H. Wind. Weather. Tre a. m..'J .is 41 m; N'wt.xt. ci. iuiv. oo 7 p. m..3.0S 46 ft) N'west. Cloudy. Maximum temperature. 4S; minimum temperature. 2. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for April 7: 1 , Temp. Pre. formal 5; A-: Mean 41 Departure from normal ; Departure since April 1 Departure since Jan. 1 211 151 -it:s. C. F. It. WAPPKNIIANS. Local Forecast OtIici;U. Yesterday's Tempera tu res. Stations. Min. Max. 7 p. m. .Atlanta. Ga Pisrr.-irck. N. I)... PufTalo. N. Y Calgary. N. W. T.. Chicago. Hi ... 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TO BEGIN WORK TO-DAY

mi.m:i.s will operate i ni:it Tin: AEW V.(ii: COVIItACT. Sat' I) nnniiil at Frankfurt Scarcity of I.nlnir nt "nlali Hoy 1)1' xim Hesutt of an Assault. i.i! t' th4 In !i;n."p'!'. J-iiirr..d. TFIUti: II A FT L. Ind., April 7.-The latst reports from the Indian bituminous j coal held ar- to th" effect that the miner;; will all b - at work to-morrow. The most ; serious objection to complying with the contract signed here lat Wednesday was on the part of some of the men in the4 Lin ton field, but It is now known that the men will not go to the extreme of striking agalrst the contract made by their own delegates. Then4 Is complaint that President Van Horn surrendered the powder principle, hut as a matter of fact he was one of the last to yield, and only when he found that, unl ss he did so, the prospect was very good for a long lockout for the men. The delegates to the miiurs' convention adopted the operators' proposition by a majority vote, ami should any miners go on an unauthorized strike they would place a stigma on their own organization. Local Labor ot Obtainable. Special V the Indlar.nilis Jouir.nl. WADASII. Ind., April 7. The Wabash River Traction Company, which is building the interurban electric Jine between Wabash and Peru, has imported a considerable force of Italians to work on the grade and lay track. The company expected to employ local labor exclusively, but it was fount! Impossible to engage men In sufllclent numbers to push the work. Track laying Is now In progress at Rich Valley, this county. FlKht carloads of steel rails sixty feet long to ro into the track In this city arrived here to-day. HOIIIlCIt WltlXKCI) Tili: SAFK. Centered n Store nt Frankfort,' but Secured Little Plunder. Special to tho Inliana'Hlis Journal. FRANKKORT, Ind., April 7.-About 2.C0 o'clock this morning thieves dynamited the safe in the general store of C. A. Marshall, and fired three or four shots at the proprietor, who came out of his residence, next door, after hearing tho explosion. The whole town was aroused, but the thieves escaped, with but little booty. When Mr. Marshall, with his wife and his clerk, James Johnson, appeared at th-'. door, the robbers tired three or four shots. The shooting aroused Elmer Miller, living across the street, and Miller opened fire on the robbers, who fled. A posse of citizens was soon aroused and started in pursuit, but boon abandoned the chase. The safe was a wreck, but the thieves only succeeded in getting live dollars, the remainder of the $UJ it contained being found scattered about the store. Mr. Marshall says that before the robbers open eel tire they warned him to get back in the house. oFFHits a si:ttli:mi;xt. A "Way Opening to Adjust Kdmund Palmer's Hank Troubles. NASHVILLE. 111., April 7. -At a conference with attorneys Edmund Talmer, president of the defunct private banks at Ashley and Desplalnes, 111., and Emmettsvllle, Ind., offered to settle with the creditors of the Ashley Institution at 50 cents on the dollar and give his notes for the balance. The offer was accepted and Palmer expects to make the settlement the latter part of this week. In the meantime he will remain under guard in this city. The preliminary trial of Walter Oitlll, cashier of the Ashley bank., charged with embezzlement, has been contlnue-d pending the settlement by Palmer. The money with which Palmer expects to pay his Ashley creditors has been advanced by Chicago friends. RIOT IX A CIIIHCTI. Preacher lladly Hurt In a House of Worship nt lllunoil. ELWOOD, Ind., April 7. Last night, during a convention of the members of the Holiness Church, which Is being held In this city, the Hev. Mr. Hass, in the midst ot his discourse was attacked by a gang of drunken rowdies, their ages ranging from seventeen to twenty years. Mr. Hass was knocked down and trampled upon in his pulpit. A general scrimmage took place, the women and children fainting and screaming. A riot call was sent in and the police arrested three members of the gang, 'the thurch afttxr the riot resembled being struck by a cyclone instead of being a house of worship. Suit Over n tins Contract. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., April 7. A case of much Importance has be'en brought here on a change of venue from Randolph county. It is that of Orla Kennan against tho Rock Oil Company, of Winchester. The tlefendant is under contract to furnish gas at Winchester at a pressure of eight ounces, at a stipulated price. The plaintiff claims gas has not been supplied at that pressure and that In March last the company refuse ! the usual pay and ilemanded that he put In a meter, threatening to turn off the gas unless he did. The plaintiff asks damages and that the company be compelled to accept the price heretofore paid and furnish the pressure provided In the ordinance. HrouKbt Tho Trunks Full of Holes. Special to the lnlinnaiolia Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. April 7. Rev. J. Howell Tyke, for twenty years a Methodist missionary in China. Is home from the Orient, coming elirect from Tien-Tsin, where he with others was long besieged by the Roxcrs. Mr. Pyke brought with him abundant e vidences of the hostility of the Celestials. The two trunks he brought home have in all 154 bullet holes In them. The trunks were used in barricading their quarters, and the clothing and other articles in them were riddled and ruined by the incessant volleys of lead. Mr. Pyke's family preceded him home several weeks, starting when the women and children were ordered out of the besieged city. Publican In Hard Lines. Spec id to the In.Iianaj'oli! J" irr.al. KOKOMO. Ind.. April 7. John R. Mason, the Russiavllle saloon keeper, was convicted in the Circuit Court here on Saturday of illegal selling and given a $4') line and thirty days' jail sentence. Mason conducted an allegetl clubhouse, which was In reality an unlicensed retail establishment. Mason's saloon at Sedalia. Clinton county, was 'destroyed by dynamite a few days ago. His places have been destroyed several times by enraged citizens, elynamitc being the means employed. Last week Mason's ten-year-old son :-hot a man. and the father must make his defense in the courts for shooting with intent to kill. Methodist Church Dedicated. Special tit tht ln.liann;.)lls J urrnil. ELWOOD. Ind.. April 7. The new M. E. Church which was dedicated here to-day was erected at a cost of lit.iMl. While the weather was not the most desirable, yet lutwee-n 2.5oO and n.io people were present. Dr. 1. I. Ives, of Auburn. N. Y.. preached the dedicatory sermon, assisted by Presiding Elder M. S. Marble. Pastor J. A. Realty. L. M. Krider and T. M. Guild. The church Is built of buff Red ford stone and is handsomely furnished on the Interior. It has a seating capacity of l,5oo. A portion of the cost of the church ha J already been raised, and till.: morning Dr. Ives raised the remaining JJaku. Sealed Verdict In u .Murder Case. Sp rial to the Indianapolis Jo "mal. TKRHE HAFTE, Ind. April 7. The jury In the trial of Charles Rogers, indicted for the murder of Mllburn Itaty, returned a scaled verdict this rnornins. after being

out twelve hours, and the verdict will not be made known until to-morrow morning. Tho common helief is that the Jury has given him a, life sentence. Hogers was tried In a hurry, the crime having been committed on March 1. to allay the public belief aroused at the time of the lynching of George Ward a fev, days before, that the courts failed to impose speedy and sure punishment.

Sun day Weddings In Indiana. Sj rl;d to the In li.M'.ui ' !!. Jnurrnl. SFYMOUIt. Ind., April 7 Sunday evening at 7 o'clock Thomas Newsome and Mis Anna Locknian, both of tins city, were rnite.i in marriage at the Methodist parsor.rsKe by the Hev. Dr. U. II. Vest. They will make their home here. i:iINIFl:G. Ind.. April 7.-The marriage of Virgil llavron ami Miss KlTie Hord. two well-known young people of IMinburg. tcok place this evening at S o'clock, tho Hev. I)r Iaicas oflkiating. The newjv wedded couple will reside at Louisville, K.v.. where the groom is engaged in business. Heavy Shipment to Europe. r inl to the Indiana oils Journal. WARASII. Ind.. April 7.-Fiftecn cars of strawboard made at the Wabash paper mill were to-day shipped to Liverpool. The consignment goes by way of Newport News. Va., and the Chesapeake & Ohio line of ocean steamers. About Ma; 1 the paper company will load an entire train of twenty cars with strawboard for export to Europe ami will run it through to tidewater on fast time as a special. l'arltinui Athletics. Sjiecial to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. April 7. Miami Fniversity. Oxford. O., and Earlham College, this city, have reached an agreement as to the dual athletic meet to be held May 11. The only change made in the programme is that two representative's of each school will be alloted to take part In the bicycle lace, Instead of one. The ,;thletie season will open at Earlham next Saturday with a ball game with Miami. I!ys Injuries Were rntnl. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART. Ind.. April 7.TAdclbert McCoy, aged sixteen, died to-night of injuries inflicted two weeks ago by Bert Swarms, aged twenty-three, a farmer, now under arrest. The parties were joking each other and Swarms became angry and assaulted the boy. Indiana Obituary. AURORA, Ind., April 7. Capt. John S. Gugoldt, late captain in the Thirty-second Indiana Infantry Regiment during the ciT. war, died here this morning. He bail been suffering from rheumatism and was unable to walk for over ten years. SEYMOFR, Ind., April 7. Mrs. Josephine Moore, widow of the late Frank Moore-, died here at the home of her father, C. C. it-aacs, this morning. Indiana Xotes. Muncie citizen already have begun preparations for the entertainment of the State Encampment of the Sons of Veterans and Its auxiliary society on July 2, 3 and 4 next. Honan Camp, Union Veteran iVglon, of Seymour, will observe "Appomattox day" with a special programme next Tuesday evening. City Attorney John M. Lewis wid deliver the oration. Next week the Rev. Stephen Stanton Myrick will leave Richmond for San Francisco, whence he will sail, on April 17, for Singapore. He has been chosen master of mathematics in the Anglo-Chlncse school in that city. The much-advertisil wedding of Samuel Deeter, aged seventy-three, and Lucy Havens, the "Laporte fat girl." aged twenty-seven, took place at Union City yesterday afternoon before a small audience. It was a common law ceremony. Charles Marlatt, a prominent Democrat of Richmond, as being urged on Governor Durbin for the appointment as State tax commissioner to succeed Parks M. Martin. Mr. Marlatt is one of the few Democrats who has ever held ofllce in Wayne county, and is one of the well-known MaSons of the State. The agents for the McCormick Harvesting Company in six counties adjacent to Crawfordsville banqueted at the Robbin home Saturday night. A. R. Jleiskell, of Indianapolis, the State manager of the collection department, was present as a guest. There were fifty covers laid. Several speeches were made. ' 31 ARK ET VAGARIES. Rig Profits tlint Small Investors Sometimes Make W. G. Nicholas, in New York Te-legraph. Great stories are told about the winnings of privilege traders around the Stock Exchange. Just before the market started on its present wild boom it had a halting spell, and the overwhelming weight of opinion in the street was that the time for a long reaction was overdue. So strong was this feeling that sellers of privileges offered extraordinary inducements to stimulate ambition on the part of the little bulls to invest In calls. Tne could not believe that prices could go higher, and had no hesitancy In selling paper against a rise on almost any terms offered. It was like taking money away from the buyers of. calls, and figures were made close to prevailing quotations good for long periods. For a ten-dollar note calls were bought on Rock Island, Rurlington, Missouri Pacific and other stocks which netted the purchasers many hundreds of dollars. On case is mentioned where a little player made J.O) on a two-day call on 10) shares of Rurlington, for which he paid an even $1'. The bucket Shops, consolidated houses and public resorfs In New and Broad streets and Broadway are crowded with excited men with their pockets bulging with more money than they have seen in twenty years. It is the harvest time for the small investors as well as the plungers. The season Is riotous when the white chip players can sit into the blue chip game and take full stacks, like real Stock Exchange men. Such seasons como once every thirty years, and last from ten to sixty days. The late Samuel J. Tilden once remarked that the greatest book yet to be written was "The Influence of Imagination on Prices." The author of such a work could pick up a few valuable suggestions In Wall street if he should visit that quarter about this time. Asked to account for the sustaining power of the stock market at prevailing high prices, Mr. J. Seligman, the millionaire banker, impressively remarked that it is "because there is not enough goods on the shelves to supply the demand." He forgot to add that the printing presses are hard at work to meet the deficiency, and that If the buying public will only contain its soul in patience a little longer there may be enough to go around. Fatally Assnulteel by u llobber. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. April 7. Mrs. Isabel Thompson, aged sixty-seven years, was fatally wounded last night by a footpad, who. in attempting to rob her as she was coming home from church, crushed her skull with a coupling pin. She was found after mldnipht and is now at the City Hospitay in a dying condition. There is no clew to the footpad. During tne winter ciht people have been more or less seriously injured by footpads. .ot the Company's President. DENVER. Col.. April 7. Joseph B. Adams, of this city, who caused the arrest of Miss Florence Morrison, a vaudeville actress, in Chicago on Saturday on a charge of larceny. Is a well-Known mining promoter, but the statement in the Chicago dispatches that he is president of the Gregg Mining Investment Company was an error. The president of that company Is Nathan Gregg, of this city. Will Entertain the President. DENVER. Col., April 7. The nonpartisan committee of twenty-one citizens, including Fnited States Senators Toller and Patterson. ex-Senator Woleott and Congressmen P.ell and Shafroth. will receive and entertain President McKinley upon his visit to Denver. The President is expected to spend three days In Colorado one at Denver, one at Colorado Springs and one on Pike's Peak. o Verdlci I'nder the Xew Lair. SALINA. Kan., April 7. Th first trial of a "Jolntlst" under the new Hurrell law, which makes It a misdemeanor to be found in possession of spirituous liquors, resulted In no verdict here late last night, and the Jury was discharged. It was the case of Henry Stevens and wife, whose place was raided by the sheriff recently. The passage of the law was a result of the temperance crusade started by Mrs. Nation.

CIVIL GOVERNMENT PLAN

PHILIPPINE COMMISSION PREPARES U.NE FUit .Mit. It (JOT. It Provides for nu Appointive Leufs lature. Cabinet and (imernor Organizing the Fro luces. CAGAYAN. Mindanao. P. I.. April 7.-In response' to interrogatories from Mr. Elihu Root. Fnited States secretary of war, the Philippine commission has prepared recommendations as to the form of general civil government to be established for the Philippines on July 1. and to continue until Congress shall have organized a permanent government for the archipelago. This temporary civil government Is expected to consist of a Governor, a Cabinet and a Legislative Council, and it is believed that the members of the present commission will act as the principal advisers of Governor General Tuft, although there probably will be a few Filipinos in the Council. All the members of the provincial legislature will be appointed. The commission will reach Manila on May 1. after establishing provincial governments In all the large central islands excepting Samar and Mindoro. As soon as routine business has been disposed of, the commission will proceed to the organization of every remaining province In the Island of Luzon, and will also deal with the matter of city government for Manila. Conferences last week with many Moros, Mindanao tribesmen and others confirmed the members of the commission in their intention not to substitute provincial for departmental government in Mindanao and the Sulu group, except by the organization ef the province of northern Mindanao. Judge Taft says the matter of abolishing slavery can and will be handled deliberately and tactfully, but that no legislation affecting polygamy among the savages is probable. Caplstrano. In a speech of welcome to the commissioners, participated in to-day's discussion at Misamis. After completing the work of organization there the commission visited Dapltan. Thirtieth Infantry nt Chicago. CHICAGO. April 7. The Thirtieth Vol unteer Infantry, just returned from tho Philippines, arrived home at midnight. In spite of the lateness of the hour there was a considerable gathering of parents, brothers, sisters and sweethearts at the station to greet the homecomers. I'L'.N STOX'S I XFO It 31 ATI OX. Florida Soldier Claims to Have Furnished the Letters. NEW YORK, April 7. A special to the World from Lake City, Fla., says: "J. D. Taylor, a prominent citizen of this city, has received a letter from his son, Lieut. James D. Taylor, jr., of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, which shows that the young man. with kindness and seven cigars, won over seven Filipinos and secured the information which enabled Gen. Funston to capture Aguinaldo. In a modest, matter-of-fact way, the lieutenant tells his father about his clever exploit and of General Funston's full acknowledgment of his services. The letter, dated at Bantabangan, Philippine islanos, Feb. 18, l'JOl, Is In part as follows: "On Feb. S seven Insurrectos, with one rifle and six cartridges, presented themselves. They were pretty well scarred up. and I fed them, gave them a cigar each and asked them a few questions, and they answered me with all kinds of lies. "I told them they were tired, and no doubt wanted to see their families, so, after signing the oath of allegiance, they could go home and report the next morning, ready to tell the truth. . "The neju morning they came in a little more at ease and told a different tale. By questioning I found they had concealed some letters In the woods, and I went right out and got them. After reading their letters I found that they had not told me the whole truth, and began questioning them again, and found that Aguinaldo was In the town they came from and all about him. "Two days later I got his special messenger, who had all orders from Aguinaldo to his generals and letters of great importance. I hurried him with all letters out that night at moonrise, and in three days he was in Manila. For my work I received the inclosed message from General Funston, signed by his adjutant: "General Funston desires to express his thanks to and appreciation of your judgment and energy in getting the valuable letters and Information from Agulnaldo's messengers. Also please convey his appreciation to your presldente.' " WOMAN'S NUDE BODY Furnishes Brooklyn with Another Murder Theory. NEW YORK. April 7. The Brooklyn police have In their possession the nude body of a woman which was taken Jrom the Erie basin to-day. and are working upon, the theory of a possible murder. The body was that of a woman about thirty-seven years old and weighing about 103 pounds. There are abrasions on the back and left ankle. The suicide theory in the cast4, the jtollce think, will hardly hold good, because of the fact that there was nothing on the body except a pair of well-worn Oxford ties. Even the stockings were missing. It Is believed that the body had not been in the water more than forty-eight hours. MORE PLAGUE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Lremen. The papers mention similar instances elsewhere. DIAL PItESSlItE EX EH TED. Suppression of Macedonia Committee Explained at Vienna. VIENNA. April 7. The arrest of the leading members of the Macedonian committee Friday night at Sofia, Bulgaria, causes great satisfaction. It was probably due to pressure from Russia and Turkey, although the official reason given Is that the committee was preparing a rising In Macedonia. The revelations at the trial of the Bulgarians at Salonica regarding the revolutionary aims of the committee may also have hastened the denouement. As the committee counts many thousands of adherents in Bulgaria, trouble may result. Prince Ferdinand is at Men tone. Premier's Condition I'nehnnKed. PARIS, April 7. There was no important change to-day In the condition of M. Wal-deck-Rousseau, and President Loubet, whose movements have been materially affected recently by the illness of the premier, started for Nice on his way to Toulon to greet the visiting Italian squadron under the Duke of Genoa. M. Loubet was accompanied by M. De'.casse. minister of foreign affairs, and General Andre, minister of war. Army Cyclists Lost in the Itahi. LONDON, April S. In the volunteer cyclists' maneuvers ordered by the British War Office the attack on London this morning proved that the military value of wheelmen Is largely dependent on the weather. The attacking force outgeneraled the defenders, but iost so many men In the rain and owing to bad roads that It Was unable to attack In force at the proper time. Italian Fleet Off for Toulon. LA SPEZIA, Italy, March 7.-The Italian squedron sailed for Toulon to-day in two divisions, the first commanded by the Duke of Genoa, consisting of six Ironclads and two torpedo boats, and the second und-r Rear Admiral Coltellettl. consisting of seven Ironclads and one torpedo boat. The Duks

o Genoa bears an autograph letter from Kng Victor Emmanuel to President Lou-be'.

Salisbury nt Ileaulieti. NICE, April 8. Lord Saiisb try has arrived at' Pcaulleu. He v-? but little affected by the journey from I.ond v.. Strikers Will Return to Work. MARSEILLES. April 7. The striking dockers- to-day decided to resume work on Tuesday next. OBITUARY. Augustus Ilj rniu, A aliforniu Argonaut of the Ifas of 'I5. CHICAGO. April 7. Augustus Byram. one of the pioneer mining operators of the far West, is dend at his Michigan-avenue home, In this city. He was scventy-clgbt years of age and had not been actively engaged In his business for nearly thhrty years. Mr. Byram went from Kentucky to California during the gold excitement of 14D, and later engaged In freighting from the Missouri river to the West over the old Santa Fe trail. Subsequently he became interested with Jay Cooke and others In big mining properties of Utah and Colorado. He at one time was sole owner of th-i Great Horn silver mine in Utah. CLAIMS TO BE CHARLES NEGRO IX THE PESTHOl Sil IX A MISSISSIPPI TOWN. Confesses Hint He Is the Cause of the Xew Orleans Klots of Lust Year His Story in Detail. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 7.-The Commercial Appeal to-morrow will publish the following: "A negro giving the name of Levi Charles and claiming to be the desIerado who killed Captain John T. Day and Patrolman Peter J. Lamb, and caused the death of ten other persons and the wounding of thirty men, women and children at New Orleans, from July 21 to July 27, Ii, lies at the point of death In a pesthouse at Clarksdale, Miss. "To-day Police Captain Mason received a telephone message at the police station from Dr. Martin, health oflicer at Clarksdale, Miss., in which the doctor said a negro was received at the pesthouse from Love's lumber camp, suffering with smallpox. The negro, realizing that he was about to die, called Dr. Martin to him and made a startling confession. He said that his name is Levi Charles, and that he had killed a woman and two policemen at New Orleans. He says he escaped from that city and made his way to Mississippi, where he assumed the name of George Peters. "The negro says he has killed seven persons. He declares that while going under the name of George Peters he killed three men whoso names were George Faintly, George Roberts and R. Moore. He also confesses to the murder of two women whose names he does not give. "If the negro is Levi Charles, alias Robert Charles, the murderer of Police Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb, the police of New Orleans have made a mistake in stating they killed him." Not Known In .New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La., April 7. The police arc certain that Robert Charles, the I -dice murderer, was killed here. They say his body was fully identified. Charles had two brothers, but it is said they were both killed In Mississippi before Charles was killed in New Orleans. The local police say some one of Charles's confederates may have escaped from the house where he made his last stand, but no Levi Charlca Is known here. STILL HOLDS THE FORT. Clay Has Secured n Cook find I Working on His Autobiography. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 7. Gen. Casslus M. Clay is still holding the feirt alone, and no one was admitted to White Hall to-day except James Bolin, his bodyguard. Yesterday General Clay intimated that he would live on a supply of meat and canned goods, which he had stored away, but he changed his mind this morning and ordered Bolin. who lives about a hundred yards from the mansion, to have his wife prepare his meals. General Clay is working on the second volume of his autobiography, which will contain the secrets of his private life and Is to be published only after his death. The first volume, a record of his public life, has already appeared, but the circulation is limited, as only Clay's intimate friends received copies. Xo Reason to Stay In Prison. Chicago News. No person with a drop of sporting blood in his veins can fail to appreciate the fine play made yesterday by Mr. Sampson, some time sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery. Mr. Sampson was duly convicted. The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the carrying out of the rentence. It seemed that the prisoner was bound to spend a pentitentlal term with the stonebreakers at Jollet. But as a matter of fact the game had only begun. By a sort of legal three-bag hit the prisoner at once freed himself from the meshes of the law and squared off for an entirely new Inning, thereby possibly astonishing those simpleminded persons who supposed that conviction of a felony in open court ended the play. A judge of the Circuit Court Issued the writ which put the prisoner back in the arena and gave him a new chance to try his luck with justice. No convicted felon, possessed of the price of an attorney fee, rued go to jail until he has made justice play blind-man's buff with him. The bench loves a good game. There are some 11,0; technical points on which a condemned man may be hrouqht back and reinstated in the tunning. This Is not an admirable condition from the point of view of those who would rather see felons in the penitentiary than out; but it adds immensely to the zest of life for the privileged persons who sit in the grand stand and watch the game. Wisdom in the Custom. Brooklyn Eagle. The editor or the scissors man of the Daily Saratogian errs in thinking that the cjuestion of precedence in official movement and social life at the federal capital is unimportant. It is based upon historical succession. Incumbents of Cabinet offices are placed in the order of the date of the creation of their departments by law. Nothing could be more just or more preventive of confusion, hurly-burly and unseemliness. When an American custom has existed for over 111 years the Saratogian will do well to conclude that it is more likely to be right than wrung, sensible than foolish, and necessary than without cause. Mr. NVu Will Visit Charlotte. CHARLOTTE. N. C. April 7.-D. A. Tomp'kins. president of the Manutaeturers Club, to-day received a letter from Minister Wu Tingfang, dated Washlngtcn. in which the Chines..; minister accepts an invitation extended to h'm on behaif of the be ard of governors of tho 'harloue Manufacturers' Club, to b-eo're the nucst of the club at a banquet on lite Dth of Arril. His Probable Recantation. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Missionaries In China demand that Mark Twain recant some of his statements In a recent magazine article, but it is predicted that unless Mark has changed wonderfuny and very recently, his recantation will consist In pushing his pen in deeper and turning it around. Din In Fine Health. MEXICO CITY. April 7.-President Diaz has returned from a hunting expedition and Is in line physical condition. TO ClitE A COLD IX OXE DAY TaUo Laxative Bromo-Qulnlne Tablets. 25c

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31 AS S. CI 11 SETTS AND XEW 1IAMPSHIRE TOWNS IN I ANtiEIl. Flood and Spring Tide Will Cause DnimiK To-l)u Reports of Many Bodies Afloat In the Stream. HAVERHILL, Mass.. April 7. From th.4 Pemlgswassel valley in the north to tho confluence of the Merrimac river with th.4 sea the freshet reports received here tonight indicated that the Merrimac river is likely to burst its banks at many places with a volume of water that will exceed all records for many years. The police sounded the flood alarm to-night and business nun on the river front began energetic efforts to protect their property. At a late hour the levee water was within two end a half feet of the street, and as high tid-? comes to-morrow it is expected that streets on a level with the levee will be Hooded. All day communication was kept up with cities on the Merrimac and its tributaries, Plymouth, and Laconla reporting a rainfall during the night of 1.72 inches. At Manchester to-night the water was six fe.'i five inches on the dam, and the rise at the Lawrence dam was five inches hourly. The more active volume of water, whlcli to-night was overflowing the lowlands at Concord and Manchester, will not reach here until to-morrow noon, so the greater part of the damage will not be done until that time. There were also all sorts of reports during the day of bodies being seen in the river, but none could be Intercepted. A woman's body is known to have floated down from Lawrence, and It was understood that a man's body and one of an infant bad been seen below Lowell. 1 ALL RIVERS ROOMING. Xew England Towns In Danger of Da mime 1- Water. BOSTON, April 7.-The intermittent rains of the past week will result, in many parts of New England, where streams have extensive watersheds, in freshets, and the damage may equal that suffered during any spring for a score or more of years. It was a little early to-night to estimate just what the losses might be in life and property, but the Associated Press reports from places on nearly all the large rivers in New England Indicate great damage4. The warm rains have made inroads Into the unusual amount of lee and snow In northern Vermont and Maine, so that the great rivers which drain those areas will be overtaxed for two or three days to carry off the water. The great floods are in St. Croix river, the Penobscott and Kennebec rivers, their manifold tributaries, and the great chain of lakes in Maine, the Merrimac river, fed by its main arteries, which find their sources in New Hampshire4, and that other great waterway, the Connecticut, which gathers together the water of about all the rest of New England. Danger Line ut Pittsburg. PITTSBURG, April 7. The danger, line was passed by the rivers here at 3 o'clock this afternoon. At 7 o'clock to-night the flood reached its crest and the decline Is expected to-morrow morning. Beyond llooling cellars in the lower portion of the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny no damage was done. The Pittsburg Ä; Western Itallroad was abandoned from Bennet Station to. Allegheny on account of the tracks being covered by water at several low places. The Weather Bureau sent out a flood warning this morning through the police departments of the two cities, and as a resuit hundreds of families spent Easter morning making a periodical move to upper stories in their homes. Can at! a Town Flooded. MONTREAL, Quebec, April 7. Telephone advices received from Richmond, Quebec, this evening, announce that the business portion of that town rests in the midst of a raging torrent. At 10 o'clock the granite piers of the steel bridge, erected a few years ago at a cost of $46.000 were carried away, wrecking the structure. The tracks of the Grand Trunk (Portland, Me.) line are under water for a considerable distance. The people were compelled to take refuge In houses on the hills back of the town. THE ALLIED ARMIES IX CHINA. Quality nnd Performance of Soldler of Different Nations. George Lynch, In the Independent. Living and camping with the men of these various forces on an expedition such as this very severe march to Peking, one got a very close insight into the comparative discipline, the equipment, the endurance and the lighting or soldier spirit in them, as well as Into the working of their transport, commissariat, army medical corps, etc. The standard of comfort of the Unitel States soldier Is far and away higher than that of any soldier in the world. The United States commissaries in Peking were a perfect godsend for procuring luxuries which could not be obtained In any others. In discipline I mean the obvious discipline, the surface discipline If you wish, the discipline that was apparent to the eye of the spectator the American soldiers were wofully lacking and would compete with the French for the last place among the allied forces, but when real fighting is to be done they generally manage to get there, fight well and shoot straight. In sharply marked contrast to every other arm of their service, the Japanese cavalry were an absurd caricature. This Is not altogether surprising when we bear In mind how unused to horses is the average Japanese. He has not the instinct of caring for horses which is ingrained in those who are accustomed to them from childhood. In every other branch of their service It appeared to me that they equaled. If they did not surpass, the best of the allied troops In China. Their extreme mobility in the field was a revelation, all their movements seemed to le done on the double, and there was a verve, go and activity about them that was simply delightful to watch. The old fighting or soldier spirit of Japan seems still actively burning In the breast of every little Jap. They sing as they light, and fght with the frolic welcome of schoolboys who love the game they are playing. Their disregard of life Is extraordinary. Quite in contrast this spring and go and fighting spirit appears conspicuous by its absence in the German. He appears to be the acme of the manufactured soldier, the soldier who is the result of laborious and accurate drill. On parade their drill showed up superior to that of any of the other allies. But. then, it was stiff, wooden and mechanical to a degree, and It would b curious to observe, when occasion should arise, owing to severe losses among the officers, how this human me-chanism manufactured on the parade ground would work when thrown on its own resources and when obliged to rely on his own individuality. Roush, uncouth, heavy, slow-moving, but giving one the idea of great stubbornness and endurance, the Russians appeared to be In many respects the best war soldiers of the lot. They almost equal the Japanese In the simplicity of their diet. Although slow In movement, they are capable of executing extremely long marches. The regiments of colonial French troops which accompanied the original expedition may be passed unnoticed, for they lacked nearly every soldier-like quality of conduct or equipment. They were simply beneath contempt. The-y distinguished themselves chle'ly by their looting exploits and by the;r outrages on the Chinese, more particularly upon the women, and compete.! successfully with the Russians and the Germans for the first place among those who were to disgrace Western civilization In the Orici-t Big Price for 11 Xovel. Boston Journal Local. Twenty-five cents a word is the price which reiiort has it a Boston publishing bouse has offered Sienkiewlcz. the author of "Quo Vadis," for a new and as yet unwritten novel. The story, which is said to have originated In Iondon. has been given, general circulation In literary circles in this country as well as In England. It says that Little, Brown Är Co., who have pub'.i.-hed Jeremiah Curtin's translations Into English of all of Sienklewlcz's previous works, have made this preposition. The firm has made James W. Mclntyre. one of Its members, its spokesman, and he will neither atlirm nor deny the truth of the report, nor admit that any suCh negotiations as are rumored are under way. The story for which this extraordinary price Is said to have been offered Is tiescribed as an historical romance of Poland

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WROUGHT IRON ,0 try 9 I 1 0 e t Boiler Tubes, Mill Supplies, Plumbers Supplies, Pumps and Well Materials. Indianapolis, - Ind. EBERHART 122 Capitol Avenue, South. New Phone, lJiL Old Phone, 2 on In the4 seventeenth century. All of Sienkiewicz's novels are long ones, averaging 2'.w) words, which would, of course, n;akj the remuneration $VUM. They have on the average, in the past, taken about a year for writini;. The author's income from "Quo Vadls." on which he probably spent considerably more than a year, reckoned cn the basis of a lu per cent, royalty for the Ta'c.w) copies soid. has been In the neighborhood of $15,001. GAGE AND THE BONDS. Crip Reply to the CrltlcUm of Itee4nt Market Piireliimeit. Chicago Post. There Is apparently considerable misconstruction and ill-grounded critkifm tf Secretary Gage's purchase of $.! ,01'O.tA'O 4 per cent, bonds. Only last Monday, It Is said, he stated in an elaborate interview that the conditions in the money market did not demand any special relief measures on ths treasury's part, and that neither an Increase in government deposits nor th-5 purchase of short-term securities at an artificial price was contemplated by tho department. Yet within twenty-four hours of this positive declaration he accepted tho aforesaid $2.0uo,oO) offer, cemeiude tho critics, with an ominous and significant tcne. Is not Mr. Gage's acuon strange, illogical, suspicious? No, dear wiseacres. A careful reading of his Monday interview will dissipate all harrowing doubts and all preposterous charges of indirect aid to tho steel combination. What did the secretary s-ay? That in no circumstances would bo use any part of the treasury surplus In buying in government bonds? Not at all. He stated that he would rather allow funds to accumulate in the treasury than pay hx abnormally high price for bonds which, according to every known rule of llnar.ee. ought to be worth considerably less than long-term obligations. Rut he distinctly added that "at a proper price" he would be willing to buy bond and relieve the treasury of a surplus which might prove prejudicial to general business affairs. Indeed, his interview concluded with these words: "If. however, the partment can from timo to time buy tho short bonds at an investment rale realizable to the Investor who buys the new 2 per cents, it will not hesitate to do so should Uhe present market price for th new twos remain about on the present basis." What was this but a virtual invitation :o the holders of the short-term bonds to eiffer them at a fair, logical price? Where, then, I a the Inconsistency In accepting an offer of this kind? There Is absolutely no mystery in the transaction, and Mr. Game's policy Is perfectly plain. It Is bis right, if not his positive duty, to retire annually a certain amount of Interest-bearing obligations. Two days ago the net treas ury balance stood at $1.4 1.1.0. 0. which was about $23.000,000 higher than at the begin nlng of October. The surplus is growing, and will continue to grow until July 1, when the revenue reduction law takes rfect. There will be r.o stringency, but the purchase of several millions' worth of bonds will do no barm. CONSOLIDATIONS PLAXXEP. Railroad Scheme Thnt Point to Gov ernnient Ownership. New York Telegraph. , It is a far cry from community of ownership schemes now in process among tho railroad magnates to government ownerFhip, yet such a conclusion Is not regarded as improbable by many of the best financiers of Wall street. The great ones of the street have U-en working for consolidation of the leading trunk lines for many years and are more certain now than ever before of the ultimate success of the ambitious .project, but they are moving with exceeding caution. They have made wonderful strides with In the last twenty-four months and ats taking a rest for a little while in order t develop other plans which, while completes in themselves, have the added use of familiarizing the public with t ho idea of the culminating consolidation of the age. Ths billion-dollar steel trut, for instance, will be In a sense an educator, and will pre para the public for the erganizatlon of a $.1. tin.M) or 4.0inl,0''0.() transportation trust. Beyond that the magnates do not sea clearly. They are reasonably sure of being able within the next few years to carry out the huge railroad amalgamation, but they are not so certain that the people Will take kindly to the results once the deal M an accomplished fact. The uncertainty 0:1 that point Is not a deterrent, however. Par from It. for they believe they will be abls to direct attack against themselves to their advantage and profit by selling their railroads to the Kovernment. "Very well," they can say to the masses. If complaint is made of the concentration of power In few hands. "If you don't like our way of doing the transportation ef the country take our property off our hand and run it yourselves. We are ready at any time to sell to the government and Ftep down and out. Pay us a fair price and we will surrender the business to the federal authorities. It may be that the complaints lodged and the objections raised against consolidation In private hands ar well grounded. Still, we have Invested our money in the business and cannot pet it out unless Congress steps in and afford relief. Take our railroads and give u bonds for what they are worth and tha errangement can be cjulckly made." Advanced thought In the financial quarter sees In the success of the plans of consociation now under way and in contemplation the only method by which government ownership can ever be accomplished. So long as tho railroads are under a scon or a hundred separate controls no headwa toward national ownership is possible. Cneler the direction of a small group of individuals negotiations might be easily carried to a satisfactory llnish. letting the Individuals out and the government Into the pror'.etorship of the greatest tru.-t developed under our modern civilization. Harel 5erulblng. Brooklyn Eagle. The Washerwomen's and Scrubwomen' Prion, of Heading. Pa., has disbanded. It bad twenty-seven members, but th-y cul 1 not Ik4 p. rsuaded to attend the tnertings or pay salaries promptly to the walking dei,. pite and strike committee. These women's clubs are awfully hard to manage, anyv.av. Lest You Forget We Say It Yet Uneeda Biscuit

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