Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APKIL 9, 1901.

LTIE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, APRIL 0, If1').

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The Impudence of Captain Carter, who Btole three-rpuarters of a million of dollars, in appealing to the Supremo Court, Is simply measureless. The special English embassy to Berlin nrlll no doubt be well received by Emperor William. lie will be glad to hear that Uncle Albert Edward has been promoted. The outlook for building in this city has never been so flattering as at the present time. Times are good, and, besides, Indianapolis, without making a noise about It, Is really a rapidly growing city. There Is never a time when there, is not 'something doing" that serves to 11 XI up the newspapers, but now that Carrie Nation and Casslus Clay have temporarily subelded nothing exciting Is going on. The question now is, with those who are following the developments in the nice murder case, whether to believe Jones or Patrick or either. It is very certain that at least one of them Is a most ingenlou.3 Vand tremendous liar. Two years ago Carter Harrison's plurality in Chicago was 41,0u0, against 23,000 this year. If his friends see evidence in these figures that he is destined to cut a national figure they are more easily made hopeful than was Mark Tapley. About thi3 season of the year look dut for unusual activity on the part of walking delegates. In New York they even havo a special organization of their own. Per haps they will entertain the public by giving a six-day free-for-all walking match. One of the charges made against Attorney General Knox is that he has not taken an active part In politics, never having made a political speech. Those who know him eay that he is a very able lawyer a fact which should count for something in an attorney general. A wide-open town on Sunday is the most noticeable feature of Tom Johnson's administration in Cleveland. He abolished the corps of officers that looked after the Falobns on Sunday, thus keeping his promise to saloon keeiers before the election to be liberal with them. A contemporary says that the absence of advertisements seriously detracts from the Interest of the readers in Mr. Bryan's newspaper. This is really the case, as a large part of the readers of the up-to-date newspaper take a deep interest in the advertisements. Besides, the advertisement is of advantage to the publishers. Those who predict a collapse and widespread financial panic because of the reckless speculation in the New York stock markets, seem not to realize that the conditions are vastly different from what they were when Wall-street troubles caused general panics. The business and industry of the country are not tied to Wall street. Beeide?, there is an abundance of money not tied up In stock gambling. The intelligent people of this country will accept the statement of Governor Allen, of Porto Rico, in preference to those of yellow newspapers whose chief delight Is to find fault with their own country. These peorle are saying that the condition of the people is worse than under the Spanish regime. Governor Allen says jthc sugar crop will amount to FAO tons, against 4O.0O) under Spanish rulers, that the area of cultivated land is increasing; and that every old industry, except coffee growing. Is prosperous. Foreign merchants in the island Und fault because the system of taxation touches them. The Chicago Tribune declares that while councils have been shorn of jower in most cf the larger cit It s by recent charters, that of Chicago has not been so changed. ItJ aldermen are paid J1..VK a year, and while there have been bad Councils, that of the last two years contained a majority of able and honest men. It claims that the controlling clement of the Council elected last week is in accord with the best sentiment of the city. This Is doubtless due to the ttet that an outside committee of citizens investigated the record of candidates and approved th creditable. Furthermore, the Republican majority in the two bodies commended was and is large. If care is taken in the selection of candidates for the Council and worthy men are brought out. instead of being self-ar.t:oiinced candidates, Councils of gnat usefulness can be chosen. Beports fn m those who have watched the effect of the nntl-cantt ep law in the army indicate tha . If the object .f such legislation wes to promote temperance. It has failed. As conn as the canteens were closed In the posts near Washington, vile saloons cere opened Jut outside the reservations. The canteens being closed, the soldiers

cannot get a glass of beer or participate in a game of cards or billiards in the amusement room, so they go to the saloon, where the worst whisky and the vilest associations abound. Instead of turning over money on pay day to the paymaster to elep-it in savings banks, most of the soldi rs spend it iü the groggeries, which army authorities cannot close. With such experience. Congress, when it assembles, should have the moral courage to re-enact the canteen lav.-, or at hast repeal the act of the last Congress, which was enacted in obedience to a senseless clamor.

orit infli ence i tiii: orient. There Is good reason to believe that if the United States had not been a party in the adjustment of the troubles in China there would have been war between the powers of Europe, or China would ere this have Leen cut up and parceled out to them. The United States took a part in the adjustment of the Chinese troubles with an enviable prestige. In a brief space this government had conquered Spain and secured all of her colonies at a small cost. In this conflict and achievement we had given evidence of wonderful power as a nation. A loan bearing the lowest rate of interest known to tho world's markets was taken in a few days, and six times as much as was called for was subscribed. It was demonstrated that a larger army than any nation now has could be raised and eeiuipped in case of emergency. It was also demonstrated that while engrossed In war our industries made marvelous progress, pushing American enterprise Into the markets of the world. Before the complications in China had reached the acute stage our government had obtained the agreement of the powers that, whatever should be done in China, Ks markets would be open to the United States under conditions as favorable as those of any nation. The American judgment was that the Integrity of the territory of China should be maintained, and the powers acquiesced. When troops were sent to China the McKinley administration declared against the conquest of China and urged that the troops should bo withdrawn as soon as possible, to which the other powers agreed. To our protest against the beheading of rulers the others gave heed. While each of the other powers has mistrusted tho others, all of them knew that this government had no ulterior designs in participating In Chinese affairs. Our occupation of the Philippines gave us an advantage few of the others possessed, but the fact did not make them suspicious, because, while they might suspect their own motives, they did not suspect the United States. It is well for the world that a power so strong and so trusted by all the nations as the United States took part in this world-wide afTair. With Great Britain handicapped with the South .African war, Russia could have shaped the policy toward China as she pleased unless the others had combined against her, which was not probable. As It is, Russia defers to the United States and explains its purpose to our government In a manner and spirit of friendliness which it has not shown to other powers. Great Britain, instead of exerting a controlling influence, as was her wont years ago, has generally displayed a reluctance to agree upon any tlellnito policy, because of suspicion of Russia. Of late the chief work of England has seemed to be to destroy the faith of this government in the pledges of Russia. This has not been done, and the fact that it has not is the most hopeful feature In the elisturbed situation. It should be cause of self-congratulation to all Americans that this Nation has the confidence of tho powers to the extent that it has and that its influence upon thorn has been pacific and humane. THE BRITISH CENSIS. A London dispatch says that wiiilo the census of the United Kingdom, taken a week ago yesterday, will not be tabulated for some time, it is understood that the population of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will bo more than SO.OOO.O). This shows at a glance the comparative density of the population, as the total area of tho islands is only 121, 4SI square miles, while the United States, with 3.M3.000 square miles, has a population in round numbers of TG.OOO.W). With nearly thirty times the area of the British islands the United States has only about L'S.QoO.Otf) more inhabitants. It will be a long time before this country approximates Great Britain In density of population. Tho census just completed is the eleventh decennial census enumeration In Great Britain, corresponding therefore in number to our last census. It Is a singular fact that a census of the population of the United State was takci before one was ever taken f the population of Great Britain. Until the beginning of the present century the population of the British islands was a matter of guess work as much as that of China Is to-day. The first census in Great Britain was taken in lsOl, whereas the first in the United States was taken in 17K Since then both countries have had regular decennial censuses, ours always being in the even years and the British the year following. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the population of Great Rritaln considerably exceeded that of the United States, our census of 1S00 showing r,:v,4N3 and that of Great Britain in W31 showing 8.P-.V.;. The end of the century found the Unite; State ! fir nt-vid in nonulation. vet that of Cre.it Britain Increased also, though not nearly as fast as ours. The British censuses show a decennial Increase of from 11 to 13 per cent, in each decade, though it is said the census just completed will show less than the average per cent, of Increase. It appears that Ireland's population!. less than It was ten years hro, and probably less than at any previous time in the nineteenth century. This Is doubtless mainly due to steady and long continued emigration of the Irish people. The population of Ireland increased from 5.2:5.4.V in lS'XS to M''.507 in 1SU. which was the highest point it ever reached. From th;t time it decreased to 5.15).v0 in IsM. to 4.70-:, p;2 in lS'Jl, and now it is even less. The great tide of Irish emigration following the famine of li3 has continued steadily ever since, though not always with the same volume. It is remarkable that the population of the island at present should be only about one-half what it was fifty years ago. To attribute this to political conditions or British rule would be a. hasty conclusion, and probably erroneous. Between 1 V' and IV the namlxT of emigrants t the United States from Ireland was 2.3 11. Mi. and the nurr.Wr from England and Wales was 2,010.743. Ireland furnished larger percentnge of her imputation than the ether islands dlJ, but there Is reason to Le-

lieve that Irish, English and Welsh all

emigrated for the same reason to better their condition. Although the population of Ireland is decreasing, an enumeration of the Irish in America would show that the race is not. A curious feature about the eensus just taken is that the enumeration throughout the entire islands was made on a Sunday. This is customary in continental countries, but is believed to be a new departure in England, where Sunday observance is even more strict than In the United States. There are probably good reasons for it in the fact that workingmen, commercial travelers and some other classes are more easily found on that day than on any other. The Scientific Alliance of New York has long had In contemplation the erection of a building which should house the various societies comprising the alliance and give them tho facilities for the advancement of original research which they have long needed. Plans have now been formulated which provide few the erection of a Temple of Science to cost half a million dollars. A committee of co-operation Jncludes such men as Abrain S. Hewitt, Andrew Carnegie and William E. Dodge, and the promoters of the enterprise are confident of success. The Scientific Alliance Is composed of the New York Academy of Sciences (the oldest scientific society in New York), the Torrey Botanical Club, the New York Microscopical Society, the Linnaean Society of New York, the New York Mintralogical Club, the New York section of the American Chemical Society and the New York Entomological Society. This building Is to be to them what Burlington House in London is to the Royal, the Geological, the Chemical, the Antiquarian, the Astronomical and the Linnaean societies, which make their homes therein, or what the Palals.de l'lnstltute in Paris is to the four academies of Belles Lettres, Sciences, Beaux Arts and Sciences Morales et Politique?. The persons directly concerned feel that such a building will be a focus and radiating point of scientific influence in the metropolis, but this is a modest view. Its influence will extend to the country at large, and scientific societies everywhere will regard it as a Fource of inspiration. Therefore the erection of such a building and. the centralizing of scientific work is a matter of general interest and importance. FE0M HITHER AIID YOU. Her Main Object. Tho New Yorker. Young Husband Yes, dear, you look ni:e in that dress, but It cost me a lot of money. Young Wife Dick, dear, what do I care for money when it is a question of pleasing you? Inevitable Ignorance. Juc'se. Madge She i3 singularly deficient in the subject of history. Marjorie What else could you expect, when she spends all her time reading the popular historical novels? Horrors of AVnr. Chicago Tribune. , "But what," asked one of the mystified lisf-n-ters, "could the Kold standard possibly have had to do With the carture of AguinaKlo?" "Don't you see?" naid tho excited talker. "Funston was after the yellow boys." .nlnrnl Conclusion. Yonkers Statesman. "Is every hair in your head numbered, grandpa?" "Yes, my child." "Well, grandpa." raid the little, follow, as he contemplated th great hald spot, "you haven't got much of a head for flsures." Mliplitced Honors. Urooklyn Eagle. Willie I toe rum (entertains his sister's caller) Do you like baseball very much, Mr. Jamaica? Mr. Jamaica I never played ball much, Willie. I enjoy golfWillie lioerum (disappointedly) Why, I heard pa tell Susan you was a great catch! HAZING AT HARVARD. Two Student AlleKeil to Have Keen Tortured by Secret Societies. NEW YORK. April 8. -A special to the Herald from Boston says: "The cruelty practiced in the Initiation of members Into the exclusive secret societies of Harvard, made public through the serious injuries received by Enos S. T. Richardson, of New York, and A. W. Hasck, ef Boston, both of whom have been under the doctors' care for several weeks, is giving the members of the faculty considerable concern. Several professors said that no official action would be taken by the college authorities until the return of President Eliot, who is expected here soon. Richard Derby, president of lelta Kappa Epsilon Society, by which the alleged hazing was done, admits that in the cases of Richardson and Mason it was severe and that since they went through the initiation the system has been changed. Dr. Walcott. who is acting president of Harvard during the absence of Dr. Eliot, says he was not aware that any cruelties were being practiced until he received a very vigorous letter in regard to the matter. "The question is how to stop them." he said. "About thirty years ago Harvard assumed the position that she could not be responsible lor the way in which the stc-dents spent their time. The only way is for the students who are asked to join the society to refuse to submit to actions which are degrading, not only to themselves, but to the college. The faculty has the power to exercise discipline, and if it so choose it might rule that public initiations be discontinued." CARTER SEEKING LIBERTY. DialionoM Army- Otllcer Applle to the Supreme Court for Ball. WASHINGTON. April S.-A motion was made in the United States Supreme Court to-day by the Hon. Jeremiah Wilson for the admission of Captain Oberlin M. Carter to bail. Solicitor General Richards gave notice that he would resist the motion on behalf of the United States Court and he was given five days In which to prepare a brief. Captain Carter Is now a serving a five years' sentence In the Leavenworth penitentiary for defrauding the government. In his motion in Carter's behalf Mr. Wilson set forth that Carter had paid his fine of ?ö.iX and had been dismissed from the service. Also that he had begun habeas corpus proceedings to test the validity of the proceedings against him. He also alleges impaired health and the necessity of liberty in order to prepare for his ease. Affidavits of physicians were filed to the effect that Carter is suffering from nervous disorders, headache, loss of memory, etc. In Good II nltli. LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. April 8. Warren MrCl.uighry, of the federal prison, raid to-u!t;ht that Oberlin M. Carter appeared to be in good health. He was attending to his duties without complaint and lias not been under medical treatimnt for a long period. The city physician, the warden states, made an examination of Carter to be used In the application for hatx-is corpv s. but he had not teen the certificates and did not know what their report was. Carter, he sal.!, had made no complaint about his health and he had no reason tu believe that It was other than good.

ALLOWED SIX MONTHS

CLAIMANTS MIST FILE STATEMENTS BEFORE MIDNIGHT, OCT. S. Rnle Formulated by the SpnnNh Claims Commission Indiana He publican Club Presidency. WASHINGTON, April S. The so-called Spanish claims commission, appointed by the President, under the act of Congress approved March 2, li)l, to carry into effect the stipulations of Article 7 of the treaty between the United States and Spain at the conclusion of the late war, met to-day. All of the members of the committee wero present, as follows: Will'am E. Chandler, president; Parett J. Diekema, James Perrywood, William A. Maury and Willlarn L. Chambers. The commission went Into executive session and formulated Rule 1, for the government of the commission, and attorney for the complainants, which, when the open session was resumed, was reported as follows: "All claims of citizens of the Uni.. 1 States against Spain which the UnL--L States agreed to adjudicate and settle by Article 7, must bo filed within six months of the said meeting of the commission: that is to say. from 12 o'clock midnight of the Jth day of October, and every claim not tiled within such time will be forever barred, but the commision may receive claims presented within six months after the termination of said period of time. If i-uch claimants shall establish to the satis faction o? the commission good reasons for not presenting tue same earlier. "Every claim prosecuted before said commission shall be presented bj petition, setting forth concisely and without unnecessary repetition the facts upon which the claim Is based, together with an Itemized schedule se.Ving forth all damages claimed. Said petitioi shall also state the full name, the residence and the citizenship of the claimant and the amount of damages sought to be recovered, and shall pray judgment on the facts and the law. It shall be signed by the claimant or his attorney or legal representative, and be verified by the affidavit of the claimant, his agent, attorney or legal representative, it shall be filed with the clerk of the commission, and the prosecution of the claim shall be deemed to have been commenced at the date of such filing." The members of the commission, headed by Senator Chandler, later called on the I'resident in a body to pay their respects. VOl (i HEPl I1LICANS WIN. Choose Ni. If. linker for President of the I n! hi nr. Club. Fa cial to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, April S.-N. H. Baker, of Portland,, was selected by the nominating committee for president of the Indiana Republican Association. The election is to be next Saturday night. He is superintendent of carriers in the Washington city postoffiee. He represents the younger clement of the association. Last year there was some friction between the older and younger elements. The latter tried to organize a separate association, but finally gave up the attempt and acted with the old members in the established organization. Now the younger element seems to control the association by securing the president. Mr. Baker is in the classified civil service and there is some criticism of his selection for a purely political office, criticism that may result in the matter being taken up by the National Civil-service Reform League. If so, Mr. Foulke, who is a member of the league's investigating committee, would be charged with the duty of calling the matter to the attention of the authorities. Frank Shermin has been appointed a substitute letter carrier at Elwood. Joseph l'edigo, of Lebanon, has been admitted to practice before the Interior Dcpa rtment. , The bond of William A. Taggart, as postmaster at Art. ('lay county, was approved and commission issued to-day. Life Insurance Ilecislon. WASHINGTON, April 8.-In deciding the case of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company against William M. Warren the United States Supreme Court affirmed the validity of Section C625 of tho Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, providing that no answer to an interrogatory made by an applicant for a life insurance policy shall bar the right to recover unless it Is proved that such answer was fraudulently made. The eleeision was in favor of Warren, and in handing it down Chief Justice Fuller remarked that "It was for th-5 Legislature of Ohio to define the public policy of that State In respect to life Insurance, and to impose such conditions of the transaction of business by life insurance companies within the States as was deemed best." The Supreme Court advanced the hearing in the case of Ewing against the United States, fixing the time for argument for the LMh of October next. The case involves back pay claimed to be due postmasters, amounting in the aggregate to Si.OOO.CUO. Alumni r.KK-Hnll In KT Fete. WASHINGTON, April 8. The picturesque egg-rolling fete of the children of Washington took place on the White House grounds to-day. The gathering of the multitude of youngsters of all ages, sizes and colors in the large terraced grounds back of the White House each year for their Easter frolic is the sight of Washington. The Marine Band. which usually furnishes music for the children on these occasions, is away on a tour of the country, and in order not to deprive the children of this enlivening feature of their day the Fourth Artillery Band at Fort Monroe was ordered here and played throughout the day. Mrs. McKinley, whose love for children Is well known, enjoys these frolics intensely, and to-day spent most of the time at her window or on the White House veranda watching the little folks' sport. Minister I.oomi. I.enve Iaiffiinyrn. WASHINGTON. April S. The Navy Department received .a cablegram from Commander Sargent, of the Scorpion, to-day announcing the departure of that vessel from Laguayra for San Juan. Although no mention was made i:i the dispatch of Mr. Loonds it is understood that he is aboard the Scorpion and will be transferred at San Juan to a merchant steamer for conveyance to thel"nited States. The minister will arrive at San Juan Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, and If he meets a steamer there promptly should be in New York the Thursday following, the ISth inst. Appointments hy the President. WASHINGTON, April S. The President to-day made the following appointments: John W. Cable to be naval officer of customs in the district of Baltimore, Md.; Henry S. Mathewson to be passed assistant surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States and the following to be warrant machinists in the navy: Charles Hosung. David Purdon. William J. Trevtrrow and James W. Murray. M I SCEI.LA HOIS N EWS. Torpedo Boat Perry Not Fast Enongh Holiday for Ex-Soldier. P. C. Knox, the new attorney general, left Pittsburg last night, fcr Washington, and will assume the duties of his new position at once, attending the Cabinet meeting to-day. The Prtsident and Mrs. McKinley dined, last night, with Senator and Mrs. Iianna. The party included also Mrs. Hobart. Gariett Hobart. her son. Lieutenant McKinley, Mrs. J. G. Brooks and other guests at the White House. The naval ship Supply, now at the New York navy yard, is to be overhauled and refitted as a station ship for the island of Guam. She wid take the place of th collier Brutus, which is now on her way to the United States to be laid up for repairs. The Mexican ambassador yesterday received from the secretary of state a draft for 52.1 paid out of humane consideration and without reference to the question of liability, as full indemnity to the heirs of Florentine' Suaste, a Mexican citizen, who was lynched in La Salle county, Texas, in IS! '5. Representative Gibson, of Tennessee, asked the lresident yesterday for some additional army appointments. One of the arguments he used to show that his district was entitled to more lieutenants was the production of tigurcs showing that the en

listments at Knoxvllle In February were larger than at any city in the United States except New York. Gen. S. M. B. Young, who has just returned from the Philippines and who is to command the Department of California, paid President McKinley a brief ofticial visit yesterday. He also called at the War Department. General Young did not discuss conditions in the Philippines with the I'resident, but hastened to the bedside of his son-in-law. Major John T. Knight, who is seriously ill. The reported increase of duties at Vladivostock on American machinery. Iron and steel has not been made the subject of a special communication to the State Department. It is supposed, however, that the imperial decree retaliating upon the United States for. the imposition of discriminating eiuties on Russian sugar, already reported, has just reached the far East and that it is the basis of the news dispatch. The commissions appointed to select sites in Washlneton for the proposed monuments to Grant. Sheridan and McClellan, met yesterday at Secretary Root's oilice. The latter, by virtue of his position, is chairman of each commission. Senator Wetmore is also a member of each commission. Associated with the secretary of war and Senator Wetmore are Gen. Grenville Dodge, on the Grant commission; General Corbin. on the Sheridan commission, and General Buggies, on the McClellan commission. No decisions have yet been reached. The State Department has received from United States Consul Ingersoll at Cartagena a copy of the decree issued by the Colombian government fixing export duties upon certain products of that country. The duties are payable in the national paper currency of Colombia, which is rated at $1 paper to 10 cents gold. Some of the duties on the more important articles are $3 per 100 pounds on cleaned coffee. $5 on manufactured tobacco. $5 on crude rubber, $2 on raw cotton and 53 on cattle hides. Ores and minerals are taxed $23 per metric ton. The President to-day issued the following executive order: "It is hereby ordered that on Tuesday, the 9th inst., such employes of the executive departments, the government printing office and the navyyard and station as serveel in the military or naval service of the United States in the late civil war or the Spanish-American war shall be excused from duty at 1 o'clock p. m. for the remainder of that day to enable them to participate In the exercises of the unveiling of the statue erected to the memory of the late Gen. John A. Logan." General Grosvenor. of Ohio, who is making the arrangements for the trip of the Ohio congressional delegation to attend the launching of the battleship Ohio at San Francisco, was at the White House yesterday in consultation with Secretary Cortelyou. The delegation will travel in a private car and will go over a different route from either that of the President or the Ohio gubernatorial party. They will go to New Orleans from Cincinnati and expect to join the pesidential party at Los Angeles, Cal. The route of the return trip has not been determined. Postmaster General Smith has Issued an order strictly prohibiting the creation or maintenance In any postofiice of a surplus or emergency fund derived from fines or from parts of salary withheld for any reason and directing that any moneys thus derived shall be regularly reported to the department. The order is due to information that has reached the postmaster general recently that in some postofilces it has for many years been the practice to maintain such a fund for use in furnishing supplies. The postmaster general stamps such practice as not only irregular but liable to abuse. Secretary Hay has issued a call for a first meeting of the government commission of the Louisiana purchase exposition for the Southern Hotel, Si. Louis, April 23. Secretary Long was informed yesterday that the torpedo boat Perry, built by the Union iron works, of San Francisco, failed

to meet contract speed requirements on her recent official trial. Under the contract the vessel was required to develop a speed of twenty-nine knots an hour, but the best she could do on her trial run was knots per hour. The action of the department has not yet been determined, but the vessel will probably be accepted subject to a slight deduction from the contract price. Governor Allen, of Porto Rico, to-day had a long conference with Secretary Root. The secretary was greatly interested in the details of the organization of the new Porto Rican regiment, which will be recruited from natives of the island. The Governor made arrangements for ex hanging the arms of the insular police of Porto Rico. This force numbers 60) men and has proved very serviceable in ridding the outlying districts of bandits. They have been given jurisdiction recently over towns having less than fi.OOu inhabitants. They are armed with old-fashioned Springfields. but by the arrangement made to-day these will be exchanged for the latest pattern of breech-loading carbines. CHINESE BEBEL. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) regard this sickness of Yang Yu as occurring in good faith, but looked upon It as a device to avoid action. The St. Petersburg dispatches now state that Yang Yu's sickness has so increased since his last interview with Count Lamsdorff that he. may have to withdraw. This is accepted here In well-posted quarters as a delicate intimation that the Russian government has expressed its disapproval in such a way that Yang Yu's withdrawal will follow in consequence. But there appears to be an outward avoidance of any rupture. It Is said that Yang Yu's term ended about a year ago. and that he then asked to return to Peking. The government acceded, and Quai Chun did not go to St. Petersburg, but remained to become a member of the Tsung LI Yamen. Should Yang Yu retire now, it will b claimed that it Is in accordance with the prior programme. In case thei'5 proves to be an interruption of the relations between Russia and China it is not exacted to disarrange the negotiations between the powers and China or between Russia and the powers. It probably would be confined to a termination of the close entente long maintained between Russia and China. A brief dispatch from General Chaffee was received to-day, but beyond the record of a casualty to a private soldier its contents are withheld from the public. It is believetl that the unpublished portion of the dispatch refers to the declination of the other foreign military commanders to reduce the number of fortified posts and the strength of the garrisons between Pc-king and the sea to the proportions suggested by General Chaffee under direction of his government. Mr. RockhilKs advices to the State Department regarding the negotiations at Peking are more hopeful in tone than they were a week ago, but It Is still apparent that the subject of indemnity is bound to consume much more time. This is owing to the original difficulty, namely, the excessive demands of one at least of the great European powers. A minimum claimed by one nation for Indemnity to the amount of JTo.KoO.Oon, with conditions attached that might swell it to IKJO.CiO.ono, would, If allowed, leave all the other powers in the aggregate an equal sum for division between them. The ministers have been assured by the best technical authority that China's ability to pay a money indemnity is limited to the sum of about $200,(KX),(r.J or Ji'iO.OW.toO. Chlnn. to He nn Anierlenn Colony." VIENNA. April 9. The French economist, M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu, In an article in the Neues Wiener Tageblatt, discussing which civilized nation Is likely to exploit China, says: "It is probable that the chief role will fall to the United States, especially when the Nlcaraguan canal has been cut. China will then, for economic purposes, become an American colony. The Americans know this and their whole attitude during recent events has been marked by finesse and foresight." Jnpanene Ilelleved. YOKOHAMA, Apiil 8. The news of Russia's decision not to press the Manchurian agreement was received here with a feeling of relief. In anticipation of complications that might ensue had Russij. reached another conclusion the government had resolved to postpone a number of important state undertakings Involving large expenditures. Mr. Notion Wants Her Hatchetx. TOPEKA. Kan., April 8. Mrs. Carrie Nation says she will sue the city for some of her hatchets, which are now in the popsession of the police department. The hatchets were taken from her on the occasions of her several arrests during the saloon-smashing days. She made a demand on the chief of police for tne hatchets today, but was refused. Tho Killed, Twit Badly Scalded. OGDEN, Utah. April S. West-bound' Southern Pacific passenger train No. 1, drawn by two locomotives, was wrecked at Mores Hill, near Wells. Nev.. last night. Fireman Hickman, of Ogden, and Fireman Loder, of Wells. Nev., were killed, and Engineers Warner, of Wells, and Bride, of Ogden, were badly scalded. A bioken truck caused half the train to leave the track. The two mall cura were burned, cremating F.lckman

NO CONTRACT SCHOOLS

LAST WILL DISAPPEAR WITH END OF PRESENT FISCAL YEA It. Education of Inelinn Will Be I nder Direct Super inion and Control of the Federal Go eminent. Fi'ird to tho Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. April S. The government is now entering upon its last three months of relations with the ordinary contract schools for Indian children. The appropriation act which becomes operative on July 1 contains no provision for contracts with any school, except Hampton Institute, which has been retained because of its exceptional character. It is absolutely undenominational. It is a missionary institution in the sense that it trains young Indians to go out among their people and educate them actively in the ways of civilization, and its record of actual results exceeds that of any other school. It has the b?st discipline and the broadest and most wholesome spirit of any; It wastes no time or energy in blowing Its own trumpet, but gives its whole attention to the work it has in hand. It is untheatrical and it is thorough. Nobody who knews how to differentiate the work of the various schools begrudges Hampton its splendid success, and the continued confidence of the government. The programme of changing Indian education from the contract or mixed school establishment to the uniform system of government ownership and control began in 1S!3, when Congress plainly announced its purpose to eliminate the old order by degress at the rate of 20 per cent, per j-ear. In the meantime providing whatever additional facilities might be needed to care for the children taken out of the custody of religious schools and others under private management. Some of the churches interested In the contracts insisted that the effect of such a policy would be to leave a multitude of children finally without educational opportunities. Once or twice Congress faltered in carrying out its plan, owing to the political fears of certain members lest offense be given to denominations of great strength and Influence in their constituencies. But in the main it clung to the rule it has laid down. Between the fiscal years lSs5 and 1!')0 the government spent ?3,:'03,?JS on contract schools, of which the largest share, J3.it"?.43, went to the Roman Catholics, and the smallest, $1,52;J, to an experiment of m single year with a privately conducted sehend at Middle-ton, Cal. The denomination which stood next to the Roman Catholic In the account of its beneficences from the government was the Presbyterian, which received $:Ö2,4T0, and was out oil wholly after 1S!'1. The Congregational Church was cut off at the same time, having drawn $210.(111. The Friends came next with 5170.377. and stopped after is: 3. The Protestant Episcopal Church stopped the next year, having taken ?12.;.:J1!. No other denominations reached the $100,000 murk. The Lutherans received ?3,7'iO: t ho Unitarians, $12.r. and the Methodists, f 33.9-13. The Baptists, who have always most zealously insisted upon the entire separation of church and state, conducted their school with their ewn money and refused any government aid. The Roman Catholic was the last to claim as such its share of the contract fund. Tho government has offered to buy outright such of its schools as it was willing to sell at a fair valuation, but it does not feel justified in letting those It now has pass out of Its hands, except upon the understanding that, though under government auspices, they shall continue their religious teaching. As this was impracticable the Indian Office recently sent a formal letter to the Catholic Educatfonnl Bureau asking it to designate the children under the care of the church who would he left without school privilege by the final severance of relations between the church and the government, and received the answer that it knew of none: the church would henceforth take care of Its own. Meanwhile, the government has been Increasing its educational plant steadily so as to absorb not only the children gradually left out by the extinction of one contract after another, but also the natural Increase in the ascertained Indian school population. Going back to lsi3 as a convenient point of departure for the comparison, it appears that the enrollme-nt in the contract schools dwindled year by year from a total of 6,125 in that year to ",h In l!i, whereas In the same period the enrollment at the government schools has Increased from 14.710 to 22.124, and the average attendance is now growing In numbers at the rate of about a thousand a year. It is probable the next step to be taken by the government will be the establishment of some system of compulsory education. Whenever the social and other conditions make it practicable to carry on o-edueation of the race in public school. in the West, the government arranges to place its young Indian wards in white schools, and make a contribution to the district school fund at the rate of $10 a heael for the Indian contingent In lieu of the school tax levied in the case of white children. There are comparatively few cases, however, where the experiment has proved succcsful enough to encourage a hope of its continuance. In one white school in Michigan forty-one Indian pupils are enrolled; in three in Nebraska and one In Wisconsin there are twenty or more; two in Nebraska and one in Washington have more than ten, but the rest run to low figures. The twenty-two white district schools in which Indians are taken are sprinkled through eight States and one Territory, and the average of actual attendance is only IIS in all. The experiment has been only ten years -in progress. It made its greatest upward stride during Dr. Hailmann's service as Superintendent of Indian schools, hut tho decline has been steady since 1V7. The statistics here given no not, of course. Include either the State ot New York, which assumes care of its own Indian children, or the live civilized tribes in Indian Territory. L0UBET AT NICE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAG HA tions demanding that the government expel the religious orders from Spain. At Comma the manlfestants paraded, shouting "Down with the Jesuits!" and "Down with the convents!" They stoned th Jesuits' cedlege and the offices of the clerical newspapers. PLAN XIX TO ItAISi: MOM'.V. Great Britain Jin) Tai Sllneriu Wntcrs nnd Coal Exports. NEW YORK April S. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: "Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is saild.o be considering the advisability of putting a small tax on mlnetal waters. There cannot be any doubt that such a tax would bring In a large sum of money to the treasury. Jn London alone iWvO is now spent annually on mineral waters, while it has been computed that in the whede United Kingdom eight times that amount is spent, and besides the enormous quantities of minerals consumed at home more than a million dozen were exported last year. At the present time mineral waters pay nothing to the revenue and they could with advantage to their ejuallty bear some portion of the burden of extra taxation that will have? to be imposed. Colliery owners me fearing a tax upon exported coal. In :) no fewer than 4'.!'U"o tons of coal were c-xported by Great Britain, aril the buirc ef these exports w nt r.ot to the colonies, but to foreign countries." m THE GAINSBOBOlC.il PORTRAIT. It In Novr Snfely Lock! I'p in London Mr. .iKitru'd Statement. LONDON, April S. C. Morelanl Agn-w. on his arrival at Liverpool, on the steamer Etruria, this morning, admitted that he bad the Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. Mr. Agnew himself carried the picture ashore and proceeded to London. On his arrival her' Mr. Agnew handed over the picture to the clerks and detectives, who deposited It In a safe In the office. Mr. Agnew says the statements to the effect that "Pat" Sheedy had anything to do with the recovery of the picture nre not true, und that he. Mr. Andrew Agnew.

did not pay any money In America. The bill for the detective work In the United States will be pall through Scotland Yard.. "The papers are filled with many misleading statements concerning the Gainsborough." added Mr. Agnew. i went to America wit.i many misgivrtgs. after so rr.;nj' years of search. When I reached New York I found it necessary to proceed to Chicago, w here I met the "linke rtons. Ry the most natural process In the world the portrait was turned over to me by them. The simple statement that it had been recovered in one .of the Western States was In accordance with instructions from Scotland Yard. So far as I am concerne-d the history of the picture during its irtention for a charter of a century is hs much a mystery to me as It Is to the rest ef the world. The portrait is in as perfect a state of preservation as any Gainsborough I ever saw. All stories Implicating a former American millionaire, who is now destitute. ;.re new to me. All I know is that the picture was given by In Chle.iuo and that it Is the original portrait." It has been long since any Incident lias cieated such a s nsation as the recovery of the Gainsborough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. Every morning paper has long cabled accounts, interviews and editorials dealing with the mysterious affair, and much gratification is expressed. Good King; Chrtfttinn'K Birthday. COPENHAGEN. April S.-The eightythird birthday of King Chrhtlan was celebrated to-day everywhere In Denmark. The King is in quite good health and received the congratulations of officials, diplomats and other dignitaries. The streets of the city were crowded and in the square in front of the Aamalienborg palace several thousand people constantly cheered the King, who. in response, appeared on the balcony with his elaughtcrs. At the banquet given to-night at the Crown Prince's palace, the crown prince. Prince Frederick, toasted the King, his father. Queen Alexandra and Dowager Empress Marie, of Russia, who have been attending the celebration, leave here to-morrow. Queen Alexandra will go to Cronberg for a few days and will thence return home. Cable Noted. Six fresh cases of bubonic plague In Cape Town were officially reported yesterday. Fire destroyed twenty-five houses in Andover. Hampshire. Eng.. this mornlns. rendering 13) iersons homeless. The big sprudel spring at Nauheim, which suddenly ceased to flow last week, has begun flowing again, although In less volume than before. According to a dispatch from Cairo to the London Dally Mail the bubonic plague has reappeared in Egypt, one case having occurred in Alexandria. ' Imports Into Cape Colony last year aggregated 17.im1im. those from Great Britain amounting to 13."0om and those from the United States, 111,772,0. To-day Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg will attain his majority and begin his reign in Schwerin with solemn ceremonies and festivities. It is semi-officlally announced that Emperor William Is sending Lieut. Von Usedom to England to show King Edward tha new uniform for German troops in foreign service. The Cape Town correspondent of the London' Daily Mail wires that Cexil Rhodes, who is at Kimberly, Is now in good health, having recovered from .a recent slight Indisposition. The Very Rev. Frederick W. Farrar. Dean of Canterbury, whose condition has lor the last few days caused anxiety, was restless Sunday night, and yesterday showed no improvement. Robert and Walter Pattlson. of Edinburgh, who were managing directors of the Pattlson whisky linn, which failed, in lVis with a deficiency of iisn.uut, were arrested yesterday in connection with the flotation! of a company. The arrests promise to revive the sensation which followed the failure of the wh ky firm, which ruined a number of small firms. The Turkish Freemasons have sent to King Edward a curious appeal on behalf of the unfortunate Mourad. elder brother of Abdul Hamid, who reigned ns Sultan under the name of Amurath V. lor three months and was then deposed on the ground ef insanity. The appeal refers to him as "one who for the last quarter of a century has been imprisoned on the pretext of i mental malady," and begs King Edward to use his influence to secure tho freedom of a brother Mason. -Emperor William, Empress Victoria and the imperial princes have lately indulged in equestrian exercise every afternoon In the Thiergarten, l'esterday after luncheon taken Jn the Chateau Bellevue. In the Thiergarten, the whr!e party sallied forth on horseback with a numerous cortege. The Emperor stopped a boy on roller skates the son of a German-American residing in Berlin and inquired about the sport. All the princes gathered around, examining the skates. The boy gave full information to the Emperor, who took the address of the American firm that supplied the youngster.

EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES. Retired Dentist Goes to n Cemetery nnd Shoots Himself. PITTSBURG, Pa., April S.-Dr. Henry Manchester, seventy-five years old. a prominent retired dentist of Allegheny, committed suicide in the Allegheny cemetery at 5:30 o'clock this evening by bhootlng himself behind the left ear with a revolver. About a year ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis and fear that another attack would prove fatal caused him to take hla life. Broker Tnlke Poison. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April b. Frederick Gove Cochran, aged fifty-five, a broker on the Merchants' Exchange, committed suicide to-day, by taking cyanide of potassium, at his residence in Clayton, St. Louis county. Business troubles are supiMmed to have been the cause. I.nu)-rr I "Ire u lliillrt Into Hlntnrlf. BOSCOBEL. Wis., April .-Paul Meyer, one of the most prominent lawyers of tho State, committed suicide to-day by shooting. No cause is assigned for the deed. I Self-l)pntrntloii Note. Jar.c Uecker, aged sixty-six year, jumped into a cistern in the rear of her home, at Columbus, ., and drowned herself. She had been ill for some time and grew despondent. William Mrasek. aged twenty-one ycrs. In a lit of despondency brought on by illness, eommitted suicide at Memphis yesterday by shooting himself throush tho riebt temple. The young man went to Memphis from Alton. J 1 1 . . last September. Guy Anderson committed suicide pear Waco, Neb., on Sunday, adopting a peculiarly shocking means of ending his life. He "wrapped barbed wire around himself and tied the wire to a post at a strawstack, then ipniitd the straw and cut his throat. He died in horrible agony. The body of the nude woman found Sunday in Erie basin was Identified last nignt as that of Mrs. Bridget Keyes. of New York. The Identification was made by tho woman's son, who said that his motheT, who had been acting queerly for some tim left home before daylight Sunday morning. It has not yet leen settled how she got rid of her clothes or in what manner she got into the river. TO WED A COUNT. Marie Satterfield, n IUeli American c;irl, to Mnrry nn Austrian. NEW YORK, April S.-The romantics ! r:ory cf the courtship of Miss Marie Satj lerfield. the daughter of Mrs. John Satter field. of Buffalo, and Franz Josef. Count Von Iirisch. of Austria, has become known at Allentown. Pa., through friends of the coupl", according to a special to the Journal and Advertiser. The prospective bride, who has jut reached her majority, met her future husband a ye ;rr ago. while touriviz the contlrunt The con?if who i ty-two, came to America several months . a;,n, propose,! marriage and was accepted. , The Empress of Austria is his aunt, and when be was baptized the Empror stool as his sponsor, became i.s godfather and gave hlra bis name. Miss Satterfield and the count arc visiting Allentown. Prince Heinrich, one of the manv Aus trlan prince nnd a eloe friend of ths count, is expected in New York, on Wcdnes. day, and the formal announcement ef the engagement Is then exjcted. Mis S.ittertieid's father, who was connected with th Standard Oil Company, tiled suddenly. In Europe, a few yearn ago. and left the future countess an independent fortune.