Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1901.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. MAY S. 10ul.

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Private Information has been received in Washington to the effect that the Cuban commissioners, since their return to Havana, have formulated a report recommending, to the constitutional convention tho absolute acceptance of the Piatt amendment, and that, in their opinion, the sooner this is done the better It will be for Cuba. It was the only rational conclusion to reach. The rise of twenty-three points in Northern Pacific Railroad stock on Monday Is said to have been without a precedent on the New York Stock Exchange, though it afterwards fell off several points. Tho extraordinary rise in this particular stock had the effect of advancing the entire market, and tho sales for the day were 2.3T.0.250 shares. It will b; strange if somebody does not get badly hurt. President McKlnley's allusion In his speech at El Paso to the impossibility of Imperialism as a feature of American policy was calculated to allay any fear on that ecore that might exist across the Mexcian border. Ills remarks were quite to the point, and when he paid "We know no imperlallsm In the United States except the Imperialism of a sovereign people" he Etatd a truth which all other nations should bear In mind. Agricultural experts say the resources of Porto Pico will never be fully known until the planters learn the value of rotating crops. Under the system pursued there from time immemorial fields are planted In sugar cane year after year until they are worn out, when the planter says they "are tired," and abandons them. Americans will probably make fortunes by buying those tired lands for a song and restoring them by fertilizers and rational treatment. The enthusiastic reception of the representatives of the British royal family in far-away Australia is striking evidence of the vitality of a government that can not only hold colonies all over the world, but Inspire its most distant subjects with the deepest loyalty. A royal progress of Edward VII, in England, would not cause more enthusiasm than did the arrival of his son, the Duke of Cornwall and York, In Melbourne. The fact that the export coa! tax of ?3 cents a ton passed the House of Commons by a majority of 1C, shown that the present government is strongly Intrenched and has its supporters well In hand. The tax is very unpopular among the people at large, and no doubt many of thu members who roted for it were personally opposed to it, but they subordinated their private opinions to party fealty and duty to the government. It remains to bo seen what effect the tax will have on British interests, but It is almost sure to inure to the adk'antkge of the United States. The secretary of the interior ha3 addressed a letter to the Governor of eich State asking for detailed reports as to tho safeguards thrown about thermal and medical waters within the borders of the State. The information Is desired for the International Commission of Medical Hydrology, which will meet in Berlin shortly. As far as this State is concerned the report mu.-t be th.-it there has been no legislation on the subject, and whatever safoffuarJs have been adopted are of a private character. Some of tho springs In this State are already noted for the medicinal qualities of their waters and will become more so as time parses and several cf the deep wells are producing waters of equal value, but as they are all private property tho State lus nothing to do with protecting or managing: them. This will probably strike foreigners as a strange way of dealing with Puch properties, but it is the American way and. pernios, as good as any. Jt is somewhat strange, by the way. that no state geologist has yet made a fatlsfactury report regarding the medicinal springs and we'ls of Indiana. The subject possesses geological as well as hygienic interest, and should be thoroughly treated. A movement for the suppression of the opium trrde with China has resulted In the preparation cf a memorial which has aire :it!y been numerously signed for presentation to the P.-iv;.:. nt. that la the negotiations with Cl.ir. i th IV.ited States tak th Initiative in pro;,.,, jr-.g a.) intrntatp. nil . .'i-rt err nt by uhkh the Chinese government s.h.:Il hive the j o,v. r to pro-hibit'th-trml. As far as- the Unite,! States Is concerned it already j r 1:1 :i t s American from taking o,.ki:a into China, and that i B5 far as it can g . Urv:!andV treaty with China prevent. th? latter from levying a prohibitory tariff on opium or forbidding Iti Importation, as Minister Wu Tingfar.g tays she would do If th- treaties permitted. Itusrla prohibit! the opium trade in Mantw.rJa. as Japan dots In her territory. The

establishment and maintenance of the trade by Great Britain is much to her discredit, but the use of opium has now become so much a part of Chinese life that it is doubtful If the government would dare to prohibit Its importation, even if it were at liberty under the treaty with Great Britain to do to.

A.MIIIUCA'S rilOPOSAL. A recent report that the United States is endeavoring to bring about the opening of the whole of China and all Irs dependencies to the trade of the world is confirmed by a dispatch from Washington, and it is added the effort is meeting with a promising degree of support. Its success would bo a lining climax to a icrien of diplomatic triumphs for the United States and would make all other nations its debtor for bringing about a result of such Immense and far-reaching importance. Of course the United States could not bring it about alone, but it Is one of those cases In which the main credit lies In the original conception and the first steps of an enterprise. The very suggestion is a bold one, and could hardly have originated with any other government but that of the United States, which was chietly Instrumental in opening Japan to the trade of the world and has stood for the open door In China at every stago of the present discussion. A few facts will show what an immense gain for commerce the opening of the whole Chinese empire and all its dependencies and ports would be. The empire proper consists of eighteen provinces with an aggregate area of 4.21S.OOO square miles and a population of 3ü,OX),0ö0. In addition to this there are five dependencies with an aggregate area of 2, So 1.5ft) squaie miles and a population of lS.CSO.OoO. Prior to ISti the only port open to European or American trade with thi3 immense country and population was Canton, and even this under restrictions. The Uritish acquired Hong-Kong in 1312, and since thtn about twenty other porti havo been nominally opened to foreign trade, but nobody knows where the goods which are landed there go to. Steamers and sailing vessels belonging to foreigners are admitted to the coasting trade and upon one river, but otherwise the Interior of China is closed to foreign trade as effectually as it ever was. The Chinese minister at Paris said recently that the Europeans and Americans have as yet touched only the fringe of two Chinese provinces in the way cf trade, while sixteen other provinces, more populous than these, and all of China's dependencies remain as a sealed book to them. The number of ports that have been nominally opened to commerce is small compared with the number that remain closed. The opening of the entire empire to the world's trade, subject, of course, to Chinese tariff regulations would bo the greatest gain ever made for commerce by a single act. The initiative in the movement comes properly from the country that made the first treaty c f peace and friendship with China ever made by a Christian power, and which was the first power to recognize that China was a country to be treated with and not to be warred upon. The first article of the treaty of 1S57 says: "There shall be, as there have always been, peaco and friendship between the United States of America and the Ta-Tsing empire, and between their people, respectively. They shall not insult or oppress each other for any trifling cause,, so as to produce an estrangement betweea them'; and if any other nation should act unjustly or oppressively, the United States will exert Its good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement of the question, thus showing its friendly feelings." An honest and steady adherence to the spirit of this article has caused the United States to be regarded by China as its best friend among the nations and has placed this government In a good position to urge a measure of such vast scope as the opening of all Chinese ports and all China to foreign trade. Opposition to the proposition by any European power will bo little less than a crime against humanity. TiiM'ni'i is Tin: civil scitvicn. Hon. William Dudley Foulke, who was a member of the committee of the National Civil-service Reform League to consider the question of superannuation, has sent a copy of the report of the committee to the Journal, because this paper has advocated the appointment of employes under the civil-service rules for a given term of years. The objection of the committee to such a proposition is that it would not accomplish the result, namely the getting rid of superannuated employes or those who are inefhcient. If reappointment were permitted it would be most likely to be ineffectual, as reappointment would be secured without reference to special fitness. Such a system, the committee believes, would be a haphazard one, because many who should be dismissed for inefficiency would be retained to the end of their term. The report of the committee alluded to Is devoted largely to considering provisions for the care of employes when they are too old to render good service. Mr. Koulke ami his colleagues seem to assume that few heads of bureaus or departments will assume the responsibility of turning out an old man who has spent years in the public service under conditions that make him a pauper. Mr. Foulke's committee does not believe in a civil pension system, but makes the following recommendations: Your committee unanimously recommend as the best remedy for superannuation a system requiring life insurance on the deferred annuity plan by all employes curing probation, us a prerequisite to final appointment, the policies to be nonassignable and In government control, and to be secured by deposits from the insuring companies in government control; those employes still capable and useful at the fixed age to be allowed to stay in the service at regular salary, on condition that their annuities go to a surplus fund with which to pay annuities to those under that fixed age who have become incapable from ape and through no fault their own. and a system of dally records of ethciency. combined perhaps with recurring Inspection by a government physician and in some cases with examinations to determine who can stay in over the fixed tie and who lulo.v it are to share in the surplus annuities. The exact ase at which the annuities would normally lie pt-r.b!e. vnrying perhapa for diRemit kinds service, the amount of annuity to be paid for In the various grades, the age and londitions under which the surplus annuities would be paid to tho.-e superannuated below the normal ag-, and all ether detal's necessary to earry out the plan, as more fully outlined h. r tot'ore. should be fixed by regulations to be drawn ly some spt ( ial commission, composed, perhaps, of the Ctvil-servu-f Jomnds:doii and .onie experienced olltcials of the departments appointed by the President. It "might be Weil to apply this ysteni to a portion only of the classified civil service, say to the departments at Washington, and the larger piostottices and custom houses. One of the points which the Journal has emphasized Is based upon the reports of heads of bureaus and correspondents, namely that many employes in Washing

ton are Inefficient and Inattentive to their duties because they are impressed v.ith the idea that they are in oificc for life. From time to time there have been reports that something like insubordination prevails in some bureaus. For irstar.ee, an assistant secretary of the treasury had time clock, inter de d to correct the evil of tardine ss, put into several bureaus. The clerks raised su:h an agitation about the natter, even going to members of Congress, that there is reason to believe the time clocks have been sold to 'dealers in second-hand goods. The reliable Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat made the statement several weeks since that in some bureaus' the clerks, from the head down, were in a conspiracy to conduct the business as they pleased, and that it is beyond the power of the heads of divisions to get work forwarded. It would be well If such reports could be Investigated. ' What the Journal objects to In the system Is that there seems to be no positive way of getting rid of an inefficient, inattentive or otherwise worthless employe in the departments in Washington. Mr. Foulke's committee suggests a plan of daily records of efficiency for promotions, reductions or dismissals to be made by the appointing officers or the heads of divisions, such record of efficiency to be based on a good system of ascertaining the amount and eiuality of work done. This plan has been tried in the Navy Department with excellent results. If rules or law should make certain the dismissal cf an employe who for a given period fails to attain a given standard in his work, it seems that it would be a good thing. The trouble has been that the most worthless employes often have the strongest "pull," so that if turned out they can bring influence to obtain reinstatement. As the Journal now looks at the whole matter, it is not so important to get more employes of the government under the civil-service blanket as it is to make those faithful and eiflelent w-ho are now covered by it. What seems to be very much more needed now is positive tests of efficiency and fast and strong rules to insure the dismissal of the inefficient and the drones.

There will be a conclave of Catholic prelates In Baltimore to-day. at which it is expected the question of the tlisposition of the friars in the Philippines will be fully discussed. The occasion of the assemblage is the conferring of the beretta on Cardinal Martinelli, and there will be many prominent priests present. Cardinal Gibbons, who will start for Rome in a few days to confer with the Pope on the friar question, is said to be in favor of their entire removal from the Philippines and replacing them with American priests. If that view Is indorsed by the conclave in Baltimore, as it is likely to be, Cardinal Gibbons will present it to the Pope as the policy of the administration and of the Catholic Church in America. Cardinal Gibbons's unswerving loyalty to American institutions has been proved many times, and no more suitablo person could have been selected to confer with the Pope on the subject. . The exemption of the German House of this city from taxation on the ground thit it is an edueatiuiial institution Is somewhat of a departure from the popular idea as to the meaning of that term, but perhaps it is correct. The law exempts from taxation "every building used and set apart for educational, literary, scientific or charitable purposes by any institution or by any individual or individuals, association or fncorporation," together with the land on which such building is situated. Everybody knows that the German House has a distinctly social side, but it is claimed that It Is mainly educational because it has classes in music, gymnastics and ethics. These certainly are legitimate branches of education, but it can hardly be claimed that the German House is, in the language oi the law, "set apart" for these purposes. On the other hand, it may be claimed that they determine the character of the institution as an educational one. But Is net a newspaper equally an educational mstltutlon? Everybody knows that newspapers arc published mainly for educational purposes and that making money Is a sido Issue. Why not exempt newspapers from taxation? If the German House is exempted from taxation as a religious institution, why not exempt newspapers which publish Sunday editions? Where are we "at," anyhow? The definite locition of the center of population of the United States for at a point six miles southeast of Columbus, in this State, shows that its westward movement since lSf0 was the shortest which has ever taken place in a decade. Beginning with the century its westward movement In successive decades was -11 miles, 3'J miles, 50 miles, Ct) miles. 55. miles, 55 miles, SI miles, 42 miles, 53 miles, 4S miles, and fron: K"0 to 19C.0 14 miles. This indicates that the center of population will probably remain in Indiana longer than It has in any other State before. It was in West Virginia from 1SG0 to 1S30 inclusive, in Ohio lrom l') to lMi), and in lSkO in Kentucky, a few miles southwest of Cincinnati. It has already been in this-State under two censuses, with a prospect of remaining here at least two or three decades longer. The slight westward movement during the last decade shows that it will take a long time for lh center to pass the western border of this State. If it should continue to move southward at the rat.- of two or three miler each decade it v. ould take several decades to pass the southern bortler of the. State. It is safe to assume, therefore, that the center of populntlon will remain in Indiana for many years to come. The editor of the North American Iteview, who has just returned from a visit to England, reports the market for books and magazine literature very dull there. He says England Is not producing nearly as many talented new writers as this country is, and that the demand and market for books are not nearly as great. The best American books have a much larger sale In England than the best English books, and the latter have a larger sale in this country than they have in England. Is there anything in which the United States is not outstripping England? mOTI HITHER AND YOU. RurKftirt. Pr we value mt the dearly bought? Men. perhaps, but v. i ni' u r',t. Women's 1-ive Is ever derst Tor that wnUh they l,,ive b- ujht th? cheapen. iKdroit Journal. A It'ftire! IJrruKrr. Phiii i h M i ric--. S-.ithuhsi See- iure, ycu fill that huse we toecl.t ef you vdi5 a stone's thuuv frra thy ttat ion. Ac r.t-V.ell? Sjehub.-, Well. I f Imply want to krow uho tl.icw that -Une. A Social Heretic. ' Washington Star. "Don't you kin Ur hankrr aftr re?pcctaMMtjr r.ow an den." asked IM : Uns Ite. "Oh, I don't know," aruwcied Meandering Mike. "sometimes I fink dat resiK.ctatllity

ain't much more dan pfrmisfin to work hard b.r what us people pits for ncthinV

Clever II Ig by. Cleveland Plain Dealer. T.icäby would make his fortune a3 a vaudeville mimic." "What makes you think so?" "He never played golf bur. once In his life, and ret he's got the golf limp down to perfection." A Cure nt Lcnt. Catholic Standard. "I have called, " said the man who was seeking a testimonial, "hcark.g that jou had used our water and " "Yes." replied the plain citizen. "Well. I had little faith in tho curatie properties of your water " "Hut it cured rou?" "Yes; of even the little faith I had." THENEWSPAPERSSCORED 3!i:llli:ilS OF LOCAL COIWCIL OF "WO 31 EX S03IHW1IAT AGITATED. 3Ir. A. 1. Sprunnce Said Xevrapaper lteporf Were Generally Incorrect Against 3Irs. Sewnll's Plan. The Local Council of Women held its May meeting yesterday afternoon at the Propylaeum, Mrs. Nettle Hansford presiding. The chief topic of discussion was the resolution submitted at the March meeting by Mrs. May Wright Sewall, representing the Propylaeum Association, in which were suggested several changes which have not met with favor by the majority of delegates. The resolution, as adopted by the Council yesterday, was to the effect that the executive committee, consisting of the general officers of the Council, together with the presidents of the affiliated societies, nitet regularly and consider all Important buslnt-ss to be brought before the Council beforn a public meeting of the Council. It was also added that the chairmen of the standing committees be invited to attend these private meetings, the time of which will be determined by the executive committee. Mrs. Sewall's resolution was killed, as it was not presented In the proper form, being too lengthy and too full of explanatory clauses. Mrs. Sewall had a few warm supporters at the meeting yesterday, but a majority of the delegates were in favor of t,ut. routing all business and Important questions at the public tnettlng as heretofore, as the delegates, after the adoption of the above resolution, will not, be admitted to the executive sessions. Mrs. A. 1. Spruance, who revised Mrs. Sewall's recolution and presented it In the above form, gave the newspapers a quiet lit tie roast in her argument in favor of exeluding ail delegates anel nonmembers of the alriliated societies, thereby excluding reporters from the business meetings of the executive sessions. She said very often from the reports in newspupers, which were usually incorrect, the Local Council was made ridiculous in the eyes of the public. She also said that very often she was prevented from attending meetings of the Council and sho had to take her report from the newspapers, and, as a rule, she said, she found that they were not correctly reported. Mrs. Spruance's remarks were combated by a number of the women present, who said they always found the reports In the newspapers not as represented by Mrs. Spruance, but rather in the true light. If the business, meetings of the Council are made private affairs it was said all interest would be lost by delegates who are more generally in attendance than the presidents of the affiliated societies, and are always interested In the business presented, rather than the programmo which follows the business meeting. The standing committees were appointed yesterday and are as follows: Committee on Visitation of Municipal and State Institutions Mrs. Mary A. Moody, chairman; Mrs. Lew Wallace. Jr., Mrs. Hart, Mrs. Isabella Itoach and Mrs. Drummond. Committee on State Legislation Mrs. W. F. Curryer, chairman; Mrs. J. Beck, Mrs. William Hubbard. Mrs. D. M. Parry -and Miss Bidenour. Programme Committee Mrs. Flora Wulschner, chairman; Mrs. H. G. Gaylord, Mrs. J. W. Kern. Miss Julia Harrison Moore, Mrs. A. 1'. Spruance. Civic Committee Mrs. F. F. McCrea. chairman; Mrs. Addison By bee. Mrs. W. T. Brown. Dr. Rebecca Hogers George, Mrs. L. H. Dunning. Information Committee Dr. Marie Haslep, chairman: Mrs. J. T. Harnett, Mrs. Ella D. Zinn, Mrs. Leo Lando and Mrs. Bertha L. Wade. PHYSIO-MEDICAL DOCTORS. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association. The Physio-Medical Association of Indiana began, yesterday, at the college, at Alabama and North streets, a three days' convention, which Is the thirty-ninth annual session. The meetings will be continued to-day and to-morrow. The work yesterday was wholly of a routine character. This afternoon the election of officers will take place and several papers will be read. The olMcers of the association are: President, E. H. Brubaker; vice president, W. S. Channing; secretary-treasurer, A. W. Fisher. A CAMPAIGN OF FIRE. It Is Said It In nelnc: Waged AgalnM Colored People. Fire which was discovered in the vacant house at 4"5 Nebraska street, yesterday morning, was said to have been clearly of incendiary origin. The same is claimed for the iirea at Nos. iu7 and 40;, Sunday morning. The houses are used by colored folks and several previous attempts have been made to get thorn from the neighborhood and whenever a bouse becomes vacant the lire department is invariably called to it within a day or so. .o Smallpox In Owen County Dr. Cox. health officer of Spencer, Owen county, said yesterday that the published statements that smallpox Is prevalent In his town are erroneous. There is no smallpox as yet In that county, the nearest cases being in Poland, a small town on the border, but In the adjoining county. Condemnation Proceeding Begun. The Indianapolis & Martinsville Rapidtransit Company is beginning condemnation proceedings for a private right of way in Marlon county. The proceedings are under an enactment of the lnet Legislature givir electric roads the right of eminent domain that is enjoyed by steam roads. The Xew Comet. Chicago Tribune. 4 If you want to see the new comet with three tails, set your alarm clock at 3:50 a. m., and waste no time in getting out of tied when the bell rings. Allowing ten minutes for a hasty toilet, you will have nearly an hour to devote to an Inspection of the eastern horizon before the sun rises. If the weather conditions urn favorable, the celestial wanderer ought to 1 visible through an opera ylass. or even with the naked eye, a Utile tu th" north of the point on the horizon where the sun rises. Its brilliancy is such, accotding to the astronomers who have s.-en the omet. that it can be seen even after tho sun is above the horizon. Friendly Hope. Baltimore American. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, argues that no great edty can be u clean one. We trust the mayor does not extend his argument to groat men, of whom he is one, if we are to accept his own statements. Kept Her Own Secret. Atlanta Constitution. An epitaph in a Georgia cemetery reads: "Ended her pilgrimage. For Heaven doth enfold It. We never knew her ase. Because she never told iL"

NOTHING BUT HOME BEEF

T03I3IY ATKINS CANNOT EAT JUICY A31ERICAX STEAKS. Latest Information llercnrdlns: the Exclusion of Foreign 3Ieat from the Ilritish Army. WASHINGTON. May ".-Upon being advised, about three weeks ago, through the press dispatches from London, of the exclusion of foreign beef from the British army use, the State Department instructed Ambassador Choate to report upon the matter. Information has been received that the order to the army contract officers of the British War Departrrent, on April 9 last, excludes from army use, for six months, from June 1 next, all foreign beef of every description, whether dead when imported or slaughtered in Great Britain. Dr. Wray, inspector of American cattle, appointed by the Department of Agriculture, who has investigated the subject. Is of opinion that the order, when carried into effect, will not result in any considerable direct loss to American exporters of beef and cattle, for the reason that the domestic supply of beef for all purposes in Great Britain and Ireland is so limited that whatever beef may be shut out from army use by the new ruling and notice necessarily will be absorbed by the general market. There is no oversupply now. The annual report of the British Board of Agriculture for li,H9 showed the total number of home-bred cattle in the United Kingdom to be cattle in the United Kingdom, in milk or in calf, cows and heifers, 2.562,000; other cattle, 4.078,000; total. 6,640,OuO. Assuming the 4.078.000 to be all that are properly available for slaughter, they would furnish something less than one ox or bullock for each ten persons of the population if the population amounts to 40,000,000. Dr. Wray thinks it clear from the statistics that for whatever beef the army may draw on the local markets an equivalent will have to be furnished from abroad for the general market. The quantity of beef imported from the United States and Canada (which is equally affected by the ruling and notice) is very large and Is increasing every year and is brought to Great Britain only to supply the demand, or the aggregate consumption, so that, according to the views of Dr. Wray and many exporters whom he has consulted, there is no cause to apprehend any appreciable direct injury to the American trade. If these views are correct the great probabilitj- is that it will not be ptacticablo to enforce the new rule for even the six months for which the experiment is proposed to be made and that contractors in order to fill their army contracts with the requisite quantity of beef of good quality will have to be permitted to furnish some Imported meat. Why Venezuela I Armins. WASHINGTON, May 7. In well-informed official quarters it is said that reports from Germany concerning Venezuela's application to Herr Krupp for the purchase qf largo supplies of arms and ammunition has no sinister significance as applying to the United States or to the recent friction between this country and Venezuela. It Is explained that Venezuela is chlelly apprehensive of her neighbors, particularly Colombia. Recently Colombia purchased an armeel yacht, and If Venezuela Is now looking for cruisers and armaments In Germany It is the view of those well-informed on the situation that it is a move toward preparing for any emergency arising from out the revolutionary conditions south of the isthmus. Of Interest to Indlnnians. Sne'cial to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 7. The postofflce at Myoma, Washington county, Indiana, will be discontinued May 15. Mail will thereafter go to Waskom, Jackson county. The bonds of George Mosmier, as postmaster at Ashton, Ripley county; William E. Edens, at Dabney, Ripley county, and Harrison T. Barrett, at Kilroy, Posey county, were approved to-day and . their commissions issued. Fred R. Duchnell, of Noblesvllle, and Marshall G. Mitchell, of New Albany, were to-day appointed railway mail clerks. There is no change in Judge Hayden's condition. John R. Dinnen, of Lafayette, is registered at the Ebbitt. Volunteer Ollleers Discharged. WASHINGTON, May 7. An order issued by the War Department honorably discharges a number of volunteer officers. Among them are Ma jor . Generals Shatter and Wood and Brigadier Generals Barry and Barber, to take effect on June DO; Brigadier Generals Whiteside, Bell, Bird. Hare, Long, Ballance and Bliss, to take effect June 20. Volunteer Brigadier General James F. Smith also is discharged to take effect June 20, but he will continue as collector of the port of Manila. - NATIONAL CAPITAL XOTES. Demand for Currency Schley to Stay Ten Days In IlnRland. The secretary of the treasury has purchased $90,OvO short fours bonds at 113.C3y2, and $412,050 short-term bonds at 113.64. Yesterday's statement cf the treasury balances, in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve, in the division of redemption, shows: Available cash balance. $157.594,337. Gold. $37,782,850. New Orleans has asked the Treasury Department for currency and Treasurer Roberts has given New. York permission to take deposits up to J250.0O0 a day, payable in New Orleans on telegraphic orders. The Treasury Department has awarded the contract for the Oakland, Cal., public building to A. E. Barrett, of San Francisco. The material is to be Utah gray sandstone and the building to be completed in eighteen months. Is to cost $159.:. Rear Admiral Schley, who arrived yesterday at Southampton, on his way home from the South Atlantic station, has cabled the Navy Department a request that he be allowed to stop ten days in England, and this request has been granted. STILL ANOTHER. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) ii mi-fniot-r. l xie siock sold on the curb at New York yesterday morning at JS42, tho highest on record. Representatives of the Pennsylvania Oil Company yesterday secured options on IM acres of oil land near Wellsville, Mo. They will commence boring for oil In thirty day. According to the London Dally Mall it is asserted in Holland that Germany is trying to persuade the mid-European states to form a tariff union against American competition. Adolph S. Ochs, of the Chattanooga Times and the New York Times, yesterdaypurchased the Philadelphia Times. His brother. George W. Ochs, will take the management of the paper. Fletcher S. Heath, vice president of the Seventh National Bank of New York, announced yesterday that his bank had secured control of the Equitable National Bank of Cincinnati, and will at once reorganize the same. The Baltimore and Washington Electric Railway Company, which intends to build a trolley road between Baltimore and the national capital, with a branch to Annapolis, has been organized and has acquired the charter for the road to Annapolis. The Associated Manufacturers of Pres and Blown Glassware held their annual meeting In Pittsburg yesterday and reelected James Grillander, of Philadelphia, president, and W. A. B. Dalzell. of Moundville, W. Va.. secretary. No other business was transacted. The privilege to develop the Miami and Erie Canal trolley line, from Cincinnati to Toledo, O.. recently Feeured by WJ H. Lamprecht and a syndicate of Cleveland capitalists, from the Ohio Legislature, has. It is said, been turned over to the EverittMoore syndicate by means of secret negotiations. W. S. Dimmiek. who for eicrht years has been connected with the Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company, has resigned his position as general manager, polng to Richmond. Va., to accept a similar position with the street railway of that city." W. B. Tarklngton. former master mechanic, succeeds Mr. Dimmiek. Probably the first fiction taken by the New American Ingot Mold Company, after taking control of the various individual plants. July 1. will be to Issue a new price 1 list, which will be a reduction from prices

now prevailing. The officers say the reduction will be based entirely on the prices for bessemer iron at that time. The reported sale of the Richmond (Va.) locomotive works to Joseph Inciter is denied. However, Joseph Bryan, president of the works, said last night: "There is some truth in the report that negotiations have been commenced looking to the sale of the Richmond locomotive works. The deal to consolidate all the locomotive plants In the country has been pending for some time. Further than this I cannot talk." The Cincinnati Gas. Light and Coke Company yesterday increased its capital stock from ?:.:0.o;0 to $-.2$o,oi0. and then changed the name of the company to that of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company. The State's fee for the increased capitalization was $1Smi. This step marks the end of the fifiht between the great lighting companies of Cincinnati, the electric companies being absorbed tinder an asreement which was reached at Cincinnati on Monday. The New York Evening Post said last nisht: "An officer of the National Patk Bank admitted to-day that the directors o' the institution had secured a controlling interest in the National Park Bank of New Orleans. The New Orleans bank has a capital of fc00,0o and deposits of Jl.S'O.OoO. It is said the capital will be increased to J'juO.OOO anc that representatives of the National Park will hereafter direct the management of the New Orleans bank. Tha National Park Bank is also said to have gained control of a large block of stock in the Boston Trust Company." The formal absorption by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, the first of the four big Walker County. Alabama, coal companies, was consummated at Pittsburg yesterday. J? B. Tate, of Birmingham, Ala", president of tho Virginia and Alabama Coal Company, received a draft through the Union Trust Company, of Pittsburg, representing the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, for $sao,0oo in payment for his company's property. The total amount to be paid for the Alabama properties Is in the neighborhood of $3.r0i and the deals have all been closed with the exception of a few legal details. The amount of coal Jands involved is 7,7v acres. MAY BE PAROLED SOON

PItlSOX 3IAXAOEKS FAVOR nELEASE OF THE YOLXCJKIl DROTIIEItS. Xotorious nurglnrs Who Rnitled the Xorthfleld 31inn., Itank and Were Sentenced for Life. ST. PAUL. Minn., May 7. Coleman and James Younger, the most noted convicts in the state prison at Stillwater, to-day won the first step towards freedom from that Institution, to which they were sent for life over twenty-five years ago. For twenty years their friends have been working in their behalf, each Governor being importuned frequently for a pardon. The third brother. Bob, died in the Stillwater prison a few years ago, but the efforts for the liberation of the now old men have never ceased. Ten years ago a pardon board, composed of the Governor, attorney general and chief justice, was created, one of the arguments in its favor being the relief it would give the chief executive from the friends of the Youngers. Since then the pardon board has been asked repeatedly to act favorably on applications for pardon of the Youngers, but the required unanimous vote could never be secured. Two years ago a bill was presented to tho Legislature providing for the parole of lifo prisoners and passed by the Senate, but was killed in the House. This year a similar bill, after several hard encounters on the floor of the two houses, got through and secured the approval of Governor Vansant, but an amendment to it required the unanimous approval of the board of pardons before paroles of life prisoners could become effective. The opponents of the Youngers let the bill go through in this shape, thinking nothing could come of It. Under the provisions of this law the board of prison managers to-day unanimously recommended the parole of tho Youngers. This recommendation will be at once presented to the board of pardons, but none of the members of the board would say whether a special meeting would be called to consider the matter. The next regular meeting will be held in July. Before final action it would be necessary to have the legality of the two provisions of the new law passed upon. In the meantime the two surviving Youngers are rejoicing over the hope of ultimate release from their prison home. Cole. James and Bob Younger were imprisoned for their raid on the Bank of Northfield in September. 1876. The James brothers, Jesse and Frank, escaped to Missouri. Two members of the gang were killed and Bob Younger died in prison. There were six Younger brothers, one of whom died in childhood. They were the sons of Col. Henry W. Younger, a wealthy Southerner, who moved to Cass county, Missouri, in 1SS0. When the war broke out the Younger property was raided first by one side and then the other. The boys in revenge for the injuries Inflicted upon their father became guerrillas and created so many political enemies that pardon was denied them at the close of the war. They then Joined with the James brothers and began a long series of bank and train robberies. The most famous detectives were sent to hunt them and were in turn hunted themselves. In one of these fights John Younger was killed, but after he had fallen from his saddle he rallied and killed the detective who had shot him. At the tim of the Northfield robbery the Youngers might have escaped had they not stopped to assist a wounded companion. The James boys wanted to kill the wounded man, but the Youngers would not listen to the proposition. The James boys then pushed on and escaped, while the Youngers in trying to get the wounded man away were surrounded and captured. Their prlon record . is excellent. It has never been established that they were responsible for the death of the Northfield bank cashier or any other person killed during that raid. REV. DR. GILBERT'S CASE. Investigation of Alleged Heresy DeKtiu hy Seminary Directors. CHICAGO, May ".-Directors of the Chicago Theological Seminary, who are to decide whether the books of the Rev. Dr. George H. Gilbert are heretical, began a three-day session here to-day. Over a year ago it was charged that Dr. Gilbert's book, "The Revelation of Jesus." contained paragraphs which were heretical. Dr. Gilbert, then professor of the Chicago Theological Seminary, declared that he should not be judged on the teachings of that volume, as there remained another volume to complete the system of teaching which he had advanced. He was given a year's leave of absence to work on the second volume. Advance sheets of this book, which is entitled "Teachings of the Apostle." are now In the hands of the directors. The directors of the seminary reside in various cities of Illinois. Wisconsin. Iowa. Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska. Colorado. Inellana and the two Dakotas. K. W. Rlathford, president of the board, is in Europe. Dr. Gilbert Is at Dorset. Vt. No action was taken at to-day's eesslon of the directors. UNUSUAL PENSION CASE. Woman Who 3Iurdered Her Husband Wants n Widow's Portion. POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y.. May 7. An Interesting point has been raised here under tha pension laws. Lizzie Halllday. an inmate of the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, Is an applicant for a widow's pension. Her husband was a soldier and was murdered by her at their home near Warwick. Orange county. New York, more than three years atro. Ho had been missing for several days when it was discovered that she had killed him and hldtlen his body under a pig pen. She was taken to the asylum at Matteawan. a raving maniac, and now claims the pension of a soldier's widow, notwithstanding the fact that she became a widow by murdering her husband. Col. W. L. Delacy. a local penfdon attorney, says that under the law of June 27. 1W, she is entitled to her pension, as It excludes only the widows of those who commit suicide.

FORT WAYNE ELECTION

HIISI LTS IX AHOIT THE I'M' AL DE3IOCHATIC .MAJORITIES. Ilerghoff Elected 3In?r It epnbllrana Git in One or Tho CotinclImcn Lue Town Election Reports. Fractal to the Inüanap lis J. urn.il. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. May 7.-The Democrats carried this city to-day by their regular majority of about 1.5t. Henry C. Berghoff was elected mayor over Charles E. Reese. William F. Urbahns. Republican candidate for city clerk, was defeated by 5i0. running ahead of the ticket In almost every precinct. The vote was about 75 per cent, of the vote of IVO, but, compared with that, shows a Democratic gain. Republicans were aware of defeat from the first, and this caused many to neglect to vote. Tho Council will show a Republican gain of one or two. The Social Democratic vote wai over 600. The charter amendments cut but little if any figure in the result, as shown by the fact that Berghoff's plurality is not much above that of Seherer, Democrat, la the preceding city election. Related Town Election Reports. CLARK COUNTY TOWNS-The Republicans made considerable gains. Charlestown was reclaimed from the Democrat by a good majority, with the exception vt the office of marshal, to which William Long, Democrat, as elected. At Clarkville the entire Republican ticket was elected. This is a Democratic stronghold. Port Fulton, which is strongly Democratic, was carried by the Democrats. Sellersburg elected a mixed ticket, four Republicans and two Democrats. JAY COUNTY TOWNS Ridgevi lie Democrats elected clerk, marshal and two councllmen; the Republicans electing the treasurer and one councilman. Berne went soliuly Democratic, and Eaton straight Republican. Two Republicans and three Democrats succ-eded at Poneto. Geneva Republicans elected the marshal only. CLAY COUNTY TOWNS-Mlxed tlckcti were the rule-, but meist of the officers elected were Republicans. Bowling Green chose but one Democrat, the marshal. Center Point elected all Republicans, but twothirds of those chosen at Knightsvllle wer Democrats. SALEM Three mixed tickets were in the field, and trustees were elected from all of them, all members of the Christian Church. The clerk is an attendant at th same house of worship. Marshal Med lock received his fifteenth re-election, but tn incumbent treasurer was defeated by J. L. Tucker. WABASH COUNTY TOWNS-Republlcan gains are the rule. At North Manchester a clean sweep was made over the Democrats and an independent ticket. Lagro and Roann both went solidly Republican. FOHTVIlLH Lack of interest on part of the Republicans enabled the Democrat to e!eet their candidates for clerk ani treasurer and two councilmen. The town il normally safely Republican. LIBERTY Three Democratic tru&teci and two Republicans were elected. Th Democrats elected the marshal and ths Republicans elected their candidates lor clerk and treasurer. CENTER VI LLE Citizens ticket defeated the Independents by almost two to one Three of the new councilmen arc Republicans and two are Democrats. CLAY CITY All Democratic candidates were elected. The Social Democrats, who had a full ticket on a public-ownership platform, polled but 21 votes. ROCK VILLE The Democratic candidate for marshal was elected without opposition. The rest of the officials are Republican, elected unopposed. DUBLIN The Democrats elected on councilman. Otherwise the Republican ticket was successful. School matters furnished the chief issue. NASHVILLE The Republicans elected the town clerk, for the first time since incorporation. All other officials are Democrats. MARENGO All Republican candidates were elected by majorities ranging from 15 to 40. A full vote was cast. LADOGA Trustees, one Demo.-rat and two Republicans; treasurer am. marshal Democrats; clerk Republican. WORTHINGTON All the Republican candlates except for treasurer were elected by small majorities. BLOOMFIELD The entire Republican ticket was elected, a small vote belnff pclled. ORLEANS Republicans elected their entire ticket. The only contest was for marshal. WINDFALL Entire Democratic ticket elected by majorities ranging from 19 to $2. BALTIMORE REDEHSIEII. Republicans Elect Tvrenty-One of Twenty-Set en Council Cundldate. BALTIMORE, Md., May 7. The municipal election in this city to-day. the first one of Importance under the new ballot law. resulted in a sweeping victory for tha Republicans. They carried eishtwen out of the twenty-four wards, elected eighteen members to the first branch of the City Council and all three candidates for th second branch. Only about 65 per cent, of the entire registered vote was polled and the colored vote was very light. Democrats attribute their defeati to factional differences, the friends of Mayor Hayes, who met defeat in the primaries, being arrayed against the folle-vers of 1. Freeman Rasin. The majorities were greatly reduced in the live wards cirriea by the Democrats. Tennessee tierryninndered. KNOXVI LLE, Tenn.. May 7. Congressman Henry R. Gibson, who returned from Washington to-day, stated for the Journal and Tribune, in regard to the congressional redistricting cf Tennessee by the last Legislature, that he would appeal t6 Congress at its next session for the application of the federal law to the State of Tennessee, which he claims has hn grossly Gerrymandered by the recent Le2l!Jl?tur- . claims that the portion of the federal law forbidding other than compact and contiguous districts with equal number of Inhabitants has been violated, and etipeciallr with reference to Republican districts of Fat Tennessee. His own district was changed by tho Legislature at it recent meeting. TO CHECKMATE GERMANY. Xarnl OHlcer Want Coalln Matlona at tho Aiurr anil Elsewhere. WASHINGTON, May 7.-The attention of the leading American naval officials has been directed recently to the advantages possesed by some of the Islands of the Azores group, in the Atlantic, and of the' Gallpngos group. In the Pacific, as sites for coaling stations and naval rendezvous, and they are urKing that step 1 taken by this government to acquire liphts from Portugal for a station In the Azores and from Ecuador for a like station In the Gallpagos group. The latter group Is only a hort distance from the western terminus of an Isthmian canal, while the Azores are a midway station In the Atlantic, something Ilk the British station In Bermuda. The Dutch Island of Curacoa. off the coast of Venezuela, also is regarded by American naval officials as specially well adapted for our naval uses. There are intimations that these viervs may lead to overtures to the several povernments Interested. There is said to be added reason for learning what can be done in the Azores, ar information has reached naval officials that Germany has shown a desire to secure a lodgment there. Killed hy Lightning. CORDE EE. (Ii., May 7. During a thunder shower here yesterday the lightning for a short time was terrific, and tl:re persons were struck nnd kill!. They wert Mrs. J. J. Perry. Mi-s Klr.zey and a negro man who was at work In the suburbs of th town. Clilenu Art. Kansas City Journal. It is understood that the CMcstto artlt w ho made a hit w ith "The Open sea" til be asked to pmduce a masterpiece cntltlcJ The Open Drainage Canal."