Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 129, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS .JOURNAL, Til URS DAY, MAY 0. 1901.

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X'atfTion. N. J.; the 1k orr.otivc pLinl of tho I M. k n Mitiiif.ii : urine, t i.y ; Ibigrrs lo ive voik, r.itr.rr.. N. J., anel the .-rvr.''-M ily l .im.etive virk:j. rVheliectady, N. Y. The .pita! nf the i; v ton: i '.inj-, ;r is rportl. will l - in ti. mighItorhoi'ti f ? :.( .'. Th- I n : r j 1 1. , . 1.4 ! l'ower (V.injvniV own- t)..- l:h..ie I-!.tr:l i.oo:n-tlv wrk.-, ti. Ai-.ir!. üi Wleeloek lhmlr.e iVmpuuv .M Y r. .-i r. Ma. . and th "-rlL-. in. t : - -! 1 w.rl-- r lrvliirr.ee, II. I. Jt i rurn-ind t!..it til" cjiij.ir. will cu! ::! i:-- ! mr.ni ; vu:ks, rs.tair.i:.c, Us ithrr pi k

tin t inn iii 11 ! Cuiitnlldiite. riTTrfÜL'iHJ. Pa.. May S. A e.uisolldatl :i of all the natural gas companies, numrhi' about twenty, in Was hingt". ;inl lre-rc eo-.mtics, with a capitalization of about Is. in iriry. Nume-rous rr, Vre nee -s have been held recently by tho-?- InttTt'Mi'Ml In the plan and it i. b -li-vel the consolidate, n will shortly be nceul. Congressman Atheson. who I.- intrt -steel in '-r.il of th cmpard-s, said the chief r on-it Tf- were representative? of the j-'t naiard 'il Company, and th.it t!i' ulti-mat-tm.1 aim. 11 at w.i: to gain ontrol of t.':- Jit ill i.':l r.i!iDK r;.t' . t th- prP jb-ri-;-d by th rhil.ult 1; h!a. company of i'it!bur. - eeuta ; thousand feet. At pre . i;t the individual companies are furnishing g.i:e to ma. tr.jfa tur rs at th- rat..'of 7 oer.ts per f et a:.-l to private eonfiiini' rs at 12 cents per I,'1). 3Iiirlilnrry Combine" Tncorporii ted. TKHNTON. N. J.. May S.-Artiele.-. were fil- el here lat nlrht In orporatlnjr tin- AlllsChalmrs r.mpany with an nut horiz--i ca)ital of P,im,!)i The loinpany 1. fornil t( rrn'.iuif.n t i:r- stationary atnl otln-r 1,Kins ami machinery of all klnN. Th r.tpJtal stock i-; llvi'Je! into t',' pre-ff-rrt-! with 7 per fnt. ti7iululvc iivi'Icii'l anI -0.tiji cfninto:i. Th- incorporators are John S. 4'huriton. H nry S. V.'.run-r and iStrwart Lyman. It is i:n'J-T.jtfHl that tho tornp.iny is rtrKanizt! for th purps f consolIiJaf it:K ; number of fxi.-tii.K coi-torri.-. amor.i; whirh Is the II. 1. AIli Cotnpany, wlikh has a larK? plant in Milwaukee. C'onililn'. of Cotton Seed OitNlier. NORFOLK, Vn , Miy S.-An rfTort is belr.R made to orginize a combination emtracing trie cotton-.sffl cru?hvrs of the Fruth. The object of the proposed combinaticn. it l- undfrstood, is to control the rn.;rket for ctton sed and its products. Io details are yet available for publication. C'linrlr rtvr'n lichtn. TOLEDO. May 8. Charles Foster, of 1'ostoria, ex-cretary of the treasurj', has made application in the United States vurt here as a voluntary bankrupt. III.ch'bts are set down as $747,0. Ul, and there .are no assets. LAHOR, THAI)!'., IMH'STHY. Strike Off end On Ad a nee la Wuros II I lle.il In Land. The Genoa dock laborers, who have been out on strike, have resumed work. The Hamburg coppersmiths struck yesterday, but the threite:.e(l shipbuildinK lockout was not declared. Work is proceeding at all tlie shipyard. The Great Northern repair shops at Great I'alls. Mont., have been closed because of the strike of forty men for better wages. The company refused to grant the demand. Dr. Oliver, of I'ark. Tex., has created much excitement h reporting that a well of water on his place had turned to oil. Preparations are being made for the sinking of an oil well. The plant of the Sioux City Packing and Provision Company, lately the International .Packing Company, lias virtually been trt nslerred to Armour V: Co., and the Chicago firm will beln its operation almost immetiia te'y. Joseph W. lowey. formerly of the Pittaburg Coal Company, will form an independent company, which will develop one thousand acres of coal land near Trimble, in Athens county', Ohio, for which he has invested $i.. Aladdin Vincent struck oil, yesterday, nt Ms home place, seventeen miles west of Lake harl"s, Lou'siana. The well is between 130 and 3"0 feet In depth. It Is not a gusher, but oil Hows from the top at the rate of twenty-five barrels dally. Notice has been posted at the Pennsylvania steel works at Harrisburg announcing that beginning June 1 the wanes at the works will be restored to the rates In force before Jan. 1. l'd. This is an advance tf about lo per cent, for nearly 7.oo men. At San Francisco, yesterday, two hundred union bakers struck, iri sympathy with the cooks' and waiters" strike, which has been on for several days. Four hundred carriage workers have also quJt work because the employers have refused to sign w union agreement. An electric belt railroad is to be constructed the coming fall to give rapid transit and better shipping facilities to t he twenty and more coal mines of the Williamson county. Illinois, district. The road will tap both the Chicago & Hastern Illinois and the Illinois Central railroads. "The Russian government," says the Tendon Dally Hxpress. "has secured the "Wilson liners. Hydro. Sappho ami Castro, for the Kiga trade, in order to place Siberian products on the Hnglish market. The steamers will be manned by Kuss'ans and their names will b changed to Russian names in order to evade the Riga Xort charges." Ono of the largest land sales ever consummated was announced at Chicago yesterday by the Farwrll ranch syndicate of Chicago. The de: I conveys to George W. Littletield. president of the Austin (Texas) National Punk, 2-l.0"i :cr-s of land In lloeklay and Lamb counties. Texas. The consl 'eratlon was not named. The land will be uel exclu.-ively for ranch purposes. Preshhiit lla.-klns of the Ohio miners, received word y-en'-iy Horn the Panhandle !i-;rit of V't -t Virginia, where the miner wuit on sfiil.e M-?.d.y, that nonunion men are b-. in.-; i.;i;n ; tl from the RAIN PROBABLE TO-DAY. I'alr nml Warnirr Throughout Indb aim T-Morrou Wemtc rl jr Wind a. WASHINGTON. May S. Forecast for Thursday and Frhlay: For Indiana Rn in on Thursday. Friday fair and warmer; westerly winds. For Ohl." Rain on Thursday, with lower temperature in northern portion. Frhlay fair In western, rain in easterrn port'n; fu-sh northwesterly winds. P..r II'hM.ir I'air 0:1 Tiirr'.lay and Frlth.y; warmer in western portion Thursday; westerly winds. Lcriil Otser ntlou on Wednesday. Par. Titer, lt. 1 1. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m..L"..7 ."t n:: West. Cloudy, on-) 7 p. m..-..7i tit 77 West. Cloudy. 0.0.) Maximum temperature, 01; minimum temperature. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation for May J; Temp. Pre. Normal Kl 0 l i Mean ( ea Departure 7 -:.!:; Pepartur since May 1 :1.1s Departure since Jan. I U.ii Pius. C. F. R. WAIT UN HANS, Local Forecast Olhcial. Yewterdaj a 'rruinrat urtv. Station. Atlanta. G LlsHtarck. N. D , P.uffal.. N. Y Calrarv. N. W. r Chicago, ill Cain.. HI , Cir.i ineatl. O , Concordia. Kan , Mia. M ix. 7 p. . .eS So in. 71 :.u 41 ) t.s 1 71 ;'t 4 ,. ..r.i ,.4: 1 1 e ! I.: veno. rt. I 1 ;.j tvj P. s I la.. L'j 7s Galv.- t, : T- :v...' 7J M licit na. Mont 1; (.' J-.ckso.iville. Ula 1" s-i 'an.-;.s City, M ' a .n Little Ro k. Ark l 7. Mtr;uetfe. Ml. "h S 41 Mfmphls. T. :.r. ) Nashville. T nn a r; New Orleans. La .'.J N'e'.V V)ik city. r.i iW N.rth Platte, N b :: 7 Oki.ihon.a. O T 1 i 7 Omaha, Neb : FJ I'itti-h-trg. l.t O'l" Appelle. N. W. T 15 Rapid City. S. D. I.' 7'1 Salt Lake City 7' St. IamiIs. Mo ."J i.J St. Paul. Minn K M HpringfleM, 111 r..i Hprlngfd.l. Mo 4 Ls Vt-ksLurj:. Misi I 0 . LS 7ü (1 7; 7) 42 ti 1 7s ."S 7'J t.' u 7 1 7 oi t.11

FnIrmoi:nt field to take the place. of the K'riker.s at the mines of the Wheeling tearn Coal Company, and tliat trouble is I'-ared when an attempt is mailt to operate th; mint. Jami-i W. Ilrown. fornvrly vie president of Ihe Crutibh- Htctd t.'omiiany. who is at the head of a tie a- organization to build a new cnicihli -te 1 plant, yesterday ch-t d a deal for a site on the Pittsburg : Lake L'r'.c ruad, p. ?.r South Moriaca. The n- v.- mill which the Ilrown syndi ale is. to btdhl on tin- site will, win n completed, be practl'-ally the eiily i:idepenk nt plant of its kind in the country. At the bi-month'y conference yesterday b tween repräsentative of the Amalgamated Association, the Kepubllc Irion and Stiil Company and the Aimric.m Steol Hoop onip:i- an examination of the reports pre.-entfd by the manufacturers of the sales of bar iron during March and April showed that the prices recc ived wotild not w.yrant any change in the sc. lie which has ben in force for the past two months. W. II. Urlnton. president of the IV ru plow and wheel works. f IVru, 111., paid, last n!ht: "The plow combine is likely to be merged into a great trust f all the implement makers of the United States. Ninety per cent, of th.m are now represented in a conft-rente at New York. The capital f the new trust will be mm much as and may amount to $"jKK Charles i I. lcer--, of th Moline plow works, will, in all probability, be mad president of the trust." The Frankfurter Zeitung, a German newspaper friendly to the Unitd States, and an authority on financial affairs, discussing Wall-street affairs, regards the situatim as dangerous, since outsiders are now s-'peci'lating on credit. The paper expresses fear that all earnest warnings will have, no effect so lonfT as the speculative craze in whetted by all -oris of fusion and combination projects. It ."dmits that the business situation is excellent, except as regard.? textile:, but tin Is no justlllcation for me present madness. Regarding the reported shut-down of the factories of the National Starch Company, on account of the hif-li price of corn, Jay Morton. Western agent f tho company, said, at Chicago, last night: ' 1 here is onlv one factory near Chicago and that is at "Waukcgun. 111. This plant will not "shut down. We propose to keep it running right along." Regarding the other factories in the West owned by the company Mr. Morton declined to say a word. He would give no Intimation of the company's Intentions regarding any other factcry than the one at Waukgan. The strike anion?: the employes of the Iteailing Iron Company's tube mills, at Heading, l'a., spread with such rapidity that the entire plant was closed last milnight, when the men at No. 5 bell mill went out in sympathy with those who originally struck because their wages were not restored to what they were previous to the reduction last fall. About men are now out anl it is possible, if the trouble is not amicably adjusted within a day or two, the 1.10 mn employed at the Oley-f-treet and Ninth-street mills. Keystone furnaces, Scott works and others, will be called out.

HERR MOELLER'S CAREER GERMANY'S NCW COMMKIirH MI.YISTKIt A.Y ASTI-A.m:itICA'. Incidents Related l7 the Press of llerlin I-'irM Meeting f the Xew Ministry Riots In Spain. BERLIN, May 8. The papers print today further interesting details of the career of tho new Prussian minuter of commerce, Herr Moeller. In December, KJ7, he appeared as a witness against an American who had used insulting expressions regarding Empf ror William lu a Rerlin winehouse. Herr Moeller, who was present at the time, had a sharp altercation with the American, who is said to have been in li4Uor, and threatene! to call the police to eject hlni tiiless he left the place in live minutes. About a ytar ago he interpellated the government in the Reichstag concerning Germany's trade relations with the United States and the tariff treatment meted out L this country by the Washington government. The Leipsic Volks Zeitung. Socialist, asserts that Herr Moeller played a prominent part in the 1-,000-mark affair, in which it was asserted that the ministry cf the Interior had asked the Central Union o; German Manufacturers to contribute toward the agitation for the government's so-called hard labor bill. The reconstructed Prussian Ministry held its first sitting to-day. Count Von liuelow greeting the new ministers with a formal speech. The Reichsanzeiger publishes letters from Emperor William to Herr Rreleld and Raron Von Hammerstein, cordially thanking them for their services and conferring orders upon them. Mlsslonnrie Enten by Cannibals. BRISBANE, Queensland, May 8. A search party which has returned from New Guinea discovered the half-eaten remains of the Rev. James Chalmers and the Rev. Oliver Tomkins, of the London Missionary Society, and their followers, who were massacred' In April by natives of Fly river. New Guinea, after a tribal tight. It appears that when the party of Mr. Chalmers approached the shore they were surrounded by a feet of canoes Idled with armed natives. Thej- were never seen again. The punitive expedition partly destroyed the villages and canoes of the district where the massacre occurred and killed twenty-four nativs. Protect to tl: 3'orte. CONSTANTINOPLE, May S.-The ambassadors of the foreign powers have dispatched identical notfs to the Porte characterizing the seizure by the Ottoman postal authorities of roieiKn mail bags as a breach of international law and holding the Porte responsible for the consequences. One of the mail brgs opened Sunday contained dispatches of the German ambassador. In reply to the protect of the ambassadors, the Porte maintains the right of th Ottoman postollke to receive and distribute loreign mails. lliotlni; nt Barcelona. LONDON, May 9. Special dispatches from Madrid this morning describe serious conditions at Barcelona, ami assert that several rioters have alreaily been shot after drumhead court-martials. Collisions, with fatal conseipienccs. have occurred between the troops and the strikers. Kearns Doe ot l'enr Mormonlsni. NEW YORK, May S. Senator Thomas Kearns. of Utah, who has been abroad since March l:. returned to-night on the Majestic. When asked about the report that the Mormons were going to secure control of the State, he said: "That kind of talk has ben going on ever sine I went out there. 1 was elected by the le gislature, and I am a gentile. Another gentile was also elected and another is a congressman. The Mormons are liberal, especially the young generation. The time has come when there should be no lines. Mormon or gentile, but all should Work for the deVelopmuit of the State." Former Ynlet Joih-m Very 111. NEW YORK. May S. Charles F. Jones. alet and secretary to the late William Marsh Rice, and principal witness against Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer, who is chargel with Rice's murder, was removal from the House of Detention to-day to a boarding house for medical treatment. Jones is very sirk with catarrh of th stomach, which has prevented him from taking proper nourishment lor the last v.eck. He will be guardd In the boardi;:.; house by several detectives. Borda'a calp .Not .nfe. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico. May S. Handbills circulate! here reproduce an Interview with Wenceslao P.orda. jr., published In the New York Times April in which he vr.s Uitoteii as saying: "So hopeless Is the state cd atfriLs that f ith rs sell their daughters to keep them frm dying of hunger." The people are Indignant, and should Mr. Ronia arrive in Porto Rice now lie v.oulu he liable to attack. Collipe of Circo Nciit. OIL CITY. Pa.. May S. Over a lozen people were painfully, but i.ot seriou.-ly Injured to-night by the collapse of the reserved seats section while a c ircus pcriormance was going on. Over u hundred people fell to the ground and when the lights went out the cries of the injured aroused th neighborhood.

JURY RESORTS TO FISTS

TWELVE GOOII 3IU.Y AMI TRLE" I'ldliT FOR THEIIl 1IELIE1"!. rSMV i"ny of .Not IteneliliiK a Verdict Loansport Major Will Not Resign Mate 3Iuniriial Lrnuc, Speri.Tl to th Ind ia na p- J..un;a!. MUNCIE. Ind., .May S. Henry Warfel. a contract tinner, arrested a week ago charged with causing a disturbance on an lnterurban electric car between Muncie and Yorktown. had his trial in Yorktown to-night. The jury, with Walter Holbert, a Muncie painter, as foreman, became so strongly divided on the question of tho F.uilt of the accused that a light started among the twelve men, and a rough-and-tumble mix-up was on for some time before the court broke into the locked room and pacified the excited men. Cracked heads and bloody noses were much in evidence, and the trial ended thu, very abruptly. INDIANA J'lMCIPAL LEAGUE. First Session of Its Convention at CoIui.ihtiN Held Yesterday. Fp'ciül to the Indi;;r..ipofis Journal. COLUMBUS. Ind.. May S. The first session of the eighth annual meeting of the Indiana Municipal League was held in the City Hall this afternoon. The attendance was good, about thirty delegates from twenty different cities being present. The remaining sessions for the next two days are expected to be attended by a larger number of delegates. The afternoon session was called to orde r by the president, Z. T. Dungan, mayor of Huntington. After the invocation by Rev. A. J. Frank, of the Christian Tabernacle. Mayor George W. Caldwell, of Columbus, delivered tho address, of welcome, which was responded to by Hon. W. N. O'Brien, mayor of Lawrenceburg. Letters of regret from nonattendants were thea read. James T. Me-rryman. city attorney of Decatur, read a paper on "The New Street Improvement Law.' The discussion which followed was led by George N. Lawrence, mayor of North Vernon. The following cities were represented at the afternoon session: North Vernon, Madison, Decatur. Vineeuries. Huntington. Elwoo.1, Richmond, Jeffersc nville, Seymour, Bedford, Goshen, Aurora, Lawreneeburg and Columbus. The night session of the league was devoted to a discussion of needs of departments. This huted but a short time and wai followed by a public meeting at th City Hall, which was largely attended. Mrs. Irene Hawiey, of Columbus, presented the epiestion "Are the Curfew anel Ar.tl-spitting Ordinances Beneficial?" Quiti a discussion by women followed. "The Necessity of Free Public Libraries Municipally Owned" also was discussed. Keloetle Med I eon nt Marlon. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. May 8. The thirty-seventh annual convention of the Indiana Eclectic Medical Association is being heli at the; Commercial Club in this city. The meeting began this morning and will continue over to-morrow and to-morrow night. There is a large attendance. Dr. R. T. Laycok, of Indianapolis, is president. Most of the morning session was taken up by routine business. Among the papers read were: "Little Things in Medicine," Dr. E. A. Converse. Seymour; "Echopolta and Calendula." Dr. M. M. Wheeler, Nobles villo; "Notes from a Private Hospital." Dr. Q. R. Hauss. Scllcrsburg; "Treatment of Appendicitis." Dr. A. W. Vincent, Valparaiso; "Ophthalmic Therapentics." Dr. J. P. Harbert, Indianapolis; "Bryonia and Rhus Tox.." Dr. A. W. Porter. Loogootee. A trip to the Soldiers' Home was the last pha.ss of the afternoon. The formal welcome to the city was extended at the First Methodist Church to-night, and John Uri Lloyd, of Cincinnati, entertained the convention and the public, after a short address by S. W. Glllllan. of Marion. Commercial Club Ilanq.net. Special to th Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., May S. The second annual banquet of the Commercial Club was held this evening at the Crawford House. Among those who responded to toasts were E. Stanley Simpson, Byron R. Russell, Frank L. Snyder, Orpheus M. Gregg, Stephen C. Campbell, Charles E. Lacey. Charles E. Cothn, the latter of Indianapolis. James E. Evans was toastmaster. DOt (i LAS Ml it D Hit CASE. Much Time Devoted to Relations of Mr. Doyle and Parish. Special to the In-liinapoUs Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., May S.-The Douglas murder case still occupies the time ol the court. Frank Parish, of Richmond, was on the witness stand to-day. He was with Charles Doyle at the time Doyle w.as shot In the back, and Parish was al.o shot in the face, losing both eyes. Parish said they knocked at the front and side doois of Douglas's house, but did not kick In the back dcor. He said he was slightly intoxicated md did not know he had a rock in his pocket; he want there to see Mrs. Douglas. He Ind had a light with Douglas before, and broke the stove, but. being drunk, he claimed not to know much about the cause of the light. lie devoted considerable time to his relations with Mrs. Doyh . They had not gone to the hoiioc seeking trouble, he said, nor had they intended any violence to Doyle. Other" witnesses testified as to the location of shot holen in the walls. The State rested this ulttrnoon. iu:fi.m:s to hi:si;. Mayor of Le.nunport Declines to Get Out, as Demnntled by Conncil. 5peci.il to the Indiar.ap li .J.uir-.,'l LOGANSPORT. . Ind., May R. MayoGeorge p. McKee.'vho, at the last regular meeting of the Council, was requested to resign by that body, on account of his excessive use ef intoxicants, has refused to resign, and to-night at a special meeting of the Council his salary w:.s cut from H.OoO to $M0 a year. Mayer McKee was prestmt and presided over the session. He said the- Council con1 1 ; tut h!s salary if it tlosired. but intimated mat no would nring suit to enforce payment of the original s..lary. He also eleclares. that he will never resign, notwithstanding that at the beginning of his term, he promised the Republican members tint he would abstain from hink und in ca-? he failed he would voluntarily resign. An interesting light Iwtveen the Council ani the mayor is promised. Cnpt. Blegler Ready for Service. Prcti! to the It. limnpi Us J-itire.il. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 8. Captain George Biegler, of the Twenty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, who left here for the Phil ippines when that rgiment v.vnt into serv-i ice, his arrived home. He bad been in Call- I fornla several months, having t-rn invail led home at the time he was wo.:nd.-d in a tight with the insurgents, and i waited the icturn ef his regiment to San Francisco to be mustered out. He has been appointed a lieutenant in tlie regular army by President McKinley, but he el. es not, knov where he v. ill be assigned. Captain Biegler has entitely recovered from his Injury. Provided for n Private Graveyard. Special to the li'illar.af ..'.1 Ja:rr-al WABASH. Ind.. May b. Tho will or tho late John L. Stone, of Libel ty township, this county, was tiled for probate to-elay. It includes a curious provision, requiring the cxee-utor to open on th'" loce hut's farm a family graveyard, m which the testator Is to be interred, and also enjoining that all members of his family shall be buried thero. The testator set apart a fund lor the maintenance of the yard, which U to

be used for no other purpose. Mr. Stone's estate is valued et ?0.'K.

I'lght for a Traction Franchise. sp' i i.il to ihe I:: iianai-olis Jcurnal. BRAZIL, Ind.. .May S.. This afternoon W. R. Rishcr, G. W. Redmon, Frank Keegan and Chalman McGaughey applied to the county commissioners for a franchise to construct a traetion line ten miles north to Caseyville from this city, the work of building the Hue to lv begun at once. A rcpn sentative of an Indianapolis syndicate is also trying to s-ciure a franchise over the same ground. The commissioners have not rendered a decision. Deatli of Bertha TIiuiiioiim. DELPHI, Ind., May S.-Rcrtha Timnuiiis, the young woman who was shot by her sweetheart, Wilber Miller, at RockIi Id. Momlay night, died last evening. Throughout yesterday the girl sutlered terribly from her wounds, but during the times she was conscious she inquired for her lover, whom she did not know had killed himself. Miller was buried to-day an' Mis.-: Timmons will be buried to-morrow. Engineer Denies the Report. s'pe ial to the ltnl.'ar.arf lis Jcurral. MUNCIE. Ind.. May Go?ner Young, the boy who fell under a switch engine yesterday and had both legs severed at the hips, died to-day at the hospital. His body will be taken to Greencastle on Friday. The engineer denies the report that he threw hot water on the boy's face to scare him from the train and says it was exhaust waler, if anything, that struck him. Consul Roger Off for Zanzibar. Special tu the Iieiiampiais Journal. SHOALS. Ind.. May S.-C. B. Rogers, recently appointed consul of the United States at Zanzibar, left to-day for his post of duty. He will go by way of New York, whence he will sail on the Majestic for Liverpool. He will stop a week in London and in Paris, and after visiting Rome will sail from Naples via Suez. Ruling: on 'Exemption Licenses. Siecial to the Ir.aianjjlis Journal. TER RE HAUTE. Ind.. May S.-The County Board of Education has decided not to recognize exemption licenses in the employment of teachers. These licenses permit teachers holding them to teach without taking the examinations. The action of the board has caused consternation among the older teachers. Killed in a Sandsllde. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind., May S. August Depape w as en tight in a sandsllde here today and instantly killed. Indiana Obituary. MARTINSVILLE. Ind., May S. William Murphy, aged seventy-three years, died at the home of his elaughter, Mrs. George W. Cramer, to-day. of dropsy. Mr. Murphy was a native of Kentucky, though he was a resident of Brown county. Indiana, most of bis life. His wife died several years ago. A daughter and four sons survive. MUNCIE. Ind.. May S.-Jacob Eppley, seventy years old, was on the streets yesterday seemingly in good health, but died to-day from an attack of pneumonia which began last night. BLOOMING TON, Ind.. May 8. Michael Vollmert, a baker and confectioner here for many years, died to-day of consumption. He was a native of Louisville, Ky. IndiniiH Note. Samuel Gray has received his commission as postmaste r of Terre Haute, but will not take charge until June 1. John Paddock will be assistant postmaster. The complete report of the school enumerators of Wabash county shows a total e f :,t)2s school children In a population of 20.) in the county. In the city there ate 2,tJCi. During the year ended on April SO there were more than eight hundred children in the Knlghtstown Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, and there was but one death. Mrs. Simeon Yancey, of Fortvllle, wife of former State Senatetr Yancey, swallowed morphine Tuesday, mistaking it for headache powder, and it was with the greatest tlJiriculty that her life was saved. An unknown disease is ravaging the cattle herds of southern Putnam county, and the county and assistant state veternarlans ani a Greencastle veterinary surgeon have gone down to investigate the conditions. Representative Steele has announced the recommendation for appointment of John M. Cralu, chairman of the Wabash county Republican committee, as postmaster at Wabnsh, to succeed the incumbent in July. l"1ie machinery from the Richmond factory of the American School Furnitur Company, which has been elismantled, Is being installed in the company's new factory at Wabash, which will employ 2.K) hands. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Charies Welch, living near Hartford City, which fell on a sharpened lead pencil, on Monday, the point penetrating the brain, elied yesterday in great agony. The funeral will be held to-elay. The school enumeration for Bartholomew county shows a net loss In the county of fifty-seven from the enumeration of one year ago. The figures are: lloo, 7,152; lttOl. 7,o!)3. In the city of Columbus there is a gain of one over last year. MISCELLANEOUS BREVITIES. The Thirty-second Infantry was mustered out at San Francisco yesterday. Th? Seanlan-Weinlg twenty-round glove contest billed for lat night nt Hot Springs Ark., was declared off, Scanlan refusing to go on and giving sickness as his excuse. The bond of Baldwin Rice as permanent mlministrn tor of the estate of W. M. Rice, tlie deeaased New Yrk millionaire, waa yesterday lixed at Rvo0,P00 in the Probat Court at Houston, Tex. The vestry of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. New York, yesterday elected the Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires, of Grace Church, Chicago. ro-tor, to succeed the late Rev. Dr. John Wesley Brown. At yesterday's session of the American Therapeutic Society, in Washington, Dr. Francis 1. Morgan urged that the present apoethcary system of writing proscriptions be supplanted entirely by a universal metric system. Fred Smith, son of ex-Judge Smith, of Osborne countv. Kansas, was shot ani instantly killed at Cloo, O. T.. to-night, lb began shooting a pistol in a restaurant I tiled with women and children, when Cook brodily pulled a pistol and killeil him. Harvard won the intercollegiate gelf tournament n the Northrield, N. J., links yesterday, contesting in the Una Is with Yaie for the cup. Princeton hCid the troph. which it now yields to the wearers of the crimson. The score of the victory st:od i.'l te :'!. reckoning by the college system recently adopted. Tho committee appointed by the Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the World, to revise the laws of the order, yesterday ele-oid.-d to eliminate from the constitution all the sections relating to the relief and care of the sick anel insane. Under the eld sections there was a great deal of imposition on the Sovereign Camp, anel seme radical changes were ebemeei necessary. Entirely new sections will be Irafted to cover these subjects and more authority wiU be given to the local camps In dealing with them. Movement of Steuincr. NEW YORK. May S. Arrived: Majestic and Servia. from Liverpool; Manitou. from Lonelon; II. H. Meier. from Bremen. Saihel: St. Pcui. for Southampton; Friesla ml, for Antwerp; Germanic, for Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN. May S. Arrived: Teutonic, from New York; Waesland, from Philadelphia. LI ERPOOL. May Arrived: Dominion, from Portland; Nomadic, from New York. PLYMOUTH. M-.y S. Arrived: Patricia, from New Yrk. for Hamburg. St UY;iAMPTiN. May v. Sailed: Lahn.' fre.ra, Bremen, for New York. ROTTERDAM. May S. Arrived: Statendam, from New York. GLASGOW. May S. Arrived. Ar.choria. from New York. Gilt from 11. M. llnnna. CLEVELAND. O.. May S. Mr. H. M. lianna. a brother of Senator Hanna, lias given to Western Reserve University tl2..") to establish a re.-earch fellowship In its moiled school, kpartmen'.s f physiology and pathology. It is one of the first foundatians of th- s 1 1 in the country. Opeued Parliament To-Day. MELBOURNE. May S. The Duke of Cornwall and York opened the Australian Federal Parliament at noon to-day (Thursday). The ceremony was brilliant.

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AM 01 NT OF JOINT INDEMNITY DEMANDED FRO.U CHINA. Alleged Speech by (rn. Chnflfee That Will No Doubt Plcane Many Britons Germany and It Ii! a. WASHINGTON, May S.-Information has been received here confirming the report from Peking regarding the amount of indemnity to be demanded. This total has now been reduced from something like half & billion dollars to X27,fiM). The ministers, in a collective note to the Chinese government, demanded 4r0,0of,0 taels. A reply is expected at the end of the week, which probihly will propose to meet thj indemnity by raising the customs tariff, it is considered likely at Peking that the powers will assent to some such measure in return for concessions on the part of China ir. the shape of total abolition of the likin, the placing of import duties on a gold basis; really free navigation of Chinese waters and the removal of impediments lo navigation and the tax at Woo-Sung. The ministers were unable to agree as to the eatsirubility of opening the whole empire to trade and residence, some of them holding that it would be asking China to assume to great responsibility, and under the present system of government it would be impossible to guarantee the safety of the numerous foreigners who would flock into the interior if the empire were entirely opened. SPEECH IIY CHAFFEE. Alleged to Have Saiel Rritoni nnl Yankees Will Never Quarrel. NEW YORK. May S.-A dispatch to the Herald from Peking says: "General Gaselee gave a smoking concert in the Temple of Heaven In honor of General Chaffee and his officers. General Chaffee made a political speech which caused comment outside the British camp. The following version was published In the official organ of the British legation and was accepted on all sides as correct: 'Let kings, ministers and politicians say what they may,' said General Chaffee, "but I can tell you this, that never will you see Americans and Britishers facing each other in the field. Our national policy may be to steer clear of international complications, hut should circumstances arise in which we must make a choice our inclination will be with Britishers.' " WASHINGTON, May S. The allege! statements of General Chaffee, made at General Gazelee's banquet at Peking m honor of the Americans, expressing his inclination toward the British In case t international complications, have not been brought officially to the attention of the government here. Consequently the ofhoiils decline to indicate what will happen ir. the event that official complaint la made. They Declined to Halt. BERLIN, May 8. The Berliner Post publishes an Inspired statement regarding the firing by Germans on the British tug Ego, at Tien-Tsin, on Saturday. According to this version of the incident the boat belonged to a British lighterage company, but was being used at the time by the Chinese. It fouled the bridge over the PeiHo, which the Germans were guarding. The German watch called a halt, but the toatmen tried to escape hastily, and as they disregarded the third call to halt, the watch fired. The statement concludes by asserting that the incident was wholly without political significance. Germany nnd Itunnia Not at Outre. BERLIN. May S.-The Foreign Officehere strongly denies the rumors circulated in Great Britain of strained relations between Russia and Germany on account of Flights on the part of Count Von Waldersee or any other cause. The relations between the two countries remain excellent. DUE TO SPECULATION. I'allnrc of Another Firm of Chicago Broker Jamienon to Pay. CHICAGO. May 8. W. F. Furbeck & Co., brokers, suspended business to-day, being unable to meet margin calls upon them by their New Y'ork correspondents. Mr. Furbeck declined to-night to make any statement as to the amount of his liabilities or assets. "We were not able to get margins from our customers as fast as we were called on by our New Y'ork connections." said Mr. Furbeck, "and as a result our stocks were sohl out." The firm has elone a large business em either the New York or Chicago Exchange, and it is said that the firm was hard hit in the Price, McCormick nnd Seymour-Johnson failures, and that it never really recovered from that setback. A plan of settlement was arranged to-day by Jamieson & Co., brokrs. who failed on Monday, whereby the creditors are to accept the personal note of M. M. Jamieson for the full amount of their claims. Tim tcrnn pntvide that 10 per cent, is to be pale In thirty days. 10 per cent, in sixty days, CO per cent, in nine months, and Z) per cent, in fifteen mttnths. The notes are t draw interest at the rate of 4 per cent The total liabilities of the concern will amount practically to S."15.(.0, and tho assets are placed at iXo0. leaving a elefklt of $P-o.)oo. The committee which w.;s appointed to look Into the Jamiesons' affairs reported that the business of the firm htd been conducted in a perfectly tegular way. WILL LEVY ON THE COUNTY. F--dernl Conrt Enforcing n Railroad Subsidy in Kentucky. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. May 8. The CourierLJournal to-morrow will say: "If the bondeel indebtedness eif Taylor county, created in favor of the Chesapeake Si Ohio road, is not paid, a United States marshal's posse will be sent to the county, as was done when Muhlenberg county failed to pay the judgment rendercel against it uy United States Judge Barr, who biter compelled the county to pay the expenses et" the posse In addition to tr.e judgment. Taylor county originally wted $-0,u!0. A compromise effect (el with the bonilnolders for $v',o;0 was repudis?teel by the county. "Marc Hubbert brought suit in the United States court and was given juelgment to the amount of 2.fC,t and in costs against the individual taxpayers. Unite! "States Marshal James Is in possession of the assessment books of the county, and the levy will be made In accordance with the pro rata of vhe special commissioner of the court. David May." Obituary. DENVER, Col.. May S.-Miss Mary Lorin.t Cort, who spent seventeen years m Siam as a teacher and missionary died at the home of her father, Simon Cort, of this eity. aged fifty-four ye.us. She was the puthor of several publications on Slam, the most Important of which was "Th Heart of Farther India." BLUE RAPIDS. Kan.. May Frederick A. Stocks, who was chief clerk of the United States treasurer during Ilai riso,'.s administration, died her' to-d.-'y of pneumonia. He was In charge of the treasury exhibit at the world's fair at Chicago, anil serve-el In the State Senate. VICXSBURO. Miss.. May S H. L. Copper, cap-"in United "States engineers, died at Greenville to-night. Captain Coppee was in charge of the Yazoo, Mississippi, levee district. JOHNSTOWN. N. Y., May S.-John M Carroll, who whs a member of the Port-fi-eonö Congress, died here to-elay, aged seventy-eipht years. M'K EES PORT, Pa.. May S. Maj. W. N. Robbins. aged seventy-three years, in former years prominent in the coal business, eile! here to-lay. NEW YORK. May S.-W. E. Spier, formerly treasurer of the International Paper Company, die! at his residence here to-day. OTTAWA. May . Justice King, of tlu Supreme Court, Is dead. He was a tutUc of New Brunswick.

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POLICE ( INVESTIGATING. White MO in an nnd n Colored Mmi CJe! Into Trouble. Tuer.day evening about 8 o'clock two vell-dres?ed white women and a colored man alighteil from a cab near Illake and North streets and en;iKd In loud conversation, which attracted quite a crowei. loiter they walked down the Mroet together, and in a few moment? one of the women was heard callinur for help, her language indicating t-he hael leen attacked and cut with a knife or razor. The negro escaped eleven an alley anel returned to the cab, which was in waiting, and askoel to re eiriven to Indiana avenue and West street as juickly as possible, i-'pots of blood on the pavement led to the belief that one of the women had been badly ?n. The police are trying to learn the r.ame3 oZ the persons. No arrests have been made. The matter of white women and negro men asoeiating In public plics has been one of which many complaints have ben rraete to police headquarters, and last night two arrests were m.iele. Lizzie Williams, who not a ftran.'ier at police headquarters, was arreste.I -virh a negro giving the name of Euforl Eatoms. I-iter a woman twenty yenrs of age. who . lid she was Oma Itorr. of Eouisvilje, Ky.. was taken to headqu-irte rs by IVitrohr.en Shine and Hauerty. i-he w:'s found in a house ;il It;rd str--t. ejceupb-'l by n--;rres. f-ittinrr with them about a t.b'e on which there- w is a Jog of whisky. Fi. ports hael readied he nlqu:irTs ti;:it she hid Veil there- for several 'ays. Her parents live in Louisville, ami she ha been here a number of times, staying about a month each time. Wo in mi Tricked nml Itolihed. The. money drav. or at postofflee station No. lo. at P,2 Virginia avenue. In charge of Miss IouIfo Welf. was rbbed Tue?lay afternoon while Misa Wolf was ab.ent, ?oIng across the street to a queensware stere In resj'ctnse to a telephone call which proved to be a trick for the purpose of acco.npllshing the robbery. The money taken was $10 in silve-r. The message purpertee! to be from the postoflic; ar.l she was H.kel to go and fee about a registered pae-ke which was said to be too large for delivery by regular carrier. The robbery wan reported to the police, but for some reason 1 Information relative to It waa withheld.

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