Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1901 — Page 2

THE - INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1901

which says children shall not be excluded for failure to be vaccinated.

new medal at m. mauvs. Award fr Historical Essn j (ins to lie Grmlnalrd This MonCi. Breill to the Irl lain; oils Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. May 31. Another medal ha3 been added to the many annual award to graduates of St. Mary's Academy, at St. Mary's of the Woods, the mother heme of the Sifters of Providence of the United State.-. Waiter Semme s-Clark, of Washington, has provided for a gold medal, to be known as tho S-'mmf s-Clark medal, for the I-est hi.-torlcul essay hy a graduate. The class which has passed all examinations for graduation next month Is as follows: Margaret Alrr.an. Ivesdale, 111.; Maude Helen. Tuscola; Margaret Mary Heine, St. Louis; Amanda Sleight, Grayville; Elizabeth McAuley, Chicago; Jose?hin Ad", Chicago; Louise KN iicr, Torre laute; Helen Wiilicn. Terro Haut"; Margaret CaMwt 11, Saginaw; Mae Cunningham. Crawfordsville; Myrtle Saur. Napoleon; Helm Harra. Napoleon; Mary I- lnr.egan. Dallas,; Nellie Pelt, Peru; Carson Lemon. Covington; Mora flraws, Summitt; Emma Bodine, Treasure, 111. Earihnm College Affair. Frcial to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND. Ind.. May SI. Benjamin Kelly, who will be dean of the rolle?:; next year, will spend the summer In Colorado. He Is now In poor health. Miss Papworth, head of the department of music, will spend the summer In Europe. Prof. R. Warren Barrett, who hold the chair of Latin languages and literature, will study law in Indianapolis during the summer. Professor Collin?, who ha j charge of the department cf physics, will leave about June 10 for Boston, to spend some time before entering upon his dutbn as assistant Instructor In physics at tho Harvard snmmer school. The ball team will go to Miami University tomorrow. Prof. Thomas Newlin. of Wilmington College, will preach in Lindley Hall Sunday morning-. TVotes of the School. COVINGTON-Eight students have closed their scholastic earners In the Covington High School and will be graduated on Tuesday. June H. It Is the twenty-first class to be graduated and consists of the following: Alma r.oord. Mildred Dennis. Jes.-iu Romine. Roy Rogers. Fletcher L"wis. Wilfred McComas. Lee Duncan. 11. Henselman. The baccalaureate sermon, on Sunday, will be by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Stephenson, of De Pauw. BRAZIL The seventeenth commencement Of the Brazil schools was held at the opera house on Friday night. There were sixteen graduates, as follows: Gertrude Bowles, Emma Ehrlich?, Nella Vickers, May Hudson. Jennie Dynum. Marie Rugo. Fannie MeCarel. Hertha Katterman. Susan Davis. Herrn Ina. Ireland. William 11. Wheeler. Eoswell Jonen. S. G. Rlair. Chas. Holt. John North way, Harry Vickers. DUNKIRK Five students were graduated on Friday afternoon, as follows: Leona B. Reed. Nellie U. Garber. Edwin C. Garber, Vane Faulkner. Leroy M. Fudge. The Clas3 address was by the Rev. I'. E. IIolp. sot opposing the merger. Block Coal Men Said to He Willing to Join the Proponed Trust. Ereelal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRK HAUTE. Ind.. May SI. John S. Bays, who Is obtaining the options on Indiana coal mining properties for the proposed consolidated company, says the work Is progressing as satisfactorily as the promoters could wish, and that there is nothing In the story that the Mock coal interests will not submit options. J. H. McClelland, president of the Rrazil Block Coal Company, which controls that lield, says that the subject ef the merger did not come up at the meeting held this week. Mr. McClelland says it is his belief that the block operators will join in the movement. A general meeting of all Interested will be held In this city or In Chicago soon, when the situation will be brought into definite lines ond the Una I decision reached on the proposition to form a company with $10,CMJ.OM) or $20.iv0.O capital stock. Soldier Took n Ilride in Haste. Fjeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind.. May 31. Joshua C. Freeman and Miss Nora B. East, both of Evin township, were married here yesterday. Freeman Is Just home from the army, having served a three-year enlistment. He wanted to marry Miss East several years ago, but circumstances prevented and he enlisted in the regular army. The young people met here at the Memorial day exercises, and thirty minutes afterward they were husband and wife, the ceremony being pronounced by Justice De Haven. Young Freeman has re-enlisted and left to-day for Fort Sheridan. Salt Against Mr. Remy "Withdrawn. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. May 31. The suit filed on Monday In tho Circuit Court by Miss Catharine Hall against City Attorney J. A. Uemy will be dismissed. The plali.tifT alleged in her complaint that Remy, who acted as her attorney, had collected $100 and refused to turn it over to her. The matter was adjusted yesterday and the suit will be withdrawn. Mr. Remy Btates that Miss Hall had sent a woman friend for the money and that he had refused to give It to her without a written request trom Miss Hall. The next he learned of the matter was filing of the suit. Monument to the Soldiers. Bpecla! to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. May 31. After yesterday's memorial exercises a large crowd gathered at Rose Hill Cemetery, whero a monument was dedicated to the FIELD DAY WEATHER. nigU School Athletes Here 'Twlit Fair nnd Foul Conditions. WASHINGTON, May 31. Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: For Ohio Unsettled weather, with showera on Saturday and probably on Sunday; variable winds, mostly southwesterly. For Indiana and Illinois Fair in southern, fchowers and cooler in northern portions on Saturday. Sunday probably fair; fresh north to northeast winds. Local Observation on Friday. Rar. Ther. R H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m. .20.81 31 7 N'west. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m. .23.73 C6 CS West. Pt.cldy 0.00 Maximum temperature, CS; minimum temperature. -13. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation tor May 31: Temp. Pre. Normal 63 .14 Mean C6 .00 Departure 12 .14 Departure since May 1 DJ 1.6S Departure since Jan. 1 COS 3.03 C. F. R. W A P P E N II A N S , t Local Fort-cast O'Mcif I. Yesterday Temp erat tire.

Stations. Mln. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta. Ga 3S 6S 62 Bismarck. N. D 44 80 K) Buffalo. N. Y 4S 56 54 Calgary. N. W. T 31 m Chicago. Ill 41 70 M Carlo. HI M 7) f,S Cheyenne. Wyo 4 J 54 Cincinnati. 0 4S 6-; 64 Concordia. Kan ; 74 74 Davenport. la öl! 7 74 Des Muines. la Zl 7S 74 Galveston. Tex 71 8J 78 Helena. Mont 45 C4 54 Jacksonville. Fl i f.4 74 64 Kansas City, Mo 54 76 74 Little Rock. Ark 2 70 CS Marquette, Mich 11 () . 12 Memphis, T. nn W C4 Nashville. Tenn 31 70 64 New Orlen nr. La 71 S 74 New York city 5- CJ go North Platte. Neb 4H 74 71 Oklahoma. O. T 40 7i 72 Omaha. Neb 52 71 74 Pittsburg. Pa 54 f.i 64 Qu' Appelle. N. W. T 50 M 74 Rapid City. S. D 52 70 CO Bait Lake City 4i es- 66 St. Loula. Mo 11 72 70 KU lul. Minn 50 7i 72 BprintfVid. Ill 4u 75 72 Springfield. Mo 52 72 70 Vicksburgr, Miss 61 82 70 Washington, D. C II 7 J 60

soldiers of the war of the rebellion and presented to Rloomington and Monroe county by the Woman's Relief Corps of this city. It Is of Monroe county stone and cost $1.5"). Mrs. J. H. Allen made the presentation speech and the address to the comrades was made by Captain Becm. of Spencer. Senator R. A. Fulk accepted the monument fur the city and county. Small Roy Confesses a Theft. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCH:. Ind.. May 2).-Horace Dickens, colored, aged nine, was detained by the Muncie police this morning as he was changing cars from his home in Hartford City for Greencastie, h'3 former home. Last night he robbed the Winters general store at Hartford City. He was dres.-cd In a r.atty new outfit which h? had stolen, and with 512 of the 51K he secured from a numey drawer in h:s pocket. The boy confessed the robbery. Indiana Obituary. HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. May 31. John J. Hayes, one cf the best-knovr. farmers and stock-raisers in this county, died Thursday night, at his home. lx miles southwest of this city, of consumption. He was a native of Blackford county and was sixty-four years old. He was a member of Company D, Eighty-fourth Indiana Infantry, during the civil war. He left a widow and eight children. MUNCIE, Ind.. May 31. ratrlck O Meara, one of the oldest baggage masters on the Fort Wayne and Connersvllle division of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad, died suddenly last night in Fort Wayne of neuralgia of the heart. He was attacked on his train and never recovered, dying in a few minutes. The body will be brought to Muncie to-morrow for burial. JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind.. May 31.-Geo. A. Mason, of Indianapolis, who came hce this week to visit his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Blizzard, died at her home last night of dropsy. He had been afflicted with tho disease for some time and came here in hope of finding relief. Mr. Mason was seventy-five years old.

Indiana Notes. WABASH George Johnson, a lineman of the Home Telephone Company, and Howard Sipold, a Central Union lineman, were almost shocked to d"ath by a live wire, while they were making repairs. The telephone wire they were handling fell across an electric-light wire. Johnson held the telephone wire lightly, and was hurled to the ground, where he writhed In agony until released. Sipold. in attempting his rescue, was severely shocked. COVINGTON Tho Fountain County Commissioners have rescinded their action in ordering a special election, which had been set for Saturday. June 1, to vote on the proposition of a 2 per cent, tax In favor of the Chicago. Covington & Southern Railway. This action was taken on account of the bitter rivalry developed among a numler of similar candidates for aid from the county or its constituent townships. RICHMOND Levi M. Jones. ' a prominent resident and until the past few days a Justice of the peace, has been bound over to the Circuit Court tinder $500 bonds to answer a charge of misappropriating fees belonging to the State. Jones resigned his office and nurrendered bis commission as the result of an investigation ordered by tho attorney general. Jones furnished bond. PORTLAND P. K. Kinney's Infant child, at Geneva, was dangerously burned by Its dress catching tire. Mrs. Kinney suffered severe burns in rescuing the baby. Lucinda Landess has filed an action against Daniel Bantz, a Dunkirk saloon keeper, for Belling liquor to her husband, after being notified not to do so. She asks $2.0u0 damages, and Bantz's bondsmen are made parties defendant. ALEXANDRIA Wiley Ellis. seventyeight years old, had his leg broken while bringing a load cf logs to town Friday morning. He had stopped at a scale to weigh the Kad. and the man who was driving for him started the load and In some way caught Mr. Ellis under the wheels. He Is one of the oldest and best-known residents of Madison county. JEFFERSONVILLE The Clark cnunty Sunday-school convention began a three days' session In the Presbyterian Church at Charlestown on Friday. All the denominations are represented and many delegates are present. ELKHART Rennte, ten-year-old son of A. Y. Walker, is dying of lockjaw, which resulted from the severing of two toes, while riding behind another boy on a bicycle step, the toes being caught by the sprocket. KOKOMO A lunacy board has declared Mrs. Augusta Schmidt insane. Since her release from prison, where she served a sentence for murder, her mind has failed steadily, and recently she became violent. UNION CITY-Negotiations are in progress, and with every prospect of success, to the end that the electric railroad from Greenville. O., to Portland shall pass through Union City. CRIMES OF VARIOUS DEGREES. Wiley Kirk, colored, eighteen years old, was hanged at Towson, Md., yesterday for criminal assault on a white woman. Charles Haverson. a white man. was hanged at Westvllle, Miss., yesterday for the murder of A. A. Ammonds. About 5.000 people witnessed the execution. James Dunn, a jockey, was shot In the Jaw and behind the car by Victor Collins, another jockey, in a quarrel at Overland Park. Denver, yesterday. Dunn was taken to a hospital. Collins escaped. It is said that a shortage of nearly $10,000 has been found in the accounts of Cashier Martinez, of the Mexican Central Railroad, at Torreon. Martinez left Torreon two weeks ago. and his continued absence caused the officials of the road to send Auditor Healy to Torreon to check up the cashier's accounts. William J. Lawler, former supervisor of the South Town, and Henry H. Fuller, former collector, were jointly Indicted by the grand Jury at Chicago yesterday on a charge of conspiracy to divert public fund. Lawler, in addition, was indicted on two separate additional charges of embezzlement and withholding public funds. All the charges come under the head of felony. The grand Jury at Chicago yesterday took up the subject of bucket shopping and voted indictments against the following persons accused of violating the law: I). J. Gunsaulus. F. G. Holznpiel. J. II. Royal, E. A. Wacshing. F. C. Bats. W. L. Talcott. Sidney Mcllie. C. W. lickerell. J. F. Southard. W. A. Mcllie. Sidney L. Wright, K. R. Owen. Henry Wallensdorf and E. H. Swarth. Mcllie Is president of the Central Stock Exchange. c;i:oiu;e c;on.is amiutiox. Wants to Re Known nn America' Greatest Railroad Man. W. G. Nicholas, In New York Telegraph. The extent into which Mr. George J. Gould is getting into railroads has given Wall street and the public a new Insight Into the character and plans of that remarkable young man. He is not so very young, either, being well past forty years of age, and has been in almost absolute control of the Gould fortunes for many j-ears. Until this year he has never been conspicuous in the street, and has apparently contented himself with reinvesting the earnings of the estate, with no view of becoming especially prominent among the financiers of first rank. It is becoming evident that under his management the Gould estate has grown enormously, and that he is now in position to size up with John D. Rockefeller and W. K. Vanderbilt. who are beyond a doubt the largest owners of railway securities In the world. There seems to be no limit to his resources. It has not been necessary for him to reduce the Gould Interests In Western Union or Manhattan to extend himself as he has been doing In the railway field. Not content with organizing a Southwestern system with a mileage of 15.0)0 miles, he Is planning to secure an independent outlet to the Atlantic seaboard. In this ambitious project he has the financial and personal backing of John D. Rockefeller and the co-operation of E. II. Harrlman. It is said to be George Gould's ambition to secure eventual recognition as the greatest of American railroad men. He is taking care of his health and is planning ahead for twenty-five years. Life insurance companies figure him as a good risk for a quarter of a century, and in that time he hopes to become the richest man in America and the mott powerful. It is only lately that even his most intimate friends have discovered that he had any overpowering purpose in life. CorupuIory Marriage. London Globe. In Russia if a girl desires to study at either of the universities etiquette requires that she should be married. Accordingly she goes through the civil form of marriage with one of the men students, whom he may never have seen before, and perhaps may never speak to again. These marriages are perfectly legal, and if the contracting parties like each other they are united for life, but otherwise the marriage Is dissolved when their university course is flaished, and both are free to marry ai;aln.

TO RAISE CUSTOMS DUES

.MINISTERS AT PEIvIXG I'ROroSE AN INCREASE OF TEN l'ER CENT. Wnldersee's Route Home from China Not Vet Known Withdrawal uf German Troops. PEKING. May 31. China's unconditional acceptance of 450O0,0ro taels as the indemnity to be paid the powers has caused great satisfaction among the foreign ministers, as it only leaves practically a few minor details to complete the negotiations. The phrase in the joint note, "to the satisfaction of the powert," may cause some delay In the evacuation of Chinese territory, the ministers fail to sec how China, can guarantee payment, and as all the ministers believe it would be a mistake to have a large body of foreign ofliclals collecting revenue. Were revenue thus collected over 2,000 ofliclals would be required, and the aggregate salaries of these men would be very largo, and amount to more than the ordinary Chinese "squeeze." The majority of the ministers now favor raising the customs 10 per cent, and taking 5,000,000 taels yearly from the likln tax. This method would give, after the payment of Interest on foreign debts now existing, about Zl.t.w.tm taels a year. The ministers would agree to this system if China would discontinue thw collection of all likin duties of foreign goods. WALDERSRR'S PLANS. German Commander Will Leave China for Home About June 14. WASHINGTON, May 31. Whether Count Von Walderscc will return from China by way of the United States has not been definitely made known to the authorities here. It is expected he will decide on his route after reaching Yokohama and conferring with Countess Von Waldersee, who awaits him there. The departure of the commander-in-chief from China will not bo later than June 11. Information received licro Is that his departure will be accompanied by a reduction of the German force een greater than has been indicated in press dispatches, the intention being to have only a legation guard at Peking anl an auxiliary force capable of keeping open communication between Peking and the coast, so as to avoid a repetition of the disturbances. The various foreign representatives do not expect there will be any need to choose a successor to Count Von Waldersee, und k is said there will be no occasion for a Jcint commander for the comparatively small force constituting the legation guards. Tho understanding is that thy withdrawal of troops will be speedily followed by tho return of the Imperial family to Peking, although before this can be don some ofiices burned before the foreign occupation must bo restored, and there needs be overhauling of the palaces, which of late served as barracks for soldiers. Most or the foreign powers now consider the indemnity question closed, and have so informed their representatives here, the total being $.T37,00O,(.u0 on a 4 per cent, basis. Germany Charters Steamships. BERLIN, May 31. The German government has chartered thirteen steamers to bring home the troops in China. It is reported that about lS.noo men will have arrived by the end of September. LIKE SECRET SOCIETIES. Reformed Presbyterians May Put nan on Labor nnd Trades Unions. riTTSBURG, Pa., May 31. At the opening of the third session of the Reformed Presbyterian Synod of North America here to-day Moderator Rev. I). C. Martin announced the following committee for the ensuing year: Foreign missions, D. P. Robb, J. M. Foster, C. M. Smitt. W. Stumer, S. S. Smitt; home missions, F. M. Hoster. T. J. Allen, E. A. Crooks, E. J. Carithers, Francis Rea; national reform, J. Renwick Wylie, D. S. Faris, J. F. Wilson, A. S. Gilchrist, William Orr; Sabbath, R. J. Gault, D. J. Shaw, James McCune, James Gray, James Thompson; reeret societies, J. C. B. French. G. P. Raitt, W. T. H. Thompson. L. M. Sampson, W. M. Wylie; systematic beneficence. J. S. Martin, S. McNaugher. J. R. W. Stevenson, J. B. Sterritt, J. W. I,eavin: temperance. S. R. Wallace. R. M. Sharp, George Kennedy, J. M. Adams, Joseph McConneil. Rev. John Willie, of Colorado, chairman of the committee on secret societies, then presented his report, which went into a discussion of labor and trades unions and showed a tendency to consider them In the same class as the secret order?. He advocated the appointment of a committee for the special purpose of making a more thorough examination into the aims, purposes and principles of labor organizations. The report severly criticised secret societies and defined their cardinal principles and morals as "Christlcss, ensnaring in their nature, pernicious in their tendency and perilous to the liberties of both church and state." H r.mseHer.1 Lutheran Synod. DES MOINES, la.. May 31. The second day of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church was devoted to discussion of home missions, the biennial report being read by Dr. A. S. Hartman, secretary of the board. The report of the National Lutheran Home for the Aged at Winthrop Heights. Washington, D. C. wis submitted by Dr. M. W. Hamm, of Washington. The anniversary of the home mission work was celebrated to-night. Saturday afternoon nnd evening a public reception will be tendered for Dr. Samuel Barnitz, of Dos Moines, who has been Western secretary of the General Synod for the past twenty years. Next Tuesday the visitors will be taken riding throughout the city. The First Lutheran Church of Baltimore. Md.. Invites the 1!03 synod, and has no opposition so far. MISCELLANEOUS BREVITIES. The Forty-sixth Regiment. United States Volunteer Infantry, was mustered out at an Francisco yesterday. Dr. Daniel B. Purinton. president of Denison University, has been offered the presidency of West Virginia University. The four men who have been practically abandoned on Navassa island, in the West Indies, since December last, will be brought to New York on the steamship Alps, which Is due there on June 12. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Kautz arrived at Buffalo, yesterday, to visit the exposition. One hundred and seventy-live boys, members of the University School, of Cleveland, also arrived for a threo days visit. The forty-third regular convention of the American Society of Metropolitan Engineers came to a close at Milwaukee last night. "Efficiency Tests of 123-Horse Power Gas Engine," by C. 11. Robertson, of Lafayette. Ind., was one of the papers discussed. John Bezllnski. William Greening and Peter Jesky. bridge carpenters. were drowned last night In the Calumet river, at Ninety-fifth street. Chicago, by the capsizing of a ferryboat. Five of their companions, whV were also thrown in the water, were rescued by the police. Maj. Gen. S. B. M. Young, of the United States army, was yesterday mustered into Union Veteran Legion. Encampment No. 1. of Pittsburg, at a special meeting, attended by forty members. The ceremony was private. Lieutenant General Miles and Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard belong to the same post. A twenty-mile motor-paced race was won at Baltimore last night by Jimmy Michael from Watson Coleman and O. V. Babcock by 3i laps- Timt. 53 minutes. 15 1-5 seconds. Coleman and Babcock rode in fivemile relays, changing pace each five miles without slacking their own pace or that of their motors. Robert J. Thompson, secretary of the Lafayette Memorial Commission, has been notified at Chicago, that the French government has promoted him to the Legion' cf Honor of France, in recognition of services rendered In securing the erection of the Lafayette monument in Paris, which was begun July 4, lyoo. Maj. Richard Sylvester, of Washington, D. C, was beiected president of the Na

tional Association of Police Chiefs, at New York, yesterday, by a vote of 51 to 43. Deputy Police Commissioner William Devery, of New York, was selected vice president by acclamation. Louisville was chosen as the next meeting place. The Rev. James Chapman, president of Wesleyan Training College. Battersea. England, one of the most cultured men in the rank3 of the Wesleyan ministry, has accepted an invitation of tha theological faculty of Vanderbilt University to deliver a reries of lectures In connection with the Cole lectureship in the spring of next year. Mrs. Maltble D. Babcock. widow of the late pa3tor of Brick Presbyterian Church, of New York, who died in Naples on May IS. arrived in New York yesterday on the Fuerst Bismarck. She was accompanied by the Rev. George A. Pauli and the Rev. George I. Curtis and their wives, of Bloomfield. N. J. They were members of the party with which Dr. Babcock made a tour through Palestine. Dr. Babcock's body will arrive on tho Trave aoout June IX Alexander B. Winton and Charles B. Shanks, of Cleveland, O., have abandoned the attempt to cross the continent in an automobile. Their machine stalled in a sand hillock near Wlnnemucca, New, and they were unable to go further. The tourists have left for Cleveland and the automobile will be shipped to that city by rail as soon as it can be extricated. Mr. Winton says it is impossible for an ordinary automobile to eros3 the sandy deserts of Nevada. He intends to make another trial in a specially constructed machine which he will build. COMPROMISE AGREED TO

NORTHERN PACIFIC CONFLICTING INTERESTS REACH AGREEMENT. FormnI Statement that the Trouble Which Caused the Recent WallStreet Panic Has llecn Settled. NEW YORK, May 31. The conflicting Interests In the Northern Pacific Railroad have reached a final and amicable agreement upon all matters of disagreement and their future relations to the property. There has been no announcement of the terms of the new pact which ends the most remarkable financial battles in' the record of Wall street, and none of the details have been made public. Late this afternoon the following statement went out on the ticker: "It is officially announced that an understanding has been reached between tha Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific Interests in which the composition of the Northern Pacific board will be left in the hands of J. P. Morgan, certain names having already been suggested, which will especially be recognized as representative of the common Interests. It is asserted that complete and permanent harmony wili result under the plan adopted between all Interests Involved." When the statement was shown to Louis A. Helnshelmer, of Kuhn, Loch & Co., he said: "That statement is authentic. We cannot go into particulars as to the settlement or give you any details at this time. All that we can say is that there has been a settlement of the differences that existed and the matter Is at an end." Jacob H. Schiff declined to add anything to the official statement beyond confirming the truth of it. All James J. Hill would say was that a satisfactory settlement appeared to have been concluded. One of the stories hoard to-day after the announcement that peace had bt en declared was that at least two Northern Pacific directors would enter the Union Pacific board and the equal representation would be giver the latter road in the directory of the firs, named. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Arbuckle Brothers yesterday reduced the price of all grades of refined sugar 15 points. The American Sugar Refining Company made no changes. Orlando E. Miller, a Chicago physician, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday, scheduling an Indebtedness of $5S7.0,'n, with no assets. Giving, his Indorsement to notes caused the bankruptcy. The Northwestern Steamship Company's steamer Northtown left Chicago for Europe yesterday. The vessel carries a cargo of agricultural machinery and provisions for Hamburg and oil cake and champagno for Antwerp. Joseph E. Schwab, general superintendent ot the steel works and furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, at Duquesne, has resigned to accept the position of assistant to the president of the United States Steel Corporation, Charle3 M. Schwab, who is his brother. Irvin Butterworth yesterday tendered his resignation as president of the Columbus Board of Trade. He also tendered his resignation as president of the Columbus Gas Company and left last night for Denver, where he will assume the duties of vice president and general manager of the Denver Gas Company. There was no representation of the Vick-er-MaxIm interests at the annual meeting yesterday of the directors of the William Cramp Ship and Engine Building Company, ami Secretary Taylor said after the meeting that there had been no discussion of consolidation with the Vickcrs-Maxlm Company. The Philadelphia Record thU morning says the combination has been eflected, while the North American says it has not. In pursuance of resolutions adopted at the annual convention of the National Live Stock Association in Salt Lake City last January President John W. Springer has appointed a special committee to work for the enactment of a law by Congress which shall provide for an inspection of woolen goods and shall compel manufacturers to label their products as all wool .r put cotton or part shoddy, as the cae may b... The committee consists of C. O. Stoikslagger, of Boise, Ida., chairman; ex-Senator T. C. Powers, Helena. Mont.; Mortimer Levering. Lat'ayette. Ind.; E. S. Gosey, Flagstaff, A. T., and Dwight Lincoln, Milford Center, O. Indiana Court's Jnst Decision. Salt Lake Tribune. The Supreme Court of. Indiana has affirmed the constitutionality of the statute of that State giving the wages of workingmen, to the extent of $50, preference over other forms of indebtedness in the case of an employer whose business has been suspended by the action of creditors, it holds that property that has been created by labor does not rightfully belong to the employer until the workingmen's contract share In it has been delivered into his hands. It is an altogether just and enlightened law. Quite Likely. Washington Tost. The facetious Cincinnati Enquirer says there are obstinate people down in Texas who decline to give the McKinley administration credit for the oil strike. Yet it is quite likely that before the Ohio campaign closes the Enquirer will be engaged in sympathizing depcly with those who lost their money during the Texas oil excitement and referring them to the administration for the responsibility for their failure. "Empire" a Serviceable Word. Hartford Courant. Mr. Justice Brown does not shy at the familiar, serviceable and perfectly innocent word "empire." The great chief Justice, George Washington's friend, did not shy at it. For that matter. Thomas Jefferson himself used it without the faintest suspicion that he was compromising hi3 political principles and scandalizing a generation of Democrats and Anti-imperialists yet unborn. Pioneer of n New Era. St. James's Gazette (May 15.) Florence Nightingale is eighty-one today. Her name was a household word before many of us were born. She was one of the few notable personalities revealed to the world by the Crimean war, and it is one of the bright features of that enmpr.'sn that it set the example of Florence Nightingale before the women of England, and ennobled the profession of nursing. ".More Steps toward Imperialism. Chicago Journal Your Uncle Mark Hanna is now entitled to be addressed as Colonel Hanna. See next week's Commoner for nn able Idioto.'ial on "More Steps Toward Imperialism." Evidently an Errotyne. Boeton Advertiser. I "May Is the month of new-mown hay," the poem reads, but it Is evidently a misprint for "pneumonia."

WILL AID MACHINISTS

SYMPATHETIC STRIKE I NAl GIRAT ED BY METAL NV ORKERS. 3Ioveraent May Spread to Other Trndes in Chlenga Possible Strike on the New York Central CHICAGO. May SI. An important development in the situation was the inauguration of a sympathetic strike by the metal workers. In response to an order by Business Agent Otto Newack 150 metal workers quit at di.Tercnt shops to aid the machinists in their fight. Others will be called out where it is considered that their help would be effective. It Is expected the sympathetic movement will spread to other trades, but large numbers of men in allied unions who work In conjunction with the machinists will be forced into idleness soon by lack of material. It is estimated that this will swell the number of idle men In the machine shops of this city to 10,00) within a week. Only six shops have yet signed the machinists' agreement. The biggest employing firm of the six signing is the Link Belt Company, which, with 1.10 men employed, granted the machinists' demands. All other factory owners who have not refused to sign are preserving silence, and it is expected that by to-morrow nearly 2,000 men will be in the ranks of the strikers. The situation is called a strike, but in reality it is almost as much a lockout, since many fhops made no pretense of permitting the men to go to work to-day. Early in the afternoon the strikers were joined by 150 machinists who quit at the Meihle printing press works, and 100 who struck at the Bibson Spring Company's plant. Among the first shops to be affected to-day were the following: Gates iron works, luu men; Robert Tarrant Company. 120 men; Latham Machinery Company, 123 men; Burkhardt Spindle Company, 150 men. When the force or 2v) machinists gathered at the works of Frazer & Chalmers early it: the morning they were met by W. J. Chalmers, who told them they might as well go home if they expected him to sign the agreement. The men accordingly dispersed. Similar scenes were enacted at ether plants. Trouble on the New York Central. BUFFALO, N. Y.. May 31.-Interest in the machinists' strike in Buffalo to-day centered about the answer of the New York Central to its four hundred employes in that trade at Depew, who demanded a 10 per cent, increase in wages, to go into effect June 1. The men now work nino hours a day. The Central's reply was handed to the machinists this evening and a meeting was called. Business Agent George Goble, after the adjournment of the meeting, declined to say what action had tYen taken. He said he was pledged to secrecy by the meeting. A few minutes before adjournment a New York Central employe had rushed out and exclaimed, "We go out to-morrow!" Mr. Goble woidd reither affirm nor deny the truth of the report, and It was generally conceded that the men had voted to strike. A strike o machinists would involve about 1,200 men in dependent departments. a "WELFARE OF E.MPLOYF.S. Tonic to Re Discussed at n Conference In Buffalo Thin Mouth. JOLIET, 111., May SI. Mr. F. A. Savage, superintendent of the Steel Works Club, who has called a national conference of firms and corporations to discuss the welfare of the employes, has issued a statement in which he says: "There are a number of firms and corporations that are struggling to improve the economic, moral and social conditions ot their employes, and there are a good many people interested in the work. Tho object of the conference which has been called to meet at Buffalo on June 21 is. 1 think, to bring together these people, exchange ideas, effect a permanent organization and ascertain as far as possible what can and should be done towards the end in view, viz.: the betterment of the wageearner. I assume that the conference will not take up the question of wages, nor do I think it should discuss the labor unions. I think that, should we attempt to interfere with either question, our usefulness wculd be impaired. There have been a number of efforts made toward encouraging men to own their homes and beautify them and toward the establishment of clubs containing libraries, reading rooms, gymnasiums, billiard rooms, with educational opportunities and facilities for recreation. The consideration of such work, and. if feasible, its further extension along that line, will probably be the first consideration of the conference." General Labor News. The manager of the Blake pump works In East Cambridge. Mass.. where 700 machinists are employed, gave notice yesterday that he would confer no further with the strikers' committee. Striking machinists of the Wabash shops at Springfield, 111.. Moberly, Mo., and Fort Wayne, Ind., returned to work yesterday at an advance of 2 cents an hour in wages and time and a half for all overtime. The striking machinists 'of the Southern Railway at Knoxville, Tenn.. held a meeting yesterday, at which a special prayer was offered for the officials of the Southern Railway. There are 615 men and boys out on the entire system. One thousand machinists employed at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company last night, by a practically unanimous vote, decided to strike Monday morning, their formal demand for a nine-hour day, with ten hours' pay, having been refused. The 2.V) striking machinists of the Providence (R. I.) Engineering Company yesterday returned to work in pursuance of their agreement with the company. They have been granted the nine-hour day, and after threo months will receive the advance in wages. The puddling, busheling and scrapping clauses of the Iron scale were discussed at the first session of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Tin and Steel Workers' convention at Milwaukee yesterday. It is understood this part of the wage committee report was adopted and that the figures will be based on a puddling base of $3 and a one-cent card rate. The bar iron section came up in the afternoon. The Western Labor Union at Denver yesterday adopted resolutions declaring that the existing political parties are dominated by the capital class and instructing the executive board of the organization to take the necessary steps for the establishment of a new party in the interests of labor. Resolutions were also adopted directing the executive board to urge Congress to reenact the Chinese exclusion law and to pass a similar law ngalnn the immigration of Japanese and all other Asiatics. THE ORIGIN OF OIL. Scientists Divided as to Which Kingdom Produces It. Baltimore Sun. At the United States Geological Survey tha rocont HUrn vprien of oil in Texas. WyDming and California are regarded with complaisance, not only Decaute uiey win add millions to the visible wealth of the country, but because they furnish additional fields for investigation into the source and origin of the various grades of oil. With all the study and original research which have been going on for many vears in connection with petroleum there is much ignorance on the subject. Where it can be found, whence it comes and its origin are all unanswered questions. When a pusher is struck it spouts a black fluid known as oil. This may be a compound of fifty or one hundred different oils, which have to be separated as far as possible before being marketed. Tho qualities and characteristics of oil vary not only in the different wells, but often In the same well, tho yield from one stratum beln- different from that of another lower down. The oil of the United States is entirely different from that found in Russia. Java or Peru, which fact substantiates the theory that the several oils have different origins. One of the theories as to the source of oil Is that it comes from the fat of animals or fish which had been squeezed out or distilled through countless ages to be collided in the oil sands. ti , Experimenting on this line in an effort to verify the theory. Warren and storer took menhaden oil. and. through distillation, produced a kerosene, whlca they marketed without its artificial nature be.ng discovered. In IStt Engter distilled under pres

sure half a ton of menhaden oiL from which he obtained petroleum distillates. The distillate was brown, but fluorescent. Sixty per cent, consisted of saturated hydrocarbons, from which he isolated and identified a number of oils usually contained In the products of certain oil fields. He also purified the product and made good kerosene oil. Not satisfied with this, he went further and showed that other fats, as olein, will yield petroleum, so that fish oils are not essential. Another theory that the oil Is from vegetable matter is apparently sustained in the case of the Russian fields, where the oils contain a substance similar to the distillation products of coal tar, such as benzole. The theory has been advanced as to the origin of the Pennsylvania oil fields that the petroleums of Pennsylvania owe their origin to the effect of heat upon the underlying limestones and shales of the Silurian age. It is claimed that the same force which caused the Appalachian chain to uplift, passing through the limestones and shales ot the Silurian age at a modified temperature, distilled the oil already contained in these shales and conglomerate sands of the Devonian age. where it was condensed and filtered, and found its home in the open, porous conglomerates which characterize the Catskill. Portage and Chemung periods of the Devonian age. It, therefore, seems to be an open question as to whether oil is of mineral, vegetable or animal origin, and it will doubtless remain open for some time to come. GET-RICII-QUICK SCHEME.

Alleged Plot to Flood Washington with Corui Street-Car Tickets. WASHINGTON, May Sl.-Frederlek D. H. Engly, a conductor on the Washington Traction Company's line, and his brother, Samuel D. Engley, of HyattsvUle, Md.. whose arrests yesterday on charges of forgery revealed an alleged plot for flooding the city with bogus car tickets, were arraigned to-day ami waived examination. The police had received a cablegram from the authorities of Glasgow, Scotland, announcing that they recovered the plates from which the bogus tickets were struck and that along with them were recovered 40,000 sheets of tickets, aggregating 240,000 tickets. The bail of each of the two men was fixed at $5,000, which they were unable to lurnlsh. STORMS IN THE SOUTH MANY HOUSES IILOIVN DOWN" AND CROPS DESTROYED. Hall Twenty Inches Deep in PlacesReports Mengrer, Only One Life Reported Lost So Far. LOUISVILLE, Ky., My Si. Dispatches from Georgia, Mississippi, Texas Tennessee and Alabama tell of severe windstorms and heavy rainfalls this morning. Many buildings were blown down. About thirty houses were destroyed in and near Dawson, Ga., telephone and telegraphic communication is cut off and all electric wires arc down, leaving tho city in darkness. At Sassar, seven miles south of Dawson, two houses were blown flown. At Herod, five miles southeast, a store was demolished. Three houses were destroyed at Belmont, four miles north, and several houses were unroofed at Parrott, nine miles north. Stock was killed by lightning and the fruit crop damaged. The rainfall at Vicksburg. Miss., was nealy four inches. So far only one fatality is reported, the five-year-old daughter of Elijah Copeland, colored. Copeland's houso was smashed like an eggshell and three of his children caught under the falling timbers, the little girl being instantly killed. The others escaped with slight bruises. At Meridian, Miss., the electrical display was something never before seen there. Eastern Texas suffered severely. A special from Longview says hall was twenty inches deep in places and much damage was done. A special from Palestine says the damage to property inside the city and to tho crops in the surrounding country will reach $150. oou. In Polk county. Tennessee, the hall was drifted a foot deep. Corn and cotton were cut flown. F. K. SMILEY'S STORY. Says He Was Promised ? 1,000 to rose as Tüiss Hofen bach's HtisbnntL CHICAGO, May 31. Frank IL Smiley. who has confessed to conspiring with Dr. A. M Unser and F. W. Brown and Miss Mary Defenbach in an effort to swindle various insurance companies, which held policies on Miss Defenbach'3 life, was the ehi?f witness at the trial of Dr. Unger and Brown to-day. Smiley told how be was hired to pose as Miss Defenbach's promised husband. He said he was to be paid ffl.OtX), and that Miss Defenbach urged from the start that she would die soon of heart disease. She said she wanted her insurance to go to her friend. Dr. Unger. Mrs. Naracon, a former stenographer in the Mooney Poland detective office told of various visits of Dr. Unger to that office for the purpose of talking with Brown and Smiley. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. May 31. Arrived : ratriel.i ond Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg; Germanic, from Liverpool; Britannia, from Naples. MOVILLE. May 31. Sailed: Furnesla. from Glasgow, for New York; Corinthian, from Glasgow, for Montreal. BOSTON. May 31. Arrived: Commonwealth and Slvanla, from Liverpool. Sailed: Ivcrnia, for Liverpool. SOUTHAMPTON, May 31. Sailed: Deutschland, from Hamburg, for NewYork, via Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL. May 31. Arrived: Rhynland. from Philadelphia. Sailed: Georgia, for New York. HAMBURG. May 31. Arrived: Pennsylvania, from New York. ROTTERDAM. May 31.-Sailed: Maasdam, for New York. HAVRE. May 31. Arrived: L'Acquitalne, from New York. BREMEN, May 31. Arrived: Lahn, from New York. New Candidates for Fame. Nebraska State Journal. The breaking of the world's record in the pigeon shoot at Springfield. III.. Tuesday, was indeed a grand achievement. Under conditions where it was next to impossible for the birds to get away, though the man behind the gun were blindfolded, three able-bodied promoters of "manly sport" succeeded each other in killing a hundred harmless birds without missing a shot. Here are new candidates for space in Helen Gould's hall of fame. Others have sought the distinction gained by these men, but in every instance heretofore at least one bird has eluded its would-be murderers or fallen to its death outside the "lines." Great are Gilbert and Crosby and Sconse. th trio of brave men who broke the world'a record. It was a mighty achievement, reflecting lasting credit upon their nerve and endurance. Some day they may mvent a method of fastening two birds together so the enterprising ami noblminded butcher may kill more than one at a shot. Surely the acme of cruel skill has not been finally attained. More "Lock of Dignity." Kansas City Journal. Next thing we know someone will b complaining about the lack of diznity in thnavy. Lieutenant Burton Mitchell. Gmerji Funston's aid. writes that when the party reached the seashore with Aguinaldo the rigged up a signal out of an old shet anl wigwagged to the Vicksourg. "We've got him." And thereupon the Vicksburg wigwagged back "Bully!" Victories Without u Sling:. Eeston Journal. General Funston has gathered in another Tcgal general and another fragment of th insurgent army. What is more. Lacuna and his men have taken the oath of allegiance and gone to their home?. These victories, which leave no mourning, are the beet of all. and Just now they are the most frequent.

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,.-v WROUGHT IRON w 6 i t a Boiler Tubes, Mill Supplies, Plumbers' Supplies, Pumps and Well Materials. Indianapolis, IncL TO PLEASE THE SCOTCH ANDREW CARNEGIE "WILL AMEND HIS EDI CATION A L SCHEME. Less Money "Will Re Gl en to Toor Students nnd More to Equip incnt of I uivcrslticK. LONDON, June 1. Modifications of Mr. Carnegie's educational proposals for Scotland are. says the Daily Chronicle, still under discussion at the Scottish universities. "Mr. Carnegie has practically placeJ himself in the hands of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and the amended scheme," say the Chronicle, "does credit to every one concerned. The new trust will be of a depository character and will extend vto all high-grade schools and educational institutes. Only poor students will Ik? expectei to apply tor grants, and the latter will have no eleemosynary character, and a substantial balance will be left for the better equipment of universities, the extension of college buildings and the like." Wnnts Andrew Carnegie's Castle. LONDON. May 31. A dispatch from Edinburgh says action had been Instituted by Sir Charles Sutherland to set aside the purchase of Skibo Cattle by Andrew Carnegie. The. ground of the objection has not yet developed. Skibo Castle was taken over by Mr. Carnegie two years ago, and he has resided there since then on the occasion of each visit to this side of the Atlantic. Though the name of the plaintiff is given as Sir Charles Sutherland no such title 14 discoverable. IjONDON. May 31. Later Mr. Carnegie telegraphed to the Associated Press that he is not interested in the Sutherland action, which is against the former land owners and cannot affeqt the title. Cable Notes. The London Dally Mall says King Edward has decided to reduce his ecclesiastical establishment from thirty-six paid chaplains to twelve. The Czar's oldest child, the Grand Duchess Olga, was slightly attacked with tj'phoid fever early in the week. No uneasiness regarding her condition is entertained. The. Bismarck monument committee of Berlin formally anrounced last night th postponement to an indefinite date of tht ceremony of unveiling the Ftatue to Bi5marck. erected In rront of the Reichstag building, which had been fixed for Monday next. Serious disturbances have occurred In Corunn.i, Spain. A number of officials went on strike and became mutinous. The gendarmes were called in to disperse th rioters and one person was killed and ten were wounded. Troops are still patrolling the streets. Senator Wolcott is staying a few days in London before going to Paris. In spite of the failure of his silver negotiations a few years ago Mr. Wolcott is on excellent terms with Sir Michael Hirks-Beach and other eminent financiers with w horn he wai then in consultation. As a result of a dispatch from Marseilles police, two Anarchists have been arrested nt Madrid, one a Spaniard and the other Italian. It is rumored they had projects against the Spanish ministers. The Italian, who confessed that he was an Anarchist, said he was going to America. Beerbohm Tree, in a Kpeech at the clos of his season at Her Majesty's Theater. London, last night, at the fall of the curtain upon "Twelfth Night." ridiculed tht talk about the degeneracy in public taste. He said: "I have actually been able, out of my profits on Shaksptare, to pay mj losses on popular plays." Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, speak ing in Edinburgh yesterday on the general rubject of education, said: "Mr. Carnegie" splendid munificence will open the path to the highest learning for every boy anl girl. His noble scheme is In entire harmony with the genius of the Scottish people. To interest the whole community in education, and r.ot alone superior persons, is the true way of saving the empire. Th stupid hard-and-fast line between primary and secondary education should b5 removed." Annexation Would Re Jnst, Ostend Manifesto, 1S31. Self preservation Is the first law of nature with states as well as individuals. All nations have, at different periods, acted upon this maxim. Although it has been made the pretext for committing flagrant Injustice, as In the partition of Poland and other similar cases which history re-cords, yet the principle itself, although often abused, has always been recognized. Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our Internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union? Should this rjuestlon be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be Justified in wresting it from Sptin if we possess the power; ami this, upon the very same principle that would Justify an individual in tearing down the burning house of his neighbor if there were no ether means of preventing the flames from destroying his own house. Valueless Sporadic Reforms. Omaha Bee. The doctors of theology nave disagreed as to the propriety of censuring Mayor Moores for the policy he is pursuing, simply because r.o two preachers have the same idea as to what policy should be pursued. The truth is that Omaha Is as well governed as any other American city of equal population. Nice and lawlessness are inevitable in population centers, and tho only problem Is how far repression and suppression can be carried. Experience has taught that spasmodic erusades accomplish little lasting good. The stream r.cver rises above Its source. In the long run th majority of a community get the kind of government they want. The Case of Dr. Reynolds. San Francisco Chronicle. The faculty of the Louisville Hospital College of Medicine has dismissed Dr. Dudley S. Reynolds, one of its n;embtrs. and also one of the founders of the Institution, because he persisted In denouncing cigarette smoking and smokers before hü classes. The students took off use an l ref us -1 to attend his lectures unless he apologized. The faculty sidt-d with th-. stud:its arid asked for the doctor's te.-i natin. Refusing to tender it. lie was peremptorily d!s-mi-ed. Students and faculty w re prohV.dy addicted to the vice whk n was .-o ii- roufiy dr.'unced and were oversensitive of the stricture s. ClnsslOcntioii Wanted. Boston Advertiser. The Sultan of Turkey has bestowe.1 decoration on Prof. C. E. Munroe. of Cambridge. We are all duly gratified, of courn, on account of any honor. which come from exalt d sources to any e itlren of Greater Bostc n. But we should like t know more particularly what th! new Munroe doctrlns is, vhlcti so pleases the Sultan. J. T. McCutrhcon's Health Restored. AS! rc YJLLE. N. C.. May 31. John T. McCutcheon. the Chicago artist, who h been In Aievllle sovcral mer.ths. lift for the North this evening. Mr. McCutcheon' health is almost completely restored.

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