Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 152, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1901 — Page 4

THE . INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1901.

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The Cuban constitutional convention needs to study the English language more carefully, and to understand that when the American Congress says a thing Jt means it. The Detroit Tribune tries to be funny by a king: "Who is Fairbanks ?" The Tribune Is the one Republican paper in any considerable city that silverized in 1S96, since vhlch time it has been wandering about in a dazed condition. Tho "lamentations of those who beheld Fcrto Ricans, Ia'walians and Filipinos fuil citizens of the United States no longer till the land. Now they are subjects, and because they arc subjects those sorrow-seek-' Ing people are unhappy. It appears now that the Cuban constitutional convention appended such a conttructlon to tho Piatt amendment before adopting it that its action will probably r.ot be ratified by the President. Its proper characterization is "tricky." The Chicago Chronicle, which supported Mr. Bryan last year with a show of much earnestness, tells him that the Democrats who would reorganize the party now cannot harm the Democratic party as mucn as did the disorganizes in 1YX. The Western powers could well afford to Crant China's request for an extension el time in which to pay the Indemnity from thirty years to forty, especially as ehe proposes to pay 4 per cent, interest. Financially the Chinese are poor, but honest. Ambassador Choate need not have been puzzled at all by the request of a Filipino in London for ;i passport on the ground that he was a citizen of the United States. ilr. Choate should have told him that he vas not an American citizen unless he was born since the ratification of the treaty v.'ith Spain. The news from South Africa will prove a surprise to those who had thought the British-Boer war practically ended. Th5 fact that in the engagement of Thursday the Doers were the attacking party and v. ere only repulsed after a heavy British less shows they still have considerable light In them. Friends of the live cadets who were recently expelled from West Point arc advising theai to enlist in the regular army In the hope of being commissioned in a thort time. With their military knowledge and the disciplining they have received thy ought to make good soldiers, and eventually, perhaps, good officers. It Is announced that on July 1 the Fosteffice Department will be operating freedelivery routes at an annual cost of $3,000.000. If Congress would put an end to the frauds in second-class matter the Postoffice Department could not only expend double that amount in free rural delivery, but wipe out the postal deficit. Itather a strange reminder of the Chicago world's fair comes in a movment by some of the original stockholders for a final dividend. The managers have about $5a,000 on hand, deposited in good banks, but tied lip by litigation, which is not likely to reduce tho amount. The managers expect tj pc.y from 33 to V per cent dividend. Word comes from Ohio that Mr. McLean Is putting spokes In the wheel of Tom L. Jchnsnn. The latter thought he had control of the Democratic state 'committee, but McLean prevented the Democratic convention from going to Cleveland. Mr. Johnson had given out something about the state platform, but Mr. McLean's advices re that Democrats who will 1 in the convention desire a short platform with nothing new in it. The treaty with Spain by wr.leh we acquired Porto Elco and the Philippines say: 'The civil and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress." This referred to the native inhabitants at the time th. treaty was made. Under the recent decision of the Supreme Court children born in the l.-dunds tince the i-jti.'ica'lon of the treaty are American citizens without any action of Congress. In a political sense, therefore, ths islands will become Americanized in a generation cr two. The Cincinnati Enquirer takes ex-Lleuten-ar.t Governor Nye, of this State, severely to task because he is reported as saying that "if the Democratic party rids ittlf of the free-silver heresy by 100 r he will seek the party nomination for Governor. "That ts not fhe way for Governor Nye nor

any other Democrat to talk," says the En

quirer; "free silver was not and Is not n financial heresy." Why is not free silver .a heresy? The Enquirer answers: "The conditions which the free-silver men Insist ed on in 1SCS and in a less degree in 1)1 now exist without free silver. The pleni tude of money was the end aimed at, and that has come without free silver." The mistake of Mr. Nye Is In being an out spoken and uncomj. remising enemy of freo Lilver now, when, to use the Enquirer's words, there is nothing in the silver Issue to hit, it being uearl. Mr. Nye must not talk about the dead of his party. DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS 31 OX I'M EXT. The full representation of every part of the State by committees representing the National Encampment of the Grand Army and the Loyal Legion and citizens at the meeting yesterday morning in the Governor's rooms shows the deep Interest of veterans and the people generally in the dedication of the monument. There was but one voice as to the nature of the deal cation, which, in the words of Capt. Hen L. Smith, who offered the resolution, "shall be of a character nttin the construction by securing the attendance of every possible veteran in Indiana, with an invitation to the President, Cabinet, the Governors of all the States, with their staffs, the prominent officers of the army and navy, and veterans all 'over the country." All the remarks were along this line, and the vote taken by rising showed hearty unanimity in the sentiment of the resolution. There is every reason why the completion of the soldiers' and sailors' monument should be made emphatic by a dedication that will attract the attention of the whole country. Indiana is the only State In the Union that has reared a monument to commemorate the deeds of her sons who fought to save the Union. The project had its birth In the minds of Indiana veterans, and through their insistence the monument was built. No other State has undertaken anything of the kind. So it comes about that the most imposing monument in the world built to perpetuate the memory of the valor of the rank and file of the soldiery of a State stands in Indiana. Such being the case, the man who would oppose as grand and imposing a dedication of this monument as will be possible must be lacking in State pride and patriotism. For a week it will be possible, with a proper dedication, for Indiana to be in the gaze of the Nation because of a spectacle which no other State can present. The more difficult questions are those of the date and the details. In order to save money the Importance of having the dedication take place at the time of the holding of the muster of the National Guard In this city has been urged. It costs the State $11,000 to get the troops here for two days and to send them home. The arrangements for holding the muster the last days in July vhave gone so far now that they cannot be changed, as the contracts have been signed. For such an assemblage as the dedication of the monument the last of. July is an Impossible date, because the heat is unbearable for such an assembling of old men. Even if it were a fitting season, the few weeks between this date and the last of July would not be a sufficient time in which to make the arrangements. In the tirst plate, arrangement must be made to obtain the money to meet the expenses. If the Legislature had been called upon an appropriation would have been made, but as it was not there is no public money that can be used to meet the expenditure. Doubtless the next Legislature will reimburse those who assume the financial responsibility, but as it is the money must first be obtained from citizens. There was a strong sentiment for October or the 1st of November, but after discussion It was decided to leave the date to an executive committee to be appointed by the Governor. The chief objection to October is the additional cost of bringing the National Guard here. Then in September there are Odd Fellows' encampments and state fairs here and other assemblages elsewhere which might Interfere with the attendance. Some date in next May has been suggested. One of the objections to this is that by the act of the Legislature the terms of the regents, who have had ro much to do with the completion of the work, will expire Oct. 31, when the monument passes under the oversight of a board of control. In order to prepare for such an elaborate dedication as the general committee contemplates much work must be done by committees, which will require time to perform. In order to secure the attendance of the President and other officials 'and citizens essential to making It a national event considerable time will be necessary. The whole matter, however, has been referred to the executive committee, which Governor Durbln will make a representative body. The general opinion seems to favor as early a dedication as possible, either this fall or so early in the next season as to escape the heated term, which here means June, July, August and September. AN I'irOUTANT DECISION. r Mention has been made in the news columns of the Journal of a decision which, if sustained, will have an important effect on tho electric street-railway business throughout the country. The decision is the first official fnd'.r.s as to the existence and results of electrolysis, by which is meant the disintegration and destruction of water and gas pipes by the passage through the earth of the return current of electricity used In operating street car?. The theory, which is now an established fact, has been that the discharged, or, as it might be called, the wild electricity, attracted by metallic pipes selects them as a means of transit, and thus corrodes and destroys them. The fact his been well known to experts for some time, and they have declared that the only possible remedy is in double overhead wires. Public interest in the question lies in the fact that the destruction of water and gas pipes endangers property and life. . The, present decision is made by a special master in chancery of the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, in a suit brought by the Peoria Water Works Company against the streetrailway company of that city over thrte years ago, asking for an injunctl5n against the further operation of the railway with single overhead wires, on the ground that it was destroying the water rlpes. The master In chancery was appointed In May, 1SUS, and has taken the testimony of streetrailway officials and other experts In Peoria, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York. Brooklyn, Albany, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other cities, and on the strength of their evidence he finds that the water mains In Peoria are decomposing under the influence of the electric current whicn escape fiorn the track of the trolley lines.

This opinion has been given to the court with a recommendation that an injunction be granted forbidding the operating of the railway lines with single overhead wires. If Judge Grosscup sustains the finding of the master in chancery, as he is almost certain to do, the decision will become national in its effects. It is based on the general principle of law and equity that no person or corporation may use their own property or exercise their own rights in such a way as to injure those of others when such injury can be prevented or avoided by reasonable means. This principle is of general application, as the decision will be if affirmed, but it is probable the courts would require clear proof In each case that the decay of water or h-S pipes was probably due to electricity and not to other causes. It Is not likely that any more street-railway franchises will ha granted or renewed without a provision requiring double overhead wires or some other efficient protection against electrolysis, If there is any other. The point in regard to the legal effect of the resignations tendered by Senators Tillman and McLaurin is well taken and the law of the case is clear. Their resignations were tendered to the Governor to take effect Sept. 13. The Supreme Court of this State held in Diddle vs. Willard (10 Ind., C2) that "a written resignation to take effect in the future creates no vacancy." Even if the Governor were immediately to accept the resignations as tendered they would not take effect till Sept. 13. It follows th.it a primary election to fill a vacancy which dees not exist would have no binding force in law.

FROM HITHER AND YON. Inherited Trnltn. Life. "How Ignorant Miss Swamper la of history." "She inherits it. Her father is a historical novelist." I)ovrrxplke'n Exploit. Judge. "They are calling Doverspike the Carrie Nation of Thomp?onvllle." "What about Doverspike?" "He took an ax and smashed a millinery shop and a dry goods is tore." The Frenchman Eloqnent. Chicago Tribune. "That's the French editor at the 'phone, Is it? Why doesn't ho write down that message he's getting, Instead of calling a reporter to take it dewn?" "Can't you see he has to use both hands in gesturing?" Not Too Much. Philadelphia Tress. ' Tess Perhaps he wouldn't have Insisted upon kissing you if you had been more emphatic in your refusal. Jess I couldn't have been more emphatic. He asked me if he might kiss me, and I said, "Not much!" Took Them with Him. Puck. Friend How much money did your defaulting cashier get away with? Bank Manager Can't say. . Friend (in astonishment) What! Haven't you had his books examined yet? Bank Manager No; he hasn't returned them yet. The Latest Tnsk. We have boIlei th hydrant water, We have sterilized the milk, We have strained the prowling microbe Through the finest kind of silk. We have bought and we have borrowed Every patont health device. And at last tho doctor tells us That we've got to boil the ice. What to Eat. WITH UNUSUAL SPEED TWO STREET- RAILWAY HILLS "It AILHOADEIP IN PENNSYLVANIA. Important Measures Affect I Great Interests I'afmctl b- the State Senute In a Few Hours. 1 1 ARRIS BURG, Pa.. May SI. The Senate this morning passed finally the bill amending the passenger railway act of 189 to permit the construction of a passenger railway in any street not occupied at thu present time, and the bill providing for electric and underground railways. These are the bills that were introduced in the Senate on Wednesday after it became known that P. A. B. Widener and William L. Elkins, the Philadelphia street-railway magnates, had sailed for Europe. Representatives of the Philadelphia traction interests came here and pleaded in vain for the defeat of the bills or their postponement. The extraordinary speed at which bills of such great importance have been rushed through the Senate has aroused widespread interest. Ten minutes after their introduction they were reported favorably from committee, and they passed first, second and third readings without the loss of a moment's time, all amendments being rejected. The first bill is so drafted as to permit the occupation of Broad street, Philadelphia, which has thus far been kept free of street-car tracks. The Senate broke all its records for prompt action on legislation by passing the tills finally within less than forty-eight hour after they were introduced. They were called up ahead of other measures on the calendar at to-oay's session of .the Senate and passed without debate, by a vote of r to They will, it is stated, be reported from committee in the House on Monday atternoon and read the first lime at the evening session. The order of business probably wi'.i be arranged by the rules committee to take up the bills on Tuesday for second reading and the following day for third reading and final passage. The promoters of the bills say they will be promptly signed by Governor Stone, and that a corporation will immediately be organized with a large capital to take out a charter for the erection of an elevated railway system in Philadelphia and suburbs. They say also that the steam-railway companies are not antagonistic to this legislation, and that there will be no organized opposition to it in the House. SHELDON'S SERVANT GIRL. She NVnnt to Emulate the Heroine In Dorn to Serve." TOFEKA, Kan.. May 31. There is a story in circulation in Topeka that a servant left he employ of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon this week because Mrs. Sheldon would not allow her to eat at the table with them. Reporters who called at the Sheldon home were informed by Mr. Sheldon that the family did not care to cither confirm or d.--ry the story. Tho town talk is that the .-rvant had lust begun to work for the Sheldons. and when the question of setting the table came up she said she had been reading Mr. Sheldon s novel, "uorn to Serve," and supposed she would be allowed alt the privileges suggested in the story. Mrs. Sheldon replied that it would be necessary for the servant to wait upon the table, and that would occupy all her time while the meal was In progress. The girl sld she would quit, and she did. Mrs. Sheldon has advertised for another girl. The Sheldons have not been keeping house lately, and this Is the first experience they have had witn servants ouic .ui. smeiaon wrote tho book,

NEW JOB FOR L00MIS

HE WILL NOT HE SENT HACK Tili: VENEZUELA CAPITAL. TO ' Another Position to lie Given II I mCensna Work Columbian .Notional Bank Charter. WASHINGTON. May 31. It is officially admitted that Minister Loomis will not return to Venezuela. Mr. Loomis has suffered in health at his uncongenial post. The President, moreover, is not disposed to expose him again to the attacks made on him in Venezuela because of his execution of orders from the State Department. Mr. Loomis, who is now in Europe, seeking to recuperate, will be given another diplomatic position as soon as a suitable place can be found. Meanwhile, Mr. Russell will remain in charge of the United States legation at Caracas for a period of time not yet determined upon, but likely to be fixed by the attitude of the Venezuelan government. It is not the present intention of the government to take official notice of the criticisms alleged to have been passed by President Castro, of Venezuela, upon Minister Loomis, in a newspaper interview. SALARIES TO HE INCREASED. Indiana Pout muntern Will He Paid More Money After June IU), WASHINGTON, May 31. The following changes in salaries of Indiana postmasters have been announced, to go into effect July 1: Present After Cities. Salary. June 30. Jeffersonville $-H) $2.300 Kendallville L'.ooO 2,100 Knox 1,200 1.40) Lawrenceburg I.vjjO 1.D0J Linton 1,400 1,5a) Loogootee 1,100 1,200 Mlshawaka 2.300 2.400 Mitchell 1,5"0 1.C00 Monon 1,200 1.100 Muncle S.Otx) 3.1i New Carlisle 1,000 1,100 North Manchester 1,700 l.bO) Notre Dame 2.30) 2,400 Osgood 1.100 1.200 Pendleton 1.30) 1.400 Peru 2.40) 2,500 The controller of the currency has authorized these Indiana national banJts to commence business: Columbian National of Indianapolis, with a capital of $300,000, and Mortimer Levering president, . F. C. Golt cashier; The Home National of Thorntown, with a capital of $30,03), and Leander M. Crist. president, Lewis H. Jordan cashier. The bonds of Oscar S. Reppert, as postmaster at Cambria, Clinton county, and George H. Baseom. at Lynn, Randolph county, were approved and their commissions issued to-day. Senator Fairbanks called at the White House this morning to say good-bye to the President and this afternoon left for his home via the Chesapeake & Ohio. , . QUICK WORK nr CENSUS BUREAU. Flrt Volume of Population Statistics Ready for the Public. WASHINGTON, May 31. The director of the census to-day issued the first half of the final census report on population, showing the aggregate population of the United States by States and Territories. thj density of population, the center of population in its medium point, the population of Alaska and cf the Hawaiian islands, the number of representatives apportioned under the recent act of Congress, and also the population of the States and Territories by minor civil divisions, the population of cities having 25,000 inhabtants or more in 1M. the increase of population in the same and the population;-a( incorporated cities, towns, villages and boroughs in the year i:-00. This report is issued in the form or a monosrgph and comprises about 500 pages. The other portion of the final report on pcpulation will be issued during the eaily fall, putting the entire volume In the hands of the public at least four years in advance of any previous census. Most of the features of the volume have received attention from the press heretofore. It shows that, excluding the District of Columbia, which is in effect a municipality, Rhode Island, with 407 inhabitants to the square mile in 1X, is the most densely settled State in the Union, while Massachusetts comes next with not quite 310 inhabitants to the square mile. New Jersev, with a little more than 250 inhabitants to the square mile. Is the third State in point of density of population, while Connecticut, with somewhat more than 161 Inhabitants to the square mile, occupies fourth place. Four other States had more than one hundred inhabitants to the square mile in L00, namely. New York, with 152.C inhabitants; Pennsylvania, with 140.1 inhabitants; Maryland, with 120.5 inhabitants, and Ohio, with 102 inhabitants to the square mile Alaska has on the average but one-tenth of one person to the square mile and Nevada only four-tenths of one person to the square mile. Wyoming has not quite one inhabitant to the square mile, while Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Idaho have less than two persons to the square mile. The newly acquired territory of Hawaii shows an average density of population of not quite twenty-four persons, ranking In this respect between Maine, with 23.2 persons, antl Arkansas, with 24.7 persons to the square, mile. Crosier May Succeed Hufllneton. WASHINGTON. May Sl.-Rumors In the War Department to-day were that Capt. William Crosier, of the Ordnance Department, has been practically selected to succeed General Buffington as chief of ordnance on the retirement of tht officer this fall. He" is one of tho junior officers of the Ordnance Department. Person Succeed Yonnghlond. WASHINGTON. May 31. Colonel Youngblood, of Alabama, auditor for the Treasury Department, has tendered his resignation and it was accepted, to take effect Juno 13. The President to-day appointed it. A. Person, assistant auditor for the same department, to succeed him. OBITUARY. HriR. tien. Thomm Wilon, a Retired Ofticer of the t'nitcel States Army. NEW YORK. May 31. Brig, Gen. Thomas Wilson. IT. S. A., retired, is dead. The funeral was held at the Madison-avenue Reformed e.'hurch to-niht. His compatriots in the Empire State Society of tho Sons of the American Revolution attended the services. General Wilson was in his seventieth year. He was born in the District of Columbia on June 10. 1S32. He was appointed to the Military Academy and was graduated in 153. He became a first lieutenant on April 1, 1S57. and a captain on Oct. 23. 1S61. He was promoted to the rank of major on Dec. 2!, 1S63, and subsequently to a lieutenant colonelcy and colonelcy. On March 13. 1SC5. he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general for "faithful and meritorious service during the war." He held staff positions in the defenses of Washington, was a commissary of subsistence at Annapolis and was chief commissariat. Army of the Potomac, in the Richmond campaign, ending with the capitulation at Appomattox. He served on the frontier and in the war against the Seminoles and at various station after the civil war until .-n.Mi he was sent to Chicago. He was retired in lf6. Besides being a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, he belonged to the Loyal Legion and the Army and Navy Club. Lieut. Col. Mlchler'a Funeral. WASHINGTON. May 31.-The funeral services over the late Lieutenant Colonel Michler, military Fecretary to Lieutenant General Miles, were held this forenoon In St. John's Church. A military escort, confisting of Troop II, Eleventh' Cavalry, sta

tioned at Fort Myer, Va., and the Fourth Field Battery from Washington barracks, accompanied the body from the church to Arlington Cemetery, where it was placed in a vault with the usual military and religious ceremony. Charles V. Putnam. WORCESTER. Mass.. May Sl.-Charles V. Putnam, president of the Putnam & Sprague Company, died here this afternoon.

i aged seventy-two years. He was a de scendant or uen. Israel Putnam. For forty-seven years he had been engaged in the furniture business in this city. Henry E. Pcrrlne. BUFFALO, N. Y May 31. Henry E. Perrine, a well-known business man of this city, is dead. His second wife, who survives him, was Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Mr. Perrine was seventyfour years of age. I). B. Roblna. CHICAGO, May 31. D. B. Robins, former president of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company, died at his home in this city this afternoon after a protracted illness. WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS. Reports Submitted by Susan H. Anthony and Surah Clay Dennett. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 31. The session this morning of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was largely devoted to reports of ofilcers and committees. Sarah Clay Bennett, of Kentucky, chairman of the federal suffrage committee, in her report on the petitions addressed to Congress argued that the Supreme Court had indirectly decided in its rulings on the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution that the amendment had annulled the word "male" In the constitutions and laws of the States that confined the right of suffrage to men. Interest centered in Susan B. Anthony's report of her labors as chairman of the congressional work committee. She said the thirty-second annual petition to Congress for an amendment to the Constitution had been presented, supported by signatures from every State, and In addition a petition had been presented asking that the word "male" be stricken out of suffrage legislation for Porto Rico. This afternoon Miss Laura Gregg, of Nebraska, speaking on the benefit of having state headquarters, contended that a woman has no right to sacrifice her home by making it a woman suffrage workshop. Besides, the work Itself is apt to be poorly done. The president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, said that unless women are willing to organize and work for their rights they do not eleserve enfranchisement. TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS LORD GEORGE HAMILTON'S REPLY TO Slit ALFRED HICKMAN, Good Reasons for the Use of United Strttcn Locomotives In India What Britons Have to Face. LONDON, May 31.-Lord George Hamiltcn, the Indian secretary, who was not present in the House of Commons when Sir Alfred Hickman, Conservative, on May 23, attacked American-built locomotives and bridges, has replied in a letter to Sir Alfred Hickman. In part it is as follows: "No practical engineer who has visited American workshops and .inspected their methods of production and manufacture would for a moment indorse your assumptions. Their competition is dangerous because they are yearly improving their products, both in quality and price. It always has been the practice of the board of management of the Indian railroads to givpreference In all their contracts to British manufacturers, and that policy has so prevailed that, up to the great recent engineering strike, no order for a railway locomotive was ever given outside of Great Britain. Since then, owing to the British workshops being blocked with work, certain of the India railway boards found It necessary, as locomotives could not be obtained here, to place a few limited orders in America. "I am ready to give all the available reports concerning workings, consumption of fuel and load-drawing power of these locomotives. The earlier reports were unfavorable, but when their working was better understood and alterations were made to suit the local fuel a marked Improvement was noticed,' so much so that one company wishes to obtain more engines of similar construction. That American locomotives obtained a footing in India was due to the strike I have referred to. But if, as I hope, British locomotives are in the future to regain their monopoly in that vast system of railways, British engineers must profit by the hints and suggestions these reports convey." Concerning the Gokteik viaduct in Burmah Lord George Hamilton says the order was placed with a Philadelphia company because no British firms had anything like the same experience in this class of construction. The Americans bid a less price and offered to make quicker time than any other competitor. The charge made by the late supervisor of the construction of the viaduct that the riveting was defective was in no way supported by a searching Inspection. "The Burmah railway board," he adds, "composed of the most competent railway experts, Is satisfied that the bridge is sound and reliable." Lord George Hamilton also says that If be seems to combat Sir Alfred Hickman's contention It Is not because he does not heartily appreciate his object. They both wish to assist in maintaining the supremacy of British engineers anil workshops against foreign contractors. "You seem to think," he continues, "that orders have only gone abroad because those who gave them did not understand their business. I wish it were so. The competition we have to face is founded on something much more formidable and more substantial. Chemical research, the consolidation of capital. ! thorough technical education and Improved : industrial Organization have made in recent,'; years a greater advance in America than here. It is with the product of these combinations and not with the assumed stupidity of the Indian officials that the British engineer has to contend. So far as I am concerned I can undertake that preference, unless the difference in price, quality and delivery is very substantial, will always be given to British firms. May I not ask you as a leading member of the great steel industry of this country to co-operate with me by impressing on your associates the necessity of meeting competition in the future so as to insure that price and time of delivery will be on the side of British production?' Another Chance for Americans. LONDON, June 1. Charles Bletterman Elliott, general manager of Cape government railways, who arrived yesterday from Cape Town at Southampton, where he was interviewed by a representative of the Daily Mall concerning his mission, which is to purchase, material for South African railways, said he would remain In England for several weeks and then go to the continent and the United States. "1 shall devote special attention." said Mr. Elliott, "to the equipment of narrow gauge roads, ard. while in the United States, to the electric lighting system. I shall prefer to give British manu.acturers the preference if their terms and materials are satisfactory, but we must have the best and cheapest equipment it is possible to obtain." Alleged Attempt to Rob n Train. ST. PAUL, Minn., May 31. The Journal says: "Passengers arriving to-day on the Burlington limited, from Chicago, report an attempt made by a band of robbers to rob the train. They say that lust out of Havana. 111., the engine struck and detonated five track torpedoes. The engineer was rapidly bringing the train to a stop when five armed men sprang from the roadside. The engineer pulled the throttle wide open and started the train so quickly tLat none of the supposed highwaymen could climb I

WEATHER A DETERRENT

IT CHECKS TRADE SOMEWHAT IX A FEW LINES. Labor Situation Is Much Better and Other Improvements Arc Noted The Textiles and Cereals. NEW YORK. May Sl.-R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade to-morrow will say: V"hIIe the weather In the East has hampered 'distributive trade to a considerable extent this week, rendering the reason In seme lines rather unsatisfactory.' the West and South report unchanged conditions, with operations well up to the recent average. It is the season when crop damage rumors are always heard, and they have come from many quarters, probably in large part owing their origin to speculation. There Is nothing as yet to cause any modification of the general estimates' made recently and founded upon the special reports from correspondents of R. G. Dun & Co. The labor situation is a little brighter. Many strikes have been settled and others are expected to terminate shortly. Iron and steel mills are working at full capacity and more new plants have been put In operation. Quotations are well maintained without any effort to secure advances. Farming machinery is a feature of the domestic business, and there is no sign of decrease in the export movement of these products, which has attained enormous proportions. Rails are also going out freely to Australia and South America. Railways arc unable to secure sufficient freight cars and other supplies, while structural work proceeds briskly, with little interruption from labor controversies. There is a little less activity among manufacturers of boots and shoes, some of the smaller plants reducing time or closing down, ostensibly for the purpose of taking stock. Inventories would easily wait another month, however. If orders were abundant. Salesmen in the West and South are sending good orders for fall delivery, but the local jobbing: trade has received a setback from the continuous rain. Leather Is 111 strong and active for heavy sole, and higher priced upper stock has been frequently taken for export. Medium grades are quiet, with less demand than the extreme qualities. -Shipments of boots and shoes from Boston have shown the expected decrease from the phenomenally large figures of recent preceding weeks, but are stlu very heavy, and since Jan. 1 exceed last year's by abput 70,000 cases. Extended holidays abroad and a short one in this country have tended to make the grain markets unusually quiet, while corn has had the added drawback of manipulation in the May option. Foreign purchasers were driven out of this market by Inflated quotations, as shown by Atlantic exports In five weeks of only 9,426.285 bushels, against 14.341.0G3 last year and 13.433.818 In the same weeks of l&tf. Each re action in wheat is quickly followed by recovery, and much support is found in gloomy reports from growing sections. Hcavv brown goods have steadied under tetter Chinese inquiry, but local retail and Jobbing trade is restricted by unfavorable weather. In staple clothing woolens taere ia more acivity. This brings out raw w acl more freely, but there is not sufficient demand to advance prices in the face of heavy stocks and a large new clip coming forward. In fact, the accumulation of supplies has had a distinctly depressing Inlluence. and in the Philadelphia market quotations are perceptibly easier. The decline extends to the entire list of domestic wools, although not more than a cent In any grade. Failures for the week numbered 143 In the United States, against 160 last year, and 27 in Canada, against 20 last year. After noting the deterrent effect of the vcather on some lines of trade in some sections, Bradstreet observes that the week has been without much change, except ihat a rather better spirit has beer visible in the industrial situation, and that oume progress has been made toward a sctiloment of existing labor troubles. The situation in textiles has not changed materially, except that real conditions in the print clotn market have been recognized by a heavy cut in the price of that product. As for some time nast. new business in iron and steel is small, while production on orders is at the maximum. Still nillecs are temporarily scare and 50 cents higher, while bessemer pig is dull and off 25 cents. Southern iron is dull and weak, and present quotations could be cut 50 cents If business were offered. Finished products are generally strong and the mills are still crowd! witn business. Rail mills have a season's output guaranteed, the wire mills are pushed with orders, and plate production is reported sold ahead. Rumors of advances to come after July 1 are heard, but nothing tangible offers in this respect with new business in such small volume. Hardwire is in good shape, and May saies at Chicago were the heaviest for any month this yeai. Wheat, including Hour, shipments for the week aggregate 4.138.970 bu, against 4.756.0S4 last week, 4.533.1 M the corresponding week .f l.'tOO and 3,59J.oSo in l$y0. From July 1 to date wheat exports are 194.1S7.632 bu. against 1S2Ä706 last season and 213.4S9.240 in 1R9S-1W. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2.037.343 bu. against 2.204.SO2 last week. t.SS2,294 in this week a year ago and 3,922. 4J7 In 1809. From July 1 to date corn exports are l5.f22,106 bu. against IS.0.535,648 bu last season and 155,801.520 in 1S9S-99. This Week's Hank Clearings. NEW YORK, May 31. The following table, compiled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended May 30, with the percentage of Increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year: New York $1.0!9.333.433 Inc Boston 103.034.220 Inc Chicago 122,578.747 Inc Philadelphia 81.100.145 Inc ,26.9 16.3 , 5.5 17.2 St. Louis Pittsburg 34.076.492 31.341,715 Inc. .27.8 Inc. .25.0 Baltimore lS.G13.fc69 Inc. .23.8 San Francisco Cincinnati Kansas City . New Orleans .. Minneapolis ... Detroit Cleveland Louisville Providence Milwaukee St. Paul Buffalo Omr.ha Indianapolis ... Columbus. O ... Evansville, Ind 1S.0 15.3 .750 Inc 3.9 12.0 .. zo.sji inc 14.130.&S3 Inc 9.6hS.213 6.975.346 .975.547 9'.W,4S4 7.274.043 Inc.. 15.9 Dec. 12.2 Inc. .14 3 Inc.. 10!4 Inc. .12.2 4.50S.400 Inc . 1.0 .19.2 5.071.1S1 Inc 5, "'A 529 5.210.011 5.1S7.S'3 5.'2S.217 In-. Dec. Ire. .31.9 . 6. . 9.2 . 3.1 .10.5 .21.9 5,1C4.3' Dec 901,215 Inc. Totals. United States. $1. 625.061, 3S3 Inc Totals outside NewYork &75.CJ5.950 Inc.. 13. 6 LATIN AMERICAN NOTES. Vies' President Zanarte will open the regular session of the Chilean Congress to-day. President Errazuris, of Chile, has shown tome slight improvement since Tuesday, but his condition is still very serious. The Pacific Mail 5team.h!p Company's ccal yards, situated on Naos Island, 'n Panama bay, recently suffered severely from fire. President Zelaya. of Nicaragua, will probably visit the Pan-American congress at L'uffalo. He is to leave home next month and should reach San Francisco about June IS. M. Fraudin. the French minister in Quito, accompanied by several French captains and scientists, has arrived in Guayaquil to meet the French geodetic commission, which left Panama last Saturday. Gen. B. Ruiz, who fled from Nicaragua some years a?o. returned to his home on one of the Central American steamships last month. As soon as he set foot on Nicaraguan soil he was arrested on a criminal charge. According to a telegram from Antofagasta, Chile, two citizens of Chile were lccently brutally whipped by a Bolivian officer and a couple of soldiers. The Chilean consul in Oruro promptly entered an enerCetlc protest. La Union, of Valparaiso, publishes an article praising the impartial attitude of the United States relative to the Pan-American congress in rejecting the machinations of enemies of Chile, who want to drag the Tacna-Arlca question into the debates of the congress. A violent earthquake was felt Tuesday In the province ot Antofagasta. Chile, accompanying s,n eruption of the volcano.

In San Pedro landslides Interrupted railway traffic, the rese 'voir pipes were cut and huts tumbled down. Several persons were injured. The steamer City of Sidney, just arrived at San Francisco from Panama and other Central American ports, reports that when the steamer was at Corlnto the people wre expecting an invasion from Colombo. The government of Nicaragua, in orer to make sure that it would r.ot b causht napping, had stationed wJ men at Corinto. San Salvador is to have a man-of-war. The government has purchased from her British owners the steamship Sy and will transform her into a cruiser, renaming her Salvador. The new warship is now at Acajutla and will go Into commission at once. She is & tons burden. 2") feet long. ii feet beam and 13 feet deep. Her tpeed a given at fifteen knots.

BOTH SIDES SUFFERED LORD KITCHENER'S REPORT ON THE BATTLE OF V LA I) FO. T E I N . Doers Left Tltlrty.Flve Dead on the Field and the British Killed and Wounded Numbered 174. LONDON. May 31.-On the anniversary of Lord Roberts's entry into Johannesburg the country has been startled by the receipt of news of desperate fighting and heavy British losses within forty mile of the Gold Reef City. The battle at Vladfonteln. on the Durban-Johannesburg Railroad, reported by Lord Kitchener to-daj-. Is the most serious engagement tince General Clement's reverse at Magaliesburg. It shows General Dclary is In no way daunted by the capture of eleven of his guns by General Babington six weeks ago. The garrison of Vladfontcln, apparently largely composed of yeomanry, had 174 put out t.f action. That their assailants came to close quarters and suffered heavily is shown by th. number of dead left on the field. Th c'ispateh from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria. May 30, Is as follows: "General Dixon's force at Vladfonteln was attacked . yesterday by Delary's forces, and there was severe fighting. The enemy was eventually driven off with heavy loss, leaving thirty-five dead. I regret that our casualties also were severe. The killed and wounded numbered 171. Four officers were killed." Rhodes Wants Chinese Lahor. BULUWAYO. Matabeleland, May 2L Cecil Rhodes, In a speech before the Chamber of Mines here on the difficulties of obtaining laborers, advocated the adoption cf legislation controlling the importation and Deportation of Chinamen. He further announced that contracts had been made for the construction of 1G0 miles of the new railroad to the Wauki coal fields. ASKED FOR PASSPORTS FILIPINOS MADE A DEMAND OV AM. UASSADOR CHOATE. Said They Were American Citizen and Were Entitled to Usual Privileges The Friar Question. LONDON, May 31. Two men representing themselves to be Filipinos called at tho United States embassy to-day and made application to Mr. Choate for passports. These the ambahsador declined to issue, giving as a reason that they furnished him with no evidence that they were American citizens. The applicants persisted and Mr. Choate then assured them that It was quite impossible for him to comply with their request unless evidence was submitted that they were entitled to the privileges of American citizenship. Finally the applicants departed after intimating that they would carry the question to WashlngteuwThey were not accompanied by legal counsel. VATICAN AND THE FRIARS. Archbishop of Manila Makes n State ment to a Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA. May CI. Mgr. Nozaleda Devilla, archbishop of Manila. In an Interview accorded the Rome correspondent of the Catholic Standard and Times, which will be published to-morrow, foreshadowed very clearly what will be the attitude of the Vatican toward the friars In the Philippines. The archbishop of Manila, says the correspondent, has been in Rome since November last, but his presence has passed unnoticed. Yet he has been undoubtedly tarrying in Rome at the desire of the people. It may be said authoritatively that he is waiting the arrival of Mgr. Chapcile, the papal delegate to tho. Philippines, who probably not by a mere chance will be In Rome at the time of th visit of Cardinal Gibbons. "Thi3 morning" (May 12), the correspond- , ent continues, "the archbishop opened the Interview by returning to me seme news- . paper clippings I had submitted to him. j One of the latent of these stated that a controversy has arisen between the Holy See and the religious orders In the Philippines, owing to the desire of the Vatican that the latter should fcacrihee their posfcessions. The reason alleged as having been given on the part of ine Vatican was tr.at tr.ej-e posisjions had been created on behalf cf the missions, and that the right Oi religious orders ceasing by their withdrawal, they should icmain to the missions. The archtishop said: 'That is false entirely.' " Ai.d the project of secularizing the religious';' I asked. " 'That.' his Grace replied, is not so mich as worth speaking of. It cannot ro much as be entertained. It is t-ntlrely out of the question.' "I asN-d the archbishop about the report of the Taft commission, in so far as his Grace's word? were concerned. " 'That,' he answered, is fairly correct, if not quite complete. 1 would lay stress upon what 1 say there about the I il'pinos' extreme susceptibility ot outside influences. ' Th!s Is a . great lactor in his character. Constancy he has little of in his character, but in on thing I am convinced he will 1 constant.' "'That is his desire for independence?" "'Just that. 'Ih.? natives will nver N removed from that idea. They will easilv give in. but their eisy submission will not be of enduring effect.' " i REPRIMANDED II V ROGERS. Rrsnlt of the Qnnrrcl Ilftwffn Tiro Officers of the Marine Corps. MANILA. May 31.-The result of th Ooodrell Court of Inquiry is that both Lieutenant Colonel Mandl C. Goodrell and Colone I Henry C. Cochrane have been severely reprimanded by Rear Admiral RoTrs. Goodrell has been ordered to com. nar.il the Marine brigade and Cochrane, has been ordered to tho United Stftter. Filipinos to lie Sent Bnck. SAN FRANCISCO. May SI. Nineteen of the seventy-eight Filipinos who arrived here en route to the Buffalo exposition will not be permitted to land. The physicians at the Marine Hospital ard the immigration officials decided to -tvl them back to Manila, tor the reason that they are afnicted with loathsome and cor'aglous diseases. Former Captain Kins Convicted. MOBILE. Ala., May 31. The sealed verdict irr the bribery ca against former Captain and Quartermaster Cecil W. Klr.jr. returned Thursday nicht, was opened In the United States Circuit Court this morning. It tinds him guilty, as charged, of receiving money with the intent t,o influence his edticlal actions.