Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1901 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1901.

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Suh--rit l aini; the city for a period durIrz the i-umm-r tan have the Daily and Sunday Journal na:lei to any a ldrtj in th United State or Canada without extra charge. The Mre8 will , (hansel as often a dtired. Roth telephone :js. Several ambitious Democrats would like to run for mayor, but the men who arc on the boards and hold the places feel much more confident of a salatkd future with Mayor Tug irt for a fourth term. "A new platform and a new leader," says Henry Waitrrson; "the old or.es are shopworn." This in the he ft Wattersoni.tn fctylf, but wouk1 hv suggest the new leader? The nearest he conies to it is to Ficak of Eamuel J. TilfUn, but he is dead. The statement in the state crop bulletin that "it looks iy if Indiana will have more wheat this year than last" is not calculated to caue elation when it is recalled that the titate raised so little wheat in l'.0 that there was not enough to be regarded as a crop. Congres3 has denounced hazing and Insubordination at West Point, and it would be most unfortunate If the next body should "reopen" the cases of the dismissed cadets, as is indicated by one of the expelled men in a recent interview. The language used by that perton is ample ground for expulsion. The man who has just been called to the presidency of the New York Central Railroad Company. William II. Newman, of Cleveland, began his career as a switchman an . a telegraph operator. He rose by his own efforts, and yet we are constantly told that there is no opportunity for the young man who has neither wealth nor influence. Now that the War Department has ordered the commandant of every military post in the United States to report before July 1 on the effect of the abolition of the army canteen, givlns? detailed statements as to the arrests which have followed pay day since the abolition of the canteen, the public will have some facts from which to draw conclusions. "The Dre4 Scott decision." says an exchange, "denied that a colored man could be a citizen of the United States a doctrine monstrous at the present time." The real test of citizenship is the right to vote, and to a man living in this country it has no other value. Consequently, when States are depriving colored men of this right by hundreds of thousands, the doctrine of the Dred Scott decision cannot be to very monstrous. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is a patriotic man and an able one, but he is the victim of a few cranky ideas, one of which is to declare Cuba an independent government at once and let the people care for themselves. Nearly half of tho population of Cuba Is of the race which the senator is so zealous to have deprived of all participation in public affairs. Yet upon the less intelligent colored people of Cuba he would confer the power to help make a new government. The price of beef advanced two cents a pound in New York recently, ami the prospect is that it will advance still further. The cause is not due to the packers, as many make haste to declare, but to tne scarcity of cattle lit for beef. This condition will be found in every tock market. The supply of cattle has not increased the past three or four years, while the demand has Increased all over the country, for the reason that the continued piosperoua times, with good wages, have made it possible for hundreds of thousands of people to purchase freely who could purclusc but sparingly for years prior to the last months of lx7. Doubtless a few persons will try to be unhappy over the speeches at the banquet given to Americans by the London Chamber of Commerce, but a vast majority of the American people will be pleased at the expressions of mutual good will. There Is no alliance; even the demagogues who Lave talked of such a thing have seen the. folly of such an assumption after the action of the United States in the Chinese complications; but beiii tin ?ood terms with Grtat P.ritain dots not prevent us belr.g on equally Kood terma with the nations of continental Uurope. We are far away from their Jealousies ami rivalries, and need not participate in t-iern. Mr. Carnegie' prediction that continental Europe will attempt to cruh Great lirita'.n and that th United States will take her part is causing some comment. Mr. Carnegie's prediction of an attempt to crush Great Britain is not in accord with the general, policy of nations toward each ether In that the era of "crushing out" is a thl&c of the paat in Kurope. No such at

tempt has been made in many years, and more years have clap?ed since such a project has been conceived in respect to Great Prltain. Ilesides, there can be no ie:tl desire on the part of continental governments to crush Great Uritain. Kven if Great Britain were in their hands, they could not agree as to what should be dono with it.

Tili: M UPRISING STOCK It ALLY. It may be said that it was the prevalent opinion that railroad and other stocks would decline day by day after the panic caused by the Northern Pacific furor. May P. until they reached the figures which prevailed a year ago. Prices fell off for a few days, but to the general surprise they began to rally slowly, and have since gained dally until they are again near the ligute where, as some one said. Wall street had lost Its sense. There does not appear to be iny manipulation attending the recent advances. Speculation doubtless has some part in the movement, since speculation is the leading factor in Wall street. Just now people are trying to account for the recent advance in prices, but it is so much a surprise that even tho who assume to be wise in such things are not finding satisfactory reasons for the situation. There can be but one solution for the advance in railroad shares, and that is that the general and unparalleled prosperity of the country warrants it. Py recent combinations railroad properties have been put upon a safer basis. Put the chief cause is the immense traflic of the country. The initiative in the restoration of prices was taken by the financial powers inter ested in the properties, and their action has been followed by the multitude hs investors or speculators upon the belief that the properties are worth the market prices'. Aftfr three years of activity, mills all over the country In most lines are crowded with the orders of consumers who are anxious for delivery of goods. There is not the slighte.-t indication in sight of any change in the situation. The prospect of fairly bountiful harvests and the ability of the people on the farms and in the towns to purchase have caused demands for merchandise that pass ordinary calculations. The abundance of low-priced money is a potent factor. Four per cent, money makes a stock earning dividends worth twice as much as it was when money was worth 8 per cent. Still, the real cause is the strength of the business situation in the country. It may come io a halt, but just now, and as far into the future as men can see, there is nc obstruction to the country's majestic march along the industrial highway. I .XJI STiriARLK CRITICISM. Just now there is a disposition on the part of some people to criticise the regular army, particularly the officers. They have said some things which do not please, therefore those who are not pleased, forgetful of the events of the past three years, fall to criticising the character of army officers and to declaring that the army needs reorganization in order to put an end to what they are pleased to denounce as the demoralization. Such captious criticism shows how forgetful and unfair some people can be. In July, lSJS, the country resounded with praise of the valor of the regulars at Santiago. An army chiefly made up of regular regiments fought so bravely that It caused a fortified city to capitulate and the Spanish army of twice its number to surrender. The gallantry of the officers of these regiments was most conspicuous. Men grown old in the service lost their lives leading their men. Young ofheers displayed a daring and a coolness that were reckless. Military men from Europe spoke in terms of admiration of such soldiers and officers. The work was so well done at Santiago that the spirit ot Spain was broken. The valor of the officers and men about. Santiago ended the war. Transferred to the Philippines, regulars and volunteers showed themselves as effective and intelligent soldiers as the world ever saw. The conduct of the officers, and particularly of the officers of the regular establishment, was everything that could be expected. They opened the way for civil government and won the confidence of the natives. No better disciplined army ever occupied a distant land. Still later, a detachment of regulars was sent to China. He must be a very mean American who has not had a feeling of elation over the reports which have come to us. Upon the American contingent fell the heaviest fighting and the most responsible duties. In effectiveness and discipline our men surpassed the troops of other nations. They were first in the Sacred City, and when a portion of the city fell to their care, alone of all the soldiers in China the Americans did not loot nor harass the natives. "When It was announced that the American troops were to be withdrawn the Chinese implored that they be retained to protect the people. And now, while these events are fresh in the minds of the American people, newspapers lind evidence of the demoralization of the army and call for a reorganization mainly because certain good people do not like the statements of officers about the causes of Intemperance In the army, when, as a matter of fact, there is less drunkenness in the army than there was years ago. How soon some of us forget! Tin: CASH OP A SWITCH. The story of the blonde switch sent by mistake from an Indiana postoffice to the deputy auditor of the postorT.ce at Wash ington is an interesting disclosure of the simple and unconventional methods in vogue in government service. The unsophisticated male being whose Idea of a "switch" Is a device for shifting a railroad train from one track to another may at first be somewhat bewildered on reading of a switch than can be shipped in an en vclope. but he will presently gather the idea that In the feminine vocabulary It Is an article of adornment. The man of ex porience who, in the seclusion of domestic life. Is accustomed to the sight of his wife's switch blonde or other color, as need may require hung carelessly over the back of a chair or coiled serpent-like on the dress ing case, will need no explanation as to the character of t lie contrivance; but all men will be tilled with vague wonder as to the frankness anil freedom with which the owner of this blonde switch took the pub lic into her confidence. It Is one thing, as everybody will admit, to make no secret of such additions to nature's adornlngs in tha bosom of one's family, where secrets are impossible, and quite another to be entirely cpen to tho world or to that part of it which penetrates to the interior of the Co lumbus postofflce. It Is the general under standing that the woman who becomes the cwner of a twitch does so with Intent to

deceive all observers by causing them to

believe that such switch grows upon her head instead of being atached thereto by hairpins; also, that the only reason that she does not deceive her family is that cir cumstances make it out of the question. But it appears that the Columbus owner of the blonde switch of present newspaper fame not only did not wear her switch all the time, but had a habit of taking It off in cilice hours and allowing it to toss about among official documents and Uncle Sim's mall. Such conduct can haidly bo called artless, since a switch is in itself an artful device; but it certainly shows a candor quite foreign to the feminine habit. That it is a commendable candor whose emulation is desirable can hardly be asserted. In fact, if it were left to the nonswitchwearing sex to decide it is extremely likely that the verdict against this honest acknowledgment and display of the detached switch would be prompt. A great many women are employed in public places nowadays where men must enter. There is no question but that the latter would find the sight of a temporarily discarded switch on desk or counter or chairback disconcerting, not to say alarming. Even if tlK ingenuous young women have risen to a height which makes such frankness seem a virtue to themselves, they should consider the sensitiveness of the still untutored public and keep their switches fastened to their heads such time as they are outside of their own domiciles. It may be to the credit of Uncle Sam that his service encourages frankness and honesty, but even Uncle Sam does not demand this extreme manifestation. It was proper enough for the Columbus article to be sent to headquarters, because that is where switches belong, but it is to be hoped that the single instance of a misplaced switch has not established a precedent, and that this one In question and its kind will remain where nature that is to say, the hairdresser-intended them. A Washington telegram says army medical authorities are in great distress over the prospect that few of the graduates of medical schools are anxious to enter the medical corps because there is no immediate prospect of a higher rank than that of captain. As the rank of captain brings a better salary than most physicians can reasonably expect in a dozen years after graduation there are likely to be more applicants for the position of assistant surgeon than will be needed for the one hundred vacancies. The former president of Johns Hopkins University has been telling a graduating class at a woman's college that they must not read too much, but must learn to think. What the girls would like to be informed is how in the world they are to get any time to think, with so many new and perfectly lovely novels coming out every season. It was a happy thought that led the Commercial Club to place a tablet upon its building in honor of Col. Eli Lilly, who years ago foresaw the greater Indianapolis as most of us see it to-day and devoted his energies to its development. It Is all well enough to have friendly relations with England, but the men who had to listen to four hours of speechmakIng on account of It paid a high price. IROK KITHER AED YON. An Inquiry. Puck. The Milkman Oh, yes; cocoanuts have milk In them. Iiis Little Son And how tlo they water it? Kxceptlonft. "They say all men are made of dust," The tailor said. "I don't Believe such stuft of these I trust Duft settles, but they won't." Catholic Standard. Preliminary Timidity. Detroit Free Press. "Newby Nobbj cays he's afraid to get married." "Why?" "He says that girls nowadays all look so tnurt." Wronpf Voices. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. "There is a woman's baseball team playlnar through the towns of West Virginia." remarked Mr. Brushton. "I should like to see it play." "I shouldn't." replied Mr. WilklnburR. "The game wouldn't be baseball If women played it." "Why not?" "Because it would be soprano or alto." The Indian. Detroit Journal. "But after all." said the Indian, "our badness is only skin deep!" Seeing that the world wan In no small degree perplexed at his manner of arriving at this conclusion, the red man continued: "For nobody finds fault w ith us so long as we suffer ourselves to be skinned!" Here the world coughed violently, after which It spoke feelingly of the lovely weather we are having. Good Resinning; Made. Baltimore Sun. The recent good-roads convention in New Orleans has borne fruit even sooner thaa vhs expected, for the parish of St. Bernard, which reaches the suburbs of the Crescent City, has declared by a practically unanimous vote to levy a 5-mill road tax. The election was under the prov.sions of the State Constitution, which confines the vote to the property taxpayers cf the parish, end there were but two dissenting votes. The Times-Democrat is confident that the example of St. Bernard will be followed by other parishes, and that scon good roads will become a feature in Louisiana. Volceful Intemperance. Portland (Me.) Press. The New York Voice quotes Sheriff Pearson as saying in a spetch that no other land under heaven has so many slaves to drink per million of population as the United States, where every eleventh man is a drunkard. This would give about 7.50O.00O drunkards for the country, about TO.OH) for Maine and nearly 5.i.xn) for Portland. One drunkard in everv eleven men tn the United States! If the Voice were noc a third-party Prohibition organ we should say it had grossly misrepresented Mr. Pearson. ltnsln Agricultural Prugrem. San Francisco Chronicle. Russia Is one of the few countries which levies a substantial duty on raw cotton. The duty is nearly $." per 110 pounds ami -s strictly protective. As the result of the iroteetive policy importation of cotton into Russia is decreasing and its production ?s increasing. The production of cotton In central Siberia In was S77..7i.(vt) pounds. Cotton is being rapidly substituted for wheat as an agricultural product, and within a few years Uussia expects to produce all the cotton required in the empire. Doenn't Attempt the liiiiHlltle. Omaha Bee. An Iowa man has invented a machine which ho asserts will measure a man's mind. He will not guarantee the machine to record the reading of a woman's mind belore she changes it. Clnaalc Ronton CnlU It Hut." Bcston Advertiser. Possibly that "strange sliding movement" of the ground underneath the city of Butte, Mont., is caused by tho overweight of those two superfluous letters ia the city's name,

rrrv 7! ATTK3JPT WILL DU .MA UK TO PROVE Tili: AVOMAX WAS l.XSAMJ. Coutuel for Defendant Say She Ilroodeil 'llvor Her Wrons Until She Ileetinie Demented. DEED OF A KOVEL-CRASED BOY KILLni) SISTKIt AND RROTIIF.R AXD SHOT AND CK EM ATI? II IIIMSELP. Suicide of the Late Mr. GlatUtune's I'll Kicinu Self. Deatruction of au Ohio Huftine Man. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 6. Lulu Prince-Kennedy listened to-day to half a dozen witnesses recite the details of her killing of her husband, Phil 11. Kennedy, hardly moving a muscle, or showing a particle of emotion. Later, without apparent cause, she bowed her head and cried, but only for a few moments. In stating its side of the case Attorney Nearing. for the defense, after tracing the atten'ons paid by Kennedy, the murdered man, to the defendant, declaring that they had become engaged to be married and the elate of the wedding set. asserted that Kennedy postponed the wedding, and finally, 'tinder guise of the engagement, betrayed her. Then when her condition became elelicate he paid her expenses to leave the city. On this visit, Mr. Nearing said, she met Case Patten, the baseball player, whose i.ame later became mentioned with that of the prisoner. Kennedy had, he said, been familiar with all her actions during this time. In securing the advice of a physician she had, he asserted, been persuade! by Kennedy "to represent to the doctor that she was the wife of Patten. Her condition became dangerous and her parents compelled her to make known the cause. The courthouse wedding, at which Kennedy later, in his suit for annulment, asserted he was compelled by threats on his life b Miss Prince's father and brother, followed. Kennedy's refusal to live with her, her t roodings over her condition, his ill treatment, brought her to an end of hysteria bordering on insanity. Insanity was prevalent in the woman's family, and the prisoner partook of this diseases, which finally affected her mind, causing her to threaten suicide. The final act of Kennedy bringing suit to have their marriage set aside was the motive, and the only motive, that prompted the act of murder. They would show positively that the woman's father and brothers had absolutely no part In the murder, knowing of the woman's act only after it had been committed. Prosecutor lladley, answering in rebuttal, declared the State would show that Kennedy was not responsible for the woman's ruin, that Mrs. Kennedy had sustained improper relations with other men long before she met Kennedy and almost up to the time of their forced marriage. The State's first witnesses proved important. Frederick Eullene, reporter, and Capt. Wade Munford. assistant city editor of the Star, told of Mrs. Kennedy and her brother. Will Prince, coming to the office of that paper and requesting the publication of a certain story regarding her marriage to Kennedy. Both admitted that U.e marriage had been lorced on the dead man. Will Prince going so far as to say that Kennedy had been given the alternative of marrying or bring killed. He had requested that this fact be not published, "as It would annul the marriage." Roland Butler, a stenographer in Kennedy's office, told of the prisoner's father and brother Will demanding that he pay her board bill, and when he refused threatening him and chasing him from his office, apd Kennedy seeking the protection of a policeman. Then he described minutely the scene at the office on the diy of the murder when Mrs. Kennedy appeared and, after receiving his refusal to live with her, shct him five times. She had kicked Kennedy's face as he lay prostrate, and appeared perfectly cool the while. Butler said Will Prince struck Kennedy's brother down as the latter tried to disarm the woman. Several witnesses corroborated the scene at Kennedy's office at the time of the killing, each testifying to the fact that Mrs. Kennedy appeared perfectly cool as she faced her husband. She told one man who vas holding her brother: "Let him go; I did the shooting," and then, when a policeman arrived and was holjing her hand she exclaimed, accorulngr to a witness: "Ret go my hands! I want to fix my hair." Another witness said that the defendant's two brothers and her father were in different parts of the building at the time. K. J. Oostello, a county employe, told of meeting C. YV. Prince, the father, at the entrance of the building a moment after th.? shooting took place and of remarking to the latter: "Your daughter upstairs is shooting her husband! You could have prevented this if you had wanted to!" Inger Trial Nenrliiff the End. CHICAGO. June 6. Arguments by counsel in the Unger Insurance case began today. But one witness in rebuttal Dr. Frank Webster Jay, associated professor of surgery at Rush Medical College was heard. The court refused the defense permission to introduce expert testimony to disprove Dr. Jay's assertion that Marie Defenbach could not have died of dysentery, as wns asserted by previous witnesses, and the defense unexpectedly announceel that Its testimony was all in. ACTOR ?HOOTS HIMSELF. Horace Pell Attempt Suicide While Suffering: from Insomnia. CLEVELAND. June 6. Horace Pell, a member of a theatrical stock company, playing here, attempted suicide by shooting to-day at his hotel. He is twenty-two years of age and his home is In New York. Insomnia is supposed to have led to the act. His condition is critical. Horace Pell is a son of Mrs. J. Howiand Pell, of New York, and it is said was possessed of ample means to embark in business had he not preferred to go on the stage. His family opposed his ambition as an actor, and when he went abroad early In ISOf It was thought he had been convinced ol the wisdom of their advice. But while he was at Dinard. France, he took the leading role in an amateur play. "My Lord in Irony," scoring so great a success that his stage nmbltlon was revived. On his return to New York in the fall he gained his family's reluctant consent and obtained a professional engagement. SUICIDE OP J. P. CAREY. II n I ness Man Who Tried to Kill a Mayor and Health O flic er. UHRICIISVILLE. O., June C.-Bccause he thought he had been unjustly fined, J. P. Carey, a prominent business man of this place, tried to kill Mayor G. W. Reed and Health Officer Dr. J. A. McCollam. Failing in his purpose, he committed suicide. Carey had been arrested and was fined by the mayor for violating a health ordinance. Hebe came incensed and was fined for contempt. Given permission to go after money to pay his fines, he returned with a revolver, which he drew on the officials In the mavor's office. Thev made their escape and Carey killed himself. NOVEL-CRAZED HOPS D EED. Stubbed SUter, Strungled Brother, Shot Htitl Cremated Himself. TOLEDO. O.. June 5. LeRoy Grove, the sixteen-year-old sen of a prosperous farmer, living near Napoleon, stabbed his sister, aged twenty-four, to the heart, killing her instantly. He then strangled his thirteen-year-old brother to death, and, firing the barn, ran in and shot himself through the temple. The tragedy occurred jut

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after midnight. Ills charred body was recovered to-day. It is supposed he was insane, made so by reading dime novels. Jl.MPED PROM A WINDOW.

Snicide of Dr. Thoinn Bond, the Lnte .Mr. t;ialMtoiieN I'hyaieian. LONDON, June S. Dr. Thomas Bond, a well-known surgeon and .analyst, committed suicide to-day by throwing himself from a third-story window of his residence. He had been suffering from melancholia for some time. Dr. Bond, besides being the late Mr. Gladstone's surgeon, was noted In connection with investigations and discoveries of the cases of several sensational crimes, notably the Le Froy, Lamson and Camp murders. Jealous of Her Stepdaughter. AURORA. Mo.. June 6.-A telephone message from Galena, Stone county, twentyfive miles off the railroad, says that Mrs. John Stallion and her two sons by a former marriage, James and Will Crabtree. have confessed to the murder of Alice stallion, the woman's sixteen-year-old daughter. According to the confession, the boys held Alice while the mother broke her skull with a poker. The body was then thrown into the James river. Alice was engaged to be married. Mrs. Stallion was, it is said, jealous of her stepdaughter becaUJ-e of her beauty and popularity. A lynching may result. Purinen in lMinnlt of n Xegro. ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. June 6. Two hundred infuriated farmers are scouring the timber twenty miles northeast of this city in an efrort to capture an unknown negro who to-day. waylaid the fourteen-year-old daughter of George Dixon, a farmer. and gagged her and carried her off in tne woods. Other school children spread the alarm and farmers were soon in pursuit. The negro became alarmed and flea. a. lynching is expected in the event of his capture. Snicide of a Konten nider. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. June 6. A message received from Magdalena announces the suicide of John E. Ryan. A recent inJury by being thrown from a horse gave him so much pain that he Fought relief in death. Mr. Rvan was a member of Rooseelfs Rough Riders and was wounded in the battle of San Juan. Elmer E. rinne End III Life. CHICAGO. June 6. Heir to a large estate, of which he did not have the handling. Elmer E. Plane, son of a former wealthy farmer of Independence, la., committed suicide here to-night. Crimes of Vnriou Degree. The preliminary examination of James Callahan on the charge of perjury in connection with the Cudahy kidnaping was begun before Judge Vinsonhaler, In the County Court at Omaha, yesterday. Thirtv farmers in the eastern part of Wvandot county, Ohio, had a running fight with three horse thieves yesterday. Late in the afternoon they were captured after a chase of nearly twenty-five miles. The thieves gave their names as George, Cliff and Meli Geiser. Mrs. Jennie Parish, a widow, aged thirtyfour, was shot and killed by L.ewis Weeks, at Flint. Mich., Wednesday. Weeks went to Mrs. Parish's home and demanded admission, but was refused He broke in the door and then told Mrs. Parish he had come to kill her, at the same time firing two shots into her right side. Weeks escaped. G. B. Dunton, a yard conductor in the employ of the Southern Railway at Atlanta. Ga., was yesterday afternoon bound over without bail to the Superior Court on the charge of murder. Evidence heard at the preliminary trial tended to show that Dunton was on the switch engine which on Tuesday ran into the Macon passenger train on the Southern, killing three people. William F. Davis, alias "Bloomington Red." was convicted of burglary at Quincy. 111., yesterday, and will go to prison under the Indeterminate act. "Red" was convicted of robbing a store of $4.0o0 worth of silks. He was leader of a band of silk thieves who plundered stores in various Western cities. He was convicted, in Decatur, in 1S02, under tne name of "Frank Smith." He broke jail but was recaptured and served six years in the Joliet penitentiary. .Tone TilcA and Rntlidcre. who were taken to Toronto. Ont.. from Chicago, have been found guilty of robbing the Aurora, Ont., postoffice. These are the burglars who made such a desperate attempt to escape Tuesday night, when Constable Boyd was killed and Jones mortally wounded. They will now be arraigned for murder. Crown Attorney Currin says Rice, who. it is alleged, fired the shot which killed Boyd, is supposed to have killed a man during a robbery In Chicago. Rice died yesterday afternoon. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. It Elects Officers and Postpones ReviMton of the Code of Ethic. ST. PAUL. Minn.. June 6.-When the American Medical Association was called to order to-day a delegation from the American Equal Suffrage Association, whose convention has just closed in Minneapolis, was present, and time was allotted for the presentation of resolutions on the army canteen and reign of vice n the army adopted by them. Various reports were presented, that of the general executive committee alone arousing interest. Most of the recommendations were adopted promptly, including that expressing disapproval of the failure of Congress to pass the bill to reorganize the medical corps of the army, placing It on a higher ranx. Action was postpone! for one year in the matter of revising the code of ethics. The ticket selected yesterday by the nominating committee was elected without dissent. Saratoga war, chosen as the place ot next meeting. II. H. Grant, of Louisville, Ky., was chosen to the executive council. Several addresses were delivered on surgical and medical practice. The various sectional meetings continued during the morning and afternoon. Tonight the physicians wi re taken to Minneapolis on special electric cars and are the guests of honor at a ball. SCHLEY ON 'CHANGE. Says Admiral Sampson Is a Gallant Officer and n Ciood Man. NEW YORK. June 6.-Rear Admiral W. S. Schley to-day went to the Maritime Exchange to visit Lieutenant Commander Jame: A. Sears, who was his flag lieutenant at the battle of Santiago, and who recently was sent to the hydrographic bureau of the exchange. The rear admiral was recogrdzed and was asked to meet the members. He consented and as soon as he appeared the brokers surrounded him. cheered themselves hoarse and asked for a speech. This Admiral Schley declined to do. but said he would be pleased to shake hands with everybody if he were allowed to go. This caused more cheering and when It subsided someone shouted: "What's the matter with Sampson?" The admiral replied: "Nothing; he is a gallant officer and a good man." This was greeted with more cheers and the uproar became so great that someone jokingly telephoned to the police station that a riot was in progress in the Maritime Exchange. The police escorted the admiral, who was laughing by this time, to safety, but only after he had shaken hands all around. TOO MUCH READING. Ex-l'reftident Glimnn, of Johns Hop kill t nlvemlly, Glvea Advice. NEW YORK. June 6. A special to the World from Baltimore gives some extracts from the address of former President Giiman. of Johns Hopkins University, to the graduates of the Woman's College. He deplored what he called "An era of Carregie too much reeding," and said: "Reading is a kina of craze that has got hold of the people. It is a dangerous habit, like a ftlmulant. The publishers are constantly putting forth new attractions in the field and the reviewers excite our appetites. It is no doubt very pleasant to be up to date, well posted and in the swim about the latest issues from the press, but we are all In great danger -of reading too much." The doctor gave the students this advice; "First, don't read too much; second, study the art of thinking; third, use you hands and enlarge your mission by the use of the microscope."

ROOT WAS MISQUOTED

C I'll AX DELEGATES DID NOT REPORT 11 1 M CORRECTLY. Gnve Them No Grounds to Hellet e nn Act of Conjrre Conld Re Changed by the President. WASHINGTON. June In view of the several representations made in Havana regarding the interpretation by the secretary of war to the Cuban commissioners of the Piatt amendment, it can be stated authoritatively that the secretary did not deviate from the declaration that the President and himself had no power to change an act of Congress. It is said that the amendments which the Cuban convention made to the Piatt law and the incorporation of conversations with Secretary Root did not represent his views of the amendment nor was he correctly quoted in the alleged statements. Amcng the reports given out in Havana is the translation of a letter of Senator Piatt, written to the secretary of war and furnished as a confidential document to the Cuban commissioners when they were here. This letter briefly gives the views of the Connecticut senator on some features of the law which bears his name. Surprise was expressed that the letter should appear In print In Havana. General Wood telegraphed the department to-day inquiring as to the whereabouts of the letter of Secretary Root, explaining in detail the objections to the action of the constitutional convention. It Is expected the letter will reach Havana within a very short time. It has been delayed in the mail. A dispatch from Havana late to-night says: "The official Instructions from Washington regarding the Piatt amendment have arrived. They are being translated and will be sent to the Cuban constitutional convention to-morrow." Appointment liy the President. WASHINGTON, June 6.The President to-day made the following appointments: Isaac T. Stoddard, of Stoddard. A. T.. secretary of Arizona Territory, to succeed Charles II. Akers, whose term expires tomorrow; Henry G. Fisher, second lieutenant, revenue cutter service. Cavalry Colonel Albert E. Woodson; lieutenant colonel, John B. Kerr; majors, Ezra B. Fuller. Robert P. P. Wainwright. Judge advocate, rank of colonel, Stephen W. Groesbeck; Judge advocate, rank of lieutenant colonel, Edgar S. Dudley; first lieutenant in the artillery corps, John W. Kilbreth. jr.: second lieutenant in the artillery corps, Joseph Mattson; captain in the corps of engineers, James P. Jervey; captain in the signal corps. Edward B. Ives; quartermaster, rank of captain, William E. Horton; commissary, rank of captain, Thomas E. Franklin. Surgeons of .volunteers, rank of major: Simon J. Frazer, Howard A. Grube. Richard S. Griswold, Abram L. Haines. Assistant surgeon, rank of first lieutenant in the Porto Rico Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, S. Moret. Mr. McKinley Condition. WASHINGTON, June 6.-Dr. Rixey left the White House at 10 o'clock to-night, after an hour and a half spent in attendance on Mrs. McKinley. He said: "There is no material change in Mrs. . McKinley 's condition. She remains the same as mentioned in our bulletin of this morning." In answer to specific inquiries, he replied that that he could not say there had been any perceptible improvement whatever durinjr the day. The morning bulletin follows: "Mrs. McKlnley's physicians report that she passed a comfortable night and continues to show slight Improvement." The President to-night continues hopeful of the outcome. More, than this cannot be said. There has been no setback during the day, but likewise no gain. One favorable circumstance is that Mrs. McKinley continues to gain more sleep than she was able to get In the earlier stages of her illness, and to-night rested fairly comfortably. Secretary Long nt III Desk Again. WASHINGTON, Juno 6.-Secretary Long was back at the Navy Department to-day after an absence of some, weeks on the Pacific coast and later in Colorado. He found a number of minor matters awaiting his attention, but nothing of very serious concern, lie has not yet taken up the report of the Naval Board on the Santiago medals, or of the board which reported on wireless telegraphy. He says the policy of gradually reducing the fleet in the Philippines will be carried on, although there has been no material development in the plan already announced on this subject. Patent (.ranted Indlanian. WASHINGTON, June 6.-Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana as follows: Harry F. Cleveland, Vincennes, filter press plate; Sutton Cooper and W. Felker, Evansville, sadiron; James N. Crabb, Indianapolis, fountain moistener; Louis E. Francis, T. E. York and L. Kennedy, Indianapolis, check blank: Henry S. Miller, Hamilton, gate; Marshall L. Smith, Cambridge City, folding rocking chair; Herbert E. Westervelt, South Bend, paperbag machine. Counterfeiter Smith Pardoned. WASHINGTON, June 6. The President to-day acted on fourteen applications for pardons. He commuted four sentences and granted five pardons. Harry II. Smith, in lii, was convicted in Indiana of counterfeiting and sentenced to two years in the Ohio Penitentiary. The President commutes the sentence to one year. NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. A'etv Rnral Free Delivery Route In Indiana The Haunrdi Rewarded. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. June 6. Additional rural free delivery service will be established July 1 next at Claypool, Kosciusko county. Length of route, 50 miles; area covered, 71 square miles; population served, 1.602; number of houses on routes, 376; carriers, J. E. Deaton and Frank Brown. The postoffices at Birmingham. Miami county, and Ollveton, Morgan county, have been ordered discontinued after June 29 and mall sent to Macy and Martinsville, respectively. The bonds of Jabal N. Terhune, as postmaster at Lone Tree, Greene county; Jas. M. M. McDowell, at Oolitic, Lawrence ounty; Wm. B. Gordon, at Splceland, Henry county, and John T.-MeDaniel. at Wawaka, Noble county, were approved and their commissions issued to-day. The President to-day appointed a large number of first and second lieutenants in the army. In the list are the names of Russell T. Hazzard and O. II. P. Hazzard. who are made first and second lieutenants of cavalry, respectively. The Hazzards are brothers, and formerly lived In Scott county. Indiana. They removed to Washington State several years ago. They were with General Funston when he captured Aguinaldo. George B. Comley, formerly of Indianapolis, was appointed a first lieutenant. The secretary of war has determined to keep the transports of the Atlantic service, and they will not be sold, as first contemplated, as they may be needed for future service. Col. William H. Forward, assistant surgeon general of the United States army, chief surgeon of the Department of e'allfornia. has been ordered to report to Major General Sternberg, surgeon general of the army, at Washington. Colonel Forward will assume the duties of the chief medical ofiicer of the army, while the latter Is making a tour of Inspection of the Philippines. The Mayflower sailed yesterday from Si Juan for Carupano. She will make stops at La Guayra and Porto Cabello. Navy Department officials state that her mission is to keep in touch with the situation growing out of the Venezuela asphalt troubles. Suit was begun to-day !n the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Lone Wolf and other Indians representing the Kiowa. Comanche and Apache tribes.

asking the court to enjoin Secretary H!th cock, Commissioner Herman, of the General Land Mfice. and Commissioner Jon?, of the Indian Oll.ce. from carrying into effect the law providing for the opening of parts of the lands of those Indians located In Oklahoma Territory to settlement. They also nsk that the law authorizing the opening of the lands be declared void, on the ground that the cession by the Indians professing to represent th tiiles was unauthorized. The Chib-an claims commission will adJcurn sine die on the 1Mb inst.. leaving be. hind it not a single unadjm'ieatcd claim. It was the failure of the first commission to dispose of more than a moiety of the claims presented that led to the creation of a new commission. The famous Itata claim, founded upon the capture of that vessel by the Charleston, comes up for final argument Saturday. Among members of the House of Representativts who have teen appointed to attend the funeral of Representative R. E. P.urke. at Dallas. Tex., to-morrow afternoon, is Miers, of Indiana. Bv direction of the President. Col. Chambers MrKibben. Twelfth Infantry, has beci reliecd from command of the Department of Tex; and ordered to resume command ot his regiment in the Philippine.. He will be succeeded in command of the Department of Texas by Col. James N. Wheelan. of the Twelfth Cavalry. It is understood the change wis made at the request of Col. McKitben. who desired service in the Philippines.

ALLEGED ARMY SCANDAL DROKEN DOWN HORSES PURCHASED POR THE BRITISH CAVALRY. Charges Made in the House of Com mons Thirty-Seven Roers Killed liy Kitchener Scouts. LONDON. June 6. After a long and somewhat embittered discussion of the policy of the War Office in buying horses for use In South Africa, the House of Commons tonight, by a vote of lot to 60, vofri the amount of money asked for transports and remounts. Sir Blnndell Naple, Conservative, asserted that British officers who had been sent t-" Hungary and Austria had purchased broken-down animals at extravagant prices and divided with the sellers the price charged the British government above the actual cpst. He demanded the appointment of a committee of Inquiry. Lord Stanley, financial secretary of the War Office, said an inquiry would be made Into the matter, and he believed the accusation of corruption brought against British officers would be disproved. Mr. Brodrick, the war secretary, said th War Office paid for horses in England iin Canada and in Australia, the United States and Hungary from 2) to 25. Later in the discussion Mr. Brodrick said a telegram had Just reached him Irom Lord! Kitchener announcing that between 50,01 and HO.) troops were now suitably mount ed. The war secretary defended the good quality of the horses bought abroad. It is understood that the charges mad by Sir Blundell Maple are of a very serious character. It is asserted that In one case an officer netted JLiAomi in the purchase of horses in Hungary. Dissatisfaction is sal j to have existed in the colonies because th government has been buying horses on the. continent when colonial animals were avail able. BRITISH ARMY REFORM. Simplification and Decentralization. Urged !y the Committee. LONDON. June 6. Simplification and de centralization are the keynotes of the re-( port Issued to-day by the committee undef the chairmanship of Clinton E. Daw kins, appointed to inquire into the "War Office organization. The abolition Is recommended of the present system of ruling the army by minute and irritating regulations, both) military and financial. The committer considers the War Oriice ought to be re llevcd by the decentralization of a mast of routine work now absorbing the energies of the high officials and preventing proper attention to important military questions. Further decentralization should be secured) by an cnlaigcment of the powers and responsibilities of the officers commandin districts, and. finally, a permanent War Office board ought to be established, which, under the authority of the secretary of state, should control the business of the War Office as a whole, without detracting from the individual responsibilities of the commander-in-chief and 'leads of depart ments. nOERS SLR PIUS ED. Thirty-Seven Killed and KM) Captured, British Caunltle Eighteen In All. FRETORIA, June 6.-Colonel Wilson, with 210 of Kitchener's scouts, has surprised and routed 400 Boers belonging to Beyer's command thirty-four milts west of Warm Baths. The Boers resisted stubbornly, but finally broke and fled, leaving thirty-seven dead. 100 prisoners and all their wagons and supplies, including $."3 cattle, in the hands of the British. The loss of the latter was three men killed and fifteen wounded. Beyer's main comma.nl arrived on the scene soon after the attack, but failed in an attempt to recapture th supplies. Beyer was thus left practically without any transport or supplies. Cable Note. The British steamer Ophir, having on board the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, sailed from Sydney for Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday. The Hamburger Correspondenz publishes a dispatch from The Hague, asserting that the arbitration court yesterday held a secret bc-ssion regarding the war in South Africa. The United States legation at Constantinople has formally protested agalnt th decree of the Ottoman government prohibiting the entry of Armenians who have obtained American protection. The estimates of the damage done by the. custom house and warehouse tire at Antwerp on Wednesday range from L0.'4 francs to 3.W.(" francs, largely uninsured. The loss includes LVi.Cmj francs' worth of American tobacco. Th-i Leyland steamer Canadian arrive at Liverpool yesterday from New York, having among her passengers the American team of sharpshooters who are to meet the, British gunners in a five days' match near London next week. The Australian House of Representatives; yesterday appointed a committee to report on the best means for the commonwealth undertaking its own coinage and adopting the decimal system. The imperial government favors the plan. The Turko-ltanan friction over the Pre vesa affair caused by the ill-treatment of Italian subjects by the Turkish authorities; has been settled, the Forte promising t indemnify the victim, apologize to the Italian consul and punish the commandant of tho Turkish troops there. The German Foreign Office, asserts that the only element of truth in the report that Germany has been negotHting witf. the Turkish government as to tr.e Farsati lsl3nds is the fact that the government has acquired a coaling station in one of the islands for the China transport service ThvJ London Common Council yesterday agreed to confer the freedom of the city on Lord Milner. of Cape Town, but only aftei considerable criticism. Mr. Morton, who led the opposition, blamed Lord Milner for all the tremble Great Britain had in South Africa and for all the ill feeling existing between the British and the Dutch. The White Star line steamer Oceanic, which sailed from Liverpool for New York via Queenstown on Wednesday, returned to Liverpool yeterdav. having damaged one of her propellers. The damage was re paired and the steamer sailed again at 11 yesterday morning. About passengers and sacks of mall are awaiting the ar rival of the Oceanic at (Queenstown. The anti-clerical drama "Electra." which has been placet! under ban by the church, was performed at Barcelona on last Wednesday night with Immense success. The audience continually cheered and in terrupted the actors with shouts of "Ions live liberty." "death to reaction" anj "death to the Jesuits." Subsequently a Republican demonstration was organized It the streets and those who took part Ir. 4 paraded the main thoroughfares.