Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1901 — Page 4

T2ETE IXDIAXAPOIIS JOURXVL, THURSDAY. JUXE 13, 1901.

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Subscribers leaving the city for a period during the summer can have the Daily and Hun lay Journal mailed to any address in the' United States cr Canada without extra char. The addre. will be changed as often as desired. R",th telephones 22. The number of men who believe that General Grosvcnor is not the President's spokesman Is larger than it was before Tuesday. It would Le in order for one of the bereaved editors to criticise the President for a breach of official etiquette in killing the third-term bogj Senator Quay fcoms to have indorsed the third-term theory after the President declared against it. He and the President do not see alike on other subjects. In lSr7. In order to secure the support of the lC-to-1 Democrats, an out-and-out free coinage resolution was adopted, which was printed in black type, with the equilly emphasized declaration of Mr. Vaggart that he believed in it. How strange such a performance looks at the present time! It is reported that the new Senator Dcitrich and Representative Stark will make an effort to obtain the reappointment of the young Nebraskin who was expelled from West Point for flagrant Insubordination. Their bill should be entitled "An act tu destroy discipline in the Military Academy." Two more officers in the volunteer regimen's In the Philippines seem to be well on their way to prison for taking rnoney belonging to the government Captain Spellman, of New York, ,and Lieutenant Jones, of Connecticut. The plain coyrtnartlal is usually a swift terror to evildoers. Murder trials in Kansas City seem to be regarded as gay society functions. Lulu Prince Kennedy, whose claim to public attention Is that she murdered her husband, is reported to grow more cheerful every day and yesterday laughed and talked constantly with those about her. What CCuM a woman at "tea" do more? It Is not a fact that General Grant asked for a third term after he had been President fight years. His friends. Including a large part of the able and influential men 1 the party, persistently urged him to consent to have his name used In Isso, and he only consented when it was made to appear to him that hi. election would rromote the test interests of the Nation. The strike of the large number of people employed In the w,rks of the National Cash Register Company has been most commented on because the proprietors had done almost everything that could be done to insure the comfort and well-being of those employed. The wages paid were the highest, and the buildings are planned on sanitary principles; baths, libraries and entertainments were furnished free. The two or three thousand employes were induced to strike because the company refused to keep on its pay roll two Incompetent men and discharged three others whose services were not needed. It was the local "business agent" who caused the trouble, the strike not being sanctioned by labor leaders. Fortunately, the employes have been led to see the mistake they were led into and have returned to their places. The convention to revise the Constitution cf Virginia has assembled. It doubtless would not have been called but for the desire to disfranchise the negro voter. Inasmuch as the largest Democratic majorities were counted for the Democrats in the black 'counties last fall, may not the scheme be hazardous? If the white coun: ties should give a Republican majority, the privilege of counting Democratic ballots for the names of registered colored men might save the Democracy. Now that the usefulness of the President's secretary. Mr. Cortelyou, Is so appreciated that his name is spoken of as a number of the Cabinet, it Is recalled that when Mr. Cleveland became President Mr. Cortelyou was a stenographer in one of the Ovpartments. holding his position by virtue of the merit system. A stenographer was needed :t the "White Iloure, and on his record Mr. Cortelyou was selected. He was so efficient that he was retained by Mr. Cleveland"? successor, and In time became so useful that Mr. McKinley made him his secretary. Several of the benevolent orders which have made life insurance a leading feitur make very low rales at first, beciuso. they do net take. Into account that, after n few years, the os-s by de ah will increisc because of the increasing age cf the membership. If an organization makes the limit to Us membership forty years and takes in 4

large number at that age, the number of deaths must be very much greater after ten years. For this reason few such organ izations have existed thirty years without having their assessments so much increased that many cannot pay them and drop out. It is possible that a plan for Insurance by benevolent organizations can be devised that will survive the test of years, but its rates of insurance must be based upon Ute tables which are the results of experience. The association which has the same rate for members who are twenty-rive years of cge as for those who are sixty-live will come to grief sooner or later.

tin: iTi:itt itiiAN iioads. Mr. George F. McCulIoeh, when he declared that the Union Traction Company "is ready to dump the gas belt of Indiana upon Washington street," uttered a fact of which the sensible and reasonable people of Indianapolis should grant the signifl- I cance. Every electric railioad coming into Indianapolis from any direction will do a great deal for the outlying towns, but it will do more for this city. Do the citizens of Indianapolis care for this largely Increased trade and business, afTecting the employment of thousands of people? If they do, let them insist upon liberal treatment of the corporations building these roads and now asking the privilege of coming into the city. If they do not, let them say so and build a wall about the city and send out notice that Indianapolis is as large as they would have it and has all the business It cares for. At the outset, let it be understood that the interurban lines are designed to bring people Into the city and carry them out, and not to transport residents from point to point in the city. If we want the business these lines will bring, let us concede :;o much at the outset. We already have a street railway service that is sufficiently frequent and ample, except between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening. Such being the case, why not leave the Interurban cars to the people for whom they are intended? Why not say to the residents of Anderson, Muncie, Greenfield, Franklin and scores of other places, "We will not crowd you out of your cars and thus compel you to wait an hour for another car." If it be desirable for a citizen to ride on an interurban car, let him be man enough, in view of what the interurban roads give the city, to pay a 5-cent fare and make no childish fuss about tickets and transfers. These remarks are addressed to fair-minded and sensible people and not to the few, very few, unreasonable? who can see nothing but what they call their rights, and who are always craving an opportunity to make a sensational defense of their assumed rights. That is simply individual selfishness, and a disagreeable propensity that should not be permitted to stand in the way of the bringing of thousands of people each day into Indianapolis. Much is said about the length of the franchise. The Citizens company now .has a thirty-year franchise on the streets over which the traction lines desire to enter. Why should the franchises of the interurban roads be made ro short that the value of the property will' be affected? It is understood that public sentiment is in favor of short franchises, on the ground that street railways will suddenly earn large profits. It is not necessary to discuss that point here, because the franchise over the streets upon which these lines will enter the city is already disposed of. and all that the city can do is to impose a tax, which should be reasonable, in view of the great benefit the Interurban lines will be to Indianapolis. Let some point in the city be named where this or that Interurban line will take passengers, and let It be understood and made clear by ordinance that those going out of the city have the first right to such cars, and that those who ride Inside the city shall pay full fare, just as they would if they should go to the Union Station and ride to the station on Massachusetts avenue, for the all-sufficient reason that the interurban cars, like the steam railway cars, are for people going out of the city. In this matter there should be no playing of peanut politics or display of small demagogy. Indianapolis needs the interur ban traffic; therefore, encourage the interurban lines. () ISM IZ IN IMPERIALISM. The work of civilization which the administration at Washington 1? pushing forward In Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines may be retarded by the perversity of the natives, and the obstacles which opponents in this country may be able to put In the way, but in the end it will be crowned with success. Members of the Cuban constitutional convention, through Ignorance and the encouragement of injudicious friends and demagogues, may postpone Independent rule in the island by refusing to accept the guarantees required by' Congress in the Piatt amendment, but intelligent and fair-minded people who have learned something about the Cubans during the past three years know that to turn the island over to the element righting the policy of the administration would be to sacrifice the people and their interests to the misrule of men who have but one idea of government numerous offices and large compensation. Wrested from Spanish misrule by the UnPed States without the aid of this radical element, this government has the right to make such conditions when the island is turned over to the natives to rule as will insure good government to the Cubans and protect the United States against the schemes of reckless men who have shown capacity only to create disturbance. Cuba Is enjoying a bettor government than its people have ever known. They have security and freedom. Its cities have been made habitable and its material interests are prospering. The Island will not suffer by the delay of the constitutional convention. Of the Philippines it can be said that progress Is being made. Civil government, under proper safeguards. Is being installed. The people have been relieved from the exactions of Spanish rulers and are enjoying the first freedom they have ever known. If all of them have not security it is, because there are a few guerrilla bands wandering about the country. The President's commission Is teaching civil government to a people who have associated government with the plundering of the officials of Spain and of the church. Good government has been given to Manila, and the harbor of that city is being improved, while roads into the country are being constructed. If full citlr.enshlp does not go with the flag. , a system of public Instruction does. The last shin carrying Americans to the Philippines carried school teacuers instead of soldiers. It may te added ty way of caution to tho

opponents of the administration that three years hence there will be no political capital in what they are pleased to call imperialism. For Mr. Bryan to go about the country shouting that the United States is an empire and McKinley an Emperor will disgust all right-minded people, because they know that its policy has already given the peoples of the acquired islands the rudiments of American civilization, which is the best gift that can be bestowed. The opposition must find some other Issue than the bogy of imperialism.

The report in a Chicago paper that two j brothers in Seymour, Ind., died after drinking, one hundred bottles or vials of lemon extract is not true. It was In Seymour, la., a prohibition town, where a great thirst Is often assuaged by drinking lemon extract. The brothers took too much, and the different kinds of poisons in the extract caused them to die in great agony. FROM HITHER AND YON. His Private Opinion. Chicago News. The Maid Do you believe that piano playing on the Sabbath is wicked? The Parson Well cr most of it is. In Colonial l)nM. Puck. "Rut nobody saw the witch riding a broomstick ?" "Nay; she was convicted on circumstantial evidence. i?he had a broomstick and a cat." Perils in Store. Chicago Rccortl-Hf raid. Stuffed Canary Well, If that isn't a downright mean trick. Cuckoo Clock What's that? Stuffed Canary That girl - who owns us has gone and got a tu fled cat. IlesipoiiNibilltics of Ollice. Philadelphia Press. "My, what an untidy man," exclaimed the fair visitor to our sanctum. "Who is tho one with his desk in such a litter?" And then she was sure she was being jollied when her guide said it was the literary editor. He Wouldn't lie Iltmy. Chicago Post. "Let me see the funny paper," urged the little one. "Rut I'm looking at it." replied her father. "Oh, weil," she returned, "you can look at it after supper, for you don't have to go out to Play." Ilriinsty. Chicago Tribune. "I suppose," said the girl in the pink shirtwaist, "you have participated In every form of outdoor amusements." "No." repliPd the girl in the Gainsborough hat. TThere is one more river to cross." "River? O I see. The golf Styx." MISCELLANEOUS BREVITIES. The Supreme Court of Nicaragua has decided that the London Rank of Central America has no legal standing in Nicaragua. Frank Gunn, son of a prominent merchant at Fremont, la., was burned to death yesterday in a lire which destroyed the grain elevator owned and operated by John Kennell. The death of Harvey Reveridgo at the McKeesport, Pa., hospital brings the total number of fatalities of the J'ort Royal mine disaster up to eighteen. Thirteen bodies are still in the pit. Miss Ruth, daughter of Senator Hanna, has accepted an invitation to christen the cruiser Cleveland, now being built at Rath, Me. The Cleveland, it Is expected, will be launched within a short time. Six of the crew of the United States gunboat Scorpion deserted while that vessel was in port at Memphis. Lieutenant Commander 'Sargent offered a reward for tho apprehension of the men, but no trace of them has been found. Rev. Rurris A. Jenkins, pastor of the Christian Church, of Ruffalo, N. Y., has wired to the board of curators of the Ohio University his acceptance of the presidency of that Institution, to which he was elected two weeks ago. The Tan-American Exposition was yes-, terday honored by the presence of a galaxy of distinguished men. Secretary of State Hay arrived in the city last night. Secretary of War Ellhu Root spent a part of the day at Niagara Falls, returning to Buffalo at night. At Milwaukee, yesterday. Dr. R. J. Preston, of Marion, Ya., was elected president of the American Medico-Psychological Association; Dr. G. Alder Rlumer, of Rhode Island, was chosen vice president, and Dr. C. R. Burr, of Flint, Mich., was reelected secretary and treasurer. Next year's convention will be held in Montreal. The remains of Governor Samford reached Montgomery. Ala., yesterday from Tuscaloosa. The train was met by a battalion of infantry, a battery of artillery and a troop of cavalry. The body was placed in the Supreme Court room at the Capitol, where It will lie in state until to-day at l:r) o'clock, when it will be taken to Governor Samford's late home in Opellka. The funeral will take place at Opelika Friday morning. The Mexican government has ordered the detention of twenty cases, containing Mexican antiquities, gathered by Professor Marshal K. Saville. of New York. Under the concession granted Professor Saville. he was to be allowed to take out of this country one out of every two objects found at Mltla. but the authorities claim that he has exceeded his limit. Professor Saville is In New York and his boxes are in the City of Mexico. The National Editorial Association yesterday visited Chippewa, Niagara Falls, Queenstown and Lewlston as the guests of the International Navigation Company, the Niagara Falls Park and River Railway Company and the Great Gorge route. All business was suspended, and the newspaper men. with their families, devoted themselves to sightseeing along the picturesque and historic Niagara frontier. Luncheon was served on the Canadian side, opposite the Horseshoe. Leonard Kranze and a young woman from Michigan were married in Chicago last Sunday while the bridegroom was suflering from a highly-developed case of smallpox. Neither of the pair knew It. however, until yesterday, when the health authorities separated them and the groom was sent to the Isolation Hospital. The victim is a sailor, hailing from Marine City, Mich. As Mrs. Krauze was recently vaccinated, the doctors say that she has good prospects of escaping the disease. CRIMES OF VARIOUS DEGREES. Julius C. Benton, a well-to-do stockman, last night shot and killed his wife at Denver and then killed himself. The shot which killed Mrs. Benton was fired througn the window of their re: ddenre. Mrs. Rentop, was a daughter of former State Auditor John W. Lowell. The third trial of Dr. Samuel J: Kennedy for the murder of Dollie Reynolds, in the Grand Hotel. New York, on Aug. IS, K. which has been in progress for several weeks, is ncaring a close. The defense finished its testimony yesterday and the prosecution produced a few witnesses in rebuttal. Argument is expected to commence to-day. Sheriff W. T. Morris, in attempting to arrest two Mexicans, about ten miles west of Kennedy. Tex., was shot nnd mortally woundd by one of them yesterday. Morris killed the man that shot him and wounded his other assailant. The wound- 1 man escaped, but officers have gone in pursuit. Morris is one of the bet-known and most popular officers of the border section of Texas. Melville Chester Findlay. who was r.rn stpd at Chicago on Monday on numerous charges of forgery, waived preliminary hearing yerterday and was held to the grand jury in bonds of $2.40. Findlay is the son of a Kansas City business man. a graduate of Yale and admits he has had exceptional advantages in life, but he Is said t . have passed forged checks n nearly all th? important cities of the country. Gustavus Schrlekcngast yestdny took a pauper's oath and tlure'oy rdeved Conres of the necessity of pavng a special enactment to remove him from the Montana State Penitentiary j-where he had been sent for five years and fined for 'Counterfeiting. Atter completing his term swJ ral mouths ago he declined to take the pauper's oath, thereby securing a remittance cf the tine and his liberty, because Idaho olTiCialn want him for highway robbery. Having been convicted In the Federal courts. Congress was to have been r.ppaled to this winter to order hi discharge.

BLOW TO THE DEFENSE

IMPORTANT TESTIMONY Rl LCD OUT 11 Y JtDUK WOFFOUD. Evidence Hint Kennedy "Wronged Lulu Prince nnd Ilefuned to Slurry Her rVot Given tu the Jury. KANSAS CITY, June 12. -Judge Wofford . to-day ruled out the testimony of one of tho strongest witnesses presented so far by the defense in the case of Lulu PrinceKennedy, on trial for the murder of her husband. The defense had evidently counted much on being able to present this testimony, and the court's order to strike it cut was considered a blow to their side. Mrs. Kennedy was visibly depressed by the court's action. The witness was Edward W. Lewis, an inspector for the Western Railway Association inspection bureau, and a personal friend of the dead man. Through him the defense hoped to prove the theory that Kennedy had wronged Lulu Prlnco under promise of marriage and then refused either to marry her or to live with her after marriage had been forced upon him. The testimony of Lewis was ordered taken down by the court stenographer, but the court refused to let it be given to the jury until corroborated. The statement as made by Lewis follows: "The day after the marriage Phil Kennedy came to me to talk about the wedding. He told me that he had known tho girl for three years and that he had loved her, and that he had promised to marry her, and that he had wronged her. He said that after he had ruined her he had lost his respect for her. He told me that he had been called up by Mr. Nearing, at his office, and went there, where Mr. Nearing told him that he had to marry Lulu Prince He refused and went out into the hall, where he found Lulu, the father and brother. Lulu put out her arms and fefaid: 'Phtl, don't blame ine. This is not my doing.' He said, 'They threatened me, and we went with them over to the courthouse, where we were married.' Phil asked mo what he ought to do, and 1 told him that It was his duty to take her and acknowledge her us his wife, lie said: 'If I do, people will not have anything to do with me. They will not call on me.' I told him not to consider that, and to show him that I was sincere I promised him that if he took his wife and lived with her I would be the first one to bring my wife to call on them. He said that my advice was good, and that he would do so. "I met him the next day and he told me he had changed his mind. 'I will not have anything to do with the girl.' he said. I fisked him why. and he said his mother was violently opposed to it, nnd, besides, be had received a telegram from the girl in Grand Rapids, and he said: 'She has forgiven me fully. I saw him almost every day and continued my advice about doing bis duty to Lulu. The day before the shooting I saw him and he asked me if 1 believed In an eternal hell. I. asked him why he wanted to know, and he replied that he intended to kill himself, tie said to me with sadness: 'Ed. I ought to have taken your advice. It's too late now.' I answered: 'Yes, it's too late.' He went away, and the next day he was killed." The Mr. Nearing mentioned in Lewis's statement is the leading altornev for the defense. The defense' theory is that Kennedy jilted Miss Prince for the Grand Rapids woman mentioned in the statement. Other testimony presented by the defense was an attempt to show that Mrs. Kennedy was temporarily insane at the time of the murder. The defense had not closed when court adjourned for the day. Jessie Morrison's Trial. ELDORADO, Kan., June 12. The work of impaneling a jury in the Jessie Morrison murder case was commenced to-day. When the noon hour came the list of thirty-six regular and special jnrors was exhausted, eleven jurors having been passed for cause by the State. A special venire of thirtysix was then drawn from the jury box and deputy sheriffs sent in every direction with the subpoenaes. The defense renewed the motion filed yesterday for a continuance andj was again refused. INTERNATIONAL Y. M. C. A. Addressen by AVell-Knovrn Officers of the Army and "nvy. BOSTON. June 12.-The great influx of delegates during the past twenty-four hours largely augmented the audiences that filled Mechanics' Hall to-day at the various sessions of the Y. M. C. A. International Convention, which were chiefly devoted to the presentation by able speakers of subjects and problems bearing on the progress of the Y. M. C. A. work during the past fifty years. In opening the convention this morning President William E. Dodge Implied repudiation on behalf of the convention of. the remarkable circular issued yesterday by a few members of the association concerning the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as an Improper place for the young men to meet at a reception. Although couched In moderate language, his words were strong and forceful, and were greeted by applause. Although the addresses of the morning and afternoon sessions were Interesting to those personally engaged in association work, it was the evening meeting which most strongly appealed- to the popular taste, on account of the curiosity to see and hear the military and naval heroes who were announced as speakers, and to catch a glimpse of the other notables who were present merely as auditor?. Among the speakers were Major General Joseph Wheeler, Rear Admiral F. J. Higginson. Captain A. V. Wadhams. United States navy: Captain Richmond Pearson Hohson and Colonel Curtis Guild. Jr., who presided. The result was an immense audience that filled every nook and corner of the big hall, and one that was" wildly enthusiastic in its reception of the speakers, especially of General Wheeler and Captain Hobson. Following the evening fession a reception to delegates and friends, tendered by the women's auxiliaries of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Associations, was held In tho Museum of Fine Arts. Reformed Presliy terlnn Synod. CINCINNATI. June 12. The General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church began to-night In the First Reformed Tresbyterian Church of this city. It will be in resslon one week. Delegates are present from Pennsylvania. New York, Vermont. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Kansas, Minnesota. Tennessee and Nova Scotia. Rev. J. Y. Bo'ce. D. D.. of Philadelphia, is president and Rev. J. H. Kendall, of Tarer.tum. Pa., is secretary. Dr. Roice delivered the opening discourse to-night. A TT-TITTTTTT-" TTTT'TiTlTTI Tvro Girls Provided vrith llnslnnl ly it Clerical Leetnrer. CHICAGO. June 12. The Tribune's Colorado Springs (Col.) correspondent says: Following in the footsteps of "Anthony Tweedlepunch. phrenologist, hypnotist and rnlmlst." tho ny.f..S. Rlddell. lecturer on "love, courtship 'tnd iViärrtage," has put his foot in it. Possibly the reverend gentleman has not seen the gifted "Floradora" comedian In his "marriage by bumps" stunt, but, anyway, he unwittingly has accomplished in real life what the actor tries to do on the mimic stage. Tweedlepunch endeavors to double up the population of the entire Island; RIddell didn't really nean to marry any one, but he succeeded In hitching for life or until the Colorado courts can get action two girls and two young men wno were strangers to each other until they attended his lecture at the Baptist Church. When the Rev. Mr. RIddell said he would lecture on "Love. Courtship and Marriage" he remarked that his audience seemed to have brought plenty of the first two parts of his subject to church, and he would see that It got a taat of the last part before he brought his lecture to a close. After the lecturer had nir.de some of the young couples go into raptures -by hlj description of the felicity of love, courtship and

marriage he asked two youn? women to come to the stage, and Miss Aline Smith and Miss Pearl Avers complied with the request. He examined their heads carefully. Then the lecturer announced his Intention of making a "psychological marriage" right on the spot; that he was going to marry off the two young women to two men in the house who were "temperamentally suited" to them.

The lecturer started down the aisle, look- I ins right and left until he approached Reginald Jones. He made an inspection of his bumps and told him he was temperamentally suited to be the lawful husband of Miss Aline Smith. "Go up on the platform and sit by your future wife," said he. "The "bump" bridegroom did so. Then commenced an active search for the affinity of Miss Ayers. For a long time it vas unsuccessful, but finally the lecturer spied the temperamentally suited one. "Come with me," was all he said. In obedience to the command Eugene Ott proceeded to the platform, amid the deafening laughter and shouts of the assembled crowd. Then, amid Impressive silence, the lecturer proceeded to pronounce the ceremony which should make the double twain double one psychologically. "By virtue of the authority given to me as an exponent of the laws of the universe, I hereby pronounce these couples mah and woman." That was all he said. This constitutes a marriage in Colorado, whether uttered in jest or earnest, as the association of names of men and women with the affirmation of man and wife is legal. The parents of the four young persons involved are dumfounded. and tarring and leathering may be the penalty for the minister, as the young people are strangers. TO RECEIVE MORE PAY SALARIES OF 1,77 POSTMASTERS WILL BE I. t ItEASEl) SOOX. Annual Itendjnstment Show the Country 1m Still Engulfed in a Wave of Prsperity. WASHINGTON, June 12. The annual re adjustment oi postmasters' salaries has just been completed in the office of the first assistant postmaster general, the result being that, on the first of July. 1,770 postmasters will receive increased pay and 2J9 will receive reduced compensation. The total reduction is $28,400 and the aggregate increase $215.CoO, making a net increase of J1S7.200. In only one instance, that of New Orleans, "does the increase amount to as much as $1,000. There are three increases of $500 each, fourteen of $100, forty-nine of $3 225 of $200 and 1,478 of $100. Twelve offices of the second class will be advanced to the first class, and sixty-nine from the third to the second class. Ihcre will be but one relegation from the second to the third class (Middletown, Pa.) and seven from third to fourth class. The increase in the average salary of postmasters noted last year has been continued and this year it will be $1,747, as compared with $1,734 last year. Two hundred and twenty-nine offices have been advanced to the presidential class during the past year. Sixteen offices have been discontinued and made stations of other offices during the year. Following are the offices which have been advanced from second to tirst class: New London, Conn.; Kingston, N. Y.; Lima, O.; Shreveport, La.; Lockport, N. v.; Columbia. S. C: Qi'incy, Mass.: Long Island City, N. f.; Sioux Falls, S. D.: Winona, Minn.; Mount Vernon. N. Y. ; Parke rsburg. W. Va. With the exception of 1000 the showing made this y?ar is better than that for any other year since lSs.1. the first year in which postmasters' salaries were adjusted on the present basis. Antional Rank' Special Tnxes. WASHINGTON. June 12. - In reply to numerous inquiries as to whether there is any other tax due from national banks than the annual internal revenue tax of $2 on the thousand of the capital stock Commissioner Yerkes says that every national bank that issues circulating notes is, Jn addition to this special tax, required to pay a tax of one-twelfth of 1 per cent, each month upon the average amount of circulation issued by it, under the third paragraph of Section 2I0S of the Revised Statutes. This circulation tax is required to be paid to the treasurer of the United States, but the special tax must be paid to the collector of Internal revenue in the district in which the bank Is situated. Mrs. MeKinley's Condition. WASHINGTON, June 12. Dr. Rlxey, on reaving the White House to-night, after his usual late call, said: "Mrs. McKinley is getting along very nicely. Her Improvement continues steadily. The heat is not affecting her materially." .NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES. A. W. Drnnner Selected ns Arelritect for the Clevelnml Building:. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, June 12. Mrr. W. E. Kurtz, of Indianapolis, is registered at the Arlington, and G. S. Fowler, of Fort Wayne, at the Ra'elgh. The competition among the thirteen prominent architects of the country for plans for the public building at Cleveland, O., has been settled by the unanimous agreement of the board of award, which has selected the plans submitted by Arnold W. Brunner. of New York. The report of the board was approved by Secretary Gage and Assistant Secretary Taylor. The building, it is said, will be one of the finest in the L'nited States. The following-named architects comprised the board: C. A. Coolidge, Chicago; T. C. Young, St. Louis; J. M. Carroll. New York; S. S. Peabody, Boston; James Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the treasury, exofficio. Miss Elizabeth Moore Flagler, daughter of the late General Flagler, and Dr. G. W. Mackin. of Nova Scotia, were married In this city yesterday. None but relatives and personal friends witnessed the ceremony. The Governor cf the island of Guam, under date of April 22. reported to the Navy Department that the health of the island and of the naval station remains about the same. There has been but one death in the command, namely. P. A. Hern, private. U. S. M. C, who died April 2J and was buried In the naval cemetery. Esther Bartlett Clarke was granted a divorce from James King Clarke, of Pittsburg, at Washington, D. C, yesterday. Desertion was the ground on which the application was based. Some time ago Mr. Cl irke sued for a divorce in Pittsburg, but the jury failed to agree. Professor Meade, the Agricultural Department's irrigation expert, continued his testimony before the Industrial Commission to-day. He said that irrigation is necessary in two-filths of the area of the United Stater, to mike farming profitable. The recent brevettlng of Capt. Hall for gallant conduct during the siege of Peking, where he was temporarily in command of the legation guard, has led to some criticism of the Navy Department's action on the ground that Capt. Myers, who was in permanent command of the legation guard, wa.s not similarly brevetted. To clear up this point a statement was made to-day at the Navy Department showing that in a previous list of honors for Chinese service Capt. Myers was not only brevetted but was advanced four numbers for his gallantry at Peking. Elwood Meade. th well-known Irrigation expert in charge of irrigation investigations In the Department of Agriculture, fell while j.ttempting to board a moving street car tonight. The wheels parsed over his rirjht arm, necessitating its amputation above the elbow. Mr. Meade is trom Chevenne. Wyo.. and was formerly state engineer of Cheyenne. Movement of Stenmeri. NEW YORK. June 12. Arrived: Lnhn. from Bremen and Southampton. Sailed: Majestic, for Liverpool; Friesland, for Antwerp. LIZARD. June 13. 5:30 a. m.-Passed: Fuerst Bismarck, from New York, for Plymouth. Cherbourg and Hamburg. CHERBOURG. June 12. Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm der G-orsc. from Bremen and Southampton, for New York. QUEENSTOWN. June 13. 4:23 a. m. Arrived: Germanic, from New York, for Liverpool and proceeded. ROTTERDAM. June it Arrived: Statendara, from New YorK

HONORED BY THEIR KING

TIIREK THOISAM) BRITISH SOLDIEIIS PULISENTi:!) WITH MIIÜALS. An InterestInK Event on the Home Guards Pnrnde Heroes Decoruted liy Edward. LONDON, June 12. London seldom had a finer spectacle tnan was witnessed on tho Horse Guards parade to-day. when King Edward presented medals to C.C00 soldier participants in the South African campaign. The great square was lined with Guards, drawn from the various regiments. In the center of the ground was a purplecovered elais, surmounted by an Indlaji tent with silver corner poles. In the space between" the dais and St. James Park were drawn up 3,0(0 officers and men of the Guards, Household Cavalry and City Imperial Volunteers, all of whom had served in the campaign. The Admiralty Horse Guards and other official buildings xrontlng the parade were all decorated with Hags. From the house of Joseph H. Choate. the United States ambassador, on Carlton House Terrace, flew tho American flag. The lord mayor, Frank Greene, attended in state, and the members of the special Moorish embassy, in picturesque costumes, were interested spectators. Promptly at 11 o'clock the King, in a field marshal s uniform, the Queen, rrincoss Victoria ami other members of the royal family arrived and took up places on the dais, and the ceremony began. The recipients of Uie medals, in a long line, marched past tne King, received the decoration from his Majesty, saluted and passed on. Lord Roberts came first, followed by Lord Mllner, while behind them canie a line of generals and lesser oificers whose names have become familiar owing to the war Buller, Ian Hamilton and a host of others. Among the members of Lord Roberts's South African staff who received the medal was Captain the Duke of Marlborough. The procession, as a whole, was most Incongruous. The oificers of tho Guards, Lancers, Hussars and Highlanders, in dazzling uniforms, groups of solemnly garbed men in frock coats, doctors who had served at the front, and half a dozen foreign attaches in uniform. Capt. Stephen L. N. Siocum. the L'nited States military attache, was not present. He is in St. Petersburg. There were also groups of timeexpired men in civilian clothing, policemen and wounded soldiers limping along In hospital clothes. The ceremony laste. i nearly three hours, the Queen standing beside the King throughout. Accident at n Launching. KIEL. June 12. Emperor William, accompanied by the headquarters staff. Prince Henry of Prussia and the chiefs of his Majesty's private Cabinet, arriveel here today to witness the launching of the battleship Zaehringen at the Germania yards '1 he Emperor boarded the imperial yacht Hohenzollern amid salutes from the war vessels present. While the work of removing the shores, preparatory to the launch was in progress, a crane collapsed, kllllnj two men and seriously injuring three others. The battleship was launched this afternoon and the Grand Duchess of Baden christened her Zaehringen. Roers Caplnred ly the Rritlftli. PRETORIA. June 12. General Pulteney's division has captured a party of Boers. Including a brother of acting President Schalkburger, on the Swaziland border. CnlI Notes. The Pope yesterday received In audience Mgr. O'Connell, the bishop of Portland, Me. Special dispatches from Warsaw tell of the arrest of numerous prominent Poles, including Nlewiedomski, for political reasons. Mrs. Botha, wife of Commandant Generai Louis Botha, arrived at Brussels yesterday. She was received at the railway station by Dr. Leyds. The Maya rebels, now in hiding in the forests and swamps of Yucatan, having abandoned their towns, number 1.500 and lack ammunition. Their best general, Prudencio Caae, is dead. It was reported in London yesterday that General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, was seriously ill. but an investigation of the report showed that he was merely suffering from a slight chill and from fatigue as a result of his work on the continent recently. He was in his usual health yesterday. The order just issued by the Russian minister of finance, M. De Witte, directing that hereafter the se-curities of commercial and industrial companies promoted or managed by German subjects shall not be admitted tc quotation on Russian bourses except by his special sanction is regarded by the Berlin financial press as alfording fresh proof of Russia's animosity toward German commerce. Emperor Francis Joseph arrived at Prague yesterday for a visit of five days. It is the first visit he has made to 'Bohemia during the last ten years, and he is now there in the Interest of the German-Czech conciliation. His Majesty is accompanied by a suite of three hundred persons and will attend an elaborate programme of festivities, likely to prove rather exhausting at his age. Henry Labouchere was fined 1.7) and costs in the King's Bench Court at Ioindon yesterday for contempt of court in commenting on a case which was at the time -t ill sub judicata. Counsel for the plaintiff wanted Mr. labouchere and Horace Vouels, editor of Truth, to be imprisoned, but Justices Bruce and Philimore thought a fine and the costs against both defendants would suffice. At the publishers' congress in Lelpslc yesterday a resolution was adopted declaring it desirable that international copyright should protect the owners of copyright against manufacturers in connection with removable cylinders, discs and the like for reproducing music on mechanical Instruments. Various delegates advocated common standards for the International trade, particularly In prices and discounts. Frederick W. Holls. United States member of the International Arbitration Court at The Hague, has had a conversation with Count Von Buelow, In which Von Buelow assured him that both Emperor William and himself held a much higher opinion of The Hague tribunal and its possibilities for maintaining and restoring the peace of tne world than the papers In Berlin and elsewhere credited them with. Mr. Holls, at the end of the week, goes to Vienna. The Rome correspondent of the Temps, of Paris, says the Pope. In private audience which he accorded to Cardinal Gibbons yes-, terday, discussing the question of the religious orders in the Philippines and in Cuba, referred to regularizing the position of the friar? nnd creating a native priesthood who would not be slavish adherents of Spanish traditions. The Pope and Cardinal Gibbons, the correspondent adds. Mo nt deceive themselves regarding the difficulties of the problem they have before them. Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador, gave a notable dinner at Berlin Tuesday evening to the rector of the Berlin University. Dr. Harnack. and the leading professors of the university. The Americans present included Prof. Fiske. Archdeacon Tiffany and F. W. Holls. Mr. White made a remarkable cpeech on the subject of the progress of universities in Germany and America, which created a profound impression. Rector Harnack replied, happily lauding American logical mentality. TRADE, BUSINESS, INDUSTRY. The Ohio Oil Company yesterday purchased the property of the Echo Oil Company ami Black, of Findlay. O.. consisting of seven hundred acres of bases and fifty producing wells. The price paid is H 75.000. Contracts for the building of a wire mill, a nail mill and a hoop mill were cloned at Chicago yesterday for the Colorado Fuel md Iron Company. The three mills will be erected at Pueblo, and the aggregate cost iy $UJ.000. The annual meeting of stockholders of the Illinois Steel Company was held In Chicago yesterdav. and M. Schwab, president of the l'nited States Steel Corporation, was elected to the directorate. No changes were made In the list of officers. The National Grain Growers' Co-operative Association, at St. Paul, yesterday, reelected the old officers. Samuel H. Greeley, vice president of the national association, and preident of the Illinois Grain Growers' Asseiciatlon. was present with a set of resolutions in opposition to bucket fhops and the special privileges granted holders of raln-lvator receipt oa tho Chk&co

Board of Trade. His resolutions wer adopted without opposition. The resolutions close with a petition to Concres to increase the present internal tax on bucket shops and their transactions to a prohibitive figure. It was announced r.t New York yesterday that at the end of this month Eugene Arnstein and Eugene Meyer will retire from the firm of Luzard Tieres, and that their places will be taken by Charles Altser.u.1, at present manager of the London-t'ari-Californla Bank of San Francisco, and E. L. Rieser, now of Heidelbach, Ickelheirr.er & Co. A preliminary conference of representatives of various commercial bodies in the Ohio valley, interested in the improvement of the Ohio river, was held in Cincinnati yesterday. The next meeting will be he.d at Louisville about Nov. 12. Tl. ob rt will bo to devise ways and means to cr.u.-e Congress to act favorably on a new river and harbor bill that is to be introduced. The Hoffman House (New York) pictures and glassware are still under the charge ci Deputy Sheriff P.adley. who levied on them Monday rn an execution fer a Judgment of $1 fc.0 J in favor of Edward S. Stokes. The case is to be appealed, it was taid at the sheriff's office. An apical will act as a stay, and if a bond is given pending appeal the sheriffs deputy will be withdrawn. The Chicago Board of Trade yesterday filed suit in the United States Court at Cleveland against the Ode 11 Commercial Company and the telegraph companies for an injunction to restrain the od!l company from receiving and using the quotations of sales on the Board of Trade, alie-ging that such use deprives the plaintiff of the value of its own property in these cuotations.

TO PROTECT EMPLOYERS HOW THE METAL TRADES ASSOCIATIO FUND WILL RE l SED. Five Hundred Thousand Dollnrn Will lie Itllizcd In the Sume Way Thnt I n inns l e .Money. NEW YORK. June 12. The convention of the National Metal Trades Association adjourned to-day. The sum of .7.iX), raised by assessment, is to be placed at the disposal of a strike eommitte-e. to be used in behalf of the employers. That committee is constituted as follows: William Scjiwnnhausner, Brooklyn; John W. Young. Milwaukee; S. W. Watkins. Milwaukee; Charles Bliss. Ansonia; N. B. Payne, Elmira; S. W. Sayle, Cleveland; Thomas E. Durban, Erie; Wm. E. Lodge, Cincinnati, and E. G. Gilbert. Seranton. Asked as to the use of this fund. W. J. Chalmers, chairman of the press committee, said: "I suppose we will use it as the strikers V, to tsupport their fellows, pay pickets and meet other general expenses. We used JltVi.rtrt In the Cleveland strike, where we paid some men a bonus of $i a day. There are millions more if they are. needed. We have Just received a telegram from the Pacific coast pledging 114 out of 135 firms to membership. We have delegations from San Francisco. Seattle anj Portland, and the West is with us. We seek no trouble, but propose to protect our interests and industry. We are perfecting district organizations, whicK will be in a measure independent, but all the members will be In the national association and we will work together in harmony. We regard the outlook as satisfactory. And are elated at the support we are getting. We are suf-. fering no loss arising from delay on contracts, which we were fearful of at the time our machinists struck, for all of our contracts contain a strike clause releasing us from Habilitier." The convention decided to make no definite declaration as to the length of a day'si work, leaving the question to settlement locally. After discussing the matter all afternoon the following resolution was passed: "The declaration of principles makes the question of hours and wages a local usue. "Resolved. That this association will support any regular member in his t-ndeavor yo conform to Faid declaration of principles." "This is a victory for the declaration of principles enunciated at Chicngo." snid Chairman Chalmers, of the press committee. "We have stuck to that declaration all through and are for it now. The question of hours will be settled locally." After passing th resolution the convention adjourned and the affairs of the association with regard to the machinists strike are in the hands of the finance anl Ftrike committees r.amed this morning, subject to the genernl supervision of the administrative council. The Herald will say to-morrow of the machinists' strike nnd the National Trades Association's recent action: "At the headquarters of the machinists lb this city yesterday a cable dispatch was received from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, In London, promising financial aid. This society Is the strongest trades union in the world, and is said to have over jts.oio.oivi in its trearury. The American Federation of Labor. It was declared, will tax its 2.ooo.( memUrs 10 cents each for the striking machinists." All Shipyard Mny CIoe. NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. June 12. It was announced this rruirning that one thousand men will be laid off r.t the yards of the Newport News Shipbuilding nnd Dry Dock Company, on account of the machinists' strike. This will make a tothl of two thousand men now out. and it Is expe-cted that the entire plant will be closed by Saturday night. It is the understanding here that all the shipyards in the country are determined not to accede to the demands of the machinists, and all plants where maehlnirts have gone out will close down Indefinitely rather than grant the demands. Strikes nnd Other Labor Notes, The butchers in the shops of Ban Francisco which refuse to display the union label walked out yesterday. The Butchers' Union in that city has about 1.S0O members. About 2.OO0 men who recently struck work on street Improvement contracts paraded the streets of Rochester, N. Y., yesterday and attacked a gang of men who had taken work at the old rate of wages. Policemen drove off the rioter, who resumed their march and caused the suspension of work on other contracts. The grlevar.ee committee of Maine Central Railway employes Is In receipt of an official communication stating that Canadian Pacific cnglnerrs, who operate trains oer about sixty miles of the Maine Central tracks, have notified their employers that they will refuse to pull a train over the tracks unless they are patrolled by competent men. t The bar Iron wage scale conf rence will bo held in Cleveland next Tuesday. ThroiiKli c.n Increase in the base rate the wages will be higher all around. A base rate of $3 per ton, with bar iron selling at e.pe cent per pound, has been fixed by the Amalglrnated Association as Its demand. Pre portlonate advances will be asked for worker in each of the six finishing department. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. Richard Croker's Flambard. - with Reiff up. won thv Impe rial Cup handicap of 4 ;3 overt I mis in specie and a cup valued at 5) sovereigns, at the LingfiHd Park (Eng. land) rpring meeting yesterday, len hor.ci started. The Nutmeg Athletic Club has offered a pure ef $1'H"0 for a tight between Terry Me-eJovern and Dave Sullivan In Hartford. Conn.. July 4. McGovern says h is willing to accept, and the matchmaker is now endeavoring to get Sullivan's signature. Judge and Store lan night, on the nei Colis-eum tracks nt Troy. N. Y., -clipped Vi seconds off the world's one-mile motor record, making the dtince in Th test previous time for the distance by motor is l:27i, made by the same riders. It i reported that the stallion Halma, by Hanover Queen, has been sold by Charles Flclschmann's sons to the European agent of a Polish sportsman. Th erice is said to b $".'.'"), and the name of jean De Reszkc Is mentioned as being the new owner. Alvln J. Kraenrleln. formerly a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and probably the grcatrK all-around athlete In the world, has sailed for England on the steamfhlp Servla. His intention in visiting the British isles Is to compete for the recond time in the English cnapionship port. which are to be held early next month. Johnny Nelson defeated W. Stlnson Ut night tit the twenty-fiv e-mlle motir-paed race at the Proldence R. I. Colijeum. by three laps and fifty yjrds. The pace whs terrific trom the Mart and the state records trom two to twelve miles Inclusive were lowered. The time of the twenty-five mtlee was 33:23 1-5, four seconds behind the il&t? record, made on Memorial day.