Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1901 — Page 4

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Subscribers leaving the city fcr period during the summer can have the Dally and Sunday Journal mailed to any address in the United Elates or Canada without extra charje. The Address vt!l be changed as often as desired. Both telephones 238. Again the city administration is calling for temporary loans to pay the current expanses until money is collected in November. Is it not possible to elect a city government that will conduct business with the efficiency shown by the school management during the past eighteen months? If not, why not? The absurdity of an established church Is well Illustrated by the solemn farce of the Eritlsh House of Lords sitting in judgment on the.,doctrine of transubstantlatlon and deciding jut 4ow far the oath of a Protestant Kins ought to go in anathematizing the I'ope. Secretary of War Root will start West in a day or two to Inspect the larger military posts of the country with a view, It is eaid, of ordering extensive improvements and establishing permanent schools of military instruction. This Idea probably foreshadows the abandonment of all smaller posts. At intervals for several years past the Journal has commented on the scandal of the hasty marriage business carried on at Jeffcrsonville. by which a few people have profited and the whole State and its laws have been brought into disrepute. It is time that the long-standing abuse should be broken up. The probability that no penalty can be Imposed In the Insanity inquest eases at all commensurate with the crime of depriving persons of their liberty and sending them to an asylum for insane, without even probable cause, emphasizes a defect In our criminal laws. The crime referred to is much more serious than any crime against property, yet adequate penalties are provided for the latter. However, If no other punishment can be inflicted the promoters of the Infamous business can be made to feel the weight of public censure. The Journal does not know anything about the antecedents of H. Phelps Whitmarsh, Governor of the Benguct province in the Philippines, but if he his been using his position for his personal advantage in acquiring land and mining rights from the natives, as is charged, it Is hoped he will be severely punished. At this t-tage of our government in the Philippines it is Important that a high standard of official Integrity should be established and any offense in that rrgird promptly punished. It is Important to show the natives that the American way Is not the Spanish way. In its attempt to explain Its proposals for a contract for lighting the streets the Board o'f Public Works evades two Important points. The first Is that the period given to make scaled proposals is insufficient for new corporations to Le formed and prepare proposa's; the secern! is that the Light and Power Company, being under contract to supply light until Aug. 7, lO'?. could not list its present system because it '? not three feet below the surfacea face which puts that company out of the list of competitors. This Kaes the Home Ileatiig ami Lighting Company the firgle bidder. Under such conditions the board had to evade the one Issue. With all tho stir and indignation very properly aroused by the disclosures concerning lunacy commissions in this city It by no means follows that any blame rests directly or Indirectly upon the officers or physicians at th Insane hospitals who receive and care for the persons ormndtted unjustly. On the contrary, there it no reason to assume that any one is confined there any length of time who Is not a fit subject for treatment. When a patient comes to the institution under due legal form it li the business of the superintendent to receive him and to study 1.1.3 case. Not in one day, nor in two, can

a positive diagnosis be given of a man's mentil condition, the more especially as the sanest of i?rsons would be reasonably sure to show excitement or even to become violent after entrance there. Thirty days is only a .fair limit in which to test the sanity. The detention is hard on the sane victims of the professional lunacy commission, of course, but the hospital officers can follow no other rule in justice to themselves. Mr. Ross was fortunate enough to secure release early, but he would no doubt have been given his liberty at the end of a month's stay in any case. This reasonable certainty that no sane person is permanently confined In the Central or any other hospital in the State does not In the least lessen the outrage perpetrated by the commission knowingly sending such person there, but It must relieve the apprehension of those who might otherwise feel anxious concerning friends or relatives in the Institutions.

perhaps a new democratic issue. It Is no part of the business of the Journal to furnish is.-ues for the Democracy, but there are times when it Is moved to pity them. It Is not pleasant to sec a once great political party rushing to and fro In sheer bewilderment, running off after false scents and barking up one stump after another In search of on issue that may enable it to pull Itself together anyold root, as it were, that may help It to drag Itfelf onto solid ground. Therefore, the Journal advises the Democratic managers to keep an eye on the Oklahoma question. There la the germ of a great issue there no bigger than a man's hand yet, but with the potentialities of a great cloud. The reading public is aware that exccngressman and ex-Judge William M. Springer, formerly of Illinois and later of Oklahoma, as counsel for Lone Wolf and a few other Indians, made a determined fight against the opening of the reservation to white settlement, which has just been ordered. Mr. Springer was formerly a Democratic leader in the House. In this land question he took the ground that the government policy of doing away with the tribal organizations of the Indians and dividing their lands in severalty, paying them cash for the surplus to be opened to white settlement, was unjust to the Indians and in violation of their aboriginal rights, which he claimed were even higher than treaty rights. The government could not see the matter in that light and went on with its preparations to open the reservations pursuant to the assent of a majority of the Indians, and the President's proclamation on the subject has been issued. But Mr. Springer has not tired his last shot yet. He has not played his trump card. He announces his intention to apply in an Oklahoma court for an injunction restraining the register and receiver of the land office, the surveyers and all other persons from doing anything whatever to carry out the proclamation of the President. He will contend that all the proceedings for opening the reservations are in violation of the provision of the Constitution which says, "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law," and are therefore null and void. Here is a chance for the Democratic party. Let It spring to the support of the gallant Springer and make tha cause of Lone Wolf, White Buffalo, Narwoba and Too-wi-car-no Its own. Let it plant Itself on the Constitution and denounce a Republican administration for ignoring the freedom and equality of the Indians and trying to establish, government without the consent of the governed. The issue would fit In well with nntl-lniperlalism, and in the hands of a few great men like well, like most any of the Democratic leaders who are now hunting for an üsue, might prove as useful as any they have had for many years. It could not prove less so, and it would do no harm to try. An old adage rays "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." Who knows but this Oklahoma question is political manna rent to feed the Democracy while they are wandering in the wilderness? A COMING IViLL CONTEST. A recent announcement that Jacob S. Rogers, the famous locomotive builder, of Patcrson, N. J., had left nearly all of his vast fortune, amounting to about JS.OoO.ooo, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of New York, was of public interest, because such a bequest would make that Institution the most richly endowed one of the kind in the world and a credit to the country. Now conies an announcement that Mr. Rogtrs's will Is to be contested by relatives on the ground that a codicil sets aside the body of the will. The latfer gave only about ?.00 to the testator's relatives, while the codicil bequeaths to a nephew, naming him, "the sum of seventy-live thousand thousand dollars." As this would be 173,000.100, several times as much as the whole estate was worth, it would, of course, leave nothing fcr the Art Museum. "The lawyers," whoever they may be, are reported as saying that the will must stand as it is, including the codicil. This opinion is evidently in the interest of the nephew, and is not final. Ordinarily a codicil to a will, being the testator's latest expression, overrules the body of the will In so far as (hey conflict, but It is always competent for a court to construe both together in seeking to ascertain the real will of the testator. A court may also take judicial notice of notorious facts and circumstances In construing a will. In this case judicial notice should be taken of the facts, said to be well known, that the testator always held that money distributed as a gift to relatives did more harm than good, and that the only money that was worth anything to a person was money which that person earned or mada himself. As Mr. Rogers had no relatives nearer than nephews and nieces, h'3 bequest to the Art Museum did not disinherit any person who had special claims upon him. It Is also known that he did not like his relatives. It Is said he drew his own will and that it was indorsed by good lawyers as sound and valid. The codicil Is in his own handwriting and indicates nn intention to make special provision for a nephew not named in the body of the will. It must be evident to nny reasonable person that the phraseology of the codicil Is an error, due to a slip of the pen. No sane man. especially a business man shrewd enough to have amassed a fortune of several million dollars, would write "seventyfive thousand thousand dollars" to express STS.Ot.ooo, nor would any sane man make a single bequest of nearly ten times the value of his whole estate. The conclusion Is irresistible that the unusual expression, "seventy-five thousand thousand dollars" was a mistake on the part of the testator, and does not express his real intention. It furnishes a pretext for attacking the will which relatives will be sure to avail them

selves of, but if the courts wish to give effect to the real will of the testator, as Indicated by all the circumstances of the case, they will give the bulk of his estate, as he evidently intended to do, to the Art Museum. But there is enough money Involved to insure a big fight. A CAULK TCLKfiHAIMI "WAH. The Journal has received a copy of a brief addressed to the secretary of war invoking his aid in the interest of competition in cable telegraphy between the United States and Cuba. The controversy to which the brief relates has been going on for some time, the parties to It being the Western Union Telegraph Company on one side und on the other the Commercial Cable Company, the Tostal TelegraphCable Company and the United States and Hay tl Telegraph and Cable Company. The Western Union Telegraph Company is the oldest of all these corporations, and by virtue of certain grants obtained from Congress and from the Spanish government in lfCo", it claims the exclusive right to handle all cable business between the United States and Cuba, both ways. The establishment of such monopolies is not in accordance with the spirit of modern commercial enterprise, which demands for corporations as well as for individuals a fair field and no favors. The companies opposed to the Western Union, and which represent the spirit of competition, allege that Its grant of special privileges was obtained by misrepresentation and fraud, and Is, therefore, Invalid. The brief above referred is in reply to a communication addressed to the secretary of war by the Western 'Union Company, asking him to instruct United States ofiicials. In charge of the Cuban telegraph linos at Santiago, Cuba, to refuse to accept for transmission over such Cuban lines messages received over any but the Western Union lines. In other words, the secretary of war is asked to use the authority of the United States to prevent legitimate competition in cable communication with h part of the world in which the American people are becoming more deeply interested every day. Aside from the fact that the power of the secretary is thus invoked to establish a monopoly, the whole question seems to be a legal one which should be settled by the courts. As the secretary of war Is a good lawyer, it is highly probable he will take this view of the case, which is ail the three competing companies ask. The manner in which the multi-millionaires of to-day spend money, either In the way of personal expenditures or as gifts, sets a new standard in such matters. With Carnegie spending millions on libraries, Rockefeller millions on colleges, Morgan giving a million to Harvard with one hand and with the other paying fabulous sums for Galnesborough pictures, rare antiques and other trilles that please his personal fancy; with Vanderbilt and Gould palatial "cottages." with costly yachts for toys, with chefs at $10,000 a year and luncheons costing $2,0o0 each such as the late Pierre Lorillard indulged in with such outlays as America's wealthy men are becoming noted for, and yet, considering their enormous incomes, without spending extravagantly, all the old scales of measurements cease to be of value and fade into insignificance. What does the term "princely" mean as compared with the financial possibilities of a Morgan, a Carnegie, a Rockefeller? Where was ever a prince who could spend as they and remain as they, far within the limits of his income? What was King Solomon's wealth or power compared to that of a modern railroad or oil or stee! "magnate?" What was the Count of Monte Crlsto's fortune to the fortunes of one of these? A mere nothing. Does any one believe that Croesus had a tenth as much as a Rockefeller? No, a new scale has been fixed and the old ones become meaningless. It behooves even fiction writers to adjust themselves to new conditions and to rise to meet It.

It is not unfair to say that taxpayers and nil residents of the city who desire an efllcient and clean management of municipal affairs are not satisfied with the City Council. Matters of public importance have not been taken up and considered with promptness and that broad intelligence which the afTairs of the greatest corporation in the State would seem to rerjuire. Take the interurban franchise: It has been In the hands of the Board of Works and the Council a long time. It does not appear to be a difficult problem to solve, yet settlement has been deferred from time to time until it is quite common talk that It is held up by officials who are "waiting to be seen" by the financial agents of the corporations In Interest. This is not a nice thing to say, but It is not necessary to consult many citizens to find that this damaging suspicion Is widespread. The Journal hopes there Is no ground for suspicions which delays like that over the interurban franchise have created. It prefers to believe that shortcomings are due to the inexperience of many of the members of the Council with large public Interests. That men of Inexperience are selected is not their fault, since the custom of years has created the sentiment that any man who aspires to it has the ability to deal with the large problems of city management. It is nothing against the character of any man now in the Council to say that an effort should be made to secure more men for that body who have a reputation for business experience and ability. History will not concern itself about who wrote or sent the famous dispatch to Admiral Dewey. It could not have been sent without the direction or authority of the President, but a more Important point still i that it was sent and promptly obeyed. The central figure in the case is the man who received the dispatch. IK0H HITHER AND YON. Ominous Conduct. Chicago Ftecord-Herald. "Jacky Jones Is frightfully superstitious." "He is?" "Ym; several times he has been on th eve of proposing to me. and didn't do it because the clu.k stopped." Literally True. Pittsburg Commercial Caxette. "A friend and I ere talkln on the street comer the other day." remarked Mr. Larimer to Mr. Frankstown. "when a man came, up and began to use the deaf and dumb languare to us, but neither of us understood what he was driving at. What do yoc suppose he wanted?" "Oh," replied Mr. Frar.kstown. "I suppose he only wished to take a hand In the conversation." The Itrsult of Lous Discipline. Washington Star. "A wife should b proud of her husband." "Well." answered Mr. Meekton. "I guess my wife is right proud of me.' Every time one of her woman's acnanclpation clubs mwu b calls

me In and shows me to the members as a fin specimen of husband."

A Good Runner. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Ain't you most afraid to have John go to w-ar? You lenow these far-shootin' guns will hit a man a mile an' a half away every time." "There ain't no bullet that'll catch John if he gets a mile an' a half start." Fortune. Detroit Journal. Once- upon a time a young man with a stout heart and a crest on his writing paper entered scclety and made a close study of the society woman. "With a view to writlr.g a society novel," he explained In a series of magaiine articles. But long before he had time to write his novel, for this would take some three weeks, his observations gave him an idea for a talking machine., which brought him far more money. Dear Reader, do not scorn literature as a pursuit; It often leads to something better. Honor and fame from no condition rise. Act well your part. Tis there all honor lies. James W. Graydon, who Is said to have perfected and placed on exhibition in London a new steam engine which is expected to revolutionize the world, is well known in this city, where he married. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and is an inventor of very high repute. The fact that. Andrew Carnegie and other prominent capitalists have indorsed Lieut. Graydon's latest invention is presumptive proof that it possesses merit. Mrs. Sibbets, Kansas organizer of the W. C. T. V.. has issued a proclamation in which she urges women "to cut off their hair and pu. on their husbands' clothes and with blazing muskets go forth against the hosts of rum." This programme would involve an inconvenience, to put it mildly, fot the large majority of Kansas men, who, prior to the McKinley prosperity, had scarcely a suit of clothes to a man. JUNE T HEALTHY MONTH IT IS DUE TO TKOPLE GENERALLY LEADING OIT-OF-IIOOR LIFE. During the .Month in Indiana There Were 2,213 Deaths Other Health Statistics. "The death and sickness rate in Indiana for the month of June is very much less than the rate for May," said Secretary Hurty. of the State Board of -Health, yesterday, "and this is due very largely to the fact that June was an 'open' month and people could spend most of their time outdoors in the fresh air. It is in such months that diseases of the lungs and air passages are curtailed In the performance of their deadly work." The mortality and sickness reports of the Health Board for the month of June are full of interest. They show that the total number of deaths In June was 2.243. In May 2,833 people died in Indiana. The June death rate vas 10.8, while in May it was Ii f The deaths at the more important ages were: Under one year, in May 413. June 350; one to five inclusive, in May 202, June 13i; sixty-five years and over, in May 743, June -JSC. The number of deaths from diphtheria and scarlet fever showed a gratifying decrease over the month of May. In June there were only fifteen deaths from diphtheria and eleven from scarlet fever. The sharpest decline appeared in pneumonia, the mortality of which in May was 404 and in June only 101. This Is one of the diseases that. i seriously hampered in its destructlvtness by outdoor living. The State Health Board declares its firm belief that the steady monthly decline in fatality of typhoid fever is directly due to the persistent instruction that is given to the public as to the way to prevent this disease. In May thirty-nine people died of typhoid fever, but in June the number shrank to twenty-two. Cancer was one of the few diseases that showed greater malignity in June than in Mav. La3t month there were eighty-three dea'ths from cancer, while In May the number was seventy-eight. The sickness reports received by the state board show an increase in area of prevalence of the following diseases during June over the month of May: Diarrhoea, cholera morbus, inflammation of the bowels, cholera infantum and dysentery. The Increase amounted to over loo per cent. Diseases that dec reased their area of prevalence were tonsllitis, rheumatism, measles, bronchitis, typhoid fever, pneumonia and influenza. The last two diseases named show a decrease of 50 per cent. Pleuritis and whooping cough also show a decrease. "To sum the matter up," said Dr. Hurty, "there was a decidedly beneficial increase in the healthiness of the people of Indiana last month, according to the morbidity and mortality reports received and tabulated by th Health Board. Expressed numerically, this beneficial increase was at least 22 per cent." CHARGED WITH FORGERY. A Young: Man "Wanted in Torre Hante for Alleged Swindling. A dispatch from Terre Haute last night stated that a man who had attempted a swindle under the name of John Morley, an alleged employe of Buffalo Bill, had been Identified as D. M. Martin, of this city, and that he is wanted there also for the passing of a check for $25 to which the name of W. B:. English had been forged. The check was cashed by W. C. Ball, editor of the Terre Haute Gazette, after which the payee of the check disappeared. The dispatch states that two months ago, while Buffalo Bill was exhibiting there, John Myerly. a gunner, was injured by the premature discharge of a cannon. Buffa'.o Bill had him sent to the hospital and made arrangements for him t have the best of care. Morley arrived in the city and called upon Myerley's physician, Dr. Jenkins, asking if he had not received a telegraphic order to pay him $10, representing that he was an employe of Buffalo Bill's Academy in Wvoming. The doctor had not. Shortly thereafter he received such a message, but declined to give the stranger the money. Morley then sent a message to Wyoming, stating that the physician was not in the citv and requesting them to send the money bv' telegraph. The Wyoming ottlce took the precaution to specify that the money should be paid to John Myerly, who was in the hospital, Uut Morley. by claiming that he was the man who had been in the hospital, was unable to get the money and disappeared. Buffalo Bill's treasurer after being advised of the facts said the man was undoubtedly David M. Martin, of Indianapolis, and should be arrested. The check was cashed after the attempt to get the money out of the Buffalo Bill Company had failed. Talk of a Hrevrery War. Several cases charging saloon keepers with violating the law by keeping their plüces of business open on Sunday will be tried to-day at Broad Ripple before Justice White. The cases were first filed in Justice Smock's court, and are said to be the result of" a fight between the brewery interests, a combination having been made to fight the Cincinnati Brewincr Company, of Hamilton. O.. which has about sixtyfive or feventy customers who handle the Hamilton. O.. beer exclusively. It is said these saloon keepers were warned and threatened with prosecution If they did not close. The ficht Is said to have started because Indianapolis and Terre Haute brewrles so'.d beer in Hamilton at $2. Her the price is $7.2-). All of the beer sold In Hamilton is said to have found Its way Into the hands of the Cincinnati Brewing Company, which sold it at higher prices in other cities. The affidavits in the-cases were signed by a man giving the name of David Search.

1. WHITE TO RESIGN

PRODADLY "WILL RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES BEFORE LONG. Had Decided to Surrender the Ambassadorship Ilefore New of Ills Sou's Death Reached HI m. BRITISH LIBERALS NOT SPLIT VOTED CONFIDENCE IN SIR HENRY CAMPDELL-UANNERMAN. Conciliatory Speech by the Opposition Leader of the House, Who Whs Criticised by -Mr. Astiuith. BERLIN. July 9. Although the United States ambassador, Andrew D. White, quite recently denied to the correspondent of the Associated Tress that he intends to resign, the correspondent now learns from a close personal friend of Mr. While that he will resign next year, upon reaching his seventieth year. Mr. White's decision lo resign was taken before the news of his son's suicide y esterday reached him, but it is believed the son's death renders Mr. White's decision irrevocable. Mr. White Is at present staying at Sassnitz, Island of Ruegen. in the Baltic. Therefore, he was personally inaccessible to the correspondent. Horace C. White, of Syracus' cabled to Secretary Jackson early this morning the news of the death of Frederick D. White, but did not say he had committed suicide. The correspondent, after receiving - the details of F. D. White's death, wired to Ambassador White, and has Just received a reply from Mrs. White, saying: "Your telegram, fortunately, has not reached Mr. White. We have no details as yet." The correspondent understands that Mr. White is greatly shocked and nervously depressed at the death of his son. Mrs. Unite, therefore, fearing the result upon her husband, has thus far withheld the news of their son's suicide, intending to gently break it to Mr. White. Telegrams of sympathy are being sent from Berlin to Sassnitz, one of the first being from Baron Kichthofen, the German foreign .minister. It was the intention of Mr. White, when he went to Sassnitz this summer, to remain there during his entire vacation, coming to Berlin only if emergencies required his presence here. F. D. White's Snleide. SYRACUSE. N. Y.. July S.-Coroner Matthews to-day officially reported Frederick D. White's death a case of suicide, due to neurasthenia. The coroner's investigation of the manner in which Mr. White took his life shows that after he entered the bath room he removed the shoe from his right foot and, standing the rifle on the floor, placed his mouth over the barrel. With his great toe he pressed the trigger and sent a forty-four caliber bullet crushing upward through his brain. The ball came out through tne top of the head. Portions of the; brain tissues were spattered on the wall near by. Ambassador White cabled this afternoon, acknowledging the receipt of the dispatch announcing the death of his son. The cablegram contained nothing to Indicate the intention of Ambassador White to resign, and his family here, deny that they have ever received any suggestion from him to the effect that he intends to retire from the diplomatic s-ervice. Mrs. F. I). White lias partly recovered from the shock from the discovery of her husband s body. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at the family resiaence and will be private. e MEETING OF LIBERALS. Confidence Voted in the Party's Leader In the House of Commons. LONDON, July 9 The much-discussed meeting of Liberals called by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader in the House of Commons, with the object of ascertaining whether he still retains the confidence of the party, was held at the Reform Club to-day, and resulted In the adoption of a vote of confidence In the leader of the opposition. All factions of Liberals attended. The Liberal-Imperialists, headed by II. H. Asqulth, were there almost to a man, but Sir Henry CampbellBanntrman and Sir William Vernon Harcourt were the only two who received any marked recognition on entering. The crowd watching the arrivals greeted them with cries of "How's your friend Kruger?" Sir Henry made a conciliatory speech. The imperialists showed that they would not Le associated with any anti-national policy, but the gathering was harmonious and seems to have resulted in a temporary clearing of the air. In the course of his speech, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman met the Imperialists so far as to say the war must be brought to a victorious conclusion, but he thought tne Llebrals ought to insist on amnesty in the settlement. While the country- had the sword in one hand it ought to have the olive branch in the other and show a disposition to come to terms with an enemy that had fought so bravely. Mr. Asqulth expressed the highest appreciation of the qualities of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, but at the same time he regretted that the Liberal leader in the House had not been more outspoken in a policy of honest difference, rather than on the impossible attempt to reconcile differences. He urged that those taking the views which he himself held should br free to express their opinions within the pale of the party. Mr. Asqulth then supported the resolution of confidence in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Princes May Visit This Country. COPENHAGEN, July 9.-Prlnce Christian, eldest son of tne crown prince, intends to visit the United States on board his yacht in the spring of 1U02, unless in the meantime the King's age should bring about the accession of the crown prince. Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark also contemplate a trip to America in Do2. WILL CONFER TO-MORROW. Amalgamated Association Scale Trouble May lie Adjusted. PITTSBURG. Pa., July 9. A more hopeful atmosphere pervaded the headquarters of both the steel combine and the Amalgamated Association to-day. As the result of the preliminary conference between President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, and Warner Arms, representing the combine's interests, last evening, the Wellsville trouble which yesterday threatened to undo all that had been done toward effecting a peaceable settlement of tjie strike, was not referred to to-day, and everything pointed to amicable adjustment of all differences at the conference set for next Thursday. President Shaffer said he considered the questions to be considered at the conference to be most grave and for that reason he thought It best to call In the general executive board, composed of the highest ofheers of the association. Instead of consulting with the conferees who usually meet to consider such questions. This board has only been called together once before, and that was during the trouble at the Woods plant, at McKeesport, last April. It Is composed of President Theodore J. Shaffer. Vice President F. J. Williams, of Birmingham, Ala.; Vice President Clem Jarvi3. of Anderson, Ind.; Vice President Charles S. Davis, of Newport, Ky.; Vice President Walter Larkln. of Wheeling. W. Va.; Vice President John F. Ward, of Youngstown. O.; Vice President John Quinn, of Granite City. 111.; Vice President R. D. Rees, of Pittsburg, and Vice President John C. Chappelle, of Youngstown, O.; Secretaries

John Williams. M. F. Tlghe, V. I. Davis, and National Trustees John Pierce and John H. Morgan. "Our board." said President Shaffer, "will meet the committee representing the combine in conference at the Hotel Lincoln. In this city, at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning. I am now pretty well satisfied that the trouble will be settled at this meeting. There seems to be a spirit of fairness prevailing among those to whom I have talked officially on the subject and I think we will fix the matters up. The meeting will be for the signing of the scale for the mills as a whole."

Strike aud Other Labor Notes. Notices were posted yesterday in the four mills of the Susquehanna Iron and Steel Company at Columbia. Pa., stating that on and after Monday. July 22. the company will pay an advance of 2. cents a ton for puddlers. Increasing their wages from $3.50 to $3.73 per ton. No attention will be paid to the proportion for a settlement of the machinists' Ftrike made by President James O Council, of the machinists, to the National Metal Trades Association. This .was the statement of Edwin Reynolds, president of the association, made at Milwaukee last night. Not a single Philadelphia & Reading striking employe In Reading returned to work yesterday. The men have apparently rejected the iatest proposition of acting President Welsh. It is said that at the Sunday morning conference of Mr. Welsh. Vice President Voorhees and the strikers' representatives the railroad officials would give no assurances as to the basis of increase which the men might look for, thus leaving the men in a state of uncertainty. Yesterday's session of the bottle glass blowers' convention at Milwaukee was held behind closed doors and was devoted mostly to a discussion of the terms on which they would admit to emcmbershlp 2,") prescription bottle blowers of the Flint Glass Association. The matter was not decided yesterday and will come up again on Friday. The only other business yesterday was to receive officers' reports, which show an increase of 700 in the membership during the past year. The wage scale will be taken up to-day. and when decided will be submitted to the manufacturers' conference at Atlantic City, probably in August. HAVE A SHARP DEBATE NATIONAL EDUCATORS DISCUSS NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PROJECT. Favor Its Establishment Apart from National Support and Control Other Topics of the Day. DETROIT, Mich., July 9. The report of the committee on a national university, submitted to the national council of education, this morning, by Dr. William M Harper,' of Chicago University, was the feature of the council's last session until Thursday afternoon. The report, which was adopted, took the ground that none of the bills providing for the charter of a national university, which had been introduced in Congress, had met the requirements of the case; that the government should neither support nor control such an institution at the national capital; but that the association was not prepared to recede from a national university at the capital, suitablyfounded, supported and controlled apart from the national government. The report resulted in two hours of hot debate on the subject, which ended with the adoption of a resolution to the effect "that the report of the committee be received and the committee discharged; and that while we express our appreciation of their labors we are not prepared to abandon the position taken by the National Educational Association in favor of a national university. This was adopted by a vote of 22 to 4. President Baker, of the University of Colorado, was the first speaker on the committee's report, lie could not understand the process by which the committee arrived at its decision, and said: "If we had a national university, one that was compelled to keep in touch with the people of the country and their thought. It would, in a century, cure all the evils that threaten the land at present." He declared that the presidents of eighteen state universities had written him letters favoring the national university and read letters from General Miles. Ambassador White, ex-Senator Edmunds and John A. Kasson, declaring for its establishment. After considerable more debate of an acrimonious nature, participated in by Dr. Butler, of the committee, and others. President Swain, of Indiana University, moved, as a solution of the question, the resolution which was adopted. Papers on the lessons of the educational exhibits at the Paris exposition were read by Miss Anna Tolman Smith, of Washington. D. C, and Howard J. Rogers, of Albany, N. Y. In the department of Indian education the first speaker was Dr. A. E. Winship. of Boston. Congressman H. C. Smith, of Michigan, followed with an address congratulating the teachers on their work and commending it. "The Need of CompulsoryEducation tor the Indian," was discussed by Superintendent George W. Nellis. Sac and Fox agency. Iowa; Superintendent H. B. Pealrs, Haskell School, Kansas; Superintendent E. C. Nardin. Mount Pleasant School. Michigan, all of whom advocated compulsory education. A paper on "Resolved, That the Reservation Day School Should be Made the Prime Factor In Indian Education," by Agent F. O Gotchell. Fort Totten. N. D., was discussed by Superintendent J. R. Brown. Pine Ridge. S. D. ; C. C. Covey, line Ridge, S. D.t and Mr. C C. Scovel, Cass Lake, Minnesota. The consensus of opinion was that the day school should be made the prime factor In education. A meeting of the board of directors was held in the Temple Bethel to-day. at which Treasurer Greenlee submitted his annual report. It showed total receipts for the year of $16.559 and expenditures of $16.2S3. The board of trustees reported the permanent fund of the association as $84.100. invested in Interest-bearing bonds. "The Duty of the National Educational Association in Shaping Educational Policy" was the title of President Green's address to-night, and a storm of applause followed Its close. Bishop John L. S;auldlng. of Peoria, III., was given an enthusiastic welcome when he arose to begin his address on "Progress in Edu ration," and he, too, was warmly applauded. After the general session of the association to-morrow special meetings of those Interested in the different departments of education will be held in different parts of the city in the afternoon. BOER REFUGEE DETAINED. Escaped from the Ilermudns and Renched Nevr York as n Stowaway. NEW YORK. July 9.-One of the Boer prisoners recently taken to Derrill's island. Bermuda, from South Africa, escaped and was a stowaway on the steamer Trinidad which arrived here to-day. His name is William S. Dupiey. The authorities here sent him to Ellis island and he will be detained as a pauper for examination before the Beard of Inquiry. In the afternoon Dupluy was arraigned before the special board of Inquiry. The young man admitted that he was a Boer soldier and that he had escaped from the British military prison recently established at Bermuda. He said that he came to this country prepared to earn his own livelihood and there was no chance of his becoming h public charge. His case was deferred until his friends can be heard from. He was sent back to the detention prison. Sir Percy Sanderson said that he had not been officially notified of Dupluy's escape and recapture. Conference of Boer Lenders. CAPE TOWN. July f. Four Boer prisoners who were to-day brought Into Bloemfonteln report that Generals Botha. Delarey and De Wett recently held a conference at a point on the Vaal river. He Supposed Miss Glenn to Re a 3Ian. PARKERSBURG. W. Va.. July 9.-The Ellis Glenn trial bean in earnest to-day. E. J. Byers. of Wiillamstown, Identified beyond doubt the person before the bar as Bert Glenn, who boarded at his house during 1Sj6 as a resl estate and mortgage dealer. He had apartments with his son and slept in the same bed for a year. He always supposed Glenn to be a man and treated her accordingly. Miss Glenn is dressed in black with a heavy veil over her face.

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CHIEF TOPICS OF DISCUSSION AT THE Git EAT CONVENTION. Booker T. Wnliington the Principal Speaker at the Auditorium denvor In the Morning. BANQUET TO "FATHER" CLARK PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY PRESENTED WITH A LOVING CI P. Also the Recipient of n Memorial Signed by Over .UM Edticators, Clergy uuil Business Men. CINCINNATI. O.. July 9.-The fourth day of the convention of the Christian Endeavor Society was a light one, as far as the programme was concerned, but the Endeavorers in their determination to miss nothing, were out en masse in attendance at the two big meetings to-day. It was another beautiful day. somewhat hotter than yesterday, but not oppressively so. and fans were a sain in evidence at the meetings and assiduously used. At the last moment the three big music hall rallies were concentrated into two meetings, which w ere held in' auditoriums Endeavor and Williston. " This same arrangement will, in all probability, hold good during to-morrow and the third meeting, which is scheduled for Auditorium Ohio, will be dispensed with. Auditoriums Endeavor and Wllliston are amply sufficient to accommodate the Endeavorers and besides a number of tha speakers have failed to put in an appearance. Five of the prominent ones also are absent because of sickness. Those not present are the Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, the Rev. George D. Purvts and the Rev. Charles C. Hall, of New York; the Rev. John Henry Barrows, of Oborlin, O., and the Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus, of Chicago. After the usual two quiet hour meetings in the morning, which open every day's programme, the big auditoriums wer thrown open for a discussion of "The Twentieth Century Church." Rev. Cannon J. B. Richardson, of London, Ont.. piesided at Auditorium Endeavor, assisted by F. H. Jacobs, as musical director. The Rev. Edgard H. Stranahan. ot Sabaia. U.. led the devotional service, and Marion Lawrence, of Toledo, delivered an addres-s on "The Power of the Sunday School." The Rev. Howard W. Pope, ot New Haven. Conn., spoke at length on "The Power of Personal Work," which, he sai l, constitutes the only effective method of extending the church and Christianity. The Rev. A. J. Lyman, of Brooklyn, spoke on "The Power of the Bible," Mr. Lyman arising from a sick bed at his home, against the advice of his physician, to attend the convention. He fcaid the Bible is the book of incarnation, the God in literature, and Its power is the power of that life reproduced in other lives. Prof. Amos R. Wells, of Boston, expatiated on "The rower of Christian Endeavor." William Phillips Hall, of New York, followed with a paper on "The Power of Evangelism." B. T. WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS. The chief address, however, was that of Principal Booker T. Wshington, of tho Colored Normal School at Tuskegee, Ala. He took as his subject "The Power of a Noble Life." As he advanced to the front of the stage to speak he was the recipient of a tremendous ovation, and he had not proceeded tar into his address, which he cleverly punctuated with dialect and other stories of the colored folk, until be had won a warm spot in the hearts of his hearers. He traced his own career from that of a slave through the bitter Mruggle he had to attain what lie has and what he has clone tor his race. "I don't believe that in all the history of the country." ho said, "has there been such a need for strong, unselfish, pure and intelligent men who are willing to sacrifice ambition, position, fortune and comfort for the welfare of their fellow-men. The noblest of lives and the one thing worth living for is the opportunity to make some individual moro happy, more useful." He made an impassioned appeal for his people and asked that they be Judged by the best among them, ami not the lowliest. He said the privilege Of teaching and lightening up a fellow-human being is the highest privilege given to any man. and that he long ago learned that to cherish hatred, even against the white man in the South, was unchristian and that he was glad to not that this spirit is rapidly gaining a foothold among his people. In Auditorium Willlston. where Rev. Allen B. Philputt, of Indianapolis, presided, a number of addresses limited to five minutes each were made by the following freachers: J. H. Prugh. Pittsburg: J. 8. lenderson, Hensall, Ont.; 1. A. Barnes, Morgantown. W. Va.; Henry W. Sherwood. Kingston. N. Y.; Charles M. Sheldon, of Topeka. They spoke on "Sunday Evening; Service." Rev. Johnson Myers, of Chicago, told of "The Church of the Twentieth Century." He said that the spirit of the church to-day is weaker than the spirit of the first church; that while larger in number in proportion it is less effective and that the present church with the present spirit will never conquer this world for Christ, but the signs are clear that a change Is rapidly coming. Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Philadelphia, followed In a talk on "Christian Conventions." which he said are of great use to the church. Miss Margaret Koch, of Waterville. Me., conducted a personal equipment conference at the Ninth-street Baptist Church, Liking as her topic "The Relation of Expression to Power in Christian Endeavor Work." There was a large attendance of Endeavorcrs who sought advice as to the best means of extending their work. TESTIMONIALS TO CLARK. The members of the board of trustees and other officers of the United Society gave a banquet to President Clark at the Grand Hotel at noon. He was presented with a beautiful silver loving cup in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Christian Endeavor. In the afternoon Dr. Clark attended the Congregational rally at Walnut Hill3 Congregational Church, where the Hon. Samuel B. Capon, of Boston, presented him with an Immense memorial, p'gned by over two hunurtd of the loading educators, editors, clergy and bufinss men in the United States as in expression of thankfulness and appreciation for the work that Dr. Clark n.n done in organlzirg and guiding the Christian Endeav or rs. Dr. CUrk is a Concregationallst and the first Endeavor society was organized by him in his church at Portland. Me. What probably was tlie prettiest of the meetings of the convention was the annual Junior rally in Auditorium En'Vavor. Treasurer William Shaw, e.f Boston, wielded the gavel and Prof. Palmer Hartsough, of Cincinnati, led the chorus of 1.5m) children. Secretary John Willis Baer addressed the meeting on "Six P(eas In a Pod," which, h said, when applied to ethics, stind for politeness, patriotism, punctuality, practicability, perseverance and prayerfulne. Then followed numerous exercises bv the Junior Endeavorerg of the locsl churches at.d the children of several orphan asylums. The children filled the immense stage dressed in white and m,de a very pretty picture as they riled acre-. the length of the footlights- to jdn?; and go through their various eoluti The older Endeavorcrs sp nt the afternoon In their respective denominations! conferences of which there wfn twentysix and which were held In the v.iri im churches about the city. Tuesday evening was devoted to receptions atid rallies nt the various stute headquarters, and in order to allow the Endeavorers to attend. Music Hall was darkened. To-morrow Is the eh Hrg iUy cf the convention and a s:ecial effort was made to make the programme for this day the largest of all. John A. Allison Led Slnalnc The music at the ms meeting in th Interest of Sabbath observance at th international meetlne of the Society cf C. i:.. in session at Cincinnati, was led by Mr. John A. Allison, cf this city.