Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1901 — Page 1

INDIANAPOLIS.. JOUBNAL mvrry. or WEEKLY F:TAr;MSJfEr 1:3. DAILY KSTAHLISHKD 1V. VOL. LI XO. 108. IXDIAXAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1901. PRICK 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE.

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$Tinnon contest i mn steel IXDISTIIY IS ritOIIAULE, Amalgamated OlJiclnl Determined to Corry Oat Their Orlulnnl ProK rum nie, H .VffPMurj. STB IKE MAY BE EXTENDED FOR MAMFACTIRERS 5AY THEY "WILL SEVER 1-2 VEX COMPROMISE. Officials of the Uli; Corporation Asert that Present Nonunion 31111 Will Not De Unionized. MORE MILLS FORCED TO CLOSE BUT ONE TIX PL A XT AM) OXK SHEET 3IILL XOW IX OPEHATIOX. Attempt to lie .Made To-I)ny to Operate the' WflUvllle Work Miner Aot to He Asked to Aid. riTTSBURO. Pa., July P.-The second ttrike day closes with the amalgamated officials in a satisfied mood and claiming to have made good every promise as to result. On the other hand, the manufacturers will not say a word concerning the strike and refuse to be quoted in any way. Repeated efforts to secure statements from President Corey, of the American Sheet Steel Company, and General Manager I. W. Jenks, of the Hoop Company, have been met with the response that there was no change, and nothing to be given out. The amalgamated people say that nothing has been said to them of any plan for mediation or arbitration and that they will continue to carry out their programme as originally announced. The closing down of the Clark mill, and of the Monessen sheet mill are looked upon as telling victories and an almost complete, tie-up of the three companies in the district. Rut one tin mill, that at Moneseen, and one sheet mill at Duncanville, remain at work. The fact that the National tube mill men (nonunion) received a substantial advance in wages yesterday, has caused discontent among the union men employed by the National Tube Company at Us Second-avenue plant, and at the Republic mill on the South Side. The men there think they are entitled to a similar Increase. To consider the matter meetings were held to-night on the South Side, and it is said a demand will be made to-mor-row. The following telegram was received from Wellsville. to-night: "'The Wellsville rolling mill will be run. and It will be run nonunion. It will start to-morrow. If It could not be run nonunion It never would be run at all. This statement was made to-day by Perslfer F. Smith, of Pittsburg, district manager of the American Sheet Steel Company. He was here this morning and made an address to the striking mill men. He told them they had no grievance, that they had been well cared for in the past and would be in the future. The announcement that the mill will be started to-morrow and started nonunion has given rise to no little speculation and uneasiness among the citizens. Many of the strikers, expecting prolonged Idleness, have left the city for hunting and fishing camps. No new men have been brought in, and how Manager Smith expects to start to-morrow is a matter of conjecture. To-day, as yesterday, only a few laborers were working." AN IMPORTANT POINT. The foregoing is the first indication as yet given by the manufacturers that they were other than passive participants in the big strike. "What the result may be of an attempt to operate the Wellsville plant none of the local amalgamated people will predictAll they will say is: "It cannot be accomplished." Wellsville is looked on by both sides as an important point and developments are anxiously awaited by all. The position of the Tin Workers' Protective Association in the strike was settled to-day by the following telegram to the Leader from George Powell at El wood. Ind.: "Our association is bound by an agreement with the company to work providing: they live up to their contracts. If the company introduces black plate worked by nonunion men our men will be called out. The amalgamated people will have our full support if necessary." According to the ofllcial statement made by the manufacturers' conferees, who met the Amalgamated Association representatives and failed to agree on a settlement of the strike, the manufacturers did not refuse the Amalgamated Association the right to organize their mill-. According to the declaration of President Shaffer of the association, all that was asked of the officers was the right to organize the nonunion plant of the companies interested. The strike, therefore, has not been clearly explained. To-night President Shaffer, tvhen questioned regarding the position of the manufacturers on this point, said: "No matter what they .- now the fact remains that they refused the Amalgamated men the right to organize their non-union plants." He did not believe that the accredited statements on this point from Vice President Warner Arms were correct. "If they are." he said, "and the manufacturers are willing to allow the Amalgamated Association to organize the nonunion plant then I say the strike is all off. We have never once asked the manufacturers to compel the men in their nonunion plants to Join our organization. We do not want coerced men in the Amalgamated Association. If the manufacturers will abrogate that part of the contract with nonunion men in their mills thru makes them agree to keep from J-lining our organization or any other, remove the restrictions that are now cn tho.e men and allow us to work unmolested among thm and seek to induce them to come to us. wc will not ask anything further. Our demand was that they should dr this. Wr askM that thev .sign the union ?ale, so the mn could become union men." PLANTS A F FITTED. A revised list of the plants of the three combinations affeoted by the strike was prepared this morning, together with the number of skilled w.ikers In the mills of the American Tin Plate Company twenty-five m?n are employed in three turns. In each as follows: Roller, rougher, doubler. doubier's helper, hotter, ht .iter's he!pr, catcher and -crew boy and one shearman, who does th work for three turns with two openers. Each mill's full quota of killed mm is ttity-M v. ü. 'flic tin-plate combination employs nt its '7i, mills 7.2j) killed worker. Of this ruinier, O, are

cn strike and 224 are working at the National works at Monessen. The corrected list of idle tinplate mills I as follows: Atlanta, Atlanta. ; Ranfield. Irondale, O., 4; Beaver. Lisbon, O.. 7; Canonsburg. Canonsburg. Pa.. 5: Champion. Muskegon. Mich., s; Crecent. Cleveland. 6: Cumberland. Cumberland, Md.. 5; Cambridge, Cambridz". O.. i: Ellwood. llllwood City, Pa.. 6; Falcon. Nile. O.. 6; Great Western. Joliet. 111.. C: Humbert. Connellsville. Pa., ; Irondale, Middletown. Ind.. 6; La lieile. Wheeling. 1; I.aughlin. Martin's Ferry. O.. 22; Monor.gabela, Pittsburg. 11; Moorwood. Gas City. Ind.. S; Pittsburg. New Kensington. Pv. 6; Reeves. Canal Dover. 6: Shenango. New Castle. 20; Star, Pittsburg, 6; McKtcsport. ll. The Amalgamated men employed on each turn in a sheet mill number fifteen, as follows: Roller, rougher, catcher, pair heater, heater, heater s helper. dout:rr. matcher, shearman, shearman's helper, three opeiers and two lifters. Each mill employs forty-five skilled men. The American Sheet Steel Company employs 4.470 skilled men in Its li mills. Of this number 2.27) skilled rr.es are at work at fifty mills that have not been closed by the strike. They are: Vandergrift, 27 mills; Kirkpatrick. Leerhburg. 6; Salisbury. 3; Old Meadow. 6. and Scottdale, S. The number of skilled men on strike is 5,270, at the following plants: Cambridge works. Cambridge. O.. 7 mills; Canton works. Canton, O., 6; Chartlers works. Carnegie, 3; Dennlson works. Dennison. O.. 4; Dresden works, Dresden. O.. 4; Falcon works, Nlles. O.. 6; Hyde Park works, Hyde Park. Pa., 5; Laufman works, Paulton. Pa.. 3; Midland

works. Munde. Ind.. 7; New Philadelnhia works, works, Dover, New Philadelphia, O.. S; Plqua PiQua. O., 4; Reeves works. Cannl O.. 9; Struthers works. Uridgepoit. Wellsville works. WpIIüvII! o .. IS; u. u. uooa worKs, McKeesport, 15. In the American Steel Hoop Companv there are 7.0t) skilled workmen and all but 250 at the Duncansville plant are Idle. The plants affected are: William Clark's Sons & Co.. Pittsburg; J. Fainter & Sons, Pittsburg; Lindsay & McCutcheon, Pittsburg; Monessen Steel Company, Monessen. Pa.; Union Iron and Steel Company, Youngstown. O.. Including mills at Youngstown, Warren and Girard. O; V. L. Kimberlv & Co.. Sharon. Pa. and Greenville, Fa.; Aetna-Standard Works, at Bridgeport and Mingo Junction. O.; Pomeroy Iron and Steel Company. Pomeroy. O. This makes 13.000 skilled workmen out at present. It is estimated that the skilled labor in the various mills affected bv the strike will run the total close to the claim of 70.000. When asked about President Mitchell's statement last night Mr. Shaffer said: "I shall not ask the miners to go on such a strike. God help the poor coal miner. He is the best union man in the world and the poorest paid of them all. He has troubles enough of his own and we have no desire to involve him. But while I shall not invite nor solicit a sympathetic strike, the Amalgamated Association stands ready at any time to effect an alliance with the United Mine Workers or any kindred ortCONnNÜEiirONnPAGE 5.IrÖLÜMN""Y) SUICIDE OF ACTRESSES ' A A X ' W a FOISOX TAKEN II Y IDA AM) EDITH YOOLAXD AT LONDON. Doth "Well Known on the English Stage Ilrrnme Despondent II eon use They Had No EiiKng; cments. LONDON. July 16. Ma and Edith Yooland. actresses, twenty-six and twenty-one years old, respectively, committed suicide together by taking poison in their rooms in London to-day. About noon Edith called their landlady and told her she and her sister had taken poison. She asked the landlady to get a cab and put herself and sister in it, and promised they would leave the house without cref.'imr n scene. .Upon going upstairs the landlady found Ida dead. Edith died on the way to the hospital. Ida had been engaged at the Duke of York's theater under the management of Charles Frohman.She scored a great success In the production of "The Swashbuckler" and had filled Evelyn Millard's part of Lady Ursula at the Duke of York's theater in Anthony Hope's play, "The Adventure of Lady Ursula," in 1S0S, during Miss Millard's illness. Edith Yooland once played a part In "Nell Gwynne." F.oth women had recently been without engagements and were bitterly disappointed at falling to secure an expected engagement. The landlady of the Yooland Sisters, whose name is Callaghan. said to-day that Edith Yooland told her yesterday that her sister Ida was seriously disappointed, as she had expected to go to the United States with E. S. Willard's companv. but received a note from Mr. Frohman's assistant saying there was no chance for her to do so. Mr. Frohman said to-night he had known the Yooland sisters favorably for a number of years, but that they hod had no negotiations with him concerning the American tour. PHILLIPS EXONERATED. Corn King Cleared of the Charges Preferreil by Customers. CHICAGO. July 16.-Charges of irregular practice made against "Corn King" George II. Phillips have been dismissed by the directors of the Hoard of Trade. At a meeting of the board of directors to-day the subcommittee which -had been appointed to investigate the charges made by several of Phillips's former customers made Its report exonerating him from the charges. According to the committee the charges were made by customers who were ignorant of the Board of Trade dealings. The men had declared that they were made parties to the "pool" manipulated by Phillips, without their consent having been obtained. Phillip was able to prove that such was not the case. BROOM CORN $125 A TON. Scramble for the Crop Remaining; In the Growers Hand. MATTOON. 111.. July 16. The scramble between the Union Broom Supply Company, or trust, and the agent of the bier Kastern manufacturers not in the combination for possession of the broom corn yet in growers" hands reached a climax to-day, when J123 a ton was offered. The Kansas crop is a failure, and it is estimated there will be a shortage of l.'.'Vm tons. Sunday and Monday J13'o worth of brush was bought i:i this vicinity at almost any price demanded. Broom crn men of experirnce say the brush will rls to $250 a ton, and broom manufacturers are arranging to raise the price of brooms. NEGROES IN BAD TEMPER. They Think the G. A. It. Committer I DrauinK the Color Line. CLEVELAND. O.. July K-Cleveland negroes are angry over what they consider an attempt of the citizens' general committee in charge of the G. A. R. encampment to draw th color line. The trouble aries because a separate committee of twelve representative nesrroes of this city has been appointed to entertain the visiting r.egro veterans during the annual encampment next September. Th- attempts to maKe the nes;ro veterans a separate part of the encampment Is resented. Those who have been named an- such committee will I rnus-e to s er v. HE STOLE A BOTTLE OF POP. Hrmon AAMticned for the L; nrhlni; of n Neuro lit Lnulalnnn. CHICAGO. July 10 A special to the Record-Herald from New Orleans says: "Louis Thomas, a negro, was lynche. 1 near Girard. La., last rUht by a m-.h com-po-od of white men. Thomas'? offense was the stealing of a bottle of pop."

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STRIKE OF STATIONARY FIREMEN IN THE "WYOMING VALLEY. Nearly AH the Anthracite Collieries in the District Forced to Suspend Operation. ABOUT 30,000 PERSONS IDLE FOREMEN AND FIRE nOSSES C03IrELLED TO WORK AT PCMTS. Dcmnnd of the Strikers Conceded Provisionally by n Few of the Individual Operators. MUCH DEPENDS ON MINERS SOME ARE NOT IN SYMPATHY "WITH THE FIRE3IE.VS STRIKE Judge C. D. Clark Strongly Opposed to. Picketing Violence and Boycotting Not 3Intters for Injunctions. WILKESBARRE, Pa.. July 16. The strike order of President Mullahy. of the Stationary Firemen's Association of PennBylvanla, was promptly obeyed at 7 o'clock this morning when 900 members of the organization in this section of the State refused to go to work. Most of the strikers are employed as firemen at the coal mines and their failure to report for duty caused nearly all the collieries in the northern anthracite region to suspend operation, throwing out of work, it is estimated, 30,000 men and boys. Some of the individual coal operators conceded the demands of their employes on condition that the shorthour day was not to hold If the men employed by the big companies did not get the same concessions. The big coal companies, however, refused to make any concessions. The officials claimed that the demands of the firemen were unreasonable, that they had received a 10 per cent, increase when tho wages of the miners were raised last fall and that the demands now made upon the companies are equal to a 20 per cent, advance. The strikers held a meeting in this city shortly before noon. Reports were received from all districts and they showed that the strike from Pittston to Shlckshinny, in this county, was general and that the coal companies were unable to secure new. men to take the places of the strikers, although it was claimed they had made desperate efforts to do so. The best they could do, it was said, was to press foremen and fire bosses into service. This was done at a great many of the mines. Somebody had to do it because there was danger of great damage being done by water and the accumulation of gas. The strikers claim that the engineers are friendly to them and that they will not work with nonunion men. President Mullahy said to-night that he had Information fron all over the northern region and that the men were standing firm and that the engineers were with them. He thought the coal companies would be unable to get new men and that the strike would soon come to an end. At the headquarters of the operators it was claimed that the demand of the strikers would not be entertained and that as soon as new men could be secured operation would be resumed. The duration of the strike will depend on the miners. If they stand by the striking firemen the lockout may be a long one; but if the miners return to work as soon as the companies fill the places of the strikers, the strike will be lost to the firemen. Despite reports to the contrary sent out from headquarters of the United Mine Workers it is known that there is considerable friction between the United Mine Workers and the firemen. The miners think that the strike is inopportune and that the firemen should have w.ted until April next, when the rresent agreement between the operators and miners expires, before making: their demands. Several manufacturing concerns gave In to the demands of the firemen, among them the Wilke?barre Lace Company, employing 10) hands, and the Hazard rope works, employing 1.000 men. The Wllkesbarre and Wyoming Valley Traction Company officials told their firemen to go to work at the increase. Engineers NVlll Not Fire. SCRANTON. Ta., July 17. It is impossible to tell until to-morrow how many fire'men In this (the Lackawanna) region will be found in the ranks of strikers' as the ultimatum was not to go Into general effect here to-day because notice of the demand was not served on all the employers until to-day. All the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western mines were working today but nearly all of the Delaware & Hudson mines were shut down. The Ontario & Western end the Pennsylvania collieries were working. The local hoisting engineers, eighty In number, met to-night and resolved not to do any firing or instruct any one who comes to take the strikers places. HE OPPOSES PICKETING. Judge Clark Will Make the Cincinnati Injunction Permanent. CINCINNATI. July lS.-Judge C. D. Clark, of the United States District Court, during the hearing of the motion to dissolve the temporary injunction Issued against the striking machinists, indicated very plainly to counsel for the defense what his opinion would be on two points involved. He said that for picketing an injunction would be granted, but that acts of violence and even boycotting were not to be met by Injunction. Said he: "I have arrived at the conclusion, beyond all shadow of doubt, that picketing is unlawful; that it is immoral and wrong. Counsel for the defense must understand plainly that I am opposed to picketing in any form whatever and that I will promptly make the power of this court felt against it." He described picketing as intercepting men while going to or from the factory; anywhere, even miles away by one man or by more than one any interference with the ingress or egress of workmen. "But violence," he added, "is not to be remedied by injunction in this court. It is subject to the criminal Jurisdiction of the state courts." He announced that the decision of the case would rest on the point whether or not It had been shown that there had been picketing. While his mind was made up on the law as to picketing, he aked counsel to cite authorities on that point. The arguments were begun, but as Judge Clark has a case to hear at Chattanooga, to-morrow, the case will be taken up when he returns, on the 2lth Inst. Genernl Labor News. Of the fifty-two breweries in Chicago six agreed to the demands of the stationary firemen, who struck yesterday, and operated a? usual yesterday. The remainder sere idle. The men demand 12 for an eight-hour day. Important victories were gained yesterday by members of the Iron Molders" Union at Chicago, eight firms signing the agreement. On of the eight concerns was the American Tin-can Company, known as the "tin-can trust." Out of the LOO molders who struck on Monday over 3u0 of them

have already returned to work at the advance demanded when the strike was ordered. Unable to hold out any longer on account of the scarcity of funds, fitty machinists voluntarily went back to work t the works of the Allis-Chalmers Company in Milwaukee yesterday, thus virtually putting an end to the strike in that city. At a meeting In Detroit yesterday ot Manager Hargreaves and Vice President John Ward, of Youngstown. of the American Car and Foundry Company, with a committee representing the sixth district of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, the scale was signed, giving the 500 men employed by the company an Increase of o'i per rent, over last year's scale. Four hundred men who handle freight In the warehouses at Port Costa. Cal.. have gone on strike. Shipping is tied up. The men asked for J3 a day for nine nours and time and a half for all overtime. The warehouse owners offered a raise of 5 cents an hour, which would be SO cents an hour for ten hours work, but refused to recognize the men as a union. This offer not meeting with the approval of the men they walked out. The National Glass Bottle Blowers' convention at Milwaukee yesterday adopted a resolution condemning "arbitrary usurpation of power by the courts" in "unwarranted abuse of extraordinary writs of injunction in disputes between employer and employe, which only result in the degredatlon of all that is best in American citizenship.' The resolution calls upon all members to support the anti-injunction bill in Congress. GREATLY EXAGGERATED.

Report of the Alleged Collision on a Ivnty" Ilrldge in Arkansas. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 16. A statement is furnished to the Associated Press by the office of the general manager of the Missouri, Kansas &. Texas Railway, in this city, that a dispatch, published under date of Parsons, Kan., t giving an account of a railroad collision on a bridge crossing the Arkansas river, near Wybark, Ark., and stating that five men were killed and three seriously injured, and that the trains and bridges were destroyed by fire, most grossly exaggerated the affair. The M., K. & T. officials investigated and they show official records to show that the accident was simply a collision between a local freight and a repair train on a bridge, as stated, and an engine and five cars were derailed and one span of the bridge damaged, and that Engineer Morris and an unknown colored tramp was slightly Injured. OLD SCHEME REVIVED. Trust Company Trying to Realise on Repudiated Southern llonds. NEW YORK. July 16. The Times will say, to-morrow, that one of the large trust companies of this city has decided to make an effort to collect Tr compromise the bonds issued by the Southern States during the reconstruction period following the civil war, and since repudiated in whole or in part by those States. It is further said that an official of the company admitted that a circular inviting co-operation in this venture had been sent out to persons known to hold some of these repudiated bonds. He denied, however, that the company itself held, any of these bonds, but said that he did not know whether any of the bonds were held by persons identified with the trust company. He also stated that there were no Southern interests in the company. PERJURY IN THE COURTS STARTLING STATEMENTS IIY A LEADING IOWA LAW VEIL Bar Association . President Says It Is the 3Iost Prevalent Crime of the Ase -Causes and Remedies. COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia., July 16.-rresl-dent J. J. McCarthy made startling statements regarding the prevalence of perjury in American courts of Justice in his address to the Iowa State Bar Association at its annual meeting in this city to-day. "Is it true," Mr. McCarthy asked, "that perjury is committed in Judicial proceedings? I need take no time for the discussion of this inquiry before a representative bar association. It will not do to credit all false statements to lack of memory, visionary exaggeration or inability to see and understand things correctly. Where is there a lawyer who has not seen the guilty criminal pass out of the courtroom acquitted and set free because of perjured testimony? What one of us but has seen the rights of persons and of property sacrificed and trampled under foot, presumably under due form of law, but really and truly by the use of corrupt and false and sometimes purchased testimony? "These are the things that beget distrust and disrespect for the courts and for verdicts and for our boasted forms of law. These are the things that produce anarchy and lynching and invits a just contempt as well as a lack of confidence In those tribunals called courts of Justice. One Judge of long experience upon the bench writes me that In his opinion about one-half of all the evidence received on behalf of the defense In criminal cases is false. Another Judge of equally high repute writes that he believes 75 per cent, of the evidence offered in divorce cases approaches deliberate perjury. Another writes that perjury Is committed in a majority of important lawsuits and that the crime is rapidly increasing. "In short, with reference to the prevalence of perjury the time has come when, in the words of another, Justice must wear a veil, not that she may be impartial, but that she may hide her face for shame. "Some place the blame upon the skeptical and free-thinking spirit of the times; some censure the courts for the careless, flippant, meaningless and indifferent manner in which oaths are permitted to be administered: others severely censure the county attorneys and grand juries for their indifference or apparent Incapacity to effectuallj' and properly Indtct and prosecute those guilty of the crime; others say the law Is defective because of the dilatory, expensive and technical difficulties in proving the crime to the satisfaction of a trial Jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Blame also is laid at the door of a class of attorneys who advise or encourage or at least condone perjury, and still another very respectable number say it Is because of the lack of fear of prosecution and certain temporal punishment for the crime. "The grasping and commercializing spirit of the age. where every man's standard seems to be measured by the amount of money he has accumulated, might well be added to the catalogue. Why should a nation or a state cry out against discriminations, trusts, combinations nnd 'watered' stocks when the very crime that makes them possible Is passed unnoticed? Why doe. the press of a country write volumes on the Constitution following the flag when the sanctity of an oath that gives both the flag and the Constitution their real significance is almost ignored?"' Mr. McCarthy then proposed remedies. He said oaths were too common. He favored the abolition of all official oaths and the emphatic administration of the judicial oith. He believed that the Judge himslf should administer all oaths; that it should be done with gravity and solemnity, and that witnesses should be told that extreme punihmnt would be meted out to perjurers. Then the law should be enforced. FAST RAILWAY TIME. Pennijl vnnln Ilreaks the Record from Pittaburtf to Chicago. CHICAGO. July IS. A special train of five cars was hauled over the Pennsylvania road to-day from Pittsburg to Chicago in ten hours and fifty minutes. This breaks ill passenger train records between the two cities.

S LORD ROSEBERY ON POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN HIS COUNTRY. Manifesto on the Divisions of the Liberal Party and the Present Duty of Englishmen. SAYS GOVERNMENT IS WEAK BUT THE OPPOSITION IS WEAKER AND ALMOST IMPOTENT. Foreign Hostility and International Competition, He Asserts, Need -' United Efforts to Combat. COMMENT OF LONDON PRESS LIBERAL NEWSPAPERS SAY ROSEBERY IS A MISCHIEF 31AKEn, "While Conservatives Open Their Arms and Hope He Will Give Ills Services to the Country. LONDON, July 17.-Lord Rosebery has issued a manifesto on the divisions of the Liberal party. It Is contained in a letter to the City Liberal Club, which had invited him to deliver an address. He disclaims any desire to re-enter politics, but speaks out "under the remarkable charter" agreed on by Liberal members of the House of Commons, of "hearty and undisputed allegiance to the leader and complete liberty of action to dissent with regard to one vital question before the country." The Liberal party can become a power, he continues, only when it shall have made up its mind on the "imperial questions which are at this moment embodied in the war." After asserting that "the whole empire has rallied to the war," he discusses the attitude of the Liberal party. "What is the attitude of the Liberal party?" he asks. "Neutrality and an open mind? Now I contend that this is an impossible attitude and spells impotence. No party can exist on such conditions." He declares that the difference would not cease to operate when the war Is over, because "statesmen who disassociate themselves from a nation in a great national question, such as the war In which we all strive to suffer together, disassociate themselves for much longer than they think." He considers that the severance is a "sincere, fundamental and incurable antagonism of principle with regard to tho empire at large and our consequent policy." As there is this "honest and irreconcilable difference of opinion on quesfTTrfS of the first imArtance," he can see no favorable issue. Lord Rosebery concludes with a gloomy touch. "It is a matter of sorrow and anxiety," he says, "to see a weak government faced by a weaker opposition at a Juncture of foreign hostility and International competition which needs all the vigilance, power and ability at our command." He believes that Great Britain is at a crisis, which may have unlimited effects upon its future. Lord Rosebery's pronouncement Is considered by the Dally Telegraph as "severing his last connection with a hopeless opposition." The Daily Chronicle says: "It is destined to have a profound effect on the country, pointing to the formation of a National-Liberal party, numerous material for which are scattered within easy reach." The Dally Chronicle meaningly asks if Lord Rosebery will take his part toward realizing the desired end. The Daily News regards Lord Rosebery as "standing outside the vineyard and throwing stones at the workers." Going on to analyze the letter, the paper defines it as "a deliberate and mischievous effort to prevent reunion." The Conservative papers generally commend the letter. The Times calls on Lord Rosebery to "place his great abilities at the service of the country by throwing himself heart and soul into the work of converting the Liberal party to the policy in which he believes." It alludes to his "singular advantages birth, ability and nationality for playing an important part at a critical time." ARRESTED AT CHICAGO. Clneinnatt Young Man Accused of Embezzling from Estnte. CHICAGO, July 1. Louis Kotte, son of the late George Kotte, the wealthy Cincinnati breuer, is under arrest here, charged with the embezzlement of 20.000 from the estate of his father. Kotte, who is twentyfour years old, was arrested to-night by detectives at his boarding house, No. ll Dearborn avenue. Kotte at first refused to discuss the case, but afterward said he had tised the money playing the races in Cincinnati, and that he would be able to settle the matter if given an opportunity by his brothers and sisters, who had caused his arrest. Short $14,000 In Ills Account. CINCINNATI, July H.-Young Kotte if the son of the late George Kotte. of the Hudepohl & Kotte Brewing Company. Upon the death of his mother some time ago he was made administrator of her estate, which consisted, besides property, of about $l!.nou in cash. This money, it is alleged, young Kotte deposited in a local bank m his own name instead of that of the estate, and after he became enamored of the races checked it out, and it is said spent this money in addition to H.Oivj of his own. About a month ago he was ordered by the Probate Court to render an accounting of his charge, but instead left the city on July 4. Thomas McConn was then appointed administrator, and the shortage discovered. RESULT OF SPECULATION. Brokerage Firm Resorted to Dishonest Methods When Insolvent. ST. LOUIS. July 16. Sensational admissions have been made on the stand by Samuel A. Gaylord. senior member of the firm of Gaylord. Blessing & Co.. which failed recently. Mr. Gaylord, who is one of the oldest stock brokers in the city, admitted at the hearing before Bankruptcy Referee Coles that the firm had been practically insolvent for two years and had been doing business on other people's money on funds secured from local customers. Deals wherein no stock ever changed hands, being a mere matter of bookkeeping, in which the firm never forgot to charge up commissions, margins and interest, were admitted by Mr. Gaylord, who alo told of the employment of relatives names and the use of an insane man's name in the accounts. At the time of the failure they were short JIW.O'O in bond, face value, and over 6.000 shares of stocks In New York. It was admitted by the vltnefis that the failure was due to their own speculation by which they had hoped to win and pay off their Indebtedness, estimated to have been about JAOuO. As to the missing collateral left with the firm by customers, attached to promissory

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notes. Mr. Gaylord admitted that ail had ben hypothecated with banks for security by the firm. There was no apparent desire to conceal anything concerning the involved transactions of the firm on Mr. Gaylord's p-m, and the relations were astounding to the creditors present. BRYAN DEMOCRATS.

Ohio Disciples of the Nebraska Man Issue Their Call. CLEVELAND. O.. July 15. The official call of the "Bryan Democrats of Ohio" was issued to-day. It is addressed to "the Bryan Democrats of Ohio," and charges that the Ohio convention repudiated the two last Democratic national platforms, and that the action of the convention was the result of a conspiracy "mapped out at the headquarters in New York." The call concludes as follows: "If the action of this convention stand unrebuked, then it must be understood that the Democratic party, as such, has repudiated the principles enunciated in the Kansas City platform and ratltfed and approved of the course pursued by the Republican party upon the money question. If the Democratic party abandon the principles laid down in the platforms of and 1:m. then it may as well close its political career, for there is little else of importance to fight for." DISGUISED AS A WOMAN. Arrest of n Man Who Had Been Teaching In n Private School. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 1S.-A Texas detective arrived a few days ago in King's river neighborhood, Madison county, and placed under arrest a supposed young woman who had been teaching a private school in the neighborhood for some time. It turned out that the teacher wss a man in disguise, and his name was Sears. He Is alleged to have been wanted in Texas on the charge of murder committed seven years ago. HORSE THIEVES HANGED. Three Strung l'p on the Banks of the MUotirl In Montana. HELENA. Mont., July 16. A posse organized at Big Sandy to capture three alleged horse thieves, "Bucking Bill." Fred Commo and Pete Walter, has received word that the three men were hanged by another posse Saturday on the Missouri river, near Judith. ENVOYS IN A DEADLOCK NO TROSPHCT OF AN IMMEDIATE AGREEMENT AT PEKING. Russin and Great Hrltnln Cannot Get Together on a Plan for the Payment of Indemnity. PEKING, July 16. The ministers of the powers now freely admit that the prospect of a conelusion of negotiations is growing darker. The situation is most serious, as the deadlock has continued more than a month. The meeting arranged for to-day was postponed because it was apparent that the proceedings would be fruitless. It was at the meeting of July 11 that the ministers reached something in the nature of an agreement in regard to the indemnity. But almo3t immediately a radical difference developed between Great Britain and Russia as to the details of the plan of payment. All the ministers were In accord with the scheme early in June, subject to the approval of their governments, but Great Britain disapproved the arrangement on the ground that it did not adequately protect her commercial interests. The neutral ministers assert that either Great Britain or Russia must make material concessions before a conclusion of tho agreemtnt is possible. Meanwhile the committees of the ministers are working upon comparatively unimportant details, such as improvements in navigation, but if the financial question was settled the negotiations could be closed in a day. Li Hung Chang keeps sending strenuous riuests to the ministers of the powers to present a complete plan. He represents that China Is willing to accept any reasonable terms and is chiefly anxious to know definitely what the powers require, so that she may begin compliance with the terms. The ministers regard newspaper accusations of procrastination on their part as exceedingly unjust. The governments, and not the ministers, are responsible, the ministers say, for the deadlock. TO OVERTHROW THUG RULE. Ministers of Denver May Organise a Viellance Committee. DENVER. Col., July 16. The Republican to-day says: "The ministers of this city are considering the advisability of organizing s vigilance committee. The idea Is to overthrow thug rule in this city. They say they will work in conjunction with the police department, -but it is possible the police force may be an entirely superfluous contingent. Although it is against the thjgs that the ministers will primarily direct their attention, the work which they propose to do at once is only preliminary to the really gigantic scheme they have under consideration looking to the uplifting of th entire community. They propose to establish an organization of iower as far reaching ns Tammany's in New York city, but with a view to establishing law and order instead of political supremacy. The plan for this organization was prepared by a Judge now on the bench." MR. CARNEGIE'S GIFTS. Agreemnt for New York Signed OfTer Accepted by San Francisco. NEW YORK. July 16. Mayor Van Wyck received from Andrew Carnegie to-day the agreement recently drawn by the board of estimate covering Mr. Carnegie's gift of J5.200.OfiO to the city for public libraries. The agreement now bears Mr. Carnegie's signature. SAN FRANCISCO. July 16.--The board of supervisors has adopted a resolution formally accepting Andrew Carnegie's offer of $7rvo00 to the city for a public library building. FIGHT IN MEXICO. Seven Men Snld to Have Been Killed in an Attack on a Train. CORDOVA, Mexico. July 15. A train on the Vera Cruz & Pacific Railroad was attacked by a large force of armed men at Tierra Bianca, a small station. Seven men on the train are reported killed. As soon as news of the attack reached Cordova a force of rurales were sent to the scene and they are now in pursuit of members of the mob. The cause of the attack is not known here. It Is said to have been made by men ! who were formerly employed in the con- ; struction of the road. ; OILCLOTH COMBINATION. Standard Company Organized. vith 1 ranllnlliullnn ttt 1 (Vi ltft I IOM NEW YORK. July 15.-Officlal announcement of the organization of the Standard Table Oilcloth Company was made hre to-day. The company is capitalized at 11).roo,(i and will take over Urge pl.ir.ts in Bvn&rau. N. Y. ; Passaic. N. J. ; N.-w.irk, N. J.: kron, O.; Youngstown. O.. and Na.r::lown, Pa.

ANOTHER HOT DAY

TUESDAY'S TEMPER ATI RE WAS IP TO Tili: SEASON'S RECORD. For Over Eight Honrs the Mercury Ranged from Ninety to Nine t-Five Degrees IRVINGTON IN GREAT LUCK THUNDERSTORM COOLED THE ATMOSPHERE LAST EVENING Indlanapnlltans Could Sec the Downpoor of Rain In tlie Suburb, but Rcnped No Benefit FIRST CASE OF SUNSTROKE 31 AN' SUPPOSED TO RE JAMES HCT LER STRICKEN ON THE STREET. Farmer Killed by Lightning Near Covington Condition of Crops in the Great Corn nelU Another day of dry. unyielding heat was yesterday. It differed little from the days preceding, except that late in the afternoon the temperature fell off one point as compared with Monday in this city. Terspiring citizens raked the sky fore and aft for signs of rain, but saw none except a few dark clouds in the east. The promise of "rain soon" made by the weather 'obaerver was accepted doubtfully. The weather had bred a spirit of pessimism that whispered it never would rain again. The tempera ture from 7 o'clock yesterday morning to 7 o'clock last evening ranged as follows: 7 a. m 75 2 p. m ?J 8 a. m 7S 3 p. m ?4 9 a. m 4 p. m 4 Ii) u. m fc7 5 p. m ?4 11 a. m W 6 p. m M 12 noon ft! 7 p. m &0 1 p. m 93 The citizens of classic Irvington wer more fortunate than the sweltering ropl of the city. The heavy rumbling of thunder which was heard about 5:30 o'clocU and which heralded relief from the heat "mpdegood" at Irvington, and rain fell In torrents for about half an hour. It came with such volume that soon the whole place was cooled. Street car men who were in the suburb ran their cars down town and out again with more speed than usual so as to be near the "ice box," as they called it With the great lelief the rain afforded, some were not satisfied and expressed themselves as wishing the rain had come with less volume and had lasted during the night. While the rain was falling people left the dining table and, clad as they were in the lightest of clothes, got out in the rain, and many were drenched "Just for fun." A great amount of sport was had at the time and the event was celebrated as a Jubilee. The dust on the roads was laid and grass and plants In the yards were given a renewal of life. The downpour was plainly visible in the city, but no benefit was derived. While there is a possibility of relief today, through thunderstorms, there is no certainty the day will be much cooler. Reports last night from government station over the West Indicated no decisive changes. Yesterday Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and the Dakotas reported no rains of sufficient volume to affect tho crops. Nor did the official forecasters discover any indications to warrant a belief that the general drought would t-oon be broken. Unless rain comes within a few days the cotton crop of western Tennessee and Mississippi will be greatly damaged. I'linois Central experts report great dam age to cotton, tobacco, corn and sugarcane in many Southern States. First Ileal Sunstroke. The first real sunstroke of the year occurred yesterday late In the afternoon. A man thought from papers found in his pocket to be James Butler fell unconscious on Wabash street about 5 o'clock. He was taken to the City Hospital, and It was some time before he showed signs of improvement. There was nothing about hin to show hU residence, and he was unablo to talk. His condition was thought last night to be serious. Climate and Crop Ilulletln. The Indiana climate and crcp bulletin for the week ending July 16 is as follows: "Very warm weather continued during the week; no rain fell. Corn grew rapidly in, generally, clean tit Ids. but it is wilting and lolling up during the day and. unless rain comes soon, it will be injured, and the prospects for a good yield will be diminished. Potato s are drying. Tobacco is doing well, but nerds rain: in Dubois courty it loik. pale and sickly. A fair crop of early apples is ripe; peaches are abundant, and shipments began in Clark county. O.U are being cut; In general, a good vi' Id is promif-ed. but tho idraw is s-hort. Wheat, rye and b.irley threshing continues; the yield is generally good, both as to quality and quantity; la eomc localities the wheat kM is less than expected; sonic mills are grinding new wheat. Haying progressed mpldly. and fair crop ha been seeurt-d ia good condition; there is much white top in it. cpetjaily in timothy. Tomatoes are backward. 1'usturage is getting lry." KILLEII IIY HEAT. Corn, Oats and Potatoes Are Failures In .Martin County. fecial to th IniltrapÜ? Jourr.!. LOOGOOTEE. Ind.. July 15.-The exceedir.gly dry and hot weather has been very detrimental to the corn, and coming at a time as it doe whn the crop is maturlngthe prospect Indicates scarcely a half average yield. Oats and potato's are failures, in mo:t instances not worth the harvesting. Wheat is the only crop of which tho farmers can boast. Martin county farmers jre marketing the largest crop of nhent they ever raided. Not only has the yield been much above the average, but the quality is of the vrry b-t r.d a meamre-l bushel weighs frm Mxty-two t- sixty eight pounds. Pulaski County Crop THIshted. Frc!al to thi Inditr.apclli Jourral. WIN AM AC, Ind.. July 1. Almost every agricultural interest in Pulaski county is suffering from the effects of the intens heat. Pastures are brown and dry as tinder, and farmers are driving thdr cattle, in many cases, four or ti miles to water. Corn Is seared and yellow, ith the blades badly curled. Leaves of jour. fruit tree crumble t pwder In thhand. Uerries' are baked dry on the $ rowing bushes. Conservative estimates put th loss to date, on the crrn crop, at per rent. This is the heaviest item in ths lo?se. but with the upland p.turf absolutely worthless, it will not take mtnjr