Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1901 — Page 1

INDIANAPOLIS JOXTI Hi .VEHKLY ESTABLISHED DAILY ESTABLISH CL ISiO. VOL. LI XO. 221. INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY 3IORNING. AUGUST O, 1901. PRICK 2 CK NTS EVKRYWIIERE.

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PLANS OF UNITED STATES STGEL C0Rl0nATI05 OFFICIALS. I'roRTamiue that May Work Harm In Indiana Towns Which Have Steel nnl Iroa "Works. PLANTS IN CITIES TO BE BUN DECAl Si:. IT IS SAID, BUTTER PROTECTION cax hi: secured. In riace.i Where Strikers Are Strong and Protection Inadequate 31111a 2Iay lie Permanently Cloned. TEST OF STRENGTH TO BE MADE CARNEGIE GROUP OF PLANTS 3IAY RE THE RATTLE (ill ü UND. Several Mills Reopened Yesterday Samuel Gompert la Conference with President Shaffer. Special to the. Inllar..i polls Journal. PITTSRUEG. Pa.. Aug. S. There is one feature of the Urlted States Steel Corporation's plan for the breaking of the Amalgamated Association which is of peculiar Interest to the towns of Indiana where plants of the cteel corporation are located. It Is the present purpose to start mills in communities where the least resistance will be offered and where it is easiest to secure nonunion" labor. This means that, in the first place, the mills in the large cities will be started. There ample police protection Is offered and tho enthusiasm of the strikers cannot prevail agdlnst the agents of the law. In the second place, where it Is difficult to transport nonunion men to distant and idle mills they will bo left idle. In the end, according to the plan of the fteel corporation, tho owners will win, and there -will be a grand accounting. The steel corporation already has too many mills. It will be the policy, after the strike, according to present plans, to desert the more undesirable mills. That is to say, mill3 that are not advantageously located for the purposes of the steel corporation and which it has been unable to start will be left alone permanently and their ordinary output will bo provided from other mills which the corporation favors. A3 the time for tho strike nears it is evident the real battleground will be the mills of the Carnegie group along the Monongah?!a river and at the old National tube works plant In ilcKeesport. The steel corporation has a pro win? confidence that It will be abl to keep the men at work In the Carnegie mills. If the union has any hopes of breakinar the nonunion strength in there mills they are based on facts which they stubbornly refuse to reveal to the public. The sentiment at the headquarters of the mill owners seems to be in favor of letting ilcKeesport take Its course for the present. That Is a strong union center. The union there cannot be opposed without violence. Both s'des know that. TUST OF STRENGTH. Tloth Side MnkiiiK Preparations thumpers Advising Shaffer. PITTSBURG. Aug. 8. The contending cldes In the steel strike are centering their energies for a show of strength on the day that the general strike order becomes effective. The United States Steel Corporation is reopening mills closed by the first strike call to show its Independence of unionism, and gathering strength wherever it may lighten the effect of the general strike order, and the Amalgamated Association Is bending its energies to the extension of its membership and to obtain the support and co-operation of the American Federation of Labor. Tho general Strike order becomes effective on Saturday right, and the claims put forth on either side as to the results that will accrue from It are widely at variance. Officials of the steel companies admit that thousands of men will obey the order of President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association and go out, but they positively deny that the tie-up will be general. They rolnt to their success in reopening four mills that were closed and say they have ftrongholds at points where tho Amalgamated Association claims the greatest rtrength. The steel o:nials are Inclined to minimize the sympathetic assistance which the Amalgamated Association will get. One otlicial stated the matter this way: 'What can the machinists do? Have they r.ot been beaten? And the mine workers. Pli they aid the firemen?"' President Shaffer and hi.; assistants, on the other side, insist that the strike order will be generally obeyed and that they will obtain more than enough support to cripple the steel corporation. "We have thee people licked t a .standstill already." was the way that Vice Pr sident-e lect Gibson, of Pittsburg, voiced the feelings of the Amalgamated people. With both tides arming for the conflict end a general strike but fortv-eight hours away, many ordinarily well-informed perrons hold tho belief that there will yet be a settlement of the strike. Veryl Preston came here yesterday and his presence started the rumor to-day that he was here for another conference In behalf of the tteel corporation. Mr. Preston denied this, and during the day made no effort to see any of the strike leaders. Some of the men who predict settlement believe there will be outside Intervention from powerful Interests and a submission of the dispute to arbitration. Men of rational reputation, including Archbishop Irelind and Senators Hanra ar.d Scott, have been named in thl connection, but if effort is being put forth in that direction it Is being dune without knowledge of th public. President Shaffer devoted to-dav to a conference with Pre?dent Gompcfs. of the American Federation of Ibor. who came here for a personal study of the situation before committing hin::;f!f or his immense organization In any minner. The conference reached no conclusion, and unless thrre is an alteration of plans will be resumed lit 1 o'clock to-morrow mornlnc President Gompers came here in company with Frank Morrison. s-tTctary of the Federation, and w.is met at Amalgamated beadiup.rters by Preidnt Shatter. Secretary Williams. Assistant Secretary TUhc Vice Presidents Rees and Chappel! National Truster John Piere nnr ln I Pavls. President Jojrper.i declin-i to täte the result of their deliberations and would suy nothing. President Sh.af.-er also declined to talk. The strikers belfrve they will secure the active to-oprati-n of the Federation. The t -! corporation pueceded to-day In setting :he Farm mill .it the Lindsay tV McCutcheoii plant and another mill at the Clark vork.- started. They also received reports that at Hyde Park last night four of the mills did perfect work, and an atinouniement eame from YWllsUHe that the strike was virtually over there. They met with no opposition at any of the four Klints where they have reopened mills. The

strikers Insisted that there are not enough men at tbe Lindsay & McCutcheon establishment to operate the one mill started, and predicted that It would close during tho day. It was kept going until ni?ht. It Is planned soon to open another mill at Lindsay & McCutcheon's and start the Painter mill and the Chartlers plant at Carnegie. The steel corporation is evidently putting forth its greatest effort at Pittsburg, the headquarters of the strike, for the moral effect elsewhere. President Shaffer when shown the report of the starting of the Lindsay & McCutcheon plant said: 'There is nothing In it. I have a report from Vice President Gibson informing me that there are only two men at the works. One Is a roller and the other a common laborer. It would do them no good and would do the company harm to take nun from other mills and put them there, as they would only break the machinery and spoil the material. There is no place lor them to get raw material, as they cannot get puddlers to make It, so how can they run the finishing mills? Why. I can't get puddlers for union mills. I have an order for ninetv puddlers to go to work at once at the Silgo mills, on the South Side, and cannot get them. Men are wanted at St. Louis, Birmingham, Ala., and all over

the Amalgamated Journal for all classes or skilled men and it is impossioi" ror us to get them. What I can't see is how the trust can secure men to work In their miils that are rn strike when we cannot fcet them to fill good union jobs in union milU Thu mills of lower Allegheny have been after me for some time to get them men, but I cannot furnish them." FOREIGNER WOUNDED. Supposed to Have Heen Shot 17 Strikers or Sympathisers. PITTSRURG. Ta.. Aug. 8. The first act of violence in this neighborhood occurred at Natrona, last night, when a foreigner, whose name could not be learned, was shot, presumably by strikers. lie was employed in the copper extraction department of the Fensylvanla Salt Manufacturing Company, and was struck by shot in three places, but not seriously injured. There were six or eight shots fired from the hill back of the works. The company has succeeded In filling the striking furnacemen's places, and the strikers are trying to frighten the new men away by throwing rocks and shooting at them while at work. A heavy guard of special officers has been put on for the protection of the workmen. The strike leaders plan a series of rallies for Saturday, the closing day of their preliminary campaign. The largest will be held at Cascade Park. New Castle, and its leaders claim that 2.QQ0 worklngmen will partici(CÖNTTNÜ E DNHPAG I E"37cÖLT47ji FORTUNE OF $2,000,000 IT IS I THE l.MTED STATES TREASURY AWAITING A CLAIMANT. YonnK Pole Named Dembitzky Can Have It If He Cnn Prove Relais tionsuip to n. Dead Huron. NEW YORK. Aug. S.A fortune of $2.000.Oöo now in the United States treasury awaits a young Pole named Dembitzky, provided he can trace his relationship to Earon Ludwig Napoleon Dcmbltrky, who fought In the Union army and died on the battlefield during the civil war. An attorney of this city has been retained by the young man, who Is now living in Russia. The attorney who has been In communication with Secretary Gage said that the records of the government's indebtedness to the original Dembitzky have been found. Baron Dembitzky, according to the story furnished to several of the newspapers here, left Poland in 1863 because of political troubles and came to this country. He had $400,000 in American money, the proceeds of the sale of his estates. This he deposited with the federal government at Washington and went into the army. He was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. In 1M7 his grand nephew in Russia' received a communication from Joseph Howies, consul of the United States at Warsaw, Russia, informing him of the money left by the old soldier in the government's care and asked for proof of relationship. The sum, with compound interest, now amounts to more than J2.C-0O.OiO. Considerable difficulty was encountered in establishing the relationship because records in churches and courthouses In Poland were destroyed by fire by Russian troops. Not later than a month ago a Bible containing the family tree was found which, it is said, completely establishes the claims of the nephew. EX EMPLOYE ARRESTED JOHN WINTERS SUSPECTED OF HORDING THE SELRY SMELTER. Held on Evidence Murli I.Ike that Worked l'p by Sherloek Holmes Against His Criminals. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. S.-Ca plain Seymour, of the local detective force, has disclosed the Identity of the man whom the police department has in custody on suspicion of being implicated in the robbery of $2,000 worth of gold bullion from the Selby smelter works at Vallejo Junction. The suspect is John Winters, thirty-seven years old, a former employe of the smelting company. Captain Seymour also outlined the evidence on which Winters is being held as follows: "A man's cap which was found in the railroad tunnel last Tuesday morning has been positively identified as a head covering worn by Winters, and to strengthen this fact there is the further one that the. suspect has been wearing a new cap ever since the time of the robbery. He explains his loss of the old one by saying that It blew away. The cover of the tunnel excavated by the thieves was constructed of laths, on which some cloth was fastened with tacks of a peculiar pattern, an I tacks similar to these were found to-day In Winters'.- cabin. Portions of lath similar to those composing the framework of the cover have been found at the same place. A pistol owned by Winters and found in his cabin is covered with mud which corresponds exactly with the earth taken from the tunnel. "In the tunnel we found several cubes of peculiar chalk which had evidently been used to smother the grinding sound made by the drill, by which the floor plate of the vault had been bored, and pieces of chalk exactly like them were discovered in Wlnters's residence. In the cabin was also found a new Implement designed to cut gas pipe. A small electric battery and a tiny electric bulb, the latter being covered with dirt similar to that In the tunnel under the vault, was found In the cabin. Winters had been seen late at night In the vicinity of the railroad tunnel six or seven times by persons who had occasion to pass that way." Winters stoutly claims he knows nothing whatever about the robbery. Special guards are now stationed at night in tho neighborhood of the works, armed with shotgun. The Selby Smelling Company has increased the reward offered from Jä.''O to JJfvU'O. Th!.J reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the criminals an J for the return of the koI.j. The company places its exact loss at J S3 - Tho theory upon which the detectives are now working Is tint the robbery was executed by one man only. It is thought the two barn of irold found on the water's edne were placed there designedly for the purpose of creating the impression that the gold hid been carried away in a boat. On this hypothesis u strict search is. being made near the vicinity of the robbery fur the stolen gold.

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MOVEMENT TO EXFORCE FEDERAL AXD STATE ANTI-TRUST ACTS. Quo Warranto Proceedings Against Attorney General to Be Ilrouglit by Knights of Labor. WANT HIM TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THE SHERMAN LAW HAS NOT DE EN FILLY ENFORCED. Monnett Retained by Anti-Trust League to liegen Aetlon In the Local Courts of Ohio. SAN FRANCISCO'S STRIKE CO.MMERCE AT THE GOLDEN GATE PRACTICALLY TIED IP. Government Delayed In Fitting: Ships for Train port Service Meeting of Anthracite Miners. WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Dislrct Assembly No. 6, of the Knights of Labor, tonight authorized its legislative committee to bring quo warranto proceedings against the attorney of the United States to show cause -vhy he has not enforced the provisions of the anti-trust law, known a3 the Sherman act. This action, which will be Instituted to-morrow. Is aimed at the United States Steel Corporation, which will be, it is alleged, operating in vain of the Sherman act. Labor leaders In this city say this will hasten a solution of the strike now in progress. They say that law similar or nearly similar to the Sherman law have been enacted in nearly all the States and in several of them, notably in Ohio and Texas, the county attorneys having the power of the attorney general of the State In quo warranto proceedings and that the Amalgamated Association has a large fund on hand with which to institute proceedings similar to those to be Instituted. Attorney General Frank S. Monnett. of Ohio, has been retained by the American Anti-trust League to begin action before the State and local courts of Ohio. 4 ANTIIRACITK 3IIERS. Meeting of the Executive Hoards of Three District. IIAZLF.TON. Pa., Aug. 8. Practically nothing was done at to-day's meeting of the executive boards ofth& United Mine Workers of thethreVanthraciTe districts, and no action was taken on anj' of the questions submitted. Another session will be held to-morrow. Following are the questions to .be considered and definitely acted upon. Adoption of some plan to secure an agreement with the coal companies whereby the latter will grant permission to card committee to make stated inspections at the collieries, thus avoiding petty strikes, such as have occurred recently on account of the refusal of the mine superintendents to allow committees to enter the works. How to get the stationary firemen, the stationary engineers, the teamsters and blacksmiths who are now organized separately into the United Mine Workers and make that the one strong body embracing all classes of labor In and abemt the mines. Reinstatement of the firemen who struck recently and have not yet ben taken back. The mine workers promised to use their influence to have the strikers placed in their old positions in return for the action of the men in calling off the strike. Settlement of local grievances which have arisen since the last strike. SITUATION AT SAN FRANCISCO. Shipping: Interests Paralysed by the Great Strike. WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-A dispatch has been received at the War Department from Colonel Long, quartermaster at San Francisco, showing that a serious condition exists there as a result of the strikes. It has been found impossible to procure skilled labor and almost impossible to find labor of any kind to work on the ships. For this reason the government will turn the transport Lennox over to hr owners without removing the government fittings. Heretofore It has been the custom to have a transport refitted upon the expiration of the charter as rhe was when th? government took it. Colonel Long says that the commerce of the port of San Francisco has been practically tied up and that the strike situation there is more serious than at any time since it began. The government has been able to get its ships fitwd up, but with delay. Whil this delay has been annoying It has not been of such character as to cripple the government servire and no doubt it felt that supplies will be regularly sent to the troops in the Philippines and in Alaska. Janitors Formin: n Trnst. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Janitors in this city are forming a trust, says the Chronicle. They call it "The Janitors Protective Association." and declare it is designed for "the amelioration of the condition of those who are in charge of office buildings and fiats." The association now has 15j members, and has applied for a charter. At a meeting lat night by-laws were adopted, oificers elected, and trustees named. It Is said efforts will be made to form similar associations in other cities. General Labor Xcn. The conference between the blowers and manufacturers of flint glass bottles adjourned at Atlanltc City. N. J., yesterday. The blowers will meet there next July. The old scale and regulations will remain in force and a few minor questions are left over for future settlement. The National Chain Makers Union, in session in Allegheny, Pa., succeeded in completing its wage scale yesterday. This scale will be presented to the manufacturers throughout the country and the men believe it will be signed at once. If the employers should refuse to sign the scale the men say there will be a strike. Notwithstanding tho presence of policemen on street cars acts of violence continue at Lexington, Ky. George McComas, one of the strikers, was caught after throwing a switch for the second time and arrested. A heavy wire was tied across the tracks the height of the motorman's neck, it being fastened to telegraph poles. Fortunately the car which passed first had heavy iron posts in front which saved the motorman. Arc lights and light circuits have been cut. Nonunion men are Jeered at by strikers and sympathizers on corners. The law committee of the International Typographical convention met in Rirmingham. Ala., yesterday, preparatory to the annual meeting of the union in that city on Monday next. The committee consists of President James M. Lynch, of Syracuse, N. Y.; li. P. NicheK llaltimore; Ed M. Haggerty, Atlanta; John W. Hay?. Minneapolis, and A. M. Ensel, New York. The committee has under consideration the matter of changing the laws with reference to district organizers, sentiment seeming to favor longer terms of office and fewer

changes In the offlce, as well as enlarged Jurisdiction. The eight-hour question will also probably come up. LEG CUT OFF BY A SHARK

FATE OF QUARTERMASTER M'KIE, OF THE G I'M! OAT ANNAPOLIS. Went In Swimming: Off Hollo and Was CnuKlit by tx Sea Monster May Receive u Pension. WASHINGTON, Aug. S. Admiral Kempff has forwarded to the Navy Department an official report, thrilling in its details, of the biting off of the lea of Quartermaster S. McKle, third-class, of the gunboat Annapolis, by a shark or other mammoth sea monster. The Annapolis has been stationed of late at Hollo, and on June lit last a party was sent out for rifle target practice. Commander Rohrcr, in command of the Annapolis, states that permission was given to several of the men to go swimming, while others were engaged 1n firing. Two of the men had been in for some time when McKle joined them and asked if they had been able to touch bottom. Being answered In the negative, he made a dive and was gone for several seconds. One of the seamen says he heard a gurgling sound beneath the water. A moment later McKle appeared on tho surface and shouted "Shark! Shark!" Tho surface of the water was covered with blood near where he came up. McKie started to swim and, although crippled, reached the boat and was pulled in by his companions. A horrible sight met their eyes, tho quartermaster's leg having been bitten off near the knee. With all dispatch he was taken aboard the Annapolis, where the surgeon found it necessary to amputate the limb between the knee and his hip. The surgeon in Iiis report, states that while the accident was not in the line of duty, it was incident to the service. Admiral Kempff. however, in Indorsing the papers, holds that as the quartermaster received permission of the ollicer in charge to go in bathing, the accident occurred in the line of duty. Under these circumstances the crippled quartermaster probably will receive a pension. FEARS OF SENOR PALMA CrnAN PATRIOT THINKS HIS PEOPLE ARE NOT HAU 31 ON IOCS. Ffw fiood Men, He Snjn, AVI1I Aeeept the Presidency, I nless He Is Promised Support HAVANA, Aug. S. Senor Estrada Palma, In a long letter to Sonor Flgueredo, which is publishoel here to-day, makes the following statement: "I told General Gomez that a man llk myself, of independent character and without pretensions, except for tbe moral good of tho country, would not have courage enough to be a candidate foi the presidency of Cuba, because the state of feeling and opinion In the island is disjointed and because poiitfet 1 re-rte there, are based upon local affinities and political issues and not upon principle."?. "Moreover, it is to be supposed that the future President will have to plan the government, and, if he is to carry his programme into effect, he will need the support of both houses of the legislature. Put the state of opinion in both houses Is likely to be more disjointed even than the opinions of the so-called political parties. As Important matters will have to be dealt with by the first governru.tjnt of Cuba, such as treaties, tho relations with the United States and tho payment of the army, there Is likely to be a great deal of trouble and disagreement. If the President does not have Congress behind him he will fail utterly. "Then also the Constitution Is calculated to prevent unity of action, because the governors of provinces are to bo elected by popular vote, and tho secretaries will be responsible as weil as the President. If, therefore, the President does not count upon a majority in both houses, it is not likely that any honest patriot will care to undertake the presidential office. Selfabnegation and the most devoted patriotism cannot be expected to make him abandon his own dignity." Senor Talma says that steps should be taken to unify efforts and opinion in Cuba, and to obtain a basis of agreement as to a presidential candidate, so that, if elected, ho may have some chance of successful administration. A Cuban artillery corps Is to be formed. It w'ill consist of ir0 white Cubans, and will be recruited under th same conditions as to qualiiication that obtain in the United States, so far as there will apply. The corps will be trained and disciplined by an American ollicer, and will be stationed at Cabanas. The men will be taught to handle and take care of artillery and will be prepared to take charge of the guns there when the Americans leave. They will be enlisted for two years. First Lieutenant Dwight E. Aultman. of the Sccrtid United States Artillery, will have charge of the recruiting and training. MANY CANNIBALS KILLED SLAIN RY GERMAN'S IN REVENGE FOR A RECENT MASSACRE. EiKhty Natives of the Inland of St. 3Iathinn Put to Heath mid Seventeen Captured. BRISBANE. Queensland, Aug. S.-The German punitive expedition sent to avenge the massacre of lr. Mencken and other members of the first German South sea expedition on the cannibal Island of St. Mathias landed from tho German cruiser Cormoran near the scene of the massacre, killed eighty natives and captured seventeen. Crown rrliice Deported. VANCOUVER. B. C, Aug. S.-The steamer Moana. from Sydney, to-day, brings the story of the deportation of tho native Crown Prince on Gilbert Island. It is stated that the Prince defWl the authority of the British commlIoncr, and was working up an Insurrection among th natives. The commissioner thereupon Is said to have ordered the Crown Frince banished to a neighboring hland for six months. Knitter's Mental Condition Had. LONDON, Aug. 8. A special dispatch from Rotterdam says the mental condition of Mr. Krugcr Is arousing scriout apprehension. A specialist In nervous diseases has been summoned by telegraph from Berlin. Surprised ami Captured by Roers. LONDON. Aug- S. !.ord Kitchener In a dispatch from Pretoria to-day announces that a post of twenty-five men belonging to Stelnackcr's Horsje, on the Sabarl river, have been surprised and captured by the Boers. Lord Kitchener report also the surrender at Warm Baths of Commandant Devlllitrg, who was second in command to Bevcrs.

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WIND TOO STRONG FOR SANTOS-DV-MONT'S DIRIGIULE BALLOON. Tossed by a Gale After Rounding: Eiffel Tower and Wrecked Against a 11 ich Rulldlne. NARROW ESCAPE FROH DEATE DARING AERONAUT RESCUED FROM A PERILOUS TOSITION. Hans to the Wreck of His Machine and the Iron Rar of n Window for Half an Hour. JOY OF A PARISIAN CROWD WO 31 EX CLUNG TO HIS NECK AND KISSED HI3I REPEATEDLY, While Men Cheered Him When He Reached the Street In Safety Not Daunted by tbe Accident. PARIS, Aug. 8. M. Dumont, the aeronaut, this morning again attempted to circle Eiffel tower. He succeeded in rounding the tower with difficulty: The balloon was then unable to make headway against strong winds, and fell near a house in the vicinity, remaining suspended for some time. M. Santos Dumont was not injured. Santos Dumont started from the Pare de St. Cloud at 6:10 a. m. amid hearty cheers His Initial movements were promising, at the balloon turned around Eiffel tower nlni minutes and thirty-four seconds aftct starting, and headed for St. Cloud. Just over the Avenue Henri Marceau, however, a strong gust of wind struck the aerostat, which veered violently to one side, almost simultaneously bounding backwards a distance of fifty yards. The hydrogen gas was forced from the front to the back part of the balloon, creating a sudden expansion, which caused the machine to dip. Her screw touched the steel cords and broke them. M. Santos Dumont immediately stopped the motor and the balloon began to descend. Unfortunately the cover of the aerostat struck the corner of a six-story building. A report like the shot of a cannon followed. The balloon collapsed and fell rapidly. Luckily the frame caught on the coping of the building and the balloon remained suspended, otherwise Santos Dumont would have been killed. As it was the aeronaut hung in a most dangerous position in midair for half an hour until, by -a pvcat effort, he succeeded in catching tue iron bar of a window, to which he clung until rescued with sojne difficulty by the use of ropes. The balloonist escaped without a scratch, however. The explosion of the balloon attracted enormous crowds, and the reception of M. Santos Dumont, upon reaching the street, was most enthusiastic, many women clinging to his neck and kissing him repeatcdlj. As Santos Dumont superintended the removal of the machine, he said he was quite ready to recommence operations. M. Deutch. who offered the prize of lOO.OOO francs for tho rounding of Eiffel tower, and tho return to the starting point within a given period of time, was so affected by the danger through which M. Santos Dumont passed that ho told him that ho would rather present him with the prize at once than to see him kill himself with his experiments, but the balloonist replied that lie had rounded Eiffel tower in such a Fhort period of time that he cemsldered the result too satisfactory to permit the relinquishment of his attempts In tho future. M. Santos Dumont gave the following account of his trip : "This time it is not the fault et the motor, which worked admirably. It was the billoon which caused the? accident. I rounded the Eiffel tower with admirable speed, as I had a favorable wind, and was already returning over tho Boies ile Boulogno when the wind freshened suddenly and struck me sideways. Like a ship In a storm the balloon pitched and rolled, now and then recovering its normal position. Another sudden veering of the wind caused the front of the balloon to pitch downwards and the ropes connecting it with the frame caught in th propeller, which struck the balloon wires. They broke. I saw the danger and my only thought was to descend as quickly as possible. Thi.- I was doing successfully, but I was driven by a contrary wind in the direction of the Eiffel tower. Again the breeze veered and threw me against a building. Tho balloon burst like a toy gas balloon, and the fragments fell, completely covering me. The rest you know. I am unhurt. I have not a scratch and will soon recommence. The motor is uninjured. 1 have worked it for ten minutes. I will now send it to St. Cloud, and set to work repairing the balloon. It in simply a matter of letting the pieces together. The cause of the accident was that the balloon was insufficiently tilled. 1 knew this. The ventilator also worked badly." M. Deutch. who was present at the gtart, In an Interview, said: "I am afraid the experiments will not be conclusive, as his balloon will always be at the mercy of the wind, which is not tho kind of airship we have dreamed of." DEATH FASTER THAN STEAM. Harvard Graduate Overtaken While Trying; to Reach Ills Home. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. A race with death from Boston with Claremont, la., as the goal, ended hero to-day with the death of John Foley. Three weeks ago the decedent, who was a Harvard graduate and who had been employed In coast survey work by tho government, was seized with quick consumption at Boston. Wishing to elie at heme he was carried aboard a train on Tuesday. He became so ill last night that it was decided he must stop in Chicago for rest. He was placed in an ambu!anc, but died while on his way to the hospital. JEALOUS WOMAN SHOOTS. Wounds n 3Xan mid His Wife, but Neither Probably Fatally. DENVER, Aug. 8. Mrs. Philip Hitchcock, wife of a prominent railroad man, to-day shot and seriously wounded Jnmc3 W. Roberts and his wife in their crndy store, on Sixteenth street. The woman was shot In the face and the man received two bullets, one In the middle of the forehead. It was at first thought the man was killed, but at the hospital he revived and the phvslcians hope for the recovery of both. Jcalouy wa the cause of the shooting. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION. Preacher Practically Convicted of Ferecutlitjc u Saloon Keeper. FORT SCOTT, Kan., Aug. 8.-A jury of prominent men in a justice court here today found Rev. Price. preMdlnj? elder of the Methodist Church in this district, guilty of malicious prosecution In a liquor case. The defendant was acquitted arl the cots were assessed against the clergyman. The

defendant was the keeper of a saloon that has been running wide open, and several witnesses readilv admitted having bought

liquor at the place. Rev. Price had bought some for the purpose of getting evljenre. The verdict is the result of a Mtter right for and against open saloons. ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER. Faith Henlers Aliened to Hnve Permitted Their Child to Die. HAMILTON, O., Aug. S.-Humar.e Officer Smith to-day swore out warrants for the arrest of Sylva and Lecia Bishop, charging them with manslaughter. The Bishops are believers In faith healing and when their little daughter Esther was burned by a gasoline explosion. July 31. they did not call a physician, and the child died. Bishop was committed to jail in default of bond. Mrs. Bishop is at Greenville, O., and a constable has gone there to serve the warrant for her. MR. LAWSON'S THREAT. Will Smash His Yacht Independence If No One Will Race with It. BOSTON, Aug. f. If no yacht can be found to race against the Independence by Sept. S Mr. Lawson, the owner, will order her broker, up as old metal. This was his instructions to-day. when tbe only chance for a race against the Constitution or Columbia tdipjed by because the managers of these yachts would not enter a regatta In which there was to be a class tor ninety footers. TRIGGS OUT OF SORTS. He Rellttles the Poetry of LongfelloTT nnd Oliver Wendell Holmes. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Oscar L. Triggs. tho University of Chicago professor who compares Rockefeller with Shakspeare nid characterizes church hymns as doggerel, told his class in English literature tc-day that the poetry of Longfellow Is trivial and unworthy of consideration. Professor Triggs made similar expressions with reference to the poetry of Oliver "Wendell Holmes. SUNK IN IRISH CHANNEL STEAMER KINKORA RUN DOWN" DV THE DIU OCEANIC. Seven of the Crrvr of Twenty-One Drowned Fonrteen Saved by Climblng: Aboard tbe Liner. QUKENSTOWN, Aug. S.-The White Star line steamer Oceanica, Captain Cameron, which sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York via Queenstown, arrived here this morning and reported having been in collision during a fog last night in the Irish channel with the steamer Kinkora. of Waterford, Ireland. The Kinkora sank. Seven persons were drowned. Fourteen of the Klnkora's crew were Paved. Th only damage suffered by the Oceanic enrsisted In a few dents to her port plates. She proceeded a. S:a0 p. m. The collision occurred this side of Thuskar at about 1:20 in the morning. The fog was very dense. The Kinkora was struck amidships. All the passengers of the Oceanic were in bed at the time npd there was some common n until the raptflin assured them that there was not the last cause for alarm. Headway was krpt on the Oceanic after she struck the Jvinkoia In order to give the crew of the letter a chance to clamber on board th Oceanic. The boats of the White Star liner werlowered to rescue every man possible. The Kinkora sank very rapidly. Tho Oeratilo remained in the vicinity of the collision until daylight, but nothing was then visible beyond some floating wreckage. The Oceanic was going dead slow when the collision occured. All the Kinkora's boats were jammed and rendered useless by the impact. Fourteen mn, including thecaptain, scrambled on board the Oceanic with the aid of ropes lowered from tho liner. Among the seven who wero drowned was Fireman George Collins, who might have saved himself, but went below to endeavor to prevent th hollers bur Ins. A collection among the saloon passengers of the Oceanic fdr th widows and orphans of the drowned realized IM. The Kinkora was a steel screw steamer of 4.VJ tons. She belonged to the Waterford Steamship Company and traded between Waterford and Limerick. She had a crew of twenty-one men. TEN PERSONS INJURED COLLISION RET WE EN EXCURSION TRAINS NEAR CONFLUENCE, PA. Locomotive of the Third Section Crashed Into the Pullman nt the Rear of the Second Section. riTTSr.URG. Aug. S.-Two feet ions of an Atlantic City excursion train on the Baltimore & Ohio road collided near Confluence, Pa., eighty-four miles eut of Pittsburg, to-day. Ten persons were seriously injured and a number of others slightly hurt. Those seriously hurt were: HANNON, fireman, Pittsburg; probably fatally. P. J. COLLINS. WIFE AND INFANT. Your.gstown; badly bruised, serious, but not dangerous. J. H. DAVIS New Castle. Pa.; arm broken and badly bruised. MRS. J. P. LEWIS. New Caetle, Pa.; cut on head and otherwise injured. A. G. SHAW, Pittsburg; badly cut about head. MISS HELEN LEMONT. Pittsburg; head cut. MISS DORA HARTZELL, New Oastle, Pa.; both legs fractured. J. E. STILLWAGON. Connellsvüle; superintendent water works; arms crushed. The trains left hero In three sections shortly after o'clock this morning. As the third section neared Confluence the engineer suddenly saw looming up before him on the same track the rear end of t lie second section, it was then too late to aovid the disaster, and the englmcr and hreman of the third section jumped. The third section crashed Into the Pullman car on the rear of the second scctlor., telescoping it. The peuplu in the car were mingled with the dt-brls. M.satfrs wt-re Immediately sent to Conn llsvllle, and a tpecial train of three passenger coaches was made up nnd hurried to the scr.. On board were three physicians. The injured were taken to a hospital. With the exception of the fireman, all. It is thought, will recover. P. E. Marur.ey. general superintendent nf the Pittsburg division, said from reports Tt celved frcm their agents, the ac eb nt was caused by a misjudgement of tignais. The excursion was the largest of the season over the P. S: O. The second section of the train was composed of seven parlor cars, every seat beit.g occupied, and on the third section there v.-ere seven coaches and one parlor car. The injured who were able to travel were brought back to i'ittshurg to-night. Trainmen .Ma tilled. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Aug; S.In a collision to-day between Chicago & Alton freight trans at Grecnview. U I. Burns, fireman, of Columbia. 111., lost both his Ufcs; James W. Wilson, painter for the Alton, Wellsvllle. broke his left leg. and John rt. Conley, engineer, HloominRton, dislocated his shoulder and got & bad wound on his head.

GALVESTON'S FIRE

CASS COUNTV VILLAGE IS VERY HADLV SCORCHED. pw Chnreb, Residence and F1t Varns Ilurned, nnd General Rlaie Prevented with Hlttlculty. UNUSUAL GAS WELL ACCIDENT HEAVIEST PRODUCER IN HARTFORD CITV FIELI1 BIRNEU Little Public Attention fihrn to tn (.nut MIuk Den Recently Established In Lake County SHELBY COUNTY BOODLE CASES FILED, UNDER A CHANGE OF VENUC, IN BARTHOLOMEW. Dank Wrecker John V. Johnson Returns to Losrnnsport Temporary Receiver for tbe Avllla Dank. Special to tht Inllanspoht Jourr.sl. LOG ANS PORT, Ind., Aug. S.-Fln? started at 1 o'clock this afternoon in a barn on tht property of Charles Lott. in the village of Galveston, sixteen miles south of this city, and before it could le put under control tdx buildings had been destroyed With a, less of $12.0. For a time the destruction of the entire village was threatened. Just how the lire started is not known, but it Is supposed lhat some boys playing with a bonfire were the c.iu.e. The flr spread from the barn In which It started to the barn owned by Mrs. Minerva Fickle. Her residence was also destroyed, as were three other barns in the vicinity. The flames then attacked the new Methodist Church but recently completed at a cost of 55.CJ0, and It was destroyed. In the meantime aid hd been asked from Aokomo, but before it arrived the cltltens, aided by a small chemical engine, which the town has. succeeded in getting the fira under control. The church property whs Insured for about half, but there was little insurance oa the other property burned. I'nuiunl Gas Well Accident. frel! to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 8. Tha strongest gas well opened in tills Vicinity in two years was being completed on tbe MoFddowney farm, four miles west of here, to-day. whn it caught nro and fiestroyed the derrick and drilling machinery. Cox fit Alysworth, the contractors, wrist drilling the well for the Prosrcss Oil Company, and had Jut t Instuilnl A r.rtw i-:l-!s nt a cost of H' The gas was Isnited by the friction of a baler whlcT. was bcinff lowered into the well, and It is said to be the only accident of the kind recorded In the gns and oil fields The gas ignited while the baler was within ten rert of tha top. There wax no explosion. nd three workmen were standing in the derricx when the gas took lire. Th- lo. will reach a hieb figure, as everything in the vicinity of the well was destroyed. The output of gas is tremendous, and the burning well pre sented a beautiful Ppectacle. Farm Building Destroyed. Special to thr Jnaniipoli Journal. HHKLHY VILLK. Ind., Aug. g.-FIre oriff. Inating In a pile of baled straw destroyed the barn, double cribs and residence of Thomas B. Adams on a farm west of town, to-day, with a loss of Jl'.nOO; insured lor Shops and Residences Ilurned. Special to th IMiann)! Journal. SEYMOUR. Ind., Aug. S. The carpentrt shop and wareroom of Edward Stelnwedel and his reidenc adiolning were destroyed by fire last night. Loss, $3,000, with Ji,7u0 insurance. . SHELBY DOODLE CASES. Filed Under n Change of Venue la Bartholomew County. Special to the IriUni jolis Journal. COLFMRFS, Ind.. Aug. 8.-Sheriff Theodore Luther, of Shelby county, Indiana, to-day hied In the ome of the clerk of the Circuit Court hre the transcript and papers Jn four of the celebrated cases of the State of Indiana against Adam A. Girton und "William Amos, who, together with James Cherry, composed the Hoard of County Commlcsloncrs, with whom George Tiay transacted business and got himself into the MIehigan City State Prison. The four caes come to the Rartholomew Circuit Court on a change of venue from Shelbv count v. and probably lll come up for trial durit.g the first two weeks of the September term of court, which convene! Sept. 2. One of the eies pgnltirt Arno? Is on an Indictment charging hint and James I. Cherry, while county commissioners, with, making fin lib nal allowance of 1750.M to J. Marh Wilson, county tr usurer, on hla eiaim for copying and transf rrlng schoolfund mortgages to a new reeord. Two of the other cases venued are against Amos, and the; indictments charge him with presenting fraudulent claims aBlrut tb county. These capes are on indictment! by the grand Jury, and grew or.t of t r stationery suj.pl' contract with the Shelby Democrat, operating under the ma nasi, ment of George M. Ray. The ca?e against Ad im A. Girton is the tame as that aga!mt Amos. rirt Fine Special f th Ir. IIa I nder m Neir Lnrr. PAOLI. In!.. . was lined $20.15 within one-half reunion at West having the perm thoritbs. ThN Aug. S. Ji.hn T. Johnson for seiiiriK a watermelon mile of the old soldiers Eiden yesterday without issjori or the reunion ao- ! the f.rt tt of the ner th.g old roldlers' reunions. law of ir-01 pr-dec NO COMPLAINT FILED. Lake t enuity "Monte t'nrlo' Una (In celcd but I.iltle Public Attention. Fj.tUI ii t!i lO'llnnajxiil Joutr.t!. FROWN POINT. Ind.. Aug. -The rru?ade against the Long Reach Turf Club, located In the sanl dunes on Lake Michigan, near Whiting. Lake county, has been very e4u'.et Mnoe Tuesday, when thousands of letters bearing the Indianapolis postmark reached this city and other towns of northern Indiana, jdiowlrg a large xlnc etching cut of the place nd surroundir.f territory ant also an aeeompanlng unsicued letter denouncing the Lake county uuthurith s for not stoppln; lt. As a matter of fact, the place has been known to be running for several months, and hat been termed the Mon'.o Carlo of the Wet Very little attention wa pjld to it by tha citizens of the county until the big b!us letters arrived, and then not to any great extent, for It hda Kcu acertalned lha