Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 364, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1901 — Page 2

TITE INDIANAPOLIS .TOUPXAT,, 3IOXDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1001.

RIVERS ARE AGAIN RISING

31AXY PAKTS or tiii: i:st Axn soiTii o.tci: 3ionn i dangbh. llnilrond IWockrtl In AlnbatnnIIlfr trie Light Out at Lnncnster, Pn. La n lllIea at Many Point. LANCASTER, Fa., Doc. 20. A heavy rainfall has been continuous In this vicinity since lat evening. All the streams In th': county are swollen greatly beyond their volume anl Conestoga creek has overf.owed Its banks to an extent unknown In recent years. The bridge crossing this ft ream at Knglefdde Is threatened with destruction, and tra!l!c on the Lancastertrasburg Hallway, of which the bridge Is a link, has ben suspended. The bridge has begun to move, and ft Is believed will be washed away. It waJ erected seventyfive years aso. High water at the plant of the Lancaster Electric Light Company at Rock Hill, on the Conestoga, affected the system, and parts of the city are in darkness to-night. The Susquehanna river Is rising rapidly, At Safe Harbor, where the Conestoga empties, the rife In the river is at the rate of six inches an hour. The tracks of the Port Deposit & Columbia Railroad at thi3 point are submerged and much apprehenion is felt for property on low-lying ground. At Haid Friar, farther down the river, a landslide has occurred, covering the tracks at Columbia ami Marietta. The river has not yet risen sutneiently to cause alarm. River Are IUhIiik nt Pi Unhurt. PITTSIH'RC;. Dt-c. :. Heavy rains for thirty-six hours here and at all headwater points on both rivers have produced a condition which will result in what may be called a flood stage In the Ohio river by tomorrow, when a height of at least twenty feet is predicted. Timely warning by the weather bureau will be the nruans of saving much property and only temporary incon venience is expected by Interests along the river fronts. At midnight the marks at Davis island dam showed fourteen fett and rising at the rate of rive inches an hour. Both the Allegheny and Menongahela are fctlll rising. 3Ineh Damage in Went Vir in la. 1IINTON, W. Va., Dec. Heavy rains here for the patt thirty-six hours have caused Greenbrier and New rivers to be come very high. They are rising six Inches per hour. The damage along both streams will be heavy. The Chesapeake & Ohio tunr.fi at Allegheny is blocked by cars be-1-ig derailed by a landslide. APPROXIMATES A IHSASTKH. Flood nt Knoxville, Tenn., Inspected. to Initial that of Laut May. KNOX VILLR, Tenn., Dec. 23. Incessant rains for the past -forty eight hours throughout East Tennessee threaten to do as much damage to property as In the dis astrous flood of last May, when eight lives were lost and fuliy $2,000,000 of damage was done to railroad and farming- property. The Southern Railway has annulled all trains between this city and Asheville, N. ('.. owing to water-covered and perhaps badly washed tracks between Newport and Rankin. All through traffic and mail will be handled over the Norfolk & Western. It will be impossible for the Southern to handle trains east via Asheville until late to-morrow, at leaft, and possibly longer, for rain is still falung. T)e Tennessee river is nearlng the thirtyfoot mark at this point, with indications that It will reach forty feet and do heavy u image. Tennessee River at Flood Tide. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 23. Heavy rains over the entire upper basin of the Tennessee river will produce a flood tide. The weather bureau predicts that the river will pass the danger line here by noon to morrow, r loou warnings were sent from here this morning to Knoxville and King ston and over tho Tower river as far as Paducah, Ky. Hirer n. linking Torrent. COLUMIJUS, Ga., Dec. 20. Owing to the recent rains the Chattahoochee river at this point is a raging torrent, tho water having risen to a point thirty-eight feet above low-water mark. The large stone nam of the Columbus Power Company on .orin jiignianda DroKe in two places touy. Washouts on Alabama Roads. MOBILE, A!a., Dec 20.-IIeavy rainfalls throughout South Alabama yesterday caused washouts, which delayed all trains. There has been no train between Mobile and Montgomery on tho Louisville & Nashville In tho last twenty-four hours. Resignation of a Beloved Pastor. CLCVEiaXD. Dec. 23. The Itev. W. I Plckara. formerly pastor of the Broadwav Baptist Church of Louisville, Ky., and for me past rour years pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city, has accented a call to the First Baptist Church at WEATHER FORECAST. Tartly Clomly To-IJay anil To-Mor-row, with Northwesterly Winds. WASHINGTON, Dec. CO. Weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Ohio and Indiana Partly cloudy on Monday and rrobab!y on Tuesday; fresh northwesterly winds. For Illinois Cloudy on Monday and Tues day; fresh northwest winds, becoming southwest. Local Observation on Sunday. Bar. Ther. B.II. Wind Wther. Pre. 7a.m..:j.5: ro N'west. Cloudy. T 4 p. m..rj.i 31 t North. Lt. snow. T Maximum temperature, S3; minimum tem perature, zs. Comparative statement of the mean tern P'Tature and total precipitation on Sun day, Dec. Temp. Normal ; Mean ;;) Departure 00 Departure since Dec. 1 i Pre. .10 T .10 1.14 Departure since Jan. 1 ZZ3 12.11 Plus. W. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. Mia. t p. m. Atlanta. Gi Bismarck. N. D Buffalo. N. Y Calgary, N. W. T Chicago. Ill 28 Cairo. Ill 32 Cheyenne. Wyo 3; Cincinnati. O .... 3Davenport, la " Des Moines. la. IX) Galveston. Tex Helena. Mont Jacksonville. Fla Kansas City, Mo M Little Rock. Ark 3 Marquette, Mkh Memphis, Tenn 2S Nashville. Tenn 34 New Orleans. Ia New York city North Platte. Neb 32 Oklahoma, U. T... 30 Omaha, Neb IS Pittsburg, Pa 31 Qu" Appelle, N. W. T Rapid City, S. D 44 Fait Lake City E! Ft. Iu1a, Mo 30 Ft. Paul. Minn Fprlngf.eld. Ill 31 Springfield. Mo 24 Vlckburg, Mia 3 Washington, D. C & 40 31 60 30 40 31 31 21 51 4 to 4. r.2 4S Zh 41 62 hi : 3S zs 40 34 3S 30 31 42 44 on M 30 34 3 34 2S 54 4S 2; 3S 31 42 4S 40 4H 31 34 40 44 34 M 30 3S 4ö 40

STEAMSHIP ARRIVAL. NEW YORK. Dc. 23. Arrived: St. from Southampton.

Paul,

Lynchhursr. Va. When Dr. Pickard an-

nouneed his determination to leave the church many of the congregation burst Into tears. HEADED OFF A PLOT. Warden of the Leu vrnworth Prison Prevented Another Outbreak. LKAVENWOHTII. Kan., Dec. .-War den McCIaughey. of the United States Penitentiary, headed off a plot yesterday planned by five of the convict mutineers of Nov. 7, which embraced the po.-slble death of Deputy Warden Frank Iemon and a guard, R. G. Rrown, the capture of' the guard's armory and another delivery of prisoners. The ringleader in the plot is Gilbert Mullins, who held up and disarmed Sheriff Cook and part of the Topeka police force. Frank Thompson, the big negro, Frederick Robinson, Rob Clark and Turner Rarnes were the other four. The plot was exposed by a fellow-convict. who overheard the mutineers talking. Mul lins had obtained a tile and another con vict a case knife. It was planned to tile off the shackles. On Saturday, when four convict barbers came to shave the prisoners in the stone-breaking shed, the razors were to be seized and the guards rushed. SUIT AGAINST A "TRUST" SOUTH CAIIOLI.XA BHGINS ACTION LMHIIt A i:W LAW. Seekn to DImnoIvc the Carolina- Irulnln Chemical Company, Alleging u Monopoly. COLUMBIA. S. C, Dec. 29. The State of South Carolina, through its attorney general, G. Duncan Bellinger, has begun suit against the Virginia-Carolina Chem ical Company, charging it with being a "trust" and monopoly. Under the same act that this suit Is brought six of the large South Carolina phosphate companies that have been purchased by the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company are sued In the same action. The attorney general, in his complaint. sets forth that the Virginia-Carolina Chem ical Company has purchased or obtained absolute control of many phosphate factories, cotton-seed oil mi'ls and phosphate lands in every county in the State, and that In most counties farmers are forced to sell to Its oil mills, having no other mar ket. If the court can establish that the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical Company Is a monopoly that purposes to control the fer tilizer trade In this State, then the pro cess provided by the act of the last Legis lature would require all the fertilizer and oll-mlll companies that have passed un der control of the monopoly or trust to resume control of the properties, refunding to the Virglna-Carohna Chemical Company the amounts paid for the properties. Pending the resumption of business by the domestic companies, receivers appointed by the state courts would take charge of ana operate the properties. The charter granted the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com pany all foreign corporations having to bo chartered in this State before doing business would be canceled immediately, and the company would be excluded from the State. , FLUE KENTUCKY COLTS. ItnuKht ty ChlcHffo Horsemen from Noted Jlluejrrass Breeder. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 2D. M. L. Tichenor and M. J. Newgass, of Chicago, pur chased of W, T. Muir, of Lexington, the three-year-old filly Sweet Billie, by Fal setto, dam Maybe, for $2.0W. They also bought of John K. Madden three colts by Imp. Ton Gallant, Imp. Mirthful and Ber muda, respectively; from Hiram Scroggun. of Louisville, two colts by Imp. Florist and one by Dr. Rice, and from ion Jones, of Louisville, a colt by Imp. Florist. The purchases will be raced this spring. Mr. IJams Denies a Report. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Dec. 29. W. I. IJams, president of the American Trotting Association, denies a report that there will be a consolidation of the American and National trotting associations. He says the only foundation for such a report is that committees from the two associations will meet on Jan. 7 at New York to discuss Jointly amendments to rules so that th-.y may be as nearly uniform as possible. The American Association will hold its congress in May and the National In June. The President Will ot Preside. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. In a communi cation to Baron Coubartin. president of the Olympic games to be held In Chicago in 1901, President Roosevelt has Indicated that it will not be possible for him to preside on that occasion, as it had been hoped he. would. The President takes the keenest in terest in the contests which are to be the features of the games, and so expressed himself to Baron Coubartin, but regretted that lor various reasons It would be Im possible for him to preside. "Want Triie l ights Legalised. CLEVELAND, Dec. 29. It is probable that Cleveland sporting men will ask the State legislature to permit boxing contests In this city for money prizes. They st?te that without a purse, good men cannot be secured, and the present law makes a contest wherein money is at stake illegal. Matt J. Hlnkle, of Cleveland. Is said to be the prime mover in the matter. OBITUARY. Dr. John Ilcll, Highest Itnnklnir Pythian in the AVorld. BENTON HARBOR. Mich., Dec. 29. Dr. John Bell, the highes ranking Knight of Pythias in the world and one of the best known physicians in southwestern Michigan, died here to-day. lie was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and was elected major general of the Uniform Rank. Knights qf Pythias of ,the World, in lü'S. Felix G. l'arrell. JACKSONVILLE, 111., Dec. 20.-Felix G. Farrell, a well-known banker and one of tho wealthiest men in this part of the State, died here this morning, aged seventytwo, lie organized the First National Bank here in 1S04, Y0SEJIITE MEN PROTEST. They "Want the Medals Awarded to Other Men in the .a. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 29. Binglcy R. Fales. president of the United States Steamer Yosemita Association, on behalf of the men who served on the United States steamer Yosemlte during the Spani.-h-American war, to-day sent to Secretary of T . , . Uie avy xoiik rmiwi iitcami wie re port of the naval board of awards, which was adverse to ue granting or service medals to the crew of that ship. The message requests b.-cretary Long to withhold his approvkl of the report In order that arguments may be submitted In favor of granting th medals to the men. The appeal is In behalf of 27) Michigan officers and men. Murdered Iiy n I'nro Denier. SHAWNEE. O. T., Dec. LU-Charles McKnixht. a faro dealer, shot and killed Willlard Sims, a saloon keeper, and u boy named Hepst'dter in a gambling room here to-day. McKniht and Sims had quarreled. To-day Sims went to the gambling resort and threatened to kill McKnlght. McKnight drew a revolver and killed Hepstedter, a bystander, after which he killed Sims.

MISS CROPSEY'S FUNERAL

i.mmi:si: crowds at tiii: snitvicrs ix i:lizabi:tii city. Rod)- Will He Taken to IJrooklyn for Rurlul Feeling Against Wilcox Im .Nut So Violent. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, Dec. 2D.-Fu-neral services over the body of Miss Nellie Cropsey, whose remains were discovered in the Pasquotank river after a search lasting several weeks, were held in the Methodist Church here to-day. The church was crowded to suffocation and the street leading to it was lined with people, who uncovered as the hearse drove past. The Rev. R. R. Tuttle conducted the services, assisted by the Rev. C. W. Duke and the Rev. J. B. Forbes, of the Baptist Church. At the conclusion of the' services the body was placed in the Sunday-school room and later will bo taken by Andrew G. Cropsey, uncle of the girl, to Brooklyn for burial. The citizens' committee investigating the affair acted as pallbearers to-day. The Jail in which young Wilcox, who was arrested for alleged participation in the girl's death, lies only a stone's throw from the church. Wilcox knew the funeral was in progress, but showed no emotion and merely Inquired If a large crowd was present, .lie is more nervous than yesterday, but retains much of the easy manner that has characterized him at all times. Thcguards were withdrawn from the jail today and permitted to go home. Public sentiment Is strong against Wilcox, but there is less talk of lynching, and some of J he ministers to-day took occasion in their sermons to advise against mob violence. Wilcox absolutely refuses, under advice of his attorney, to say anything regarding the case. He asserts that the first statement made by him covers all he Knows of the ease. He Is charged with the murdef of the giri, and as the offense Is not bailable in this State he will have to stay in Jail pending a trial. It is believed he will waive an examination and permit hla case to go direct to the grand jury next March. The Rev. L. L. Williams, rector of the Episcopal Church, during his morning sermon alluded to the Cropsey case and said the people should not act hastily in condemning Wilcox. He advised his hearers not to commit any overt act, but to allow the law to take its course. R. W. Turner, a member ff the citizens' committee, asserted to-day that they would have sufficient evidence to connect Wilcox with the crime. He said: "We know Mls Cropsey was killed by a blow on the head with a sandbag or blackjack. If the blow was strircfc while she was on the porch then her unconscious form was dragged across the lawn to thi river, only a short distance away. If the blow was struck on the lawn we are convinced she was induced to cross the lawn by Wilcox and that while walking across she was struck by him. There is another witness who mav be called upon to testify. It Is R. F. Parker, who told his wife the night after Miss Cropsey disappeared tht he had seen Wilcox dragging a girl across the road in front of the Wilcox residence. We will investigate that." KILLED IN WRECK. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) one or two passengers are buried under the debris caused by the slide, but no names can be ascertained of any passenger known to be missing. The train to which the mishap occurred was known as No. 9. It left Lynchburg, west-bound, behind schedule time, and consisted of an engine, tender, baggage car and one passenger car, which was pretty well filled with travelers. In explanation of the casualties lt Is stated that the train had run into a rock slide without damage and the trainmen and some of the passengers had succeeded In pushing the passenger car back from under the cliff. They were trying to do the same thing for the baggage car when a second heavy slide came down. The car was over turned and Thompson, Fisher and Shannon were crushed. Conductor Whittaker was knocked Into the river and drowned. Ills body has not been recovered. A shout of warning as the second slide came enabled most of those who were in danger to escape without in jury. Feare are expressed that one or more passengers may have been caught, but fo far as can be learned none is known to be missing. All the killed were residents of Richmond. WRECKS IX ALABAMA. One Man Killed and Three Injured in Two Railroad Accidents. OPELIKA, Ala., Dec. 2D.-Two fre'ght wrecks occurred on the Western Railway of Alabama last night within thirty miles of each other on account of the heavy rains, which flooded the track, causing two embankments to give way. One man was killed, threo injured and the property loss Is heavy. The Dead. THOMAS RUSSELL, engineer. The Injured. CY LEE, negro fireman. B. W. JACKSON, engineer. NEGRO FIREMAN, name unknown. COLLISION AT BIRMINGHAM. One Man Killed and Two Injured at Traction Line CronMlng. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 2D. An East Lake-street car collided with a number of freight cars attached to a switch engine at Twenty-seventh street and First avenue at 5:13 o'clock this morning and one man was killed and two others Injured. The dead: E. W. JONES, conductor on street car. The Injured Ed Green, negro brakeman, both legs broken and head crushed; II. M. Tente, Woodlawn, bruised on legs. The car. it is said, was going at a rapid rate of speed. The engine was pushing the freight cars ahead of lt. and the first two cars were thrown from the track and Conductor Jones was killed beneath one of them. Reports conllict as to whether the ptreet car stopped before starting to cross the railroad track. Wreck on the Illinois Central. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 29.-The southbound Diamond special on the Illinois Central road was "wrecked this morning at 4 o'clock at Starness crossing, three miles eat of here. Engineer McCormick. of Clinton, was seriously Injured on the head and back. Fireman John Wainwright, of Clinton, was slightly injured. The accident was caused by the rail of the interlocker being turned against the Central train. Smallpox Quarantine Established. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20. Because of tho alleged prevalence of smallpox in Madison, 111., the City Council of Granite City, at a special meeting, has declared a quarantine against the neighboring town and authorized the employment or guards to enforce it. The Council has appealed to the siHte authorities and expects the militia to b called on to make the quarantine secure. Arbitration Proposition. TOPEKA. Kan., Dec. 2X Two thousand per. pie attended a p:o-Boer meeting here to-day. and resolutions urging England to ! invite th President of the I nited States and the ruler of Denmark to act as arbitrator In the fettlemtnt of the war were adopted. lr.e resolutions were cabled to , London. Addresses were made by Davidt I Overmyer, Gen. J. K. Hudson and others. Vreckuse on Cope Flattery PORT TOWN 5 END, Wash.. Dec. Advices from Neah bay ay a large amount of wreckage Is being found on the beach south of Cape FHttery, among which is a broken rowboat. several oars arid life preservers. Some bidding was also found on various p.irts of the beach. It is thought that the wreckage was part of the collier Mattewan. Muile Death Certain. HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. Dec. 29. Herman Hoffman, of Iowa, killed himself at Barry Hospital to-day. Last Thursday Hoffman

cut his throat in an attempt at suicide. He was recovering rapidly in the hospital, when he secured a tanle knife and jabbed in the opening in 'his throat, severing the jugular vein. APARTMENT HOUSE BURNS.

Serious I 'Ire C'nnsetl In Chlenjco by n Christum Celebration. CHICAGO, Dec. 20. A Christmas tree loaded with inflammable ornaments and candles caused a fire to-night that destroyed the Alexander apartment building, a six-story structure, corner of Bowen avenue and Cottage Grove avenue. The loss will exceed $100,Xn. Twenty families lived in the building and the fiames spread so rapidly that a score 'of persons barely escaped with their lives. There was only one stairway in the building and escape by that avenue was cut off by the fiames and smoke. When the firemen reached the scene the frightened occupants were hanging to window ledges and the fire escape. Ladders were raised as fast as possible, but several of the tenants were painfully burned be tote they were rescued. Fire Cuuied by VICTORIA, B. C, Crossed "Wires. Dec. 23. Spencer's Arcade, Victoria's big department store, was gutted by lire and flooded with water Saturday night. The loss is estimated at a quarter of a million dollars and the insurance amounts to about $125.000. The fire was caused by crossed electric wires in the carpet department. Many Bales of Cotton Burn. HOPE, Ark., Dec. 23. Between eight hun dred and one thousand bales of cotton burned to-day at the Planters' warehouse and on the railroad platform adjoining. Loss, $50((.kj; fully covered by insurance. SIGN OF PROGRESS. ( CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PA C, E.I companion to the statue of Eafayette. The work of casting the bronze will be begun this week. It is hoped the finished statue will be ready to send to the United States nextApril. Thinks It "Clear the Air." LONDON, Dec. CO. The Daily News, a Liberal organ, to-day admits that Lord Rosebery has declined to act with the Liberal party, and, although the paper regrets his voluntary severance from this party, it thinks it well that the air has been cleared and that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is more firmly installed in the leadership. British Prisoners Helensed. LONDON, Dec. 29. The War Office has received a dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated at Johannesburg, saying that the British prisoners captured when the Boers suceessfully rushed Colonel Firman's camp at Zefontein on Dec. 21 have been liberated and have returned to Bethlehem. Socialist Riots In Naples. NAPLES, Dec. 20. The arrival here of the Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Ferry, to address a meeting, resulted in turbulent demonstrations, which the troops were called out to suppress. Wholesale arrests were made. Rockefeller's Clifts. New York Evening Post. Mr. Rockefeller's latest gift to the University of Chicago took the form of $l,(XVto to be added to the general endowment fund and $250,oiO to be Used in paying current expenses for 1001-2. This makes tho to tal of his donations to the invested funds of the university nearly $:,ooo,0u0. A peculiar merit attaches to the terms of his latest contribution. Many men stand ready to erect buildings or establish chairs to bear their names. Few are willing to give to a general fund in which their munificence will be swallowed up with that -of others. Yet it is very often the case that institutions need resources for the proper payment of their teaching force and for the thousand minor details of administration much more urgently than for new laboratories or recitation halls. And it is Just such wise gifts as Mr. Rockefeller's that enable skilled college administrators to work. most successfully for sound learning. In the nnnals of philanthropy it should be recorded that neither the University of Chicago nor .any of its departments or chairs has received the name of its founder. Hovr It Works. Chicago Post. "There." he said, "you have your new hat at last." "Yes." she replied, "and now. I want a new gown." "But it was when you got your last new gown that you began to Insist upon a hat to go with it." he protested. "True," she admitted, "but the gown has got shabby while I was waiting for the hat. You shoud have let me get them both together. "What would have been tho result?" he asked. Here she hesitated, for she was a truthful woman. "Well," she said, "I suppose they would both have been so shabby by this time that 1 would want a new hat and a new gown." He gave a sigh of relief. "In that case," he said, "I have lost nothing by failing to get them both together, and we will try the see-saw method awhile longer." Not n New Pol ley. Washington Star. Mr. Roosevelt's policy of conferring with Democratic leaders about appointments where Republican sources of information is not altogether satisfactory Is wise, but it did not originate with him. Mr. Arthur, who reached the presidency under very distressing circumstances, found it advisable to take reliable Democratic opinion about a number of appointments, and even General Harrison, who was rated as a hard-and-fast partisan and a man little given to consulting with even the leaders of his own party, now and then called on a Democrat for an opinion In a hot contest for place between two energetic Republicans. Mr. McKinley sought Democratic advice about both men and measures, and always obtained it. Mr. Roosevelt is In line with excellent precedents, and there can be no doubt that he will proiit by the course he Is pursuing. Johnson Not Interested. CLEVELAND. O.. Dec. 29. Regarding the statement that he is Interested in the quo warranto proceedings against several Ohio railroads begun at Columbus, Mayor Johnson to-day said: "The proceedings are news to me, and I knew nothing of the matter until I saw the Columbus dispatches. I am absolutely not connected with the suits in any shape, manner nor form." Minister Dudley Is Better. CHICAGO. Dec. 2t. T. B. Dudley, United States minister to Peru, who submitted to an operation for appendicitis at Mercy Hospital several weeks ago. left the hospital to-day and returned to the home of his brother, W. F. Dudley, in Evanston. He will remain in Evanston until he regains sufficient strength to travel. Then he will go to his home in California. Billiard Player Cnrter In Extrem!.. CHICAGO. Dec. 29. Eugene Carter, known the country over as one of the greatest billiard players cf the last decade, Is dying at his home in this city. Late tonight the physicians In attendance expressed their belief that the noted billiard expert would rot live through the night. He Is stricken with a complication of pulmonary troubles. Mnreonl nt Montreal. MONTREAL. Que.. Dec. 2:. Signnr Marconi, inventor of wireless ttlegraphy, arrived here to-day. He Is en route to Ottawa, whither he Is going to consult the Canadian government and to thank the officials for the assistance offered to him. Veterinary Inspeetorn Auiueil. . OTTAWA. Ontario. Dec. 2. The Dominion government has appointed veterinary inspectors for shipping ports between tho United StateM and Canada, under a recent agreement between the countries. C.en. Seamans Im I) Imk. WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-The condition of Adjutant General Seamans, of California, who has been ill here for more than two weeks. Is very critical to-night. H fails to respond to the medicines given to him.

RELIGION AND EDUCATION

THE LORD'S PRAYER NOT IWCOXSTITLTIONAL IX INDIANA, Xor In Any of the Stuten Cnrved Out of the Northwest Territory How the Law I UiNreKiirdeil. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The opinion of the attorney general of Minnesota that the Constitution of the State forbids the reading of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools may be good law in Minnesota, but It is not in Indiana; on the contrary, the fundamental law of this State not only peremptorily demands its reading or the reading of its equivalent in every public school from the kindergarten grade to the State University, but what it stands for mut-t be carefully taught in the schools of every grade until our fundamental law is changed by an act of Congress with the consent of the State of Virginia, lt is a popular fallacy that the people of Indiana are ct liberty to amend their fundamental law at pleasure. We are under limitations from which we cannot be relieved except through a successful revolution or by act of Congress. Some people do not know, and some who once knew have forgotten, that the territory out of which the State of Indiana was carved once belonged to the State of Virginia, and that she ceded it to the United States subject to certain conditions, and that the United States, in the ordinance of 17b7, by which a territorial government was organized for the whole territory, Incorporated those conditions and restrictions in the ordinance, alleging that "they shall be considered as articles of compact be tween the original States and tho people and States in said territory, and forever remain unalterable except by common con sent." By "compact," therefore, we are under those conditions, and they outrank in authoiity any State Constitution. Some of these conditions were prohibitory only others mandatory, requiring certain obligations. Among the prohibitions the "shallnots" was one forbidding slavery in any of the States to be formed out of the ceded territory. The first settlers on the north banks of the Ohio river brought slaves with them and sought to make slave States out of Indiana and Illinois, but the "compact" prevented, and slavery was kept out. Among the mandatory conditions the "shalls" was one that read: "The States which may be formed therein shall forever remain a part of the confederacy of the United States." They have remained, and they helped to persuade Virginia not to go out when, later on, she thought of going. Another shall reads as follows: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." The bearing of this "compact" upon religion ami morality in the schools of the State is too obvious to need more than the mere mention. They go hand in hand with all that Is included in the work of knowledge as used in the requirement of the compact, hence the use of the Lord's Prayer and whatever is authority on religion and morality is not only merely tolerated, but enjoined. These essentials to good government and the happiness of mankind cannot be divorced. WHAT INDIANA DID. The State of Indiana, fully recognizing its obligations under the compact, in its first Constitution provided that as .soon as possible the Legislature should provide for a system of free graded schools, such as this conditio! contemplated, from the township school to a state university, lt could have thought of no other kind. . As a historic fact, however, nothing was done to "encourage" oven the common schools for more than a third of a century, and nothing for a state university for more than fifty years, though meanwhile the proceeds of certain school lands were used to help support tho common schools, and one of the private college corporations of the State received the proceeds of the township of land given by the government to the State for "a seminary of learning," but it was in no other sense a State institution than that it alone enjoyed this bit of favoritism. Meanwhile the constitutional convention of 1S51 eliminated from the kind of schools to receive State aid all schools above the grad-? of common schools, but the curriculum of the common schools has wisely been so extended that graduates from our high school branch of the common schools are almost as well equippXd as the average graduate from collegfs. and In spite of the elimination of coll?es from th schools which are to receive State aid large appropriations are made to one of the private colleges of the Statrt which has no other claim to being a State institution than that it alone receives such State aid, but at no stage of tins development have the people ordered or consented that religion and morality shall not be taught in State schools. Yet in practice it has come to pass that they are so relegated to the rear, and If taught at all, it is in such a beg-pardon. apologetic manner as to give pungency to the sarcasm of Rev. J. dimming Smith In a recent sermon on "Half-hearted Religion," as follows: "We have discriminated between secular education and religious culture until the church is looked upon too much like a foreign affair, a mere fungus growth, sep arate from the vital organization itself, a piece of stucco work rather than a pillar in the architecture, much as if it had been imported from China and foisted upon our civilization." SITUATION IN MICHIGAN. What the divorcement of religion and morality from the other things that tend to good government and human happiness means may be seen in the State of Michigan in greater maturity and perfection than anywhere rise in America state universities being indigenous to the West for to this day nothing corresponding with what Michigan University is and our State University aspires to become is found east of the State of Ohio. With the beginning of statehood, sixty-five years ago, Michigan planned for a mammoth university in which religion and morality should not be taught as any part of education, notwithstanding the compact that was as binding cn that State as on Indiana. What this meant from a money point of view is seen in a late official report, which .shows that fiom lbTO to l?1), inclusive, the expenses of the university were f 10,319,'tol, and, as showing the steady and rapid increase, the expenses of were JCöS.ulL', of which -'..Zij wtre irom direct taxation, or cents for every vottr in .he State. To show for this they have a large and beautiful campus, well provided with costly and commodious buildings and every possible material appliance for every learned profession but the ministerial, with 2C0 teachers and assistants and an aggregate enrollment of 3,712 students in the several departments; yet in all these there is not a text-book on religion nor a teacher any part of whose duty It is to teach anykind of religion. As if to emphasize the thought that religion is "a mere fungus growth, a bit of stucco work." an extra campus of ten acres, expensively fitted up, is dedicated to football and similar means of muscular training, under the supervision of well-paid professors, and two gymnasiums are under the care ol trained teachers of gymnastics, but when a few of the young men who had come from religious homes, with religious convictions, wanted a place In which they might meet for religious purposes there was no place found In all the expensive buildings, except temporarily, for them. To meet the emergency, however, one of the professors was detailed to travel throufth the State and solicit donations from Christian people, who paid large, taxes to the university, for the building of a hall just enough outside the university ground. not to suggest any official connection wKh the university, and yet sufficiently near to seem to b- a recognition of religion. In this a few of the religious students meet for work as members of the Y. M. C. A., and their affiliation is with the association more than with the university. No teacher has any official connection with lt as teachers havw with the baseball grounds. Seeing that this utter ignoring of religion and morality needed an apology, the Calendar for l:oi. under the head of "Aids to Moral and Religious Culture," as much cs says the churches of the city are exrected to look after such minor matters. It; language U: "The churches of the city ore cordially thrown open to the students, whose Interedt are largely consulted by the pastors in their pulpit in-

structlons and their plans of work," and ! then follow the names of eleven denomlna- j

tlons represented In this aiding business. with the further information that there are guilds and other societies In these several churches for religious and moral culture. The physical culture could not be left with r'iilds and outside associations the university looks after that. This Is positively the sum total of all that is attempted in this the oldest and largest state university In America. It is practically all that can be done by any state university while they are dominated by the spirit of the Trench infidelity which was Imported by Thomas Paine a hundred years ago and which was first to dictate state control of universities and colleges with the contention that religion should never be taught In them. But whatever may be true west of the Mississippi river, it never can be true in Indiana or Michigan or any of the five States carved out of the old Northwest Territory until the "compact" Is altered by common consent. WHAT CHRISTIANS MUST DO. Although I have shown that the Lord's Prayer may not only be read In public schools in Indiana, but lt or its equivalent must be read and studied as assiduously as a text-book in grammar should be, the colossal fact remains that nothing of the kind is taught in our public schools, or, if at all, only as a secondary matter, a fungus growth or a bit of stucco work giving a substantial justification for parochial schools even while yet the child Is under the immediate eye of the parents, but furnishing an unanswerable reason why colleges must be built and endowed wherein religion and morality hold no second place during that crucial period of young life in which character is formed. Parents may well desire that the brain and brawn of their children shall be well developed in the recitation room and the gymnasium or the baseball held under the instruction of cultured men, working as a unit in the college, but all religious parents must protest against relegating their religious and moral training wholly to the haphazard chances of rival churches or the social and religious influences of guilds and associations in no way connected with the college or unlver&lty. , In any thinking or planning upon this grave question one thing must be reckoned as a fixed. fact. The place that was given Infidelity in the first two decades of the nineteenth century is likely to abide even in Michigan and Indiana, where the very opposite is demanded by an unchanged com pict. What then? It is unthinkable that in this age of growing Christian activities such a condition can continue. Evidently, the churches must build and endow colleges In which their children may be trained to love the church and live for it. This has been done, and can be done again. There are undeveloped Evanses and Rockefellers and De Pauws and Butlers and Yandtses who will come to the. front when they understand the wants of the period, offering their hundreds of thousands, and many who are less affluent will bring their tens of thousands to meet special emergencies in the way of improving plant, but most of all should be the humbler fives and tens annually to meet current expenses, not neglecting the dollars and the dimes of the frugal wage earners who are planning to send their own sons and daughters to college when they get old enough, and this is to be as regular and as endless as contributions to build colleges In India or China. Christians will, if they must, continue to pay taxes to support State colleges where the teaching of religion and morality is farmed out to the city churches while the chief aim is to develop muscle, but, constituting nine-tenths of the taxpayers, it will not be strange that, sooner or later, they will put these on shorter allowance, seeing that after all It costs every Individual student practically as much, and sometimes more, at these colleges than at what in derision they are taught to call narrow, sectarian colleges. Hence, though the expenses of our own State college are as great as the expense of the Michigan at its age, it is hardly probable that In 1131 it will be a half million, more than half of which is from direct taxation. Indianapolis. Dec. 2S. U. L. SEE. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION. An Enjoynlile Entertainment nt South Side Turners' Hull. Christmas was celebrated at the South Side Turnverein last night with exercises by the gymnasium classes, the presentation of gifts to their members and a dance after the programme. The programme began with an overture by the orchestra. Henry Victor delivered an address in which he spoke encouragingly of the work of the society and its enthusiastic membership. A portion of his address was to the children. He told them of the purpose of the training school and asked -hem to all grow up to be good and active Turners. Alter the address all of the classes marched to the stage singing in German. Miss Hattio Sander delivered the Christmas greeting." and Miss Minnie Latz the 'Christmas feast." The first class of young ladies then gave an exercise with rings andthe first boys' class a baton and pyramid rrill. The second part of the programme began with a selection by the orchestra and the entrance of Kris Kringle, clad In robes and furs, who readily found the large Christmas tree that stood at one side of the stage and handed out presents. The children crowded near him, and the little ones looked at the fat, rosy-cheeked Kris with wondering eyes. After this the second division of the second class of young ladles gave an exhibition of dumbbell exercises and the second division of the second boys' class a baton drill. The first division of the second young ladies' class gave a scarf drill, and the progrumme closed with a running and pyramid exercise by the first division of the second boys' class. After the exercise by each class presents were given to its members, and those who had not missed a lesson during the year received special prizes. Klrt Toll, physical director, was presented with $50 In gold by tho boys' classes, and the young ladles' classes gave him several articles of furniture. Llederkrnnx Christmas Tree. The members of the Indianapolis Liederkranz gave their Christmas entertainment last night. The entertainment included the distribution of prizes from a large Christmas tree. Dancing was Indulged in after the entertainment. A RECORD-BREAKING YEAR. In All I,Ine ot Sports Great Work W'nn Done. During the year 1901 record upon record was broken In tho sporting world. There are four pugilists who probably wish they could eliminate the year from their history, for during that time they went down in defeat. Terry McGovern was defeated by Young Corbett and Matty Matthews went down before Rube Ferns, who in turn was defeated by Joe Wckott. Harry Forbes wrested the bantam championship from Danny Dougherty. Jeffries is the only man that defended his title. Tompny Kyan and Frank Brne, the miaaie ana light weight champions, did not fight, and their titles were not at stake. On the running turf Alcedo, In the famous Suburban, lowered the record for that rac e, making the distance in 2:05 3-f . In athletics John Flannagran broke all records in hammer and discuss throwing for all weights and distances. He threw the hammer JT'J feet and Inch. Arthur E. Duffy ran forty yards m rive seconds, beating the world's record. Ii. W. Workman made the half mile In 1:37 3-5. The fifty-vard hurdle record was lowered to seven seconds by W. B. Tewksbury. l'law, the Knivtrsity of California athlete, put the shot 42 feet and 7 Vi inches, and threw the hammer 171 feet and 2 inches in exhibition. In the wrestling world a new champion was found in Tom Jenkins, who defeated Dan McLeod. In billiards Jacob Schacfer defeated all the cracks of the green cloth. In football Harvard won the championship in the East and Michigan and Wiseonj' v-n the West. Two deaths resulted from boxing and two famous pugilltsts expired during the year. John Dion and August Iteir.igcr died from tliluJ ui iihiits u.wa Peter Jackson and George Godfrey died from natural causes. E. Carroll SchaenVr carried oft all the honors in the swimming contest, lowering the American 2Jü-yard record from 2:S3 3-5 to 2:50 4-5. Henri Fournler was developed as a champion in the automobile sport. Creseeus. the new kin of trotters, came to the front and established a mark of m V . 4 Attempted BtirInry Alleged. John Flnley, I 'at Moran. George McCarty and Earl Peats, the first two of whom are well-known to all . policemen because of their criminal records, were arrested Ute

last night at the South Side Turner H.!l n I charged with attempted burglary. A

holiday ntert.iinrn'!it was Pfirg giver, and the boy?5 made pn attempt to break Into the checkroom at a time when It was unguarded, and wre caught by Srg int Schroeder and Patrolmen ilillman and Henry Pope. Several pawn tick ts nnd a number of rings, from which the Jewels had been removed, were found en th boys w h n sarchcd. It Is thought they hive been connected with a number of the recent robberies. Kinky and Moran have seeral times during tl last year had narrrw escapes from the State's prisons and have served terms in the workhouse. MRS. BEULAH A. DICKSON DEAD. She Was Eight) -Kluht Year Old, nd Hiiel Loiik Been Sick. The funeral of Mrs. Beulah A. Dickson, who died Saturday afternoon of old age, after an Illness of five years, will be held to-day at 1:30 o'clock from the home of her son. Jahn A. Dickson. 402 West Walnut street, with whom she lived. She was eighty-tight years of age and was born la Kranklin county. She lived there for many years and went to Plattsmouth. Neb., removing from there to irvlngton. after which she went to live with her son. Sho first came to Indianapolis about thirtyfive years ago. During the last four years she was bed-ridden and blind. Two daughters nnd a son reside here. Another soa lives in Nebraska and another in Oregon. Death of 31m. LouUe Kenner. Mrs. Louise Fenner, fifty-eight years old, died last night about 8 o'clock. Mrs. Fenner lived with her son, James I. Fenner, la the Taggart flats, corner New York and Delaware streets. She had been 111 for many months. The funeral will be held from her late residence to-morrow afternoon. The burial will be at Crown IIliL MAJOR ME GREW SICK. HI Condition "Will Interfere with Settlement of Municipal Queiitton. Mayor Bookwalter will return from Fort Wayne to-day. It was thought the settlement of the terms of the franchise to be granted the interurban roads might bo agreed upon by him and the Board of Works early in the week, but the serious illness of Major Mcgrew may interpose an obstacle to the desire for early settlement of the qtiestlon. The chairman of the board is suffering from what seems to be an incipient case of grip and is confined to his bed. Without his voice it is hardly probable that any action will be taken in the matter. Charles Magulre. of the board, said last night that it is improbable that anything will be done by the board this week either with the Indianapoll (Southern contract or the interurban tangle. A WOMAN COMPLAINED. Frnnk Untier Arrented for Sellins Liquor on Sunday. The arrest of Frank Butler, a colored porter employed at Fuller's saloon on East Washington street, on a charge of selling liquor on Sunday resulted late last night because of the complaint of a woman living opposite the saloon. She complained to the police that some men who ctme from the ca loon insulted her as sho looked from the window. The police found the saloon doors wide open and a patron In front of the bar. ASSAULTED AND ROBBED. MIclinel MeKlnney "Waylaid near Ills Home Bobbed of Watch and 3Iouey. Michael McKinney, of 34 South West street, was taken to the office of Eisenbciss & Karchner late last night. He was unconscious and remained in that condition for two hours. He had a number. of bad wounds on the head. When he revivcd'lie claimed to have been assaulted on the street near his home. He lost his watch and a small amount of money. He is seventy years ol age zA his condition is serious. CITY NEWS NOTES. George Oriole, who was arrested yesterday by Detectives Colbert and Häuser, 13 charged with stealing $6 from August Hoffman, foreman of the stables of the Home Brewing Company. George Faber, of No. 1219 Union etreet, reported to the police yesterday morning that his house had been entered during the night. The burglars got two watches, several chains and rings and other Jowelry. Girls' Induiitrlnl School Christmas. Christmas for the children of the Girls Industrial School was a pleasant event. Through the liberality of the congregation of Tabernacle Church, Individual friends of the school and the efforts of Mrs. Frank A. Blanchard, the superintendent, the children were made happy by the receipt of useful presents. Mrs. Blanchard devoted $50 of the current fund of the school to the purchase of stockings for its wards and the congregation of Tabenaele Church added to the fund by a collection of J70. With the fund of 512'J Mrs. Blanchard purchased I.OjO pairs of stockings and they were given to the children Saturday afternoon In Tomllnunn Hall. Through the liberality of a friend of the school Mrs. Blanchard was able also to present to the children who were most la need thlrty-slr suits of warm underclothing, s The entertainment provided was enjoyed greatly by the seven hundred students who were present. Mls Pauline Kipp, Miss Dora Messing and Mrs. Shirley Köster furnished the musical numbers of the programme and Prof. T. J. McAvoy delighted the children with recitations. Professor Ellis, of the Franklin, Ind., schools, gave a bhort talk. A number of recitations and songs by the children of the school completed the programme. With a talk by Mrs. Blanchard the programme was concluded. Arrested for Theft of Oati. Detectives Kir.ney nnd Lancaster yesterday arrested Al Smith, lhing on Blake street, and charged him with breaking open a car of the- Big Four road a few nights ago and stealing several packs of oats. Bicycle Policemen Griffin and Manning nrre-sted nt 1 o'clock this morning James Gordon. 71 Indiana avenue, and Creed Bice. 423 Bates stre t. who were said to b Implicated Jn the theft of the oats. The men wer taken from the front end of aa out-bound train which they boarded at the west end of the Union Station. Snloon Keeping Versus Literatur. Harper's Weekly. From Bucharest comes the startling news that the trade of letters has fallen into fich disrepute that two of the leading contei.iporary writers have been compelled to open beer aloons in order to eke out a livelihood. One of them. Caragiale, a popular itoumanlan playwright, was recently called upon for a spee-ch at the conclusion of tho first night performance of his latest play at tho National Theater. He said: "ladles and gentlemen. 1 thank you for your applause, but It won't keep body an i soul together; neither. apparently, will fiction and the drama. If you wl.h to give me material support, come across the strebt to my saloon and have a drink." It Is recorded that the entire audience tooic the hint, and that the playwright has since been well supplied with funds. Those who are constantly caviling at the underpaym nt of playwrights and authors in this country will find this condition of affaire interesting, when compared with the present conditions in the New York library I mart. One or cur playwrights, a man still I in the early thlrtleu. has already amassed a fortune which Is said to reach six fiRures. ; The librettist of some of our popular operas has grown te well-to-do from his royalties that he Is not only enabled to i live in ease and elegance, but he has ac- ! cumulated, at great expanse, perhapn the !'.net collection of literary memuraMlia in this country. We eympathlre heartily with Caragiale and his Boumanlan friends, but there seems r course more cor.gtr.Jal than saloon keeping which Is still open to them. Let them learn Bngllsh ana com to America. ,1 " - 1 What Shnil AVe Have for Dessert T Thl auction rle In th family trr dir It us tmwrr lt to-ay. Try Jt". O. Wlu cliert. I'rt;arl in to rr.lr.ut. No Lakiri hot water und et to cool. Flavora: LmoJ Orar.ce. !cpberry ax.4 birsw trrj. Al Ji jrocer. XO ci. J