Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURKAX, SUNDAY, JANUARY B, 1002.

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Cltt'Di: IttnilKU COMPANY PLACED ix a nccnivKirs haxds. Action Taken to Prevent Creditor Tnklnff Oat Preferred Attachments Aftntnst the Concern. LIABILITIES ARE $5,000,000 X)IRi:CT OIILIGATIOAS $;?,000,OO AND (itAUAMCCS ,(KK),n. Huftine Turned Over to the International Crude Ituhher Company Counsel Statement. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Official announcement was made thl3 afternoon at the office of the Crude Rubber Company that a receiver had been appointed for the company. The announcement was accompanied by the following statement: 'The Crude Rubber Company Is in the hands of a receiver in order to avoid the obtaining of preferences by attachment or otherwise, and in order that all interests may be equally protected. The International Crude Rubber Company succeeds to the business of the Crude Rubber Company, and has taken over the rubber of the Crude Rubber Company for the purpose of avoiding any conflict in selling. This secures to the banks which have advanced on rubber of the old Crude company the highest price for the rubber on which they have loaned, and preserves the largest equity for the creditors of the Crude Rubber Company." The application for a receiver was made to Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit Court, by Attorney William Nel3on Cromwell, and the judge appointed William W. Ladd, Jr. Mr. Cromwell said to-night: "Upon application of Charles R. Flint & Co., Judge Robert R. Prentis, of the Circuit Court of Norfolk, Va., to-day appointed William W. Ladd, jr., as receiver of the Crude Rubber Company in that jurisdiction, and thereupon, in company with Mr. Hill, of my nrm, for Charles R. Flint & Co., and William I Goldbeck, for the Crude Rubber Company, ancillary proceedings were filed before Judge Lacombe, of the United States Circuit Court of this district. The application was considered by Judge Lacombe in chambers early in the day and continued by him later, when Mr. Ladd was appointed receiver for this district also. Tne bond of the receiver in Virginia and New York was fixed at i0t0u0 In each jurisdiction. "This action was taken in the interest of creditors and stockholders of the Crude Rubber Company to prevent preference by attachment and dismemberment of the property and assets. The bill of complaint sets forth the date of the Crude Rubber Company's organization, the terms of its charter and glve.s its present officers as Henry Earle, vice president, and P. Delacy Liebermann, secretary and treasurer. It states also that the company has conducted a large business in South America and this country." According to Mr. Cromwell, the Crude Rubber Company has now a stock of rubber and bills receivable in excess of H'j, nearly all of which is pledged to bankets. Mr. Cromwell said also that the company's direct Ilabilitks are about Jo.OuO.im), added to which are indorsements and Kuuranttes footing up another two million 'ollars. Of this latter amount about Jyju.wO is of the paper of George Watkinson & Co., of Philadelphia, whose failure was announced a tew days ago. When orKai.ized and incorporated in 1S97 under the laws of Virginia the Crude Rubber Company had an authorized capitalization of one million dollars, of which $jo,uoQ was in preferred shares and $1ju,(Aj in common shires. Later the common stock was bought in by the company, so that at this time there is only the JUft.OX) of preferred stock outstanding. Mr. Cromwell is authority for the statement that Flint & Co. held 1.220 shares of the 6.0)0 shares now outstanding. Their par value is Sl'HuuO. Soon after it became known that the Crude Rubber Company was in difficulties announcement was made that the International Crude Rubber Company, in which Charles It. Hint is one of the leading spirits, had acquired the business of the insolvent company by taking over its stock. This was done, it was said, for the purpose of avoiding any legal entanglements resulting from the sale of stock. Mr. Cromwell declined to make public the names of tho Crude Rubber Company's creditors. Nor was he able, he said, to say at this time what prospects, if any, there were that the old company would ever resume business. According to Mr. Flint, the United States Rubber Company, the Rubber Goods Company and several allied corporations are not involved in the troubles of the Crude Rubber Company. Mr. Flint also wished it known that beyond the stockholdings of Charles R. Flint & Co. that firm was not concerned in the Crude Rubber Company's affairs. The primary cause of tho Crude Rubber Company's embarrassment, it is believed. Is due to the adverse weather conditions of the past two years. In tho language of the trade, the winters of !:"' and !d were too "open" to give much of a bn.irn to such rubber goods as bootr ami j l.oes and other rubber wearing apparel. l:u'.iu?e of these conditions the price ol la v r;..ber has declined almost 10 ctnf:; ' : ; ound, so Mr. Flint said to-day. Tiu-y n.-v. schedule of prices issued by the Fr.iiwd States Rubber Company, under date nt Jan. 1. shows an advance in the discount rates of jobbers. Bankruptcy Proceedings. SYRACUSE. N. Y., Jan. 4. A petition was fded at Utica to-day to have Francis W. Gridley, of this city, adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. The moving creditors are Barber Hrothers. of this city; Delancy Parrish, of New York; the Palm Frehlcter Company, of New York, and the 15. P. Goodrich Company, of Akron, O. WILL EXPEND $500,000. Fennwy lvaula Company to Increase Its Facilities at Fort Wayne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Jan. 4. Superintendent McKim. of the local division of the Pennsylvania Company, announced this afternoon that he has secured an appropriation of SCVjCO from the executive board for the improvement of the company's property in this city. The money is not to be used for the badly needed passenger station, but tor tho enlargement of the great machine shop, the extension of the freight depot to two squares in length, ami for the enlargement of the roundhouse. The shops, which now employ l.Se-O men, will then employ over I.ÖO'J. Business men are greatly pleased at the prospect of a boom in trade. State to lie Sued for $.".tHK,000. CHICAGO, Jan. 4. The Record-Herald to-morrow will say: "Damages amounting to at least $r,Crf),0oC, and po?sibly to more ' than double that sum. will be brought by the management of the Michigan Central Railroad against the State of Michigan. Suit to recover for Ios already occasioned and to be occasioned In the years to come through the forced forofeiture of the special charter of the Miehlen Central will be It gun in the United States Court as soon as the ass-'-s merit of damages can be determined by careful calculation. The legal controversy grows out of the recent law parsed by the legislature of the State fixing the maximum charges per mile for pasivnger Fervlce at 2 cents. Attorney Win"eton, who represents the Michigan Central here, confirms the report." 31 r. J!InlouM Ofllcea. ST. PAUL, Jan. 4. It deve!oped that Joseph W. Iilabon not only succeeds Darius Miller as chief of the traffic department of tho Great Northern Railway, with a vice president's title, but also has been elected ortüident tf the Northern SteamshiD Com

pany, and president of the Great Northern Kxpress Company, two o trices which Mr. Miller also rilled. R. I. Farrington has been elected vice president of the Great Northern Kxpress Company.

Coutnnt Succeed McKee. SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Jan. 4.-M. R. Coutant, chief draftsman in the Wabash offices, this city, was appointed maFter mechanic of the eastern division of the Wabash, vice George S. McKee, resigned. AN ALLEGED TRUST. Salt to Oust nn Ohio Coal Company from Its Charter. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 4. Suit in quo warranto was brought late this afternoon In the Circuit Court of Perry county to oust the Sunday Creek Company from its charter. The suit was prepared by Attorneys Monnett, Pugh and Finley, who prepared the suits against the Ohio Central and the Hocking Valley Railroad companies, filed a week ago, and is brought In the name of the prosecuting attorney of Perry county. It is alleged in the petition that the coal company has reduced the production of coal and increased the price and has unlawfully prevented competition. It is also alleged that the company concealed its assets from the state and county oificials in making its tax returns, the petition asserting that the total assets of the company are $4,7j2,CÖÖ.13. Anti-Trust Salts. AUSTIN. Tex., Jan. 4. Anti-trust suits were to-day filed against the John H. Kirby Lumber Company for $S 13.000 worth of penalties, . charging that said company was operating in violation of tho Texas antitrust lav. Some weeks ago the suit was filed, but sMl3 dismissed on the statement that the company had not acquired the companies that it was charged with buying up. Now, however, it is claimed that the consolidation has been made and the suit is refiled. Suits also were filed against the National Cotton Oil Company, the Taylor Oil Company and the Southern Oil Company for $375,000 damages for violating the Texas anti-trust laws. MORE BOERS CAPTURED GO'. URASMl'S AND OXC HINDKEÜ OF IIIS MEX TAlvEX PItlSOXCltS. Ninety-Four British Soldiers in All Wounded at Seefonteln Libels on Kitchener's Troops. LONDON, Jan. 4. Lord Kitchener reports to the War Office under date of Johannesburg, Jan. 3, as follows: "Bruce Hamilton, operating to the eastward of Ermelo since Dec. 2Ü, has captured one hundred prisoners, including General Erasmus." The War Office to-day published an additional list of forty-five men wounded at Seefontein, making the total ninety-four. Public feeling here has been deeply stirred by the alleged libels on British soldiers in South Africa circulated on the continent. Lord Roberts's letter contradicting the stories of the violation of Boer women and the employment of Boer female refugees for immoral purposes has intensified this feeling, especially as regards the anti-British tendencies of the German press. The Pall Mall Gazette declares that a positive duty Is incumbent on the German government to order its military attaches in South Africa to announce what they know regarding the alleged atrocities. In all quarters the keenest disposition is evinced to have authoritative denials issued and have all accusations investigated. In the meanwhile the irritation against Germany Is being vigorously fanned by several of the London dailies. Dr. Conan Doyle's pamphlet on the subject of the South African charges will shortly be published. It deals with every specific charge he has been able to investigate, and it will be sold without profit both here and in the five European countries for which it has been translated. A New York lirm ha3 been given the American rights on condition that it sends free a copy to every United States senator, congressman and government official. In connection with tho war it Is interesting to note that the War Office is considering the advisability of supplying false teeth to the forces. Sixty per ctnt. of the applicants for enlistment in General BadenPowell's police have been rejected on the ground of bad teeth, and hundreds of applicants for service with the yeomanry were disqualified for the same cause. Tho dental hospitals of London have notified the War Office that they are prepared to make good the deficiencies or entirely equip applicants who are otherwise eligible at 1 per head. Coming: After More Money. BRUSSELS, Jan. 4. The Rev. Mr. Broeckhuysen returns as a Boer propagandist to the United States about tho middle of January. lie will probably be accompanied by Abraham Fischer, the leader of the Boer delegates who visited the United States in May, 1000. The clergyman's account of the success of his mission and his representations in regard tc important suggestions from responsible American quarters have created the belief among Mr. Kruger's entourage that encouraging results could be obtained by the dispatch of another delegation. The Rev. Mr. Broeckhuysen says he and other propagandists have collected in America $50,j00. This is more than the Boers have received from any other source. The clergyman also asserts that a number of senators and government officials in the United States encourrged him to pursue his work, and charged him to congratulate Mr. Kruger in their behalf on the successes the Boers have obtained against the British. WILL GO TO SOUTH AFRICA. Her. II. W. Thomas and Wife to Visit Itcconoentrntion Cnmps. CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Rev. Dr. Hiram W. Thomas, recently pastor of the People's Church of Chicago, has announced by the following letter to Peter Van Vlissingen, treasurer of the Chicago branch of the American Transvaal League, the willingness of himself and his wife to go to South Africa in the interest of noncombatants gathered in the concentrado camp: "De Funiak Springs. Fla., Jan. 1. "Mr. Peter Van Vlissingen. Chicago: "Dear Friend of the Cause We Love Our consecration for the new year is to the American Transvaal League for the service of the suffering Boers. From pulpit, platform and through the press we have pleaded for them, and now we are willing to do. We hear the words of the Christ: 'I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me In; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came unto me. "In the name of God and humanity we are ready to go to that far-off land. Gladly will we be the benrers of the generous offerings and deep sympathies of the people of our country of the free to the noncombatants the aged, the mothers and children, the sick and the dying, whose husbands and fathers tire fighting so grandly for home and country, for the rights of man." Mr. Van Vlissingen his to-d.iy, or will on Monday nxt, apply to the State Department at Washington, requesting Its good ollices to get from the British government the necessary passports to enable Dr. Thomas and his wife to visit the reconcentrado camps for the purpose of distributing the money collected throughout the United States under the proclaim tion recently issued by Gov. Richard Yates appointing a committee consisting of Judge E. F. Dunne, Carter II. Harrison and Peter Van Vlissingen. Battleship Iovrn In Chilean Wntern. SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Jan. 4. The United States battleship Iowa has arrived at Talcahuaco and will go Into dock there.

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SECH ETA II Y L. J. CAGE TO BE SUCCEEDED 111 LESLIE 31. SHAW. AsMiHtnnt Secretary II. A. Taylor to Retain His Place Under the Nevr Treasury Administration. CHANDLER TO THE FORE AGAIN WRITES 0 "WANTED, BY THE UMTED STATES, A PRESIDENT." He Thinks the Chief Executive Should Have Courage to Let Trivial Matters Alone. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Governor Leslie M. Shaw, of Iowa, was in conference with Secretary Gage for about two hours today, going over affairs of the Treasury Department, and then left with the secretary for the White House. Governor Shaw said it had been decided that he should take charge of the Treasury Department on the 2äth Inst. He said he had not contemplated any changes In the official force here and he did not know that he would have any occasion to consider such changes. He said he regretted exceedingly that Secretary Gage had decided to leave the Treasury Department. Governor Shaw and Secretary Gage remained with the President about half an hour. Governor Shaw later lunched with the President. He said upon leaving the White House that he had no announcement to make beyond fixing the date of his Induction into cflice. Governor Shaw will return to Iowa on Monday. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury II. A. Taylor will retain his position under Governor Shaw, the new secretary of the treasury. The retention of Mr. Taylor was agreed upon at a consultation between the President and members of the Wisconsin delegation. MR. CHANDLER WAKES UP. Former Senator Advocate! Reform nt the White House. WASHINGTON, Jan. '4. The Washington Post will print to-morrow an interesting and important article by ex-Senator William E. Chandler, the president of the Spanish claims commission, entitled "Wanted by the United States, a President." The article is a strong argument for a reform in the present methods of conducting executive business. Mr. Chandler asserts that a President has now only three objects in life first, to see 20,000 people a year; second, to accomplish 2,000 little things, and third, to try to do two hundred great things. In the seeing of so many thousand people about trivial matters and In giving his attention to the thousands of little things the President, Mr. Chandler insists, is worn out and becomes physically unable to grapple with the great problems to which he ought to give his undivided attention. Mr. Chandler cites from personal knowledge the cases of Presidents who have almost succumbed under the strain, Instancing particularly President Arthur, in whose Cabinet he was secretary of the navy, and. President McKinley, to whose impaired health Mr. Chandler attributes inability to recover from the shock of the assassin's bullet. Mr. Chandler expresses his regret that President Roosevelt, "even with his quickness, his acuteness and his present untiring industry and unbounded energy, has given countenance to the idea that he will do all the appointing himself and hear all that any one has to say concerning any appointment." Mr. Chandler thinks that the great weight of the pressure for office ought to fall upon the Cabinet ministers and the President ought to have more time for important things. "What is wanted in the person of Mr. Roosevelt," says Mr. Chandler, "and in every other person whom the twentieth century may see in the White House, is a President who will be allowed to serve the whole people with all his heart and strength, with all his mind and body, in the discharge of his official duties, unhindered by the pressure upon him of so many thousands of his countrymen as have in recent years encroached upon the time and patience of our Presidents and kept them from their public work, or compelled them to do it by impairing their physical health and overstraining their mental power. The time has come when access to the President, except at public receptions, should be limited to the Cabinet ministers, senators and representatives and ambassadors, and to such other persons only as are given interviews for public purposes after written applications have been received and carefully considered. The public receptions of the President should be few and there should be no intrusion upon his social life, which he should be allowed to regulate according to his own will and pleasure, and no person should take offense because not Invited to his presence or find fault with his selection of his company, whatever may be Its race or color. "This needed change of custom will at first no doubt be unpoular. It will be condemned as unrepublican exclusiveness. It will require, to begin this new rule, a President who has been a man of the people, who is known to be at heart thoroughly democratic in all his Ideas and ways, and who is also strong in his convictions and fearless in his actions. Is not Mr. Roosevelt such a President? Will he inaugurate the reform?" Value of Consular Reports. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The value of the report3 of the United States consuls throughout the world Is. shown In an instance related to the State Department by Consul Grout, at Valetta, in a report dated Dec. 3. "It is somewhat surprising," says Mr. Grout, "to see tire wide publicity given our consular reports. Some months ago I sent a report upon 'refrigerators.' Since then I have received newspaper clippings referring to this report from not only the United States, but from England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In the above-mentioned report I gave the addresses of parties here likely to be interested in buying refrigerators, and to-day the desks of most of them are covered with refrigerator catalogues in various languages." Mr. Grout says the sale of American flour has-increased of late at Malta, and that our greatest competitor in the flour supply of Malta is England. 1 1 ii ii ii a Confers vritli the President. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Senator Hanna, of Ohio, had an extended conference with President Roosevelt to-day. Many contests over Southern appointments are referred to Senator Hanna as chairman of the Republican national committee, and these matters were under discussion. Senator Hanna pronounced his interview very satisfactory. Iresldent Roosevelt to-day informed Representaltve Gibson, of Tennessee, that exRepresentative John E. McCall, who was the Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee against Governor McMlllin, would be appointed collector of internal revenue of the Fifth Tennessee district, to succeed David A. Nunn, who resigned on Thursday. Mr. Gibson also was informed that Gen. John T. Wilder would be reappointed United States pension agent at Knoxville. The Knoxville agency disburses pension money for eight Southern States. Lost Time of Enllted Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The adjutant general of the army recently was asked by General Urooke, commanding the Department of the East, to reconcile an apparent conflict between the army regulation which requires an enlisted man absent without leave to make good the time lost, and an opinion of the judge advocate general, rendered In 1101. to the effect that such a re-

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We have a great many stoves on hand specially bought to meet this cold weather demand. T ey of the BEST make. As the season is now well on we will sell them at much lower prices than e" the Season. If you buy a stove now -you get the use of it during- most of the cold weather an ,J ready for next year. The advantage in buying is .greatly in your favor, and you should not overloo ic opportunity to save money on so needable an article. A good stove will save its cost in the economy o coal in one month. Ask anyone who has purchased a stoveheater of us how they like :t. on ay morning we start a sort of clean-up sale on stoves, and we would like to have you come in and see w a superlative good offerings we are now making.

SPECIAL PRICE TERMS ON RANGES $25.00 Grade . . $2.00 Down, $2.00 a Month $35.00 Grade . . $3.00 Down, $3.00 a Month $45.00 Grade . . $4.00 Down, $4.00 a Month $55.00 Grade . . $5.00 Down, $5.00 a Alonth SAME RATIO ON ALL HEATING STOVES

quirement Is Illegal. The issue affects certain enlisted men in General Brooke's command about to be discharged. In his reply to General Brooke the adjutant general admits-that there is doubt as to the legality of the practice, but as the regulation providing for the making good of lost time has been repeated several times in the army regulations it should, he says; be taken as a decision of the department that such requirement is legal, and it should be followed until changed by proper authority. Three New Rural 3Iail Ilontes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. "WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Rural free delivery service has been ordered established to begin Feb. 1, in Indiana, as follows: Peru, Miami County. Length of route, S3 miles; population served, 1.S23; carriers, Henry Morely, J. C. Griffith and B. F. Brown. Postoffices at Reserve and Santa Fe to be supplied by rural carrier from Peru. Rushville, Rush County. Length of route, S3 miles; poulation served, 1,723; carriers, John Plough, J. M. Gwinn and I. L. Clifford. Postoffices at New Salem and Andersonvllle to be supplied by rural carriers. Mail to Rushville. Wakarusa, Elkhart County. Length of route, 24 miles; population served, 740; carrier, Solomon Dell. Postofficc at Claudeville to be supplied by rural carrier. Mall to Wakarusa. Stocks M nst De Stamped. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Attorney General Knox has given an opinion In which he holds that the certificates of stock, amounting to $25,000,000, to be deposited by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company with the GIrard Trust Company, trustee, as the security for certain other certificates to be issued by the latter company for the use of the railroad company, are taxable under Schedule A of the act of June 13, 1S9S, and now a part of the act of March 2, 1901. The amount of stamps required will be 30,000. This opinion sustains Commissioner Yerkes's holding, not only in this particular case, but also his ruling to the effect that stocks pledged as collateral on time or call loans must be stamped. Operators on the leading exchanges of the country have vigorously opposed this view of the law. Army Regulations Amended. "WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Tho army regulations have been amended so as to provide that the power to pardon or mitigate punishment imposed by a court-martial, vested in the authority which confirms the proceedings or the corresponding authority under whose Jurisdiction the sentence is being executed, extends only to the unexecuted portions of a sentence. An application for clemency In the case of a prisoner sentenced to confinement In a penitentiary must bo forwarded to the secretary of war for the acUon of the President. General Miles sa3rs that the power to commute sentences imposed by military tribunals, not being vested in military commanders, can only ba exercised by the President. Reply to Italy's Protests. ROME, Jan. 4. A cable dispatch from "Washington says that Secretary of State Hay has sent a note to the Italian ambassador in Washington, Signor Mayor Des Planches, saying that a copy of Italy's A protest against the lynching of Italian citi zens at Erwin, Miss., will be sent to Congress, accompanied by a recommendation by President Roosevelt advocating legislative reforms and the subjection of all acts committed in violation of treaties and to the detriment of foreigners to the federal courts' jurisdiction. Anderson's Proposed Public Ilnildlngr. v. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The secretary of tho treasury has reported to Congress that 9,000 square feet of space will be necessary for the new public building at Anderson, to be authorized by Representative Cromer's bill. A one-story and basement building is recommended, and the secretary estimates the cost to be $120,000, exclusive -of site. Mr. Cromer's bill carries an appropriation of $150,000, the same amount provided for Muncie. Xctt Crude Counterfeit. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The secret service officials have discovered in circulation a new counterfeit one-dollar silver certificate of the series of 1S93 and check letter C. The counterfeit Is signed Lyons, registrar, and Roberts, treasurer. It is of very crude workmanship. The back of the note is printed upside down. The paper contains no silk, and the word "Washington" on the face Is printed In ordinary script type. Ilewey nnd Wife to Visit Florida. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Admiral Dewey, who leaves for Florida next week with Mrs. Dewey, who is ill, called upon President Roosevelt to-day to bid good-bye and express his regret that he will be unable to be present at state functions at the White House this winter. National Capital Xotes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The Postofllce Department has been officially advised that any mailable article addressed for delivery at postoffices In the Argentine Republic may now be registered, registration being no longer restricted by that government to certain postoffices it had previously designated. The State Department has been advised of the completion of arrangemens for the next annual session of the international congress of fisheries and fish culture to be held at St. Petersburg. The exhibition will open on the 2th inst. and the congress will assemble on the 22d proximo, both closing March S. Representative Alexander, of New York, to-day arranged for the reception by tho President of the members of the American Malleable Casting Association, which meets in this city Jan. S. O. P. Letchworth, of Buffalo, is president of the association. Howard Buckler, of Baltimore. Md., formerly chief clerk of the third assistant postmaster general, has been appointed chief of the finance division of the Postofrice Department. Harwood Bacon, of Detroit, Mich., has been appointed chief clerk to succeed Mr. Buckler. Mrs. Roosevelt gave a tea this afternoon, at which there were over two hundred invited guests. She was assisted by Miss Root, Miss Knox and the Misses Hitchcock.

In this latitude most of the winter season comes in Juaand ruary: even in March we have severe cold weather. You mY found during the last cold snaps that your stove is bad con and that a new one will be necessary before the winter is

TOO MANY MAGISTRATES BROOKLYN HAS TWO FOR EACH OFFICE IN T1I12 IIOROUGII. Van AVyck's Appointees Hacked ly Decision of the Court-Some of Mayor Loir's Men Arrested. NEW YORK, Jan. 4.A great legal entanglement was precipitated in the police courts in the Borough of Brooklyn to-day. The last Legislature passed an act abolishing police magistrates and providing for the election of city magistrates, whose functions should embrace those exercised by the police magistrates. The validity of this act was attacked In Injunction proceedings. Supreme Court Justice Marean, in Brooklyn, dissolved the injunction on the ground that the action was not properly brought, but held the opinion, nevertheless, that the law creating the city magistrates was unconstitutional. The injunction proceedings were brought by appointees of exMayor Van Wyck against those elected to the city magistracies last November. Today, relying on Justice Marean's decision, both the old and new magistrates appeared at the several places of holding court to conduct the courts, and as a result there was much confusion. Three of the police magistrates had slept all the night before in barricaded courts, and one of the new city magistrates was arrested during the day by order of the police magistrate ho was supposed to succeed. There were several other similar incidents. In the afternoon Justice Marean rendered another decision upholding the police magistrates. The magistrates appointed last spring by Mayor Van Wyck were E. Gaston Hlgginbotham, John Naumer, Edward J. Dooley, Henry J. Furlong and Frank F. O'Reillv. At the election last November Raymond V. Ingersoll and Walter L. Durack were elected magistrates at large, and William Watson, Charles S. Evoy, James G. Tighe, William Kramer and J. Lott Norstrand magistrates. Recently Magistrates Futlong and Dooley, acting for the magistrates holding office, obtained In the Supreme Court a temporary injunction restraining the magistrates elected last November from taking office on Jan. 1. The plaintiffs contended that the election of the defendants were void for the reason that there were no vacancies in the offices when the men were elected, and also on the ground that the charter was unconstitutional in the section providing for the appointment of magistrates. Justice Marean's Injunction vacated the temporary injunction obtained by Magistrates Dooley and Furlong. He, however, upheld the contention of the plaintiffs that the law under which the defendants were elected is unconstitutional. It is believed that the f.ght will be carried to the State Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, unless an agreement is arrived at among the disputants, tho situation so far as the disposition of criminal cases in Brooklyn is concerned will be come dicldedly mixed. Magistrate Durack, one of the newlyelected magistrates, was arrested to-day when he attempted to take his seat in the Adams-street Police Court by order of Magistrate Dooley, the old magistrate. He was arraigned before Magistrate Dooley and paroled. He was charged with violating Section 66 of the penal code, pertaining to trespass and intruding. The purpose of this arrest was to bring the matters in dispute before a higher court for decision. In the meantime the corporation counsel has advised the police commissioner that prisoners of the police are to be taken before city magistrates, pending a judicial determination, in an action properly brought, of the question at issue regarding the validity of the law under which the city magistrates claim to have been elected. Following up his expression of view yesterday. Judge Marean to-day directed the sheriff of King's counts' to accept as valid an order signed by one of the old magistrates. In deciding this matter the court declared that the law under which the new magistrates were elected was unconstitutional and that the magistrates appointed by Mayor Van Wyck should be recognized as having continued in the full powers of the position. RAISING VALUES. Possibilities of Bars of Iron Placed in the Hands of Different Artisxms. The January Success contains an Interesting article showing vhat may be produced from a number of bars of iron, one each being placed in the hands of various mechanics. The writer says, in part: The man who takes the first bar may be a rough blacksmith, whs has only partly learned his trade, and has no ambition to rise above his anvil. He thinks that the best possible thing he can do with his bar is to make it into horseshoes, and congratulates himself upon his success. He reasons that the rough lump of iron is worth only 2 or 3 cents a pound, and that it is not worth while to spend much time or labor on it. His enormous muscles and small skill have raised the value of the iron from $1, perhaps, to $10. Along comes a cutler, with a little better education, a little more ambition, a little finer perception, and says to " the blacksmith: "Is this all you can see in that Iron' Give me a bar. and I will show you what brains, and skill, and hard work can make of it." When his work is done, he shows the astonished blackialth $2,0(0 worth of knifeblades where the latter only saw $10 worth of crude horseshoes. The value has been greatly raised by the refining process. Still another workman, whose processes are so almost Infinitely delicate, whose product is so little known, by even the average educated man, that his trade is unmentioned by the makers of dictionaries and encyclopedias, takes out a fragment of one of the bars of steel, and develops Its higher possibilities with such marvelous accuracy, such ethereal fineness of touch that even mainsprings and hairsprings are looked back upon as coarse, crude and cheap. When his work Is done, he shows you a few of the minutely barbed instruments used by dentists to draw out the finest branches of the dental nerves. While a pound of gold, roughly speaklnir. is worth about 5230, a pound of these slender, barbed filaments of steel, if a pound could be collected, might be worth hundreds of times as much. Just as each artisan sces in the crud Iron some finished, refined product, so

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must we see in our lives glorious possibilities, if we would but realize them. If we see only horseshoes or knifeblades, all our efforts and struggles will never produce hairsprings. We must realize our own adaptability to great ends; we must resolve to struggle, to endure trials and tests, to pay the necessary price, confident that the result will pay us for our suffering, our trials and our efforts. M'KIXLEY AXD TIID ACTRKSS. Kindness of the Lnte President ShotTii by Characteristic Anecdote. Good Housekeeping. I heard a reminiscence the other day of William McKinley which shows the genial, considerate side of the man in the small things of life. I will tell it as told to me by the tiny actress, Ida Mulle: "When I was playing Dame Drusllda In 'The Brownies' we sang for three nights in Canton to enormous houses, for the city was full to overflowing; the tide of human immigration had turned thither, election was just over, and Major McKinley was our President-elect. One day 1 went to the modest Canton home, one of the throng constantly treading in that direction to speak the cordial congratulations we all felt. I was fortunate. I found Major McKinley alone, with nobody by but his old pastor. I had such a gracious reception, and it warmed one's heart the cordial things our President said about professional people. He spoke of some of his favorites on the stage and his favorite plays; then he talked of our production, and he laughed heartily over a humble little hit I had made. I must explain. In our opera I encountered a demon three times my height, and he bellowed at me: 'Keep off the grass!' While In Canton 1 changed my usual answer, as given in the lines, and said: I don't see any grass. O I suppose you think I am walking in Major McKlnley's front yard!' Every night that brought down the house, for Americans had trampled the major's front yard till not a spear of grass remained In it. The newspapers quoted the line, and you heard it 'round town. McKinley laughed heartily over it while we sat looking out on the beaten turf, then he said: 'Well, come around to-morrow, and you will see It In better condition, for I am expecting men here right away to resod It.' " 'Don't!' I pleaded; 'pleas don't. Major; my lines would fall perfectly flat unless the lawn stays like this. Please don't touch it until 'the Brownies' leave town I' And, if you will believe me, he didn't. He went right in the house to telephone an order to let his beaten yard remain untouched for a week." KiiKlish In Place of Latin. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4.-The Department of Public Instruction pays a remarkable tribute to the importance of the English language by suppressing the study of Latin in the great preparatory schools in this city where young men are prepared for professional careers and replacing it with the English. The new course contemplates giving thorough instruction In English by youns Mexicans In business life makes an extended instruction in English imperative. There has been much opposition to the change among the advocates of the old classical course, but modernists have triumphed. English is now taught in many Important schools here and in other cities, and in the great schools under clerical care English has practically displaced French. McKinley Day In Ohio. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 4.-Governor Nash to-day issued a proclamation setting aIde two days for special contributions for the McKinley memorial fund. Ohio ia expected to raise $1X,000. Jan. 23 is the fifty-ninth anniversary of the birth of William McKinley, and the Governor suggests that it be set apart by all the schools of Ohio as "McKinley day" and that it be observed by them with special exercises, each child at the same time to be given an opportunity to contribute his or her mite to the memorial fund. The Governor alo suggests that on the Sunday preceding Jan L"J the churches of the State have speciai memorial exercises and that contributions bo received for the fund on that occasion. The Rainbow Sails for 3Ianila. NEW YORK. Jan., 4. The United States steamer Rainbow, formerly the supply shin of Admiral Dewey's fleet on the Asiatic station, sailed to-day for Manila to replace the cruiser Brooklyn as a station ship near Manila. She carries a crew of CjO men who will be distributed among the various 'hius ?l the fleet on the Asiatic station. Upon the Rainbow s arrival at Manila the Brooklyn will return here and bring the nun whose time has expired to receive their discharge from service here. George X. Wisuell DInK. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 4.-George N. Wiswell well known throughout the country, is said to be dying from pneumonia at his home in this city. Mr. Wiswell was s,r-geant-at-arms of the last national Republican convention in Philadelphia and served SS, .W'nt-at-arms at the conventions held in Chicago. Minneapolis and St. Ixui He was United States marshal of the Kastern district of Wsconsin under President Harrison. Dr. Giiernxp)- m. NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Dr. Eirbert Guernsey, for many years one of the foremost mt-dical practitiont-rs 0f Now York, is d-r-Kerously 111. His physicians have but slluht hopes of his recovery. He la editor of thm Medical World, which he founded.

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