Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 200, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1902 — Page 1

EI INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAI A -V i:STAl(L!?HED 1S.V). :r.V E5TAHLISHED vol: liixo. 200. INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1902 TEN PAGES, PRICE 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE.

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mini: -workers will raise that St 31 FOR Tili: STRIKERS. It In Expected that an Amount Almoit Equal Will De Forthcoming from Other Sonrce. THE SECRETARY'S STATEMENT Mil. WILSOX EXPLAINS HOW THE MONEY WILL ME RAISED. There Are Two Hundred Thousand Coal Miners That Will Ha-re to De Assisted Financially. WRANGLE IN CLOSED SESSION ARCTC3XEXT OVER MAN. N ER OF RAISING XECESSARY FL'.NDS. Special Committee Decides Upon Assessment Plan for Raisins the Defense Fond. An assessment will be levied on the members of the United Mine Workers sufficient to bring in 525O.0OO weekly for the support of the anthracite strikers and miners who are out in the bituminous districts. Secretary Wilson said yesterday afternoon that the assessment would be that heavy, but not sufficient to support all the strikers. He said: "We calculate that it will take about JSOO.OOO a week lo successfully carry on the strikes in all the districts. Either the levy of $1 a week on all bituminous miners, as recommended by President Mitchell, or its equiv alent in a percentage of the earnings of the miners will bring in $250,000 a week. A 10 per cent, levy would bring in more than that amount. We can raise the other fCSO.OOO from other sources. Many of the trades unions of the country have pledged their suppjrt and there are others outside of the labor movement who will contribute. A number of business men have pledged us a week's salary. Besides these resources lump sums will be donated by districts and local organizations of the United Mine Workers. Of course, we do not know the amount of these donations, but they will be liberal. I haven't the least doubt in the world that we will be able to raise the money." ASSISTANCE NEEDED. There are perhap3 200.000 strikers all told that will need assistance. The national organization has about ai.OOO bituminous miners out In West Virginia and Virginia, 2.5c) but in the Pittsburg district of Pennsylvania and a strike in Hopkins county, Kentucky, that has cost the national treasury J200.00G in the last year, besides thousands of dollars donated by district organizations. In Michigan there is also a strike, but a settlement is pending, awaiting the action of this convention. It is believed that a proposition of the operators of that State will be accepted when a decision is reached. W. F. Williams, president of the Michigan district, said that the miners there did not wish to make a contract until it was decided that there would be no strik. in order that it would not have to be broken. This is taken to irean that the mlner3 of Michigan have been ofTered satisfactory terms. Then comes the big item, the 117,000 strikers in the anthracite region. "We can easily maintain our men," said Secretary Wilson, "because this is an opportune time. We only have to furnish food, which Is the smallest item. There will be no expenses for clothing, household goods or rent, expenses that usually have to be met on strikes. The men in the anthracite region are pretty well fixed with the exception of food supplies. West Virginia is the only place where we have to house our men. The coal companies there own practically all the houses and we are keeping the strikers in tents. In other districts tney have made arrangements with their landlords about their rent. There are some places where coal companies allow the miners to live in their houses until a settlement Is reached." GENERAL STRIKE IN BACKGROUND. The situation as it now stands rests on a financial basis entirely. The question of a sympathetic strike seems to have almost been forgotten except by a few radical delegates and all are at work to devise means of building up a big defense fund. The miners ara of one mind on that proposition, differing only in the manner in which it is to be raised and distributed. The matter of working out the details of the assessment was left to a committee composed of the district presidents and the national officers, and whatever proposition they make to the convention is apt to be accepted. The committee will report to the convention this morning and it is likely that a settlement will be reached so that the delegates may return home to-night. REPORT OY THE COMMITTEE. A Practical Indorsement of 3Ir. Mitchell's Recommendations. The committee to which was referred the recommendations of President Mitchell was in session at the Occidental Hotel from 7 till alter 11 o'clock last night before it reached nr. agreement. The report that will be submitted to the convention this morning is iracticnlly the same as the original recommendations of the president. Instead of providing for an assessment of 51 a week on each member of the organization the recommendation will be a double standard assessment that is, p.ut of the districts will be assessed 11 per capita and pirt on the percentage of earnings, which will be equivalent to a 11 levy. About eight districts will be affected by the levy of ?1 a week a member and the remainder by the percentage levy, which will be 10 jx-r cent, cf their earnings. The other recommendation of President Mitchell, that the assessment be specifically lvk-d for the benefit of theanthracltestriktrs. over which there was much contention in the contention, was adopted by the committee. A provision is made, however, to take care of the bituminous strikers. They will continue to get the 10 cents a month tax that was levied on the entire membership last March, and other financial aid If needed. As these were the two points In the recommendations in controversy, md the com mitte unanimously decided to make the

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I above changes. It Is believed the convention j will ratify the action of the committee toj day and that the convention will adjourn I Vi t c oftorrinnn "Mother" Jones will address the convention when It convenes this morning, and sfter she finishes her speech the convention will take up the report of the committee. PLAX OF ASSKSSMEXT. The Conrentlon Considered It in Executive Session. The miners had a stormy executive session yesterday afternoon ever adopting the recommendation of President Mitchell for raising and distributing a defense fund. Many of the delegates Insist tha he money raised shall be applied to bituminous strikers, as well as those In the anthracite region, and there is a division on the manner j of raising the fund, whether It shall be by a per capita levy or a percentage of the earnings. This now seems to be the only point in question with the miners, and the proposition of a general strike will only be voted upon in the roundabout way of indorsing or rejecting a plan to financially aid the strikers. What threw the convention Into executive session yesterday afternoon was the as- ! sertlon of Pat Dolan, of the Pittsburg dis trict of Pennsylvania, that the district had not been properly cared for. Vice President Lewis wanted to know in what manner the district had not been looked after, and Dolan replied in a long speech. Recently a section of mining country working about 23,0X) miners was placed In the juris- ; diction of the Pittsburg district. They are unorganized. The addition brought the to(CONT1NUED ON PAGE 7, COL,. 4.) ANDREWS STILL RICH. Alleged Dank Wrecker Says He Can Par All Ills Debts. DETROIT, Mich., July l$.-Attorney Otto Kirchner contributed the leading feature in the trial of Frank C. Andrews today when, in opening the case for the defense, he stated that Andrews still believed he was a very rich man and able to pay every cent he owes the wrecked City Savings Bank. The impression had prevailed that Andrews had lost everything through speculating In Amalgamated Copper. "Mr. Andrews will go on the stand and tell you he hopes to pay every cent lie owes the bank," said the attorney for the defense, in addressing the Jury, creating a ripple of surprise by the announcement that Andrews would take the witness stand. "Mr. Andrews did not intend to cheat the bank. He thought he was a rich man. He thinks so still." When court adjourned, about 4 o'clock. State Banking Commissioner George L. Maitz was on the stand, the commissioner being the first witness for the people. He had only got as far as identifying a number of the bank's reports and recording the events of Feb. 8 and 10 last, the latter date being the onelton which the bank was closed, when ciurt adjourned. MR. HILL'S VISIT IN VAIN "I AM A DEMOCRAT" DID SOT MEET PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Who Spent the Afternoon In Picnicking with His Fanillr Miss noosevelt Mot Engaged. OYSTER BAT, N. T., July IS. Arrangements were completed partially last evening for former Senator Hill, who came to Oyster Bay to spend the night with William F. Sheehan,- to meet the President at Sagamore Hill, but it was found impossible to fix upon a time that would be convenient to both. Senator Hill returned to New York early to-day without meeting Mr. Roosevelt. The President passed the morning at Sagamore Hill transacting some routine business with Assistant Secretary Loeb. Early in the day no callers of importance visited him, although two former members of Mr. Roosevelt's regiment rode out to pay their respects. The reported engagement of Miss Alice Roosevelt to Lieut. Robert Sterling Clark, of New York, a son of Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, is emphatically denounced by authority of the President. Miss Roosevelt has not even a personal acquaintance with Lieutenant Clark. This afternoon the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by some of the children, went out on an old-fashioned picnic, taking a lunch basket. They rowed to a point several miles from Sagamore Hill, and returned about 6 o'clock, their trip having been without special Incident. The President passed the evening quietly at his home, no callers of official importance being received. CRASHES INTO A HOUSE LOADED TROLLEY CAR JUMPS THE TRACK AT A SHARP CURVE. Conductor Is Fatally- Hurt, the Passengers Injured and Occupants of Dwelling Narrowly Escape. LORAIN, O.. July IS. Car No. 37. in charge of Motorman Kim er Nauman. telescoped a building at Elyria early this morning. It had twenty-three people on board. The car jumped the sharp curve and buried Itself in the building. One-half of the structure was wrecked and the car was twisted and broken up completely. L. J. Gaudern. a conductor on the line, suffered concussion of the brain and cannot live. The family in the building narrowly escaped Instant death. The injured were from Elyria and were taken care of by many doctors. They are: Elmer Nauman. Harry Brauman, Charlotte Taylor, B. H. Blakeny. Arthur Fatz. Harry Dowd, George Flood. George Daniels, Fred Carnan. J. J. Buckley. John Coleman. Mrs. John Coleman. Gertrude Bearer. Hattie Bearer, Hattie Ward. Three Killed and Another llnrt. RHINELAN DER. Wis., July lS.-In a head-end collision of freight trains near Pembina on the Minneapolis, St. Taul & Sault Ste. Marie road to-day Charles Johnson and Willi.im Raymond, engineers, and J. A. Anderson, fireman, were killed, and J Frank Thorpe, a brakeman. was seriously Injured. Sixty cars heavily loaded caught I Hre and were consumed. Tito Girls Drowned. SHELBY, Mich.. July 1.. Anna. Vanderploeg, aged ten. and Lottie Vanderwaal. aged eight, were drowned In Carpenter lake by the sinking of a leaky rowboat. The girls were rowing with Anna's two sisters, aged fourteen and sixteen, who were saved by standing on top of the sunken boat, which kept their heads just above water. Two Killed. Two nndlr Hurt. OLD ORCHARD. Me.. July IS.-Two men were killed, one fatally Injured and two others seriously Injured as the result of a grade-crossing accident here to-day. The dead are Mi;ls, of Boston, and C. Mills. of Boston.

CROPS ARE IN DANGER HEAVY RAIXS HAVE SWOLLEN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Three Hundred Square Miles of Land Planted in Corn Certain to Be Overflowed. MUCH WHEAT ALSO IN PERIL LOSSES CONSERVATIVELY ESTIMATED WILL It EACH 92,500,000. Torrn of Alexandria, Mo., Famed by Mark Trvaln, May Be Swept Away Disastrous Storms. KEOKUK, la.. July IS. Heavy rains in central Iowa yesterday and to-day are sending a flood down upon prosperous Missouri farmers which will ruin many of them and cause losses aggregating, at a conservative estimate, $2,500.000. There seems to be no hope to-night for the Mississippi river and the Missouri bluffs from Keokuk and Hannibal, 300 square miles, in which much corn is laid by, together with several thousands of acres of wheat in the shock. The water had touched the danger line the first of the week and had begun to recede when heavy floods started again in the Des Moines river, only three feet below the tops of the great levees. The river began to rise three inches an hour at its mouth here to-day, continuing until hope of safety was abandoned this evening. A rise of one and a half feet in a short time this morning at Ottumwa and a further rise throughout its length below the capital city was prevented from running out freely by a rise of a foot and a half at Davenport last night. Increasing and coming down rapidly. This afternoon the observer of the weather bureau at Keokuk, in charge of this district, sent telegraphic warning to all points south to prepare for danger. The crest is expected here Saturday or Sunday. The Egyptian levee, which stood the flood just receding after strenuous efforts to hold it, including the destruction of farm houses to secure lumber for strengthening the dike, is only slightly above the water now, and the coming flood in the Des Moines will top it certainly. This lets the water into hundreds of square miles, including the town of Alexandria, Mo. The inhabitants are preparing for an overflow of the entire town to a depth of several feet. This is the town of which Mark Twain, in .his "Life on the Mississippi," said "Sometimes comes up to blow." The worst feature is the time of the year. The corn crop is all made and wheat is m the shock, entailing a total loss of the year's work. Crops were . never finer and the yield promised is immense. Grain men say the above estimate of value is too low and put the figures of the loss from the overflow nearer four millions between Keokuk and Hannibal. It is believed the Illinois levees will hold, and the damage there Is likely to be only $20,000 to $30.000 between Keokuk and Quincy. Heavy rains are reported in southeastern Iowa to-day. and to-night indicates still higher water. Lowland farmers, river men and the weather bureau observer alike predict the greatest damage ever known from flood on the upper river. Reports late this evening show tremendous rain along the Des Moines river and tributaries. Six inches fell at Corydon and nearly that much at Ottumwa. Rains all over this section' continue to-night, with two inches as a general minimum rainfall, and many places reporting five Inches. These rains will reach the lower river and flooded districts by Sunday, with a still further rise and devastation. Both the Des Moines and Mississippi rivers are rising faster as nisht piocresses. Late reports show half the country for a distance of thirty miles between Lagrange and Hannibal was already under water long before the crest of the flood arrived. Points up the Des Moines river report water flowing through the towns. Downpour In Central Nebraska. LINCOLN. Neb., July IS A rainfall of nearly three inches last night and to-day caused another flood in the bottom lands In the west part of the city. There was a three-foot rise in Salt and Oak creeks during the afternoon, and first floors of a number of houses are under water, the Accusants vacating. The water is rilns

GROWING WONDERFULLY.

slowly to-night, and more rain is threatened. All of central Nebraska received a downpour, the precipitation ranging from one-half to five inches. Yellow Spring; Dam Broken. BURLINGTON, la., July lS.-Advices just received report the breaking of the Yellow Springs dam, north of here. Fifteen hundred acres have been submerged, the water is the highest in years. At Columbus Junction the recent rains sent the Iowa and Cedar rivers up again, ruining the oats being harvested and hundreds of acres of corn. Hitch Water nt Jollet. JOLIET, III., July lS.-Ralnfall of nearly four inches last night and to-day has caused another flood in Joliet, overflowing streets and yards adjacent to Spring and Hickory creeks and creating alarm among hundreds of families. Several manufacturing plants have been compelled to close because of high water. Farms Covered" by Water. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 18. Only once since the flood of 1SS2 has the Mississippi river been so high as it is at present. On the Illinois shore, between St. Louis and Alton, many farms are under water. At the mouth of the Missouri river the overflow 'covers an area of ten miles. Cloudburst at Lincoln, 111. LINCOLN, 111., July 18. This city and vicinity was visited by a cloudburst this afternoon. Streets, cellars and basements in stores were flooded. Considerable damage was done by hall, wind and electricity. TORNADO IX XBW YORK STATE. Factories and Cottages Destroyed and a Launch Sunk. PLATTSBURG. N. Y.. July 18. A tornado swept over Moffittsville, a small village near Dannemore, in Clinton, county, last night, destroying a starch factory, a carding mill, Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company's sawmill and other property. The same storm sunk a steam launch in upper Chateaugay Lake, belonging to Seth Thomas, the well-known clock manufacturer of Connecticut, and destroyed his fine camp and boathouse on the lake. The storm also demolished the fine cottage owned by Frank Sawyer, of Chicago, located near the Seth Thomas cottage on upper Chateaugay lake, belonging to Seth one man. Deadly Storm In Canada. CHESTERVILLE, Ont., July 18. A storm of great fury passed within a mile of this town to-day and everything in its path, about sixty rods in width, was destroyed. The country presents a scene of devastation. Dwellings are overturned and dead cattle are lying at nearly every farm. Several persons were killed and a number injured. The damage will exceed $200,000. Postmaster Killed by Electric Bolt. DENVER, Col.. July lS.-Thls city was swept by an unusually violent windstorm to-day, followed by a drenching rain. The wind blew at the rate of forty-two miles an hour from the northwest. The fall of rain was half an inch. W. P. Swallows, a prominent merchant and postmaster at Kokomo, Col., was instantly killed there by a stroke of lightning to-day. Heat Prostrations. CINCINNATI. O.. July lS.-Though relieved last night and to-day by thunderstorms, the weather has been oppressively hot for two days. Eight or ten prostrations from heat and one death have been reported. The fatal case was that of Michael O'Neil, a roofer, who died after being taken to a hospital. Three Persons Killed by LlRbtnlnnr. ST. LOUIS. July 13.-Fred Weichbrod, thirty years old, and a son and daughter of Jacob P. Muskopf, aged fourteen and fifteen, respectively, were struck by lightning near Mlllstadt, in St. Clair county, Illinois, to-day and instantly killed. v. ATTACKED BY COOLIES. Bishop Moore nnd Other Americans Asoanlted in Coren. WASHINGTON, July lS.-An account has reached here of the details of an assault committed on some Methodist missionaries in Korea by Japanese coolies about the 15th of last month. As Bishop Moore, of the M. E. Church, was en route to the town of Soowon to dedicate a church his party was attacked by Japanese coolies, who were building the railroad from Seoul to Fusan. With the bishop were his young daughter and Messrs. Appenzeller and Swearer, and all of the party suffered. The bishop's pith helmet saved his skull from a crushing blow. Appenzeller was struck down by a blow from a club, and Swearer, the other missionary, was struck with a pieoe of cordwood. which gashed his head across the forehead to the bone and may have permanently Injured one eye. The Japanese minister at Seoul Immediately put In motion all the machinery at his command to secure the capture and punishment of the assailants. It does not appear that any racial feeling caused the attack.

EXPENDITURES HEAVY

PROBABLY WILL EXCEED RECEIPTS EIGHT MILLIONS THIS MONTH. Drain Is Due to Disbursements on Account of War Claims and Increase in Navnl Expenses. NO CAUSE FOR APPREHENSION VIEWS OF A TREASURY OFFICIAL OX THE SITUATION. Receipts Will Be Ample, Desipte Re- . peal of War Taxes, to Sleet All Appropriations. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. July IS. July is always an important month in the Treasury Department. It is the first month of the government fiscal year, and upon its receipts and disbursements are based the estimates for the year's business. Special attention has been given to the financial transactions of the department this month, as it will give an Idea of the decrease to be suffered in the revenue by reason of the repeal of the war taxes. The expenditures for the first half of July reached the very large sum of $35,235.000, an increase of more than $5,000,000 over the corresponding month of last year, while the receipts were about $2,000,000 less than for the first fifteen days of July of last year. This decrease is entirely in the internal revenue receipts, which were $11,583,802 for the first half of July last year, as compared with $14,972,698 for the first half of July. 1901. The custom receipts, on the other hand, show an increase of more than $1,000,000 over those of the first half of last July. It is explained at the Treasury Department that the Increased expenditures of the present month over those of the same period of last year is due largely to the war claims authorized by the recent session of Congress. These amounted to about $4.000.000 and are chargeaole to the War Department and account for the large increase shown in that department. The disbursements for the navy have also shown an increase of more than $1,000,000 over those of the same period of last year. Treasury officials estimate that the deficit at the clcse of the present month will be between $7.000.000 and $S,000,CXi0, as compared with $15.340 at the close of July cf last year. Many of the deficiency appropriations authorized by the last Congress are still to be paid, and the result will be shown by the balance sheet at the end cf the mcnth. "There Is nothing whatever alarming about the situation," said a high official of the Treasury Department to-day. "While the cash balance has suffered already this month to the tune of $$,000,ooo the treasury will not suffer in the least from the drain. When money once gets into the treasury there is no way of getting it out except by an act of Congress. Our receipts have been in excess of disbursements so long that there Is now more than $200,(,000 surplus in the treasury, exceeding by 827,000,000 the amount held a year ago. The hoarding of this amount of cash is, in my opinion, a menace to the business interests of the country. The disbursement of it will be certain to stimulate business. The Congress has appropriated about $75,000,000 for river and harbor improvements, and more than $20,0n,0X) for public buildings, in addition to the millions that are to be expended in building warships and army posts throughout the country. This money will be expended rapidly, and will find its way into the regular channels of trade, and the business Interests of te country will profit by it. Congress was fodlgal in its expenditures, but the receipts of the government will be ample, in my judgment, to meet all demands made by the appropriation bills." WILL REST III PEACE. Secretary liny Will Not Be Bothered by Ofllceneekers Daring Vacation. WASHINGTON. July 13.-Secretary Hay left Washington to-day for his summer vacation, which he will pass at his place in New Hampshire. He leaves the bujJness of ths department in good order. atA the

three assistant secretaries. Dr. Hill. Mr. Adee and Mr. Pierce, will be on duty during his absence. The secretary does not propose to attend to public business while he Is away, except such as may be transmitted to him by the assistant secretaries. Before leaving he particularly desired it to be known that he could not receive persons who desired to talk with him on business at his home in the country. His residence is several miles from the station. There are stories of officeseekers with fair prospects having persisted in reaching his retreat, where they were received with perfect courtesy, but lost whatever chance they had for an appointment. IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

S . X. . 1 1 t. . a: .. . V. a w a Fn,. v. I rut iiainitr hit eigner Coming to the United States. WASHINGTON. July IS. A statement has been prepared at the immigration bureau showing the number of immigrants who arrived in the United States by countries during the fiscal year 1002. as compared with 1901. The total arrivals for the last fiscal year were 646,713 immigrants and other alien passengers, making a total of 730.79S. This is an increase of 15.525 Immigrants over 1501. The principal increases dur ing the last year as compared with Wl J - m . t tt. rc C 'V 1 I were as lonows: Ausina-nuiif,ai., ...-.j, Italy. Including Sicily and Sardinia. 42.379; Russian empire and Finland. 22.ov; Japan. 9.001; Sweden. 7.563; German empire, 6.65.3; Norway. 5.23C; Greece. 2,194; Denmark, 2.0"5. The principal decreases are: Ireland, 1.425; China. 810; Turkey in Europe. 200. Following are the names of the countries from which the largest number of immigrants came during the last fiscal year: Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia. 178.375; Austria-Hungary, 171. Russian empire and Finland, 107,347; Sweden. 30.S94: Ireland. 29.13$: German empire. 2.304; Norway, 17.4S4; Japan, 14,270; England, 13.575. Proposed N"ec Warships Named. WASHINGTON, July 18. The Navy Department to-day announced that the two battleships to be built under the authority of the last naval appropriation bill are to be named the Louisiana and Connecticut, and the two cruisers the Tennessee and Washington. The battleship to be built at the New York vard will be the Connecticut. The battleships will cost $4.212.000 and the cruisers $4.659,000 each. The two tugs authorized by the act are to be built, one at the Mare Island navy yard and the other at Boston. Admiral Bowles has prepared an elaborate plan for keeping the accounts in connection with the cost of the Connecticut in such order that when she is finished comparisons can be made between the respective cost of building ships in government and private yards. Glenn Possibly Convicted. WASHINGTON. July 18. The records of the cases of Capt. Edwin F. Glenn. Fifth Infantry, and First Lieutenant Julien E. Gaujot, Tenth Cavalry, who were tried by j court-martial at Manila for alleged ill : treatment of Filipino prisoners by the use ! of the water cure and in other ways, hav j been received at the War Department and later will be sent to the President for tinal review. There is reason for the belief that Major Glenn, at least, was convicted on one or more counts and sentenced to punishment. In the Family of Nations. WASHINGTON, July IS. The new government of Cuba is being rapidly established in the family of nations. A cablegram received at the State Department today from Mr. Squiers. our minister at Havana, says that up to date the republic of Cuba has been formally recognized by the United States. Great Britain. France. Spain, Switzerland. Haiti, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala. WOMAN DEFENDS SELF KILLS HER DniXKEX Hl Sil AND AND HER BROTHER-IN-LAW. Tragedy Following the Smashing of j Dishes, the Breaking: in of a Door and a Personal Assault. CARBONDALE, 111., July IS. The Jaubert brothers, who operated a small coal mine near Oraville, were both shot to death at their home early this morning by the wife of one cf the men. They had returned about 11 o'clock Intoxicated and the husband demanded his supper. Mrs. Jaubert began its preparation and her husband began breaking the dishes and at last attacked her. Mrs. Jaubert and her sister lied to a back room and locked the door. Her husband followed, broke in the door and renewed the assault, whereupon the infuriated wife fired three shots into his body, one passing through his heart, causing almost instant death. The brother, who was a witness to the tragt?dy, took up his brother's quarrel and attempted to strike the woman, whereupon Mrs. Jaubert emptied the two remaining chambers of the revolver Into his body. Inflicting a wound from which he died shortl;' afterward. The woman gave the alarm and surrendered to the officers. The coroner's jury to-day exonerated the wife. HISTORY OF A BIG DEAL GATES TELLS HOW HE SECURED THE LOUISVILLE & .NASHVILLE. Also Explains How a Panic Was Averted by Loaning Belmont All the Stock He Needed. NEW YORK, July IS. In an Interview in the Commercial Advertiser to-day. John W. Gates gave the following history of the Louisville & Nashville deal: "We had the opinions of the best experts and auditors In the country that Louisville & Nashville was worth more per share than Illinois Central before we started into it. We knew it had $250,fy) of quick cash assets In its treasury. The public did not know that. When we obtained 30t),000 shares of stock the amount we started out to get there was a short interest on the market of 150,000 shares. Of it 100,000 shares was foreign short interest; 50.000 was stock Mr. Belmont had sold under a resolution of the board authorizing its sale. These 50.000 shares were not good deliveries for thirty days and if we had called the stock and Insisted upon the specific performance of contracts, as we had every right to do, we could have caused a panic greater than the May 9 panic. "The proposition was made to me by a thoroughly responsible man. financially, that if I would call and Insist upon delivery of Louisville he would sell j'.noo shares of stock and give me half of the profits for doing It. Mr. Morgan's people nt to my hotel and awakened me at l:3o In the morning, and stated that at a meeting of bankers It had been determined that we were the owners of Louisville & Nashville, and they wanted to know what we proposed to do about It. stating that It meant a panic probably greater than the Mav 9 panic. 1 told them the proposition that had been made to me. but that unaer no circumstances would we insist on specific performanr. of the deliveries of Louisville & Nashville stock, as we had no wish whatever to cause any panic or to make any one lose money in stocks they held. We loaned Mr. Belmont's people all the stock they wanted without any premium charged."

RUSSIA'S REAL AIM

MORE IN THE ANTI-TRl ST CONFER ENCE THAN APPEARS ON SURFACE Scheme to Combine All Enrope'in i Commercial or Tnrlir War Against the United State. LYMAN J. GAGE'S PREDICTION WHILE SECRETARY OF TREASURY HE SAW TREND OF EVENTS, And Said the Day Was Not Tar OH Wheu Iltmnin Would Attempt to Check Our Progress. VIEWS OF COUNT MATSUKATA ON THE GREAT COMMERCIAL ENERGY OF THE UNITED STATES. Japanese Statesman Fears This Conn. try In DoIsk Too Marli Daalness on Borrowed Capital. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, July lS.-The United States has been entirely left out of the anti-trust conference proposed by the Czar of Russia, to which all the great commercial nations cf Europe have been Invited. It is true that it has been announced that representatives of the United States would be welcomed, but it is hardly probable they will be welcomed if they are not invited to attend, for the reason that the government is not in the habit of sending representatives to international conferences of Europeans unless invited. This conference that the Czar of Russia has proposed, and to which he has asked all European nations, will, in the opinion of Washington statesmen, result in a discussion of tariff systems necessary to the protection of Europe against America. The fact that the United States is th leading country in the world in the formation of trusts and that these trusts have hit Europe, Ilusa particularly, pretty hard, leads naturally to the opinion that the anti-trust conference that the Czar is getting up will not be an anti-trust conference at all. but an anti-American conference. It cannot be forgotten that It was but a year ago this month that the then secretary of the treasury, Mr. Gage, Imposed the countervailing duty provided by law against bounty-fed sugars against Russian sugar and that he followed that by imposing the counttrvaiiirg du'.irs against Russian petroleum. This action by Mr. Gage was followed by a general raising of the Russian duties against imports from the United States, particularly against American steel. Some of the increases in tariffs imposed by Russia by way of retaliation amounted to 30 per cent. It was predicted by many American business men at the time that American trade with Russia had been ruined. The test of time has : nvn that Russian-American trade was not. luinrd by the iittle tilt that Secretary Gage precipitated, but that it has increased both in imports from Russia and exports to Russia during the last fiscal year. The figures for the entire year have not yet been completed by the Treasury Department, but the estimates are. Judging by the first eleven months of tfcf fiscal year, that the exports to Russia in creased by more than $l'fl,0fiü over lau year and that imports from Russia ir. creased almost as much. This was accomplished in the face of constantly decrease ing trade balances with most of the other commercial nations of Europe, it therefore appears that in spite of tariff tilts Russia is compelled to do business with tha United States on a constantly increasing scale. With the coming development of Manchuria and Siberia the opportunities for American business men in territory controlled by Russia will increase measurably. The Russian government. It is believed here, is Reeking to profit by this Russian market for American manufactures by forcing concessions for Russian products in the United States. All of th concessions that Russia wanted were granted by this government in a treaty of reciprocity that was negotiated by Commissioner Kasson and Ambassador Cassini about two years ago. That treaty was approved by the Russian government, but was never signed because of the attitude of the Senate against all reciprocity treaties. The Russian government was seriously offended at the failure of the American government to approve that treaty, and that fact added considerable to the bitterness of Russia over Secretary Gage's decision in the sugar and petroleum cases. During his tenure In office Secretary Gage was of opinion that the day was not far off when Europe would threaten the United States with a tariff war. The anti-trust conferente proposed by the Czar seems to be the beginning of the execution of that threat, l'ully three years ago Secretary (Jage predicted that England would soon put a duty on wheat, and such a bill is now pending in the British Parliament. He also predicted that afUr the duty had been put upon wheat it would be remitted in part to wheat produced In the British possessions like Can-jda and Australia. That, he said, would be the commencement of a European tariff war ag.iir.Ht the United States. An Associated Press dispatch says: The United States government has not received an invitition to participate in the anti-trust conference proposed by the Czar. The government was not concerned officially in the international sucar conference at Brussels, to which the projected conferene-e is a natural supplement, therefore, it is not believed thst its participation in this is expected. However. It would be clearly impossible for the United States government to enter Into any undertaking with foreign governments cencerning such important matters as trade regulation and espe-cially Involving an international regulation of tariffs in some mu-uie. It is f-lt that Congress would never surrender any part of Its constitutional authority to regulate these matters, so that if the Unm-d Mates should attend the projected conference through a representative no action could U- taken that would in the ?!!i.tet sens; bind the cove-rj.mnt. MATSUKATA A JEREMIAH. He Fears American Commercial En rrgy W 111 I-nd to Disaster. VIENNA. July 1. Count Matsukita, the former minister of hnance of Japan. ho recently returned from a month's visit to the United States, said to the correspondent of the Associated Press; '"WnUs

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