Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 363, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1902 — Page 2

THE INDIA NA POMS JOURNAL, ON DAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902.

INDIANA COAL SHORTAGE

IT IS PARTLY DCB TO TUB CIIHIST3IAS VACATION TAKES BY SIIXEUS. Operations Suspended for u AVeek or Ten Day Many Car of Fuel Confiscated by Itulirtnys. Srcial to the Indianapolis Journal. TEURE HAUTE. Dec. 2S.-There 13 a bis factor in the soft coal supply situation which is not generally understood and which accounts for the alleged storing of coal at this time by dealers and railroads In the cities, and on account of which the Illinois State authorities are about to take action. It i3 the custom of miners to take a week or ten days for their Christmas holiday. Railroads were aware of the custom, as were the tig dealers, and ten days ago they began accumulating coal against the days of Idleness at the mines. Th lack of traffic facilities In Itself was bad enough, but now there is a suspension of mining, which cuts the normal output one-half at least. Railroads have confiscated many hundred cars of Indiana coal in the past ten days and stored them at convenient joints for coaling their locomotives. The Indiana operators say they have not raised the price at the mines and perhaps will not again raise it this winter. It is Intimated the big dealers, especially In Chicago, have deliberately prepared for the short supply owing to idleness at the mines at this season, to the end that a larger price may be obtained for the product. The miners, on the other hand, say that they might as well take a holiday for ten days or two weeks, because in many mlnlns camp when they report for work each day they are told by the operators that, notwithstanding the desire to get out coal. It would be useles to mine it when there Is no means of sending it to market. At one big mine last week the men had only two half days' work, whereas the operators would have been glad to have kept all at work eight hours a day for the six days to All orders on hand. At other mines, where cars are on the tracks and the railroads are better equipped with motive IK) wer, men did not no to work. Seven mines north of this city were closed yesterday because not enough men reported for work, although at each mine there were cars ready for the output. CHURCH DEDICATED, Two Srrmoui Delivered by IUahop Joyce Debt Liquidated. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. LA PORTE, Ind., Dec. 23,-The rebuilt First Methodist Church of this city was dedicated to-day by Bishop I. W. Joyce, D. D., of Minneapolis, who delivered two able sermons. Several former pastors of the church were present and took part in the services. The edifice was crowded both morning and evening, many being unable to secure admission at the evening meeting, when the dedicatory services proper took place, following the raifing of the full amount required to pay for the remodeling. The improvements cost $14.000, of which about half had been subscribed previous to to-day's service. At the morning meeting $3,0uq was subscribed and to-night the remainder was obtained, so that-the church is entirely free from debt. The auditorium is the handsomest in the city. The building is an architectural beauty, being In the old Grecian style, WEATHER FORECAST. Ha In or Snow antl Warmer To-Day Fair and Colder To-Morrorr. WASHINGTON. Dec. rs.-Forecast for Slonday and Tuesday. For Indiana Rain or snow and warmer cn Monday. Tuesday colder and probably '-fair; fresh south winds shifting to west. For Illinois Snow in north, rain or snow In south portion on Monday, warmer; Tuesday colder and probably fair; fresh south Winds shifting to west. For Ohio Snow on Monday, probably turning to rain and warmer; Tuesday rain or snow, and colder, except fair in extreme eouthwest portion; fresh southeast winds Monday. Local Observation on Sunday. Bar. Tem. R.I I. Wind. Weath. Free. 7a. m... .20.1S 18 3 South. Ft C id y. T. 7 P. ra... .30.04 28 94 S'east. , Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature, 18. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on Dec. 28: Temp. Free. Normal . 2a 0.10 Mean 4 21 T. Departure from normal I O.10 Departure since Dec. 1 73 0.S3 departure since Jan. 1 62 6.23 ''Plus. W. T. BLYTHE. Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Stations. Abilene, Tex MIn. Max. 7 p. m.

4S 52 38 18 38 38 14 24 18 12 30 28 24 32 32 6 42 26 20 34 34 16 28 28 15 32 32 20 26 20 15 26 24 22 28 20 IS 30 2S 18 36 26 14 24 22 12 20 20 28 64 60 2 34 34 54 70 61 26 30 24 22 32 24 8 22 10 22 SO 28 10 28 22 26 52 46 26 32 32 8 30 20 23 32 82 20 SJ 32 14 26 34 32 15 30 20 21 44 44 36 60 58 16 30 28 22 32 30 20 3-8 32 20 32 20 32 36 32 20 30 30 48 64 68 16 2S 26 18 32 28 14 v 26 24 26 30 22 28 3 4 26 24 32 26 22 32 30 10 32 34 22 15 28 26 . . . 22 58 58 16 36 30

Atlanta. Oa Bismarck. N. D Buffalo, N. Y Cairo. Ill Calgary. N. W. T Chattanooga, Tenn ..... Chicago. Ill Cincinnati. O Cleveland. O Davenport, la Denver, Col Des Moines, la Dodge City. Kan Dubueque, la Duluth. Minn El Faso, Tex Fort Smith, Ark Galveston. Tex Grand Haven, Mich .... Grand Junction. Col ... Havre, Mont Helena, Mont Huron. S. D Jacksonville, Fla Kansas City, Mo ;. Lander, Wyo Little Rock. Ark Louisville, Ky Marquette, Mich Jlemphis, Tenn Modena, Utah Montgomery, Ala New Orleans. La New York City Nashville, Tenn Norfolk. Va Ncrth Flatte Oklahoma. O. T Omaha, Neb. Palestine, Tex Farkersburg, W. Va. .. Philadelphia Pittsburg. Fa Pueblo, CoL Rapid City. S. D Bait Lake City BZ. Louis St. Faul. Minn. Banta Fe, N. M Springfield. Ill Springfield, Mo Vlcksburg. Miss Washington,' D. C SnoTTstorm In Kansas. TOPEKA. Kan., Dec. 28. Kansas received a general snowstorm to-night. The temperature Is mild and no suffering among stock will result from the storm. Complaints are being received from western counties that the coal famine has not yet been relieved, as the railroads confiscate for their own use all the coal that is shipped. . , MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. LIZARD. Dec. 28. Passed: Noordam, from New York, for Rotterdam; Vaderland, from New York, for Antwerp. BROWHEAD. Dec. 28.-1:30 a. m. Passed: Ivernlu. from Boston, for Quecnstown and Liverpool. , SOUTHAMPTON. Dec. 28. Sailed: Moltke, from Hamburg and Boulogne, for Ntw York. NEW YORK. Dec. 2S--Arrived: La Champagne, for Havre. QUBENSTOWX. Dec. CS.-Salied: Umbrla, for New York. MOVILLE, Dec. 3.-Salled: Furnessla. Czr New York.

which Idea is carried out In the whole structure. The exterior is treated in rock faced stone, the work being done by an Indianapolis contractor. A new pipe organ has also been installed. Several memorial windows grace the edifice. Rev. G. W. Swi tzt-r, D. D., is pastor. Bishop Joyce will soon leave for South America to preside at two large Methodist conferences there.

DE I'AIW CMVEHSITY CHANGES. Trustees "Will 'ot He Hasty In Selecting President Gobln's Successor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dec. 28.-R. S. Tennant, the coal operator, speaking of the changes at the head of De Fauw University, of whose board of trustees he Is a member, says It Is true that President Gobin has notified the board of his purpose to resign. Chancellor Hickman has ten dered his resignation. In selecting a presi dent the board will have in mind the consolidation of the duties of the two positions. rso one has been selected and the board will look the country over before offering the position to anyone. Mr. Tennant says t is the desire of the board to retain Dr. Gobin's services in some capacity, but he docs not intimate what it may be. Couch Butler Units IVotrc Dnmc. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 2S. Track athletics at Notre Dame were Riven an other blow last night when P. V. Butler, who has coached the track men for the past two seasons severed his connection with the university. It is not known Just why the action was taken as Butler refused to discuss the mat ter. He came here from Nova Scotia and would have been graduated in the electrical engineering short course In June. He has had several offers of a berth with schools. but declared that he would not acept any of these places, but would go into elec trical work at once. During the football season Butler trained the men, and the students have been depending upon him to develop a hockey club. It was expected that work on the latter would begin immediately after the vacation began, but there was no skating and the plan failed for want of ice. "Boots," as he was commonly known, was one of the best skaters at the university and knew hockey to a nicety, having learned it in the English navy, where he served several years. Slaniraerf 'Warring Against Snloonlsts Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind.. Dec. 2S.-The Kokomo Civic Federation that has been slumming the town at periods for weeks, swore out warrants last nlght for the arrest of thirty saloon keepers and a number of keepers of resorts. The arrests will be made Monday morning. Prosecutor Willitts has signified nls purpose to pusn the prosequtions. The saloon men will be held for tiolations of the Sunday laws. A committee of young women, headed by Miss Carrie Styer, did the crusading, and it is on the testimony furnished by them the prosecutions are based. It is thought that the greater part of the accused will plead guilty and pay tines. Suit for $ 10,000 Damages. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 28. The administrator of the estate of Anthony D. Havens, of Hillsboro, 111., has brought, suit against the Big Four Railroad Company for $10,000 for the loss of Havens's life. Havens had charge of a car of poultry for the Arthur Jordan Company, of Indianapolis, when he was killed In the collision on the bridge over the Wabash river in this city a few months ago. His body was found several days afterward in the river. Two trainmen lost their lives In the same wreck. Poison Whipped Out of a Negro. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 2S. Frank Markis, a negro hotel porter, took laudunum in front of the house of Amanda Mlllikin, who had discarded him for another lover, and tried to butt his brains out against a tree. At the police station relays of prisoners from the jail ' were brought into use to keep him moving to offset the effect of the poison. While two men led him about another whipped him on the bare back with a wet towel. This aroused Markls's anger, and he bit the towel wlelder on the hand, causing a serious wound. Scientists at Washington. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Ind.. Dec. 28. Indiana is to be well represented at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington this week. Among those who have already arrived are, J. C. Arthur and wife, Miss Emily Meigs and C. A. Waldo, of Lafayette; Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Taylor, of Fort Wayne; Dr. F. M. Andrews, Robert E. Lyons, C. H. Elgman and W. J. Moenkhaus, of Bloomington, and W. A. Noyes, of Terre Haute. D. M. Mottler, of Bloomington, will be here to-morrow. Death of Father Oechtering Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 2S.-Rev. Father Oechtering, of Mlshawaka parish, died at St. Joseph's Hospital this afternoon, aged sixty-six. He came to the hospital for an operation for tumor, but it proved to be an Incurable cancer. He was the first priest ordained in the Cathedral of this city and had been thirty-two years in Mishawaka. He gained some note In the 1902 political campaign by taking Issue with Bishop Ireland on the Philippine question. Sheriff and Prisoner Fined. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBYVILLE, Ind.. Dec. 2S. Officers arrested Doug Woods last Saturday evening on the charge of intoxication. He was taken to 'Squire Brokering's office to answer to the charge and while there Sheriff Theodore Luther entered the room and accused Woods of certain things. The two men engaged in a fight of short duration, the officers present separating them. Each was arrested on the charg of assault and battery and fined $5 and costs. Co-Operntlve Glass Company Proposed Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec 28. The window glass workers of Muncie and vicinity met to-day In the Commercial Club rooms and took the first steps toward forming a cooperative company to construct a window glass factory here. The new factorv is designed to take the place of the plant ciosea vy me uusi a lew aays ago. Little Girl Burned to Death. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 2S.-Bessle Brewer, aged eight, residing at Fort Branch, was fatally burned at her home yesterday. Her clothes caught fire while she was standing near an open grate and she ran through the streets of the town her body enveloped in flames. Her parents are prostrated. Jewelry Store Damaged by Fire. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD, Ind., Dec. 28. Fire early Saturday morning did considerable damage to the jewelry store of Smith Bros. In the J. H. Rottman block. The origin of the fire is unknown. The loss will be several thousand dollars, but It is covered by insurance in the Royal. Hartford, Germania and Underwriters of Philadelphia $l.uuo each. Poison In the Orange. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. 2S. Mrs. John Fuller, of this city, was poisoned to-day while eating an orange given her as a Christmas present She was in convulsions an hour, but her life was saved. Evidences of strychnine were found. She says the orange was sent her by a friend in MatIndiana Notes. t TERRE HAUTE. John S. Cox has resigned as superintendent of the Terre Haute works of the American Car and Foundry Company, to take effect Jan. 1. The name of hb successor is not announced, and Mr. Cox has not decided what business he will engage In after he leaves the car works. SEYMOUR Rev. A. Egli. of Kvansvllle. has be-n called to the pastorate of the German Evangelical St. Paul's Protestant

Church of this city, to succeed Rev. F. Davies. who has accepted the pastorate of a Cincinnati church. The new pastor will begin his work here Feb. 1. Mrs. Laura Holmes Atkinson, wife of Cyrus J. Atkinson, died Sunday morning, aged forty-five years. SHELBY VILLE. Frank Bass, treasurer of the local School Board, has received another $3100 draft from Andrew Carnegie for the library building fund. This is the third remittance, and when the building reaches completion the last draft will have been received, the total amounting to $3),000. BLUFFTON. Frank Dickey, aged forty, and married, a brakeman on the Clover Leaf road, had his left arm cut off at the shoulder early Sunday morning. He fell from a west-bound freight as it was entering Bluffton yards and the arm was mangled under the wheels. Doctors amputated it. Dickey's home 1s in Frankfort. MUNCIE. Chester Evans, the young man who was pardoned from the Indiana Reformatory by Governor Durbin in order that he might reach home at Muncie for Christmas, Is writing a book of short stories dealing with his experiences as a British scout in South Africa and with his prison life. NEW ALBANY. A postal money order, which had been raised from fifty cents to $25. was passed In this city Saturday. The order was drawn at the Columbus, Ind., postoftice. and was made payable to Ellsworth Goodman. The passer of the order was not arrested. EVA NS VI LLK. A baby elephant appeared at the winter headquarters of the Wright Carnival Company here on Sunday. The baby was the offspring of "Bess," one of the largest elephants in the company. It weighs 250 pounds. KOKOMO. After thirty-six years of married life H. C. Miller, one of the wealthiest farmers of Howard county, is sued for divorce by his wife, Caroline Miller. She asks $7,000 alimony and the custody of minor children.

OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE EXPORTS CONTINUE TO BE LAUGE DESPITE CROP SHORTAGE. Shipments of Manufactures for Eleven Months This Year Fifteen SHIlioua Greater Tlian Last Year. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. The figures of the foreign commerce of the United States during the eleven months ending with November, which have just been completed by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, Indicate a phenomenal activity among the manufacturers of the country and exportatlons quite as large as could be expected, in view of the crop shortage of last year. The value of manufacturers materials imported into the United States during the eleven months ending with November this year Is $407.603.591), against J353.417.2SS In the corresponding months of last year, and forms per cent, of the total imports, against 44 per cent, of the total Imports in the corresponding months of last year. Manufactures exported during the eleven months of 1002 amount to $377.635,961, against $332,302.181 in the corresponding months of last year, and form 31.8 per cent, of the total, against 27.8 per cent, of the total exports in the same months of 1901. The total imports are $75,000,000 in excess of those for the corresponding months of last year, and of this increase of $75,000,000 $54,000,000 was in the class "manufacturers' materials" and the remainder rjanufactures and luxuries, articles of food and animals, showing a reduction of $10,Ojx000 as compared with the Importations during the corresponding months of last year. Nearly all of the great articles required for use in manufacturing, with the single exception of India rubber, show a marked increase In Importations. Importations of raw silk, for example, amount to $40,905,303 in the eleven months of this year, against $35,411,000 in the corresponding period of 1001; hides and skins, $53,022,521, against $30,877,707 in the eleven months of last year; tin for use in manufacturing tin plate, $19,532.S07, against $17,415,302 in the corresponding months of last year. India rubber Importations show a slight falling off, the total for the eleven months being $22,568.7S8 this year, against $25,920,985 in the same months of last year. The most striking Increase In Importa tions Is In manufactures of iron and steel. which amount for the eleven months to $36,706,951 in value, against $18.267,677 in the corresponding months of last year, the value of the importations having thus more than doubled this year as compared with last year. Practically every item in the list of iron and steel manufactures shows a marked Increase. The export figures of iron and steel manufactures show a reduction, the total exports for the eleven months being $30,136,024 this year, against $04.091,967 in the some months of last year ana uy,w4,-iö in eieven momns or law. The total exportation of the eleven months falls $116.000.000 below tha of the corresponding period of 1901. This reduction occurs in agricultural products, of which the exportatlons during the eleven months of this year fall $130,000,000 below those of last year, indicating that in the othr great classes, especially manufactures, there is an increase. This reduction of $130,000,000 in agricultural exports is due in part to the increased home demand, in part to the loss of a part of the corn crop of last year, corn exportatlons having fallen from $49.501.374 in eleven months of 1901 to $6,745.151 in the corresponding months of this year. There Is also a considerable reduction in the value of wheat exported, due to the fact that last year's exportatlons were exceptionally large. 11 months ending Nov. Imports. laoi. 1SW2. Food and animals $203,448,487 $192,133.017 Crude manufacturers' . materials 274.S56.147 31S.110.0S3 Manufacturers' materials, partly manufactured... 79,061,111 S9.493.51S Manufactured articles... 126,005,692 149,611,818 Luxuries and articles of voluntary use 117,504,764 134.617,093 Total Imports $900,426,231 $574.963,557 Domestic Exports. Agricultural products .. $815.673,850 $715,771,314 Manufactures 362.392.181 J77.63S.961 IToducts of the mines... 37.614,960 33.207,024 Products of the forest... 46,761.217 4S.261.040 Products of the fisheries 6.314.223 7,863.430 Miscellaneous articles ... 3,909.105 . 4,638. 695 Total domestic $l,3fl2,760.53r $1,117,347.464 Foreign exports ......... 25.425,596 35,332.599 Total exports $1.323,136.131' $1,212,710.063 Obituary. TOKIO, Dec. 12. via Victoria, B. C.. Dec. 28. The death of Count Sano took place In Tokio on Dec. 7, in the eighty-first year of his age. Count Sano, who was a privy councillor at the time of his death, was the founder of the Japan Red Cross Society and the Fine Arts Society. At one time he represented Japan In Italy and Austria-Hungary. He was minister of finance. In 1SS7 he was made a viscount and afterwards raised to the rank of count. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 2S. Silas Farmer, author and publisher of a two-volume history of Michigan, and a recognized authority on the history of the Northwest, died suddenly to-day at his residence in this citv. Death was due to acute indiges tion. Mr. Farmer, who was sixty-three years old, was a fellow of the American Geographical Society and was well known as a lecturer. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Dec. 28. A private cablegram received by Rev. S. H. Chester, secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Southern Presbyterian Church, announces the death to-day from pneumonia in Seoul, Corea, of Rev. D. C. Rankin, editor of the foreign missions publications of the Presbyterian Church. t TIFFIN. U., Dec. 28. Rev. John P. Puetz, aged seventy, rector of St. Joseph's Catholic Church In this city, died in Las Vegas, N. M., last night, where he was spending the winter for his health. TORONTO, Ont.. Dec. 28. Joseph T. Thompson, father of Ernest Seaton Thompson, writer of animal stories, died to-day, aged eighty. LONDON, Dec. 28. The Right Rev. John Wogan Festing. bishop of St. Albans, is dead. Rattle for the Stratton Millions. COLORADO STRINGS, Col., Dec. 28. The real legal battle for the Stratton millions will begin to-morrow, when the hearing on the admission of the will cf W. 8. Stratton to probate will come up In the county court. Prominent lawyers from all over the State. Including United States Senator Patterson, are in the city and the prospects are the hearing will be long drawn out. 'I he protest against the admission of the will to probate was one of the first steps taken by the attorneys for I. Harry Stratton, the contestant of the will, and It was based upon numerous grounds. Young Stratton and his bride from Oshkosh. Wis., arrived In the. city yesterday to be present at the hearing.

BETRAYED BY SPARKS

MOOXSIIIXERS ILLICIT STILL DISCOVERED IX A CtHIOlS WAY. Cave in a Hillside That Slight Hare Escaped Notice but for Spnrks That Floated L'-Mvard from n Fire. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 28. Just two or three little sparks, floating upward from out of a hillside in a secluded spot In the northern part of Rockdale county, disclosed to a quartet of Uncle Sam's sleuths one of the smoothest and most ingeniously constructed illicit distilleries with which officers of the law have ever had to deal. By directing their footsteps toward the spot from which the chance sparks arose, the officers located a full-lodged copper still in operation snugly hidden away in a cunningly arranged cave down under the hillside. Contrary to the expectations of the officers, no one was found in the cave. The operators had probably heard their approach .and made a hasty exit. The furnace was aglow, however, and the still was In full operation. About 100 gallons of beer and five gallons of singlings were destroyed. The officers participating in the raid were Colonel David A. Cates, of Atlanta, internal revenue agent, and Deputy Marshals Jobji Lane, of Villa Rica, and John Hays andxJohn New, of Llthonia. It was suspected that a still was in operation in that section and Colonel Gates planned the raid. The officers visited the locality and made a thorough search, but to no avail. Not the slightest evidence of a still was to be found, and they began to think they had gone against the wrong trail. The night was dark and the quartet was moving cautiously along through woods and underbrush on top of a hill when one of the officers, glancing over toward a parallel bill, noticed a few tiny sparks ascend slowly from the hillside, soar upward a few inches and then vanish, resembling the preliminary warning from the crator of a volcano. The still hunt through the darkness and loneliness of the night was of itself weird enough, but the officers were unable to understand this apparent phenomenon. However, they decided to investigate, and proceeding down the hillside and through the valley at the bottom, crossing a small spring branch, they ascended the opposite hill. No more sparks guided them, and they were compelled to make their way as best they could remember the direction. Finally, while at a certain point they noticed a faint glow further up the hill and they made for that point. The glow remained only fo- an Instant, however. The officers struggled up the hillside and finally the little party came to an abrupt halt, for one of the men came very near falling into a small hole in the ground. A closer Investigation told them they had found the object of their search. The hole was Just large enough to admit the entrance of a man's body, and a few feet below the surface was a dirt landing. After reaching this landing, the interior of the cave was exposed, the floor being reached by means of a ladder. The cave was about ten feet deep and six or eight feet wide. It was located in a clump of woods and was so constructed that the trees and shrubbery were left growing on top. Inside was all of the paraphernalia necessary for the successful operation of a still. The moonshiners had not stopped merely with the cave, but carried their cleverness to the extent of providing water without having to go outside. A well had been dug from the bottom of the cave. The smokestack ran alongside the manhole, and the top was covered with boards and dirt. The sparks were evidently caused by the throwing of wood into the furnace, showing that the officers had missed the operators by only a few minutes. A feature that mystified the officers is what became of the dirt from the cave. There was not the slightest trace of the dirt anywhere about the place, neither were there any wagon tracks. It is believed the. dirt was carried away In buckets, which must have made the Job tedious. Another circumstance that demonstrates the shrewdness of the moonshiners is that the always tell tale footpath, leading to a still, was entirely missing. This fact had been accomplished by the cutting down of a number of trees, on which the law violaters walked to the secret room. The fallen trees were chopped in places, as though they had been cut down for wood and did not in the least appear suspicious. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mr. Bryan's visit to the City of Mexico has been varied by sightseeing, official calls, etc. He has been received in audience by President Diaz and Minister of Finance Limantour. - Cornelius Vanderbilt continues to im prove at New York. His temperature Is slowly dropping toward normal. The attending physicians are well satisfied with his progress. According to the Louisville CourierJournal, Harry Welssinger, president of the Weissinger Tobacco Company, has closed a deal which has been pending several days for the sale of this plant to the Con tinental Tobacco Company for $2,500,000. At Florence, Ala.. Calvin Carson, an old Confederate soldier, driven to desperation by want, with his granddaughter, a helpless cripple dependent on him, gave the girl carbolic acid and cut his own throat. The girl has been a cripple from birth and was twenty-one years old. Funeral services for the late Nate Salsbury were held at New York yesterday under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity. The Rev. Dr. Burrill, of Freeport, 111., a lifelong friend of the dead showman, preached the sermon. Many prominent theatrical people were in attendance. The new People's Church at St. Paul, which replaces the structure burned about a year ago, was opened yesterday with appropriate religious ceremonies. The church is an Imposing structure, erected at a cost of over $100,0) and is unique in that Its Interior decorations pay tribute to the great teachers of all recognized religions and creeds. While coasting down the levee on the Ice formed along the river shore opposite Olive street, St. Louis, last evening, Mary Galleano, aged fifteen, and Ange Cafferata, aged seventeen, broke through the Ice and were drowned. Theresa Logo Marslno, aged fourteen, also plunged Into the river, but was rescued. The body of Mary Galleano has not been recovered. The cool wave ha done no material damage to any crops In Florida. While a temperature of from 27 to 30 degrees above zero was experienced in some sections Just below the freezing line on the West coast Saturday night, frost warnings had been sent out in ample time and practically all the vegetable growers who could bo affected had prepared for It. Harry Jackson, foreman of the cable department of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, at Youngstown. O., committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid there on Sunday. He was an expert electrician and formerly lived In Philadelphia. The only motive for the deed was the killing of an intimate friend In a row on Christmas day and Jackson's declaration that "he would soon follow him." Four bodies have been recovered from the little Redstone near Fayette City, Pa., where the explosion occurred Saturday night. The dead are: Joseph Kozel. a Slav, aged forty-five, who leaves a family in the old country; Albert Kozel, aged eighteen, son of Joseph Kozel. unmarried; Charles Krook, an Italian, aged thirty-five years, who also leaves a family in the old country, and Frank Monluke. an Italian aged twenty-three years and unmarried. Another furious gale has been raging at St. Johns, Newfoundland, for the past thirty-six hours and has caused much damage along the coast line. It Is feared the shipping will suffer considerably. The Allan line steamer Peruvian passed Cape Race Saturday morning, but was not able to make port because of the storm and the fog. She has on board 300 Canadian cattle, which were shippped at Halifax because of the embargo against American ports. While attempting to cross Cumberland river near Galnesboro, Tenn., In a canoe Miss Verdi Rich. Miss Hattie Rose and Walter Rich were drowned, while Rufus Bailey and Alfred Crowder had narrow escapes. The canoe was overcrowded and when the current of the swollen stream struck It the frail craft swerved and rocked. One of the frightened girls Jumped into the water, causing the canoe to capSize and throwing all of the occupants Into the river. With the closing of the present year the H. C. Frick Coke Company passes from the service of the general coke consumers "of the country and will devote Its energies to supplying the constituent companies of the United States Steel corporation. The

removal of this large supply of coke from the independent field has done more to stir up capital for new poke operations than anything that has occurred in years. Several new companies have been formed, with millions of capital. . Poisoned, it Is charged, by means of a bottle of wine given as a Christmas present, Richard Cummings. fifty years of age, died yesterday at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Shanahan. No. 422S Ashland avenue, Chicago, where he was boarding. William Menisk. his wife, Mrs. Theresa Menlsk and their fourteen-year-old daughter Mary, of. 4226 Ashland avenue, were arrested on suspicion of having poisoned Cummings. A bitter quarrel is said 'to have taken place between Cummings and Mrs, Shanahan on one side and the Menisk3 on the other.

WILL RESUME HIS TOUR. Composer MatcnRni Looking: for a Xew Manager with Money. CHICAGO, Dec. 28. Pietro Mascagni, the Italian composer, will appear In Chicago as temporary director of the Thomas orchestra. It was also determined to-day that he will resume his tour of the United States, and he Is now looking for a manager with sufficient capital to insure a successful Journey. So many Chicagoans requested the composer to give another performance that it was Impossible for him to refuse. Requests came from men and women in every walk of life. The concert will be held at the Auditorium Theater. AN INTERESTING CONTEST XAVY D K PA RT 31 E XT TO RACE "WITH PRIVATE SHIPBUILDERS. W ill Attempt to Construct the Battleship Connecticut in Lens Time Than the Lonisinna Is Built. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Wlthin a short time the most interesting race that has ever taken place between the government of the United States and a private contractor will be Inaugurated and to a very large extent the future history of the ship building industry of the United States depends upon the outcome. Consequently both sides are straining every nerve and each is seeking to outdo the other. The contest referred to is that between the Navy Department, which has undertaken to construct in the Brooklyn navy yard the giant battleship Connecticut In competition with the Newport News Ship Building Company, to which has been given the contract for the building of the Louisiana. The Connecticut and Louisiana arc sister ships; in every respect down to the smallest detail of their construction from the massive turrets, with their great twelve-Inch guns, down through their steel decks to the smallest screw or rivet which holds In place their steel plates which form their bottoms they are to be alike in every particular. From one standpoint it is merely a contest between the government and private parties. It has been stated that the government could not construct Its ships as rapidly as private con tractors nor as cheaply owing to the restrictions which labor men throw about government work. On the other hand It Is declared that although the government yards were handicapped by an eight-hour system, with fifteen days annual leave for their men. together with higher wages, nevertheless, the employes of the government yards could accomplish more in their eight hours work per day than an equal number of men In private shopyarös working ten hours per day, basing their arguments on the ground that eight hours was a proper day's work and that men whose hours of labor were limited to eight hours, by working more willingly and more cheerfully could accomplish more than equally as good workmen required to labor, ten hours per diem. So Insistent were the labor leaders that the government could construct its war ships in its own yards for less money than it was paying private contractors, that Congress, at its last session, authorized, the Navy Department to build one of the battleships provided for in the last naval appropriation bill in the government navy yard, and allow the secretary of the navy the sum of $175,000 to equip the yard for the construction of the vessel. The act further' provided that the secretary of the navy should "keep an accurate account of the cost of Inspection and construction of vessels provided for In this act, whether built in government yards or by contract, and report thereon to Congress, at each session, the progress of work and cost thereof including the inspection of all the material going into the construction of said vessels, and, upon the completion thereof, to report a full and detailed statement showing the relative cost of the Inspection and construction in government yards and by contract." In pursuance of this act the secretary of the navy caused specifications to be drawn for the Connecticut and the Louisiana, and advertised for bids for the construction of one of them, the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, securing the contract on a bid of $3.990,000, much less than the limit placed upon the contract price by Congress of $4,212,000. Forty-two months were allowed by the Navy Department for the completion of the Louisiana the contractors agreed to complete her In forty-one months, under a penalty of $200 a day for the first month and $600 a day thereafter until the vessel Is completed. The terms of the wager were accepted and the contest was fairly begun when the secretary of the navy Issued the necessary orde'rs to place the Brooklyn navy yard In condition to construct the Connecticut, that yard being selected as the best equipped of the government yards for the purpose. "The government is greatly handicapped in its competition with the private contractors In the construction of the Connecticut," said a prominent official of the Navy Department to-day. "You know, in the government navy yards we must operate strictly under the eight-hour system. Only a certain number of men can be employed in the construction of a vessel at any one time, the number varying according to the stage of completion. In out-door work of this character it is customary to take advantage of the long hours of daylight In summer to make up for the deficiency in that respect during the winter. At least, that is the custom in private Bhlp yards; unfortunately for us, we are prevented from following this rule. The law arbitrarily provides that our workmen cannot be employed more than eight hours per diem and consequently we will work only eight hours a day where the private yards work ten. Under such circumstances it will be almost an impossibility for us to complete the Connecticut within fortyone months as the private contractors have agreed to do in the case of its sister ship, the Louisiana. In addition, we are further handicapped by the fact that each employe of the government navy yards is granted fifteen days' leave annually with pay, which, of course, must be charged into the expense of constructing the vessel and will further tend to delay its completion." MAJOR LIU'S EXECUTION. How a Chinese Slilltary Officer Was Beheaded Boxers Punished. VICTORIA, B. C. Dec. 28. According to advices received by the steamer Tartar, Hunan correspondents of the Shanghai papers send particulars regarding the execution of Major Liu. the Chen-Chou military officer who refused to protect the murdered missionaries, Bruce and Lewis, from the mob, and whose execution was demanded by the British government and China forced to accede after a naval demonstration at Hankow. The condemned man was removed from the yamen In a chair,- after being taken before the Governor and British representatives to a place outside the city walls, where he was beheaded. He was clad In his official robes. The execution was witnessed by a large number of foreigners from the tower over the -city gate. 'After the execution the remains were wrapped in a red wrapper by the magistrates and all day a continual line of people wept bitterly at the coffin. According to advices received by tho steamer Tartar, the boxer uprisings in SzeChuan continue and other attacks were made on Chengtu In November. While some of the rebels battered the gates, another body

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