Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1903 — Page 2

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asa'.nn the board ihis one 1 sufficient to Justify the .introduction anil passag of this bill. - By the trms f the original contract the Stale received 50 cents per iay of ten hours for uch man on contract, but the superintendent, with the contractor, Used the task3 which shall ennstitute a d;:y's werk, and credit Is not given", for the number of hours worked, liut tor the number of tasks performed. If a rrkoner fs to make a satisfactory average of tasks he la punished or degraded. When the : board changed the contract reducing the day's labor from ten hours to fight hours, and re amount which the State receives from Zi cents to 4' cents, a reduction of 20 per cent. In the number of hours and 2u per cent, in tho pay-to the State, it provided that tho tasks-constituting a day's labor should be reduced only 10 per cent. The effect of this was to require the laborer to do In eight hours what he formerly did in nine hours, and to give to the contractor 45 cents worth of work for 40 cents pay. The State Is therefore the loser, and the contractor, or some other Interested party, is the gainer of Viy per cent. The State receives on con- . tract labor . In this institution, approximately $'a)0 annually on the basis of 40 cents per day p-r man. Twelve and onehalf per cent, of this, or $7.500, has been tatfcea from the treasury of the State and placed in the pockets of somebody. This action . was taken by men who are supposed servants, not of contractors, but of the State, and who are looked to to protect the interests of the State. In addition to the injustice to Jhe State, there has been perpetrated upon the prisoner himself an injustice, by reason of the fact that his labor has been Increased when the board pretended to decrease it. This action has no excuse and no defense, and If any board of directors, in any private corporation, would pursue such a course, the stockholders would not lose a moment in their effort to oust the board. 'The committee on investigation found In punishment at the State Prison at Michigan City only one man, and he had started a fight in the dining room, a very serious offense. At the so-called Reformatory, the committee found in punishment nine men. We did not talk to all of the prisoners in punishment, but personally I talked to two of them, the doors of whose cells were opened by an officer; one had been hung up with his hands through the bars of his cell door with handcuffs on his wrists outside the bars. - He had been confined in this position Jive days from 6 o'clock la the morning until 12 o'clock at night, with no uther food than one piece- of bread a day with water. He did not know how much longer he would have to endure this, and his offense was the .Levying of a chew of tobacco from a driver In the yard. AH questions were answered in the presence of a member of the board who attempted at lirst to answer for the prisoner. In what physical condition do you suppose this prisoner would be for work when sent out to the factory and required to perform a certain number of tasks per day? M011E THAN DISCOURTESY. "In regard to the discourtesy to the Governor1 shown by the board, I would say that the act was much more than one of discourtesy. It was an act of secrecy and concealment of purpose from one whom It was the duty of the board to consult. The fact that one member of the board was in company with the Governor only a day or so prior to the election of a new superintendent and talked with the Governor upon' other-subjects relating to the institution,and never mentioned the subject of the new superintendent, is an evidence that It was the purpose of the board to conceal its Intentions from tho Governor In relation to the election of a new superintendent. If there was nothing to conceal from the Governor, why this carefully carried out programme of concealment? Any one who knows anything of the management of State Institutions knows that Governor Pur bin has done more to bring about the application of business principles In the management of these institutions, than any other citizen of the State of Indiana, or any other Governor who has ever occupied that position. "In reference to any Investigation that might be instituted relative to this institution, I would say that a large patt of the information would have to be gathered from employes and convicts in the institution. Any one can see very readily the difficulty that . would attend investigation tinder such circumstances while the present board Is In control. , Vit has beer, contended by the newspapers that the supporters of tho - Reformatory WEATHEE FORECAST; '". . . V t Sboit, In Northern Indiana and Rain In Southern Portion To-Day. -WASHINGTON, I Jan. ' 24. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Indiana Snow in north, rain In south portion on Sunday. Monday fair; fresh northeast to north winds. For "Illinois Fair in south and central, enow flurries In north portion on Sunday.: Monday fair; fresh east to southeast winds. For Ohio Snow or rain on Sunday, except fair in southwest portion. Monday fair, except snow along northeast lake chore; variable winds. Loeal Observations on Saturday. IUr. Tern. R.H. Wind. Weather. Tree. Ta.m..a.M. 2 94 N'eaat. Lt. snow. 0.12 7 p. nu.23.5i -2$ S3 N'east.. Lt. snow. 0.Ü4 Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature. 24. Comparative statement of th mean temperature and total precipitation on Jan. 2i: 1. , Tern. Tree. rormal 2S o.io Departure 1 ö Departure since Jan. 1 03 0.03 Flus.' V. T. ULYTIIE, Section Director! Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations 7 a.m. Max. 7 p.m. Abilene.. Tex 3- - 64 id Amarlllo, Tex 2 63 - 62 Antonio. Tex i Atlanta. Ga 42 44 J?l?marcJc. N. D ig 41 IJuffalo.-N. Y 2 18 16 Cairo. Ill 36 3 36 Caljtary. Alberta 22 32 3.) Chattanooga. Tenn 40 53 Cheyenne. Wyo 2) 41 46 Chlcajto. ill 2') 21 24 Cincinnati, O 2H 34 31) Cleveland, O 16 2 i Columbus, O 22 32 ' 30 Concordia, Kan 20 43 20 Davenport, la 22 so 28 Denver, Col 22 60 to Dodge City. Kan 20 is 3 Dubuque. Ia 20 30 28 Duluth, Minn 2 28 28 El Paso. Tex 26 66 i) - CJ.ilvestcn. Tex 4 m j, rand Junction, Col 12 3 2 Grand Haven. Mica 12 20 1 Havre. Munt 24 38 3 Helena Mont 24 46 n Huron. S. li is 23 2' Jacksonville. F!a 46 68 k1 Kansas City. Mo 2 31 32 Lander. YVyo 6 44 Little Rock. Ark 38 48 45 Louisville. Ky 34 53 3j Marquette, Mich 10 I 20 Memphis, Tenn 42 44 4 MoAena, Utah 2 53 44 Montgomery. Ala 10 ci LI Nashville. Tenn 44 .53 4 New Orleans. La 60 go New York. N. Y 14 Norfolk. V 36 4- Zfk North Platte. Neb 20 48 40 Oklahoma. O. T 24 iz 41 Omaha, Neb 24 58 so Palestine. Tex 34 ., Parkersburgr, V. Va 28 23 31 Philadelphia. Pa is 2 Pittsburg; Pa 2d 28 Pueblo. Col 22 64 v Qu Appelle. Ain io 2i 2S llapid City, S. D 30 48 34 Ft. Louis, Mo 20 3Ft. Paul. Minn 15 28 "k Fait Lake City. Utah 20 Ü2 '0 Fanta Fe. N. Mex 20 4; S Fhreveport, La 38 :.i FprlngfleM. ill 22 28 28 Fprinnld, Mo 26 ZZ 3Valentine. N"b is 44 -4 Vlcksburjc. Mis 4t V, 45 Washington.. D. C 22 26 24 "Wichita, Kan 20 . . 41 MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Jan. 24. Arrived: Ethiopia. GUssow and Mavilla. Sailed: Vaderland. fur Antwerp; Laurentian, for Glasgow; Lucanla and Bohemia, for Liverpool; Minnetonka, for London. V YOKOHAMA. Jan. 24. Arrived: Coptic, from San Francisco, via Honolulu for H,ong-Iong. : .. , LIVERPOOL, Jan. 21.-Arrived: Cestrian. ficm J los to a. Sailed: Saxony, for New York. GIBRALTAR. Jan. 21. Passed: Talatia. from New York for Naples and Genoa. AUCKLAND. Jan. 21 Failed: Sierra, from Pidney. N. S. W., for San Francisco. KINS ALE. , Jan. 24. Passed: GeorRlc, from New York for Liverpool. HONG-KONG. Jan. 2t-Arrived: Pleiades, from Tacoma. via Yokohama. HAVRE. Jan. 21. Sailed: La Lorraine, tt.z New York. ANTWERP, Jan. 2L-Salled: Zealand, for New York. GLASGOW. Jan. 2I.-Salled: Anchorla. for New-York. , ;

bill have made no charges against the board to Justify the Mil and have offered no Information to the public to warrant its passage. I am free to My that as the author of the bill I have offered to two of the leading newspapers of the city any informatloa In my iopseFion." . d r : : KIHKMAA JOl.VS OPPOSITION.

Opponents of mil Xow Hnve Moat Itrllllnnt Lenders In Hunse. The opposition to the Reformatory bill gained a formidable recruit yesterday In the person of Representative Roscoe E. Kirkman. of Richmond, the .Republican caucus chairman. Mr. Kirkman has come out squarely against the bill, the opposition claims, and will fight it vigorously. He ia expected to make one of the strong speeches for the opposition when the bill Is placed on its passage. In this position Mr. Kirkman takes a stand diametrically opposed to that of Senator Starr, of Richmond, who voted for the bill when It passed the Senate. It is understood, also, that he takes this position against the advice of Harry Starr, of Richmond, who was his strongest backer in his race for the speakership. The leaders of the opposition were jubilant last night over the acquisition of Kirkman, and they pointed to that as an indication that every moment's delay in tho progress of the bill added material strength to their cause. With Tarkington, Sayre, Stutesman and Kirkman the opposition has four leaders who cannot be duplicated on the floor of the House at this session. They will be supported, it is claimed, by Representative Adair, the minority caucus chairman, who has on several occasions demonstrated his ability as a speaker, anc. whose influence with his Democratic colleagues i3 unquestioned. DECKER ALSO A REBEL. Representative Decker, of Evansvllle, the youngest member of the House, has joined the opposition and it is said that he Is the only member from the First District who has the courage to fight the bill. That it requires some little courage on his part is shown in the fact that the strongest kind of pressure has been brought to bear on him by the other Evansvllle members and by the administration forces to hold him in line for the bill.The leaders of the opposition are freely criticising the part that the representatives of. the Indianapolis city administration are taking in working for the Reformatory bill. C. N. Elliott and Ed Logsdon have . been lobbying actively for the bill, it Is said, endeavoring In particular to break in on the Marion county delegation that is believed to be a unit for the opposition. One of the. men who Is leading the fight on the Uli said last night that he could, not. understand why the. Indianapolis city administration should take a hand In the affair, especially when the sentiment of the people of the city is so overwhelmingly with the. opposition. It. was said yesterday that Governor Durbln, Senator Goodwlne, Speaker Marshall and W. II. WThlttaker, secretary or the Republican state committee, had held a conference in tho speaker's room, early In the day, to discuss the Reformatory bill and the situation in tho House. The four men were together yesterday morning, but they stated that three of them, the Governor, the speaker and Senator Goodwlne, were working on the report of the legislative visitation .committee . and that Mr. Whlttaker was present only, a few minutes. They denied that tlje Reformatory bill was under discussion. - " . . The report of the committee on the affairs of the Reformatory has been signed by every member, it was said yesterday, and it will be presented to-morrow afternoon when the House reaches that order of business. The report is unanimously for the passage of the bill. . .Opposition to the "Ripper" Hill. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ' : CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 21. People here are almost nnanimous against the "ripper bill" In the Legislature. Some do not quite understand its purport, but they seem to think that it is for the purpose of "getting even" on account of a recent appointment. Politicians think its passage would affect the next election to the detriment of the Republican party. ' . WILL SIGN Tim BILL. Indianapolis School Board Mensnre in Xo Danger. It has been intimated that if the Marion county representatives do not lend their support to the Reformatory bill the legislation in which this city is interested will be held up. In fact, it has even been bluntly stated that if the Marion county members are not in line with the administration when the Reformatory bill comes up for passage tho Governor will not sign the Indianapolis bills. 1 . Mr. Morgan's bill providing for an Increase in the school tax levy for Indianapolis and for an issue of bonds in an amount not to exceed $430,000, the proceeds to be used for school purposes, has been passed by both branches of the Legislature. As soon as it has been properly enrolled it will be transmitted to tho Governor for his approval. Governor Durbln said yesterday afternoon that the. bill had not reached him as yet. "When the bill comes to me in the proper form; I shall sign It,'. he said. -Sferobers Go to Their Homes. About half the members of the Legislature went home Friday night or yesterday to spend Sunday. At the Statehouse yesterday there were a few senators and representatives at their dvsks, looking after correspondence or doing committee work in investigating bills that have been offered. The number was so small, however, that tho men who conduct the cigar stands in the lobby did not have enough business to keep' them awake and shortly after noon they closed up and went home. -Will Kill Sicchhnn's Bill. The committee on mileage will to-morrow submit a report on Representative Stechhan's bill reducing the mileage allowance of members of the Legislature. The report will be unanimous for the indefinite postponement of tho measure. When Mr. Stechhan Introduced the bill he did not expect that it would ever become a law, but he did hope that he would be able to get it before the House. sasssssMBMMSMMswisasssns) Chautauqua to Be Reconstructed. CLEVELAND, O.. Jan. 24 Announcement was made by Wilson M. Day to-day that plans for the reconstruction of Chau tauqua had been accepted. The plans call for radical Improvement, which will change the general aspect of the place and will, when carried out. Involve an expenditure of 3,000,000. Preliminary plans for a hall of philosophy have been drawn, and as soon as possible the present building will be torn down and replaced by a building that will compare favorably in architectural style and finish to the historical Parthenon, its interior being constructed almost entirely of marble. Other buildings will be added as money becomes available, the scheme being to make Chautauqua a grand summer university. Convicted of Conspiracy. CHICAGO. Jam 24. Four . of the six brass molders on trial for conspiracy to injure nonunion workmen during the labor troubles of 1W2 were found guilty to-day. They are: Jacob C. Johnson, W. H. Mangan, both of whom were sentenced to pay a fine of $1,250; Gus Hopp and Thomas Christie, lined $7G0 each. U"m. Maloney and Gus Johnson were acquitted. Tho six men were members of a local brass molders union and constituted a secret executive committee alleged to have been appointed for the purpose of employing a bund of men to slug and otherwise injure certain nonunion men who were pointed out by pickets. As a result two men were shot and several severely beaten. A Tiny Alice lloosevelt Hollenshade. BALTIMORE. Jan. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Hollenshade, of this city, have a daughter named after Miss Alice Roosevelt. The baptismal service was interesting. The parents are deaf and dumb as is the Rev. D. E. Merilan, who officiated. The ceremony was conducted in the sign language. " Frank Davey's - New Tailoring Establishment. After a successful- career in Boston and Chicago as a cutter , of men's fashionable clothes Mr. Frank Davey accepted a position in this city as manager and cutter with NIcol. the tailor. Since this lirm has retired from business here Mr. Davey has opened a store under his own name in the new Claypool Hotel Building on North Illinois street, and will carry a fine line of foreign and domestic woolens. The new store opens for business Monday morning

UNIONISTS BLAMED AGAIN

OrK NATO BS SAY TIICY AUK SOT MIM.XG SUFFICIENT COAL. Alleged to Be Taklncr Out Loss Anthracite than They Did Before the Strike. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21. The anthracite coal strike commission to-day ended the examination of witnesses called by the independent operators of tho upper coal fields. Beginning Monday, the individual operators of the middle region will present evidence. Among the latter is G. B. Markle & Co., In the presentation of whose case there is considerable interest because of the attacks made by the striking miners against that company in their testimony before the commission at Scanton. After the individual companies have completed their case the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, the last of the signatory companies to the original arbitration plan, will be heard. Then the miners will consume several days in rebuttal, after which nearly a week will be taken up by both sides in arguing the case. So far more than 7,000 pages of 'testimony have been taken. Nine witnesses, representing almost as many small companies, were heard to-day. Their evidence was along the same lines as that already introduced by the large Companies. They swore that the union miners were not mining as much coal as they did before the organization of the union; that In some instances where demands had been granted the men were not permitted to go to work until all men had been granted their demands; that no blacklist existed among the companies; that miners boycotted places that were hard to work; that it was difficult to maintain discipline since the men had formed an organization and that the men were partly responsible for the curtailment of coal. Just before tho adjournment until Monday Attorney Samuel Dickson, of Philadelphia, read to the commission a telegram from It. C. Luther, general superintendent of the Philadelpnia & Reading Coal and Iron Company, to President Baer, of tho company, dated Pottsville, to-day: "Thirty-one collieries and six jighouses working to-day. North Mahonoy colliery men went home, refusing to wait until a frozen water pipe could be changed to enable breaker to start. . Collitry was. ready to start at 7:CU." Counsel for the miners followed this up by reading an article from a Scranton newspaper to the effect that hundreds of men were Idle and ready to go to work, but the companies would not give them employment. The session adjourned without the commissioners making any comment on either the telegram or the newspaper article. Commissioner Clark left to-day for his home in Cedar Rapids, la., to attend to business in connection with the national organization of which he is the head. He expects to return here Wednesday. Commissioner Carroll D. Wright made a trip to Washington to-day. An EnglUh Anthracite Trust. LONDON, Jan. 21. After months of negotiations between the owners of British anthracite coal mines a definite arrangement for the formation of a combine was concluded yesterday. The St. James Gazette this afternoon says it understands that matters have so far progressed that the promotors of the plan have decided to register a company under the name of the "Anthracite Trust," with a capital of $15,000,OUu. Most of the collieries, it is added,ar4 ready to accept the promotors terms. Shut Doit 11 for Lack of Coal. SHARON, Pa., Jan. 24. Because of the lack of coal the puddling department of the Stewart Iron Company has closed down. The managers do not know when the department will resume, as they have no assurance when coal will be received. Manager McCluro said: "We have plenty of business on hand, but everything now is almost at a standstill." TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Charles T. Yerkes was a passenger on the Lucanla which sailed from New York Saturday. He .was called to London on business. . . ' .. ' T. L. Hover, aged fifty-two years, of Lima, O., fell from a hotel window at San Antonio, Tex., Saturday and was instantly killed. The dead body of a young woodchopper named. Dorman was found Saturday in his home at Monroe, Conn. The man's father, who was in bed suffering from an injury to his face, said his son was killed during a quarrel with a stranger over a woman. The suit brought at Leavenworth, Kan., several months ago by Ohio stockholders, asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Home Riverside Coal Mining Company, in which $500,000 was Involved, was compromised on Saturday and the case postponed indefinitely. Louis Bragrallo and John Bragrallo were arrested at St. Louis on Saturday by deputy marshals on indictments returned by the federal grand jury, charging them with having aided and abetted the commission of frauds in connection with naturalization of foreigners in the Court of Appeals. The American schooner yacht Coronet has arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, with her bowsprit carried away. The Coronet, owned by Lewis Bossert, of New York, sailed from that port a few days ago on a cruise to the West Indies. It was reported at the time that she was under charter. David W. Bucklln, the reputed manager of Cantield's alleged gambling house, was arrested at New York Saturday on an indictment which charges him with maintaining a gambling house and thereby creating and continuing a public nuisance. He furnished 52,500 bail and was released. Resolutions protesting against the passage by the Pennsylvania legislature of the Cooper bill, providing for the erection of a monument to General Lee at Gettysburg by the State of Pennsylvania in co-operation with the State of Virginia. - were adopted Saturday night at a meeting of G. A. It. Post 58, of Harrisburg. The tank steamer Col. E. A. Drake, built at Cramps shipyard for the Standard Oil Company, was launched on Saturday. Mrs. Charles E. Bushneil, wife of the treasurer of the oil company, christened the vessel. The Drake Is equipped with a single screw and triple expansion engine and will speed at thirteen knots. She has a capacity of 1.500,000 gallons of bulk oil. She will use oil as fuel. The torpedo boat flotilla; consisting of the torpedo destroyer Decatur and .the torpedo boats Riddle, Bagley, Barney. Stockton and Thornton, under command of Lieutenant Chandler, put into Charleston harbor Saturday for coal and supplies. The vessels are returning from the maneuvers in the Caribbean sea and are bound for Norfolk. Tho dispatch boat Dolphin has left for Hampton Roads. Edward A. Hutchinson, of New York, brother of the late A. C. Hutchinson, millionaire president of Morgan's Louisiana Texas Railroad, on Saturday began suit in the New Orleans Civil District Court to break the will of Mr. Hutchinson in so far as the bequest to the Tulane Medical College is concerned. No attack is made upon the gifts to Individuals and public institutions other than Tulane. The petitioner holds that Tulane University is not competent to receive the bequest, which amounts to over half a million dollars. Hopes of American Tysons for a share of an estate of $W,000,000 left by James Tyson, an Australian miner, have.; been dissipated as a result of a -thorough investigation. J. Wesley Allison, of Philadelphia, who married a Miss Tyson, retained capable lawyers to investigate the matter and obtained documentary evidence showing that none of the Tysons in this country or England need expect any t)f the James Tyson property in Australia, as it was given to his heirs there shortly after his death In 1SSS. State Secretary Meirs, of the New Jersey State . Council, Junior Order . United American Mechanics, on Saturday received notice that Vice Chancellor Pitney had decided in favor of the State Council In the case that has been pending in the courts for a long, time between that body and the national organization. The suit was brought by the National Councir to compel the State Council to pay over about fciO.Ooö back per capita tax which the latter body refused to pay at the time the State Council broke away from the na

tional organization. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and some other States seceded from the national body three or four years ago. A CUBAN POLITICAL PLATFORM.

Declarations of . Tarties Opposed to the Republican Administration. HAVANA. Jan. 24. The convention of political parties that aro opposed to the Republican Conservative, or administration party, has appointed a committee to proclaim a platform. . The principal features of the platform are: Revision of the Piatt amendment; the independence and the sovereignty of the Cuban republic to bo an absolute fact; the Tlatt amendment to be considered transitory and not to be a perpetual feature of the constitution; liberal interpretation of the constitution; liberty of Industry and of commerce; the prohibition of monopolistic tendencies; protection by tariffs; commercial treaties to be exclusively on the basis of protection; the encouragement of industries and agriculture; the organization of an army, a navy and a militia; gold to be the monetary basis of the republic, with silver for the fractional currency; the establishment of a system of labor arbitration; the abolition of Sunday work and the total freedom and independence of church and state. The Senate committee on finance Is preparing to report the bill authorizing the loan of 535.0U0.000 to provide for the payment of Cuban soldiers who fought in the revolution. Of this amount 14,000,000 is to be devoted to the encouragement of agriculture. The loan Is to be guaranteed by the installation of a revenue stamp system. American financiers are 'reported to be ready to float the loan. GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS. The officers of the Burlington road have issued an order that until further notice no freight will be accepted for stations not on its own lines. Shortage of cars is the reason assigned for the order. Superintendent Barrett, of the Chicago & Alton Railroad, says the trouble between the company and its firemen has been settled. He refuses to give the basis of the adjustment further than to say that the men were given an increase of wages and concessions as to hours and conditions. About a dozen banks and other corporations, including several of the leading institutions, are interested in the loan of $40,OOO.OuO negotiated by Kahn, Loeb & Co. for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The statement comes from a member of the syndicate that the money was loaned at 42 per cent, flat, no commission being paid by the borrowers. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern today posted bulletins at its roundhouses announcing the following rates for firemen, effective from Jan. I: .For firing engines of 20. by 2S-Inch or larger cylinders in passenger service. $2.05 per hundred miles; other passenger services. $1.03; through freight engines, 13 by S0-lnch or larger cylinders, $2.35; other freight, $2.15; overtime, outside switching yards, 21 cents an hour; other service, same as at present. The increase in road service rates Is 5 cents each; overtime, 1 cent. The increase will augment the monthly earning considerably. Replying to a letter of invitation to attend a public reception and dinner to be given in his honor, in connection with the establishment of tidewater terminals of the Wabash Railway system in Baltimore, George J. Gould cent the following telegram: ' "I hope to . come to Baltimore shortly and make the acquaintance of your leading business men, but I think the time for dinner and general rejoicing on the part of all of us is when the first through coal train arrives from West Virginia, or the first through grain train from Chicago." Plans covering the arrangement of tracks in the Pennsylvania Railroad New York tunnel terminal and also for the handling of passengers and baggage In the great station have been fully worked out. The main station will be between Seventh and Eighth avenues, where there will be twenty-five tracks, arranged in pairs with passenger platforms between each pair long enough to take fifteen cars. West to Ninth avenue the tracks will be extended for storage uses. East of the terminal the tracks will converge Into four, each of which will run under the East river in a separate tube. Under the Hudson river the plans call for two tunnels. At the station the tracks will be forty-two feet below the street level, but this depth is to be made seem less by placing the passenger waiting rooms and ticket offices on a floor Just half way down.' Baggage and mall matter will be handled at about Eighth avenue. Obituary. CHICAGO, Jan. 21. The Rev. David Taul, D. D., seventy-six years old, father of Mrs. W. R. Harper, wife of the president of the Chicago University, died to-day at the residence of President Harper. Dr. Paul was a member of the United Presbyterian Church and formerly moderator of thd United Presbyterian Assembly, lie was at one time president of Muskingum College. The remains will be taken to New Concord, O., for interment after a brief service in Chicago to-morrow. CINCINNATI, Jan. 21. Col. Charles W. Woolley died at 1 a. m. to-day, aged seventy-two. He was.one of the oldest members of the Cincinnati bar, and was a very active politician In the Democratic party of .twenty or thirty years ago, though never an officeholder. In. his later years he led a retired life. -r : . . BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 21-Lewis Stein, senior member of the banking firm of Stein Brothers, died suddenly this morning of apoplexy, following an illness of about six months. He was a prominent member of the Baltimore Stock Exchange and well known in financial circles throughout tho country. TOLEDO, O., Jan. 21. John B. Bell, who served as major with the Army of the Tennessee during the civil war, dropped dead at his residence shortly after breakfast to-day. Since the war Major Bell has been engaged in the dry goods business. He was a native of Sylvanla, Mich. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 25. Former Governor Charles Roberts Ingersoll, eightytwo years old, died at his home this morning. Shelby County Pioneer Dead. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SHELBY VILLE, Ind., Jan. 21. Mrs. Miranda Kennedy, one of the pioneers of Shelby county, died at her home In Hendricks township at 5:30 o'clock yesterday evening, aged eighty-two years. Five children survive her, among whom is Mrs, John Clark, of Crawfordsville. Of What Goodf New York Tribune. It is again reported that Tolstoy Is very 111 on Christmas night. Indeed, It was thought that he could not rally. The action of his heart is exceedingly weak. Iiis work in the fields, with bare feet and a hoe, has not apparently added to the novelist's strength. It was a picturesque thing but what earthly good did it do? Fireman Seriously Injured. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24. The fourstory building at 824-S32 North American street, occupied by the Sterlan.ua Company, and as a storage house by George Kelly, a large retail furniture dealer, was damaged by fire to-night to the extent of $55,000, covered by insurance. One fireman was seriously injured. Fight with Snspeeted Robbers. UNION, Mo.. Jan. 24. In two fights today between officers and men suspected of being the robbers who looted the Bank of Union. Officer Charles J. Schumacher, of St. Louis, was killed nnd a man in the party attacked was shot from hi3 horse, but escaped. In the two fights 100 shots were fired. Oherlln College Chapel Darned. OBERLIN, O., Jan. 25. The chapel of Oberlln College was destroyed by fire early this morning. The contents, including a $10,000 pipe organ, were burned. Loss $50,000; covered by insurance. The building was erected in 1S54 and was remodeled in IsTL . , "Wanted to Kill Mayor Lov. " NEW YORK, Jan: 24. An old man, apparently demented, caused excitement around the City Hall to-day by demanding an audience with Mayor Low, whom he said he wanted to kill. When arrested a bar of iron was found in his pocket. Sli-Milllon-I)ollar Steel Plant. BRUNSWICK, Ga., Jan. 24. Arrangements have been made for the erection here by the Mohawk Valley Steel and Wire Company of a $6,000,000 steel plant. Suicide of a Violinist. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 24.-Paul Weiss, better known as Paul Egry, a noted Hungarian violinist, committed suicide, to-day by taking carbolic add. a .

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS

FEATURES OF THE DISCUSSION IN THE REICHSTAG LIST WEEK. Socialist Attack on Emperor "William and Chancellor Von Duelotr's ReplyElectric Invention. BERLIN, Jan. 24. The debates In the Reichstag this week are universally regarded as being the most important Parliamentary episode since the late Prince Bis-marck's-chancellorshlp. Emperor William's personality and his political role were discussed with a plainness never before heard. The socialist and radical position was that when the Emperor makes speeches of the highest political significance before the country the members of the Reichstag have the right of replying in the Reichstag. Chancellor Von Buelow's answer that Emperor William was entitled to self-defense when attacked, is received by the loyal press as inadequate. It is remarked by such papers that no conservative member attempted to defend the sovereign against the frank criticisms on Thursday of Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader. These papers indulge for their part in some plain speaking, emphasizing the impossibility of keeping Emperor William out of the debates 'so long as he assumes a political role, and saying there is also serious danger to the monarchy from the annual discussion of the Emperor's personality before the country. Loyalist circles manifest a feeling of disappointment over the week's debates, through the ineffectual attempt of Count Von Ballestrem, as president of the House, to prevent a discussion of the Emperor's speeches, the Count's disavowal by all the parties and the final analysis of Emperor William's political personality by Herr Bebel. The chancellor, without trying to support Count Von Ballestrem's ruling that a distinction must be made between the Emperor's private and political speeches, took the position that with a monarch of virile and fertile mind it would be a loss to the country if he did not speak his mind and that Germany was Indebted for some of the best impulses of the government to Emperor William's initiative. Prof. Ferdinand Braun, of the Strassburg University, whose application of Leyden jars in projecting electric waves is said to have enabled Marconi to telegraph without wires across the Atlantic, announced before the ßtrassburg Scientific Society yesterday that he discovered a method of producing electric energy of unlimited volume and projecting it into space, in the form of electric waves to any desired distance. Prof. Braun's method secures greater accuracy of trasmission through a more perfect attunement of the transmitting and receiving instruments. He thinks he has substantially reached a method for transmitting exclusively to one point of the compass, thus avoiding interference by other waves. The method, it Is claimed, will work economically and simply. The yearly drawing room of Emperor William and Empress yesterday evening was attended by all the members of the United States embassy and their wives. Mi3s Nellie Lytle accompanied Mrs. Blddle, wife of Captain W. S. Blddle. the military attache. "Col. Maus, who arrived here a day ahead of Lieut. Gen. Miles was also ' present. Gen. Miles will arrive in this city this evening and proceed to .fans a lew hours later. Prince Henry, of Prussia, Adjutant General Von Plessen. Admiral Von Tlrpltz, Admiral Von Seckendorf, and all the other members of the party which accompanied Prince Henry to tho United States last year, will have a reunion Jan. 23. Cable Notes. v The German crown prince, Frederick William, bid farewell to the Czar and Czarina on Saturday and started for Novgorod. Dr. Von' Holleben, the retiring German ambasador to the United States, arrived at Berlin Saturday from Paris, A dispatch from Constantinople says: "The American tobacco trust has arranged with the Porte to secure nearly the entire output of Turkish tobacco. Dispatches from Edinburgh announce that in furtherance of his educational scheme for Scotland Andrew Carnegie has decided to endow a trust for scientific research. The sum of $5,000,000 will be expended. As the result of a storm which swept over the Norwegian coast last Friday the steamer Adekke, belonging to Bergen and having on board a crew of thirteen men. is reported to have foundered in the Northern sea; a fishing smack was sunk in Rando Sund and three men were drowned, and a ferryboat was sunk at Vardo with the loss of five lives. The Czar has sent President Loubet $25,000 for the relief of the Breton fisherfolk engaged in the sardine Industry, who are sufferingseverely from uie scarcity of fish, as "evidence of my lively and unalterable sympathy for my friend and ally, France." The President In reply telegraphed an expression of the profound gratitude . of France for this new mark of the Czar's friendship. An important test case, that of O'Connell against Whitaker Wright, claiming damages for an alleged fraudulent prospectus issued in connection with the Standard Exploration Company, was decided by the Appeal Court at London against Mr. Wright on Saturday. The Standard is one of the numerous London and Globe Finance Corporation undertakings, and the present case is the first, of a very large series of similar actions pending against Mr. Wright. London Truth tells of a method of dealing summarily with female kleptomaniacs of gentle birth which is followed in certain West End shops. Every woman detected shoplifting is given her option of being prosecuted in court or being birched by the managress, a person specially selected for her muscle. "In one shop alone," says Truth, "twenty women have accepted the ordeal of birching, in addition to two young girls of a foreign nationality, who in consideration of their tender years were treated to a milder form of chastisement." GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. It Is reported that the Annapolis Naval Academy has made an offer to Coach F. H. Yost, of the University of Michigan football team. Yot . refuses to discuss the rumor. It is expected that the new ninety-footer now building at the Herreshoff shops will be all framed in next week, as at the close of wrork Saturday more than half the ribs were in place. The work of plating the America's cup defender was commenced, one of the bronze plates being attached at the garboard strake amidships. Drowned "While Fleeln&r from a Mob. OWENSBORO. Ky., Jan. 23. A mob of 200 negroes surrounded the house In which Officer Brown had John Jones, a negro, at 11:30 to-night. The officer let Jones out and told him to run for his life. About one hundred shots were fired at the fleeing negro, who jumped into Green river and was drowned. Jones, it i3 alleged, assaulted Ada Talbott, wife of Luther Talbott. at Llvermore this morning. Officer Brown arrested the negro at Strouds, five miles below Llvermore, at 0 o'clock to-night. The Manchesters In Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 24. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester spent the day in this city, leaving to-night for Largent, La., where they will visit Mrs. E. M. Yznaga, the duke's maternal grandmother. The duke stated that he expected to remain in the South for several weeks, and that he would probably be in New Orleans during the Mardi Gras. Rose Melville, Actress, 111. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 24. Miss Rose Melville, the actrtss, who has been playing "Sis Hopkins" for several seasons, is seriously ill at the St. Clair Hotel in this city, with pneumonia. She was compelled to cancel to-day's performances. The Hub Sticks to Puns. Boston 'Advertiser. Mr. Paradise, of Adams, had his store robbed, but the boy who did the Job has been found and sent to the Lyman School for breaking into Paradise. "High" Language. Baltimore American. Any one who knows how "money talks" will have little difficulty understanding tho language of flowers at this time of year.

ANNUAL STATEMENT - ; - or The Indianapolis Fire Insurance Co, OF INDIANAPOLIS. IND.. For the Year Ending December 31, 1902.

Amount of capital paid up In cash JJO.OOO.O) Amount of ledger assets Dec. SI, 1901 , 3v3.0i'C.41 Extended at J0C6.005.41 INCOME. Total premiums received :.. ....J20C.S07.70 Inccae from Interest and profit and loss account 15.010.M Total income 5220.S1S.2S DISBURSEMENTS. Net amount paid for losses J72.64l.WJ Paid dividends to stockholders ; 10.omw Commissions and brokerage ..; 46.021.72 Salaries, rents, taxes, premium on bonds written off, advertising, agency and traveling expenses, attorney's fees and all other expenses 21.513.03 s Total disbursements ASSETS. Mortgage loans on real estate J241.OO0.O0 U. S. government bonds JiO.OOO.W) Municipal bonds (market value) tS.ttUSl Cash in office and bank 13.324.79 Trust company certificates 10.000.00 Cash in hands of agents (balances) 20.163.23 Amounts due from other companies 7,K.C3 Dividend fund (required by law) deposited with Indiana Insurance department SO0.00 Total ledger admitted assets , J126.617.CS XOX-LEDGEIt ASSETS. Accrued Interest . $4,642.SJ Market value of bonds over book value Maps, office furniture and equipments S.3&7.22 i Gross assets J127,233.63 LIABILITIES. Reserve fire unearned premiums (N. Y. standard) J127.779.30 Reserve for unpaid losses 14.5C1.33 Reserve for all other liabilities 1.000.20 Total liabilities except capital stock "....J143.3O0.S6 Capital stock J200.000.00 Surplus over capital S3.S42.&3 203.842.S3 Total liabilities J437,233.C9 ' aiISCELLAEOUS. Insurance In force Dec. 31, 1002 .....J16.4fi6.236.00 Premiums thereon ; 236.373.43 Total premiums received since organization of company 412,961.75 Total losses paid since organization of company 143.0G5.4l Increase of premium income 19U2 over 1001 85.072.45 Increase of unearned premium reserve lt02 over 1001 T7 &6,272.62 Increase of gross assets 1002 over 1001 52,74S. 1002. 100L Ratio of loss incurred to net premiums 35.3 35.3 Ratio of loss paid to net premiums SS.S 44.3 Ratio of expense to net premiums 37.7 23.2 H. C. MARTIN, Secretary. JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, President

STEAMER ST. PAUL DELAYED. Cylinder Cover Cracked After LeaTlasr Southampton Soon Repaired. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 24. The American liner St. Paul met with an accident off Netley shortly after sailing from this port for New York. An intermediate cylinder cover cracked. This was repaired, however, and the vessel proceeded at 8:20 p. m., with all on board well. Steamer Aaliore. NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-The pilot of the British schooner Kandahar, which arrived to-night from Marcorls, reports a small steamer ashore five miles below the Narrows. The steamer could not be Identified, but it is thought to be the John J. Hill, from Jacksonville, loaded with ties. WHEX QC1X1XE WAS PRECIOUS. Drue That Wai In Great Demand Daring Civil War. New Orleans Times-DemocraL "We needed quinine worse that we needed lead and powder during the war between the States," said the old soldier as he glanced up at some of the relics on the wall and in the showcases at Memorial Hall, "and if we'd had more quinine there wouldn't have been so many of our comrades sleeping now in unmarked graves. Quinine was the one thing we needed above everything, and it was the one thing we couldn't get except under the most difficult circumstances. How many men we would have saved during some of the swampy campaigns of the '60s if we could have secured quinine in proper quantities there is no way of telling, but it is safe to say many lives would have been saved. You can bet we had a hard time of it when it came to a matter of getting quinine. I believe the Union soldiers paid more attention to the business of keeping us from getting quinine that they did to the matter of keeping our supply of ammunition down to a minimum, and they knew we could shoot pretty well, too. But they knew also that Gen. Ague was i;Ot slow when it came to decimating the ranks of an army of men. Besides the aforesaid General would save them some trouble. But speaking of quinine reminds me of a little experience I had during one of -the Arkansas campaigns, and it shows Just how difficult it was to get quinine. I got.hold of a few ounces of quinine, and - wanted to smupgle it Into Confederate lines. . There was absolutely no chance in the world to do it if it should become known that the package contained quinine. I finally figured out a scheme. I bought J15 worth of salt from a smuggler, and put the quinine deep Into the salt so it could not be found without pouring all the salt out. I knew I could get the salt through the lines. I got it through and the soldiers got the quinine. They didn't need the salt, but I never made an Investment that gave me more satisfaction than that J15 I paid for the salt." HE DIED POOn. A Story Suggested liy Another Told by ; Carnegie. Brooklyn Eagle, Andrew Carnegie Is reported to have said that some years ago he wanted to cross a mountain in Pennsylvania and a youngster offered to take him over for fifty cents. Mr. Carnegie thought the price was too great, but, after long argument, paid it, "not because the trip was worth if," as the story goes, Vbut because I had to get on the other side of the mountain." Mr. Carnegie adds: "I predicted that the boy would some day make a fortune, and he has. His name was Charles M. Schwab." That reminds me of a story. Years ago a young man owned the only woodyard in a prairie town out west. He had a goodly store on hand when heavy Enows came and blocked the roads. For weeks no wood could be hauled to the town, yet the young man went on selling at his regular price of J2.75 a cord. A friend said to him that he could get 55 easily, because the people must have wood. The young man said he knew it, but that he was making a fair living profit. So he continued to sell his wood at the same old price. Everybody predicted that he would always be poor, and he Is, God bless him! Never mind his name; you wouldn't know It if you heard it; but it is a synonym of human love and tender sympathy throughout all that prairie country. Antl-Tlpnlng Movement. New York Tribune. An "antl-tipping league" is proposed. Such a scheme might be a failure, but every intelligent New Yorker knows that the "tipping" system has grown unreasonably in this city in recent years, and that in most hotels and restaurants it has become an almost intolerable abuse. The feeling against it is steadily becoming stronger. The owners of every tavern, eating house and cafe ought to give fair service at fair prices, and ought to forbid their employes to practice what Is really in effect petty blackmail. Such .methods are not truly American. Most of the hotels and restaurants make up a list of prices sufficiently remunerative for the capital invested. But too many of them in this day and generation permit the men whose names appear on their pay rolls to prey upon their patrons in the exaction of "tips." Such blackmailing is out of place In this city, and it ought to be stamped out. A Great English Charity. London Letter. Apropos of English charities one of the best of them, the great work of Dr. Barnardo. in looking after little waifs and strays of both sexes, is supported by the public to the extent of nearly J750.0U0 a year, and of this very handsome total the doctor states that about $50,000 is annually contributed anonymously in sums ranging upward from a few ehilllngs to several thousand dollars. He tells of one Interesting incident that occurred a few years ago which

brought his charity its anonymous contribution. He was very busy and had given orders that he could not see anyone, but the servant said that there was a woman who refused to go away until she had had a moment's talk. "She was a woman who by her dress might have been taken for a servant," said Dr. Uarnardo, "and as I was very Jbu?y I did not even ask her into my office. She said in a very simple way that she had a great interest in the Girls' Home, and liked it, particularly because the girls did not wear uniforms nor have their hair cut as if they were paupers. She spoke with such emotion on this point that I thought she must have bven in a workhouse when a gin. . " 'I have brought you this,' she said. In

a timid way, and tremblingly she handed me a banknote for $5,000. I was quite amazed. Then she spoke of the Boys Home, and putting her hand in her little bag again eh? tok out another $5.000 note and said. 'That is for the boys.' I was again astounded. Then Ehe said ehe had an interest in the Men's Mission, and very much wanted to help. She took out a third note for $3,000 and handed it to me. Then she walked out, Lefore I could even secure her name or give her a receipt, and I never heard of or saw her again for a year. "A year later I was told that 'the lady wanted to see me. This time she produced a roll of brown paper and gave it to me. and went. It contained 200 new $25 bank notes. I never saw her again, and have no idea. who she was." , XOnODY DIUNKS "IU'SI." Temperance People, However, Class All Drink Under That Head. New York Commercial. "Does anybody in this town drink rum nowadays?" asked a kecn-scented officer of one of the British liners as he entered a Bond-street buffet with a friend the other day and thought he detected a peculiar odor in the air. "Oh, yes," came promptly from the "bartend." "There's a man right over there at that corner table who'n drinking rum and molasses this very minute." And the officer stalked across the room and eyed the seated guest curiously for a moment. Then he broke out with: "Pardon me, but I'm betting my friend here that you're an American eallorman of some sort or connected with Yankee vessels in some way. Why? Because I never knew any other class of men to drink rum and molasses." "You're pretty warm," came from tha "R. and M." man good naturedly. "I'm not a Eailorman. but I own the big end of a schooner that's just in port here with a carpo of lumber from xny mills up In Maine. Most of us old fellows up there don't drink anything else in winter time. Rum's tho most healthy liquor a man can put Inside of him, and smoked herring or onions combined with It on his breath is about the 'fruitiest' thing I know of in breaths. Have one with me?" The invitation was politely declined. Later the proprietor Imparted the Information that while he always kept "old Medford" and West Indian rum In stock he sold very little of either. A single case of Medford put in four years ago when the buffet was opened had still nine full bottles in iL "I don't sell a quart 'of rum a year," he added, "and 1 don't believe that in all Greater New York there's a barrel of it sold at retail In a whole year nowadays." New England Is quite as conservative In its tipple, apparently, as it Is about most other things. , The End of Things. 1 From "Observations by Mr. Dooley." The raison no wan Is afraid iv Death, HInnessy, is that no wan ra-ally understands it. If anny wan Jver come to undherstand it he'd be scared to death. If they's anny such thing as a cow'rd, which I doubt, he's a man that comes nearer realizin' thin other men, how seeryous a matther it ia to die. I talk about it, an sometimes I think about it. But how do I think about it? It's me lyin there in a fine shoot iv clothes an llstenln to all th nice things people are eayln about me. I'm dead, mind ye, but I can hear a whisper In the furthest corner iv th' . room. Ivry wan is as kin ivry wan else why did I die. "It's a gr-reat loss to th' counthry," says Hogan. "It is," Jiys Donahue. 'He was a tine man," says Clancy. "As honest a roan is lver dhrew th breath Iv life," says Schwartzmeister. "I hope he forgives us all th harm we attimpted to do him," says Donahue. Td give annythlng to have him back," say Clancy. "He was this and that, th life iv th' party, th sowl iv honor, th frlnd Iv th disthressed, th' boolwark iv th Constichoochlon. a pathrite, a glntleman. a Chrlstyan an' a scholard." "An such a roguish way with him," says th Widow O'Brien. That's what I think, but if I Judged fr'm expeeryence I'd know it'd be, "It'a a nice day f'r a dhrive to th clmitry. Did he lave much?" No man is a hayro to 'his undertaker. Woe. of a Fat 3Ian. Philadelphia Record. He was a very fat man, and In addition to his fatness he was very clumsy. As ho passed the cashier's desk In a Market-street light lunch restaurant yesterday he brushed off a tray rilled with toothpicks, and was evidently so accustomed to such catastrophes that he didn't even stop to apologize. He flopped down at a table designed to accommodate eight persons, and took up room enough for four. In addition to which he quite demolished the chair which he tried first, and in ths scramble that ensued two salt cellars and a vinegar bottle fell to the floor. At last he was safely ensconced In an armchair, and ordered his lunch, amid the titters of several typewriter girls who were seated opposite. He seemed to run to liquid foods, his lunch consisting of chicken broth, oyster stew, panned oysters, two plates of ice cream, and coffee. With each course he managed to break something, and the typewriter girls struggled vainly against an attack of hysterics. Finally, as h received 'his check and started toward the cashier's desk he was hesrd to observe: "If Andrew Carnegie wants to give away his money so badly, he ought to endow an institution for people who always see something funny In a fat man!"