Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 300, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1903.

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most prominent lawyers of St. Louis, af- I difficult proposition with the Italians, Hunfords a prominent and striking illustration garians, Russians and peoples from southof the point on which this paper discoursed eastern Europe. With all these it usually at some length in last Sunday's Issue, ' requires two or three generations of comWider the caption of "False Standards and pulscry education before they can get over Tragedy." r.'.-jr probably speculated in the the dirty personal" habits, the barbarous

hope of replacing the money he had taken andN thus swelled the amount to the remarkable total, but the beginning of it all was the quite common habit of living beyond his means, great though his earnings were. Payday must come sooner or later, and somebody must suffer when men and women spend more than they have. The report of the local Board of Charities regarding conditions at the City Hospital Should command attention. It does not matter whether these conditions arc the result of Inadequate means or. incompetent ( management, the necessity for reform Is equally obvious. The report shows that the conditions were about as bad three years ago as they are now a fact that emphasizes the necessity for reform. A decision of some Interest is that ren-

dcred by an Ohio court that a workman Is we do not stand In the same need of lmcatitlei to bo paid only according to what j migrants that we did some decades ago.

ha actually earns and not according to the rate fixed by labor unions. The decision is manifestly Just In that it places the relation between employer and employe above tho arbitrary rules of any organization. It has often been pointed out that the effect of labor unions is to place second and thirdrate workmen on the same footing with first-rate workmen, but this decision holds that every man should be paid according to his deserts and earning capacity. It is la the direction of the "open shop."

CIIEAI FIEL GAS. The first natural gas brought to this city was piped from Hamilton county, about twenty miles distant. As the supply decreased the companies had to push further and further into the gas field until finally it was piped nearly sixty miles. There Is still a large store of natural gas In Indiana, but this city Is not likely to get any more for fuel purposes, unless it is piped In surreptitiously and furnished under the name and at the price of artificial gas. It has been demonstrated that either natural or artificial gas at $1 per thousand feet, meter measurement, is a Cheap fuel for cooking purposes, and it can be manufactured and sold at a profit for much less than II per thousand. Artificial gas for cooking and heating purposes or for cooking purposes alone at CO cents per thousand, meter measurement, would be a great boon to tho people. 'Fuel gas at CO cents per thousand would result in a largo saving In fuel bills for cooking tho year round, and would place Indianapolis in the front rank of cities possess mg special advantages. It would be a strong inducement for persons seeking a new home to come here. The articles of association of the Con sumers Gas Trust Company say: The objects of tho formation of such cor poration are to drill and mine for natural gas, petroleum and other minerals, and to purchase, lease and otherwise acquire gas and petroleum wells and products thereof. and manufacturing to convert the same into gas for fuel and illuminating purposes ana the sale of its product to patrons. Under thi3 provision and the designation of "other minerals" the Consumers Com pany can bore or dig for petroleum or coal and manufacture gas from the same. Thus far it has only bored for gas, though some of its wells produce oil. It is doubtful if under its articles of association the com pany has a right to sell oil or to use it for any other purpose but conversion into gas for the benefit of its patrons. Its charter provides that when the stockholders shall have received back the full amount of their original subscriptions with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, "It shall be the duty of the directors of said company to reduce the price of gas so that the same shall there after be supplied to consumers at cost." This discloses the real object of the asso ciation, viz., to supply fuel gas, either natural or artificial, to consumers at costnot merely to stockholders, but to all con sumers, and not for any specified time, but. ir possiDie, perpetually, There is not a word in the charter to Indicate that the company was to suspend operations or be wound up when the supply of natural gas should fall. On the contrary, provision Is made for its permanency by the section authorizing it to manufacture gas, either from petroleum or coal, and to furnish the same to Its patrons at cost. Here, then, we have the machinery for a beneficent public utility, ready made and to hand. There Is a corporation, every dollar of whose stock has been paid back to the subscribers, with 8 per cent, interest thereon. There are extensive leases, a large number of wells producing more or less gas and oil, many miles of pipe lines and distributing lines, pumps, machinery. etc., to the value of several million dollars, all dedicated by tho charter of the company to the single purpose of furnishing the people fuel gas at cost. There Is not a word In the charter that can be construed as authorizing the conversion of the public utility into private property and tho turning of what was intended to bo a promoter of the general welfare into a machine for personal gain. Any attempt of this kind would be contrary to the spirit and letter of the charter under which alone the company has a right to exist and operate. The community has a right to expect that the trustees of the company will see that it is held strictly to its original purpose of furnishing the people with fuel gas at cost, if not natural gas then artificial. THE FLOOD OF 131 MIGRANTS. The annual report of Mr. Sargent, commissioner of immigration, affords food for thought. There came to our shores during the year some 921,000 immigrants, of whom so few were cabin passengers that the number, 64,000, seems insignificant. The steerage Immigrants brought with them less than an average of $20 per person to sustain them until they could get settled in permanent employment. In round numbers, some 230, 000 of these people were Italians, 206,000 of them Hungarians, Czechs, Croatians and Lithuanians, 136,000 were Russians and SO, 000 were Asiatics of various kinds. Thus about three-fourths of the Immigration may be classed as undesirable and difficult to assimillate. Of the desirable nationalities Sweden sent 46,000, Germany 40,000, Ireland 25,000 and England and Scotland 26,000. Of the people that are here already possibly as many as 60 per cent, are unable to speak the language of the country without some sort of foreign accent. The other 40 per cent, are still In process of assimilation. This is not a particularly difficult process with the English, Scotch, Irish, Germans and Swedes, but It is an impossible process i vltti tho Alat!f n tiH ft la on .ti.4Ihii1 I ways and the political irresponsibility nat- ' ural to them at home and absorb the American spirit and acquire the American i viewpoint. Such an influx of alien blood is I a menace to free Institutions and universal i suffrage. The facts seem to point clearly to two lines of action: First, a great deal more care In extending the franchise to immigrants. The business of naturalizing them in droves must stop; and, if the States cannot or will not control the matter, a way should be found to throw It Into the hands j of the federal government, to the end that there may be uniformity in our naturalization laws and the same careful enforcement of these laws that all federal statutes get. In the second place, the lines must be more tightly drawn In our immigration laws. We have conquered our wilderness;

We have shut out contract Immigration and

pauper Immigration, and we have excluded the Chinese, but the fact remains that we are being flooded with "assisted" Immigra tion. Whether this evil can best be reached by an educational qualification, requiring; them to read and write English, or by putting tho money limit considerably higher the Journal i3 not prepared to say; but certainly it is time that some proper plan for cutting off the ignorant Immigration from Russia and southern Europe were being worked out The Journal does not intend to follow the example of some of its city contem poraries during the Bookwalter administration by demanding impossibilities of Mayor Holtzman and by criticising and misrepresenting everything he does. The public Is not unreasonable, and even those Republicans who supported Mr. Holtzman

in the expectation of reform the only class I heading the forlorn hope in the Ohio camof hi surmorters who had anv such hope I V&lsn. Mayor Holtzman made a speech at

t or desire do not expect lmpossioinues. But if he expects to get the credit of enforcing law he must do it. The public had enough of promises during the campaign. The time has come now for per formance. As yet there has been no change for the better. Let the mayor begin with the most open and flagrant violations of law, and show the people that his cam paign promises meant something. If he will proceed at once to close every wine- I room and gambling establishment in the city, as he has ample power and lias pledged himself to so do, the people will believe he contemplates further reforms. The city was never more "wide open" than it was on last Sunday, and no wineroom or gambling house has been closed yet. If Mayor Holtzman wishes to retain the respect of those to whom he mainly owes his election he must begin to redeem his campaign promises. The address of Superintendent Whittaker, of the Indiana Reformatory, delivered In one of the city churches on Sunday, was a masterful treatment of an important subject. In all the talk about prison reform, much of which has been academic and theoretical, there has been nothing that ! came closer to the heart of the' subject or showed a finer grasp of fundamental principles than this address. It showed that Mr. Whittaker has made the subject of prison reform and the reform of criminals a matter of deep study and has reached very Intelligent conclusions. He is proving that he is the right man in the right place. Edcnhurter's Work. It is always a pleasure to commend good work on the part of a public officer, and the Journal takes particular delight in pointing to the work of Dr. George F. Edenharter, superintendent of the Central Hospital for the Insane, so fully described in last Sunday's issue, from the fact that time was when It found it necessary to offer some resistance to efforts made to hamper his work because he had been originally appointed as a Democrat. But he had made ,a fine record for efficiency as superintendent of the City Hospital, and this paper had an abiding faith that ho would do equally as well in his. larger sphere. How well he has Justified this faith is known to all men interested In the enlightened and humane care of the in sane, for his work has made the institution famous the country over. Dr. Edenharter is a man that talks little and does much. He went Into the City Hospital without any previous talk about reform or any theories to exploit, so far as the public knew; but he evidently held the very important theory that the hospital was intended to give the best possible care to the patients brought there, at the least expense to the city within reason. He set about carrying out this theory by setting up a standard of efficiency that admitted of no excuses or "pulls." If the staff and employes were able to measure up to this standard, well and good; If they were not, they had to give way to others that could. For the rest, personal surveillance, good Judgment and patient hard work on the part of the superintendent sufficed. The application of these simple principles ofplain duty and good sense worked wonders in the City Hospital. And so it was that he came to be promoted to the greater responsibility of taking charge of one of the largest insane hospitals In the country. He had nothing to say about what he was going to do, but went ahead with the work. The great hospital was no longer a resting place for Incompetents with political or personal Influence to sustain them. They had to either do their work well or get out. He selected the employes himself, and knew his men. Order and efficiency soon came out of confusion and incompetence, and economy of the intelligent sort characterized the management. Hl3 demands on the Legislature were modest and backed by the right kind of demonstration of the needs of the institutionand the best argument he had was the fact that he was conducting the institution so economically and so efficiently. After the first two or three years his recommendations were questioned little or not at all in the Legislature, and he has been permitted to build up an institution of which the people of Indiana may well be proud, for in its field there is none better. THE HUMORISTS. A Definition. Town Topics. Little Elmer Para, what is politeness? Professor Broadhead Politeness, my son Is the art of not letting other people know what you really think of them. Up to Date. Chicago Tost. "But why do you have your hero marry In the urst chapter?" they asked. "Because," replied the author, "it has always seemed absurd to me to end a novel Just where a man's troubles really beln. That's where you should begin the story." An Excuse for It. Philadelphia Ledger. "Say, I seen No. 37 ackcherly runnln' yisterd'y a'ternon," said the first district messenger boy. "He'd oughter be fined fur dat." "Aw! Kn!" retorted the other, "he had a message fur a gent dat wux cut at de football game." A Connoisseur. Fhlladelr-hla Tress. Cheepley Say, old man, this Is pretty good tturr. Gcstloy (proud of hla wine cellar) Well, rather. That wine i- at least fifty years old. Cheepley ice whizz! It must have been great when it was fresh. Among Women Reformern. Baltimore American. First Woman Reformer What do you think of Mrs. De Swede? They say she is doing very effective work for the cause. Second Woman Reformer Oh, she may get along for awhile, but she strikes me as being decidedly effeminate. A Similarity. Washington Star. "It was cue of the most pathetic plays I ever saw." said youny Mrs. Torklns. "I don't tee why you go to the matinee if It makes you cry Must becaus I feci badly is na sign I haven't

had a good time, Charley, dear. You know how much ydu enjoy goirss to the races and coming back with tta blues."

Ills Family Stock. Baltimore American. The DistinsuUhcd Ethnologist was the guest cf the Prison Warden. He was ascertaining:, as nearly as possible, the ancestry of the various clastes of prisoners. The Warden, opening one door, said: "In that department are the Kleptomaniacs." "And what stock do they spring from?" asked the Distinguished Ethnologist. "Steal preferred," said the Warden, who was a great wag. THE DRIFT OF POLITICS. Following hard on the heels of the announcement of the departure of Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge for a week's campaigning in Ohio came the word that Mayor John W. Holtzman had departed for the Buckeye State to assist Tom Johnson and his other Democratic brethren who are Greenville, O., yesterday afternoon and last night spoke in Union City on the Ohio side of the State line. He will return in Indianapolis to-day. Humorously inclined politicians, in commenting on the incident last night, said that the Ohio Democrats were apparently frightened at the prospect of a week's campaign in their State by the two Republican TTnlte1 Stntfxj spnnlnra i from Indiana and Immediately rose to tae emergency by sending for Mayor Holtzman to make a couple of speeches to counteract the effect of the arguments of the senators. Mayor Holtzman's recent victory in Indianapolis, by the way, has made him almost a national character among Democrats, judging, at least, from the publicity he is receiving. He is already enjoying a boom for tho Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and if he receives a few more invitations to speak in other States and gets to consorting with such Democrats as Tom 1. Johnson, of Cleveland, he will soon be in line for a presidential boom. Indeed, his claims to attention from the Democrats of the country are by no means inconsiderable. He is about the only Democrat in the country who has been able to win a contest of any moment, and the national Democracy is unquestionably looking for a man with winning ways. The mayor, it is whispered gently, is by no means averse to the mention of his name as a gubernatorial possibility, and it is intimated that he may really be regarded as a candidate for the Democratic nomination. Close friends of his are fosteriner the boom. and while the mayor says he has no time to tnink or sucn a thing he has not said that he would hot consider the nomination. He would not have to resign from the mayoralty to make the race, either for the nom ination or for the election, and inasmuch as there are very few Democrats in the State who are hankering for the experience of a severe drubbing at the hands of the Republicans, to say nothing of digging up the assessment always levied on the head of the ticket. It is not unlikely that Mayor Holtzman will land the noml nafinn Stranger things have happened in Indiana pomics. XXX The same elements that are encouraging the Holtzman boom for Governor are also urging James Leroy Keach for the chair manship of the Democratic state committee and it seems that the game is to push Holtzman and Keach alone, hand In hand. until they are on the top of the Democratic heap in Indiana. However, before this project is carried so far that a retreat would be embarrassing, it would be advisable for some of the promoters to "see Taggart." "Jim" Robinson, the Democratic member of Congress from the Twelfth district, is in a peck of trouble because of an alleged Interview with him in a Chicago paper, in which he Is quoted as saying uncomplimentary things about Grover Cleveland. The Chicago paper quoted Representative Robinson as follows: "I understand that Grover Cleveland will be in Chicago to-morrow, so we will leavo to-night, for we want to get just as far away from him as possible. All good Democrats should keep away from him. Those are my sentiments exactly." "It is a pure fake," said Robinson, to his Democratic organ, when he reached Fort Wayne. "This is the first I have seen of It. Of course I never said it." However, despite tho vigorous denial of Its authenticity, the alleged interview will not be without its disastrous effect. There are many conservative Democrats in the Twelfth who regard Grover Cleveland as the patron saint of the party, and they will resent the aspersions attributed to Robinson and will be quick to believe it. It is true that the free silver Democrats have been largely in the ascendency in the Twelfth and that because Robinson was "right" on that question he was re-elected last year, but the free sllverites are becoming less rabid and the hostility of the conservative Democrats of his district will bo a heavy handicap for him to carry next year, both as a candidate for renomlnation and as the nominee. xxx Capt. W. M. Meredith, chief of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving at Washington, is In the city, the guest of Meredith Nicholson. He is returning from a trip to the Northwest. Indianapolis is Captain Meredith's old home, and a number of years ago he was identified with the Indianapolis Journal. He went from this city to St. Louis, thence to Chicago, and was appointed from that city to the position he now holds by President Harrisorf! He was out during Cleveland's second administration, but was reappointed by President McKinley. XXX Lieutenant Governor Gilbert Is still confined to the sanitarium at Battle Creek, so crippled with rheumatism that he cannot use his hands, and with prospects for early recovery not altogether encouraging. He is making some little Improvement, but in a letter to his law partner. Judge Wood, of Fort Wayne, stated that his physicians give him no definite assurances as to when he will be able to leave the sanitarium. As a prospective candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor Mr. Gilbert's illness comes at a very inopportune time, as the various candidates are doing a great amount of log-rolling at present, and he is especially unfortunate in that there is a lively contest now on in his district for the chairmanship, and he is compelled to remain far from the scene of action, wholly incapacitated, literally and figuratively, to take a hand in the affair. xxx The Columbia City Post (Democratic) says of congressional matters in the Twelfth district: "Thus far Mr. Carver, of Angola, and Dr. McGoogan, of Fort Wayne, have authorized the announcement of their names as candidates for the Republican nomination for Congress in this district. Other prospective candidates are Bob Hanna and Lieutenant Governor Gilbert, of Fort Wayne, and C. C. Gilhams, of Lagrange. The Democrats will likely trot out Jim again, as he is regarded swift enough to beat any man in that bunch. "Bob Hanna, who secured more rural mail routes for the people of the district than both senators and all the congressmen in the State combined (that is, according to the Republican papers), may soon announce his candidacy for the nomination in. lyöi." XXX C. II. Bundy, of Marion, who was here on business yesterday, say3 there have' been no new developments , in politics in Grant couuty within the past week. Like most Republicans of that city Mr. Bundy regards the situation in his county and the Eleventh district as exceedingly complicated, but also like many others he refuses to make any predictions as to the outcome in district chairmanship or congressional affairs. "I'm not a good guesser," he said, "besides its always disconcerting, to say the least, to have after events show the wildness of one's guesses. I'm going to keep quiet now and after the various complications are settled I'H be in a position to claim that it all camo out just a3 I thought pr said it would all along." te x Thomas Taggart left yesterday afternoon for French Lick, after spending several days in the city. xxx Reports from the Eighth district Indicate that Representative George W. Cromer, of Muncle, will have more opposition for renomlnatlon than was expected a few weeks ago. It is announced from Decatur that Phillip Andrews, former postmaster of that city, and one of the prominent Republlixina it Arinmn rnnntv. will Via n ranrH I date for the congressional nomination and

that his formal announcement may be expected within the near future. His friends point out that with a number of candidates In the race a man from one of the smaller counties of the district will stand an excellent chance of winning out. Theodore

Shockney. of Union City, is said to be looking after his fences in his usual ener getic way, while from Jay county comes the word that Frank Snyder may become a candidate. Former Maj-or M. M. Dunlap, of Anderson, who announced his candidacy some time since. Is overlooking no opportunities to strengthen his organiza tion and his friends are growing more sanguine every day. In the meanwhile Representative Cromer Is not wasting any time and it Is pointed out that one of the strongest things in his favor is the multipiicity of candidates against him. XXX The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette suggests that the year 1903 has been an unlucky one for the Republican party it should be explained at the outset that the JournalGazette is a Democratic paper and In proof of its statements adds the figures 1903 and finds that the sum Is thirteen, an exceedingly ominous number. It refers to the postoffice scandal and other govermental affairs to show that many things have occurred during the present year that will prove hoodoos to the Republicans. 1, 9, 0 and 3, which make the date, 1903, certainly make thirteen when added, but it will be necessary to wait until after the ides of November, 1904, to tell that the computation is an unlucky one for the G. O. P. xxx Harry M. Smith, editor of the Greencastle Banner, who was here last night, says politics is decidedly quiet in his part of the moral vineyard at present. ( "Politics has been lost sght of in Putnam county," he said, "because of the preparations for the laying of the cornerstone of our new courthouse. After this week we may come down to earth and take cognizance of such trivial affairs as relate to politics. Seriously speaking, however, there is little occasion for political activty in our county or in the Fifth district. There is no prospect that Representative Holllday, of Brazil, will have opposition for the congressional nomination next year and it is generally understood that Julian Hogate, of Danville, the present member of the Republican State committee from the Fifth, will be re-elected without opposition." ALLEGED LAND SWINDLE TEXAS MAN SAID TO HAVE BOUGHT THREE INDIANA FARMS. Men Who Sold Them Had no Title or Interest in the Property The Method of Procedure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINÄMAC, Ind., Oct. 2G.-Hanson Hartsdale, of Estacado, Tex., is said B. to have been swindled out of $50,000 in an In diana-Texas land transaction in which he exchanged a 5,000-acre cattle ranch in Sher man county, Texas, for a 640-acre farm In Laprote county, a 1,240 acre farm in Starke county, and a 4S0-acre farm in Pulaski county, Indiana. The transaction clouds the land titles of legal owners in Indiana. The lands are known as the Gidden-Reeves-Gidden entries, entered from the government in 1853, and originally consisted of 20,000 acres of swamp lands. It is alleged that Hartsdale read in a newspaper published In New York an advertisement that a prominent banker wanted to exchange -three farms in Indiana for a large cattle ranch in Texas and would pay a cash difference. Hartsdale answered the advertisement and received much elaborately printed , literature, lu which glowing descriptions of the Indiana farm lands were made, and details were given as to the financial standing of Jerome A. Portland, of Buffalo. N. Y., supposed to be the advertising banker. After several weeks correspondence had passed between Hartsdale and the agents for Banker Portland, the Indiana-Texas deal was consummated by the exchange and transfer of deeds through the malls. The abstracts of title to the Indiana lands were Included, and attached thereto were certified certificates of well-known Indiana attorneys, so carefully drawn and accurate concerning the grantors' names and those of the nonresident land owners, that the shrewdest of attorneys, after thorough examination of the county official records, certified that the land titles were regular and Jhat the signatures of their clients attached to their deeds were genuine. The swindlers, who operated from Chicago, first opened correspondence with a country real estate agent who had these lands listed on his books for sale. They requested that descriptions of several large tracts of lands owned by nonresidents be sent to them. After several letters had passed, one of their members called on the agent with the request to be shown one particular tract. A careful examination was made of the improvements, number acres cultivated and of pastures and woodlands, running streams of water, and the distance and location of churches and schoolhouses. Plats of land were made with a demand for abstract of title. With all this valuable information in his possession, the swindler, on his return to Chicago, opened correspondence with the nonresident land owners, and after several letters had been received containing the owners' signatures, all -correspondence ceased with Information from the presumptive buyer that the land did not suit him. Meantime the swindlers were busy preparing warranty deeds with the signatures of nonresident land owners carefully forged, conveying his Indiana farm lands to some fictitious grantee. Hartsdale, after a careful investigation, found that he had not a shadow of a title to the Indiana lands, and he would not record his deeds. He returned immediately back to Sherman county, Texas, to prevent recording of any deeds against his property In that county. BRYAN IS SCORED. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) has. I wrote the widow the letter that I did because I believed other causes than law inspired him. I am not surprised that he fails to comprehend the interest in my principles which my friend Bennett felt. There is no cause for secrecy in this will. Mr. Stoddard seems to feel that everybody should have been invited In when it was written. But that is not the way wills are prepared. People don't publish it in public notices nor do they perform their kindnesses in that manner. During the campaign men like counsel for the contestants declared that I did not know the law, that I was no lawyer at all, but now he has paid me the complimept of saying that I am a lawyer in such a situation. There Is no evidence that Mr. Bennett ever consulted me upon law matters. Our friendship was personal, political and In the way of business." - "GV-vs Via ram rx fnör ff Vifo eriAAK TIC Hrvnn rtisenssed Mr. Henriettas rftiirn r 1 VI illU I .UtllVIVI VS. 49 CLVV-Vll Aä I New York, how he executed the will, placed it in a safe deposit vault and-left it there without alteration three years, although va v.o i-air Annnrtunitw tn mib-a e,,v, changes as he might have desired. Mr, Bryan also told of his visit to the widow, and his recital to her of the circumstances attending the drawing of the forms of the letters referred to in the .will. He con--1till Vile enoorh it mnrA thin nn linnr'o length with a tribute to Mr. Dennett's character and his memory, and said that if his friend could endure eritlrism throughout two bitter In championship of him both dearly held, he to the trust that friend even though he became subjected to Invec tive and criticism. Attorney H. G. Newton argued the law for Mr. Bryan's contention. Judge Stoddard then moved that the sealed letter and the clause in the will relating to it be disregarded In probating the will. Decision was reserved by Judge L. W. Cleveland, and probably will not be given for several days. , . Supposed Lunatic Killed. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 26. A supposed Insane man who gave his name as Smith and his home as Hannibal, Mo met death here to-day. He had been taken into custody at Meredosla yesterday. To-day, In charge of the village marshal and a member of the Meredosia Council. Smith was conveyed to Jacksonville, the purpose being to have a court of Inquiry Into Smith's sanity. As the train was nearlng Jacksonville Smith bolted, jumping from the car on the side opposite the station. Ho fell under a passing train and was lnI stautiy killed.

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HEAR AD3IIRAL FRANCIS T. BOWLES TENDERS RESIGNATION. Chief of the Bureau of Construction to Become President of a. Private Shipbuilding Company. MANY YEARS IN SERVICE CONSTRUCTOR W. L. CAPPS TO FILL THE CO JUNG VACANCY. Force of Inspectors to Probe the New York City Postofflce Under Bristol's Direction. WASHINGTON, Oct. SC Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the Navy Department, to-day tendered his resignation as an officer in the United States navy to the President, and it was accepted to take effect Oct. 3L Constructor W. L. Capps, now on duty at the New York navy yard, has been selected by the President for the vacancy. . Admiral Bowles is leaving the naval service to accept the presidency of a private ship building company in Massachusetts. He called on tho President to-day, accompanied by Secretary Moody and verbally tendered his resignation. This will be followed by a formal tender, when the appointment of his successor will be officially announced. Secretary Moody in announcing the resignation of Admiral Bowles just before his departure for Massachusetts, ,late to-day, said it was received with profound regret, not only by himself, but by the President. The admiral's private reasons, which could not be overcome, said the secretary, compelled acquiescence in his desires. Admiral Bowles, who was present in the secretary's office at the time of the announcement, said that after twenty-eight years of service he regretted to leave the navy in which his duties and surroundings had been extremely agreeable. The offer of the presidency of a shipbuilding company which had been made him, however, he added, presented opportunities to continue his professional work and would permit him to live in his native State, and he, therefore, thought he must accept. Admiral Bowles as chief of the bureau of construction and repair, which position he had held since March 4, l&oi, was a member of the naval board of construction. Naval Constructor Capps entered the service in 1SSD and has been on duty at the New York navy yard since March, 19Ö1. Adt miral Bowles expects to continue actively on duty until tne date or ms relinquishment of the administration of the office of chief constructor. Corhln Succeeds Chaffee. NEW YORK, Oct. 26. MaJ. Gen. 11. C. Corbln, adjutant general of the army, who was appointed to relieve General Chaffee as commander of the Department of the East, the headquarters of which Is at Governor's island, assumed his new duties to-day, uen. Chaffee, the former commander of the de partment, going to Washington, where he will serve as assistant cniei or tne general staff, which, within a short time, he will command. General uorDin arrived at Gov ernor's island from Jersey City on a tug and was saluted with thirteen guns. I- PROBERS TO BEGIN SOON. New York City Postofflce "Will Be Investigated. WASHINGTON, Oct 26.-A special inves tigation of the New York city postofflce will begin in a few! days by inspectors working under the direction of Fourth As sistant Postmaster General Bristow. There will be a thorough overhauling of-all the affairs of that office, every department of which will be thoroughly Investigated. The inquiry is supplemental to the general postal Inquiry recently concluded, and Is likely to occupy at least a month, and probably longer. It is stated that no charges are on file regarding the New York office, but there have been many reports of laxity of ad ministration and of extravagance, and all these will be looked into, but the work of the inspectors will not be limited in any way to allegations already made, orders being In substance to investigate every thing in connection with the office. The President has taken an interest in the New York postoffice situation, and it is under stood has talked over the matter with Postmaster General Payne. The subject may be -brought up at the Cabinet meet ing to-morrow. Postmaster General Payne to-night said that the investigation of the New York office has been contemplated for a long time and tiiat the only reason It has not taken place before now was the inability to spare inspectors. He suggested thäTÖTher large ornces likewise would be investigated Mr. Bristow declined to discuss the mat ter in any way. The Inspectors probably will begin work within a week. SUPRE3IE COURT DECISIONS. Federal Courts Have Jurisdiction Over Canals Alabama Cases. WASHINGTON, Oct. 56. Justice Brown, of the United States Supreme Court, to-day delivered the opinion of the court in the case of Clara Perry vs. Cornelius L. Haines, involving the question as to whether the admiralty of Jurisdiction of the Federal courts extends to canal and canal boats. The court held that It did. Justice Brewer delivered a dissenting opinion In which he said the position taken by the court is an undue expansion of the admiralty jurisdiction. ' The chief Justice and Justices Harlan and Beckham joined in the dissenting opinion. The case arose over repairs to a canal boat plying on the Erie canal and grew out of an effort to enforce the state contract lien law. The enforcement was resisted on the ground that the contract "wag a maritime one and therefore exempt, it being claimed that only the Federal courts have Jurisdiction in all admiralty cases. Justice Brown, in delivering the opinion, held that canal boats are ships within the meaning of the admiralty law and that . - therefore tne case is one in which only ! tne national courts nave jurisdiction. He neIU lnat admiralty jurisdiction extends to I canals, and said the fact that canal boats are drawn by horses and not nroDelled bv steam did not alter the case. He declared that the line could be drawn only at rowboats. He held that the fact that the contract for repairs made In the pending case was drawn on land and that the renalrs i were made in a dry dock could not äfftet i the validity of the federal Jurisdiction. I ? , ... ..V .i-. ui.asr-""n7 , opinion. lw i-y"'"" muriume i,iw Monday to unite the cass of Jackson M. Giles, attacking the validity of the suffrage provisions of the new Alabama Constitution, with the case of Dan Rogers, a murder case. The Giles casv;s were advanced to be heard oa Jan. 4. and the Rogers case, also coming from Alabama, to be heard Immediately after them. In the case of 11. D. Hawley and J. L. Howard vs. the State of North Carolina Attorney Leslie A. Gllmore to-day moved the United States Supreme Court to grant an order committing Hawley and Howard to the custody of the marshal of the Supreme Court and that the tw men be allowed to give ball. They are Chicago men who went to North Carolina, and it Is alleged, made an effort to sell gold brick. They were arrested and sentenced to Imprisonment for ten years. They appealed the cafe to this court, meanwhile remaining in. custody. Armor Plate Contracts,' WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S.-Socretary Moody to-day decided the long-standing question

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battleships Vermont, Minnesota. Kf.ns&f Company gets the contract for supplying 6,CW0 tons and the Carnegie ana Jietnienerr. companies a contract for turplying tons each. The plate to be furnished by the Mldvale Company Is for the Idaho cnl the Mississippi, the two 13.CJ0 tons armored battleships, while the Carnegie and Bethlehem Companies' plate will be used for th three 1C,(k.j ton battleships Vermont, Kansas and Minnesota. The companies named comprised all those who submitted bids for furnishing the plate. The bids of the Carnegie and Bethlehem Companies were Identical, namely tho delivery to tgin In nine months, while the Mldvale Ccmpany's bid was !'3,j6.SK, delivery to begin In twenty months. Bogns Five-Dollar Note. TTiciiTVfiTnv r TV rret er- , , A A M. . . , VV fe. fcW. ' ' - - - - ice has announced tho discovery of a new counterfeit $5 note on the First National Bank of. Lynn. Mass. It is a photographic production and Identical with the one discovered on the Miller River National Back of Athol, Mass., a few days ago. National Capital Notes. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Gunner Wilson Joyce has passed the examination en titling him to promotion to ensign. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt enteriainea at ainner mis evening ine jus I Li. Titfl . tice and Mrs. Fuller, Secretary Hay, the Bishop of Albany and Mrs. Doane. the bishop of Washington and Mrs. Sattorlee, thje bishop coadjutor of Pennsylvania. Major General and Mrs. Chaffee, the surgeon general of the navy and Mrs. Rlxey. Mre. Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. Lowndca. Mr. and Mrs. Pellcw, Miss Satterlee. The bishop of Albany and Mrs. Doane remained at tha White House us guests for the night. . . The Associated Press is authorized to rny: "His Excellency, Baron Sternburg. the German ambassador, has been called to his homo in Saxony on personal business. The ambassador will return to Washington late In November or the early part of December. The report that the ambassador is to be re lieved at Washington is an absolute invention without any basis in fact." Lieutenant General loung. cnier or stan. has returned to Washington irom 1 ert Riley. Kan., where he inspected the troops engaged in the maneuvers. He says the conduct of the troops, regular and State, was highly creditable. ONE CHILD MAY RECOVER BOTH SHOTS FIRED BY JESSE 3PCLURE DID NOT PROVE FATAL. The Baby Will Live If He Does Not Succumb to Effects of the ShockStory Told by 31rs. McClure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 23. Jesse McClure, whose diabolical attempt to murder his two little boys at his former home, twelvo miles northwest of El wood, Sunday afternoon, shocked the entire State, probably will be unsuccessful in his attempt" at double murder. Although Omer, aged four, the elder of the boys, died twenty minutes after he had been carried to his mother's side, Dee, aged two, the younger child, was still alive at noon to-day, and unless there is a marked change for" the worse in hit condition, will recover. The bullet whkh was meant to end his life failed to penetrate the brain, but struck tho skull ia' tho center of the forehead and glanced upward, passing under the scalp over the top of the head and coming out behind. The attending physician says that unless the shock was too great for the child's vitality he will recover. Late Sunday night the Journal representative visited the McClure home, from which the inriocent children were lured by their father, and also the scene of tho crime, a quarter of a mile west and twenty . rods to the north. In one room lay the body of little Omer, while In another aat the stricken "mother,' clasping tho other child to her breast, trying to alleviate its sufferings and counteract the effects of the ghastly injury inflicted by its Inhuman father a few hours before. When questioned regarding the circumstances leading up to tho murder, Mrs. McClure said that since she and her husband parted, three weeks ago, her sister, Mrs. Emma Kilgore, has been living with her, as she was afraid her husband would carry out his repeated threats to kill her. Sunday morning, when he appeared at the home and tried to induce her to go out to the gate to talk with him. Mrs. McClure refused to go out, sending her sister instead. It Ecems perfectly clear that McClure's original Intentions were to entice the children to him, ret their mother to come out, that he might kill her, then the children, and finally himself. This Is borne out by the fact that he drove up and down the road In front of the house for more than an hour with the children In the buggy, before taking them to their death. Mrs. McClure said that her husband had been cruel and abusive to her and the children on many occasions, and that he brutally whipped her seven-year-old daughter by a former marriage, who lived with them. His cruelty, she says, caused their separation. Mrs. McClure is a daughter of Joseph Kilgore, and a member of one of the most prominent families of the Leisure community, six miles north of Elwood. Until laM last night, when they found that McClure had given himself up, residents of the community where the crime was committed kept watch at all cross roads for the fugitive, and there is no doubt he would have been lynched had he been captured there. The crime, which was the most coldblooded. In the annals of this part of the State, has been the sole topic of conversation here to-diy. McClure has a half brother here, James Fancher, but nothing is known ,of his other relatives. MARION, Ind., Oct. 26. In connection with the shooting of the two McClure children by their father yesterday it was learned to-day that the children had not fallen asleep, as McClure said, but that he had stupefied them with whisky. For some time there was a question as to which county the murder was committed in, but it developed to-day that the spot where the killing was done is located two miles over the Grant county line In Tipton county. McClure believed he had shot the children In this county, and gave that as a reason for coming to Marion rather than going to Tipton. . . ' .v McClure Fears n Mob. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON, Ind., Oct. 2C. Thomas Jesa McClure, who yesterday, through frenzied Jealousy, murdered one of his children and wounded the other so dangerously that no hope Is entertained for its recovery, was brought to this city to-day and placed In jail. A large crowd gathered at the oepül and jail, but no demonstration w.w made. McClure talks freely of his crime, and is indifferent as to bis fate. At the J.ill tonight he calmly smoked a cigar and rend the account of the deed in tho papcrr. II 1 compiainea oi ms ne.ui. ne airuia oi a j mob. and shows sign of terror when the subject Ls broached to him. He bus roI tained no counsel, and says he wants none, l as he wants the law to take Its course McClure Taken to Tipton, ! ! Murderer McClure, who was locked up jn the Marlon county Jail on Sunday night. after ;ins brought here from" Marlon, was committed Just over the line lu Titou county. SENATOR STEWAET WEES. Marrles Mrs. Mary Ascites Cone In the Private Parlor of nn Atlanta Hotel. ATLANTA. Ga,. Oct. rc. United States Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, an Mrs. Mary Agnes Cone, widow of th? late Theodore C. Cone, of G-orgia, and for several years past a( resident of Washinet.m, were married In a private pirlor of th? Pldmont Hotel at 7 o'chck this evening. Tho ceremony was private, tho only wltne?i j being Thomas M. Norwood, of Savannah, who served In the Senate thirty years ago with Senator Stewart, the lion. Clark Howell and State Treasurer R. K. Park. Th ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. S. Bradley. ex-Senator Norwood acting as fcts-t man. The bride and groom leav to-mom' at noon for Washington.

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