Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH lo 1904.

RAIN, COLDER TO-DAY; PAIR TO-MORROW

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WASHINGTON, March 9. Forecast for Thursday and Friday: Indiana Rain on Thursday; colder in south portion. Friday fair; brisk southeast winds l .-Coming north westerly. Illinois Rain on Thursday, turning to now in north portion; colder. Friday fair; brisk southeast winds, becoming northwesterly. Ke ntucky Showers and colder on Thursday. Friday fair. Ohio Rain and warmer on Thursday. Friday fair in vwtcra portion; rain in eastern portion: colder; brisk southeast winds, becoming northwesterly. Wisconsin Rain in south, snow in north portion on Thursday; colder in west portion. Friday fair; brisk east to northeast winds, becoming northwesterly. Iowa -Rain and colder on Thursday. Frida fair. Kansas Fair and decidedly colder on Thursday. Friday fair. Minnesota Snow end colder on Thursday. Friday fair; brisk northeast to north Winds, lx''-ming northeasterly. South Dakota Fair and much colder on Thors jay, ir -reded by rain or snow in early morning. Fair on Friday. Nebraska Fair and much colder on Thursday. Friday fair; warmer in west portion. North Dakota Fair on Thursday, pree ded by snow in south portion. Friday fair and warm r. l ower Michigan Rain in south, snow in north portion on Thursday. Friday fair and colder; brisk to high east winds, becoming northwesterly. Local Observations on Wednesday. Bar.Temp.R.II. 7 a. m.. 30. 14 30 71 7 p. m..29.y8 4i Maximum temperatur pt rature, 30. Comparative statemei Winl. Weather. Prec. N.w. Clear. .0 S. E. Clear. .0 p, 46; minimum tcmit of man temperature and total preeipita tion on March 9: Tern. Prec. Normal Mean and total Departure for day Departure for month.. Departure since Jan. 1 Flu. 40 40 00 .12 .00 .VI 1.35 L27 34 W. T. BLITHE, Section Director Yesterday's Tei Stations. 7 Abilene. Tex Amarilio. Tex Atlanta. Ga liisman k. N. D Buffalo. N. V Cairo, 111 hattanooga. Tenn Cheyenne. Wyo hicago. Ill Cincinnati. O Cleveland. O '..Iambus, , Concordia, Kan Davenport. la Denver, Col Dodge City, Kan Dubuque. Ia , Duluth. Minn Kl Paso, Tex Galveston. Tex Grand Junction, Col Granu Rapids, Mich Havre, Mont Duron. fcj. D Helena. Mont Jacksonville, Fla Kansas 'ity. Mo Dander, Wyo Eittle Rock. Ark Louisville, Ky Marquette. Mich M mphis, Tenn Modena. Utah Montgomery. Ala N ishville, Tenn New Orleans. I. a New York, N. Y Norfolk. Va North Platt, Neb Oklahoma. O. T Omaha. Neb Palestine. Tex Farkersburg. W. Va. ... Philadelphia. Pa Pittsburg. Pa Pueblo, Col Qu' Appelle, Assin. ... Rapid City. S. D St. Paul, Minn Salt Lake City. Utah., San Antonio. Tex Santa Fe, N. Mx. .. Bhreveport, I .a , Springfield. Ill , Springfield. Mo Valentine. Neb Washington, D. C , Wichita. Kan

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SECOND TRAGEDY OF HIGH LIFE IN BERLIN Commercial Traveler Shoots Wife, Son and Self Bccauafof Their Financial Difficulties. I. KRÜN", March 9. Another family tragedy similar to the Beseke case occurred today at Pankow, a suburb of Berlin. Theodore Brambach, a commercial trawler, took his wife and son to the circus on Tuesday evening, and after returning home the family sat down to supper. After his wife and son had MM to bed, Brambaeh turned on the fan, but the rooms were too well veutilated, and his plan of death failed. This morning Brambach shot his son and his wife anil then himst If. having previously sent a servant t a friend with a letter explaining his act. Brambach, like Lieutenant Beseke, had lived far beyond his means, and had become Involved in financial difficulties. Another Dcitror for Choate. JtASOOW, Mr.h ! The Senate of Glasgow Iniversity has resolved to confer the honorary degree of LL. D. on Joeeptl Choat, l'nited States amltassadnr to Great Britain. New Spring Styles Soft Hats For Young Men $2.00 and $3.00 All the latent fa:s and fancies in soft Hats are here in new spring shades that add greatly to th ir beamy. The Spring Shape Knox and Du.ilap stiff Hats ar. h re for Danbury Hat Co. No. Last Washington St.

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MOB AT SPRiNGFiELD, 0 COWED FORMIDABLE DISPLAY OF MILITARY

JCONCU'DED FROM FIRST PAGK.i of years ago for the enforcement of liquor laws is back of the present movement for the alleged purification of the morals of the city. The ruins of laid night's fire, in which th- worst dens of vice in the city were laid waste, were visited all day by thousands of people, many of whom came here from neighboring towns. A mol) of 800 people gathered on the negro levea district this afternoon and threatened to burn the rest of the buildings there. 'olonel Mead's troops. In dispersing the crowd, recovered a lot of dynamite that was intended for blowing up the remaining colored dives. The order for saloons to remain closed was observed, but no attention is paid to the mayor's proclamation for people to keep from congregating or remaining off the streets. It is thought hundreds of negroes are in the woods around the city to-night, as they cannot be found within the limit?. No women or children are forced to remain out over night as the crowds threaten only males. There are two or three among what are culled "bad"' negroes that are said to be wanted by the crowds and the negroes fear others are wanted. AID (ir'FERED NEGROES. Telegrams are being received by negroes from their fellows in other States offering help. The pastor of a colored church in Kansas City to-day wired to a pastor here: "If you want any aid from Kansas, call on us. We are prepared to come to your rescue." The colored people here now are afraid to be seen getting telegrams or mail. When the west end of the levee was cleaned out to-day no white man would work with , moving vans and no white man would accept the goods in storage. The work had to be done by colored men under guard of the militia, and most of the goods from the dismantled saloons are piled up in the Open yards of colored people. None could be left on the premises of white peoplej who feared their own property would thus i be endangered. None of the hardware stores is allowed to sell weapons or ammunition. The infirmaries and other places of refuge are filled with aged negroes and won en and children whose male members of the family have taken to the woods, and it is now feared there will yet be a mobilization in the adjoining forests that may make a dangerous march on the city. The only outbreak up to midnight occurred at 11 o'clock in Short Winter street, a thoroughfare only two squares in length and inhabited by both blacks and white. A half-dozen resorts, mostly owned by whites, are located there and at 11 o'clock rive shots, aimed at a colored man, were the occasion of three companies of militia b ing dispatched to the scene of the disturbance. By the time the militiamen arrived the police had restored order and the colored occupants of several houses Were ordered indoors. One company will be retained in Winter street till morning. Shooting was also heard in the vicinity of Miami alley, a negro district, but the police were unable to ascertain by whom the shots were fired. SALOON LOOTED. A saloon at Spring and North streets was looted to-night. Considerable quantities of whisky, beer and tobacco were secured, and, as the place had been shut up for many hours previous, it is not known whether the work was done by a mob or not. Earlier in the night crowds varying from 100 to C00 jeered and hooted the soldiers, and it frequently became necessary for the troops to push the rioters back at the point of the bayonet. There is little or no drunkenness. At midnight the police patrol boxes ail over the city reported absolute quiet and neither soldiers nor police have any evidence of the mob playing concerted action at any point. It is thought that it will be possible to dispense with several of the militia companies by to-morrow night. A special grand jury will sit next Monday to investigate the work of the mob and ascertain it possible, the leaders of Monday night's mob, which killed Richard inxon. and also the leaders of the rioters Tuesday night, who burned the negro resorts in East Washington street. Judge Mower and Prosecuting Attorney McGrew declare they will not let up until they have . cured seme tangible evidence upon which to base indictments. It is generally regarded as a most difficult task, as the mob at no time appeared to have any one or group of leaders. Eight colored saloon keepers have already applied to County Auditor Hahn for refund of their state tax. These are the men who were either burned out last night or who vacated their places yesterday on receipt of notices from the police. All the military operations are under the direct sujervision of Co.'. H. E. Meade, of the Third Infantry. At every point where the slightest danger ffM anticipated strong d tachments have been placed and an ample reserve is maintained at both armories. Colonel Meade is in almost comstant communication with Adjutant General Critchfield at Columbus. The funeral of Charles Collis, the murdered policeman, will be held to-morrow morning at Stt Raphael's Catholic Church, and every precaution will be taken to prevent an outbreak following the services. There is sure to be an immense outpouring of the people and authorities fear an exhibition of violence in some other part of the city at this time. Notwithstanding reports about shipping the body of Dixon, the negro, to Kentucky, his remains were privately interred here this evening In Fernciiffe Cemetery. The body was taken to the cemetery in a covered wagon and none knew of the incident .wept relatives and cemetery officials. EIGHTEEN COMPANIES OF MILITIA ORDERED OUT COIA'MKLS. O., March 9. Including eight companies ordered to Springfield this evening by Governor Herrick, there will be on the ground by morning eighteen companies of infantry, embracing six hundred men. Adj. Gen. A. B. Critchfield detailed Gen. W. V. McMakin, of Toledo, commander of the First Brigade, O. N. G., to take command at Springfield. Col. K. S. Bryant, of Bloomdafe. and the following companies of the Secpnd Regiment were on their way to Springfield this evening: Company M, Ottawa: A. Frndlay; G. Ada: K and C, Lima; F. Spencervillo. Two companies of ÜM Third. Compiny L. of Sydney, and Company M, of Greenville, also were sent. State Fire Marshal Hallenbeck says he will Investigate the fires at Springfield Tuesday with a view of making prompt prosecutions. Neu roes Removed by Militiaw TIMrSnX, Tx.. March '..-Dick Smith and Richard Menefee, the negroes charged with shooting H. G. Lee and Jim Lee. were to-day removed by a dttachment of the militia to Carthage, the county seat of Panola county. The remainder of the military company is still . v. guard at "vYrangley's mill, the Lee faction having made threats to exterminate the uegroes. li i rm field evrocs in Richmond. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Kb HMOND. Ind.. March 9. A number of negroes arrived in Richmond from Springfield. O.. to-day and will remain here until the trouble now on there has blown over. Twenty or more were in the p arty coming to this city. MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED. Chicago Poüce Asked to Look for North Dakota Postmaster. CHICAGO, March 9. The police of this city have been asked to find J. E. Wyatt, ! I'aris. N. I.. who is thought by his relatives to h:iv be. n murdered in this city. Wyatt. who is postmaster at Paris, left home last December for St. Paul, where he old herd of cattle and then wrote to his friends in Paris that he was going to Chicago. He sold more cattle here and received a large- tsum of money for them. He said while here he was going to visit his father at Westville, Pa. He has never appeared In Westville and nothing hm been heard of hin since he sold his cattle in this city. .No clew to him has been discovered as et.

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. , .. life SKi: RIFF FLOYD ROL'TZAHN. Who Wag Threatened by the Spriilgneld Mob for Attempting to Protect Negro Dixon. PROTECTIONISTS HOLD THE BALANCE Of POWER British Cabinet at the Mercy, pf Friends of Former Secretary Chamberlain. VOTE IN THE COMMONS LONDON, March 9. During to-night's session of the House of Commons Duncan V. Pierie (Liberal), after calling attention to the public utterances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain and other members of the government on the fiscal question, moved '"that this House, noting the continued agitation in favor of protective or preferential tariffs, which is encouraged by the language used by certain of his Majesty's ministers, deems it necesrary to express its condemnation of any such policy." Mr. Pierie's motion was debated for three hours, and the arguments covered mainly the previous ground of fiscal discussion. Herbert Asquith. the principal opposition speaker, drew from Premier Balfour the admission that he had withdrawn the memorandum presented to the Cabinet advocating prefential tariffs and a tax on food. Mr. Pierie's motion was finally rejected by 2S9 votes to 243, and loud opposition cheers greeted the reduction In the government majority. In the division sixty Nationalists and twenty-six free-food Unionists voted against the government. As an offset to the motion made ih the House of Commons by Mr. Pierie, Premier i:;!four put up a Conservative member of th,e House, John Lloyd Wharton, to move an amendment approving the ministerial declarations of the fiscal policy, as including neither a general system of protection, nor preference based on the taxation of food. Chamberlainites to the number of one hundred held a hurried and informal meeting this evening and as a result thev intimated to the government that unless the Wharton amendment be withdrawn they would abstain from voting on the Pierie motion. As this would most certainly have led to the deb .it of the government. Mr. Wharton's amendment was withdrawn. The incident proves that Premier Balfour can hold office only by consent of the pronounced protect'onists. INDIANA NOTES. RICHMOND. The project to build a steam 01 hot water heating plant here is being revived and it is now said work will be begun on it during the coming summer. A franchise was granted by the City Council some months ago. Chicago men are to back the enterprise. For the present only the business portion is to be served. LAFAYETTE. Thomas and William Seifers. young brothers at St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in this city, were returned to that institution in a starving condition on Wednesday, having run away last Friday and lived without fond since that time. The boys were apprehended in Tilton, 111. by Detective Weinhardt, of this city. GREEN'CASTLE. After a hard light In the Putnam county Circuit Court Francis M. Kern was awarded $1.000 damages from Arthur Stevenson, Jesse Young and Americus Young for breach of contract. The complainant claimed that Messrs. Stevenson and Young had sohl him goods and then refused to carry out the deal. BRAZIL. A freight wreck was caused on the Central Indiana Railroad just north of Bridgeton Tuesday night by a flange breaking on a car wheel. Nine cars were ditehed and badly wrecked. The train crew Jumped and escaped serious injury. Traffic was delayed several hours. LA PORTE. The largest ice crop ever harvested from the lakes surrounding Laporte has just been stored in the immense houses of the two local ice companies. The quality this year is declared to be the finest ever harvested, being clear as crystal and apparently pure. JEFFERSON VI LLE.-The city School Board has elected Prof. Lewis E. Richards, of Fairmount. Ind., teacher of science in the high school, to succeed Prof. F. L. Orth, who resigned because of poor health. Prof. Orth has. returned to his home at Edwards, Ind. CARBON 1 A I.E. One of the most successful revivals ever held here is in progress at the Christian Church, conducted by the Rev. W. F. Shearer, of Angola, Ind., and Prof. McVay, of Nebraska. There have been over 100 accessions to the church. KYANSY1LLE Mr. and Mrs. Louis Topf, among the old settlers of this city, on Wedntsday night celebrated their golden wedding -anniversary with a supper, entertaining a large number of friends. LEBANON. The Republican eiiy primary h is been set for March 24. Lochinvar hall has been selected as the place for holding the primary. llriilueM Carried Away. BUNBURY, Pa.. March D.-The ice gorge in the north branch of the Susquehanna river gave way early to-night. Four spans of the Danville bridge are coming down with the ice. At 11 o'clock three spans of the w.tgon bridge over the Susquehanna river at this place were washed away carrying telegraph ami telephone wires with them, thus cutting off communication with towns in the flood-stricken district. Ballot llo ItMeA DENVER. Col.. March 0. Thö ballot box used in Precinct 1. of the Second ward, at the recent election in this city has been found to have been broken open and robbed of all its contents. It is in the custody of City and County Clerk Julius A. Eichle. who h is been ordered to produce it in court Friday. Be sure to see The Grass Widow next wek. Mr. Mnyhrlck Did of Return. KEW YORK. March 0. The report that Mrs. Florence Maybriek. recently pardoned by the British government, arrived here yesterday, was denied to-day by Attorney Decker, counsel for Mrs. Maybriek in the f litigation going on about her property. Order I Flonrlnhins:. .I.V. Dyn. s. de puty sheiiff, has just returned from Evausvillo. where he has been attending a meeting of the finance committee of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He reports the state organization to be in splendid conditiou. and ai the meeting of the Grand Ixdge at Ft. Wayne on April 12 he says that the committee will report the state treasury to be without any indebtedness whatever. Cars Block Traffic. Two freight cars on the Big Four jumped the trnek at the eat end of the Union ! Station at 1:30 last night. No one was hurt or was any damage done, but traffic was blocked for twenty-live minutes. A Gl' ARAN rUBD C I Hi: FOR PILES. Itrhin. Blind. Bleeding or Protruding PIIm. Your Jruejr1t will refund money If PA.ZO OIXT11. W. 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Japanese Reported to Have Beaten Russians in Land Fight

(rOXCLUPED FROM FIRST PAGE.) surprise the authorities here. They naturally decline to say whether Captain Reitmensteln's squadron was outside Vladivostok when the Japanese appeared. but it is now firmly believed here that it was outside. TOKIO, March i'.-It is believed here that there has already been a decisive naval engagement in the vicinity of Vladivostok and tidings of it are anxiously awaited. The Japanese fleet did not, it is said, go to Vladivostok for the purpose of bombarding the town, but to locate and attack the armored cruisers Gromoboi, Rossla. Rurik and the cruiser Bogatyr, the Russian fleet stationed there. It is understood here that when the Japanese fleet arrived there on Sunday last it found the Russian squadron abstnt. If this is true it gave the Japanese squadron advantage in the way of avoiding battle close to the inshore batteries, at the same time putting it in a position to prevent the Russian ships re-entering the harbor. It is doubted that the Japanese withdrew their entire squadron, unless the location of the enemy had been discovered, as it meant surrendering the advantage of being in a position between the enemy and the enemy's base. There is a strong possibility that the Japanese found the Russian ships in the vicinity of Possiet bay and gave them battle there. The names and number of ships in the Japanese squadron have been kept secret, but it was probably sufficiently strong to divide into two divisions, the one to guard Vladivostok and the other to cruise in search of the Russian ships. It is said that the newly purchased cruisers Misshin and Kasuga are takmg part in the present movement off Vladivostok. The Navy Department expects to receive dispatches soon from Gen-Sang, where it was planned that the fleet would call after the operation involving an attack upon the Russian squadron had been concluded. The Japanese are quite confident in the ability of their squadron to signally defeat the Russian ships and laughingly say that the big Russian cruisers, which stand unusually high in the water, make excellent targets. OPERATIONS ON LAND; RUSSIANS OUTFLANKED WASHINGTON, March 9. The government here has received advices by cable from Che-Foo, opposite Port Arthur, that the Japanese land forces have appeared at Fung-Wang-Chang and at Tashan. No details are furnished. The first-named place is about forty-five miles north of Antung in Manchuria, and the latter is a few miles inland from the mouth of the Yalu river, according to calculations of naval officers here. They believe this movement has placed the Japanese on the Russian flank and perhaps in the rear of their line of communication. It is believed yesterday's attack upon Port Arthur and Talien-Wan was a diversion perhaps to cover this expeditious land movement of the Japanese forces, who were probably landed from transports some point west of the Yalu. YINKOW, March 9. The British consul strongly and officially urges the foreign women and children to leave Nieu-Chwang before the river opens. The British station gunboat Espiegle will leave as soon as possible and will be replaced. The family of the United States consul, Mr. Miller, will leave to-morrow. It is understood the neutral powers will not embarrass Japan by the presence of warships in the river here, and, therefore, neutral interests at Nieu-Chwang will be officially abandoned. The tension among the Russians also continues. There are circumstautial native reports of fighting east of the railroad, and there is strong evidence of a Japanese advance. It is reported that the action of the Russians in ordering Nieu-Chwang to be fortified was due to the withdrawal of the foreign warships, thus removing the last possibility of the neutralization of this port. The Russians received by train today two five-Inch siege guns and two sixponnder howitzers. They were unloaded at the Nieu-Chwang railroad station. SEOUL. March 9. A party of nine Russians seised the Korean telegraph station at Yung-Won to-day. It is reported that a fight has occurred between Koreans and Russians on the Korean side of the Tumeu river. CZAR CAUSES JOY AT VLADIVOSTOK VLADIVOSTOK, March 9. "Long life to our great sovereign and to great Russia." So concludes the commandant of the fortress in a proclamation to the citizens representing the Emperor's congratulatory message to Vladivostok on its baptism of fire March 6. The inhabitants celebrated the receipt of the gracious message last night with general rejoicings, proc ssions along the streets, the band playing patriotic airs and the people, including the officers, singing the national anthem. A crowd assembled in front of the commandant's residence and he came out and read the text of the Emperor's message amid a storm of cheering. To the messages of the Csax the commandant of the fortress added: "In bringing to your knowledge the precious words of the Czar. I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for the good order and tranquillity you have maintained, and for the Pi sdlness shown by you in fulfilling the onerous duties imposed by warfare. Not Only have you uncomplainingly complied with all the requirements of law. but you have done more. From your wives, sisters, and daughters there come 150 Sisters of Mercy, and many of you have joined the foot and mounted corps raised by the town. Whatever forces the insolent foe may bring against the town and the fortress we will be found faithful and true servants of our father, the Czar. Before the eyes of all Russia, and even before the whole world, wc will ever be ready to bare our breasts in the defense of the stronghold on the shores of the Pacific which has been entrusted to our care. Long life to our great sovereign and to great Russia; hurrah!" The zar. in his message congratulating the defenders of Vladivostok, expressed his conviction that they would all make a WEIGHT OF METAL MONEY. Few Persons Can Guess the Avoirdupois of a Package. Washington Star. "The weight of money is very deceptive," said an employe of the treasury. "For instance, a young man came. in. here one day with a young woman. I was showing them through the department, and happened to ask him if he thought the young girl was worth her weight in gold. He assured me that he certainly did think so. and after learning that her weight was 108 pounds wc figured that she would be worth in gold G47. The young man was fond enough of her j to think that was rather '.heap. "Another thing that deceives many people." he continued, "is the weight of paper money. Now. how many II bills do you think it would take to weigh as much as one $5 gold piece?" On a gu- s the visitor said fifty, and the clerk laughed. "I have heard gu BSes on that." he said, "all the way from fifty to 5nt, and from men who have handled money for years. The fact of the matter is that with a $5 gold piece on 0M siile you would only have to put six and one-hälf dollar bills on the other scale to balance it. "The question afterwards was put to several people and elicited answers all the way from twenty to 1,000, the majority guessing from 300 to 500. "Taking the weight of gold coins and bills given at the treasury, it was figured that a $5 gold piece weigh .3 of an ounce avoirdupois. The employe at the treasury who handled tie ; a per money .iid that Im bdis weigh four and on-half ounces. That would make one weigh .045 of an ounce, and between six and seven bills would balance the irnld niece." On the proposition of how much money I one can lift liguree were ootaiueo at the treasury. Where certain numbers of coins were placed In bags and weighed as standards-, for example, the standard amount of gold colu i IS.U00, which weighs eighteen and one-half poundsk while 1200 in halv r. or IH coftttS, weih eleven pounds. Two hundred pounds of coin money of various kinds is made up as follows: Silver, dollars. $2.617; half dollars. $3.636; quarter dollars. $3G57: dimes, $3.615.80; nickels, $917; pennies. $293.61. In one-dollar bills the same weight would amount to $71.11 1. Be sure to fee The Grass Widow next week.

rampart of their bodies to protect Russian strongholds against the attacks of the enemy.

AMERICAN ARTISANS AIDING THE RUSSIANS ST. PETERSBURG, March 9. The employes of the Russian Westinghouse Company have donated 1 per cent, of their wages for war purposes, amounting to $300 monthly. The company has given $5,000 and will duplicate the monthly offerings of its employes. Religious services were held in .the factory for the success of the Russian arms, after which Director Smith addressed the employes, warning them not to believe the reports of American hostility to Russia. The Novoe Vremya has a leader to-day on coal as contraband. It argues that it has been considered since the American civil war, but now that England has coal to sell to Japan she objects. Some interesting facts in connection with the first Japanese attacks on Port Arthur are beginning to arrive. In the main it appears that the Japanese shells were defective, and many of them, still unexploded, were found lying about the streets. The coal supply at Port Arthur is said to be sufficient to last the warships fer two years, but the docking facilities are inadequate. The one large dock at Port Arthur is unable to accommodate vessels of over fifty feet beam. The Associated Press has received a chart showing the exact position of the warships during the bombardment of Feb. 9. It shows the three torpedoed vessels aground near the entrance. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SELL NAVAL SECRETS PARIS, March 9. The Figaro this morning gives great prominence to the recital of an alleged attempt to sell French naval secrets to Japan, which, however, has semiofficially been declared to be unimportant. This communication was made through a news agency. According to the Figaro story, a certain noncommissioned officer has been arrested in the matter, and the paper alleges that a woman is also concerned. It adds that one important document is missing, although this statement has been semi-offi-cially denied. A high official of the ministry of marine has informed the Matin that there has been no betrayal of French naval secrets. The facts which gave rise to the story are as follows: A certain noncommissioned officer was placed under arrest charged with serious neglect of duty. As he was reported to have associated with suspicious persons, an Investigation was made and it was ascertained that he had indulged in clandestine betting. An Inventory of the documents in that section of the ministry where this man was employed was made, but none was missing. The nature of his duties made it impossible for him to have access to secrets. FRENCH COAST FORTS TO BE STRENGTHENED PARIS, March 9. In pursuance of orders issued by Minister of War Andre, active work has been begun with the view of placing the coast defenses in a state of readiness. A hundred coast artillerymen have arrived at Marseilles and are occupied in perfecting the harbor batteries, a force of naval mechanics is working on the island approaches and the trials of various kinds of heavy ordnance are progressing actively at Marseilles and elsewhere. These measures are not considered significant except as an indication of the determination of the officials to have the coast defenses in a state of preparedness. JAPAN'S HOPES REST ON TROUBLE IN BALKANS KIEFF, Russia. March 9.The papers here make a feature of an Interview with a Japanese correspondent of the NichiNichi, who is Vistttng the Balkans. He is quoted as saying the Japanese fully recognize that they have no hope of defeating Russia unless her attention is diverted by possible complications in the Balkans. The object of his visit is to ascertain the chances of such trouble breaking out. CI ti to All hut the .Military. SAN FRANCISCO, March 9. Transsiberian railways have issued a notice to the public that, owing to the war between Russia and Japan, that part of the road between Irkutsk in Siberia, and Dalny and Port Arthur, in Manchuria, has been closed to all but military trains. The International Sleeping-Car Company, of Paris, which operates passenger trains over the road, has issued a similar notice. The general agent of both companies on this coast has just been served with copies of these two notices. Steamer Relranod by Japanese. NAGASAKI, March 9. The Norwegian steamer Hemes has been released by the Sasebo naval court and ordered to proceed to this port to await orders regarding the disposal of her coal cargo. Th- hospital steamer Kaisa Maru has arrived here, bringing twenty-one Russian sailors belonging to the gunboat Korietz, which was destroyed by the Japanese fleet at Chemulpo. They will be removed for the time being to Matsumaya Hospital on the 'inland sea. Grand Dtichcs Qetag to Manchuria. PARIS, March Ml The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Journal telegraphs that it is affirmed that the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna. sister of the Czar, is going out to Manchuria to act as superintendent of the Red Cross work. BABY CARRIAGES.

Trade Opens Up in This Line in Early Spring. Washington Times. For some r a son not now known there is always a big increase in the demand for baby carriages in March. The increase has already begun, and tradesmen are busy supplying the calls. And this year the made-to-order business in Washington is greater than it has been in a decade. Notwithstanding the thousands of styles to be had at the larger stores the average parent wants something individual, and consequently if he can afford it he had the vehicle made to order. Said a tradesman to-day; "I have sold three twin carriages in one day. and then not sold another for three months. So we don't commonly keep them in stock, but make them to order. Formerly an twin carriages were made to carry the children one at either end, facing each other; but nowadays twin carriages are made with room to seat the babies side by sid at the back. This brings the weight all over the rear axle and th higher wheels and closer to the handle of the carriage, where it can be more easily and conveniently handled and managed. "Triplet baby carriages? In all the time that I have been in business, and that Is many years. I have made but three. Triplet carriages are made broader at the back and narrowing toward the front, to carry two children at the back and one. facing, at the front. Triplet carriages can. of course, be ma ie graceful and idghtly in design, but in the comparatively rare instances of triplets parents oftenef use for their three babies two carriage?. Baby carriages have been made to carry four children, but such carrlnffeJI are used only in institutions. "Baby carriages are now made better than ever and :n greater variety, and cheaper and more costly and with more devices and attachments for the baby's safety and comfort. All baby carriages SO Waders, or nearly all. including the cheapest as well as ihe more costly, have rubber-tired wheel, for instance, and the gS'-at majority of them are provided with brakes thai can be set on the wheels so tha the carriage won't roll away if left standing on a grade. TP. .irt is the latest development of the modern baby carriage, and It has in fact to a very considerable extent supplanted the larger baby carriage. There are baby carriage manufacturers that now make sro-earts only. "Baby cs mages are made the year round, but the great demand for them is in the spring, summer and fall, say from March to October. So the lively trade In them will boon befciu." 1

EXT Sunday, March 13, The Journal will begin publication of a detective story of an unusual sort

By a Hair's "Breadth

is a tale of tHe Russian secret service and narrates tHe exciting and tKrilling adventures of a member of the service assigned to protect the Czar and Czarina while on a long' journey. This young officer is of high social standing' and his official character iv not Known to the Czar and his suite. With all the shill of a Sherloch Holmes he di;covers the existence in the traveling' party of a female Nihilist, also of hig'h family, and the unsuspected detective finds himself fully occupied, the complications of the journey more numerous and the situations more perilous for his imperial charges and for himself than he had dreamed j& j& j? j& j&

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cial interest at this time because of the light it throws upon conditions surrounding the Czar and because

of the importance attaching' to everything' Russian. Besides, it is a "rattling'" good story. Don't fail to read it First Installment Jext Sunday Succeeding Chapters in the Daily Edition

Hour of The Pink Ticket in Japan By FRRDRICK PALMER. Collier's special var correspondent in the far East, whose letters are printed In the Indianapolis Journal by erial arrangement.

Copyright. 1904. by Collier's Weekly. TOKIO, Feb. 5. In Tokio the Couneil of Elders of Patriarchal story meet in mediaeval dignity; at Sasebo the bunkers of the fleet are full of coal and the bores of the twelve-inch guns glisten under the waiting gunner's eye. Within one of the til- -topped houses of the palace grounds, which have the formal security of wall and moat, is the Mikado, dwelling in much the same courtly exclustveness as his ancestors; in hundreds of barracks an army, modern in equipment and arms, awaits his call. You never know, in this land, where the East leaves off and the West begins. The groovings, like those of a Jnpai tray, are covered with lacquer. Japan has discarded many of her old institutions and some she has fitted out in high h;its and frock coats and bade ride in a coupe instead of a litter. The genro do not hold office. They are not dictators even of small provinces. These live old men have each played such a Pa't in making modern Japan that neither Emperor nor people want to take a serious step without asking their advice. V-.u s are as thick on their heads as medals on ÜM ir breasts. Ito is the great one; the one who has the supreme touch of genius. At the other iole Is Yamagata, the soldier, as different from Ito as a Bismarek from a McKinley. His critics say that Ito is weak in his foreign policy; Yamagata's CTtU never say that of him, but point to his internal policy. Every one has known one of the others as a political ally in buttles of the past. Never before have they been as one man and one mind. Their party journals and their adherents now associate them with only one idee. They have cased to be personalities; they are simply the genro, the five wise men. The next step below is the Cabinet which in pea.-e times stands nearest to the Emperor. At the head of the Cabinet is a man who, among his own people, is somewhat of the type of Chamberlain or Ha una. Premier Katsura speaks no foreign languages; he is intrinsically Japanese, a praetaal. thorough-going" politician, to whom a successful war will award the guerdon of s'atesmanship. Komura. the foreign minister, is much the product of foreign affairs as Katsura of Internal affairs. He began his career In the Bureau of Translations of th. Foreign Office. After promotion his chance came when he was charge d'affaires at Peking at the outbreak of Ihe !hlno -Japan- M war. The good style in which he withdrew Iiis legation made his reputation. The minister of war is a soldier, the minister of marine a sailor. This is a martial peopb . Japanese speak of General Kodama, the vice chief of staff, as a future premier much as we would speak of a favorite sn as a presidential possibility. The momber of the Cabinet are youthful. Young men for action, say the Japanese, and old men for counsel. The fourth quantity in this situation ia the Council of War. which is to levise the grand strategy, both by land and by sea, of the coming campaign. Final decision in all affairs rests with the Mikado. The p rsonal character of no ruler is so little understood as his. Inquiries about him and his daily life, with whatever art they a?made, are parried by the greater art of Oriental reserve. The Russian may like to hear stories about the Czar, the German about the Kaiser, but a Japanese, however high his place and however cosmopolitan, looks upon the Mikado as toa sacred to be the subject of anecdote. He may appear at reviews and great functions, a few favored foreigners may talk with him at length, and yet he remains unknown, and yet not mysterious, because his people seem to have no CWtMttjr about him. The impr"8jtion he makes is that of impersonality; of something figurative and almost historical. We hear that his favorite diversion is shooting arrows out of a window at a target in his ganlen. and we know that his keenest enthusiasm is for military affairs. If you said to the nation at large that he was an able ruler, the nation would probably reply, MHe if- tht Mikado! ' His characttr is certainl as fortunate for the Japanese as the Czar's is unfortunate for the Russians. The head of a gov. rnment with a constitution whi h he granted, his powers are more nearly those of th German Emperor than those of the Czar. He is more like William I than William II. An Anglo-Saxon would say that his best quality was his sturdy common sense. In a phrase. Th- is a ' man of counsel." The initiative which the constitution gives him is really less than that which the reverence of the people grants him. Choosing the genro as his counselors in this crisis, placing them as another forte of criticism and veto above the Cabinet, is not characteristic of a man who rushes headlong into war. The correctness of Japan's diplomatic attitude toward the Russia, who is th enemy; toward tH' Franc, who is the en my's ally; toward the Germany, who watches coldly for the main chance, as well as toward Great Britain, who is her ally by treaty, and the l'nited 8tates. who is her ally in heart, suggests that Japanese might well take the place of French as the diplomatic language. I is no secret that the Hd j;-,. as well as the good wishes of the British and the American government have been always at the call of the Japanese Cabinet; the part that we have played Is to our credit. If not to our advertisement. It w s Secretary Hay who said that no one might boast of his conquests either in love or in diplomacy. Our usually quiet legation has found itself occupied with the work whose Full Nrae nms

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importance Is none the less because it may not be celebrated. When the chancellery has been deciphering cablegrams far into the night, th coi -tents of the messages have deal! witl of the great crises of the world's history. Any one who believes in a trained r -malic service in place of nit-and-mis pointmcnts of Inexperienced men. tinds in our conduct of affairs here the capatoi his arguments. Mr. QHscosn's pxperl as attache and charge d'affaires in . tier lands has told. He has made a great aaSM in Japan. Asso. iated with bun is Huntin ton W ilson, w !i4 has t ven yeai this post. One may well ask i! Mr". V is to remain a hrsl seerstary forever if h is never to g.-t his promotion and trans! r; If his country i never to inak. u of his training. Ever. Japan is the land of pars J -spite their delicate art. their tea monies, and their paper houses, the J.,; nese are prouder of iheir virility than any other quality. From the .l .imios and their followers in armor who dash screens and kakemonos, you might thin . that the 1 rst requirement of high comm was to lead a charge. Yet the great soldiers are desk soldiers and at this mora t Japan's greatest s; ilor is not at sea Ito is the Dewey of Japan. He won th battle of the fain, the only naval batt; modern times that was severely foughl both sides. In fact, he is more t !ewe ; he Is the Japanese NMson I and Karra gut in one, for Japan. begins with the Yalu. The tw. real itry heroes are Ki. Id Marshal Uyan Yamagata. to is the chief of the Board of Naval Command. Ova ma Is th the army's general staff. In tin foitb n ing campaign it is unlikely thar lt.. ,;i j to sea and Oyama may not take t! These master mtr.ds .1 grand si expected to remain in Tokio, srhen all ths telegraph lines locus. Yet Ito is not an oid man. He is as vigorous as he was in the day of his vi : In England or America the peopl i demand that he hsj shoardshlp. In . there is no such calL The Mikado t him more useful in Tokio than on the bridge. Reason seems on the side of that policy In the age when messag. through the air as well as over i either a colli, t or a squadron is moved by pressing a button at th Admiralty. I -miral Togo, the hgrtiug comnth t. and Vice Chief of Staff G. - ! Kodama are the two men n I holds directly rcsponsild tor land and sea. Togo if ih lurig the Chino-Japanese war, which h i - ' by sinking a Chin- Mr transport, principle that it is best to hght first and parley afterward. The work wi, to do is the work that he has pected to do for five years. This Ii I go.'ernmt nt practices the policy ol s in both army and navy. With thlife at stake, favoritism, it ia saul. i counted for little. No attache or correspondent m.tv . either Togo or his ships at this tlm - far as we know of tin ir actuality, they might be a phantom fleet in a ; harbor, w hose movem nts will 1 terious as those of the Flying 1 ' You will know all th' dls have won a victory."' said -t "Then you may go aboard, perhai If you are dt featad,?" 1 sufg ther. will be no licet. ' was th answer. At least, we know with our own the general staff is a reality. The hm itself Is as unpretentiou .. .. The doors are open, and thtre is the hall. The old attendants who 1 European chairs on the :hn -!; of ths military power of Japan call tor It ::.ter prefer at sight of the foreigner H 4 you to the typical waiting room Tl await the aid-de-camp, who take :0 the general to the Von Moltke of J Kodama has no high roll-top plcsh carpets under n.s feet, or bi; chair to compass his ifflci;il dinni' fort and ease. Instead of having ! years the source irom which a v had been directed, his office seems the temporary headquarters , - ui commanding general in the h that Von Moltke had so far cm work on the eve of the war witn that all thtre was left to do a paper from a pigeon-hole. Then w e few pigeon-holes In front Of i dama. and few papers in th. m ute he could stuff all his docutr.. pocket, his ald-de-camp could maps and the genera! might other room and be equally at hornpossibly it was not his r .1 oth he ust'd the room only to receive 0 visitors. . Kodama has been c Japan. fSVfjry - 'untrv has Us W now. i Energy runs from th. ' the little man I say little, becuu. 1 foreigners all Japanese seem sma 11 I ' imagine him being still for long st or ever hesitating on the brink of .ir-clsoa. He is anoth- r m aratlvelv - All the working heads In thi are in early middle age. The Jn; not waited on war to eliminate tl animated colon K """flf vigor is that of thirty-five H same advantage of l:sique that 5k11s durance in every Japanese SoWi compact and sturdy. The nun wh' m- ' Formosa; th, man who had to i - t minist, r of war because he was invs.utsa in the staff, is a soldier of mar has a tpiick humor and a boyish '"JJS j in events at large. His rssponsi btliiif" have not sat so heaviU upon him tha t could not laugh ami chat hgh; , possibilities of rmter on the other we the Korean straits. . jm