Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 83, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1901, SENATOR BDItlO'l PLACED . Oll TRIALAT ST, LOUIS Kansas Statesman Charged with Having Accepted Fees from Grain Company. STATEMENTS ARE MADE L OF DUKE HELD WESTMINSTER ABBEY GHOUL D OASTS OF HIS FOUL CIUK IT CHICAGO John Mahnken, Arrested for Robbing Iroquois Fire Victims, Makes a Confession. IIIS tli WW , NOLUTUT BWIKBUPTCT Cousin of Late Oueen Victoria Buried with High Military Honors; in London. Action of Cotton King s Creditors Mav Affect Men in His Pool. KING CHIEF MOURNER CLAIMED DEAD BODIES RECEIVERS TAKE BOOKS

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ST. LOCItf. March 22. The trial of United States Senator Burton, of Kansas', charged with, having accepted $2.500 from the Rialto Grain and Securities Compiny to use his influence with the Post office Department to prevent the issuance of a fraud order against the Hialto Company, was begun before Judge. Adams in the United States District Court to-day. After the Jury had been selected. Judge Adams admonished the Jurors they must rot discuss tho case among themselves until tne evidence was all In and submitted. Colonel D. P. Dyer, United States district attornej', made the opening- statement- for the government. After reading the Indictment, he said .that the charges against Smator Burton were based upon Section 172 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. "According to the statute," said Colonel Dyer, "it Is unlawful for any senator or representative to accept .pecuniary fees for any service rendered to any person or concern In any matter in which the government Is either directly or indirectly interested." It is not the contention of the government that Senator Burton used his influences for any matter that in itself is unlawful. The government contends that while complaints against the Klalto Grain and Securities Company were being investigated by the postoffice and before any final action has been taken, the Rialto Grain and Securities Company offered t'Jt) a month to Senator Burton to take charga of its Interests In the Investigation, and that five installments of jf) each were paid to and accepted by him. Judge Chester If. Krum, leading counsel for the defense, followed. He said that the recapitulation of the offense charged in the Indictment is whether certain sums were received by Senator Burton from the Hialto Grain and Securities Company as compensation for certain services. He admitted the employment of Senator Burton by the Hialto Company. "The agreement was that Senator Burton would be employed as general counsel and that hi3 name would be used on the company's literature as a guarantee of its reputabillty." said Judge Krum. "It will be shown that Senator Burton had inserted In the agreement, in express language, that he. Senator Burton, was not to be required to represent the company before any elcfartment of the United States government n any capacity." Several witnesses were put on the stand to identic letters alleged to have been sent to the postoffice and used by, inspectors as a basis for the Investigation of the Hialto Company. After these letters were identified court adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow.

FAIR WEATHER TO-DAY; WARMER THURSDAY WASHINGTON. March 22. Forecast for "Wednesday and Thursday: Indiana and IllinoisFair on Wednesday and Thursday; warmer Thursday In the south portion; lisht variable winds. Ohio Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; fresh northwest winds. Kentucky and Tennessee Fair on "Wednesday and Thursday. Lower Michigan. Wisconsin and MlnneBota Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; light variable winds. - Iowa Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; warmer on Thursday. North Dakota Fair on Wednesday; warmer In northwest portion. Thursday fair and warmer. South Dakota Fair on Wednesday and Thursday; warmer on "Wednesday. Nebraska and Kansas Fair and warmer on Wednesday. Thursday fair. Local Observation on Tuemlny. Bar. Ther. H.H. Wind. Weather. Free. 7a.m..2i luu N.E. Cloudy. .31 7 p.m. .30.03 41 SI N.W. Cloudy. .02 Maximum temperature, 06; minimum temperature, 41. Comparative statement of mean temperature and total piecipitation ou March 22: Temp. Prcc. Normal 40 .11 Mean and total 55 . Departure for day i6 Departure for month 17 Departure since Jan. 1 33 1.15 Plus. W. T. BLYTIIE, r Section Director Yetterday' Temperatures. Stations. Abilene, Tex a. m. C2 35 4S 12 33 63 -12 66 14 44 CO 42 FC Max. 71 64 70 13 53 73 8 74 4 60 76 74 o 64 51 54 62 50 31 70 75 .V. 50 15 45 4f $4 CO 41 74 73 75' 41 S4 80 is2 42 64 C2 64 62 W SO r 73 IX 4 45 74 31 50 83 4i 82 4S 4 55 50 CO 7 p. m. I GO 65 13 46 50 o 60 40 33 43 ZX 43 60 53 50 5G 4t 26 66 70 5! 36 14 3S 40 74 5S 33 61 51 CO 41 73 61 74 40 60 51 60 56 7) 60 50 60 56 m t 33 43 34 53 r2 44 6 46 M 54 4 53 .Amarlllo, Tex Atlanta. Ga Bismarck. N. D Buffalo. N. Y Cairo. Ill Calgary. Alberta Chattanooga. Tenn Cheyenne. Wyo Chicago, 111 Cincinnati. O Cleveland. O Columbus. O Concordia. Kan 32 Davenport. Ia Denver. Col Dodge City, Kan Dubuque, Ia Duluth. MInu El Paso, Tex Galveston. Tex Grand Junction. Col Grand Rapids, Mich Havre, Mont Huron. S. D ... Helena. Mout Jacksonville, Fla Kansas City Mo Lander, Wyo Little Hock. Ark Louisville. Ivy Marquette, Mich Memphis, Tenn. Modena. Utah Montgomery. Ala. ...... Nashville. Tenn New Orleans, Ln New York. N. Y 23 3t 2 42 3 10 C2 42 I C2 23 74 f.3 ; 72 34 42 IM & ") Norfolk. Va. North Blatte. Oklnhoma. O. Nib T. Omaha. Neb Palestine, Tex Parkrrsburg, W. Va. Philadelphia. la Pittsburg. Pa Pueblo. Col Qu Appelle. Assin.... Hapld City. S. D St. Loul.s. Mo St. Paul. Minn Fait Lake City. Utah Sari Antonio. Tex. ... Santa IV, N. Mex. .. Hhreveport, La Springneid. Ill . Springfield, Mo 34 4-J 24 GS 25 41 41 LN 3 4 Valentine. Neb. Washington. L. C. Wichita, Kan

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JAPANESE IH i SIBERIA TO BE TO J Russia Wants Noncombative Islanders Placed Bevond Region of Danger. REFUGEES ARE SAFE ST. PETERSBURG, March 22. United States Ambassador McCormick has been instructed by the State Department, at the request of M. Takahira, the Japanese minister at Washington, to ask the Russian government what facilities will be afforded to the 40,000 Japanese in Siberia to return to Japan. According to Information received here comparatively few Japanese are now in Siberia. Most of them left there just prior to or after the breaking out of the war. The United States embassy, which 13 charged with safeguarding Japanese interests, has thus far only responded to the appeals of a score of Japanese coming from Siberia through, European Russia. The last batch of twelve, from Irkutsk, was sent to Berlin Saturday. Not one of them has been molested, but It is considered safer that the Japanese be placed beyond the region of possible danger. No appeals have been received from the few Japanese residing in St. Petersburg and other cities of European Russia. WASHINGTON. March 22. It is said at the State Department that instructions were sent Saturday to Ambassador McCormick at St. Petersburg to call the attention of the Russian government to the condition of Japanese in Siberia In the hope-that government .will do all ln its power to enable them to return to Japan. Minister Takahira, at whose request the instructions were Kent, informed the State Department that there were between forty and fifty Japanese ln Siberia, not forty thousand as stated. NIE U-CI I WANG, March 22.-Two Japanese merchants, named Kautaiaml and Makaya, and fl.ve women refugees.-who had been imprisoned from Feb. 7 to March 20 at Port Arthur, left to-day en route to TienTsin. thus satisfying the American official inquiry and negotiations covering several weeks. The merchants, who were arrested on account of possessing charts of the coast of Dalny, report that altogether they were treated kindly, especially at the military prison under Golden Hill, where they were in custody twenty-one days. Later they were contlned in the police station. The civil admlnfstration of Nieu-Chwang took unusual care in accomplishing the release of the prisoners and refugees, and upon their arrival here they were promptly turned over to the United States consul, Henry B. Mailer. MINB OWNER ENDS LIFE ON LAKE'S SHORE D. Paul Hughes Bequeaths His Body to a Medical School. NORFOLK, Va.. March 22. D. Taul Hughes, secretary of the Duquesne Mining Company and prominent in financial matters, shot himself through the head on the shore' of Mahone lake to-day, after writing a note, in which he bequeathed his body to a medical school and declared he was going on a long journey to help Lieutenant Peary find the north pole. The man had been drinking heavily since he came here two weeks ago, and his friends say his mind became so deranged as to bo noticeable some dayi ago. HERR BEBEL DENIES AUTHORSHIP OF LETTER BERLIN. March 23. While not denying that he was an opponent In 1SG5 of the then Socialist Leader La Salle, Herr Ferdinand August Bebel, the Socialist leader in the Reichstag, has written to the Voerwaeits disclaiming the authorship or any previous knowledge of a letter alleged to have been written by him in lbG5 and published in the Cologne Gazette yesterday, in which Herr Bebel, as chairman of the Loipsic Workmen's Educational Society, is alleged to have protested to the president of the German National Society against the hindrances opposed to "the struggle for national unity and social freedom" by the agitation of La Salle's followers. Herr Bebel attributes this letter to those who were th?n associated with him, but his disclaimer does not go beyond this. VLADIVOSTOK SHIPS . MAY BE FAR AT SEA PARIS, March 23. The Echo de Paris correspondent at St. Petersburg says it is rumored in naval circles there that Captain Beitze nsteln's . Vladivostok squadron has been ordered to overtake at n certain point in the Pacific the battleship and the cruisers bought from Chile by Japan and to return with them to Vladivostok. The correspondent says it is rumored that Emperor William of Germany has refused to uccept three cruisers built at Kiel and Stettin on the ground that they did not con form to the terms of the contract and that Russia is negotiating for their purchase. The Russian general staff, the correspondent says, estimates that the number of Japan-, so troops landed in Korea does not exceed Tj.ou). LEGISLATIVE SCANDAL LEAKS OUT AT TOKIO TOKIO. March 22. A legislative scandal 13 threatening in connection with the pro posal of the government to create a to baeco monopoly, it is ancgea that certa t.Trhr of the Dipt a creed tn snnnnrt in - - r - - ' - "j,'- w i. movement to Inciease the compensation to be paid the manufacturers for a share cf the Increase secured. It was originally propose i m pay me iiiuuui aciurcrs a su in equ.il to throe years income fromtthei nwlnjs It 1 ff'lid that thf 1 1 H t r.rno ct was to secure the equivalent of four years' l tn-Tim o Th noli ro are invest lf;it Inf tha matter, and possibly it may be ventilated rn ttio fl.-wir n thf ITnilSP Ti- I rvrf, l..n t i ji likely to have the effect of leaving the - . i i . i . . I to tritt: a cold ix o.m: day Take laxative Bromo Qulaine Tablets. All druq;?ist.s refund money if it fails to eyre E. W-Ajrove's signature is on each box. 25c

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companied by all proper military precautions. So far as the Russians are concerned they have no intention of attacking Anju, but the presence of the five or six thousand cavalrymen under General Mistchenkow will be to harass and retard the Japanese in every way possible. The authorities here believe that it will be only a matter of a short time now when actice land operations will begin, but at first these will take the form of skir mishes, as the main Russian force remains ln occupation of strategical points on the Yalu river. The Russians are continuing preparations for a prospective siege of Port Arthur by rushing large quantities of supplies to that point. According to the Novi Krai äs many as forty cars loaded with barley, chickens and other food3 arrive dally. CLAIM THE JAPANESE VIOLATED LAWS OF WAR ST. PETERSBURG, March 22. The Russ. in an editorial to-day on Russia's new protest against the violation of The Hague convention ln bombarding the quarantine hospitals on the San-Chan-Tao islands (op posite Port Dalny), declares Japan cannot meet the charge by pleading ignorance of the character of the buildings on the. isl ands, as the bombardment of unfortified towns and buildings is forbidden by the same convention, and adds that Japan's act was a flouting of all the powers signa tory thereto. "Who knows," continues The Russ, "what excesses Japan might go to in violation of international law? The obligations assumed by her, the feeling of solidarity among the nations and the defense of the fundamental principles of humanity must compel the world, if not to-day, then to-morrow, ; to say to Japan: 'Thus far and no farther " The editorial concludes with expressing the hope that Russia's protest will make an impression on the other powers. TOKIO, March 22. The Japanese government denies the Paris report that France, acting in behalf of Russia, has protested tn thn .Innanp? government on account of the bombardment of the quarantine sta tions on the san-unan-iao lsianas (opposite Port Dalny) March 10. No protest on the subject has Teached the Tokio govern ment. MERELY GUN PRACTICE; NOT A NAVAL BATTLE NIEU-CHWANG, March 22. The firing heard bsre this morning, it has been officially explained, was from the guns of a fort engaged ln practice. The correspondent of the Associated Tress learns that the Russians notified the Chinese late yesterday evening that this gun practice would occur, but not in time for the information to become known. Consequently there was considerable alarm when the firing was heard. Two junks, the first arrivals of the season, are unloading at the railroad station here to-day. The ice in the river is rapidly breaking up, owing to the prevalence of a southerly wind, and it is therefore expected that the river will be entirely open in a few days. , AMERICAN COMMANDS GUNBOAT MANDJUR SAN FRANCISCO, March 22. Officers of the steamer Coptic, just arrived, saw the Russian gunboat Mandjur lying in the river at Shanghai, and report that her commander is a Captain Carter, born in the United States, but a Russian by naturalization. When ordered ,to leave Chinese waters Captain Carter emphatically refused and invited somebody to make him move. At last accounts he was still at Shanghai with his gunboat. A Japanese battleship, and a cruiser flying the same Mag, passed out of the river while the Coptic was at Shanghai. CONSUL MILLER'S PLAN FOR NIEU-CHWANG NIEU-CHWANG, March 22. The British residents here have sent a petition to Sir Ernest Satow, the British minister at Peking, asking that a warship be allowed to remain at Nieu-Chwang. United States Consul Miller proposes the organization of all foreigners In NieuChwang. so as to insure their intelligence regarding war movements in this vicinity and alo for their mutual protection. FORMER STUDENTS EXECUTED AT SEOUL SEOUL March 22. Of thirteen Koreans, formerly military students in Japan, who were accused of conspiring against the life of the Emperor and crown prince for the purose of enthroning Prince Eulswha, who is now studying in America, three have been executed, and the remainder summoned to appear before a special tribunal. ntiMsIiiiift Skeptical. ST. PETERSBURG, March 22. The authorities are skeptical In "regard to the report that a Japanese squadron has been sighted off the port of Nieu-Chwang. There is no confirmation here of the re port, purporting to come from London, that the Vladivostok squadron has reached Port Arthur. K tiro pat kin Leave Irkutsk. r IRKUTSK, Eastern Siberia. March 22. General Kuropatkln, commanding the Rus sian troops in the far East, who arrived htre last evening, left for Lake Baikal this morning. Iliiftslnn Ships at Illtertn. BIZERTA, Tunis, March 22. The Russian cruiser Aurora and three torpedo boat de stroycrs have arrived here.

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MILITARY IS SEIZED ST BERLIN "First Class Men," by Count Wolff Baudisin, Confiscated by the Minister of War. IS SAID TO BE COARSE BERLIN, March 22. "First-class Men." a military novel on the pattern of Lieut. BMsen's book. "A Little Garrison," (which related incidents of the abuse of soldiers, told of alleged actions discreditable to officers, brought in local families in Forbach, Alsace-Lorraine and for which the author was sentenced to imprisonment and dismissed from the army), was confiscated in the Berlin bookstores to-day. It is supposed that proceedings will immediately be initiated against the author of the book, Count Wolff Baudisin. The Socialists in the Reichstag recently taunted Lieutenant General Von Einem, the minister of war, with inactivity ln this case, saying that every child ln Berlin knew that the book referred to the elite Fusilier Guards Regiment, the- officers of which are depicted as unspeakably immoral, corrupt and despicable. Some doubts are expressed regarding the wisdom of the action taken to-day, as th-2 book is described as coarse and clumsy and full of exaggeration, without the slightest literary pretensions and consequently not worth notice. ' It Is supposed that Count Wolff Baudisin will try to establish the truthfulness of his charges,; ln which event the case will doubtless surpass Lieiftenant Bilsen's book in public interest, . since the Fusilier Guards Regiment Is quartered in Berlin, whereas the scandals alleged ln "A Little Garrison" took place in a small frontier town. MINORS IN NOVITIATES FORBIDDEN IN FRANCE Clause of Religious Education Bill Passes in the Chamber of Deputies. PARIS, March 22. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day during the continuation of the debate on the religious education bill, the clause was passed which forbids the enrollment of minors in novitiates, destined for the trainlr;' of religious teachers for service in the colonies. Premier Combes, replying to a question, declared that reports to the effect that the government contemplated withdrawing the bill and dissolving the teaching congregations by decree, were wholly unfounded. He said that the intentions of the government remained unchanged. The Chamber of Deputies on Monday, last, adopted the clause of the religious education bill providing for the extinction of the religious congregations by the suppression of novitiates. Georges Legues, a Radical Republican, moved an amendment excepting from the operation of the clause such novitiates as were intended to provide teaching staffs for schools abroad, either in the French colonies or the French protectorates. This amendment was adopted, the government being defeated by a vote of 2S3 to 272. MAJORITY IS AGAIN CUT BY LIBERALS Vote of Censure for Government Narrowly Defeated in House of Commons. LONDON, March 22. The majority again fell very low in the House of Commons, a motion from the Irish benches censuring the government's action with regard to Irish waterways being defeated by a majority of only sixteen. The figures were greeted with prolonged Irish cheers and a voice, "You shall drink it to the dregs," while John Gordon Swift MacNeill, the member for South Donegal, amid laughter shouted, "We've twisted your pigtails now." llenfKnntlon of Seelr Final. LONDON, March 22. The resignation of Major Seely (Conservative), member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight division of Hampshire, which he announced in the House of Commons last night during the debate on the Liberal motion to censure the government for its policy regarding the importation of coolie labor into South Africa. Is final. He will run again in the same constituency as an Independent candidate. WEBSTER DAVIS MAKES DEMOCRATIC SPEECH NEW YORK, March 22. Webster Davis, a former Republican, assistant secretary of the interior under the McKinley administration, now a Democrat, addressed a large audience to-night at the Democratic Club. Mr. Davis referred to himself as one of the Republicans of the Democratic party who had found it necessary to leave the Republican party because it repudiated and debased the principles of Abraham Lincoln. "The Republican party," he said, "has throttled the Goddess of Liberty and renounced those principles which tuned Americanism to the moral ear as a synonym for freedom, justice and equality, and robbed us of the right to speak of our country as 'the land of the free and the home of the brave." " Regarding the age pension order Issued by the commissioner of pensions last week, Mr. Davis said that "it Is proposed to allow the treasury to be looted by every Tom, Dick and Harry that carried a sword or musket. Do you like it? I don't." Cuban Treaty Ratified. WASHINGTON. March 22.-The Senate in executive session to-day ratified the treaty between the United States ani Cuba signed at Havana May 22. i:XJ, embodying the Piatt amendments to the army appropriation bill approved March 2, 11, defining the relations of the United States with Cuba. The treaty recites the Piatt amendments and enacts them ln treaty form, compromising eight articles.

LONDON, March 22. The Duke of Cambridge was buried to-day after a funeral such as bad been accorded to no English soldier since the death of the Duke of Wellington. King Edward, Queen Alexandra and nearly all the members of the royal family, representatives of foreign monarchs. a majority of the nobility, the diplomatic corps, and representative British subjects of all walks of life attended the Impressive national service at Westminster Abbey. 'Thereafter, the body of the "Old Duke," as . he was affectionately known to the public, was taken to Kensal Green Cemetery and buried beside that of his wife. Thousands of troops marched through and lined the streets, and dense crowds watched the . spectacle, which in military magnificence rivaled the funeral of Queen Victoria. The King, wearing a" field marshal's uniform, took his place as chief mourner at the head of the coffin. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught and the other princes stood behind him. Prince Albrecht, of Prussia, represented Emperor William, while from the United States embassy, Ambassador Choate, and the military attache, Major Beacom, were present. Among the principal mourners were Admiral and Colonel Fitzgerald, the late Duke's sons. On either side of the coffin stood five field marshals, Wolseley, Haines, Roberts. Norman and Wood, who with a score of famous British generals, acted as pall-bearers. In a corner of the Abbey stood a number of veterans who had fought with the Duke of Cambridge in the Crimea. Every branch of the army and of the volunteers was represented. The Dean of Westminster read the services and a dirge, which had not been played since the funeral of Queen Mary II echoed through the Abbey. The old duke's rtiarger, with stirrups reversed, followed his master to the grave. WILL GO OUT ON THE HIGHWAY FOR A MAN

Janitors' Union Proposes to Seize Member for Board of Arbitration at Chicago. CHICAGO, March 22. Residents of Chicago soon will be dodging arbitration board service as they now evade jury service, if the plair of the office-building janitors is generally adopted. The union is in desperate straits for a fifth member of a board to adjust the wage scale with employers. "We will submit no new names," said President Charles E. Fieldstack, of the union. "The managers have rejected those we have proposed, and we have Justly declined to accept one of. their euggestions. If I receive an adverse reply to my last communication I am prepared to propose this plan: "That the arbiters chosen by the managers and by the union meet in a downtown office and proceed together to the street. The first man they encounter after leaving the building shall be elected as the fifth member of the board. Should the first decline to serve the next will be tackled, and so on until one agrees." According to the agreement between the Managers' Association and the union, any difference must be settled by arbitration. The present issue is over a demand by the janitors for an increase In wages of about $5 a month. HEIR OF PRINCE OTTO IS BORN AT. PRAGUE Princess Elizabeth, Who Was Alleged to Have Shot an Actress, Gives Birth to a Son. PRAGUE, Bohemia, March 22. Princess Elizabeth, granddaughter of Emperor Francis Joseph .and of the King of Belglum, gave birth to a son to-day. The Princess Elizabeth, wife of Prince Otto, of Windisch-Graetz, was - reported December last to have shot and killed an actress, Louise Ziegler, whom she was alleged to have found in the apartments of the prince in the Windisch-Graetz palace at Prague. The statements were officially classed as being absolutely without foundation. DEPORTED MINERS GET AN INJUNCTION MONTROSE, Col., March 22. On application of counsel for the Western Federation of Miners district Judge Stevens to-day granted a temporary injunction against the members of the Citizens Alliance of Telluride and all others who may attempt to prevent the return to that place of union miners recently deported by a mob. Notice of the injunction will be served on the persons named in the application tomorrow and otherwise given publicity. Judge Stevens, in granting the injunction, expressed the opinion that the evicted miners were being deprived of their rights. Counsel for the federation said that the deported men would arrange immediately to go back to their homes. MONKEY TO AID IN SEARCH FOR GERMS Simians Will Be Patients' of Dr. Hektoen When He Reaches Liverpool. CHICAGO. March 22. To search for the scarlet fever germ in a series of experiments on apes is the object of a trip to Europe about to be taken by Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, head of the McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases. The institute was endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. McCormick, who lost a son through scarlet fever. Dr. Hektoen will sail for Liverpool April 1. After two months' work in the hospitals there experimenting on monkeys, he will visit various hospitals on the continent. The trip is undertaken because of the difficulty and expense of bringing the monkeys to this country. CHINESE REBEL TO FIGHT FOREIGNERS Yuan Savs He Will March to Western Ocean and Destroy Christians. SHANGHAI, March 22. A proclamation of the rebel leader, Yuan, who at the head of a thousand opium smugglers recently defeated a detachment of Chinese troops near Chung-King, province of Sze-Chuan, says he has no intention of causing trouble to the Chinese or to foreigners in China, but, being determined to eradicate the false foreign religion, he will raise 10.000 men, march to the Western ocean and destroy the Christian religion of foreign countries. The proclamation especiallly condemns the Roman Catholics. Spaniards to Get Gun. WASHINGTON, March 22.-At the suggestion of Secretary Hay the War Department has sent Instructions to its officers in Porto Rico to turn over to such officers as may be designated by the Spanish government the ordnance in the fortifications which remained after the Spanish evacuation.

CHICAGO, March 22. A grewsome plot to get valuables found upon victims of the Iroquois fire was unfolded to the police today by John Mahnken, who was arrested several days ago, and who is 'accused of seeking to get possession of the body of Mrs. Amelia Mueller, of Milwaukee, and also that of Mrs. Frank R. Greenwald. On Mrs. Mueller's body was $400. On Mrs. Greenwald's fingers were several valuable rings. MäTinken's story implicates a man who claImedto be a physician. Mahnken knew him as "Dr. George." The New York police are said to have inrormation that a man answering to the description of "Dr. George" has been Implicated in several life insurance swindles. He is also said to have left Chicago to escape detectives from a Southwestern State who want him for similar crimes. Mahnken employed an undertaker to bury the body of Mrs. Greenwald. whom he had falsely Identified as that of his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Kouth, of Montreal. His confession is in the hands of the police. "I visited Jordan's undertaking establishment," he said, "and cried as real as any person would that had lost a dear relative. I identified the body and a sheet was placed over it. Lr.ter I was informed that the body had been positively identified as that of Mrs. Mueller, of Milwaukee. Another body was marked 24. and I Identified that one and it was laid aside. I went then to where the unclaimed valuables were taken and there. I broke down and wept. Then we buried the body at Elmwood. It was later identified by a Mr. Greenwald as that of his wife's, and was disinterred and reburicd. 'Dr. George -' I never learned his last name, then advised me to start a suit for damages, and that was what I was about to do when arrested." Mahnktu is about twenty-eight years old. TWENTY-FOUR EGGS- IN TWENTY-FOUR MINUTES Gastronomic Record of a Big Four , Fireman in a Restaurant at Crawfordsville.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. March 22.The Journal says a. new record for the lover of hen fruit was established at the Big Four restaurant on Saturday night when an employe of one of the trains H. D. Sanfler, succeeded in stowing away twenty-four nice, fresh, raw eggs in as many minutes. At five cents per this might be considered an expensive meal, but the gentleman who accomplished the feat did not consider it 5? l fl1' merel' using the eggs as a side dish. He also stated that he had the same day consumed thirty-six at Urbana less than six hours before. x Prohibition Ticket Named. X Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March 22.The Prohibitionists of Montgomery county met to-day and nominated a county ticket. They voted down a resolution favoring any kind of a local option law and demanded only prohibition. The ticket is as follows: Fot representative. W. A. Swank; sheriff, J' ?' 1nry: treasurer, Martin Hicks; recorder. Perry M. Lowe; clerk, Robert Foster; county assessor, P..G. Cowan; coroner. Dr. C. II. Waldon; commissioners. L. M. Dunbar and Henry Hurkey. State delegates were selected as follows: William Hawker, Thomas BunneL Jpssp rvv-ms finm pan, L. F. Galey, Martin Hicks, Jacob Fulvviuer, jienry uen, Hobcrt Foster. Amos Quick J. F. McDanlel. A. L. Crim. Will Swank and Robert Welshhammer.

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NEW YORK. March 22. An involuntary petition in bankruptcy, was filed to-day ln the United States District Court against th firm of Daniel J. Sully & Co., composed of Daniel J. Sully. Samuel F. B. Morse, W. R. Fapln and Edwin Hadley, Jr.. b7 threa creditors. The latter. S. M. Wells & Co., having a claim amounting, it is alleged, to a sum in, excess of $230.; J. Temple Gwathmey Äs Co.. whose claim Is in excess of $170.. and Shearson, Hammill & Co., with a claim in excess of lUtO, alleged that the firm of Sully & Co. also purchased cotton from thcrru the price to be due and determined on March li under the rules of the Cotton Exchange. On that d.te, the petition State the lirm of Sully & Co. notified the Cotton Exchange and the creditors in question of its inability to meet outstanding contracts. The act on the part cf the firm constituting bankruptcy is given as the making of a general assignment on March 13. Judge Holt appointed as receivers David II. Miller and Henry W. Taft, fixing their receivers' bond at $-3,0. They filed their bonds and were sworn in this afternoon. Creditors of Sully & Co. met late this afternoon ln the office of the board of managers at the Cotton Exchange to hear further reports from the committee of five appointed yesterday to receive from Mr. Sully his proposition for a settlement. When the committee reported that no additional propositions had been made by Sully the creditors decided to adjouru without date. It is understood that if Mr. Sully has any other propositions to make they will be made through the receivers, who may call a meeting to submit such offer to the creditors. Messrs. Miller and Taft, the new receivers, took formal possession of the Sully offices to-nii;ht. The doors of the executive suite of offices, with one exception, were sealed by the expert accountant who will, under the supervision of the receivers, go through the books and accounts. The feeling of the street over the day's happenings was that Sully's hopes of settling with his creditors and resuming had been practically destroyed, and that the possibilities in bankruptcy proceedings were such as to make it probable that sensations would develop later. Section 21 of the United States bankruptcy law states that creditors or others interested may by order require any designated person, including the bankrupt, to appear and answer questions that lead to the dr termination of the bankrupt's assets, or to iossihle assets not ln his possession but which may be recovered by proceedings. It was believed that the bankruptcy proceedings were brought with the Idea of recovering something for the creditors from men who are said to have been in the pool with Sully. GOES TO PRISON FOR PRACTICING FRAUD

SPRINGFIELD. 111.. March 22. S. C. Sprague, of Bloomington, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court to-day to using the mails for a scheme to defraud, and was sentenced to one year in Chester penitentiary. Sprague, while agent for an accident insurance company of New York, made out applications for insuring fictitious persons, signed the names of fictitious physicians to the affidavits regarding injuries and signed fictitious notary publics' names to papers. By this means be secured money which the company sent to the supposed injured perrons. j City with Two KnKlneem. Special to the lndianao!is Journal. CONNERS VI LLE, Ind., March 22 The city of Connersville and the city civil engineer, Carl Hanson, have locked horns, the latter refusing the request to resign, declaring that he has a contract to complete work now on hand, and has refused payment of salary to Feb. 23. or to ,turn over the keys of his office. Anticipating no trouble in regard to the resignation of Hanson, the Council entered a contract with John Finan. of Anderson, to act as civil engineer, and now the city has two engineers, but work Is at a standstill. 6