Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1904.

the secrets of the mobilization tells me that the l;st l.ftri men making up the require! 5. .. will lravc Kasan July 21. adding: We will be very sick If the railroad is not worked well It la not likely that General Kuropatkin will fatigue hi troops unnecessarily. If th Japanese press him he will retire from LUo-Vang to Muden, or even to Harbin. Retreat certainly is painful, but l now la Indispensable. " RUSSIA CALLS OUT 100,000 MORE TROOPS ST. PETERSBURG. May D. It la officially announced that General Kuropatkin's headquarters will remain at Liao-Yang. He has no Intention, at least for the present, of retiring from his position there. It is semi-officlally stated that the report that Viceroy Alcjcieft will be recalled at the instance of General Kuropatkin and Vice Admiral Skrydiorf 13 absolutely unfounded. The reinforcements prepared for General Kuropatkin are being hurried. The las-t stage of the mobilization of the Tenth and Seventeenth Army Corps has been signalized by the calling out of the reserves in the Moscow and Kharkoff provinces. They will go to the front, thus placing another 10u0 men at Kur.patkin's disposal. The announcement of I he mobilization of four army corps along the Volga, which will follow in July or August,' Is expected next month. The reserves of each army corps Involve about 20JM) men an army corps in 'time of peace numbering 20,04) men; in war time 50j0. An army corps on a war footing includes three infantry divisions of four regiment, each of three battalions; a division of cavalry consisting of three regiments of six squadrons each; one Cossack regiment, a brigade of field artillery and a brigade of horse artillery of 120 guns, and Also three detachments of engineers and sappers. liy the departure of these troops the Russian European army will lose six out of thirty-one corps-. The previous drafts of troops from European Russia had been formed Into Siberian ritle battalions with'out changing the organization of tha Km.pror's forces on this side of the Urals. The oiesent force will be transferred boditly to Manchuria, retaining their present officers and staffs.

WAR VESSEL MAY BE ' SENT TO NIEU-CHWANG j v WASHINGTON, May 0. The attention of 'the State Department has been drawn to the possibility of rioting and looting at ;Nieu-Chwang In the Indefinite Interval of time between the expected Russian withdrawal and the Japanese occupation of the port. Secretary Hay to-day had a consultation with the President respecting the advisability of again sending a war ship to Nleu-Chwang tov safeguard American interests and as far as possible to prevent outrages upon foreigners by brigands. It ia believed that .an intimation has len conveyed from the British government to our own government that the dispatch of a United States ship to Nieu-Chwang might prevent the appearance of undue activity on the part of a single power. The United States gunboat Helena and a British gunboat lay in mud-dock at Nleu-Chwang all last winter and were withdrawn only on a hint from Russia that their presence obstructed military operations. The Navy Department has several vessels within two or three days' sail of Nieu-Chwang. the nearest being the Raleigh, now at Chemulpo, while the Helena and the Wilmington are at Wenchau, Just below Shanghai, and the Ciucinnati is on her way from Che-Fan to Chemulpo. The Navv-Department has cabled Admiral Cooper, commandeft-in-chief of the Asiatic section, to send a cruiser and a gunboat to Che-Foo. This is the nearest neutral port to Port Arthur, but is outside the zone of military operations. The selection of the vessels is left to Admiral Cooper. BATTLESHIP POBIEDA IT A c r .1 rr r r r rr mr? r ST. PETERSBURG, May 10. 3:W a. m. A letter written by the Associated, Press correspondent at Port Arthur ort tho morning the- ltropavlovsk went down, which has been received by the bureau here, says inai tne Duttiesnip Jr'obieda. sunered a very serious Injury from the explosion of a Japanese mine beneath her hull. Advices from Associated Press correspondents on the Manchurian bank of the Yalu dated April 13 says the receipt of the news of the disaster to the Petropavlovsk spread consternation in the army. It was at first believed to be a lie spread by the Chinese. This gave place to the feeling that the army, must try Its utmost to uphold the honor and glory of the fatherland. The correspondents say that Lieutenant General Zassalitch was closely watching' the Japanese, who were slowly collecting on the Korean bank of the alu. They add that they understood the Japanese proposed to cross by the same road used In the Chino-Japanese war. and that the army was conüdent the Japanese would find they would not have such an easy time. BANDITS READY TO PILLAGE NIEU-CHWANG CHE-FOO, May 10. Three thousand bandits are camped outside of the' walls of Nieu-Chwang, ready to begin looting at the moment the last of the Russian soldiers have left the city. There are many foreign camp followers with the bandits, who are giving the Russians much trouble along the railroad between Nleu-Chwang and Mukden. Last week they destroyed a culvert and delayed traffic for four days. . The Japanese fleet was In force off Port Arthur at midday Monday, but did not make any hostile demonstrations. JAPANESE CASUALTIES IN BATTLE ON MAY i , TOKIO, May 9. The official report of the Japanese casualties at the battle of the Talu May 1 shows that the guards lost one ticer and twenty men killed and had seven officers and .one hundred and twenty-two men wounded. The Second Division lost one officer and eighty-four men killed and thirteen officers and three hundred and tive men wounded. The Twelfth Division had three officers and seventy-six men killed and five officers and two hundred and sixtythree men wounded. RUMOR THAT RUSSIANS HAVE LOST ANOTHER SHIP . ST. PETERSBURG. May 10, 3:40 a. m. The war committee adjourned at a late hour this morning but did not make public any dispatches from the far East. The lack of Information gave rise to a fresh crop of rumors, including one that the armored cruiser Rurik had been destroyed. T'e officials deny that any information of this character has been received. ARE YOU prepared for warm weather with LIGHTWEIGHT UNDERWEAR? Warm weather has been a long time coming, but It's bound to get here, and now is a good time to select your warm weather wants. We are prepared to show you an immense variety in plain and fancy balbriggan. plain and fancy llsies, mercerized lisle, silkine and pure silk. In separate garments and union suits. Fancy and plain Balbriggan Shirts or Drawers, Wc each. Fancy Silkine Shirts or Drawers, $1 each. Don Ron's French Ralbriggans, 73c and 1 a garment. Union Sulta in blue, ecru and champagne, at II. Superior Mercerized Union Suits, glovefitting. U and per garment. Danbury Hat Co, No. East Washington St F. DALZ. Mgr.

T OF THE ON THE BUI DESCRIBED BT E Passage of the River and Storming of the Heights by the Japanese. BULLETS AND CHEERS Brave Little Brown Men Killed by Shells . Fired from Their Own Guns. WIJU, May 7. Via Seoul, May D.-When the early mist drifted from the Yalu river early this morning the Japanese Infantry was disclosed lined up for battle on the low sandy Island of KInteito, which is in front of Wiju. The walls and towers of the city on the hill rising abruptly from the south bank of the river and the nearest of the three channels were crowded' with Japanese and Korean Inspectors of the forthcoming attack. KInteito inlet is hardly anything more than the dry bed of the river. It is a low sandy plain, only a few feet above the level of the water and without shrubbery or cover except on its southern half. Infantry lay with stacked arms across the island, awaiting th.ir work. The soldiers were spread cut in their black lines three miles long from a point on the inland opposite the village of CMu-Llen-Chcng on the west to a point opposite the extremity of the Tiger's Head on the east. The division of the Imperial Guards occupied the center of the line, another divihion was on the west and a third on the east of the line. k The Tiger's Head forms a peninsula projecting into the river almost parallel to the south bank. The Japanese division which executed the flanking movement from up stream yesterday, with almost its full force present, was now on the sands north. Four field batteries were behind the infantry on its extreme flanks, concealed by the shrubbery. Two batteries began the action by throwing shells to the Manchurian side of the river for half an hour, while the sun was rising. They sprinkled with shells the embankments whence the Russian guns had been firing for the past week, but no response to the fire was forthcoming and It looked as if the Russians had removed their batteries during the night. It seemed as if the enemy had withdrawn entirely as no signs of life could be seen on their works. Soon after 7 o'clock the Japanese began to advance. The distance from the Korean to the Manchurian bank of the Yalu Is about two miles. The Japanese troops spread out in extended formation as they went forward. When they were in a few hundred yards from the hills 011 the Manchurian side they threw themselves prone on the ground and began volleying. In the meantime the Japanese batteries searched the hills with shrapnel. The Russians now could be seen at intervals where the road was exposed, hurrying in small squads along the hills. These exposed stretches of the road made fine targets for the Japanese gunners. A fierce fire was concentrated on one open space, half the shrapnel thrown bursting over a small area with wonderful precision. There was a perfect shower of puffs of white smoke at this place, and the observers could see the work of an occasional shell as it dug a great hole in the earth and scattered quantities of rock. Still the Russians remained silent. There was no, answering fire from them until the first Japanese line was withiu a few hundred yards of the river bank. The sharp voileys burst almost simultaneous from several trenches, and the attacking Japanese found themselves under a heavy continuous lire, at easy rauge, from covered positions high above them. They lay behind the sand hillocks, replying bravely and hotly to the fire, while their own batteries pumped over their heads. The Japanese officers sat on their horses or walked along the lines. They were in no way sheltered or protected. A few stretcher bearers coming back to the field hospital indicated that the men were being wounded. The Russian smokeless powder was excellent, its . use making it impossible to estimate the number or position of the Russians. Soon after t o'clock the Russian fire was largely silenced by the combined artillery and infantry attack of the Japanese, and parties of the enemy's troops qould be seen" hurrying upward over the mountain roads in retreat. Two regiments of Japanese troops, one directly opposite Wlju and another near a village on the west, ran to the river, stopping to fire now and then as they progressed and giving shrill cheers as they hurried forward, which echoed clear over the plain. Their formation was closer than that kept by British or American troops, and it looked as though their losses must be great. -They waded the river, ran on across the sands, and climbed up the steep, rocky hillsides like a swarm of ants, their red and yellow cap bands gleaming in the sun. One Japanese soldier carried something white with him. This was seen, and It caused a shout to go up that the Russians had surrendered. Rut upon reaching the top of the first Russian trench, a hundred yards up the hillside, this man shook out a Japanese flag and waved it to and fro. A storming party on the west side of the advance mounted a hill commanding the Russian retreat. Just ns the men were bunched thickly on the crest of this hill two Japanese shells burst among them. They had fallen short. When the smoke cleared away a dozen bodies could be seen lying where the shells had exploded, and the remainder of the storming party were clambering down the hill to escape this unexpected fire from their rear. The sound of the rifle firing soon passed on over the hills as the Japanese pursued the retreating enemy One column of weary soldiers, who had been almost two .days without rest, was trudging down the river toward Antung, where the Japanese gunboats were shelling the Russian works. At 9 o'clock a solitary soldier, climbing ahead of his comrades, unfurled a huge Japanese flag on the face of the topmost Russian fort, on a ridge a thousand feet above the plain. He marched back and forth along the parapet waving the banner, and then, for the first time, the Japanese on the walls of Wlju broke the impressive silence with which they had watched the battle, and shouted: "Banzai." Already foot , soldiers, batteries and pack trains were streaming Into the Island by every road, and to-night the entire Japanese army will be In Manchuria. Official estimates of the Japanese casualties are not given out, but the correspondent saw three hundred Japanese and seventy Russian wounded in one field hospital. NO HOPE FOR FIVE ENTOMBED COAL MINERS Locust Gap Colliery Will Be Flooded to Extinguish the Flames. SHAMOKIN, Fa., May 9. All hope that the Ave men who were Imprisoned on Thursday last In the burning Locust Gap mine are alive has been abandoned, and the mine will now be flooded to extinguish the flames. A fierce fire is still raging in the mine. James E. Roderick, chief of the Bureau of Mines, John Fahey and Niles Dougherty, officers of the United Mine Workers, officials of the Philadelphia & Reading Company and relatives of the five men In the burning mine agreed that the missing miners were dead, whereupon Chief Roderick gave permission to the company to Hood the mine. UNKNOWN MAN FOUND DEAD NEAR RAILWAY Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., May 9. A dispatch from Jacksonville, III., says an unknown man was found dead alongside the railway tracks at Sinclair. In his clothes there was found the card of Ned Howe, a Muncie shoe dialer. Mr. Howe says he knows nothing about the man.

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SURROUNDED BY GUARD Remains of E. L. Wentz Will Not Be Touched Until His Brothers Arrive. SUICIDE OR MURDER? BRISTOL, Va'., May a. The body of E. L. Wentz, discovered In the mountains r.rar Kelley View, Wise county. Virginia. Sunday afternoon by David Raleigh, a miner cm'ployed at an operation at E!ackwood. Va., while hunting a lost cow, lies 10-night identically as it was first seen, and around it stands a guard of twenty-five men under the command of Superintendent Arthur Foster, of the Oakn plant of the Virginia Coal and Iron Company. The body ha's not been disturbed in any way and will not be until to-morrow, when D. B. Wentz and J. L. Wentz, brothers of the dad man. arrive on the scene. They are en route to-night in a special tr,ain from Philadelphia. No inquest has been held and will not be until the brothers are on the scene. On making the ghastly discovery Raleigh ran to Blackwood, a mining settlement, a mile or more distant, and there first told of the fact to Bent Kilgore, a police omcer of that section. Kilgore communicated" with Mr. J. F. Bullitt at Bigstone Gap shortly before dark Sunday evening, and forthwith a party, headed by Mr. Bullitt, and carrying lanterns to aid them in their journey through the dark passes of the mountains, started for the scene some twelve miles distant. They arrived shortly after 11 o'clock, and at once stretching ropes around the body, inclosing it in a thirty-foot hquare, placed a Ruard, which was nut relieved until after daylight this morning. As to the reward it is generally believed the man discovering the body will receive $5,000. However, no one has as yet spoken with authority on this subject. This amount was offered by the Virginia Iron and Coal Company, as a substitute for a similar amount at first offered by the Wentz family. No examination of the body has yet been made, and little has been learned as to the cause of death. All seem to agree that young Wentz was shot, but whether it was suicide or murder is the question. Two of his front teeth are -one, presumably shot out, while holes, thought to be bullet holes, are found through the coat and vest Just below the ribs on the left side. The place in which the body lies has recently been burned off by forest fires, and the dead man's hair and clothing is scorched. The body is lying about thirty feet from from the mountain path, and is now easily seen for a hundred feet. Last fall, when the searching party went over the -place, the spot was hidden by undergrowth and leaves. The color of the clothing Is so much like that of the logs upon which the head rests that the searchers failed to find Wentz. though they passed within twenty feet of him. Numbers of men recently have passed near the spot without discovering the body, though from, all appearances It has laid there all the time. Hundreds of- people visited the spot last night and to-day. FAIR WEATHER TO-DAY; WARMER TO-MORROW i WASHINGTON, May 9. Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday: Indiana and Illinois Fair on Tuesday; warmer in south portion. Wednesday fair and warmer; fresh west to northwest winds. Ohio Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday; warmer on Wednesday; fresh west winds. Kentucky Fair and warmer on Tuesday. Wednesday fair. Lower Michigan Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday; warmer; fresh northwest winds, diminishing. Iowa Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday; warmer on Wednesday. Kansas Fair and warmer on Tuesday. Wednesday fair. Wisconsin Fair on Tuesday; warmer in the west portion. Wednesday fair; fresh northwest winds. Minnesota Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday: warmer in east and south portions; fresh northeast winds. North Dakota, South Dakota and NebraskaFair and warmer on Tuesday. Wednesday fair. Special forecast Frost warnings have been Issued for upper Michigan and Northern and central Wisconsin. Locnl Observations on Monday. Bar.Ther.R.H.Wind. Weather.Pre. 7 a. m.. 29.78 4S 74 N'west. Cloudy. 0.45 7 p. m..'J3.96 54 71 South. Cloudy. 0.05 Maximum temperature, 64; minimum temperature, 4S. Comparative statement of mean temperature and total precipitation on May 9: Temp. Pre. Normal 64 0.13 Mean 56 0.51 Departure for day 8 0.3S Departure for month 35 0.65 Departure since Jan. 1 421 8.43 Plus. W. T. BLYTHE, Section Director. Yesterday' Temperature, Stations. 7 a. m. Max. 7 p.m. Abilene. Tex 40 7 4 72 Amarillo, Tex 4S 72 70 Atlanta. Ga 64 70 62 Bismarck. N. D 34 62 56 Buffalo. N. Y 64 72 42 Cairo, 111 52 63 53 Calgary, Alberta 32 62 58 Chattanooga. Tenn 60 64x 60 Cheyenne, Wyo 26 64 62 Chicago, 111 42 62 56 Cincinnati, 0 54 64 60 Cleveland, 0 66 68 54 Columbus, 0 55 60 5S Concordia. Kan 42 63 66 Davenport. Ia 46 64 53 Denver, Col 34 70 63 Dodge City, Kan 38 70 68 Dubuque, Ia 45 62 54 Duluth, Minn S3 46 42 El Paso, Tex 52 80 7 Galveston, Tex 66 76 74 Grand Junction, Col 42 74 72 Grand Rapids, Mich 4 4 60 50 Havre, Mont 42 68 66 Huron. S. D 31 65 62 Helena. Mont 42 70 65 Jacksonville. Fla 68 . 88 74 Kansas City, Mo 43 66 64 Lander. Wyo 32 63 65 Little Rock, Ark 54 72 64 Iouisville, Ky 54 68 54 Marquette, Mich 42 44 88 Memphis, Tenn 52 11 tJ Modena. Utah '....'3) 76 74 Montgomery, Ala 6i 76 70 Nashville, Tenn 56 68 64 New Orleans, La 68 76 74 New York. N. Y 58 73 68 Norfolk. Va 5$ S5 64 North Platte, Neb 36 68 66 Oklahoma, O. T.. 66 68 66 Omah i, Neb 46 66 66 Palestine. Tex 56 74 70 ParkTsburg, W. Va 63 72 58 Philadelphia. Pa 60 SO 63 Pittsburg. Pa 66 75 56 Pueblo, Col 34 70 63 Qu Appelle, N. W. T.... 64 5S 5) Rapid City, S. D 38 68 64 St. l-ouis. Mo 50 66 58 St. Paul. Minn 45 54 52 Salt Lake City , 40 74 72 San Antonio, Tex 54 7S 74 Santa Fe, N. M 42 65 64 Shreveport, La 54 76 72 Springfield. Ill 46 68 53 Springfield, Mo 46 64. 62 Valentine. Neb 36 66 66 Washington. D. C 56 62 66 Wichita, Kan 4 1 63 66 -M-BM-----iBHMMS VALUE OF STRATTON'S ESTATE $6,307,160 COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., May 9. Col James A. Ellston. appraiser for the Win field Scott Stratton estate, to-day filed his report, showing that the total value of the estate at the time of the death of Mr. Stratton was $6.307.160, and that the amount due to the State under the inheritance tax law is $362.844. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS LIZARD, May 102:23 a. m. Passed Graf Waldersee, from New York for Ham burg. PLYMOUTH. May 9. Arrived: Kron Prinz Wilhelm, from New lork. NEW YORK. May 9. Arrived: Minne haha, from London. GLASGOW, May 8. Arrived: Columbia; from New York. HAMBURG. May S. Arrived: Pretoria. I from jew lorn..

FRENCH " SHIPPING TIED UP BY A GREAT STRIKE

Officers of Atlantic Liners Leave Their Ships at Havre After a Vigorous Protest. MAXY VESSELS LAID UP HAVRE. May 9. In accordance with the decision of a committee appointed by the officers of the merchant marine now on strike, the officers of the French Hue steamers St Simon, Labrador, Canada, L Aquitaine and Ferdinand De Lesrseps have left their vessels. The officers of La Savoie will leave that vessel to-morrow, but the French line is confident that it will be able, to make arrangements by which the ship will sail as usual next Saturday. The strike of the dock workers and others connected with the merchant marine at Marseilles, which has been progressing for some months, was recently extended to include the captains, engineers aud other officers of vessels. Before this the strike had almost completely stopped merchant shipping, as the result of which the mails were being conveyed to Algeria and Tunis in naval vessels. ( It was annoirciced from Havre April 26 that the captains and other officers of the merchant marine belonging to that port had informed the government that they would unite with their colleagues on strike at Marseilles in the event of the authorities sending naval officers to take, the place of strikers. The officers' manifesto expressed regret at the necessity for this course, but stated that without it it would be impossible in the future to maintain discipline aboardship. According to a dispatch from Paris. April 27, the French Transatlantic Steamship Company said there was no possibility that the strike of the officers of the merchant marine (n Marseilles would extend to the transatlantic liners, mainly because all of the officers of the transatlantic steamers were attached to the French navy, and therefore were not subject to the agitations of the merchant marine. It seems from the foregoing dispatch that the company was mistaken. On May 3 there were 102 vessels laid up at Marseilles anel over 3.000 men were idle. UNION MEN HA VE NE I V PLAN FOR THE TEMPLE Each Member Mav Be Asked to Contribute One Cent a Week to Building Fund. The most important subject brought before the consideration of the Central Labor Union at its meeting last night was that of the construction of a labor temple. The project was launched three years ago, but as yet nothing definite has been done. The general committee which was appointed to raise $3,000 was instructed to proceed with its work. It Is the plan of the Central Labor Union that every union man pay 1 cent a week to establish this fund. After the necessary $3,0U0 has been pledged a committee will be appointed to make plans for the immediate construction of a temple of labor, and $35,000 was a rough estimate of the cost of the proposed temple. The committee reported that the resources on hand were 31.4S2.23. the receipts were J2.279.43 and the expenses $997.21. A few days ago a check for $100 was received from Senator Fairbanks to swell the fund. CITY MAY ANNUL A ' TRACTION CHARTER Speedy action Is to be taken by the city against the Indianapolis & Eastern Railway Company if the two fines levied against the company for Its cars refusing to stop for passengers Inside the city limits are not forthcoming Immediately. The fines of $50 each were assessed several weeks ago, but have not been paid yet, although the company has been notified several times. City Controller Dunn has asked City Attorney Warrum to file suit against the company for the annulment of its charter if he is unable to collect the fines. TIN. PLATE WORKERS TO KEEP OLD SCALE COLUMBUS. O.. May 9. The executive council and wage committee of the Tin Plate Workers International Protective Association to-day decided not to make any demand for an .increase in wages and will so report to the convention which meets here to-morrow. The convention represents the tin workers of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois. MANY TYPHOID FEVER CASES ARE REPORTED Five new cases of typhoid fever were reported at the office of the City Board of Health yesterday and Sunday. The total number of cases reported so far this month is twenty-six. of which two have resulted in death. The city sanitarian has examined twenty-three samples of water and pronounced six of them bad. COLD WATER PEOPLE HEAR A CANDIDATE The Indianapolis Central Prohibition Alliance held a meeting last night at New York and Noble streets. There was good music by a quartet of young men from the Sheridan High School: The feature of the evening was t"he reading of Miss Vesta Simmonds. of De fiota, Ind. Joseph E. Cowgill, Prohibition candidate for state statlstican. delivered the address of the evening. PU LUN WILL VISIT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Princo Pu Lun will spend Monday following his arrival in Indianapolis in visiting the public schools of the city. He will be furthef entertained In the evening by an exhibition of an X-ray machine. Dr. B. M. . Gundelfingen Mr. Wong's physician, 1 1 1 A. l! A t . wm give tne uemonsiranon 01 me appa ratus. Y. W. C. A. Committee Meets. The state committee of the Y. W. C. A. met at the rooms of the association yesterday with eighteen of the out-of-town members of the state committee present. The principal address was that of Mrs. B. A. Mansfield, of De Pauw, who spoke on "The Early History of Indiana Work." Near One Hundred Woodmen Banquet. An abundance of good spirit prevailed last night at the elaborate banquet tendered the Modern Woodmen of America, Marion Camp, No. 355S, by C. A. Osborn, the district deputy head consul. Ninetytwo members were present to enjoy the eight courses. The l'ropnsed Japanese Loan. LONDON. May 9. Jacob Schiff, the New York banker, said to the Associated Press to-day that while no secrets were talked over, he was unable to speak about his recent interview with King Edward. Mr. Schiff added that all the papeTs In connection with the Japanese loan had been sifcTied and that only a few days will be needed for the arrangement of details before the loan is issued. Thirty Panaenfters Killed. LONDON, May 10. A dispatch to a news agency from Liao-Yang, 'dated May 10, says: "An accident to a train from Port Arthur to Harbin occurred May S near Tieling. Thirty ra'ngers were killed and fifty injured and the permanent way was greatly damaged. "It is reported that a three days typhoon greatly retarded the Japanese landing at Pitaewo."

ffll OF CATHOLICS IS PRAISED AT METHODIST

1 COH Judge Lohr Opposes Denunciation of the Church of Rome and Is Applauded. DIVORCE. QUESTION UP Resolution Proposing Change of the Discipline Is Referred Colored Bishop. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 9.-Tho attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward the pabiic school system of the United States furnished the subject of a sensational debate In the Methodist General Conference to-day. While there was a strong disposition on the part of the. certain delegates to have the conference to adopt resolutions committing it to extreme utterances upon the subject there was an overwhelming sentiment, as it developed, against any such action, and the entire matter was finally disposed of by referring it to a committee, from which it is' unlikely ever to be reported. Several other resolutions bearing upon the subject of divorce, the termination of membership of neglectful members, Sunday closing of the Lewis & Clark exposition, the endowment of the American University at Washington, the changes In the wording of various paragraphs in the Discipline, and other matters of importance to Methodists were submitted and debated by several committees. Rev. J. R. King, secretary of the Church Extension Society, of Philadelphia, having secured the floor, presented a resolution strongly criticising the Roman Catholic Church, declaring that "Its efforts to contrpl the secular press, its influence in politics and Its assaults on the public school system demand the vigilance of 'Protestants and patriots." DJl K,"S read extracts from -a letter 7!.enTby kar Oeneral Peter Harnett. J r Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles, In which the latter fuliE I. to refute the statements made in the above quotations from the episcopal address. Dr. King then spoke at length in support of the resolution. When Dr. King had finished there was commotion among the delegates. Many sought to gain recognition from the chair in order to reply. Charles B. Lohr, chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, lay delegate, was recognized. After agreeing with Dr-s King retarding the public schools. Justice Lohr continued: "But are we to gain anything by any phase of denunciation against any other Christian body? Cries of -No. No.' The Roman Catholic Church has done a magnificent work in this country. It has taken hold of a class of people whom perhaps no other form of religion pould have molded so well for the ... g of our common land. I feel like putting my hands under every evangelizing agency in this world that helps to uplift m; and not pull them down." This expression was received with applause by the delegates and the galleries. A tnotion by Dr. S. T. Beiler to refer the resolution to the committee on the state of the church was carried. In opinion of many prominent delegates this disposes of the matter finally. RlV'i11 F- Bishop presented a resolution to make certain changes in the Discipline that would provide a more simple method m.CJn.ina.t.LnLthe membership of persons liing in "habitual neglect to their obligations to the church." It was referred to the committee on the state of the church. Judge Sibley, of Ohio, offered an important resolution on the subject of divorce. He wanted Paragraph S3 of the Discipline changed to read as follows; "No divorce, except for- adultery, final desertion or cruelty or neglect, such as to compel an innocent partner to separate from the offender, shall be regarded by the church as morally lawful, and none of our ministers or laymen shall solemnize marriage where there is a divorced wife or husband living, unless the divorce was granted upon grounds hereinbefore specified. But this regulation does not apply in cases where divorced parties are seeking remarriage." This resolution was also referred to the committee on the state of the church. A m.atter which aroused considerable feeling was a resolution by a delegate from Ohio asking that a detailed statement of salaries, traveling expenses, house rent and all other expenses of bishops and other General Conference officers be prepared and presented to the conference. Rev. Dr. Bristol, of Washington, D. C. protested against this effort to inquire into the private business of the General Conference officers. He was followed by State Senator McClallen, of New York, who wished the resolution, adopted. He said that the church elected bishops and other officers to devote their time to the church and not to making money by writing books. If they were writing books and having them published by the book concern, he thought the conference should know how much money was being made by them. Dr. Boyle, of Pittsburg, did not think the General Conference -"should lower Its dignity" by going into the private business of its grand officers und investigating their private accounts. The resolution was finally adopted and telegrams are to be sent out for specific details In each case so that Information already in the hands of the book concern and other auditing committees shall be put In the hands of every member of the conference. The colored delegates to the conference, of whom there are seventy-nine, in addition to the three white delegates representing colored conferences, have met in caucus and by what amounted to a unanimous vote agreed to concentrate their strength upon a single candidate, that candidate to be Dr. J. W. E. Bowen. of Atlanta, Ga. The selection of the colored candidate by their own people meets with approval of a majority of the white delegates who favor the selection of a colored bishop. Dr. Bowen is forty-eight years of age, graduated with high honors from the Boston School or All sciences and cnooi or Theology and has held important pastoral positions in Boston, Newark and Washington. The Immense pavilion in which the conferences and sessions are being held had been entirely redecorated for this morning's session by the "ladies of the Los Angeles Methodist congregations with foliage and flowers. It Is learned to-night that the subcommittee on the effectiveness of bishops reported to-day In favor of the retirement of at least fpur of the present bishops. These will be. It is said by a prominent leader in the church councils. Bishops Andrews, aged seventy-nine; Mallalieu, seventy-five, and Waiden and Vincent, seventy-three. Bishop Andrews Is the same age as Bishop Merrill, who has asked to be retired. If this forecast is correct at least seven new bishops will be elected by the present General Conference. No action was taken on the subcommittee report pending the report of the subcommittee on age limit. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO A. M. E. METHODISTS CHICAGO, May A At the evening session of the African Methodist Episcopal Conference an address was delivered by Bookor T. Washington, who spoke on the education of the negro. He declared that the negro In the Southern States was making more progress in the matter of educa tion than were the people In many of the countries of the old world. He declared that there had been no backward steps In the education of the colored man. and that not a single graduate of any of the colored colleges In the South had ever ben an inmate of a prison. - He urged upon his hearers the great desirability of a liberal education as the best means to the uplifting of the colored race. Wound rrorei Fatal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WILKINSON, Ind.. May 9,-Oliver S. Allee, aged sixty-five years, died at his home In this place to-day from the effects of a self-Inflicted gunshot wound. Yesterday morning he shot himself in the abdomen. It was thought by the doctors that he was not seriously hurt. He had been ailing for about a year from nomach. trouble and other complications. He was a member of an Indiana battery during the war of the rebellion. ,

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ORATORICAL CLUB WILL HOLD AH OPEN MEETING Shortridge Oratorical Organization Has Issued Invitations Is Interesting Occasion. The Shortridge High School Oratorical Club has issued invitations for its annual open meeting for to-morrow. The oratorical club is one of the few school organizations whose meetings are private. The club meets every two. weeks, when the members are given orations to memorize and deliver at the next meeting. At every meeting the best speaker is chosen to speak at the open meeting. As this Is the only meeting at which visitors are admitted it is looked forward, to with considerable interest by the whole school. IJeslde the regular programme a special musical programme has been arranged, consisting of several Instrumental aud vocal numbers by school talent. Ihe speakers at this meeting will be Mary Holten, Norman Cook, Mae Lenentlne. Alma Schlitzhaur, Nina Kaley and Jessy Denney. The Judges for the contest will be chosen from the alumnae of the school. They will likely be Ernest Choen, Claude Bowers and Robert Hobbs, if they can be secured. SIR HENRY M. STANLEY, FAMOUS EXPLORER, DEAD OF PLEUROPNEUMONIA (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE) ten, entitled, "Through the Dark Continent," and met with almost as large sale as his former work did. On June 2S. 1S78, Stanley was presented with the cross of chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the president of the French geographical society at the Sarbonne. From 1S79 to 1SS2 he was In Africa, under the auspices of the African Internal Association, that was founded at Brussels. His object was to explore, map out and develop the Congo country. King Leopold opened his private purse and donated $250.000 per annum toward this enterprise. With practically unlimited means at his command Stanley made a road alongside Livingston Falls, carting steamboats to each convenient level, launching them, and thus making access to the country easy. On July 11. 1SS3, he wrote a letter to London giving a brief account of his recent expedition to the equator. It will be remembered that near this time political complications arose In consequence of M. De Brazza hoisting the French flag and defjing the Portuguese and Belgians, imperiling the freedom of the Congo on the plateau above the cataract. . . Stanley was 'the Liberal Unionist member for North Lambeth in the British Parliament and had represented that constituency since 1SI5- He tried for the election In ISM, but was defeated. Although he died , a naturalized British subject, he did not take out his certificate until 1K2, two years after he had married Miss Dorothy Tennant, the English painter, lie was treated a knight In lSltf. FIGHT PARTICIPANT IS IN CITY .HOSPITAL As a result of a kitchen argument between two negroes employed in White's restaurant, Willard Adams, S10 Indiana avenue, was taken to the City Hospital, with a large bump and a deep gash ön his head. The other participant made his escape, and his name could not be learned. lloy Struck by n Car. Sixteen-year-old Emmett Gaines, 113 West Walnut street, was run down by a street car at Illinois and Georgia streets yesterday, and was painfully injured. His right foot was caught under the wheels and. the toes crushed. He also sustained Injuries on the arm and head. The young man alighted from the car, and. going around behind it, attempted to cross the other track. He did not see the car which was close upon him until too late. He was taken to the City Hospital. "Thrown from a Wagon. A team of frightened horses belonging to M. O'Connor and driven by M. H. White dashed north on Pennsylvania street at 6 o'clock yesterday evening, and when near Walnut street made a sudden swerve which threw White headlong from the wagon. In his fall White's head struck a hitching post and he was painfully hurt. The Dispensary ambulance took him to his home, 709 North - Capitol avenue. Dr. Hoover dressed his injuries. Changes in Internrhan Schedule. A slight change has been made In the schedule for the Cincinnati & Indianapolis Traction Company. Beginning with yesterday cars will leave Indianapolis at 5:30 in the morning and will leave every hour until lltSO at night. From Shelby ville the schedule will beln at 5 o'clock in the morning and continue hourly until 11 o'clock at night. Flat Tire Put Boy Behind Dars. Elmer Dever, 45 Jefferson street, stoutly denies that he let the wind out of a bicycle tire near the Western Union Telegraph office yesterday afternoon. One of the messenger boys accused him, and then dared him out in the alley to fight. Sergeant Milam happened along at this stage of the proceedings, and sent young Dever to the police station. ' Threatened Slaters and Father. Elmer Elliss. living with his parents at Butler avenue and Washington street, Is said to have returned to his home laßt night, after a down-town visit, and In a drunken frenzy to have terrorized his sisters. It is also alleged that he drove his father from the house with a butcher knife. Elliss was unconcerned over his arrest ad calmly smoked a cigarette as he accompanied Patrolmen Cox and Pope to the police station. Tm Ufvorcea Are Granted. Mary Elizabeth Alvis yesterday secured a divorce from John W. Alvis, editor of the Inland Poultry Journal, published at Indianapolis and Greenfield, by Judge Allen of the Circuit Court. Mrs. Alvis brought suit on the grounds of abandonment. Mrs. Bessie M. Wright was nl?o granted a decree of divorce from Ivy E. Wrljrht. to whom she was married September liJl. Month of Liberty l.nded. After several months of liberty Charles Shugrea, 613 Howard ' avenue, finally encountered two patrolmen, Amsder and Gillespi. who knew him, and his arrest followed. Shugrea was ar rented last winter for assault and battery, but jumped his bond and has not betn seen since until last nUht.

0ÜST ALL REPyjJCAII OFFCIALS Mayor Smith Breaks a Tic in the. Ehvood Council and Makes a Clean Sweep. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KLWOOD, Ind.. May 9.-At the first meeting of the new City Council to-night all the Republican city officials were ousted from office and their places, with the exception of the city engineer, filled with Democrats. The Council is tied between Republicans and Democrats, but the terra of Democratic Mayor Smith does not expire till September, and with his aid the Democrats were in the majority. The offices .whose occupants were changed are those of city engineer, city attorney, fire chief, secretary of the Board of Health street commissioner and garbage master. City Engineer Richie's office was declared vacant, because the only Democratic candidate for the place was the son of exMayor Harblt. once Democratic .mayor, who fought actively In the last campaign against the re-election of Mayor Smith. Smith would not permit the election of Harbit's son to the place. The new chief of the fire department, Ott Stokes, was recently removed from the police force by the Republican Police Commissioners for disobedience. Another interesting point la that the new Democratic city attorney, H. C. Austill, is the law partner of O. A. Armlield, whose place he took as city attorney. BB-p PLEA IN TWO MURDER TRIALS IS INSANITY, Convict Who Killed Comrade and -Mother Who Drowned Baby Said to Be Demented. 1 Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSON VILLE, Ind., May 9. In the Circuit Court to-day. attorneys for the defense in two murder cases withdrew former pleas of not guilty and substituted pleas of Insanity. The first was In the cas of Herman Gehrs, who killed a fellow-prisoner In the Reformatory several months ago, and the other in the case of Clara Belle Cooley, the young woman who recently carried her baby to a creek and drowned It because she believed It was the Lord's will. The woman is believed to be In a serious condition and it is thought that she will nver live to stand trial. "Slncfr hor Incarceration in the county jail she has failed rapidly and cannot be Induced to eat or notico her surroundings. TWO SISTERS BECOME INSANE WITHIN A WEEK Speclat to the Indianapolis Journal. BELLEFONTAINE. 0-, May 10. A sad story comes from Qulncy. Following the removal of Miss Nettie Archer to the Toledo Asylum last . week, . her only sister. Minnie, became deranged and .endeavored to take her life, and she, too, was adjudged Insane by Judge Plum, and sent to the Toledo Asylum Monday. A widowed mother is left alone. INDIANA NOTES. DELPHI. The Delphi Stone Crusher Company completed Its organization today, and elected the following officers: President, Frank W. Deilrow; vice president and manager, Edward Bllver; secretary and treasurer, John Miller; board of directors, Frank W. Deilrow, Edward Bllver, John Miller and Julius Stern. The company organized with a capital of $50.000. MUNCIE.-Members of the Williams Post, G. A. R., of this city have namd committees to prepare for tho observance of Memorial day ia Muncie. The Rev. Horace Ogden. of Louisville. Ky.. has been engaged to -deliver the memorial address. All orders in the city will Join in the exercises, f KOKOMO. Fred Steward, a Kokomo liveryman who disappeared four months ago, leaving creditors to mourn his departure, has been located at a little town near Spokane, Wash. As his livery stock was sold and applied on the debt1 little on no effort will be made to arrest him. RICHMOND. The myrterious disappearance of many bicycles in this city in tha pa.t few weeks was fully cleared up to-day. when George Heck and George Kelley wero bound over to the Circuit Court on pleas of guilty to having stolen a dozen wheels. GREENSBURG. County Commissioner Orlando Lee, who lives near Willlamstown. had his nose broken by a horte he was leading to water. In attempting to- Jump over a low rail fence the animal's foot struck him In the face. ANDERSON. The Rev. Harry Belton. of Southport, who has been sick here with brain fever since last Thursday at tho home of the Rev. Lotus Aspy. is Improving and will probably recover, although he 1 not yet able to be up. SHELBY VILLE. The one-snd-one-half-story dwelling of Nathan Sullivan, located on a farm In the southern part of Shelby county, was destroyed br fire this morning. The loss will be about f 1,700, with an lnsurauee of $250. PAOLI. Dr. Edward Holt Hewes. president of De I'auw University, deliverej th baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Paoli High School at the M. E. Church here yesterday. The color, clearness and Iriiluacy of Dorflinger Glassware are aborc imkahoa. Up-to-date deW handle glassware bearing the above Lade-mark.

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