Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 January 1897 — Page 1

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AN IRATE

INVOLVED ,IN A SHOOTING AFFRAY WITH HIS WIFE. ,* "("5

Samuel L. Caton in Knocked Down By Bjn. Caton and In Turn Shoots Her Through th^ Neck. 'J

&.WFUL MURDER AT WAYNE,. NEB.

C. A. RASH KILLS HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.

The Tragedy Supposed to Be the Result of All Unbalanced Mind.

'Lansing, Mich., Jan. 28.—Samuel L. Caton, the -well-known horseman, who has for •lie past two years been handling race horses in Russia, was involved in a shooting affray here tonight with his wife, who has a suit for divorce pending, He returned from Bussia a short time since, and has purchased several speedy animals for shipment {q Russia, making his home. here at the Hotel Downey. Tonight Caton visited his former home and encountered a man named

Scott, a questionable associate of his wife, and the two exchanged shots without ap

parent effect although Caton claims to have received a wound in his forehead. He then kicked in the door to the house, but he was met by his wife who knocked him down with a club. Caton retaliated by shooting her through the cheek, inflicting a flesh •wound.

Murdered Wife and Children. Wayne, Neb., Jan. 28.—C.~ A. Rash Tetiirned home last night from a revival meeting and murdered his wife and three children." When the sheriff and coroner reached the house the dead bodies of Mrs. Rash and her 10-year-old son lay-on the floor frightfully gashed and the two younger children lay dead on their beds with their heads mashed to a jelly. The deed had been done with three pieces of soapstone. When the sheriff entered Rash was sitting in the window, and made no resistence. It is supposed Rash's mind has become unbalanced as the result of the excitement at the revival meetings.

PARDONED BY PINGREE.

countrymen, whom he had induced to settle in the wilderness. His reign became so despotic and cruel that a secret oath was taken by his subjects that they would take his life and that should any of the conspirators/reveal the secret crime it should be fastened upon him. The deed was accompanied as Moliter was working in his store on® August night. No clue to the perpetrators was had until 1893 when one William Repke confessed to participation in it,

implicated the men who were pardoned loday, and they were all convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Subsequently Repke made affidavit that his testimony was perjury. The case was then taken up by the state board of pardons, who after two years, expressed the belief that the men were innocent and that the real perpetrators of tho crime were dead or beyond reach of the law. The board recommended pardons, which resulted in the action of Governor PingTee today.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The Senate Adopts a Measure to License the Sale ef Cigarettes. Special to The Express.

Indianapolis, Jan. 28.—Cigarettes, politics and a lot of minor measures have engrossed the attention of the legislature today. After a long discussion, devoted mostly to the legal features of the bill, the senate this afternoon passed Senator Shiveley's measure to license the sale of cigarettes and prohibit their sale to minors under 18 years.

The Culbert-Rogers contest occupied the time of the senate all morning and kept it in session until about 1 o'clock. The committee on elections reported in favor of ousting George W. Rogers and seating Uriah Culbert, the Democrats bringing in a minority report throwing out the contest. Each side was given an hour for argument and Senators Drummond, Shea, Sweeney and Ellison talked for the Democrats. They denounced the proceedings' as outrageous, unjust and simply an exhibition of the unreasoning tyranny of a heavy majority. Senators Wood and Newby did the talking for the Republican side. Senator Wood confined himself largely to the evidence in the case and Senator Newby in replying to some of the arguments set forth by the minority brought up numerous instances of what he termed the high handed way in which they did business when they were in a majority. In the course of his argument he referred to the last Democratic attorney general, without naming him, as a "bloody cut-throat." Culbert was seated by a straight party vote of 30 to 13. During the period before this matter came up the senate passed the house bill establishing a Superior Court in Grant County. This Is the final passage of the measure and is the most important bill that has yet gotten through both branches.

The time of the house was occupied in passing bills of minor importance. The most interesting was a measure providing for the appointment of a committee of three members of the legislature every two years to investigate the needs of state institutions and furnish the legislature with reliable information upon which to base appropriations. It is the intention of this measure to do away with all legislative junketing trips and at the same time to cut off the various luxuries indulged in at the expense of the state by the officers of state Institutions. The ways and means committee, in looking over the vouchers in the auditor's office has found a good deal of this sort of thing that it thinks can be cut off without hurting the institutions to any extent.

Sensation in Washington State "Legislature. Olympia, Wash., Jan. 28.—Three ballots taken for United States senator today without result Third ballot: Turner So, "Winsor 44, Squire 4, Denny 26, Cline 2.

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New Gov-

Dramatic Act of Michigan'

ernor.

A f*ensation was caused In the legisUtureJ_aioue.

today by charges of bribery made in the Post Intelligencer of Seattle by Dr. J. B. Calhoun, late manager for Senator Squire. Specific charges of bribery were made against Representative A. .Warner of Everett and Senator Plummer, president pro tern of the senate.

Warner today rose in the house to a question of personal privilege and in a sensational speech branded the charges as "false as hell," and asked that a committee be appointed to investigate. Speaker Cline appointed a committee of-five to investigate the charges.

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Fifty Thousand Dollar Fire. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 28.—Fire, which started in Bloomer's furniture store at Pattonsburg, today, destrpyed that store and the remainder of the block, entailing an aggregate loss of $50,000. The losses are divided among a dozen firms. ,,

NICK ROTH'S SLAYER

IS NOT TO BE INDICTEP BY THE GRAND JOKY.

The Shootioe Was Done In Self DefenseThe Jury Will Adjonrn Tomor- .... row Evening.

Officer James Bishop, who shot and killed Policeman Nick Roth last Sunday night, will not be forced to stand trial for murder. Ho will not even be brought into court for the grand jury has found there is no case to be made against him. Ever since the terrible tragedy the jury has been in

vestigating the shooting and yesterday it was announced there would be no prosecu

tion. This being the case, the policeman will be returned to duty as soon, as he desires to work again. Bishop has been seen bat little since the killing of Roth. In fact he is at home completely broken in'spirits. He stays at home most of the time,-, but is always happy to see friends who call during the day. He has been considerably worried lejst he would have to stand trial for killing

Roth. the mental strain was bad enough at present and if forced into a trial would be almost beyond endurance. He was, therefore, greatly relieved, when informed that the grand jury would return no indictments

Bishop will in all probability go on duty again next month. So far as can be learned thus police commissioners will not interfere with his resuming work. However, it is understood, they will issue to Chief Meagher rigid instructions relative to the actions of all officers hereafter. The tragedy has shown conclusively the necessity of what Terre Haute has long needed—a new system of "reporting." As is well known the uight police have in many instances no telephones in their districts and are compelled

Lansing, Mich., Jan. 28.—Governor Pingree added another chapter to his dramatic career today by going to the Jackson prison, and in person delivering pardons to' Au- to go to other districts to call up the Cengust Furhman, Carl Voegler, August Gross- tral station.-• 'This fact necessitates the man and Henry Jacobs, who were convicted presence of three and sometimes four offour years ago of the crime of murdering fleers at one telephone at the same time. Albert Moliter at Rogers City, Presque Isle I Had Terre Hau.te a system of reporting stacounty, in 1873. lions last Sunday night it is likely the

Moliter was a dictator among his German tragedy in which Nick Roth lost his life

would not have occured.

THE COLD SNAP.

Weather Bureau Reports It Quite General In the South Atlantic States. Washington, Jan. 28.—

Reports to the As

sociated Press from the South Atlantic States show the present cold snap to be the most severe of the winter and quite general from Virginia to Florida. At Danville, Newport News, Petersburg, Roanoke and Norfolk, Va., the temperature ranged frm 6 degrees to 20. Snow lays over the state to a depth of from two to six inches. Ice has formed on most of the streams. From Norfolk the statement is received that the storm was very severe on the bay. Lookouts on incoming vessels reported the cold as- intense. Life savers along the beach also report a terrible night as they patrolled the coast. The temperature tonight has dropped to fourteen degrees with chilling northwest winds. The lower harbor is filled with

storm-bound

ships but the regular

steamers keep up their services. Throughout Georgia and North and South Carolina the weather is dry and cold, the thermometer ranging from 10 degrees to 25 as a maximum.

Jacksonville, Florida, reports that the cold last night throughout Northern Florida was the most intense since February, 1895. Acrqss the northern counties from Jacksonville to Pensacola, the thermometer ranged generally from 20 to 24 degrees going here and there as low as -17.. Frost in lesser degrees was felt as far south as Titusville on the east coast and Tampa on the west. Reports from the districts devoted to the orange culture indicate that, except in the more exposed situations little injury has been done. The losses of the truck farmers in the Gainsville district will be more severe. A considerable percentage of the growing lettuce, beets and cabbage has been killed, but no close estimate can yet formed.

New England Swept By Blizzard. Boston, Jan. 28—After an absence of snow storms for over forty days this city, and in fact, nearly the whole of New England, was swept by a blizzard today. From twelve to sixteen inches of snow fell and a heavy northwest wind piled it into drifts. Some delay to railroad traffic was experienced. Tonight, after twelve hours of tempestous weather, the sky is again clear over this city, but the storm has s»wept on down the Maine coast, where it is Still being felt. The storm center at 9 o'clofck was well down toward the provinces, wher,e the wind was blowing 52 miles an hour.' At Portland, however, the wind had fallen to 24 miles an hour, and the sky was rapidly clearing.

The snowfall was undoubtedly the heaviest experienced in Southern New England for some years, but far to the north tlie. fall is about the average for a winter's storm.

Ko Hope For Milder Weath St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 28.—The thermometer still regilsters in the nefghborhoo dof zero, and the local weather bureau holds out no immediate hope for milder weather. The number of destitute'has staggered the organized charities. With all their forces wosjdng day and night they can reach but a portion of the needy. Thousands of hungry people are depend'ng on public charity given individually or through the police. Superintendent Finney of the Provident Association, estimates from all agencies at work that 32,000 destitute people have been relieved, while 18,000 are still in need of help.

Captain Joyce or the Fourth police district, and doing much to relieve the distress in his bailiwick. Since the cold spell 600 families have received help from this source

ALTGELDAND MORTON

THEIR NAMES PROMINENT BEFORE THE HODSE AT WASHINGTON*

Illinois' Ex-Governor and the Secretary of Agriculture Soundly Roasted By Members.

MESSRS. GROSVENOR AND DE ARMOND

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AltgelU's Political Record Attacked—SaroaBtlc Refference to Secretary Morton.

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Washington, Jan. 28.—The house passed

the Indian appropriation bill today and entered upon the consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill, but all interest in these two measures was overshadowed by

two very remarkable speeches, one made by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, attacking ex-Gov-ernor Altgeld of Illinois, and the other, by Mr. De Armond of Missouri, heaping ridicule on Secretary Morton for the recent issue of a pamphlet entitled/The Farmers'Interest

in Finance." Mr. Grosvenor's observations on the gov

ernor of Illinois were called forth by the latter's speech last week in whlchy he. charged «hat Mr. Bryan had been defeated by fraud and based his charge particularly

oh the enormous increasp cf the vbte in Ohio, where he alleged, 90,000 votes were illegally

cast. Mr. Grosvenor was very personal in his allusions to Mr. Altgeld, laying at his door much grave responsibility for the result of the election. He declared that an appeal on the stump against Altgeldism. never failed to arouse the populace where all else

He was not afraid of the result, but failed. He then analyzed the Ohio vote and explained the cause of its increase, calling attention to the fact that the Democratic vote in the state had increased proportionately much more than the Republicans.

Mr. De Armond replied very briefly to Mr. Grosvenor but it was his subsequent attack on Secretary Morton which created the sensation. Mr. De Armond is a Democrat, an ardent advocate of silver, and therefore his attack on a ©emocratic cabinet official who has been most active on the gold side of the controversy excited less surprise than it otherwise would have done. It already had been noised about the Missouri member intended to make an attacK on the secretary and the members eagerly crowded about to hear him. With biting sarcasm and rasping irony he scored the secretary of agriculture, taking as his text a recent publication

issued by the secretary and sent out over the.country under a frank, entitled, "The Farmers Interest in Finance." The pamphlet reviewed the silver agitation to show that poverty and illiteracy characterized the states which, had been foremost in the demand for the restoration of silver.

Said the Farmer* Demanded Silver. Mr. De Armond, asserted that the demand for silver came chiefly from the farmers whose interests the secretary of agriculture was supposed to look after and asked contemptuously what excuse there was for issuing to them "This slander, this travesty on facts." "The Republican party is not responsible for him," interposed Mr. W. A. Stone of Pennsylvania. "Assuredly not," agreed Mr. De Armond, "and I understand how grateful you are that you are relieved of responsibility." (Laughter.)

He went on to say that there were facts which some men lost sight of that were known to all others, and one of them was that the illiterate colored vote represented McKinley's majority in most of the states which he carried. But, he said, no one took Secretary Morton seriously nowadays. The world was no longer interested in his views on finance, although it might look with expectation for any observations he might make on the woodchuck, the hedgehog or the eye of the potato. Addressing the Republican side, he appealed to them to recognize Secretary Morton's service even though they refused to accept responsibility for him. "Of course," said he, "you will not keep him in his present position, but you might put him in the National Museum. "We will put him in a better place, again interposed Mr. Stone of Pennsylvania, "We will send him back to Nebraska." "Why should you desire to punish Nebraska?" shouted Mr. Kem (Pop., Neb.) amid shouts of laughter.

In "conclusion Mr. De Armond again commended to the prayerful consideration of the Republicans "this curiosity of modern political life," whose peculiarity was that he talked when he was not writing, and wrote when he was not talking, and did both when he was not thinking. Mr. Grosvenor (Rep., Ohio) got the floor during the debate on the agricultural appropriation bill, and under the latitude allowed proceeded to interest the members with a reply to some remarks made by

ex-Governor

Altgeld at a dinner

given in the latter's honor last week. The loyalty, honor and integrity of the state of Ohio, he said, demanded a reply. As to much of what Altgeld had said on that occasion Mr. Grosvenor remarked his answer would be silence, but he could not pass over a single paragraph. That paragraph, Mr. Grosvenor had read at the clerk's desk. It called aitentlon in partial substantiation of the sweeping assertion that. Bryan had been defrauded oilt of his election to the fact that in Ohio last fall there were cast 200,000 more votes than in 1892. This, Altgeld said, indicated an increase of population of 1.000,000, whereas, he charged the increase had not been more than two-thirds of it. From this he concluded that 90,000 of the votes were fraudulent. "I. do not wonder." said he, "that a, gentleman who led a victorious majority in the city of Chicago very recently and then was absolutely overwhelmed in almost all the counties and voting precincts in Illinois, should select his own state (Altgeld having lived in Ohio) as an illustration of the quality of unfairness which had been the index of this election.

AUeelrt'n Miserable Political Record^* "Ex-Governor Altgeld is the last person, in my judgment, who ought to drag from the rapidly closing waves of oblivion the history and detail of the recent election. Whatever happened in Ohio, was due to a large number of factors, no one of which was more powerful and potential in the victory of the Republican party in that state than was the existence as a leader of the Democratic party of Governor Altgeld, of Illinois. He it was who in the Chicago convention demanded as we all understand— as was published and declared everywhere? the introduction of those planks-of thej.135 Jer day.

FRIDAY MORNING. JANUAftY. 29.1897.

rayed hundreds of thouits Independent- of the

platform thai sands of' Dei question of th&ytariff. and of the currency against the Dej&pcratic party.' Why, it is not very strange, Mr. Chairman/ that that gentleman shoii|4 f®®l some degree of responsibility for&the results and some degree of sorenesses he looks back ov6r the miserable record,,in. politics which he^himself has made."!1-

Continuing Mtl Grosvenor said,that there had not Wen ai^ishonest election in Ohio for years and he gave the credit of this to the "Joint efforts the leading men of both political parties He then ptoceeded to describe the Ohiarelectlon laws and! methods designed to Irevnt fraud and subsequently after anaijraing the Republican and Democratic elections figures for some years past, concluded tfcit whatever justification might exist for the charge of fraud based on the increased 4te in that state app with double forcefo the enormous increase of the eDmocraticJeote in that state. He called attention tojffihe fact that the largest percentage of incase In the Ohio vote oc curred in one ot the Democratic^ districts (represented by M^fcayton). He also repelled the insinuation that the Republicans had lost ground dfcio at the late election. When Bushnelf got 96,000 plurality he only had 17,000 majority. This year, he said, there was absolute fusion of all th opposition to thejfiepublican ticket, and yet McKinley had 53,000 majority. Inconcluslon, he congratulated the Democraticpress of the state on t|e fact that it had not paid the slightest hee'd to Altgeld slanders.

Mr. Bromwell, (Rep. Ohio) followed in further substantiation' of Mr. Grosvenor statements. The£wo speeches drew a brief but somewhat sarcastic response from Mr. DeArmond. Perhaps in some other aiena, he said, Mr. Grofeenor and Governor Alt geld might be'a#1 to decide the worth or worthlessness ofiheir relative statements, but, he said rat$jr sarcastically, that ex-. Governor Altgehf had always made his charges against Others in the open where they could be nw^'P6 concluded with a high tribute to Altgelftis character.

A number of siliendrnents to the Indian appropriation billpare made before it pass,d expenses of the Dawes iduced from $50,000 to ts to impose a fine of ,ent of thirty days upon om jErablic lands aborlgrequire Indian agents ual detailed statements

cd.- The salaries, commission

wass

$43,000 Amendmi $100 or Imprison: anyone who ttfok inal antiquities to make semio£ all Iudian moi hands, placing ti women-who had, equal footing wit tribo in the matt property and right

The Nicaragua canal bill and the bankruptcy bill were hefpre the senate for a brief time, but no progress was made on either of them. Early in the day a lively debate occurred ov questioning the pifesident's right to foreclose against the Pacific railroads. The tesolution went ov&fer for a speech by Mr. Thurston of Nebraska tomorrow.

JREATY ABOLUT COMPLETE. ...r* Documents in theBpqndary Dispute Ready to,^| Signed.

Washington, Jan^28.—Senom'^ndrade, the Venezuelan liiinisteij.was in conference with Secretary Olney fo4fa half hour today. It is understood that fhe treaty between Venezuela and Great liptain, drawn under the heads agreed upon &y Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote, is almost completed and probably wil%be signed and sent to Venezuela for the action of the Venezuelan congress on the n^t mail steamer which leaves New York %a week's time. While there are some posits yet to be arranged, none of them is of ijpportance, save that relating to the personnel of the commission. It was not inlehded|at first to name the arbitrators in the tre|ty, but to provide generally for selection! of them from distinguished jurist of i|he United States and Great Britain, leading to the Supreme Courts of the two#ountries and designation of the individi|ils but subsequently it was found desirably to name them. Such delay as has occurred In completing the last stages of the rfegotiations is due, it is gathered, from cfficfel sources, to the difficulty in selecting tne British arbitrators.

From the aspect a| the matter today however, there is every' reason to believe that this will be arrangfed in the course of a very few days and Hhat no other obstacle of importance will f»6 encountered in concluding the treaty.

iThe PaelflclRaUroad Bill.

Washington, Jan. 28.—A step towards reopening the Pacific railroad,legislation in congreal was taken todaly by the Bub-committee of the house committee on Pacific railroads which was appointed to consider the bill for a commission to settle the Indebtedness of tire road to the government. It was decided to re^ommeoid to tLe full committee the bill which was introduced in the senate by ator Goar, with amendments whicn )a practically Mr. Harrison's plan, and the bill will be reported to the, house if it is agreed upon by the full committee, which Chairman Pow«r* called for next jfcifcurdax. ,,,

The commission provided by that bill is to consist of the secretaries Of the treasury and inferior and the attorney general and their successors in office. The commission is to

Pmwwered

to take sworn testimony and

summon persons and papers, and In any settit m?nt lt makes must reserve to congress the right to regulate frei^t and passenger rates.

Muc.li Suffering in iiuUnimppiis *, Special toJ]hi! Express. Indianapolis, Jan.l«.-The extreme and protracted cold weaker has caused more suffering in Indianapolis than in any other city of its size fron^ the fact that it has meant the partial steppage of the gas pressure, leaving a very large frumber of families' without provisions or fuel. The capacity ot the general charity organization for relief work has been tested to the full extent durinfc the past three or four days and aside from this there has been much suffering from people in fairly comfortable circumstances from the inability, to obtain fuel quickly. The average number of families to whom charitable relief has been given by- the regular wganization has been

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ys passing through their children of all Indian arried white men on an other members of the of inheriting tribal were adopted.

On a point of or^er the last eight pages of the bill to ratify 4e treaty with the Turtle Mountain band ofiCbippewas in North Dakota, made Octobf 22, 1892, was stricken out. |K

At 5:10 p. m. thjS Tiouse adjourned.

*£3gproceedli%fc irt the Senate, •WwSfngton, Ja|f open .session of the senate waaf'comparatively brief today, as more than fcalf the day was spent behind closed doors During the open session the bill for ait 'international jnonet .iry

conference was debated, Mr.' Chandler speaking in favor b|, it* and ,Mr. Stewart of Nevada, against, Chandler speech was carefully.prep«ts^,and yas- in the nature of a statement -ol t&e attitude of the Republican side flffi^.tihamlf^^n the bill. Mr. Stewart, although critcizing the commission as futile, silted that, he would not oppose the measurpj It Is expected that a. vpte will be reach^rf tomorrow, although Mr., Pettigrew of South Dakota, announced a speech which niay lead to further delay.

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L1HAN J. GAGE 0V CHICAGO ACCEPTS THE TREASURY POKTifOL.IO.1 1 iW

The ChtckcB Flnancler'b^ve TMa Out After "a Dinner'With Major McKlnley^t Ca« ton^S ester day Evening* •••*.•:• fr i*

IT WAS A DISTINGUISHED COMPANY'

WHICH DINED WITH THE PRESIDENT ELECT.

Lyiiian J. Gage was. Madison county, N. Y.. June 28, lOT^^W, parents were bqth. torii in .the sate of New York and were of English stock. When Ltman J. Gage was 10 years of age, his parents moved to Rome, Y.. where.he entered the Rome academy where he remained four years the term he spent jn that school practically constituting his entire school education. ,v

His first position in busines lif» T'as as a clerk in the Rome postoffice and after leav-

Mr. Allen's resolution there he became a route agent on the Watertown railroad. In 1854 he

Rome & secured a position in tbe Oneida Central Bank of Rome, at a salary of $100 per year, and remained with the bank eighteen months. He came to Chicago in the fall of 1855 and was engaged as bookkeeper by a lumber firm. His duties as bookkeeper however, comprised the driving of one of the teams belonging to the firm and loading and unloading lumber. He also acted for a time as nightwatchman. While he was thus engaged he was offered a position of bookkeeper of the Merchants Saving Loan and Trust company, and this was the actual beginning of his career as a banker.

In the spring of 1860 he had worked his way up to the position of assistant cashier, and later to that of cashier which he held until 1868 when he left the Merchants' Saving Loan & Trust Company to accept a similar position with the First National bank with which institution he. has been identified until the present time. The old charter of the bank expired in 1882 and upon its reorganization he was chosen vice-president and general manager. About this time his financial ability was paid a high compliment by his election to the presidency of the American Bankers Association. On January 24, 1891, he was elected president of the First National bank and still' holds that position.

He was prominent in all the work that made the World's Fair a great success anJ was one of the four men, J. B*. P. Odell, Wirt Dexter and J. W. Boan being the others, who practically guaranteed that Chicago would carry out its pledge of raising ten million for the building ot the fair. He was for a time president of the local board of directors, but upon his election, to presidency of the bank was compelled.to'resign his office. He refused any remuneration for all the time he had spent as president of the local World's Fair directors although a handsome salary had been yojtetl for the position.

Mr. Gage has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Sarah Etheridge, of Little Falls, N. Y., whom he married in 1864. She died in 1874, and in 1887 he married Cornelia Gage of Denver, Colo. He is a member of the Commercial and Union League clubs of this city and is personally a very popular man. He Ss Democratic in his manner, pleasant and affable and is easy to approach at all times.

to accept the office of first assisutif se.'ro-| Secretary Shermatf I

ni®ntfwent

Report That CoTohel John Hay Is to Be First Assistant Secretary of the •, Treasury Denied.,, -j

vCanton, Q.„ Jan. 28.—At 730 o'clock, Lyman J. Gage^ president of the First National Bank of Chicago, emerged1from the' dining room of the McKinley home to fill an'appointment with the Associated Press, and special correspondents, to tell thenouthe. result of his conference with Major McKin-

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"Mr. McKinley offered me the treasury portfolio. I told him I, would .accept the. high honor and fill the position to the best of my ability." This was the

first

utter

ance of the incoming secretary of the treasury on being presented to the party. Mr. Gage, reached Canton about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, his train, being be^ lated: by cold and snow. With him was National Committeeman Cyrus Leland of Kansas. The McKinley conveyance was in waiting and the visitors were hurried oyer the snow-covered streets to the McKinley home, from which: no -hint of what was transpiring within came, until dinner had been served and Mr. Gage stepped into the office library, and addressed himself as qujoted above. Beyond this, he had little to say. He declined to discuss any feature of the policy of the incoming administration, or to discuss any matter other than that relating to himself.

He said there was no ground for the publication that he was a gold Democrat during the campaign, and that his only affiliation with the Democratic party was in 1884 when he voted for Cleveland||||He also 'said that he and Major McKinley Substantially agreed oh the tariff question.

The gueste at dinner besides Mr.. Gage were National Committeeman Le!%pd of Kansas, e^-Governor Cornell, and Colonel J. J. McCook, of New York, the latter a leading attorney W. C. Beer, of the Na-

Something Abont Mr.

tary of state under Secretary Sherman: "^iidlanapolis,

Upon the authority of tbe gentleman named it can be stated that such an appointment was not referred to in the conversation that passed between President-elect McKinley and his visitor, which was devoted to other subjects than the personality of Colonel Hay. v.

I JONES GOT HIS DINNER.

Colored Legislator Tronblc l*»n Inrilttnapoli* Restanrant. Sppclal to The

Indianapolis,

Jan.

2S.-The Hon. Gabriel

Jones, the only negro member of the legis

lature, fell, into difficulties today in a restaurant on Market street kept by. oije

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ey- Thorn,., who*h^s a considerable reputations astai bruiser. Mr. Jcmes, is an athlete of no mean proportions himself.' He wentylipto Thorn's restaurant" and .the waiter-declined to ser$e*him until tfe thYeat: ceed tov'"ki£li" the t&p- off' joint." -He ordered,ipicents worth of meats- and devoured them in, fair peacejuntilvit came^to settling thtkbill, when a.check' for 30. cents was presented him, his blood, was aroused and he vo(wed that he would payi nothing e^tra on account of his color. jThorn

on tht^ outside and dared the res-

tawpnt keeper to come out.A TheSil«titer politely declined, and thus discretion got the better of valor on Jjoth, sides, but Mr. Jones h^s announced that will vote against the J111 for the protection of innkeepers.

POOR PROVIDED FOR

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THE SUFFERING IN THIS CItV BEING LOOKED AFTER.

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The Lack of Work the Principle Cause of Distress—The Need At a Work Honse ..Demonstrated. ii

Terre Haute has been exceedingly fortunate. this winter caring for the sufferers among its poor £4While there has been consicferable' suffering there havef hieii few cases4 where relief of some' l&fnd was not furnished if the parties only -made their wants known. .-

day. In fact Mr. Griswold said that he had given aid to more people within the past few days than at any other one time during his term of office.^- This fact is accounted for by the extraordinaary scarcity of work.

"The first question that the applicants put to me on entering the office is," said Mr. Griswold, "Where can I get work to do in order to earn something to eat? Not having any work to give them I am compelled to furnish them with provisions and fuel." "vf"

On account of this state of affairs Mr. Griswold requests that all people who want odd jobs of work done telephone to him and he will furnish a man within one hour to do the work. His telephone is number 42. The trustees says the county needs some kind of an institution where the unem-

tional Security Company of New York, and ployed can be housed and fed and earn the General Osborne, the secretary of the National Committee. Ex-Governor Corlxell and Colonel McCook arrived this afternopn for a conference with Major McKinJey. Exactly what they are here for has not developed but there is some gossip to the effect that Colonel McCook is eligible to. the/attorney generalship. .Sit. Beers' visit Is understood to be purely of a social nature.

aid which the township is at present compelled to give to them free of charge. Miss- Harper, the secretary of the Society for Organizing Charity, when asked if there was much suffering in the city, said: "While, of course, there is some suffering as there always, is in extremely cold weather till there is less in the city than in former.years. Since the office bf the society Ms been noved' t«--number 923*-Gh sf?eet we have not had the number of applicants we did when the office: was central-

plicants we caa wnen me omcB W« ceunai- ..,ltr

ly located. We have"apparently gotten away ^g^wl.

tMm'the professional'begger and the api»li- Euiope ^_ cants we now have are the ore deserving and the ones who really need the help." "At present the greatest hinderence to charity in this city is the lack of funds. There are enough organizations to aid'the poor but the only thing in their way is

do it in any better manner than to provide lism, adding:

the different societies with money and let them dispense the charity." Help the different charity societies and thus aid the poor.

People who have always lived in this mild

fSS

out knowing it. In giving one of his experiences he said: "A death by freezing is one of the grandest ways in the world to die To avoid this death is a contest between the mind and body This contest arises from the fact that when a Peon 's about to freeze there is tbe constant mcnnation to drop off to sleep and it ^a strugg tn keeD awake. If a person gives up to tbis Inclination ana aw oK to sleep bo »rn never wate up. Bat if to «.ke life will be saved. There are no pains whatever connected with

Tf i« a desiie to so

SSTna tbit i» an. «er? in the least from the cold.

:•. Millionaire Dne.tmw's Case.

rehearing^in

filed in Division No. 1 of

at Jefferson City today.

tion will probably not be take

W6t£

the cause W.lr

MeKinlev and Colonel Hay.^ Washington, Jan. 28.—Based on the fact that Colonel John Hay was a visitor at an to a a re or at had been solicited to accept and had agreed] i,,diAi.«'sN:w Comm

he m0.

Jan*

lwo

motion makes the declaration that the

members ^^^^exlmTneThe record ing the appeal

an express

to.

SS'wit?^qnSlon, based upon it du.r prescribed by tbe .pprtMf. counsel.

Koerner Lorlg- Victorious Special to Tne Egress.

Indianapolis. Jan.

sought

28.—Governor Mount

today announced the appointment of Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus as state fish commissioner, He was recommended by the Rod and Reel Club of Indiana and Is a pisca-

torlal enthusiast. He is a man of wealth and it is said that he will expend all the small salary of the office and a good ^, more from his own purse in seeing that the laws for the protection of fish are properly enforced.

Will Fight :»t Reno.

Caraon, Nev., Jan. 28.-The glove contest

passed the senate today and the govit is believed, will sign it. It is certain that the Corbett-FItzsim-mons fight will come,off„at Reno. •,

bill ernor, pretty

Dally Smbllihtd 1853

ri't fp

JJOCND^XHK .CORRESPONDENT OffC WHB ASSOCIATED J. I i_: 1 \«JL '-i'*

Finds the Vicinity of Badly Affei&S Ffom tlite lire«ilJ. Wramfce.**5*

4toJd

him that he,would pay the.prlqp as^ed aiyd tfu^ .difference .of jopinion ,led- to a warm a?gumentrwhlch.'ended iu.Thorn ordering th^legislat^r4 out of thp house. ,The st^t^-

MANY*-WRECXS *OFr .IMASiIL

A .-f

it. «.

AND GROUPS OF LEPERS WHO APART FROM THE OTHERS.

•ff'

of7Cholera^ Recdr«*ed-^ortJ^

No' Cases .it-fi- Thousand. People Are. Belqg *sJ iRellovaU.i,,

-.iifnA ha

(Copyrightf 1897.'Assb^i/ted Solarpdre, Jan. 28.'-jtTtte special corres4 pondent of the Associated Press who is vis^i iting this district, finds it. 4adly« affected. The scarcity of food is most severly felt cifi TalukC Sangola, Marda and -Kannala.i Solatpor6 city is in the- center of the weav-«. ing iiidustry and its idhabitants are sutfer-^t irig from the stoppage of #ork at the miliar It is estimated that*ihree-fousths. of tho whole number of weavers are already out o£-

work, and 40,000 persons throughout tho districtj are b^iog relieved." No cases of cholera, however, have, been recorded In t'je

The township trustees' oflfce has been the most popular place in tbe city [or the poor hero. ,p„-

and they have not been a bit slow in ac- 1,-,^-

ceptiog ot its hospitality. There were thir-

1-^

weaiers

thell6i work

ty-Six families provided for by'Mr. Gris- Vili ueserVoir. whichvvjas built during fie ia&t wold yesterday. This is a greater number ., famine. Oftly 3,000 men, however, aro ^m-^ than the office has ever cared for in one ployed, as the Mohammedan weavers re-t mala Idle in the city, liting on their saviBga.-1-

)n viPW 0i

greater'certainty

to re

cover from Kcerner lodge the propertj it held as a lodge of the Knights of Pthias and obtained a Judgment against it in the lower court "but the ruling was reversed in the Supreme Court.

Special to tin- Express.

'•'A

ortowcrtlpg tbe

They will not accept manuel labor until

compelled to do so. The "correspondent traversed several irrigated Jowani fields, which promise splendid crops and met -h. number of traveliuft bands of .people in search of work. Re-^ turning to the eity, tho correspondent arrived at the poorfhouse in time to see doles given out to .over 300 poor souls, the halt, maimed or blind. Each person relieved received a measure^ of meal and a modicum oft oil, salt and chalie. There were rjany children suffering from oppthalma and groups of lepers were notice* apart from all# the wrecks of humanity. Taken as a wholes the Solarpore district is in a bad conditionT. which will probablj become wone as tiiutr passes.

FAVOR BIMETALLISM.

France aud Germany Are Ready to fcalci Up tl»er Agitation. 1 London, Jan. 28.-The February aumbe of the National Review will the him9tailin situ4tiQii-»ffi

Mfopei-^Ty the leaders .»£ the movement in'England, fran-oe ami Germany, and eti*

the visit

Edward.a

Wolcott of!

Colorado, who is now in Paris. Edmund-DfAptersy secretary of the Frenc^j Bimetallic League, contributes a careful ar tide on the situation, and the steady growta of the movement in France. In it he de'clares that' there is-110 doubt that the French government and .a great majority of the

French^pariiamenl are r.vor orbi-^t,.-

'Our hopes are greater than

ever, beceiise we believe that the American election: has revealed to Europe generally and to Eflgland especially the impasse (blind alley) into which sold monometallism has led' the"world. It has been shown conclusively that internationalists are far more

"TT "i Arouii, m»,b»r or tbVWb.tag1 selves to the in the ati*! of the Prussian diet, and honorary seufTr3 North gi^l^V^raphic description retary of tto German Bimetallic Lea^eof how a person may freeze apparently with-

dares that only England blocks the way. Germany, ho add|, will participate in a conference' called by any other power, "but," Dr.. Arendt explains, will not as in 18M be represented by fanatic gold men but will contribute by raising and fixing the prices of silver, liberal free trade and the socialist press, with the entire parliamentary left fighting the double standard which they represent as a means of enabling debtors to repay gold mortgages with depreciated silver illegitimately enriching American mine owners. But the left neither controls parliament nor the government." "And," continues Dr. Arendt. "should a conference be summoned the German parliament can be relied upon to be its strong supporter." Lord Aldenham, who is a director of tbe Bank of England, devotes much space to refutiug the arguments of tb^old standard defence association which declared that Senator Wolcott was unable to answer the first questions asked by English bankers and traders

His lordship thinks ihe month of March wil lenable Mrs. McKinley to carry cut the St. Louis programme in regard to bimetallism and concludes with remarking: "There is no doubt- that France and the' United States by agreeing together could themselves maintain a bimetallic law, but for

and confidence it wou'd

be reasonabfe"*that they should ask fo* England and Germany's co-operation."

!Wnrcl« 1"

S«e'r

ne Knlsbu of I'yLHias and ioin tbe Induna Zeitung Bund, an organization formed bj the German K. of P. lodges that reeled against the order doing away with the Ger man ritual. The grand lodge

Chicago, Jan. 28.—A private dispatch received from Dan Stuart by L. N. Houseman tonight says that he will tomorrow notify the principals in the Lorbett-Fiti simmouB fight

be prepared to fight in the

State of Nevada on the lth of March. Stuart savs that he is not prepared at the present time to name the exact location of the fight, but in the course of the next ten or fifteen day* he will announce tho town where the event is to be pulled off. a meeting of the railroad men wi-1 be lield in San Francisco tomorrow for thepurpose of considering rates and arrangements for

people

desiring to go to the fight

from points on the Pacific coast. Smart says in bis dispatch that in the course o, the next ten days he will leave Dallas for Nevada in order to give the arrangements for the fight his personal attention.

Silver Republican 3iomi»rt*ed

%fym a

W as an 2 8

Turner-of-Spokane

was tonight nominated

for United States senator in a caucus a. Populists and free silver Republicans. He received fifty-four votes.

Judge Turner was a Republican, but the late election he supported Bryan. He Is considered one of the ablest JjwyCTs in rhe state of Washington. From 1884 to 1888 h.

was territorial governor.

Ish Columbia.

Within the past

two rears he has become largely interested ta J.Tin Nortl.en, W„htafto« anil Br.,-

•Jms