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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-23
RENTS AT PULLMAN
AN TESTIMONY BEFORE
THE STRIKE COMMISSION.
Another witness Who Thinks Too
Much Beer Is Consumed in the Town
The Decrease i'm Wages.

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-Several of the wit
nesses examined by the strike commission
to-day gave testimony more favorable 10
the Pullman company than that which had
previously been heard. Frank W. Glover,
a real-estate agent, said he considered the
Pullman houses, at SIS and $50 d month,
really cheaper than $12 a month houses in
surrounding towns. The Pullman houses
were well equipped and beautifully, located.
he said. and rents were not, in his opinion,
too high. In reply TO a query of Commits
sioner Wright. Mr.. Glover denied that he
was in any way connected with the Pull
man company.
Paul Herms, a newsdealer. who formerly
worked in the Pullman shops. said he did
not place much faith in the complaints of
the men. Their trouble. he thought, was
largely due to a fondnesS for beer. All
the saloon keepers in the surrounding towns
had grown rich. Mr.. Herms declared that
a large number of Kensington beer wagons
were we'll supported by the Pullman en-
ployes. OF real estate values, he knew lit
tie, but did not believe that Pullman rents
were unusually high.
I. II. Johnson, a Pullman furniture deal
er, testified that high store-room rents in the
town had been cut, though no reduction
had been made in the residence rentals.
Alex. Lundgren, an employe of the Pull
man company for the last thirteen years.
was the first to take the witness chair in
the afternoon. He said in all his years of
service for the company he had no COM
plant to make as 10 wages or treatment.
He had advised against the strike, although
he vas a member of the union, and had
gone back TO work when the opportunity
offered. surrendering his membership in the
union and signing a contract to keep out OF
it. I'VE drew large wages for the first
seven or eight years." he said, land die
well. We all made good wages. A year
ago, in June, i was making $2.95 a day.
We used TO make as much as 81 on piece
work, but they cut us down until now nc
one can make more than $2.25. even If he
works very hard"
Fire Marshal John Fitzgerald appeared
next with a record book and a copy of re-
ports, which showed the following losses in
hundred and sixty-six freight cars, eight
switch towers, six freight depots, five
switch shantieS and one hay barn. 81 at
tended pretty nearly all of these fires my.
self" explained the marshal. THE only
fires we saw kindled were BY boys, the old
est of them not more than nineteen years
of age
The commission had expected to hear
Chief of Police Brennan during the after
journ for lack of witnesses when the chief
failed to appear He sent word through his
private secretary that he would be before
the commission tomorrow morning to tel
what he knows as to the nature of the
rioting and the efforts made to prevent 1t
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TAYLOR's SCALP IN DANGER.
Charged with Soliciting Campaign
Funds from, Negroes,

WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.-The Civil
service Commission has been investigating
for some time back the charges that J.
H. Taylor, the recorder of deeds of the
District Of Columbia. has been soliciting
campaign funds from the government en-
ployes contrary TO the provisions Of the
civil-service laws. and will. within the next
two days. submit a report to the President
on the matter, which report, it is said.
will find that Taylor has been connected
with the solicitation of campaign contribu-
tons and will recommend Taylor's removal
from office.
Mr.. Taylor is charged with writing letters
as an officer OF the Negro Democratic
League asking negro department employees
TO call at his office or at the headquarters
of the league on business of Importance.
The commission asked Taylor for a state
ment, and to-day he appeared, arguing in
his own behalf and in explanation of his
connection with the affair. The complete
report of the commission is quite volumin-
Gus and probably Will be ready for sub
mission TO the President and the Attorney
general the last of this week.
Mr.. Taylor was appointed recorder of
deeds by President Cleveland. He m
from Kansas City. and his confirmation
was procured only after a stubborn fight
in the Senate. In an interview to-day he
claimed that the investigation was made
because the Negro Democratic League was
a colored organization. and insisted that
various State political organizations had
been looking after votes from their States.
what the negro league has done. but hey
were not mOlested.
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SHE CAN RUN A BOAT.
Mrs. Blanche $. feathers. of New Or
leans. Granted Il Masters License.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22.-Mrs. Blanche
S. feathers. a woman of charming person
ality. wife of Captain r. s. feathers. own
er Of the steamer Natchez, plying between
here and Vicksburg, has been granted a
masters license, after undergoing a rigid
examination before Captain O'Brien, super
vising inspector of steam vessels, and
Messrs. Baker and Youngblood, local in
spectOrs. Mrs. feathers came out with fly
ing colors. answering the most difficult and
perplexing questions with the greatest of
ease. She has passed the greater part Of
her married life afloat. and. as her nus
band is often detained ashore. she con-
Guided that by mastering navigation she
could relieve him of the expense of employ
ing a substitute. There are only two wom-
en- besides Mrs. feathers holding masters
certiiicates-Mrs. Mary Miller. now living
at New Albany. Ind. and Mrs. Caliie
French, now in command of the tug boat
C.. O. There are three other women who
are holding government certificates on
steam vessels. two of whom possess mates
papers and the other a pilots certificate.
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AN IDENTIC NOTE.
Gresham Asks Various Nations to
PrOtect Seals.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The State De-
partment has initiated the next phase of
the sealing question by addressing an iden-
tic note to all maritime powers inviting
them to adhere to the agreement reached
by the United States and Great Britain
relative to the protection of seal fisheries.
This was made necessary by the award of
the Paris arbitration court. which found
that the United States had no exclusive
Jurisdiction over the seal waters, and that
these could be protected only by mutual
consent. BY the terms of treaty submit
ting her case to arbitration. Great Britain
was bound TO agree to the arrangements
as to close seasons and closed zones i'm
posed by the arbitration tribunal. This,
of course, could have no effect upon other
nations and vessels sailing under the flags
of Germany, France. Russia. Sweden or
even Hawaii were left by the award free
10 prey upon the seals anywhere outside
OF the three-mile limit from the Alaskan
shores and islands. To meet this the trib-
unal that an effort be made
to secure the adhesion of other maritime
powers to the same arrangement that bound
Great Britain and the United States. 1t is
true that the seal herds have not suffered
much as yet from the operations Of the
sealers of these nations. but there were In
dications that certain enterprising mer-
chants were making ready to conduct n
raid on the seals under other flags than
our own and Great Britain, notably the
hawaiian ana German nags, ana II was
felt 10 be the prudent course 10 avoid any
disagreeable Incidents in the future by Sc
curing the adhesion of the remaining mari
time nations to the agreement. The United
States already has a modus vivendi with
Russia. by the terms of which the sealers
OF each country are prohibited from in
fringing on the seal waters of the other,
and. as Japan has extensive seal rOokeries
on her own coast. IL is believed that these
two nations, at least, will accept the in
~vitation. provided the agreement Is mutu-
ally protective. With Hawaii. anxious as
she is to retain the good Will OF the United
States. no difficulty is anticipated, so that
the probabilities are, as already outlined
in these dispatches. that the closed zone.
now bounded on the west by the one-hun-
so as TO include the entire North Pacific
ocean north of San Francisco. as we'll as
Boring sea. The identic note bears date OF
Aug. 20. and is couched in the usual cour-
icons dinlOmatic language.
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STRUCK AT CROSSING
FIVE PERSONS KILLED AND ONE
~ SERIOUSLY HURT.
Horses Became Frightened Ut the
Train and Ran Into "a CattIeguard
Other Fatal Accidents.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 22.-As the north
bound express train of the Paducah, Ten
nessee & Alabama railroad was nearing
Hazel, KY, late this afternoon. it struck a
wagon loaded with people, killing five of
the occupants and ~weunding one. The dead
are: Jennie and Lille Ray, aged sixteen
and twenty; Z. E. Tobias Ray and the
Misses Harmon, two sisters. John Ray was
thrown over a hunderd feet and seriously
injured. The unfortunate party was cross
ing the railroad track as the train came
laundering down it, and the team, becom-
ing frightened at the alarm of the whistle,
ran INTO a cattle guard. The train was
stopped and the bodies taken to Hazel.
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RAILWAY TRANSFERRED.
The Illinois Central Takes Possession
of the c.. O. & =. w.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Aug. 22.-The final ar
rangements for the transfer of the Chesa-
peake. Ohio & Southwestern railroad to
the Illinois Central have been completed
and the Illinois Central will take posses
sion Sept. l. The Chesapeake. Ohio &
Southwestern runs from Memphis to Louis
vile. a distance OF about four hundred
miles. The purchase price is %.000.0V0. This
deal has been hanging fire for some time.
The c. O. * =. W. was originally bought
by the Louisville & Nashville from c.. p.
Huntington, with the Illinois Central as
was never made to the l.. & ". on ac-
count OF the clause in the Constitution of
Kentucky prohibiting one railroad from
y. was recently enjoined from operating
the road by the Kentucky courts. The
Illinois Central thereupon decided 10 step
in and take possession of the propcrtV.
ard the arrangements for the transfer
were COmpiefad TODAY.
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WARRANTS FINALLY ISSUED.
General Ezeta and His FellOw-Refugees
to Be Arrested.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.-The singu-
lar international complications involving
the liberty of General Antonio Ezeta and
his fellow-refugees, which has been so
prolific of opera bouffe sensations, de-
velOped a new tangle of conflicting au-
thority to-day. Warrants were finally
issued for the arrest of the refugees, but
the local federal authorities got tangled up
in government red tape and the warrants
could not be served. United States Mar
hal Baldwin. armed with the authority
of the federal courts. set out to have the
refugees brought within the jurisdiction of
the law, but he ran up against Captain
Howison, commanding at Mare Island
navy yard. Captain Howison declared he
had no authority to furnish transportation
to the marshal, and he refused. to place
that official on board the Ben
nington. Without the assistance of
the Navy Department the marshal
could not reach the gunboat. In the
first place the law allows the marshal but
81 for serving each warrant, and under
this compensation he could not afford to
hire a tug boat. Furthermore, Captain
Thomas, of the Bennington, has strict
orders to receive no one on board his ship
but accredited naval officers from Mare
Island. Under these conditions the United
States marshal must have the assistance
of the naval authorities If he shall ever
arrest the culprits of which he is in pur-
suit.
Judge Morrow, of the United States Dis
trict Court, issued the warrants for the
arrest of the refugees this morning. The
written authority from Secretary Gresham,
which bears the date OF Aug. IL, and which
was mailed from Washington, was placed
in the hands of Judge Morrow by Consul
Calderon, the San Salvadorian representa-
tive at this port. The complaints call for
the extradition of Antonio Ezeta, Leon Boil
anez, r. Jaccinto Colocho. Juan Cienfugos
and Florencio B~ustamente. The accused are
charged with being criminals and fugitives
from justice. 1t is charged that on June
8. 1894. on the public road leading from
the town of New Salvador TO La Libertad,
one Thomas CanaZ, a teamster VINO was
driving along the road, was shot and muir
dered by Antonio Ezeta and Juan Glen
fugos (alias La church, EZeta and his
companion were then fleeing from their
pursuerS. 1t is also charged that on June
l., 1894, Antonio EZeta entered the Interna-
tional Bank OF FL Salvador and Nicaragua
and assaulted Jose RuiS and Eberesto Am
brosi and robbed the bank of $42, 5Si. Glen
fugos is charged with an attempt to MUIR
der Andreas Amaya. Leon Bolanez and
Florencio Bustamente are charged with
the crime of murder for the killing Of four
persons on May q i'm the gulch of Las
Clgas, Primevera. Another complainant,
charges the five refugees with strangiing
Cashmere Henrique to death in the village
of Coatepgu on June 80.
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WILL MAKE A GOOD FIGHT.
III. G. Evans Named for Governor by
Tennessee RepubIicnns.

NASHVILLE. Tenn. Aug. 22.-The Re
publican ~gubernatortal convention reas-
sembled to-day and resumed consideration
OF the majority and minority reports of
the committee on credentials. The majority
report was adopted. The platform adopted
by the convention reatirms allegiance to
Republican principles; favors bimetallism;
opposes a State banking SYSTEM; favors
the exclusion of the Anarchist. pauper and
criminal classes from the country; favors
such legislation as will make II possible 10
adjust differences between labor and capt.
tai on a fair and equitable basis for each:
condemns election laws recently enacted in
Tennessee by a Democratic Legislature. An
amendment condemning secret political or
ganizations was tabled.
. H.. G.. Evans, OF Chattanooga. was nomi-
mated for Governor. While there was much
friction during the sessions of the conven-
ton much enthusiasm was aroused by MIR.
Evans's nomination and harmony prevailed
at the close. The chair was authorized 10
appoint campaign committees and name
members or executive committee, and the
convention adjourned about . p. m.
The nominee il an ex-federal soldier. an
ex-member OF Congress-. a shrewd, we'll
posted politician and an able debater. and
the campaign is expected to be an agrees
Sive one.
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General Notes.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Capt. James
Mooney. of Evansville. W. Z. Brown, of
Indianapolis, and Samuel Pierson. of Fort
Wayne, are at the Ebbitt.
The Vincennes X. of p. drill corps will
be the first one to take possession of quar-
tiers on the national encampment grounds
next Saturday.
The echo of the once famous Blair edu-
cational bill is heard in a speech which
Representative Blair has Incorporated In
the Congressional Record. The main por-
ton of the speech is given to a reproduc-
ton Of an article prepared by Prof. A. ID.
Mayo. designed as part of the forthcoming
A change in one of the postofhces in
Alaska was made to-day, when William
Fort Orange, vice Lydia L. Thomas, re
signed. The compensation of the office is
1852 q year. AS there are only nineteen
ritory average about one in six months.
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FEARS NOT BRECKINRIDGE.
Judge kinkead's Scathing Denuncia-
ton nf the CnInneI

LEXINGTON, Ky, Aug. 22.-Twenty
thousand people. the flower of the Ashland
congressiC nal district. attended the owens
barbecue here to-day Preparations had
been made to entertain 5000 and the pro-
visions fell far short of supplying all. The
speakers were Hon. W. c. Owens, Hon. G..
G. Lockhart. of Bourbon county; Judge
George z. Kinkead, Judge Jere r. Norton
and Prof. c. H.. Albert. of Lexington. There
were five thousand ladies present and the
affair was "A magnificent upheaval OF the
time-honored Ashland district of Kentucky
against being longer represented in Con-
gress by w. G. p. Breckenridge. The
speeches all teemed with the most scath-
ing denunciation OF Breckenridge and were
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A SOVEREIGN JEREMIAH.
The IA. of l.. Leader frying to Earn
His Big Salary.

BALTIMORE, Aug. General Master
Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of
Labor. addressed a large meeting of work
ingmen last night. in the course of which he
said: I'm the beginning men started equal
ly, but now the one class has nearly every
thing, and millions, though willing to work,
are on the verge of starvation. While mill
ions are starving the rich still find a place
on earth for magnificent palaces and great
parks. where they may hunt and enjoy life
as they please to do. In America to-day
there are 100000 men willing and ready
10 work who are idle for want Of work TO
do-molding themselves, or rather being
nodded. into felons and beggars. Charity
has been strained as it was never strained
before. but still the cry for bread from
starving threats is heard all over the land.
These men are being turned into tramps.
The tramp has been described as a cross
between poverty and crime, but 1 think
that the dude. a product of our civilization,
can just as accurately be described as a
cross between nobody and nothing. Both
are the results, the outcome of monopoly
the monopoly that, unless ii is throttled,
viii cause the death of the republic"
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Pullman strikers Encouraged.

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-The Pullman strik-
ers and their families were greatly encour-
aged to-day, the visit Of Governor Altgeld
to their homes having led them to believe
that they will receive immediate aid. The
relief headquarters which have been closed
for a week were reopened to-day i'm expec-
tation of returns from the Governors
proclamation, and a few supplies were re-
ceived. Governor Altgeld returned TO
Springfield last night. leaving the strikers
relief. A committee from the Board OF
County Commissioners visited Pullman to-
day and investigated the condition of the
families. with a view to voting money for
their relief. George Pullman fatty refused
to be interviewed regarding Governor Alt
geld's visit and declared he would not dis
cuss the strike in any of its phases.
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VIEWERS May Return TO Work.

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, Aug. 22.-The
labor leaders are we'll pleased at the pros
pect of a conference, and have assured
Mayor Brownell that if a cut-down is
shown to be essential they will accept II
and go back to work. The leading mill
men decline to say whether or not they
will attend the conference until they con-
slider the matter. 1t is announced that the
Rowland corporation will start up next
Monday. This includes the Rowland, Rotch
and New Bedford Manufacturing Com
panies. six mills in all.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 22.-By direction
of the President a medal of honor has been
presented to brevet Brigadier General
Llewellyn G.. Estes, United States Noiun-
teers, for most distinguished ~gallantry in
action at Flint River, Ga, Aug. 30, 1864.
This officer, while serving as assistant
acknowledgement on the staff of General
troops, and, making a gallant charge
across a burning bridge upon the rear
guard of the enemy, drove them from their
ba--ic2des and eXtinguished the fire. thus
securing water for the Union army and
enabling il TO take an advantage OF its
position on the other bank.
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Bribe Tnker Convicted.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 22.-Ex-Council-
man John T. Callahan has been convicted
of demanding and receiving brides while a
member of the City Council. The most inn
portant count was the demand made on Mr..
Lyman =. Widney a coal dealer, who de-
sired certain wharf privileges in order to
successfully conduct his business. After
several interviews with Callahan in regard
10 the matter. Mr.. Widney paid the amount
demanded. $500. and soon afterward the
Council granted the privileges required.
There were several indictments against
Callahan for similar offenses.
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Convention Of stamp Collectors.

NIAGARA FALLS. y. ", Aug. 22.-The
ninth annual convention of the American
Philatelic Association is being held at the
Cataract House. About thirty delegates
read by President Tiffany. of ST. Louis.
The next convention Of the stamp col
lectors will he held at Clayton. N. V. at
the Thousand Islands. next August. The
officers elected were as follows: President.
John r. Tiffany. Of ST. Louis. Mo-: vice
secretary. William SION" % S0~rin~s- "a.
Mass; treasurer, n. W. Chandler, OF Col
hnsviile. III.
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AKRON, o., Aug. 22.-The explosion of a
dynamite cartridge in the cylinder of a
threshing machine on the farm of George
Wilmer, to-day. caused a fire which de-
stroyed the large barn and several thou
sand bushels of grain. Michael Myers,
nifty years of age, of Newark. o., went into
the barn to save the horses and ounted
one. The animal refused to move. Mar
and beast were burned to death. Andrew
and Rollind Wilmer were seriously burned.
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Her Clothes Fired by n Spark.

PITTSBURG, Aug. 22.-Miss Edith S.
Clark, eighteen years old, daughter of a
P~ittsburg bank official, was walking near
the Fort Wayne road at Clifton. when a
spark from a locomotive set fire 10 her
clothing. In a moment she was enveloped
In flame. Crazed by fright and pain she
rushed across the track and sprang into
the Ohio river, from which she was res
cued with difficulty. She is in a very seri-
GUS condition, but may recover.
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His Head Pierced by a BoIt.

HUNTINGTON, W. Va, Aug. 22.-Charles
Peyton, a switchman in the Chesapeake &
Ohio yards, went between two cars to make
a coupling. to-day, and met with a horrible
death. He did not see a bolt that had be-
come loosened and projected so that IL
went entirely through his head. suspending
the body while the train moved two car
lengths.
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MercIy am Emgy Nailed to a Tree.

LONDON. Ky, Aug. PA report was
sent out from here last night that a woman
was found nailed to a tree near this village.
The facts are that only an effigy of a won-
an was found. The figure was labelled
with the name of a well-known woman OF
the neighborhood. 1t is believed to be the
work of a young man whose offer Of mar
rage she had rejected.
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RAT PORTAGE, Ont, Aug. 22.-The
steamer Monarch struck a rock and went
to the bottom, Aug. 1, at Long Sault,
Rainy river, and fifty passengers escaped
by q rope. None was lost. The steamer
was the largest on the lakes and lies in
fifty feet of water. News of the wreck
was brought in by an eXcursionist 'Iho re-
turned aqt Diphf
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Combinations by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22-The Senate. In
executive session. confirmed the following
nominations: Frank Cassidy. as surveyor
of customs at Cairo. ILL.,: Guy George
Rodgers. of Missouri. and Joseph Johnston
Cheatham. of Tennessee, to be assistant
paymasters in the navy, subject 10 exam
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Mother and Two ChiIdcrn nur,ea.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Aug. 22.-With her
nine months old babe in her arms and
Ethel, a three-year-old, clinging to her
skirts. Mrs. Harry Sears this afternoon
attempted to light a gasoline stove. with
the usual result. The baby was burned TO
death and the mother and little girl so
terribly burned that neither can survive.