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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-The Herald to-day
says: The opening Of the Wool Exchange,
whose handsome new building at Beach
street and West Broadway is almost COM
pleted, is expected to make New York the
wool market OF the country and to revolu>
tionsze the methods OF the business both
here and in the East 1t is asserted by
those who are back OF this scheme that its
effect Will be to drive the wool trade of
Boston TO this city in a body. Already
many Eastern merchants and traders have
taken offices in the Wool Exchange build
Ing There has never before been an es-
tablished center for the marketing OF wool
in this country. Wool merchants anc
brokers in this city, for example, were
scattered about from Canal to Pine street.
There was no concert among them and no
means OF providing entertainment or ac>
commodations for the out-of-town trade
Many merchants have long been convinced
that New York. as the natural port of en-
facilities for the sale OF foreign wool liz
Vas seen that IL this was done, merchants
would no longer be Obliged 10 60 10 Lon>
don 10 bid ON their wool. as they do az
present, but could transact all their busI-
ness In New York The new Wool Ex-
chang proposes 10 provide these facilities.
Australian wool will In the future be sod
here To manufacturers direct.
Another important feature OF this GEN.
tra.ization or interests Will be that the
New York market more frequently than to
other mafket<. not only because wool VIII
ke sold hers az auction. as II is In London.
80 also because they are interested in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
IMMORTALITY AT ELLIS ISLAND.
Employees of the Immigration Bureau
Charged with WrongdOing.

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-During the past
week Commissioners stump, of Washington,
has been in this city conducting an in
vestigation into immoralities alleged to have
occurred at Ellis island recently. No public
report has been made concerning the mat
ter, but it is understood that some OF the
employees attached to the Ellis Island I'm
migration Bureau in a minor capacity,
have been accused of wrong doing. Some
of the young women who have been de-
tanned at the island by the local immigra-
ton commissioners, pending investigation
into their cases, being also accused Of inn
moralities. The story first came out
through the confession of night watchman
who boasted of an intrigue with Miss Annie
n. Grimmer, a governess from Bremen,
Germany. Miss Grimmer eloped with a
well-known architect at Bremen. The
architect was permitted to land, as he had
relatives i'm New York, but the young
woman was held pending investigation.
Before the board of special inquiry had re-
ported on her case, the boasts of the watch
man reached the of his superiors and
Miss Grimmer, being deemed an immoral
character. was sent back TO Germany. Sew
eral cases of similar nature have since
been discovered and the immigration COM
missioners are now trying TO determine the
extent to which the service has been laf-
fected by the misconduct of subordinates.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
AN ODD GENIUS.
Denver Preachers Opinion of
schlatter, the "Messiah.''

NEW YORK. Dec. LIN view of the re-
ports that Schlatter, the healer" may
soon appear i'm New York, the Rev. A. c.
Peck, director OF the Haymarket Mission.
of Denver. Col, visiting I'm the East. was
asked tonight what he thought of Schlat-
ter, who had been posing as the Messiah in
Denver. WELL" said Mr.. Peck, with a
laugh. .'schlatter is an odd genius any
way you take him. Il believe he is perfectly
sincere. OF course, do not believe he is
divine. His words and actions leave no ex-
planation except that he is daft"
The Rev. Mr. Peck said he believed
Schlatter, notwithstanding his delusion, has
done a lot of good. and added: ''He has
made a lot of people who were perfectly
well certain of that fact, and that is worth a
good deal. In every city there are plenty
OF people who think they are sick when
they are not. Schlatter makes these peo-
pie think they are cured, which is just as
beneficial as If they were. No, l never saw
any of his cures, although / have heard
of them. l have bad people whom l knew
tell me that he had cured them of differ
ent things, but i had not previously known
they were sick. Some of them claimed re-
lief from rheumatism. 1t certainly had not
been sufficiently severe to- make them
limp"
Mr.. Peck says he has been told. too, that
Schlatter possesses some magnetic power.
Il never took his hand myself" said Mr.
Peck, "but have been told that he COM
mnuicates a kind of electric shock by con-
tact, phenomenon which, believe, is not
uncommon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
PENSION MEASURES.
Liquidation That VIII BE Urged be-
fore Congress by Mr.. Overstreet.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ]. - Representative
Overstreet, of Indiana. will introduce at the
earliest practicable moment, two bills which
will prove Of deep interest to all pensioners.
The first measure will strike at the evil
of the dangerous influences that beset pen
sioners when they come to the pension
agencies to draw their money. Under the
present law pensioners may obtain their
money either by draft or on personal APP
plication to the pension agent. The pur-
pose of the latter provision was TO facilitate
the payment of their money to pensioners
who live at the pension agency cities. The
law has worked very unsatisfactory, how
ever, because most pensioners deem it de-
sirable to travel from their homes TO the
pension agency and there obtain their
money. Unscrupulous men at every agency
have made a practice of turning pension
day into a bacchanalian revel for the PEN
sioners, and ii is no unusual occurrence
that the pensioners have yielded to tempta
tion and have drunk or gambled away every
cent of their pension money within twenty
four hours after 1t was received, and the
pension intended by grateful country TO
maintain its gallant sayiors and their fam
lilies has wandered into the pockets of
loon keepers or gamblers. To obviate this
existing law by striking out the provision
to pay pensions on demand and to thus
make all payments. Of pensions by draft.
Pensioners will find that the law il thus
amended, will prove of incalculable benefit
to them. They will be saved the expense
now incurred in travelling from their homes
to the agency, and the pension will find its
way to their families, whittier it was in
tended Mr.. Overstreet has been in corre-
spondence with every agent of the depart
ment, and the majority indorse his pro-
posed bill.
Another bill which he will Immediately
Introduce Is designed to make n soldiers
pension, when once awarded, vested right.
At present. under recent legal decision,
every pensioner IL at the mercy of the Com
missioner of Pensions. Mr. Overstreet
hopes to place on the statute books law
which insures to the pensioner his pension
until he has been convicted by the govern
rnent of fraud in obtaining IL, or has been
legally proved not TO be entitled to its fur
ther payment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
RELAY BICYCLE RACE
RIDING FROM WASH
INGTON TO NEW YORK.
Carrying Messaxe from General
Miles to Army Nesdouarters in
Gotham-GOod Time Made.

/, WASHINGTON, Dec. I.--Precisely at 4
O'Clock this morning the military relay
bicycle ride from this city to New York
was begun, when a message from General
Miles. commanding the army, was given i'm
charge of two members of the local Ma
tional Guard for delivery to army head
quarters at New York This is said TO be
one of the longest runs of the kind that
has ever been undertaken. and it has re-
ceivel the official sanction of the command
ing general OF the army and General Ord
way. commanding the District National
Guard. According TO schedule, the dis
tance is 2f9ts miles. and twenty-three hours
was allowed in which to cover it. This is
the maximum of time and allows plenty of
margin for Improvement The schedule
calls for ten relays between the two points,
the shortest of which will be 1sia miles and
the longest thirty-fve miles. The message
from General Miles was delivered from the
steps of the War Department to Capt. s. Fl.
Virgins and Sergeant r. +. Durfee. who
were TO carry 1t from this city to Columbia
on the road TO Baltimore. distance of
2Sis miles, in three hours. The mes
sage was very brief. being to the effect that
1t would be delivered by military cyclists
of the District as an indication of the
availability of the bicycle in fine of war;
Twenty men will be used in the ride.
Preparations have been made for PAGERS
along the route and quick run is expected.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 1.-The two MEM
bers of the Washington Light Infantry en-
gagged in the military road race who had
the relay from Laurel TO Baltimore, Messrs
Gather and Moulden. reached the City
Hall in this city at 10 O'Clock this morning
They reported encountering several
stretches of bad road between the points
and having to carry their wheels great
deal of .ne way. The journey from here to
Belair. Nd. was taken up by Messrs. At
kinson and Franz. The next relay rode from
Belair to Havre de Grace, Nd, and the
next one from Havre de Grace to Elkton
Md, which was reached at 3:06 p. M, one
hour and forty minutes ahead of time.
WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 1.-The mill
tary cyclists arrived here this evening, che
hour and twenty minutes ahead of sched-
ule time. The Wilmington pace-makers met
Washburn and Gibson at Havre de Grace
and the latter two rode TO Elkton, where
Willis and Bennett took up the race to this
city. Here Moore and Michael relieved
them, starting at once for Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-Privates Moore
and Michael. who rode from Wilmington in
the relay bicycle race, reached this city
or schedule time-7:45 tonight. De Silver
and George French relieved them, starting
for Trenton.
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LION DAN Is DEAD.
Went Mad After Having a, Tooth Ex-
tracted and Was Killed.

TORONTO, Dec 1.-The big trick lion
Dan, valued at $1,000, which had been exhib-
tied all over the continent, was killed yes
terday at a local museum, where IL was
being exhibited. One day last week the
brute had a fight with his keeper over his
dinner, and received wound in his lip,
through which one Of his teeth protruded.
This caused the lion great pain and nearly
drove II frantic. Yesterday veterinary
dentist was called. The lion, which was
the largest in Colonel Boone's possession,
was coaxed out of its cage and walked
into a network of ropes and chains. Ii was
secured and chloroformed. Then, with a
pair of forceps with handles like crowbars.
the dentist grasped the tooth and pulled ii
out The extraction of the tooth sudden
ly aroused the lion and IL wrenched one
OF its paws loose and began frothing at the
mouth, exhibiting signs OF being mad.
Chloroform was then administered In suf-
ficient quantity TO kill him. and Colonel
Boone said the killing was necessary. The
lion was four years old.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
MR.. REEDS SPEECH
OF More Importance than the Presi'

OF More Importance than the Presi-
dents Message or Cnrlfsle's Report.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The address of
Mr.. Reed, In acknowledging the compliment
paid him by his party in its unanimous
nomination for the speakership, is in every
way a more important statement than will
be either the annual message OF the Presi-
dent next Tuesday or the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury on the following
day. How totally Mr.. Cleveland's most
earnest warnings and most importunate
entreaties were disregarded by his own
party was shown again and again in the
last session of the Fifty-third Congress,
and not even the critical emergency that
led the President to urge action in spe-
cial message was sufficient to bring his
party into line. AS for Mr.. Carlisle, the
men of his own party We're his bitterest as
sailants, and the most reskless denuncia-
ton of his recommendations came from the
Democratic side. There is consequently no
reason to ascribe to Mr.. Cleveland's mes
sage to a Republican House any more than
the interest (which is really curiosity) al
WAYS attaching to the hebetudinous plati-
tudes of which Mr. Cleveland is master.
Mr. Reeds utterances, on the contrary,
we're the words of a leader secure of obcdi. :.
ence. Mr.. Reeds remarks are interpreted
bv all members of Congress to-day as in
dicatine that the only work for the ways
and means committee at this session will
be to frame some simple measures that will
bill will be attempted. This belief finds
support i'm the general supposition that
Mr. Reed has determined TO appoint
neither Messrs. DaIzell or Payne to
the Craftsmanship OF the ways and
means committees but his colleague.
Mr. Dingley. who it is true. lacks
are Indispensable for leadership In the
House. but possesses In unequaled degrees
an accurate acquaintance with the sources
of revenue and the expenditures of the
Government. With Mr.. Dingley at the head
of the ways and means committee simple
but effective measure may be expected,
that revenues sufficient for the government
shall be raised and that confidence shall
he restored to the business world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
APPOINTED THE WRONG MAN.
HOxe smith Gets Entnngled fn the
Applications Of Two Brothers.

Applications Of Two Brothers.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-Secretary Hoke
Smith to-day found himself enveloped In a
veritab.e comedy OF errors which has gone
as far as a presidential commission, signed
and sealed by the President, and which will
result in the bitter disappointment of one
man and the great rejoicing of another.
Some time ago the receiver of the land
Office at Alva, o. r.. died. and there
was quite contest waged for the appoint-
ment of his successor. Papers were re-
ceived from a number of applicants. ana
what appeared TO be a double set OF papers
indorsing James w. Conan. formerly OF
Mississippi, but now of Oklahoma. This
candidate was indorsed most heartily by
Governor Stone. OF Mississippi, WE'LL
known administration stalwart.' The two
sets of papers were not explained. but no
one paid much attention 10 them.
Secretary Smith liked the application and
the proposed qualifications of candidate Co.
man, and decided upon his appointment.
the President. receiving immediately his
signature. The appointment was made pub-
lie through the press. and soon a letter was
received from Mississippi thanking the Sec
retary for the appointment, although the
commission had not been mailed. This LETT
ter led ultimately to the discovery that the
man in Mississippi t & VINO had h been appointed hd
intended to appoint and that all the boast
of a home-rule. appointment. which was
made at the time the appointment was
made public, was untrue. There are, IL
seems, two brothers Conan, one j. W.,
who lives in Mississippi, and one ]. j., for
two years a resident OF Alva. Both had re-
ceived general commendation from Gov.
Stone. and neither knew that his brother
was an applicant for the place. 1t seems
that Governor Stone himself did not real
ize he had indorsed the two men for the
same place.
There is nothing to be done now but to
recall the commission. which, fortunately, is
still at the department. and, in spite or dis
appointment and regret, to make the home
rule appointment first intended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
WOMAN HOLDS UP A TRAIN.
She Plants Herself ON the Track and
the Cars Come to n Stop.

MORRISTOWN, y. j.. Dec. /. The
whippany River railroad on Tuesday went
into the hands Of receiver, and yesterday
one of its trains was held UP by woman.
Mrs. Margaret Conley did the job. The
railroad runs through her farm. There has
been a dispute about the right of way. 1t
eliminated by Mrs. Conley planting herself
on the track in front of an incoming train.
The engineer saw her, blew his whistle
and put on the brakes. She stood immova-
Bile, with arms akimbo and head defiantly
thrown back. The train stopped within
few feet OF her.
why don't you get of the track?'
shouted the engineer, when he recognized
who IL was.
'sWhy doesn't your road pay me what It
owes for right OF way through my prop
erty?" she retorted.
Then the proceedings became spicy. Final
iy the engineer pleaded. He was delayed
and must 60 by. Mrs. Comfy was as in
flexible as the rock Of Gibraltar. There
was nothing else to do. and Charles III:
Marshall. the fireman. climbed down and
gently led Mrs. Caniey from the track.
She did not resist. She did not do. a
Marshall with assault and battery, and he
is now under bond to answer 10 the next
grand jury. Then The train rolled on.
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pushing the sale of their goods through
New York commission houses. The fire.
quency of these latter visits has always
had tendency to make of New York the
natural wool market Of the country, ana
with a wool exchange in active operation
TO emphasize this fact. and located in the
center OF the dry goods district OF the city,
the manufactures will discover little need OF
pushing his Investigations across the water.
Importers in New York, in thus inaug-
urating method of marketing WOO.
shipped direct from Australia and South
America. rival and perchance distance the
London market.
The New York Wool Warehouse Conn
pany, under which designation the Wool
Exchange has been incorporated, will en-
ploy the very newest methods for the recep-
tion and shipping of wool. All the offices
in the eleven-story fire-proof building in
West Broadway have already been rented
by wool importers or brokers from many
parts of the country. The exchange room,
on the first floor of the building, has been
handsomely fitted UP and every possible
facility provided for the inspection of stock.
The New York Wool Warehouse Company
was incorporated several years ago with
the object of putting up the present build
ing at a cost of $1,000, 600.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
CHRISTIANITY IN HAWAII.
How It's Sprend Was stayed and Idol
atrous Worship Restored.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The Rev. Robert
Stuart Macarthur delivered sermon in the
Calvary Baptist Church tonight on 1.-THE
Responsibility OF Kalakaua and Liliuoka-
lani." After referring to the characteristics
OF the Hawaians. whom he pronounced a
good-hearted and generous people. he
quoted figures to show the falling of in the
number of Christian converts among the ma
tives since the reign OF Kamehameha v.
who removed all restraint from the Hula
masters and the Kahuna influence. and
thereby aided the spread OF idolatry. From
lS3S. when missionaries first visited the
islands. to 1S4s. g7oo0 converts TO Christian
ity were made Twenty thousand more
converts Joined the Christian standard
e became necessary to put some restraint
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-02
THE III rXRDsHIr QUESTION.
Sir Philip Currie's Reasons for Re-
calling the Gunbont Dryad.

Copyrighted, 1896, by the Associated Press)
CONsTANTINOPLE. via Sofia. Dui-
garla, Nov. So.-lt has not yet been con-
clusiyely developed here what Is TO be the
effect the dsordered state OF she en-
pire OF the REIMBURSEMENT, temporarily, at
least. of the purpose OF the powers - IN
troduce additional guard ships into the Dar-
danelles for the protection OF foreigners In
the domain OF the Sultan. The ordering
back TO salonica bay OF the British gun
boat Dryad, which had been ordered Up TO
the Dardanelles. at the request or the Diit-
ish ambassador, Sir Philip Currie. I'm anticl-
patton OF the promised granting OF the mr.
mans by the Sultan for war sb.as 10 pass
through, is officially explained on the
ground that the proposed action would 10
more harm than gooi by infiaming the
fanaticism of the Turks against foreixners
on account of the supposed affront TO the
Sultan os what would. I'm effect. have
amounted 10 a naval demonstration against
Constantinople. The effect of the abandon-'
ment of its purpose by Great Britain en-
the situation in Turkey is awaited with
anxiety and great interest The question
OF guard ships seems at a standstiil for
the present, though the threat OF Sir Philip
Currie TO renew his purpose unless foreign-
ers should be exempt from outrage IS stil
open.
Undoubtedly one effect OF the ordering
back Of the Dryad TO Salonica is that the
belief in the often-aileged concert OF The
powers In their attitude towards Turkey IL
waning. The sultan II known 10 have b.-r<
skeptical as to this concert for some tint
past. and. 1t Is said, has basel his long.
continued opposition 10 Great Britain'< I<-
mands on belief that no such concert
existed. or that Il could not endure for any
length Of time. This belief capnct but hnro
been n part connrme1 ~ oreol Dv>(nl6'n
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MISTAKEN FOR A BURGLAR.
william Lanning Killed by HIS Em-
plOyer in a New York Village.

BATAVIA. y. Y. Dec. IA terrible trag-
edy took place at the house of Willis
Broughton. located about three miles south
OF Corfu, in the town of Darien, early this
morning. Broughton was awakened by
noise in the back yard. and. seeing person
coming towards the house. took him for a
burglar. Aiming himself with an ak,
Broughton secreted himself in the wood
shed. When the man entered the she'd
Broughton struck him five times on the
head with the blade of the axe, infiicting
fatal wounds. When light secured
Broughton was horrified TO find that the
supposed burglar was his hired man, WILL
lam Lanning, aged twenty years.
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WANTS pope BOB, LET ALONE.
Madame Blavatsl<y's Secretary Scores
the Christian Endeavorers.

NEW YORK, Dec. /. = Claude Falls
Wright, secretary to the late Madame Bla-
vatsky, delivered lecture on Occult
Phenomena" at Chickering Hall to-day.
The lecture was under the auspices of the
Aryan Theosophical Society. During the
course of his lecture Mr.. Wright created a
sensation by referring to the prayers of a
large body OF Christian Endeavorers in
Cleveland, o., for the converso. OF Colonel
Ingersoll. They are doing a great wrong"
said he, land are practicing sOrcery or
black magic. You have no right TO attempt
to change a mans life because you think
it wrong and because it differs from your
own. II Ingersoll wants TO have cer-
tain religion, why should he not? The Chris
tian Endeavorers are not doing the fair
thing. 1 don't think they VIII have much
great influence, as their minds are not
right. Ingersoll Is a good man, and this
effort Is only q display OF egotism.''
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Dec. Hobart
G.. Babcock. president of the Cherokee Man
ufacturing Company. one of the most pros
porous concerns OF Dalton. Ga, was found
lying dead in his office in that city this
afternoon. Babcock was one of the most
prominent citizens of northern Georgia,
and was accounted to be in comfortable
circumstances. The affair is very myster-
ious and the coroner's jury will make a
full investigation. It seems that Mr.. Bah
cock went TO his office this afternoon. wrote
some business letters and was In the best
of spirits few minutes before the shot
was heard which. IL Is supposed, terminat-
ed his life he was talking with a gentle
about TO order for the concern. OF which he
Is president.
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that his Republican opponent. MIR. Hugh
r. Belknap, Is entitled TO the seat and that
he CMcGann) valves all claims thereto.
This step will make IL possible for the COM
ganized, TO report I'm favor of seating Mr..
Belknap and will relieve that gentleman OF
the necessity OF making a contest before
the committee. Mr.. Belknap. who will sue
ceed Mr.. McGann, is a SON or Hon. w.
w. Belknap, who was Secretary Of War
under President Grant.