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Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28
CAUSES AN EARTHQUAKE.
Explosion of Dynamite Shakes Up Il :. Earth.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-The dynamite explo- sion at Lockport this morning was so plainly heard and felt that it gave the impression that an earthquake was around Dispatches from Hammond, Ind, and other places in Illinois and h. diana describe the sensations produced by the "earthquake" before news of the explosion was generally disseminated.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28
BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY.
Finance Discussed at Full Meeting of
 Cabinet.

Washington, Dec. H.-Secretary Her bert announced at the cabinet meet ing today that the twin sister of the bat tleship Kearsarge had been named the Kentucky.
 All the members were present at to- days cabinet meeting, which was pro- tracted one. Secretary Olney was at the white house early in the morning, and Secretary Carlisle was in conference with the president for an hour before the meeting. It Is understood that, aside from routine matters, finance was the main topic of conversation today. The cabinet approved Secretary Herbert s suggestion to name battleship No. 6 Kentucky.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28
DAMAGE OF THE FLOOD.
Famine Threatens Some Sections and Des.
 titution Prevails.

Sedalia, Mo-, Dec. 27.-As the water recedes in the submerged districts the extent of damage is becoming known. The valleys of the Osage and Gasconade rivers suffered most and it Is not an ex- aggeration to place the aggregate loss at $5,O00,000. Famine threatens in some localities. At Eldorado Springs the SUD- ply of groceries is exhausted and not a train has arrived for ten days. Great Restitution prevails at Linn Creek, Cam den county. and a relief fund is started there.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Dr. w. P. Palmer, one of the most prominent citizens of Richmond and commander of the Richmond Howitzers during the late war, while condemnlng President Cleveland's Venezuelan mes sage lately, was paralyzed, and has not been able to speak since.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28
A TARIFF FOR PARTY.

The Washington correspondent of a Chicago republican organ says that most Of Dingley's committeeman frown down the suggestion that $50, 900, 900 more rev. enue be raised by doubling the beer tax. They say that while revenues could un- doubtedly be raised quickly and abun- dantly by internal taxation, to do so would render the German tariff impreg- nab1e."
 Instead of providing a revenue of the sum needed these republican tricksters prefer to tax people not only the sum needed, but also twice that sum for the benefit of home trusts. The Chicago Chronicle we'll says:
 '"The people know that taxation for revenue only is entirely practicable, even if the protectees do not admit it. And they also know that no more taxes of any kind are necessary or are likely to be un- less in the unlikely event of war. And they know still further that if more rev enue is needed at all it is needed imme- diately, that it can be obtained mmedi- ately, and without additional expense for collecting, by increasing the tax on beer. and that it cannot be had imme- diately by imposing duties to increase the prices of their clothing.
 What is wanted is not more revenue, but more gold for the reserve, and if MT. Dingley's committee has nothing better to offer than the Mckinley wool schedule and double prices for clothing the people will understand the matter perfectly and improve the opportunity to express their opinion of the republican policy of fore ing McKlnleyism back upon the country when they go to the polls next November. They will cause it to be understood that the new tariff is impregnable in so far as it is departure from the Mckinley sys- tenn of licensed robbery"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

The Duke of Argyll writes to the Times advocating as solution of the Armenian problem that the powers drop their jeal- ousies and invite Russia to occupy Ar menia. The Times expresses the fear that this solution is impossible.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward has written letter to the president, telling him that war is nothing but legalized murder, and that the whole of South America is not worth fighting about.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

A couple of weeks ago Mr. Cleveland was more popular in England than any ? other American, but the message has changed all that
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Old Bill Vossburg, a green goods man.
 up for sentence in New York, pleaded for clemency through his attorney on the ground that he had never murdered any
 body, and only made deals with men who wished to cheat other people,
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

The newspapers have been stating that the present pope once wrote book which was placed on the index. It now appears that the book in question was written by a half-demented priest named Paoletti, and that the present pope, then Cardinal Pecci, had it suppressed himself.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

MT. Justin Mccarthy says that he is tired of leading the Irish party in the house of commons, and will give up the job with the present session of parlia- mont
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

There are 1922 American citizens in China, about one-half of whom are wo- men. Five hundred and six of the num- Der are missionaries
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Senator Hansbrough has introduced a bill forbidding the use of the United States flag for advertising purposes. It is not a bad move.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Congressmen from the west have an unhappy time of it. Eastern men make fun of their wild and woolly western manners, and their constituents at home revile them for having adopted the ways of an effete east.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

The fourth Hebrew peer has just been created. He is Baron Henry De Worms. The other three British Hebrew peers now living are Lord Rothschild. Lord Battersea and Lord Wordsworth.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

According to MT. Dingley any sort of a tariff measure will go through the house with a whoop Speaker Reed, however will take mighty good care that the en- thusiastic Dingley does not try to boost the Mckinley bill by name, for at this stage of the proceedings MT Reed is not engaged in booming Mckinley as a presidential possibility.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

The persons of African descent in the United States are classified according to degrees of colored blood into 6.337,9 ,9S0 blacks, 956,9S9 mulattoes, 105,135 quad rooms and 69 936 octoroons E
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

President Diaz is to have a monument erected to him in the City of Mexico de- signed after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The site selected is the upper part of the Pasce de la Reforma. Don Jose Valarta and Don Rafael Pacheco, mili- tary engineers, have been commissioned to submit plans. The arch twill be of great height, and adorned with various allegorical bas-relefs and huge statu- arY groups.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

The Morgan County Herald displayed considerable enterprise in the get-up of it's Christmas edition. It came out with twelve pages chuck full of good, appro- priate reading matter and fresh, live ad- vertisements. The Herald is fast forg- ing to the front as one of the leading weeklies in north Alabama.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

A deed of trust for $500 on all the house. hold goods of Alexander A. Arthur has been filed in Tennessee in favor of a local bank. Arthur is the Englishman who spent vast sums of money in estab- fishing the Scottish lumber mills at Knox vile and founding the town of Middles- borough, Ky. He was also instrumental in getting the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville railroad built. A half dozen years ago he was considered a Croesus in Knoxville; today he is said to be penniless.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

An experiment in coffee growing is to be made in the San Joaquin valley, Cali forn!a, which, if successful may mean that coffee planting will become an inn por;ant industry in the state. Col. Charles r. Crocker, wealthy rancher of that region, has just secured from vari- ous parts of Central America 1000 year ling coffee plants and will soon have them set out on his estates in the valley. It will be al least six years before the result of the experiment can be known. Ex- perts are somewhat doubtful of its suc- cess. They say the soil and sunlight are all right in the San Joaquin valley, but the moisture necessary to the successful raising of coffee Is lacking.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

On Saturday last Miss Tommie Duke. the oldest daughter of Gen. Basil Duke, was married to Mr. Sidney Ballau of Honolulu. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Lewis w. Burton, bishop-elect of the Episcopalian diocese of Lexington. Directly after the ceremony MT. and Mrs. Balau were driven to a railway station, whence they began their journey to San Francisco. They will leave on the steam ship Australia for Honolulu today MT. Ballau is one of the brightest young attorneys on the Hawaiian islands. He is a native of Boston and graduatel of Harvard. His bride is a bright young woman with that same vim and energy shown by her father when he was a leader of Morgan's men. Her sister, Miss Currie Duke, is the violin soloist of Sousa's band.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Mobile must quit its hoodlum ways if it ever hopes to be a great city.-Mobile Herald.
 That is right. Let it come out for Cap tain Johnston for governor! m
Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28

Subscription Price of the Daily Reduced to
 Six ($6) Dollars Per Annum.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

worth Of Its products. The whaling indus
try has yielded more than S11.ooo.ot3. and
the fur. fish and mines up to 1890 had turned
out products amounting 10 more than s64,-
100000. so that out of that which cost us
less than seven million and half. we had
up TO 1890 sold products 10 the amount of
seventy-five millions. or to ten times the
price originally paid.
The resources Of Alaska are enormous.
Senator Perkins. Of California. who is
largely interested in whale fishing, could tell
you just how many hundred thousand dol
lars are invested in that industry. He could
show you how, during fifteen years, the
whaling catch has amounted to millions,
and how in 1891 there were more than a mil
lion and a half dollars worth of whales
caught in Alaskan waters. There are SAL
mon canneries in different parts of Alaska
which represent a capital OF more than
100000. They employ thousands Of labor
ers, and they export about 100000 worth
Of salmon every year. Cod fishing is an
other big industry, and DR.. Becker tells me
that he believes that a large part of the
Alaskan islands would be available for
stock raising. There is no doubt but that
the territory has still greater possibilities.
and, in the opinion of those who know most
about it here at Washington. Uncle Sam
Will be very foolish if he allows John Bull
to take an inch more than that which is
now so accurately set down in the treaties.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

Madame Magodin,'' which Stuart Robson
is shortly to produce in this country, ran
three consecutive years In Paris.
Russ Whytal has written a new play
In which Mrs. Whytal will have the most
important part. 1t Is to be produced In New
York next spring.
In case Nina Harrington goes starring at
the head OF a vaudeville company 1t Is sad
that Joe Letter, son of the Chicago million
aire, Will be her hacker.
Maggie Cline, the Irish Nightingale" Is
to star next season In a play called ION
Broadway" She will be managed by Harry
Williams. who also controls the piece enti-
tied ION the Bowery."
His Excellency'' will remain at the
Broadway Theater, New York, until the last
week In December. This postpones for three
weeks the first American presentation of
The Artists Model" which follows His
Excellency."
Clyde Fitch's Major ANDRE written to
order for e. H. Sothern. has been COM
pleted for some time, but 1t Is not likely
that II will be played this season. in con-
sequence of the extraordinary success OF
THE Prisoner Of Zenda."
Palmer Cox's Brownies" the unique and
universally popular fairy spectacle, now
bears the historical distinction of being the
very first stage production ever witnessed
by President Cleveland's eldest daughter,
Ruth. Little Miss Ruth and q box party of
friends witnessed the charming spectacle in
the Lafayette-square Opera House, Wash
ington, d. c., at the matinee Wednesday
afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

Success follows the use of Halls Hair
Remover for grayness and badness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
DU MAURIER's PERSONALITY.
A Retiring Man Who VIII Not Enter
the Lecture Field.
New York Tribune.

New YORK IrlDune.
Mr.. Du Maurier has declined to be trotted
around the country to satisfy the curiosity
Of the public. He will not lecture in Amer
lea, nor anywhere else. The fact empha-
sizes another which people seem disposed taS
Punch and still more famous novelist is
one OF the most retiring men of his profess
sion. He won his fame as a writer by put
ting himself into his books. Peter Tibet
SON. and ''Trilby'' would not be the en-
chanting books they are without the pres
ence Of 60n the a tut S,nS On eSs,cyoI page .;, the
you feel is thoroughly the fruit OF the au-
thor's own experience. the expression Of his
most picturesque elements a record of &C
tual events which might almost be called
autobiographical. But Mr.. Du Maurier
much of himself he gives them enough. Fol
the rest ne asks privacy.
His house Is not one the show studies OF
Heath behind one Of those lovely brick
walls for which England is celebrated, and
to Ii. In the main, only his chosen friends
pleasant TO know he can now rest COM
pletely undistlrbed so far as matters OF
finance are concerned. From the dramati-
amounted to something Ike 100000, and
both play and novel go on coming money
for him with a rapidity that might make a
admirer of ..Trilby" has. of course, been
annoyed by the dramatization OF the book.
1t has meant the mangling and the vulgari.
there is consolation in its having brought
an artist who is tired and i'll the peace and
rest which he had long deserved. Mr.
''petard," as he called the Joe Sibley episode
OF "Trilby." would prove TO have hoisted
Maurier needs no sympathy. He has beer
lifted into tame and affiuence by the merits
OF his work. and Mr. Whistlers nominal
triumph In the sibley affair can do him ne
harm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

An Opinion Written for Use In a
WOman's magazine.
Ladies' Home Journal

Ladies' Home Journal.
So far as the brutality of football. is con-
cerned there can no longer be two. sides 10
the question. The most uncompromising adj
vocates of the game have conceded this
fact. If one game OF college football differs
from another 1t Is purely and simply In It's
fatal were these displays last year will be
brought home-more directly to people when
by carefully computed figures 1t is shown
that forty-six deaths resulted last year from
period of four months. No record has. OF
course, been kept of broken ears, lost Wis
ions and other disigurements. AS a matter
of fact, there is no sport practiced by any
civilized nation which can equal a record
Of forty-six deaths in four months. When
We regard the effects upon the players we
meet a condition Of things equally serious.
Leaving the physical injuries entirely out OF
the question. the game of football, as 1t is
played to-day, is an absolute detriment to
the mental development of those who parti-
months, been at some pains TO carefully In
quire into the class standings of the men
the results were interesting. In two cases
1 found that the majority of the football
players stood among the lowest in their
classes, while in the other two instances
this same fact was true of one-half of the
members of the teams. Furthermore, the
so-called fame" which is bestowed upon
these college football players is directly in
furious. Their lives are exploited, their por-
traits are printed, their every movement is
chronicled until the subjects are made TO
feel a prominence which is at once prepos-
ferrous and absurd. Before a boy Is hardly
out Of his fitting school he is spoiled with a
misplaced Importance of himself and a
mistaken "fame," the evil effects of which
he carries with him through mis- life. Nor
is the effect on other students a wholesome
one. 1t requires a strongly balanced mind,
such as is rarely given to a growing boy,
for a young man to pursue q craving for
knowledge when all around him he hears
nothing but football talk and sees the men
next to him become the talk OF the country.
1t strikes for him, at the very outset of his
career, a false note.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

as 'Hosss. and Hoss,s' which Is presented
with a cast OF sixteen people, including the
popular Cariotfa.
For Thanksgiving and the last half OF the
week the Park has julie Walters's new play.
"A Money Order" a comedy drama con-
structed on original lines. The characters
introduced are the co~unterparts OF people
met every day. The story and action OF the
piece is new TO the stage. The work shop,
farm and home are happily blended to-
gether In a manner that is pleasing to the
masses. Those who have seen Mr.. Walters
in "Side-Tracked." his old play, know what
he - capable OF. He Is very popular here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
The Emnire,x BIN.

Gus Hills Novelties will be the Thank
giving week attraction at the Empire. The
name of Gus Hill. club swinger and juggler
Is known in every town in the United States
where there is a variety theater, and even
Europeans have been talking about this
clever American. Among the members of
the company is Mile Eugene Petrescu, a
young French woman. clever as she is beau
tiful. She walks on her hands, and with her
feet in the air performs feats of jumping
and balancing that have astonished all those
who have seen her. The other performers
are Lew Hawkins, the minstrel man.; Gard
ner Troupe, in musical comedy; Fred II.
Leslie and his performing dogs; McCale and
Daniels, Irish tourists; Gray and Conway,
Bonnie Lottie, Fields and Salina, Little
Dick. and closing with 'The Twentieth Gen.
tury Rarharo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
eHoss and Hosso at the Park.

'Hoss and Hoss" will be seen at the Park,
commencing tomorrow matinee, for three
days. 1t is well known here as a musical
farce comedy. Great pains have been taken
in organizing this company. and all are
clever and acknowledged bright lights in
their respective lines of stage work. There
are few comedies that have had SUCH a run
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24
"The Defau1tcr."

Lincoln ]. Carriers latest play, THE De-
faulter," a scenic melodrama Of a sensa-
tional character. will be the popular-priced
attraction at English's Opera House the last
half of this week, beginning with a special
Thanksgiving matinee Thursday. The story
Of the play Is a dramatization OF Fenn's
novel, This Mans Wife" The story runs
along to a sensational but happy termina-
ton, and the leap of two horses with their
riders across a "yawning chasm' is the
climax of the exciting features introduced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

Chicago Record.
beauty Sleep"
Mabsl-Poor girl. how you must suffer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

The German Theater Company. of Cine.n-
natl. will be at English's next Wednesday
night for the third Of It's series OF Indian
apolis performances. This time the play
presented will be die Kluge Kathe."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

We have received some new things .,
Winter Weight Dress Stuffs at yerv io-
prices. and offer them TO you for Thanks
giving week.
AT IL 1-2c A YARD
A very neat line OF patterns in a Double
Width worsted Wool Novelty Dress SUR
worth 1sc a yard
NOVELTY DRESS CLOTHS. Ice
36-inch Wool and Raw silk Novelty Pat
tern Dress Cloths at only 19c a yard; value
OF these goods Is considerable more.
BOUCLE STRIPED DRESS CLOTHS. Ok.
A regular Soc Novelty Dress Cloth. nlaIn
colors, with Mohair Striped Boucle effect.
all colors. So inches wide.
ALL-WOOL DRESS CLOTHS, 25c
Double width, full line of plain colors and
gray mixtures; also neat line OF Noyelty
Patterns. Choice, 25c.
NOVELTY DRESS STJFFs, 4ec
Black All-Wool Novelties, 4ec.
Alcazar Novelties, 49c.
Sicilian Novelties. acc.
Mohair Novelties, acc.
Boucle Novelties, <9c.
About 100 different styles to select from
MOHAIR BOUCLE NOVELTY, o
10 pieces OF a regular 81 Novelty, a inohss
wide, In 10 different color combinations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-24

direct gift OF God, there is no possibility
of the English laying claim to it. II is a
volcanic island. some parts OF which are
still steaming. and which are so hot that
they would roast any human being who
touched them. Birds fer into the c~revices
of the rocks upon IL and are cooked, and
DR.. Becker and his party ate eggs which
they boiled over the steam coming out Of
the ground.
The loss OF the gold territory will be by
no means the only loss which Uncle Sam
yin sustain If the boundary line is changed
as the Canadians desire II. 1t would cut
US out OF some OF our best harbors and
most valuable waterways. Few people
realize the enormous amounts of money
which we have gotten out of Alaska. When
it was purchased it was looked upon by
many as a snow-clad desert, and Seward,
who was then Secretary OF State. had a
hard fight with Congress to get it. There
was a big lobby here at the time, and it
was publicly charged that of the 81, 100000
paid for it, only 100000 reached the Car,
the remainder being spent as a corruption
fund. This was not true. Twenty-seven
thousand dollars was all that went to the
lobby. and this was paid TO the attorneys
who pushed the bill. In addition TO this
there was the sum OF <s.0U. which went
out of the whole amount to one of the
Washington newspapers. Two million one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars was
spent by the Russian minister in buying
munitions OF war and machinery. which
were shipped TO Russia. The cost Of Alaska
to US was. all told. not more than 81, SOC, 900.
We paid just about two cents an acre for
the property.
Now let as see what we nave gotten out
Of IL. The Seal islands alone have paid be-
tween six and seven million dollars In rent
ais and royalties TO Uncle sam. and our
people have sold tens OF millions OF dollars