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Movements oil the Japanese Fleet.
CLOSED ny THE KAISER.
Speech by Emperor William to thu
German State Council.

Speech by Emperor William to the
German state Council.
BERLIN, March 21.-Emperor William
formally closed the session of the State
Council to-day. In SO doing he made a
speech, during the course of which he
said:
After an arduous discussion of eight
your labors. Il. perchance, the result does
not satisfy in every respect the high ex-
nevertheless of great moment for the gov
ment, whose task 1t is to employ all effec-
bandry. that your deliberations rendered
the limits attainable in this domain more
clearly apparent after exhaustive discus
sion. It is universally. admitted that the
agricultural distress, it's causes and Sc
uuences, besides the. careful examination of
the remedies which have been hitherto
proposed, either publicly or in the course
of your discussion, form q valuable basis
pm which the government may found future
The technical knowledge and practical
experience which are here represented and
the course of the debates afford me an
especial guarantee that the proposals sre-
sulting from your deliberations will prove,
suitable and practical. Such remedies, how
ever, as are recognized by you to be UNI
suited to attain the end in. view or imprac-
ticaole or dangerous to the maintenance of
constitutional and economic order. and are
accordingly rejected, the government will
@NnC - VIZ 4tSS ~
from their further considerations and their
decisions / intend shall be carried into eff
fcct without delay.
I'm conclusion l beg you to consider your
part In the matter and to inculcate the
country districts within your reach with
the feeling that when in the future oher
questions similar TO that of the present
agricultural distress and the measures to
be taken for its relief excite the mind, the
government should Immediately be APP
preached with the view OF the adoption of
suitable measures for securing speedy re-
lief. l intend in such n case to instant
~ give my personal attention to the re-
quisste measures and ii necessary to sum-
mon the State Council. In concluding the
proceedings 1 beg to offer you my royal
thanks
Before its adjournment the State Council
adopted a resolution declaring that the
proposals of Count Won Kanitz, the Agrar-
ian leader, for the establishment of a state
monopoly in grain, We're Incompatible with
a correct INTERPRETATION OF the present DO
sition of the state regarding industry and
international trade and were irreconcilable
with Germany's commercial treaties.
Delegates from the German Chamber of
Commerce have been summoned to meet on
April 4, to discuss the currency question,
and Count Won Kanitz's proposals. 1t is
believed that the meeting will oppose the
Agrarian proposals and that it will also
object TO any alterations in the German
currency.
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Obituary.

BETHLEHEM, Pa, March 21.-Dr. Henry
Cope, acting president of Lehigh Univer-
sity, died suddenly this morning, of heart
disease, aged seventy-ive years.
DR.. Cope was in the class of 1889, at Yale,
and graduated at West Point in 1886. He
was breveted captain for gallantry in the
Mexican war. He was professor of English
literature at the University of Pehnsyl-
vania from 1855 to 1866. and was then elected
President of the Lehigh University. He re-
signed in 1875, but has been acting president
since the death of DR.. Lambertson. At the
time of his death he was regent of the
Smithsonian institution, being first ap-
pointed in 1874.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Dr. Ludwig
Frank died suddenly to-day at his home
in this city. Death was due to heart fall
ure. DR.. Frank was a well-known journal
ist and writer. He came to America from
Germany twenty-five years ago and ac-
cepted an editorial position on the Stats
Zeitung. The funeral arrangements are in
the hands of a special committee of the
German Press Club.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 21.-Dr. c.
". Barclay, one of the most prominent
physicians of this city, was found dead in
his bed this morning. Physicians say that
his death was painless and that 1t resulted
from natural causes.
PORTLAND, Ore, March 21.-Mrs T.. A.
earle, wife of the managing editor of the
Oregonian, died to-day of heart failure.
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JEWELLERS SWINDLED.
Shrewd Scheme Worked Successfully
by ~ Man Named Jones.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 21--The b.
H. Stief Jewelry Company. of this city, has
suffered to the extent of $500 from the
operations of d shrewd gang of ~swindlers,
whose headquarters were at Hopkinsville,
KY, and whose operations extended to
Nashville and Cincinnati. The same gang,
it is learned, has recently made a tour of
Texas and other Southern States with signal
success. The plan was this: The leader Of
the gang would go TO some small country
town, assume the name of some prominent
business mai rated as A No. l and order
goods from leading jewelry firms in this
section. making a special order for dia-
monds, watches and other valuable goods
by express on approval. This plan proved
effective. In Smithville, Ga, $1,000 worth Of
goods were secured in this way and at
Hopkinsville, Ky, where an agent of the
gang represented himself to be NJ. j. Jones,
a merchant of that place, was the next
point worked. with two female members
of the band left in Nashville to keep the
leaders posted. 1t is claimed that Cskamp,
Noting e Co., of Cincinnati, were caught
for $500. Pinkerton's agency has been
called into service and put on the case,
and the express companies have also taken
the matter up. The last heard of the
Swindler, Jones, was from Evansville, Ind.
A special from Hopkinsville says that
Jones gathered 5000 worth Of diamonds
before he disappeared.
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On Trial for His Life.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SALEM, Ind. March 21.-Richatd Wheel
er, who killed Amber Wilcox last Novem-
Der, was placed on trial for the crime Mon
day morning, in the Circuit Court. About
one hundred witnesses have testified up to
Thursday evening. Wilcox and Wheeler
were neighboring farmers. Wilcox was
rather overbearing with his ~neighbors, and
allowed his stock to get in on their farms.
His horses were in Wheeler's wheat field,
and Wheeler took them to bis barn lot as
strays. Wilcox sent his boy after them,
and Wheeler told the boy to send Wilcox
over to settle the matter. Wilcox went
armed, and In the quarrel which ensued
made a motion to draw a revolver, when
Wheeler shot him. 1t is generally believed
from the evidence that it will prove a case
of Self-defenSe. There was much excite
ment at the time. and Wheeler came to
Salem and gave himself up on the day of
the shooting, and next day was taken to
JefferSonville prison to prevent any attempt
at lynching by the friends of Wilcox.
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THE TELEPHONE WAR.
Old Company at Muncfe and Frank
fort Has to Come Down.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 21.-At the regular
meeting of the Commercial Club. last night,
Manager Springer and other representatives
of the Bell Telephone Company were pres
ent and announced that, after this month,
the company would cut their rates in Mum
Gle so cents on the telephone. This leaves
the Bell people far in excess of the rate
offered by the other two companies who
are seeking franchises in this city. II the
Bell people refuse to recede from their high
perch another company will be given a
franchise. The new company getting a fran
chise will be bound up SO tight that the
Bell people cannot buy them out without
assuming their rates.
FRANKFORT, Ind, March 21.-The Cen
trail Union Telephone company has at last
opened war on its new rival, the Stethe-
phone Company, which has just completed
its plant III this city. To-day the local
superintendent received orders from head
quarters that hereafter the Central COM
pany would furnish residences for s24, a, re-
duction of S12, and business houses at S36,
the old price being $4S. This is within 50
cents a month of the Stethephone peoples
rate. AS yet the Stethephone Company
has not got its instruments adjusted to the
point that the service is satisfactory. AS
his is the first plant of the kind ever built
the public is disposed to be lenient with the
new company. The Central people also an
nounced tina they will make Frankfort a
long-distance office, connecting Indianapolis
and Lafayette with the copper metallic wire.
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Old Articles Padding Law.


A warning of what we are coming to
when the bicycle costume becomes the es-
tablished habit among us might be found
in the following extract from the town rec
ords of Ipswich, in old England, for Sept.
20. 1870: "Whereas. the common and mean
er sort of people in this Towne are growne
to excess of apparel, especially in THERE
hose, to the RUNE decay and mpoverishm't
of the Towne against the com andm't OF
the Sscr Sacred Scripture) in contempt OF
the lawes, to the increase of wickejness and
slime, where throughe they fall into the
create displeasure of affinity God: Its
therefore ordered. determined, and agreed,
by the whole concent of the Bayliffs, Bur-
gesses, and Commonalty., assembled. that
noe inhabitant of this Towne using any
mystery or occupacon within this Towne.
their apprentices, servants, or journeymen.
shall use about their hose any stuf1ng with
haire, WOOL, or other stuffing therein laid.
bolstred, or interlined. other than one sin
gle lining of cotton, and one other like
woollen or linnen lining, upon paine of
given by publiq'e proclamac'op. and there
to RENAME till the offender shall have re-
formed his excess. And all constables shall
make stay of such offenders. and them shall
bring before the Bayliffs for the time bee
ing ~
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Philadelphia Record.


A well-to-do young Phsladelphian of q
somewhat sensitive disposition left for Flor,
ida recently on his honeymoon. He regis
tered with his bride, who was accompanied
by her maid, at one OF st. Augustine's pal
ace hotels. The young couple thought they
would feel much more at ease If the fact
that they were but recently wed was kept
a secret. they agreeing that their actions
should in no way afford a cue TO curious
or inquisitive people. So they earnestly adj
monished the maid not to tell anyone that
they had just been married, warning her
of the consequences If the fact should be-
come known about the hotel. Everything
went along smoothly for three days. and
then the young couple. suddenly discovered,
to their dismay. that they were being close
ly scrutinized by every guest in the house.
In the dining room ~scornful looks We're cast
at them by the ladies. and there was no
mistaking the fact that they We're the sub
ject of considerable comment. which they
felt certain was uncomplimentary. They
held al consultation and called the maid.
She was closely questioned as to whether
she had answered any queries concerning
them, and. after a good deal of fencing,
finally blurted out: "They kept telling me
that you were just married, and l got mad
and told them they were liars, that you
weren't married at allt'
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WRECK ON THE NJ, X. & T.
Engineer and Brakeman Killed and
a Seriously Injured.

DALLAS, Tex, March M.-The north
bound through passenger train of the NJ.
K. & T. road, which left Dallas at 1915
p. m, collided with a freight at Fisher,
nine miles from here, late tonight. The
engines of both trains and the baggage and
express cars were badly wrecked. Two of
the trainmen were killed outright and one
mortally injured. The passengers were
shaken up. but none injured SO far as
known. The killed are:
- HEARN, engineer, passenger train.
- HARDIN, brakeman of the freight.
Conductor Bottles, of the passenger, was
badly injured. The cause of the collision is
not known.
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washington POST.
The only really safe way to carry a re-
volver is the way a woman i once knew
had. She was a newspaper m in n
all parts of the town at all hours of the
night. She used to carry a tiny revolver
in one ulster pocket and the cartridges in
would ever stop to find out whether the re-
volver was loaded or not If ever she had oc-
casion to Use 1t, and 1T was so much SAFER
with it and knock at heavy doors with IT,,
and it was really a very useful thing 10
have. 1t was 'just like a woman to do
that, too, and 1 think that the things which
are 'iust like a woman are very often
wiser and better than the ways which are
ssjust like a man."
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Big Iniuns at JeHersonvilIc.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, March III
Several Sioux Indians from the Red Cloud
Agency, South Dakota, among them being
blue Bird BLACK Hawk big Duck
and "Get There First all of whom were
at the famous fight in which Genera! Gus
ter was killed. together with Chief wound
ed Knee who was prominent in the up
rising Of the Sioux at the Pine Ridge
agency when Sitting Bull was killed, called
on the government authorities at the
deavored to secure transportation back to
the agency. They came here with the ag-
gregation known as Buck Taylor's Wild
West show, which exhibited in this city.
Before they left the city the braves all
filled up on fire water and after getting
gloriously drunk. wrapped themselves in
tnelr DlanhetS and spent TUESDAY night on
the They left Yesterday.
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Quincy Reeves's Friends Have Fun
with Him and ~ Burglar.
O the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, March I.-Gurney l..
Reeves, whose hat, according to a VAL
pariaso dispatch in to-day's journal, was
dropped by a fleeing burglar in that city,
has had no end of torture to-day. His tel
ephone bell began ringing as soon as the
Journal reached Columbus thism morning and
Reeves, not having a valet, grew hoarse
answering the questions of his many
friends. Finally, in desperation, he fed
from his office and took a buggy ride over
the town to show every body that ii was
paradise job. Every time friends saw him
they would ask all manner OF questions
regard. ng Valparaiso, how his hat hap
pened to be found there, the price of a full
kit of burglars TOOLS etc. Mr.. Reeves
is a highly moral and society young man
here and explains that IL all came about
through his benevolence TO Il tramp to whom
he had given an old hat in which his
name was written. He declares hat here
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to the indianapolis Journal

Speclai 10 the indianapolis journal.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind. March 21.-
Flames were discovered by policeman Wade
in the cellar of the grocery store of Newt
Martin in the Joel Block this morning. In
the cellar was a tam of oil burning. which
made the smoke so thick that the firemen
could scarcely breathe, and when in the
cellar the iremen had to lie down and fight
the flames. The fire got through the cellar
partition and burned into the music store
of D.. H. Baldwin & Co., where several
organs were burned and great damage done
by smoke The total loss will reach $1,000.
The building is insured in the Connecticut
!f Hartford. Grand Rapids of Michigan,
American of New York and London of Lon
don. Mr.. Martins store is completely
wrecked, and his loss will be $1,000; insured
in the North American and the Firemen's
Fund. The loss in the music store has not
been estimated, but it is covered with in
surance in the New Hampshire and Ger
mania. The p. o. S. of A. and K. p. halls
were damaged by smoke, they being in the
block.
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other Deaths in the state.

VALPARAISO, Ind. March 21.-Hon.
George c.. Morgan, president of the Ches-
terton Bank. died this evening of paresis,
aged sixty-eight. Mr.. Morgan came to this
county with his parents in 1893 and has
lived continuously on the same farm. He
owned one thousand acres of land and was
worth nearly 100000. He married a niece
of Hon. Glenn Studebaker.
PERU, Ind, March 21.-Joseph Beaubien,
eighty-two, one of the first white men in
this part of the State, an old Indian trader,
clerk of chief Richardville, of the Miami
tribe of Indians, died here to-day, after a
lingering illness of paralysis.
NOBLESvILLE, Ind, March 1.-The wife
of Judge William Neal died at her home in
Cicero, this morning, at an advanced age
She was the mother of attorney John F.
Neal. of Noblesville. A husband and several
children survive her.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, March IL
Mrs. Phebe Snyder, a pioneer resident of
this county, died this morning at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law. Jacob Swank, at
the age of seventy-nine.
MUNCIE, Ind. March 21.-James Nc
Garrigle, aged eighty-five, an old resident
of Muncie. died suddenly this morning. He
leaves a large family.
RICHMOND, Ind March 21.-Mrs. Pru-
dence Thompson, aged ninety years. died last
night at her home, in this city, of grippe.
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Indiana Notes.

Farmland is threatened with a boom.
The contract has been signed for a four
mill t~in-plate plant south of Elwood, near
Frankton.
Otto Bond, a Farmland carpenter, fell
thirty feet from a building and is probably
fatally hurt.
Mrs. Mary Wright, one of the Oldest
residents of Edinburg, is dangerously i'll
with
Rev. S. W. McNaughton, of Franklin, is
assisting Rev. George F. McNaughton in a
Methodist revival at Center Point.
The Daily World, of Jeffersonville. is
preparing to issue a forty-page souvenir
edition during the encampment week.
Frederick Briggs, a young Greensburg
man, Jumped on a freight train for a free
ride, but fell and had his foot crushed,
necessitating amputation.
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Mrs. Booth at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, O., March 21.-Mrs. Bal
lington Booth, the wife of the commander
of the Salvation Army in America, reached
Cleveland tonight and addressed a large
meeting in Music Hall. She and Adjutant
Edith Marshall are making a tour of the
country in the interest of the auxiliary
league of the army. which is composed of
those who give moral and financial sup
port, and of which the adjutant is the head.
Tonight fifty members were secured for the
league, and a total of two hundred is ex-
pected. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. Booth
and Adjutant Marshall will address a parlor
meeting at the Stillman House, under the
auspices of Mrs. Dan p. Eels, a society
and church leader. and in the evening will
hold a mass meeting in Association Hall.
They will next visit Detroit.
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Not Up In Card Etiquette.

washington Post.
9le- y r-or~rn-ap1 oil wornen ore clever
these ~days-tells a somewhat remarkable
..-- ~. N--rS..SitNS $40 sdt Wiz Vac u
her husbands constituents last year. She
was doing her best, as a wife should, TO
further her husbands interests, and her
laudable intentions carried her to call on
the wife of a prominent politician in one.
of the towns in-well, ! may as We'll say it,
Illinois was the State. She left her visiting
card quite as If she had been paying formal
visits here in Washington. Next day the
little daughter of the woman she called on
came to her house with a small parcel care
fully wrapped in paper.
Here's something you forgot at our house
Yesterday" said the child, as she handed
the clever woman the package. MA sent
IT to you cause she knew you'd want it."
1t was the visiting card.
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ATHLETICS.
President Hall Discusses the Subject
from u Scientific Standpoint.

President Hall the subject
from n Scientific Standpoint.
BOSTON, March 21.-The regular monthly
meeting of the Boston Merchants Exchange
was held tonight at the Algonquin Club,
and the topic for discussion was college
athletics. President Hall, of Clark Uni
versity, discussed the subject from a scien-
tific point of view. He said in part: 1T is
against nature to shut up the school child
or the college boy and throw all the energy
ON these tiny muscles which move the pen
or wag the tongue. 1 should be sorry to
MAIN and kill our boys, but l am willing
to say that it would be better to MAIN
and kill a few of our very best young men
than to allow the whole race to drift into
those worse habits which are now becoming
so threatening"
San uel j. Elder was introduced as an old
Yale baseball player. He said: With regard
to the game of football, it. is because our
boys are powerful and strong that their
energy must be worked off in some way,
and the game of football is the best of ALL
Practice Ball Games.
NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-New Orleans
8, st. Louis II.
CHARLESTON. S. c., March 21.-washing-
ton 4, Boston 8.
LITTLE ROCK, March 2l.-Cleveland 6,
Little Rock 2.
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Two Hogs Make a Man an Exile.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT. Ind, March 2L.-When the
argument for a new trial in the case of
Lewis Porter, convicted of stealing two
hogs and under sentence of three years in
the ~penitentiary, was called this morning,
Porter failed to appear. Ills relatives, who
appeared, said he had left his home, six
miles from here, this morning to come
to court. His bond for $1,000. signed by
his mother and sister, whose only property
is a sixty-acre farm, was declared for
feited. Some of Porter's friends say he
will surrender himself tomorrow, but the
impression is he has left for. good. He
owns a small farm which he has been trying
TO sell.
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Wells and Cisterns Gone Dry.

Special to the IndianapOIS JOURNAL.
DECATUR, Ind. March 2l.-The citizens
of this city and vicinity are experiencing a
water panic. Wells that were never known
to fail are dry, including the fountain in
the public square. Cisterns are dry and
people are compelled to haul water from
ever known and resembles a small creek.
Unless there is rainfall soon there will be
great suffering.
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special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRI HAUTE, Ind, March M.-During
the trial of Isaac Bridges for the murder
of Mrs. Montgomery to-day, her husband
became enraged at a remark made by At
torney Hamill, OF the defense, and with
an oath started, towards him. The judge
at first ordered him to Jail for contempt
of court, but relented Some years ago
Montgomery killed a man and it was a
reference to that fact that brought him
to his feet. Many more witnesses testified
to chang in Bridges's mental condition
after Mrs. Montgomery had cast him aside.
A young woman testified that Mrs. Mont
gomery told her that she had got all of
Bridges's money and wanted to get rid
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The OiI-weII Fever.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, March 21.-Considerable
excitement exists east of the city among
the rural folks over the discovery of oil
in one of the many gas wells in that local
ity. The well, which is one of the best gas
wells in the county. lately has shown signs
of being clogged up, and the discovery was
made that it was crude petroleum of an
excellent quality which began to flow from
the well at a rapid rate. A regular oil
craze has set in and oil prospectors are
will be sunk in the hope of striking a reg
ular gusher. There is believed to be little
doubt that this territory will eventually
develop into one of the richest oil fields
in the State and for that reason oil leases
are being taken very RAPIDLY.