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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
Sentinel Pressroom Flooded.

The basement of the Sentinel Office was
so completely filled with water that. it
was impossible to run the presses. The
Journal presses were used for printing
the Sentinel this morning. This arrange
ment will necessarily cause city subscrib-
ers TO receive their paper at a later hour
than usual to-day. While the Journal
press and mailing rooms we're likewise
flooded from the overflow OF the sewers
on the Circle. the floor was ripped up and
the water allowed to empty into the sub
cellar. which kept the water from rising to
where 1t interferred with the operation OF
the presses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
TEbEPHoNE SYSTEM BURNED OUT.
Lightning Played Havoc There at
Four O'Clock This Morning.

Lightning Played Havoc There at
Four O'Clock This Morning.
While the storm was at It's height shortly
after o'clock this morning the fire de-
partment was called to the telephone ex-
change building. where the lightning had
caused disturbance on the third floor.
The entire system was burnt out, and at
an early hour II was impossible to estimate
the damage. although it Is thought to be
extensive. The operators were driven from
the room by the lightning playing on the
wires and filing the room with It's flare.
The department was also called to Frank
Birds transfer Office on North Delaware
street, where there was small fire caused
by an electric flame from the telephone
wires
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
RAN INTO A FREIGHT.
Suburban Train Suddenly stopped
and Many Persons Hurt.

CHICAGO. Sept. "A Lake shore &
Michigan Southern suburban train collided
with freight train at State street to-
night Two men were seriously injured
The north-bound passenger train from the
Stock Yards met freight engine No. aOi at
a point midway between Taylor and
Twelfth streets. IL was running fifteen
miles an hour. Both engineers applied air
brakes and reversed their engines quick
ly that the shock was largely reduced. In
rbe three coaches that made up the sub
urban train men and women were thrown
forward. and many fell TO the floor. Sew
erai received painful cuts and bruises
road
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
NEwFOUNDLANDERs EXCITED.
Their Fishing Vessels Seized by a
Fleet of Canadian Cruisers.

ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Sept. s--A Virginia
Lake mail steamer, from Labrador, re-
ports that a Canadian fleet OF fishing
cruisers. bristling with rGatling guns, can
non and other weapons is seizng all the
Newfoundland fishing vessels found in
Canadian waters and is taking them 10
headquarters in the Straits of Belle Isle.
portion of Labrador belongs to Canada
and portion to the Newfoundland fisher
men, and each county usually fishes in the
territory OF the other without interfer-
ence. The present proceedings are doubt
less due to some hot-headed official There
is much excitement here and the govern
ton tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
Armenian Relief Association.

NEW YORK, Sept. Sat a meeting OF
the members of the Church Club tonight
there was formed an Armenian relief asso-
c.ation. having for its object: ITO present
the cause OF Armenia to the civilized world
and TO aid every effort 10 induce the pow
ers OF Europe TO fulfill their pledges and
establish the security OF life. honor, re-
ligion and property in Armenia An ex-
ecutive committee OF seven was appointed.
consisting of Messrs- j. Bieeker, chairman;
Ludlow Odden, Henry III. Man, Robert G..
Hone. Charles II. Stout, Nicholas H. Mer-.
sereau and William Bisham- Nartan Dlllo-
yam, a survivor of the Sassoun massacre.
graphically described the horrors OF that
event
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
TURKEY STILL DEFIANT.
Attitude of the Porte ON Armenian
Reforms Unsatisfactory tn Britain.

LONDON, Sept. 3.-The Hon. George n.
Curs,on. Under Secretary for the Foreign
Office replying to a question by Mr.. Bowles,
NJ. p, in the House OF Commons to-day.
said that several communications had been
received from Turkey on the subject OF the
proposed reforms in Armenia. Unfortu-
nately. he said. the communications were
unsatisfactory. The reforms which had
been suggested by Russia, France and Eng
land had not received the official support of
Germany, Austria and Italy. But the pow
ers last named, Mr. Curzon said he be-
lieved. were ian sympathy with the reforms
proposed. AS 10 whether the government
wouId unueItahe any action beyond diplo-
out previously informing Parliament of the
grounds upon which the action would be
made. he was unable to say, nor could he
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04

the government would find themselves
called upon 10 pursue in regard TO Armen-
IAN affairs.
In reply to an Interrogation by. Mr.. Lut-
trell, member for the Tavistock division
OF Devonshire. relative TO the case OF W.
III. Rickard, an Englishman, now under SEN
tence OF thirty-five years imprisonment IN
Hawaii for completely In the recent royalist
rebellion, Mr.. Curzon said that as Mr..
Rickard had surrendered his British ma
tionality, the government had no locus
Standi in the matter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
scienti-s. Locate Their Library.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Sept. 3.-The
council of the American Association for the
Advancement OF Science took important
ing resolutions favoring the selection of
the University of Cincinnati the Local
ton OF it< library OF many thousand vol
umes. The reading Of papers was contin-
ued at the meetings of the sections in the
morning. After adjournment at noon for
dinner other papers were presented In the
afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04

horse. This will be found to be true in
all the downtown buildings having sewer
connection with the cellar ane no cut-out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-04
Big Four Excursion
MUNCIE AND RETURN
sunday, sept. -.
$1.OO Round Trip $1.OO

Under the auspices knights of Father
Mathew Society, the occasion being the
dedication OF new church euIfice I'm which
a large number OF Catholic societies from
this and surrounding cities will take part.
Special train will leave Union station 8 a.
call on the mmittee-Wm. Lavelle, Jno.
Seaman and Richard Bradley: also. Big
Four ticket offices. No. 1 East Washington
street. No. 36 jackson place. Union Sta
ton and Massachusetts, avenue.
H. NJ. BRONSON. A. G. p. a.
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The When

"a Night in Pekin with its gogeousness, would be
the GOODNESS Indianapolis
from
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22

the senate, and as such senator has
the right to vote on all questions be-
fore that body. In this view he is
sustained by Senator Stevens, mem
Der of the senate judiciary committee,
and leading constitutional lawyer in
the state. Mr.. Stevens says:
"Mr. Day is de facto from Martin
county, and nothing but quo warranto
proceedings could affect his right to
vote as such senator, and these pro-
ceedings could not affect any act OF
his as such de facto senator, completed
before the proceedings were instl-
tuted.",
This is plain statement of the
case, and contains good common sense.
There is, however, much difference of
opinion among the members of the
senate and among lawyers generally,
and it is altogether likely that if Gov.
Clough signs the bill the matter will
90 into the courts, and the question
which has been so generally discussed
whether a senator can be both senator
and lieutenant governor at one and
the same time will be definitely set
t1p5
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
THE LEGISLATURE
Senate ReCOnSiderS the Vote
to Tax Unused Rail-
road Lands.
GOT THE NECESSARY NUMBER.
Continuous Session of Eight
Hours Before a Vote Is
Reached.

ST. PAUL, March 14.-House File 1,
the Anderson bill to tax unused railroad
lands, passed the senate after fight that
has been waged with great earnestness.
The senate had been in continuous ses-
sion under call of the senate from the
moment of assembling at 2:30 in the aft
ernoon until after 10 o'clock. The SEN
ators were imprisoned during that time
by their own action while the sergeant
alarms was hunting up absentees, and
particularly Senator Cronkhite, who, up
to the hour of adjournment, had not
been found. 1t was said that he had
been seen at Minneapolis during
the afternoon, and the sergeant-at-arms
had the police and detective forces in
the Mill City looking for him all after
noon and evening, but they were I'M
able to find the senator. In the mean
time the friends of the bill
Were Hard at Work
to secure enough votes to reconsider the
measure and to carry it to it's final pas
sage. They were uncertain of their
men until 10 o'clock, and then they
made sure that they were able to hold
those who formerly voted for the bill in
line. These, together with Senator
Smith, who was at home attending a
city election Monday, made the neces-
sary votes. Senator Hanna, who was
sick at his lodgings, was sent for, and
the friends of the bill felt sure of their
ground, and it was whispered about the
chamber that the bill would be put
through and clinched. This was done
in short order
W DIRK on the Calendar.
When the senate took up the calen-
dar Senator Potgeiser's bill, which pro-
hibits the sale of decayed, tainted and
unwholesome poultry, was passed-32
to-
Senator Yale turned all his satire
loose on FL. f. 151, Representative Box
rud's bill, allowing owners of wagons
with tires three inches wide deduction
of So of road tax. Senator Heneman
led the farmers and the lawyers We're
routed, the bill passing almost unani-
mously.
Other bills given final passage were
as follows:
H. f. SOTO amend sec. IA, chap. 10,
statutes of 1873, relating to township or
CARNATIONS.
S. f. 346-To provide for the examina-
ton and commitment of inebriates to the
special department for the treatment OF
same in Rochester state hospital.
S. +. 1910 provide penalty for CO.
ercing, or influencing, or making demands
or requirements of employees, servants, la
borers and persons seeking employment.
II. f. 337-Appropriating $4,000 to fur
nish G ass seed for distribution in coun-
ties afflicted by forest fires.
S. +. SOTO amend the divorce laws Sc
as to allow divorce for one years deser-
ton.
S. f. 493-To exempt property of Grand
Army posts from taxation.
A number of local and unimportant
bills also passed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
IN THE HOUSE.
Brief and Embarrassing Session Held in
the Afternoon.

Brief and Embarrassing Session Held in
the Afternoon.
The house held short afternoon ses-
sion and little business was transacted.
In committee of the whole Mr.. Cant's
bill relating to fees of clerks of court
was recommended to pass. S. +. $40,
to reimburse Professor Otto Lugger for
money expended in discriminating
chinch bugs, also received favorable ac-
ton. The bill of Mr.. Warner to regu-
late the practice of. embalming and Gre
ating state board of embalming was
strongly opposed and recommended for
indefinite postponement.
Mr.. Johns moved to place all senate
bills at the foot of general orders and
spoke in support of the motion as a re-
taliatory measure, because he claimed
the house bills had not all been passed
in the senate, and he feared house bills
would be tied up near the end of the
session. Several members opposed the
proposed course and the motion was
withdrawn.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
IN THE HOUSE.
Business Moved Along Slowly in the Lower
Branch.

Business Moved Along Slowly in the Lower
Branch.
Work in the house went slowly dur
ing the morning, the introduction of
bills not being finished when a recess
was taken at 1890. The calendar and
general orders were taken up in the
afternoon, there being over 100 bills on
the latter, the largest yet had. A large
part of the morning session was spent
in debating resolution for an extra
stenographer to aid in the Ives investi-
cation. Representative Feig led the
opposition to the resolution, but it was
finally adopted.
Bills Passed.
On the calendar the following bills
were passed:
S. +. 120-Relating to Intoxicating liq-
uors.
H. F. 146-Relating to redemption from
tax sales.
H. f. 356-Relating to the state horti
cultural society.
H. f. 45-To encourage manufacture OF
sugar.
II. f. 326-Relating to fees of clerks OF
district courts in certain cases.
The afternoon and evening session
was devoted to work in committee OF
the whole and a large number of bills
were disposed of. Senator Cronkite's
bill to provide for the use of Minnesota
stone caused some debate but was
recommended to pass.
There was also some discussion on
Senator Masterman's bill to amend the
penal code SO as to adequately punish
persons guilty of hosting dam or 9TH
erwise interfering with lams, reser-
voirs and lumber mills. Among the
other important measures recommended
to pass We're the Itasca park bill, the
Robbins Keely cure bill, Johns bill to
prevent the obstruction of public levees,
Staples bill relating to examination of
teachers and DIR. Tiers bill for the for
nation of salvage corps. The bill for
two additional judges in the Minneapo-
lis district was indefinitely postponed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
FART nORTGAGES.

In this howl about farm mortgages
the Populist and free trade agltators
kicked up a great deal OF dust,thereoy
temporarily binding people who knew
nothing about the matter, or had no
chance to get hold of facts in the case.
In fact it is only since this agitation
commenced that figures have been Sc
cured which reveal the true condition
of affairs in this respect. The work
which the state labor bureau has been
doing has excited much interest, and
sis an instructive one," says the st.
Paul Dispatch, especially to that class
of people who are fearful that the
state and the people are to be
swamped by them, and the title to our
improved farm lands pass into the
hands of strangers and stranger cor
porations. The investigation discloses
that the mortgage debt on farms used
as homes in Minnesota, in the ten
years from Jan. l, 1880, to Jan. l, 1890,
was S37, 7O0,574, and upon other farms
unused as homes about $1,000, 900, con-
shutting an entirety of $4,000, QUO IN
round numbers. The foreclosures in
1880 and 1881 were 2,345, and in 1872
and 1898, 2,O26. showing a considerable
change in disposing of the debt. 1t
shows not only strong disposition to
save to the owners the farms mort
gagged, but an increase in ability to
nav the debt, and save the property
from foreclosure. Ten or twelve years
ago when there was large body OF
good lands to the westward, that could
be mad for the mere homestead occu-
nancy, there was disposition on the
part of the owners of improved farms
to mortgage them to the utmost eX-
tent. almost equivalent to sale, and
after a while let the mortgage take
the premises, while the mortgagor
moved off in search of fresh lands else
where. But, that chance has disap-
peared. Men are now more disposed
to hold on to their good lands and save
them from the effects of the mortgage.
That is not, however, the entire cause
of the change. Men and families are
now becoming more attached to the
homes they have made by hard work,
and are ready to make greater sacri-
fees to save them from foreclosure
and sale"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22

How does the MankatO FREE PRESS
explain the fact that when the out
standing bonds of the United States
due in ten years were selling at 10,
lowing to silver agitation running
the credit of the country" the last
bonds were contracted by Grover at
1881? Any body ought to know that
bond running 30 years is worth more
than one running only 10 years. - dr-
tan County Sentinel. land this last is
sue of bonds in the open market were
better sellers than the short term
bonds, and realized, the syndicate a
handsome profit, which would have
accrued to the government had Cleve-
land and Carlisle gone into the mar
ket and asked for bids instead of ne
gotiating in secret. A term bond
would hardly have received the large
amount of subscriptions in twenty
minutes, that was subscribed for the
last ones in London.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
here CrOnkhite Was.

Word came to the legislature that
Senator Cronlkhite, whose absence
Wednesday resulted in the call of the
senate lasting from $3.50 to 1920 p. M,
is in Judge Ives judicial district look
ing up witnesses and assisting in pre-
pairing the judges case for trial before
the house Judiciary committee. Even
Republican senators are now admitting
that the call of the senate went perhaps
little too far and that Mr.. Cronkhite
has been placed before the state, as a
result of it, in a position which is not in
all points fair to him.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
AN ELECTRIC AGE.

Elias B. Dunn, a weather observer
in New York, has been engaged in the
study of atmospheric electricity. On
this subject he is somewhat OF an en-
thusiast, and in commenting upon it
says he expects to live to see the day
when electricity collected from the
atmosphere and stored, will revolu-
tionize the world. His enthusiasm
carries him so far that he processes
the belief that the time is not far dis
tant when every car and train will be
run, lighted and heated by atmosph-
eric electricity; that cities will be
lighted by it; that coal will become a
curiosity; that steam heating will be
granny talk to the children OF the next
generation; that the telegraph and
telephone companies will lose their
monopolies; that war will become a
farce, because a touch of electricity
will make the British Grenadiers or
the German Ulhans or the Scotch
Highlanders sit down on the cold
ground and ask for terms. There
will be no more trolley strikes because
there will be no more trolleys. The
earth, as is well known, is a store
house of electricity. That it passes
from the clouds to the earth we can
see in every thunder storm. The at
moSphere being charged with cleo
tricity and the earth being store
house for it, if there were some
method of controlling and storing it
so you could draw on moderate
amount of electricity at will and keep
that force on tap all the time, with
an appliance by which power could be
generated and there's no reason why
that can't be done-then atmospheric
electricity would make all the wheels
in the world go round. The barons
would be done up. There would be
no more need for coal. There is
enough electricity in the atmosphere
to supply light and heat, as well as to
do all the work.
Whether the world will be any
happier and want less prevalent when
Mr. Dunns electric Utopia is realized
or not, he fails to state.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
THE CORRUPT PRACTICE BILL.

Iltis the Only Senator to Cast His Vote
Against 1t.
After the presentation of petitions
and introduction of few bills the SEN
ate went to work ON the calendar. SEN
ator Ozmun's corrupt practice bill was
passed with but one dissenting vote. 1t
is S. f. %, to prevent corrupt practices
in elections, to limit the expenses of
candidates and political committees and
to provide penalties, etc. Senator Hits
voted against the bill.
S. f. $50, the Jones Russia thistle bill,
was passed without opposition. 1t ap-
propriates $25, 900 for the destruction of
the nOXiouS weed.
There was no opposition to S. f. 4S9,
Senator Fuller's bill providing for the
giving of bond by contractors for public
works and improvements.
| The last bill passed was S. F. IS, to
validate the acts of villages heretofore
attempting to be incorporated in Min
nesota, introduced by Senator Fuller,
Work in Committee.
| At 10 o'clock an attempt was made to
adjourn, as the junketing trip began at
2:15, but some objection was made and
the senate kept at work until the last
minute in committee of the whole.
Bills recommended for passage were:
To establish the Office of state entomoIo-
gist at the experiment station.
TO reincorporate villages of 1000 inhab-
itants and over.
To define vagrancy and provide punish
ment therefor.
To define and construe the words "rail-
road company" and railroad" where the
same occur in title l, chap. 81, statutes of
1875
To amend Sec 2, chap. 121, laws of 1887,
to provide for public school libraries.
TO amend sec. 10, chap. 81, statutes of
1878, relating to courts of justices of the
pc ce.
Relating to the requisites of summons
issued by justices of the peace.
To provide that personal service of
notices must be made before the right to
redeem land or real property from sales
| for local Improvements or other assess
ments can be eXtinguished.
To make adjacent lands to an incor-
porated village used as cemetery part of
such incorporation.
After the report of the committee of
the whole had been adopted there was
no trouble about adjournment, and the
senate will not be in session again until
| 10 o'clock Monday morning.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-03-22
A QUESTION RAISED.

A question has been raised as to the
right of Senator Day to vote on mat.
tiers before the senate, other than is
specified for the lieutenant governor
This is brought up because the vote
of Mr.. Day was one of the % which
passed the Anderson bill, taxing un-
used railroad lands, and the bill would
have failed had it not been for his
vote. The point raised is that he is
lieutenant governor and as such has
no right to vote except where there is
a tie, while the senator maintains that
he still represents Martin county in