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WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
Ex-DOOrkeeper of the National House
Killed I'm Virginia.

WASHINGTON, June 2s.-James A. New
som. of Memphis. Tenn, aged about fifty
years. for a long time one Of the door
keepers Of the House of Representatives.
was struck on the head several times last
night with a baseball bat in the hands Of
Lewis Berry, the twenty-year-old son Of
a frescoe painter, at the Capitol, from the
effects of which he died this morning. The
deed was committed at the residence of
Mrs. Margaret Carter, at Carlin Springs.
Va, where the murdered man, with his wife
and Mrs. l.. Marquette and her seven-year-
old daughter, who accompanied them, were
summeflng. NewSom is SAID TO have been. Of
dissolute habits as a result of which his
wife and Mrs. Marquette left the place and
returned 10 this city. Last night Berry was
calling on the young daug hter OF Mrs. Car
ter. Newsom made his appearance in the
room where the couple were sitting. Berry
assisted in getting Newsom back into his
room twice. and, finally becoming angered,
he snatched the baseball bat and dealt him
several blows with the result above stated.
Berry has not been arrested, but il is under
stood he will give himself up to the police.
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STEWART HAS A NEW IDEA.
The Decentralization of Silver Has Re-
duced the Number of Marriages.
Washington Special.

SPtCldl-
Senator Stewart, Of Nevada, advances the
proposition that the decentralization Of sill
yer will not only reduce the number of
marriages In the future, but that II has
already done SO 10 an alarming extent.
The reason the Senator says, lis obvi-
Gus. From the landing at jamestown until
fifteen years ago the only questions asked
Is he honest tAh indu iSpiois intelligent. and
OF good character If these were affirma-
lively answered, the consent of the parents
was ordinarily given. The question now is,
Has the young man a fixed income" The
possibility of his making a living for him
self and family by his industry is regarded
as too remote for consideration"
Why is this? Are not young men sue
ceeding to-day in business enterprises as
we'll as in the past?'
Not at all. There is not one succeeding
to-day where one hundred succeeded half a
century ago. You ask the cause? 1t is due
TO falling prices. If a man is in business
he is unable to dispose of the fruits of his
more he struggles and engages in business,
the more continually do prices fall. Thou
SANDS of men are renting farms to-day who
were owners some years ago and who were
forced TO abandon the position cf owners
because of their inability TO ray taxes.
The few who deal in money are the only
ones who are now able TO marry and sup
port wives"
What becomes of those who cannot af-
ford TO
They live" replied the Senator, grimly,
Wv
men are seeking employment in stores, as
typewriters, and as upper servants. They
must do something; they can't afford to
marry"
What will be the effect of this upon our
population"
THE effect will be to reduce population.
The census of 1890 showed a falling off in
the increase Of our population, and the CEN
sus OF 1909 will accentuate this decrease.
The number of marriages has decreased,
approximately, from . 10 40 per cent. dur
Ing the last five years. The press, the
banks and the railways have formed a COM
bination in support of the gold dollar. The
press will only publish the gold side of the
question; the banks furnish the money to
assist them and the railways carry their
people TO conventions free Of charge. Our
fight, in the face Of such opposition. Is a
fearfully one-sided one. The Southern peo-
pie are overwhelmingly favorable to the
white metal. Yet already the influence of
the gold standard is seen in that section.
Quite recently they have gained control of
the Nashville American, the Birmingham
Age-Herald and ten or a dozen other
papers. This shows that they are beginning
an active propaganda in the South, The end
Of which no man can foresee."
why don't the silver people commence
a similar propaganda in the East?' :
ITO do this requires time and money and
a friendly press. Unfortunately, we pos
sess neither"
What will be the effect upon the coun-
try of the election of a President opposed
to the free coinage of silver?"
widespread ruin and destruction, and
the decay of civilization"
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70 no purpose. The boats were then In the
vicinity OF the excursionists' floating craft.
with which the river was crowded, though
the course was left clear.
The Harvard boat. at three and one
quarter miles, swerved a little out of the
course towards the eastern SIDE, where the
steamers. Richard Peck and Isabel were
lying. but Cmswain Rust did not seem TO
fear any trouble. The Isabel was inside
Of the Richard Peck and she backed out
her. The moving Of the steamer caused
quite a swell. which interfered very mater
fally with the Harvard shell and a man in
q canoe came very close TO the college
mems oars while they were pulling through
the .churning. waters. They. were six
lengths behind at the beginning of the
last half mile in the race and showed
signs of the wear and tear of the race
The Yale men. however, hit up their stroke
from this point and rapidly gained an
other length by their increased efforts. The
Harvard crew held on pluckily. but they
were outclassed. The Yale men, with each
movement or their oars. seemed 10 get
further ahead and, amid TIE firing Of can
spectators. which made a perfect pam
demonium. the New Haven oarsmen passed
the winning flag easy winners by nearly
ten lengths.
Just as the winning crew were crossing
the line. a boat containing a man and two
girls, crossed the bow OF the Yale shell
and what might have been a serious ac-
cident, was averted by a hairs breadth.
The Yale boys did not slacken their stroke
after the race was won, but continued
rowing at a good clip under the big bridge,
each one OF the men sitting upright and
showing no bad effects OF their arduous
task. The beaten crew showed signs OF
distress and some OF them were seen to
later. The official time for the entire race
Il as follows:
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Appeal to Friends of Home Rule.
PORTE RUE 1T.
Powers Are Growing Weary Of Wait
ing for u Definite Answer.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 2S.-Represen-
tatives OF the powers are continuing their
efforts to induce the Turkish government
to give an explicit reply to the note of the
powers outlining the reforms demanded for
Armenia, and the foreign ENJOYS are indig-
nant at the delay. The Turkish Minister
for Foreign Affairs claims to be unable to
furnish the ENJOYS with information as to
which points of the plans of the powers
the Turkish government is DESTROYS of
further discussion, and ii Is thought prob
able that this dilatory course may result
In causing the powers to address another
note TO the Turkish government, in which
they will request a definite reply within a
fixed time to the demands already made.
The British Mediterranean squadron left
Alexandretta on Tuesday and steamed
north.
The Turkish government has received
news of the defeat of two insurgent bands
in Macedonia. Steps have been taken by
the Porte to suppress all attempts at re-
volt, but it is thought the rebellion will
spread to all parts of Macedonia, and
eventually cause action upon the part Of
the powers.
A dispatch from Constantinople to the
Times says that Shakir Pasha, with the
title of Imperial Inspector for the Asia
provinces, has been appointed imperial
commissioner of Armenian reform, but he
Is not intrusted with exc .utive powers.
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FITZSIMMONS ON TRIAL.
Jury Finally Selected and Taking of
Testimony Begun.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, June 2s.-After three
days effort a jury has been secured for
the trial Of Bob Fitzsimmons on the
charge Of manslaughter in the first degree
in the killing of his sparring partner. 'Con"
Riordan, in an exhibition in this city. In
the selection of the jury the prosecution
objected TO all talesmen examined who held
opinions on the case; who favored athletic
sports or who were Of Irish extraction.
The defense objected to church members.
District Attorney Shove stated the case for
the prosecution. For the defense Mr.. House
made a motion that the district attorney
elect upon which of the four counts in
the indictment he would try the case. The
motion was denied. Then Mr.. House moved
to dismiss each count separately. Each mo-
ton was overruled and exceptions taken.
Editor Quincy s. Lapham, the first wit
ness for the people. said he thought the
fatal blow was a powerful one. and he had
on the point of the chin. Attorney Edgar
n. Wilson testified that the men spared
with big gloves and Riordan was appar-
emily the aggressor. He could not say
where the fatal blow was delivered, as
the glove was large enough to cover a
mans face. He had seen FftZsimmons box
twice before, and this was the tamest ex-
hibiticn of them all. The witnesses called
subsequent to Mr.. Wilson were mainly
they had with F~itzsimmons after Riordan
was struck. In these interviews he said:
"Riordan is drunk as a bloody tick" No
damaging evidence to the defense was
brought out either on the direct or indirect
examination before court adjourned.
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A Victorious Idea.
New York Sun.

1t was after the close OF the war that
Governor Morton. OF Indiana. dead long
ago, made a speech In which he spoke thus:
The idea that we are a nation, undivided
and indivisible, should be a plank in the
platform OF every party. 1t should be the
political North Star by which every politi-
cal manager should steer his bark. 1t should
be the central idea Of American politics,
and every child should be. as IL were, vac
cinated with this idea"
How rapid has been the advance OF this
idea, and how complete is it's victory, II
has taken full possession OF the American
soul since the war. II is unchallenged. IL
is the central idea Of American politics.
II may yet serve a purpose in a party plat
form, but IL is not needed there as
formerly IL was. IL is the political
North Star by which every political man.
ager steers his bark: Every child is. so 70
speak, v~accinated with IL. No man would
be such a fool as TO call IL into question.
Thus rapidly may a great and beneficent
idea grow into the life and thought OF all
the people Of a country. This Nation is
indivisible, and IL was through the weld
ing forces of the war that II became so.
Even the men who fought against the
Union are among the truest and the sim
cerest Of its supporters.
The American Union and the American
flag forever more!
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D A NEW NAME
WHISKY TRUST TO BE CALLED THE
AMERICAN DIsTILLERY COMPANY.
Reorganization Committee Causes
Surprise by Applying for n Charter
Under the Laws of Illinois.

CHICAGO, June 2S.-The reorganization
committee Of the Whisky Trust made a
wholly unexpected move to-day by ap-
plying for an Illinois charter for the new
corporation, which is to take over and
operate the seventeen active plants OF the
old distilling and cattle feeding company.
Application for leave to incorporate was
sent to Springfield to-day. The name of
the new company is to be the American
Distillery Company. The object for which
1t is formed, the application says, is to en-
gage in and carry on a general distilling,
redistilling and rectifying business. The
capital stock is fixed at SIS, 900. 900 Of which
$7,OO0.00O0 shall be preferred and the rest
common. Chicago is given as the location
of the principal office. The duration of the
corporation is to be nine years.
1t has been expected all along that the
new corporation which is to carry on the
distilling business would be formed under
the laws OF New Jersey or West Virginia,
which are more liberal than those of ILL
nois. Moran. Kraus & Mayer, attorneys
for the reorganization committee. have.
company can operate under the Illinois
law and with an Illinois charter. They
recent decision rendered judgment of custer
against the Distilling and Cattle Feeding
Company because. first. 1T was the success
ton merely having been changed while
the old officers and the directors continued
the old business under a new name and,
second, because 1t had acquired seventy
distilleries that Ii did not need in carry
ing out the business named in it's charter.
Its acquisition of these extra disti!leries
and their dismantlements showed that
the company was trying to control the
market. The lawyers say the new company
will be free from both these objections;
that IL is not the successor of the old
trust either in respect OF personal or busi-
ness methods and 1t will buy and operate
only seventeen distilleries which are neces-
business purposes. The order OF sale has
been ready for some time. 1t is under
stood. and will soon be presented in court.
one reason for to-day's move is that a
company Is needed to take title to the
pronorfiaS m no sold
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Indiana Deaths.

SEYMOUR, Ind. June w.
Brown died at his home. in Jennings coun-
~, yesterday. Will heart trouble, aged six
ty-eight. He was a soldier in the Eighty
second Indiana Infantry and was once
treasurer OF that county.
Mrs. $. H. Charlton died at her home, in
this city. yesterday, with diabetes. Her
death was a great shock 10 her many
friends. as she was out attending to bust
ness only two days before she died. Mrs.
Cordelia A. Charlton was a daughter of the
Hon. Alanson Andrews. a prominent lawyer
and member of the Legislature from Jen-
nings county She was born at North Yer
non.
GAINESVILLE. Ind. June 2S.-Jacob
Keffer, a farmer of this township, was
found dead beside his buggy. this morning.
Heart failure was the cause. Mr.: Keffer
was one of the Oldest pioneers of the coun-
". having settled in this township sixty
five years ago.
UNION CITY, Ind, June IS. James
Whitesel. an aged resident OF this county.
died at the family's home four miles west
Of this city this morning.
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New York Evening Post
Newspaper readers have a vague recollec-
ton OF seeing a good many dispatches from
Idaho two years ago about serious troubles
In the Occur a Alene mines. A dispute
arose between the employers and the work.
men. and the latter abandoned their places.
New men were easily found who were
ready 10 accept the terms offered. and then
there were the usual troubles. with threats
and violence. The controversy ran on for
some time, and at last the dispatches
ceased TO mention the matter. People at
the East supposed hat IL had been settled
In the usual way, by the restoration OF or
der and the resumption OF work. IL appears,
however. that the mines have been closed
during these two years. and a great in
dustry has been paralyzed, because the
state authorities were unable &c protect
men who wished to work against other men
VINO FORBADE any one 10 work under a GER
tain scale OF prices. and threatened to
burn, blow up and destroy the property OF
owners. and to MAIN and kill workmen AZ
the prohibition were disregarded. The ex-
PLANTATION is that Idaho lacks the public
sentiment 10 command the restoration OF
order and the militia 10 enforce the COM
mand. II is really nothing but an aggre-
cation of a few thousand lawless voters.
Yet this is one OF the States which in
sist that the government reverse its fnan-
cial policy for their benefit.
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Fake Story ExpIoded.

NEW ORLEANS. June 2S.-Ex-Commo-
dore w. a. Gordon. of the Southern Yacht
Club, received a cable dispatch yesterday
from attorneys in Havana stating that the
yacht Nepenthe had been seized by the
Spanish authorities, and that her owners,
George Agar and Bishop Dudley, have been
imprisoned. Both of these gentlemen are
prominent in social and business circles,
being members of the Cotton and Sugar
Exchange. The Nepenthe left here a few
days ago on a cruise along the Florida
coast and across to Cuba. 1t is said that
the yacht was overhauled by a Spanish
gunboat and towed into Havana.
HAVANA, June 2S.-Inquiries made here
by the representatives OF the Associated
of the capture of the American yacht
Nepenthe by a Spanish war ship and the
imprisonment of those on board.
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BAD FOR CHIEF TOLER
YOUNG BOLTON duplicates HIM IN
FOUsT MURDER At ELwOOD.
Music Teachers Find They Have to
AIbany-Indiana state News.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

KOKOMO. Ind. June 2s.-Startling testi-
mony was elected in the Foust murder trial
to-day. The eleven-year-old son OF Mrs. Boil
ton. at whose house. In Elwood, William
Foust was murdered last July, testified that
Frank Toler. chief of police at Elwood.
was at the Bolton house and witnessed the
tragedy: that he also assisted in carrying
the dead body TO the railroad track. Toler
is a brother-in-law of one OF the men ar
rested by Anderson officers several months
after the crime was committed. This evil
dence was not brought out at the trial Of
George Hires, nor was IL presented to the
grand jury. Prosecutor Scanlon has not yet
ordered the arrest of Toler as an accessory
to the murder. Toler is still a member Of
the ElWOod police force.
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The Cnse of the penrI.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June est has
been ascertained that the Cuban filibuster
vessel Pearl. which was vainly searched
by the British war ship Tartar three days
before her seizure by the authorities Of
Port Maria for carrying arms and ammu-
milton to the insurgents, is owned by
mares n - d natlye Oh 5fayI, ana a
connection with the seizure of the Pearl
im%plicate Lascelles and Demercado, and
also Levy, a Jamaica legislator. The
Cuban passengers Of the Pearl escaped,
but the captain is in custdy. The customs
officials have a clew to those interested in
the expedition in the shape of ten marked
% cpS
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Edward Crittenden Sentenced.

CINCINNATI. June 2s.-At Covington,
Ky. To-day, Judge. w. H.. Taft sentenced
Edward Crittenden. a grandson of ex-
Governor Crittenden, of Kentucky, 10
serve eighteen months in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary for rihing mail matter at the
Frankfort postoffice. where he was en-
ployed. The arrest was made May 81. 1894.
by Inspectors Salmon and Holmes. and the
accused admitted TO bail. Crittenden went
TO Canada, whence he was returned by the
Dominion officials. He has been in jail
by the officials in the hope OF getting him
a pardOn.
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AN UNPUBLISHED CRIME.
No One Likely to BE Convicted Of
L~ynchfnE barrett scott.

BUTTE. Neb.. June 2s.-The acquittal last
night of Mullihan. Elliott and Harris. the
three vigilantes who we're accused of hang
ing Barrett Scott. the defaulting treasurer
OF Holt county. in June 1895. was not ex-
pected. This is the final chapter in one Of
the most sensational affairs in the history
OF the West. Scott, while treasurer of Holt
county. stole 500, coo and fled to Mexico. He
was extradited and sentenced TO the Deni-
tenitary for five years. Influential pol.ti-
Clans. IL is claimed, prevented his incarcer-
alton in the penitentiary, and while enjoy
ing his freedom. pending the Supreme
d. Courts action, he was taken from his bug
gy by a dozen masked men and hanged. II
was alleged to be the work of the old Wig
ilantes who fiourished in northwest Nebras-
Ia In niOneer DAVIS
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NEW YORK. June 2S.-Chairman Thorn
as H.. Carter, of the Republican national
committee and Senator Frederick w.
Dubois, of Idaho, have arrived from WASH
ington. Chairman Carter may or may not
await the arrival of Chairman Manley, OF
the Republican national executive commit
tee, before going back TO Montana. Man
ley Is expected TO sail for Liverpool next
there is likely to be a meeting OF the ex-
ecutive committee, and perhaps OF the en-
tire national committee. Chairman Car
ter told his followers in this cit. that the
refusal OF the Cleveland convention to de-
clare for a single standard assured 10 the
Republicans the two United States Sena-
publicans a majority in the new Senate and
would enable them TO organize IL without
making deals with the Democrats or Pop
uliSts.
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whisky Business Depressed.

PITTSBURG. June 2s.-Before July 10 all
the distilleries in the Pittsburg district
will be shut down for periods of from two
to six months. There is a depression in
the whisky business. and the suspension
forty-eight distilleries in the Pittsburg dis
.trict, and all of these will be closed before
up in September, and the rest will start
between that time and the first OF the year.
At the present time there IS a greater
amount of whisky in the warehouses and
store rooms of the distilleries than was
ever before known. The cause given by the
distillers for the decrease in consumption Is
that they are now feeling the hard times
that the country has Just recovered from.
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OUTRAGE ON AN AMERICAN.
Arrested I'm Rome While viewing a
Royal Procession.

ROME, June 2S.-In the Chamber of
Deputies to-day Signor Engel asked the
Secretary Of State for the Interior whether
an American citizen named Samuel Ham,
ilton was arrested on June 10 by the Italian
authorities. The Secretary replied that
Hamilton tried to force his way into the
house when King Humbert delivered his
address at the opening of the new Italian
Chamber of Deputies on June 10. resisted
an official who tried to prevent him from
doing SO, and was arrested. Having no
papers, continued the Secretary, Hamilton
was detained at the police station until
papers establishing his identity arrived.
and he was released on June p. Signor
Engel. after hearing the explanation of the
Secretary. said that he doubted the truth
of the statement on behalf of the govern
ment. He added that Hamilton did not
van to enter the Chamber of Deputies.
He was passing along the route followed
by the royal party when he was arrested.
Signor Engel insisted that the affair was
most regretable. but the Secretary replied
that Hamilton had made no complaint.
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Says Narti Is Not Dead.

PORTLAND, Me-, June pa letter re-
ceived to-day by Joseph c. Cantwell, from
Captain Louis Bernhard, of the Cuban in
surgents. bears the information that last
month five thousand rifles and a million
cartridges were shipped from New York by
Cuban swmpathizers and successfully land
ed on the island. Bernhard further states
that General Marti was not killed by the
Spanish troops. as has been reported. nor
was he assasslnated by an lnsurgent traitor,
at the head of his troops. The Cubans have
possession of the entire southern end of
the island and Maceo has issued clearance
papers to many outward-bound vessels.
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Liyeryman. in San Francisco Call.

AissfShudh' III san rIaiiSiSOo Sn
About seven years ago the same condi-
ton of affairs existed in England as is in
this city at the present time, and when BIZ
cycles were reduced in value and IL was in
the means of the laboring classes TO pur-
chase them, people who could afford livery
rigs Immediately deserted them. The same
thing will happen here in the course OF
time, and in any event We foresee no seri-
Gus result and can ascertain no reason why
they should affect our business TO any great
extent