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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-12-04
THE HAVANA PRESS.
Americans Severely Criticised by the
Daily Comm rcio.

HAVANA, Dec. 4-The Daily Commercio
has the following editorial on the outlook
for Cuban affairs and the attitude of for
eign governments towards the question:
La force prime lie droit," Qorce over
powers right said Bismarck TO Europe.
which was heard with establishment and to
the scandal of the German empire. Spain.
during two years, has treated the rebels
and their accompliccs like gentlemen. We
have made sincere protests full of dignity
to the United States against their jingoes
calumniaung Spain and calling us bloody
tigers in spite of the noble conduct Of the
army toward the Cubans. These proceed
ings and the language Of the press are re-
Elections upon the Yankees.
The Commerce. protests against the in
sulting anu-Spanish attitude of the Amer
lean press and its favorable attitude to-
wards the insurgents and says: Spain has
gained no consideration through diplomacy
and must in future depend upon material
force to command respect for its rights.
Time has shown this and teaches US 10
sharpen our nails for the fray"
The paper criticises the Inconsistency and
Vaclllatlng policy OF the New York news
papers and of the London Times and says:
Americans are totally incapable of good
faith and it is time the Spaniards were
convinced that only the army and navy
will avail to settle the question. We sug-
gest that restored Spanish fleet and 30O,-
900 men will be able to go anywhere"
The Commercio notes that Senator Nor
gan is already relenting in his previous de-
sire TO gobble Cuba and is now talking
conservatively on the question.
An editorial in La Lucha deals with the
exhortation by the London and Paris press
to Spain to deliver a decisive blow against
the insurgents because the settlement of
the Venezuelan question and England's S
recognition of the Monroe doctrine makes
mediation in Cuba from Washington prob
able as an indirect result of the Monroe
doctrine. La Lucha says of this view:
THE English press has lost its serenity
and good sense and its boasted impartiality
Other questions, such the limits of
Guiana, have no affinity with the discussion
of the limits of Spain's possessions in
Cuba. Since its discovery nobody has dis
puted Spain's right of possession
With reference TO the argument of the
English press that the elevation of Mr..
Mckinley to the presidency will give an
impetus to the Monroe doctrine, La Lucha
expresses the belief that the new President
will not allow his ideals and passions TO
supplant his duties a statesman.
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RAINES LAW INVESTIGATION.
Testimony of the Commissioner and
superintendent of Brooklyn Police.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Nothing sensa-
tional was developed in the investigation
of the Raines law to-day. Leonard r.
Welles, commissioner of police of Brooklyn,
was called to- the stand. The good features
of the law, he said. were ''the exposure of
saloons, the abolition of free lunch which
had maintained an army of tramps; raising
the license, thereby wiping out a number
of saloons that were more or less trouble
some to the authorities. Among the bad
features of theanew law / might mention
that u good number of so-called hotels have
been opened. Many of these are hotels
only in name.
What would you say as to the state
ment that 500 of the hotels in Brooklyn are
used for immoral purposes?" asked Senator
Raines.
You want me to use plain language,
suppose? Well, then, L would say that it is
a lie,' replied Mr. Welles.
Superintendent McKelvey of the Brook
1yn police, commended certain features of
the new law. among them exposure of the
saloons. The superintendent produced
memoranda showing that before May last
there were fourteen bona fide hotels in
Brooklyn. To-day, according to the official
records Of his department, there are 1,47i
places with hotel licenses.
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WEYLER's TROOPS DEFEATED.
MaceO's Men Said to Have Been Vfc-
tOriOus in n Fight.

TAMPA, Fla, Dee. 3.-Passengers from
Havana this evening says that rumors are
rife in Havana that a fight has just oc-
CURED between the vanguard of Weyler' S
army and some of Maceos men with large
forces on each side. No details are men
toned because, as the passengers say. the
people in Havana are more than usually re-
ticent since it was learned that the Spanish
army did not come off best. 1t is believed
therefore that Maceo gained a victory
The palace people seemed more than usual
ly viisilant and active to-day, which is
significant.
Two hundred sick and wounded Spanish
soldiers were brought into the city hos
pitals to-day from near Mariel and San
Cristchal. 1t is reported in Havana that
Weyler has lost two railroad trains from
dynamite explosions, including much
needed army supplies for his men sent from
Havana.
FIFTY persons arrested the past week were
Geported to-day. but whittier is a mystery
though Africa is supposed TO be their des-
tinaton.
The rumors afloat OF "A proposed attack
on Havana by Gomez seems unfounded
The best information obtainable is that
scattered guerilla bands are hoyerlng
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DENIED BY THE VATICAN.
American PrcIn tes and Professors Are
Not to BE Reprimanded.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-For some time
there has been periodically published dis
patches pretending to come from Rome and
from other points indicating proposed ac-
ton on the part of the Holy See in regard
to archbishops, and especially touching the
faculty of the Catholic University at Wash
ington. All sorts of reprimands. removals
and even degradations were promised and
the names OF the recipients of such favors
were given. These reports have naturally
annoyed those who hold highest places i'm
the Catholic hierarchy in America and
could not fail to create displeasure in the
mind even of the Pope himself Their ef-
feet on the Pope is manifested in the fol-
lowing cablegram received from the papal
secretary OF state by Mgr. Martinell apos-
tolic delegate, which needs no explanation
nor comment:
1.-The Holy Father has learned with great
sorrow of the agitation created in the
United States by pretended correspondents
and kilograms from Rome announcing
measures soon to be taken against eminent
American prelates and distinguished pro-
fessors of the Catholic University. Your
excellency will authoritatively deny all
such falsehoods, which are the product of
reprehensible maneuverings.
m. CARDINAL. RAMPOLII"
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SERAFIN sANCHEZ'S DEATH.
How the Inspector General Of the Gu.
ban Army Died.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The Cuban Junta
has received from Cuba confirmation of the
report of the death in battle of Major
General Serafin Sanchez, inspector general
of the insurgent army, at Las Damas,
Santa Clara province, on Nov. 90 An ex-
pedition was expected from Jamaica, and
part of the forces of Generals Carrillos and
Sanchez started for the coast to receive It.
The insurgents numbered about 100 men,
but before reaching the point where the
expedition was to disembark the column
was attacked by 5000 Spaniards under Gen.
eral Luque. desperate battle ensued
which lasted five hours, darkness making
it impossible to continue the fight. In the
battle the Spaniards suffered a loss Of 11O
killed and so wounded. The Cuban loss
was 43 killed and 26 wounded. General
Sanchez mounted on a small horse. was
i'm the thick of the battle. column of
Spanish soldiers surprised the insurgents
by an attack from the rear and General
Sanchez received a bullet in the back. He
remained on his horSc however, and al
though his compatriots tried to induce him
to retire he refused saying that he was
not badly wounded. Ten minutes later he
fell from his horse, and soon expired. His
last words were: viva Cuba Libre."
General Sanchez born forty-two
years ago i'm Sancti Spritu district, Santa
Clara, his father being a wealthy planter.
In Key West he planned with Jose Marti
the present revolution, and its efforts are
due ir a &c measure to his work.
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ANOTHER DYNAMITE NINE.
5000 Spanish Soldiers Said to Have
Been Killed and wounded.

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 3.-The Rev. A. J.
Diaz, the Baptist missionary of Havana
who was driven from Cuba several months
ago on account of alleged affiliation with
the insurgents, reached this city to-day
from Texas, where he has been engaged In
church work. While in New Orleans he met
several Cubans who gave him interesting
accounts Of what is going on in the island
These Cubans had come over from Havana
on the steamer Aransas, and were going
to make the Crescent City their home
They had been permitted to leave the island
because of the fact that they were taking
II was told said Mr.. Diaz, THAT every
thing was at a Standstill in Havana. There
is absolutely nothing going. on In the city.
as door nail. But General Maceo seems
to be getting in his work, and from what
1 was told by my friends in New Orleans
discriminating many of the Spaniards. The
press reports contained a story to the
effect that General Maceo had enticed
Weyler. with many of his men, on to a
point of ground that had been dynamited
for their especial benefit and succeeded in
killing and wounding many of them
was told of a second mine that had been
fired while the Spanish soldiers were on Ii
only day or two ago. did not get the
exact date. but at the time his men We're
entrapped and led on to the ground Gen.
eral Weyler was in the city OF Artemisa,
and knew nothing of it until the dynamite
lad done its work. This mine was set be-
tween the Rubi and the Cayajabo noun
tains by Maceo's electrician. After it was
all prepared, as i'm the other case the
Cubans and Spaniards engaged in battle.
The Cubans, of course, retreated. and as
they did so, the Spaniards followed, keep
ing as near them as possible. When the
army was between the two mountains the
mines were touched off, and in a few min
utes the air was filled with dead and
wounded men and horses flew in every di-
rection. My friends stated" concluded Mr..
DiaZ. ''thlt there were 5000 Spanish soldiers
killed and wounded in the explosion of the
last mine.''
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A GENEROUS TEXAN.
Yale College and Several Hospitals
Bequeathed Large Amounts.

CANTON, Tex, Dec. 3.-The last will of
George Bliss has just been recorded here.
After disposing of an immense fortune, he
proceeds follows with bequests:
Il give and bequeath to the following in
stitutions the sums set opposite their
names, respectively: To Yale College, at
New Haven, to be applied at the discretion
of the president. $4,000; Woman's Hospital,
in the State of New York, $40 900; Hospital
of the New York Society for the Relief of
the Ruptured and Crippled, 100000 Manhat-
tan Eye and Ear Hospital. 100000 New
York City Mission and Tract Society, Sl0,-
900; New York Protestant Episcopal Mis-
sion Society, $4,000; Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Protestant Epis-
lea one-helf of said sum. and the other
half for domestic missions, $4,000; Wom-
ans Home of Northampton, Mass, $4,000
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JOINED THE INSURGENTS.
Spanish Garrison Deserted by Its De-
fenders-ConvOy Captured.

KEY WEST. Fla, Dec. 3.-News has
been received here that the troop of the
Spanish garrison at San Jose de las Lajas,
twenty miles southeast of Havana aban-
doned its post and joined the insurgents.
Many of the citizens accompanied the
troops and carried ammunition with them
The news caused great excitement at the
palace. and fresh troops were Immediately
sent to the post. and order was restored
Before the troops arrived anarcuy reigned.
and when the troops reached the city many
residents were shot down in the streets.
News from Santiago de Cuba reports that
the insurgents captured an important
Spanish convoy of ammunition and supplies
between Bueycito and Manzanillo, with
nearly a million rounds OF Marser and
Remington cartridges.
No more social or family gatherings will
be held in Havana unless special permit
shall be secured from the authorities. All
the homes OF leading Cuban families are
watched rs well the movements of for
eign correspondents, and are reported TO
the police. The postofiice officials open let
ters indiscriminately and send them to
owners without excuse. outgoing passen-
gers when suspected are searched aboard
the ships and steamship officers are closely
watched
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BOLD "H0LD-UP
Cashier of n st. Louis Brewing Com
pany Robbed I'm His ONCE.

with drawn revoivers, entered the office of
the Home Brewing Company at o'clock
this afternoon and held up the cashier.
Robert Haverkamp, forced him to hand
over $500 and then went behind the counter,
looted the money drawers and secured
probably $500 additional The robbery was
the most daring that has occurred in st.
Louis for years When the hold-up oc-
Cured there were present i'm the office the
cashier, a half dozen clerks and several
customers. The robbers mounted North
Broadway car and went south when they
left the car and went towards the river.
A half dozen police officers hurried to the
brewery office, but when they arrived there
was no trace of the fellows.
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NEW YORK. Dec. AIRS: Elizabeth c.
Wilson widow of Henry Wilson, of st.
Louis, Is dead at Mont Clair, n. j. She
was sixty-five years of age; Mrs. Wilson
was direct descendant of Rev Judah
Campion. Of revolutionary fame. She was
Q niece Of former Governor Williams, of
Vermont, and cousin of Chancellor Liv-
ingston. Mrs. Wilson was one of the old
est members OF the Daughters of the Rev
olution.
COLUMBUS. o., Dec. 3-yohn Tod. of
Cleveland, OF the firm of Tod, Stambaugh
& Co. son OF Ex-Governor Tod, of Ohio
and recently appointed member of the
Statehouse Improvement Board, dropped
dead In the Chittenden Hotel at 40 o'clock
this morning. Death Is believed to have
been caused by apoplexy.
SOUTH NORRIDGEwOCK, Me-. Dec. 3
Rev. Benjamin Tappan, ID. d., ex-presi-
dent of the Bangor Theological Seminary
died here to-day after a long illness. He
was eighty-one years OF ass
NEW YORK, Dec. Fitch James
Stranahan. the only son OF j. s. T. Strana-
han, Brooklyn's foremost citizen. died ir
Brooklyn OF apoplexy this afternoon, aged
fifty-five years.
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FRANKLIN'S PRAYER BOOK.
Sold to Boston BibliOmaniac mt the
High Figure of $50.

BOSTON, Mass. Dec. "a copy of the
Book of Common Prayer of the Church of
England, abridged and edited by Benja min
Franklin at London in the year 1773, was
sold for s1,25O at auction last night. The
firm of Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York,
was the purchaser. 1t bought the book, ii
is claimed, for a client. This famous
Franklin prayer book is supposed to be the
only copy in America and Is perhaps the
only copy i'm existence to-day as no other
has been found to date. Bibliomaniacs and
experts set the price il would bring at 5000.
The book was included i'm the valuable col
lection I'm the library of Prof. Henry Reed,
of the University of Pennsylvania.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 3.-At to-day's session
of the convention Of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers these papers We're
read: Experimental Investigation of the
Cutting of Bevel Gears with Rotary Cut
ters." by Forrest r. Jones and Arthur l..
Goddard. Madison. Wis; Celebration of a
worthington Water Meter" by John A.
Laird St Louis: Construction and Defer
omation OF Iron Castings in Cooling, from
the FLUID TO the Solid State by Francis
Schuman. Philadelphia: "A Two-hundred-
foot Gantry Crane by John W. Seaver
Cleveland: 1.-THE Washing OF Bituminous
Coal by the Luhrie Process" by j. v.
Shaefer. Chicago; Friction Horsepower in
Factories by G. II. Benjamin. Cleveland
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BITTEN BY A MAD DOG.
Seven Baltimore Children Sent to the
Pasteur Institute.

BALTIMORE. Md. Dec. 3.-Seven chill
dren who were bitten by a mad dog in the
suburbs of Baltimore Tuesday were sent
to the Pasteur Institute to-day by the Bal
timore News. Lawrence wilson the worst
bitten of the children, was sent on last
night. His left eye was almost torn out
and the cheek much lacerated. The other
children were not so badly injured, but
three or four of them were badly bitten
about the face, arms and neck.
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Other Fires.

NEW YORK. Dec. 3.--The administra ton
building of the New Jersey State Institu-
tion for Predetermined Children. at Vine
land took fire at midnight and was de-
stroyed. Loss. So, 900. The teachers and
inmates lodging in the building and who
numbered only twenty-five, Were aroused
in time TO leave with most of their effects.
There was no panic among the two hun
dred occupants of the other eight buildings
OK the institution.
CLEVELAND o., Dec. Sire, which
originated from a lamp explosion, destroyed
works No. of the Variety Iron Company.
The loss will be between $4,000 and $50. 600.
fully covered by insurance. One hundred
and fifty men are thrown out of employ
ment The plant Will be rebuilt at once.
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MRS. LEASE In TROUBLE.
Her Home Advertised for Sale ON
Mortgage Foreciosure.

WICHITA, Kan, Dee. 3.-Notice of fore
closure OF mortgage on the Lease home
stead has been issued. The amount in
volved is 81. 400 and costs. Mrs Lease is in
New York. and il is not known whether
she Will redeem or permit the property to
go. The home IS a pretty one. apparently
worth more than the amount involved The
notice OF sherin's sale appeared this week
among the legal notices.
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SCARE AT HAVANA.
Noise Of the BOmba rdment of Guana-
bacaO Heard at the Capital.

KEY WEST. Fla, Dec. 3.-Advices re-
oeived from Havana by the steamer Oil
ve.te state that on Tuesday the vanguard
of the army of Gomez encamped near
Guanabacao, which is just across the bay
from Havana. On Wednesday at noon the
insurgents began to lombard Guanabacao
The roar of the guns was heard easily in
Havana and threw the royalists of the cap
ital into a panic. Many houses were fired
by the shells from the insurgents cannon,
and the smoke and fis mes were visible to
the people IN Havana.
The Spaniards in Havana were greatly
alarmed. as they believed that the bom-
bardment of GuanabaCao was only prelim-
mary to an attack upon the metropolis
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FIRE LOSS OF 100000.
Scottish Rite Hall and other Build
fngs Destroyed.

OTTAWA, Ont, Dee. 3.-A destructive
fire broke out in Mrs. Turner's confection-
cry establishment on Parks street to-day.
1t extended to Mcdonald Brothers furnish
ing store and then the store of G.. n. Hol-
brooke. clothier, whose building, as we'll as
Turner's and McDonald's were gutted and
everything destroyed. On the top floor of
this building was the Scottish Rite hall.
All the paraphernala is lost. Holbrooke' S
building is destroyed as is the Masonic
Hall, which was on the upper floor. From
Holbrooke's the fire spread to the large dry
goods establishment of G. .. Ross & Co.
Only part of the front wall is standing.
The loss is about $500 600.
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Train Robbers Identified.

NEVADA, Mo-. Dec. 3.-In the trial of
the Nassau alleged train robbers here. the
defendants. VIM. Il. Morris. Harry Vaughn
and VIM Rogers have been positively iden-
tilted by the trainmen. The hold-up oc-
Cured on the Nevada * Minden road. two
miles south of this place, Jan. Is. 1896 One
OF the robbers shot Conductor Robert
Trickett In the face. but he was not fatal
ly hurt. The men are being tried under a
law that provides the death penalty for
train robbery. There are seven indictments
against each of the defendants
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VIII Dance AS Usual.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 3.-Concerning
the report going the rounds to the effect
that the inaugural ball may possibly be
omitted at the coming Inauguration of
President-elect Mckinley i'm March, Chair
man M. A. Hanna, who has charge of the
arrangements pertaining TO such matters.
said to-day: Il think the inaugural ball
will be given as usual. 1T has become
time-honored custom in connection with
the inaugural ceremonies and there is no
reason why it should be omitted now"
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DENVER, Col, Dec. 3.-An appeal to the
humane society has been made on behalf
OF Grace Solomon. aged twenty-one years,
who Is violently insane and Is kept with
out any clothing. chained TO the wall i'm
an apartment over a pawnshop in this
city, or which her father. J. Solomon. FORM
erly or Glasgow. KY. Is proprietor. The
father Il desirious OF having the young
woman placed in an asylum, but the moth
- refuses her consent.
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CARTRIDGES IN BALED HAy.
An Unpleasant Experience with the
Sp.Dish i'm Cuba.

PERRY. o. T., Dec. 3.-James Turner.
former Kansan. but now a resident OF
Guatemala. Central America. who has been
importing stock into that country and has
also been engaged in furnishing supplies
from the United States TO the Cuban army
was here to-day on his return TO his, former
home In Kansas. having just madeihis es-
cape from the lines OF the Spanish army in
Continued ON Second Pngel
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CELINA. o.. Dec. 3.--Two prominent oil
operators were drowned here to-day. Ern-
est Godfrey. OF Emlenton. Pa. was on the
Ice on lake: the ice broke. Arthur PALM
er. OF Montezuma. o.. ran to his rescue:
the ice gave way beneath him and both
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Cooper for national "Fapmer.v
Inauguration Rates.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The joint traffic
managers have approved the following
fares to Washington and return, on account
of presidential Inauguration ceremonies.
recommended by the trunk line and central
passenger committees: Trunk-line terri
tory IS per capita for the round trip from
New York and $40 from Pittsburg, Par
kersburg and Wheeling via direct lines;
central passenger committee territory, one
fare per capita for the round trip, tickets
to be sold and good going March /. 2 and 8,
good returning to leave Washington not
earlier than March and not later than
March s, inclusive. The fares west of the
trtlnlc-line territory to be regulated so
as to be lower than from trunk-line West
ern terminal points. Standard ticket. Form
3. to be used from all Joint Traffic Assocla-
ton territory points.
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around Havana suburbs ten TO twenty
miles out and their encounters are almost
of daily occurrence
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OBITUARY..

WOman's Auxiliary of the G. A. R.
WATERFOWL. n. Y, Dec. 3.--Mrs.
Sarah Z. Mink. national president of the
Wcmans Auxiliary OF the Grand Army of
the Republic died at her home in this city
to-day. aged if-y-nine years