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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
FAMOUS PAINTER DEAD
SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIs, PRESI-
DENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
Gained His First Medal mt the Society
Of Arts When Only Nine Years OF
Aze-His Many Works.

LONDON. Aug. 13.-Sir John E. Millais,
president Of the Royal Academy. died at
$50 D. m. His end was painless. The
the Duke and Duchess OF York have teie-
graphed their condolences. and many mes
sages have been received from Europe and
editorials pointing out the incalculable loss
10 British art and the difficulty which the
Royal Academy will find in selecting
worthy successor.
Sir John Everett Millais was born at
Southampton in 1929. The family Of Millais
has held for centuries place among the
lesser landlords in the island Of Jersey,
where the name doubtless existed Ions,
prior to the Norman conquest of England
At the early age of nine he began his art
education in Mr.. Sass academy and two
years later he became a student at the
Royal Academy. where he gained the prin-
cipaI prizes for drawing. He gained his
first medal at the Society of Arts when
only nine. ''Pizarro Seizing the Inca OF
Peru" his first exhibited picture, was at
the Academy in 1864. followed by Dun
stan's Emissaries 6ezins Queen Elgiva,"
and colossal cartoon at the Westminster
Hall competition. The Widows Mite" in
1s47 and the picture of "The Tribe of Ben
jamin Seizing the Daughters OF Shiloh" at
the British Institution in lS4S Keats S
isabella was the subject of his pencil
f. lsie.
While student in the Academy's
schools his tastes had tacitly rebelIed
against the routine conventions OF acad-
enlic teaching. and. strengthened in that
feeling by such specimens OF early Italian
art as fell In their way, he and his friends
William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel
Rosetti. resolved to study nature as 1t ap-
peared 10 them. not as 1t appeared in the
antique" These views were afterward
adopted by Charles Collins and other
younger painters. who were termed, half
In jest and half in earnest, "The Pre-
Raphaelite School,
For a short time the artists tried 10 en-
force their views by the pen as well as by
the brush. in a short-lived periodical. The
Germ: or. Art and Poetry" which ap-
peared in 1850 The principal works exc
cuted by Millais under the influence of his
new convictions are a mystical picture of
our Saviour" and Ferdinand Lured by
Ariel" in $780, Mariana i'm the Moated
Grange and THE Woodman's Daughter"
In 1851. and the '.Huguenot" and ..Opheiia''
IN 1852. Mr.. kuskin came, in 1851 TO the
support OF the new school with enthusiasts
tic approval. freely expressed I'm letters TO
the Times in 1852. as well in pamphlet
on Pre- -Raphaelitism" and i'm his Lee
lures on Architecture and Painting" in
MilIais was elected an associate of the
Royal Academy in 1853. and became r. A.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
EFFECTS OF BRyAN's SPEECH.
Comment cs the Westminster Review
American Stocks Weak.

LONDON, Aug. 13-The Westminster Ca
zette in it's financial article this afternoon
refers to the speech made yesterday even
ing in Madison-square Garden. New York,
by William j. Bryan, and says: ''Mr.
Bryan's speech will certainly not increase
confidence in the minds of investors. 1t
is replete with financial heresies, and will
cause investors everywhere to desire to
withdraw their money from the United
States while they are able 10 obtain gold in
payment for debts. Should the free-silver
party be elected gold will undoubtedly be
driven out of circula ton and a substantial
premium would at once be demanded by
those possessing IL. We do NOT believe that
individual Americans will take advantage
cf the political dishonesty proposed by the
democratic convention, whereby even exist
ing contracts calling for payment in gold
Will not be valid when free coinage IS car
ried. 1t is, however. certain that railroads
owing large amounts of gold debts would
with the premium on gold be unable to
meet the interest obligations temporarily
at any rate, and would be forced TO pay
bankrupt. The fear OF such contingency
renders il extremely difficult TO sell any
but the highest class of American railway
bonds at the present time. Still IL is hoped
that Eastern electors appreciate the dam
gers ahead and will support the candi-
dates pledged to maintain the gold stand
ard. otherwise we are likely TO witness a
crisis of unecualled severity"
On the Stock Exchange Americans
opened weak owing to strorg disapproval
of the speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
More Naval Engineer. Needed.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The first run
Of the fleet under Admiral Bunce. from
New York to Hampton Roads, occupying
a period of eight days has been the means
Of drawing the attention OF the Navy De-
partment TO what may be expected from
these ships IN actual war conditions or
rather what may not be expected of them.
During this short run and at nothing like
the conditions that would obtain during
hostilities Chief Engineer George Il.
Tower and Passed Assistant Engineer Nc
Allister. of the battle ship of the squadron,
been invalided 10 the hospital. The i'm
portance OF increasing the number of Of
ficers in the engineer corps is daily felt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The practice of
the boards of examining surgeons of The
Pension Bureau has been materially
changed by a ruling made by Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Reynolds. The
new rules which take effect Oct. l next,
and which will not disturb cases heretofore
adjudicated provide that all board MEM
bers hereafter must participate In exami-
nations of claimants. and no certificate of
special consent OF the claimant. will be
accepted. In case a fun board is not
present applicants may refuse TO be ex-
amned. In an amDutation case Assistant
Secretary Reynolds also has laid down the
rule that the middle of the humerus is
the furthest point from the shoulder joint
that will prevent the use of an artificial
rp0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
New York Times Sold.

NEW YORK. Aug. 13.-The New York
Times was sold to-day under order of court
The property was bid In by the reorganlza-
represents all the creditors and all but a
small per cent of the stockholders. Con-
hrmation of the sale by the court is sx-
pected next week. Under the new corpora
ton Adoiph Ochs. OF the Chattancoga
Times. will become the publisher and gem
eral manager OF the New York Times
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
Mrs. Bryan's Ring Found.

PITTSBURG, Aug. 13.-The lost engage
ment ring Of Mrs. W. J. Bryan. wife Of
the Democratic nominee for President
which was found here yesterday, is still
In the hands of the police awaiting instruc-
tion from Mr.. Bryan. who was notified
Immediately on its recovery The ring was
found all battered up by being trampled
on in the bed of the carriage in which Mr.
and Mrs. Bryan were driven from the
Union Depot TO the Central Hotel and from
the hotel TO the opera house and back IL
has a dark ruby setting with the inscrip-
ton, .Will to Mamie, June T. $780,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

Special 10 The Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-Asher o. VAN
syckley, Of Zionsville has been appointed
a railway mail clerk.
c. L. Bressie was to-day appointed post
master at Kossuth, Washington county.
vice NJ. l.. Ribbelin, resigned.
The gold Withdrawals to-day amounted
to 800. leaving the gold reserve in the
treasury $106, ,2i6, ,157.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
CELIA ROSES REVENGE.
Poisoned Her Father, Mother and
Brother for Directing to Her Lover.

MANSFIELD, O., Aug. l3-Miss Celia
Rose. aged twenty-three. has been arrested
charged with poisoning her father and
mother. David Rose and wife. and her
brother Walter. They lived a farm
twelve miles away. her motive was re-
venge for objections TO the attentions of a
neighboring young man. She mixed the
poison with cottage cheese and gave IL TO
them June "a. She at last confessed the
crime and was arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
Armour Meats Boycottcd by Butchers.

DENVER. Col, Aug. 13.-The National
Retail Butchers Protective Association
now holding its annual convention here
has instructed its police commission 10 en-
force the boycott previously ordered against
all meats handled by the Armour Packing
Company This action is taken because il
Is alleged the Armour company undersels
the retailers I'm restaurants and hotels IL
Was unanimously resolved to continue the
fight on New York city department stores
which sell meats
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

CLEVELAND, O.. Aug. l3-Whclesale
liquor dealers from all parts OF the ~oun-
try Will meet in this city Aug. 81 to or
ganize a national LIQUOR dealers Associa-
ton. IL is stated that a capital of $780,
eco coo will be represented at the meeting
The chief object of the convention will be
tion of whisky. The wholesalers say there
has been an overoroduction for the past
five years and a gradual decrease in con-
sumption during that period.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
CHEAP SILVER DOLLARS
FREE COINAGE PUT INTO PRACTICE
BY A GANG OF COUNTERFEITERs.
100000 Central American Dollars
coined Into United States Dollars.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1S-The Secret
Service Bureau of the Treasury Department
has been requested . look into report
of extensive counterfeiting of United States
silver dollars in one of the Central Ameri-
can states. The Information comes from
Mexican paper. and was sent to the State
Department by Minister Ransom. 1t states
that in one of the Central American states
a company has been organized by Ameri-
cans who have purchased the silver dollars
OF the state worth AZ cents and coined
them into American dollars 1t is said that
$500 600 Of these dollars have been shipped
into this country, where they have passed
at par The story is discredited at the
Treasury Department, and ii is said that
il would be impossible TO ship any con-
siderable number of coins into this country
without the counterfeit being discovered.
If counterfeiting has been going the
guilty persons could be punished under the
treaties providing for such crimes. which
have been made with nearly all countries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
Removed by the pre.ident.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13-The President
has appointed Silas Peury to be register of
the land Office at Sacramento. Cal. and
George $. Cosby to be receiver of pub ic
moneys at Sacramento, both TO succeed
officials who have been removed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-The bulletin
Of the Bureau of Statistics shows the value
of the principal articles of export for the
month of July as compared with July 1896
TO have been as follows: Mineral oils. S.
49s 9l7, increase. s503. SO: cotton So col 343
increase, s1.6S7.364; breadstuffs. $l2 40 66s.
increase $3.50. .355; provisions, including cat
tie and hogs, Sl3 Se1. .757 decrease sl3i e30
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
Daniel Bultera.

CHICAGO. Aug. 1s-Daniel Buffers. a
prominent grain merchant and member of
the Board of Trade. is dead He was the
first man to utilize private wires for the
gathering OF crop and market reports and
also the first to make use of the Atlantic
cable in the grain business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-14
Pnrdons and Deninis.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S-The President
has granted pardons TO Warren Curtis, SEN
fenced in eastern Texas to three years
Imprisonment for horse theft; W. L.
Pritchett sentenced in southern Alabama
to four months Imprisonment and fine for
cutting timber from the public lands. and
Charles Edward Bryan, sentenced in north
ern Alabama TO two years for counter
feiting Ito restore citiZenship) He has
committed TO one year and three months
actual Imprisonment the two years
tence imposed in Texas upon Joseph c.
Jackson for assault with intent to kill.
Pardons have been denied In the cases of
NJ. S. Dougherty sentenced in eastern
Texas TO two years and fine for passing
counterfeit money and Albert Stahr. SEN
fenced in western Missouri TO year i'm
prisonment for like offense.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
|cosrlY BELGIAN GUN BARRELS.
They Are Made by Hand and by ees4s
pIIcated Process.

They Are Made by Hand and by . Gems
pllcated Process.
The United States consul In Liege de-
scribes, in a recent report. the nanti=
facture of and trade in damascus gun
barrels, wholly hand made, in the val
ley of the Vesdre, in Liege province.
These barrels are for sporting guns.
and the industry is many years old.
the workmen in the villages in the val
ley being almost all gun-barrel makers.
and the trade descending from father
TO son.
The best barrels are a combination
Of the best primary substances, welded
and forged by the martelage a froid
process; the steel comes from West
phalia, the iron is manufactured at
Couvin, in Belgium; the coal, which is
specially suited for the work from the
IIerve highlands, in Belgium, while
the motive power of the factories is
obtained from the River Vesdre. The
industry has increased greatly in re-
cent years. These armes de luxe,
they are called, are made by men work
ing in pairs, each pair in its own little
factory, quite independent of all others.
They are paid by the piece, the wages
being good, and about 1000 men are
engaged on the work in the valley.
Medium quality barrels are made of
coke iron and steel, while the superior
quality, which produced in the
Vesdre valley, are made of charcoal
iron and steel. An ingenious mar
riage" of these metals gives a compost
ton which, when manufa ctured, guar
antees the required solidity and resist
ance.
The improvement in these damascus
barrels dates from the introduction of
percussion caps in the place of the old
flint lock. Formerly iron barrels alone
were produced; now, to manufacture
the curled damascus, the ingot is com
posed of so sheets of iron and steel,
each having a thickness of four miIli-
meters, which are enveloped in sheet
iron box, placed in an oven, and welded
together at the lowest possible temper
allure. Each barrel receives $50 weld
ing beats while being forged, and if
a single one of these is unsuccessful
the barrel may be a failure, either by
alteration of the damascened work or
an imperfection in the welding.
There is no official test of these armes
de luxe, but they are thoroughly tested
by the manufacturers before delivery.
The annual production of damascus
barrels in the Vesdre valley is about
300, 900 pairs, of value of about $780,
900 francs. Of this the wages alone
for all the guns are hand made-amount
to about 2,OOO,O 900 francs. The princi-
pal markets are Great Britain and the
United States. About half the barrels
made in the Vesdre valley are sold to
manufacturers of arms in Liege to be
mounted.-N. Y. Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
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s6H66L ANR EHHRGH,

=6Sfsfa, Cambridge af9a fs4bffR
siehe ~ aii the british UNIVERSITIES re-
fuse to etsifft desfees 70 l%6f1qeh,
durham university HIS FfHhtsf tt1s
honorary aeefee 81 a6et6f "a ffyfhfty
to Iiet. Suiits Baf6ffaf7, ffehBtfsst 81
the Afmeniaffs IN fhfiafd.
camille Mazfefia, SRI Ms f7yffl
brother. Mgr EfnestS Marsha, ateff-
bishop of Earl, are 50 Feats 6Ids tins
erchbishop's eoadiuttf Is fffs f}epsYe|v,
Mgr. Ofazio Mazkeiis. w1e is Sff1s s..
AT ST. Georges Episcopal eisHfef9s
New York. on Easter Sunday the etftSix
of vested women walked down me
aisles in procession. with TIE vested
choir of men and boys singing the bestt-
tiful Easter anthems.
England is once more afflicted with
bogus diplomas, purportipg To he is
sued by American universities. Ths
latest of these frauds calls itself tbs
National University of Illinois (Uni-
versitas Nationals Illinoicnsis). It's
offices are in London.
Germany is now the best educated
nation on the continent. yet only 100
years ago German teachers in many
parts of the country were SO poorly paid
that they used to sing in front of houses
in order to add to their income by odd
pence.
There were 1906 students in at
tendance at Russian universities at the
beginning of the year, divided as fol-
lows: Moscow, 3,SSS; ST. Petersburg,
2,625; Kieve, 2,244; Helsingfors in Fin
land, 1875; Dorpat in Livonia, 1854:
Warsaw, 1875; Kharllev, 1900 Kezan,
s25; Odessa, 555, and Tomsk in Siberia.
4O5.
In the private chapel at Windsor
castle, which is octagonal in shape. with
lantern roof, the queens pew is in the
gallery, in the division next to the organ
loft. The household sit below, the
women on one side and the men on the
other There is a choir of three men
and two boys, drawn from ST. Georges
chapel.
H. Laroche, the new resident-gen-
eral in Madagascar, has asked the SUI
perior of the Trappists in Algeria to send
Catholic missionaries to Madagascar,
promising land grants. free passage and
and the special protection of the gov
eminent. The compliment to theTrap-
pists is the greatest in that NJ. Laroche
is probably the last person who has
been communicated by the Catholic
church, owing to his evicting the re-
ligious orders at Montpelier and that he
has lately turned Protestant.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06

Dogs are allowed to roam at large in
NADIA gascar, and in their frequent ex-
cursions they have constantly to pass
over the streams of this swampJ
island. Here they are waylaid by those
horrid aIligators, which regard a dog
as a dainty morseL This is how the
canine quadrupeds eontrive to dodge
the "cocandrilles,'' as the French lines
men call them. They will assemble in
a pack of half a dozen or more near the
bank of the river, and commence bark
ing with all their might. Whereupon
shoals of afligators are seen eonverg-
ing to the spot in eager expectation OF
a copious feast When all the a1ligators
of the neighborhood are got together.
the dogs start off at gallop and cross
the river in safety 200 OF 300 yards up
stream. a remarkable proof this of the
instinct and intelligence of animals
Revue Anecdotique.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
RAILROAD YARD TERRORS.
Even Train Men Cannot Cross the Track
at Night Without Being Confused.

Even Train Men Cannot Cross the Tracks
at Night without Being Confused.
'-It's hard for the ordinary traveller
to realize the terrors of the average
railroad yard" said an old and expert
enced trainman at one of the big Jersey
city terminals to a Sun reporter. The
commuter who scans the yards daily
as he is smoothly riding through them,
naturally enough fails to appreciate
the mass of detail in the duties of the
men who are employed to switch him
safely into the station. OF course, the
routine work we do, fraught with re-
sponsibility and danger as it is, becomes
mechanical enough to in time, but
there is one thing that 1 have never
been able to do with GOODNESS in all the
years 1 have been employed here, and
that is to cross this network of tracks
at night. The experience of Thomas
Baker, the freight clerk at the Lehigh
Valley station, in Communipaw, is proof
that I not the only hardened rail
roader afflicted in that way. Baker was
run down by an engine because he got
bewildered in the maze of tracks I
don't blame him. Why. it's enough to
give a man heart disease to attempt to
cross such an aggregation of rails, with
a lot of headlights moving all around
him and scores of bells ringing and
whistles ringing in his ears.
Every time that 1 am compelled to
make such trip-and only do so now
adays when 1 am compelled to- get
the lay of the land well in my mind,
and note which engines are moving and
which are not; but it is of no use. By
the time I'm in the middle of the yard
my head is in whirl, the headlights
are dancing all around me, and I skip
and dodge around frantically until
get safely on the other side. Usually
most of the locomotives are standing
still in the trainshed, but it's hard to
believe it when you are in front of
them. Some commuters who work in
Jersey City have trick of walking into
the station from the yard to save the
trouble of going around by the regular
way, but when I can 1 always warn
them of the danger of doing son. Y.
Sr.n
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
Live Fish of Great Age.

The age of the fish is almost ur.-
limited" observed an official of the fish
commission, in reply to a questions:
prof. Baird devoted a great deal Of
time to the question as to the length CT
life of fish, and he found that the ordi-
nary carp, if not ipterfered with, woulf
live 500 years. In his writings on the
subject he stated that there are now liv~
ing in the Royal aquarium in Russia
several carp that are known to be over
300 years old; that he had ascertained
in a number of cases that whales live
to be over 200 years Old A gentleman
in Baltimore has had an ordinary gold
fish for So years, and his father. In
formed him that he had purchased it
over 40 years hefore it came into HIS
n.''-Washington Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
The Oueen,s Mistress

1t is said that the one woman of whom
Queen Victoria stands in respectful
aw e is Mrs. Mussens, the housekeeper of
Ralmora1 castle. Size has held her posi-
ton of power for many years, and rules
everybody who comes within her do
main with a rod of iron, even to the
queen herself. Her majesty on one oc-
casion took a fancy to a certain house
maid and requested that the care of
her own apartments should be given to
the girl. Mrs. Mussens. however,
thought differently, and informed her
majesty that such a mark of preference
v Guild only turn the young woman's
head and utterly spoil her. The queen
of Great Britain and Ireland and en-
7ress of India listened in silence and
rleekly acquiesced in her housekeeper' $
observation-disclosures Free Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-06
stopping . Small Leak.

A Detroi. merchant has been SO care
full in the conduct of his business as to
be afflicted with very few bad accounts.
But there is one citizen who, despite the
fact that his record elsewhere was bad,
managed to get in debt to the firm.
81 suppose" said the bookLeeper, on
the first of the month, that we will
send Skinnim that bill regularly for
several months to come?'
NO." replied the merchant "Times
Lave been pretty hard and guess we'd
letter not lose any chance to economize.
Just charge what he owes to profit and
loss and pay no more attention to him.
TN save ink and q good deal of wear
end tear on the pens."-Detroit Fres
Press