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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-16
NOTED TURFMAN ILL.
William Riley Suffers from a Severe
Breakdown.

CHICAGO, Nov 15.-Wiliam Riley, popu-
larly known to all patrons of turf exchanges
and poolrooms throughout the United
States, is seriously i'll. Saturday afternoon
he was removed from his rooms at the Sara
toga Hotel to Augustine Hospital He is
suffering from nervous prostration and gem
eral debility Riley was once associate with
James Murphy, now the owner of Star
Pointer. They were partners for years and
In the bookmaking and pooling business ac-
cumulated a fortune. When the firm of
Riley & Murphy was dissolved Riley went to
New York, where. it is said, he lost heavily
in conducting a billiard room. He returned
to Chicago two years ago, since which time
he has been connected with several books
in and about Cook county. In former years
ne was known as a great and reckless
plunger. When he ran poolroom in Gam
blers alley he would take bet up to the
$lOO,O0O mark. He would bet on the number
of raindropS that would fall upon a window
pane in. so many minutes. 1t is said that
once he placed loaf of sugar on the floor
and wagered $1,000 that ten flies would light
upon it in ten seconds and that he won his
bet When he quit the poolroom business
and went on the turf, ten years ago, luck
seemed to have turned against him. 1t is
said that he has lost $500 100 since the presi-
dental election of 1888. He still owns a COM
Portable home in New York city and win
ter residence in St Augustine, Fla.
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the chair during an operation and loosen
some. of the stones or break it in some

the chair during an operation and loosen
some OF the stones or break 1t in some
way.
A few days later DR.. Evans received
package containing another watch from the
duchess and with her crest engraved on the
back also, but of much less elaborate pat
tern and decoration. He carried this second
watch most of the time up to his death.
Dr. Evans once assured DR.. William w.
Walker, of New York that it was his pur-
pose to bequeath his treasure case and all
its contents to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
So much has been written about DR..
Evans's suavity and his friendship with the
crowned heads of Europe that many people
regarded him nothing more nor less than
a bogus courtier, and consequently under
rated him as a man. But this view is
erroneous. Outside of his social and busi-
ness life the doctor performed many pa
triotic and philanthropic services for both
his native and adopted lands. When the
Crimean war was raging he was sent by
the Emperor, at his own request, to study
the sanitary condition of European camps
and hospitals, and he was so impressed
with the wretchedness and misery ne then
witnessed that on his return to Paris he
made successful efforts to interest the ma
tions of the civilized world in measures of
reform. While the American civil war was
in progress he came to this country and
Joined in the sanitary commissions work,
his experience being invaluable in the or
ganization of its ambulance service, and his
reports from the front. still on file at
Washington, were considered of the highest
Importance.
DE. Evans : fortune Is eSllHidltd dt iIOHl
$25 900 900 to $50 000 O00 He visited the United
States in August last, bringing with him for
interment at Philadelphia the body of his
wife. They had no children While here
Dr. Evans is said to have made arrange
ments to endow schools of dentistry in sew
eral of the American universities. The doc
tor is said to have left large sums of money
to charity and during the course of his life
he received innumerable orders and other
decorations from foreign potentates He
has two nephews, Col Charles F. Muller, of
Utica, N. Y, and j. r. Evans, OF New
York
Dr. Evans said to an interviewer recently:
1.-THE greatest sorrow / have known was to
find my chosen profession deep in the mire.
The greatest joy of my life, my proudest
achievement and most satisfied thought is
that I have lifted it up from the mud and
placed it on the pedestal where 1t belongs.
Year after year worked and my best re-
ward is to know that dentistry is now recog-
nized ana honored a profession"
The secret of the success of DR.. Evans as
a dentist may be said to lie in the fact that
he was practically the first person to intro
duce gold filling for teeth into Europe.
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CLEARING IT'S DOCKET.
United States Supreme Court May
Soon Dispose of All It's Cases.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-With the close
of the present term of the Supreme Court
of the United States it will practically have
caught up with its docket and be in shape
to take up and handle current business. For
seven years it has been working laboriously
to that end In 1890 end 1891 the laws were
so amended as to relieve the Supreme Court
of a considerable percentage of what had
been coming to it in the form of new busi-
ness. A great many cases of a class which
had been previously appealed from the low
er courts to the Supreme Court lodged with
the Appellate Courts and other cases went
to the Court of Claims. Seven years ago
there were 1,190 cases on the docket of the
supreme Court and ii was four years be-
hind. 1t had become the custom of liti-
gantS seeking delay 10 appeal their cases to
the highest court for that purpose, and for
that alone This sort of business has been
discouraged and made so exceedingly expen-
sive TO those engaging in it, until now only
real business finds its way to the Supreme
Court. 1t has all told only about three hun
dred cases on its docket, and even this
small number is being reduced every day
IT is the desire of the court to keep in
this happy state and to remain so that it
can be in close touch with the lower courts
and TO enable litigation to reach swift con-
clusion after being appealed TO the highest
tribunal.
Three opinions were rendered to-day on
appeals from the Court of Private Land
Claims, involving as many land grants in
the territory of New Mexico, the grants
affected being those known as the Pasture
the San Antontio and the San Diego grants
All these cases in the court below had been
decided against the claimants, and the Su-
preme Court to-day affirmed the decision in
each case.
The motion of the solicitor general to ad-
vance the time for hearing the La Abra sill
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REIaDEER FOR wHALERs.
Herd of 600 to Be Sacrificed for Relief
of Starving Seamen.

of Starving Seamen.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Secretary Gage
has requested the secretary of the interior
to instruct the Alaskan officials to gather
about six hundred head of reindeer from the
government herds for the use of the ex-
pedition for the relief of the ice-bound
whalers in the Arctic. 1t is expected that
the Bear, which is now at Seattle, will be
ready to sail in about ten days and within
twenty days thereafter it is expected that
she will have reached some point on Nor
tons sound, where a large party will be en-
gagged for the six hundred mile overland
trip to Point Barrow. The herd of reindeer
which will be killed for food If needed
will be driven overland and it is the con-
fident expectation of Captain Shoemaker,
chief of the revenue cutter service; Captain
Cooper, who is in command of the Bering
sea patrol fleet, that the herd will reach
Point Barrow and the imprisoned whalers
before the middle of February. The route
over which the herd will be driven is said
to abound in moss on which the reindeer
feed. They agree that the scheme for the
relief of the whalers is perfectly feasible
and will be attended with little danger
Captain Tuttle who will command the Bear,
Is regarded as one OF the most capaple ana
prehension is felt regarding the outcome OF
the enterprise.
combined complement of 265 men. The Orca
has forty-five the Belvidere forty-flve, the
Freeman forty, the Fearless thirty-fve the
JEANNE twenty-five. the Kosario twenty
five. the Wanderer twenty and the Newport
thirty. The first two, the JEANNE and the
Rosario, went up this spring, the Newport
in 1885, the Wanderer and the Fearless in
1894, and the Freeman in 1895. All expected
to return this winter. The Orca, the Free
man and the Belvidere are fast about a half
mile northeast of Point Barrow and the re-
mainder are about two hundred miles east
of Point Barrow north of the Arctic circle;
It is believed that the relief expedition will
reach the ice-bound fleet in ample time to
prevent suffering from want of food
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HEAVY DAMAGES AWARDED.
Mrs. Won Schaack Given $05,OOO for
Loss OF Her Husbands Affections.

NEW YORK. Nov. ia sheriffs jury in
Brooklyn to-day gave a verdict for $65, 600
to Mrs. Florence Van Setback against her
father-in-law. Peter Van Schaack, for the
alienation of her husbands affections. Peter
Van Setback is head of the firm of Peter
Van Setback x Co. druggists, OF Chicago.
He Is said to be a millionaire. The plaintiff
= lives at Bath Beach. On March 90 1888, she
was married TO John Van Setback at Pen
sacola, Fla. Since that time the couple
have lived in New York, Chicago and Naw
Orleans. On March 26 1897, the couple sep
arated. Mrs. Van Setback in her affidavit
alleges that she was abandoned and thai
her father-in-law alienated her husbands
affections.
CHICAGO. Nov 15.--Nfr. Van Setback to-
night authorized the following statement:
This suit being brought in New York
State. no defense was made by Mr. Van
6chaack, he preferring suit should be in
Illinois He is under best legal advice both
in this city and New York, and Judgment
obtained in New York is of no avail in this
State He Will fight it when the proper time
arrives
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AUsTR1ANs TO BE DEPoRTED.
Stave Cutters Illegally Brought to
This Country Under Contract.


This Country Under Contract.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Commissioner
General Powderly, of the immigration
Bureau, to-day received a telegram from
Special Inspector Baldwin at Memphis,
Tenn, stating that he had arrested twenty
eight alien stave cutters illegally brought
into this country under contract, and would
go to Mississippi tonight to arrest the re-
naming twenty-five. 1t is stated at the
immigration Bureau that fifty Austrian i'm
migrants arrived in Baltimore on the North
German steamship Poland on Sept. last
and were taken to Mississippi to work in
the stave camps. When the party arrived
in Baltimore they were suspected of being
under contract but the evidence submitted
was deemed insufficient to warrant their de-
tention. Subsequently, however, Commits
sioner General Powderly sent special agents
into the camps who secured sufficiently
conclusive testimony to justify their arrest,
and a warrant for the whole party was
signed by Secretary Gage and placed in the
hands of Inspector Bald win and three others
last Friday. AS soon as all are secured they
will be deported at the expense of the
steamship company bringing them over. UP
to this time the evidence against the con-
tracing firm which brought the Austrians
into this country is not deemed sufficient to
justify criminal proceedings, but the offl-
cials are said to be still at work on this
feature of the case.
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MAY SEIZE A CHINESE PORT.
German Sailors and Marines Landed
at KfaOchan bay.


COLOGNE, Nov ia dispatch to the
Cologne Gazette from Berlin says that the
sailors and marines belonging to the Ger
man cruiser Division, off the coast of Chi
ma, have made landing In force at Kiao-
chan bay, the nearest port to Yen-Chu-Fs.
in the southern part Of the Chinese Prov
ince of Shan-Tun, where the German mis-
sionaries were recently murdered. with the
view of forcing the government of China to
completely satisfy the demands of Ger~
many.
BERLIN, Nov. 15.-The Neueste Mach
riehten, referring to the attempt to force
the Chinese government to make repara-
ton for the murder OF German missionaries,
says: "Kiaochan bay win afford an excel
lent base for the German fleet in East
Asian waters. II has long been regarded
in German commercial circles as a worthy
object of German ambition. Moreover as
the English interests lie further south and
the Russian further north, German occu-
patton of the bay need not affect thetD
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Prominent COIOred Man, Ex-COngress-
man md Ex-Minister to Haiti.

WASHINGTON Nov. 15.-Ex-Congress-
man John M. LangSton, of Virginia, one
of the prominent colored men of the coun-
try died here at $50 this evening
John M. Langston was sixty-eight years
of age, having been born a slave in 1929.
He was emancipated at the age of six and
was educated at Oberlin, where he gradu-
ated from the theological department in
1854. He afterv'ard studied law and prac-
ticed his profession until 1869, during which
time he held several township offices in
Ohio, being the first colored man elected
to office in the United States by popular
vote In 1869 he was given the professorship
of law at Howard University, remaining
with that institution for seven years. From
1877 to 1885 he was United States minister
and consul general to Haiti. On his re-
turn to this country he became president
of the Virginia Normal and Collegiate In
stitute at Petersburg, Va, where he re-
mained for three years, when he was elect
ed to the Fifty-frst Congress and was given
his seat on contest. Since 1891 Mr. Langs-
ton has been prominent in politics, but did
not hold office.
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STRING WAS TIED TO 1T.
President Lows Resignation Not Ac-
cepted by Columbia Trustees.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-when Seth Low
decided to become the candidate Of the Citi-
zens' Union for mayor of New York he sent
his resignation as president OF Columbia
College to the board of trustees. The lat
ter, at their last meeting, decided to lay
the matter OF President Lows resignation
over until the next monthly meeting, which
was held to-day. The committee, of which
Rev. DIR. Morgan Dix was chairman de-
cided not to accept the resignation and re-
quested MIR. Low TO withdraw ii. TO this
President Low assented without comment.
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Dividends for Bank Creditors.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The controller
of the currency has declared dividends in
favor of the creditors of insolvent national
banks as follows viz: Twenty per cent,
the First National Bank of Franklin. o.; 5
per cent, the Union National Bank of Dem
yer, Col; per cent, the Commercial Ma
tional Bank of Denver, Col. 10 per cent
the Dakota National Bank of Sioux Falls,
s. D.; per cent. the Oregon Ma
tional Bank of Portland, Ore; 101a per
cent. the First National Bank of Hot
Springs, S. D.; 705 per cent, the First Ma
tional Bank of Sun Dance, Wyo.
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Col. John Jameson.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Col John Jane
son, general superintendent of the United
States railway mail service under President
Arthur, is dead, at his home in Brooklyn.
Colonel James was born in Albany, N. Y,
in 1S41. His family removed to Wisconsin
In 1S47. During the civil war he served in the
First Wisconsin Artillery. On leaving the
army he entered the postal service and rose
to be chief of the railway mail service.
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NOVEL SMUGGLING SCHEME.
How an American Evaded the Gus
toms Laws ON the Mexican BORDER.

toms Laws ON the Mexican border.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-A curious case
of smuggling on the Mexican border line has
been discovered recently by the government
officials at Nogales. A. r., and equally Curl
Gus action has been taken to suppress 1T.
On May last, land about Nogales was de-
clared subject to entry, and among those
who took advantage of the right was man
who made a town site selection directly on
the international border line and Immediate
ly erected a large house thereon with doors
on both sides. BY this means, according to
official reports, the laws were evaded by
backing up teams laden with Mexican goods
to the rear door of the house which did not
require crossing the line and the goods were
then taken out of the door on the American
side and carried away. The case was re-
ported by the collector of customs and he
asked that no town site be allowed unless
there was a street set apart along the bor-
der to prevent this evasion. The General
Land Office has now acted on this PROPOSE
ton, and the President has made a reser-
walton of a strip of land sixty feet wide and
two miles long at Nogales, which, 1t is
hoped, will prevent such practices as that
referred to and secure to the government
it's customs dues The necessary surveys for
the purpose are now being made.
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Albert oliver wtlIcox.

NEW YORK, Nov 15-Albert oliver Will
cox 2 well-known abolitonist and advo-
cate of woman's suffrage and temperance,
is dead at Saratoga, n. Y, aged eighty
seven years.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-Secretary Alger
has directed the award of the contract for
the four locks on the Ohio river to the low
est bidders, the Evansville Qnd.) firm of
Eigenmann, Hollerback, Eichel & Arnold.
There were many protests against this
award, but the secretary, after looking up
the law in the case, found that he had no
discretion but to accept the lowest bid, as
stated by Major Bixby, the proper bonds
being furnished.
The Evansville firm demonstrated its re-
sponsibility by filing the required bond and
lowest bidder there was only one thing to
do
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John Fleming.

LONDON, Nov. 15.-John Fleming, man.
ager of the National Sporting Club died
to-day. The boxing contest between Barrie
and Croot, which was to have taken place
before the National Sporting Club this even
ing, has been postponed on account of the
death of Mr.. Fleming.
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George A. Brandreth.

SING SING, N. Y, Nov. 15.-George A.
Brandreth, president of the Brandreth Pill
and Porous Plaster Company, died at his
home here tonight, aged seventy-four
years. He was son of DR.. Benjamin
Brandreth, the original pill compounder.
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John Purcell.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Nov 15 - John
Purcell, the champion heavy weight and
hammer thrower, died Sunday at his home,
in Florence. He won the worlds Champion
ship at the worlds fair contest.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-The State De-
partment has finally refused the application
of the Mexican government for the sur
render to it under extradition proceedings
Of Jesus Guerra, who was one of Garza
lieutenants in his attempted revolution some
years ago. The case has figured largely in
the state and United States courts and final
ly came to the State Department in such
shape as to permit of the exercise of the
largest discretion. The decision was reached
some time ago, but was withdrawn for re-
consideration at the instance of the Mexican
authorities. 1t is now reaffirned, the ground
for the refusal of the request being that the
offense for which it is sought to secure the
extradition of Guerra is purely political.
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yer mining case was granted and the first
Monday in March named as the time The
court then took recess until Monday the
29th inst
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WASHINGTON, Nov. Ex-senator Fair
banks. of Indiana, and Senator Elkins, of
West Virginia, saw the President to-day on
matters pertaining primarily to appoint
ments in their States. but also discussed
with Mr.. Mckinley the probable policy of
the coming session of Congress Both Sena-
tors Elkins and Fairbanks agree with the
President in the matter of pacific measures
Continued ON second Page.l
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WASHINGTON, Nov 15.-The monthly
statement of imports and exports issued by
the Bureau of Statistics shows the exports
of domestic merchandise during October
last to have amounted to $1O9,5SS,S42, a loss
of nearly $2,5OO,OOO as compared with Octo-
Der, 1885, The imports of merchandise dur
ing October is shown to have been $49 969, 1913,
of which $24 1893 was free of duty. For
the last ten months a gain of SIS, ,292, ,702 is
shown over the corresponding period last
year in the exports of merchandise and a
gain of $64, ,555. .273 in the imports. During last
October the exports of gold amounted to
$310,616 and the imports to $11, ,340,7 1856. The
silver exports during October aggregated
$5,225,342 and the imports 1851, 661. In Oc-
tober, 1896, the silver exports amounted to
S4,794 339 and the imports $993, ,44O
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Foremost OF His Profession, and At
the Crowned Heads of Europe.
A FRIEND OF NAPOLEON Ill
AND AIDED EMPRESS EUGENE TO
ESCAPE AFTER FALL OF SEDAN.
Possessed Many Tokens of Esteem
from Royal Families-Death of
Ex-RepresentativeL LangstOn.

PARIS, Nov. 15.-Dr. Thomas Wiltberger
Evans, the famous American dentist, died
this evening of angina pectoris, after twen-
ty-four hours illness. He grieved great
deal over the death of his wife, which oc-
Cured shortly before his recent visit to
the United States, and he never fully re-
covered from the shock sustained by his
loss
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Continued ON Second Page.l
New-York tribune., 1897-01-14
THE TYPOTHETAE DIVER.

The Tvpothctae Of New-York society composed
of nrinters bookbnders and journalists OF this city
vii hold us annual dinner in celebration OF the
birthday of Benjamin Franklin. at the Hoffman
House on Saturday evening. at o'clock. Among
those who are expected 10 speak after the dinner
ora NJ Giennan Editor OF The Norfolk Nirginian'
Seth Low Paul du Chaillu ex-Postmaster-G General
Thomas /. James. General Stewart l.. Woodford.
J. W Smith Isaac IT, Bromley. Henry Loomis Nell
son Joseph Howard IT.. Colonel William L. Brown.
the Rev Henry n Denlinger. and Douglas Taylor.
the fOast-mastcr.
Mr. Glennan and Seth Low are the guests OF
honor and Mr.. Glennan comes 10 this city with a
rep,l, alton for after-dinner eloQuence he IL
sidered one Of the best speakers In Virginia.
Tn. committee OF the Typothetae having the din
n.r in charge T. composed OF Douglas Taylor chair
man. James Thorne Harper r. Parke CODY. Rich
ard Ridge James H. Rogers. Horace O. Pol
hemu~ John c. Rankin. ir. and Theodore l.. DE