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PLAYWRIGHT GILLETTE ILL.
Compelled to Abandon His Great Sue
cess in London.

LONDON, July 9-Mr. William Gillette,
the American playwright and actor, has been
dangerously i'll for more than a week and
been confined to his bed most of the time.
He will be compelled to retire from the
stage for the present and to relinquish
play-writing indefinitely. As soon as he is
able to be removed he will return to the
United States. His health is very much
broken.
Mr. Gillette recently went to London with
his great play, Secret Service" producing
it there with a company of American
actors. Both the play and the company
met an unprecedented success, announce
ment being made only a short time ago
that on account of the great popularity of
the production in the metropolis it would be
continued indefinitely. The theater where
it was originally put on had to be aban-
doned on account of the engagement made
by Bernhard, but when Secret Service"
was taken to another theater it's success in
nowise abated.
Mr.. Gillette'S great success in this cOun-
try before Secret Service" and one which
made his name well known in American
theatricals was Held by the Enemy
which he wrote himself. He assisted Mrs.
Hodgson-B Burnett in writing "Esmeralda"
THE Professor is another one of his PLAYS
which had a long run.
Mr., Gillette is native of Hartford,
CONN.,, anu at the present Tune Is IOTlN-IOur
years cid. His father was once United
States senator from Connecticut AS a boy
he gave limitations of the elder SOtheTn,
which We're said to be very successful. In
order to get on the stage he had to run
away from home His first engagement was
with a New Orleans stock company, with
which he served without salary, and when
the matter of salary was finally preached
he received his congo Returning TO his
homo. Mark Twain, neighDor, obtained a
position for him with John T. Raymond
He was afterward with Macauley's Stock
Company in Cincinnati and Louisville. Fol-
lowing this came his appearance at Madi-
son-square Garden in THE Professor" 1t
ran for two seasons in the principal cities
in New England. He afterward played with
great success in The Private Secretary
a play which he adapted from the German
and over which he had a lawsuit finally
compromised with "A. NJ. Palmer. Held
by the Enemy was first introduced in
1886. He also adapted Rider Haggard's
She He was successful in these adapta-
tons, others being "All the Comforts Of
Home" from the German and Mr. VIII
kinson's Widows from the French. He
appeared year or two ago in Too Much
Johnson"
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THE PRESIDENTS VACATION.
May Take Trip West, but VIII
Camp Near Lake ChampIain.

WASHINGTON, July 9.-President Nc
Kinley will spend most of his summer va
cation on the shores of Lake Champlan.
He will leave Washington on Aug 1 and go
direct to Lake Champlain. Plattsburg, N.
Y, will be his nearest town. His party
will consist of the members of the presi-
Dental family, of Vice President and Mrs.
Hobart, Secretary Alger and family, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Porter and probably several
other members of official society. The
President will make quite a prolonged stay,
several weeks a least. He has no plans
perfected beyond this but has said he
would take a Western trip in July pro-
vided Congress adjourned in time.
The Presidents summer plans were in
formally talked over with the members
of the Cabinet to-day. If Congress ad-
journs il season he will go to Chicago to
attend the Logan day ceremonies on the
23d inst. and it is possible that he may
seize the opportunity to go further West
as he is not expected at the Champlain re-
sort before Aug. /. The selection of the
Lake Champlain region as the place for
spending the heated term was owing orig
inally to a suggestion from Secretary Por-
ter and on Secretary Cages hearty in
dorsement of the place the manager of the
lake hotels was summoned to Washington
and the conditions of the President were
definitely arranged The hotel is about
five miles distant from Plattsburg on the
New York side OF the lake and the AdirOn-
dacks are easy of access from there.
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FOR A SENATOR'S FUNERAL.
The Senate Making Preparations to
Inter Iskam G.. Harris.

WASHINGTON, July 9-The Senate met
to-day under the depressing influence of
the death Of Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
who has been one of the conspicuous fig
ures in the upper house of Congress for
over twenty years. Rev. Johnston, the
chaplain of the Senate, in his invocation re-
ferred feelingly to the loss the Senate had
sustained and spoke of his rugged hones-
ty, his answering attachment to his po-
litical principles, his opposition to all he
considered wrong, his devotion to his State
and his service to the Nation" After the
journal had been read Senator Bate (Ten-
nessee) made the announcement of the
death of his colleague. In doing so he paid
a high tribute to the memory of the dis
tinguished dead. He spoke of the conspicu-
Gus part he had played in his State and
in the Nation during his long and event
full career. Senator Harris. he said pos
courage to assert and the ability to main
tain. His devotion to his duty, as he saw
1t, inspired confidence and friendship, while
it often disarmed opposition. Mr.. Bate then
offered the usual resolutions, which pro-
Vided for a public funeral in the Senate
morrow, to which the House was invited
and for a committee of nine senator's to
accompany the remains to Tennessee,
where the interment will be made Mr..
CockreH (Missour) offered a supplemental
resolution extending an invitation to the
President, the members of the Cabinet, the
members of the Supreme Court, the diplo-
matte corps, the major general of the army
and the admiral of the navy to attend
the obseQuies. Then at 12:15 o'clock on mo-
ton of Mr. Bate as a further mark of re-
spect to the memory Of the deceased, the
Senate adjourned.
After the Senate adjournment the Vice
President appointed the following
senators to attend the remains of the late
Senator Harris to Memphis: Messrs. Bate,
Walthal, Berry, Turpie, Allen, Deboe, Pet
tus, Chiffon and Wetmore. The funeral
services in the Senate tomorrow over the
remains of Senator Harris will be conducted
by Rev. Hugh Johnson, pastor of the Met
rOpoltan Methodist Episcopal Church, this
city, who is acting chaplain of the Senate
during the absence of Chaplain Mlburn.
The Rev. Mr.. Johnston at the request of
the family. will be assisted by the Rev. Mr..
Duffy, of the Mount Vernon Southern
Methodist Church. The ceremonies will not
Be elaborate. but will probably consist in
reading the Episcopal burial service.
The remains of Senator Harris will be
taken to Memphis for lnterment over the
Chesapeake a Ohio Railroad, leaving here
tomorrow night at lilo o'clock The body
will arrive at Nashville Monday morning
at o'clock and will lie in state at the
Tennessee Capitol until D. m. Thence the
rem9 ms will be conveyed to Memphis over
the N. c.. c. & st. L., arriving there at
6 o clock Tuesday morning. The funeral will
be held at Memphis on Tuesday and the
congressional escort will leave Memphis at
p. m. Tuesday, arriving here at C:47 Thurs
day morning.
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Last DAYS PaDers.

MILWAUKEE, July 9.-This is the
closing day of the National Educational
Association. When called to order the
gathering was the largest of any day SEES
sion Of the convention. The Rev. Eldridge
White. of the Baptist Tabernacle. offered
prayer. Clinton Scollard, of Clinton n.
Y. recited a beautiful poem entitled The
March of the Ideal" which was received
with great enthusiasm. Short addresses
on Educational Roundup" was the next
in order. superintendent Carroll c.
Pearce, of Omaha, came first with Has
the Heart of This People Changed Toward
the Schools?" The speaker concluded his
talk by answering the question of
his topic in the negative. Oscar T.
Corson, commissioner of common
schools, State of Ohio, talked on
Extremes in Education" He said
there were two classes of extremists-those
who are satisfied with everything that has
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THE WAITER ARRESTED.
Another Man Charged with RObbing
the KisseI Till.

Harry Summers, twenty-one years Old
living at 129 North Illinois street, was ar
rested last night on a charge of grand lar
ceny. few nights ago one of the cash
registers at c. Fred Kissel's garden was
robbed of from $50 to SIS. Kissel charged
his bartender, Charles Emhardt, with the
crime and had him arrested. Yesterday
two walters told Emhardt that Summers,
who was employed at the garden as a
waiter at the time of the robbery, admit
ted to them that he had robbed the cash
drawer. HE said he had made a key to
open the barroom door. Emhardt began an
investigation and found that during the
past few days Summers had fitted himself
out from head to foot with new wearing ap-
pareL and had redeemed his watch, which
was in pawn. He laid the facts before the
police and Summers was arrested last night
he was about to take train for Chi
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vigilance. Beyond the general statement
that they were making satisfactory prog
ress, the conferees would say nothing. If
the action of the conferees on the various
items should be divulged they realize that
1t would involve them in no end of compH-
cations, as all those who are dissatisfied
with the rates agreed on would be down
here en- masse, protesting and insisting
that the questions should be ropened. AS
it is. the conferees are already being
deluged with kilograms and letters and
fairly bounded at their hotels by those who
are interested in securing either the Senate
or House rates Almost the most important
thing thus far agreed on is that there will
be but one conference report. Not until a
final agreement is reached will either of the
two houses be called on to act This course
has been decided on as the best means of
journed, to meet again at $3.50 tomorrow
morning. All the main points which prom
sed to be strongly contested were passed
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TO PREPARE FOR WAR
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT WOULD
REQUIRE ABOUT SIX WEEKS.
--A--
In that Time Fleet Could BE Sent
Through Suez to Japan Superior
to the MiI<adO's Navy.
THE FIREWORKS In HONOLULU
ARE ALL PREPARED TO RATIFY
NEWS OF THE ANNEXATION.
Foreign Relations Committee Meets
to Dispose of Hawaiian Treaty,
and Has No Quorum.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The possibility
of trouble with Japan over the Hawaiian
islands has led TO a discussion as to the
strength of the American navy and its
availability for action against the Japanese
fleet. The Japanese outnumber us in
available war vessels in the Pacific waters.
but our fleet is greatly the stronger of the
two, and by sending the vessels through the
Suez canal a formidable fleet could be con-
centrated in Japanese waters within a very
few weeks. A naval officer who is fully in
formed on this subject says that we have
now about thirty vessels of war fully COM
pleted and available for immediate service,
not including the many gunboats which are
intended mainly for police duty and there
fore not catalogued as an aggressive war
factor. 1t is estima ted that within six
weeks a fleet of vessels outnumberng in
strength that of Japan can be placed where
an aggressive fight can be carried on
against the warlke Orientals.
The Senate committee on foreign rela-
tons made two efforts to-day to secure a
full meeting for the purpose of taking up
and if possible disposing of the Hawaiian
annexation treaty but failed. No quorum
was secured at the forenoon session, and
there was not a full attendance at the
afternoon meeting. The treaty dis
cussed at some length at the latter session,
and the more pronounced of the advocates
of the treaty suggested the advisability of
early action. This suggestion was antag-
oniZed however, by opponents of ratihca-
tion and by at least one of the supporters
of annexation, on the ground that the mat
ter is too important for immediate action.
The committee adjourned until next
Wednesday,
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LETTER FROM LEW WALLACE
Reaches the President, Protesting
Against Thomas ID. CatrOn.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July Seen. Lew Wal
. lace has contributed an important letter
to the literature in the Presidents hands
opposing the nomination OF ex-Delegate
Thomas B. Catron for attorney general of
New Mexico The letter was written to
Representative Lands with a Eequest that
he take it in person to the President, re-
quest which was complied with this after
noon. General Wallace relates in his COM
munication that when he was obliged TO
take the field in person to uproot and
suppress an extensive combination of
thieves, murderers and felOns," who had
all that part of the country in a state of
terror, that, in his opinion, the most dan
gerous man he encountered was Mr.. Cat
ron. He considers Catron utterly unfit for
the office to which he is aspiring to be APP
pointed, and attacks him all along the line
to show his unftness for the position. The
opposition to Catron in the Territory of New
Mexico, where he has lived for many years,
is very strong and growing stronger. The
testimony of man of the high character
of General Wallace will go long ways
towards the defeat of his candidacy.
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THE BILL IN CONFERENCE.
Members of the Committee Refuse to
Give Out Word.

WASHINGTON. July 9.-The Republican
conferees on the tariff bill met this morning
at 1890 o'clock, in the room of the Senate
committee on finance, and resumed the
work of adjustment of the differences be-
tween the two houses The five Republican
conferees appointed by the House, the four
Republican conferees appointed by the Sem
ate together with Senator John p Jones,
of Nevada, who has acted with the Re
publlcans Of the Senate throughout the
tariff struggle and who voted for the bill
were present The work proceeded behind
closed doors. The conferees put in a very
hard days work. They recessed at ] O. clock
for lunch and again at o'clock this even
ing for dinner. and at s o'clock resumed
their sitting and continued in session until
10:4 o'clock tonight. They have ali taken
a particularly binding pledge of secrecy,
and are guarding their labors with unusual
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In the July Century, Gen. Horace Porter,
in his campaigning with Grant, dwells
mon Grants aversion to liars He quotes
the following remarks from General Raw
Inns:
1.-The general always likes to tell an anec-
dote that points a moral on the subject of
living He mates only two kinds of people,
liars and towards. He has no patience
with them and never fails to show his
aversion for them" Ingalls, added: such
traits are so foreign to his own nature that
ii is not surprising that he should not toll
crate them in others. AS man and boy he
has always been the most absolutely truth
full person in the whole range of my ac-
ouaintance. / never knew him to run into
the slightest exaggCratiOn or to borrow in
the least degree from his imagination in
relating an occurrence" One of the party
remarked: II was amused one day to hear
an officer say that the general was tedious
ly truthful He explained that what he
meant by that was that the general, in
mentioning something that had taken place,
would direct his mind SO earnestly TO stat
ing unimpOrtanb details with entire accu-
racy that he would mar the interest of his
story. For instance after returning from
a walk around camp he would say: / was
told so and so about the wounded by DR..
-- while we were talking this morning
inside of his tent; and a half hour after
ward he would take the trouble to come
back and say, as If it were matter of the
greatest Importance: } was mistaken when
/ told you that my conversation with DR..
- occurred inside his tent; that was not
correct II took place while we were stand
ing In front of his tent. - There was much
truth In the comment. No one who had
served much time with the general could
fail TO be struck with his excellent meIa-
DRY, and the pains he invariably took to
state occurrences with positive accuracy,
even in the most unimportant particulars.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, July 9.-The
news that Governor Mount had decided to
parole William Kennedy, who is serving a
life term charged with the murder of Re
corder Baker, of Decatur county, gives
much satisfaction here and at the Reform
atory. Kennedy is the man who was given
four days to go to his home in Cincinnati
to attend the funeral of his father. He
went without any guard or surveillance of
any kind and returned four hours ahead of
the limit He liked by the officials Of
pecially by the newspaper men, and almost
without exception they believed him inno-
cent as he always claimed to be. His de-
voted sister, Miss Kate, was a frequent
visitor here, and while her brother encOur-
aged her efforts in his behalf for many
years he at last became discouraged and
insisted that she cease her efforts. When
the convicts were removed north Kennedy
was the only one not chained.
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General Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 9.-Bids We're
opened to-day at the Treasury Department
for the furnishing of letter boxes and draw
ers for the use of the government during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. The
Keyless Lock Company, of indianapolis,
was the lowest bidder. and If the samples
of its Workmanship prove satisfactory tn !
concern will probably get the contract
have been reinstated as pension examining
surgeons at Gosport, Ind, and DR.. Moses
NJ. Elrod at Columbus. Ind.
j. A. Garrett of Indianapolis, and E. s.,
T. 3. and w E. Boyer and Mrs. A. l..
Boyer. of Anderson, are at Wizards.
To-day's statement of the condition of
the treasury shows: Available cash bal
ance 1924, 044 SOL; gold reserve, $l42, 115,722.
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The German Teachers.

MILWAUKEE,, July 9.-The German
teachers national convention will meet
next year in Cincinnati The following eX-
ecutive committee was chosen: G. Reitsch,
Milwaukee; Louis Hahn Albert Mayer,
Gottlieb Mueller, CINCINNATI; Henry Raab,
Bellevlle; Anna Constantine, New York;
Anna Hundt, Chicago; W. S. ROsentengel,
Madison Carl Ulrich, La Crosse. This COM
mittee will elect the chairman.
The German-American National Teach
ers' Association elected these officers;
President, Gottieb Mueller, Cincinnati; first
secretary, Albert Mayer Cincinnati; second
secretary, Miss Anna Constantin, of New
York; treasurer, Louis Hahn, Cincinnati.
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CUBAN RELIEF FUND.
Consul General Lee Can Find Use for
Only $4,000 of 1t.

WASHINGTON, July 9-United States
Consul General Lee has been rendering
some account to the government of his ex-
penditures from the fund appropriated by
Congress for the relief Stltute Amer
lean citizens in Cuba 1gureS were
presented to the Cabinet .ay and the
showing was remarkable, - it appeared
that of the total of $4,000 at the disposal of
the consul general he had expended only
sc 000 and yet had given substantial relief
to every distressed American whom he
could find ready to receive aid, and besides
had shipped some of them back 70 the
United States
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JacOb Mitchell Missing.

jacob Mitchell, living at ia Pleasant
street, is reported missing from home
His wife went to the police station yester-
day greatly distressed at his absence She
said he had left home Wednesday morning,
and that she had not heard of him since.
She is positive there has been nothing in
his domestic relations to cause him to go
murdered.
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Consul to Rosario Dead.

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Minister Buch-
anan has cabled the State Department un-
der date of Buenos Ayres. July s. that
United States Consul Willis f. Baker, who
has been very ill for some time died there
yesterday. Mrs. Baker has left the details
appointed consul in 1880 He came from II
linOis. 1t is understood that he was in
jured in a wreck in the Argentine Republic.
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WASHINGTON, July Sit can be an
nounced on authority that with the present
alton to the Senate of the large list of dip
Iomatic and consular nominations which
has been prepared and will go to the Cap
itol tomorrow or Monday, the President
will decline positively to make another APP
Tointment to places of this character until
after the adjournment of Congress. This
notice is inspired by a desire to spare use
less opportunities by seekers after diplo--
matte and consular places and also 10 afford
the President some relief.
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NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH.
Had Been Hiding Three Weeks from
n Mob.

FOREST Miss, July 9.-Three weeks ago
Atticus Thomas, a negro, attempted to out
rage a white woman, but was frustrated in
his designs. He eluded arrest until yester-
day. when he was captured by mob of
unknown men and shot to death.
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governments expense. The terms offered to
the lake sailors are: For ordinary seamen,
$40 per month, and for sailors S24 with an
allowance of 81 per month extra to each
on re-enlistment. and rations. The recruit
ing officer also hopes to secure some ma
chinists from the lake ports for the navy.
The pay of these men in the navy is to
be $40 per month, against an average Of $40
he la
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came to Colonel Tackett with an affidavit
charging Engles with the murder and ask
jury being in session al the time, she was
given an opportunity to bring witnesses
before it. She was permitted to testify,
and the jury was kept in session ten days,
but nothing was heard Of her afterwards
The next effort was made by Kate Ken
nedy, who wanted 70 file an afhdavit
against a man named Tittiman, who was
also from Dayton The next and last eff
fort was an attempt to lodge this crime
upon Dayton Sammy" who, the last time
General Harrison spoke here, took possess
sion of one of the carriages and picked
the pockets of the crowd around the gen
erals carriage. He was confined in jail
for some time here and visited by many,
who unhesitatingly said that he was not
the man who shot Baker.
JUDGE ELLIOTTS VIEW.
In One-hundred-a Indiana re-
ports, Page IA, Judge Elliott. in summing
up the case, says: "A strong and able APP
peal is made to us to reverse upon the
evidence, but this we cannot do, for the
verdict is supported on every material
point Counsel, with vigor and ingenuity.
insist that the case is one of mistaken
identity and earnestly endeavor to impress
upon our minds the liability of witnesses
and Jurors to err in such matters. We can
not agree with counsel that the question is
! simply one of identity, for it is settled by
the uncontradcted testimony of Wallace
Kennedy'S confederate that Kennedy was
nearest him when Constable Anderson ar
rested him, and Kennedys declarations to
the Cincinnati polceman tend TO snow ne
was in Greensburg on that day AS Ken
needy was with Wallace in the depreda-
lions of that day, as he attempted TO rescue
the latter from arrest, and as he was
closely pursued by Baker and Woodhll,
there can be but little, if any, doubt that
he it was who fired the fatal shot"
Governor Gray, during his term, like
Governor Mount, declared his intention of
pardoning Kennedy, but when he was con-
fronted with the prisoners record from the
| police department of Cincinnati refused to
grant the pardon.