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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
NEW ENGLAND COTTON MILLS.
Novel Proposition Made to Profit
Sharcrs-Cut at Lowell.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Dec. PA new fea
ture in the mill situation in this city, the
effect of which cannot be exactly deter
mined at present, is a circular issued to-
day by the Bourne mills to the operatives
relating specially to the profit-sharing sys-
tenn inaugurated there eight and half
years ago in addition to the announcement
of the payment of the semi-annual dividend
of per cent. on the earnings of six months
from June IA to Dec. IL, inclusive. The cir
cular deals at length with the conditions
affecting the industry at the present time
and closes with novel plan proposed by
the treasurer, George A. Chace, for the for
nation of a sick and benefit fund for the
operatives as a foundation for which he
donates the sum of $40.
LOWELL, Mass, Dec. H-The operators
of the Lowell cotton mills at meeting
held here to-day voted to reduce the wages
of their employees from Jan. IL. The causes
of the reduction are the same as those
which led to the manufacturers in ran
River, Manchester, Suncook, N. H., and
other places 10 lower the wage scale. About
fifteen thousand operatives in this city VIII
be affected. The reduction, it is announced,
will amount to 10 per cent, or practically
the same as that in other mill centers. The
notices of the reduction will be posted at
once. 1t is impossible to tell to-day what
action the operatives here will take. The
opinion of officers of the unions seen to-day
is that there will be no strike.
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NOT LIKE WEYLER.
Gen. BlancO Permits an American to
Visit the Insurgent Camp.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-An official dis
patch received here states that the Span
ish authorities at Havana have granted
permission to Sylvester Scovel to accom-
pany Rafael Madrgal, the United States
consular agent at Sancti Spiritus, to the
camp of Insurgent COMMUNICATIVE chief
General Gomez. The trip of the consular
agent is made for the purpose of closing
up the estate of an American correspond
ent killed in Cuba, the assets having been
in the hands of General Gomez for some
time. Beyond this there is said to be no
significance in this visit of the agent to the
Cuban headquarters. ScoVelS mission
however, is one of observation. He is an
American correspondent and was arrested
In Cuba about year ago. His case at
tracted wide attention and was discussed
in Congress. The grant OF passports to him
for this mission to Gomez'S camp is cited
by the Spanish authorities as an instance
of the freedom with which General Blanco
permits correspondents to conduct their in
designations The fact that the American
agent and Scovel proceed together will give
the former an opportunity to share in the
observations, but there is said to be no pur-
pose on his part to do more than close up
the estate. Madrigal is not an American
but is appointed because of his residence
at Sancti Spiritus, and by virtue of the ap-
pointment he carries with him the protec-
ton and prestige of the United States gov
eminent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
ClVIL-SERVlCE LAW OPINION.
Decision Against q Democrat Who
Thought He Had a Life Position.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Dec. A.-Judge John
H. Rogers, of the Federal Court, handed
down an important decision to-day in a case
involving the construction of the civi-serv-
ice law. 1t was in the case of w. ]. Elem
ing VS.. s. F. Stahl Fleming was an office
deputy under ex-Marshal J. G.. Crump.
Stahl was appointed by President Nc
Kinley to succeed Crump. Stahl undertook
to remove Fleming, and the latter brought
suit against Stahl to restrain him from
making the removal, alleging in his bill
that the position of Office deputy United
States marshal was, by order of President
Cleveland, placed upon the qualified civil
service list, and, by virtue of such order.
all office deputy marshals were exempt
from removal for political and religious
reasons, and were to hold Office during good
behavior, and that his Cemoval was about
to be made because he was Democrat. A
temporary restraining order was granted
by the court at the time OF the filing of the
bill, and up to this time Fleming and StottS,
the man appointed by Stahl to succeed him,
have both been at the desk in the Office
The decision to-day was rendered on a de-
murrer to the bill and a motion to dissolve
the injunction. The court held that it had
no jurisdiction to restrain a removal on the
facts stated in the bill. In regard to the
effect of the order of the President, by
which office deputy marShalS were placed
in the classified civil service, the court said /:
The clVll-SerVlce law never contemplated
that the President or the commission, or
both, could make any rule or regulation
which could have the force and effect of
law. True, the President may make rules
and regulations administrative in their ma
ture, which would govern the policy of his
administration, and he could enforce the
same by the removal of any person from
office who refused to abide thereby but
they could not have the force and effect of
law, nor would the courts enforce them.
Such rules and regulations are purely adj
ministrative, and may be altered, amended
or approved by the President at any time,
or by his successor in Office" The injunc-
ton was dissolved and the bill dismissed at
the cost of the plaintiff Fleming.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
CRUEL HEARTED JUDGE.
He Objected to Large Hat Piumes, and
Is Alleged to Have Shot His Wife.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Judge Ewing to-day
granted a decree of divorce to Jennie W.
Banks. the wife of Judge Elmore S. Banks,
who presides in the Probate Court of Fair
field, Conn. The divorce was granted on
the ground of cruelty. The couple were
married in February. 1889. Mrs. Banks left
her husband in 1893 and took up her resi-
dence in Chicago.
According TO the evidence given by the
complainant her husband struck her within
two weeks after the marriage. Quarres
were frequent and seven years ago, the
complainant testified, the jursit, after a
heated quarrel, struck her and shot her in
the face. The trouble which led up to this
arose from the fact, according to the COM
plainant. that she had purchased a hat
with large piumes. Judge Banks, his wife
said, expressed his dspleasure when ne
saw the hat and objected to the plumes
being worn by his wife. The complainant
said that words led TO blows and finally
to the use of firearms. The complainant
told the court that she dropped the hat
and broke the plumes,' when she was shot,
but failed TO give the effect of the shoot
ing upon her. On another occasion her hus-
band became displeased at her at a card
party given at their home, the complainant
said. She said that her husband became
incensed and struck her in the face About
two weeks before she left her husband she
testified, he pushed her down the stairs
and after that she determined to leave him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
G0OSE-S SHAPED AEROPLANE.
Flying Machine Controlled by EIec-
trically Operated Wings.

CINCINNATI, o., Dee. H-John M. Car
roll, an expert machinist, who Is well
known in organized labor circles in Cincin-
natl. thinks that he has hit upon a plan
for the successful navigation of the air. Mr..
Carroll is building an air ship. He has a
working model at his home, 1923 Gest street,
which will fly around the room like bird,
and he is hard at work on the ship itself,
which he hopes to launch some time be-
tween now and spring. .'Most people look
upon air-ship inventors az harmless sort
of lunatics." said Mr.. Carroll when APP
proc ched for information, "and 1 do not
care to advertise myself as member Of
the grand army of cranks."
So at first Mr. Carroll declined to show
his model, but later he relented, and after
showing it, he warmed to his subject and
talked quite freely of his labors and his
hopes His present experiment is Mr.. Car
rolls third attempt in this line. His two
former inventions were built on the conven-
tional air ship lines-with long, cigar
shaped body and a huge screw propeller,
with rudders and the like to guide 1t
through the unmarked sea of atmosphere.
Both of them would work, explained
Carroll but they possessed the c efhen
were unmanageable and would support no
burden"
When the machinist hit upon his third
plan he decided to work from a living mod
ell. Men cannot improve on nature, he ar
gued with himself. Then for days Carroll
spent much time along the river front,
watching the flights of pigeons and birds OF
all sorts. Then he went home, and thought
some more. II have it, he said one day
to himself II will build ship modelled
after a goose. Wild geese can fly farther
than any other living creature They start
in Alaska, and flap In unison with the honk,
honk of the big gray gander all the way
to the waters of Florida Carroll bought
a goose, took it to his workshop, and start
ed to work. He modelled his wings after
the wings of the goose, "feathering them
with thin strips of isinglass which readily
admit the passage of air when thrown up,
and close like valves when the wings are
given the downward stroke. In order to
critically study the movements of the
gooses wings Carroll tied the legs of his
model and poked it frequently with a stick.
The body of CAROLS machine is modelled.
in a measure, after the shape of a goose.
1t is made of oiled silk and when the ma
filled with gas-just enough to almost ball
ance the burden. The wings are operated
by electricity from storage batteries, and
enough has been demonstrated in the trials
of the small-sized model to satisfy Carroll
that he has at last hit upon plan which
cannot but be successful. The machine is
to be guided entirely by the wings which
will tilt forward or back, or one front and
the other to the rear, so that either the ele-
walton or the direction can be controlled in
ctantlv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
PAlNE'S FARM A CEMETERY.
Famous InfideIs Home Bought by a
Rich New York Syndicate.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-Tom Paine's old
farm, on which the famous infidel lived, died
and was buried, is TO be turned into ceme-
terry which will rival in beauty and impor-
lance New York's celebrated metropolis
Greenwood The property is near New
Rochelle, and has just been sold to syndi-
cate of New York millionaires who propose
to so enhance its beauty as to make it one
of the most romantic graveyards in the
world. 1t was sold to the syndicate by John
Fl. Trenor a rich citizen of New Rochelle
Its three hundred acres brought the sum of
$ZOO,OOO In the bosom of this land repose
the mortal remains of the author of THE
Age OF Reason and of THE Rights Of
Man. Above his dust stands monument
mach more humble than many that have
been erected TO men of far less renown.
This land was the spot on which the HUI
guenots settled when they landed in
America.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
VILLAlNOUS WARFARE.
Efforts to XIII Cheap Restaurants
with Aid of Ammonium SuIphide.

DENVER, Col, Dec. 24.-The Cooks and
Walters Union has declared war on the
cheap Japanese restaurants recently opened
in this city, and are using every possible
method to drive them out of business. While
the Or ntal restaurant on Larimer street
was crowded an unknown man threw about
half a pound of ammonium sulphide under
meath the table nearest the kitchen door.
Hurrying to the cashiers desk, he paid his
bill and deposited another batch of the
same chemical in front of the cigar case.
Almost Immediately the gases from the
ammonium filled the place, and every one
present was forced to seek the open air to
escape the strangling stencil liberated from
the chemical. The man who played the
trick was soon lost in the crowd. Later
somebody threw a quantity of chloride of
lime in the open doorway F. Obi, manager
OF the restaurant. said he believed the acts
were instigated by the union.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

should not supply many Of the horses used
abroad. and he Is especially impressed with
the belief that we could breed in this coun-
try, particularly in the Western States,
horses which could be serviceable for cav
airy purposes. The agents of the depart
ment in London and other places have been
instructed TO make reports on this subject
covering the general question and the style
of horses. the demand. price, etc. This in
formation will be embodied in one of the
bulletins soon to be issued Charles E.
Stubs, an agent of several horse associa-
tions in this country. will leave for Europe
in a few days, bearing an honorary COM
mission from the department. Mr. Stubs
special mission is to investigate the horse
markets of Europe with special reference
to cavalry horses and such data as he OBJ
tains of general interest to horse breeders
who might be induced to embark In this
new field of competition will be turned over
to the department for publication.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
Spanish Cabinet Council.

MADRID, Dec. PA Cabinet council was
held to-day. at which was read the reply
of United States Minister Woodford to the
note of the Spanish government in answer
to the first communication of the American
government through him.
Dispatches from Manila, Philippine ISL
ands, were read, stating that Lieutenant
Colonel Primo Rivera had entered San
Miguel Mayumo in the company of numer-
Gus rebel chiefs, including Aguinaldo and
Llanera, and cries of Long live Spain -
Long live the King" and Long live the
captain general and that the greatest en-
thusiasm had been displayed over the con-
clusion of peace.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
WARNING EPlSCOPALIANS.
fractional Fight Over the Election of
al Bishop COadjutOr.

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. PA fractional
fight has broken out in the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese of Arkansas over the recent
election of bishop coadjutor. Archdea-
con William Montgomery Brown, of the
diocese of Ohio, was elected and accepted
the office. 1t now seems that the leading
churchmen of Arkansas have split into two
parties and one of them is attempting to
prevent the consecra lion of the bishop CO.
adJutor. He cannot be consecrated without
the consent of majority of the bishops and
diocesan committees of the country and
one faction has sent TO them notice that
protest against consenting to the conse-
Grafton IS being prepared. charging that the
election Is Illegal because of unfair methods
and manipulation practiced by the party
that succeeded. NO charge is made regard
the honor that has been rendered him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

HAVANA, Dec. A.-General Paudo, the
Spanish commander-in-chief in the field,
who with an escort recently landed on the
south coast of Santiago de Cuba in order
according to the official report, to recon
hotter that part of the island has not been
heard from for five days. 1t was announced
city of Santiago de Cuba, but the report
was subsequently officially denied and it was
said that the general had attacked the in
surgents in that province with strong col
umns of troops, the enemy accepting battle.
Still another report has it that General
Pando has arrived at Barre, in the province
of Santiago de Cuba. In that vicinity and
in the Bayamo department the insurgents
are said to be in force, well armed and sup
piled with ammunition. They are under the
command of CaliXto Garcia and Rabi.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

Manitoba Catholics Urged to Persist
in Claiming Their Rights.


ROME, Dec 24-The Pope's encyclical
on the Manitoba school question is pub
lished here this evening. After recalling
the religious history of Canada and eulo-
giving its scholastic institutions, his Holi-
ness expresses regret at the decision taken
seven years ago in Manitoba relative to the
Catholic schools, and points out the rights
of Catholics according to the federal agree
ment The Pope condemns a school system
based on religious neutrality, praises the
zeal the bishops have displayed on the
question regrets that the Catholics are not
equally united, owing to the political pas
SiOns, and admits that the authorities have
done something to diminish the incon-
veniences of Manitoba school legislation.
But his Holiness declares this to be mad
equate, and exhorts Catholics to persist in
claiming all their rights, though they must
not refuse any partial PREPARATIONS OBJ
tainable, with a view to reduce the perils
of the education of the youth. The en-
cyclical says that in the event of these
being unattainable Catholics should pro-
vile their own schools and adopt, under the
guidance of their bishops, a programme of
study consistent with their religion and all
literary and scientific progress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
May Withdraw from the Federation

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 2.-The Central
Labor Union of Louisville will probably de-
eide to withdraw from the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at a meeting to be held
Sunday afternoon. Since the annual meet
ing held at Nashville a strong sentiment
in favor of withdrawing from the parent
body has sprung up, and the leaders to-day
say that the step is very probable. There
is great dissatisfaction over the ruling
MADE by the federation to the effect that
no union can belong to a branch of the
federation without being a member of the
federation itself, and, as this will serve to
strike from the local union several of its
largest branches, the step is considered
probable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
The Great Man of the First Congress-
Henry Cabot Lodge, in Scribner.

There was one man there that day who
had made no speeches and drawn no resolu-
tons, but who, nevertheless, was better
known than any of them, and who, alone,
among them ALL had a soldiers fame won
on hard-fought fields. There was not much
need to point him out, for he was the type
of man that commands attention and does
not need Identification. Very tail and large
admirably proportional, with every sign of
great physical strength; fine head and
face of power, with a strong jaw and a
with dignity which impressed everyone
who ever entered his presence, there was
no need to tell the onookers that here was
Colonel Washington. What he had done
they knew. What he was yet TO do no one
dreamed, but such was the impression he
made on all who came near him that we
may easily believe that the people who
gazed at him in the streets felt dumbly
what Patrick Henry said for those who met
him in the Congress: Washington is I'M
questionably the greatest of them ALL"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
American Chemical Society.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-The American
Chemical Society will hold its sixteenth
general meeting in this city the 18th and
80 inst. The society is the outgrowth of
a meeting of American chemists held in
Northumberland, Pa. in 1874, to celebrate
the centennial of the discovery of oxygen by
Priestley. Its membership has become ma
tional. extending throughout the country
s and including representation of all branches
of the science. Papers will be read at the
sessions held on the two days named and
the meeting will close with banquet
the visiting members at a special reception.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

LONDON, Dec 25.--The New York corre-
spondent of the Morning Post says: 1.-THE
Canadian government, at the request of
Great Britain, has ordered the confsc alton
of seditious publications. This is primarily
due to a desire to prevent the Canadian in
dependence movement from stimulating dis
affection in India, but iswill have the effect
of suppressing all public discussion as to
annexation to the United States and collat-
eral subjects
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
DENTIST EvANs's WILL.
Complications Caused by It's Peculiar
Terms-WOrk for Lawyers

NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-Frank NJ. Whites
copyright cable dispatch from Paris to the
Journal says: The contents of the will OF
DR.. Thomas w. Evans the American dent
list, who died worth millions, We're to-day
made known by DR.. Crane. his lifelong
friend and partner After making requests
to more than thirty relatives, the total of
which amount to less than a quarter of a
million dollars. DR.. Evans leaves all the
rest of his estate to the Thomas W. Evans
Museum and Institute of Philadelphia"
The value of the estate, which is In real
estate. stocks and bonds Is estimated by
tho executors to be about $500 600 1t Is by
no means certain, however. that all of Dr
Evanss millions will eventually serve the
puroose he intended Ia fact. lawvar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. PA new bail
bond in the sum of $1,000 was entered in the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals to-
day for John d. Hart and he was released
from prison. Hart is under conviction and
sentence for aiding in flibustering in the
steamer Laurada case. He was surren-
dered by his former bondsmen few DAYS
ago, and was sent to the penitentiary. Hart
Will be undeI bail until the Appellate Court
finally passes upon the question of granting
him a new trial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25

officers on the Florida coast to prevent the
d parture of tilibustering expedi ion which
for some days has been planne for Christ
mas or Sunday. Reports received by the
department from its officers locate the men.
munitions and point of departure, unless
this latter shall be abruptly changed. The
department declines to state the points at
which preparations are making and where
the expedition will try to leave.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
DervishesN surprised and Slain.

SUAKIM, Dec A.-The native levees OF
the Kassala garrison surprised Dervsh
post at Ell flasher on the Atbara, on
Wednesday, and drove out the Dervishes
with great loss, capturing the post, num-
Der of camels, a quantity of stores ard
many cattle. Two Dervish emrs were
killed. The Dervish post at Azabri has also
been invested
CAIRO, Dec. H.-The Dervishes have left
Shendy and Metemmeh and are marching
against the Anglo-Egyptian forces, with
Berber as their objective point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
CnhIe Notes.

Prince Bismarck. who for the past few
days has been Ill, is now again enjoying sat
iSfactory health He will spend Christmas
quietly with his family at Fredrichsruhe.
The Russian government has entered into
communication with the government Of
curing shipments of meat to Vladivostock
Further advices from st. Paul de Loaada
Portuguese Lower Guiana, announce that
the Portuguese officer who, with number
of men was killed by natives of the Humble
plateau, is Count Almoster a grandson of
the Duke of Saldanna. The Portuguese
killed and missing number twenty-one per-
sons