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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Hot wentbcr i'm Knnsas.

LINCOLN CENTER, Kan, June 19.-The
weather throughout this part of the State
has been intensely hot since Wednesday
ranging from l03 to 105 degrees. Three
deaths of sunstroke have been reported
besides half dozen prostrations.
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FuDeroI of Bnrney Barnato.

LONDON, June 19.--The funeral of Bar
ney Barnato, the South African diamond
king" who committed suicide while en-
route from Cape Town for Southampton,
took place this afternoon. The interment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Won the Tennis Championship.

PHILADELPHIA, June 19.-A1iss Juliette
Atkinson, the clever little lawn tennis ex-
pert from Brooklyn is once more champion
of America She to-day won back from
Miss Bessie Moore, her conqueror of last
year, the laurels she held in 1895.
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Two More Evnnsxille Drownings.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
EVANSVILLE, Ind June 19.-There were
two more drownings here this evening. The
victims were Andrew Rosenberger, eyed
eighteen son of a prominent citizen, and
FL ner Meadows, aged eleven, son of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

Stations. a. m Max Z d. m
Atlanta, Ca. ............. 50 !. .
Bismarck. N. D,......... 56 :. =.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20

BUFFALO, N. Y, June 19.-John B.. Sack
EFT. postmaster of Buffalo during President
Cleveland's first administration, and more
recently treasurer of Erie county, died to-
daV
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LocnI ObserNntions saturdnx.

Bar. Their. r. H. Wind. Weather Pre-.
! p p M. 1854 s. 70 INVEST. Cloudy. Oh
Maximum temperature, So minimum tenn
perature, 81.
Following is a comparative statement of
the temperature and precipitation June 10:
Tenn. Pre-
Normal ,........................... "A lie
Mean -. Observation-Disclosures. 70 .01
Departure from normal. .......... 81 .-15
Departure since June 1............ 81 $50
Departure since Jan. 1...........-190 1906
sPlus. c. f. r. WAPPENHANS
Local Forecast Official
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Venezuela ApoIogixes to France.

PARIS. June 19.-At the Cabinet meeting
to-day the minister for foreign affairs, NJ
HanotauX, announced the resumption OF
diplomatic relations with Venezuela and
the apology of that republic for the Incl
dent which led to the rupture Nj. Hano-
taux further announced that France had
obtained a settlement of the pending in
demnity claims. The minister for foreign
affairs also announced That the agreement
had been signed at Picking conceding 10
trance commercial ana political adNan-
tageS in the districts adjacent to Tonquln,
chiefly in the extension OF the Quang-S 81
Railroad towards the interior OF China,
and in the permission for France to pene-
trate in Yunan and work the mines on
the Chinese frontier provinces with French
engineers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
OVER 5000 LIVES LOST
FRTGHTFUL RESULT OF THE RE
CENT EARTHQUAKE IN INDIA.
Part Of the Province of Assam In
Ruins and Many Hindoos SUI
fering for Food.

SIAILA, June lit is announced to-day
that over 5000 lives have been lost by the
earthquake disturbances which have re-
Gently visited the province of Assam. A
message of coincidence has been received
from Queen Victoria.
The destruction of property throughout
the province was also great. numerous food
depots being wrecked and their contents
Hindoos are in danger of starvation.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-20

Greatest girl at our boarding
house you ever saw" declared
Quirkly, with a giggle. Never says
what you expect her to say, and
you'd be disappointed if she did,
after hearing her.
Dry goods clerk sits opposite
her, and asked the other day if she
really thought there were bargains
in the matrimonial lottery. 'Of
course there are, she answered
with laugh. / myself have been
marked down from 38 to %.
"Old bachelor that sits next to
her at the table spilled his ice cream
in her lap. She never screamed nor
ran away, but effusively took him by
the hand and congratulated him on
the coOlness of the entire proceed
ing.
Dude boarder had the nerve to
propose TO her, and she took half an
hour explaining to him how it was
all she could possibly do to support
her mother and herself When she
thought of taking on any more OBJ
legations, she would certainly have
another talk with him The chump
went around telling it, proud as a
turkey gobbler
Real estate fiend wanted to sell
her a lot for twice what it was
worth. She closed the deal by offer
ing to take half his commission and
give him a quit clAim to the lot. He
still scratches his head and looks at
her from the corners of his eyes.
''Think of laying my own fortune
at her feet. Haven't the slightest
idea that she will accept, and for
that very reason am inclined to
think that she will Detroit Free
Press.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-20
Human Nature,

The Next Door Neighbor-Just
finished painting your fence, eh
Why don't you put a sign ON it to
warn people2
The Householder-Sh. If / did,
every passerby would want to see if
the sign spoke the truth. It'll have
a chance to dry now.-Pearson' ;
Weekly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-20
WHY .HouDoN WAITED.
The Story Is Told In the sculptor's Statue
of Washington.

The Story Is Told In the sculptor's Statue
of Washington.
One of the most valuable and in
teresting collections of colonial rel
les in existence is in the state library
at Richmond
The greatest treasure in the col
lection IS the marble statue of Wash
ington, by Houdon. 1t possesses the
merit of being the only effigy that
remains of Washington that was
actually taken from life. The statue
conveys a very distinct idea of
Washington, different in many re-
spects, however, from the familiar
portraits which for the most part
are copies of the same original In
1884, five years before the adoption
of the federal constitution, the gen.
eral assembly of Virginia ordered
this statue.
When the statue was provided for,
Thomas Jefferson happened to be in
Paris, and he engaged Houdon as
the sculptor, because, as he after
ward said, He is, without Il rival
ship, the first statuary of his age, as
the proof of which he received or
ders from every country for things
intended to be capital Houdon re
ceived /, 200 English guineas, a trife
over s., 600. Besides, the expense
of the journey from France to Vir-
ginia was paid, and his life was in
sured during his absence from
France at the cost of the general
assembly Houdon left Paris in
August, 1885. In October he reached
Mount Vernon He was treated with
great consideration by Washington
until the formality of his first meet
ing wore away.
HoudOn made known no desire to
get to work at the statue, and it Is
believed that Washington hospi-
tality grew a trifie cold before the
sculptor really set about the work
for which he had come over the sea.
One morning while the family, of
which Houdon had become tempo
rarily a member, was seated at
breakfast, a message was brought to
Washington, informing him that Il
pair of carriage horses had been
brought for his inspection, he hav-
ing made known his desire to pur-
chase a team. Washington left the
table presently and went outside
HoudOn followed After moment :
close inspection Washington asked
the price of the animals.
"One thousand dollars, F." was the
reply.
lone thousand dollars!' said
Washington, in amazement.
All, ave him. / ave himr
broke in Houdon gleefully. He hur-
ried away and began work on the
statue industriously, and so it Is
supposed that the expression pre-
served on the statue at Richmond i
the one that appeared on the face OF
Washington when he learned oi
what he considered an exorbitant
price for the span of horses. With
the knowledge of this little incident
in seeing the statue, it Is not hard
to believe that Houdon had him
i'll truth, and kept him. for there is
an expression of surprise on the face
and the lips are compressed i
seems that Houdon, after he got til,
inspiration he had been waiting for
pursued the work faithfully, gain
ing Washington : interest and good
will by his perseverance and indus
try.-Harper's Weekly
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-20

WARNING ORDER
In the United States Commissioner
court In the Indian Territory
Southern District
McCord Collins Commerce Co
vs.. plaintiff,
:. b. Bailey. defendant.
The defendant. :. h. Bailey, j.
warned 90 appear i'm this court IN
thirty davs and answer the corr
plant Of the plaintiff. NcCoTd Col
iins Commerce Company
Witness the Hon. Arthur Walcutt'
commissioner az said court. and the
seal thereof this 9Th DAY of Jan. issI.
AHTHrE WALcuTT,
t. :. Commissioner.
Lrdhetter a. Elcdlsoc, attorneys.
X. r. Lee, attorney for non-res-
idenf defendant. -
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SuhacribinE fpr @etropoiitaa Papers
The coming year will be- crowded
with big news events aud happen
ings, the details of which everyone
il interested in national and foreign
affairs will went tn read. The best
Western newspaper Published j. the
semi-wcclly Republic % -. Louis
II is only 81 q year, and for that
amount il will send two papers
week 10 any address for one year
The Republic daily j. s. year -
for six months or si.50 for three
months.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
CURRENT COMMENT.
OUR THREE GREAT SPEAKER
illustrated American.

Third in the succession of the great
Speakers of the National House is Thorn
as Brackett Reed, who is again about to
take his place at the head of the represen-
tatives. Henry Clay, James g. Blaine
and Mr.. Reed-these three stand out like
mountain peaks in the long line of the
Speakers of the House. Clay and Blaine
were each men of famous personal mag
netism. Tales Of the peculiar power they
exerted on men who came within their
aura are SO multitudinous that they seem
almost legendary. Certainly very large
part OF their supremacy among men was
duo to this strange force. Both Clay and
Blaine were dreamers. A certain Orien-
tai imagination was dominant note in
each. Reed, on the other hand, while to
many a very attractive personality, does
not rule men by any subtlety of personal
magnetism. He is notably careless of
effect in manner. He is rugged as cliff.
While he is withal a man OF big kindness
Of heart, he often is relentless as a serpent
in his stingiug sarcasm. He reigns by
the sheer largeness of his uncompromis-
ing and unanswerable manhood. All
three of these p akers have been too pro-
Blaine the presidency was the most darling
ambition. But both at critical moments
lost it; Clay because of his high principle
in writing the unpopular Texas letter
about which he said, 81 had rather be
right than be President; and Blaine
because of sudden concert Of trifling
atoms against him which all together
made an obstacle he could not clear. To
Reed, however, the presidency is no such
magnet. But though the question of the
presidency seems to interest him but lit
tie, perhaps for that reason he is, In some
roaring convention, the more likely to be
singled out for it, Americans are race
who love Man, and at times this admi-
ration for sheer manhood becomes an
idolatry with them.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
THE TRADING STAMPS SCHEME.

1hh IhAOlNG > lamps SOHEME II.
| (From the Hartford Courant.
The merchants of New Haven and Nor
wioh are up in arms over the "trading
stamp" scheme. The New Haven retail
merchants association will hold q meet
ing tonight to see how to get rid of this
trouble, and in Norwich the newspapers
are publishing vigorous attacks on the
same method.
A trading company" of outsiders has
set up headquarters at each of these
towns. Certain merchants are persuaded
to render discount to customers of five
per cent for cash, giving the customers
not the cash thus saved. but trading
coupons for that amount, which are ac-
cepted at the trading company's store in
payment for articles there
Five dollars worth of trading stamps,
for instance, secure an article held at SIS
at the trading store. But presumably
that store is not run for love. The man
ayers are not in it for their health. They
have to get their profit and pay their
rent, buy their gift goods, pay for light,
heat and clerk hire 5to. 1t is an inter-
esting question how much of that IS of
discount Is really secured by the custo-
mer who thinks he has got it.
The reasonable demand is set up that
the merchant should offer five per cent
discount for cash direct to his customers,
and not roundabout to maintain sub
company's shop.
A New Haven lawyer claims that the
whole arrangement is illegal. He cites
this law:
livery person who shall sell any person
al property and shall offer to the purchas-
or an interest in other property to be as
certained by lot or hazard, or any article
of value or any interest therein, as
present or gratuity, the quality, kind or
value of which shall be unknown to the
purchaser at the time of sale shall be
fined not more than $500 or imprisoned
for not more than three months, or BOTH
He holds that the stamps are of value
not known to the purchaser. Other law
yers question this, but it ia intimated that
some of the merchants who signed con-
tracts with the trading company say they
regret it and were frightened into sign
ing, through fear some rival might do it;
and that these merchants will decline to
stay in thu scheme, on the ground that it
is Illegal. Then the company can sue
them to enforce the contract, and the
courts can pass on it's legality.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
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Special Notices. on first page, one-third add.
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Insertion.
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40 words or ess 10 display. Displayed adyer-
tisements under these headlines, and all adyer-
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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Congressman Dingley's forecast of leg
islation at the coming session contains
no suggestion of any revenue measure
from which rs to be inferred that he
does not share in the apprehension ex-
pressed in some quarters that the existing
tariff law will not furnish sufficient
income. With regard to the currency he
is guarded, though evidently he has little
expectation that any general scheme of
currency reform will receive favorable
action. He evidently shares in the gen.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Ths Hon. Waldo Pettingill is another
gentleman who appears to think the
"proper time has not arrived to announce
his candidacy for the govsrnship. He
intimates, however, that there is pos
iiblity that that time may come. Mean
while we must regard him as a chrysalis.
which may or may not hatch out into a
butterfly, depending on the political
weather and the number and kind of enc
mics encounterd before the proper time"
comes
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

The Emperor William has evidently set
his heart upon making Germany great
naval power like England, and he is the
the duty of the subject to
subordinate his own ideas and
wishes to those of his sovereign. But the
German subject, wonderfully submits
sive though he has proved himself to be
during the reign of the present Emperor,
is probably not quite humble enough yet
to add voluntarily TO his already burden
some taxation merely to crafty the whim
of the young war lord. William, if he
gets his feet will. have to fight for it.
The present Reichstag in all probability
will not give it to him, and the problem
before him is to elect one that will. Un-
doubtedly the Emperor can bring very
powerful influence to bear in the cleo
tions, but the hardest thing monarch
ever undertakes to do is to wiring from his
subjects unnecessary taxes. Despotic pow
er, even, shrinks from that undertaking,
and undertakes it, if at all, with fear and
trembling. Williams power is not des-
potic, and the nation he is dealing with
is one Of the most intelligent in the
world, and one of the most persistent,
when reused, in standing by it's rights.
With the means at his disposal it is high
ly improbable that he can coerce this
people into spending millions for what
they know is folly, since all the dollars
that could possibly be wrung out of them
could never place Germany anywhere near
England as naval power.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

OF course the Sultan treats the de-
mand of our government for reparation
for the destruction of American mission
ary buildings with evasion 1t is the way
he Greats every unpleasant demand upon
him. For two years he kept the Powers
OF Europe at bay by this same method
while he was slaughtering Armenians.
Austria has recently shown the way, and
the only way, to get anything except eva.
sion out of him.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

The sugges ion which is N ade that
the Republican caucuses be opened at
4 O'Clock in the afternoon and kept open
until 9. is good one, and it is to be
hoped the city committee will decide to
give the plan a trial. A much fuller
vote can be obtained in that way, and the
fuller the vote the more likely the nomi-
nations are to be acceptable to the party.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

eral belief that Hawaii will be annexed,
and he thinks some action in regard to
Cuba which may help the Cubans with
out involving US in war, is possible,
though his own personal preference is for
leaving the matter. entirely. in the hands
Of the President.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

The worlds shipments of wheat, in
cluding India, last week were 9,1i3, 600
bushels, as against 7,41s, 200 bushels for
the corresponding week last year. There
was liberal movement, and q surprising
one at that, from Black Sea ports which
aggregated 3,672,O0O bushels. This
weakened the markets all around, nota-
bly, SO in Chicago, causing drop of "A
to l 3-4 cents per Lushel.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Justice Pryor, of the New York Su-
prerne Court, has just decided that a
woman from whom her husband has Sc
cured divorce can hold policy of in
surance on his life. Can the husband
be compelled to keep the premium up?
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Learning that Mayor Van Wyck is a
crack poker player, the Dallas Morning
News announces that several very esti-
mable Texans are anxious to make the
gentleman S acquaintance
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

There is every indication that the
prosperity wave is tending in the direo-
tion of the South. Secretary Wilson
finds from the agricultural statistics of
that section that the cotton crop is be-
yond all previous records and estimates.
The number of cotton mills in the South
has increased from 233 in 1886 to 4o1 in
1886, and the number of spindles from
1,109, 1872 to 3,34l, ,575. The bales of cotton
consumed in the South in 1866 were
valued at $3.50, AL; in 1886 S13, ,O23, 1852.
The value of the cotton seed produced dur
ing the same period has increased from
$74l 600 to $50 0OO, 900. and thu exports of
cotton from 81, 57S, ,935 in 1887 to Sc, 9S7, ,961
in 1885,
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Don't hurry. Take time to examine
the labels and trademarks of goods Won
buy, and you will protect yourself from
cheap and worthless substitutes,
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

''For three years suffered from Salt
Rheum, 1t covered my hands to such
an extent that could not wash them.
Two bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters
cured me-" Libbie Young, Popes Mills,
st. Lawrence County, N. 7.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

1t is announced that the Interstate
Commerce Commission will ask Con-
gress~ st@the coming session to enact a
law giving it power to carry out its orders
and enforce obedience. Unless some
means is devised to clothe this commits
sion with some power to enforce its
edicts, the railroads, as we'll as other self
interested parties, will in the future, as
they have in the past snap their fingers
in the face of many of the orders emanat-
ing from this body, regarding them as
thunderbolts of the most harmless kind
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Girl snshers have become very popular
in Trenton churches-and the congrega-
tions are largely increasing.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8.

E The Portland Board of Trade should
get up some resolutions on English
as.she is wrote
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

Ex-Minister Terrell has recently told
US in the Century Magazine that our
ideas of the Sultan were all wrong, that
he is very kind hearted and studious
person, whose heart was full of sympathy
for the slaughtered and pillaged Armeni-
ans; and now the. German Ambassador
informs US that our notions of the Ger
man Emperor are all wrong also. He too,
is a very kind hearted person, filed with
yea-ning for the welfare Of his subjects,
etc., etc. 1t only remains now for some
body to correct the American impression
of Gen. Weyler and show that he too, is
kind hearted. Who will perform this
Office for the former Captain General9
Has the President of Brown University
any time to spare?
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

The people of Brooklyn are up in arms
against the action of the Board of Alder
men in granting to the East River and
Atlantic Ocean Trolley Company forty
miles of street for their perpetual use.
Brooklyn as distinct municipality is
about a to disappear, and the expiring
Board of Aldermen have resurrected lot
of jobs and rushed them through. The
worst among them is the electric railroad
Job, but there are several others which
are pretty bad. The Mayor is expected
to veto the action of the aldermen, but it
is feared that the latter are so COM
pletely within the grip of the Trolley Com
pany that they may pass the measure
over his Veto 1t is strongly limited that
some of the aldermen have been de-
bauched by the corporations, and are ia
king advantage of their last chance to
lay something by for rainy day.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03

A citizen of Ottawa, a recognized au-
thority on the Dominion constitution,
points out that Senor De LONE, the
Spanish minister, in his comparison of
the Cuban autonomy scheme with the
Dominion constitution, fell into the
grave error of assuming that crown in
the latter document always meant the
crown of England. He says that
the word crown means the au-
tonomous government of Canada. By the
constitution Senators are to be appointed
by the crown, and Senior De LONE inter-
preted this to mean by the imperial gov
ernment. AS matter of fact senators are
appointed by the duly elected federal
government of Canada, and the imperial
government has nothing to do with it..
The analogy which Senior De LONE claim
ed to exist between the Cuban plan of
autonomy and the Dominion constitution,
so for as the appointment of senators is
concerned, was founded on a misconcep-
tion, and has no existence in fact.