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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
BAPTIST PUBLISHING SOCIETY,"
Proceedings of the Second Days
SessiOn-Omcers' Reports.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 21.-The seconds
days session of the American Baptist
Publishing society opened this morning.
with n small attendance A few minutes
were consumed in religious; services. and
at 10 o'clock President Crozier called
the business session to order.
The annual report of the board of man
ayers was read by General Secretary
Rowland of Philadelphia. The summing,
UP of the year showed very encouraging
results. Two months after the begin
ming of the year the headquarters of the
society were burned out, including all
the machinery, etc. Notwithstanding
these difficulties the year was success
full one The total amount of sales i'm
merchandise and periodicals was $6O1,-
396.S6. This was an increase over the
preceding year of $4S, S06.53.
In the publication department 122 new
publications were issued, forty-eight
more than during the previous year. Of
these 2,769,02 copies, were printed.
The report further showed that, the
society had kept 90 missionaries in the
field, had given away 779S books, dis
tributed 63S,02S pages of tracts, aided
113 Sunday schools with donations of
Scriptures, books, etc, and aided 243 pas
tors and ministerial students with grants.
for their libraries.
| The report of the treasurer showed the
total receipts from all sources to have
been $1,106,315.54; cash balance on
hand April /, 1896, of $5701.SS brought
the total to $1,112,0S7.42 This is
equaled by the expenditures, to which
amount is added 1874, 69S.56, due from
The assets are 1912, 7Os.39, while the
liabilities are $102, 104.SG, leaving the net.
assets $S70,G03.53.
In the missionary department the total
receipts were $114 ,445.S1 and the ex-
/ penditures $12S,S62.71. The deficit was
paid out of balance In the Bible de-
partment.
The following officers were elected and
a recess was taken:
President, Samuel A. Crozier Pennsyl-
vania; secretary, A. j. Rowland, ID. d.;
treasurer, Mr.. b. II. Dennison; recording
secretary, ]. ID. Walker, d. D.
| Mr.. I. III. Jacobs of PHILADELPHIA, COIL
Quoted devotional exercises ut the gUeuse
ing of the afternoon session. The reI2olftr
of the committee Oh Bible work was pre-
sented. 1t approves the appointment v6
DR.. w. G. Luther, DR.. j. A. Robertson
and Rev. Harvey Hatcher as special
Bible secretaries at Atlanta, Dallas and
st. Louis. 1t is earnestly recommended
that the churches generally observe Bible.
day and make generous offerings to the
society's treasury for the Bible DEPART
ment. .taat
The committee on enrolment reported
an attendance Of 347. Invitations to meet
next year at Dallas, Tex, Asbury Park
and other points were referred to the.
committee on management. The society
then adjourned.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
Mexico May Follow Suit.

Mexico City, May 20.-The news of
the passage of the Cuban belligerency
resolution by the United States senate
created great interest here, where the
anti-Spanish sentiment is still growing
stronger and where the people resent the
interference with the native press by
the Spanish diplomatic representations
under its right to demand the suppression
in violent language. The recognition OF
Cuban belligerency by the United States
is likely to lead to similar recognition by
the leading Latin-American countries,
with the exception of Chile. The pro.
Cuban sentiment in Central America is
very strong, and the governments there
are only awaiting the initiative of the
United States. '1 Nt
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
Southern Prcsbyterfans.

Charlotte, n. c., May 2l.--The assem-.
bly, of Southern Presbyterians was
opened with devotional exercises, con-
Quoted by the moderator After the.
reading and approval Of the minutes, the
moderator announced the standing COM
mittees. Many Overtures and memo
rails were read and referred.
After a short recess the assembly re-
sumed the exercises of the Westminster
celebration, Rev. +. X. Beattie, ID. D., I'M
the chair. Rev. T.. d. WitherspOon-
ID. D., of Louisville gave description
of Westminster Abbey which held the.
crowd In rapt attention.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
Reformed presbyteriuns.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 21.-When the,
third session of the general synod Of the,
Reformed Presbyterian church opened,
this morning there was a long discussion
over the admission of Rev. John w. Scott.
a native of India. BY an enabling net
passed two years ago, India was made a
presbytery with limited powers. Mr..
Scott was finally admitted and gave an
interesting talk ON his experiences in
India.
The rest of the session was taken up
with the reading of reports of the Ohio
and Western Pennsylvania Presbyteries.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
Moving over.

The migration of the French-speakihe-
people of Canada to the New England
lions in recent years and shows NJ pr s|sns
of diminution The French population
of the province of Quebec is 1000. 600.
while. according to the census of $780,
the number Of French Canadians and
persons Of Canadian extraction in the,
United States was $4,000. The late M.
MERCER predicted that by 1910 there,
would be more French Canadians, By
birth and descent, In the United States
than Ia Canada. n
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
Rapid Court Work.

Caldwell, Tex, May q. Special ION
the 14th of this month Sam Waller came.
here as a witness before the grand jury
and was indicted for perjury. He was
convicted of the crime late yesterday
in the penitentiary. Thus having been
tried, convicted and sentenced in less,
than week. os5 ~ 81 tict
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
A killing at MiIIsap.

Weatherford, Tex, May 21.--(Special.)
AT II O'clock this morning, at Millsap,
in this county, Joe Brown was killed.
He was shot with q winchester, the ball
passing through his heart. Deputy
Sheriff Mcconnell went out to Miilsap
at once and arrested J. w. Merrett and
lodged him in jail hdre. charged with the
killing. Brown was Merrett's son-in-law.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
storm mt Toyah.

Toyah, Tex, May 21.-(SpeciaL) Late
this evening small hurricane accom-
panied by hail and rain struck Toyah,
shed houses and doing considerable dam
age to windmills, and the. hail broke out
a great many window lights.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-05-27
House Proceedings.

Washington, May 20.-Interest in the
Cuban question focused on the house to.
day. The spectators who had packed
the senate yesterday f1ocked over the
house galleries and the scene was that OF
a congressional field day. Down in the
arena the chairs on the republican side
were nearly all occupied, many members
messages from the chairman of the eau
Gus, who had attempted to muster quo
rum of the ruling party.
There was a diversion in the beginning,
furnished by Mr.. Simpson of Kansas, who
demanded the reading of the full journal
after it had been read in the usual skele-
tonized form, demand which, under the
rules, the speaker was compelled to graf
ify. Then Mr.. Simpson made the point
that it was stated in the journal that GER
tain bills were referred to committees
whereas no committees had been appoint
ed. Mr. Simpson was silenced by the
previous question being demanded and
sustained by the republicans.
The decks having been cleared, Mr..
Dalzell, from the committee on rules, re-
ported a rule for the consideration of the
senate Cuban relief resolution, the rule
providing for vote after two hours de-
bate. 81 vEe 10 .f. F.tr
Mr.. Bailey thereupon endeavOred to Sc
cure recognition to present the views OF
the minority of the committee. but the
speaker recognized Mr.. Dalzell to de-
mand the previous question. There was
a sharp three-cornered skirmish between
Sneaker Reed and Dalzell on one side,
and Bailey on the other, in the course of
which Mr.. Bailey remarked that he knew
the republicans did not intend to give
the minority any opportunity to be heard,
but advised them to carry out their pro-
gram with some degree of decency,
whereupon he was applauded by the gal
leries.
Mr.. Simpson shouted: :.
The proposition which Mr.. Bailey was
attempting to present was sub-rule for
consideration of Senator Morgan's resolu-
ton for recognition of the belligerency OF
the insurgents.
The previous question was ordered, III
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
THE STATE ORATORICAL.
Judges Appointed for the Contest in
January.

The executive committee of the State
Oratorical Association, consisting of the
officers of the association, met in Parlor d,
at the Denison Hotel, yesterday afternoon,
to make arrangements for the coming state
oratorical contest. At a previous meeting
judges were selected to pass upon the mer-
its of the different college orations. The
judges who were reported as having con-
scented to serve are: Edward Everett Hale,
jr., professor of English at Union College.
Schenectady, n. Y; Barrett Wendell, pro-
lessor of English, at Harvard College; Z.
Il. wentworth, professor OF English AT VAS
sar College. The following judges ON deliy-
cry were selected yesterday afternoon:
Evans Woollen, Judge W. A. Woods and
j. Cumming Smith; alternates, Judge Hem
ley, Professor HuffoTd and Judge McMas-
ter.
The state contest will probably be held
sn Plymouth Church this year, owing 20 the
fact that both the English and the Grand
Opera Houses were reported as engaged for
the evening of the contest. A committee
was appointed to engage Plymouth Church
for the evening of the third Friday in jan
uary. The constitution of the State Oratori-
cal Association specifies that the contest
shall be held the third Friday in January,
and the officers We're unwilling to change
the date. The executive committee will in
wife the Indiana University Glee Club and
The De PAW Mandolin Club to furnish
Hanover College, De PAW University,
Earlham College, Indiana University
Franklin College and Butler College were
present at the meeting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
FAILED TO SOUND GONGS
STREET-RAILROAD COMPANY DROPS
A NUMBER OF MOTORMEN.
A Crossing Rule That Must BE Obeyed
"A Few Conductors Also
Dropped.

The Citizens Street-railroad Company has
lately been calling it's motormen and con-
ductors to account for violation of the COM
pany's rules. In the last month at least a
dozen employees nave been either suspended
or dismissed entirely from service In the
most of these cases the offenders have been
motormen.
The street-railroad company has an iron
his gong when approaching a crossing Su-
perintendent Elliott says violations of this
rule have been the cause of the majority
of suspensions or dismssals. 1t seems that
these violations have been frequent of
late. Mr. Elliott says some of the motormen
neglect to sound the gong when approach
ing the crossings at the outskirts of the
city. Here there is little travel in the streets
and the motormen grow careless. 1t is a
noticeable fact that whenever there is an
accident in which the street-car company is
involved the charge is usually made that
the motorman did not give warning of the
cars approach. Wherever the company
finds these charges sustained, the offender
is hauled up and either suspended or sum-
marily discharged.
Superintendent Elliott declined to state
in specific terms why number of condGc-
tors have been let go. He said: 1T is a rule
OF the company that conductors must re-
main on the platform, except when taking
up fares. IT conductor leaves his place
on the platform and goes inside and sits
down he ceases to be a. conductor He is
then passenger. A conductor who does
this is certainly guilty of a violation of the
rules
People who find it necessary to patronize
the trolley cars are Well-pleased with the
innovation of the company in keeping the
cars warm. However, there is some COM
plant about the ventilation. Many people
who enter the cars wearing heavy wraps
find the interiors uncomfortably warm and
naturally wonder why the ventilators at
the top of the car are not opened.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
THE UNION IF 4 COMPANY
Office-Nos. iiS and Iz2 East Market st.
Executes All Kinds Of All Trusts For a
Reasonable Compensation.

The Trust Company as Executor Admin
istrator, Curator, Guardian, etc.-In an arti-
Gle upon "Defalcation,' Judah v. Voorhees,,
Esq, who for thirty-five years has been
clerk of the Surrogate's Court of Brooklyn.
n. Y, in speaking of the employment of
Trust Companies in the capacity of execu-
tor, trustee, guardian, ETC., upon which SUBJ
iect ne is an accepted authority, says
II do not believe that the general public.
as yet, fully realizes the value OF trust COM
panies in these various functions. and so I
desire to do my part in bringing 1t to a
knowledge which will save untold misery
and ruin. You cannot tell where the best
man in the world will bring up in ten years.
He may be dead; he may become insovent:
he may go crazy and throw your money out
of the window, with no more sense of re-
sponsibllity than baby, before people know
what ails him; or he may make some hon
est mistake of law or Judgment that costs
your estate very dear. When you leave 1t
to trust company, you find it, be it ten
years hence or twenty. 1t does not fail; It
does not so crazy; it makes no mistake Qf
it should, it is amply responsibility, and 1t
takes no chances. l have seen their work.
ings rom the inside, and can and do thor
oughy commend them to any community"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
ELEVEN DRUNKEN TRAMPS.
Police Corral Them In South ILL.,
nOfs-Street Cellar.

Patrolman Dugan yesterday corralled
eleven tramps in a vacant house at 512
South Illinois street, and called for assist
ance from headquarters to arrest them.
Patrolmen Lancaster and STREET. went to
the place and the crowd was taken into
custody, but not without some little trouble.
The men were all drunk They were in the
cellar, and tried hard to force their way
past the officers. At the Jail they gave their
residences at various cities over the coun-
try and their occupations as everything
from bookkeeper and railroad engineer
down to laborer. One of them was from
Kentucky and he objected to being ordered
around by a colored deputy sheriff and he
struck the deputy. This act of hostility
nearly started a riot, but the tramps were
hustled off to cells before their fighting
blood was fairly aroused.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

the soup rooms were added. and then came
sharp competition in chewing tobaccos
and bottled WHISTLES.
The organization now forming has for its
object the regulation of these matters, so
that there shall be less throat cutting and
more profit. AS sad as the news may be to
some the souproom is doomed to go. That
was decided upon at the very outset in the
first meeting and proved to be common
purpose in the accomplishment of which all
could unite. Some wanted to abolish the
Chicago BOWL but this will probably not
be done. There will be- however. uniform
be done regarding the prices of liquors.
While the barrel house men are thus act
ing the Liquor Dealers League is after
them and intends to do everything to ex-
terminate them. A member of the league
was asked how this could be done, and he
said:
There may not be any law by which we
can close them up because they have barrel
houses, but there is pure food law under
which we can prosecute them, and we will
do it and compel them to send their poison
Gus angel food out of the State. If this
is done they cannot live. for they cannot
sell good goods and make a profit. But
there is a way to reach a number of these
eminent license in Ohio and is operating
under it here. Others have two or three
houses in their own names, and still others
have their government license in one name
and their city and county license in another.
The County Commissioners pay man a
salary to prosecute persons for such Of
lenses as these, but he does not seem to be
doing it. We will do it, and will probably
close half the barrel houses by it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

The cooking class, which meets at the
Young Women's Christian Association on
Monday evening at o'clock, will be con-
Quoted by Mr.. William +. Fowler chef of
the Y. w. c. A. The lesson will be upon
English plum pudding and fruit cake.
The Young Women's Christian Association
will hold a mass meeting for women to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock in the lecture
room of the First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. f. f. McCrea, president of the asso-
citation. will preside and Brigadier Lewis, of
the Salvation Army, will speak and also
sing. as she is q vocalist of some note.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
scottish Rite Convocation.

Sovereign Grand Commander Palmer, of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
will respond to a toast at the banquet to be
given by the Indianapolis Rite during the
special fall convocation next week. Grand
Master Niblack j. Mason, of the Grand
Lodge of +. and A. M, will be given well
come Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday
afternoon Grand Commander John T.. Red
mond. of the Knights Templars of the State,
viii be received. The banquet will take
place at o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
state horticultural Society.

The Indiana Horticultural Society will
hold it's thirty-seventh annual meeting at
the Statehouse, beginning next Tuesday and
continuing three days. Mrs. Emma Mont
McRae of Purdue; Mrs w. w. Stevens, of
Salem; j. II. Hale, of Connecticut Prof. M.
b. Waite, of the United States Department
of Agriculture; N. dinner of Ohio; II. %:
Van Deman, of Virginia, and others will
take part in the programmes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
ADVERTISED FOR HELPERS. "
Two Cincinnati Men Caught and Held
on Suspicion.

Charles f. cleaver. bricklayer living at
2O37 Highland place. called at the police
station yesterday morning and reported that
he feared pair OF confidence men We're at
work in the city. He answered an adver-
tisement In an afternoon paper. purporting
10 have been inserted by agents of the
Studebaker Manufacturing Company, of
South Bend. He called at III West Ohio
street and met George Rogers and H. w.
Leverett, who offered him a position as
travelling helper but required deposit
of $50. Detectives Splann and Weble ar
rested the two men. Letters were found
showing that they had a number of men
on their string" but 1t was not learned
that they had actually obtained any money
The men claim Cincinnati as their home.
One OF them says he Is a saloon keeper and
the other 4 bartender. They claim they met
q man on the train coming 10 this city and
that he employed them TO come here and
employ men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
School Fund Statement.

Inc state department OF EuucdllOH yes
terday compiled the following summary of
reports of school funds for 1897
Common School Fund
Amount held by counties as re-
ported June, 1896 ...............$7,710 1853. 26
Added from fines by county
clerks ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 13,5Sl.yl
the peace ....................... 2l,2525s
Added from all other sources...... 1898
Total common school fund.-
June, 1897 ......................$ 81, 49, 1923. 46
Congressional Township Fund
Amount held by counties, as re-
ported June, 1897 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81, 40 064.2
Value of unsold lands, June, 1897:
Jasper county, $40 acres .........., 100000
Newton county, 100 acres ......... 10000
Vanderburg county, 3O8.6 acres.... 26SS.O0
Warren county IL acres .......... 338.47
Total congressional township
fund, June, 1897 .................& 81, SOB 690.75
Summary of School Funds, 1897
Common school fund held by
counties. June 1897 ............. 81, 752, S23.46
Congressional township fund
held by counties, June, 1877. 2,503 690.76
Total fund, 1897 81, 256, 514.22
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

Insure with German Fire Insurance OF Tn
diana. General offices, 20 South Delaware
street. Fire, tornado and explosion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
Don't DesDair

But console yourself and your family by or
dering some of the uneXcelled Columbia
beer of the Home Brewing Company. 1t Will
give you new Vigor and fill you with hop(e)s.
Bottled by its maker. Tel. 1850.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
Mr. and Mrs. Rooth-Tucker To-Morrow

Commander and Mrs. Booth-Tucker, of
the Salvation Army, will be in the city to-
morrow. He will be at the Blackford NJ. Z.
Church in the morning and at the Taber-
nacle Presbyterian in the evening. She will
talk at the Second Presbyterian Church in
the evening and both will speak at Roberts
Park Church at 2.30 o'clock in the after
noon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
THE INTEREST GROWS

The items below are but random
selections from a store of like
values. Can you resist such argu-
ments from the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

Feed your horse JANEs's Dustless oats.
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McGilliard Agency Co. Fire insurance.
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And popular brands of flour. FRANK f. JANE;
207 n. Delaware st.
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BY using DR.. Davis's Anti-Headache. All
druggists.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
s1-cINCINNATI AND RETURN-s1.

Via c., III. 81 ID. Ry., Sundays, Dec. IL
and 19-Lnst of the Season.
Special train leaves Union Station Ills a.
m Leaves Cincinnati, returning, 7:15 p m.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

Musical presents cheap az wuIschner's.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

Freshest Breakfast Cereals
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

Try Merchants Lunch
Al Union Station Restaurant-25 cents.
Music boxes All kinds at Wulscbner's.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-06

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