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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
LOGAN AND THE M'COOKS.
Son of "BIack Jack, Replies to Crid-
cisms OF His Conduct.

P~ITTSBURG, May 3.-The Youngstown
90 correspondent of the Dispatch says:
o a. Logan. jr., has demanded a retrae-
ton from Gen. Alexander Med. McCoo6
and ]. J. McCook, who recently WAS men
toned for Cabinet honoTs. In fact. the
fiery son of BLACK jack will have an
apology or something else. Several weeks
ago a story was sent out from Washington
to the effect that Mr.. Logan. when he at
tended the coronation of the Car, wore a
regular captains uniform. to which he was
not entitled. Mr.. Logan hunted up the cor
respondents and they gave as their author
ity General McCook. This is what captain
Logan says;
Before l went to Russia l was commits
stoned a captain on the staff OF Governor
Bushnell, and as such / had the right to
wear the uniform of a captain. When one
attends court he must wear a court dress or,
a uniform to which he may be entitled.
Now, / did not care 10 wear the knee
brooches court dress, so, going TO Gen.
Alexander Med. McCook, who represented
the United States government at the coro-
nation ceremonies, / presented TO MIN my
credentials as a captain ana my military
record as a militia officer in the State OF
Ohio, and asked If there could be any OBJ
~jections to my wearing the uniform. He
replied in the negative and l wore 1t, as l
was entitled to do.
"On the other hand, the brother of Gen.
eral McCook. who is John j. McCook, of
New York, and who accompanied the gem
eral to Russia, did wear a uniform TO which
he was not entitled. 1t was the uniform OF
the colonel of the Sixth United States Cav
airy. Now, John j. McCook was nothing
more than a lieutenant in the late war, and
resigned his commission just before the
battle of Charlottesville, retiring with the
brevet of captain.
Il learned that. in order to cover himself.
and in an attempt to throw odium upon
me, the story as circulated came from
them, and 1 have branded it as cowardly.
false falls and mnalieiouf. The corTesp1ndents
of them told me that, had they known the
real facts of the matter, and had they
known me personally, they would not nave
used the story at all. 1t had no foundation
in fact
1t is understood that If his demand for an
apology is not forthcoming, Captain Logan
will unfold a story that will cause an up
heaval in army and political circles in
Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The organ of sweetness and light pub
lished in Irons alley has made an
other bad break, and all through its incura-
BILE habit of picking notes out of other
peoples eyes. a few days ago.. in a light
article concerning Dorothy Drew's recent
visit TO Queen Victoria. the Journal said
this was the first introduction of Mr.. Glad
stones little granddaughter to the Ameri-
can public. This resulted in the calling of
a special meeting of the faculty of Irons
University. at which il was decided that
the Journal had exposed its ignorance and
should be exposed itself. The duty was left
to the Professor of Modern Literature and
Journalistic Amenities. The next day the
organ Of sweetness and light said: Give
the dear old Journal time-plenty of time
and she will usually come to know about.
things, or, better, to know something about
things" Then it quoted the statement
about Dorothy Drew, and said. "An the
rest of the Engl~ish-speaking world had
been hearing OF Dorothy Drew and of Mr..
Gladstone's devotion to her for two or three
years" adding:
1t is surely as long ago as that since Mr..
Gladstone's little poem-the best, probably,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
WHY THE GREEKS LOSE.
4 i Light Thrown Upon Their Pam
les in Thessaly by Prof. Wheeler.

Professor Wheeler in the American Review.
Aversion to mechanical discipline shows
itself i'm the drill of the Greek troops, as
would be naturally expected from all that
we know of them outside the army. AS a
people they always create the impression
on the street do not keep step. A Greek
funeral procession presents to our eyes a
most disorderly and individualistic appear
ance.
The people who compose it go on foot,
and each one seems to be stroling along
on his own account. On arriving at the
grave there is likely to be no fixed order
of procedure. II there is people do not
conform to it. Every one does what seems
to him good. Absence of previous plan or
sense for order is apparent on every hand.
If there occurs a halt in the proceedings
through any uncertainty or lack of prepa-
ration a debate may enSEe. Three out of
four of the bearers will prove to be orators.
There is no one person in authority Five
or six different ones are giving orders or
same popular trait shows itself wherever
masses of people are assembled. Any SIN
gle man is q potential marshal and mas
ter of ceremonies and may develop into
such without warning. All this represents
a deep-Seated national characteristic and
military discipline in the form known to
the armies of the north extremely difficult.
Herein lies the chief ground of appre-
hension regarding the fitness of the Greek
to meet the demands OF modern methods
of warfare. A German battalion is a
firmly compacted machine in which the in
diVidual has lost the sense of autonomy.
Panic cannot resolve it into its constituent
elements, because steady discipline and per-
sistent drill have made machine action a
gency a Greek battalion is liable to become
many from one"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
LILLIAN ASHLEY'S STORY.
She, Too, Came Near Being n Vic-
tim of Detective Won Arnold.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.-Attorney
Delmas has not ~reconsidered his determina-
ton not to talk; indeed, his determination
has become stronger since the last message
was received from his nemesis at London
in which she asserts that Detective Won
Arnold was hired to betray her. Jeannine
Won Turkheim is not the only nemesis who
believes Won Arnald base. Lillian Ashley,
who is playing the tragic role of avenging
fate to j. E. Baldwin, believes she had a
lucky escape from being taken out of the
United States at BaldWin's behest. She
now AYERS, and in the averment is cor
roborated by her sister Emma, that Won
Arnold, as Baron Won Steinmetz, made love
to her at Los Angeles and attempted to
woo her into forgetfulness of Baldwin's
millions and his babe by the glitter of a
distant crown. She made inquiries. The
bogus baron's estates and his pretenses
melted under the simple test of inspection.
She preferred her present lot and, instead
of leaving for Steinmetz with Won Arnold,
came to San Francisco and registered at
Baldwin's hotel as Mrs. Lay, betra. ,ng
thereby an adaptability to circumstances
not unequal to Won Arnold's. Miss Ashley
hazards the opinion, solely on the hope of
serving some other poor girl. that Won Ar
mold and his employers are villains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The announcement is made that the But
falo Courier has been consolidated with
the Record of that city, and a paper bear
ing the two names hyphenated now comes
to the exchange editors desk. Careful ex-
animation of the sheet fails to disclose any
characteristics of the Courier-a circum-
stance that is explained by the statement
that all the editors, reporters and other
employees of the latter paper were turned
out, neck and crop. by the new purchasers.
AS the editors and reporters give a paper
it's distinctive character their departure
works such a change that consolidation is
hardly the word. The Courier having en-
tirely disappeared from view, to say that
it had been swallowed up like the mission
airy by the cassowary, skin and bones and
hymn book, too, better describes the situa-
ton. The Courier was a good paper and
will be missed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
NAsHVILLE'S AIR SHIP.
a BaIIOOn-Rigged Apparatus with No
Practical Value.
New York Times.

new 1OEk 1lIueS.
While the managers of the Nashville
exposition are taking good care to get all
the legitimate advertising they can out OF
their so-called air ship" they show a COM
mendable inclination not to make any eX-
~traVagent claims for what is after all only
Il balloon rugged up with an apparatus that
renders possible slow propulsion when the
atmospheric conditions are unusually favor
able. 1t is a little unfortunate that the in
VentOr and manipulation of this duplicate
of at least fifty similar contr1VanceS, all.
useless, just as the present machine must
be, has allowed the correspondents to call
him Professor Barnard The title has
created in some quarters the impression
tina Professor Edward Emerson Barnard,
the eminent ASTRONOMER, is the builder, cap
tain. and crew of the new air ship. and be-
cause of this mistake it has received more
serious consideration than it deserves.
Such dubious fame as the fastening of
wheels beneath a balloon can give belongs,
not to the discoverer of Jupiters hith sa-
tellite, but a young man who owns the
PROFESSIONAL handle of his name to the fact
that for several years he gave members
of the Nashville Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION the benefit of his knowledge about
gymnastics and physical developments The
exposition managers decided over a year
ago that a flying machine would be a good
feature for their show, and they hired
Barnard to make the nearest approach to
one that he could produce without spend
suspicious mind even to hint that the re-
cent stories from the West and South were
q part OF the Nashville scheme, but it is
undoubtedly a fact that to the interest they
excited is due almost all the comment
which the Barnard balloon has created. 1t
is absolutely hopeless in principle, and the
work expended in it's construction would
have been worse than wasted if the object
had been to produce anything more than a
toy. to play with on exceptionally calm
laws.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
4 Memory.

Der Deutscher companie ish der beshtest com
panic
The music bears me backward to the year OF SO.
1 saw a German regiment step out from our
brigade;
1t marched across a meadow where a hundred
cannon played;
It's bugIss hurled defiance as it skirmished up a
slope
Amid a fire that save no man a promise of a
hope.
They fell like wheat; they came not back; at
night no bugles played
There was no German regiment attached 10 our
The world has seen thy valor, 0 land of song
and vine!
Since Hermann plucked the eagles from the
ramgarts of the Rhine.
Down valors lustrous colonnade is seen the
marble thronG-
Thy warriors ana thy scholars, 0 land Of vine
and song.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
POLICE CHIEFS ADJOURN.
Chicago to Be Permanent Headquar-
tcrs of the Bureau of identification.

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 13.-When the
third session of the National Association
of Chiefs of Police of the United States
and Canada was called to order this morn
ing Colonel Rea, of the western peniten-
tiary, was introduced and. with the assist
ance of George Porteous, of Chicago, Ill,
illustrated the workings of the Bersillon
system. Following this the board of gov
errors were instructed TO confer with the
government officials at Washington in re-
gard TO the establishment of a permanent
and central Headquarters for the Ber-
tillon system, and the scale of assessments
was changed as follows: Cities with a pop
ulation of 500 10 100000, $50; 100, 900 to 200
600. S75; over 100000, 800. The resolution
passed at Atlanta last year making Wash
ington the permanent headquarters for the
bureau Of identification was ~rescinded, and
Chicago substituted on account of it's cen-
trail location. Chief Dietsch then presented
a resolution. which was adopted, condemn
ing the parole of prisoners convicted of
the higher crimes of felony, such as muir
der, burglary, highway robbery. rape and
arson. After an interesting paper on ex-
tradition by Chief Sherwood, of Ottawa.
Canada, the convention adjourned to meet
i'm Milwaukee next year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
ALLEGED STRANGER.
Joseph TaIker Charged with Robhing
and killing New York

NEW YORK. April BIN the person of
a peddler, named Joseph Talker, or TAFT,
the police think they have found the
stranger who has caused the death of sew
eral women Of The town within the last
year. Talker was arrested on the street on
Tuesday. at the instance of Mrs. Pauline
Barnat. who claimed TO recognize him as
the man who attacked her AS she was seat
ed on a bench in Central Park q few weeks
Talker confessed he was the rohDer. Jen-
nine freeman, who was the mate or Annie
Book, mysteriously ~Strangled 70 death inner
apartments, near Fourteenth street, last
year. Identified Talker as a man who was
with the Book woman shortly before the
latter's death. The detective bureau also
connect Talker with the more recent death
by |strangliug of Minnie Weldt and Flossie
Murphy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
omcer. OF 4. p. A. supreme Council.

WASHINGTON, May l3.-rhis afternoon
the Supreme Council OF the American Pro-
tective Association elected the following Of
hcers for the ensuing year; President, John
T.. j. Sickle, Canton, o.; secretary of state,
Harry G. Sawyer, Pennsylvania. chaplain.
w. III. Gottwald. ID. d., Washington, Sec
rotary. William j. Palmer, Colorado: treas
urer, c. J. Stockman. Maryland; sergeant
at-arms, &. y. Taylor, Bath. Me-, guard. II.
T. Davis. Springfield. Mass; sentinel, -. M.
Chambers, Maryland, trustees, t. b.
Haughwaut. T. n. Losie and ]. IL. Nickson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The Charleston News and Courier prints
a letter from Hon. w. d. Bynum to the
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of
that city. stating that he has appointments
to speak on the money question at Win
ston and Charlottesville n. c., on the 18th
and 18th inst, and accepting an invitation
to speak in Charleston on the 2lst. Mr..
Bynum is in the service of the national
committee, which deserves credit for it's eff
forts to educate the people in sound-money
principles between campaigns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The Supreme Court of Illinois has rem
dered a decision declaring the ndeterminate
sentence law of that State valid. The law
is substantially the same as that of this
State, but it is not known if the Constitu-
ton of Illinois contains provisions bearing
on the subject similar to those in the Con-
stitution Of Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

AS Spain needs money and Cuba wants
independence they ought to be able to come
to terms. The Cubans would agree to pay
any sum in reason for independence, and
the United States could well afford to in
dorse their bonds, taking a first mortgage
on the island or it's customs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Auditor OF the Treasury Baldwin made
the mistake of undertaking practice as d
claim agent before he gave up his position
in the department. 1t is considered legiti-
mate, under the peculiar system of ethics
in vogue in Washington, for any ex-oficial
to profit by whichever secrets he has
learned while in government employ
through prosecuting claims against that
government In this case the claims were
just, and the government was wrong in
surrounding the facts connected with them
with secrecy; Baldwin committed an indis-
erection rather than a crime. and the dis
tinction between the use made of such
knowledge by Il man who is in office and
one who was out is rather fine drawn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
Money Wen Spent.

"You do not regret the money you ex-
pended on your boys college education.
dc you?"
Il rather guess ] don't said the old
man. with glee and JUNCTION. He
learned me a lot-of uppercuts, short-arm
jabs and things that has made me the
best man IN the county"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
The New Workers. Responsibilities.

NV LVtN NfNNIFtI1 RWlN'
The responsibilities thrust upon the aver
age New Yorker by her rural relatives is
somewhat appalling. Especially is this
true with regard TO clothes. All persons
dwelling In the inland cities and suburbs
who nave a relative in the metropolis rely
upon that relative 10 keep them posted as
TO the freaks and fancies of fashion. Her
visits to the inland city or suburb are
looked forward TO as events. prior TO which
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Official reports from American consuls in
Cuba disclose a state of affairs there which
must arrest the attention of the country.
These reports coming from consuls at diff
ferent points agree in stating that there
is quite a large number OF American citi-
zens in the island, at least several hum
dreds. formerly engaged in business or en-
ployed as workmen who have been corraled
in the towns and who are suffering for the
neeessaries of life. Without means of sub
sistence or of leaving the island and dis
eliminated against by the Spanish military
authorities, they are in a most distressing
condition. Most of the Americans who were
imprisoned have been released since the
present administration came in. but the sit
uation of those who are thus herded and
starving in the towns is as bad as if they
were in prison. II they had gone there as
%flibusters or had been acting with the in
surgents they might be left TO the fortunes
OF war. but being noncombatants and bona
nde American citizens. they are entitled
TO protection and relief. Something should
be done in that direction very promptly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

A mass meeting is to be held in Wash
ington on Sunday next under the auspices
of the Cuban League which is expected to
be a great affair. Among those who have
accepted invitations to speak are Rev. DR..
Johnson. of the Metropolitan M. L. Church;
Rev. DIR. Ennis. a Presbyterian minister,
and Senators Chandler, Allen, Gallinger and
Rnrrnws- The Cuban canse is reyivine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
His lion of Drinking.

Colonel. we are intending to erect an
artistic drinking place in the center of the
park and thought perhaps you might sub
scribe a small
The project is sheer nonsense, sab. Do
you imagine 70 an instant that the city
will grant d license?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

General Weyler is very mad at Consul
General Lee for telling the Washington au-
thorities the truth about the situation in
Cuba. Next to making war on women and
noncombatants Weyler's principal occupa-
ton in Cuba has been suppressing the
ruth. He has been fairly successful in the
press censorship business. but his methods
We're Intellectual against an official report
of the United States consul general.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

1t is said that women never liked Rudyard
Kipling because" and now that he de-
scribes a representative member of the sex
as "a rag and a bone and a hank Of hair"
they have another reason. How would he
like to be summed up as an eyeglass, a
nerve and a pair of ears?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
4 Modern Iden.
Washlngton Star.

washington otdF.
Yes So d the wealthy member of Con-
gresS. Il will name your charitable institu-
ton in my will for a considerable sum of
money! "You are very kind, said the
philanthropist, but Speak frankly,
l beg of YOU" w need the money now.
and / called to see il we couldn't devise
an arrangement by which the bequest could
he made retroactive"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
S~ociety,s Fault.

She-Good gracious! Here is a story
about a boy of fourteen who turned bandit.
Isn't it shocking?
Ho-It is the fault of our laws.
The ideat'
But tits. You nov it is impossible for
a boy TO go into politics at that age"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The emphatic vote by which the Humph-
rey bills were killed in the Illinois Legis-
lature, 123 to p, was very creditable to that
body. The rights of the people against cor
porations are not always as well main
tanned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

The physicians at the state health con-
agreed that the Pickering of natural
gas when used as an illuminant was in
furious to the eyes, but they said nothing
of the injury to the sight caused by inferior
artificial gas, nor yet of the strain upon the
physical system incident to paying high
prices for poor light.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Inquirer: We cannot inform you as to
the origin of the phrase ITO blow ones own
horn" but you will find a living illustration
of its meaning at the Irons alley univer-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Yesterday was Pension Agent spencer's
day in; tomorrow rumor will probably turn
him out of office in short order again. Life
must be a thing of uncertainties to him
these days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

"A Jersey cattle club" exclaimed a young
woman YEARLY as she scanned the local
news yesterday. And haze they a club,
too? How the disease spreads!''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
BUBBLES IN AIR.
Airs and Airs.

At the concert: There seems to be an
awfully bad air in here"
"Oh, it is nothing. Just wait till you hear
Miss Squeels try to sing"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Secretary of the Treasury Gage will make
about thirty veterans happy on mex Me-
mortal day. ON May 80, 1892. the veterans
alluded to were dismissed from positions in
the United States mint at Philadelphia.
Having decided that they were unjustly dis
missed and ought 10 be restored, the sec
rotary will make the order to take effect on
the fourth anniversary of their discharge,
or, as that would fall on Sunday, on May 20.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

A Maine paper mill is putting in a ma
chine that will produce paper $50 inches
wide. What unexampled opportunities this
will afford to the pictorial Sunday news
~ 1h1.c --.-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

A full-blooded Nez Perces Indian; a grad
uate of Carlisle, has been committing some
skillful forgeries in Washington. A result
of the higher education. presumably.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Stephen Crane is showing how much the
horrors of war can be mitigated by a rose
water style of description.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

After the capture of a Turkish transport
by Greek war vessels the Greeks were in
transports. of course.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

A CLAUSE in the sundry civil appropriation
bill which passed the House a few days
aga illustrates the disposition of the House
to favor its members. The clause alluded
plates Of d work entitled Messages and
Papers Of. tho Presidents to Representa-
tIye J. D.. Richardson, OF Tennessee, COM
piler and editor of the work. 1t is a gov
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the malIs
IN the United States should put on an eisht-pase
paper a postage stamp on a we've
or slxteen-page paper a TWO-CENI postage
stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these
All communication intended for publication IN
thls paper must in order 10 receive attention. De
accompanied by the name and address or the
writer, Ii it is desired that rejected manuscripts
be returned, postage must in all cases be inclosed
Tor that purpose.