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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

At a meeting of a veteran organization.
Tuesday night, DIR. Kemper, OF Muncie, re-
marked that three of the statues about the
monument should not be there, for the rea-
son that it was designed at the outset to be
monument to commemorate the part that
Indiana took in the great struggle for the
preservation of the Union. The point is well
taken. No State did more, and the statis-
tics show that no State of its rank at that
time contributed so large a part of its popu-
lation of the military age as did Indiana
1t was enough of an event for the monu-
ment to commemorate. The truth is that
the monument commissioners at one period
determined to divert the structure from its
single purpose of concentrating the part
Indiana took in the war for the Union and
making it a reminder of all the struggles
on Indiana soil and in which Indiana has
participated. So far the statues give i'm
pressions, other wars than that for the
Union were events in which Indiana took
as prominent part as it did in putting down
the rebellion. Indiana had no lack of illus
trious soldiers who fell in battle. General
Hackleman would have represented one
class and some figures could have been de-
vsed to recall to future generations the
really representative men of Indiana in the
war-the enlisted men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
MEMBERS ARE AT ODDS.
The Chicago Produce Exchange Will
Probably De Dissolved.

CHICAGO, Dec. 15-After an existence of
nearly a quarter of a century, the Produce
Exchange Of Chicago Is on the verge Of dis
solution. AT the end of long and stormy
meeting it was decided to distribute the
money in the treasury of the exchange
among the members. which action was
taken to mean that the doom of the organi-
zation was sealed. A controversy between
members of the exchange is at the bottom
of the trouble. The beginning of this fight
was in the action of some butter men, who
several weeks ago introduced resolution in
the exchange to appropriate $500 of the
funds of the exchange in securing a strict
enforcement of the law which regulates the
sale of butterine. This aroused the OPPOSE
ton of the dealers in the latter product and
brought about the action just taken.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
Women who VIII Brave PeriIs.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-For the purpose
of saccoring the starving miners on the
Klondike. and incidentally to add to their
stock of worldly possessions, thirty-tive
women who are not afraid to brave the
dangers of the Yukon valley will sail for
Alaska at 1880 D. m. tomorrow on the
steamship City of Columbia. On the same
vessel will be twenty men, who go to the
Northwest Territory in search of gold. The
party is to be joined at Seattle by other
men and women. The thirty-five women
represent one-haf of q group who go
ing to Dawson City under the guidance of
Mrs. Hanna Gould, daughter of Long ISL
and Quaker, Mrs. Gould is we'll to do. and
the women who will accompany her are all
in Independent circumstances. 1t is one of
the intentions of the women to grub stake
the miners, and with that end in view large
quantities of food will be taken with them
from Seattle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
London,s Recept GREAT Fire.

LONDON, Dec. 15.--During the course of
to-day's inquiry into the recent great fire
in the Cripplegate district of Loi don the
city solicitor, Mr.. Henry Homewood Craw-
ford. made a sensational statement. He
said the inquest had assumed great impor-
lance. The expert evidence, he continued
had proved that the fire was not accidental
and the evidence agreed that the fire was
started in q stack of clothing in the show
room of Waller & Brown. mantle manu-
facturers. Mr.. Brown, he added, could not
escape the fact that he was the only person
in the show room Just prior to the out
break and it was only fair to state, said
the city solicitor, in conclusion, that Mr..
Brown was perfectly willing to re-enter the
witness box and give any further details he
could on the subject. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
The Pelican Probably Lost.

TACOMA, Wash. Dec. 15-Captain Steph-
ems, of the British ship Whittleburn, which
arrived at Port Townsend to-day, says:
Three times the Whittleburn blown
out of the straits before she succeeded in
entering. The vessel has been pursued by
storms all the way across from Shanghai,
but she was lightly laden with ballast and
rode through the storms practically un-
harmed. / never saw such storms in all
the time | have been going to During
the past month / have not had more than
three hours sleep during the twenty-four.
The Pelican is probably lost said Captain
Stephens Il don't believe that she could
live through the storm that has been rag
ing on the Pacific for the last month
There is another tramp somewhere outside
and would not be surprised TO learn that
she had gone down..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

ter, inclosed the paragraph to the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions at Boston. In reply, an officer of
the board writes that there was not a
thing that was lost by any of the mis-
sionary women connected with the Marash
station" He says the pending claim for
indemnity is for losses at three points.
chiefly for buildings and their contents,
libraries, ETC. At only one place was any
claim for clothing included, and the writer
says: 1T is safe to say that there is no
item for 1,SOO for silk dresses or anything
like II i"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

LONDON, Dec. 15-Sir William Edward
Maxwell. governor and commander-in-chief
on the Gold Coast since 1895. died at sea
while off Grand Canary island en- route for
England. He had had several attacks of
fever while on the Gold Coast
Sir William Maxwell was born in 1916. He
was son of Sir Peter Benson Maxwell,
was educated at the Repton Grammar
School and admitted as a barrister of the
inner temple in 1881. In 1865 he entered the
Straits Settlements. Ten years later he
served in the Perak expedition and not long
after was made a member of the state coun-
Gil and assistant resident at Perak. From
at Penang. and after Serving as colonial
secretary for the Straits Settlements he
was made governor in 1893 He accompanied
the expedition to Coomassie last year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

President Parsons's statement of what a
school history of the late war should be
viii be generally indorsed-a truthful state
ment Of the causes of the war and the rea-
sons for maintaining the Union as pre-
s4nted by both sides. with accurate state
ments Of the facts about the more impor-
tant campaigns and battles. That is the
kind Of history we should have in Indiana,
but which the Board of Education failed 10
get Ia treating with the publishers of
Montgomery's book. now in use in the
schools. If the board has secured the cor
Tectona asked for and which 1t Is under
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

A dispatch from Havana says the United
States consulate there is guarded and
there is much apprehension in government
circles that an attack may be directed upon
the consulate by the uncompromising Span
iards, who are very angry over the message
Of President Mckinley" Next to an invasion
of the United States by General Weyler we
cannot think of anything more likely to
precipitate healthy crisis than a vigorous
attack on the United States consulate in
Havana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Two of the largest Grand Army posts and
the Union Veteran League of this city hav-
ing voted almost unanimously to sustain
the action of the regents of the soldiers and
sailors monument, and the Loyal Legion
of Indiana, with but three dissenting votes
in seventy, having taken the same action, it
is fair to assume that veterans who fully
understand the merits of the controversy
over the position of the subsidiary statues
have full confidence in the judgment of the
present managers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

stood the publishers promised to make, the
school history would be a fair one. Presi-
dent Parsons is a member of the board and
his address on Tuesday evening pleased his
audience but If he had been a member of the
organization which he addressed rather
than guest, he would have been asked
why it is that the Board of Education did
not get the book it contracted for There
is more curiosity regarding this failure than
the Board of Education may imagine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
OBITUARY.
John A. willard, Banker. Who
Failed for Million and IA Half.

MANKATO, Mimi, Dec. 15-Hon. John A
Willard. a well-known banker died sudden
ly to-day. Last Saturday an operation was
performed for strangulated hernia, and he
did not survive On Nov. 10 Mr.. Willard
assigned for a million and half. and has
since resigned all of the offices he held in
various manufacturing and business enter
prises He was a director of the National
Linseed oil Trust for nine years. He was
a native of Oneida county New York, where
he was born in 1892 and settled in Mankato
as a lawyer in 1856 His business enter
prises were scattered all over the North
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The abandonment of the literary profess
sion by the son of millionaire packer of
Chicago to go into pork and his fathers
sighting compliment upon books leads the
Philadelphia Record to remark meditatively
that there are books and books Some
books are great blessings to mankind-as
great, at least, as are the best conducted
of packing houses or sausage factories -
This is quite true, but it is hardly worth
while to lose sleep over the retirement of
the packers son. There is no certainty that
he would write an and book.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
Infinite Variety.

The Single One-Really. 1 should like to
be married and have a nice little home of
my own-say about city block in size-but
l fear / would tire of the monotony in the
meals.
The Married One-Say! With a new cook
every week or ten days, with three or four
day interregnums when your wife, or your
wife's mother. does the cooking. you would
find that there was variety in plenty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
JOHN EHRET MURDERED.
Big Four Freight Conductor Killed by
Tramps Near Cleveland.

CLEVELAND. o., Dec. 15.-Tramps muir
dered a freight conductor on the Big Four
Railway at Berea, fourteen miles west of
this city, tonight. The train was just pull
ing out of Berea when the shooting oc-
CURED. The tramps entered the caboose,
and a terrible struggle between them and
John Ehret, the conductor, ensued. Earl
Delgeish, a brake man, was also badly
wounded Eight tramps have been arrest
ed at Berea but the details of the trag-
edy are thus far meager. Ehret was sixty
years of age, and had been on the Big
Four road for many years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
london has a Woman,s Yegetarian Clnl

London has a Womans Vegetarian Club
whose business it is to teach the aesthetics
of this form of diet. In it's mental aspect
vegetarianism is, it seems, the root of all
great attachments. One gains happiness,
health and love of all around, a SYM
pathy, the desire to lend helping hand to
others, a perfect unity of soul by partak-
ing only of this food. Who would suppose,
if they had not been told, that beans and
potatoes would bring about such delecta-
BILE state!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
civiI-seryice-Reform Lengue.

CINCINNATI, o., Dec. 15-President j.
r. Proctor of the Civil-service Commission,
is too busiy engaged with official duties
at Washington to be ate to att no -
enteenth annual meeting of the National
Civil-service hefoIm League .4.ie..
meet here tomorrow. The Hon. carl
SchurZ of New York. president of the
league, and Mr.. George McAneny, it's sec
rotary arrived here tonight. President
Schurz desired the fact emphasized that this
will be the seventeenth and not the six
teenth, as enormously stated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
KLONDIKE KING" WEBS.
Joseph Ladue, of Dawson City Fame,
Marries Miss Kittie Mason.

PLATTSBURG, N. Y, Dec. 15-Joseph
Ladue, the pioneer of the Klondike, was
married this evening. The bride was Miss
Kittie Mason, of Schuyler Falls. The we'd
ding was conducted very quietly and no one
outside of the immediate families were cog
infant of the approaching marriage. 1t is
said that the couple became engaged years
ago, when Ladue was poor. MIR. and Mrs.
Ladue will visit New York for several days,
where q suite of rooms at the Waldorf
Astoria has been engaged. After visiting
the principal cities they will return to
Plattsburg to spend the winter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The estimates of government expendi-
lures for 1898 include the item, .Legisa-
tive-salaries and expenses, $9.460, $50. "
Among other items in the cost of Congress
Lac. year were 1900 quinine pills for sem
ailrs, besides gallons. OF witch hazel and
kegs of bay rum and untold bottles of hair
tonic These items represent a class OF ex-
penditures which might be cut off without
detriment to the public service, and which
would reduce the cost of Congress at least
q little
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
A Charity BAH Nets $50. 900.

mai charity ball of the Young Mems He
brew Charity Association. which given
at the Auditorium last night surpassed all
it's predecessors in perfection of arrange
ments and In the sum realized for the main
tenance of the work of the association.
About 500 ,ooQ was realized and nearly seven
thousand people attended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
NEW PLACER DlGGINGS.
Rich Gold Fields Near Dyea, Alaska,
and on CadwOOd Creek.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Dec. Ia
Charles M. Warren. of this place, return
ing passenger on the steamer Alki, re-
ports the discovery of rich placer diggings
near Dyea. He says there has been a
stampede from Dyea to the placers, which
are ninety-six miles above the town, and
that the discoveries caused great excite
ment there. News was also brought down
on the Alki of another discovery on Cad
wood creek, seven miles from Dawson
City, on the opposite side of the Yukon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

BUDA-PESTH, Dec: ia conference of
the Liberal party to-day after long
speech by Baron Banffy, the premier,
unanimously adopted his bill for the pro-
visional extension arrangement between
Austria and Hungary.
Baron Banffy introduced bill in the
lower house of the Hungarian Parliament
on Dec. to prolong the. Ausglech for a
the same subject on the part of Austria.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

NEW YORK, Dec. 15-The Mechanical
Rubber Manufacturers Association met
here to-day and discussed the recent adj
vance of 10 per cent. in the price of the
goods manufactured by its members. II
10 per cent. would be necessary on account
of the continued high price of crude rubber.
II will nrnhablY be made Jan. i
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

PRINCETON KY Dec. ED Smith
and \ ilam N riy. las F d and i'll Ro 4ch.
the latter wanted IA Chicago Tor wife nur-
der ana the former for completely. were ar
rested near EGdyvilie, Lyon county. this
morning by officers who had been adv sed
that they were in hiding ong the Cumher-
land river Smith made a confession. bat
Merry viii not talk
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Speaking of the Initiative and referen-
DUN" what is the matter with the people
getting together in their primary capacity
at any time and making their wishes
known in regard to any matter of public in
terest? This is the American way The only
trouble is to do it in systematic, organized,
affantiva WAY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
chnrreh with Embenrllng s17.ooO.

ST. LOUIS, Dec 15-On complaint of II.
r Schwalin president of the Columbian
Aluminium Company, a warrant was sworn
out this afternoon. charging William Il.
Wernz president of the Guarantee Loan and
Mortgage Company with embezZiing $1,000
from the former concern. The money en-
beZzIed was. 1t Is alleged, held IN trust by
the defendant.
Mr. Wernz says he Is innocent OF embez-
element and this afternoon filed three dam
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The present Congress is expected to pro-
coed on an economical basis, and this being
the case. one of the things it can do with
great propriety is to refrain from making
an appropriation for an ambulance ship"
as proposed by naval surgeons. All the
Americans who are likely to be hurt in
naval battles will be taken good care of
without il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
The Cheerful Idiot.

"Lemme see,' asked the boarder who is
always wanting to know things of no use,
what is it they call those red, green and
blue lights that n skyrocket throws off?
'Verifiers," said the Cheerful Idiot.
Really" asked the nquisitive boarder.
Eyes. They give color to the report.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Should Hawaii be annexed no more Chi
nese viii be permitted to seek employment
there AS those who are now there will be
needed in the islands. the objection to the
treaty on the ground that annexation will
swamp the country with Chinese coming
from Hawaii seems not to be sound.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Hon. Carroll ID. Wright commissioners of
labor, estimates that the cost of compiling
the census of 1880 would have been nearly
100000 less than it was had it been done
under civil-service rules Yet there are
members of Congress who openly advocate
compiling the next census in the old way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
Greece Asks More Time.

CONSTANTINOPLEsD Dec 15.-The Greek
government has requested q months extern
sion of the term fixed on for ratifying the
treaty of peace with Turkey. The members
of the diplomatic corps are much surprised
at this request, and the Turkish officials
declare that it is unwarranted and unac-
ceptable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The secretary of the treasury has reduced
the salaries of the sixty superannuate6
clerks in that department to $500 year
whereas they have been receiving from ST..
400 to 81. sOO For men who can render ne
service this is liberal allowance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

When General Grant went around the
world he received great honors in all civil
lied countries and in China and Japan. but
II was not because he favored debauching
his country's currency. 1t is a long cry
from Grant to Bryan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The substance of the resolutions adopted
by the Democratic caucus at Washington
was as follows: Resolved That, this is
a Republican Congress, it should do every
thing in perfectly proper and statesman
like manner; and further, be it resolved,
that we should do all we can to oppose any
such legislation that may be proposed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

PITrSBURG. Pa, Dec. 15.-rwenty min
utes after the Presidents special train left
killed Louis Monet, a laborer. walking on
the track His head was torn from his
body The President was much disturbed
Mt the distressing accident, and so soon aft
er the sad ordeal of the day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The following appeared in the Journal a
few weeks ago:
II is said the State Department has re-
port from DR.. Angel, United States minis
ter at CoHstantnople, relative TO the claims
for damages made by American mission
aries against Turkey. for destruction of
mission buildings at Marash, showing that
one lady missionary put in claim for
81 500 worth of silk dresses and another for
several thousands for lost wardrobe and
jewelry.
The paragraph was based on a dispatch
in an Eastern paper. lady of this city,
desiring to learn the truth about the mat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

The report that. an insurgent leader in
Cuba had committed suicide is vigorously
and Indignantly denied. The uselessness of
such a procedure in that country is the
strongest circumstance against the truth
fulness of the story.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

changes that creates alarm. The present
agitation for currency reform on healthy
and conservative lines is conducive to conf
aence rather than distrust.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

President Gompers of the American
Federation Of Labor, in his address coined
an apt phrase when he applied the words
apostles of failure to those who have
Joined the Debs socialistic and cooperative
movement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

An exchange which has made the postal
savings bank hobby remarks that so many
thousand petitions indicate widespread de-
sire for such legislation by Congress. In
this vicinity the signatures are obtained by
canvassers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

INDEPENDENCE. Kan, Dec. I5.-Henry
c. Sheesley, the slayer of eX-State Senator
Dan McTaggart was to-day convicted of
manslaughter in the second degree and sem
fenced TO five years Imprisonment in the
State Penitentiary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

monetary commission now, and even Con-
gress is postponing action till it shall re-
port. The people do have some influence in
public affairs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

LONDON, Dec. 15.--Gen. Sir Henry Lyme
doch Gardner is dead


Sir Henry Lynedoch Gardiner. who had
been since the early part of last year. COM
mandant of the Horse Artillery, was born
in 1920 He was a son of Gen. Sir Robert
Gardiner, was educated at the Royal Mill
tary Academy, Woolwich and entered the
hcyal Artillery in 1887 serving at Prescott,
Canada, in that year and in the Canadian
rebellion in the year following. He was
raised to the rank of major during the In
dian mutny and held that of assistant adju-
tant general from 1862 to 1867. In 1861 he
was on the royal commission on defense of
Canada as lieutenant colonel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16
Cashier nickel Not Guilty.

ST PAUL Dec. 15.-William f. Bickel.
vice president and cashier of the Minnesota
Savings Eank. which went down in the
financial furry of one year ago. was to-day
found not guilty of the charge of making
AWAY with funds belonging to the bank.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Boston has public buildings galore, so the
Boston Journal declares that cities which
have mono can wait. When it comes to the
harbor appropriation there will be no talk
of waiting in that quarter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

stimulating.

There is nothing said the Cornfed
Philosopher, that will so stimulate a
mans sense of justice as to have some one
owe him money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-16

Tt is said that the Democrats of Illinois
are crystallizng upon Ex-Governor Altgeld
for United States senator, which proves that
gross irregularities in office do not count
with Illinois Democrats.