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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
The Queen,s Last Trim.

VICTORIA. B. c., Aug. 23-The steamer
Queen left this morning on her last trip
this season for Alaska. She was crowded
with passengers, freight and horses Fiji
was no room on the steamer for their
horses and outfits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

The Figaro, of Paris, publishes a report
to the effect that the Bey of Tunis, Eadi
Ali. will shortly abdtcate in favor of his
son and take up his residence at Nice.
The international congress called to dis
cuss measures for the protection of work
men opened at Zurich. Switzerland. yester-
day. There were FIVE hundred delegates
present and all countries were represented.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Big Crops in Argentina

BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 23-It is officially
announced that very large crop of grain
is anticipated in the Argentine Republic
the grain under cultivation covering larger
areas than ever before. The wool clip, it
is further stated, will be heavy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

LONDON, Aug. pa German diplomat.
whose name is not mentioned. in an inter
view, is quoted as saying: Germany will
not give up Alsace-Lorraine without COM
pensation; but France has every reason 10
hope that Germany will do so for a prom
Use of compensation, even if made at a
distant date"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Total appropriations made at
both sessions ........S52 S z

The number of new offices and employ
ments specifically authorized is 410; at an
annual compensation of A43 439, and the
number omitted 1874, at an annual comDen-
276 in number ard $3.50, 742 in amount. The
number of salaries increased is twenty, at
an annual cost of 1854, and the number re-
duced two. at annual cost of $500.
The total amount of contracts author
lied requiring future appropriations by Con.
press ID 81 2eQ 215
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
Count OF TURNS Close CAN.

An accident in the F'ranco-Italian duel
admits Of queer pun-but for a button
the tureen would have been In the SOUP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24
APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS-.
Total of $52S, 735.O7s, of which $685..
TAP Was for New Offices.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The volume on
appropriations new offices" etc, covering
the second session of the Fifty-fourth Con-
gress and the first session of the Fifty-ffth
Congress, showing in detail and by bills
the appropriations made, the new offices
created and offices omitted with their sal
aries, the number of salaries increased and
reduced the amount of contracts authorized
requiring future appropriations by Congress
and the indefinite appropriations made, has
just been completed by Mr.. II. p Cleaves
and Mr.. j. c. Courts, clerks to the Senate
and House committees on appropriations.
respectively. 1t shows that the approPri-
ations made were as folows
General appropriation acts ........ 1897, 100 3s4
Deficiency acts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1861, AIT
Miscellaneous acts ................... 500 057
Permanent annual appropriations. 12O,07S.2 20
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Early next
spring & party will be sent out from the
geological survey to make another investi-
cation of the gold resources in Alaska. An
appropriation of $4,000 was asked for from
Congress last year, but the amount was cut
down to S., 900. This was not available in
time to send party last season, but 1t will
be used in dispatching probably three sur
vey experts, headed by Prof Spur, already
a recognized authority on Alaska, and an
effort will be made to have Congress raise
the appropriation to about the same asked
for last year. If this should be granted
more than one party will go. They will
probably stay until the latter part of Au-
gust, though plans have not been deter
mined. The mission is to compile authentic
data on which another and more complete
report will be based, and to make an ac~
curate survey and geological map of the
region.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24

deer Stations Kjelmann last September
proved the practcablity of this by maxi
ing trial trip on this route. Two of ms
party were able to take the steamer at
Katmai, sailing to Sitka in March. This
arrangement, once completed. it will be pos
sible for business companies in San Fran
cisco and other cities to hold communica-
ton with their whaling fleets during the
winter north of the arctic circle.
There have beer maintained in Alaska
twenty day schools, under the supervision
of the Interior Department, with twenty
three teachers and an enrolment of l,Zbf
pupils. A public school was opened at
Circle City, in the Yukon mining district,
but the departments agent, writing from
forced to discontinue it because of the eXo-
dus of the city's population into the region
nearer the recently discovered mines
The influx of miners into the Yukon mas
caused q demand for reindeer for freight
ing purposes. In the original plan for the
purchase and distribution of reindeer ref
erence was had to securing a new food sup
sea and the Arctic ocean region, but it IS
now found that reindeer are as essential
to white men as the EskmoS
The wonderful Yukon placer mines are
situated twenty-five to 100 miles from the
greater stream. Provisions brought from
the south and landed on the banks of the
river are with great difficulty transported
to the mines the tributary streams. Last
winter mongrel dogs for transportation
purposes cost from 800 to 5000 each and
freight charges from the river TO the
mountains range from Is to 20 cents per
pound The trained reindeer make in
day two or three times the distance COW
cred by dog teams and have the advantage
that they can the abundant moss IS
food
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-21
Mr.. DinsIey on the Tariff Situation.

1t is more than a coincidence that
the beginning of industrial and bust
ness depression was Immediately after
it became known that the presidential
and congressional elections of 1892 had
resulted in the complete triumph of
men pledged to overthrow the policy Of
protection, and that the beginning OF
industrial and business recuperation
was Immediately after it was settled
that the policy of protection would ere
stored and it is inevitable that the
change from such policy to the policy
of encouraging home production and
manufacture. determined upon at the
recent session of Congress, would tend
ITO dispel distrust and establish conf
denee in the future; start idle Indus
tries; open new opportunities fdC la
Dor; increase the purchasing power of
the masses; enlarge the demand for
products; raise, or at least tend to
raise, prices to paying point, and pro-
mote the prosperity of all classes. And
these results are quickened and
strengthened by the conviction among
business men that the scheme to de-
press the currency was given fatal
November, and also by the concurrent
rise in the price of wheat and other
farm products.-From Hon. Nelson
Dingley's recent letter on the tariff
1t is equally clear that whatever our
mental condition as a people may have
to do with the business condition, that
mental condition is susceptible to in
fluences, and Mr. Dingley affords us
pretty clear insight into the nature of
those affecting the recent conditions in
this country.
In this sensible, vigorous letter he
has written he treats as pertnently,
as the feature alluded to above, the
prospect of a subsistence of tariff agita-
ton and the probability or certainty
that the present law will under normal
conditions supply sufficient revenue.
He points out that the old law is re-
ceiving credit for $3200O,0OO which
should be credited to the present tariff,
owing to excessive importations under
the former. He expects that at least
by the first of next July the existing
tariff will provide : adequate revenue.
Mr.. Dingley pays tribute to the firm
ness of Speaker Reed which enabled
Congress to devote itself to the passage
of tariff bill
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written in Capital Letters pinned upon
her forehead" which Injunction, the
records show, was duly fulfilled.

written in Capital Letters pinned upon
her forehead" which Injunction, the
records show. was duly fulfilled.
The pulp mill question is now being
agitated by the board of trade in St.
John. Andre Gushing & Co, a lumber
ing concern well known in this city.
says the Bangor Commercial, have
signified a desire to enter upon the
manufacture of sulphite pulp. The
idea is to put up plant in connection
with their lumber mill. The plant
would cost about $50, 900 and the pulp
mill would give employment to 100 TO
$50 men, paying say $4,000 a year in
wages. The raw material would be the
refuse which now goes to waste from
the mill. The one difficulty in the way
of the enterprise is the fact that the
manufacture of pulp receives a good
deal of pure water and that the water
of the St. John. is too salt for the pur-
pose. Spruce lake is the only source of
supply, and Mr.. Gushing proposes to go
on with the project If the city considers
itself sufficiently interested to furnish
the water. The board of trade dis.
cussed the question on Thursday and
expressed its approval Of the plan for
the city corporation to aid project
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-21
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
One View Of the Late Strike.
IN. Y. Tribune.)

Most of the miners in the Pittsburg
district have returned to work. They
have lost all their wages for several
weeks, and have gained thereby an adj
vance Of 10 cents in the price for min
ing, without the far greater advantages
which they could have gained at the
outset by throwing their entire in
fluence in favor of the uniformity plan.
That did not suit the objects of their
leaders. AS the root of the difficulty
between. miners and employers is the
unfairness which that plan was calcu-
lated to remove, and as the strike was
carefully instigated by coal operators
themselves, according to the testimony
of President Dolan of the Mine Work
ers' organization in that district, for
the express purpose of destroying the
business of one concern which granted
fairer terms to it's workers, which they
prefer even now to the higher nominal
wages proposed, this extensive and
costly strike does not appear to have
been for the benefit of the mine work
ers, but for the profits of the employers
upon whom they supposed they were
making war. If anything is to be said
of the leadership which has produced
such results, it will not be said by the
ignorant foreign workers who were
drawn into the struggle, but by more
intelligent wage-earners in other dis
tricts or branches of labor. -
! The company stores, by which many
of che mine operators manage to take
from the men a large share of tn"
wages paid in the higher prices charged
for supplies furnished, have long been
recognized by intelligent miners as an
offence which the laws in many quar-
tiers prohibit. The De Armitt mines had
no such continuance for reducing wages
indirectly. For that reason alone the
men employed in those mines claim
that they are better off with lower
wages bushel or ton than they would
be If paid the higher rate demanded by
the strikers, and then deprived of
large share of it by company stores
Their persistency in refusing to join
the strike, although besieged for weeks
by marching bodies of strikers who sue
ceeded only where they were able to in
timidate or coerce the workers. is most
significant. 1t must be presumed that
these men knew well what they were
getting in actual supplies for their
needs compared ith'other workers in
the same region. Their verdict, per-
sisted in at much sacrifice and risk on
their part, was that SIS cents with fair
dealing was worth more to them than
50 cents without it.
In the light of this. decision the coun-
try can readily understand why other
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Mewsy Glsaninss.

A scientist declares that the fine COM
piexion of English girls is due to the fOgs
which so frequently sweep over Albion.
Dampness seems to permeate the flesh
and keep the skin soft.
Professor HilliOat, a scientist Of British
Columbia. who has been living for some
time In Indian villages of the interior,
now claims to have discovered positive
proof that the Pacific coast Indians are
of Malay Polynesian origin.
A significant evidence of Scotch good
sense Is afforded by the sign on the chairs
and benches in the Glasgow parks: PRO
tect your property, thus reminding each
citizen that he is part owner and has In
terests which he must care for.
An aseptic BARRIERS shop is to be opened
IN baltimore. In nonscientific language
all the towels, razors and other para
phernalia will be thoroughly sterilized,
and thus the danger of the dissemination
OF disease reuuced to minimum.
An electric locomotive in Scranton
coal mine in 200 days did work for $252S
pOnding period with mule power An
electric pump in the same mine saved
sl5l3 over steam pumps in $40 days.
OF the 2O.513 marriages in New York
during last year two were of white men
TO colored women. eighteen were of white
eleven, Cinnamon married white women
and one white man married Japanese
woman. ss sfis A 80 :
According to official statistics the city
OF Berlin has a little over 5000 noblemen,
OF whom AGO are in the army, GOO in the
civil service. 200. in trade and $50 day Ia
borers. 1t is presumed that the remand
er. who are not accounted for, do nothing
with dignity.
The estimated consumption Of cotton
by southern mills during the past year is
placed at 1,042,61 bales. Eight years ago
the mills in that section were consuming
about 5A6,890 bales. In other words. the
cotton manufacturing capacity of the
south has doubled within decade.
The Japanese have shown their hospi-
taiity and their desire to cultivate the
good will of strangers by establishing a
welcome society in Jeddo. The object
OF this society Is to give counsel to all
strangers visiting Japan and to make
their sojOurn in the kingdom of the mika-
90 as agreeable as possible.
The navy is to return to the old-fash-
Toned practice Of instructing naval cadets
on sailing vessels, against the protest of
many of the officers Of advanced ideas.
but with the hearty approval of the old
admirals, who contend that no such ex-
perience can be gained for young officers
as Is secured In working ship under sail |
power. -
Farmers in the neighborhood OF Rich.
mond. Ind. are being driven desperate |
Dy the great numbertof rats that are In |
testing corncribs and barns.s Never be-
Tore nave the rodepta heen noted in such |
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u ! 80 s4Afs -
operators who made their profits
through the stores were anxious to
bring about q strike and to break down
the competition OF the De Armitt mines
Whether In some cases they paid
money to officers Of the miners in order
to cause the strikeJ as other operators
have offered to prove, or did not pay
money, 1t is at least plain that they
made profits by the sale. of enormous
accumulated stocks Of coal at high
prices. The mine workers were induced
by their own leaders to give the opera
tors this large profit and to act as their
tools in trying to break down. q con-
Germ which, refused to reduce wages by
keeping company stores II such lead
ership can be considered in any sense
or degree beneficial to the miners, It
would be interesting to know. in what
way.
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Rules For Travellers.

The Railway Age publishes Is rules for
railway travellers. citing from the acct
dent and death records to show what
happens when they are violated. Here
they are in their bare form:
Never attempt to get out of q railway.
carriage while it is moving, no matter
how slowly. 7
Never attempt to get into a railway
carriage when it Is in motion, no matter
how slow the motion may seem to be.
Never sit in an unusual place or pos
ture.
1t is an excellent general maxim in rail-
way travelling to remain in your place
without going out at all until you arrive
at your destination. When this cannotba
done, go out as seldom as possible
Never get out the wrong side of a rail-
way carriage.
Never pass from one side of the rail-
way to the other. except when 1t is in
dispensably necessary to do so, and then
not without the utmost precaution. y :
Express trains are attended with more
danger than ordinary trains. Those who
des1rei the greatest degree of security
should use them only when great speed IL
required.
Special trains, excursion trains and all !
other exceptional trains on railways are
20 be avoided, being more unsafe than the
ordinary and regular trains. s.s.;s'
!f the train in which you travel meet
at a part of the line, or at q time where
such stoppage Is not regular. It Is more
advisable to quit the carriage than to
stay IN It, but in quitting 1t remember
above rules.
/ Beware of yielding to the sudden In i
pulse to spring from the carriage to re-
cover your hat which has blown on, or . {
parcel lost.
When you start on your journeyx66 :
.lect. II you can. a carriage at or nedr - 3
possible to the centre of the train.
Do not attempt to hand an article into
a train in motion.
If yoa travel with your private carrisnS, = =
DO not sit In It on the railway. Take y6h{ !,
place by preference in one OF the regular {
railway carriages.
Beware Of proceeding on a coach road
across railway at level crossing.
Never do SO without the express sanction
OF the gatekeeper 7ss.,
When you can choose your tivne trsy1f
by day rather than by night; and II not
urge2tly pressed do not travel In foggy
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that sort of Justice" 1t is also evil
dent that If the law and the courts are
to command the respect which is alb
solutely necessary to have in order to
preserve law abiding communities the
ignorant Italian must be. and know
that he is as we'll assured Of his rights
as is the contractor who hires him. But
human nature is not revolutionize
very easily and it will remain as it is,
that the foreigner. ignorant of our lam
guage, laws and customs, susceptible
to the wiles of not only his rascally
and who has no conception of the pro-
per steps to take when he is wronged,
cannot in the nature of things receive
the same protection that can be accord
ed to one who is acquainted with his
rights under the law and with means
for enforcing them.
Now with all due respect to the Ital-
ian people, and some of them make our
best citizens, it is apparent to all that
some Of them who come over here are
slow to become Americanized and
meanwhile are clannish, quick to resent
an injury by desperate means and not
inclined nor well enough informed to
seek protection at law rather than at
hand. We may say that they are more
sinned against than SHINING but that
doesn't remove the fact that their
methods of rightng wrongs are not
American and cannot be tolerated here
And those methods are employed as
much in quarrels between themselves
as in trouble with others. Only Sat
urday night in the Italian quarter Of
Providence, a neighborhood brawl soon
became a shooting ARRAY and two MUIR
ders We're committed. The educated
Italian we can heartily welcome but
the lower ignorant class, the transients
who come only for a few months or IA
few years at the utmost, are danger
Gus in the way we have described. And
this danger is not any the less because
they are cheap labor"
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large numbers. South of the city q few
miles .fhe tafAREyk- cazfm that tb6D ssike
thousands of them running about the
barnyards at night. and they are helping
themselves to newly harvested graips.
q Thessmen of the lifted Sta6a6 sna5 10
to be taught how tHhandle mObs. Whsth-
efthis decision has been brought about
by the frequent reruptions among the Ia
Dor element in the last few years or Just
on general principles. the naval authors
ties refuse to say. Certain 1t is that the
drills are to be generally introduced and
the results are expected to be highly ben
eficial to good order II
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Queer Performances for Maine.

Up to this time there has never been
in this State any strenuous resistance
to the employment of Italians in the
building of our railways, though on Oc-
casions there has been grumbling that
it would be better to give the work to
our own people. The answer to this
has been that our people will not work
cheaply enough or that there are not
enough to do the work, statements
which haven't been successfully con-
tradicted, perhaps because there has
been no good opportunity for doing so.
There WILL though, be strenuous OBJ
jectiOns to such queer performances as
reports from the town of Norway tell
us were enacted on the line of the Ok
ford Central the past few days. Those
reports, especially the first of them,
We're probably exaggerated, but the i'm
pOrtant facts remain unquestioned.
The Italians had been working for six
weeks without pay and their prospect
of getting it right away if ever does
not appear to be the brightest magma
BILE. Following out the custom which
it is said obtains in some parts of Italy
they seized upon the contractors and
proceeded to hold them as hostages for
payment. They succeeded in soaring
thoseA contractors pretty thoroughly
but as the latter didn't have the money
they of course couldn't pay it. They
did, however, manage to make their es
cape under difficulties, amid fusilade
of bullets and in the mad chase, as
thrilling as ever were recounted in
connection with tales of brigandage
And all this in Maine, quiet, conserva-
tive, law abiding Maine!
1t is quite apparent that Maine is not
accustomed to such queer perform
ances, and we think we are within the
truth when we say she has no desire to
familiarize herself with them. OBJ
viously the first thing to do is to ac-
quaint those Italians with the fact that
they have been acting in a lawless
manner. We do not know all about the
merits of this particular case, but it is
evident there isn't a laborer in Maine
who would not want his pay under the
circumstances but most of them would
go to work to get it in a different man.
ner. The law if appealed to ought to fur
nish them some relief. But these Italians
not only have not appealed to the law
but they are not in the habit of doing
SO. Their method is to take the matter
into their own hands. If one of their
native bankers runs off with their
money they do not go to law about il
but quietly wait for an opportunity to
stick stilletto into him. Now We
have already too many American citi-
zens who are adopting those methods,
as that recent horrible affair in Indiani
evidences with such unfortunate en-
phasis.
We cannot afford to admit lot Of
foreigners to educate us any farther in
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Joe Chamberlain's apparent success
in snuffing out the Transvaal investi-
cation when he became implicated
seems to have encouraged him to make
an attempt at blufling out of the bad
light in which he now stands on the
sealing question. Chamberlain always
delighted in carrying matters with I
high hand but he never has made much
desirable capital out of it in the past