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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
CIVIL SERVICE INQUIRY.
Testimony of Captain Pratt, William
HaiImann and shelby Smith.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-The Senate COM
mittee on civil service to-day resumed Its
hearings, Captain Pratt, superintendent of
the Carlisle Indian School, continuing his
testimony. He criticised the civil-serVlce
system in the Indian service, saying that
as long as he had been in the work he
doubted whether he could pass an exami-
nation. w. n. Hailmann, superintendent of
Indian schools, followed Mr.. Pratt, and
took opposite view, holding that the
civil-service system had been favorable to
the Indian school Prof. Hailmann also te-
piled to Captain Pratt's charge that under
the civil service Democrats had been given
the preference under the last administra-
ton. He declared the imputation to be un-
true.
Shelby Smith, a compostor at tho gov
eminent printing office, took exception TO
the statement that the Typographical Union
had advocated the establishment of the
ciVil-serVice system in the government
printing office, saying the trades unions
were not favorable to the system. Mr..
Proctor responded by quoting resolutions
from the Chicago and Denver Unions In
support of his position. He also showed
that the Washington Union had repudated
the action of its delegates at the Colorado
Springs convention, where the system was
condemned
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window taking it all in and enjoying her
PHILOSOPHY OF POSTAL CARDS.

PHILOSOPHY OF POSTAL CARDS.
There's a girl on my route says No ~,
who, l think, must correspond with her
beau on postal cards, from the suspicious
way she acts toward me- take her pos
tai card addressed in the same handwrit-
ing on each of the three day trips, and
every time l hand her the card-she's al
ways down at the door to get it-she looks
at me out of the tail of her eye, as III she
wanted to read my mind and ind out If
knew what was written on the PACK OF the
card-as If l cared a continental. TOOK
her one of them on this last trip; l guess
she wanted to catch me- Tor she looked at
me prettily and said:
Well, what has he got to say about the
excursion?
Il tips her my hat and walks off down
the steps, and as | went she called after
me: Oh, | beg your pardon. dian mean
that.
Il suppose puts in the veteran postman.
in another aside to the one present, who is
not letter carrier that there Is hafdly
woman in a hundred that does nor thor-
oughly believe that every pos imam In the
world reads all the postal CARDS mat pass
through his hands. And yet l. never read
one of EN- that wasn't addressed 10 me in
my whole hack al this business. Aside
from the fact that it wouldn't be square
we suppose any of us has time TO be read
ing postal cards when we nave TO De shuf-
fling mail every minute that we re on duty?
/ guess not. And here's another peculiar
thing. In spite of the fact that nearly all
women thoroughly believe that We read
their postal cards, do you know thaI they
write the most secret ana conhaeh1lai
cause there are a lot of girls IN my laHlIy,
and I've seen EN- do Ii. the worst OF IL is,
even my own girls believe that we read
postal cards. / ask en- Then Why do you
write AS you do thinAs on postal cards
that you don't care to have postmen see
oh. because. they say. and when Lemale
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tersignipg Chinese certificates, together
with genuine and forged certificates.
Frank Makely. member of a well-known
and wealthy family of horseshoers, hanged
himself at Dayton, o.. yesterday. The
cause is, supposed to have been despond-
ency, resulting from severe attack OF
grip. He was forty years old, and sep
arated from his wife.
L. S. and w p. Thompson, owners of the
Brookdale stud, including Requital and one
OF the largest racing establishments in the
country have announced their intention or
retiring from the turf, at least temporarily.
The stable is for sale. The breeding farm,
in Monmouth county, New Jersey, will be
retained.
John Tyler Cooper, formerly mayor of
Atlanta, Ga, and for several years clerk or
the Board Of County Commissioners, was
found guilty of embezziement at Atlanta
yesterday. Cooper was dismissed from the
office OF the County Commissioners several
months ago, and a shortage OF $Z35O was
found in his accounts
The Kansas Supreme Court yesterday
discharged T. G. Davis the witness who
was held for contempt by the legislative
bribery committee because he refused TO
testify before it, The discharge of Davis
amounts to a dissolution Of the committee
and it is believed that nothing further Will
come of the investigation.
A part of the front wall of the Boston
variety store, on Market space, between
c., fell outwards yesterday, but fortunate
ly with no serious results, the only one IN
jured being James Hamilton, white man,
who was passing the store at the time.
He was caught by the falling bricks and
scaffolding. His injuries are slight.
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The Flood of Inventions.


The United States has issued nearly 600, 900
patents and the rest of the world has is
sued about million more. In many in
stances, however, the patents issued here
and abroad are for the same invention. on
the other hand a number of countries have
no patent laws Japan, China and others.
In spite of the enormous number of patents
already in existence. including those which
have expired and for whose principles no
new patents can issue, applications for
new patents come into the Patent Office
at the rate of 125 a day on the average.
To examine and pass upon these there are
employed thirty-five principal and about
two hundred assistant examiners, each
having his own speciality. They strain ev-
cry nerve and exhaust every device to re-
ject the application. Applications for pat
ents are refused if anything substantially
similar can be found ever to have been pat
ented in any country, or described in any
printed publication in any language, or
used anywhere in the United States. The
only wonder is, not that SO many patents
are issued every year. but that any at all
are issued.
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The Cam era Cam Lie.


1t has been claimed that the verascope
pictures of the Carson fight show an ap-
parent foul blow delivered by the winner of
the contest. This is denied most vigorously
by friends of the present champion OF
course, | know nothing about the merits of
this controversy, but l do know that the
dictum of a New York paper that 1.-The
camera cannot lie'' is falacious
The camera can lie. It's strongest point
is prevarication. Last summer a North-side
man enjoyed a vacation trip to the Wis
consin lakes. Up there he began expert
menting with a camera, and he soon discov-
cred that it is an easy matter to photograph
an eight-ounce fish so as to make it appear
to weigh ten pounds or more.
The trick is easy enough 1t is merely de-
pendent upon focusing. A fish held directly
toward the camera is magnihed many times.
The Chicagoan referred to made several
beautiful photographs of his flnny trophies,
every picture showing a big fish, still on the
hook, while the fisherman himself held the
pole and smiled like a Chinese idol
But one day his inquisitive wife asked him
how 1t happned that ten-pound bass didn t
bend an eight-ounce bamboo fishpole a
particle. And he hasn't answered that ques-
ton yet Nor has he exhibited those photo
graphs since.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Col Richard Nevins former state printer
Of Ohio, who is i'll with the grip at New
York, was reported last night TO be re-
covering.
Col II. c. Cook, recently appointed to the
command of the Fifth Regiment United
States Infantry, formally took charge of
his regiment at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, yes
terday.
Henry Ingraham of Ingraham brothers,
leading wholesale ssrocers of Columbus Ca
committed suicide Friday night at Savan-
nan. He left a note bidding his wife good
bye, but giving no explanation of the deed
Near Manitowoc, Wis. yesterday. Peter
Pluckerman, a Well-to-do farmer Shot and
killed his wife while she was at work in
the kitchen, and then killed himself A
family dispute as to property is said to have
been the cause.
The steamer Queen City was launched
successfully at Cincinnati Yesterday She
IS to ply in the trade between Cincinnati
and Pittsburg. She Is 256 feet long and has
a carrying capacity of l,400 tons. Her
draft is thirty inches.
Kenneth McRea was placed under arrest
az Casper, Wyo., yesterday. the charge
Of numbering Robert Gordon. McRea is one
of the weslthiest flock masters in Wyoming
and Gordon was his foreman. They had
quarreled while alone in camp.
AT San Luis Obispo, Cal, yesterday
Misses Stella and Lizzie Hansen, while
driving across the Southern Pacific Rail-
train and received fatal injuries They were
fifteen and nineteen years of age.
Instructor W. B. Pilsbury of Cornell
University, has accepted a position in the
department of psychology in the University
of Michigan, and W. w. Florer, also Of
Cornell. win go to the Michigan University
as professor of the German languages
D. @. Upton, an Ell Paso (Tex) gambler
was arrested yesterday on information fur
nished by the United States consul at
Juarez charging him with aiding Chinese
70 enter the United States. Upton had in
bis possession a perfect imitation of the
United States rubber stamp used in coun-
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Tempted by Penny.

Louis Rukingser was arraigned before
Justice Foster yesterday, charged with the
larceny of l cent. The prisoner, who was
well-dressed and elderly appearing, said he
He was arraigned on the charge of steal
ing a penny from the news stand of Samuel
Weber, at Dearborn and Monroe streets.
by Policeman Brenahan, of the lake-front
station.
Il can't imagine what made me take the
penny, said the prisoner. Il have plenty
of money of my own, and / could certainly
make little use of the penny. l cannot ex-
plain my actions. / was passing the stand
and seeing the penny lying there l was
not overcome the desire, and unconscious of
anything l picked it up"
After hearing the mans story Justice Fos-
ter changed the charge of larceny to dis
orderly conduct and imposed a fine of $40
and costs.
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Obituary.

WASHINGTON, June 5. = Rear Admiral
Samuel Phillips Lee, of the United States
navy, retired, the last of the commanders
of great squadrons during the civil war.
died at his home, at Silver Springs, near
this city, at 5 o'clock this afternoon after
a short illness of a stroke of paralysis.
He was Virginian by birth and a direct
descendant of Light Horse" Harry Lee,
of revolutionary fame.
NEWPORT NEWS Va. June 5.-Col. H.
Deb. Clay, of the leading Republicans
in Virginia, died at his residence, in this
city, early this morning. The remains We're
sent to Cincinnati this afternoon.
MEXICO CITY, Mex. June 5.-Charles
G. Worden, late of Denver and recently
editor of the Two Republics, died here to-
day of appendicitis. He leaves a widow and
a child.
TORONTO, Ont, June s. - Dr. w. H.
Strange, one of the best-known physicians
in Canada and deputy surgeon general of
the military forces of the country, died here
to-day.
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Movements of Steamers

NEW YORK, June ARRIVED: Paris,
from Southampton; Veendam, from Rotter-
dam: Etruria, from Liverpool. Sailed: Luz
eania, for Liverpool; Phoenicia, for Ham
burg; OLDHAM, for Rotterdam; Georgian, for
London; La Touraine, for Havre; City of
Rome, for Glasgow
HAMBURG, June 5.-Arrived: Fuerst
Bismarck, from New York via Plymouth
and Cherbourg.
QUEENSTOWN. he 5-Arrived I'm
bria, from New York, for Liverpool.
CHERBOURG, June 4.-Sailed: Augusta
Victoria, for New York.
Southampton, June 5.-Sailed: St
Paul, for New York.
HAVRE. June 5.-Sailed: La Champagne.
for New York.
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says because I've been here long enough

says because I've been here long enough
to let it go at that
Say" puts in one of the old-timers, Il
delivered a letter to The Mover this morn
ing. Let's see, that's his fourteenth ao-
dress this year. isn't It? | found him about
four blocks from where he was the last
time, and he is gradually working of
my beat. He was six days at his last place
and I'll be glad when he gets off my route.
/ hate TO be having to scribble his envel-
opes all over with new addresses.
Thus the talk of the ''swing-room" goes
on. The letter carriers opportunities for
the study of human nature are vast-but,
not to become cynically deranged. be must
be an optimist at heart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Cable Notes.

The Argentine government is again con-
lies in the manufacture of alcohols, tobacco
and salt.
The merchants of Guayaquil in view of
the Improvement in exchange rates, have
resolved to petition the government to
adopt a gold currency standard.
The Hon. Patrick A Collins the retiring
United States consul general at London, is
a passenger on board the Cunard line
steamship Campania, which left Liverpool
bound for New York yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Suicide of a Count.

MONTREAL, June 5.--The body of Count
Henri De Somery, of Bruges Belgium. was
found in the river near Sore to-day. be-
ing identified by a letter in the pocket of
his coat. The count left home some years
ago. first going to Brazil and arriving. in
Montreal two months ago. For some rea-
son his father had stopped the young mans
allowance, and the count was forced to fc-
cept a position as driver for a steam laun-
dry. He was too proud to let his friends
know 10 what straits he had been re-
duced, and it is supposed that he committed
Gstfa
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TravyIer and 23 Lives Lost.

LONDON, June "a dispatch from
Dieppe says that the French trawler
Liberte, recently engaged in the Iceland
fisheries, has been lost with twenty-three
members OF the crew.
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sailed to wed Yvette Guilbert.

NEW YORK, June 5.-Dr. NJ. Schiller. the
fiance of Mile. Yyette Guilbert sailed for
Europe to-day on beard the Lucania Dr.
Schiller said that his marriage with the
Chanteuse viii take place in Paris the
latter part OF July.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
Rnrrins n Dictator

NEW YORK, June "a dispatch to the
Herald from Panama says: president
Barrios has publicly declared himself dicta-
tor of Guatemala"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
Daring MONDAY Holdup in
the Streets of Chicago.
MESSENGER LOSES $4,000
Beaten Into Insensibility and
Expected to Die.
Latest News From the Flood
Stricken Districts.

Chicago. April "A daring, rob.
berry was committed in the business
district about noon. A messenger
employed by the woolen firm Of Kub,
Nathen & Fischer was robbed = Of
$4,000. after being beaten into in.
sensibility BY two men, one Of whom
WAS sent with the boy to protect him
and the firms money. The robbers
escaped. The messenger 10 in the
hospital at the point Of death. Ed
ward Wilson 10 the name OF the man
sent with the messenger, and be
frequently before accompanied him
while carrying Thousands Of dollars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
PROGRESS ON ARBITRATION,
Senate Votes on the Amendments and
Adopts q Couple.

Senate Votes on the Amendments and
Adopts q Couple.
Cuba was dropped after the senate
went into executive session aud con-
sideration Of the amendments to the ar
bitration treaty was concluded. The
voting began at 4 o'clock, afte- three
hours of general debate, and in the hour
and half which followed about a dozen
propositions were passed upon. Two
only were adopted, except some making
verbal changes. OF those adopted one,
offered by Bacon, exempts the claims
against southern states from the op-
erations Of the treaty, and the other,
introduced by Morgan, eliminates ar
ticle of the treaty. Much Of the de-
bate Of the day turned upon these
amendments. Their supporters con-
tended that under the constitution state
claims could not be made the subject
of negotiation under a treaty.
The point was also made that the
claims against the southern states were
contracted during the period Of recon-
struction and were not legitimate OBJ
legations. 1t was held on the other hand
that under the amendments already
adopted 1t would be impossible to hold
the southern claims subject to the
treaty. Many of the amendments voted
down were directed to putting a limita-
tion on the first article. Propositions
Of this character were made by Butler
Chiffon and Bacon. and all were re-
jected by the uniform majority of FIVE.
This was the result of q preconcerted
move to sustain the committee on for
eign relations, which took a position
against further amending this article.
The idea of those who wanted this
article amended was to further empha-
size the senate's position in the cor
tIoversy between 1t and the executive
regarding the treaty making power
and tire power to recognize belligerency
or independence. An interesting Incl
dent Of the session was Chandler refusal
to agree to a final vote on the treaty. He
called attention to the Associated Press
dispatches in regard to the situation
in Crete, and said that he did not feel
disposed to enter into negotiations with
airy power whose guns were trained
upon community Of Christians strug-
Cling to throw on the yoke of Moslem-
ism. He also spoke Of England's con-
duct towards the Beers Of the Tranr-
vaal as deserving Of condemnation and
cause for hesitation in the present
negotiations. He wound up with the
curious statement that he would prob
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
All on Oas Sea nold.

Santa Fe. N. NJ, April 2.-Frau.
cisco Gonzelas Y. Borrego. Antonio
Gonzelss Y. Borrego, Sauriano Alsrid
and Patricio Valencia, condem aed 10
death for the murder OF ex-Sherifr
Frank Chavez. who was killed from
ambush the night Of May 90. 1892,
were hanged together on one scaf.
fold this morning. The mea who
were executed. belonged to q polit.
ical gang who stopped at nothing to
accomplish their purpose. Chavez
met death while endeavoriug to bring
them TO punishment. The date II
execution had bsen several times
postponed BY the president OF the
United States.
La Fayette, La, April 2.-AlixAl
and Ernest Blanc, brothers. were
hanged here this afternoon in the
presence Of 5000 spectators for the
murder Of Simon Begnsud. q mer.
chant At Scott. La. a year ago.
They were under 20 years Of age.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
Condition Of the Public Debt.

Washington. April 2.-The monthly
statement Of the public debt shows tina,
at the close Of business Wednesday
the debt less cash in the treasury
amounted to $1.003. sS2. 200, a decrease
for the month Of $s.s3S.2a. This de.
cVease is accounted for by a correspond.
ing increase in the amount Of cash On
hand. The debt is recapitulated as fol-
lows. Interest bearing debt. $s47, ,3Sa.-
$50: debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity. 81. 355. go; debt bearins
no interest. $s77. .2s7 .oss; total. $1,22s.-
CO1 SOS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
Miss Award Was Halls Wife.

Memphis. April 2.-The remains of
Fannie Award. the actress who died
In Brooklyn a few days ago, arrived in
Memphis yesterday and were inferred
In the afternoon. The Commercial-Ap-
peal says: Miss Award and T. J. Hail,
leading man for one of the Faust COM
panies, were married in Brooklyn in De-
cember. As soon as Hall heard of the
nature of the report as to Miss Awards 8
death he at cnce telegraphed to the
father OF the young lady the facts Of the
marriage"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
EOMINATI0l:s AND CONFIRMATION


Andrew d. White Goes to Berlin and Drs.
Per to Italy - Ambassador.
Washington. April 1.-TWO more i'm
portant foreign posts have been flled
by the president. who yesterday sent
to the senate the names of Andrew d.
White. Of New York. to be ambassador
Of the United States to Germany: WILL
lam F. Draper. Of Massachusetts,, to be
ambassador Of the United States to
Italy. and Anson Burlingame johnson,
OF Colorado. to be consul at Annoy.
China. Besides the foregoing were these
nominations: Chandler Hale. of Maine.
to be secretary Of the embassy of the
United States at Rome; Samuel l..
Giacey, of Massachusetts,. to be consul
at Fuchan. China: Benjamin Butter
worth, Of Ohio, to be commissioner of
patents; Oliver L. Spaulding. Of Michi-
gan. to be assistant secretary Of the
treasury; William B. Howell, of New
Jersey, to be assistant secretary of the
treas ury.
Wa shington April 2-The senate in
execu tive session yesterday confirmed
Charlcmagne Tower, Of Pennsylvania
to be minister to Austro Hungary.
William s. Shallenberger, to be second
assistant postmaster general; Alexander
Montgomery Thackara, of Pennsylvania.
to be consul at Havre, France. and An.
son Burlingame johnson, as consul at
Annoy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
No More Pool-selling in Wisconsin.

Madison. April 2.-The wylie anti
pool bill passed the senate by a viva
voce vote without discussion, and with
out a vote In opposition. 1t makes the
selling OF pools on races or other SPORT
Ing events penal offense in Wisconsin.
The assembly amendment definitely
liking the amount Of the state tax for
1897 and 1898 at three-tenths Of a mill
was concurred in by the senate. The
house passed the bill which wipes out
the street railway law Of 1895 and re-
stores the old law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
People Fleeing from the Bottoms.

warsaw. Ills. April 2.-Heavy rains
nave again swollen the Des Moines and
mississippi, threatening further de-
struction Of property. The Fox river.
which empties into the Mississippi near
mere on the Missouri side, Is out of its
banks and the people were fleeing from
the bottoms and taking their live stock
with them. The vast tracts of land
wnh'n the levee are suffering greatly
from seep water. The situation is grow.
Ing more serious daily.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-02
Flood News is Distrsssipe.

Washington. April 2.-The weather
bureau has issued o special bulletin,
saying the Mississippi river has risen
throughout its entire length. except
. slight fall at Memphis and Vincen.
ner and crevasses below. No further
breaks in the levees are reported.
Greenville, Miss, April 2.-That
part OF the city exposed to the
Mound crevasse is suffering the woes
incident to the food. This morning
700 to 1000 families were surrounded
BY water. Last night the citizens Of
that part Of the town dynamited the
railroad tracks in half o dozen places
and let the water into the country
east. This checked the rise tempor-
arily. but when the outer basin ills,
the rise will begin again. The water
from Lake Lee is already coming up
from the south and the two floods
have met. A fleet Of skiffs is scour-
ing the COUNT and hourly bringing
In loads Of refugees. Today's river
bulletin caused much additional
alarm. High water from Cairo
down. together with continued heavy
rise ut st. Louis, means widespread
destruction to the delta at all points
south Of Perthshire break.
Minneapolis, Minn., April 2.-The
Mississippi is rising slowly, but the
situation is not serious, except to
logging companies and fat dwellers.
Squatters on the west eide flats are
In q critical condition. A score Of
families have been evicted by the
Hood. At South st. Paul the stock
yards situation is most serious; 4O,-
900 sheep have been moved from the
feeding barns to higher ground.
Water put out the fires under the
boiler rooms in the packing house.
Huron. s. d., April 2.-Tbe flood
conditions are unchanged by the
heavy rains Of last night. The river
10 still rising.
st. Paul. April 2.-The river is p
feet above the danger line. and still
rising. There has been no loss Of
life here, and the property loss will
not be very heavy.