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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
, ENRIQUE DuPUY DE LONE. .
FITzHUGH LEES ADvICEs.
Action on the Cases of DOminguex,
Romero and BrysOn.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Consul General
Lee has sent several reports TO the State
Department concerning the condition of af-
fairs in Cuba He reports that Dominguez.
who was arrested on the 10th, and for.
whom he claimed all the rights to which
he was entitled as an American citizen UNI
der the treaty and protocol, had given up
his formally acquired rights as an Ameri-
can citizen. An unofficial effort to save the
mans life brings the statement from Cap
tain General Weyler that the proceedings
have been sent to the prosecuting officer TO
determine If the cognizance of the case per-
tains to the ordinary Jurisdiction, in ac-
cordance with the protocol of Jan. H. 1871.
The State Department is also informed
that through the influence OF Miss Luz
Gay. the proprietresS of small Illustrated
paper in Havana. the alleged American
CITIZEN Romero, who was arrested and
August, has been deported to the Isle OF
Pines. Romero resided in New Orleans for
a number of years, and Miss Gay, who IS
engaged to marry him, reported TO General
come a naturalized citizen of the United
States. But Romero, though able to do so,
never communicated with the consul gen.
eral at all.
General Weyler has given to General Lee
his reason for eXpeling George Eugene
BrysOn, q correspondent Of the New YORK
Journal. Weyler says that the correspond
ent was found to have on his person SeNefdl
documents containing false and injurious
news, and that the conduct observed Dy
him is systematically hostile to the cause
of Spain. The governor OF the region anu
General Lee are to fix the day on which the
CORRESPONDENT shall leave. He had not been
expelled on the 2lst. 80
The Queen Regent of Spain will not for
mally receive Gen Stewart l.. Woodtord.
the new United States minister. until after
the court returns from San Sebastian.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
READY FOR PROSPERITY
NATIONAL BANKS NEVER IN BETTER
CONDITION THAN NOW.
The Compilation of Last Reports Dis
sected by the Assistant Controller
of the Currency.

r WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-Mr. George NJ
Coffin, assistant controller of the currency.
in speaking of the compilation of the re-
ports of the national banks on July %, 1897,
made public yesterday. said to-day: The
figures showing total resources and liabili-
ties of all the national banks on July %,
1897, just compiled are full of strength and
promise. They show total resources
amounting to $685., 40S 053, the greatest
amount ever reached in the history of the
system. the nearest approach to this con-
dition being total of $3.50, 1897 on Sept.
80, 1892. The item largely contributing to
the grand aggregate of their liabilities is
that of individual deposits, which on July
%. 1897, stood at s., ITO, 4S0, 563, the highest
point ever touched by this item, the next
highest having been 81, 765, 422, 9S3 on Sept.
30, 1892.
This showing is all the more striking be-
cause it is made after the severe liquida-
ton of the past four years, which has re-
duced the number of national banks from
$3.50, high-water mark on May T. $685. to
500 on July 49, 1897. In the item of loans
and discounts, the highest point ever
touched was 81, 161, 401, S5S, May 4, 1S93 just
preceding the panic of that year. Against
this, loans and discounts on July g. 1897
were 81, 977, 553, no, but actual cash in bank
on July g. 1897, was $4l3,5lS,621. against but
1922, 500, 304 on May 4, 1898. when loans We're
most greatly extended. AS the loans of the
national banks expanded about $43, 0000 00 be-
tween May IA and July %, 1897, it is nearly
certain that this movement has continued
during the past month.
But the meaning of the figures is that
the national banks, as a whole, were never
stronger and better prepared in cash re-
sources to furnish all facilities for moving
the great wheat and cotton crops that are
now coming to the markets of the world.
The only speck of danger in the future is
business revival, the bitter experience Of
the past four years may be forgotten and
that the bali of speculation may be again
set rolling into a future Of business disas-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The rye crop of the principal European
countries - Russia, Germany, France. Au-
stria, Bulgaria Roumania and ltaly-and
the low countries and Sweden has averaged
about 800 000 eco bushels annually for 1896,
1855. 1894 and 1893. This season the rye crop
of these countries cannot much exceed 3d.
000,0 600 bushels. Quite as bad is the potato
prospect. Only about !, $50 000. 900 bushels OF
potatoes will be harvested in these coun-
tries this year. Without regard to the
United Kingdom or other European coun-
tries there is a shortage of about 1000 co.,
0C0 bushels of potatoes.
The European shortages, compared with
average crops are as follows: Wheat, 3OO,-
GOO 0C0 bushels rye. 325. 600, 900 bushels; pota-
toes ]. 600 GOO COO total l. 625. 900 900 bushels
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

An interview is published with Mr.. Hugh
Smith, governor of the Bank of England,
in which he says that English investors
have not yet fully recovered confidence in
American securities There is feeling
he says, that American finance is still in
will have to be placed a sounder and
steadier basis in the United States before
investment in American securities again
begins here" This means that foreign con-
fdence in American securities will not be
fully established until our government
finances and currency system are placed
on a sound basis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The short speeches of the President at
the National Encampment of the Grand
Army could not be improved upon. The
occasion seemed an inspiration which
caused him to speak with rare power and
a feeling that must touch the popular chord
the country over. His alusion to a united
country will call forth a general and earn
est response. except from the lessening few
who desire TO fight the war over every day.
1t seems particularly fitting that one who
was a soldier in the Union army should
thus speak of a united country. Indeed. it
is particularly fitting that the President of
the United States should have been Union
soldier and as such led the Union host yes
terday. OF all the influences which make
for union for lawful authority the great
assembages of the veterans of the late war
are among the most potential. In vain Will
Debs assail the courts so long as so 900 vet
Grams of the late war give an object lesson
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
WINDOW GLASS HIGHER.
Raised 3 Per Cent. by Manufacturers
and Per Cent. by Jobbers.

CHICAGO. Aug. 25.-Window glass has
gone up per cent. in price to the public.
Tie Jobbers' Association met to-day and
was officially notified by the manufacturers
combination. which was completed here
yesterday that the price was raised per
cent. The jobbers promptly raised this
per cent. claiming per cent. advance did
not restore TO them the proper margin of
profit. The new rates of discount under
the increase are 60 and 20 per cent The
increase affects all grades of window glass.
There will be another meeting in a week or
two following the OganiZation of the trust
outlined at the manufacturers meeting for
the purpose of organizing the Jobbers 10
the new conditions,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW.

The interview of Superintendent Goss in
yesterdays Journal is exasperatingly cool
He is the author of the particular bill
which was designed to create about five
hundred officials and to impose a tax of
10 cents a hundred dollars upon all the
rCperty in the larger counties, if not in
the State. under the guise of enforcing d
system of compulsory education. 1t is all
right in his judgment to impose an addi-
tional tax of $4,000 upon Marion county
and expend it in schoolhouses and general
purposes simply that number of truant
children, which he puts at 1900 but which
for any accurate information he has may
not be over six hundred may be forced
to attend school. If the number of
truants is 1900, the levy the school trust
law imposes is 500 per truant. If the num-
Der is six hundred it's expense per capita
is 1892! And this sort of thing can be re-
peated year after year.
If the School Board has committed itself
to any such scheme of taxation as the re-
port which the finance committee has
brought in, it should make haste to undo
it's work. Before building 100000 worth OF
schoolhouses for truants it will be better
to ascertain something about the alleged
truants If several hundred of them are
found they can be cared for temporarily in
rooms which can be rented For that pur
pose an appropriation of $4,000 or $4,000
will be ample. The Journal has always
favored what is known as compulsory edit
hoII SC To
support schools children should be required
to attend them. 1t believes that some plan
might be suggested now which does not
involve the great increase of taxation in
volved in Mr.. Goss's construction of the
new law.
1t is unfortunate that the excellent gen.
tlemen who constituted the school lobby
about the last Legislature could not have
some realizing sense of the condition of
the people. AS it is, they seem to be i'm
pressed with the idea that the one purpose
for which people exist is to be taxed to sup
port system of education which they have
devised. They cannot or will not see that
the people of Indiana have been passing
through period of business prostration so
severe that lew dollars ADDED as taxes
make the burden too heavy to be borne.
IN this city with public improvements
which have borne heavily upon thousands
of families struggling to pay for homes,
school officers talk as glbly and as coolly
of adding $4,000 to the taxation of the year
and of insufficient revenues as if all that
people had to do to pay taxes was to draw
checks.
The compulsory education law, if pushed
to the limit. will be repealed the first week
OF the next session, not because the Legis-
Iature will be opposed to compulsory edu-
cation, but because compulsory education
in the present law is simply a pretext to
strengthen the grasp of the official school
managers upon the State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
EUROPEAN CROPS.
Yield of Cereals This Year Far Short
OF Requirements.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Aug. 25.-An ex-
tensive inquiry into European crop condl-
tons conducted by the Orange Judd syn
dicate Of agricultural papers. including the
American Agricuturist, of New York, the
Orange Judd Farmer, of Chicago and the
New England Homestead. of Springfield
Mass. indicates that the food-crop situa-
ton abroad is very grave. Estimates of
Europe's GncludiHg Englands) needs OF
wheat imports range all the way from 800.
06) UUO to 400 coo coo bushels Europes wheat
crops for 1855 1884 and 1893 averaged about
500 0e0 bushels. In the famine year Of
1891 il was only loo 900 000. The impression
is gaining ground that Europes wheat crop
this year is even less than in 1891.
But this is not the worst of Ii. Europe
usually produces as much rye as she does
wheat. It Is the bread grain OF the masses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
The Rerinr sen Commission.

HALIFAX, n. s., Aug. 25-The Boring
sea commission held a session here to-day
The commission is composed of Judge King.
of the Supreme Court of Canada, acting
for Great Britain. and Judge Putnam, act
ing for the United States. In regard to the
number of counsel to speak on each side
it was decided to arrange the matter at a
meeting of representatives. Two OF the
United States representatives arrived here
al a late hour last night and there has been
no opportunity to settle such prelimlnaItes.
To-day's meeting was preliminary one.
Friday will see the commencement of real
work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Journal of Tuesday contained an edi-
torial criticising the methods of incorporate
advocates of prohibitions some phases OF
which have been construed by friends OF
Mr. John G. Woolley as rejecting person.
ally upon that gentleman. The Journal
had no intention of assailing Mr.. Woolley
in personal way. II holds that his meth
DDS are erroneous, burt has an abiding be-
lief in his integrity of purpose and is aware
of the fact that ne labors in the prohibition
work at considerable peeuniary loss to him
self
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
SILENT HALF A CENTURY.
Miss Experience GuilfOrd Has Kept
Her Vow for Fifty Years.

BLUEHILI. Me, Aug. 25.-Miss Expert
ence Guilford, of this place, has not spoken
a word for half century. II swear l will
not speak word, though l live for tifty
years, unless ! marry this man" were the
last words she spoke. That was June u.s.
1871 She was then nineteen years old, and
wanted to marry William Lipson. the viii
Iage schoolmaster. One of Miss Guiford's
rejected suitors had told tales about the
schoolmaster. and her parents stopped the
wedding She kept her pledge. A woman's
tongue il is said. never stops. But Miss
Guilfords case was an exception to the rule
She held her peace for a half century. Not
one single word or audible sound has she
allowed to pass her lips for all that period.
" hen the nifty years of silence expired
she was visited by large number OF rela-
tIves and friends who went TO the camp for
the purpose of being present when she was
at Hber.y to speak. Soon after the midday
meal Miss Guilford dressed herself In tho
garments she had not worn for half a ceR-
fury. AT ? O'Clock she stood before the
people. smiled apd opened her mouth TO
speak, but, though she tried hard, and got
red in the face in trying, she could not ut
ter a sound. Her vocal muscles had be-
come atrophied from long disuse and re-
fused 10 work. When Miss Guilford found
she could not speak she sent 10 Bangor for
"A physician, and took 10 her bed. The doc
tor gave no hope of recovery. but suggested
that she be sent 70 Boston hospital Tor
treatment AS soon as Miss Guilford gets
strong enough 10 take the journey she will
make another effort TO regain her speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

the Democratic nominee for Governor of
Massachusetts, claims to be a more ardent
silver man than ever. The more silver
goes down. the more l believe in free COIN
age as the only remedy for the fall in
prices" he says. THE reconciliation of
silver at 10 to !, with absolutely free coin
age, is the only thing which will prevent
the continued fall of prices in all things"
His lunacy seems to be chronic and deep
aeated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
Proposed Reception to Mckinley.

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 2o.--Arrange-
reception to President Mckinley on Friday
The Naval Reserves and the TippecanOe
club viii have charge OF the affair. The
President will reach the city at o'clock
and it is expected that 5000 people will
meet him al the harbor. He will be escort
ed TO the Tppecanoe Club where he Will
make a short speech. and viii then be
driven to Winderuere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

Regarding the Life of Bonaparte," pub
lished anonymously in Salem, Ind, in 1918,
mentioned by the Journal a few days ago,
an old resident of Valonia, Jackson county,
writes that he was told many years ago
that the author of the work was a Mr.. Tu-
ley, who committed suicide in Bloomington,
Ind, in 1880 or 1851. The book is d literary
curiosity, and any person possessing accu-
rate information regarding it's authorship
would confer favor by sending it to the
Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

One great advantage of being on a gold
basis is that under that condition gold flows
freely in obedience to the laws of trade
where it is due and needed. From present
indications it will soon be flowing into the
United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

A dispatch from Great Bend, Kan, says
"The recorder of this county (Barton) has
reported the release of over $50 coo in chat
tel and real-estate mortgages since Aug. l,
and half of the wheat crop has not been
thrashed." There seems to be a close rela-
out mortgages
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Car has had the heads of several
of the leading nations in Europe as his
guests; will he invite Queen Victoria or her
representative? If not, his hospitality Will
be regarded designed to unite all the
other powers against Great Britain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

Those Democrats who can grasp the fact
that Mr. Holman had clean majority in the
Fourth district last November OF III votes
while Mr.. Griffith had clean majority of
but ninety-eight, ought to cease speaking
in public of the great Democratic victory
at the AUGUST voting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The impression in grain centers seems to
be that the last break in wheat was due to
overspeculation, and that the fall cleared
up the market and fixed a legitimate price
which will be followed by further advance
if the foreign demand shall continue. 1t
will be some time before another specula-
tive movement can be organized as strong
as the one Just closed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

There are now at sea, bound from Balti-
more to European ports, forty-eight vessels
laden with full or part cargoes of grain.
each one carrying $4,000 to 100000 bushels
This is said to be the largest number of
vessels ever bound from an American port
at onn time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
General Noses.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance. 1920, SO6 1O3
gold reserve, $f4S, 27S53S.
The State Department is informed that
the Dominion government has reduced the
fees of the dry dock at Kingston 50 per
cent which Is q matter of interest 10 the
United States shipping on ths great lakes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The best colored people will not remain
in a country where they are liable to be
lynched without even a show of a regular
trial. AS they furnish the South its best
labor and the best farm labor in the world.
the whites who do not insist upon an en-
forcement of the laws will find that their
best labor has left the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

in patriotism once a year to hundreds of
thousands of spectators present and mil
lions Of people are moved by reading
of them, and such speeches as President
Mckinley and Archbishop Ireland have
heen making
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

This is a great occasion for Debs and his
Social Democracy to exploit themselves.
They are all on a perpetual strike against
any sort of labor What they want is an
era when the assets of those who labor and
save will be divided per capita every sixty
days. Any form of government that does
not provide for such frequent division is
vicious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has issued an estimate of this years
wheat and corn crops and their values on
the basis of last Saturdays prices. The
estimate gives Indiana 49, $4,000 bushels of
wheat, worth $23, S45 600, and III, 5lSO 900 BUSH
els of corn valued at S42 S94 010.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Wisconsin law requiring goods made
In prisons of other States and sold in that
State to be labeled convict made has
been held unconstitutional by United States
Judge Seaman on the ground that it inter
feres with interstate commerce. This deci-
sion is exactly in line with one recently
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Minneapolis Tribune remarks that
when farmers of the Northwest can raise
wheat for as cents a bushel and sell it for
So cents, they have no reason to complain
of the profits of the Standard Oil or Sugar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

If the mayor and Mr.. Kern could have
seen the vanishing of the 16-to-1 fad, the
former would not have professed eternal
devotion to 1t and the latter would have
saved himself his last speech of debasement
unless he likes that sort of thing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2-The appoint
ment of William r. Holloway, of Indiana.
to be consul general at st. Petersburg, Rus
STA reached the White House to-day. the
commission being dated Aug. q. The PrCsi-
dent has also appointed Frank j. Drum
mond assistant appraiser of merchandise
district of New York vice Joseph G. Big
lin removed Aug 10. 1897.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

Wheat was up again yesterday. While the
general tendency is upward and probably
will be, the veterans who control the wheat
pits and the exchanges will manipulate the
prices up and down, so as to harvest the
dollars of the multitude who dabble in OPP
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
The Main Thing.

''These here quick-iring guns said Rub
berneck Bill, critically examining the
weapon left by the gentleman who was
being buried. these here quicK-ffring guns
amt so important as a quick-drawing man
bnln ,nrn1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


81" said the salaried humorist 'can al
ways do my best work in the quiet hours
of the morning"
And remarked William the Residence
Fracturer, $50 can r..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

The Board of Public Safety is silent be-
fore Councilman Dewar's charges about
the police telegraph system, therefore the
fair assumption is that there is something
in the transaction which would not look
well to the MONDAY gaze of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
Climatic Advantages.

Watts-There is one good feature about
the Klondike that has not been sufficiently
exploited, in my opinion.
Potts-And that is
Watts-The superior facilities for cold
storage of a fellow after he dies, until his
friends can send for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

at is touching sight when a little child
learns to stand alone" said the sentimental
boarder.
1T is also a touching affair when a man
stands loan, too" said the Cheerful Idiot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

garding a similar law in this State. There
can be no doubt that the Federal Courts
will hold all such legislation void
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

Last year at this time Mr.. Bryan was
telling the farmers that the low price of
wheat was due to the low price of silver
He is not talking now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

1t is rumored that Mayor Taggart is pre-
pairing an exhaustive explanation of his
latest park scheme which he will present
in a public speech.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26

Even the assets of failed national banks
are reported to have taken a value of late.
so that unlooked-for dividends will be paid
to creditors