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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
CUBANs.
a~arbnrOus CrueIties Inflicted on Pris-
oners by Spaniards.

stephen Bonsal, in Review of Reviews.
while watching this disgraceful spectacle
l caught a glimpse OF one VINO iiiuserafeS
fourteenth century methods with which the
Standards in Cuba prosecute the war, and
who furnishes at the same time, a type ana
with which these barbarous methods are
met. and by which they will in His own
time be yanduished. Some two months ago,
a cattle drover. Fidel Fundora by name,
was arrested i'm Matanzas charged with at
tempting to ship to some point on the Ha-
yana Railway a box ostenslbly hlled with
hides. but which on being searched was
found to contain a large supply of anti
septics, quinine and some percussion caps,
The Spanish authorities concluded that
Fundora was not acting without assistance.
They suspected that Fundora was acting
as their agent, so they determined to dis
cover who the members of the junta were.
Instead of dragging him before the sum
arissimo, or summary court-martial, to re-
ceiye his sentence, they began to torture
him. First with thumb screws, or rather
with thumb strings, for the modern Span
iards have invented a torture more cruel
than the old queStiO of their lnquiSitiOn.
They bind a cord tightly about the thumb
with slow. but ever increasing pressure,
until after days of incessant torture the
thumbs are severed from the hands. In
Fundora's case the very brutality of the
treatment came near defeating its object.
Gangrene set in, and to save the life of
the tortured man, which with all his Sc
crets untold was valuable to them, they
amputated both hands above the wrist. /
could see the ndli-nedleu SLuIlp5 dS nS @dS
marched by me this morning between a
pareja, or pair of civil guards.
| have heard nan accounts of further
tortures, including the terrible componte
and other excruciating tortures to which ne
was subjected in his cell. / believe them,
and everybody in Matanzas believes them.
Spaniards as we'll as Cubans. but / prefer
to confine my statement of the treatment
to which this man has been subjected only
TO what took place in public and which can
be proved before all men. Whatever may
have been the means taken In the secrecy
and the solitude of his cell to make this
man betray the trust that IA been placed
in him, they were all unsuccessful. So In
February he was brought before the court
martial and sentenced TO be shot in the
back. lie was placed in chapel twelve
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f AND GREECE.
Situation Explained by remie SAL
isbury to the House of Lords.

Situation Explained by Premier SAL
isbury to the House of Lords.
LONDON, May 10.-The Earl of TIMBER
~, the Liberal leader in the House of
Lords, asked to-day whether Greece had
troops from Crete, and whether she had re-
quested the powers to mediate with Tur-
key. The Marquis Of Salisbury replied that
if he answered in the negative it would be
strictly correct; yet, such a reply might be
misleading. Therefore, he would say a
word on the subject: The Greek govern
ment had not asked for mediation, but
members of that government had expressed
a desire for mediation. The Greek govern
ment as a whole, the premier added, did
not intend. TO the best of his belief, to ask
for mediation. Regarding Crete. the prem
Ter said the Greek government does not
conceive that it will be consistent with it's
position to promise an immediate and def
mite withdrawal of Greek troops from the
island, but he (Lord Salisbury understood,
though the government had no official in
formation on the subject, that the Greek
government is preparing to say that it will
withdraw its troops from Crete in the not
very distant future. Continuing, the Mar
quiS of Salisbury said: Il am sorry to say
this assurance is entirely satisfactory to all
the powers. However, l nave only to an
sWer for ourselves. our instructions have
been to join in any procedure for the pur-
pose OF entering on mediation which is ac-
ceptable to the others. In our view, the
main point is to arrest as far as possible
the effusion of blood, and we are not very
particular about the forms. / regret ex-
ceedingly that the Greek government is
more particular about the forms than the
circumstances in the case Justify"
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CHICAGO, May 10.-The military athletic
CO rnival opened at the Coliseum tonight in
exercises consisted Of a parade by all the
military organizations taking part in the
carnival, a special drill by the regular ar
corps of the regular army and the United
States life saving crew. The military fea-
ture caught the crowd and was wildly APP
plauded. There was considerable disap-
pointment at the small number of entries
in many of the events. Brigadier General
T.. H. Stanton, United States army, was
present as the representative of the secre-
tary of wa.
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PRIVATE LEVEES BREAK.
mississippi River Overruns several
Plantation Below Natchez.

NEW ORLEANS, May 10.-The river was
at 1875 feet tonight. The water has not
yet reached its highest stage at the mouth
of the Red river, and the rise depends a
great deal upon the amount of Biggs
crevasse water that returns. All the levees
ing done. 1t costs the city levee board
$4,000 a day, and it is on the verge of APP
pealing to the city for funds, il the fight
must be kept up much longer.
Advices received at Natchez, Miss, to-
day state that the Deer Park private levee,
some twenty miles below Natchez on the
Mississippi side, has given way, flooding
several plantations. Also, that the Spencer
private levee, near Jonesville. La, on the
Cole river, has crevassed, letting the water
on to several thousand acres heretofore pro-
tected by this leVee.
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st. Joseph's Union Elects

optCIdI 10 LIe -HuIdIdpOIIS JUuIHdI.
EVANSVILLE. Ind, May 10.-The fourth
annual convention of the st. Joseph Catho-
lie Union was held here to-day. About
seventy delegates were present. The SEES
sion was held behind closed doors and moth
elected were: Very Rev. A. b., Oechtering,
Miskawaka, and Rev. j. J. Diestel, of
Evansville. spiritual advisers; Philip Schnei-
of Evansville. first vice president; Joseph
Beringer. of Indianapolis, second vice presi-
dent; j. D.. Wittken, of Evansville, .secre-
urer. South Bend was selected for the next
Meeting
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BRUSSELS EXPOSITION.
BeIgium's Exhibition Formally
Opened Yesterday Afternoon.

BRUSSELS, May 10.-The Brussels expo
sition was formally opened at 2 o'clock this
afternoon in the presence of the ministers,
the diplomatic corps and the civil and mill
tary authorities. immense crows of people
were present. NJ. Demot. president of the
Executive Council, and M. Nyssens, minis
ter of public works, made speeches. The
inaugural cantate were executed by a choir
of 1900 voices. King Leopold arrived on the
grounds at 2:45 p. m. His Majesty, who
was accompanied by a large and brilliant
suite, made a tour of the exposition and
met with a sympathetic reception from the
m in the main hall and
gardens. The ceremony of opening the
exposition, postponed from Saturday until
to-day on account of the tragic death of the
d'Alencon, was most imposing.
The weather was fine and in every way
suited for the occasion. There was a
monster military tattoo this evening. The
CITY is filled with strangers.
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STILL HOLDS THE FORT.
Ex-MayOr BrOatch Shuts the Door in
His Successors Face.

OMAHA, Neb., May 1O.-Ex-Mayor
Broatch is still intrenched in the mayors
office, and is guarded by his force of po-
lice. Mayor Moores, at 10 o'clock, made a
formal demand for possession of the office
and Broatch shut the door in his face.
and Returned TO his nrivate office The new lev
City Council was fully organized this morn
ing. 1t recognizes Moores as mayor. A
considerable crowd gathered around the
City Hall but there was no demOnstration.
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now TURKS CO TO WAR.
They Are in Earnest, but Decline to
BE Hurried or Worried.

g. w. Stevens. in London Mail.
On this. the fifth day of the war, count
ing Saturday, we have had one or two in
noyations. Civilians are no longer allowed
on the field of battle. Up TO a certain point
on the weil-trodden road to 1t beggars take
up their pitch and solicit aims, regardless
of cannon all but running over their toes.
But in the actual fighting line. and the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the general stan,
no tourists and pleasure seekers are any
longer tolerated.
In a way it is a pity, as 1t removes a
valued element of picturesqueness. 1t was
pleasant to see elderly gentlemen, in flame
colored night-gowns and rainbow-colored
4rbans. sitting on the brow of a hill smok-
iRg cigarettes and watching battles. One
day, while | was observing a side issue OF a
fight or stony hills, a slight man, with an
umbrella. strolied up and saluted me. 1t
was my banker. who had shut up his bank
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VINO WAS the Generous Donor.

PARIS, May 10.-It is announced to-day
that the Baroness Hirsch is the anony-
nous donor of the $4,000 francs ($1S7, 500
received by the committee of the charity
bazaar, the scene of the terrible FIRE of
Tuesday last. This sum, together with the
proceeds of the first days sale, $4,000 francs
$50, 0G0), exactly equals the receipts of the
bazaar in 1896, thus enabling the committee
to distribute it's funds to charitable pur-
poses as before. The baroness, 1T is added,
made this gift in order to commemorate
the anniversary of the death o. her nus
band. which occurred April Il, 1896.
During the afternoon a semi-official note
was issued denying that Baroness Hirsch
was the donor of the money.
The deputies from the municipal districts
in the quarter of the Rue Jean Goujon are
promoting a subscription list for the erec-
ton of a monument commemorative of the
charlie bazaar fire. To-day more than 300,-
coo persons visited the scene of the disas-
ter, and hundreds threw flowers over the
high fence which the authorities have built
around the bazaar site.
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WILKESRARRE, Pa, May 11.-Fire was
discovered in the Spring mountain. breaker,
No. i, of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company,
at GAINESVILLE, at 1870 this morning, and
forty minutes afterward the structure was
in ashes. The breaker had a capacity of
hundred tons of coal a day, and five
hundred men and boys will be made idle.
Loss, SIS, 900: fully insured.
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Muncie dives Un the Prize.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, May 10.-At a meeting OF
delegates from the different high school
rooms tonight it was decided that the sec
ond prize honors and $40 in gold, given by
mistake to Walter Lotz, Muncie's repre-
sentative in the recent oratorical contest
at Portland, should be turned over to the
Winchester man, who should nave the
prize according to the corrected decision of
the judges. Muncie will stick to the or
ganization and entertain it at the next an
nual meeting, and not secede, as first
threatened.
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Failure of a Marion money Lender.

Special 70 the IndlanapCIls JournaI.
MARION, Ind, May 10.-William White
made an assignment to-day to Philip
Mather. He turns over property Variously
estimated at $500, OOO to $780, goo to meet
claims amounting to about $35, 600. The
property consists almost wholly of real es-
tate, including a large business block, sew
eral dwelling houses, three farms and a
large number of city lots. White is the
owner of Whites Theater, which he recent
ly repaired at considerable expense. Until
the last few years he had done an extensive
business as a money lender.
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FIRES THIS MORNING:
Several Buildings at Quincy burned
Loss, 500.

QUINCY, May 11.-Fire broke out at mid
night in the plant of the j. r. Dayton Tab
let Company, in a four-story block situated
in the business district of this city. At 1870
a. m. the flames were not yet under con-
troll. The losses at that hour exceeded
500, 900. Insurance unknown. Besides the
tablet c~ompany's plant, which is u total
loss, the big printing house of Volk, Jones
q McMein and Brumbaugh's bookstore
have been DESTROYED.
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Grand Opera at London.

LONDON, May 10.-The spring season of
French and Italian grand opera opened this
evening at Covent Garden with the most
fattering prospect. Mr.. Grau and the new
management will have the same brilliant
array of supporters as brought prosperity
and eclat under the direction of the late
Sir Augustus Harris. In the crowded au-
dience were many of the b~est-known mem
bers of the aristocracy of London, among
them the Duke and Duchess of Fife, the
Marquis and Warehouses of Londonderry,
the Earl and Countess of Cadogan, and
Lady Charles Beresford, Lady Randolph
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, with other
well-known Americans. Faust was adj
mirably performed, with Nine. Emma
Eames as Marguerite. She was in splendid
voice, and had a fiattering reception.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and
Lady Liam Maud Marlborough witnessed
part of the perfOrmance.
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A severe seismic disturbance took fIace
yesterday in South Australia and Victoria.
The shock was intermittent and continued
for several minutes
The remains of the Comtesse Luppe have
been identified by the doctors among the
five bodies rescued from the Paris charity
bazaar fire and yet uninterred.
The German artillery is now fully pro-
Vided with the new quick-firing guns at a
cost of G10, 000. 00J. A battery can fire sixty
shots q minute at a range of over five
miles.
1t is reported that several cases of the
bubonic plague nave been discovered by the
Tonquin officials on the Chinese frontier
and just within the boundaries OF the col
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RICHMOND, Ind, May 10.-Mrs. Charles
Jenkins, aged t~wenty-nine, died this morn
ing of paralysis of the heart. She had been
in her usual health and was sick but half
an hour.
Mrs. Clara Swartzel, aged ~forty-six, died
to-day of nervous exhaustion. She was a
pertinent worker in church circles.
Charles A. Lamb, OF near Greensboro.
died to-day of acute peritonitis after a few
days illness. His age was about forty
i've. He was prominent as a politician and
stock dealer
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HAVANA, May 10.-Captain General
Weyler. after a rapid march from San
Juan de las Yeras. through Manicaragnay,
Domento and Santa Lucia, arrived unex-
pectly at Sancti Spiritus at 6 O'Clock yes
Regiment. He passed the night in camp,
about one league from the city, and on
entering Sancti Spiritus had to wait a long
while for Major Marios Garcia and Com
mander Arrminan TO open the military
headquarters. The captain general is said
to be not the least fatigued by his recent
activity
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Double Fatality in Lincoln Park

CHICAGO, May 10.-A peculiar double
fatality occurred last evening before hun
dreds of spectators in Lincoln Park. While
boating on Lake Michigan, Matthew Roche
and his ten-year-old nephew Harry Flynn,
attempted to exchange seats. The boat
was overturned and the boy drowned, al
hough Roche twice succeeded in putting
the little fellow on top of the capsized boat.
While this was going on, Albert Mattarl.
who was in the crowd at the waters edge,
pitched forward on his face, dead.
His death is ascribed to excitement caused
by watching the struggles of the drowning
how
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Crevasse at baton Rouge.

VICKSBURG, Miss, May 10.-A break in
the levee occurred tonight at Baton Rouge,
a short distance below the Burton mill
break, and within a short distance of the
upper end of the Ponchartrain levee dis
trict. 1t was $50 feet wide at last reports.
A desperate effort is being made to close
it, with prospects doubtful.
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MAY Have a race Meeting.

Special to ;he Indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO, Ind, May 10.-A fifteen
day race meeting may be held here some
time in July. Parties from Chicago were
here looking at the Porter county fair
grounds and made an offer of 500 a day
for the use Of the grounds fifteen days, n
also agreed to build three hundred box
stalls and put the track in good shape. The
Agricultural Society has not yet decided
whether to accept the offer and was given
two weeks to consider it.
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Made Prisoners nv Africans.

CAPE TOWN CASTLE, Gold Coast,
Africa, May 10.-Oficial news has been re-
ceived to the effect hat Lieutenant Hen
derson's mission, reported to have been at
tackled by Chief Samory at Wa while
the British officer was making treaties with
the chiefs in the Hinterland and concerning
whose safety the graVest fears were eX-
pressed, nave been made prisoners by the
Zova tribe. 1t is added that the member of
the mission are in no danger.
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A Fatal game of Leap Frog.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW CASTLE, Ind, May 10.-At Moore
land, this county, last evening, o.. p. Shat
fer, a prominent merchant, to amuse his
two small boys began playing leapfrog with
them. While playing he fell, striking the
back of his head on the floor, fracturing
the skull He has been unconscious ever
since, and it is thought he is fatally in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Col. Hay Meets BimetaIIists.

LONDON May 10.-A luncheon was given
at the ST. James Club to-day in honor of
the United States ambassador, Colonel
John Hay, in order to enable him to meet
the leading English bimetallists. The Hon.
Hucks-Gfbbs, Sir David Barbour. Sir Viii
liam Houldesworth, Henry r. GrenfeIl.
Barclay PoWells and Henry White, secre-
tary of the United States embassy, were
among those present. W.
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Mrs. Josephine Newton.

Special to tie indianapolis Journal.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, May 10.-Mrs
Josephine Newton, a pioneer resident of this
city, died last night. She was the daughter
of Il. 8 Kelly and a sister of Mrs. P.
c. Somerville, Mrs. j. c. Pence, Mrs. Lydia
Ramsey, Mrs. Amanda Kelly, Mrs. Ida
Reynolds, Maurice Kelly and Mr.. More
head, of Terre Haute. Her husband was
a newspaper man at Frankfort, also a
tV-6Va wears
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Hiram Hall.

Special to he indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind, May 10.-Hiram Hall.
aged seventy-four, died late last night. He
was a noted character here. He served
one term in the Ohio State penitentiary for
selling a free negro into slavery in 1862.
After he came here he shot and killed a
man with whom he had quarreled and
served another penitentiarY term.
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HUDSON, N. Y, May 10.-Mrs. David OPP
penheim. the wife of a former mayor of
Vancouver, B. c., is In the hospital here,
with both her feet cut off. She was en-
route to Philadelphia, 10 be treated by a
specialist for a nervous disease, and was
accompanied by her husband and a nurse.
They occupied a compartment in a Wagner
car on the New York Central. Early to-
day, when the train was a few miles above
Hudson, Mrs. Oppenheim flung herself from
the car window, The wheels cut off both
her feet. Amputation Of both legs win be
necessary.
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Priest,s Fight YYith Rohhers.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 1O.-Two
masked robbers at 3 o'clock this morning en-
tered the residence of Rev. Joseph Flache,
the Catholic priest, at Dyer, Ind, and ran
sacked the house. The priest and cook
were awakened and showed resistance,
Whereupon the robbers used an iron bar,
striking the cook on the head, inflicting
dangerous wounds. The priest attempted
to shoot, but his revolver failed to work
and he was. roughly handled. Bloodhounds
are on the trail.
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Suicide of Farmer KronmiIIer.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HUNTINGTON, Ind, May 10.-William
Kronmiller, an aged German, residing
south of Huntington. committed suicide
Sunday by blowing off part of his head
with a rifle. The cause was domestic
trouble He had recently driven his aged
wife away from home, and she had applied
for a divorce. His body was discovered by
one of his daughters on her return from
church
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TOWNER, N. D., May 10.-August Nor
mand, the double murderer and ravisher.
here in the sandhills by Charles Thuen.
Normand gave up without fighting and
and ready to take whatever may come.
This probably means a very speedy death.
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Fast stock Sale Yo-Day.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 10.-There
was a preliminary exhibition under electric
light tonight for the speed sale of A. T..
Jackson & Co. which begins tomorrow.
Many horses were moved up and down the
track in front of the grand stand Horses
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from George Starts and ohm Dickerson's
stables were exhibited. There is a large
number of buyers already here and more
will arrive in the morning. The list OF
horses to be sold includes many with fast
records. Among those for the first day are
all of the stable of Barida. of St. Louis,
including Choral, 2.03A; Ole Hutch, 2:I1A,
and The .JeWess. trial DIP.
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New Albany Woman Killed.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, May 1O.-A
woman from New Albany, whose name
could not be learned, was struck by the
south-bound Monon passenger train at Z
O'Clock this evening and instantly killed.
The accident occurred in the suburbs of
this city, where the woman was walking
along the tracks
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Ex-MarshaI Takes Poison.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL, Ind, May 10.-James NJ.
Smith, late marshal of this place, was
found in the woods a mile from town in a
dying condition this afternoon from NOR
phine taken with suicidal intent. He can
not recover. He was defeated for ~re-elec-
ton in the recent election and is a defaulter
in less than $100. He has a large and des-
titute family. He purchased three grains
of morphine from G. E. Dennis, druggist,
shaved himself and went to the woods to
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Suicide of Mrs. Ellen Hill.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS. Ind, May 10.-Mrs. Ellen
Hill, wife of ex-Councilman H. C. Hill, who
is now working at the cerealine mills at
Indianapolis, committed suicide this morn
ing. She hanged herself with q clothesline
from a beam in an clubhouse and was found
dead by her daughter. Insanity is the
cause. She has been deranged for over a
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Farmer Hoppis HANGS HimseIf.

Special to the Indianapolis Jour- al.
WARSAW, Ind, May 10.-George L. Hop
pis, a wealthy retired farmer, who recently
moved to this city from Claypool, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself with a
rope halter at an early hour this morning.
He is thought to have been insane.