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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23
The MARKETS. \

Range of Price.
7'$..
RANGE OF PRICE.
The following was the range OF price
for wheat in Minneapolis to-day:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

Patrick Cronin a popular and well
known resident of the East Side died at
his home 314 Thirteenth avenue north
east last Thursday after short illness.
He was 80 years of age and unmarried.
The funeral will be held this morning
from the church of st. Anthony of Padua
under the auspices of Division No. A.
o. H. of which he was member. The
announcement of his death was severe
shock to scores of friends as he was up
to a few days ago in the best of health
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-01-23

northern, 76Ac; No. 2 northern, 74Ac.
January oats, 15Ac.
Puts-May wheat, 773sc.
Calls-May wheat, 1880.
Curb-May wheat, THO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
PUTTING ON THE SCREWS.
The Cracker and Biscuit Trust Fore
ing Up Prices of Their Products.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--The Times to-mor-
row will say: '"rhe largest corporations en-
gagged in the cracker business-the Ameri-
can Biscuit and Manufacturing Company,
the New York Biscuit Company and the
United States Biscuit Company, which have
been negotiating for u combination for some
time, have announced a general and marked
advance in the prices of their products.
The new price list of the American Com
pany and New York Company and of Har-
ris & Holmes, of this city, also large man
ufacturers, shows an advance over the low
est prices reached during the rate war
which prevailed some time ago of as much
as 80 per cent for certain brands. The
heaviest increase is in the staple goods. The
advance. however, is much less pronounced
in the finer grades of goods, which are of
most common table use, the immediate in
creases in them being slight.
1t was stated at Park & Tilford's to-day
that the rise in the wholesale price of the
high-grade biscuits was not enough to af-
feet materially the retail price In most
cases ii was said the retail prices would not
did not think that the average consumer
would ever realize that there had been an
advance. At the offices of the American
Biscuit Company and of the New York Bis
cult Company the advance in prices was
admitted. T. s. Olive, manager Of the New
York Biscuit Company, said: 1T is true
that we have put up our prices, but the in
crease has simply been from figures that
were away below the cost of production to
something approXit3ating the cost"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
Our Interests i'm CHINA,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-It is understood
the authorities have been unofficially
sounded as to the attitude of the United
States toward the complications in the far
East with view to learning whether
American interests in China were regarded
as sufficient to warrant any active step by
this government. From what sources the
inquiries have come is not disclosed. If
from Great Britain it must have come
through Colonel Hay, the American ambas-
sador at London, as the British officials
here have received no instructions as to
the Chinese situation. 1t is well under
stood, however, that Great Britain would
look with favor on any active step by the
United States which would serve as a check
for the advances OF Germany and Russia.
The British interests in China are ten times
greater than those of Germany, Russia and
the United States and yet, with Germany
and Russia firmly located on Chinese soil,
Great Britain is left in a sort of cul-de-sac.
1t is known also that the Chinese authori-
ties would welcome a movement by the
United States and that this has been COM
municated to officials here.
Although these soundngs for they
amount TO nothing more as yet, have not
taken official form, they have been sutfi-
clent to gain a pretty general understand
ing as to the attitude of this government.
no interest in the territorial extension now
going on in China; that she will not land
at any of the coast ports of China. as Ger
many and Russia have done: and that the
only concern is to guard established Ameri-
can interests IN China. These American in
terests appear to be much greater than is
generally known. There are the following
American treaty ports in China: Canton,
Chefoo, Chin Kiang, Chin King, Foo-Chow,
Haip-Long, Hankow, Hoikow, Ichang, Kew
kiang, Lung-Chow. Mengtsu, New-Chang
Ningpo, Pakhoi Shanghai Ashashi Soo-
Chow, Swatow. Tien-Tsin, WentchoWn
Wuhu and three other ports on the West
river of Canton, recently added. At each of
these places there are American settlements
and an American reservation within which
Americans may own property and try their
civil and criminal cases before their own
courts, conducted by American consus
Some of these American settlements are
quite extensive. that at Shanghai just out
side the walls of the city, occupying a wide
sweep of land. At these points. also the
commercial interests of the United States
are large and are constantly growing They
are the centers, too, for the American mis-
sionary communities. For instance at
Canton, there is the American Presbyterian
board, with twenty-five members; the
American Baptist mission with fifteen rep
mssioners for foreign missions. with a large
staff, and the American Bible Society.
There are similar communities scattered all
through the empire. They have consider
able vested property interests and the pro-
lection of their property and persons always
has been closely looked after by the United
States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA.
Relations of the Two Countries Dis
cussed by Baron Banffy.

BUDA-PESTH, Dec 22-In the lower
house of the Hungarian Parliament to-day
Baron Banffy, the premier, speaking of the
bill providing for provisional prolongation
of the Ausgleich, declared at the outset that
he could not accept the resolution of
Francis Kossuth demanding the establish
ment of an independent Hungarian customs
regime by Jan /, 1898, but, continued the
premier, he would accept a motion to pub
lish, so soon as possible, the date necessary
for the establishment of such IA regime. or
for the conclusion of a commercial treaty
with Austria, and the draft of a customs
tariff, and to arrange to ascertain the views
of business men. He pointed out that Hun
gary had the right to establish an inde-
pendent customs Immediately if il was in
her interest to do so, but she considered the
compromise arrang snent with Austria more
advantageous. If IL could be arranged with
due regard to HungaryS interest. That
however, was doubtful. The government,
nevertheless the premier continued, de-
sired to give Austria time to recover her
self, and did not wish to cause a state of
confusion the harmful consequences of
which were incalculable. The present bill
did not infringe OIL Hungarys rights and
interests, and he added, the government
would set vigorously against attempts SIM
liar to those of the Reichsrath, to prevent
its becoming law.
This remark caused an uproar after
which the premier concluded with appealing
to the house not to create difficulties as
Hungarys interest, he pointed out far from
requiring her to loosen her relationship with
Austria. required that her ties with the lat
ter country be made closer and stronger.
This statement was greeted with applause
from the Rightists, but it caused an uproar
among the IeftiStS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
New Enrland,s GIFT to Quakers.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. %. = Governor
Roger Wolcott, of Massachusetts,, was the
chief guest and speaker at the dinner of
the New England Society, of this city held
in Horticultural Hall tonight in celebra-
tion of Forefathers' day. An interesting
feature of the celebration was the presenta-
ton to the society of the three hundred
year-old poor box from the Ancient Pill
grims' Church at Delft Haven, Holland.
Governor Wolcott began his address by
extending to the assemblage the greetings
of New England. and. continuing. said
The story of New England is not traced
back, as that of other lands, to the dim
twilight and barbaric legends of a prehis-
toric age, but has as definite a beginning
as the day that marks the birth of an in
di fdual. 1t is this birthday OF New Eng
land that we celebrate to-day. a day which
has been we'll described as one of the great
red-letter days in the history of the human
race" Governor Wolcott then formally
presented to the society facsimile of the
covenant signed in the cabin of the May
flower in midocean, by the forty-one men
of the colony, and which he recalled Ban
croft styles 'the birth OF popular consti-
tutional history
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
Action of Mrs. a. $. piIIin~..

CHICAGO. Dec. 22.-Mrs Augusta s. Bill
ings, widow of the late Albert M. Billings,
the millionaire banker and capitalist, has
renounced the provisions of her husband s
will so far as 1t relates to her and has
elected to take the share of the estate al
lotted to her by law 1t is said that the
difference in the income to Mrs Billings
will be very slight. her reasons for the
action being the desire of the heirs to i'm
prove a large portion of the real property
tate was estimated at the time of his death
at $2,COo,00O Since then, however, much
has been inventoried, bringing the total
value of the estate. II is said, up TO about
81 100000. Mrs. Billings's share will amount
to something over $500 900 and will give her
command of the ready money necessary
for use in the contemplated improvements
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
NIHILIsTs ARRAIGNED.
Russians Charged with Urging Assas-
einatiOn of the Gar.

LONDON, Dec. 22.--Vladimere Bourtzeff
editor of the Naro Dovoletz Twill of the
people, the Russian who was arrested at
the British museum and remanded at Bow
street Police Court on Dec. 16, charged with
endeavoring to persuade several persons ON
various occasions to assassinate the Gar
was brought up on remand to-day in COM
pany with the man named Weirzbeck
printer of the paper mentioned who had
subsequently been arrested. An incrimi-
mating article in the Marc Dovoletz was
produced in court. In it the writer declared
that the policy of the Russian revolutionists
was the same as that of the terrorists of
twenty years ago, and pointed out that Car
Nicholas had already reigned three years at
a period when the revolutionist campaign
ought to be summed up in the word
''Regicide." If he had been assassinated on
the day of the funeral of Car Alexander
IL the article continues, either a revolution
would have broken out liberal consti-
tuition would have been declared. Each new
autocrat according to the writer. ought
to be given a year. and if he did not grant
a constitution within that period he ought
to be attacked without pity. Both prisoners
were remanded
1t appears that Bourtzeff escaped from
Siberia to Constantinople, where the Rus
sian police tried TO seize him on board "a
British steamer, but the captain of the
vessel prevented them from so doing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
DENIED BY MRS. PULLMAN.
She Has Not Taken Dover Interest In
Her Husbands VIII.

CHICAGO, Dec. 22.--Mrs. George NJ. Pull
man, according to the Post, makes posi-
tive denial of the story that she had decided
to renounce the portion of her late hus-
bands will relating 10 her and elected to
take the dover interest which under the
law she can do at any time within a year
from the date of filing the will Under the
will Mrs. Pullman would get a yearly in
come from 81, $50, 000 the homestead at Eigh-
teenth street and Prairie avenue, and $780,
600 in cash, while the dover interest would
mean at least So, 000 600 in personal property
which would be hers to dispose of at her
death as she might choose, and a life inter-
est in one-third of ali the real estate. While
the widow makes a positive assertion that
she has not made such a decision she is
very careful to avoid saying anything that
would indicate what she may do at some
future time. John S. Runnells, counsel for
the executors, also makes a statement that
points to the possibility of such an election
at a future date, but he says he does not
believe that If such were her purpose she
would take such step before the latter
part OF the year allowed her in which to
decide.
II cannot understand why the papers keep
printing such STORIES" said Mrs Pullman
to-day. There is not the slightest ground
for such statement. l have not renounced
my portion under the will and elected the
snail. 1 wish the newspapers would let us
alone in peace for awhile"
Il know nothing about any such action
being taken by Mrs. Pullman, said John S.
Runnells. Il think the story is mostly
wind. | believe that l. as counsel of the
executors, would know of such a decision
II 1t had been made, about as soon as any
one. l have heard nothing of it. / know
that the executors did not know of it late
last night. Mrs. Pullman has a year in
which TO elect whether she will accept the
portion given her under the will or take the
dover interest. What she may do | cannot
say. l hardly think she would decide before
the year is nearly gone even if she did pre-
fer the dover interest. 1t strikes me that
the paper which published the story per-
mitted itself to be sold very cheap"
There is absolutely no truth in that
story said George NJ. Pullman to-day
MY mother has not made any such de-
cislon, and in TACT, that matter has not
even been considered. i wish you would
emphatically deny the statement that she
mas elected the dover interest and re-
nOunced her NORTON under the will -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. 22.-The an
nual banquet of the New England Society,
of this city. was given at the Charleston
Hotel tonight. The orator of the evening
was Associate Justice David j. Brewer. of
the Supreme Court of the United States
He responded to "Forefathers' Day the
theme of his address being the sacredness
of home and the Importance of observing
the right and integrity of the family Dur
ing the course of his address he comment
ed adversely on legislation which permitted
constable to search a mans house on
suspicion, and this was taken by the audi
ence to be a reference \the South Caro-
lima dispensary law N
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
MATINEE IDOL CONVICTED.
E. j. RatcliRe Found Guilty of Assault
I'm the Third Degree.

NEW YORK, Dec 23-At l o'clock. this
morning the jury IN the case of Edward J.
Ratcliffe, the actor who has been on trial
before Judge Newberger charged with WIFE
beating. returned a verdict of assault
in the third degree. About midnight the
jurors returned for instructions in regard
TO that part of the judges charge relating
TO the flight of the defendant to Chicago
and Ii was thought then that there would
be a disagreement. When they returned
however. 1t was evident from their express
sion that verdict had been reached There
we're many people in the courtroom at the
time, and Radcliffe was brought in wearing
his usual jaunty air. 1t was asked IL the
verdict was unanimous and the reply was
that IL was.
Radcliffe, before he was led back to pris-
or. exclaimed. It's a --- shame!"
The maximum penalty Is one years Inn
prisonment and a fine of $500 The mini
mum penalty Is one days imprisonment
and the smallest possible fine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
POSSIBLY CAUSED BY BRYAN
Unusual Seismic Activity and Subter-
ranean Roaring i'm Mexico.

CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 22.-The Ma
tional Meteorological Observatory reports
to-day much seismic activity on the west
ern coast, where there We're earthquakes
this morning at Saiina Cruz, the Pacific
terminus of the Tehuantepec Railway, at
Tehuantepec, Jiltepec, Juchitlan and the
city of Oaxaca where there was d pro-
longed subterranean roaring, causing some
CONSERVATION. The movement was both
horizontal and vertical. Scientific men re-
gard the Very frequently reported phenom-
ena with much interest and the belief is
expressed among them that there is either
a subsistence or rise of the coast going on,
but nothing can as yet be accurately de-
termined. There has been seismic activity
in all that region for two years, it even
being noted out at sea by fishermen along
the coast of the state of Oaxaca in the Pa
cific ocean.
The government has detailed engineers
to study the matter and to report For
tunately there has been no loss of life, ow-
ing to the precautions taken by the inhab-
itants. The regions affected are remote
from this city and the reports come in
slowly in confirmation and amplica ton
of the telegraphic information.
The Bryan party are in the City of pue-
bla tonight, where the American residents
welcomed thsm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
CANADA AWARDED $464,OOO.
More than She Originally Asked for
Seizure of Vessels I'm Bering Sea-

OTTAWA, Ont, Dec 22-The Canadian
government received tonight communica-
ton from the arbitrators appointed to deal
with the claims of the Bering sea sealers
against the United States government for
losses caused by the seizure of their ves-
sells, submitting the award The arbitrators
were Judge King, of the Supreme Court of
Canada, and Judge Putnam. of the United
States The award is $464 0}3, with two re-
served cases. that of the Black Diamond
for $1,000, and the Ada for 81, 900 1t will be
remembered that in 1894 the United States
government offered s400 900 and that Cam
ada claimed $f50.000. Afterwards a COM
promise was reached and the amount placed
az $425 900, but Congress refused TO vote
that sum. The present award is virtually
what Canada formerly agreed to accept
with interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

on it's journey TO the stars laden with the
hopes and aspirations OF a happy and a
united people,"
Senator George F. HOar, of Massachu-
sets. responded to the toast, THE Brad
ford Manuscript and It's Gracious Return. p"
James Whitcomb Riley, the poet followed
Senator Hoar. reciting a poem entitled
''Hoosierdom and Yankeedom."
Richard Olney came next He said that
in no place was there such Difference and
respect for the law as in New England.
The New Englander deprecates utterances
which are against the established form of
government and cries for foreign invasion.
Hatred on this side of the Atlantic of those
of blood relation across the water is largely
mythical, Mr.. Olney declared.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles spoke next to the
toast, The Army and Navy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
SAYS HE is INNOCENT
MURDERER ANDERSEN CREATES AN
OTHER SCENE AT HIS TRIAL.
The District Attorney Interrupted by
Jury Late Yesterday Afternoon.

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 22.-The trial of John
Andersen, cook of the schooner Olive Peck
err for the murder of Mate Saunders was
concluded to-day and the case went to the
jury at $50 o'clock this afternoon. The
court has adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing. The general impression is that ver-
dict will be reached in Il comparatively short
time and that it will be guilty charged
in the indictment. Under the ruling of the
court the jury must either find Andersen
guilty charged in the indictment or not
guilty. There can be no verdict of man
slaughter.
The prisoner was dramatic to the last.
Just before the district attorney concluded
his closing argument, telling the jury that
if Andersen had been innocent he would
have adopted another course, the accused
man sprang to his feet, saying: II am in
nocent, Mr.. White,' and had to be forcibly
pulled back into his chair by the court
bailiff. The morning was occupied in the
hearing of arguments on Instructions the
district attorney contending that there was
no evidence whatever to justify the plea of
self-defense' therefore the element of man.
slaughter must be eliminated from the case.
The defense claimed that the court, in its
charge, should instruct the jury to consider
the hypothesis of manslaughter as well as
murder
Judge Golf charged the jurors at some
length and with great fairness, instructing
them that il they should find the prisoner
guilty nothing had been introduced to lessen
the grade of the crime, and the verdict must
be guilty as charged the Indictment. If
the jurors should discover any rational hy-
pothesis whereby they could, with the evil
dence before them, find any excuse for the
crime the verdict must be for acquittal.
Argument was begun at o clock, District
Attorney White speaking for an hour and a
half in opening. Mr. Mcintosh. for the de-
fanSe, spoke only three-quarterS of an hour.
He commented on the failure of the govern
ment to prove motive for the murder
saying the only motive there could have
been was self-defense. The government $
witnesses, he said, in trying swear the
blame from themselves, had made scape-
goat of the cook
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The Congre-
gational Club of Washington celebrated
Forefathers day by a dinner at the First
Congregational Church. The New England
colony in Washington was well represented.
Among the guests were Hon. Nelson Ding
ley, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis. Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew
ana DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, pastor of the
New York-ayenue Presbyterian Church, of
this city Rev. Isaac Clark, president of
the club, made the Introductory address
and was followed by Hon. Webster Davis,
who spoke on The Pilgrim Spirit of the
West" Mr.. Depew arrived somewhat late
from New York and made a brief address.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

MARTHUR, o., Dec. pa sensational
trial before Justice Horton ended in a riot.
Within the courthouse six men were ar
rested for participating in the riot. Two
men were seriously and probably fatally
wounded. Elijah Brown received six cuts,
one eight inches long and two inches deep.
He was cut to the backbone. Plyly Teeters
was struck with an earthenware spittoon
and his skull fractured David Donahue.
Nelson Erwin and Henry Teeters were put
under a bond of 81 900 for murder and the
others were discharged. The alleged in
timacy of Elijah Brown with a married
woman was the cause of the riot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
Turner Talks about Our Tariff.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22-Sir Charles rTup-
per- former prime minister of Canada was
a passenger on the White Star line steamer
Majestic, which arrived here to-day. Sir
Charles said he found the feeling abroad
regarding the Dingley law as one of great
objection and he thought the features of
that measure were drawing Canada and the
mother country closer together every day.
The Klondike and British Columbia gold
fields. he thought, would draw a great deal
Of British and other capital into Canada
which would receive a like increase of pop
ulatiOu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23
sunday Not a working Day.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Dec. 22.-Ths
Supreme Court to-day decided that SUNDAY
must not be counted in the twenty-fouI
hours allowed defendants I'm murder cases
10 make the challenges OF jurors. Twenty.
four working hours are what the statute
means. The case decided was that OF
Charles and George May. convicted of kill
ing William Burdette In a quarrel Charles
May was discharged for want of evidence
and George gets D new trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-23

CINCINNATI Dec 22--At the New Eng
land dinner tonight there were sixty
guests. DR.. II. S. Connor acted as chair
man. Among the guests was Dr. Miles
Standish, of Boston, who responded to
New England on the Sea-" In the course
of his remarks he said Captain Standish
was Il Catholic. and he believed he died a
Catholic. Other speakers were Hon John
F. Folett, Rev. M. A. Thayer and Mr. l..
N. Catch.