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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
Song of the Money-Maker.

I have smoothed out the hills from the earth
And heaped them in the sea;
And the buffalo plains / have riddled with trains
That they may fetch dollars to me.
I lave beaded the rivers with towns,
| have followed the mountains with mines.
And fastened a girth round the ends of the earth
That is woven of telegraph lines.
And the dollars come home to their own;
They know the sound of his voice;
/ call my sheep from deep unto deep;
They flock to their fold and rejoice.
For my ships that sail under the world,
And my fire steeds out of the West,
Come bearing the snoil OF a millions toll
And the fruits of a worldwide quest.
1 stretch me a thousand arms
That reach to a thousand seas,
And they gather me grain from the land and
Ana heap IL at my knees.
But the man with the Book comes close in my
His feet with swiftness shod,
And the naked man with his savage clan
Is told of the white mans God.
1 am selfish and narrow and gross
$50 say the mawkish crew.;
No delicate strain and no fneness of brain
That goes with the sifted few.
But a man like me must so before
Ere the artist comes behind;
Through the wild abode 1 lay the road
That's paved for the march of mind.
/ lead; then the deep-browed sage
His treasured word indites;
l lead; and the dream-taught bare
sits warm by his fire and writes.
The great sky-flling dome
Through me is reared on high;
And l CLEAN old books into allowed hooks
That wisdom may not die.
Mayhap my brain is coarse,
Mayhap my heart is dry,
And the scholars scroll and the artists soul
Are not for such as /.
But a man like me must go before
Ere the artist comes behind:
Through a Wild abode | lay the road
That's paved for the march Of mind.
Sam Walter Foss.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
Graphophone Against Matrimony.

New York Tribune.
A confirmed old bachelor declares that
the graphophone was the only thing needed
to make the state of single blesseGness far
preferable to the cares and doubtful Joys
of matrimony.
Z admit" he says, that on a stormy
night. when one does not feel like going to
the club or some place of amusement. or
when one is under the weather and is con-
nEed in ones own room. ii is apt TO be
decidedly dull; one tires of books. and
longs for companionship. That is to saw
| used to feel in this way at times, before
bought the best graphophone that could
be had for my money. Now | have
only TO set it going and / am amused
all the evening. / have the most charming
and soothing selections played to me on
the piano, snatches from the opera, and
old ballads sung TO me in the tenderest and
sweetest OF voices, and a repertory that is
fneXhaustible, for / can always have new
music when l am tired OF the old. If I
have a cold, | can put my feet in hot water
and take a hot punch, and be entertained as
wei as If | had a wife-and all without
the worries of a household or any danger
Of the sweet voice becoming fretful or com
planning.
Besides" continued the crusty old
m~isogynlst, Il can always shut II up when
/ want to. / wonder how many husbands
could lo that TO their womankind!'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-02
The Why of 1t.


Detroit Tribune.
The result at Indianapolis yesterday
SHOWS that the Detroits had scores enough
judiciously. W
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
European Powers Snid 90 he Opposed
10 American Interference.

Copyright 1897 by the Aas Slated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 2.-The spectator, in an
article on the position of ti,,f United States
and Europe, as affected by TIE Cuban qlIes-
ton, after remarking that tae Washington
government has had az unlleasant surprise
In the attitude OF the European powers. pro-
ceeds to explain The reasons for the Euro
pean antagonism TO the United States, and
points out that the great fnalclers OF France
who hold Spanish bonds, arc alarmed at the
possibility that Spain, after fighting to the
bitter end, might be compelled to suspend
payment, and, consequently. they are urging
the French government to intervene between
Washington and Madrid. Emperor William,
1t is also said approves of this, FOR apart
from his dreams of colonial expansion which
could be best gratiled in Brazil, he is not
fond of American diplomacy, The Italian
government according to the Spectator, will
support Spain, lowing to the Italians in the
United States being treated as il they were
negroes or red Indians" The Spectator then
adds that the Austrian emperor will support
Germany in maintaining the Independence OF
Spain by weighty family reasons, not wish
ing to see the queen regent, who Is an Aus
tran archduchess, and her son. driven out
VI Mdullu ny u pupuidT ItNOll, lOllOWlnB the
less of Cuba. The Drelbund, therefore, and
France, the Spectator says. are ready to
counsel President Cleveland TO be moderate
and avoid threats which Spain could not
tolerate, and which might lead to widespread
maritime war" The Spectator continues:
"The United States could conquer any Amer
lean state and might, il they exerted them
selves, defeat a single European power. But
they cannot defeat all Europe, combined,
even il England, from reasons OF kinship.
remains neutral The fact is patent to all
that the United States will not be allowed
TO order Spain out of her colony without
a remonstrance from continental Europe,
which might be followed by the action OF the
combined fleets of the five powers, and the
landing of armies in Cuba and the French
West Indies.'
The Speaker is deeply grieved at the attacks
on the United States ambassador, Mr. Thomas
F. Bayard, which have appeared In the
Chronicle, and says he did great service in
pointing out here the gravity of a situation
which the English thought was only demon
stration OF spread eagleism.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03

was in the habit OF proceeding at such
terrific pace that, although Lord William
is an excellent whip, the funkies regarded
it as no pleasant duty to be in the trap
On another occasion, when the writer was
discussing Lord Williams exploits in India,
a personal friend said he believed Bill
Beresford must have broken every bone
in his body. Most of his accidents were
due to his love of daredevil riding, but
1t must be added that one or two bones
were broken in well-meant efforts to put
out fire. on which occasion Lord William
succeeded in not only getting on roof but
also in falling headlong off it. He had been
already shaken up the day before this
latest accident by being thrown out OF a
driving cart and badly cut about his face.
So many people are going to Deepdene to in
quire about Lord william that bulletins
are posted hourly at the gate. No one is
allowed to drive to the house"
Young Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
sailed on the Majestic this week, after re-
manning only a few days in London.
ASTOR HAS NOTHING TO SAY.
representative called on William W.
Astor last Wednesday at his estate at his
offices on the Thames Embankment, to ascer-
tain what truth II any, there was in the
report published mere that he had decided
to dispose of his entire real estate in New
York A copy of a cable dispatch, taken to
Mr.. Astor in his private room, was returned
with this message: 81 have nothing to say
on the subject"
Magistrate Newton, who sentenced the
| Castles has applied for retirement. His
| pppnptripitiaa pp mi hie hpupb n nnisnnpp
The London county council has just de-
clined to ask for bids from American firms
to furnish steam fire engines. The suggos-
tion, l see, was received by the council
with a howl of disapproval," yet I have
been told by competent judges here that COM
parison between the excellence of American
engines and their equipment, the speed, and
discipline of firemen is entirely in favor of
| America.
The financial papers note steady decline
| in price of American securities since the
election, and see no prospect of a recovery,
In fact, they agree that bad trade reports
from the United States, and recent failures
have so frightened investors and spectators
alike, that practically nothing is doing in the
American market here. On the other hand,
it is remarked that American exchange is
low, and as the United States as yet gives no
sign of buying foreign produce largely the
balance of trade may continue for some time
in it's favor; and, as the United States has
accumulated a large amount of sterling ex-
change, no immediate prospect of gold arri-
walls from America can be looked for. In
deed, we may get well into the spring before
shipments become necessary, and by that
time 1t is possible that trade in the United
States will have revived, that railway traffic
will show increases and that there may be a
greater disposition on the part of the Euro.
pean public to invest in American securi.
ties. BALLARD SMITH.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
TT BEE BULLETIN.

Weather Forecast for Nebraska
Snow. Followed by Clearing; Continued Cold
Page.
1. Ono of uirschs Debtors VIII Fay.
War Clouds of the Last Year.
Germany to Catch Up France.
Bryan Bosses the job at Lincoln,
9. Talk for TarlfN on Irvine.
Banker Hammond browns Uim'clf.
South Dakota Lawmakers Gathering.
8. Lincoln Woman on u Masquerade.
4. Last Week In Omaha Social Circles.
3. Two Reports that Condemn Howell.
Omaha Savings Bank Suspcnds.
Jim Den Does Some Good shooting.
q. Council Bluffs Local Matters.
Prospects of the Near Future.
I. Weekly Grist of sporting Gossip.
Amusement Notes and Comment.
&. Echoes from the Antc-Rooms.
Affairs Mt South Omaha.
o. Growth of Beet Sugar Industry.
10. "The Mutable Many"
II. Woman: Her Ways and Her World.
IL. Editorial and Comment.
13. Hypnotism and Medical Practice.
Pushing the Big Exposition.
II. In the World of Whirling Wheels.
10. Commercial and Financial News.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
STEAMER coMMoDoRE WRECKED.
Twelve out OF the Twenty-Eight Mon
on Hoard Are Knownto Ne Safe.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 2.--The
steamer Commodore, which cleared from this
port for Clenfugos, Cuba or Thursday, with
a cargo of arms and ammunition, foundered
off New Smyrna at an early hour this morn
ing. Twenty-eight men were on board the
steamer, and so far as known only twelve
were saved. One boat was washed ashore
empty and another one landed with the
twelve men. The Commodore carried two
other boats, but they have not been heard
from. The steamer is reported TO have sunk
about twenty miles out to sea. The Commo-
dore struck twice while crossing the bar
at the mouth OF the river and had been
leaking almost from the start.
Major Ricardo A. Delgado, one of the crew
arrived here this evening on the train from
New Smyrna. accompanied by eleven other
survivors, all Cubans. Major Delgado was
met at the train by j. a. Huay, Florida rep
resentative of the Cuban junta to whom he
told the story of the wreck. Delgado re-
ported that he was awakened about mid
night Friday by the report that the steamer
WIS leaking, The pumps would not work,
and the men set to work to bail the steamer
out. This proved Intellectual and soon the
engineer reported that 1t was impossible to
~ duy lullHtl, as tuC NdNtl hdu put Out
the fires in the engines.
The Commodore was then twenty miles
out to sea, and was running toward Mosquito
inlet light. The boats were lowered and Del
gado and eleven others get into one boat
and pulled away. The sea was rough. 1t
was $3.50 a. m, and everything dark. Del
gado was of the impression that the other
boats were lowered at the same time, but he
was not certain. He knew nothing about the
sinking of the steamer. or whether any
others than those in his boat were saved.
stephen Crane, probably the best known
American on board, was with Captain Muir
ply in one of the boats. They have not been
hcl "A
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
TORNADO KILLS FAMILY OF FIVE.
Wires Are Down and Full Extent of
the Disaster is Not Known.

Wires Are Down and Full Extent Of
the Disaster is Not known.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, jan "A tornado, leav-
ing death and devastation behind, descended
upon the little town of Mooringsport, La,
at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon. The reports
from the stricken town are very meager,
owing to the complete prostratlon of all tele-
graph and telephone wires, but a special re
ceived from Texarkana at midnight says that
four people were killed outright and three
are known to have been fatally injured
Mooringsport is a town of 500 1000 inhab-
itants, situated on the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf road, twenty-five miles west of Texar-
kama.
Advices from southwestern Kansas state
that a violent wind and lightning storm
prevailed there this afternoon. Wires were
blown down, and, in some instances, railway
travel is interrupted.
A report from Benton, Ark, on the Iron
Mountain railroad, twenty miles south of
place late today and twenty houses were
demolished. No loss of life is mentioned in
the dispatch. All communication with Hot
Springs has been cut off. At Cameron, a
small lumber station ten miles north OF
Texarkana on the Cotton Belt road, the
storm ragged furiously, doing considerable
damage. One man is reported killed at this
place. Bvery effort has been made by the
telegraph companies to establish communi-
cation with Louisville, Mcneil, Magnolia
Pine Blum and the larger towns located IN
the southwestern part OF the state, but nj
reports have been received from that sec.
ton up to this hour.
SHREVEPORT La, Jan. Upon
receipt of a telegram announcing the
disaster a large number of citizens voun-
teered their assistance, and soon the special
train was ready to start. The relief train
was supplied with cots, bandages surgeons
appliances and instruments. The special
train left at 6 p. m. and reached Moorings-
port at 1885 p. m, in a downpour of rain.
relay wire was rigged up, and at a late
hour the report is that four are dead three
are fatally wounded and will die, and twenty
others more or less injured.
The dead are: Willie and Maud Hall and
the infant son and daughter of Jesse Good
man, who is also injured, with his daughter
Alice his wife and nephew, Claud Their
home is a wreck.
The injured are reported to be: Mrs.
Efhe Morgan and infant, Mrs. Gillian and two
children Mrs. Thomas Agin, Thomas Elliott,
j. b. Harris, Tom Teat, Mrs Teat and Joe
Redners, colored.
The buildings left standing are W. II. b.
Groom's store, j. S. Noel's store and resi-
dence, the Methodist church, Mrs. Caldwells
residence and the railroad station and tool
house. The wounded will be brought to this
city in the morning and will be taken to the
hospital for treatment.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
ANOTHER INSURGENTS LEADER DIES


Fever in Havana Province.
Copyright, 1897. by Press Publishing Company
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. General Jose
Marie Aguirre. the last remaining insurgent
leader in Havana province, has died o
malarial fever He has a brother in Wash
ington and nephew confined in the Cabanat
fortress. Another leader, Sanchez, was
killed last week at Cayo Posa.
General Weyler remained at Bayate, neal
Candelaria, today. He was visited yester.
day by his political secretary, Senor Pal
merola, who went from Havana on specia
train. General Ahumada, the acting gov
ernor general, authorized me to state tha
the report that people residing in Guiana
bacoa have been killed by order of the mill
tary commander there is absolutely false
WILLIAM SHAW ROWEN
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
serIou.Iy MIN London.

LONDON, Jan. 2-George A. Kirkpatrick
lieutenant governor Of Ontario, is in the
hospital here dangerously III and will have
TO submit. TO an operation.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03

Canada shaken by an Earthquake.
OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 2,-ottawa was Wis.
tied by an earthquake shortly after mid
night. No serious damage has been reported
but the shock was distinctly felt all over
the city aud caused considerable excitement.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
hurried a Week. hnt Mny De AIive.

LONDON, Jan. "A special dispatch
from Warsaw says a painful sensation has
been caused there by the alleged burying
alive of a prominent society woman, the
Countess Helen Potocka, who died on the
25th and who was inferred on the follow
ing day Persistent rumors were circulated
that the countess was not dead, but merely
in a state of catalepsy, and the family, in
order to prove this statement baseless, had
tho body exhumed yesterday, when 1t was
found 1t did not bear the appearance of a
corpse and that there was no sogn Of putre-
faction. The body was then removed to
the family mansion, where II Is being
watched
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
BubonIc Plague stops business.

BOMBAY, Jan. 2.-Business Is utterly par
alyzed owing to the spread OF the bubonic
plague. The volunteer artillery is assisting
the oyerworked health officers In combating
the disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
SELL THEMSELVES INTO SLAVERY
Terrible Condition of the LnbOring
Classes of Nicaragua.

Classes of Nicaragua.
Correspondence Of the Associated Press.)
MANAGUA Nicaragua, Dec. IA terrible
state of affairs prevails in the labor market
here and the system of selling labor has
men, women and children to a state of
slavery. Owners of coffee estates recently
held meeting with the object of influencing
the government Of Nicaragua to establish
in Cuba a labor agency to induce Cubar
laborers to immigrate to Nicaragua.
Men and women here are now endeavor-
ing by every possible means, except an armed
revolution, to escape from the servitude
incident to the sale of their labor, authorized
by the constitution of Nicaragua and en-
forced, as vigorously as possible by military
power until the money for goods advanced
to them, interest thereon and heavy fines
for delinquency have been paid in full by
labor at low rates.
This years crop Of coffee in Nicaragua is
estimated at about so per cent Of full
crop. The deficiency has been caused by
insufficient rains during the year. The twigs
on which the coffee crop OF 1897 are to be
born are, on account of the drouth, so small
and short as not TO be able to yield a full
crop in many estates In Nicaragua next
year. number OF persons In Nicaragua,
especially in the eastern portion, are making
preparations to cultivate sugar cane instead
OF coffee as heretofore.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
ALL But ENGLAND DEuND SPAIN.

WILLIAM SHAW BOWEN
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
Crowds See the Pantomimes.

Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 2. = The various pan
tomimes are attracting the usual crowds.
"Alladin," while a fine spectacle, does
not equal the usual Drury Lane
standard Betsy" was revived at the
Criterion on Tuesday. Aubrey Bouci-
oault took the part of Dolly Blrkett on short
notice and acquitted himself we'll. The other
theaters are doing good holiday business.
A curious rumor is current in regard TO
the Lyceunl and Sir Henry Irving. The lat
ter is reported to be progressing favorably,
but he sees no one and is not likely to act
for a long time" revival of "Oliyla''
at the Lyceum, with Brandon Thomas in
lrying's part, is said to be under considera-
tlon.
The Strand theater is being entirely re-
decorated for the new lessee, John Sleeper
Clark, who has secured Florence Gerard
(widow of the late Henry i Abbey of New
York; as his leading lady The opening play
will be "The Prodlgal Father" and Home,
Sweet Home"
George Alexander has secured the right
of "Lorenzaccio" In this play, Julia Nell
son will appear In Sarah Bernhardts role.
Defeat for Philippine Insurgents.
MADRID, jan "A dispatch received
here from Manila says that great battle
has been fought in the Philippine islands.
resulting In the signal defeat OF the insur-
gents, of whom 100 were killed.
The battle was fought at Bulacan,
town in the province of Luzen. located on the
river Bulacan, twenty miles northwest OF
Manila General Ensebro. leader OF the
Philippine insurgents is said to have been
killed in the conflict, or this party twenty
five were killed and slxty-eight wounded.
1t Is also reported that seven cannon were
captured from the insurgents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16

Simla, Dec. 15.-Further details
from the front regarding the march
of General Westmacott's brigade down
the Bara valley show it to have been
accompanied by the most desperate
fighting since the Dargai ridge affair.
The enemy for the first time in the
whole campaign, exposed themselves in
their efforts to cut off the rear-g guard
and poured in a constant rifle fire in
replying to which the British troops
exhausted their pouches OF ammuni-
ton. While the rear-guard was worn
out by constant attacks and in a diff
cult position, the enemy made the coup
of the campaign by an open rush upon
it. The tired soldiers stood firm and
amid whitening fire swept the advanc-
ing tribesmen who charged almost to
ed and then retreated to cover from
which they continued a harassing fu-
SHADE.
The action recommended with the
rising Of the sun. The troops behaved
splendidly and inflicted the most severe
punishment upon the enemy which the
latter has yet sustained, 400 men fall
ing.
General Sir William Lockhart, the
British cOmmander-in-chief, has de-
cided to send a column of troops to re-
open the Khyber Pass, marching up
from Jamrud. Then from Alimushid,
the column will descend into the Ba-
zaar valley and punish the tribesmen
in that district
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-16
RESEMBLES DURRANT'S crime
MURDER NEAR THE NOTED EN-
~ ANUEL CHURCH.
Woman Outraged In Flat and Her
Body Beaten to Jelly By Coup
ling Pin.

San Francisco, Dec. ia horrible
murder was perpetrated here at dusk
this evening The victim was a woman
and the scene of the crime was in the
Mission district in the vicinity of the
Emanuel church, about five blocks
from that edifice. Many of the fea-
lures of the crime and it's accompany
ing circumstances resembled the tragic
deaths of Minnie Williams and Blanche
Lamont.
1t was about o'clock this afternoon
that the dead body was found in an
upper fiat at S03 Guerrero street by the
tenants of the lower fiat. The woman
had been outraged and her body
beaten to jelly with a coupling pin
which was found in one of the rooms.
The victim is supposed to be Mrs.
Mary G. Clute, a wealthy resident of
jacksonville, Cal. She had just rented
the fiat from a. Miss Blanchard and the
noise of carpet laying was heard by the
people in the lower fiat.
The lacking ceased, and all was quiet
for a time, then terrible screams were
heard. The occupants of the LAWYER
flat became alarmed and started to
investigate when they saw man leav-
ing by an alleyway leading to the rear
entrance. They asked him the cause
of the trouble, but he vouchsafed no
reply and made his escape. On going
UP stairs the dead body was found
The position of the body Indicated that
the dead woman had been outraged
The police are searching for Miss
Blanchard and also for a clue of the
carpet layer.
Joseph Foley, the carpet layer who was
working in Mrs. Clute's recently rented
fiat this afternoon has been arrested He
saws he went to the fat at 4 o'clock Iaav-
ing at 5. but asserts that he knows moth
ing of any murder.