davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
WILL DO LITTLE HARM.


The exchange on New York rose to u.s. and
even on the street to 40, and London
exchange was quoted at p pence. IL silver
remains down the loss to corporations nav
ing gold interest to meet abroad VIII De
large. and at the present basis gold inter
est on government loans abroad VIII re-
quire a million dollars more in silver per
annum. Many orders for goods abroad
have been Cancelled, merchants desiring to
see how the exchange is going. 1t is gen
orally believed that the sudden fall in sill
yer is due to the unloading by large bullion
holders. coupled with new gold discoveries
and the continued small demand in India
for silver. The fluctuation in exchange
does more harm than low prices as it
makes impossible all calculations. The con
tinued low price of silver will revive the
would be ruinous to the new manufacture
ing industries. Bankers anticipate even
will be a reaction to a price that will per-
nit something like steadiness in exchange
and stability in business operations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
FIRE LOSS OF 100000
TWO LARGE FACTORY BUILDINGS AT
YONKERS, n. ", BURNED.
Flames Fed by Gas from Exploded
Meters-Fortunate Escape of Six
Hundred Men and Girls.

NEW YORK. July 27.-Fire at Yonkers,
n. Y, this afternoon destroyed two large
factory buildings occupied by w. A. Reed
& Co., hat manufacturers; Rowland Bros,
hat manufacturers; Pass Bros, silk manu-
facturers, and the Yonkers Silk Company.
The loss will probably reach half mil
lion dollars and eight hundred people are
thrown out of employment. There were no
casualties though the buildings were
crowded with employees when the fire was
discovered
The fire originated in the blowing room
of the hat factory of WiIlifm Reed & Co.,
on the lower floor of the Shether building.
Two large gas meters exploded Immediately
after the flames burst forth, and the es-
Gaping gas from the meters helped to feed
the flames. Within a few minutes the fire
was breaking through the windows of the
first and second stories. There were six
hundred men and girls in the building, the
third, fourth and fifth floors of which were
occupied by the silk factories. Intense ex-
element prevailed while the employees left
the building by the fire escapes, the girls
being taken out first, and ali losing their
street Clothes so little time was given. The
fire soon ate out the heart of the building
and then portions of the walls fell. The
wind carried the flames to the building Oc-
cupied by Rowland Brothers, hat factory,
and the interior OF this structure was de-
stroyed.
Just across the street from the building
in which the fire started the big works
of Alexander Smith & Sons, the largest
carpet manufacturers in the United States
For some time it looked as if these would
so. Two thousand persons were at work
in the carpet factories when the fire broke
out. They were dismissed and the works
closed. The lowest estimate of the losses is
$4OO, OOO and others run as high as $550,000
Reed & Co. place their loss roughly at $780,
600; Rowland Bros. Pass Bros. and the
Yonkers Silk Company are set down for
$50 900 each. The loss on the two buildings
totally destroyed is estimated at $24O,0OO.
The insurance will probably nearly cover
the loss
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
M,KINLEY's VACATION.
The President Does Not Wish to BE
Worried by public Business.

WASHINGTON, July 2L-The President
will leave here tomorrow for his vacation
on the shores of Lake ,Champlain. The
chief executive desires to obtain far as
possible a complete rest from official duties
during his absence, and for this reason it
is probable that but few appointments will
be made during that time. 1t is stated at
the White House that all papers sent to the
President at his summer home will be
mailed to Washington without being
opened. 1t is the intention that all papers
intended for him shall go through the chan
mel they have heretofore followed. The
President, it is said, will look over no
papers while be is away, and whatever ap-
pointments are made will be announced
here.
Benjamin F. Montgomery, one of the ex-
ecutive clerks will have charge Of affairs
at the White House during Mr.. Mckinley s
absence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

ALTOONA. Pa, July 27.-Five hundred or
more miners at Hastings have gone out
on a strike because the operators of the
Mitchell and Sterling mines refused to ac-
cept resolutions adopted by the miners at
a meeting held Saturday night. The
Mitchell mines do not pay the district price.
The Sterling mine pays the district price,
but Superintendent Nicholson is obnoxious
to the men, because he has been deducting
from their wages the price of one car out
of every five. The feeling against the SUI
perintendent was very bitter when he
caused the arrest Saturday of two for
eigners who, he claimed. had threatened to
burn the tipples: The men at Nicholson s
with their grievances. Believing that SUI
perintendent Nicholson is operating the
mines for the Sterling Coal Company. of
which Governor Hastings Is president, they
have decided that they will place their
grievances before the GNvc' Nr with the
hope that he will take -s have the
matter rom9dip1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
---~-----------
Feeding the HUnErY.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL Ind, July 27.-The miners COM
missary was opened again to-day and sew
eral hundred loaves of bread, donated by
citizens, were distributed among the needy
families. The announcement that Governor
Mount had officially made appeal for aid
for the strikers and the fact that he had
headed the subscription list, now being cir
culated in Indianapolis by miners of this
city, with a donation, greatly elated the
miners here and strengthened their hopes
of success. Notwithstanding the citizens
here have gave literally and are generally
in sympathy with strikers, the leaders real
lied that it was impossible to raise suffi-
Gent funds locally to keep the colnmissary
running in case the strike continued much
longer.
+ Considerable stir was created this after
noon by a number of excited miners who
arrived at the commssary too late to re-
ceive some of the bread that was being dis
tributed. They became incensed and in
sisted on the comm tee furnishing them
something to eat The excitement was
finally quelled by one of the managers of
the commssary reading the action Gov
ernOr Mount had taken and assuring the
crowd that the committee which had been
soliciting in Indianapolis would return to-
night with more provisions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

Two drummers were expelled from town
the other day under suspicion that they
might be 'agitators.' A great many of the
miners here are colored, and we have some
colored men working among them. One of
them, inoffensive colored preacher, has
to get check cashed. but without success.
Yesterday, with another negro. he started
to town, but was met by these detectives.
The two men explained their business, bur
were set upon and beaten with clubs and
several shots were fired at them and all
this in spite of the fact that there has been
no rioting or violence of any kind. OF
course the object is to excite the people
to some act of violence that will justify
calling out the militia, but their plans are
not succeeding. The people are becoming
indignant. Thousands of men are idle now
in this valley, more are joining them every
day and before many days are past West
Virginia Will have taken a step toward free
dom"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
THE FLAT TOP DISTRICT.
President knight Tells of Conditions
in that Region.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 27.-Presi-
dent w G. Knight, of the United Mine
Workers for Indiana, has written to
friend here in regard to the situation in the
Flat Top w Va, district. Mr.. knight is
perhaps as conservative and intelligent as
any man in the labor movement, and what
he says may be accepted as fair state
ment of the situation. The letter is dated
Cooper w Va, July rs, and is as follows:
II am surprised that some paper does not
send a correspondent here He might not
have a pleasant trip, but he would learn
q great deal. For instance, he would learn
that the star-spangled banner toated over
a land of the free only in spots: This place
is in the celebrated Flat Top mining region,
and is in the extreme southwestern part OF
West Virginia. The mines begin at Vivian
and extend a distance of twenty-five miles
along the Elkhorn to Pocahontas, which Is
over in old Virginia. Along this little mar
row valley live, perhaps, 10000 miners, 2OOO
of whom are in Pocahontas. We are in this
field trying to organize these men, and our
experience so far has varied all the way
from the sublime to the ridiculous, These
miners are, perhaps, the most poorly paid
of any in the United States. Here is where
the company store fiourishes in all its vigor.
list of prices here would astonish the
people of Indiana. Yesterday a man
showed me his statement. He had been
discharged for attending meeting lie
worked fifteen and half days in June, and
after his board was paid and 30 cents taken
out for tobacco he drew balance of %
cents.
I'VE are treated with the most perfect
courtesy by the people here. The public is
with us to a man. but this whole country
is controlled by the Norfolk q Western
road and the coal companies. The chief
company is the Southwestern, which is only
another name for the Norfolk & Western.
This company controls everything in Po-
cahontas a town of 1900 5000 1t owns
the mayor and has in its employ body
of thugs known as the 'Baldwns and
supposed to be railroad detectives. They
guard the town of Pocahontas and allow
The mayor issued a proclamation forbid
ding all meetings of more than three per-
sons, owing to the public excitement
This was used 10 get Mr.. Sovereign out of
boys went to play bali the other day ana
were stopped because there were more than
three In the crowd. If a group of men Is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
The Conversational Library.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The removal of
the congressional library from its present
quarters in the Capitol building to the mag
nitlcent new edifce will, now that Congress
has adjourned. be vigorously entered upon.
Chis undertaking will involve the closing
of the library at the Capitol to the public
for some weeks because of the noise. dust
and confusion incident TO the displacement
or so great a mass of books. The removal
Will also require the constant labor of
those now employed in the service of books
and information for the public. sys-
tematic plan has been adopted by which
the contents of each shelf in the many di.
be separately boxed and transferred, duly
numbered and ticketed, to the shelves des-
tined to receive them in the stacks of the
new library building.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

The devils hOofs were muddy-
With sleep his eyes We're dim;
He sought an understudy
To play his part for him,
WhilSt he took rest and washed and dresse
Within his palace grim.
although 1 am expected
To need a breathing space,
No duty is neglected
Till some one fills my Place
Ard works" quoth he such i'll for me
That evil grows apace."
There was ii pious woman
Who dweIt beneath the sun;
In willing service no man
Did more than she had done:
She stroVe to preach, TO train and teach,
And counsel every one
She clothed the poor and needy
In suitable attire.
She nursed the sick and seedy
And raised them from the mire;
No cody work she seemed TO shirk,
No pleasure to desire.
Yet nghtened she her labors
(So-calladl Of Christian love,
Bv stori IS Of her neighbors
Too subtle to dsprove
She roared as sweet THIS dame discreet,
AS any sucking dove.
She cheered each dry committee
With tales Of absent folk
And let nor truth pity
Impair her little joke:
Till loves were soiied and lives were spoiled
BY every word she spoke
With talk her tasks beguiling.
She blackened people s names;
Nor dreamed that such reviing
Annulled her sanity claims,
And turned to naught the good she wrought
tAccOrding to saint JameS.)
The devil saw the matron
Ard merrily cried he
I'm proud TO be the patron
OF gossip such as shei
Whilst l lie still she'll work my will
And be my deputy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Standing Committees Named.

Central Labor Union has appointed the
following standing committees for the en-
suing term:
Credentials-E. j. Straka, Tailors; Henry
Hedderich German Topographic, No. IA:
Philip Lendormi UpholSterers'.
Arbitration-John Blue, American Agents
Association; Eden bingham, Freshmen 4;
j. w Madden, Plasterers'.
Grievance-Roscoe Barnett, Painters; G.
I. Burgan, Stage Employees.
Organization-Edga A. Perkins, Typo
graphical Union, No. /; Harry Decker, Car
penters Union, No. PSI; William Ewald,
Cigarmakers'.
Union, No. l; Z. T. Bossell. Electrical
Workers; John F. White, Typographical
Union, No. /.
Visiting-Peter Hammerle, Bakers; Clar-
ence Gaumer, Cigar Makers; Charles Lin
coln Retail Clerks, No. /.
Press-C. n. Bolander. Taiors' Frank
Beadle Typographical Union. No. l.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
To BE SENT TO HALIFAX.
Battle Ship Indiana VIII BE DOcked
in a Foreign Port.

in Foreign Port.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-Secretary Long
has decided to send the big battle ship In
diana to Halifax to be locked and cleaned
1t is felt to be necessary to do this in or
der to prevent injury to the hull of the
ship from corrosion. The department would
have much preferred to send the Indiana
to Port Royal, S. c., for this purpose, but
the opinions of the best navigators in the
Navy Department was that it would be
decidedly risky in the present unsatisfac-
tory condition of the approaches to the
dock there While the naval officers natur-
ally deplore the necessity for thus sending
our finest ship to a foreign dock, they say
the practice is not new nor uncommon.
Contractor Bowles, Of the New York navy
yard, has just returned to New York, after
a consultation with the officials here as to
the docking of the Indiana. 1t is the in
tention of Secretary Long to send him to
Halifax in advance of the sailing of the
Indiana to make all of the arrangements
necessary for the docking of the ship. She
will not be fitted with bilge keels at Hal
flax This work must wait until the re-
pairs are complete at the New York dock,
a work which it is estimated will consume
a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
SCENES AT DAWSON CITY.
An IndiaDian Relates His Experience
in the Gold DiEgings.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 27.--The par
ents of Frank Lory, of Petersburg, this
State have received a letter from him writ
ten at Dawson City, June IA. He says: Il
am contented to remain here until l can
take things easy when / return 1 am
working in tin shop at $15 day. yet it
seems small in comparison with those who
have claims, where they take out 81 600 a
day. / am going to buy grub for the Win
ter and then go up the Stewart river 300
or 400 miles. / will come home next winter
If L can, get married and return.
Anybody can get work here. Every
you buy anything you pay for it in gold.
The miners spend their money like dirt.
They will go into a saloon and call every
body up to drink Those who have rich
claims viii stand in faro game and lose
thousands of dollars before they leave
saw one man yesterday lose IS 600. He was
drunk. He had sold his claim for $50, 900 and
not live to spend it. The climate now is
fine. The sun shines twenty-five hours out
or twenty-four, and it is never dark. You
carpot tell when dark comes.
You do not see any money less than a
b0-cent piece. There Is nothing in a store
that sells for less. We were offered $3.50 a
hundred for our bacon. The boat came UP
to-day, but had no meat. Eggs are worth
$l7 a dozen. 1t costs me dollar to send
this letter as It did for the other two |
me since came here to go to Circle City
at $3.50 a day and board. TIL, &c are thou
sands OF mosquitoes here We have to keep
nets over our faces and gloves on our hands
newspapers, as they do not carry them
through the mails up here"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Suicide of a Consul.

WASHINGTON, July 27-United States
Minister Baker has cabled the State De-
partment shat United States Consul Otto
Munchmeyer, at San Salvador, committed
suicide there last night Mr.. Baker says
that he win appoint a vice consul to take
charge Of the office. Munchmeyer was APP
pointed from West Virginia in 1895 first to
in the same year to San Salvador to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of his
father. a few days ago Mr.. Jenkins, of
Nebraska was nominated for the place held
by Munchmever
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Americans in Cuban PRISONS.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Consul General
Lee has informed the State Department
that in the event of the release of the
American Louis Somelian, now confined in
Jail at Havana there will remain of
American citizens imprisoned in Cuba in
addition to the five Competitor prisoners,
only the following: Manuel Fernandez, con-
fined i'll Fort Cabanas; Rafael Fernandez
Y. DiaZ, at Sangua La Grande; Julio
Thomas Sainz and Frank A. Gramont. at
Santiago. All of these prisoners are charged
with rebellion with arms in hand and are
held subject TO the ordinary military juris-
diction
The United States consul at Manzanillo
has cabIed the secretary of state a con-
tradiction of the story that Albert Slusser,
an American, has been captured by the
Spanish troops and taken to that place.
He says that nothing is known of Slusser' s
arrest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Swallowed 100 Grains of Choral.

GUTHRIE, o. T., July 27.-Gen. J. c.
Jamison attempted to commit suicide to-
day. swallowing 100 grains of choral. After
several hours treatment the physicians
said he would recover. He had been drink
ing for several days. General Jamison is
seventy years old and was Respondent over
financial matters. He was formerly adj
jutant general of the Oklahoma National
Guard and was adjutant general of Mis-
souri, under Governor Marmaduke. He
distinguished himself by his services in the
Confederate army and was captain under
Walker, the filibuster, in the war in Mica
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Patents Granted Indianians.

WASHINGTON. July 27-Patents were
issued to Indianians to-day as follows: AL
bert Baker, Fort Wayne. packing and stor-
ing vessel; Alfred l. Bernardin, Evans
vile, bottle cap and fastener; Charles
Haeske, South Bend, dumping cart James
Howard and o. B. Frazier, Elwood, belt
tightener; Earl Hussong and G. 3. Robson,
Terre Haute, bicycle support and rest; AL
bert H. Kennedy, RockpOrt, water meter
Granville F. Packard, Fort Wayne, chids
cradle, also electric meter; John Schies,
Anderson, jar and sealing device for same.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
League oil Building Associations.

DETROIT, Mich, July 27.-Delegates
from a score of states are in the city at
tending the fifth annual convention of the
G3tep 11atSs u Gcd The buong
which have state building association
leagues will be represented The conven-
ton will begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning. The sessions are to be held in
the City Council chamber.
This evening an informal meeting of the
executive committee of the national league
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28

NEW YORK July 2i.-Arrived: Fries
land, from Antwerp. Sailed: Tauric, for
Liverpool Lain, for Bremen.
PLYMOUTH, July 27.-Arrived Trave,
from New York. and proceeded for Bremen.
BOULOGNE, July 27.-Arrived: Veen-
dam, from New York, for Rotterdam.
QUEENSTOWN July 27.-Arrived: Waes-
land, from Philadelphia. for Liverpool.
GLASGOW, July 27.-Arrived: Furnessia.
from Now York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Canadian Government VIII Impose an
Excexsixe RnYnIiY.

OTTAWA Ont. July 27.-At the close of
the second sitting of the Cabinet this even
ing ii was announced that the government
had decided to impose royalty on all
placer diggings on the Yukon in addition
to 500 registration fee and 800 annual as
sessment. The royalty will be 10 per cent.
each on claims with an output of $500 or
less monthly, and 20 per cent. on every
claim yielding above that amount yearly.
Besides this royalty it has been decided in
regard to all future claims staked out on
other streams or rivers that every alternate
claim should be the property of the gov
eminent aNd should be reserved for public
purposes and sold or worked by the govern
ment for the benefit of the revenue of the
dominion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
wouId-Be opera singer Insane.

NEW YORK. July 27--Marie Simonie. or
Simon of Cedar Rapids, Neb., who was
confined in the insane pavilion of Bellevue
Hospital has been declared insane she is
a handsome young woman, with an excel
lent voice. She came to New York hoping
to find a place on the operate stage, but
was disappointed. Her troubles unbalanced
tai Elliott Danforth. chairman of the
Democratic central committee, who knows
her father, has befriended her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Young Lnngston Released.

(colored). SON of Prof. ]. NJ Langston,
formerly United States minister to Liberia,
who was arrested last Thursday on com
plaint of Mrs Mary Piers0n, maid at the
Garden Theater, for an alleged attempt to
rob her, was discharged to-day, the prose
cutting witness being unable to positively
Identify him as her assailant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
New Indiana Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, July 27-Fourth-class
Indiana postmasters We're appointed to-day
as follows: Borden. Parl1e county, Albert
Mckinley, vice j. e. Mckinley, removed;
Hector Jay county, a. II; Bushong,, vice
Ambrose Jellison, removed; Hollandburg,
Parke county, j. o. Stout, vice NJ. E. Car
ter removed Star City. Pulaski county, c.
w. MulI. vice c. H. Howard. removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
RnrnI Lengue split.

CHICAGO, July 27-The long standing
trouble between the Supreme Council and
the advisory council of the Royal League
eliminated in open session the part of
the latter body tonight when preliminary
steps looking to the formation of now
fraternal organization were taken. The
meeting was attended by 300 represent ATTY,
of the various councns in Cook county, rep
resenting 1900 members, as well as from
Elgin and two or three points in the State.
The trouble originally arose because of the
action of the Supreme Council in raising
the rate of assessment. The secession
means that 5000 out of $4,000 members Of
the league will pull out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-28
Farmers Bitter Against Miners.

MOWEAQUA, ILL.,, July 27.-Last night
large body of Pana and Moweaqua min
ers headed by drum and fife corps
marched on the Assumption shaft and
forced the men who were loading coal for
local trade and threshers to cease work.
This morning when the whistle blew not
miner went to work The farmers are
very bitter in their denuncation of the
miners. inasmuch as the farming COM
munity has contributed to the miners
cause very literally.