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The times., 1897-09-29
School of Medicine.
Georgetown University.

Lectures will be commenced MONDAY,
October A. Day classes at 2 p. N. Even
ing classes at $50 p. m.
For further particulars address the dean,
G. L. MAGRUDER, NJ. D., S15 Vermont
ave.
Office hours until 10 a. m, $50 to
p. 10. se17-1 Stem
The times., 1897-09-29

THE WOMAN'S LAW CLASS reopen
October /, 1897. Three years course
equivalent of best law schools. For
further particulars s, apply TO MRS. ELLEN
SPENCER MUSSEY, Atty -at-Law, 40
"a. ave, or MISS EMMA NJ. GILLETT,
Atty-at-Law S02 F st. NV se9-1mo
WIMODA UG HSIS classes, 1925 N. 7.
ave-, telegraphy, typewriting, journal
ism, stenography, etc. ANNA s. HAM
ILToN, Presidens se16-2w ,em
The times., 1897-09-29

Col Cushing and family viii shortly
move from their present residence, on
Twentieth street, To No. 1909 Con
necticut avenue.
The times., 1897-09-29
ST. JOHNS COLLEGE.

1225-1231 Vermont avenue, reopens Sep
tember Z. BROTH HER FABRICIAN,
SELL mem PreSident.
The times., 1897-09-29

Commodore and Mrs. Francis ". Ramsay
returned last night TO their n street
home, from pleasant visit to Charmon,
Pa.
The times., 1897-09-29

Mr and Mrs Henley Smith, who have
spent the summer in European travel, have
returned 90 the city, and opened their
home, No. 1910 Connecticut avenue.
The times., 1897-09-29

Children's Warmer Hose, 25c.
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MIR. WILSON'S GOOD WORK.
His Efforts to Assist the COuntry's
Agricultural Interests.

WASHINGTON, May 27-The benefits
that may inure to this country through
expert investigation of agricultural condi-
tions abroad form a subject that is receiv-
ing the special attention of Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson. He has contemplated
for some time the development of this
means of securing information and further
ing the services of experts who are abroad
and of enlsting the help of government APP
pointees sent to foreign posts. In this con-
nection he has consulted with several re-
cently-appointed ministers and consuls with
the result that they will forward reports as
to certain kinds of agricultural work in the
countries to which they are sent. Colonel
A F. Buck. the new minister to Japan, will
forward seeds of ligunes bulbs, etc. with
explanatory notes, while Mr.. Patterson,
consul to Calcutta, will report on aSricul-
tural products in the foreign southern lati-
tudes. Many other diplomatic representa-
tives have been communicated with and the
results of their inquiries and observations
are expected TO be important to our agri.
cultural interests. Professor Plumb, of
Purdue University, Indiana, is going
abroad this summer and as a
side issue he has been commits
stoned to report on the condition of dairy
ing in the countries he visits. Other scien-
fists will go to Australia and to Mexico
and the latter will collect specimens and
data of what may be desirable for the semi.
arid regions. Advantage will be taken of
the visit of an expert to central Asia, and
tree seeds from there are expected.
Professor Hansen of the Agricultural
College of South Dakota who has arranged
to go TO Europe, will be sent eastward to
Asia to bring seeds of trees and ligunes.
Special efforts will be made to obtain the
latter in various places because OF their
power to bring nitrogen from the atmos-
phere into the soil. Secretary Wilson says
it is his intention to prosecute vigorous
search of foreign high and dry attitudes for
vegetation that may be introduced with
success in similar attitudes in this coun-
try. The plan of action above outlined is
the practical demonstration of the policy
of gathering rare and valuable seeds for
distribution Mr.. Wilson does not expect
that the distribution of common seeds can
be done away with, as he recognizes con-
siderable demand for them, but so far as
possible the rarer kinds will be substituted
this government probably will buy ten or
twelve tons of sugar-beet seeds for distri-
lannAsr
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WOMEN SCORED A POINT.
Victory for Mrs. Squires IN the Cum
berlnnd Assembly.

CHICAGO, May 27.-At to-days session
of the Cumberland Presbyterian General
Assembly two reports were submitted by
the finance committee on means to raise
$4,000 for the expenses of the assembly.
Both of them were rejected and the matter
was referred to a committee which will
report at the next General Assembly. The
finance committee reported that the books
of the treasurer and clerk were correct,
showing expenditure of $3.50 during the
year, leaving the assembly in arrears to
the extent of 81, 523. The committee on min
isterial relief and church erection handed
in it's report, suggesting the position of
general agent for the committee be discon-
tinued and that the committee carry on the
work of administering relief unaided A
decrease in the receipts and an increase in
the families dependent on the fund was an
nOunced. This afternoon reports from the
committee on publication, Sunday schools,
ways and means and temperance were
read.
Women scored point to-day. 1t was on
the question as to whether Mrs. Squires,
of Kansas should be recognized as a ruling
elder of the synod of the church. Mrs.
SqUireS won by a narrow margin How
committee, which made a special report on
her to the afternoon session of the General
read half q dozen delegates were on their
feet demanding that the report be rejected.
Finally, when the vote was taken, Mrs.
SquireS won bby a narrow margin. How
ever a resolution was adoted Immediately
afterward declaring that the action of the
assembly should not be construed to mean
that it favored the appointment or election
of women as ruling elders.
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Homes of CuIlans.

PHILADELPHIA, May Pit is definitely
settled that the most important conference
yet held in America in connection with; the
Cuban cause will assemble in Philadelphia
some time next week. General Palma will
preside. With him will be Quesada, the
charge d'affaires. They are coming here,
it is said, to prepare plans that may meet
with the entire appreciation of the admin
istration at Washington 1t is said that as
soon as Senator Sherman became secretary
of state he sent for Quesada. That inter-
view has had more to do with the coming
conference than any one thing that hes
occurred in Cuban affairs since the inau-
guration of the war two years ago. To
of Cuba will be demanded To the ex-
tremists it appears that independence ana
then alliance with the United States will be
the result The Cubans say they have rea-
son to believe that the Mcinley administra-
ton is going to carry out the policy on
which Mckinley became President.
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this (prohtbtory) system they must take
away the temptation to violate it. This can
only be done by a system of pooling con-
tracts. These are accordingly legalized and
tent undreamed of in America They have
both traffic pools and money pools. There
areN pools between state roads and private
roads, between railroads and water
routes.
The committee of the German empire re-
ported prior to its purchases of its main
railway lines: THE uniting of the property,
of the traffic and of the management of the
inland main lines under the strong arm OF
the state, are the only efficient and proper
means to solve the task" This clearly is a
government pool"
This long study, these concurrent conclu-
mercantile as well railway results which
followed these policies in those great coun-
tries cannot be ignored by denunclatlons
and arbitrary declarations of our diSSimllar
conditions, which really differ only because
our conditions are even more complicated
because our rates average not more than
tWo-thirdS those which prevail in those ma
tiOnS under their enforceable contracts ana
because instead of jealous nations which
assisted the solution, we presumably nave
harmonious States which should do So
Any act or amendments which substitute
theories for these actual carrying ana com.
mercial experiences throughout the world
and paradoxieS for principles, Will commune
impracticable, Intellectual and hurtful 10
consistent carriers and patrons.
Senator Cullom said, in the lndependent,
in October, 1892: THE stakeholder in rail-
read corporation owns his stock as fuliy
and is entitled to as much consideration in
respect to his rights as If he were STOCK
holder in any other enterprise ana the
state is bound to respect those rights.
Nav we not therefore, soon say with
Won Humboldt that the "chasms which d.
vide facts from each other are rapidly M
ing up?'' GEORGE r. BLANCHARD.
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MAY BE REVOKED.
CIeveIand's Pension Agency COnsOIf-
datiOn Order Is Doomed.

CIeveIand's Pension Agency CONSOLE
datiOn Order Is Doomed.
WASHINGTON. May 27.-President Me-
Kinley has under consideration and shortly
will act upon a report submitted by Com
missioner of Pensions Evans on the con-
solidation of pension agencies ordered by
President Cleveland before the change of
administration. The report recommends
complete revocation of the order, allowing
the agencies to stand in the same position
as if the order had not been made. Sept. l
was fixed as the date for President Cleve-
lands order to take effect, but, while Pres
ident Mckinley has not definitely stated
his intentions, there is no doubt enter
tanned that the order of revocation will be
promulgated within few weeks. Commits
sioner Evans takes the ground that the
change would involve a cost of 100000 at
the outset, for which there is no appro-
priation, on account of establishing the
new records, ETC.; at the. least there would
be nc saving accomplished, except OF sal
aries of the agents dropped; that time
would be sacrificed in some cases and eX-
penses of clerical force increased that
some of the agencies are in government
buildings now, and that the item of rent
would figure largely in change, and that,
while some changes might be made In
other ways later on, the present scheme,
which abolishes nine out of the eighteen
agencies, and removed both the topeka
and Des Moines agencies to st. Louis,
should be entirely rescinded
Commissioner Evans says that probably
all the pension agencies will be CONSOLE
dated into one in this city some time in
the future, but there is no necessity for
such action at this time. The provision of
President Clevelands order replacing the
agencies at Topeka, Kan, and Des Moines,
Ia, with one to be established at St. Louis,
the commissioner says, would result In
161 900 pensioners being paid from that
city, without any advantages over the
present system. Neither Of these two Off
ces now have to pay rental as they oc-
cupy government buildings, but in st.
Louis quarters would have to be secured
that probably would require an expendi-
ture of $4,000. the same amount now paid
by the New York agency, which has 81, 600
pensioners. The agencies at Louisville and
Knoxville were to be consolidated with the
Washington agency. Neither of these has
to pay rental, but with the change the
rental of 81 $50 per annum now paid by the
Washington agency would have to be
doubled. Knoxville and Louisville pay
about $4,000 pensioners, and are allotted
S35 900 clerk hire, while the Washington
agency has about 5000 pensioners and the
clerk hire would have to cover force SIM
liar in number to that now employed in all
three offices, and the salaries would be
much larger, owing to the material differ
ence in compensation paid in the two Sec
lone
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MONTREAL SHAKEN.
Semi-Panics in Theaters Caused by
Seismic Disturbances.

MONTREAL May 27.-There was an
earthquake shock here tonight at 1915.
From the time the rumble was perceptible
till the shock was over was sixty-five sec
onds The shock itself lasted ten seconds
There was also a seismic rumble at 1916
but no shock. Both the Queens Theater
and Theater Franchise Were crowded and
the audiences were considerably frightened
Two ladies tainted in the former and had
to be carried TO the dressing rooms, the
audience rising to their feet but not leav-
ing the house Three ladies tainted at the
Franchise and many of the audience made
a break for the door, but q
panic was averted when the
manager addressed the crowd from the
stage, assuring them there was no dan
ger. The audiences in the Academy where
Miss Mather is presenting "Cymbeline :"
ard at the Royal also felt the shock. 1t
caused some little alarm i'm hotels and even
on a crowded street car on Notre Dame
street. So far no serious damage has been
reported. At the Academy OF Music the
earthquake occurred just as the cave
scene in "Cymbeline'' was on. There was
half a panic, and two ladies had TO be re-
moved in faint. However, most of the
audience remained throughout the per-
Torrance. Those who were on the public
squares and gardens noticed a peculiar
trembling of the leaves on the trees. The
glasses in the hotel were ratified, and some
guests rushed out of their rooms to see
where the explosion was. There We're
earthquake shocks in Montreal on Nov. q,
1893. March %, 1897, and March 26 1897.
Topographic reports received here Indicate
that the quake was felt all down the Otta-
wa valley and through eastern Quebec. In
ST. Johns, Que. the inhabitants rushed
into the streets. 1t was particularly severe
at ST. Hiliare mountain.
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GENERAL MILES CRITICISED.
HIS Eastern Trip said to Be Conduct
ed on am EXtraVRgant Scale.


81 ecial to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. May 27.-Club and army
back cappers and gossippers in Washington
are in great distress over the eXtravagant
and gaudy plan on which Gen. Nelson A.
Miles is alleged to be conducting his Euro
pcan tour. General Miles, who is a major
general commanding the army of the
United States. believes in going about in
manner BETTING his exalted rank and in
sits on the government he represents pay
ing the score He is the heaviest military
swell ever at the head of the American
army, and the clerks who pass on his ac-
counts so about with bullying eyes after a
contemplation of the bills that follow in
the train of his expeditions Their micro
scopic visions already detect advance symp-
toms of terrific drag on the treasury in
cident TO the generals current invasion of
European capitals, and they are giving vent
10 expressions of horror over the expert
ences in prospect. The agony OF the clerks
and jealous gentlemen of the army and the
clubs is principally caused by the discoV-
cry that the bill for the generals state
room on the ocean greyhound St. Paul GO
ing over was $5O0 and they fear lest the
other expenses CT the tour may be or cor
responding scale. Indeed. they feel sure on
that point, and from their talk it would
appear that they are fearful lest the rank
ing warrior of our military establishment
bankrupt the treasury and force another
4aaff Of h1Fd
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hold meeting Saturday. when both parties
interested should be present and make
their statements.
Fourth-class Indiana postmasters were
appointed to-day as follows: Dana, Yer
million county, Peter Altman, vice j. d.
Smith, resigned; Dunlaps. Elkhart county
D. +. Myers, vice J. r. Vannasdale, re-
moved; Hoover, Cass county j. F. Robin
son. vice ]. L. Clouse, removed; Indian
Spring Martin county, Daniel Dunihue, vice
Alfred Guthrie, resigned; Kinzie, Kosciusko
county, j. f. Shadley, vice l.. c. Fox, re-
moved; Linden, Montgomery county, o. ID.
Thomas, vice Frank Dunkle. resigned;
Paris, Jennings county, Harmon Dixon, vice
J. A. Hill. removed Simpson, Huntington
county. Thomas Helvie, vice Maurice trell,
removed; Thales. Dubois county, +. h.
Waldrip, vice j. c. Line resigned.
Representative Steele has recommended
the appointment of William Walter Wood
as postmaster at Wabash, and Representa-
tive Faris has recommended the appoint
ment of the following additional postmas-
ter: Vigo county-Youngstown j. w Nc
Closkey (continued) Edwards, John Lucas.
Hendricks county-Arno. Thomas Menden-
hall. IiZtOn. Robert A. Lewis,
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MANY insurgents KILLED.

HAVANA, May Pit is officially an
nounced that Spanish force under Cen
eral Godoy and Colonel Struch, consisting
of the Reina, Vergara and Aragon battal-
ions, working in conjunction with the
boats of the gunboat Armendariz, has in
nicted severe loss upon the insurgents in
the vicinity of the River Gayaguateje,
province of Pinar del Rio. The Spaniards
met the enemy at Sieras AnimaS, Elcuzco
and Brujo destroying a number of camps,
capturing ten boats, a quantity of arms
and 5000 cartridges. The insurgents left
seventy-seven killed and are reported to
have carried away the bodies of many
more The Spanish forces it appears, lost
five men killed and had twenty-seven
wounded.
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General Notes.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 27-Editor c. w.
Duffenbach, of Huntingburg, Dubois coun-
ty, is in town.
The health of Nicholas Filbeck, of Terre
Haute, was so greatly benefited by his
sojourn in Washington yesterday that he
concluded to miss his train last night and
stay over another day. He shook hands
with several eminent gentlemen he escaped
the first day, visited the navy yard, Wash
ington monument, Arlington, the museums,
Corcoran art gallery and the Government
Printing Office and took a night train for
Indiana.
A bill was introduced to-day by Mr.. Mad
dox, of Georgia. to exclude from the mails
all matter emanating from commercial
agencies which publish business ratings
and carry on collections.
Or, Angel, of Ann Arbor, the newly ap-
pointed minister to Turkey was at the
State Department to-day and had long
conference with Assistant Secretary Day
respecting the conditions in Turkey. He
said afterwards that it had not been set
tied yet when he would depart for his post.
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And sin Annther.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
In your yesterdays issue l find a commu-
nication under the caption, ITO Smash the
Heavenly Trust" I write to protest against
that datribe. 1 protest against the Ian
guage, spirit and entire tenor of the COM
munication. 1 am in full sympathy with
the call of the laymen of the Nj l.. Church
of Indiana. That call gives no one author
ity to say it will be "a great mass conven-
ton of the priest-ridden laity." Our call
does not bear such a construction. 1t is
to be regretted that "a layman" of our
church, with its history before him, would
write such a scr1ed and let IL go forth as
an expression of the feeling of our laymen
That communication will do incalculable
injury to our cause. 1t is unjustitiabe and
unwarranted. The laymen of our church
are not IN sympathy with any of the state
ments in that letter. But the poison goes
out over the country an expression from
a member of the laity. and there is no
way to arrest the venom. The signature
'Layman" may be a deception. May | not
ask that any one who writes upon this sub
ject will have the courage 70 write over
his true name? B. +. IBACH.
Hammond, Ind, May 70.
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MUNITIONS FOR CUBANS
TWO CARGOES SUCCESSFULLY LAND
ED BY FILIBUSTERS.
One of the Vessels Chased by n Span
ish misunderstanding Meeting
of Insurgents Friends.

WILMINGTON, N. c., May 1.-THE tug
Alexander Jones left this port on May IA,
ostensibly in search of a tow, but it was
soon whispered around the city that she,
with the pilot boat John d. Long had, the
night previous. taken on an immense sup
ply of arms and ammunition, together with
a number of Cubans, and that both YES
sells were off for Cuba. Last evening at 3
o'clock the Jones reached Southport on
her return from Cuba, with everybody on
board safe and sound but with sealed lips.
The Long is missing, but the report is
current that she was bought by the Gu
bans to be used for filibustering purposes,
and is near the island. 1t is also reported
that the Jones and her crew narrowly es
capped capture by lodging a Spanish gun
boat, after having been nred on with sew
eral solid shot, some of which flashed
across the Joness bow al a distance of a
few hundred wards
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p.,I~.w Accounting officers.

RICHMOND. va, May 27.-The American
Association of Railway Accounting Oficers
concluded its annual session here this after-
noon and after clevating Ny. II. M: Ko-
chensDerger, controller of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, to the
presidency of the organization. adjourned
Ia meet again at Atlantic City on the fourth
Wednesday of May 1898. Other officers
chosen were as follows: F. A. Hewitt, au-
ditor of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago
e. ST Louis Railroad. first vice president,
and r. l. Harrington, controller OF the
Great Northern Railroad second vice pres
ident. c. c. Phillips, the secretary ana
treasurer. was reelected, and Fl. G. White
head of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad j. Ford of the Kansas City, Fort
Scott 81 Memphis Railroad. j. .. Chnord or
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad an9s
/, f. Sullivan of the Chesapeake q ONO
Railroad were elected to fill the four va
cancies on the executive committee
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Lutheran church Missions.

DAYTON, o., May 27.-To-day's session
of the Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Lutheran Church of
America was called TO order by Mrs. d.
L. Bair, of Constantine, Mich business
session followed and the regular work Of
the synod was then taken up. A INSECT
laneous session was held this afternoon.
discussion. Lutheran Literature was the
discussion. Mrs. c. r. Wyrrick. of Car
thage, ILL.,, was in charge of the discus
sion on Children Work. While Mrs: A:
NJ. Overholtzer, of Selma, Kan, presided
at the discussion of the young peoples
work. This evening foreign missions were
discussed and a lecture delivered by Rev
F. S. Delo, of Xenia, o. The convention
closes Tomorrow
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sunday school Association.

Special to tn IndianapoIs journal
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, May 27.-The Shell
by County Sunday School Association to-
day began a two days session in this city
with an attendance Of 300 delegates Mr.
and Mrs w j. Semelroth, of St. Louis !:
Charles w. Ross, state vice president of
Charlottesville; Charles d. Meigs, state
superintendent; Charles L. Weaver, state
secretary: Miss Christine Markert, state
home class superintendent, and Rev. Cum
ming j. Smith, of the Tabernacle Presby-
terrain Church, Indianapolis, are the Sun
day school workers from a distance. The
entire day was spent in discussing matters
relating to teachers and their work, with a.
an hour devoted to superintendent. To-
address in the Presbyterian Church on
'sProphecy." while Mr. Semelroth spoke in
the First Baptist Church Both houses were
hacked
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Dedicated New Church Organ.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, Ind, May 27.-The Meth
odist Church of this city tonight dedicated
it's new pipe organ. One-half of the cost
of the organ was the donation of Mrs.
Jane Cotton, formerly 9 resident of this
city, but now living in Union City, where
she made the Methodist Church a present
of a new pipe organ. The organ here has
1,036 pipes, 4SS each in the great and swell
w. H. Donley, of Indianapolis, assisted by
Mrs. Marguerite Kennon as soprano and
Mr.. George w. Bailey, basso, rendered a
choice programme.