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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

experimental crops of beets which have
been shown to possess a paying percentage
of saccharine matter On the strength of
this Eastern capitalists are offering to es-
tablish a factory If local capitalists and the
farmers will do their share. The latter are
asked to sign an agreement pledging them
selves each to sow ten acres in sugar beets,
the seed to be furnished free the first year
and at cost the second year. the producers
to be paid 81 a ton for the beets delivered
and to take half their pay in the stock of
the company This seems to be a fair
proposition on practical lines. It's object
evidently is to insure a steady supply OF
beets by making the farmers stockholders
and thereby interesting them in the success
of the undertaking. The Journal hopes the
movement may succeed. 1t would be good
advertisement for Henry county to have the
first beet sugar factory in the State, and. if
rightly managed, the enterprise ought to
prove profitable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP.
Former PrOprietOrs of the Cincinnati
CommerciaI-Tribune in Control.

CINCINNATI Nov. ia change took
place to-day in the holding of the stock OF
the Commercial Tribune, which at the April
meeting Of the stockholders, if not sooner,
will put the control of that paper in the
hands of the late owners of the Tribune.
This change was brought about to-day by
James NJ. Glenn, president of the old
Tribune company up to the time OF the con-
solidation of the Tribune with the CONNER
ciaI-Gazette purchasing $4,000 of the stock
of an Eastern trust company. This pur-
chase, with the previous holdings of the
Tribune syndicate, gives them majority
of the stock and puts the control of the
Commercial-Tribune back into their hands.
They are James NJ. Glenn, Thomas I. CAN,
Stephen H. Wilder, Judge H. +. Goebel and
Albert Bettinger These gentlemen now
hold over 60 per cent of the stock OF Sl,0UO, :
CO., In connection with this transfer OF
Murat Halstead would resume editorial
MANAGEMENT of the Commercial-T Tribune.
This is denied by Mr.. Glenn, who declines
to talk on the editorial management until
after the next annual election. II is not
known whether the present board or direc-
tors will resign previous to the next elec-
ton of the stockholders. AT meeting OF
the directors Charles FleiSchman resigned
as president and director of the CONNER
cialf,rribune Company julius Fleischman,
a son of Charles Fleischman, was elected
a director and Howard Hinkle, Formerly
president of the company, was AGAIN elecleu
president of the company. Mr.. HlnKle was
formerly q large Stockholder, put ne 10 not
a holder now of much stock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
THE COMPETITOR PRISONERS.

The official announcement that the Com
petitor prisoners are to be released under
an amnesty decree from the government at
Madrid is doubtless intended for the double
purpose of emphasizing Spain's new and
milder policy in Cuban affairs and of placat-
ing the United States. 1t is to some extent
flank movement on the administra-
ton, and will destroy an important part Of
the ammunition of the jingoists in Congress.
The greatest surprise, however, will be to
the prisoners themselves, to whom the order
will come as an unexpected piece of good
fortune. This case caused more excitement
and came nearer bringing on collision be-
tween the United States and Spain than
anything that has happened since the Cuban
war began. On the night Of April 90. 1896,
the Competitor a swift schooner, eluded
the United States customs officers and sailed
from Key West, Flaa carrying an insurgent
leader and twenty-five or thirty Cubans,
with cargo of cartridges, dynamite, cases
captured by a Spanish gunboat while seek
ing landing place on the northern coast
of Cuba. Most of the men on board swami
ashore and escaped, but the leader and four
others were captured and taken as prisoners
to MORO Castle. Two of the men claimed
to be American citizens, another was known
to be such, and a fourth was an English
man. Two weeks after their capture they
were tried by court-martial and sentenced
to DEATH The announcement caused general
Indignation in the United States and Secre-
-,
at Havana to present strong remonstrance
against the execution of the men and de-
mand a civil trial At the same time it was
declared that if the men were shot under the
court-martial sentence the United States
consulate in Havana would be closed. This
government did not demand that the men
should be released. AS they had been cap
tured on a vessel engaged in a filibustering
expedition there no ground for such
demand. All 1t asked was that the death
penalty should not be inflicted until an in
vestigation of all the facts could be had,
with a view of ascertaining whether the
men were not entitled, under our treaty with
Spain, to a civil srial. The protest and de-
mahd were referred to the Madrid govern
ment. General Weyler was reported in
dignant at the interference of the United
states and the Spanish press was unani-
nous in demanding of its government firm
stand against american insolence" For a
few days the case presented an aspect of
possible war, but in less than a week after
the conviction of the men the decision was
announced from Madrid that the men should
have new trial. in civil court and under
treaty conditions. Since then they have
remained in.jail in Havana. content, as they
had good reason to be. with the prospect
of a civil trial with counsel to plead their
case, and with right to call witnesses. Their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

Commissioner General Powderly is guard
ing jeaIously the interests of the laboring
men Of America. President Mckinley did
wisely in choosing him for the place. The
sooner he can put an end to the violations
of the contract labor system of importing
foreigners into land overlooking with COM
petent men the sooner he will have done
noble service to the laborers of this coun-
try by increasing their chances for employ
ment and by teaching such employers as
are inclined TO be unfair and tyrannical that
there is a governmental power which de-
tends laboring men as well as suppresses
them when they adopt measures calculated
70 injure their own cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
BOAT RUNS UNDER WATER.
Satisfactory Test of an Oshkosh MANS
Submarine Craft.

OSHKOSH, Wis, Nov. 16.-The Raddatz
submarine boat was given satisfactory
test here yesterday. remaining under water
three hours. The boat made the trip more
for testing its air-supply facilities than
anything else The voyage was a. success.
Mr.. Raddatz was accompanied William
H. EngIebright. proprietor of the fremont
Hotel. The boat remained below little
over three hours and MIR. Englebright de-
cares the atmosphere within the steel
double cone was pure and wholesome all
the time A descent was made to depth
Of eleven feet. The boat was not moved
about much, as the water was so dense
and murky. Raddatz says it is much hard
er to see under the surface in the fall than
at any other season of the year, and Engle-
bright admits that though he stood up in
the turret and peered out through the glass
globes ne could not see much Mr.. Engle-
bright says that he was comfortable in
mind and body all the time. save that his
feet got cold towards the last. So steady is
the motion of the boat that the yoyager
can hardly distinguish that the boat is go
Ing uo or down or even at ALL With the
hull of the boat submerged merely the
turfet protruding, the vessel Travelled at a
teen-mile-an-hour clip.
Mr.. Raddatz the inventor of the sub
marine boat, declares that the sale OF his
sessel has been contaminated The pur-
chasing syndicate consists mostly OF East
erners. but there are at least two Milwau-
kee men in 1t. Mr.. Raddatz refuses posi-
lively To give any names or the price. but
IL is thought here that T. =. AlliS. OF Mill
waukee, is in the deal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
CRoKER'S BIG SCHEME
WANTS TO DIVIDE NEW YORK AND
CREATE A TAMMANY STATE.
One of His Men VIII Try to Work q
Bill Through the Legislature, then
Congress May BE Asked to Act.

NEW YORK. Nov. 16-According to a To-
cal paper it is Richard Cookers ambition to
extend Tammanys dominion beyond the
confines of Greater New York. The pro-
posal to create new state by dvorcing six
teen counties of the State of New York and
Incorporating them as the State of Manhat-
tan is defined in bill which is to be intro
duced at the coming session of the Legisla-
ture by Assemblyman Patrick Trainor, of
the Thirteenth district, this city. Mr..
Trainor, who is a meTnber of Tammany
Hail. presented similar bill in the AS
sembly last year, but it did not get beyond
u committee
Mr.. Tralnor insists that the bill and the
idea embodied in il are his own, but the po-
litical Importance of the measure is such
that it is hardly credible that a sublieu-
tenant would undertake to suggest and adj
vocate the plan without the consent and as
sistance OF the leader. Mr.. Croker, how
ever, processes ignorance of the project,
which is one of the most gigantic in the po-
litical history of modern times. The plan is
to create new Democratic state and Gdd
two sure Democratic United States senator's,
to secure control OF the Legislature of what
would be the greatest and richest State in
the Union, TO divide the electoral vote of
the pivotal state, to send to the lower house
OF Congress solid Democratic delegation
from the State of Manhattan and TO get
absolute legislative control over the second
greatest city on earth for the benefit of
Tammany Hall.
The other Democratic leaders in the State
II is said, viii oppose the bill on the ground
that 1t will be unWise TO separate the great
commercial and political interests of the
Umpire state and, furthermore, they will
not assist in making an old rival and an
tagonist the greatest political power, per-
haps, in the country, for his aggrandize-
ment would mean their eXtingusnment po-
litcaly.
In order to become law the Trainor bill
must be adopted by the Legislature and be
approved by Congress. The sixteen coun-
ties which 1t is proposed shall form the
Queens, Richmond Suffolk, Westchester
ster, Greene, Rockand, Albany, Rensselaer,
and part of Schoharie, with population of
3,9G22 go, as compared with 1851 1913 for the
forty-fcur remaining counties. This would
make the new state the second largest in the
Union in regard to population. Pennsylva-
mia alone exceeding it. The remaining for
ty-four counties left 10 comprise the State
of New York would make a state the sixth
largest in the Union. The new state would
contain a territory of $500 square miles, as
compared with a territory of 40493 square
miles The sixteen counties have twenty
seven out of the fifty senators and more
than half of the assemblymen in the Legis-
lature under the present apportionment,
and twenty out of the thirty-four repre-
SentativeS in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

1t does not SAVIOR strongly of wise diplom-
TO further negotiations, as the United States
is said to have done with the visiting states
men from Canada. 1t is true the conduct
of the Canadians on the sealing question
has been stubborn to an exasperating de-
gree, but to demand complete change
of policy on their part as condition prece-
dent to negotiating IN regard to other mat
tiers seems like very blunt proceeding.
An ultimatum would seem to come moro
ftly near the close of a negotiation, after
both parties had shown their hands, than
before the beginning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
SUICIDE OVER A DISPUTE.
Rather than Yield to His Wife He
Blew Out His Brains.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 1.-THE sSory
of singular suicide comes from Troy.
Perry Rushing, prosperous young planter
of Pike county, was driving home from
Troy yesterday. accompanied by his wife.
On reaching the forks of the road, both of
which led to their home, dispute arose
as to which road they should take, when
the wife said: I'VE will go this way"
Rushing replied: mo; let's go this way"
pointing to the other road. mo; we win
go this road" retorted his wife, and III
die before I'll go your way.
''Wen, I'll die. before III &C. your road, =
answered Rushing. With this he sprang
of a shotgun on the ground, leaned his head
on the barrel and pulled the trigger with
his toe before his terrified wife could reach
him. The gun was fired and half of Rush
ing's head was blown off.
His wife tainted at the sight, and was
found a half hour later in an unconscious
condition by a farm boy. Absolutely no
cause other than the above is known for the
suicide
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

There is movement on foot in Louisiana
20 amend the Constitution so as to require
an educational qualification for voting. The
avowed object is to eliminate the negro from
politics, but such a provision could only
affect illiterate negroes, and as it would
apply equally to illiterate whites it would
not be open to the charge of discrimination.
Some Northern. as well as some Southern,
States already have such provision. and
the idea seems to be growing. Fairly and
honestly applied, 1t is not a bad one. A
man who has grown up in freedom and
with educational opportunities without
learning to read and write has no right to
complain If he is denied the privilege of
voting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

The Marion Qnd.) Elks ought to send
their love to Uncle Joe Mansfield, the Geor-
gia legislator who wants prize-fghting
taught in the public schools as a manly ac-
complishment. Prize-fghting, he says, is
a fair, even game, on the square, and with
none of the perils of football belonging to it.
The Marion lodge lis 1t proper to say a
lodge" or corral of ElksD thought
prize fighting was a noble art when it
elected Robert Fitzsimmons to membership
If ii had not thought so he would never
have obtained admittance to the exclusive
order. Under the circumstances, regret will
be felt at Marion that the progressive Geor-
gia gentleman is not the most noble exalted
chief ruler of Elxs, instead of the narrow
minded aristocratic person who figures in
that capacity. Incidentally it is interesting
to note Mr.. F'itzsimmonss remarks on the
recent occurrence at Marion: If half the
fellows who are kicking against me, said
he to a Kansas City reporter, had Joined
the Elks with as good intentions as l did
the order would be better off. l am not
prize fighter any longer; i am as good an
American citizen as the fellows who are
making all this fuss about my joining the
lodge" Meanwhile, as he has resigned from
the order and the Marion branch of the or
ganization has been suspended, the incident,
to use the language of diplomacy, may be
considered closed. Nevertheless, the world
outside the select Order of Elks cannot help
but indulge a passing wonder that such
things can be.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
BIG-HEARTED GRAND JURORS.
Started a Poor Boy on the Straight
Road Instead of Indicting Him.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 16.-The grand jury of
Campbell county, Kentucky, did queer
thing at Newport to-day. The case of
Charles w. Shotwell aged seventeen.
charged with house-breaking, was heard
The boy had been in Jail three months. He
was in rags and almost barefooted when
brought before the grand jury. He said his
parents died years ago and he was without
home or friends. Driven to desperation. he
joined an older person in attempting to
break into a house. The other party es-
caped Shotwell concealed nothing and his
story was cOrroborated. The jury returned
no Indictment but made up a purse for him
and also procured new clothing and started
the lad out with promises Of leading bet
ter life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

Rev. DR.. Gunsaulus, Chicagos pet preach
er. has been having hard time of it since
his physical breakdown last spring. He will
get well, the doctors say, but if he is wise
he will not undertake again to run" a
church and an industrial school, to lecture
and engage in general philanthropic work.
In these days one profession is all any man,
however talented can follow successfully.
One or the other. either the man or his I'M
dertakings must suffer, and it is pretty sure
to be the man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

In a speech at Cleveland Monday night
Eugene v. Debs said: THE capitalists are
our real rulers. We have a set of govern
ment rulers but our real rulers are Mr..
whether we are to live or to die" What
has Debs to do with capitalists? He has
not worked, except with his mouth. for
years. He tolls ilot. neither does he spin;
yet capitalist in all his glory does not
wear better clothes than he.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
Had the Data.

ooh, pa exclaimed the dear girl, her
sapphire eyes trimming with unshed tears,
chow can you say that society is hollow?"
why shouldn't II" retorted pa, with a
coarse laugh that betrayed the fact that
he had paid more attention to making
money than to acquiring polish why
shouldn't /, when have to pay the bills
for feeding the gang that you have here at
vollr blowoutS % sfa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

Since the New York horse show became
also a dress parade for the exclusive fash
ionable folk of the metropolis it has been a
Mecca for dressmakers and milliners from
all parts of the country, who flock there in
order to see the styles" 1t will be a great
disappointment to them if it be true as
stated, that society has tired of the show
and is not Datronizing it extensively this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

1t is announced from Washington that
the secretary of the treasury has requested
the secretary of the interior to instruct the
Alaskan officials to gather about six hum
dred head of reindeer from the government
herds for the use of the expedition for the
relief of the ice-bound whalers in the Arc
tic. There are about 265 Americans on board
these whalers, and while they cannot be
rescued from their perilous position it is
proposed to send them relief in the shape of
six hundred reindeer. Thereby hangs an
interesting story. About ten years ago Dr.
Sheldon Jackson conceived the idea of intro
ducing the Siberian reindeer into Alaska
He thought they would thrive there and
prove useful to the natives as a food supply
and In other ways Thoroughly imbued with
the idea he prosecuted 1t with untiring zeal,
making trips to Alaska and Washington at
his own expense, and giving his whole time
to what he thought a practical philanthro-
by. At first he was voted a bore by Con-
gress. The average congressman had no use
for a scheme that had no politics in it, and,
to his way of thinking, no profit. For sew
eraI years DR.. Jackson got no encourage
ment whatever from Congress. He kept on,
however, using his private means and such
funds as he was able to raise by private
subscription until he demonstrated the
feasibility Of his plan. Finally the United
States commissioner Of education Endorsed
the plan, believing that the introduction of
reindeer into Alaska would have a civilizing
and educational effect on the natives. At
last Congress appropriated a small amount,
and has continued it in a niggardly sort of
way, as if still dstrustful Of scheme that
did not promise to secure any votes Now
the government draws on it's reindeer herds
for the relief of nearly three hundred
American sailors ice-bound in the Arctic
OCEAN DR. Jackson is Nindicated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
Another race War Started.

Grogan-Talk about your Dootch doctors!
Did We know thot doctor in Dublin had
gr-r-raftid the eyelid av pig aim man
an it grew there? 4
Schwartz-Of course, by Chermany in it
could be done not. On a Cherman a pigs
eyelid would not grow already yet aber it
might an Irischer on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

The experiment of placing mail boxes on
street cars is to be tried in Cleveland, o.
1t is believed that The boxes. being con-
venience to the public, would tend to in
crease travel, thereby benefting the rail-
road while the postoffice authorities say it
would expedite business for them by insur-
ing rapid and continuous delivery of mail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

trial has been too long delayed, but that is
the Spanish fashion. Considering the man
ner of their capture, the circumstances were
strongly against them, and if they had been
convicted after fair trial in civil court
it is doubtful If this government could have
saved them. Their release, though it comes
tardily, is distinct concession to the
United States and rare piece of good luck
for them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

Special dispatches from Havana give de-
tails concerning Weyler's financial opera
lions in Cuba which show that he must
have feathered his nest well. The circum-
stantial statements indicate defalcations on
such a scale that it will be surprising if
the Spanish government does not take no.
tice of them. weyler seems to have been
q thief as well as a butcher
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

There are different ways of getting rid of
toll roads. In Kentucky they do it by
anonymous letters to the manag gers and night
raids to destroy the toll gates. In this State
they do it by voting on the issue of town
ship bonds to buy and free the roads. The
Indiana way is decidedly the better of the
anro
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17
WARNING.

Patrons of the Journal will take no
tfce that this paper has but one trav-
cling agent, MIR. Smith King. Mr..
King at nIl times carries with him his
credentials, and is the only travelling
man authorized to collect money for
the Journal Newspaper Company.
Anyone else representing himself
as "a travelling agent of the Journal
a. a frnud.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

why" asked the curious, person do you
managers always take your shows out of
town for their first performances?
Because. said the manager, 1--WE know
that If an outside town will stand a show
without killing the company New York will
be perfectly delighted with it." m
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

1t is proposed in Connecticut to expend
800, 900 appropriated by the Legislature and
q like amount contributed by the town
ships. during the next year. in the construc-
ton OF main highways, crossing the State
from end to end. Indiana, whose need of
good roads is greater than that of Connecti-
cut, could well afford to adopt similar
..o1so..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

"A pantsless police is the headline in a
Detroit paper over an item telling of the
inability of a certain town to pay for the
trousers ordered at its expense for its police
officers If Boston readers get their eyes on
this there will be an increase in the number
of sudden deaths.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

Deep qualification, but no surprise, pre-
walls among the admirers of Seth Low over
the announcement that his resignation as
president of Columbia College, rendered be-
fore the lamented election, has not been
accepted and he has kindly agreed to resume
the Office. 1t was suspected beforehand
that he would not be long out of a job,
whichever way the tiger cat jumped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-17

The Gordon Highlanders ought to go
down to fame with the Light Brigade, if
somebody can be found to tell the story of
their capture of the Dargai ridge in stir
ring verse. 1t is chance for Kipling.
Laureate Austin is not equal to it.