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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-20
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

When poverty comes in at the door, love
flies out of the window. When free trade
comes in at the front gate, prosperity takes
to the woods over the back tence.-GreenS-
burg Review.
The railroad men who stood like a stone
wall against free silver and anarchy last
fall are now reaping their reward in in
creased employment and improved condi-
tions So are the farmers.-LebanOn Pa
triot.
1t is cause for encouragement that the
Democratic papers admit the presence of
prosperity, even if they call it an accident.
No such accidents occurred from the close
of 1892 until the close OF 1Ss6-Blunton
Chronicle.
One year ago the Republican party agreed
to give the people an honest dollar and an
American tariff They are here, gentlemen,
and here to stay. Step up and examine
them. They will bear the closest inspec-
tiOn,-Madson Courier.
When the Mckinley tariff law was re-
pealed the coal miners were getting so cents
a ton but by the time the free-trade Will
son bill had run its race they We're glad to
get 80 cents. During the past four years
the manufacturing has been done largely
in Europe where they don't burn coal.-SuI-
liYan Union.
Recorder Keithly said Saturday that bust
ness was good in his office. When business
is good in the office of the register of deeds
it is a sure sign that times are getting bet
ter People don't buy and sell realty when
money is scarce. The clerk of the court,
on the other hand, says that business is
poor and that the docket for the September
term will be light.--Mitchell Commercial.
Prosperity is here. 1t is not only coming,
but is now evident in all lines of trade.
And while some say that it is all a matter
of circumstance, that the Republican party
is lucky and all that is at least not u fair
view to take of the matter. The upward
trend of trade began the day that President
Mckinley was elected and has been con-
stantly Increasing ever since-Columbus
Republican.
If times improve and the conditions of
five years ago are restored the mortgage
Indebtedness viii increase. When things
move lively the gambling propensities of
men are actively aroused and chances are
taken that would never be thought of in
panicky times. When the future looks
bright men buy property expecting a
rise to make it profitable. When they are
dun real estate partly paid for is regarded
as the poorest kind of INSTRUMENTATION
Chronicle.
Farmers are very much encouraged. and
they have right to be- over the improved
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recent interview, there would have been
every chance of mourning loss in trading
with gold countries on account of the fluc-
tuations of exchange, and as Japan FORCES
to the front the necessity for greater facil-
tiles for monetary transfer is felt" Japan
did not adopt the gold standard without
careful elaboration. In 1893 a coinage
committee was appointed to investigate
and report on the following points: First
the cause of the difference of values of gold
and silver and its results second the in
fiuence Of that difference upon the finances
of the country; third, whether a necessity
existed for changing the present coinage
system on account of that difference. and
what standard should be adopted and how
the changes could be carried out. After
two years of careful elaboration six of the
eight commissioners reported in favor of
adopting the gold standard, and it was
done, to take effect Oct. l, 1897 Now
leading Japanese banker admits that one
strong 4'eason for adopting the gold stand
ard was that las Japan FORCES to the front
the necessity for greater facilities for mon
etary transfer is felt" In other words,
Japanese statesmen saw that before Japan
could trade advantageously with other ma
tons the country must adopt the money
will have to do the same thing before TAX
ing respectable place among nations, and
should learn from Japan.
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WORTH 100000.
American Claims ClippertOn Island,
Its GuanO and Pearl Oysters.

OAKLAND, Cal. Aug. 19.-Captain F. w.
Permien, of this city, lays claim to Clipper
ton island, with it's beds of guano and OF
pearl oysters. He states that on May q.
1891 while bound to Costa Rica in his brig,
the Eliza, he first visited the islaad. and
that on July 4, 1892 he visited it again, and
hosting the stars and stripes took formal
possession of it in the name of the United
States Documentary evidence on file at
Washington, copies of which Captain Per-
mien possesses, seems to substantiate his
claim and also to prove that the island is
United States territory. Captain Permien
states that he has made known the nature
of his claim to the agents of the British
company now negotiating with the men to
whom he gave a bill of sale for three-tenths
of the island. If the Englishmen are willing
to pay a fair price the captain and his
wife, who has taken keen interest in the
affair from the beginning, will sell. If not
they intend to work the deposits of glIano,
which Prof Shaw has estimated to be
worth $50 600 CO.,
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Mr.. Eckels. controller of the currency, is
not a protective tariff man, but he recog-
nizes the fact that that is to be the policy
of the country for some time to come. In
his address at Detroit he said
The country stands rid for some years
at least of tariff legislation, and prospect
i've of the merits or dement's of the new
act every business man knows in so far
as it is concerned, upon what basis TO en-
gage in manufacturing, trade and COM
merce
That is an admission that the tariff ques-
ton viii not figure prominently in poll
tics for some years TO come. AS free silver
is even deader than free trade the question
stiIl recurs, what is to become of the Dem
ocratic party?
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Bridge Jumper whites Leap.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CLINTON Ind, Aug. 19.-Amid the music
of bands and the cheers of five thousand
people attending the old settlers meeting
Hugh White, the Caseyvlle coal miner,
made his debut as a professional bridge
jumper in this city to-day. AT the ap-
pointed time the young man appeared and
was greeted with deafening applause by his
miner friends and citizens. A moment later
he was at the given point ready for the
perilous leap. Waving his hand at the null
titude he leaped and shot down like an ar
row to the water, eighty-four feet below.
The descent was graceful and light. His
body disappeared with a splash ana a mo-
ment later he was on the waters surface
and padding for the shore. Amid deafen-
ing cheers he again climbed to the summit
of the bridge and leaped again. The sec
Ond attempt was even more graceful than
the first ard the bridge jumper was hon
ored in a way TO make Steve Brodie Jeal-
Gus. White is tWenty-siX years old pos
sessed of great courage and expects to win
laurels in his profession. His sweetheart
who accompanied him from CaseyVille, was
one of the most interested and impatient
s,aNon OF
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The right to march is absolute and sa-
cred-with limitations. A man may march
all day and all night the year round on his
own premises, and any number of men may
march peaceably on the highway, provided
they do not interfere with the rights of
others. But no person has right to march
upon or across the property of another per-
son or corporation if the owner objects.
Every farmer has right to invoke the aid
OF the law in excluding trespassers from his
premises and a corporation has the same
right. There can be no question whatever
as TO the right of coal company to ex-
clude marchers or trespassers of any kind
from its private property and to use force,
if necessary in asserting it's right. A strik-
ing miner has no more right to trespass on
corporation property than an officer of the
corporation would have to enter the min
er's house without legal warrant. These
are rudimentary principles but they are
worth remembering.
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Successful Old settlers Meeting.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RIDGEVILLE, Ind, Aug. 19.-The ninth
nual meeting of the Randolph and Jay counties
Cid Settlers Association held at Lakeside
Park to-day, with an attendance OF six thou
sand people. 1t was the greatest meeting ever
held by the association. Hon. Aaron Worth,
Jay county pioneer now residing al Greensboro,
Ind, delivered the principal address, followed by
Captain Stone, aged seventy-one, of Union City,
the hero of two wars. Samuel Ginger of Ridge
Vile, gave a historical account of Lake Pequ-
annaha, where to-days meeting held. Viii
liam Silvers, OF Jay county eighty-tWo years
old, and blind and quite feeble, gave short
account of his pioneer life. The officers for the
next yearly meeting, to be held at this place,
are: George LemanX, Jr:, president. of Ridge
o'Neal, Of Portland; Randolph county, Captain
j. B. Ross OF Union City; secretary, Il. A. De-
vor editor of the kidgevlle News; treasurer, J.
w. McCamish, or RIdgevile. The manag gers had
arranged a ball game between RidgevIIe
Fort Recovery, o. and horse and bicycle races,
but the rain spoiled this part of the programme.
Peter Lasley, eighty years old, of Randolph coun-
" carried of the prize for being the Oldest con-
tinuous resident of either county, seventy
years, while T. w. Kizer. OF Winchester sew
enty-thTee years Old claimed to be the Oldest
person present born in the bounds of the asso
citation. The exercises closed with a fine display
of fireworks in the evening
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Not long since the Anderson Bulletin con-
ceived the idea of series of interviews
with business men in that city for the pur-
pose of ascertaining how much there is in
the claims of the presence of prosperity To
that end it's reporters visited ninety firms
and business men, who distributors
rather than manufacturers of merchandise
But three of eighty-seven inquiries received
answers that business is no better now than
a year ago. eighty-four responded without
hesitation that business is better. some %
per cent. better, and several even more
than that figure. Several of the largest es-
adjustments put the improvement of trade
third better than year ago. More
money in circulation;" people buying more
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The friends of Senator German, of Mary
land, concede that If the next Democratic
nominee for President is to represent tile
free and unlimited coinage of silver, Mr..
Bryan will be the candidate, but they feel
that there is cause to believe that silver
will not be made the leading feature of the
campaign and that the plank of the Mary
land platform will meet the approval of a
large part OF the Democrats in the East who
stood by the ticket last year In that event.
Mr.. German will be the logical candidate of
the Democratic party
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If Bryan had been elected President the
country would now BE- on d silver basis,
gold would have disappeared, and every
dollar of our currency would nave less
than half the purchasing power, or the
power to transact business with that it has
now. True, there would have been no re-
vival OF prosperity to provide for, but the
crops would have had to be marketed and
moved and business kept alive some way.
How could it have been done with Accent
dOllars7
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The temporary chairman of the Iowa Re
publican convention said in his opening adj
dress that the Republican party was in
favor of preserving the independence of
Hawaii pending the annexation treaty. $50
that, if the treaty is ratified, the gem that
CLEANS in the bosom of the Pacific may
be transferred to the diadem of Columbia -
A good many Republicans are in favor
of annexing Hawaii, but they want it done
in plain English.
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The CoIoneI,s Livelihood.

81 heah that the kunnel, sab, is so low
financially that he has been 70 ced to adopt
the puffession of watahwitch.'
"A what?"
"a watah-witch sab. Goes about locat-
ing underground streams of watah, sab.
"Oh! Now L understand. Carries a
forked twig, that bends toward the ground
when the water is neared."
mo, sab; the kunnel does not have to
use a twig. His organization is so sensi-
tive, sab, that he only has to walk over
ground where the fluid is within reasonable
distance sab. and he has YOylent chill"
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and better goods" customers not COM
planning, are some of the answers. The
Bulletin, which no one will accuse of loudly
declared preference for the Republican
party in commenting upon the answers,
says:
1t is not the Bulletins purpose to seek
Tor the cause of this return to prosperity.
II may be the tariff bill and it may not;
II may be because hard times ran its full
course and this is the reaction, and 1t may
not; II may be providential and 1t may not;
1t may be a combination of these and 1t
may not. Suffice to know that right now
times are better than they We're a year
ago. and the future has roseate hue.
The change which has taken place in the
manufacturing city of Anderson is such as
has taken place in every town in Indiana
which is full of factories and also has a
large country trade. 1t proves beyond Cavil
that the prosperity advertised by its adj
vance agent has come
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troll of the British Indian government COM
prise about $4,000 British soldiers and l66. 900
natives. These forces are divided into four
corps. each under lieutenant general, and
all under a commander-in-chief. 1t is
formidable force but British India is a vast
country, with a teeming population. They
are not a warlike people, but they are
fanatical, and under certain conditions
would become very difficult to handle
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Indiana Notes.

Arrangements are being perfected for the
joint reunion of the Eighty-ninth Indiana
Infantry and Ninth Indiana Battery, to be
held at Pendleton Oct. and T.
Lieutenant w. p. Pence, u. S. A, who
class Of 1894, standing third has been de-
tailed as instructor in mathematics at West
Point. He is a native of Frankfort and
went to West Point after graduating from
the Frankfort high school,
Romeo Small. coIored, was fined and sent
to Jail at Richmond yesterday for giving
liquor to children. While Mr.. and Mrs.
Sherman Boyd were from home Small gave
their three-year-old child whisky and Of
fered it to the eeven-year-old daughter.
who refused it. The little one was made
drunk and almost thrown into spasms.
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Dunkard CoIonists Duped.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. 19.-Dunkards
who went from eastern Indiana TO Dakota
last year and this spring for the purpose
of assisting in a national colonization
scheme are beginning to find their way
back to Indiana. They say they have been
made dupes by land companies. Many have
lost everything they mad and can do moth
ing more than to hold on TO the undesirable
homes they have acquired. 1t is estimated
that about 5000 Went TO Dakota last year
and 5000 more this spring, about fifty from
this county
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Butterine Makers Indicted.

CHICAGO, Aug. 19.-Prosecutions on a
wholesale scale will, it is said, soon be in
stituted against violators of the new but
terne law, which prohibits the coloring of
imitation butter. 1t is claimed that dealers
in all parts of the city are selling butterine
and other preparations in open defiance of
the law, and with the mutual understand
ing that the matter is to be brought TO the
upon. In this it is said they will be accom-
mOdated with a vengeance. Three prom
inent firms have already been indicted for
violating the law. and evidence is being
collected in other cases The National
Dairy Union is said TO be behind the prose-
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Indinna Obituary.

CENTREVILLE, Ind, Aug. 19.-Mrs.
Julia Wilson Bowden, wife of Professor
Bowden, of the Metamora, Franklin county,
schools and the adopted daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George W. Cornealius. of this
place, died at her home in Metamora this
morning, aged twenty-five. The remains
were brought here for interment.
PRINCETON, Ind, Aug 19.-Dr. George
L. Dorsey, a prominent physician of this
city, died suddenly this morning. While
visiting the home of Samuel Warnock he
became i'll and died of apopexy. Dr. Dor
sey graduated from Jefferson Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia, in 1888.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug 19-Louis
Ichenhauser, wealthy wholesale mer-
afternoon at Old Point Comfort, where he
had gone for recreation.
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A lady of this city who told in the Jour
nal of her experience on the City of Mexico,
wrecked in Alaskan waters, said the first
land the rescued party made was at Met
lakahtla, where they had a warm welcome
from the natives and resident missionary.
This village is on one of a group of islands
known as the Alexander archipelago, which
was given by the United States several
years ago as home for a band of Chris
tan Indians headed by missionary, who
had migrated from the British possessions
to escape persecution by the English
Church In 1891 Congress passed the fol-
lowing:
That until otherwise provided by law, the
body OF lands known as Annette islands,
situated in Alexander archipelago, in south
eastern Alaska, on the nOI tn side Of Dixon
entrance, be and the same is hereby set
apart as a reservation for the use of the
Metlakahtla Indians. and those people
known as Metlakahtlans who have recently
emlgrated from 3 1tish Columbia to Alaska,
and such other Alaskan natives as may Join
Them to be held and used by them in COM
mon, under such rules and regulations and
subject to such restrictions as may be pre-
scribed from time to time by the secretary
of the interior
Metlakahtla is strictly a religious commu-
nifty, and while the island is for the most
part a bleak spot the Indians have made
very satisfactory progress there. Thus far
they have remained in undisturbed possess
sion, but this condition is not likely to
continue, for it is beginning to be rumored
that this island and others of the same
group are very rich in gold. The rumor has
some foundation, for the latest report of
geological survey of the islands says
There is a distinct zonal development of
the deposits in the Alexander archipelago.
The great mine of this belt is the famous
Alaska-Tread dwell. The deposits of this
belt are similar in position and character
to those of British Columbia and California,
and may be regarded as cOntemporaneous
with them.
1t looks now as ifuall that region were
rich in gold and if that is the case Marys
island, on which Metlakahtla is situated,
will soon be invaded. Then there will be
an end of the Christian Indian village.
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The President starts for Troy.

HOTEL CHAMPLAIN. n. Y, Aug 10
The Twenty-first Infantry, L. S. A. was
again reviewed by the President and party
to-day Postmaster General Gary, his Wife
and daughters. who arrived yesterday,
were in the party to-day and witnessed the
guard mount and dress parade. The Presi-
night and, after spending the day there,
will return to Bluff Point tomorrow night
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OIi-tnken for an Enrthaunlxe.

BUFFALO, Aug 19.-What was at first
al a score of places along the lake this
morning turns out 10 have been the blow
ing up of John Reeds powder and dynamite
magazine at Port Colborne, Ont. about
eighteen miles from here. No one was in
jured but all the windows in the little town
were broken. The magazine was struck by
lightning. There is nothing left to show
where the bolt struck.
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BURIED HER LIVE BABY
DETECTIVES ARREST AN UNNATUR-
AL MOTHER AT TERRE HAUTE.
The Petersburg Electric Light Plant
Blown to Atoms-GOOd Day for
EIOpements.
pecial to the Indiana nolis Journal.

SptCIdI 70 Ihe InuIanaDoIls JOurnaI.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Aug. 19-Mrs. w.
II. Thompson was arrested to-day south OF
the city for burying her month-old baby
alive. Last Saturday she tried to give the
baby away at Paris, H., where she vert
under the name of Barber. She was known
to have returned to her fathers home south
of this city Saturday night, but did not
have the baby. When Detective McRae de-
manded information about the baby she
led him to a place in the woods where she
had buried it in a basket under . few inches
OF earth. The infant was alive and when
McRae lifted it out of the basket Mrs.
Thompson said: Il thought it was stran-
gled." She says she buried it Saturday
nlght. mrs. Ihompsons husband lett her
had a baby.
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Charged with Train Robbery.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


ROCKVILLE Ind, Aug. 19.-Thomas L. Low,
aged thirty living at Coxville, this county,
a correspondent of the Rockville Tribune,
arrested to-day at Clinton. He was brought to
the Rockville Jail and will be taken to Alabama
tomorrow on a charge of train robbery in Shelby
county Alabama, last March. The train held
up by two armed with rifles robbing the
express messengers of 81, 600. His partner
caught and sent up for fifteen years. The de-
tectlves tracked the two men to San Francisco,
Seattle and other places. Low purchased a ticket
Rome. Ala, for Urbaha, O, by Evansville,
over the Evansville & Terre Haute. He stopped
off at Rosedale and went to his home, at Cox
vile. He claims he prove alibi. The
rest has caused bic sensation here.
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BilIiardist Mclaughlin Ahead.

NEW YORK, Aug. l9.-Hugo Kerkau. OF
Germany, and Edward Mclaughlin. OF
Pennsylvania, played the fourth in their
series Of six games at straight rail bill
lizards tonight at Days. Kerkau scored
COS points. making a total for the four
nights play of 1905 His highest run was
AS and his average 81 ell. Mclaughlin ran
1878 points. making a total of 1000 for the
four nights His average was 143 5-n His
highest run was $50 points, which was
claimed q record for STRAIGHT rail billiards.
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The Surf Bather,s Funeral.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 1T c. Las
well, the young man who lost his life IN the
surf at Atlantic City. n. j., last Sunday,
will be buried at Owensboro, KY, to-mor-
row. The body arrived last night and the
funeral services this afternoon We're at
tended by one thousand people. The Air
line Railroad has given the use of train
to the family and friends to take the re-
mains to Kentucky.
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While the purchase power Of the Mexican
dollar has declined about 20 per cent dur
ing the past year, wages in Mexico have
remained the same In Mexican money. The
Herald, published in the City of Mexico, in
commenting upon the subject, says that it
is impossible to attract any labor to Mex
leo at the present value of wages. Even
the Oriental, who is accustomed to small
pay for his labor, finds nothing to attract
him to Mexico