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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-04

The Norwegian Storthing Yesterday
passed a bill placing a duty of 30 ore (about
s cents on foreign flour.
General Galleieni, the commander OF the
French forces in the Island of Madagascar.
has been appointed Governor General of
that island.
There were disturbances Monday at Te-
tuan. near Madrid. arising from a private
dispute. The rioters used guns and several
persons Were wounded.
1t is announced that the rising of natives
in Bechuanaland has collapsed. and that
Chiefs Tolo and LukajaUjos, who nave a
thousand followers, have surrendered to the
British authorities.
at Honolulu, direct from Germany. She had
on board 116 men, twenty-six women and a
number of children, all German emigrants,
who will COLOMBO in Hawaii.
Prince Hohenlohe, the German imperial
chancellor, has started for st. Petersburg.
where he will await the arrival of Emperor
William and the Empress, who are due
there at the end of the week, as guests
of Emperor Nicholas.
1t is reported that Cecil Rhodes and AL
fred Belt, a former member of the board
Chartered Company, have paid the Trans
Vaal government a quarter of &. million
pounds sterling as indemnity for the jane
son raid.
The King of Siam, Chulalongkorn, was an
interested spectator of the proceedings in
the British House of Commons yesterday.
The parliamentary secretary for the Foreign
Office, MIR. Curzon, received his Majesty in
the lobby and escorted him to the dis
tinguished strangers gallery. where Mr..
Curzon explained the procedure of Parlia-
ment to him.
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HOT WEATHER RECORD
YESTERDAY ONE DEGREE BELOW
THE HOTTEST DtY OF THE YEAR.
weather Bureau Predicts Slightly
Cooler Weather This Afternoon
Temperature in Other Cities.

One degree less than the hottest day of
the season was the record for yesterday,
but with hat extreme temperature Of
ninety-eight degrees there was only one
prostration by heat reported. This high
temperature was recorded by the weather
Office at 2 o'clock. and by 3 O'Clock a de-
gree had been taken from this, while at
7 O'Clock last evening the official recorder
showed ninety-two degrees.
From Washington comes the cheering
information that there will be cooler
weather here to day and probably show
ers. The little Office is a little more con-
sentative, and simply says possibly
thundershowers and cooler in the after
noon" 1t is scarcely advisable to bring
out mackintoshes on the strength of this
report. indianapolis seems to be just in
the margin OF the hot area, for last night
at Z o'clock while the official
ter here registered ninety-two degrees,
those in the northern part of the State
showed only seventy-two degrees, and
Chicago escaped yesterday with a maxi
mum of seventy-six degrees of heat. All
this seems to indicate that the predictions
sent out from Washington last night may
prove a real prophecy.
While the government thermometer here
showed a maximum of only ninety-eight
degrees yesterday, there were many ma
chimes of less noble lineage and whose do
ings are not recorded in the blue book,
that showed temperature that would out
do the oldest inhabitant." In one drug
store, for instnace. there were n number
OF thermometers displayed for sale: They
were made to suit all kinds of people, and
registered all the way from ninety to ITO
degrees.
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GOLD-BRICK SWINDLERS.
Arrest of Two Men who Caught a
Saloon Keeper for $1,000.

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-The police have
locked up at headquarters two men wanted
in New Orleans for SWindling Poscal Las
tell, a wealthy saloon keeper, out of $1,000,
and also suspected of being members of a
gang who has operated extensively in
South American countries and the large
cities of this country. The prisoners are
Ivan Antonio Magyar. fifty-ive years old,
of 1874 Dolphin street, New Orleans, and
Regenio Guiterriaz, twenty-siX years old,
who also comes from New Orleans. Both
men are of the Franco-Spanish or Bosque
type, common in South American countries.
They said that they both left New Orleans
four days ago. On July q Magyar went
to Lastell. He said that he was Ralph
Diaz, and that he and others were in the
employ of the Argentine government at
Buenos Ayres, and while thus employed
they became possessed of 500, 900 in gold
bricks. The saloon keeper bit and pur-
chased one-third share in the gold bricks
for 1000 cash. When he found that he had
been swindled by the old gold brick game
he notified the New Orleans police. One of
the men, supposed to be a member OF the
gang, died suddenly in New Orleans of
heart disease, supposed to have been super
induced by the excitement attendant on
this transaction with Lastell. His name
was Jose Maria Mayano. The police of
InlS city were HOllllSO ludl IL OdSSdSS
of the gang who had departed had been
taken by the Pennsylvania Company: Two
days later the police were further informed
that John Martinez, alias Gonzales, was
supposed to be the leader of the gang and
that an unknown man had sent a postal
card to Ivan Antonio Magyar in New York.
The police kept d watch on the postoffice
and when Magyar called for his postal card
he was arrested. On Magan's person was
$247, a draft On a London bank tor $40, and
a first-class passage on the American liner
St. Paul, which sails tomorrow. His COM
panion had $104. an ingot of pure gold
about an ounce in weight, diamond jewelry
and a package of small diamonds. Both
men were locked up.
Two trunks belonging to the men were
found which contained a complete outfit
for the gold brick swindle. Magyar, when
questioned, admitted that he knew Mayano,
who dropped dead in New Orleans. He
said Mayano owed him $500 for a long
time, but repaid the money before he died.
The police think that this So, 800 looks like
Magan's share of the loot. The police of
New Orleans have been notified of the ar
rest. The prisoners were arralgned in d
notice court and remanded.
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An Injunction Granted.

CHICAGO. Aug. 3.-Geo. F. Harding, jr,
of Peoria, has enjoined the American Glucose
Company from joining the trust and dis
continuing the manufacture of glucose. He
is an attorney for the Chicago Real Estate,
Loan and Trust Company. The injunction
also enjoins the formation of the big $780,
100000 trust among the glucose manufac-
turerS. Service was had upon some twenty
members of the proposed trust, the election
of officers having been deferred for the
purpose, 1t is alleged, of avoiding the posi-
bility of an injunction. II. j. Forbes, the
millionaire owner of railroads and steam
ship lines, including the Fall river l1ne of
boats, is the principal stakeholder in the
Real Estate, Loan and Trust Company.
This company, which until about a year
and a half ago was called the Peoria
Starch Manufacturing Company, formerly
owned the plant at Peoria, which after
being altered to a glucose factory from a
starch factory. was sold to the American
Glucose Company, the great $l2, 500, 900 cor
poration, owned principally by the Ham
Inns, Of Buffalo, and In payment received
some $3.50, 900 worth of stock in the Amer
lean Company. which now proposes,
against the wishes of Forbes and Harding,
who is also a stakeholder to join the great
pool of the glucose men. Mr.. Harding ex-
presses the belief that the injunction will
prove the death blow to the trust.
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CRAZY WOMAN'S DEED.
Louise Hauptman Cuts Her Mothers
ThrOat with a Butcher Knife.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-Mrs. Peter Haupt-
man, sixty years old and feeble, wife of a
wholesale cigar merchant, was murdered
this afternoon by her insane daughter
Louise, who cut her parents throat from
ear to ear with a butcher knife. William
Hauptman, a son of the murdered woman,
discovered the body lying in the parlor and
beside it the bloody weapon. At first it
was supposed the mother had committed
suicide, but later it was disclosed that
Louise, the thirty-two-year-old daughter,
who had been insane for a number of
years, committed the crime. She was
found in a closet upstairs chuckling over
the terrible deed. The demented woman,
who was never before violent, had been
confined in St. Vincent's Asylum for five
years, but ever since 1897 she had been at
home, the family preferring to nave her
cared for there. 1t is supposed that the
crazy woman condition was made worse
by the intense heat.
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Following is a comparative statement of
the temperature and precipitation Aug. 3:
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TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 3.-The weekly re-
port of the United States Department of
Agriculture for the Kansas section, issued
to-day says: 1T has been a very hot week
all over the State, with temperatures pass
ing the one-hundred mark and hot winds
over most of the State. In many counties,
particularly in the middle division of the
State, the corn crop has been greatly re-
duced. and in some is entirely gone. Barber
county reports that the corn crop is al
NEST a complete failure. Butler, every
thing needing rain very bad, and the corn
crop is all but ruined. Harvey, the UNI
precedented drought of ffty-four days con-
tinued; corn is now beyond recovery and
a failure. Harper, hottest and dryest week
of the season; corn burned up beyond re-
covery. ottawa, hot winds for the last
three days have blasted. all hopes for a
crop in the central and southern part"
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BODIES ILL FOR LYNCHERS.
Five Thousand Dollars to Be Spent in
Discovering DIR. Ryder's Slayers.

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 3.-Two Pinkerton
detectives arrived in this city to-day on
their way to Talbot county to work up the
cases against the fourteen members of the
mob that lynched DR.. w. l.. Ryder there
two weeks ago. The detectives held a con-
sultation here with the brothers of the
mob's victim and were placed in possession
of all the evidence in their possession. 1t
will be recalled that the Governor offered
500 for the first two convictions and $100
for each subsequent conviction. If all the
would aggregate 81, 700. AS the Ryders have
determined to spend the $1,000 of DR.. Ry
der'S life insurance money in discovering
his slayers, there will be no lack of funds
to push the case, and the indications now
are that the outlaws will be brought TO
Justice.
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Brady's Carnival of Snort.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-William Bra
dy is going to hold a carnival of sport in
Nevada this fall. While prize fighting VIII
be the principal attraction, there will be
other events in the sporting line, such as
horse and bicycle races. The carnival will
last several days and will be pulled off
probably in the early part of October. Reno
and Carson are expected to be the rival
bidders for the fights. The main attrac-
ton is expected to be the Sharkey-Maher
fight. Creedon and Mccoy will be offered a
Green wins in his fight with Walcott he
will be offered $1,000 to meet Tommy Ryan
at a satisfactory weight. George Dixon
and Al Greenfield nave been rendered a
$500 purse. Lavigne and some men in his
class-Eddy Connolly, Kid MCFARLAND or
the like-will meet him for a SIS, 800 purse.
Dave Sullivan and Jimmy Barry will be
the little fellows who will meet for a 81, 800
purse.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Terrence V.
Powderly, of Pennsylvania, formerly mas
ter workman of the Knights of Labor. to-
day took the prescribed oath and received
his commission as commissioner general of
immigration. There were present A. w.
Wright, formerly member of the executive
board Knights of Labor, ana several other
friends of the commissioner general and
officials of the Treasury Department. In
had formulated no particular plans or poll
icy for the administration of his office. He
was, however, in favor of a strict and i'm
partial Interpretation of our immigration
laws, and beiieved that every proper effort
should be made to keep out all undesirable
classes. To that end he would use means
to prevent their embarking for this coun-
try, thus saving them the expense and
hardship OF the trip.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 3.-The Their
mometer recorded 104 to-day. the third day
in succession that it has been above 100.
There have been a number of cases of
prostration. and it is thought that the death
of Father Kexel, assistant pastor of st.
Joseph's Church. was caused by the heat.
He had been i'll for a few days. but was
able to attend to his church duties until
this morning, when he was found to be
dying. He came here last September to
succeed Father Wilson on the ~latter's
death, and who in turn had succeeded
Father Baldwin, who died the year before.
The corn in the Wabash valley is curling
up, and unless rain comes very soon what
promised to be the biggest crop ever raised
will be seriously impaired.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-The Importation
of breadstuffs into the United States, as re-
ported by the Bureau of Statistics, during
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, amount
ed in value of the various products
grouped under that head to 81, IA, 763. Bar
ley and wheat furnish the principal items,
the former aggregating 1,2u,7 1877 bushels,
valued at 1894, I49, and the latter to 1,l76, 337
bushels. of the value of $1,176. 337. AS com
pared with the preceding year there is a
decrease in the importation of wheat of
over 1000, 900 bushels. Foreign corn finds
scarcely any market in the United States,
only 12,071 bushels having been imported
during the last fiscal year. Small as these
impOrtations of grain are, most of them are
again sent out OF the country, having been
entered from Canada in bond for eXpOrta-
ton. 1t is said but little enters into actual
consumption, that destined to remain in the
United States being used for seed.
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"RoAsTER.-
Warm and Fair, Followed Possibly by
Cooler Weather Tonight.

Forecasts for Indianapolis ana vicinity
for the twenty-four hours ending IL p. m.
Aug. Warm. fair weather on Wednesday;
possibly thunder showers and cooler iii the
afternoon or night.
General Conditions Yesterday-High Da~-
ometric pressure prevails especially from
the Missouri valley northward, but slight
depressions formed from Kansas south
westward and over Indiana. The warm
current in front of these depressions ex-
tends northward. with 81 degrees, to cen
tral Indiana and central Illinois.
The temperature fell west of the
Mississippi, and quite cool tempera-
ture prevails from Kansas, Col
orado, Minnesota and Lake Superior
nofthward. Rains fell and thunderstorm
formed in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska.
Iowa, Minnesota, Alabama, Tennessee and
western New York. While the temperature
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Kentuckians BroiIing.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. 3.-The hot wave In
this vicinity continues to play havoc with
humanity. Last night went on record as
one of the s~ultriest and most uncomforta-
BILE experienced in Louisville for many
years. The thermometer during the greater
portion of the night remained in the
n~ineties. At 2:SO this afternoon the mer-
curry touched 9S.5, and remained in that
vicinity until shutdown. There were numer-
Gus prostrations, several of which will
prove fatal. Out in the State the heat was
terrific. AT Greensburg 104 degrees was
registered, the highest for years. Meridian
and jackson, Miss, Mobile, Ala, and Mem
phis and Nashville. Tenn, report the high
est temperature of the season, the Their
mometer at jackson registering 102.
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Referred to saIisbury,s speech.

LONDON, Aug. BIN the House of Com
mons to-day Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett,
Conservative, asked fC. information re-
garding the stage reached in the peace ne
gotiations between Greece and Turkey,
whereupon the parliamentary secretary for
the foreign Office. Mr.. Cursor, referred
Sir Ellis to the statement made by the
Marquis of Salisbury in the House of Lords
last evening. Sir Ellis said he wanted an
explanation of a portion of the premier's
statement referred to. This caused the
Foreign Office representative to reply that
1t was no part of his duty to explain the
meaning of the premier's speech. Sir Ellis
and other members of the house then Wig
orously protested against being referred to
made in another place, and
asked the speaker if there was any prece-
dent for such proceeding. The speaker
said there had been a precedent for such
action during the present session of Par
lament, referring to a similar incident
early in the session, which led to vehement
protests upon the part of the opposition.
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MAY SINK THE FLEET
TURKS DEFY THE POWERS By SEND
INC WAR SHIPS TO CRETE.
Possibility that the Foreign AdmiraIs
May Open F~ire-Serfous Sftu-
alton in Portugal.

LONDON, Aug. 3.-There is a possibility
of a clash between the Turkish war fleet
and the vessels of the power stationed
in Cretan waters. Yesterday evening three
Turkish ironclads left the Dardanelles for
Canea, and to-day the second division of
the fleet, consisting of seven ships, COM
manded by Hari Pasha, sailed for the same
destination. This action of the Porte may
cause fresh trouble in the settlement of the
Graeco-Turkish peace preliminaries. 1t has
been reported for some time that the Turk
ish government was contemplating landing
additional Turkish troops in Crete, and on
Thursday last the admirals in command
of the foreign fleets in Cretan waters held
a conference and decided to oppose by force
the landing of any Turkish reinforcements.
They notified Ismael Bey, the Turkish civil
governor, of the decision arrived at, but
the Turkish governor replied that he could
not accept such a decision, apparently TAX
ing the ground that the Porte would per-
sist in it's intention to reinforce the Turk
ish garrison in Crete.
A dispatch from C~onstantinople says:
The peace conference was in session three
hours to-day, and unexpected progress was
made with the negotiations. 1t is said
that everything has been arranged except
the question of evacuation of Thessaly,
which is TO be considered tomorrow. 1t
is hoped that a solution of the whole diff
ficulty is now imminent.
Advices from Athens say that NJ. Rail-,
the premier, denies that King George has
threatened to abdicate. This is interpreted
to mean that Germany has probably con-
scented to some modified control of Greek
fnances acceptable to both Greece and to
Europe.
A sharp engagement took place between
1900 Turkish troops and the armed popu-
lation of the villages lying between Met
sova, Trikala and Kalarrytes. The Turks
retreated after losing seventy killed.
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wronSfuIIy seized by britain.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-The steamer
Belgic brings the news that the right Of
the British government TO TAX possession
OF Palmyra island is to be disputed.
Luther Wilcox, of Honolulu, declares that
the island belongs to himself, Fred Wun-
denburg and William Kinney. They Sc
cured their right from the Pacific Naviga-
ton Company. which purchased the island
from the Hawaiian government. The gov
eminent in turn acquired its right
through discovery and colonization of the
island hY Charles Benlon in 1852.
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Hoods Pills i n5s purely SsseS GsEI.a ssa. re-

masters will be made before President Nc
Kiniey returns to Washington. These few
appointments will be only in cases which
require immediate action.
George B. Hamlet, OF Ohio, has been APP
pointed chief postotice inspector, TO sue
coed Col. NJ. d. Wheeler. of New York, re-
duced to inspector in the field.
Orders have been sent to the commander
of the cruiser Montgomery to take the
Louisiana naval militia aboard on the 10th
for a sea drill. She was to nave come
north. but will now remain on the Florida
station until relieved by the Helena. The
militia will board the Montgomery at Ship
island.
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KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Aug. 3.-The hot
spell of weather that has prevailed here
for a week was broken this afternoon.
Al 4 o'clock the maximum heat of the day
ninety-eight degrees, had been reached.
a few minutes later a heavy rainstorm
broke over the city, and by 5 o'clock the
temperature had dropped to seventy-four
degrees. The rain was heavy.
Reports received tonight Indicate that
showers fell in many points throughout
Kansas and Missouri. at some points
the rainfall being heavy, and the indica-
lions are that the Kansas drouth is
broken.
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Many Perished in the Floods.

VIENNA, Aug. 3.-The danger of serious
floods here is averted, as the water is be-
ginning to subside, but ii is still necessary
to take all possible precautions. The re-
ports of fatal casualties from the prov
inces are most deplorable. Eighty-tive
persons have been drowned in Silesia, six
ty between Ischl and LauSsen and ten at
Jungbuch, while nearly a hundred persons
are missing, NEST of whom are supposed
to be drowned. AT JohanniSbad, Bohemia,
there nave been seventeen fatalities. and
from almost every district come reports
of widespread destruction of crops and
cattle
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The Atlantic SQUADRON.

NEWPORT. r. l.. Aug. 3.-The vessels of
the North Atlantic squadron, which will
take part in the fete to be held tomorrow
arrived in the outer harbor this forenoon,
The squadron, which is in command OF
Rear Admira Montgomery Sicard, COM
prtses the flagship New York, the armored
cruiser Brooklyn and the battle ships Mas
sachusetts, Indiana and Maine. When the
flagship showed her nose beyond the ram
parts at Fort Adams the secondary battery
of the Iowa, which was all ready here,
doomed forth a salute of thirteen gurs,
the customary honors to a rear admiral.
The New York responded with seven guns
for Captain Sampson, of the Iowa.
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st. Louis StiII s1velteripr

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-The hot spell con-
tlnues and as a result humanity, especially
In the W downtown sections of the
city suffers. Last night the thermometer
did not drop below 70. To-day the ther-
mometer rose to 9S in the shade, which was
several degrees lower tina on the streets
People had become worn out with the loss
OF sleep and many succumbed to the heat
been fatal:
DIR; H. O'DoNovAN, aged seventy.
found dead in bed.
KARL NEISSNER, aged thirtv-eieht a
baker. ' .
Thermometers registered 1O2 in the shade
IN Alton, Ill, to-day, and outdoor labor was
altogether suspended in the city.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balances. 1921, 992. 500
gold reserve. $40, 925. PSI.
Assistant Secretary Howell has rendered
a decision in which he holds that calf skins
should be classed as hides of cattle" and
therefore are dutiable under the new tarilf
bill at Is per cent. ad valorem.
Few appointments Of presidential post
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at Z p. m. is go degrees, it is in the north
western portion of the State ~ degrees.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-For Indiana
and Illinois-Local showers in the early
morning. probably fair Wednesday after
noon; cooler northwesteTly winds.
For Ohio-Threatening weather and light
local showers; cooler in western portion;
light northerly winds.