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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
CLAIMS $5,OOO,OO0 INDEMNITY
EN BRINGS ACTION
 AGAINST FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Dr. Hertz, an Eminent ElectrIcian and
 Scholar, the Plaintiff-In Prosecuting
 Him for Alleged Connection in the Pana-
 ma Canal Frauds He Complains That the
 French Authorities Prosecuted Him.
 Washington, Jan. 10.-Messrs. Dieten- haufer, Lauterbach and Hamburger to- day appeared before Solicitor Hawsfield and presented a claim for indemnity of $5, ,O00,O 900 against the French republic in favor of Dr. Hertz, an eminent electri- elan and scholar. The claim is based upon an alleged attempt of the French authorities to persecute the plaintiff. Although born in France of French pa- rents, pr. Hertz is an American citizen. At the age of sixteen he was a lieuten- ant in the United States army. In 1871 he was charged by the authorities of Chicago with a mission in connection with the reconstruction of the city af- ter the fire. Meanwhile, it is declared, his fame as an electrician had spread. He married an American woman, and when his children were born in Paris he caused them to be registered as American citizens at the consulate.
 On January 19, 1893, while he was stopping at Bournemouth, England, with his wife. he was arrested under extradtion proceedings on a warrant from the French government, charging him with fraud and embezzlement growing out of the Panama scandal. Under the law a. prisoner wanted for extradition must appear at Bow Street police court. He was unable to appear and he was continued under arrest, be- ing unable to leave his bed, for four years. Then the board of parliament passed an act that permitted the magis- trate to attend Hertz's bedside and take his testimony. The magistrate said that the charges were unjust. That was on May ?, 1896, and the result was that he was released from arrest.
 Meanwhile the French government had instituted numerous proceedings against him in France and confiscated all his property. He alleges that this was persecution pure and simple, and that the French government knew that the charges against him were baseless before his trial. Therefore, claiming tc have been injured in name and health and in other ways, he demands that the state department shall prefer claim | against the French government in full | Although he names no special sum, the brief shows he demanded five million l dollars in letter he sent to the presi- dent of the French republic, but which was never answered. The state depai t I ment has taken the case under advise ment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
LEGIsLATIoN FoR ALASKA.
Committee on Territories Discuss It-No Movement for Territorial Government

Committee on Territories Discuss It-No
 Movement for Territorial Government.
 Washington, Jan. 10.-Senator Garter of the senate committee on territories and Chairman Knox of the house com nlittee had an informal conference to- day, going over what legislation is nec- essary for Alaska. It was agreed that nothing should yet be done in the way of giving Alaska a territorial form of government in view of the unsettled character of the population of that dis trict. It was decided that action should be taken giving more United States commissioners for the district. There are eight of them and the present prop osition is to make the commissioners subject to appointment by the courts. Both gentlemen thought that the pres ent lack of power of the towns and communities to levy taxes should be rectified and authority given them for such purposes The matter of presenta- ation of the district in congress was also informally discussed, and the con- cluson was reached that the flask people should be accorded delegate in that body.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
CHANGE IN FOOTBALL RULES.
Communications to be sent Out for Gem
 eral Conferences,

eral Conference.
 New York, Jan. 10.-Communications will be sent out this week to the soot- ball associations of the big universities hereabouts asking them to send rep resentative to the conference at which a further revision of the playing rules is to be discussed. The football meet ing is to be held in this city in the Uni versity Athletic club. c. c. Cuyler, the banker, and one of Princeton's athletic advisers, said to-day that two dates would be submitted for the meeting the colleges to agree on one of them It is highly probable that the football associations will name the same men who Comprised the former committee of revision of the rules. These are Jo- seph Sears of Harvard, Walter Camp of Yale, Alexander Moffatt of Prince ton, J. C. Bell of the University of Pennsylvanit, Professor Dennis of Cor nell and Paul Dashiel of the United States naval academy at Annapolis.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
4 FUNERAL BY TROLLEY.
Mourners to Travel in n Private Car Which Will Also Convey Casket.

New Britain, Jan 1o.-B. c. Porter & Sons, undertakers of this city, to- night made arrangements to conduct a
 trolley funeral. tomorrow. when the remains of Mrs. Emeline K. Wilkey, who died at Vernon, last Sunday, will be brought to Fairview cemetery, this city, a distance of twenty-seven miles,
 for interment. The mourners will travel in private trolley car which will also convey the casket containing the remains of the deceased. The jour- ney will be made over the newly open ed Rockville and Hartford Tramway company's lines and then by way of the Central Railway and Electric com
 pany to, this city. The trolley line passes the cemetery gates on East Main street It is expected the trip will be made in two and a half hours.
 The deceased was the wife of Walter H. Wilkey, a prominent stone mason of Vernon. This is the second trolley funeral to occur in this state the pre- vious one taking place about a year ago, when the remains of Captain Dick" Norton of Plainville, an old "49er," was conveyed from his late home over the Bristol and Plainville trolley road to the cemetery in Con- bounce, a. distance of about five miles.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
4NGELL AND THE SULTAN, Minister Reports Indisposition of Porte to Pay Indemnity Demanded.

Washington, Jan. 10.-United States Minister Aangell at Constantinople re- ported to the state department this morning that he has not yet succeeded in securing an assent from the Turkish government to his demand for the pay ment of an indemnity for the American mission property destroyed during the Armenian outbreak, and has sought in- structions from the department that will enable him to make even stronger representations to the Turkish govern ment than have been made by himself or MT. Terrell, his predecessor. The porte in responding to MT. Angell has taken the position that government Is not properly to be held responsible for individual property lost or damaged during times of riot, when the govern ment had made effort to guard it. The situation is not promising for a speedy settlement of the claims.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
KARLSRUH EE- WEIL.
Fashionable Wedding to be Celebrated at Orange Street Temple To-day.

Orange Strfeb Ieinpie AO-uays
 The wedding of Miss Jennie D. Well, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Paul Veil, and MT. Henry Karlsruher of New York, will take place in the new Dr. ange street Temple this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rabbi Levy will offlciate at both the church and Harmonic hall, where the reception will be held. The decorations will be wholly pink Miss Well will be attended by three flower girls, who will be dressed in dainty frocks of pink mousseline de soie over pink and wear large hats with white plumes These little wards will be Re gina Zunder, Grace Mailhouse and Ruth Lichtenstein. The pages, Charles Well, Arthur Well and Monroe Zunder will wear white satin court suits. The brides dress is of white duchess satin trimmed with pointed lace, diamond or naments and orange blossoms. The bridal bouquet will be composed of bride roses and lilies of the valley, and tied with long pink ribbon. The three pages and three flower girls will hold a rope made of pink roses and ribbon to match, as they march up the aisle
 The ushers will be Milton Veil, brother of the bride; R. Zunder, Albert Rosenthal, Max Karlsruher, brother of the groom; Cyrar Rheims and Bernard Goldsmith. The ushers and a few i'm mediate friends were entertained at sup per at the residence of Miss Well last night. s.& Sg.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
.sEcRErARr lIaER,s CONDITION.
Alarming Stories Make Formal state-
 ment NecessarY-H is InprOying.

Alarming Stories Make Formal State-
 ment Necessary He is Improving.
 Washington, Jan. 10.--Alarming stor- ies sent throughout the west relative to the condition of Secretary Alger have caused the issue of a formal state ment from Assistant Secretary Meikle- john, after consultation with Captain Woods, the army surgeon, who has been attending the secretary during his illness, which has now lasted about a month. It is said that he was attacked originally by the grip and this left in it's wake low type of fever, not ty- phoid, as has been reported, which weakened the patient considerably The persistence of Secretary Alger in keeping at his work even while confin- ed to his room undoubtedly retarded his recovery very much, but he was finally induced to give over the attempt to look after the department business until he was able to get about again. It is said that this morning the fever has conpletey disappeared and that the secretary is stronger. He still remains in bed by direction of Dr. Woods, but the physician says that by the end of this week or early next week Secretary Alger will be able to leave Washington for some point nto yet selected, prob ably on the seashore, to convalesce.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
T EINSTED MYSTERY.
Woman Reads Letter, Loses Conscious.
 ness and is Found Freezing,


 ! Winsted, Conn, Jan. 10.-Despite the fact that Mrs. Elizabeth Shores, who was rescued from freezing to death on the highway early Saturday morning, was enabled to talk a little to-day, there has been no new light thrown on this mysterious case. Mrs. Shores has experienced a slight change for the bet ter to-day, though he recovery is by no means assured, and tor the first time since she was discovered lying in the roadway, has been at all rational. She is exceedingly weak and the at tending physicians will not allow any thing tQ disturb her. but Chief of Police s. c. Wheeler was allowed brief con- versation. Mrs. Shores informed him that she returned home from her work about o'clock Friday night and after partaking of supper went to the postof- flee, where she received a few letters. She returned home about 9 o'clock and remembers reading the letters, but all things else are blank. The police will consistently follow up the case and are sanguine that they will be able to solve the mystery.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
aIYEN UP AS LOST.
Steamers John E. Mckenzie and The
 Hustler of Gloucester.

Gloucester Mass, Jan. 10,-After hop- might bring some tidings of the over due steamer John T.. Mckenzie, the owners have been reluctantly and sor- rowfully forced to the conclusion that the vessel has foundered and that the crew of thirty-six hardy and vigorous men has perished. The Hustler has also been given up as lost, as nothing has been heard from her in three months. Since leaving Harbor Maine absolutely no tidings of the vessel have ever been received and it is thought she foundered in the gale which swept the Grand Banks about the middle of October.
 The Hustler was Staunch craft of 9217 tons built at Essex in 1889, valued at $7,000, and insured for $4,471 on the vessel and $1, 700 on the outfits. She carried crew of eigtheen men, two of whom were married, and the owners state that they were as fine set of young men as they ever had in one yes sel The owners of the schooner John Mckenzie also give up all hope of that vessel ever returning to port Twelve weeks ago she sailed from this port on Bank halibuting trip under command of Captain Andrew Mckenzie and from that day to this not a single word has been heard of her whereabouts.
 The Mckenzie was one of the finest vessels of the Gloucester feet She was 130 tons register Built in Essex in 1893 and owned by Hugh Parkhurst and Captain Mckenzie. She was in- sured for S7000 on the vessel and $2000 on outfits. Captain Mckenzie had fol- lowed the fisheries uninterruptedly since the age of seventeen with marked success, making several record break ing trips to Iceland for f1itched halibut and also made records in the New Foundland frozen herring fishery. During the nine years ending with 1897 his total stock in the fisheries was $17O,515.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
THE RoWING SITUATION.
Cornell Reaches Conclusion-Beiief That
 It Win be Satisfactory to Yale.


 Ithaca, N. J., Jan. 10.-A meeting of the Cornell athleic council was held to- night to decide upon a definite rowing policy. While a decision was reached, the members voted to make no an- nouncement relative to the same. The following statement was given out, During the interval which has elapsed since the last meeting means have been taken to secure fuller information re- garding the wishes of the various col leges concerned and regarding the diff ferent courses. A conclusion was early reached and it is confidently believed that it will prove satisfactory to all par ties concerned. Communications will be sent to Columbia, Harvard Pennsylva- mia and Yale, embodying the decision of Cornell and until they have been re- ceived by these universities of course no statement regarding their contents will be given not by Cornell.
 Notwithstanding the reticence of the council it was learned from member of that body this morning learned that the opinion prevailed among the mem peIS lual CoTHell Sloulu TOW LaAo IL possible. In view of this fact it was stated that in all probability the coun- cil would vote to accept Yale's chal- lenge if that university would give the assurance of race next year. If Yale, however, would make no concession, then Cornell would issue the call for a grand regatta on the Hudson. The Ithacans have already received the as- surance that Harvard will enter with Pennsylvania and Columbia and make the race four -cornered one.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
MR. LIEFELD,S .iPPoINTMENr.
It is Confirmed by the Senate-Other Con-
 necticut Appointments.


 necticut Appointments.
 Washington, Jan. 10.-The senate to- day confirmed these nominations: To be consul general, James G. Stowe of Missouri, at Cape Town; to be consuls, J. H. Grout, jr., of Massachusetts, at Malta; E. Theophilus Liefeld of Con- necticut, at Freiburg, Baden; Francis c. Lowell of Massachusetts, to be Unit ed States district judge for the district of Massachusetts; Felix A. Reeve of Tennessee, assistant solicitor of the treasury; B. K. Bruce of the District of Columbia, register of the treasury; Thomas c. Wordin of Connecticut, as- sistant appraiser of merchandise for the district df New York; to be collectors of customs, c. M. Mansur, district of Memphremagog, Vermont; Olin Merrill, district of Vermont; Frank J. Nara more, district of Fairfield, Conn. i: Thomas o. Fairchild, district of New London, Conn.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
The Presidents Recommendations to be
 Reported Favorably.

Washington, Jan. 10.-It developed to- day that at least nine of the seventeen members of the house banking and cur rency committee will vote to favorably report the presidents financial recom- mendations at once without waiting for action on the Gage bill or monetary conference bill. or any comprehensive measure. The presidents recommend
 ations are for the issue of bank circula- tion up to the par value of bonds de- posted, the establishment of small banks in rural communities and re- duction of the tax on bank circulation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
BUILDINGS AT ANNAPOLIS,
Secretary Long Submits Draft oi a Bill for
 Absolutely Necessary Repairs.

Washington, Jan. 10-In a letter to the chairman of the naval committees of the senate and house Secretary Long speaks of the bad condition of the buildings at Annapolis and submits a draft of bill for absolutely necessary repairs in order to prevent injury to the establishment. The bill appropri- ates for the objects: Armory, $300,o00
 boat-house, $300, 900; power house, $100,- GOO; four double houses for officers quarters, s60,000, and removal of old buildings and preparing plans, $9OO00. An immediate appropriation of $4oO GOO is carried for he beginning of the work
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
CITY TICKET NOMINATED,
Middletown Republicans Choose Henry E. Weeks to Run as Mayor,

Middletown, Jan. 1O.-At the republi- can caucus held in the town hall to- night the following ticket for the city election next month was placed in nom- ination: Mayor, Henry E. Weeks; al- derman, William Mylchreest and A. O. Reed; councilmen, Charles Mowry. pr. F. H. Coudert, Robert S. Pease, Louis Hubbard, Thomas Mcdowell and c. F. Merrill; collector, w. J. Breckinridge; assessor, J. T. Elliott
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
Torpedo Boat No. 15 Launched.

Bristol, R. l., Jan. 10.-Torpedo boat No. 15 was lauched at the Herreshoff yards to-day the vessel having been completed. No. 16 is nearly finished and No. IA is about half completed. No. IA will be much larger than the others and the contract requires her to be able to make 221a knots. No. 15 is 100 feet long at the water line and will be required to be able to make 20 knots an hour.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
To Prevent Deseeratfop of Fls.,

Washington, Jan. 1O.-Senator Hoar introduced in the senate to-day a bill to prevent the dissertation of the na- tional fog. By the terms of the bill no person, corporation or company may use the national flag or the coat of arms of the United States as an adver- Using device.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
NEw BRITAIN NcHOoLs.
Cooking, Sewing and Manual Training to
 be Added to Several Grades.

New Britain, Jan. 10-At the regular meeting of the New Britain school board tonight a committee was ap- pointed to look into the advsa bility of erecting two new school buildings, and it was also decided to add cooking, sew ing and manual training in several of the grades. In grades and g, which include pupils from ten to fourteen years of age, the girls will be taught cooking and the boys instructed in manual training, while the girls in grades 5, 6 and ' will be instructed in sewing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
Death of Tbomas sE. Newtop.

Thomas E. Newton of West Haven died last fight of typhoid pneumonia. MT. Newton had been i'll but short time. He kept confectionery store Washington avenue and was also a newsdealer Arrangements for the flu neral have not yet been made. Mir
 Newton's death occurred early this morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
BRITISH POLICY IS DEFINED
BALFOUR DECLARES LIONS INTER
 ES1S IN CHINA.

They Are Commercial and Not Territorial
 Territory Would be a Dlsadvantage--No
 Objection to Russia Having an Ice-free
 Port--What Great Britain Would Resist.
 London, Jan. 10.-Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury and commons, addressed his constituents at
 Manchester this evening. It was ex- pected that he would make an import-
 ant announcement of the government
 policy in China, but he confined him self to generalities. MT. Balfour said
 the concert of Europe had not added to it's reputation by it's recent treatment of
 Crete. He declared that ii, would be
 better to have a third rate governor of
 the island than none at all and it was
 strange the concert could not find one
 either. in Europe or America. He eulo-
 gized the bravery displayed by the Brit
 ish troops in the India campaign, a campaign more difficult than the Af~
 ghan war of 1S79
 Turning to China he said British in- terests there were commercial and not territorial. Except as base for possi- ble warlilSe operations territory would be disadvantage because it would in- volve responsibility and expense in money and men. He di1ated upon the fact that "The extent of our trade in China gives us a special claim to pre-
 vent her pursuing a policy that would discourage trade and added: But the deepest traditions of our policy pre-
 clude us from using any trading privi- lege as a weapon to exclude our rivals. If we ask freedom of trade, it is not for England alone, but for the whole world.'
 There was no objection, he said in | conclusion, Ito Russia having an ice- | free port provided England was not ex- cluded, but the government would do it's utmost to prevent China yielding to for eign pressure to make regulations ad- | verse to Great Britain or any improb- | able, but possible, attempt to dot the coast of China with foreign stations by protectionist countries who would raise barriers to our trade" The burden of l the whole declaration was that Eng 1 lands policy in China is for the benefit | of the world at large.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11

Manchester, N. H., Jan. t0--On Feb ruary 1, 1140 looms in the printing de- partment of Manchester cotton mills will be stopped for an indefinite time The cause is assigned as the falling off in the demand for print goods. There will also be reduction of about 10 per cent. in wages affecting about 30 per cent. of the employees on January 24.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-11
THE LATEST RURAL rRAGEDY.
Family of Three Murdered In Brookfield
 Mass.-The Fiend at Large.

Family of Three Murdered in Brookfield,
 Mass.-The Fiend at Large.
 Brookfeld, Mass, Jan. 10.-One of the most terrible murders in the history of New England took place in the farm house of Francis D. Newton, about three miles from the center of this peaceful but now mortified village, some time last Friday night The details of the crime, the death of the father, the mother and the little girl, all from the blows of an axe in the hands, it is sup posed, of farm-hand, are as yet sub ject only to conjecture. Whether the fiend who sent all three lives into eter- nifty dealt with the man first and then with the helpless woman is also a mys- tery.
 The entire police force of this state is tonight hard at work trying to find within the limits of civilization one Paul Miller, a foreigner, whom they be- lieve slaughtered in cold blood Francis D. Newton, his employer, together with the helpless wife and the still more help less girl of ten years. That the bodies of all three should have lain for two days without discovery can only be ac- counted for by that distinctive New England rural habit of allowing every one to mind his own business, coupled with the remoteness of the scene of the crime. A full quarter of mile from any other person lived the Newtons, pursuing the even tenure of their life, seeing their neighbors but seldom and keeping, like many other families, well within themselves. The bodies of the three victims were found by search ing party, suspicion that all was not right having grown in the village be- cause of the lowing of the cattle.
 Hartford, Jan. 10.Francis D. New ton lived in this city for some months in 1895 He was in the bakery business in Parkville and after six months sold out to a Frenchman named Gaston- quay. He was sober and industrious. His wife and daughter lived with him. His place was known as the West Side Bakery
 Worcester, Mass, Jan. 1o.-A man an- swering the description of the sus- pected Brookfeld murderer, who came into station as a lodger last night and again tonight, has been held pending an investigation by the officers -mor- row morning of the case. He is a farm hand and dressed shabbily, and in many | respects answers the description of | Miller 8E Y.#.