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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
SUITS FOR DAMAGES.
Twenty-Five Soldiers Want Balm for
Injuries from 81 Southern Railway.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20--Joseph p. Bennett.
VIM. H. Travers and twenty-three other
members of the Sixty-ninth Volunteers
have begun action in the Supreme Court
of this county to recover damages from
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany for injuries suffered on Aug. 2S last
by an accident when they were on their
way to Huntsville, Ala. While their train
was en- route to Huntsville ten miles from
Birmingham the front car jumped the track
and the others followed and were over
turned. In several instances the men al
lege that their injuries will be permanent.
Some Of them recovered from their injuries
after weeks of treatment in hospitals. The
largest amount mentioned in the suits is
500 Geo and the smallest $1,000 1t is the con-
tention that the accident was the result of
negligence on the part of the railroad COM
pany.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
To Raise the Maine and Colon.

NEW YORK, Dec. pa special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Secretary
Long will soon issue advertisements calling
fer proposals for raising the Maine and the
Cristobal Colon. in accordance with the de-
cision of the board of construction. to which
the matter had been referred. The board
has had under consideration several propo-
sitions from engineers and wrecking COM
panies, presenting feasible schemes for rails
ing those vessels and delivering them at the
New York or the Norfolk navy yard, with
pense unless their efforts were successful.
In the advertisement suggested by the
board, bidders will be informed that they
must furnish to the Navy Department sat
isfactory bonds in such amount that the
government will be fully protected against
loss through incompetency or carelessness.' .
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
Four Soldiers Were killed.

NEWPORT, r. l., Dec. 2O--Four bodies
have been recovered from the ruins of the
burned stables of Light Battery H, Fourth
United States Artillery, at Fort Adams,
Following is list of the dead: F. Butler.
Battery H, Seventh Artillery; Frederick w.
kull, Battery H, Seventh Artillery; Henry
|. Harris, Battery II, Seventh Artillery. and
an an Unknown private. the half dozen men
INJURED at the fire last night are doing well.
this morning. The second body found last
night has not yet been identified. A num-
yesterday and left the fort before the fire
broke out, and some of them returned and
were seen at work about the burning stables.
that of one of these furloughed men, Pri-
Vate Harris enlisted in Chicago July Is last,
and Private Kull in Louisville on April %,
1883. The explosion in the gunshed near the
stables, which caused the death Of the men,
is being investigated.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

hand quite supply of ammunition for the
peculiar armament of cur two adopted
cruisers, and It is thought by the time this
is used up this country will be in position
to supply them with all the ammunition
they need
1t is interesting to note that the new guns
being planned for the navy Will conform
in certain material respects to those OF the
New Orleans. which was classed by all the
officers who saw her in action during the
war as a marvelously quick-firing, hard
shooting piece of naval architecture. Her
guns are all fifty calibers long" that is.
the barrel is fifty times the length of the
diameter of the bore. Our standard has
been forty calibers, but the longer gun seems
to bear about the same relation to the
bore as the 45 calber rifle does to the re-
volver of the same bore. 1t is this peculiar
ity of the barrel guns that develops their
remarkable muzzle velocity of something
like 2,Sc0 feet. The new guns planned for
our navy are expected to develop about
three thousand feet velocity. 1t is expected
that this type of the new six-inch firer with
its additional penetrating power will make
It an even more terrible weapon than that
demonstrated itself to be in our two memoir
able actions with the Spanish fleets.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
PLUCKY ILLINOIS GIRL.
Miss Pooling Runs Half n Mile to
Save an Express Train.

EARLVILLE, ILL.,, Dec. s0-The bravery
and pluck of Miss Dooling, a sister Of Os-
car Dooling Sunday night saved a wreck on
the Burlington half mile above this place.
Farmer Dooling and his sister were driving
a team of horses to a buggy. While cross
ing the Burlington track one of the horses
was caught in a guard. DOolng worked
frantically and managed to release one horse
and clear the south track just as a fast
freight flew by. Meantime, Miss Doolng
was running to town. She reached a house
in the outskirts secured help and lantern.
Men hastened back to the scene of the acci-
dent and fiagged an express train which
came TO a stop within foot of the horse
efltangled in the crossing.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
WONDERFUL CURE ALL.
How u Swiss Savant Freezes Disease
Out of People.

NEW YORK, Dec 20-Raoul Pictet, the
famous Swiss savant, chevaIier of the Le-
gion of Honor, discoverer of the liquefaction
of oxygen and member of more than forty
scientific societies in France and Germany,
has come to America to demonstrate to ply
sicians and scientists here what he is con-
vinced is a cure of diseases of the lungs,
stomach the circulation and the kidneys
La frigotherapie, the name of his new
discovery, may perhaps be roughly trans
lated into English as the freezing cure"
The necessary machinery consists of a well
of metal, lined with thick furs, in
which the patient descends the depth be-
ing about five feet This well is surrounded
by an outer shell, while the cavity between
the outer and inner walls is filled with a
combination of sUfphurous and carbonic
acids, known to the scientific world as
'lquide Pictet," after it's discoverer This
gas is kept in liquid state at 10 degrees
below zero, and is continually forced into
the cavity by pumps nj. Pictet says the
patient, surrounded by the furS and the icy
liquid, has no impression of cold whatever
and in fact, his temperature rises after
three seconds treatment, increasing from
one-haf to one degree in five minutes. A
period of treatment ranging from five to
fifteen minutes is always sufficient for the
time being, the number of needful repeti-
tions varying in each individual case. NJ
Pictet says he himself after fifteen years
illness, was cured after eight descents into
the well. The Prince of Servia, he says,
was absolutely cured by six descents after
twenty years of continuous i'll health.
NJ Pictet has adapted his "iquide Pictet"
to other uses besides those of a medicinal
and healing nature. By its aid, he says,
he has been enabled to produce a highly
refined and purified quality Of acetylene gas
which, it's inventor believes, will revolution
ize the methods now used Of lighting, heat
ing and motive power, Purifying the acety-
lene gas at a low temperature by the aid
of the liqide Pictet" a combination is
obtained that, its inventor asserts, will not
explode, burns absolutely without smoke
and makes light from twenty to twenty
five times more brilliant than that of or
binary Illuminating gas.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
BOY GIANT DEAD.
James S. McIndOO, 1S Years Old and
Seven Feet Two Inches Tall.

MADELIA, Mimi, Dec. 20.-James S. Nc
Indoo the Minnesota giant is dead of
hemorrhage of the brain. McIndoo was an
Illinoisan by birth, coming into the world
at Crescent, Iroquois county, July 5, 1880.
At the time of his death ne had not attained
full growth, but was already feet inches
tall, 2 feet 3 inches around the head, feet
s inches around the shoulders, feet inches
around the chest, A feet l inch around the
waist, and weighed 30S pounds. He wore
No. "a shoes and a No. hat. McIndoo
was of Scotch-Irfsh parentage. His size
was normal at birth, and remained so UP to
His seventh year Since then he had de-
veoped with startling rapidity. He recently
concluded q trip with the Forepaugh circus.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
Chicago Record.

chicago HeCOiu.
Inasmuch as Lieutenant Hobson is making
his way with all possible expedition to the
Philippine islands, 1t may be assumed that
he is out of all immediate further danger.
He has only to stow himself away in the
hold of the steamer until sailing time to be
safe from osculatory assaults. Meantime If
he is a reflective young man, 1t viii occur to
him probably that these miscellaneous kiss
ing onslaughts are not calculated to add TO
his reputation. His first experience of the
kind was set down as the spontaneous and
impulsive act OF a rather daring young
woman Supposing, however that Mr.. Hob
son has a not unnatural liking for compli-
ments and tokens of esteem, 1t may occur
10 him that there is not much that is COM
Dlimentary in the subsequent demonstrations
of overwrought excitement. The wave of
Hobson enthusiasm carried good many
persons of both sexes to extremes of praise,
and in such affairs as the Auditorium re-
ception IL has taken the form of hysteria.
If the naval constructor is wise he will take
pains TO decrease to the minimum all further
chances for similars hysterical demonstra-
tiOnS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
TINSLEY TO BE RELEASED.
millionaire Who Has Spent Nearly
Two Years in Jail for Contempt.

HOUSTON. Tex, Dec. 2j.-Thomas Tins
ley, a New York millionaire. who has been
in jail here for twenty-five months for con-
tempt of court, to-day partially purged HIM
self and will tomorrow be permitted to go
free.
Tinsley, as president of the Glenwood
Cemetery Company, refused to turn over the
books Of the company to a receiver appoint
ed by the court after his committal to jail
He appealed to the State Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court, Federal and Circuit
courts and finally to the United States Su-
preme Court, all of which upheld the dis
trict Judge. Tinsley contended that while
president of the Glenwood Cemetery Com
pany he might be in contempt, and that the
books were his private property, and that
Thomas Tinsley, the individual, was not
charged with contempt
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
HEUREAUX is ALIVE.
President of SantO Domingo Not As
sassinated, as RumOred.

PORT AU PRINCE, Dec. 2O.-President
Heureaux, of Santo Domingo, arrived at
Jackmel this morning in good health. A
wild rumor was current yesterday that he
had been assassnated.
General Ulysses HeureauX has been Presi-
dent of the Republic of Santo Domingo for
about ten years. He is a Haitian, about
fifty years of age, and a fine type, physical
ly of the West Indian negro. While in
office he has become immensely wealthy and
has several manufacturing monopolies nota-
bly, that of soap, the Importation of which
is practically impossible. Several insurrec-
tions have taken place with the idea of over
throwing President Heureaux, but he has
succeeded in putting them all down, shoot
ing leaders very often without trial. In the
early part of June last it was also reported
that General Heureaux had been assassin
ated during a revolution in Santo Domingo
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Senator Platt's argument completely dis
posed of the constitutional contentious of
the anti-expansionists. Whatever may be
said against national expansion on grounds
of policy or expediency. it is absurd to claim
that the Constitution prohibits it. If it does
I'VE have been violating the Constitution
ever since it was adopted Senator Platt
was undoubtedly right in taking the broad
ground that the power to acquire territory
IS an inherent power of sovereignty. an ele-
ment of nationality, and that the power of
the United States in this regard is as COM
plete and unlimited as that of Russia.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
Loss of About s5O8.OOo.

MONTREAL. Dec. 21.-.A fire which broke
out at 11:45 o'clock last night completely
gutted the big dry goods warehouse of 8.
Greenshields, Son G. Co., one of the largest
dry goods houses in Canada. Half an hour
after the fire started the roof fell in, and
ten minutes later one of the walls fell out
into Craig street, and the other fell into
McGill street. The fire wall separating the
Greenshields building from the dry goods
house of Mcintyre. Son & Co. collapsed and
the flames gutted the premises of that firm.
The loss on the Mcintyre stock and build
ing will reach 100000. The loss on the
Greenshields house will probably exceed
S30OO00
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Spain is now preparing to scale down the
rate of interest on it's bonded debt. which
falls due in January. 1t seems that it is the
only thing which she can do. The total
revenue of the country is placed at s17S, ,OOO,
600, while the annual interest on all out
standing debts reaches a total of $l27OOO,O ,O00
leaving but S46.OO0,OOO for all the expenses of
the government. The civil list. civil pensions
and other charges that cannot be reduced
amount to $15.OOO,OOO. This leaves but $751;
OOo.OOo to support the army and navy and to
meet the other expenses of the government
This amount is wholly inadequate, so a
scaling down of the interest on the bonded
debt is approved as better than reputation
AS much of this bonded debt was sold be-
low par the wrong to the speculative hold
er Of the. securities, purchased during the
war with Spain is not so great as It might
have been because he took his chances.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

AS already remarked by the Journal,
President McKinley's Southern trip was
quite unprecedented in the evidences it
evoked of popular responsiveness to friend
ly overtures. But it would be a mistake to
suppose that such overtures have not been
made before and by a Republican Pres
ident. In the spring of 1891 President Har-
rison made a trip through some of the
Southern States in which he made speeches
that caused much comment by the skill
with which he treated general topics with
out exciting antagonisms. The objective
point of the trip was California, and the
President was accompanied by members of
his family, two members of the Cabinet and
a few personal friends Leaving Washing
ton at midnight on April IA, he delivered
during that day eight speeches, one at
Roanoke, Va, and the rest at points in
Tennessee; during the next few days he
spoke at three points in Georgia, two in
Alabama, one in Tennessee, two in ArSan-
sas and five in Texas. The speeches were
full Of good feeling, and were very well re-
ceived, though there was not as much
warmth Of expression on either side as
there has been during the present trip
This was doubtless due to the fact that the
conditions were not as favorable. There
had been no Spanish war to bring out the
loyalty of the South and weld the sections
together. In one speech General Harrison
said:
We have a common heritage The Con-
federate soldier has full, honorable and
ungrudged participation in all the benefits
of a great and just government. l do not
doubt to-day that these would be among
the readiest of our population to follow the
quarter.
Again, speaking at Birmingham, Ala. be-
fore a large gathering of soldiers and civil
ians, General Harrison said:
1 thank these companies of the State mil
itia for their presence. They are deserving,
sir Ito the Governor), of your encourage
ment and that of the State of Alabama.
They are the reserve army of the United
States. 1t is our policy not to have a large
that, in any exigency, will step to the de-
fense Of the country, and If that eXigency
shall ever arise | know that you would re-
spond as quickly and readily as any other
State. CThe Governor: You will find all
Alabama at your back, sir.'O
So it will be seen that President Harrison
sowed the seeds of the crop of good telling
which President Mckinley has reaped. It
took the war with Spain to ripen the crop.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

If Lieutenant Hobson still subscribes to
a clipping bureau he is likely TO receive a
batch of newspaper excerpts soon after his
arrival in Manila that will make him realize
that it is much easier to fall from a pedes-
tai of popularity than to mount to it's top.
The public felt kindly toward the young
man and was willing to excuse a good
many things that seemed hardly in good
taste-the rather unnecessary prominence
he was giving himself by lecturing, for one
thing-but it is not disposed to overlook his
breach of the proprieties and even of de-
cency in the kissing performances in which
he is indulging on his way across the con-
tinent. His heroism in the matter of the
sinking of the Merrimac does not prevent
very sharp criticisms of his behavior, and
the comments are doubtless the more Sc
we're because of the high estimation in
which he was held and the regret that he
has not sustained his reputation as a gen.
tleman. 1t will not do to lay the blame upon
the silly, hysterical women who invite his
kisses; had he conducted himself with be-
coming dignity the nonsense could have
been checked at once Nor is his youth a
sufficient excuse. He is old enough to know
better. The sooner he gets across the con-
tinent and sets sail on the Pacific the bet
ter. 1t will not be pleasant hour of medi-
tation when it first dawns upon him what
a fool he has made Of himself.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

A correspondent is troubled about a three
line paragraph which appeared in the Jour
nal yesterday regarding dead issues" He
seems TO hold the opinion that so long as
men in the South declare that they justify
their course in fighting to destroy the
Union it is the duty of those on the other
side to stigmatize them as rebels and trait
ors. and that some good purpose like the
cementing of the Union and the fusing OF
the American people into Nation can be
subserved by keeping alive a dispute over
an issue that has been settled forever. If
the correspondent had been a Southern
man in 1861 the probabilities are that he
would have served in the rebel ranks rather
than in the Union army. Thirty-seven years
after the conflict It is time we should
Zee that the mass of men in both armies
believed that they were right, and that they
are sincere now in declaring devotion to
the Union. The suppression Of suffrage In
the South is the method adopted by Demo-
cratic leaders, not because they are ex-con-
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
Philip to Command the Squadron.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-The Navy De-
partment is advised of the sailing of Ad-
miral Sampson On his flagship, the New
York, for New York. Commodore Philip
on the Texas, will be the commanding Off
Ger of the American naval forces at Ha-
vana, by virtue of his seniority, but Ad-
miral Sampson retains his command of the
entire North Atlantic station. 1t is his pur-
pose, on arriving in the United States, to
rest for two weeks, the first time he will
have had the opportunity for year and a
half. 1t is not expected that the admiral
will return to Havana, the evacuation
commission will have completed its work
before the first of the year
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

The war with Spain has led to many
record-breaking acts by the United States,
but none more unique and significant than
the ordering of 1900 collins for the purpose
of bringing home the remains of American
soldiers buried in Cuba and Porto Rico.
Republics have been called ungratefuI, yet
no other government of ancient or modern
times ever showed such gratitude to its de-
tenders as this
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Col. William ]. Bryan says he does not in
tend 10 resume editorial work nor the prac-
tice Of law. If he is really seeking an oc-
cupation for which he is admirably adapted
by nature he should go on the stage. His
speech at Chicago. which brought him the
nomination for President, was a great piece
of acting. as was also his going to the war
A man who does things for effect as con-
spicuously is a natural actor and would ex-
Gel in that profession
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-The plant of the
Chrome Patent Leather Company, at Avenue
and Murray street, Newark. N. j., was
destroyed by fire tonight. One hundred
girls and three hundred men were at work
in the works when the flames broke out.
They had not even time to secure their
street clothing. The girls screamed and
jostled each other while getting out, and
the escape became a panic. No one seems
to have been severely hurt, but several were
knocked down and badly bruised. The loss
is estimated at S10O eco.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

PHILADELPHIA Dec. %. = William
Steele former cashier of the wrecked Chest
nut-street National Bank, was to-day SEN
fenced by Judge Butler in the United States
District Court TO six years and six months
Imprisonment and $500 fine. Steele was con-
victed of conspiracy with the late William
NJ Singerly, president of the bank, In MAX
ing false entries in the books OF the bank
and false reports of the banks condition to
the controller of the currency and in mis-
applying the funds OF the bank.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
Business Rivalry.

The Clerk-The jeweler down the street
is selling a collar button that can be ex-
changed for a new one if it gets damaged.
He has the sole agency.
The Jeweler-I'n fix him. all right I'll Of
fer to send boy around TO hunt up any one
of our buttons when it rolls under the bu-
raau
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

The Car has said that in looking over the
world he did not find the civilization very
good. That is because he looked at it from
his palace in st. Petersburg, and the fore
ground of the picture was so intensely Rus
sian as to spoil the view. He should shift
his vantage ground and look again.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Cleveland plain Dealer.

Cleveland PAIN DtaIeI.
Laura" he fretfully remarked. cts
strange you can't make biscuits like those
mother made
She flushed slightly and was silent for
little while.
.'Ceorge' she said fnallly "of what dis
ease did your father die?"
''Chronic Indigestion" said George.
Was it the kind that mother NADER"
asked Laura.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Representative Bailey, of Texas, says he is
opposed to the United States constructing
owning or controlling the Nicaragua canal,
for the same reason that he is opposed to
its building and operating railroads. "As a
matter of fact" says Mr.. Bailey, 81 do not
care what nation outside of the United
States builds or owns the canal" The Texas
member is either a self-conceited ass or a
great man, and we do not think he is the
latter
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Senators who threaten to vote against the
treaty with Spain because it includes the
acquisition of the Philippines should remem-
ber that such a vote would be against every
other feature of the treaty and in favor of
continuing a technical state Of war.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
win Not Go Hand in Hand.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

Phlladelpnld inquirer.
A majors pay in the French army is not
quite So per day, while a second lieutenant
gets n per diem allowance of only francs,
or less than 60 cents. If the expansion of
our army TO European proportions should
% hand in hand with the contraction of the
nav TO the same standard. the, enthusiasm
for increase would doubtless be chilled sew
eral degrees below zero.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
q Back Bay Maiden.


Mine at last. and forever!" he exclaimed.
She suffered herself to be crushed in his
warm embrace, something sadly.
do you think these grants in perpetuity
strictly consonant with the highest consid-
erations of public policy?" she faltered,
with charming naivete.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21
THE TERESA BROKEN IN TWO.
Part of the Stranded Spanish Cruiser
Now Submerged in Deep Water.

NEW YORK, Dec! 2O.-According to mail
advices from Nassau. N. P, the stranded
cruiser Maria Teresa has broken in two just
aft Of the after funnel. The forward part is
fast on the reef, but the after part has slid
into the upper water, where it lies COM
pletely submerged, even at low water. The
weather has been very bolsterous and the
wreck is rapidly breaking to pieces under
the blows of the tremendous surf that at
times swallows it out of sight
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-21

Harlem Life
Mistress Oxindly)-Jane I hear you have
been seen in the park with m, husband
Jane (defantly)-Yes, ma am. l have.
Mistress (still more kindly)--Well, Jane,
YOU are a good girl, and l dislike to lose
YOU but / cannot have any one about the
house who keeps bad company