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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
The Weather.

- WASHINGTON. March IL
pt,p Forecast for Saturday;
For Virginia a-Threatening wea>
ther, with showers; southersz
winds.
For North Carolina.-Threatening wea-
ther. with showers in eastern portionsI
southerly Winds.
For South Carolina and Georgia--Gsne-
rally fair weather; east 10 sootheFiy
wlnds.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
For Disease. of thu Liver, stomachs
and kidneys

cha Water OF the GreenDrisr White sulpauf
Springs is the most valuable Ia AmerNa.
pr-R-rtI. LApo & Co, Wholesale AgcatA
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12

Why cough and annoy the whole audi
ence when DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup VIII
stop it3
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
p. Sails with Provisions.

KEY WEST. FLA, March n'-Ihe
Earn sailed for MatanZas tonight with
= largo of provisions for the starving
Subans. From Matanzas she will go To
Saeua la Grande. Her departure was
without incident. -. ..,,.o1
The torpedo-boat Dupont has arrived
There is no unusual activity among
naval officers here
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
Rig Cruiser Taking on STORES

PHILADELPHIA, March H.-Ihe us
cruiser Columbia was taken out or the
League Island dry-dock this afternoon
She will begin taking on stores at once;
soil south i'm a few days. Their destina
tion is not positively known; but 1t Is
said the first port touched will be Hamp-
ron Roads
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
sn.uish Torpedo-Boats Sail.

LONDON, March ia special dis
match from Madrid says the Spanish
torpedo squadron at cadiz will sail for
Cuba to-day.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
III. Eoote Leaves for Key West.

NORtOLk. VA, March 1.-THE tor
pedo-boat Foote left old Point at II 80
for Key West. She passed out the capes
AZ I2.3D
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
Rush work on Ammunition.

LYNN, MASS. March 1.-THE Ameri-
can Ordnance Companys factory III thls
citv is running night and day on orders
FOR government ammunition, and extra
men have been put 10 work.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-12
Tornedo-Boats Talbot and Gwyn.

NEWPORT. X. l.. March IL
The torpedo-boats Talbot and Gwyn ar
rived here this evening. and were at
once turned over to Commander Nc
hoats having been accepted by the gov
ernment. They will receive their equip
ments and supplies at the station, and
ore 10 90 into commission In few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

The National Conference for Good City
Government, which meets here to-day,
should be we'll received by the people. The
Journal INDUCES a belief that it is not the
mere accident of location or accessibility
that attracts conferences and meetings of
this kind to Indianapolis. Other cities are
almost as much favored in these respects
as this city. though, of course, none is quite
equal to it. But there are other considera-
lions besides geographical location and rail-
road connections. There is a moral prestige
as well as material. indianapolis has be-
come known far and wide as a successful
starting point for reform movements. Our
city charter is known in municipal reform
circles as one of the very best in the coun-
try, and no amount of bad faith and parti-
san trickery has been able to obscure its
merits Under it Indianapolis has become
one of the most beautiful cities in the coun-
try, and If the charter were honestly ad-
ministered it would be one of the best gov
erned. The city and it's form of government
are themselves an attraction for municipal
reformers. Then our friendly attitude, to-
wards reform movements is known. None
tary conferences. gold standard movements,
sound-money conventions. prison reform
conventions, county and township govern
ment reform MISUNDERSTANDING that
makes for progress, reform and good gov
eminent finds a congenial atmosphere in
indianapolis. We are city of organiza-
tions-political. literary. social, reformatory,
politico-economic. charitable, philanthropic,
etc. Almost every good cause has its club
here, and each organization has an arsenal
filed with clubs for bad causes. The result
is state OF intellectual activity, social
ebullition and municipal progress scarcely
to be found anywhere else. This has an
attraction for outside reformers They do
not come here merely to read our city
charter, to observe our miles and miles of
finely paved streets and sidewalks, TO adj
mire our soldiers monument, the finest in
the world. or to note the many evidences
Of prosperity and progressively come to
breathe an atmosphere of reform and to
study community that maintains an OPEN
door policy towards every progressive move
mant. Central location, good hotels. good
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

washington Special in Chicago Post.

washington Special IN chicago Host
Utah will have two Mormons in the next
Congress-ROberts the newly elected repre-
sentative, and the United States senator 10
succeed Frank Cannon. Senator Cannon
successor will probably be w. H King, pres
eat representative. Mr.. King Is an earnest,
determined spirit, who on two or three oc-
casions last session gave the House chances
to take his measure. The speech that maue
the deepest impression was his report of
the situation in Cuba as he saw 1t with his
own eyes during a stay OF six weeks on
cital of facts and took rank in the House
history with Senator Proctors speech III
the Senate. 1t aroused the Cuban sympas
thizerS TO a high pitch of excitement and
stamped the speaker as a man or solid
judgment and discernment. Mr.. King de-
clined a denomination as representative,
preferring to make a straightaway tight for
the Senate unhampered by another office.
If elected it will be as a Democrat and
he will take the place of man who, though
organization at st. Louis and has Deen
wandering farther from the fold ever since.
Senator Cannon SAD ne nag no rel nf 4H's
pillars of the Mormon Church and his affil-
iations are Mormon.
and in point of influence than ever before.
They are a powerful political ana CONNER
cial factor in four States-Utah, Nevada,
Wyoming and Idaho-and are spreading
over into Oregon, Washington and Cali
fOrnia. They are PROSECUTING in every coun-
try and are reinforcing the Mormon popu-
ldIlOu Dy lHOuSduuS VI HcW INCI NNCly
year They have seven thousand mission
aries in the field and are putting forth
greater efforts than at any period since
the foundation of the church for the adj
vancement and upbuilding Of their peculiar
faith. AS they increase in numbers they
add to their material prosperity. Should an
attempt be made on the converting of the
Fifty-siXth Congress to unseat Representa-
tive Roberts because he is polygamouS
Mormon the public will come into the
knowledge of many new and enlightening
facts showing the progress and present
power OF the Church of Mormon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

In Berlin the Emperor is always spoken
of as Mr.. Lehman" so as to escape an
indictment for lese majesty.
Byron's great-granddaughter is about to
marry Bulwers grandson. The bridegroom
is the Hon. Neville Lytton, youngest surviv-
ing son Of the late Lord Lytton C-Owen
Meredith'), and the bride is Miss Judith
Blunt, the only daughter of Mr.. Wilfrid
Scawen Blunt.
Richard Watson elders country home at
Marion, N Y, is a strange combination of
camp roughness and civilized luxuries.
There are no carpets; the chairs are prim-
tive, but the cook is excellent. There is
only one spare room, for guests are hard
ly so frequent as they are distinguished.
Mrs. Margaret Pierce. now of Chicago de-
clares she is entitled to whatever honor
there is in being the rightful Queen of
Hawaii. She says ex-Queen Lii was a usurp-
er, who was able to claim the throne be-
cause of the confusion arising out of the
fact that Kamelameha had many children
by many wives.
II. S. Townsend, of Mayville, Mo, a COM
rade OF Lincoln in the Black Hawk war,
was also one of those to whom in caucus
Lincoln on the eve of his nomination for
senator submitted his famous speech, "A
House Divided Against Itself" Some
wanted him to strike out the clause declar-
all free but Lincoln, says Townsend, de-
clared, Il will deliver 1t as it was written,
come what may"
Miss Nathalie Schenck, who in the war
gained considerable fame through her re-
markedly successful endless chain for the
Red Cross, still receives about one hundred
letters q day at the postoftce In Babylon,
l.. l.. says the New York Tribune. Frantic
appeals were made by Miss Schenck to
break the chain, and it was believed that
she had succeeded in doing so. Between
June 20 and Oct. q over 100000 letters were
received, bringing in, it is estimated, about
so. 900.
r. NJ. Quigley. a st. Louis contractor,
says that there has not been time since
1887 when labor was 50 hard to get as 1t is
to-day. Every contractor in the country"
he says, sis complaining about the inability
to get laborers. They are not to be had in
any section Many are already employed.
l have been up and down the Mississippi
river q good deal in the last few weeks, and
/ know that five thousand men could right
now be placed to work on the river levee
construction between here (New Orleans)
and Memphis
AS usual, Queen Victoria will spend
Christmas with her family at Osborne.
There win be no parties of any kind, owing
to the deep mourning into which the royal
family has been plunged, but Princess
Henry is arranging some charades (as she
has done for many years paSD for the en-
joyment OF the Juveniles The estate en-
ployes at Osborne, as at Windsor. Frog
more and Balmoral, are this year to re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30
The Hennepin Canal.
New York Post.


1t will probably be news to most people
ally digging canal to connect the waters
of the upper Mississippi river with those of
the upper Illinois river. This fact is pro-
claimed with the outward semblance of
truth in the current number of the Engi-
neering News, which paper also gives the
reasons, or the alleged reasons, why the
work was undertaken. The principal one
was that railroad freights were too high.
The Chicago & Rock Island road which
this canal (they call it the Hennepin canaD
will parallel for q considerable distance,
was getting about a cent and quarter
average for hauling a ton of freight one
mile To bring down this extortionate
charge the people of the United States,
from Maine to California, must needs be
taxed about $10000,O00, one-fifth of which
has already been spent. But, since the re-
port was made to Congress, on the strength
of which this work begun, the freight
rates of this railroad have fallen to less
than one cent per ton per mile. That this
reduction was not due to terror engendered
by the Hennepin canal is evident from the
fact that other railroads not exposed to
this threatened competition have lowered
their rates correspondingly and some of
them even more. The inference of the Engi-
ueering News is that by the time this canal
is finished there will not be pound Of
freight that 1t can carry at profit. That
this is the probable outcome is shown by
the present canal along the Illinois river
from La Sale eastward, of which the Hen
is used only by ducks and geese, the few
boats there being either capsized in it or
as idle as painted ships upon a painted
ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

Mississippi and Utah at the Two Ex-
tremes as Regards the Suffrage.


New York Sun.
By the last national census the total popu-
lation of Utah was 10000. BY the same ma
tonal census the population of Mississippi
was 10000. or more than six times greater.
Since 1890 the population of Utah has in
creased considerably. but not to extent
so large as to give it at present more than
one-tourth of the present population of Mis-
sissippi which has increased to some ex-
tent also. Yet at the recent election more
than 10000 votes were cast in Utah and less
than 5000 votes were cast in Mississippi,
and this apparent paradox seems to call for
some explanation It IS to be found In the
fact that while in some States, particularly
in the South in recent years, the most &C
tive efforts have been made to reduce to
minimum the right of suffrage, in other
States all legislation has been tending
toward its enlargement.
Mississippi and Utah represent two ex-
tremes. Mississippi having the minimum
frage. To vote in Mississippi citizen must
be able to read and to understand and be
capable of explaining the United States
Constitution; he must have lived In the
State two years and in the voting precinct
one year, and to the last rule the only eX-
emption made is for clergymen, for whom
in an election district The hardships of
these conditions may be seen In part from
residence in the State is required and only
thirty days residence in an election dis
trict Moreover, Mississippi excludes from
the right of suffrage persons owing local
harsh in the Bayou State they are certainly
favorable in Utah. Any man or woman
over the age of twenty-one years who has
resided in the State for year and in the
voting precinct for sixty days, is entitled
to vote. There is no educational test there
is no tax-paying test; there is no general
exclusion Of persons convicted of crime. eX-
cent in the case of treason or a violation or
the lenient election laws. Practically, there
fore, there is full manhood and womanhood
suffrage in Utah, and when these facts are
understood it is not difficult to see the ease
with which the franchise is enlarged so as
to include about one-third of the present
population of the State, men, women and
children.
Women have equal suffrage with men in
wyoming and Colorado. and in the latter
State q residence of six months only IS
required in the State and ten days in the
election district. Some of the States. too,
Colorado and Michigan among them permit
aliens to vote if they have declared their
intention to become citizens but this regu-
Iation has been abolished in Wisconsin by
an amendment to the Constitution, ana
there is some agitation for its abolition In
other Northwestern States where 1t still
continues. In North Carolina atheists can
not vote, and it is the only State which has
established such qualification, though Tor
practical purposes 1t is imperative under
the operation of the tar-heel Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

LOuisville COmmefcial.
The facts IL the case spoil a pretty story
but 1t is just as well these days to get re-
lief from the wide range of news fiction
through restful truth. II has been told that
Lieutenant Hobson has recently lifted a
Sc. coo mortgage from his fathers house by
the use of the pen" That would be neat
thing for Lieutenant Hobson to do II there
were a 81. 600 mortgage on his fathers house
and there was Sc, coo demand for the lieu
tenants pen.
But there has been neither mortgage nor
demand. Some time ago when some med
dler proposed to lift the "Hobson mort
gage" by popular subscription the Hobson
family promptly informed the public that
there was no mortgage to lift. and II there
were the Eobson family would take care of
the business Further, Lieutenant Hobson
has not earned $500 by writing because he
had nothing Ia particular to write. Like
Admiral Dewey. he has been busy at his
duties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30
The Pension List.
Washington Special.

Not in many years has the report Of the
Secretary of the Interior on pensions been
of so much interest as now. Not only has
the United States a new body of prospective
applicants for pensions, but in the new the
ory of government upon which we are EN-
barking pensions will unavoidably become
larger permanent factor in our national ex-
penditures than but for the civil war, would
now be the case AS soon as the war PEN
sions are over, but for the expansion sys-
TEN, we might reasonably expect to go back
to modest estimates again. The report of
the commissioner of pensions shows that
June 80, 1898, there were on the pension roll
1893 ia names, an increase of II, 700 over the
number on the rolls year before. Of these
there are twelve widows and daughters OF
revolutionary soldiers; of the war of 1872
there are three survivors and 2.407 widows
of soldiers on the pension roll. There are
about 635 900 claims of all classes pending, of
which 10000 are original claims. The COM
missioner states that the late ones include
many claims for increase or for additional
allowance under another law. The claims
remaining unsettled to June 30, 1898, ex-
coed the number pending June 80, 1897, by
$500 During the year there were filed in
the bureau 165. 442 claims original and for
an increase.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

The Atlanta paper which declares that
Maine, Massachusetts and other States of
the North disfranchise voters by an edu-
cational test, fails to state the whole case.
The constitutional amendments in those
states continue suffrage to the men who
could not read ana write when they went
into effect, making them to apply only to
those who came to the voting age after the
amendments had become part of the Con-
shtutioR. In the States of the South the
educational test was applied to men who
had been voters to disfranchise them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

There is nothing new nor disturbing in
the reported European dislike of America.
1t has always been the prevailing sentiment
among the ruling classes in continental Eu-
rope They have no use for republican
government, and they know that in the
worlds great contest between the masses
and the classes, between universal suffrage
and the divine right of kings and mobiles, the
government and people of the United States
furnish an argument and object lesson of
tremendous import against them. 1t would
be very strange they did not dislike US.
When they cease to do so it will behoove
us to take an invoice of our principles and
enter on course of self-examination to
see if we are not falling from grace in the
support and practice Of republican govern
ment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

ceive additional bounties from her Majesty's
hands. and already orders have been placed
in hand at Windsor for blankets, coal, bread
and beef for the Windsor poor.
Mrs. Jennie Mickey, of Fair Play Nd,
has been committed to Jail for ten days as
a common scold. under an antique statute
of colonial times that has never been re-
pealed. The prosecution was brought by
her husband Charles Mickey, a respectable
mechanic, Industrious and sober, who
brought his neighbors as witnesses to testify
to her bad temper and unruly tongue Mrs.
Mickey is said to be good-looking woman
thirty years old. and has two children, aged
nine and five years, who have suffered much
from her ungovernable passions. This is the
first case of the kind known In that part of
Maryland since the war.
A tenor who sang in the choir
Raised his voice hoir and hoir;-
Does the fool think that he
The whole show will be?'
The basso was heard to tnquoir
Puck.
To gain renoWn some men Will wade
Through fierce and bloody war;
But none has won lasting fame
Until he has conferred his name
On some five-cent cigar.
Chicago Tribune.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

Word comes from Iowa that its officials
are finding 1t difficult to loan the school
fund, more farmers paying in their bor-
rowings than there are applicants for new
loans. Thus far no complaint of that kind
has been heard in Indiana, but no one
should be surprised to hear that the fund
cannot be loaned at per cent, for the
reason there is so much money in the
market which can be obtained for per
cent. on desirable properties that there Will
be little opportunity TO loan it under the
present requirements. Therefore, we may
expect that the opposition will be charging
the Republican policy with the loss OF
school revenues by causing general fall
in the rate of interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

It looks now as II there would be con-
siderable opposition to the Paris treaty of
peace in the Senate on the Philippines
question. Some senators have already ex-
pressed themselves as opposed to the ac-
quisition OF the islands, and others. who are
as yet noncommittal, will probably be in
opposition. 1t requires a two-thirds vote in
the Senate TO ratify a treaty, or, as the
body is now organized. sixty senator's out
Of ninety. The impression seems to pre-
vail In some quarters that the treaty will
have TO stand or fail as a whole, and that
- It Is defeated on the Philippines question
II viii fail In all respects. This is mis-
take. The rejection of the treaty by the
Senate would sim leave the protocol in full
force. and that provides for the evacuation
q Cuba and the cession Of Porto Rico The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

rejection OF the treaty would. however.
leave the Philippines question wide open
and would probably necessitate the nego-
uation Of new treaty 10 perfect our title
to Porto Rico. The rejection of the treaty
on any ground may threaten such embar-
RAISING consequences as to cause senators
to waive their objections to particular fea-
lures and vote to concur in it as u whole
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

too much OF It all. BY perpetual hammer
ing it becomes cruel, cowardly, vile, like
all prosecutions.
In the meantime men who were the fast
est friends three years ago have taken diff
other hating the Jews and do not speak
to one another. Clubs have had to be brok-
up and relatives are becoming strangers.
If the Dreyfus case goes on Pars's choice
would be between barbados and Bedlam.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

1t is authortatively and portentously ru-
mored that the Emperor of Germany is
about to say something. The statement will
not be credited among those who have
watched the result at previous times when
the bombastic ruler has had occasion to
IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

The wreck of the line steamer Portland
of the coast of Massachusetts is the crown
ing disaster of list which will make the
storm of last Saturday night and Sunday
morning memorable in the weather record.
Previous dispatches reported the loss of
more than hundred vessels and nearly two
hundred lives, and the wreck of the Port
land greatly increases the losstof life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30

1t is not understood that the United States
entered on the peace negotiations with the
view or desire of pleasing continental Eu-
gopean peoples, and 1t is a matter of the
least possible consequence whether they like
the terms or not.