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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-28
Note to REPRESENTATIVES,.

CHICAGO, March 27.-At the regular
meeting of Chicago Typographical Union,
No. IS, held to-day, the following open let
ter was ordered telegraphed to Washington:
To w. +. Mason, George z. Ross, 1401
Stoughton Street; Senator and Colleagues,
Washington, ID. C.-Chicago Typographical
Union, No. IL, believes that the eloquent APP
peals to the intelligence of the American
people by Senators Ihurston, Proctor and
Gallinger in the United States Senate on
behalf of the starving women and children
of Cuba place the United States in a posi-
ton where their duty to civilization and
humanity is clear. This union, therefore,
calls upon the Chicago congressman and
senator's from Illinois to insist on the
United States demanding that the butchery,
starvation and inhuman policy pursued by
Spain in Cuba under the guise of so-called
warfare shall cease forthwith and in the
name of humanity which rises superior TO
diplomacy and precedent, to enforce such
demand mediately-peaceably If possible;
by force of arms ii necessary.
GEORGE W. DAY, President.
CHARLES DEACON Secretary"
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SPRINGFIELD. Ill. March 27-Rain
poured down in torrents nearly all last
night and this forenoon, and the rainfall
In eighteen hours was as inches. the great
est rainfall in twenty-four hours since the
weather Bureau was established here
eighteen years ago. Tho precipitation dur
ing March has been s.5l inches, the great
Is badly overfiowed and is stilI rising az
Is expected at the water works thar the
tires In the engines would be extinguishea
Tonight, and 1t may be several days then
before water can be pumped Railroad traf-
nc Is badly crippled. The Wabash has
washouts al Perry and Meredosia, west Of
TINS city, and az Buffalo, twelve miles east
train Is stalled. The c., p. s. p. has
train stalled at Havana.
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Obituary.

NEW YORK, March 27.-William Harri-
son Adams, well known as manufacturer
of syfups, is dead. He was native of Vir-
ginia, and had extensive ranch interests in
Colorado
f. A. Brown, of the firm of Walston,
Brown & Bros, bankers and brokers, is
dead, aged forty-seven. He was native of
Cincinnati. For the past sixteen years he
had spent most of his time in California
and the South.
SALEM, Mass, March 27.-Abner Cheney
Goodell died to-day, aged ninety-three
years. He perfected the first printing press
that printed on both sides in one operation.
His inventions in this line became the
foundation of the present newspaper press.
He also invented the cracker machine and
perfected the preparation of copper and
steel plates for use by engravers.
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ITHACA, N. Y, March 27.-The report
that Yale and Harvard desire to change the
date of the triangular race, set for June %
or "a at New London was not received with
satisfaction here. Captain Colson said to-
day that it would be almost impossible for
Cornell to race later than either of these
dates, since the crew will require the in
tervening time to prepare for it's second race
with Pennsylvania and Columbia on July /.
1t would be out of the question to row two
big races within the same week, as the
crews would not have sufficient time to re-
turn from New London and get in shape in
short a time. Should the date of the
second regatta be transferred to an earlier
date it is probable that Cornell could ar
range to meet Yale and Harvard after their
commencement exercises, as they have ex-
pressed the desire should be done 1t is not
thought probable. however, that the date
for the second race will be changed.
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ON A WAR FOOTING.
New Jersey National Guard Being
Rapidly Prepared.


TRENTON. N. j., March 27.--The work Of
putting the New Jersey National Guard on
a war footing is being successfully pushed
Major General Plume, commanding the
New Jersey division of the National Guard
Adjutant General Stryker and Quartern1as-
ter General Donnelly held conference here
last night to compare notes. They expressed
much satisfaction at the work that had
been done. Captain Armstrong, of the quar-
termaster generals office, returned last
night from Washington, where he had gone
to hurry up the orders for ammunition and
ordnance stores. These latter will be
shipped to Trenton without, delay. Yester-
day a large number of army hats and leg
gings and about two thousand rubber
blankets were received at the state arsenal
Adjutant General Stryker said that no or
ders had yet been received from Washing
ton for the calling out of the National
Guard or the naval militia, but it was not
denied that the preparations were being
made in the belief that such a call might
soon be made. There is also talk of a special
session of the Legislature to place a fund
Of $25O;0e0 at the disposal of the Governor
for the better equipment of the National
Guard in the event of war.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, March 27.-The Southern
Indiana Railway Company to-day expert
enced another washout west of Bedford
This line has four miles of it's track washed
out west of this city, and the bridge and
trestle work over Indiana creek has also
been carried away. large force of men
is at work on the line and experiencing a
great deal of trouble in making repairs, as
some of the holes made by the water are
from eighteen to twenty feet deep. Two
miles of track west of the river has been
carried into adjacent fields. although the
embankment from which it was washed is
unframed The company will not be able
to get it's track in shape before the latter
part of the week. The Pennsylvania road
will not get it's track in shape between TINS
city and Columbus before Monday night.
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STREET-CAR RIOTS.
Houston Electric Plant Blown Up by
an Explosion.

HOUSTON, Tex. March 27.-The street.
car strike assumed rotous proportions to-
day. No violence was offered on the part
of the street-car strikers. but their sympa-
thizers were uncomfortable until the mill
tary appeared The company's efforts to
run cars were met with stones and clubs
from the crowd, numbering one thousand
persons. All of the car windows were
broken and the property otherwise dam
aged. Between A and 5 o'clock this after
noon Mayor Rice marched to the scene at
the head of the Houston Light Guards,
backed up by the Houston Cavalry, and
with the Light Artillery and Emmett
Rifles at their armories awaiting orders
All these companies are sleeping on their
arms tonight The city is in total dark
having been destroyed by an explosion.
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Too Much Rain for Church.

CHARLOTTESVILLE ILL.,, March 27.-The
heaviest rainstorm that has been known
for thirty years fell to-day, damaging city
property to the extent of $4,000 or more
and private property to about the same ex-
tent. over nalf the city was under water
caused by the creek rising rapidly and
sweeping everything in it's path. Two small
bridges of the Chicago Peoria & ST. Louis
Railway have gone out and also wagon
bridge. The Sangamon river is rising very
last and the three railroad bridges north
or here are in great danger of being car
ried out Several ievees have broken and
there was considerable stock drowned.
Some of the families had narrow escapes.
Ihere. were no services at any of the
churches to-day
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KEY WEST, March 27.-The excitement
among naval officers and residents abated
somewhat to-day, but everywhere groups
could be seen discussing the probability of
war with Spain. The work of painting the
battle ships, Unexpectedly stopped yester-
day. will be resumed tomorrow. They will
be painted dull lead color instead of black.
1t was learned to-day that Captain Chad
wick, of the New York, sailed last night
on the Bache for Havana. His mission
there, it Is said, is to confer with Lieuten-
ant Commander Wainwright and to decide
whether further wrecking work on the
Maine will be of any use. The Iowa left
late tonight for the Dry Tortugas, where
she will coal. She is expected here shortly.
The harbor once more presents a warlike
appearance. The Marblehead, Montgomery,
Detroit Nashville Cincinnati, Castine Will
mington and six torpedo boats lie close in
shore, while the Indiana and the New York
loom up six miles out. The Montgomery is
expected to go north shortly.
Eight bodies from the Maine were quietly
laid to rest in the city cemetery this morn
ing with the same simple ceremonies that
have attended the interment of other bodies
buried here.
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80 Aug. l, 1897, Aug. /, 1896,
to Feb. /, 1898 to Feb. l, 1897.
Totals .............. 1856, S22, 4S5 $50, 3

This increase in the purchase of our prod
uctS by the countries which protested
against the adoption of the new tariff and
accompanied their protests with the implied
threat of retaliation through reduction OF
their purchases from us is the more inter-
esting because of the fact that in nearly
all cases their sales 20 the, United States
have been reduced S.uCc the adoption of the
Dingley law. The total importatons from
the fourteen countries named in the above
table fell off during the first six months OF
the Dingley law nearly $23 0OO, Co., as COM
the preceding year under the low tariff
Wilson law the imports from these coun-
tries from Aug l. 1897, to Feb. l. 1898, being
SIS, s27 sos. against sos ,693 SIS in the corre
spending months of the preceding year.
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Port Arthur Lease Signed.

PEKING, March PIN. Pavloff, the Rus
agreement regarding the lease of Port Ar
thur and Ta-Len-Wan and the railway con-
cession. Port Arthur will be given over
tomorrow. Chin-Chow will remain Chi
neSe, but the Russians will establish a small
station in the environs. China will retain
sovereign rights generally, and Port Arthur
and Ta-LienWan will be open to the war
ships of all nations.
Regarding the customs, the Russians re-
serve to themselves the collection of the
dues. but nothing is divulged as to their
eventual destination. The Russians will
probably take the forts at Port Arthur
The Chinese have decided to open Fun
Ming. province of Fo-Kien, as treaty
port
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Flood ON the Kankakee.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CROWN POINT. Ind, March H.-To-
days drenching rain has forced the Kanka-
kee river away over its high banks and on
either side the overflow covers at least
three miles. The river has swift current
tonight and is throwing water over the
farming districts at a threatening rate and
will probably be wilder by morning. Rail-
road and highway bridges are being
thousand acres owned by Nelson Morris,
the Chicago packer. are under water and
several thousand cattle have been driven to
safe quarters. Many families who live near
the stream have moved to avoid being sur
rounded. For years past the river has never
been so high and threatening.
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TIE OHIO FLOOD.
High-Water Mark at Cincinnati Will
Not Reach sixty Feet.

Hlgh-N ater mark at Cincinnati Will
Not Reach sixty Feet.
CINCINNATI, o., March 27.-Unless rain
should come copiously and quickly the pres
ent freshet of the Ohio river will very soon
pour the great flood into the Mississippi
river. From Portsmouth up it is falling
tonight. AT Portsmouth it is rising slowly.
At ali points below to Cairo it is rising
Here at Cincinnati the current is unusually
swift, which indicates that the access of
water from tributaries below has dinin-
ished greatly and given free course to the
plled-up waters above, Reports from varl-
Gus parts of the Ohio valley agree in an
nouncing warm temperature, cloudy skies
and high winds, with only one instance of
drizzing rain. AT Cincinnati the mercury
registers g. In the lowlands of Cincinnati
nearly one thousand houses are flooded with
from one to four feet of water. Some have
been abandoned which is the case with
one-story cottages. In stwo-story houses
families remain in the upper stories. OF
Hooded houses, five hundred are in and
about Cumminsville from hackwater in
Mill creek, where the inundation is more
annoying than serious. IN and about Co
lumbia, the extreme up-river limit of the
city, four hundred houses are soaked with
from one to four feet of water Al River
sue, the extreme downstream limit of the
city, one hundred houses are affected about
as at Columbia
No railroad in Cincinnati has been dis
turbed by the local flood except that some
nave been deprived of the use of the Grand
central Depot. Thus far no casualties have
been reported. Interruption to street-car
travel mas been almost nothing as it was
either near the end of a line or at a point
where passengers could transfer by short
walk. The railroads are all in better con-
qitlon The Cincinnati. Hamilton & DAYTON
railroad Is clear on all its lines and 10 Is
Inc pennsylvania The Baltimore & ohio
southwestern Is still compelled to make
detours east and west but this will soon
ne over as repairs are pushed with all pos
sible dispatch. The Cincinnati, Georgetown
* portsmouth Railroad was compelled 10
make transfers in the east end of Cincin-
matt to-day. All other roads are practically
intact. OF course, there will be some loss
ana damage to people driven out of their
homes, in the way of loss of time as well
as OF property, but 1t will be reduced to
the minimum. Merchants and commission
brokers' in the bottoms removed their goods
10 dry spots without loss. Very few fac
tories of consequence have been Interrupted
or stopped. Small boats continue to come
and CO. and navigation will be fully re-
sumed by tomorrow or Tuesday.
AT 10 O'Clock tonight the stage here was
oS,4 rect Between and o'clock IL had
remained stationary This fuctuation is the
precursor of a fall. Ii will probably STOP
at % feet inches, and by tomorrow noon
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COLORADO springs Patriots Protest.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, March 81
The letter recently sent to President Nc
Kinley from Colorado Springs men, urging
hands off, in the Cuban affair, has caused
a storm Of disapproval in this city. mass
meeting has been called for Monday even
ing to denounce the petition and the petit
TONERS as presumptuous and thoroughly
I'M American. The people of Colorado
Springs are indignant that petition should
be sent to the President purporting to rep
resent their sentiments by few people who
it is asserted succeeded in getting signatures
of prominent men through misrepresenta-
ton Another petition bearing over five
hundred signatures will shortly be for
warded to the President assuring him of the
greatest confidence in his ability and prom
Using their support.
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seven Blocks at New Albany Flooded

Special to the Indianapolis JournaI
NEW ALBANY. Ind. March 27.-The
river is rising slowly at this point tonight,
and further rise of at least eighteen
inches is expected. Water now covers
Water street. from West First to East
Fifth street. distance of seven squares,
and the residents along the river front have
been Obliged to move out. The lowlands be-
low the city are submerged and the farmers
will be heavy losers. The water has en-
croached on the iron works of the New AL
bany Manufacturing Company, at Pearl
street, and it will be necessary to suspend
operations tomorrow. frt
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Railroads I'm south Part of the State
Again Crippled.


FlcOd AT SnOntS ana MedOrn.
Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
MITCHELL, Ind. March 27.-The situa-
ton n this vicinity continues unimproved
and the outlook most discouraging. AT
Medora White river has begun rising again,
and Il is feared traffic between Seymour and
Mitchell will again be cut off. All mail and
papers are necessarily much delayed. and
when train comes in the crowd is wild
icI papers to get war and flood news.
.-1oa4s IS in a deplorable condition The
'.'ss lands are completely inundated and the
--oHeiess sufferers are tenting on the hill
ops. Many have abandoned their entire
ASuSehcld goods, being content to escape
nlth their lives. The Baltimore & Ohio
southwestern road is making a desperate
effort to prevent the roadbed at that point
from being washed away and trainload
or men left for that place this morning,
With gravel, rock and sandbags and other
necessaries, to try to check the destruc-
ton, taking provisions for several days.
The Bedford q Bloomfield road, the Monon
branch, Is in a serious condition, number
OF tunnels having given way and bridges
washed out
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M'LEOD'S CHALLENGE.
The Westerner Wants Try at the
Terrible Turk.

CHICAGO, March 27.-Dan Mcleod wants
to wrestle Yousouff, the Turk, for $500 or
$l,000 a side, mixed style. best two in three
falls, one fall catch-as-catch-ca and one
fall Graeco-Roman, the man gaining the
quickest fall to have his choice of style for
the third and final fall. Mcleod will
wrestle in Chicago, New York or any other
place and arrange the terms to suit the
TurS
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Over the e. q II. III. Tracks.
Dpcicl ia the IndfananoliS Journal

CTCIIaT
EMISON, Ind. March 27.-The Wabash
Ievee broke today at the north end and
an awful volume of water poured in, raising
the water in the Enclosure two inches per
hour all day. and it is still rising tonight.
This endangers the f. & T. II. grade at
Maria creek. All day large force of men
has been saczing sand and repairing the
grades They succeeded in keeping it from
overfowing until tonight, when 1T COM
menccd running over. and it is expected the
track for half a mile will be completely
submerged by midnight This will stop all
trains The officials are doing all in their
power to keep the line open
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PORTSMOUTH. o.. March 27.-The Ohio
river Is ifty-seven feet four inches, and is
Ssaing one-fourth of an inch an hour. a
big force of men has been working all day
STRENGTHENING the temporary levees TO keep
the water out of the center of the city
thus preventing heavy damage. Fire en-
glnes are pumping out the sewers in an eff
lott 10 keep the water from reaching the
threatened district through that source
me river will be at a standstill by mid
night. The weather is warm cloudy and
threatening rain.
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Eighty per cent. of the men re-enlisted and
applications were filed in sufficient numbers
to have filled the quota dozen times. The
company has been newly equipped and ac-
cording to Instructions. the company is in
readiness to move at an hours notice. The
war spirit is running high here and a regi-
ment could be raised in two hours
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Cadets Nay Go to Sen.

ANNAPOLIS. Md, March 27-At dinner
formation at the Naval Academy to-day an
order was read. directing the first class of
cadets to report at the medical department
tomorrow morning for physical examina-
ders. 1t is rumored here that Captain p.
Fl. Cooper, superintendent of the academy,
will be detached in few days and given
some other command.
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Mhnt He Learned.
IIarper's Bazal

Harper's Bazaar.
Well Tommy what did you learn at
kindergarten to-day" asked the boy s
father.
How to make caterpillar out of clay"
said Tommy.
And was il a. good one?"
II guess not said Tommy; II couldn [
make 1t crawl without breaking its back,
so l rolled ii up into a bail and played
marbles with it. and won five glass agates
from Bobby JONES'
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,ittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph.

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
1t was a bright Chicago policeman who
compelled a rider whom he suspected of
having stolen the wheel he was about to
mount to wait fifteen minutes before start
ing. If the machine had been stolen the
rider would never have waited calmly.
must often be in when circumstances are
suspicious but proof is entirely wanting.
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M'COY-BONNER FIGHT.
1t May Not Come OF at New Orleans
Tonight.

The McCoy-Bonner fight is scheduled to
come off tonight before the st. Bernard
Club, at New Orleans, but dispatches from
that city say that the fight will probably
not be pulled off. Attorney General Cum
bingham. of Louisiana, has decided to issue
an injunction to prevent the fight taking
place, and the police will be instructed to
stop it at all hazards.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 27-Capt. A.
B. Davis, commander of the revenue cutter
Gresham, received a dispatch from Wash
ington. ordering him TO ship a complement
of seventy men and proceed to Cleveland as
soon as possible. Captain Davis was also
asked in the dispatch ii he thought it pos
sible II the Gresham could run the ST Law
renee rapids, thus avoiding the locks, to
pass which would necessitate shortening
her. Captain Davis is investigating the
subject
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MOULTRIE, Ga, March 23.-James Allen,
a negro, last night made an unsuccessful at
tempt to assault the wife of Prof. b. G.
Ingalls,. Dogs were put on the negros trail
and he was captured. This morning Sheriff
Fisher decided to take the prisoner to Macon
to prevent lynching, and while at the depot
the prisoner from the sheriff and it is said,
placed his body in the bottom of creek.
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RED BLUFF, Cal, March 27.-The fight
between Young Peter Jackson of Den
yer, and Young Critic the Australian
champion, came to an end in the fourth
round by the decision being given to Critic
on account of an alleged foul on the part of
Jackson. 1t was stated after the fight that
Young Jackson" was really Joe Cans, of
Baltimore. but this is doubted by many
snoring men. tG slu->sa-
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ButterneId,s old Regiment.

WASHINGTON March 27-Gen. Dan
Butterfeld has advised the secretary of war
that his old regiment. the Twelfth New
York, has, through its commander, Col
Leonard, by letter to the Governor of New
York, rendered its services for the war, in
case war comes.
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Later Knowledge.
Chicago Tribune.

Visitor cat cycle show)-Hello. old chap!
Remember that wheel you sold me last
as good as the day got it. The next ma
chine l buy is going to be one exactl. like
Exhibitor chastity interrupting)-Say, old
sell you one worth a hundred times as much
for little more than half the money. I'm
handling another make of machine this
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MADISON, Ind. March 27-The river is
ffty-one feet and rising. The railroad
track cellars of hotels mills and business
hGCSes on Front street are now flooded.
Lower parts of Carrollton and Milton KY,
are under water.
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Loyal NIethodists.

bOsLOn ITdHSCTIpl.
Bishop Walden. of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. said yesterday at the Methodist
preachers meeting in New York: Il am
glad that we have such a level-headed man
as Mr.. Mckinley at Washington. 1t doesn't
hurt him a bit either. that he is a Method
ist." Zeal for humanity has always been a
marked characteristic of that faith and
works to express ii also.