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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-15
KEEPING HIS WORD.
James McMnnus Paying Creditors of
the Peoples Bank.

PHILADELPHIA, June H.-Receiver
Thomas w. Barlow, of the suspended Peo-
pies Bank, has been enabled. a result of
receiving a check for over $4,000 go from Pres
ident James McManus, to make the very
gratifying announcement. to the depositors
and creditors of the bank that he is now in
a position to pay them dividend of 80 per
cent, and that the remaining 10 per cent
will follow in three months. 1t will be re-
membered that the bank was compelled to
close its doors as consequence of the sui
eide of its cashier John S. Hopkins, and
that investigation showed that it's resources
had been impaired to the extent of some
$500 900 through loans made to Richard F.
Lopez and the Guarantors' Finance Com
pany, of which Lopez was general manager.
President McManus, to whom Hopkins do
ngs came as a terrible shock, herocally
announced that he would personally guar
antee that not depositor or creditor would
lose a dollar by the banks failure. and he
has made his word good TO the very letter,
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ALUMNI DAY AT 1. U.
Hon. Joseph shea Elected Alumni
Trustee by Acclama ton.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June 14-This has
been alumni day and one of the most inter-
esting occasions in the history of the uni
versity There is an unusually large attend
ance of visitors, many of whom are former
graduates The business meeting of the
alumni was held this morning and Hon.
Joseph Shea, of Scottsburg, was elected
is the senator from the counties of Scott,
Clark and Jennings and succeeds Hon. Wood
Robinson, of the Appellate Court, who re-
fused to be a candidate again this year.
For orator next year Judge w. d. Robin
son, of me Appellate Court, was selected
and DR. j. l.. Pitner alternate An executive
committee, with Hon. j. B. Wilson, was APP
pointed, including DR.. Bryan, H. A. Lee,
Mrs. Joseph Swain and Margaret Porch.
The new officers of the association are:
President r. D. Richardson Evansville;
vice president, r. A Ogg, Kokomo; record
ing secretary, Grace Woodbine; correspond
ing secretary, Louisa Goodbody; treasurer,
w. H. Adams Judge Jordan presided at the
meeting.
This afternoon a concert and general re-
union of the alumni was held in the col
lege campus. There was music and all the
departments of the university were open to
visitors. Tonight the annual alumni dinner
was served in the new gymnasium. Rev. S.
r. Lyons acted as POSTMASTER. The re-
Sponses were by Robert /. Hamilton, of
SO; William P. Rogers, of the faculty, and
Josephine Cox, class '9S. One of the interest
ing incidents of the commencement week
was the presentation last night at the class
exercises of a picture of DR.. Swain to the
university. 1t was the gift of the senior
class and the presentation speech was made
by Prof. GIascock, of Indianapolis. Rev. S.
r. Lyons accepted the gift on behalf of the
hoard.
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The Republicans of Marion county will
very generally commend the county conven-
ton for its good work yesterday. The judi
cial ticket is an excellent one and should
sof itself command the support of the indie
pendent voters who look after the best
The legislative ticket. with one or two ex-
ceptions. is made up of young men. Some
OF the candidates are not generally known,
but this is not to their discredit, since
Marion county and indianapolis are so
populous that individuality is lost. Reliable
Republicans who were in the convention
and who are personally acquainted with the
candidates unqualifiedly commend the
ticket 1t can be said of Mr.. Littleton, one
OF the candidates. who was a member of the
last House, that his excellent service in that
body makes his denomination a popular
one. OF the convention it may be said that
Il contained a large number of well-known
men. that it never lost sight of it's work,
ana that It was completed in good season
and in good order. It's ticket is winning
one.
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Richmond Busine.s college.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, June 14.-The annual
commencement of the Richmond Business
College took place this evening at the Brad
ley Opera House. The graduating class
numbered forty-Sour. State Senator Charles
E. Shiveley presided and the address was
made by Judge ]. l.. Kirkpatrick, of Koko-
mo. O. E. Fulghum, principal, presented
the diplomas. The following is the class
roll: Pearl A. Burk, Ella NJ. Quinlivan,
Lille M. Hansemann, Marietta Worrall,
Blanche Barth, Selma E. Knollenberg, Ro-
setta Cox Hoser, Mary S. Wicket, Freder-
lex w. ]. Grapperhaus, George w. Havens.
Oliver c. C. Fetta, Arthur b. Commons,
John E. Cooper, Gus c. Huey Benjamin
S. Shute, Fred w. Meyer. William g.
Thomas, Ebert l.. Mote, Luther +. Bruce,
John w. Collins, Henry G. Bentage, Her
man F. Pilgrim, j. Harry Elliott Henry
F. FREEDMAN, all of this city; Mary e. Nc
Kee Knightstown Daisy s. flaming Dav-
EXPORT Ia; Mamie French Williams. Econ
omy; Fanny F. Murray, New Paris. q;
Alice Leota Hunt, Carlos City; r. Estella
Charles, Spiceland Roy Il. Zimmerman, Ell
wood: Luther NJ Kimmel, Milton: Maurice
1. Townsend, Fountain City: Reuben J.
Scheid, New Hope, o.; Frederick l.. Hunt,
New Castle: Oria F. Mckee New Paris.
o.; Homer b. Ross. Brinley o.; Oscar p.
Gibson. Logansport; Ernest l. Stevenson,
Roseville, H.; William A. Barr, New Paris,
o., George G. Hill, Calhoun, Mo; Allen
Morrical. Blaine; Dane A. McNeill, Cleve-
land o.
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Thirty Members of the Minority VIII
Probably Vote for Annexation in
the House To-Day.
GEN. GROSVENoR'S SPEECH
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR. OF TAKING
POSSESSION OF HAWAII.
Methodist Book Concern South War
Senate-SOme Treasury Figures.
pecial to the 1ndianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Democratic
caucus on Hawaii this afternoon turned out
as anticipated On the roll call only seven
ty-three out of total of 125 Democrats re-
sponded, fifty-three being absent or refrain
ing from voting. Seventeen Democrats voted
against the resolution to commit the party
to opposition to annexation, but when Mr..
Dnsmore proposed to make the caucus vote
binding on all Democratic representatives
the kickers raised such rumpus that he
was glad to withdraw it. The seventeen
seemed to be magnified into ], 700, judging
from the noise they made. The caucus
therefore failed of it's purpose as every
body believed would be the case. On the
vote tomorrow propably thirty Democrats
will vote for annexation
The annexationist programme in the SEN
ate is silence. There will be total alb
stinence from speeches after one or two
statements are made setting forth the af-
firmative side of the question. The only ex-
ception to this rule will be Senator Morgan
of Alabama. who has declared his inten-
ton of making a speech scheme has been
put forward, however, to keep him off the
floor and if it succeeds the debate will be
shortened three or four days. The obstruc-
tionists will practically have to do all the
talking and as there are only a few of them
they will have a season of hard work
Forty-six senators are pledged to vote
against adjournment until action can be had
on Hawaii. If these forty-sx gentlemen
stick the filibuster is Knocked out in ad-
vance. E,.,
Representative Henry u. Johnson. of In
diana is slated for the star anti-annexaton
speech of the debate this afternoon. 1t is
going to be the greatest effort of his life"
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Perhaps it has not occurred to most per-
sons what a tremendous strain those are
under who are prosecuting the war. Thus
far the strain has fallen chiefly on the naval
officers, but from now it will be divided
with those of the army. Admiral Samp-
sons squadron sailed from Key West on
May 4, and the flying squadron, under Com
mcdore Schley, sailed under secret orders
from Hampton roads on May 10, and from
Key West on May 20. Both squadrons were
searching for Admiral Cerveras fleet. On
the oath of May the latter was reported bot
tied up in Santiago harbor. On the 18th
Commodore Schley reported by cable that
he was off Santiago, and that he believed
the Spanish fleet to be in the inner harbor.
Sampson bombarded the forts at San Juan,
Porto Rico on May II, and on May 81 both
fleets combined bombarded those at San
tiago. Since then Sampson has remained in
front of Santiago, keeping daily and nightly
watch, without moments relaxation. to
prevent escape of the Spanish fleet. Mean
while, several important preliminary move
ments have been planned and carried out,
involving much skill and care in execution.
The strain of such a series of events and
such continued watchfulness and response
bility is immense
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Senate Decides to Investigate the
Methodist Claim Scandal.

WASHINGTON, June 1i.-At to-day's ses-
sion of the Senate the resolution of Mr..
Lodge directing that an inquiry be made
into the disposition made of the Methodist
Book Concern (South) claim. which was
paid recently by Congress, was adopted
without division. In the course of the de-
bate on it Mr.. Morgan charged that the
resolution was insincere and had been
drawn for political effect. This statement
Mr. Lodge denied vigorously saying his
only purpose in offering the resolution was
that all the facts concerning the matter
should be laid before the people. to the
end that more care should be exercised in
the future. He hoped that as a result of
the proposed Investigation a general law
would be passed to eliminate the profess
sional lobbyist from the legislative equa-
ton.
The measure to incorporate an interna-
tional American bank was under discussion
for three hours. the debate eliciting some
interesting facts concerning the foreign
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D
vidual, are registered in the books of the
Treasury Department, are payable only to
the party whose name is inscribed upon
them, and can only be transferred by In
dorsed assignment. The interest regis
tered bonds is paid by check drawn at
Washington and mailed to the address of
the owner. A coupon bond has coupons at
tached, each one representing a quarters
interest, which is good at any bank for the
amount An interest coupon may pass from
hand to hand currency. AS the interest
on $lO0 bond at 3 per cent. would be 50 a
year, each quarterly coupon would repre-
sent 70 cents. Either kind of bonds can be
converted into the other and, on satisfac-
tory proof of their destruction, as by fire,
flood, mice or any other cause, the govern
ment will issue duplicates
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SAN JUAN UNlNJURED.
Forts show No sign of Having Been
Bombarded by sampson.

NEW YORK. June 1.-THE British steam
err Tyrian, which sailed from San Juan de
Puerto Rico on June s, arrived to-day. Capt.
Angrove reports that the Spanish torpedo
boat destroyer Terror was in port when he
sailed with steam up and stored with coal,
water and provisions. on arrival at San
Juan the Terror's boilers were leaking. Cap
tain Angrove says very little damage was
done by the bombardment by Admiral
Simpsons fleet on May II. The forts were
not injured One church had hole in each
end where a large shell passed through.
The captain said he visited all of the forts
to see the result of the assault but could
observe nothing unusual. Al the gateway
of one of the forts stands an unexpoded
shell which is kept there as a souvenir.
There were in port the Alphonso XIII and
four Of the old style gunboats.
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trade of this country. sinai action was not

trade of this country Final action was not
taken on the bill.
A House joint resolution appropriating
S473 Isl to pay the Boring sea award was
adopted. The appropriation is carried in
the sundry civil appropriation bill. but that
Measure is still in conference and the award
has to be paid on the 18th inst.
A bill reported from the military affairs
committee by Mr.. Hawley providing that
advertisements for supplies needed by the
War Department may be inserted in the
newspapers of this city passed.
4 bill to authorize a retired list for en-
listed men and appointed petty officers OF
the United States navy was also passed.
a bill was passed authorizing the Presi-
dent to nominate Lieutenant Commander
r. G. NJ. Brown. now on the retired list. to
be Il commander on the retired list. Lieu
tenant Commander Brown was one of the
heroes OF the Samoan disaster.
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The last monthly treasury statement
showed that the amount of gold coin in cir
cuation June /, 1898. was $649 81 ISL. The
amount in circulation June /. 1897, was $780,
221, 923, the increase during the year having
been $l29 349,95S. The increase of gold bull
lion in the treasury during the same period
was equally remarkable. The amount of
gold bullion held by the treasury on July /,
1897 was $25 .575 OBS. and on June l. 1885, IL
was 500 1895, 1854, an increase of $14 1886. and
this, Notwithstanding the fact that the coin
age of gold during the year amounted TO
So. 1880 800 This remarkable accumulation of
gold bullion induced the secretary of the
treasury. a few days ago. to send 10 Con-
gress a letter addressed to him by the act
ing director of the mint. urging the neces-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-15

BALTIMORE, Md, June 14-Perry Lee
Downs formerly practiced law and occupied
a good social position in Baltimore. He was
a member of several prominent clubs and of
Ex-Governor Jackson's staff. In October
1925, he was indicted on the charge of forg-
cry and accused of having signed his
mothers name to a number of notes mort
cages and other securities on which he
raised money His fight followed imme-
diately, and since then he has been fugi-
tive from Justice The prevailing impress
sion in Baltimore was that he had joined
the insurgent army in Cuba
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Notes About Indianinns.
to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. June 1.-THE War De-
partment issued a formal order this after
noon for First Lieut.. w. S. Wright, of
Logansport, to proceed to Indiana and re-
cruit fifty skilled men for the signal service
bond and commission as paymaster was
to-day forwarded to Maj. James B. Kenner
of Huntington. Ind. AS soon he files his
bond and qualities he will be ordered to
duty.
The name of Victor Carragan, of Kokomo.
will go in the first batch of second ieuten-
ants appointed for service in the regular
army
James Ora. of Kokomo. was to-day APP
pointed stenographer in the office of first as
sistant secretary of war.
A. c. Martin. of North Manchester, Ind.
has filed an application for clerkship In
the Treasury Department with a fair pros
pect of getting 1t.
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Five Miners Drowned.

AURORA; Mo, June 4.-An accident in
the mine of the Mount Vernon Company at
Stotts City. a mining camp, twenty miles
from this city. has resulted in the death of
five miners. The dead are John Durham.
William Durham, J. W. Newman. William
other miner, had narrow escape. The mine
has been under water and the men were
a mass of rock from the sides of the shaft
fell on the raft. breaking ii up and throw
ing the men into water sixty feet deep.
Bennett escaped by clinging to log until
rescued The other five men sunk to the bot
tom OF the shaft and were drowned
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sity of expediting the coinage of the ac-
cumulating. gold bulliony In this letter the
acting director of the mint said
The minis at Philadelphia. New Orleans
hours day to their full capacity in coin
ing gold, silver dollars and subsidiary silver.
OF the gold bullion IN the treasury $92 OO0,0 900
are held at the assay Office in New York
and the mint at Philadelphia To materially
reduce thisS stock in a reasonable time 1t
Will be necessary to run overtime at the
Philadelphia mint for several months While
the stock of gold on hand at San Francisco
a present is about $500 600, it will be in
creased in July and August by receipts from
the Klondike, most of which will be de-
Inmates place the amount that will be thus
received al not less than from $12, 009 900 to
$l5,OC0,OO0. and it will probably be necessary
to work the mint at San Francisco overtime
for two or three months Especially will
this be necessary should further impOrta-
tons of gold bullion be made from Austria
lasia.
To enable the minis, by working overtime,
to convert large part of this gold bullion
into coin the acting director of the mint
recommended an extra appropriation of
$4,000, to be expended during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1899, and the secretary
of the treasury approved the recommends
ton. The inference from all this is that gold
is not running away from the United States
to any alarming extent
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The repeated and prolonged attacks of the
Spaniards on the marines at Guantanamo
show that they realized the value of the
bay and landing to our forces and We're de-
termined to recover the position if possible.
They made three attacks. fighting about six
teen hours, and were repused each time by
inferior numbers. 1t is evident they fought
viciously. though they had the advantage of
darkness and the jungle. Once corralled in
Santiago they will not have those advan-
tages
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OF Rare OriginaIity.

II do so admire Mr.. Steddygate," said the
young woman. He is SO original"
Really. Miss Phlppers," said the bright
young man, you should not be so sar-
castle"
I'm not. He is the only young man I
know who is not always trying to say some
thing bright and new"
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opposed the resolutions. At 5:15 o'clock a

opposed the resolutions. At SIS o'clock a
recess until clock was taken.
AT the evening session few members were
present, and but few scattered occupants
of the galleries looked upon the speech
makers. Those who addressed the House
We're Messrs Barham (Rep.. CALI, Speery
(Rep, Comm. Bromwell lRep., %. Hilhorn
(Rep Mich). De Vries Dem, CALI. Packer
lRep., Pa. Davidson rep, Wis.,. Gibson
(Rep., Tenn), for; and Messrs. Crumpacker
(Rep., Ind. Kitchen Dem. n. CO. and
Broussard Dem, la, against the resolu-
ton. The House adjourned at IL o'clock
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Pnten1s Granted Indianinns.

WASHINGTON. June H.-Patents were
issued TO Indianians to-day as follows:
Joseph Deler, Napoleon. automatic railway
switch: Thomas Duncan Fort Wayne. cleo
trio motor; Godfrey w Goss. Kokomo. car
bon transmitter: Talbot b. Johnson. Weed
ersburg basket William Koch. Lawrence
burg clothes line holder; George r.. Laid
ley, Marion. device for concerning motion:
f. Ebenezer and +. j. Manning. Elkhart,
wire stretcher: Andrew J. Miller. Meta
mora, drying apparatus; Frank oNeiI,
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
TERRE TIAUTE, Ind, June 1.-THE grad
uating exercises of the Rose Polytechnic
Institute will be held Thursday morning.
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday of COM
mencement week at the institute is always
taken up with the examinations of the
theses of the graduates. To-day entrance
examinations for the next term were held
Tomorrow evening the senior reception
will be held The twelfth annual banquet
of the alumni association Will be held
Thursday evening.
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In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies few
days ago member of the Cabinet accused
the United States of exciting and arming
barbarians' to deeds of violence not justi-
fed by civilized warfare. He referred to
the native Philippines, yet up to date the
spaniards in Cuba are the only combatants
who have hacked and mutilated the dead
bodies of their enemies.
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Those who read Eastern papers will note
the fact that in Maine tine three longtime
Representatives. Reed. Dingley and Bou-
telle, have no competitors for the nominal
tion. Will the time come in Indiana
when evidence of ability to serve district
win insure nomination after nomination?
When it does, Indiana will have more in
fluence in Congress than it now has.
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The press of the country should do what
it can towards popularizing the new gov
eminent loan. There is no danger but the
entire amount will be subscribed for, but
since the government has appealed to the
people they ought to respond literally as
possible. To this, end the press should as
sist in placing the matter fully before the
niShlic
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con.r., NormaI summer Term.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
DANVILLE. Ind, June 1.-THE summer
term of the Central Normal College opened
this morning This term will continue for
eight weeks and then occurs the annual
commencement The address to the grad
yates of the law department will be deliv-
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New version:
If 1 were. Joseph Letter. Joe Letter. Joe
Letter,
If were Plunger Letter, 1 tell you what
I'd do:
I'd crawl into some big wheat field;
Some great, big, thousand-acre field
I'd hide in some such big wheat field,
And feel most awful blue
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SALARIES OF PosTMAsTERs.
How Indiana Offices Are Affected by
the Annual Readiustments.

WASHINGTON, June 4.-First Assistant
Postmaster General Heath to-day gave out
the readjustments of presidential postmas-
ters salaries TO take effect July l. The
changes in compensation are based on the
receipts during the past fiscal year. The
increases and decreases in Indiana are as
follows: Alexander Franklin, Lebanon,
Notre Dame, Rushvile and Warsaw ad-
vanced from third to second class; Ply
mouth relegated from second to third.
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The government is greatly in need of
sn1okeless powder, but it will not be bene-
fitted by the telegraphic announcement from
st. Louis that the powder depot at Jeffer-
storage house for the desired article.
Facts of that kind might as well be kept
caonat
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The new government bonds will be issued
at the option OF investors. as registered or
coupon bonds. There win be some who do
not clearly understand the difference. cou-
pom bonds are payable, both principal and
interest, 10 bearer. and pass by delivery.
usually without Endorsement. Registered
bonds are issued IN the name OF the indi-
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If Letter had only Invested in Irvine before
the battle of Manila, he would have made
more money off the farmers than he made
eventually from wheat. Yet, even such men
as he must admit that ''hindsight is
great deal truer in the long run than fore
sight
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The subscriptions to the new government
loan will probably demonstrate that there
are great many people in this country
who distrust all investments and places of
deuosit except the government.