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SHOULD BE SLOW TO ACT.
w. j. Bryan Differs from Some of the
Rampant Yellow.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb Civilian J.
Bryan was interviewed to-day concerning
the Maine I'm my opinion, we should be
Slow to act in the Maine affair, especially
under the trying circumstances which con-
front u.s. he said. Another fact which, in
my mind impels us to exercise discretion
is that the official investigation of the ex-
plosion is now being made. The United
States cannot afford to be too hasty in this
matter. International questions are in
VOlVed, and it would be a sad compliment
TO our government were we to openly and
maliciously bring about strained relations
by our anxiety to locate the responsibility
for the Maine disaster. Nothing should be
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want to Organize Cavalry.

Special % the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind. Feb ga patriotic
spirit has been aroused here over the Span
ish situation and it was announced to-day
that a well-known resident of the city had
telegraphed Representative Henry L. john
SON that. if necessary. a company Of cavalry
wouid be formed here to he at the disposal
of the government. The following telegram
in reply was received: 1T is the prayer
OF every thoughtful American that there
may he no necessity for raising cavalry.
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NEW York. Feb 25.--Experts are dis
cussing the expense of firing big guns. They
have arrived at the conclusion that, in
round numbers. it costs to fire one of the
modern eight-inch rifles $685. those of ten
inch caliber $is7, these of twelve-inch $685.
and those of sixteen-inch s1,S52. These fig
ureS include the cost of the projectile and
the powder at 80 cents a pound and the
wear and tear ON the guns To fire one of
the tweive-inch mortars it costs $3.50.
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FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 25.At the aft
ernoon session of the House an attempt
to abandon the regular order of business
and force the passage of the Goebel cleo
ton. or force bill. resulted in the loss
of three friends of the measure on test
vote u of the 100 members voted against
the measure It's enemies do not believe
they can prevent its passage many days
longer, but they believe ii Is killed or can
be killed by more waste of time and by ex-
piration of the session before it can be
passed over a veto and put into effect.
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TRENTON, n. j., Feb. 25.-Men have
been put to work placing the seacoast bat
teries at Sea Girt i'll order for service. At
the quartermaster generals office it was de-
MED however, that this had any signifi-
canoe, as this work is usual at this time of
the year. Captain Armstrong, the chief
clerk of this department, says that no or
ders have been received asking the National
service. The circular of the Navy Depart
ment asking for an inspection of vessels
which might be of use in the event of war
has been received at the adjutant generals
office. Adiutant General Stryker is in
Washington At his office ii was stated
that his Washington trip is purely a per-
sonal one and is not in any way connected
with military affairs
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Gas Found at Ridgeville.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RIDGEVILI4E. Ind. Feb. 25.-Joseph Lay
& Co. cleaned out and shot one of the
abandoned gas wells one mile northwest of
Ridgeville, developing a fair we'll of about
a million feet of gas daily. Messrs. Lay &
Co., having recently purchased a large tract
of land on which this we'll was located. will
row put down other wells and pipe the
town. Ridgevillians are jubiant over the
prospects. Many now think gas should
have been found here years ago, when the
third well in the State was drilled at
Ridgeville.
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Convention Date Changed.

special TO the Indianapolis Journal
RUSHVILLE Ind, Feb. 25.-The date OF
the Republican congressional convention in
the Sixth district has been changed from
April % to April 10 on account of the Odd
Fellows meeting at Knightstown. The
convention will be held at Brookvlle The
Republican county convention will be held
on Saturday, April g. The joint senatorial
district of Rush. Hancock and Madison
counties viii hold its convention 1T Green
field April B.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FRANKLIN, Ind, Feb. 25.-The charges
of attempted bribery which have rested
against Owen Downs, of Edinburg, since
December 1896, have been dismissed by the
court After election two years ago the
Democrats, apparently stung by the partys
defeat, filed a large number of charges
against leading Republican workers over
the county. None of them has ever been
brought 20 trial
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. Feb. 25.-Last
night at its drill meeting JefrersonviIle Di-
vision Uniform Rank, knights of Pythas
passed resolutions rendering the service OF
the entire company consisting of sixty men
10 the secretary of war. and a telegram To
that effect was sent TO Washington. w NJ
Guernsey telegraph operator for the Penn
sylyania at Henryville- hss organized a
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improvement in the condition of Mrs W.
c. Whitney tonight. the following bulletin
being displayed at the whitney cottage:
Mrs Whitney rested well last night She
has had "a more comfortable day and there
is a slight improvement in her condition
during the last twenty-four hours. She is
not Vet out of danger and is seriously ill.,
DR.. Bull has returned 10 New York While
Or. Dana remains here in consultation with
Drs Mott and McGahan.
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old soldier Died at Asylum.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR, Ind, Feb 25-The remains
of John W. Robinson, who died early this
morning at the Central Insane Asylum at
Indianapolis We're brought to his late
home here this evening. Mr. Robinson was
hfty-four years old. and during the war
was a member of Company b, of the Sixty
sixth Indiana Volunteers.
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Not Permitted to Lnnd.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The captain of the
steamer Strathay. which is lying in the
lower bay awaiting orders, left his vessel
in a small boat this forenoon TO so to the
telegraph Office at Sanaly Hook, but was
not allowed to land under orders of Colonel
Ludlow commandant there, prohibiting
any one landing at Sandy Hook without his
written permission.
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Drunkaras and Gamblers converted.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WEST BADEN. Ind. Feb. 25.-The
largest revival meeting ever known in this
community has just closed at French Lick
Over three weeks the meetings were con-
Quoted. and every night the schoolhouse
was packed and about one hundred. mostly
men, We're converted. Many of the con-
yerts We're drunkards and young gamblers.
The meetings were conducted by George
Armstrong, a local minister. and a painter
by trade. During the meeting a subscriD-
ton paper was started and enough money
raised to build q fine church.
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Order for 800 Glass Fence Posts.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. PA Muncie glass
firm has received an order for five hundred
glass fence posts to be made at once. The
posts are to be made in the regulation size
with small grooves in which wire will be
wrapped. The posts will be as convenient
aS cedar and they will not decay The
order has caused some speculation and is
probably an introduction of an important
article in the trade
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Suicide OF Emma Krepps.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY. Ind. Feb 25-Miss
Emma Krepps, aged nineteen committed
suicide to-day by hanging herself with a
clcthesline in clubhouse. She had been
dead only a short time when discovered
by her mother. No reason is assigned for
the act. The girl had no love affairs so
far as Is known, and had made no threats
to end her life. She formerly resided at
Madison,
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TOPEKA, Kan. Feb. 25.-The National
Creamery Butter Makers Association
closed its sessions Tonight The meeting
to-day was largely of a business nature
The time and place of the next meeting
was left to the executive committee. Two
hundred and fifty of the delegates left this
afternoon for a tour of the creameries of
the State.
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New Torpedo Gun Company.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 25-Secretary
of State Ross to-day licensed the Gathmann
TORPEDO Gun Company of Chicago capital
$500 600, to manufacture torpedo high eX-
plosive shells and projectiles for land and
naval warfare The incorporatOrs are Her.
bert Y. Mcmillan, Winsor Chase, Louis L.
Mann.
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March 20 to BE willard Memorial Day.

CHICAGO. Feb. 25-Sunday March 20,
has been set apart by the general officers of
f fnr Erane u i IN speEi insoTIa Ia LAY
letter day among the white rbboners, be-
ing prohibition day" the birthday of Gen.
Willard was to issue a call for its general
observance. not by white ribboners alone
but by churches ana other societies.
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ST. LOUIS. Feb. 25.--The plans and Ioca-
tion for the third bridge over the Mississippi
We're approved by the committee of govern
ment engineers. who made a report 10 the
War Department at Washington 10 this
effect The location will touch the foot Of
Mullanphy street on the west side and the
eastern approach will be close 10 the East
ST. Louis water works
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FORK Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
A copy reader of one of the consistently
yellow papers was met between 5 and 6
o'clock one afternoon recently. He re-
marked that he was on the way to his office
for the nights work. I'VE go each into his
own padded CELL explained the Journalist,
land throw fits until , a. IN That's what
you see in the paper next morning."
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Special 70 The Indianapolis journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Feb. 25.-The
Odd Fellows of this city, backed up by the
citizens intend to make a strong bid for
the state home for INDECENT members and
the widows and orphans of members. A
meeting was held Monday evening and the
local order is now in correspondence with
the Grand Lodge in reference to the mat
Ter The citizens intend to cooperate with
the lodge in order to make the Hartford
city bid as inviting as possible.
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JAMESTOWN, Pa, Feb. 25-Ray Fry and
Hugh Sewall. prominent young men OF this
place quarreled about q young woman last
Fry's heart killing him instantly. Horri-
fled at the deed Sewall attempted suicide
twice, the first time by cutting his throat
and then by drowning. He has been ar
rested and as soon as his condition will per-
NIT he will be taken TO iail at Mercer
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stabbing ARRAY at school.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR Ind, Feb. 25.-This afternoon
Joseph Christopher and Charles Tucker
two schoolboys fought on the Park school
ground. and Tucker stabbed Christopher
making several serious knife wounds One
cash extends around the left wrist to the
bone
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Excitement in Mexico.

MEXICO, Feb. 25.-Great excitement pre-
walls here over the probability of rupture
between the United States and Spain. In
case of a war the police would have their
hands full in preventing collisions, as there
are many Spanish and American residents
here some of whom are likely to pick a
quarrel.
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Brown County Fire Bugs.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NASHVILLE, Ind, Feb 25.-Sheriff King
took George Curtis and Levi Huffstutter to
the Indiana Reformatory to-day. They had
been convicted of burning John Patterson's
barn last August
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Merritt I'm Route to FIorida.

ATLANTA, Ga. q Feb. 25.-Major General
Merritt, commander of the Department of
the East, to-day inspected Fort Mcpherson
pearance of al departments. The general
left this afternoon for the next post in his
territory Fort Barancas, near Pensacola,
Fla
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COLUMBUS. o.. Feb. 25.-The Senate
bribery investigation committee met TO day
and examined Manager Ross of the local
telephone company, with regard to calls
made and answered in connection with the
Hanna headquarters in the Neil House,
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this city, looking toward the location Of
their plant in this city. They will bind
themselves to start with four hundred men.
The Commercial Club also took up the
work. to-day. of securing the location of
the State Home which Indiana Odd Fellows
are preparing to build. Free gas. land ana
cash gratuities are the methods employed.
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The Terror in Hampton Roads.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 25.The monitor
Terror remains at anchor in Hampton
Roads. She is constantly under steam, ex-
pecting orders to leave. 1t is said that am
muntiOn has been shipped to Fort Wash
ington from the Fort Monroe Arsenal.
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Special TO the indianapolis Journal
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb 25.-Contracts
were closed to-day for the location of
road scraper works at this point 1t will
employ one hundred men. Last night the
Commercial Club secured the location of the
Goldman Brake Company, of Lafayette and
Chicago, 20 employ two hundred men. Ii is
q steel industry Next Monday or Tuesday
the officers OF the Mitchel-T anter Rolling
MIL Company. az Covingtou VIII hold Il
conference with the Commercial Club, ia
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The Vizcaya.
Kansas city Journal.

1t will be of interest TO some readers TO
know that Vizcaya, the name of the ar
mored cruiser now visiting New York is
the Spanish form of .Biscay." Nizcaya is
one of the four Basque provinces of Spain.
The cruiser Nizcaya is named on the same
principle as our battle ships, Indiana, Iowa,
ptc
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other Deaths,

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Mrs. Mary VAN
derveer De Hart. widow of Capt. w. c.
De Hart who was chief of staff for Gen.
Winfield Scott. in the Mexican war, died
at her home at Elizabeth, \. j., to-day, in
her eighty-seventh year.
MONTREAL. Feb 25.-Lady Abbott. wild
ow of Sir John {. Abbott, five years ago
premier of Canada. died suddenly to-day.
LONDON. Feb. 25.-George Barrett, the
Jockey is dead.
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nihn,f Dream, II.

Detroit Free Press.
Little did Washington's men realize whan
they froze an starved In Valley Forge that
winter that they were laying the founda-
ton for q twelVe-couIse banquet
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Georges Motto.

Detroit Free Press.
Boys" said the schoolteacher, who can
tell me George Washington's motte,s" Sew
eral hands went up. Philip Perkasie sou
may tell" ..When i'm doubt, tell the truth"
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WAR FEELING.


provide for the government paying, it is
understood bonus to both the coal miners
and the railroads If the 100000 tons are de-
livered within a specific time.
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SUSPICIOUS ODD FELLoMs.
Treasurer Who Said He Was Robbed
Quickly Placed i'm Jail.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
BRAZIL Ind, Feb. 25.-John AIcLenhart,
treasurer of the Harmony Odd Fellows
Lodge, was arrested at Harmony to-day.
McLenhart notified Chief of Police Lauder
book to-day that burglars had entered his
house last night and robbed him Of $40 be-
longing to the order of Odd Fellows. Off
GERS were Immediately placed at work on
the case, and it was learned from the trus-
tees Of the order that McLenhart had been
instructed to deposit the lodge money in
Zeler x Riddelis Bank, of this city, but in
stead of doing so he kept ii at his house
The officers We're unwilling to believe that
McLenhart had been robbed, and placed
him in Jail until further investigation can be
made. The books of the order are being
audited to determine the shortage, if any,
in the treasuer's accounts. Mr.. McLenhart
is a prosperous citizen of Harmony, and
has always borne "a good name. and his
friends are unwilling to believe him guilty
of appropriating the money to his own use.
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Kansas City Journal.
Senator Billy Mason may not have been
a devourer of yellow-backed literature in
his youth, but he has evidently been indulg-
ing too freely in yellow journalism since he
went to the Senate.
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New York Evening Sun.
While We were grumbling about the bad
weather Yesterday. many Of us forgot that
this was not the only city affected. IN
fact. in the words of the old proverb, we
were not the only Baptist in the tank
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u
SuppOsihR n Case.


Let US reverse the case. Suppose a Span
ish war ship in New York harbor, sent
there as we believed as a menace had
blown UP. Would our people have wept or
snickered2
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Detroit Tribune

DotfOlt Iflbunt.
We imagine that when the day of judg-
ment comes a few OF the New York news
papers will iasist on having the affair con-
Quoted by their special angels.
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ROME, Feb. 25.--Dr. Pagello, the friend
Of the celebrated novelist, George Sand
MADAME Aurore DudevanO, died to-day at
Rolluna, at the age of ninety-two.
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company of forty men who are willing to
fight for Uncle Sam. and has notified the
authorities at Washington
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Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
After Rev. Sam Jones gets through with
his campaign for Governor OF Georgia he
will be able 10 locate hades somewhere else
than within .Aree miles of Boston.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. 25.-People re-
turned from Greenville, o., to-day, where
they were called 10 identify the man who
has been passing under the name of John
Sohn, and sold a farm near that city which
belonged to u man named John Sohn, of
Marion. He is now being held in the Jail
at Greenville, charged with fraud. The
Anderson men found the prisoner was L.
$. Brunson, who has had "a checkered ca
reer since he came to Anderson, six years
ago. In eight months his house was blown
up by an explosion of natural gas. his wife
and child dying of their injuries. From
that Brunson got $1,000 in compromise
with the gas company. He then began to
speculate and made some notorious deals
which came near landing him in prison. A
man named Percy Lee was one of his vic
Tins, bGt Lee got judgment. He later sold
several lots i'm Jackson Park addition of
Chicago to Anderson people, and they
found that they had bought sand dunes
way down in Lake county. Indiana There
are several other old scores against him.
Brunson originally came from some point
in or around Rush county, Indiana.
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when he was a candidate for United States
senator. The only new development was
that Major Dick settled the telephone bills.
Not even names of the conversationalists
by telephone We're secured.
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Testimony Which Is Said to Prove
Thera. Mnh an External E.xnIOsion.

There Was External Explosion.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The Herald's Ha-
vana correspondent says it is now believed
the magazines Of the Maine had nothing to
do with the initial explosion. and that the
vessel was wrecked by an explosion under
the hull. The correspondent says: THE
evidence that has served to convince the
board of inquiry was obtained by Ensign
Powelson. an officer attached to the Fern.
Mr.. Powelson was formerly i'm the construc-
ton corps and took a two years special
course in The Glasgow School of Naval
Architects He is. therefore, competent
witness. What he discovered was that the
forward part of the keel of the Maine with
its ribs and plates, was stove upward so
FAR that parts of the shattered double bot
tom show out of water. and in places sec
tions of the green-painted outer hull are
visible. Corroborative of the evidence given
by Ensign Powelson and Of equal signii-
canoe and Importance is the result of the
close examination made by the divers.
What they found indicates that the explo-
sion came from point beneath the keel. A
plumb line dropped from a point just for
ward of the coming tower would have laid
the lead exactly on the spot where the
explosion occurred that hove the keel and
plates and ribs almost to the surface. The
force of the explosion seems to have been
exceeded slightly on the port side of the
vessel. This is consistent with the facts
hitherto ascertained. Collectively, these
now Indicate that the contents of the re-
serve six-inch magazine were exploded by
the Initial blast, and that there was no ex-
plosion in either of the other two. In the
reserve magazine was slowed $500 pounds
of powder, in copper tanks, each of which
contained two hundred pounds. Several OF
these tanks have been found by the divers,
all in crushed and shapeiess masses. Ii is
important to note that in the siX-inch and
ten-inch tanks recovered the excelsior used
for packing the charges shows no injury
from flame or gases. The powder slowed
IL the six-inch reserve magazine was used
Tor saluting purposes only. The magazine
itself appears to have been utterly de-
strOyed, only few traces being left to show
the spot where il was once located The
under part of the ten-inch magazine is
wholly inaccessible to divers. In the upper
part is lightly wedged a mass Of powder
cylinders. too heavy for divers to extricate,
but apparently containing unexploded
charges of powder. The how torpedo tube
of the Maine has been located in the wreck.
Ii lies in the debris forward, submerged sew
eral feet under water The huh is now i'm
bedded in the mud to the depth of eight
feet. The divers sink to their armpits in
the mud and have the greatest difficulty in
prosecuting their work.