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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03
ToId the Hour OF His Denth.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2-The Heralds Paris
correspondent says: France is just awak-
ening to the realization of the loss she has
sustained in the death of Dr. Pean. He
was an operator of marvellous skill and
nerve, and was probably the first surgeon in
France who dared to perform abdominal
opei atoms and ovariotonomy, which are
nowadays so common and little feared. An
ticeptic precautions were then hardly ever
observed. and patients great risks, but
when DIR. Pean operated his cases rarely
ended fatally, and he quickly obtained
great reputation. Numerous pupils followed
his instructions at Saint Louis Hospital.
His death was dramatic. On Saturday
evening pneumonia set in and he began to
shiver. He said to his friends around him:
Il am lost man." He at once sent for a
priest from the Madeleine, who admins
tered the last sacrament to him. DR.. Pean
saying: II shall die in the faith of my
father" The fever increased. He counted
the beats of his pulse, saying: II never saw
anyone who survived what | am now going
through. In an hour j shall be dead" He
then said good-by to his friends and died
in full possession of all his faculties at the
very moment he had fixed.
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severe storms in Europe.

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Storms are prevailing
throughout Great Britain and railroad trains
have been greatly delayed Severe gales
have swept the coast and worse weather is
predicted. with severe cold. Lloyd's report
says terrific squalls are reported at Prawle
Point and the Lizards. Atmospheric dis
turbances are reported on tho continent
from Berlin to Buda-Pesth, resulting in a
general interruption of traffic and consider
able damage to property, especially at
LEIPZIG, Bohemia and Buda-Pesth. A gale
has prevailed at Vienna since Sunday,
reaching hurricane force on Sunday night
1t is now subsiding. The wind blew the
lantern off the Little Crosby lighthouse and
set fire to the building, which de-
stroyed. Its three occupants, the light
house keeper, his wife and a man who was
visiting them persisted.
A hurricane has been sweeping over the
Clyde district since last evening. num-
Der of yachts have been sunk in Gourock
bay, much damage has been done to ship
ping off the coasts and considerable de-
struction has been caused inland.
A terrible storm has swept the coast of
Norway during the last few days There
have been several shipping disasters and
1t is feared many lives have been lost
A dispatch from Bergamo, Lombardy,
says that six work girls were killed and
many others seriously injured at Baazonico
yesterday, when the roof of the spinning
mill there collapsed in the storm.
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ton, Marquis Saionji: war, Viscount Kat
sura: navy, Marquis Saigo; agriculture and
commerce, Baron Ito Miyoji communica-
tons. Baron Suyematsu; justice, Mr.. Some
Arasuke.
According to the statistics of the Japanese
customs authorities sixteen foreign sealing
schooners, twelve British and four Ameri-
can, entered Hakiodate and Yokohama dur
ing the year 1897. Their aggregate catches
were 1852, decrease Of 1854 compared
with that of 1896.
The Japanese standing squadron, consist
ing of the Full, Yaskimi, Matshima,
Itsushima,. Hashidate, Chinyen, Naniwa,
Sufna and IdZumi, had been ordered to
leave Yokosuka for Chinese waters on JAM
20, shortly before the Rio left Japan.
A japanese paper states that the author-
ties OF the governor generals office in For
mosa are considering the desirabihty OF
creating a monopoly of the camphor BUSH
ness similar to that of leaf tobacco, with
the view of increasing the revenue.
The Chuo Shimbun says that the French
government has officially communicated to
the japanese government its desire to bor-
row the PeScadOreS in order to form an
anchorage for the French squadron. On
Dec. "A the Japanese merchant steamer
Nara Maru ran on a hidden rock off the
Pescadore group and sank Immediately. OF
her eighty passengers and crew seven only
reached the shore. The drowned were all
japanese
A Toxic paper states that there are some
$1,000 troops in Vladivostock ready to take
the field at moments notice.
Mr.. Sands secretary of the United States
legation at Seoul, was assaulted by gang
of five or six Japanese coolies at Nagasah
No reason is known for the assault and the
matter is being investigated by the local
authorities.
Twenty-one people were killed and fhir-
teen injured at Niigati prefecture owing to
the collapse of a number of houses on ac-
count of the heavy downfall of snow.
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HAD PLURAL HELPMEETS.
Dry-GOOds Clerk Who Married Two
Pretty Cashiers in Four Days.

NEW YORK. Feb. IBID young Edward
A. Schirmer, a clerk in q New York dry
goods store, try to form a trust when he
married two pretty cashiers in four days
or was he hypnotized? He attributes the
matrimonial tangle that landed him in Jail
on charge of bigamy to the hypnotic
power of some one not stated. But the fact
remains that both young women, one
goden-haired beauty and the other a bru-
nette, had nice easy jobs when they con-
scented to share the lot of Edward Schirm-
er, and he graciously PERMITTED them TO
continue at work. Dividends were declared
weekly 1t Is said. until Mrs. Schirmer No. 2
exploded the trust ON Nov. 10 last Edward
married Susie Grinder aged eighteen years.
of Brooklyn That same evening he escorted
his other fiancee. Mary Russell. aged TWEEN
ty-two. to the theater and on Nov. II he
welded Mary. II and Mary rented apart
ments In West Tenth street and lived hap
PLY together, except when Edward So
journed with No. ] IN Brooklyn, until
three weeks ago. when No . discovered the
duplicity of the enterprising Schrmcr. She
set the police on his track. Detectives ctp@
tured him In Jersey City on Monday night.
When the bigamist was arraigned in court
his blue-eyed Susie, who has forgiven Ed
ward for keeping the wolf from two doors
simultaneously, gave him a kiss and one
package of cigarettes a mark of wifely
esteem. Edward said little about himself.
except to confess the marriages. He thinks
he must have been out OF his mind at the
time Of the second venture.
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MAIL CENSORSHIP.
correspondence from the United
States Tempered with at Havana.

COrresDOndence from the United
States Tampered with ut Havana.
HAVANA, via Key West. Feb. 2.-AIail
matter in the Havana postofice continues
to be tempered with. There are eighteen
extra men on duty opening letters and read
ing newspapers before delivery. While Eu-
ropean mail matter gets through all right
correspondence from the United States, es-
pecially from Tampa and Key West, is
most carefully examined. Letters from
Madrid to members of the opposition party
are opened. The delivery of the mail Is
habitually delayed several days. Newspa-
pers are held much longer and are often not
delivered at all. In many cases letters and
valuable packages fail to reach their desti-
nation, the failure causing severe loss. 1t
is reported that this system of inspection
was prompted by DR.. Jose Congosto, the
secretary to the government.
Great discomfort exists among the Cubans,
as most of them want to be in the govern
ment employ, and there are not situations
enough for all. The number of malcontents
is steadily increasing.
La Discussion prints the following: 1.-THE
scenes Witnessed at the residence OF Dr
Castro Jesms del Monte previous to the
distribution of food 10 the reeoncentradoS
are too pathetic to be fully described. AS
soon as the doors were opened a mass of
ages and both sexes invaded the places
where food was to be distributed with out
stretched hands almost fieShlesS, impl0r1ng
aims, frightful animation filling their
spectral faces at sight of food. Many were
not strong enough even to endure the food
and fell in the streets as they turned away
q few others more fortunate, perhaps,
seemed to regain some vitality. This pain
full scene is daily witnessed wherever food
is distributed to the reconcentrados.
The Spanish authorities claim to have
unearthed q conspiracy, headed by Luis
Zorro Lazo, who exploded a dynamite
bomb the other night at the door of Don
Miguel Diaz, e&-mayor of Havana, to dy-
Mantle other prominent buildings in the
city. 1t is asserted that the houses of
Senior Antonio Diaz Blonco a prominent
Conservative, Senior Angel Alanso and
Senior Segundo Alvarez. Reformist, and
others were marked for destruction. This
news has caused great uneasiness among
the families concerned.
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ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 2.-Sixteen men,
belonging in Trinity bay, were driven off
in the ice yesterday while seal hunting. 1t
is feared they have persisted The boats
that We're out seeking them to-day returned
at nightfall without having got sight of
them. The steamer Vanguard went in
search also, but the day has been so hazy
it has been impossible to do much. The
British brigantine Lady Bertha, Captain
Patey, from Alicante, drove ashore last
night at Renews harbor, forty miles south
of here She was imbedded in an ice foe
and became total wreck. Her seven men,
it is feared, are lost. although they may be
drifting about In boat amid the ice. A
barkentine. supposed to be the AureOa,
Captain Wakeman, from st. Johns for Per-
nambuco. fish laden was driven ashore by
a foe eight miles south. Her crew is prob
ably safe. Nothing is known here to-day
regarding the steamer that was flying dis
tress signals in the ice yesterday. The
steamer Glover started to seek her this
morning.
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MORE WAR SHIPS FOR CUBA.
The Montgomery and other Cruisers
to Visit Spanish Colony Ports.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The cruiser
Montgomery will sail from Key West to-
morrow for Cuba, the first port of call be-
ing Mentansas. 1t is said at the Navy De-
partment that the Montgomery, after leav-
ing Santiago, will stop at some other ports
on the coast of Cuba, and then proceed
southwark to the coast of South America,
perhaps extending the cruise as far south
as Rio de Janeiro, where she may join the
South Atlantic squadron Other cruisers
and gunboats probably will follow the
course of the Montgomery generally, from
time to time SO that the United States flag
will be seen oftener in the future in the
waters south of us than it has been for
many years past. For this purpose the small
gunboats recently added to the navy, origi-
nally for service in Chinese waters
will be used freely. The details of
the cruise of the Brooklyn, so far as ar
ranged at the Navy Department, provide
for visits by the ship to the following ports
in the order named: st. Thomas, Santa
Cruz ST. Lucia. Laguayra, Porto Cabello,
Curacao Saxanilla and Colon. At this point
on the IsthmuS of Panama the ship will
Because of her heavy draft Of water it Is
not probable that the Brooklyn will be or
dered up the east coast of the isthmuS and
Central America. which have no deep water
ports but rather that she will cruise east
ward again from Colon down as far on the
coast of South America as Rio de Janeiro,
where she may be ultimately attached for
a time to the South Atlantic station. The
gunboat Nashville arrived at Key West to-
day from Port Royal, S. c.. so that the
North Atlantic squadron will make good
the numerical loss that it would have suf-
fered by the failure of the Brooklyn to join,
as originally intended.
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raca and Carthagena. The CHARACTERISTICS Of
these cruisers are the following; Length lO6
meters; breadth Is meters centimeters;
draught, meters centimeters; displace-
ment, 1000 tons; engines. Bs0O0 horse pow
er; speed, 20 knots; armor belt. q cent?
meters deck, 5 centimeters; gun position,
"a centimeters; coming tower, 81 centimet-
ers; armament (Hontoria SYSTEM, "A cent?
meters. There are two 14-centimeter quick
firing guns, two small-caliber 20 and eight
torpedo tubes.
Compared to their sister Ships the
writer continues, 1.-THE Infanta Maria The
resa. the Niscaya and the Almirante Oquen-
do these new cruisers have an increase OF
1900 horse power in their engines, which,
of course. viii give a large increased speed
In addition there is the finer model, which
viii add still further speed, and the armored
belt which defends the vital part of the car
dinal Cisneros is larger and the quality OF
the plates has been improved. We maintain
hopes that the sister ship in Bilbao Will
have even stronger resistive power The de-
fensive power of the whole was also in
creased not a little for they have the ex-
ceptional advantage of a battery of four
teen centimeter quick-fring guns. The
writer goes on TO compare the best vessels
In the United States navy with these new
cruisers and concludes that the Spanish
vessels are absolutely superior to those of
their foreign antagonist.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03

PARIS, Feb 2.-During the discussion of
the naval estimates in the Chamber of
Deputies this afternoon Wee Admiral Bes-
nard, the minister of marine. said the gov
ernment's naval programme had made the
Mediterranean q French gulf. 1t was in
tended now TO build ironclads for extra
European waters. with ar extensive sphere
of action, and large number of small ar
mored cruisers. The government. he added,
was actively pursuing experiments with SUBJ
marine boats, and the improvements in the
initial velocity of the artillery were making
it the best in the world. Meanwhile the for
tifications at Bizerla were actively proceed
ing in construction. The minister admitted
that accidents to French boilers We're more
frequent than in other navieS.
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Low Temperature at New York.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-This is the coolest
day of the season. The temperature, which
was gradually falling yesterday afternoon
and last night, registered degrees above
zero at a. m. to-day, a drop of y degrees
since yesterday at p. m. Since 1 a. m it
has risen . points. The thermometers in
the streets show Il considerable lower rec
ord, many of them registering 2 degrees
above zero. The East and North rivers
were full of ice, and the ferryboats were
much delayed on this account. The surface
and elevated railroads ran behind time and
local traffic was considerably congested
The Third-avenue cable road broke down.
Suburban traffic was also delayed. Trains
from north, northeast and west were all
late in arriving. AT the hospitals there are
many cases Of frozen feet, fingers and
limbs and the surgeons are kept busy fix
ing up the bones broken by falls on the
slippery streets.
An ice gorge is forming on Long Island
sound at Fort Schuyler, threatening to in
terfere with navigation. The Hudson river
at Sing Sing is frozen over. and if the cold
continues another twenty-four hours teams
and pedestrians will be able TO cross safely
from shore to shore.
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"Down with the Jewsw

PARIS, Feb. 2-When the hearing Of the
libel suit, brought by Joseph Reinach,
against Henri Rochefort, who charged M.
Reinach with intending to prove Alfred
Dreyfuss innocence by means of forged
documents, was resumed to-day. The court
was thronged AT the termination of the
speech for the defense the crowd broke out
into cheers and cried Down with the
Jews The judge thereupon suspended the
hearing. When the hearing was resumed
later, there was great excitement in the vi
entity. Judgment in the suit was postponed
for Il week.
Emile lola and the Aurore have requested
the ministry of justice TO subpoena General
Bilot, minister OF war, as d witness for the
defense in the coming prosecution of NJ.
lola.
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RELISHED HORSE MEAT.
Republican Clubs Guests Thought 1t
Was BeefsteaL.

BROOKLYN, Feb. 2 "A heefsteak dinner
was held in the rooms of the Unity Repub-
lican Club last Saturday night ne which
forty judges, lawyers and politicians We're
present. Sixty pounds OF meat We're dis
posed Of and the diners stuck to the table
until it was announced that there was not
another ounce left. when they reluctantly
quilted the repast. This evening "a secset
leaked out The forty guests were All in
formed that they had partaken of fine
steaks cut from sX-year-Old horse, which
IVES specially killed Tor the feast, The
longer of value for driving. Said one Of the
diners to-day: 1T is true that Chef Cabrie
served steaks which were cut from a horse
They were delicious. but you can rest as
sured that ii the members had known they
would have gone hungry.
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ST. LOUIS. Feb. This is the coolest
night of the season for this vicinity At mid
night the thermometer registered l. degrees
above zero. Reports from number of
places in Illinois and Missouri indicate that
the present cold spell is the most severe ex-
perienced this winter. The coolest reported
is . below al Gibson ILL.,. and the Their
mometers at other places range from that
TO above. The farmers in the vicinity of
Moherly. Mo, are beginning to suffer from
the lack of water for their stock. Nearly
all passenger trains to that point are de-
layed. In other points of Missouri zero
weather prevails, stock is suffering and
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PLEASANT WINTER TRIP.
congressman Flee from the Blizzard
to Inspect Southern LeVees.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. limited States Sena-
tors Nelson, Gallinger, Vest and Berry,
members Of the subcommittee of the com
mittec on commerce. and General Catch
ings, of the rivers and harbors committee
of the House OF Representatives. arrived
here to-day over the Baltimore x Ohio
Railroad, from Washington. They stopped
at the Southern Hotel tonight ana to-mor-
row morning, with the members of the
Mississippi River Commission. will leave
this city for Cairo. ILL.,, where they will
take the government boat Mississippi for a
trip of inspection down TO the mouth OF
the Father Of Waters. A thorough ipspec-
ton Of the leyees ana the general condition
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The PIagne n.t Bomhax.

BOMBAY. Feb. 2.-Quarantine barriers
are being established in all the towns
against the Bombay exodus. Lord Sand
hurst, the governor, fearing that the plague
will increase rapidly in few weeks, and
that through the penning up Of the large
population a panic is likely to develop, has
issued an order inviting those affected to
remove themselves and their families to a
camp on the islands across the harbor. De-
tachments from the Durhamshire regiment,
at Poonah. and the artillery of the Shrop-
shire regiment, at Colaba, have been or
dered to Bombay for plague duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03
Passenger Train pynamited.

HAVANA, Feb. 2.-The insurgents have
dynamited a passenger train near Guara,
Havana, partly destroying the engine and
derailing the cars.
A detachment of Spanish cavalry has been
engaged with an insurgent force under Col
Rosendo Collazo at the Aguyo plantation,
Havana province The Spanish report of
the affair says the insurgents lost seventeen
men killed, that four insurgents We're cap
tured and the Spanish had seven men
wounded
On Sunday last, at Havana and GUIANA
bacoa assistance was given to 7,511 recon-
centrados. About SO $50 rations were dis
tributed. There are about fifteen thousand
reconcentradoes in and about Havana and
GNanahacOa.
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BULGARIA. WARNS TURKEY.
Outrages and Oppression i'm the VIII
ayet OF UsISub Must Cease

CONSTANTINOPLE Feb. 2.-'rhe RuI-
garian agent has presented note to the
Turkish government pointing out the seri-
BUSINESS of occurrences in the villayet CT
uskub, where 5S2 Bulgarias. have Lecs. ar
rested on the charge of storing arms. The
agent further alleged that many ~ the Tut
garians had beenstortuIed to death and II al
women and girls have been outraged. and, as
a result, were dying. Therefore, the agent
urgently demanded an immediate cessa ton
or the oppression, The withdrawal of the
military surrounding tae locality, the tra..s-
Ter of all prisoners to Cslsuo for trial and
the dismissal of a numoer IF oisicials. The
note has caused sensation among the
turkish ministers and at the palace.
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ROLLA. NJ d., Feb. 2-George II. May
was yesterday sentenced to the state pen
itentiary of North Dakota for three years
and three months for bigamy. May pleaded
guilty. He is known to have been married
four times and there is a record OF only one
divorce He has assumed various names.
He was married ia Minnesota first az
George Hanson. Later ne WAS married at
Grand Forks. n. d.. as George Bondurant:
then al Mahpeton, n D.. last October as
George II. May. His last victim was Clara
Lee. of Leeds. May was arrested by the
sheriff Of Rollette county IN Montana and
brought hack three weeks ago
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BERLIN, Feb. "A dispatch from CON
stantinople to the Frankfort Gazette SAYS
the answer of Emperor Nicholas to the
Turkish objection TO the candidature Of
Prince George OF Greece for the governor
ship of Crete was presented to the Sui
tan yesterday tTuesday.) IL was couchcd
in such strong terms that the Russian am
bassador, NJ. Zinovieffs hesitated and tele-
gTaphed to St. Petersburg for confirmation
before presenting IL. Count Muravieff. the
Russian foreign minister. replied that IL
WAS the Cars unalterable determination
that Prince George should be nominated
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SLIGHTLY WARMER TODAY.
FOrecaster Wappenhans Promises "a
Little Relief for GasIess Shiverers.

Forecast for indianapolis and vicinity for
twenty-four hours ending II p. M, Feb. 8
Slightly warmer, fair weather on Thursday
General Conditions Yesterday-The storm
area moved eastward over New England
and high barometric pressure, with lower
temperature, prevails; the temperature fell
in localities from 10 to is degrees except
near the Atlantic coast, where it rose;
freezing temperature continues south to
central Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and
Virginia. zero and lower south to Iowa,
central Illinois and northwestern Indiana.
Light f1urries of snow occurred near the
lakes.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON Feb. 2.-For Indiana
and Illnois-Fair, followed by increasing
cloudiness: not so cold; westerly winds, be-
coming southerly
For Ohio-Fair; continued cold weather;
high northwesterly winds. diminishing.
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GALVESTON, Tex. Feb 2.--The British
steamship Hannah M. Bell, which arrived
Tuesday night from Algiers, fell in with
the steamship Strathness, of Glasgow,
which was helpless on the sea with d
broken ehaft. She was then east of ST.
Mi haeTs. The Bell gave her a tow. and
after hauling her twenty-nine hours
reached ST MichaePs. The Strathness had
been drifting for thirty-two days when
picked up She was out of range of the
regular steamers.
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Alleged Triple Murderer Captured.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2.--The Belleville Gll)
police believe they have caught Paul Mill
Ter, alias Ed Gigner, the man charged witt.
the murder OF Frances d.. Sarah A. and
Elsie Newton, at Brockheld. Ma st.. on the
night of Jan. z. The man applied at the
police station for shelter, and was indenti-
fled by a description sent out by the Massa-
chusetts authorities. A careful examination
disclosed all the distinguishing marks men,
toned In the description. and his features
are similar 10 those of the man wanted. Al
reward cf $500 IS standing for the arrest OF
the murderer.