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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
Mr.. HALE'S PREDICTION
THE SENATOR OPPOSED TO ANNEX
ING THE PHILIPPINES,
And He Says This Country VIII Want
to Get Rid of Them in Six Months
A Spaniard's View.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2.-Senator Eugene
Hale, of Maine, to-day announced his oppo-
stion TO the peace treaty which is being
formulated in Paris. He is opposed to the
acquisition Of the Philippines and his an
tagonism to the treaty will be based upon
that section of the treaty which deals with
the Philippine question. "The negotiation
of the treaty, unfortunate as it is" said he
this morning, "by no means insures the
actual annexation of the Philippine islands.
1t is uncertain when the treaty will be
signed or when it will be submitted to the
Senate, and still more uncertain whether
it will ever be ratified. The responsibility
is so vast and the solicitude of the public
is so great that ample time will be given
to its discussion and to getting the real facts
before the American people. Many things
will be found out which are not now known
and the evils of the proposed annexation
will so grow upon the public mind and upon
Congress and upon the President that it is
by no means unlikely that within six months
or year everybody, instead of being for
annexation Of the islands, will want to be
rid of them.
''The people of the United States will find
out that the commerce of the Philippines is
very limited in extent; that they are in
habited by a people whose habits and wants
forbid an increase of trade, and that under
the scheme of annexation presented to us
this trade Is to be shared equally with
Spain and all other competing nations.
What is called the open-door' policy cuts
down the interest of the United States in
the, Philippine trade to point where it
makes no figure in our commerce. The en-
tire trade of the islands, if we had it all
not the profit derived from it, but the whole
amount of trade-will not III any year pay
the expenses of the army and the navy that
the United States will be obliged to maintain
f11aro
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
MESSAGE FROM ANDREE,
Saying His Balloon Had Crossed the
UraI Mountains.

STOCKHOLM. Dec Am engine driver
named Detka has written to the Swedish
Norwegian minister at st. Petersburg let
ter, in which he says he found in the vicin-
ity of the Ural mountains a bottle contain
ing two papers, one of which bora the fol-
lowing message, written in French:
''Andrees balloon has crossed the Ural
mountains. ANDREE."
The paper inscribed in Russian was as fol-
lows: Give this letter to the consul or to
the police"
The balloon Eagle, with Professor Andree
and two companions, Strindeberg and
Frenkel, In the car, left Danes island, Of
the Spitzenberg group. on July IL, 1897, in an
attempt to cross the pole. Since then no
definite news of the aeronauts has been re-
ceived beyond a message attached to car
rier pigeon found by the whaling ship Fall
ken, which arrived at Copenhagen on Sept.
2 The message read: July 13, 12:90 p. m.-
Lat. S2.2 north, 12.5 east. Good voyage east
ward All we'll
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
HOPE NOT ABANDONED
By RELATIVES OF PASSENGERS ON
THE STEAMER PORTLAND.
They Think Some Of the People
Aboard the III-Fated ship May
Have Escaped i'm LifebOats.

ORLEANS Mass, Dec. 2.-While a
bright, warm sun. with a westerly breeze,
made most agreeable change in the wealth.
er that has prevailed for the past few days,
there was little pleasure to be obtained by
the sad crowd of anxious relatives and
friends who remained in town over night or
came down from Boston on the first train
this morning. In the two local undertakers'
rooms this morning there remained four
bodies still unidentified. One of the bodies
at Eastman was practically identified as
that of Mrs. Augustus Wheeler, but no one
recognized the other three-those of the man
found at East Orleans, the young woman az
Eastman and the body which has heretofore
been supposed to be that of James w
Flower, of lewiston, Me. With that of the
colored man at Provincetown there still
remain four bodies TO be claimed by friends.
Another body came ashore at Chatham last
night, and this morning it was identified as
that of George b. Kenniston, jr., of Booth
Bay.
A dispatch from Provincetown tonight
states that pocketbook bearing the name
or ). G Wedderburn, Atlantic City, was
found near Peaked Hill this morning, and
that the leg of child was picked up near
High Head Wednesday afternoon What
mas become OF the remainder of the crew
ana passengers Of the Inflated Portland ia
a matter OF conjecture. The fact that none
OF her lifeboats has yet been found holds
out to the agonized relatives and friends a
single ray Of hope, to which they cling
tenaciously, but when the realization of tha
aWful sea which was running at that time
is forced upon them they are obliged to ac-
KnoWledge that the chances of even sim
gle persons being saved is, indeed, slight
There are all sorts of theories as to where
the portland went down, and just at pres
after being partially stripped of her upper
works, she finally plunged beneath the
waves some five or ten miles to the north
east of this bar.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
A BOLD BANK ROBBERY
SAFE BLOWERS SECURE A BAG OF
DOODLE AT PLEASANT LAKE.
WOmen's Clubs to Appeal to the Leg
isIature for Right of Suffrage
on Municipal Questions.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
AUBURN, Ind, Dec. 2.-The safe in the
private bank of Chadwick, Ransburg & Co..
at Pleasant Lake, was blown by robbers
last night and over 81 600 in money taken
The robbery gave the town a sensation it
will never cease to talk about Five men
drove into the town at o'clock this morn
ing, broke open the bank door, bound and
gagged the night watchman and calmly pro-
ceeded to blow open the safe with dyna-
mite. AT the second charge the safe flew
into a hundred pieces, and the mammoth
door was hurled through the plate-glass
window and across the street. The bank is
in the front of the company's S general store.
While three of the robbers were busy at
the safe the others looted the store. Every
thing of value they could carry was loaded
into the wagon. One thousand dollars of
the bankers money and the postmaster's
money and stamps were taken from the
safe. The robbers drove north before the
town was aroused. An armed posse was
formed early this morning and started in
pursuit with no news yet of the chase.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
NO SHOW FOR TAMMANY
WESTERN DEMOCRATS WILL HAVE
NOTHING TO DO WITH CROKER.
GOvernOr-EIect Thomas, of Colorado,
DenOunceS the New York Gang
and Its Principles.

CHICAGO, Dec. 2.--Governor-elect Charles
S. Thomas, of Colorado, who has been in
the city the past two days, ON his way to
New York and Washington, was somewhat
reticent as to the object of his Eastern trip.
However, when asked concerning a possible
union Of the Eastern and Western factions
of Democracy he was emphatic in denying
his interest in any such effort Croker and
Tammany, in the East, in his opinion, were
the cause of the recent defeat of the DEM
ocrats. 1--WE feel he said, that so far as
the National Democracy IS concerned it's
principles can only be subserved by ne
cation of the things for which Tammany
stands; and we feel that the cause of De-
mocracy's decadence since 1892 has been due
to the confusion created by the attempted
blending of so-called Tammany Democracy
with the National Democracy. The Chicago
platform, in it's proper shape, represents
what the West regards as orthodox Democ-
racy. The convention of 1896 has done more
to renew the confidence of the common peo-
pie in the Democratic party and its pur-
poses and motives than anything that has
been done by that party since the rebel
lion. The purpose of Western Democrats,
without exception, is to renew the pledges
of 1886 and organize upon that basis, firmly
convinced that they are bound ultimately
to triumph. So far as the Rocky mountain
region is concerned, and the States lying
west of it, with the exception Of Oregon,
they will cast their votes solid for the can
didate who may be nominated by that party
in 1900 upon such a platform.
Speaking for my own State, / think L
can say with perfect propriety that it is
out of the Republican column so long as it
stands for the ST. Louis platform, and moth
ing can change this condition except a sur
render of the Democrats to the forces
which controlled it prior to 1896. Its elector-
al vote will he given to a free-coinage can
didate for President two years hence, and
at the same time a senator will be Sc
lected and two representatives whose views
will be entirely in accord with those of
Henry M. Teller. We have become a great
gOld-mining State notwithstanding which
the owners of our gold mines as well as the
miners themselves, are all of them free
coinage men, stanch and true. The pro-
digiouS resources of the State and the char
acter and enterprise of our people have en-
abled us to get along fairly well, notwith-
standing the adverse industrial conditions
of the past five years; and, while we can
endure these conditions, perhaps with less
suffering than less favored sections of the
country, nevertheless, we are as anxious
for the return of general prosperity as any
other section Of the country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
FOR A PRIMARY LAW.
Representative ROOse at Work on n
Bill to BE Submitted.


Bill to Be Submitted.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GOSHEN, Ind, Dec. 2-Hon. Wilson
Roose, of this city, prominent member Of
the last Legislature and reelected to the
next, has been in consultation with party
leaders and legislators all over the State
relative to a primary election law and is
now engaged in drafting a bill on this line
for introduction early in the coming session.
He has found an almost unanimous desire
for such measure, but party leaders dis
agree widely as to vital points. 1t is a
question as to who will bear the expense,
and as to choice, shall the primaries go to
the length of second and third choice or
shall the high man be declared the nominee.
Representative ROOSe has submitted a line
of questions to Republican and Democratic
leaders over the State and will take the
ing his bill The interrogations are as fol-
lows:
Are you in favor of primary election
law?
IF so would you make it applicable for
county conventions only or for all?
Should all parties nominate their ticket
on the same day?
IF so should they vote at the same place
or separately?
What officers ought each voting place to
have?
Should all or any part of the precinct
board be paid, and If so how much?
Ought the expenses of primaries be paid
by the party or by the taxpayers?
would you have each voter designate his
first, second and third choice of candidates
for each office and determine from that as
averaged, or award the nomination to the
one having the largest vote?'
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Official election returns from all Michi-
gan counties but two show Governor Pin
grees plurality to be 1881.
The spring meeting of the Society of Me-
chanical Engineers will be held in Washing
ton, d. C., in the latter part of May, 1889.
The Seventh California Volunteer Regi-
ment was mustered out at Los Angeles yes
terday, after receiving three months pay
and discharge papers.
William H. Butler has been elected pres
ident of the Union Tobacco Company. The
and factory building in New York.
Delegates to the Baptist Conference from
parts of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma
have voted to separate, and each Territory
will have its, own conference hereafter.
The North German Lloyd line steamships
Werra and tulda sailed from New York
yesterday for Havana, where they will take
on Spanish officers and soldiers for Cadiz.
A colony of sixteen negroes has left Okla
homa City for Liberia. 1t Is headed by a
farmer named Appleberry, who recently sold
his farm on Fork creek for $1,000. All have
some money.
murder in the first degree for killing Oscar
Osborne near Akron o., Sept. 19 Robbery
was the motive. The jury recommended life
Imprisonment.
Three men were killed in the sawmin of
the Colorado Cooperative Company, So
cialistic organization sixty-fVe miles from
Montrose, Col. by the explosion of the
boiler! The dead are G.. G. Dunn and Miner
Dunn, father and son, and Ed Whitney.
The projected increase in the German
army means, according to the Berlin COR
respondent of the London Daily News a
yearly addition to the estimates of S.C00, 600
marks. The peac%feffective footing. will be
gradually raised by 10000 men, TO be COM
pleted in 1893.
The sixteenth victim of the Union ele-
vator fire at Toledo was found yesterday in
the ruins, the body being that of siX-year-
old Harold, Parks, son of Superintendent
Parks, who almost met his death in the
flames. -Four members Of the family lost
their lives in the fire.
The alumni of Princeton University last
night gave banquet at the inn to the VIC
torious football eleven. The inn room was
decorated with banners won in past years,
and a monster paper oval was swung from
the ceiling, literally covered with the win
ming scores OF a decade
The fourth annual meeting of the Associa-
tion of Naval Militia of the United States
occurred at Philadelphia yesterday, on
board the old receiving ship ST. Louis, rep
resentatives being present from Florida,
California, Georgia, illinois, Louisiana, Ohio,
Maryland Virginia, New York, New Jersey,
Missouri and other States.
An explosion of turpentine in Reuther &
Co.'S carving and modelling establishment,
at Detroit. yesterday, caused serious injury
to three men. William Lenore, an employe.
was perhaps fatally burned about the arms,
face and head. Joachim Jungwirth, a mem
ber of the firm, was burned about the. face
and hands. and Charles Kummerheld, an
employe, had a leg broken.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
state Orphan Home Question.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, Dec. 2.-In reply to some
letters by local residents to Governor Mount
and the secretary of the State Board of
Charities in the interest of a state school
for dependent children the Governor sim
ply stated that ne referred the matter to the
superintendent, but added that he did not
intendent however, gave the matter more
careful attention, but disapproved of a state
haps better plan for a number of coun-
ties in certain districts to unite and build a
made to have the Legislature do something
to keep orphan children from other States
out of Indiana. These opinions will in all
probability put a stop to all movement to
secure the establishment of a state school,
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
VIEWS OF A sPANIARD.
Thinks America VIII Rue Possession
of the Philippines.


ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2-Louis Esteve a men,
ber of a prominent firm of grain and cotton
importers of Barcelona Spain, was a Wis
itor at the Merchants Exchange in this
city to-day. He dwelt interestingly on the
subject of the late war, viewed from
Spanish standpoint. In the course of his
remarks he said: 81 was in Barcelona,
which is one of the leading coast cities of
Spain, during the entire war, and had
good opportunity to study the situation in
my country. l am firmly convinced that
the loss of our colonies will in the end prove
a blessing to Spain, although temporarily
it will prove a hardship to many interests.
With a good government Spain will now be
more prosperous than for many years, as
her colonies have been more of a burden
than blessing for some time, and the peo-
pie will be forced to develop the vast re-
sources at home, which have been neglect
ed in the endeavor to make as much as pos
Slble out of the colonies.
THE Philippines were really not of much
benefit to Spain, as the commerce of those
islands was controlled by England and Ger
many and SPANS business with the islands
was comparatively light, how light you
may judge from the fact that there was
onlv one steamer a month between Spain
and Manila. These islands were really
burden, and do not envy the United States
for the acquisition of them. OF course, we
did large business with cuba, but of late
years there has been so much trouble with
that island that the expenses ate the rev.
enues and l think we are wei rid of it also.
Americans living in Spain were in no
more danger than Spaniards in the United
States, and l know of two American fam
lilies whicn resided in Barcelona during the
entire war and suffered no inconvenience.
One of these families, whose name is Mont
gomery, 1 am well acquainted with, and
know that they were always treated with
respect. / am afraid that the United States
will have considerable trouble with the
Philippines, and will rue the day when they
took them away from Spain, but | believe
that the relations between the Spanish peo-
pie and America will in a short time be
moreof friendly.''
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
HIS POWER is WANING
NOT LIKELY TO STRONG
LIZ OPPOSE AMERICANS.
His Rival Filipino Chiefs, However,
Trying to influence Natives.

MANILA, Dec. lowing to the fact that
the result of the Paris conference has long
been anticipated here, the agreement of
Spain to cede the Philippine islands to the
United States created no excitement. The
Americans made no demonstration, COM
mercial circles were relieved, the Spaniards
were Indifferent and some of the American
volunteers were disgusted at the prospect
of being detained here now that the fighting
is finished AguinaldO is certain to assume
conciliatory attitude, because his position
is daily becoming more untenable. His
rival intriguers are becoming uncomfortable.
especially since funds have run short and
the outlying provinces have become disaf-
fected. Although never much more than a
hgurehead, Aguinaldo has been consistently
temperate, and the authorities have no rea-
son to fear that he will depart from this
policy.
Nevertheless the native newspapers con-
tinue to publish inflammatory articles The
Republica Filipino to-day publishes an arti-
Gle headed THE Moment has Arrived"
when the conference terminated it's la
bors," says this paper, ''the Fiipinos had
already conquered all of the Island of Lu-
zon and the adjacent islands except the
towns Of Iloilo, Cebua, Layte and Samaru.
Therefore Spain has ceded authority which
she did not possess. The Filipinos will new
er consent to the ignominy of being treated
as chattels. They will shed their blood in
torrents again before bowling to foreign
dominion, however light. America brought
the great chief AguinaldO from Hong Kong
and recognized our nationality by allowing
our flag to be raised at Corregidor island
and to sail the bay in full sight Of all the
foreign fleets. None dared to interfere. IL
America now declines to openly acknowl~
edge our independence a great injustice will
be committed. Had Spain asked SAC, 1000 900
for the islands the Filipinos would gladly
have given twice that amount or more to
preserve their rights, ruthlessly set aside
by the enemy and the nation without a
true understanding of the aspirations, rights
and sacrifices of those who have stood
torture enough and who are left to fight and
suffer in defense of their country from new
slavery"
In conclusion the article affirms the
friendship of the Filipinos for Americans,
insists that the insurgents will never fire
the first shot and adds that the harmony
existing will only be broken by priests or
traitors inducing the Americans to at
tack u.s."
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
vExATIoUs GERMAN RULES.
Obnoxious Methods Adopted to Keep
out American Mont Products.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-The State De
partment. through Ambassador White, at
Berlin, for some time past has been in cor
respondence with the German government
in an effort to secure an abatement of the
many vexatious conditions which surround
the Importation of American meat products
into Germany. At present these products
are required to pass under the closest ex
animation, in some cases a dozen times, be-
fore reaching the consumer. notwithstand-
ing the fact that the goods have been thor
oughly tested, as certified by the seal of the
American government before leaving the
United States. The German inspections be-
sin at the port of entry, and are renewed
every time the goods change hands. AS this
involves the breaking open of original pack
ages even when the latter are of the small
est compass, and taking many samples, and
the payment of a fee at each inspection, the
aggregate loss of the American meat packer
and exporter is very large. For several
years the State Department at intervals has
sought to secure an abatement of the evils
Of the German practice, which was estensi-
bly, founded on fear that infected meat might
be imported into Germany. Notwithstanding
the fact that the testimony of all the ex-
perts and the statistics went to show that
not a single case of trichinosis the most
dreaded of swine diseases, could be traced
to an American hog. Finally Ambassador
White secured promise of what he regarded
rs q great ameloration of the German in
spectiofAlaws, and it is this embodied in the
shape Of q bill prepared for the action of the
Reichstag, which is reported to have aroused
the opposition of the sausage interest in
America. What the department has OBJ
tanned, for one thing, is substitution of one
general governmental inspection for the
numerous local and municipal inspections to
which American meat products are now sub
Jected, and the special ground of complaint
Of the sausage exporters in the premises is
not clearly perceived by the officials here,
but the State and Agricultural departments,
of course, will do their best to protect all
American interests.
Secretary Wilson to-day said: 1.-The De-
paTtment of Agriculture is laboring inces-
sanity through the State Department with
our foreign representatives to take care of
our exports. No opportunity is missed in
watching and protecting the interests of all
of our exports. We now have an expert in
Berlin, Mr.. Stiles who is attached to the
United States embassy there, whose duty 1t
Is TO give us direct and complete informa-
tion along these lines" Further than this
the secretary would not talk, as the subject
IS being prosecuted through diplomatic
channels.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES, Ind, Dec. AT the meet
ing of the Southern Indiana Editors Asso-
citation in this city recently the citizens of
Vincennes offered $50 in prizes for the three
best articles on Vincennes. To-day the
committee made the following award: First
prize, $50, to A. S Chapman, of the Madison
Democrat; second prize, SIS, to w. w.
Aikens, of the Franklin Star; third prize,
$40, to General Jasper Packard, of the New
Albany Tribune. There were fifteen contes-
tants and it took the committee week TO
decide on the successful ones.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
Carnegie's NIanin.
W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

W. r. GURUS, III CHlcagO RECORD.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie in his communica-
tiOnS to the newspapers is becoming almost
ton. He cannot talk about annexation or
expansion without becoming very much ex-
cited. His face becomes pale, his slight
frame trembles and his eyes glow like Goals
of fire. 1t seems to have become a mania
with him. He acts as if it was matter of
personal responsibility to prevent the rati-
ea2 t M OF vr tne RSacg ynrid tTeafy IN letter TO
comes precious near attacking the personal
motives of President Mckinley, and declares
if he permits annexation he will pass into
history as the first American President
foul with dishonOr." The violence of his
language both in conversation and print has
already deprived him of any influence.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-03
OhftuR

LEXINGTON, Ky. Dec. News of the
death of Col. A. S. Hunt. for twenty years
night clerk at the Phoenix Hotel, in this
city. has been received here from Detroit.
Mich. He probably knew more people than
any other man in Kentucky, and was the
original of The Colonel in the play In
Old kentucky."t
Barnes Compton died at his home in this
place shortly after noon to-day from the ef-
fects of a paralytic stroke sustained two
days ago. His wife and several children
survive him.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 2.-Daniel
w. Bemis, prominent retired business
man, and a brother of Prof. Edward w.
Bemis, of the University of Kansas. died
at his home in this city to-day.
LAUREL Md, Dec. 2-EX- Congressman
Barnes Compton died at his home here to-
daV-