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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

CINCINNATI, Jan. 2O.-Two and thirty
four hundredths inches is the measurement
of the rainfall that began here last evening
and ended this morning. At 10 o'clock to-
night the river was As feet inches and
stationary. II reached the maximum at s
o'clock tonight, 4S feet inches. Since then
it has fallen one inch At all points from
Pittsburg to Cairo it is falling tonight The
heavy rainfall was in the valleys of the
Licking and the two Miamis and about the
headwaters of the Scioto Beyond this,
however, it seems to have been light No
railroads have been embarrassed, except the
Little Miami division of the Pennsylvania
and the Big Four between Columbus and
Cincinnati and these are only temporary
out of extreme caution about crossing
bridges over flooded streams. Right here
at Cincinnati gardens in Mill creek bottom
have been submerged to some extent, but
the damage is slight. Some commission
and warehouses in the bottoms have been
compelled to clear their cellars, but the loss
has been nothing and the inconvenience only
nominal. Navigation has not suffered the
least obstruction. The weather is cooler
and clear, a brisk breeze has been blowing
all day. All danger is over unless another
heavy rain should come within few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
FROM GREEK WOMEN.
Appeal i'm Behalf of ThessaIians Who
Were Robbed by Turks.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 - United States
Minister Rockhill, at Athens, has forwarded
to the Department of State an appeal of the
Society of Greek Women for the return of
the fugitive Thessalians to their homes. The
appeal is directed to the American people
and reads as follows:
Excellency = The terrible disasters and
deprivations which the last war has brought
on our unfortunate cOmpatrots. the Thes-
SalanS is undoubtedly we'll known to your
Excellency. Their property has been de-
stToyed, their homes looted and now, home
less and destitute, they have fled from their
unfortunate province seeking safety for
their lives and bread for their children.
The government and private philanthropy
have both done what was possible for their
relief. But their restitution was so great
and their immediate needs so pressing that
now, when the time has come for them to
return and attempt to reconstitute their
homesteadS with what the mercy of the
enemy may have left them, they are entire
ly without the means of returning. The
liberal feeling and generosity of the Amer
has SO often been a grateful Witness en-
courage us to appeal to ii through your
Excellency in favor of these unfortunate
beings, whose misery must touch every
heart We entreat your EXcellency to give
all the publicity you may think necessary
to this appeal, and we are convinced that
the gratitude of these unfortunate victims
of the war and of all the Greek nation
toward the American people and toward
the official representatives of the United
States will be profound and indelible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
PREPARING FOR KLONDIKERS
Steamship Companies Expect a Great
Rush to Alaska This Year.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2O-The local
transportation companies are preparing to
accommodate the rush to the Klondike.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company has
arranged a schedule that will give a five
day steamship service from to-day between
San Francisco and Alaskan ports. The
company expects to handle ten thousand
passengers out of this city next month and
during the entire season the total tonnage
in this port is calculated to accommodate
fifty thousand people. About June / steam
ers will be placed on the run between this
city and ST. MichaePs. The Alaska Com
mercial Company will run the steamers st.
Paul, Dyea, Bertha and Portland, with an
average carrying capacity of fully three
hundred persons EACH These vessels will
connect with the river steamers on the
breaking up of the ice and not less than
two trips a month will be made from here.
The Pacific Steam Whaling Company will
run steamers to Cooks inlet and Alaska
These means of getting to the gold fields
will be greatly augmented when the vessels
now in course of construction are COM
pleted
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

computation-aH the other strangers who
dwell outside of them-all are to be remem-
Dered. the children of the nearest orphan
asylum are to be provided with a Christ
mas tree, even though it be sandwiched in
with difficulty between another tree which
they are to attend at their church, and an
other prepared expressly for them at a
neighboring hall. The rich must give pres
ents because they are rich. and the poor
must make up in ingenuity what they want
in wealth. Then, after all the gifts are
bought and sent home they must be refolded
and repacked and tied and ribboned, and
addressed and forwarded, without mis-
take, in just the right succession of time
according as the gift is to be dispatched to
Main street or to Alaska; and all this up
to the latest moment of Christmas eve
And then when the work is done and the
tree garniShed and stripped, if tree there be
then. as weary nature at last seeks re-
pose, begins the new toll of sending letters
of thanks for ones own presents, ten TWEEN
ty or hundred; and before these are all
dispatched there arrive the inevitable
headache and the languor and that sudden
flash of neuralgia pain in the back of the
neck, swift as the sabre of Saladin, which
says to the most needless, THUS far and
no farther"
Why should we do it all? No other nation
does it. The German Christmas tree is
loaded with all sorts of gifts, no matter how
simple for every one within the house; but
no German undertakes to make the dis
tribution of presents include all his ac-
quaintances outside. For these he has a
printed engraved greeting, which costs
little trouble to distribute. and which
answers, ike OpneDa rosemary Tor re-
membrance The whole fashion of Christ
mas cards in England had the same origin,
and even this, when transplanted among
ourselves. was soon carried to excess and
became itself a burden. But it was better
than the habit of profuse and exaggerated
giving-exaggerated in quantity if not in
Value-On which we have fallen back in it's
decline 1T is a common thing to encounter
at Christmas time women of moderate in
come who have personally put up and dis
tributed sixty, seventy or a hundred pres
ents. For this is a duty which, like all
Others falls most severely on the disinter-
ested-usually women-who not merely
bear one another's burden, but choose and
distribute and pack one anothers gifts. The
presents bear various names of givers, but
it is upon the mother or the sister or the
maiden aunt that the whole responsibility
comes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

legation. Shortly after the assault Mr..
John Barrett the United States minister
resident and consul general opened nego-
tiations by demanding an investigation by
a mixed commission, which Siam promptly
refused. The arrival of the gunboat
Machias in February, 1897, opened the eyes
of the Siamese and FASTENED negotiations,
for when Minister Barrett proposed to call
the commission board of arbitration Siam
yielded. The Machias then left the river
and the board of arbitration, composed of
Mr.. Barrett and NJ. Orts, who represented
the Siamese government. soon afterward
proceeded to investigate the matter, sitting
both at Bangkok and Chiengmai After a
twenty days session the commission agreed
on a decision without an umpire and the
result is q decided victory for Mr. Barrett
While the commission finds that the con-
duct of the officers and soldiers who COM
mitted the assault was to a certain extent
excusable from the excitement resulting
from the unusual and imprudent steps TAX
en- by Mr.. Kellett in releasing his servant
from the custody of the authorities after
he had been arrested it was agreed that
the Siamese government should apologize
and pledge itself to punish offenders. The
officers in command of the troops are TO
be publicly reprimanded and degraded in
rank while the men are to be deprived of
their pay for three MONTHS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
EXAMINERS WARNED.
They Must Not Accept Employment
from National Banks.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Mr. Charles G..
Dawes, the new controller of the currency,
has issued the following circular to all
national banks and bank examiners:
1T has come to my attention that it has
been the custom of some national bank ex-
aminers to accept employment and COM
pensation therefor in making extra eXami-
nations and reports of condition of national
banks assigned them for regular examia-
ton, which examination and reports are
for the use of the bank, and not for this
office. For an examiner to accept employ
ment in examinations of the same bank
from both the government and the bank has
a tendency to interfere with that rigid i'm
Partially which should characterize his
work as a government official. Notice is
hereby given that hereafter examiners will
not be allowed to accept employment from
national banks in making extra examna-
lions for private use of such banks"
In commenting on this circular to-day
Mr.. Dawes said that so far as he knew
there never had been an instance of the
abuse of the privilege the part of exam
liners, but he believed it was wrong in prin-
ciple, and therefore not good admnistra-
ton. He could readily understand that a
bank examiner who had received a large
fee for this work might be sOrely tempted
at times to make his report to the con-
trOller as favorable possible without ac-
tually misstating the facts. JAIL things con-
sidered, Mr.. Dawes thought that the inter
ests of the government well as good
banking required that the custom be i'm
mediately discontinued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

Minister De Whites Budget Statement
More Gold than Silver.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2O-An interest
ing budget statement just made by NJ. De
Wittee, the Russian minister of finance,
shows an actual deficit of over 10000 600
roubles, which is covered by the free bal
ance in the treasury. M. De Witte ex-
presses great pride in the results of the
adoption of the gold standard calling at
tention to the most striking fact that, while
at the end of 1896, only 100000 roubles in
gold coin were in circulation, at the end
of 1897 there were 155, 100000 in circulation,
while the gold in the treasury rose during
the same period by 109 600 roubles. The
statement shows also that the volume of
existing bank notes has been reduced by
122, OO0,OO0 roubles. Russia has not 191 per
cent. more gold than paper, the totals in
possession of the treasury and the state
banks and in circulation at the beginning
of the present year being: Gold, 100000 900
roubles; silver, 162, 100000 roubles, and paper,
999 600 600 roubes.
NJ. De White contends that this shows
the stability of the reform and he trusts
the gold standard will remain mistaken,
even if the country is fated to undergo
severe trials" He reiterates his intention
to adhere to the protective system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
OHIO RIVER RISING.
Expected to Reach the Danger Point
at Louisville This Morning.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. co. = The Ohio
river is expected to reach the danger point
at this place by o'clock in the morning.
The stage at 10 p. m. was % feet 10 inches,
a rise of nine inches since 6 p. If the
waters continue to rise at the present rate
until o'clock tomorrow a stage of 80 feet
will have been reached. This will put it
six feet above the danger line and will sub
merge many houses in Shippingport, from
Third street down to Seventh street, the
island, a part of the point and all the bot
tom lands for fifty miles above. Towhead
island is submerged and the glue factory
above the cutoff has three feet of water on
its floor. All the tributaries in this section
are reported bank full overlooking from
the recent heavy rains. The weather cleared
early this morning, and if no more showers
fall the duration of the present flood will
be short. A farmer named Drury and his
farm hand Fosdyk, were drowned while
trying to ford the Cumberland river in jack
son county, Tennessee. The bodies were re-
covered three miles below.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
Senator Morgan Concludes His Speech
Mr.. BacOn's Amendment.
Last InstaIIInent OF MOrgun's SDeech

n
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Nor
gan concluded his four days speech to the
Senate in executive session to-day on the
Hawaiian treaty. He spoke for almost four
hours, and when he finished there were not
more than half dozen senators present
Senator Teller took the floor and will
speak when the treaty is next taken up.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, to-day fol-
lowed his action of yesterday in offering an
amendment to the treaty providing for q
vote upon it by the people of Hawaii by
Offering the amendment to Senator Nor
gans bill for annexation, thus making the
amendment public. 1t is as follows: \
That this act shall not be operat tive and
of binding effect upon either the United
States Of America or the Republic of Ha-
wall unless the same shall have been con-
scented to and approved by the majority of
the voters at an election to be held in the
Hawaiian islands, at which election all
male natives of said islands of the age of
twenty lone years and all naturalized male
persons of the age Of twenty-one years
shall be qualified voters. Said election to
be held at a time and in the manner and
under regulations to be prescribed by the
President of the United States'
GRAND ISLAND Neb Jan. ga petit
ton has been circulated here and numer-
ously signed by business men and others
requesting Nebraska'S two senators to sup
port the Hawaiian annexation treaty The
action is considered significant, inasmuch
as Grand Island is the chief center of the
sugar-making industry in Nebraska fac
Oxnard. president of the American Beet
Sugar Association.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
Students from the Latin Quarter Dis
persed After "A Demonstration at
NJ ZoIa's Residence.
RUSSIA BULLDOzING CHINA
AND BRITAIN SENDING MORE WAR
SHIPS TO ORIENTAL WATERS.
The Tsung-Li-Yamen Warned Not to
Accept the Conditions Attached to
the Proposed British Loan.

PARIS. Jan. 20-Over two thousand
students started demonstration this even
ing on the Boulevard st. Michael They
tried to cross the river Seine, but the po-
lice prevented them. About sixty of the
students were arrested Bands of students
continued to parade the Latin quarter all
evening. Two thousand marched to the
Hotel Des Invalides, some raising shouts of
give PEmpereur." They then crossed the
bridges, where the police divided them into
two bodies. One made a demonstration in
front of the Pepiniere barracks (Caserne
de la Pepiniere), and the other, numbering
five hundred, gathered in front of M. zola's
house with the usual cries. The police
finally dispersed them, after making thirty
arrests Altogether there have been lis ar
rests to-day and many of those arrested
are kept in custody.
The minister of the interior, at Cabinet
meeting to-day informed his colleagues of
the measures taken to prevent street dem
onstrations. He added that the proposed
demonstrations on Sunday will be pro-
hibited The trial of Emile lola will begin
before the Assze Court on Feb. Z.
Despite the government prohibition, the
organizing committee of Mondays anti
Semitic meeting at the Trivoli Vauxhall
has decided to hold public demonstration
on Sunday afternoon.
A dispatch from Epinal, capital of the
department of Vogh situated about 1870
miles from here, says the first anti-Hebrew
demonstration took place there to-day
PIacards bearing the now popular cries de-
nouncing lola and the Hebrews and uphold
ing the army, were posted in front Of the
Hebrew stores.
There has been an anti-Jewish demon
stration at Rouen. The police charged the
students but failed to dispense them. The
troops have been consigned to barracks and
the police occupy the streets in force.
Anti-Semitic disturbances have taken
place throughout the day at Nancy. News
papers supporting Dreyfus were burned on
the staircase of the university.
Another student demonstration has taken
place at Algeria. 1t was dispersed several
times. Many arrests We're made and there
were frequent fights in the Jewish market
place, where several persons were slightly
injured.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-To-day's treas
ury statement shows: Available cash bal
ancc, $240 PA 236; gold reserve, $162, 1854, 25f.
The Senate will tomorrow consider the
nomination of Attorney General McKenna
to be associate justice of the Supreme
Court.
Assistant Secretary vanderlip has decided
to require local inspectors of bulls and their
assistants, and local inspectors of boilers
and their assistants to pass civil-service
examination to test their fitness to hold the
positions they now occupy.
The President is expected to send in the
nomination of Newton S. Meyers tomorrow
to be postmaster at Jeffersonville, Ind This
appointment was decided upon some time
ago and is overdue.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Lovett, of Ander-
son, Ind. are guests of Senator and Mrs.
Fairbanks.
Representative Royse has been invited to
attend the annual dinner of the Board of
Trade of Philadelphia and will accept.
Mrs. Daily, of Goshen, Ind, and Mrs.
Thompson of Elkhart, Ind, were the guests
of Representative Royse at the Presidents
reception last night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
The Secretary Asks Questions Regard
ing Mr.. walkers Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O.-The currency
hearing before the House committee on
banking and currency continued to-day, ex-
Secretary Fairchild being heard through
the morning. Inquiries were along the line
of developing the degree of success with
which the monetary commission bill could
be put into practical operation. Consider
able feeling has been aroused by de-
termination Of the committee on a party
vote, not TO hear President Warner, of the
Bimetallic Union, and Chairman Towne
of the Silver Republican national commit
tee, unless these gentlemen prepared bill
and assumed responsibility for it, Mr.. Cox,
the senior member Of the minority, says
this action is equivalent to declining to
hear the silver representatives under any
circumstances as they do not wish to APP
pear as the advocates of any currency or
banking bill, but to resist such a measure
If on gold lines. Mr.. Cox takes the view
that it is as important to present the OPP
position to pending measures as it is to
presses confidence that the majority on the
committee will reconsider its action and
grant hearing to Messrs. Warner and
ToWne without conditions.
The committee devoted the afternoon to
discussion, in detail, of the provisions OF
the Walker bill Secretary Gage appeared
questioner and put Chairman Walker
through long series of interrogatOries. He
asked if Mr.. Walker did not aim in his bill
to substantially relieve the government
from redemption of present liabilities,
United States legal tender and treasury
notes and from responsibility from main
tanning the parity of silver and gold, put
ting the responsibilities on the banks. Mr..
Walker said that was the object. Secretary
Gage thought the bill lacked explicitness,
and suggested that bankers do not want to
assume analogous responsibility. Mr..
Walker asserted the responsibility was alb
Solute, and proceeded to explain why. There
was a long discussion on this feature which
the secretary said puzzled him consider
ably Mr.. Walker, in the course of the dis
cussion, suggested that the bill made al
lowance for the suspicion that we may have
a disaster, panic or something of the
sort, and that the exigencieS of such events
were guarded against.
Representative Hartman, of Montana, one
of the silver leaders, says that Messrs.
Towne and Warner will make no further
effort to be heard before the committee,
preferring to go before the people with the
understanding that the opposition is denied
a hearing.
The hearing on the currency bills was
finally brought to a close this afternoon
and the committee will meet again next
Wednesday to decide which of the four
bills before it is to form the basis of the
currency measure to be finally reported.
These are known as the Monetary Com
mission, Gage, Walker and Fowler bills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
Protective Tariff League omcers.

NEW YORK, Jam 20.-Ex- Mayor William
dent of the American Protective Tariff
League to succeed Cornelius N Bliss at
the annual meeting of that organization
held here to-day. The other executive Of
ficers elected were: First vice president,
Legrand 3. Cannon; second vice president
J. +. Thropp; treasurer, Chester Griswold !;
general secretary, Wilbur f. Wakeman
Executive committee-T. M. Ives, New
York; p. c. Cheney, New Hampshire;
James Phillips, jr., Massachusetts; William
Barbour. New Jersey; Henry c. Valentine
New York All of these officers were
chosen by the new board of managers,
which is composed as follows: Legrand b.
Cannon. Cornelius n. Bliss Thomas Dolan.
2. c. Cheney and Henry Mccall.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
Egyptian Prince Dead.

MARSEILLES, Jan. 2O.-Special advices
from Egypt declare that Prince Said Ben
Boussoo died recently under mysterious cir
cumstances which have led to the belief
that he was poisoned. He was in perfect
health, it is said, up to the day he married
a young American a union which caused
much annoyance to the Khedive. The next
day the story continues, the Prince was
suddenly seized with a mysterious malady
and died in agony a few hours afterward,
in the arms of his bride.
The foregoing story seems to have con-
founded Prince Said Ben Boussoo with
Prince Mohamed Ali, brother of the Khe-
dive, who, according to reports, desired to
marry Il Philadelphia heiress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-Arrangements for the
reception of President Dole. of Hawaii on
his arrival in Chicago next Sunday morn
ing from San Francisco were completed to-
day. Mayor Harrison will welcome the dis
tinguished visitor at the depot, and, with
the representatives of the United States
government who are coming from Washing
ton, will escort President Dole and his party
to the Auditorium. A reception will be
rendered President Dole and wife Monday
afternoon at the Union League Club. The
reception committee will include Mayor
Carter H. Harrison and wife, Federal Judge
Grosscup and wife, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
b. Bryan, Mr.. and Mrs. T. G.. Mcmahon
and others.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21
Tanner win Not welcome Dole.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. Ex-Governor
Tanner said to-day that he had received no
invitation from Washington to participate
in the Dole reception. THE only communi-
cation on the subject 1 have received he
said, was a private letter received this
morning from Chicago saying that the
President would like to have Judge Cross
in a reception TO President Dole at the
Union League. / could not, of course ac-
aside from that, l am suffering from rheu-
matism and have made arrangements to go
to Hot Springs on Saturday. This Will
make it impossible for me to accept the
Presidents invitation should one be re-
ceived." The Governor is afflicted with
rheumatism in his left hand, which is in a
bandage tO-dav