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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Sept. 26 = In
Wesley Chapel, New Albany one of the
most historic churches in the State, the
first session of the Indiana NJ. E. Confer
ence, which meets at Princeton Sept. g.
was held. The conference was organized
Oct IT, 1882, and continued in session until
Oct o. 1t was held at the corner of Mar
ket and West First streets. The late Bishop
Soule presided over the session and Calvin
W. Ruter also dead was it's secretary
The total membership of the church in the
State at that time was 1900, and the con-
ference included the greater part of the
State. OF the total sixty-six sessions held
by the conference since it's organization
eight of them were held in New Albany
But one was held in this city in twenty
years. Rev. ]. T. ONeal, now the pastor Of
Wall-Street Church here, was ordained a
preacher at the time He will make an ef-
fort to have it meet here next year. The
membership of the conference has grown
10000 since its organization, or an average
of over a thousand annual increase. An in
tereSting feature in connection with the
conference, as shown by the statistics, is
the almost total abolition of the Circuit
rider The minister in charge could not
properly cover the circuit under six or eight
weeks, travelling on horseback. One by one
the circuits were abandonedy and now there
are but few and those not large The
towns of Importance and the cities are now
stations. Many of the larger stations
have a number of churches. New Albany
has six Methodist churches alone. Wesley
Chapel, the Oldest in the State, is the
mother church. 1t was organized in 1877
and at the time of the organiza ton of the
conference was the only Methodist church
in the city. Besides Wesley Chapel, the
others are Centenary. Trinity, Main-street
Jennie De Paw Memorial and German M.
e. There is not bishop now alive who was
a member of the board of bishops when the
conference was organized Rev. M. w. Hes
tor 6nV1f nf h1lrHN
of New Albany, served as secretary at five
consecutive conferences, being elected in
New Albany in 1857 Rev Robert A. Kemp
pastor of the Vevay church. has served
longer as secretary of the conference than
any other member. seventeen years in all.
He was elected at Vincennes in 1881. and
chosen every year since. His father was
the Rev. Ezra Kemp, a pioneer circuit
rider in Indiana. -sf al
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
U. ID. APPOINTMENTS
Lower Wabash Valley Conference
Closes at Terre Haute.

Special to the Indianapolis. Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Sept. 26.-Bishop
Castle, of the United Brethren Church,
closed the Conference of the Lower Wabash
Valley yesterday by the announcement Of
the assignments of ministers for the en-
suing year. There is one change in the pre-
siding elders, the Rev. L. H. Cooley sue
Ceeding j. b. Connect in the Terre Haute
district. Mr.. Connect, who was formerly
pastor of the First Church here, goes to
Casey, Ill. The session next year will be
held at Westfield, Ill.,, and will be the &C.
casion of special attraction as the new col
lege buildings will have been completed by
this time in 1899. The Rev f. A. Y. Kumler,
for ten years president of Avalon College at
Trenton, Mo-, and now president of the
prospective Normal School at Muncie, was
present with the conference, but the body
took no action in support of his plan Mr..
Kumer says that in spite of adverse re-
ports the school is being built and will be
opened next April. The school will not be
UNCONVENTIONAL, but clause in the articles
of association provides that at any time the
United Brethren Church of Indiana may Sc
cure the school by the payment of $4,000.
The following are the assignments:
Westfed, ILL.,, District-T. d. Spiker, pre-
siding elder Oldfield Mission, to be supplied
Paris mission. S. e. Long; South Paris mis-
sion, G. w. Reed; Sullivan, j. F.. Fowler;
Ashmore, A. Rider: Ayena. w. Wood
Beecher City, c. r. Boyd; Cation, j. c..
Fowler; GAINESVILLE, w. e. Anderson; Red
man, v. H. Byard; Union, j. p. Watson;
Westfeld. G. b. Stretch; Westfield Station,
j. A. Hawkins.
W. s. Reese. president of Westfield Col
lege; j: L. Kephart, editor Religious .Tele-
scope; w. r. Shuey. professor in college;
w G. Smith. missionary agent; e. H.
Shuey, agent of college; V. PeaSe and n. T..
kauble. evangeists
Mount Vernon District. L. Branden-
burg, presiding elder; Bluford, d. Bussard
Browns, w. o. Haycock; Brevoort, j. M.
Goodman; Fairview mission, G.. W. Ball;
Flora, +: Boley; Loogootee, w. r. Muncie;
Metropolis mission. w. l.. Duncan; Mount
Nebo, S. Smoot; Mount Vernon mission, r.
Griffin; Olney. T. Walters: Parkersburg, j.
Paducah mission (colored, j. w. Wood
ward; st. Francisville. S. o. Stoltz Yer
gennes, F. Bussard; Woodlawn mission, N.
Bussard.
Terre Haute District-L H. Cooley. pre-
siding elder; Center Point. w. c. Adams;
Clay City, w. NJ. Malsom; CenterviIle. w.
G. Harbert; MiddIeburg. N. f. Roger;
Mount Zion. r. NJ Fink: New Goshen, A d.
Markley; Oak Hill. T. j. Richey Oaktown,
William Habbsrstadt; Prairietown, A. f.
Kosht, Pleasantville. A. Shidler; Terre
Haute. J. b. Norveil: Terre Haute mission,
Olney District-D. r. Seneff, d. D.. pre-
siding elder Annapolis, r. r. Johns: Birds,
A. S. Powell; Dolson, p. F. Retiring;
Greenup o. Smith; Island Grove, o. F.
Kirk; Jewett. e. G. Brown; Long Point. S.
Mills; New Hebren. ]. Cougill; Oblong. ].
Sumner, II. w. Broadstone; Yale, II. NJ.
TipSWord: Casey, ]. p. Connect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
WITHOUT A REAL ISSUE.

The mayors most jealous and Jealous or
gan seems to have been disappointed be-
cause the Democratic speakers last Friday
night did not present a tangible issue or
give reason why citizen should vote the
posed to find fault with those orators, as if
it were their fault individually that they
presented no issues
The Taggart organ is as unreasonable as
were those ancient taskmasters who insist
ed that the Israelites should make bricks
without straw. The Democratic speakers
have not the audacity to go before a Demo-
cratic audience with their issues of two or
four years ago. Republican success and Re-
publican measures have made it impossible
to present the issues they lost before the
people in 1924 and 1896. The country is pros
porous. Its great industries were never in
better general condition. Labor is very gen.
orally employed. The reports which the
state statistician has received from the
same 107 industries which reported for the
years ending June so, 1897 and 1885, show
that the number Of employees increased from
l2,714 the former to 1901 the present year
"a gain of $50 per cent. The gross receipts
OF the leading railroads were % per cent.
in excess of those of 1856. In eight years
great tin-plate industry has grown up in
this country. with the result that prices are
lower, now than during the period when all
were imported. With protective tariff we
are exporting manufactures which, few
years ago, the country was told never could
be produced in America. Such facts are
known to the people. Outside of a few
newspaper s1nctums in which assumed in
fallibility is enthroned there is no free
trade party. If a Democratic orator should
proclaim a purpose of discussing the tariff
from the free-trade side he would be greeted
with the streets exclamation, Rats
So with the 16-to-1 fad. There are a few
wild-eyed theorists and a few paid travel
ing agents of the silver producing interest
who would start out for an evenings rep
etition of the silver speeches that set audi
ences wild in 1896, but there is no Democrat
who comes in contact with the active bust
ness world, and who, as a living individual.
knows what it is. who would undertake to
repeat silver speech of 1895. out in Mis-
souri, Representative Dockery reports that
he cannot interest people with the old
Issues. The people now have no interest in
16 to l. The country is prosperous under
'goldbugism," and the woeful predictions
of the silverite i'll 1896 have not materialized,
but the opposite has come true
The Democratic orator must repeat the
stale falsehoods of camps and hospitals and
hold the President responsible because in a
few instances hospitals have not been man
aged as they should have been and trans
portation has not been first-class. They
must try to array the enlisted men against
officers and set up howl against the man
agement of troops which would. if potential,
demoraliZe every command in the field
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
WILL RAISE THE COLON
HOBSON INSTRUCTED TO BEGIN
WORK ON ANOTHER SPANISH SHIP.
The Maria Teresa, Which He Has
as a United States War Vessel.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-Acting Secre-
tary Allen has received a cablegram from
Captain Goodrich, of the Newark. the senior
officer of the station at Guantanamo, con-
firming the press reports of the raising of
the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa last Sat
urday The work of wrecking this ship was
directly in charge of Constructor Hobson.
Now that the Teresa has been raised, he
has been instructed to resume work on the
Colon and begin operations towards wreck
ing the Mercedes, which lies within the
mouth of Santiago harbor, close to the Mer-
rimac, in smooth water and well situated
for successful wrecking. The Teresa will
be brought north, probably to Norfolk, as
soon as she is in condition to undertake the
voyage The wreckers, who have sue
cessfully accomplished their work, have
earned large sum of money under the
salvage laws, the exact amount of which
will probably be determined by an admiralty
court 1t is the present purpose. of the de-
partment to place the Teresa in commission
as United States naval vessel, and, fol-
lowing the English CUSTOM her name is
likely to remain unchanged, to carry into
the future the glory of the American vic
tory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
LOVING CUP FOR DEWEY.
A Cincinnati Clubs Tribute to the Adj
miraI-Dinner to Heroes.

CINCINNATI. o.. Sept 26.-The Picca-
dlly Club of this city, an organization of
leading business men. had on exhibition at
their meeting tonight the loving cup which
the executive committee has provided to be
presented to Rear Admiral George Dewey.
Taking advantage of the return of the Sixth
Infantry to Cincinnati. the club invited the
officers of that regiment to attend as guests
and the dinner was made one of thorough
patriotic rejoicing over the glory of the
was in session in MAY when the news of
Manila was received. and II then ordered
cup to be made. The design adopted was
by Mr.. Artus Van Priggle, of this city.
The base represents the ocean, out of which
rises Neptune bearing, instead of his tri-
dent, six-inch shell. Above this. in strong
relief is Mars. then Victory with her laurel
wreath and surmountng the edge of the
cup rises Fame. bearing the palm for the
victory. The motto inscribed is simply
Dewey, Manila. May ], Aug. b. 1885, The
cup Is 10 be accompanied by a letter OF con-
graduation, signed by the members of the
club.
Very little speech making was INDUCED
in, but Colonel Egbert of the Sixth In
fantry. said his regiment had reversed the
trenched enemy must first be preached by
artillery and then assaulted by infantry or
suffer humiliation. The Sixth and its COM
paniOn regiments at San Juan Hill assault
ed without artillery aud drove the enemy.
Captain Kennon. who had the honor of be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
Injudicious Friends of the Dead.

Any sensitive man who has notion that
the public will take an interest in him and
his affairs after he is dead and who has
reason to doubt the discretion of his
friends and relatives will do we'll to destroy
all private correspondence as fast as it
comes into his hands. In fact, it is said
that not a few prominent men, appalled,
by the intimate revelations made in print
of the lives of celebrities, take good care
TO destroy documents of a closely personal
nature lest they some time fall into inju-
dicious keeping. They can protect them
selves in this way to a certain extent but
they can only destroy the letters they re-
ceive, not those they write and address to
others. Their only safety is in writing no
letters of a personal character, but this
precaution is not likely to be- observed for
several reasons, ore being that the most
lndiscreet outpourings are apt to be made
before the individual has reached distinc-
ton and when he has no suspicion that his
crude philosophy or his sentimental utter
ances will ever reach the eye of any one
save his correspondent 1t might be sup
posed that letters, obviously of a conf
Dental nature, would be allowed to remain
untouched, but, apparently, there is no
thought in these days that the dead have
any rights. A friend of Victor Hugo is now
about to publish the love letters the
great French writer addressed to his wife
before and shortly after his marriage The
lady is also dead in this case and can offer
no protest Perhaps if she were alive she
would offer none, for not all women object
to sharing such correspondence with the
world. Mrs. Spurgeon, for, instance, is writ
ing the story of the love, courtship and
marriage of herself and her husband, and
will include some of his love letters in the
narrative. 1t is all a matter of taste, but it
is not good taste, and, moreover, such dis
closures react upon the fame of the one
whose life is thus laid bare. Although his
thoughts and utterances were all beautiful
the public is apt to resent so much thrust
ing of his personality upon them; it pre-
fers that something be left to the magma
ton, and reads with sense of shame the
words he never intended for them. Robert
Louis Stevenson is suffering in this way,
through the eagerness of his friends to
print every fragment of his writing and to
quote every idle speech he ever made. Dead
men, above all others, seem, in these days,
to have the greatest reason for asking to
be saved from their friends.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
Interests of England and America.

A1Oli' u VI. CdIllSle, Ill harper.
The sympathy manifested for us in the
present war by the government and people
OF the mother-country is just what was eX-
pected by intelligent Americans who had not
allowed themselves to be influenced by the
reckless statements and nf1ammatory APP
peals of small politicians in and out of Of
flee, but it is none the less significant or
gratifying for that reason. 1t will bring
the two countries still closer together, and
awaken in each a pride of race, a sense of
power. and spirit of moderation and JUS
tice in all matters of difference between
themselves which will contribute far more
to their mutual security and to the promo
ton of peace with other nations than any
mere conventional alliance. When it is
understood that there are to be no more wars
between people of the Anglo-Saxon race
that all their differences not amicably ad-
justed by diplomacy will be permanently
settled by arbitration, that they are thor
oughly united by the ties of blood and a
common heritage of free institutions, not
for conquest or aggression of any kind. but
for the promotion of peace and civilization
and that their combined influence will be ex-
erted for these purposes only, all other ma
tions will realize that new force has been
developed which cannot prudently be ignored
in their schemes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in any
part of the globe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
STAMP ACT RULINGS.
Two Decisions of Importance to
Bankers and Business Men.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Internal Revenue
missioner Scott two decisions of much inn
portance to bankers and financial men. In
one case, a bank in this city submits a
copy of a draft payable at sight, drawn in
London a firm in this country and asks
If it is not fact that it is an inland bill
of exchange and that a 2-cent stamp is
all that is required, on the ground that
Section requires the acceptor to stamp it
as the law requires, for a bill of exchange;
that bills of exchange are taxable only at
2 cents for each 500 when drawn otherwise
than at sight or on demand. and that there
fore bill of exchange drawn at sight or
cents as bank check or draft. Commits
Sioner Scott says that this view is erron-
eous, as 1t does not take into account the
further provision of Section 2, that drafts
drawn in foreign countries entail such an
extension of time before presented for pay
ment as to class them properly, in the
Judgment of the law-making power as bills
of exchange drawn otherwise than at sight
or on demand, and are liable to tax of
cents on the 800.
The other decision is on a question sub
mitted by railroad company regarding the
stamps required on checks drawn in this
city and payable in London. Collector Treat
ruled that such checks were bills of ex-
change and subject to a tax of cents on
the $lOO. The communication from the COM
pany says that the checks are drawn
in New York, to pay stockholders resident
in Great Britain dividends due them. Com
missioner Scott referring to the form of
document used in transmitting these
amounts, holds that the remittances are in
reality checks and as such are taxable only
at the rate of cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
A KLONDIKE PESTHOLE
ABOUT 5000 CASES OF TYPHOID FE-
WEE REPORTED AT DAWSON.
Many Deaths of which No Record Ia
kept-Return of Gold Seekers with
Nothing but Experience.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Sept. 26.-
The steamship Topeka has arrived from
Lynn canal ports with $50 Klondikers. 90
per cent. of whom have little or no dust
to show for their experience in the land Of
gold, and they all express themselves as
being glad to get out alive. Three thousand
cases of typhoid fever is the estimate
placed on the number of sick at Dawson
Sept g. A large number of deaths occur
daily, of which no record is kept. The cold
weather coming on will check the fever. 1t
is estimated that about nine thousand peo-
pie joined the rush to Stewart river. Near
ly every foot of available ground has been
prospected, but no gold found. That sec
ton has been deserted by all except few
who hope to create another excitement next
season.
Among the Topekas passengers was Jose
Ladue the founder of Dawson. He says
that many who return are men that, even
if the country was one solid mass of gold,
would not make anything, consequently,
they give the country a bad name. He adj
mits that there is great deal of sickness,
but says that Dawson is a hospital for
all the tramps. When anyone is taken sick
anywhere along the river he is sent to
Dawson, which gets the credit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 26.-The New
England Loan and Trust Company has an
agency in this city. ]. S. Gilbert, secretary
and assistant manager, has had charge of
the local headquarters of the company for
several years.
The company is composed mostly of New
York, Philadelphia and Des Moines men,
The home office of the company is at Des
Moines, though the main Office is in New
York city. Besides the branch here, there
are branches at Dallas, Tex, and Oklahoma
City, o. T.
John c. Hall is the company's attorney
at Kansas City THE cause of the failure,
he said to reporter, was our ina billty 10
keep up our losses on loans made on West
ern city property in 1888 and 1889. The COM
pany was organized in 1876, and did proht-
able business in farm loans until 1888, when
it began making loans on property In West
ern cities, most disastrous among them be-
ing loans on property in Omaha, Sioux city.
Salt Lake City and Ogden. When the boom
went to pieces foreclosures became neces-
sary and we found ourselves so burdened
with deprecated city property that it has
taken more than the profits on our farm
loan business to keep up the interest, taxes
and repairs If we had had another year
or two in which to catch up We could have
pulled through, and we may yet if the Sc
curitieS behind the debenture bonds don [
fail u.s. The companys securities were
sold almost entirely in the East.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27

1t that Colonel Bryan's regiment has 141 men
in the division hospital and Colonel Durbins
only 5? The men have the same rations. the
same water from artesian wells. and it is
fair to assume that they have the same
equipment, cooking utensils, etc. Why does
Colonel Bryans regiment have twenty-eight
men in hospital where Colonel Durbin S reg
iment has one?
1t is reported that Colonel Durbins regi-
ment has the cleanest camp in the division,
that the officers look after the food of the
men, that they keep them, as far as possi-
bic, from indulging in food and drink that
are hurtful. In other words, every officer
is doing his duty. The Journal would not
assert that Colonel Bryan is not attending
to his regiment. but the inference may be
fairly made that his men are not so careful
ly looked after as are these of Colonel Dur
bin.
There is another thing: Colonel Bryans
men are anxious to be sent home. The
colonel himself desires to be mustered our
of the service. He was in Washington re-
Gently trying to induce the War Depart
ment to extend some special favor to the
sick of his regiment Instead of saying to
his men that the War Department has de-
termined to retain the regiment in the serv-
ice and appealing to them to be manly about
the matter and to accept cheerfully the or
ders which good soldiers will obey, he is
pursuing course which will make every
man discontinued, careless of his health and
useless to the government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27

The morning report of one of Gen. Lees
divisions, near Jacksonville. Fla, a few
days ago showed that the several regiments
have had men in the division hospital as
follows: Second Mississippi, SS; Third
Nebraska, 141 First South Carolina, 43;
Fourth Illinois, "a: Sixth Missouri So; One
hundred-and-sxty Indiana. 5. These
regiments have the same division COM
mander, the same division quartermaster.
commissary and surgeon. They are en-
camped as near together as the well-being
OF troops will permit. Several of these regi-
ments left their respective States at nearly
the same date. The Observation-Disclosures
first Indiana and the Third Nebraska Col.
Bryan's regiment. are in the same brigade.
and their camps are not far apart. Why is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-27
A Civil War Outrage.
The Criterion.

How pitiless as well as ingenious fraud
can be may be gathered from this bit of
history from the civil war. Lint was a
necessity. With the wounded running up
toward the quarter million it can we'll be
imagined what large quantities We're re-
quired. All wounds were dressed with it:
societies had lint bees; but still large
supply was called for A certain church
leader of Boston hit on plan. He went to
at trihe. Foul and dirty as they came
from the ash barrels. off baggars' backs and
of a rending machine. and came out at the
other end in a white. fluffy mass. This was
put up nicely in blue paper and sold to the
government at dollar and a half pound.
No wonder that hospital gangrene'' so
often defied the care of nurses and the skill
OF surgeons! The name OF this artist in tor
ture for the Union wounded is highly hon.
ored in Boston to-day.