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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Dissatisfied stockholders.

Outsiders are watching with more than or
binary interest the action of the dissatisfied
stockholders OF, the p C., C. & st. l..
These stockholders, some of whom reside in
New York some in Philadelphia and in
other Eastern and Western cities, have en-
tered protest against the present manage
ment of this property. For some years past
there has been more or. less dissatisfaction
over the policy OF the management, The
friction dating back TO the consolidation Of
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati 4 st. Louis and
the Chicago, st. Louis e Pittsburg, former
ly the Columbus. Chicago Il Indiana Cen
trail The latter was in bad condition at
that time. but has since been brought up to
a high standard The main line between
Columbus and Pittsburg has become one of
the busiest and best paying pieces of road
in the country. What the stockholders COM
plain of is that too large part of the sur
plus earnings of this portion of the system
goes to support. the non-paying branch lines
Stockholders have been disappointed as to
dividends and they threaten to cause an
open revolt. Still the ablest railway men
in the country say that the policy of the
present management is the best, in view of
the circumstances. and that after a few
more million dollars are spent for improve
ments and equipment the Panhandle viii he
one of the greatest revenue earners in the
entire list of dividend-paying roads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Must Maintain Rates.

e. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big FourS ID. G.. Edwards, pas
senger traffic manager of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton; L. A Ford, general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines,
and officials of other roads which are MEM
bcrs of the Central Passenger Association,
have sent personal letters TO their agents
instructing them to see that the action
taken by tho association in the resolution
given below be strictly lived up to:
Resolved, That effective April Is, proven
charges of violation of the rate agreements
of the Central Passenger Association shall
in each and every instance subject an of
Tending member to q penalty of $50 and to
the further penalties of redeeming at full
agreed tariff value any ticket or tickets of
its issue or of foreign issue reading over
its line when purchased to test rate viola
tons and of reimbursng the association for
all costs properly incurred in investigating
complaints and deciding charges cstab-
lished hereunder; provided this rule shall
not apply to theatrical. party or mileage
ticket travel. nor tn the irregular fares be-
tween eastern and western ,termini and in
termediate destinations in both directions
now prevailing and incident to tho rate dis
agreements of Canadian, transcontinenta
and other lines"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
FARMERS AFRAID TO BUY
EFFECT OF WAR TALK on HAIR
NESTING IMPLEMENT BUSINESS.
Demand for Chairs-At the Cotton
MiIIs-FIOrists' Easter BUSINESS
March Shipments.

Dealers in engines and supplies used in
harvesting have had their hopes somewhat
blighted by the prospective war. There are
fifteen harvest and farming implement man
ufaeturing companies represented at Indi-
annapolis, and month ago the tenor of their
conversation was that they would probably
sell more mowers, reapers and threshing
machine outfits the next few months than
in any season for years. but the war news
has seemingly so alarmed farmers that they
are disposed to drift along another year
without making such purchases. In fact
one of the agents of a large concern rep
resented here says some orders have been
withdrawn until the present critical situa-
ton is better understood This class of
manufacturers, however have some conso-
lation in the big crops of 1897 and the good
prices obtained for them, which have en-
aDled farmers to pay off their notes. some
OF which had been standing for two or three
years. The excellent prospects for q good
wheat and grass crop are such that the
dealers in mowers and reapers hope it will
overcome what they think is the unneces-
sary feeling of alarm on the part of farm
ers as regards the war. In the event of
war 1T is believed the farmers would get
better prices for their crops than otherwise.
The dealers in farming implements say that
as rule, the farmers are not in favor of
war, and are hoping it will be avoided.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

The Relations Are strained in Diplo-
matte Circles There.
London Mail.

London Mail.
II is q busy time in London just now at
the embassies of those nations whose gov
ernments are more Immediately concerned
in the present situation in the far East aud
in west Africa.
Every day witnesses some new develop
ment: every day 10 the man In the street
IT seems inevitable that relations between
the respective governments must have
reached that stage which is Familiarity
known as strained, and every day the
ubiquitous journalist watches and chroni-
cles the movements Of amba ssadors. and
draws his own deductions therefrom.
The Russian and French embassies and
the japanese and Chinese legations IN Lon
don are the diplomatic centers around which
a good deal of interest clusters. The con-
slant presence Of the telegraph boy q the
embassy door is in itself an indication Of
the busy time within; while the frequent
visits of the ambassadors TO cur own For
eign Office point to the fact that the deli
cate and intricate game of diplomacy is be-
ing played within.
The position OF an ambassador is very diff
ferent now to what IL was in times past
The perfection of the electric telegraph has
brought about a complete revolution as re-
CARDS the duties he has TO perform. There
was a period when the accredited represent
alive of a foreign state could, on urgent oc-
casion act on his personal Judgment. but
now he is practically only the mouthpiece OF
his government, He receives his instruc-
tions from his foreign minister. and acts &C
Cordfngly. He has secret code, unknown
even TO his secretaries. so that I'm the event,
say. of Sir n. r.. Oconor At st. Peters,
text would only be known 20 the Queen.
Lord Salisbury and the ambassador. This
code is always sent in numbers An am
bassador nowadays can take indepeR-
dent action. lie communicates as closely
and as regularly with his foreign minister
as a foreign correspondent does with the
newspaper he represents.
When the relations between two govern
ments are strained" IL is no uncommon
thing for a copy of the cipher message dis
patched by an ambassador TO find its way
into the hands OF the minister i'm whose
country for the time being he is staying.
Ii was Prince BSmarcks boast that dur
ing the years he Was German chancellor no
letter or telegram of a foreign power ever
escaped his notice.
If anything, the admiral of fleet is a
more important parsonage in these days
than an ambassador. inasmueh as he Is
often out of touch with teegraphic commu-
nication, and should occasion arise, acts on
the Instructions last received. On the other
hand the telegraph line Is usually clear for
dispatches. and In that way an ambassador
is able 70 be in constant communication
with his ministers. So long as he remains
diplomatic relations can continue IL is only
when he has left that the situation becomes
most dangerous. II IL then, II anything
happens that either side can take action by
force of arms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
pcr.ouol. local and General Notes

The Big -Four and the Columbus North
western Will join in the erection OF union
depot at Belefontainc.
The traffic agreement between the Grand
Rapids e. Indiana and the Chicago d West
Michigan has terminated.
Samuel Walker has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent of the Nickel-plate,
with headquarters at Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Company is doubling
its tracks on the Cleveland & Pittsburg di-
vision between Newburg and Bedford.
on Sunday the first of the Glass ii en-
gines, the largest ever built by the Pennsyl-
vauia, will be turned out of the shops at
Altoona.
The Southern Indiana Railway has be-
come a member of the interchangeable
Mileage Bureau of the Central Passenger
Association.
The Big Four's mechanical engineering
department Is hitting mp dynamotor car
for the exclusive use of the engineering de-
partment of the University OF Illinois.
A new division of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers will oe organized at Belle
that Grand Chief Arthur will be present.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
Indianapolis last week 1904 cars, 1892 being
loaded the heaviest business ever done in
any one week at this point by the Pennsyl-
vania lines
The Big -Four lines proper handled at In
dianapolis last week 10 223 cars. 1i,1S0 being
loaded 1885 more cars than the company
handled at this point the corresponding
week of 1897.
The Pennsylvania announces that it has
inaugurated a transfer service at Jersey
City TO the boats of the Fall River line, and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
NEWS IN SUNDAYS JOURNAL.
Resume Of Chief Events Printed In
the Issue of April IL.

Edward Bellamy the distinguished author
is dying of consumption.
Baseball Saturday: Cleveland 8. Cincin-
natl /; Baltimore s, Washington 3; Brook
lyn :, Philadelphia 8; Pittsburg 3, Louisville
1; Boston 4, New York :.
Gen Lew Wallace, believing that war is
certain has rendered his services to the
government. He has therefore withdrawn
from the race for senator.
Great Britain and Germany refuse to join
i'm a concerted movement of European pow
ers to protest against the United States
going to war with Spain The sympathy
of the people of England is with this coun-
try. but on the continent public feeling is
with SPAN.
Anti-Amercan demonstrations were made
in several cities of Spain Saturday. At
Malaga the United States consulate was at
tackled and the shield torn down and
dragged in the street. Like disturbances
took place a Cadiz and Barcelona. The
gendarmes were called out to patrol the
streets.
4 war revenue measure has been prepared
by the Republican members of the House
ways and means committee, which, it is
expected, will raise over 500 000, 600 addi-
tiCpaI year. The tax on beer, tobacco,
snuff cigars and cigarettes is increased. A
tax is also to be levied on stocks and trans
fers of corporations, checks, drafts, mort
Cages. loans. bonds, patent and proprietary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Not Such a had Idea.
VAwly Mill n,J

Among the noble army of craaks and e.
formers who render life not worth living in
Kansas there is occasionally one who dis
plays common sense and good Judgment.
One of these, a woman, by the way, pro-
claims the doctrine that the welfare Of the
country can only be secured by a series of
great ship canals built by the national gov
eminent. The first is TO connect Massa-
chusetts and Buzzard's bay; the second is
10 cross New Jersey SO that steamers can
run inland from New York 10 Philadelphia
the third crosses Delaware. opening COM
munication between Philadelphia and Bal
timore; the fourth enlarges the Dismal
great sounds of North Carolina; the fifth
crosses Florida. saving two days OF naviga-
ton; the sixth connects the SuSquehanna
with the Ohio, the seventh the Hudson and
St Lawrence by Lake Champlain; the
eighth replaces the Erie canal: the ninth
crosses Michigan, and the tenth unites Lake
Michigan and Lake Superior. The cost is
only a LOCO 100000. but the benefits are
figured at i've times the cost.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE.
Increasing CIoudiness and Occasional
Showers Predicted for To-Day.

Forecast for indianapolis and vicinity for
twenty-four hours ending IL p. m. April 1S-
Increasing cloudiness and occasional show
ers; possibly moderate thunderstorms on
Monday.
General Conditions Yesterday-A low baro-
metric area is central over Kansas and low
atmospheric pressure in the shape of a mar
row barometric trough prevails from Mex
leo northeastward to New England, high
pressure continuing south and north of the
barometric depression. Warm weather pre-
walls, especially from the Ohio valley south
to the gulf. In the lake regions it remains
quite cool and local rains fell and thun-
derstorms formed in localities from Wyom-
ing and Colorado eastward to Illinois and
Michigan and in Texas.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES
WASHINGTON, April 17.-For Ohio
Showers; colder; fresh northerly winds.
For Indiana and notwithstanding
weather and showers; colder in southern
portions; northeasterly winds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
TONNAGE STILL HEAVY.
OVER 81 900 LOADED CARS HANDLED
AT INDIANAPOLIS LAST WEEK.
Ticket Agents Instructed to Maintain
Rates-Panhan stockholders Ask
Change in Policy.

The volume of traffic last week was some-
thing of a surprise to freight men. as a
marked decrease in tonnage had been ex-
pacted. In the week ending April 9 the
freights delayed on account of high water
were well clared up. The train records
show that in the week ending April 16 there
were received and forwarded at Indianap-
oils %, 436 cars, 1854 being loaded 732 fewer
loaded cars than were handled at Indian
apolis in the week ending April 8. In that
week over 1900 loaded cars of delayed
freights were moved, which goes to show
that the business of last week, so far as
traffic is concerned, was in excess of that
Of the preceding week Despite the fact
that the farmers are busy blowing and
planting, the shipments of corn, oats and
live stock are unusually heavy for April,
and the shipments of dressed meats, cereal
inc products, hides and produce were large.
AS yet there has been no perceptible de-
crease in shipments of export freights on
account of the threatened war, although
Western representatives of the fast freight
lines have received special instructions as
to the billing of export business. Local
Touring mills are shipping more flour for
export than for some time past. The ship
ments of horses and fine cattle to Europe
are heavy beyond precedent. In local bust
ness the Improvement is most gratifying.
In no April of several years past have In
dianapols industries been as heavy ship
pers. The iron industries, furniture manu-
facturers carriage works, cerealine mills
and starch works are equaing all former
records in amount of shipments. The local
packing houses, the stock yards, and, in
fact, all lines of business, Judging from their
shipments, are prosperous. The commission
houses are receiving and shipping more
fruits, vegetables, etc, than at any time in
many months At the city freight depots
and on the bulk tracks there is the greatest
activity, and as building and the improve
ment of streets are again setting in local
business will be further increased. An idea
of the improvement in business may be
formed in the fact that last week there
We're 6,l52 more loaded cars received and
forwarded at Indianapolis than in the CORE
spending week of 1897, 6,152 more than in
1886 All more than in 1895 and 6054 more
than in the corresponding week of 1894. 1t
will be noticed that the empty car move
ment last week was large reaching 6,742
cars. This indicates that freight traffic will
Vania lines, the Vandalia and the Big Four
moved 6,037 of the empty cars received and
forwarded last week. Below is given the
car movement for the week ending April
IL and for the corresponding weeks of 1897
and 1pQe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Bali Park Grand stand Burned.

ST. LOUIS. April f6-The second game
of baseball between the Browns and Chi
Cages at Sportsmans Park was called at
4:H O'Clock at the beginning of the second
inning by the breaking out OF a fre, which
destroyed the entire grand stand paVillons,
one of the hleachers and the club offices
and residence Of Chris Won der Abe, who
loses everything. The total loss is esti-
mated at about $50 900, with $4,000 insur-
ance. Four or five thousand spectators
were present The names of the more Sc
ricusly hurt, as reported by The police, fol-
low:
WILLIAM DWYER, water office inspec-
tor, burned about face and head
DUGALD CRAWFORD, head of ID. Craw-
ford's Dry Goods Company, overcome by
heat
j. r. M'KENNEY. of the Anderson Ho-
tel, Pittsburg, slightly burned about the
face.
col DANIEL RIPLEY, of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, body lady
LOUIS MEDART. burned about heat
WILLIAM DUNCAN, president of the
Ludlow Saylor Wire Company. and member
of the Jockey Club, seriously burned about
neck and back.
JOHN GENTLES. hands and face slightly
burned.
H. r. PINCUSS. of New York, burned
about head and back; very serious.
FREDERICK GREEN. butcher, burned
about the face.
THOMAS O'BRIEN. seriously injured by
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Chair Works Doing Better.

President smith, of the Central Chair
Company, says that in their line there has
been decided Improvement of late. espe-
cialiy in demand for the better class of
chairs, such as the state prisons do not
manufacture and sell at ruinously low
prices. Mr.. Smith says the company is
working full handed and full time. Some
very attractive designs of chairs are being
manufactured this season, such as the bet
ter class of. trade readily buys, and he saws
the outlook for business is much more en-
couraging than sixty days ago.
Thomas Madden, the oldest and largest
lounge manufacturer in the city or State
says business with his establishment is
highly satisfactory, and for three months
past has been up to the oid-times volume.
Indianapolis for many years led as a lounge
manufacturing center, and probably now
manufactures more lounges than any other
city In the country. Lounges manufactured
at indianapolis are to be found in nearly
every part of the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

war AmOn& inc SOIOmSs
What glorious reputatiGns
Due the Congress of this Nations,
When its legislators lose their heads in crises
such as these:
And when wise deliberations
Are outweighed by the temptations
To disgracefully abuse each others physiognomcs
IneXcusablc the mix-up
That despite the sergeant picks up
His owp little mace wherewith to show authority
Can't be made TO even fix up
Till each legislator ticks up
Every other legislator that with him does not
agree.
Oh the books that were flying
And the men that were "A lying,
In that hall of legislation when the free-for.au
on.
And the speaker signing
And grave issues were a dying
All berause the party lines had been most too
distinctly drawn
Politicians pulled their wires
Solons called each other liars
towards and divers other epithets too DELICATE to
cite;
Wonder ii the country hires
iu these sages. soons, sires.
Just 10 go to Washington to represent them in a
nghtt
Our own Johnson. yes. was in it
But tvs only for minute;
(Now lie didn't want the issue to go over sane
debate),
lie was ready TO begin il
But Car Reed was quite ''agn' It,
And the mace and sergeant argued Henry L. unto
his fate.
Out of all of this pollution
Came at last an evolution
Which viii tend indeed, the standing of these
soons TO redeem;
Twas the longed-for resolution
On the Cuban revolution
And the awful Maine catastrophe, our Nations
loss so keen.
Now may their aid henceforth be lent
Unto our noble President;
And may the radicals and jingoes adopt tenor
sane;
And may their actions be not rent
But may their energies be spent
In the noble, righteous. patriotic task of whip
ping Spain!
Knightstown. Ind. Roy w. Steele.
-
The evidence in the case moves Hood
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

At the Indiana cotton mills 32S persons
now find steady employment, the mill turn
ing out 100000 yards of cotton cloth a day.
This mill has one of the largest bIeacheries
in the country and does Il good deal of
bleaching for New England mills In the
month of March 100000 yards OF cloth
were bleached at this mill, which is one of
the model concerns of this country There
fitted out with up-to-date machinery. The
laying of a switch at the mill has proved
a great convenience, as the cotton shipped
the goods are loaded direct from the store
room,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Had n Busy Easter.

The local florists say their business this
Easter season was the largest and most
satisfactory for many years. People pur-
chased choice flowers and plants more lib
orally than for many Casters past An
thony Wiegand & Son last week received
from Europe some choice plants on
which they paid a duty of $50. Among them
were some camellias, a flower which a quar-
ter of a century ago brought the highest
figures of any bloom sold. The camelIia is
again becoming a popular plant. Those re-
ceived by Wiegand & Son have attracted
a good deal of attention
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

The local Touring mills ran more hours
last week and turned out more flour than
in any week in the last eight months The
Hoosier mill was busy day and night, and
the Acme Milling Company ran one of its
mills the entire week. both Gay and night.
The Arcade mills We're also busy. There is
some anxiety as to export business, as some
of the roads decline to accept shipments
consigned to European ports in American
bottoms. There is fear that vessels of other
nations will take advantage of this dilemma
and increase rates which the millers, with
wheat at its present prices and flour rela-
lively SO much lower, cannot well do bust
ness with any profit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

jumping from the stand. and afterwsrd
overcome by heat.
HENRY LOCHBACK, burned about. the
neck back bruised and left ankle sprained.
CONRAD CRAFT, slightly burned about
the body. az
DANIEL WEBLEY. Southern Hotel. an-
kle injured by leaping from the grand stand,
CHARLES LEWIS, ticket seller at the
park, hands and face burned.
CHRIS HOlGKKER, body burned about
face and arms
No lives were lost. ais at first reported.
The men were put TO work Tonight erect
ing new fences and seats ii being President
Muckenfusss intention to play the femsEn-s
ing games of the series with Chicago to-
morrow. -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18

General Manager Potts. of the Potts
Brick-making Machinery Company, stated
on Saturday that in 10 time in the last six
years has his company been as busy as of
late The present month the works shipped
to North Dakota four complete plants, in
Guiding engine, etc. One was sent to Terre
Haute, another to Richmond two to New
York and one to New England. With each
year the concerns business reaches into
new territory. This month a plant will be
shipped to the Pacific coast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-18
Garcia Suggests plan of Campaign.

KINGSTON. Jamica. April 16.--Ptesident
Octava Law, of the Jamaican Junto. has
received dispatches from General Calixto
Garcia. which will he forwarded from ia
maica by the next steamer. The dispatch
suggests a plan of operation in eastern Cuba
i'm conjunction with America. A Cuban
government courier, with other dispatches,
was caught by Spariards a few days ago
at Cristo near Santiago de Cuba, and killed.
His body was left IN the road, but the let
tiers he bore were taken.