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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
DUE THURSDAY.



the journey to washington. There will be
reiefs every few hours to guard against
the precious package being without protec-
ton for single moment.
There is a Gordon of government agents
extending from Washington to Key West
at this time, and it will be their duty to
bearer with his report at certain stations
designated by the proper authorities. They
will not make themselves known to each
other, for it is sought to convey the impress
sion that they are only casual passengers
getting on at country railroad stations. By
the time the train from Key West reaches
armed men who would congregate at Sec
ond's notice around the bearer of the report
of the Maine court of inquiry.
All sorts of contingencies have been pro-
VideG against by those who are intrusted
with this matter, and among them are
train hold-ups and violence toward the
bearer of this all-important document II
his identity is once established There is
so much at stake in this report that the
authorities feel justified in resorting to the
heroic measures which have been adopted
to insure it's safe and uninterrupted de-
livery at Washington.
One of the possibilities discussed at the
conference held by the authorities was that
If it became known who the bearer of the
dispatches was and the train he would take
some enterprising newspaper might have
him intercepted and held up with a view
to taking his precious package from him
in order to get a SCOOP" Nothing seemed
too silly in the way of suggestion of danger
to the report, and this will account for the
elaborate and thorough precautions which
have been taken by the President and his
advisers. All the agents of Uncle Sam will
know about the party will be, contained in
their instructions 10 watch certain group
of men who will change seats at different
stations in order that their Identification
will be more complete None of the new
arrivals who get the train after it has
left Key West will know that the group
they are to watch has any such document
as the report of the Maine court of inquiry.
The only instructions given have been for
them to pay strict attention to the party
of tourists, and in case of an attack or
trouble of any sort to rally around them
and protect them at all hazards.
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their story to certain extent, but it will
hardly explain why the big bow anchor
which was dashed TO the Maine was found
there also. Then, again, they have not yet
found the bow, so are unable 20 refute any
statement made by our court. Still there is
a possibility both sides are correct If we
accept the theory of the forward Six-inch
magazine explosion.
One of the most significant facts bearing
on the theory OF an outside i s1 expl1son
free from debris. OF course the SpaniardS
will not admit this. but the fact that they
found little or no wreckage to impede their
progress from the big crane forward to a
point near the protruding plates is only
another such proof as is indicated by the
upper works. or that the force was exerted
from a point on the port side forward of
amidships.
The Spaniards have no heart in their
work. They have set out with a fixed de-
termination TO prove that the magazines
exploded through gross carelessness and
enough in their way, but totally unfit for
port duty: They know nothing about the
Ma ana SIMPLY report what they see or
ceiving the paltry pittance of $50 per month
and 81 per day extra when diving. They
know their American companions receive
big salaries and are disconnected with their
lot. They expect sooner or later, when the
yellow fever season sets in, to offer their
rms Contingency seems TO have been over
looked. All the unacclimated men sent
from the United States to work in the peSti-
lential harbor of Havana are liable to fall
victims of the dreaded yellow fever.
Whatever may be the decision of our
board of inquiry, l am satisfied the Span
ish reply will be, as already published, gross
carelessness on the part of the crew. This
was decided on in the beginning and moth
ing can shake that belief. They do not an
ticipate war over the question, but will car
ry out the plan of an International board
of arbitration if possible
The wife of Diver Barquin, who was rep
resented by a sensational story to have
placed the mine under the Maine has been
placed in the Aldecon Hospital. The au-
thorities say she is crazy, but she contin-
ually says she is not.
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viceroy of India May resign.

LONDON, March 22.-The Standard says
it has reason to believe that the Earl of
Elgin and Kincardine, viceroy of India
since 1893. desires to resign his post and
that the government is considering the APP
pointment of new viceroy
Victor Alexander Bruce, earl of Elgin and
Kincardine. who sits in the House of Lords
as Baron Elgin, has had, apart from his In
dian vieeroyalty, s comparatively unimpor-
tant public career, and has never displayed
conspicuous administrative ability. He was
treasurer of the royal household and COM
missioner of works and buildings in 1886,
and al present is university commissioners
for Scotland and lord lieutenant of Fife
shire. He was born May 16, 1S49, the son of
a very distinguished Indian viceroy. 1t was
rumored last December that he would soon
resign and be succeeded by Lord George
Hamilton, the present secretary of state for
India
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PEKING, March 21.-An official Chinese
denial has been issued of the statements
made by a special correspondent of the
Shanghai Mercury at Kiu-Kiang, on March
4, who alleged that the 'viceroys of Nan
king and Hu-Kuang and the governor of
Human had entered into a compact to di-
rect the affairs of the entire Yang-Tse-
Kiang valley and it's adjoining territories.
1t is added that the Emperor of China has
no higher confidence in any one man than
in the viceroys of Marking and Hu-kuang
and the governor of Human.
VIENNA, March 21.-The newspapers an
nounce that Japan between 1895 and 1905 will
have devoted 100000 yen to the building
of war ships. Forty-Seven have already
been ordered, with short terms of delivery,
in England France, Germany and the
United States
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MET AFTER MANY YEARS
ROMANTIC STORY OF AN OLD SOL
DER AND DAUGHTER.
Former Residents of Indiana, Sep
arated since 1861, Brought TOgeth-
err While Fighting for an Estate.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. March n.-Mrs.
Flora Herrick, of Chicago, and her father.
William Gessie, an inmate of the National
Soldiers Home in this city. have been
brought together after having been separat-
ed since 1861, when the war broke out. The
meeting was brought about through the set
Element of a will, in which an estate valued
at 800 go is involved. Robert Gessie died
about six months ago at Newport, Ind,
leaving a large estate. The story of the
litigation which will probably follow has
many extraordinary features. He was an
eccentric character and drew up his own
will to suit his own peculiar fancies. He
left homestead valued at $4,000 to his wife,
but provided that upon the appointment of
trustees to take charge of the estate the
mansion should be locked up and kept per-
petually closed, except that twice a year
men were to be employed to go there. open
it up and give it an airing. The widow, who
was his second wife, was provided with an
other house, in which she was to make her
home. To his son, William Gessie, and his
granddaughter he left small amount or
money and the remainder of the estate was
to be used in building large schoolhouse in
Newport. The will provides that in the sec
ond story of the building there shall be a
large assembly hall surrounded on all sides
with glass cases in which shall be placed the
colthing, bedding, furniture and household
goods from the Gessie mansion. The rea-
son assigned for this display of the house
hold goods of the Gessie mansion in the
schoolhouse is that the pupils may be re-
minded of the donor and that his memory
may be kept green
There is another chapter to the story.
When the war of the rebellion broke out
William Gessie enlisted in an Indiana regi-
ment and went forth to fight the battles
for the Union. He left behind him wife
and a daughter the latter ten weeks DID,
William did not write to his wife when he
was in the army nor did he return to his
home when the war was over. Instead he
drifted out into the Western country and
finally brought up at the Soldiers Home at
and by this means was remembered with a
small bequest when the latter made his
will. He employed law firm of this city
to look after his interests, and while mem
Der of the firm was in Indiana few weeks
ago he came in contact with a Chicago at
torney who was representing the interests
of Mrs. Flora Herrick, of that city. 1t did
not take the lawyers long to discover the
relationship between their clients, and to
show them that their causes were Identical
Later meeting was arranged in Milwaukee
between father and daughter, in which an
affecting scene was enacted. The father
and child will make common cause in their
efforts to upset the will of Robert GeSsie
and secure a portion of the estate.
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The PennsyIvania Road suffers.

NEW YORK, March N.-The Pennsyl-
van,a Railroad depot in Jersey City was
damaged by fire Early to-day to the extent
of 100000. The mammoth train shed and
the large office building escaped. Trains
and ferry traffic were seriously impeded.
All of the frame portions of the depot, with
the shed covering the approach to the sew
eral ferry slips and the waiting room and
restaurant, were destroyed. There were
several acres of glass on the roof of the big
train shed, and, being melted and cracked
by the intense heat, fell or the firemen and
made their work all the more perilous. The
firemcn were unable to use their scaling
ladders on the big roof, nor were they able
to get their water tower near enough to be
effective. The Keystone restaurant where
the greatest damage was done, was one of
the most spacious and handsomely-fitted up
railroad restaurants in the country. The
report that mail matter was burned is de-
MED. No rolling stock was injured, neither
was any baggage destroyed
PHILADELPHIA, March H.-The officers
of the Pennsylvania Railroad state that the
fire at the jersey City station this morning
is not SO serious as first reports would indi-
cate. None of the ferry slips Is injured, and
there is no interruption of traffic. Trains are
running in and out of the station on sched-
ule time
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EpitOme of the Report of the Naval
Court of Inquiry

EpitOme of the Report of the Naval
Court of Inquiry.
NEW YORK, March 21.-The World this
morning prints a dispatch from Key West
saying the report of the naval court was
sent to Washington Saturday, and that
Captain Barker carried the document. The
correspondent then INDUCES in some guess
ing and gives the following as the main
points of the report:
list The explosion that destroyed the
Maine was from the exterior the port
side, leaving the ram almost in it's original
position and driving the bow and forward
structure on the starboard. The afterpart
of ship swung slightly on the starboard,
I'D. The first explosion was followed by
a second in the interior of the ship as
result of an exterior blow
3d. The second explosion was in the re-
serve magazine. This destroyed the super
structure of the ship.
'4th. The big magazine forward did not
explode. This was demonstrated beyond a
18th. The exterior explosion probably
came from a torpedo. Evidence that a
mine might have caused the disaster was
produced but 1t was not sufficient to con-
vince the court.
9th. The impact came low under the
hull of the Maine on the port side, blowing
one of the bilge plates to the surface, where
it is still in sight.
18th. The ship is broken in two and prob
18th. The forward turret was hurled far
to starboard, it's top being intact.
18th. The solitary plate showing above
water is a bottom plate. not from along
keel, but from the bottom port side.
10th. The bow of the Maine now points
nearly east, while the rest of the ship lies
along a line nearly at right angles.
Nth The ram of the Maine lies of to
port of where the bow lies, nearly on a
line parallel to the body of the ship:
18th. No evidence was adduced implicat-
ing the Spanish government or Spanish
officials or of preparation for the destruc-
ton of the ship.
What do all these findings demonstrate?
1t needs but few words to explain that the
Maine was destroyed by forces outside OF
herself. the destruction being aided by an
explosion in the interior of the ship result
ing from the initial blow. Proofs of this
are ample Who is responsible for the out
rage the destruction of a noble ship and
loss of 253 lives of her crew? No answer
can be given to this question. If the court
has any knowledge on the subject, my IN
formant processes not to know.
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WILL SUCCOR CUBANS.

Captain Sigsbee and Lieut.. Commander
Cowles entertained Consul General Lee,
Special Commissioner Klopsch and Mrs.
Klopsch this morning at breakfast on the
Fern
Politics and the election next month are
occupying local attention to the exclusion
of most other topics, but the cities and
towns outside of Havana are preparing for
functions in aid of the Spanish naval fund.
To-day seventy officers and six hundred
soldiers who are on the sick list returned
to Spain.
The divers are working to clear passage
to the ten-inch magazine aft of the Maine,
In order to remove the ammunition, but a
strong shore breeze, which has been blow
ing daily for fortnight somewhat delays
the work. On land rain would be grateful
to lay the dust and to fTeShen vegetation.
Tomorrow morning Bishop Manuel San
tender y TrutOS, of Havana, will conSe-
crate the Lee Orphanage, of which DR.. Les
ser and his wife are to have charge. The
institution will do an admirable work. Con-
sui General Lee expects to be present at
the conservation.
Reports from Matanzas say that the gov
ernor has postponed consideration of the
resignation of members of the relief COM
mittee. In spite of the fact that more than
$4,000 has been set aside for the relief of the
reconcentradoS there, 1t is said that many
of the sick have neither medicine nor milk.
There is sharp rivalry among members OF
the relief committee.
Gunner Morgan will go to Key West on
Wednesday, in obedience to orders from the
Navy Department.
FL Correo says that at the end of 1894
there were on file in the Spanish Navy
Department $4,000 petitions of men who de-
sired to enlist, and that in case war broke
out the number ready for enlistment would
be found to exceed 100000.
The United States consul at Sagua la
Grande Walter B. Barker, in a letter just
received here says he is not suffering from
nervous prostration, but is in fine health
and spirits owing to the food supplies
which are at last on hand and sufficient to
afford relief" Mr.. Barker adds LAS con-
sui, or ex-consul, I will continue here. Civ
ing all the aid in my power to these people
who have won all my sympathies."
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seren.stnrv nuilding Rurned.

CHICAGO. March 21.-Fire this afternoon
Destroyed the seven-ssory structure known
as the Schoeneman building. Several peo-
pie made their way to the street down the
fire escapes. 1t is not believed any lives
were lost. The burned structure was To-
Gated between two of the tallest so-ealled
"sky seraper' buildings IN Chicago-the old
Colony and the Manhattan. Both are fire.
proof. and neither was damaged, but there
was much excitement among the occupants.
Great crowds of people assembled In the
adjoining streets half expecting to witness
recurrence of last weeks Wabash-avenue
fire horror. but the prompt work of the fire.
men and the substantial character of the
Old Colony and the Manhattan SKY scrap
ers combined TO make an e1fectual pre-
ventive About IA dozen firms. including
book binderies and similar concerns, were
burned out. The loss on building is $225. 600.
The chief losses to occupants of the build
ing Were: Eagle photographic Company.
$4,000; II. +. Becker. $4,000: Fornby &
Winder, book binders. $4,000; Chopin &
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LONDON, March 21.-Mrs. Jackson, who
became prominent in 1891 as the principal
in what was known as the Clitheroe case,
is dead.
Miss Emily Hall, who was born in 1860,
was married in 1887 to E. Haughton Jack
son at Blackburn They never lived to-
gether, she returning to her friends and he
going to New Zealand. In 1888 Mr.. Jackson
returned to England, corresponded with his
wife and had one interview with her, but
she steadily refused to live with him. Liti-
cation between the couple insued. A de-
cree against her was obtained in 1889. On
March 8, 1891, Mr.. Jackson and others seized
Mrs. jackson when she was coming from
church at Clitheroe and carried her off to
his house at Blackburn, where she was
placed in charge of nurse and closely con-
fined Friends of Mrs. Jackson obtained a
writ of habeas corpus, and she was brought
before the Court of Appeals, which even
tually decided on March 10 that a husband
has no legal power to detain his wife
against her will. Mrs. Jackson returned to
her friends
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Granville w. Smith.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March H.-Granville
w. Smith, one of the most prominent lay
men in the Catholic Church of America
died this morning at his home. Seventh and
Jefferson streets, of Bright's disease. Mr..
Smith had been i'll but short time, but his
death was not a surprise. as it was known
the founder. and at one time president of
the Catholic knights and Ladies of Ameri-
ca, and also at one time prominently iden-
lea. He was one of the leading members
of the Society of st. Vincent de Paul, and
was identified with other church work. Mr..
Smith was sixty-three years old, and had
been an undertaken for forty years.
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Bishop Komp, of Fulda, has been elected
archbishop of Freiburg.
In the British House of Commons yester,
day the Irish local government bill passed
a second reading without division and
amid loud cheers.
The Japanese parliamentary election re-
turns show that the two parties VIII nave
about equal strength and that some fifty
neutrals will probably hold the balance of
power.
The French steamer Labrador, from Ha-
vana on Feb. o. via Santander on FeD. ~
has arrived at Colon. having on board the
five commissioners sent to investigate the
affairs of the new Panama Canal Company
and to report upon the progress maze on
the canal
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A KENTUCKY BATTLE"
Three Men KILLED and Two Injured in
q Sunday Fight.

PINEVII.LE. KY March 21.-One of the
bloodiest battles ever fought in the Ken
lucky mountains took place yesterday aft
ernoon on Pucketts creek, in Harlan coun-
ty, about sixteen miles from this place in
which three men were killed and two in
jured. The killed are: Thad Snellings,
Josiah Leroy and Yves Taylor. They were
at neighbours house drinking, when a
quarrel arose between Snellings and Taylor,
the former getting in the first shot. but
missing. Taylor then opened fire, killing
Snellings. Leroy had been at the stable, but
hearing the shooting, rushed to Snellings' s
defense. Finding him dead, he opened fire
on Taylor. both shooting about the same
time When the fracas was over both were
found to be stretched on the ground dead.
Two men were wounded by stray bullets
but will recover. The shooting is said to
lorS
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The War in the soudan.

ATBARE, Camp Nubia, March 21-The
Anglo Egyptian force is hourly expecting
an attack. During false alarm at the
Hudi Fords last evening a shot was fired
from some unknown quarter and the whole
British brigade stood with arms at fixed
bayonets. In the dark a Highlander, rush
ing to the place, was impaled on a COM
rade's bayonet The army marched to-day
six miles to Rashudi and is now awaiting
the reports of the patrols who are feeling
for the Dervish army.
Ali Digna, brother of OSman Digna, mas
thrice attacked the post at Adarama, but
the friendly natives have each time de-
feated him, killing in all forty-one
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CHICAGO. March H.-The remains of A.
M. Peterson, shipping clerk for the w. A.
Olmstead Scientific Company, were recov-
cred from the ruins of the burned Emer-
son building to-day. The body was terribly
burned and crushed. The body of c. H:
Arms, a partner in the w. A. Olmstead
Scientific Company, was recovered later.
The remains were tightly wedged in be-
tween piano and safe and were horribly
charred and mangled. This makes ten
bodies recovered
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cuban Army in GOOD Condition.

KEY WEST, Fla, March 21.-Colonel
Saicedo, of the Cuban insurgent army, who
arrived here yesterday after a severe expe-
rience in an open boat, said to-day: THE
Cuban army is in excellent health and con-
dtion. Gen. Calixto Garcia has 1850 men
in the eastern department, between Santa
go de Cuba and Camaguay. These forces
have twelve field pieces, two dynamite guns
and 1000. coo rounds of rifle ammunition"
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BERLIN March 21.-The Duke of Talley-
rand and Sagan is dead. He was born in
Paris in 1871. His second wife was daugh-
ter of the late Marshal Boniface, Count De
Castellane
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LONDON, March q. - Colonel Dyer. a
member of the Armstrong-W Whitaker firm,
is dead. Colonel Dyer managed the affairs
of the employers in the recent lockout of
the engineers trades.
STOCKHOLM. March 21.-General Born
stierna the former minister of war. is dead.
Karl Tavastierna, the poet, is dead
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AUGUSTA, Me-, March 21-General L. S.
Bangs. of Watervile, has recruited a regi-
ment of heavy artillery for an emergency
should war ensue with Spain from mem
hers of the Maine G. A. r.. who saw service
in that arm of the service during the war
of the rebellion A tender of the regiment
will be made to President Mckinley through
Governor Powers.
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DETROIT, Mich, March q. Robert
Reitzel, noted German anarchistic writer
and editor of the Arme Teufel, is dying at
his home. in this city. He is a well-known
character in German circles and his writ
ings have been widely read. both in this
country and in the fatherland. He will be
remembered as having made the leading
speech at the funeral of the Chicago Anar-
chiStS.
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Massacred BIZ Wahehes.

BERLIN, March 21.-A dispatch to the
Vossische Zeitung, from Dares Salaam
twenty-five miles south of Zanzibar, East
Africa, says that last month, during a re-
volt of the WaheheS, an expedition or Ger
man toresters was attacked and three Ger
mans and many o. the native carriers were
maSSacred
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early forties t0sChna. where for nine years
he was connected with leading tea firm.
For the last eighteen years he had been
secretary and treasurer of the Lowmor Iron
Company of Virginia. He was a brother of
the late A. O. Low, and an uncle of Seth
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Edward alien low

NEW YORK. March 2l.-Edward Allen
Low died yesterday at his home In Brooklyn
aged eighty-one years At the age OF
eighteen he went to Mississippi and In the