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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26
PORTFOLIO CLUB PLAYERS.
Mr.. Hector Fnller's Comedy, "Count
TOmpIxins," Presented.

Mr.. Hector Fullers one-act comedy,
Count Tompkins," was presented before
the Portfolio Club last night. The play it.
self is well written and full of humor Of a
droll kind. Mugford Hyde is a rich old re-
tired tanner, ambitious to make name for
himself and daughter Ethel beyond that
which money without high social standing
can make. DR.. John Blake aspires to the
hand of Ethel, and is encouraged by the
young lady, but when Count Tompkins
comes along and proposes to wed Miss
Ethel the proposition meets the ready APP
prevail of Mr.. Hyde. He sets his best wine
before Count Tompkins and orders dinner
for him. While they are drinking Miss
Ethel comes into the room. The count is
very much intoxicated by this time and
bluntly makes a proposal of marriage to the
shocked young lady. He becomes disgust
ing In his conduct, and concludes by hurt
ing Mr. Hyde'S equity foot and breaking
several choice pieces of bric-a-brac.
Finally the servants were called to eject the
man and Dr.. Blake arrives in time to as
lief lief them ana 70 give Mr. Hyde's foot re-
After order In the Hyde household is re-
stored, Count ,rompkins returns and asks
Is shown into the room. He has undergone
a change of countenance. A false beard
has has been removed and he explains his posi-
ton, and all are made happy He says he
IS not a count but his Christian name is
Count His fathers will stipulated that
he should ask for Miss EtheTs hand or lose
an income of $780, 600 a year He is already
married and is simply carrying out
the provisions of his fathers viii. He
hopes he will be forgiven He has pretend
ed that he was drunk TO disgust Miss Ethel.
so that she would Indignantly reject his
proposal and not involve matters. Eyery-
thing is settled, and Mr.. Hyde gives his
daughter to DR.. Blake, the dinner is or
dered and the health of Count Tompkins
is drunk
The cast of characters was as follows:
Count Tompxins. ........... Mr. w Forsythe
9TluSLuru 1yde..... Hector Fuller
III; Blake. Oliver Willard Pierce
Etnel Hyde. ..............M Miss Letta Holman
sam, the servant. -..... Howard Mccormack
There was just enough attempt at stage
Settang to give the play tone. The audi
ence occupied the front parlor of the club
rooms and the performance was given un-
der the bright electric lights in the rear
parlor. the curtains in the folding doors
serving TO shut off the scene al appropriate
occasions. The characters in the comedy
We're dressed appropriately Mr. Forsythe
mad the leading role, and was ably sup
ported by the author of the play and by the
others in the cast. Miss Holman recited
and sang THE Kentucky Babe" a negro
ballad and recitation, which brought out
her musical ability. After the presentation
OF the comedy Mr.. Fuller was the recipient
Of many deserved congratula tons, as were
the members of the cast, who so well as
sisted him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26
WILL NOT TAKE HAI-NAN.
France Decides Not to Occupy an In
dependent Point in China.

LONDON, Feb. 25.--In the House of Com
mons to-day the parliamentary secretary for
the Foreign Office, George NJ. Curzon. re-
plying to q question by Admiral Lord Chas.
Beresford, member of Parliament for York,
as to whether France intended to occupy
Hai-Nan as a naval base in the far East
similar 10 steps taken by Germany anu
Russia, said that the French government
had animated to the British ambassador at
Paris Sir Edmund Monsoon, that 1t had not
the least intention of initiating any such
policy in China,
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Singa-
pore says: 1T is reported from Chinese
sources at Hong-I<ong that a French force
has landed at Kwan- Chuen- Wan 240 miles
southwest Of Hong-Kong. and informed the
Chinese that IL intends 10 erect buildings.
The Picking correspondent of the Times
says: China. having issued an imperial
decree authorizing Chinese syndicate 10
construct. with foreign assistance presum-
ably American trunk line from Tien-Tsin
to Chn-Kiang, through Shan-Tung prov
ince. Baron Won Meiking, the German min
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List of saloon Passengers.

HAVRE, Feb 25.-Following is a list Of
saloon passengers on board the French line
steamer La Champagne, which was due
to arrive at New York on Sunday last from
this port Miss Audran Mr. and Mrs.
Berchem, Mr.. f. b. Resard, Mr.. Giuseppe
Bonino, Miss Brinkmann. Mr.. Fritz Butter.
Miss Brayner, Mr.. George Bezancon, Mrs.
Becmann, Mr. and Mrs. Boullau, Mr.. c..
A. Birlxer, Miss G.. Bonetti, Mr.. Convert,
Mr. 0. V. Christensen, Mr.. Chenard, Mr..
Cugnet, Miss Emma Christen, Mr. E.
Charzby, Mr.. Drosso Mr.. Wurtz-Dundas,
Mr., Mrs. and Miss Duval, Mrs. p. 1. Brum,
Mrs. c. A. Erund, Mr.. Engert, Mrs. p.
Euvent, Miss Francois Mr.. Charles l.. Fox,
Mr. H. Galland, Mr.. Eduardo Gala, Mr..
Paul Gabriel, Mr.. Fl. j. Goemans, Mr..
Huntn, director Of the Society of the PAN
anna canal Mrs. Van Holy, Miss suzanne
Hache, Miss Grace Lee Hess, Mr.. Harland,
Mr. Herman Mr.. Neither, Mr.. III. p.
MRS s Kautzer and child, Mr.. and Mrs. Kop-
pens and child, Mrs. Maurice KettOng, Mr..
Dillean Kavanaugh Miss Nina Kellogg,
Mrs. Kornfeld, with a baby, Mr.. Nicholas
Karis. Miss Philomene Louernst; Mr.. Lu-
renberger, Mr.. La Balme Mr.. I>ohrer. Miss
J; W; Miller. Mr. z. D Neillotzox. Miss
Miss Moser Baron Liebert de Nitray, Miss
Marie Neuschwand, Mr. j. I. Ohmsteade.
Mr.. II. .OstrX, Mr.. Pasquir,, Mr.. Charles
Painter, Mr.. Thomas Prenvelle, Mr.. Porvi,
Rev. Father Joseph Herbert, Rev. Father
Paul Jacquot, Rev. Father Vignon, Miss
Riera, Mr. Samuel Rathkopf, sr., Mr.. H.
Senalle, Mr.. Emile Sello. Mrs. b. Frank
Smith. Mr.. A. H. Smith. Mr.. Jacob Schwei-
ser, Mr.. G. Schillinger, Mr., A. 9. Schiling-
Varonne, Mrs JOS l. Wilson, Mr.. Emile
We'll, Mrs. We'll and her child, Mrs. Bah
tt-Wildhaber. Miss Ida Wildhaber, Miss
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ADJUSTMENTS

Edward Harrigan in 'Old Lavender will
give matinee and night performance at
English's to-day 1.-THE Sunshine of Para
disc Alley" comes to Englshs Monday
night for the first half of next week.
Dan Daily is back in his old place at the
head of THE Belle of New York. Conn
pany." which comes to English's the last
half of next week. DAILY is said to have
entirely recovered from mis- recently neariy
ing his songs and doing his dance at each
performance
Recently the New York Journal wrote to
Dickson & Talbot asking if they would be
willing to give the use of the Grand Opera
House for a benefit performances to raise
funds for bHilding a monument to those
who persisted in the sinking Of the Maine.
Dickson & Talbot promptly replied tender
ing the Grand for such a purpose. Yester-
day they received another letter conveying
w. r. Hearsts thanks and saying that the
offer of the theater would be reported to the
meeting OF New York managers at the
Broadway Theater yesterday afternoon
Two more performances of ''Tennessee's
Pardner'' this afternoon and tonight at the
Park will conclude the stay of that ex-
cellent attraction. A Southern melodrama
new TO indianapolis, ''On the Suwanee
River" will follow Monday and remain
three days at the Park
Twenty-four people figure in the cast of
when London Sleeps" James II. Wallick's
big scenic production. which will begin a
weeks engagement at the Grand Monday
night.
Semon's Extravaganza did not appear
yesterday for its engagement at the En-
pire. The report that the show missed
train the first day sounds decidedly "fishy."
There is another report that the show has
met with hard luck in Kentucky on some
where. Bryan & Watson's Burlesquers will
be at the Empire Monday.
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The widely-heralded Welsh prize singers
furnished the entertainment at English's
last night in the regular Y NJ. c. A. lecture
course The company is made up of a
double quartet Of male and female singers
with voices as sweet operate stars and
with costumes about as picturesque as
those worn by factory girls. While the
singers were understood TO give their enter
tainment In native costumes X was not ex-
pected that the dresses would be so glar-
ingly unpoetic in appearance. The men
wore a sort of knlckerbocker, reaching be-
low the knees. with gray wool stockings
The women had dresses in unattractive
gave them the appearance OF women just
come on the stage from scrubbing the
kitchen floor. None of the women could
be called good looking. but their voices
were able to make the sweetest music. Ev-
cry one of the sixteen numbers given dur
ing the evening was loudly appauded;
many Of them enccred. With American
managers securing the country for capable
singers one would think several OF these
Welsh song birds would be picked up. The
opening number was a Welsh glee that was
particularly attractive, and al once pre-
pared the audience that packed the theater
FOR musical treat during the evening. Fol-
lowing the first number there were solos,
duets and quartets, some of them OF rus
tic. humorous nature and some almost re-
Asiously serious, but all excellently sung
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26
SCHEDULE COMPLETED.
Western Ball League Magnates, How
ever, Withheld Its Publication.

KANSAS CITY, No, Feb. 25.-The West
ern League baseball magnates are still in
session, and it seems probable that they
will not be able TO agree on the schedule
for 1898 before tomorrow. The report Of
the schedule committee presented to the
regular meeting yesterday was the sole
topic OF discussion to-day. There appears
to be no objection to the schedule for the
earlier part of the season, the dates up to
the 4th of July being satisfactory to all.
AT midnight the meeting was still in ses-
sion. and II was announced that the sched-
ule was still under discussion, though a
practical agreement had been veached. 1t
was stated. however, that the schedule
would not be given out until tomorrow.
The only matter disposed Of to-day was the
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ST LOUIS, Feb. 25.-Chris Won der Abe
arrived here at o'clock this afternoon in
exhuberant spirits over being liberated
from the Pittsburg Jail. Speaking of his
experience there he said: For a while I
thought l was going to be a sick man. but
the jail physician managed to pull me
through all right L really thought for a
Whlle that / would go mad. but after the
Hrst rev days / grew accustomed TO the
confinement. The Pittsburg people sympa-
thlzed with me from the start and every
attorney there of any prominence agrees
with Mr.. Ferguson that we will be able to
beat the case in the United States Supreme
Court. MIR. Nimick's bill of expense will
never be paid If l can avoid doing so It's
exorbitant and will never be allowed by
the court"
The latest story about Won der Abe is
to the effect that the National League will
pension him off and place Muckenfuss in
charge OF the st. Louis Baseball Club
Chris is expected to sail for Germany this
spring to settle up his mothers estate
Muckenfuss is president of the club now
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LONDON, Feb 25.-What is known as
Queens weather prevailed to-day and
the first drawing room of the season at
buckingham Palace was a most brilliant
affair. Immense crowds of people lined
the approaches to the palace. Mrs.
Henry White. wife of the United States
charge d'affaires, presented Mrs. ]. Pierr
pont Morgan, jr., and Miss Muriel WhiteS
Mrs. White wore ii crimson Genoese velvet
trimmed with Venetian lace, with Grim
son velvet train trimmed with chinchilla.
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, jr., wore a beauti-
fui gown with a train of white satin lined
with pale blue velvet and outlined with
trails of pink roses. Her corsage and petit
coat We're of white satin. Miss White
dressed in white satin covered with white
chiffon with train of satin trimmed with
chiffon and lilies of the valley. Messrs,
White and Carter attended in the dipIo-
matte circle
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SAVED BY JUST ONE PIN
THE !. b. CTS ALMOST LOST THEIR
CHANCE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Close Run Given Them by the Social
Turner's Bowling Team-The
Lyras Won.

The Indianapolis Bowling Club and the Lyra
Casinos both won their games last night and the
relative standing Of the teams is the same as last
week. They are tied for first place The game
between the indianapolis club and the Social
Turner's at the German House was the closest
contested game of the tournament. The 1. b. C.'s
won by only one pin. When the second half
commenced they were hfty-seven pins ahead and
wher the fast frame began they were thirty Eight
ahead, but this was cut down until it looked as
If the champions to suffer defeat. Four of
the I. B. c. players had splits and were able
to make but seven points, while four of the
Social Turner players found kings and strikes
falling their way as natural as rolling The
score was as follows:
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the next paragraph is a dispatch from Cap
tain Sigsbee stating that no examination of
1.-The zone Of the explosion has vet been
made and that none will be made until the
court of inquiry. makes or causes it to be
made. Here We have the bane and the anti
dote in juxtaposltion, and perhaps no great
harm is done. But Captain Sigsbees bust
nesslike dispatch happens to be followed
by most circumstantial relations of the re-
suit of the operations of divers which offer
a solution of the mystery before 1t has been
sought for at all. There are numerous dis
patches claimed to be ''semi-officiaI' con-
tradicting Captain Sigsbees official dis
patch. There are no semi-official dis
patches and nothing semi-official is ever
sent out from an official source. The pub
lie will do well TO bear in mind that there
can be no news given out by Captain Sigs-
bee that is not official, and that the public
cannot get any actual knowledge of the
Maine except through official sources. The
mountains of conjecture are of no value,
not even as padding. to the ignorance of
not know and cannot intelligently guess at.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26

PatrolmNn Stoddard and SilVey had their
attention called last night to a man who
had drawn revolver on three or four small
boys at the corner of East and Washington
streets. The man was drunk and had be-
come annoyed by the boys shouts and jeers
and to brighten them away had pulled his
pistol The man was arrested and charged
with drunkenness and drawing deadly
weapon. At the police station il was found
that he had $924.50 in cash in his pocket and
two checks, both payable TO bearer, one for
81, $50 and the other for $780, The man gave
his name as Charles Tyreel and San Fran
cisco as his address. He was too drunk to
talk further of himself
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The meeting of the Republican state COM
mittee called for March s has been post
poned till the day following, March 3.
The annual reception to the members and
friends of the Fourth Presbyterian Church
by the board of deacons will be given this
evening, from to 10 o'clock, at the church
parlors.
Rev. w. w. Criley, d. d. of Wooster, O.,
will conduct the services in the First Eng
lish Lutheran Church tomorrow at the
usual hours Rev Mr.. Criey will be re-
mempered as former pastor of this church
many years ago.
Pupils of Edward Nell. assisted by George
Eckert and Hazel NJ. Vliet. pupils of w. S.
Sprankle will give recital at the Fourth
Presbyterian Church March 4. The Phil
harmonic Club will take part The accom-
panists will be Misses Lulu Brown and
Minnie Diener.
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oakes VS.. walIace.
.chlcago DO.

1t is the duty of the Governor Of Indiana
to repress the threatened duel between Lew
Wallace and George Cakes, of indianapolis.
even II II Is necessary TO call out the mill
tia to makes Cakes sit down. We do not
know Cakes, but he seems to be q man OF
ardent temperament. with a disposition to
throttle literature In his beloved State Gem
eral Wallace has reached an age when his
appearance on the fled of honor would be
wholly useless as finale TO his career as 4
soldier and litterateur. and Ii seems To il
that the controversy between him and Mr.
Cakes should be adjourned TO Eagle Lake
for argument before the Society for fkm
Propagation of Hoosier Poetry. Let us have
no hloodshed, bur let the ink flow in gohs
the rSader the merrier.
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"Kidv RYAN defeats Pratt.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Feb. 25.-The
much-advertised fight before the athletic
club tonight was a disappointment to the
audience. Instead of lasting twenty rounds
it was ended in three very short ones and
was devoid of any scientific points. Kid
Ryan, of Chicago, knocked out Pratt, of
Grand Rapids, in the third round. Ryan
fought foul in each rounu, at one time
gouging Pratt's eyes. The crowd left in
the middle of the third round and the ref
cree gave the fight TO Ryan. In the pre-
liminary bouts Fred Lang. champion mid
die weight of Indiana, defeated KID
Crammer, Of Cincinnati, in one round.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Another vaude-
vile star is to attempt the legitimate.
Charles J. Ross, who for the past two years
has been member of the Weber & Fields
company, will after next season star in
legitimate comedy. Mr.. Ross, whose name,
by the way, is Kelly, made his first success
years ago in giving limitations of famous
actors. After his marriage with Mabel
Fenton, who at that time was playing in
meodrama, he wrote number of bur-
lesques, in which he and Miss Fenton made
a decided success. The play has not as yet
been selected in which Mr.. Ross will make
his debut, but ii is understood that it will
be light legitimate comedy The enter
prise will be backed by Weber & Fields.
Ross Is only following the example of Sam
Bernard, another of Weber & Fields's
company, who Will star next season.
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Charged with Forging Money Orders.

WASHINGTON Feb. 25-James w
Jones, clerk in the office of the auditor
for the Postoffice Department, was arrested
to-day by officers of the secret service on
the charge of forging United States money
orders. Gen. VIM. B. Shattuc, the Ohio con-
gresham, agreed to furnish Jones bond
and he was admitted 10 bail in the sum OF
81 coo. Ii Is charged that Mr.. Jones took
money order blanks returned unused from
a Michigan office and filled them out maxi
ing them payable at the Office in Whining
ton, Del Whoever filled out these fraudu-
lent blanks must, in order to secure the
money. have advised the Wilmington office
and collected 1t there. This 1t Is charged
Mx Jones did.
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NAPLES Feb. 25.-Sailed: Kaiser Will
helm II, for New York
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Arrived: Bremen
haven from Antwerp.
ROTTERDAM, Feb 25.-Arrived: Spaarn-
dam, from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 25.-Arrived: Britain
mic from New York.
LONDON, Feb. 25.-Arrived: Mississippi,
from New York.
HAMBURG. Feb. 25-Arrived: Palatia,
from New York.
MovILLE, Feb. 25-sailed Ethiopia for
New York.
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Ada Rehan Is III.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-There are rumors
of changes at Days Theater without any
definite knowledge Of what is to come. 1t
is on account of Miss Rehan's i'll health.
She was unable to appear at the matinee
of the Country Girl Thursday In the
fifteen years that she has been with Mr..
half dozen performances. Her chief
trouble now is vertigo, and while an at
tack lasts she suffers intensely. Her doc
tors have advised her. however that it is
far wiser for her to continue to play than
to retire temporarily.
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PARIS, Feb. 25.-It IL semi-oficially an
nounced that Colonel Picquart, the CHIEF
military witness for lola during the latter's
trial. will be placed on the haIf-pay OF a
lieutenant. A chaplain who wrote letter
congratulating lola has been placed on the
unattached list, and Professor Grimaux OF
the Polytechnic School, who signed the In
dorsement OF Zola's action, has been re-
tired. Colonel Picquart was also placed en-
reforme, which is equivalent to cashiering
him, and he does not receive pension.
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Indianapolis Man Fights to a Draw.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 25.-James Seaman, of
Pittsburg, and l.. B. Luster, of Indianapo-
lis, fought ten-round draw tonight at the
Millvale Opera House before large crowd.
The agreement between the men upon en-
tering the ring was that should both be on
their feet at the finish the fight was to be
called draw. The evidence given by the
audience was that Scanlon had much the
better of the contest.
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FREE CHAIR

No equipment ever
built offers the passen-
ger more for his money
than the Burlington's
observation vestibuled
Pintsch-li stand
ard Chair Cars, with
5 m Q k n g compart-
nent, lavatories, free
chairs and porters'
service on all through
trains from St. Louis
and Chicago.
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and well received Miss Rose Tilney acted
accompanist throughout the evening, the
piano being on the stage. The members of
the company are: Sopfanos-M Miles,
BeynOn and Miss Beatrice Evans; tenols,
Miss Blodwen Jones and Madam Annie
Lewis; bass, Isaac Doughton and John
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sunk on the Lizard.

FALMOUTH, England, Feb. 25.-The
British steamer Strathlyon, Captain Bailey,
from Philadelphia for Hamburg, while pro-
ceeding up the channel collided with and
sank the schooner Percy from London, off
the Lizard this morning. The crew of the
schooner were rescued by "a boat, which has
landed them here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26

NEWCASTLE, Eng. Feb. BIN
twenty-round contest between Will Curley,
of Birmingham, and Billy Murphy, the Aus
tralian, for a purse Of $s75 and IL side bet
of $500, at Gwinnettes circus, tonight Cur
ley Knocked the Australian out in twelve
rounds
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Ma .semi-omciai, pi.patche..
Philadelphia North American.

Philadephia North American.
A single page of a sensational daily news
paper filled in with quarter column Of
news to six or seven columns of the veriest
of drool and endless contradictions is about
the measure Of the invention that has the
Maine catastrophe for its basis The public
IS informed in one paragraph that the div
ers have found that there was no explosion
of the forward magazine of the Maine, and
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old Guards.


This afternoon and evening the new bowl
ing alleys at College avenue and Nineteenth
street will be open. It is claimed they are
among the best in the city Several OF the
crack bowlers of the city are expected 10
try the alleys tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26

LONDON. Feb. 25.-The Paris corresponds
ent of the Times says: Certain corresponds
ents of foreign newspapers have been
warned that It is advisable for them to
leave France"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-26

RACINE, Wis, Feb. 25.--Evan Lewis,
1.-The Stranger" and Jack King. the Cor
nish champion, met in a hve-style wrest-
ling match here tonight for purse. Lewis
won. gaining three falls in four.