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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

to haul the wounded out of the pit. From
under the massed weight of the broken
be4ms came many cries for help. The
windows of the ground floor were broken
in. and the living and dead were tenderly
passed to the waiting ambplances.
Many of those carried down b. the fall
ing floor were boys fourteen to sixteen
years old. Some of them managed to
squirm from under heavy beams where
men could not move. Despite these, how
ever. a number of them were killed, their
lives being crushed out by the beams which
gradually settled upon them, borne down by
the heavy iron ssse and steam coll which
had fallen on top of the wreckage. Alder
men Carrothers and Taylor, although in
jured and covered with blood tried to Sc
cite some sort of order and system in the
rescue work, but the excitement was so
great that they could make but little i'm
preston on the crowd. Although the plat
form on which the speakers OF the even
ing were standing was apparently the first
thing to give way, the mayor-elect and
many aldermen escaped the death that
overlook so many others who followed
them into the lower portion of the building.
An inquest has been ordered for to-mor-
row morning, and the authorities say that
the investigation into the cause of the dis
aster will be a thorough one.
An investigation of the wreck after the
catastrophe disclosed the fact that whole
section of the floor had dropped, the joists
having been as neatly cut off as though
the work had been done with a saw. The
building was an Did one having been erected
in the early fifties, and of late years addi-
tional stories had been placed the old
walls
In the Grand Opera House. which adjoins
the wrecked building, the first act of THE
Girl from Paris had just been conclude
when word was whispered through the the
alter OF the calamity. A panic was immi-
nent, but was averted by the actors and
ushers. and the people quietly left the build
ing
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MARK HANNA BESTED.



county that Mark Hanna IS entitled to re-
ceive the vote OF every member of the Iegis-
lature elected upon the Republican ticket.
I 1ners VIII be bitter disappointment among
Republicans here should any one OF sucn
members or any candidate upon the state
ticket nominated at Toledo fail to give him
by David ]. Mic, Judge Common Pleas
Court; E. G.. johnson. editor of Reporter;
". b: Bedortha, Charles A. Metcaf. Quincy
A. R. Weber (ex-prosecutor1. H. W. In
geTsoll. G. 9. Washburn county clerk, r.
r. Eoyneon lex-mayorl, George l.. Glltscnee'
chamberlain, William am B s editor the
Repnbucan), A. II. Smith, J. G.. CoieWay +.
l.. Fuller, w. E. Williams. John Lersch,
j. G. Hill, w Heldmeyer.
The president and secretary of the Tippe-
canoe Club, the big central Republican or
ganization Of Cleveland, sent the following
Telegram to Senator Burke and representa-
tlVes Mason and Bramley, the three boiling
republicans from Cleveland THE officers
OF the Ilppecanoe Club express for them ZEN,
throughout the city disapproval at your ac-
ton in not standing by the instructions OF
the county and state conventions. The mem
Ders of the club are very indignant. The
Cieveianders also sent telegram TO Gov
ernor BUSHNELL expressing disappointment
meeting OF the club has been called to pro-
test against the action of Burke, Bramley
ana Mason, and demand that they snail
vote for the Republican caucus nominee for
United states senator, they pledged
themselves to do. both publicly and pri-
vately." Two members of the committee
of the club to arrange for special train to
Governor Bushnells inauguration resigned
and the trip viii be abandoned, it is said.
Some of Dayton's delegation to the Bush
nell inauguration have refused to come to
the ceremonies on account of the Governor s
attitude. The Garfield Republican Club,
however, unanimously passed resolution
to attend the Inauguration in a body.
The Republican Glee Club OF Columbus
which gained a reputation in the last pres
idential campaign, and sang for Bushnell
and Jones in the last state campaign, to-
night adopted unanimously a resolution not
to participate in the inaugural exercises
next Monday, and after adjournment
marched to the Neil House and serenaded
Senator Hanna. The senator responded in
short speech, and then retired to the con-
ferenceS with his workers.
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opposed to Hanna. This made the vote
stand is to II in favor of the Democrats
who elected all of the officers o. s. Cassell,
Dem, was elected chief clerk over A. c.
Game, Rep. the latter having expected re-
election by Burke's presence. although
Burke would not support Hanna. AS Sena-
sworn in Thaddeus +. Cromiey, Dem, was
elected president pro tenn. of the Senate, but
1t is thought he will give way TO Senator
Burke as soon as the latter arrives TO taxe
his seat. The Democratic organization OF
the Senate was made complete in very
quiet way, while detachment OF policemen
were needed to hold back the crowd that
hlled the hall of the House and pressed
about its entrances.
One of the first things considered on the
assembling of the General Assembly was
the appointment of a joint committee
on arrangements for the Inauguration OF
the Governor. When this joint resolution
came up to-day in the Senate the Repub-
hcan senators as rule declined to vote on
account of their opposition to Governor
the. Democratic side of the Senate Chamber,
assisted by Senators Shepard and Weight
man, Republicans, and Senator Voight, fu-
sionist. This action of the Senate caused
quite a stir about the Statehouse. Senator
Shepard has been considered as friendly to
those connected with the opposition to SEN
ator Hanna. although he stood by the eau
Gus nominations of his party in the organ
1zatfon and will vote for Hanna for Sena tor.
AT noon the Senate took recess till 2;3O
p. m. without announcing to the Governor
that they were ready for his message, but
this was owing to the House being engaged
in completing its organization, which pro-
ceeded with long tedious roll calls.
After being in session half an hour in the
afternoon the Senate took a recess until
p. m.
When the Senate reassembled Mr.. Gar
field was the only Republican in his seat
and he was there to report that his col
leagues were in conference. The joint reso-
luton for a committee to wait on Governor
Bushnell and inform him that the General
Assembly was organized for business came
over from the House and was adopted by
Senator Garfield and the eighteen Demo-
Gratis all voting for it, After the return of
the committee from the Governors office
the message was read and referred to the
appropriate committees. The same action
was taken in the House.
In the Senate the combine controlled
everything on all votes, but no test votes
were taken in the House after the organiza-
ton was completed The feeling that had
been engendered during the preliminary con-
ferences was shown in all roll calls. And
it is evident that Senator Burke will not be
received with much cordiality on his side
of the House if he appears in his seat to-
morrow. The Senate adjourned at $40
O'Clock till tomorrow.
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pecIa1 to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE. Ind, Jan. 3.-The strike Of boys
at Ball Brothers glass factories was set
tied this evening. and tonight the first shift
Of the little strikers returned to work. The
remainder will report tomorrow. They de-
manded 81 a week, which is allowed TO take
effect March /, and the whole amount of the
increase to be held by the company until the
fire ends July ]. If they boys cause further
trouble they will forfeit the advance. AT
noon to-day a hundred boys in factory No
struck, and this forced the firm TO make
concessions. 1t is believed the boys would
have got the full demand had they heid out.
The firm operated the factory to-day with
men at a rate of S. week, and they could
not do the work satisfactorily. AS a result,
the blowers could not make one-half the
regular amount of ware, many making less
than hundred dozen, while 24O dozen is a
days work. The Lehr boys received no adj
vance in wages in the settlement, but were
given a helper to wheel cullett. The state
labor commissioners sent here had much
to 90 with the speedy settlement, and Will
return to indianapolis tomorrow.
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NEW WAGE SCHEDULE.
Wages of Cotton Operatives Cut Over
IL Per Cent. Yesterday.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. 3.--The new
wage schedule. IL 10 per cent below that
of the past three years went into effect
to-day in the mills of this city. Matthew
Hart and others, representing the New
Bedford weavers, visited this city to-day
and had an interview with Secretary
Whitehead, of the local weavers' union.
Mr.. Whitehead decided to call meeting of
the weavers for tomorrow night. The
weavers of New Bedford mean to make
stand no less decided than the spinners,
and the operatives are almost unanimous
in favor of a firm resistance to the pro-
posed reduction of wages and at the same
time a strike against the filming system,
which it was proposed to fight in March.
The deputation which came here to-day is
endeavoring to secure the pledge OF the
Fall River unions to strike as soon as the
New Bedford strike begins. Communica-
tions will be sent to all centers of the tex
tile trade in the North, soliciting financial
support and proposing the same action as
the committee suggested to the Fall River
help.
WORCESTER, Mass, JAN 3.-Reduction
IN wages took place in several Worcester
county factories to-day, cotton mills pre-
dominating. The cut in wages at the Mill
bury cotton mills was not to be as great
as first expected, the average being be-
tween and per cent. AT the Fiskdale
mills. Sturnridge, reduction in wages took
effect to-day about the same in range as
the wage reductions made by the cotton
mills INITIAL River. About seventy-five men
employed in the bottoming department of
the T.. ard A II. Batcheller shoe factory
at North Brookfield had their wages cut
to-day. The cut ranges from 1 to 2 cents
q case.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. 3.-Notices of
q reduction of wages were sent to-day to
the cotton mills TO the Gaddard, Knights
LippitS and those operated by the smaller
corporations in this State and have been
posted or will be tomorrow. The opera
tives will offer no resistance to the reduc-
ton in this State.
LEWISTON, Me-, Jan. 3-The agents of
all the cotton mills in Lewiston and Aubur
to-day received directions to make a gen
eral reduction in wages on and after Jan
II. Notices in accordance with these in
structions have been posted. The reduction
of wages included the Lewiston bleachery
and dye works
MANCHESTER. N. H. Jan. 2-Opera-
lives IN the Amoskeag corporation began
work to-day on a 10 per cent. reduction i'm
wages. AT the Stark and Armory mills the
reduction Will not go into effect until next
Monday.
BIDDEFORD. Me-. Jan. 3.-The Pepperell
and Laconia cotton mills to-day announced
a reduction in wages of about 10 per cent
to take effect Jan. II. The two mills employ
$500 hands.
SALEM, Mass. Jan. 3--In the plant of
the Naumkeag steam cotton mills the re-
duction of 10 per cent. in wages went into
erect to-day. About 1,500 employees are az
fected. -
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experiments and needless changes that
most new propositions unless they are or
a really dangerous nature, are received IN
silence. Adjutant General BreckS newly
proposed apprentice battaliOnS, formed
along lines similar to those of the navy
apprentice system, Will not be received WIN
any great enthusiasm by the majority OF
the officers. 1t is generally held IN Europe
that TO make a man soldier two years or
the hardest kind of work Is necessary, put 'lt
picked soldiers out of these apprentices, put
also expects to have them taught trade
as we'll Another of his ideas to local1ze
these battalions so that certain States or
communities will supply the material Tor
them and take a great pride in them Will
bring up an old problem. Some years ago
Capt Jacob G. Galbraith established re-
cruiting stations in Iowa with the obJect 10
filing up his regiment, the First CaValfy,
with natives of that State, with view TO
making it in way an Iowa regiment. For
one reason or another the scheme tell
through; although Captain Galbraith per
sona efforts brought in goood many
Iowan recruits.
The new battery of heavy artillery which
guards the Delaware at Firms Point New
honor of Gen. Gershom Mott, of New Jer--
sey, who at one time commanded the Third
Division of the Second Army Corps. AL
though as was shown in this column last
week, more than one-half of the regular
artillery is stationed at forts where there
are no modern guns, the War Department
this week gave out list Of twenty-five
posts at which garrisons would " soon be
imperatively required" With deft use of
words, the report adds that there are no
troops which can be assigned to these with
out taking them from other stations" and.
of course fails to add that nearly half OF
these "other stations" are wholly without
modern guns, and therefore do not need
their present garrisons of one-half our ar
tillery at all.
The past week has seen the granting OF
the usual number of Christmas leaves-o
absences and the adoption of a new gray
color for all army tentage. leggins and can
vas clothing generally. The drab material
will it is expected, attract the rays of the
sun and hostile bullets less and also be
more nearly waterproof than that used
hitherto
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WASHINGTON, Jan. S-Assistant Secre-
tary Day returned to Washington this morn
ing from Canton and was early at his post
at the Department of State. His attention
was called to the published story that a
movement is on foot to substitute his name
for that of Senator Hanna candidate
for the Senate. Judge Day very promptly
disposed CT the story and in a manner that
showed he meant every word that he said,
he declared: There is nothing, absolutely
nothing in the, statement believe that
Mr.. Hanna will be elected, as he should be. "
This last statement was made after Judge
Day had been informed of the election OF
Mason as speaker of the Ohio House of
Representatives. The news of the event of
the morning at Columbus was taken to the
White House, and was regarded by Secre-
tary Porter as of such interest that he car
ried the bulletin Immediately to the Presi-
dent The latter had been very busy receiv-
ing a number of senators and representa-
tives, but expressed the greatest interest in
the news and discussed the probable effect OF
the mornings action on Mr.. Hannas can
didacy with some of his visitors.
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ENGLrsHMEN AND WEST POINT.
British Visitors Always Impressed by
Our Military school.
Army and Navy Journal

army ana navy JOurHdl.
Whenever 1 talk with an average Eng
lishman who has Travelled in America,
sooner or later it leaks out that he has
been impressed mainly by two sights-one
Niagara Falls, the other our Military Acad-
envy at West Point.
We are so accustomed to West Point as
a national institution that we are apt to
regard it as quite natural to u.s. But this
is by no means the case. 1t was the re-
markable foresight of George Washington
that gave us this institution and it is due
to q most fortunate combination of cir
cumstances following upon it's foundation
that we have to-day a training school for
officers free from political influence, and
producing better results over a given period
of time than any military school in the
world, not even excepting the schools of
Germany.
to me while conversing with an eminent
official of the English government
interested in military education From him
l learned that special commission had
been sent over to us for the purpose of
making a study of West Point, with a
view to the reorganization of the English
military college at Sandhurst. This college
YVES founded in 1799 and must not be con-
founded with the So-called staff college,
where post graduate instruction is given.
England proposes to improve Sandhurst
and pays US the delicate compliment of
modelling upon our designs. 1t is not likely
that she will wholly succeed because young
EngliShmen of to-day are too accustomed
to luxury and would as soon go into a
confinement of the United States Military
Academy.
The only practical means I can see for
England in this matter is that she should
send annually, by special arrangement with
our secretary of war, half a dozen young
men to West Point, who for four years
thereafter should go to Sandhurst as mill
tary instructors They would then have
learned to appreciate all that is good in
the West Point system. and their knowl-
edge of England would enable them to
modify it in a manenr suitable to the needs
of their countrymen.
In return for this international courtesy
the United States might request that six
graduates of West Point annually be al
lowed to attend the so-called staff college"
corresponding to the German War College
(kriegsakademie) where officers of special
merit are sent to perfect themselves in the
higher branches of their calling particular
ly in military history and staff duties. This
would be particularly valuable training for
such of our officers as contemplate becom-
ing attached to embassies in a military
capacity. They would here see great armies
handled as though in actual warfare, and
in case of necessity would be fitted to COM
mand large bodies of troops A young
American officer at the English staff college
for instance, would be taken each year
round of battlefelds. such as Waterloo or
Metz. and would have the situation ex-
planned to him on the spot in a manner to
a lasting iTnDrPSSi00
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FOWLER, Ind, Jan. 3-The County Com
missioners are in session to-day and the
books of ex-Treasurer Kirtley are under in
vestigation. Ex-Audtor ]. s. Bradley, of
Boswell. and Charles Snyder, a prominent
attorney of this city, have been appointed
an auditing committee by the commission
ers and bondsmen, and the work will be
pushed. Thus far his books seem to be
correct. There is on deposit in the oxford
Bank and in the two banks of this city the
usual sum Kirtley kept there. Many or
Mr.. Kirtley's friends refuse to accept the
suicide theory and yet contend that it will
develop that he was murdered. There is
absolutely no evidence of murder James
Darby, of Bolivar township, who has been
made treasurer, is one of the county's old
est and best citizens and a strong lifelong
Republican, and owns about four hundred
acres of the best land in the county. ne
Is now engaged in filing his bond, which will
probably be approved the latter part of the
week
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SERIOUSLY ILL AGAIN,
Patent Commissioners ButterwOrth
Suffering with Kidney Troubles.

TOWNSVILLE, Ga. Jan. 3.-Patent
Commissioner Benjamin Butterworth is
very seriously i'll at the Iiney Woods Hotel
in this city, and grave fears are felt for his
recovery. He is suffering from kidney
troubles, and was attacked suddenly to-day
with urenic commissions. DR.. Mcintosh
who is attending him, pronounces his con-
dition tonight as extremely grave. His
daughter Mrs. Howe, is with him. Com
missioner Butterworth came here some
weeks ago to recuperate from an attack of
pneumonia and until to-day was steadily
improving. He was at the theater Friday
night, and had been out walking or driving
almost every day since he has been here
His prostration was a painful surprise to
those who know him here.
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OBITUARY.
Sir Augustus Bond, Former Librarian
of the British Museum.

LONDON. Jan. .S;-sir Edward Augustus
Bond, principal librarian of the British
Museum from 1878 to 1888, and who was
granted a knight comparionship Of the
Bath. at the recent distribution OF New
Years honors by the Queen, is dead
Sir Edward Bond was born Dec. 81, 1915.
He married Miss Caroline Barham, daugh-
ter of Rev. Richard Barham, author of the
'Ingoldsby Legends" In 1888 he was APP
pointed an assistant in the department of
manuscripts in the British Museum. From
1854 to 1866 he was assistant keeper of man
uscrips; from 1866 to 1878, principal keeper
of manuscripts. and for the following ten
years principal librarian of the museum.
He edited for the Photographed Society
the Master of the Rolls series of chronicles
and facsimiles of ancient manuscripts pub
lished by the society and many other
works. He was created companion of the
Bath (civiD in 1885 and was an officer of
the crown of Italy. In 1879 Cambridge Uni
versity gave him the honorary degre of
LIZ ID,
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Decision Against Gas Company.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind, Jan. 3.-The city has
won first blod in the suit against .he Rich
mond Natural Gas Company. 20 test the
legality of recent increase in price, alleged
to be an unjust discrimination, and also in
volving the question of the companys obli-
cation to furnish gas for both heating and
lighting purposes. On Oct. / all consumers
who used gas for both heating and lighting
were to be charged 20 cents a thousand,
while to those using it for heat only the
price would remain the same. AT the same
time the company refused to allow any con-
sumner to put in a meter to measure sepa-
rately the gas used for lighting. The new
ruling of the company caused much COM
plant. The matter was brought up in the
City Council and suit was brought in the
name of private citizen, in which it was
alleged that the company was under cbliga-
tons to furnish gas for both heating and
lighting, which the company denied, claim
ing that it was required to furnish gas for
fuel only. The case was heard by Judge
Henry c. Fox, of the Circuit Court, and
this morning he handed down decision
in favor of the city.
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KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.
Democratic Caucus Nominations for
the Chief Offices.

FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. Both houses
of the Legislature will be ready for or
ganization tomorrow at noon, the Demo-
cratic caucuses getting near enough
through TO nominate all the more important
officers. These caucuses were without spe-
cial incident or political interest, except
fresh evidence that ex-senator Blackburn
and his friends are in the saddle for the
dominant party in the State. Senator Goe-
bel. the prospective candidate for Governor,
was made the nominee for president pro
TEN. Of the Senate and steering committee
was named to take from the Republican
lieutenant governor the naming of the Sem
ate committees. Hon. j. c. w. Beckham, of
Nelson county, unanimously nominated for
speaker of the House, is descendant Of the
distinguished Beckham and Wickliffe fam
lilies and has been a stanc11 friend of both
Blackburn and Goehel. The nine Populists
in the Assembly show some intention OF
not participating with the Demeavats ID All