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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
RETURN OF THE HOPE.
Lieut.. Peary and His Party Left on the
Shores of Icy Greenland.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 27.-The steamer
Hope arrived here last night from her trip
to Greenland, whittier she carried the Peary
exploring expedition. After leaving Sydney
c. B., their first landing was at Cape York,
where natives were expected TO be found.
The party was disappointed, however all
all the natives having left. Without any
delay, the expedition then sailed for Snow
Pocket bay but here again they were dis
appointed. They then proceeded TO Saun-
ders island, finding the natives there in poor
condition, they having had an exceptionally
bad winter, snowfalls which lasted for
weeks forcing them to quit their old haunts
in quest of food. The natives were delighted
to see Lieutenant Peary.
quimaux and sailed for Whale sound, but,
owing to the heavy ice pack, was unable to
get in. She came out all right, though she
received some bad ScrapeS. The party then
decided to return to Saunders island and
spent a fortnight there, during which time
sixty walrus and a quantity of seal were
obtained Then the Hope proceeded for
Fouke ford. She met the Windward on
the way. The latter is poor ship for this
work. being unable to steam to any advan-
tage, the Hope leaving her far behind on
every occasion when they left port to-
gether At Foulke ford the Hope parted
with Lieutenant Peary and sailed south on
the 18th inst, the Windward leaving at the
same time for Sheard Osborne ford, where
Peary will make his headquarters during the
winter. Besides the sixty walrus, sixty
dogs and ten Esquimaux men and women,
were taken north Captain Bartlett reports
all well
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STANDING ARMY OF 100000.
Effort VIII he Made to Increase Peace
Strength of the Military.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-One of the i'm
portant matters which will occupy the at
tention of Congress at its next session will
be legislation to increase the strength of
the permanent military establishment. says
the Washington correspondent of the Trib-
une. Chairman Hull, of the committee on
military affairs of the House of Represent
atives, who is in Washington, where he ex-
poets to remain until early in November.
is devoting much attention to the subject.
and has already discovered that the war has
removed some of the more formidable OBJ
stacles which hindered and finally prevented
the enactment of satisfactory law for the
organization and increase of the army at
the last Congress. In the coming session
he will introduce a bill to correct the de-
fects in the existing law and to increase
the strength of the army on a peace footing
to one hundred thousand enlisted men. He
feels confident that the measure will be
passed. The strongest opposition to the re-
organization bill last winter and spring
came from the representatives of the Ma
tional Guard organizations of the various
States and il was effective to a consider
able extent. The experience of the last four
months, there is reason to believe, has con-
WINGED that element well as a great
influence, that the opposition was i'll judged
and unreasonable, and that a reasonably
strong regular army thoroughly equipped
and organized on modern basis. will be a
benefit rather than drawback to the Ma
tional Guard organization.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
NEW YORK SII.VERITES.
They Will Fight for Recognition In
the Democratic State Convention.

ALBANY, N. Y. Aug. IA conference
of silver Democrats held in this city to-day
resolved to fight for the recognition of free
silver by the Democratic state convention
at Syracuse in September, and to advocate
the nomination of candidates at that con-
vention who were known to be free silver
men in 1895. The conference resolved to
hold a convention in Syracuse on Sept q,
the day preceding the meeting of the DEM
ocratic state convention. 1t will be COM
posed of three delegates from each Assem-
bly, district The memorial resolution adopt
ed demands that the state convention shall
nominate candidates who earnestly support
ed and were at the time publicly known to
be supporters of the platform and candi-
dates of the Democratic national convention
at Chicago in 1896. 1t demands that the
convention reaffirm the platform of the
state convention held in Buffalo in 1896, and
desires that the following PLANK be placed
in its platform:
THE Democratic party, true to the tradi-
tons of its past and loyal to the will of a
majority of its regularly chosen delegates,
when convened in national convention here
by declares that it is the duty of every
loyal Democrat to stand by and upon the
Chicago platform OF 1896 which we recog
nize as a fundamental law not to be altered
until the national convention of 1900 shall
adODt another
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
REMEMBER THE MAINE I"
to Lieut.. Jenkins, Who Per-
ished in Havana Harbor.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-One of the first
permanent emorials of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war to De erected in this country will
be placed in a few days In the chapel of the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, in memory
of Lieutenant William Jenkins, who
persisted in the explosion of the battle ship
Maine. The memorial, which takes the form
of mural tablet, was subscribed for by
the classmates of the unfortunate officer.
and has been cast in bronze from a design
of Mr.. Charles Robinson Lamb. faithful
model in high relief of the Inflated vessel
is shown above the inscription. which reads
as follows: I'm memory Of our friend, VIII
liam Jenkins. lieutenant United States
navy. class. 1886, II. s. N, who persisted in
the explosion of the u. s. 8. Maine on the
night of Feb Is, 1898, in the harbor of Ha-
vana, Cuba He spoke evil of no man.
Erected by his classmates Many OF the
surviving officers of the Maine are ex-
pected to participate in the ceremony OF un-
Yelling. The memorial was executed In
this city.
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GOLD DUST FROM ALASKA.
Return of 300 People from st. Mi
chael's with $2OO,OOO or More.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 27.-The steamer
Progresso arrived here to-day from St.
Michaels with three hundred passengers
and a large amount of gold dust, the prop
erty of few persons. Purser Griffith claims
that he carried 100000 in his safe. Of this
amount j. o. Exert had $4,000. A quartet
consisting of c. w. Morgan, L. Siehler, J..
A. Snow and George t. Snow had an equal
amount. j. D. Racy had $2S,OOO Most of
the Progresses passengers were tender
feet" who were in Dawson but a short
time. Captain Eagler and the crew of the
wrecked bark Guardian were also passen-
gers. The captain of the Progresso reports
that the steamer South Portland is i'm the
hands of the United States marshal at St.
MichaeIs. Twelve barrels of whisky were
missing from her cargo
Passengers of the Progresso stated that
there are between two and three hundred
men who have drifted down the Yukon
river in small boats and RATS, camped on
the beach at st. Michael's. They have
no means TO secure passage to the States.
There was considerable talk among them
of applying to the government for relief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
WANT FRIARS EXPELLED
AN APPEAL FROM FILIPINOs TO
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY.
He Is Urged to Suppress the 'Dia-
bOIicaI Institutions Fostered by
These Monks of the Philippines.

LONDON. Aug. 27.-The Philippine ISL
ands commission in Europe has addressed
a letter to President Mckinley regarding
the appeals made to him by high Roman
Catholic ecclesiastics in America to protect
the religious orders in the island. 1.-THE ex-
pulsion of the friars.' the commission main
tains. lis a necessary anteeedent to moral
sanitation The letter names particularly
the Archbishop of Manila and the bishops
of Nueva Sagovia and Nueva Caseres.
whose acts of hostility against both ma
tives and Americans and against the Jesuits
and other respected religious institutions
are condemned by every one" The COM
mission urges President Mckinley to aid
the Filipinos ITO suppress the immortality of
the diabolical institutions fostered by these
monks" and the letter concludes as fol-
lows: Your name can never be associated
with that of the friars, and the sense of
right of the noble nation at whose head
you are placed will never permit the ever
victorious and humanitarian stars and
stripes to protect them
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of the General Fedora ton of Women's
Clubs, a woman boarded the train and
Joined the delegates. She looked like the
place-little and forsakeE-but she was in
telligent and refined and had two bright
babes with her. Dreadfully poor, with shah
by clothing, a last winters hat, and the
two babies to take care of. she yet wore
gloves-loose. old-fashioned black ones. but
gloves nevertheless. They were her creed of
only taking. them off when she fed the
children and immediate replacing them.
The woman was an fastener, who. years
not succeeded. She was to meet her sister
at the federation, who is a prosperous Bos-
ton woman. and whom she had not seen for
twenty years. 1t was a pathetic little incl
dent, emphasized by the gloves.
AT all of the fedora ton meetings there
evening receptions they were dispensed
with.
Originally the wearing of gloves was con-
Quoted on the same sound principle that in
spires miller to wear a white hat. but
long ago the custom departed from the
primitive idea of usefulness. According to
the encyclopedias and other heavy li.era-
ture Laertes was the first to wear glove.
The farmer king was not fashionable. but
cape city Of farmer he had to deal with GER
tain brambly bushes and he must also keep
his hands in a kingiy condition, hence the
Since that time gloves have had many and
strange Signific9ncc5, from a seal or the
transfer, OF property to challenge to sin,
they begin to take on class Significance. It
was when they were adopted by royalty
that the wearing of gloves was first regard
ed as a mark of station. Some of the early
English kings were buried with gloves on.
and when the manufacture of gloves was
introduced in Great Britain IL was consid-
cred as q craft Of great dignity and impor-
lance. During the reign of King Robert
III of Scotland the incorporation of the
Glovers of Perth, a wealthy guild which
still exists. chartered and received
armorial bearings.
But although gloves were started on their
career through the centuries by men, 1t has
fallen to the women to bring them into uni
versal popularity. After bringing about
such a fashion 1t Is to be supposed that
women have felt they must stand by IT,
for. whatever the cause, men have never
become addicted TO the glove habit after
the manner Of women. A man Is bound to
be comfortable. and when gloves are dis
comfort he casts them OFT He never loses
sight of the utility idea. differing from the
rib sex. which was created blind to H.
With the introduction of the shirt waist
the short skirt. and the sailor and Fedora
hats, woman's costume has become COM
paratively simple and sensible and Il Is
this new freedom and comfort In dressing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
RATIONS FOR STARVING
STEAMER COMAL AT HAVANA WITH
FOOD FOR THE FAMIsHING.
Clara Barton Visits Matanyas and
Finds Much Want and Distress
Exports of Tobacco.

HAVANA Aug. 27.-The steamer Comal
arrived here this morning. She carries
million rations. The steamer Macedonia.
with a general cargo and twenty-five pas
sengers. also arrived to-day.
The exports from Havana yesterday were
S94 bales of tobacco and 100000 cigars. The
municipal authorities demanded that cattle
be allowed to be imported free of duty, but
the Marquis De MOntero, the colonial fnan-
cial secretary. objects. The present duty
on cattle is S. head and meat is selling
at 60 cents a pound. The Marquis De Mon
tero has authorized the withdrawal of
goods from the custom house. There We're
exported yesterday by steamer from Ma
tanzas 2S7 bales of tobacco, 3O2S,475 cigars
and $1,000 in silver for New York.
The steamer Philadelphia has arrived
here, carrying a general cargo and thirty
pass engers.
Miss Clara Barton, of the American Red
Cross Society, returned this morning from
Matanzas. She reports great wapt and dis
tress there. Miss Barton will porbably
leave again tomorrow for the purpose Of
distributing relief in Matanzas. The Clin-
ton, the Red Cross steamer, has not yet
discharged a package of her goods.
The British military attache who has
been in Cuba watching the military opera
tons is about to leave for Santiago, whence
ne will proceed to New York.
Captain Stewart Brices son of eX-United
States Seaator Brice, and WLo is a member
OF General Skaters staff, will sail for the
United States on Monday on the steamer
Lydia. as will also Venezuelan Consul H
Pinango, who has been. recalled.
Major Niskern and Captain Niels, who
are in charge of the provisions on board the
steamer Comal, to-day called on General
Blanco. They were accompanied by an in
terpreter and We're received by General So
lano. They left the palace satisfied.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. H.-The first
state convention of the silver Republican
party in California convened here to-day.
Three hundred delegates representing thir-
ty-five counties, were present. James G..
Mcguire was nominated for Governor by
reclamation, and the fusion ticket was in
dorsed. The platform adopted reaffirms
fealty to the principles of the Republican
party as enunciated by Abraham Lincoln
and James G.. Blaine; reaffirms that plank
in the platform of the Democratic party in
1896 declaring in favor of the free coinage
of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to J..
The Dingley law is condemned. as is also the
action of the administration in issuing bonds
to carry on the war. but the declaration
of war with Spain is Endorsed as necessary
for the freedom of Cuba The construction
of the Nicaragua canal by the United States
is indorSed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.-The trans
port Catalina sailed for Honolulu and Ma
Mia to-day. For Honolulu she carries Com
panies A, B and d, of the First New York
Regiment, consisting of 295 men and ten Of
ficers in command of Lieut. Col. III. p.
Stackpole. Majors Scott and Emmett, of the
New York regiment, also go with the de-
tachment. For Manila the steamer takes
Second Lieut.. A. p. Hayre and twenty-five
men of the first battalion Heavy Artillery
California Volunteers. to act as guard for
81. 00O,0 900 in coin for the troops in General
Merritt's command; Majors Schofield,
Sreary and Sternberg, paymasters and three
clerks in charge of the money; Major
kobbe Third Artillery; Lieutenant Wedge
wood, Battery B, Utah Artillery, and four
teen medical officers and 1879 privates of the
hospital corps, and four RedNCross nurses,
making total of 49,.
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STRIKE AT WATCH WORKS.
The EIgin National Company I'm Dam
ger of Being Tied Up.

ELGIN, ILL.,, Aug. IA strike is on ut
the plant of the Elgin National Watch Conn
pany, which threatens to tie up the works.
One hundred and twenty-five finishers, tile
most skilled and formerly the best-paid men
in the factory, have gone on strike for a
restoration of their old pay on certain
grade of work, and about thirty women and
girls have struck with them from sympathy
and a desire to get rid of foreman who is
blamed for the low wages. The strike has
tied up one Of the two assembling rooms of
the Elgin plant, and the employees in the
other say they are only waiting call
from the Watch Workers Union strike
too. Officials of the watch company say
it will be practically impossible for some
time, at least. to obtain skilled fnishers to
take the mems places
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DEATH RATE INCREASING
ABOUT EIGHTY PEOPLE SUCCUMB
EACH DAY AT SANTIAGO.
Generals LawtOn and Wood Amer
icanizing the City-COndition of
Spanish Prisoners PitifuI.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 27.-The
American postal system is soon to be intro
duced here and house-to-house deliveries
and letter boxes are to be established. The
merchants are much pleased and the desire
is general for the establishment of American
business systems.
The modification of the administration of
the provincial civil governments by Generals
Lawton and Wood meets with the approba-
ton of intelligent citizens and cooperation
in the movement is increasing. The schools
will open on Sept. 1. English will be taught
in all the grades for the purpose of its Amer
icanizing effect. The employees of the civil
government are now paid with checks only.
owing to the scarcity of small change.
Impressive funeral services were held to-
day over the remains of the Colombian con-
sui, Senior Bravo, who died from fever.
Many flags were flying at half mast.
The death rate among citizens and troops
is increasing. The deaths in the city daily
number about eighty. The mortality among
the soldiers is small. however. Patients who
are convalescent after an attack of dysen-
terry and yellow fever gain strength slowly
owing to the enerVating effect of the eli
mate. Two hundred immunes are now in the
hospital.
with 1OS sick soldiers of all regiments. and
the Roumania will leave tomorrow with
AS sick from all regiments, leaving 800 for
the Olivette, which is expected on Wednes-
day to take all the sick save the critical
cases.
Eight thousand rations were dispatched to-
day to Guantanamo bay for two companies
of Rays immunes. The transports San Au-
gustine, Leonora and San Francisco will go
for 5000 Spaniards at Guantanamo bay
The Cheribon. a hospital ship, left to-day
Standards
all the Spanish soldiers who have left or are
about to leave is pitiful. Physicians say
that 80 per cent. of them will die before
reaching Spain. Three thousand remain
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TOLsTOI CRITICISED BY HIS son.
"A Chopin Prelude" Answers the
sskreutxer Sonata"

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The literary sensation of the day in Rus
STA is short story by Count Lioff Lvovch
Tolstoi. son of the well-known novelist 1t
is entitled "A Chopin Prelude" and is Of
fered by the young author as an antidote
to his fathers 'Kreutzer Sonata" which
in the opinion of Komkoff. the hero Of the
new story. has done more harm than good
to humanity
Its effect has been harmful" saws Kom-
kof, because many of its readers have
remained single, hoping to lead a life OF
same, but violating their vows on the sly
and becoming guilty of the grossest vices
known to mankind. Those who have tried
to follow the teachings of the 'Kreutzer
Sonata" kill all their natural powers their
youth. all that is good in them. every gilt
OF God To obey this doctrine to accept II
as sound logic at all, one would have no
choice but to die. 1t is utterly impossible
TO grasp its full meaning and the conse-
quences to which IL must lead without
turning from it,.
The hero of the younger Tolstoi concludes
that being living creatures, we had bet
ter pay our homage to birth and life rather
than TO death. The aim of life is to promote
life and not death. Let us contribute TO
the endless perfection of the life and nap
moving onward Is impossible and our on
ward movement cannot be a reality unless
It is in conformity with the laws of nature.
We may achieve equality and fraternity
and still higher stages of social perfection.
but the laws of nature are sure TO remain
immutably the same. The great point Is Is
There are men" the hero OF the story
says with sarcasm and some indignation,
men of power and influence, who would
have us believe that the aim of life IS
celibacy."
The relations of father and son are not
disturbed by this literary passage At arms
in the least. although the older Tolstoi has
so far left his sons criticism unanswered.
AS TO the Russian critics, they seem 10
agree with the logic of komkoffs mono
i0gues, but do not set much store upon
the literary quality Of the story.
"A Chopin Prelude" IS not the younger
Tolstoi's firstborn. He made his debut WITH
a sketch In ssNedyelia' (The Week. seYefat
months aRo.
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LONDON, Aug. 2S.-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Sunday Times says: THE
government has received a cipher dispatch
from Manila giving full details of the capit-
ulation and of the condition of the slard.
The contents of the dispatch have not been
made public General Rios governor of the
Visayas islands, reports fighting between
the rebels and Spanish troops at Cebu and
Iloilo. A fotilla has been organized to pro-
tect these islands from invasion by the
rebels sent from Luzon by Aguinaldo. Cen
eral Rios has armed several battalions of
militia
kilograms from Cuba report continuous
fighting in the provinces of Puerto Principe
rebels.
1.-The Canary squadron is now at Ferrol.'
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INSANITY CAUSED BY GRIEF.
Mother and Sisters of a Dead Soldier
to BE Taken to an Asylum.

MARIETTA. o.. Aug. 27.-The mother and
two sisters of Okey P. Edey, of the Eighth
Ohio. who, it is reported, died of starva-
ton on d transport while coming home from
Cuba, have become insane through horror
and grief at the death of the young man
and the manner in which it occurred. When
the news was received the mother became
frantic with grief. and the children were
hysterical The two sisters. Bertha and
Vesta. soon became uncomfortable did
the mother, and after a day it became APP
parent that all were becoming insane. The
mother has to be guarded at all times. She
has attempted suicide several times. 1t will
be necessary to take all three to an asylum.
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LETTER FROM BATTERY A.
Young Patten Writes Entertainingly
from Porto Rico.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
JEFFERSONVILI.E, Ind, Aug 81
Clarence Patten, son of Capt. j. B.. Patten,
of Indianapolis, a member of the Twenty
seventh Battery, now in Porto Rico, has
written to George Parks, of this city. an in
teresting letter descriptive of that country.
After detailing the experiences of the jour
ney from Newport News to Porto Rico, Pri-
vate Patten says:
Fruits are as cheap they can be, but
other articles of food are dear. Our money
is worth twice as much as the Spanish.
Bread is worth four Spanish cents for a
piece the size of bun; cheese 81 a pound.
No one here chews tobacco but everybody
smokes Children under seven wear moth
ing at all, and over that age just little
more. In sight of our camp are eight large
sugar refneries gone to ruin All along the
coast can be seen hundreds of similar ruins.
This town has now 400 inhabitants, who
until we came here lived on corn
and fruit and were starving. 1t
was formerly place of sixty
five thousand inhabitants Spanish taxes
have completely ruined this island. The soil
is the finest / ever saw, and the climate
could not be better. 1t is neither too hot
nor too cold, though it rains ten or fifteen
minutes every day. This is an ideal place.
All along the streams are cocoanut, lemon.
orange, banana and lime trees. Lizards,
spiders and tarantulas are here by the mil
lions.
AT home I could hardly believe the stories
of Spanish cruelties, but here we have plenty
of evidence of the same. At one town one
hundred women were in the hospitals. suffer
ing from the indignities of the Spaniards,
some of them had been literally cut to pieces
by the fiends Then they were tied up by
their thumbs and had their hair pulled out.
Five of our men were poisoned by water
given them by Spanish sympathizers the
night we camped in the street. They were
brought around all right though. With the
assistance of stomach pumps We expect to
go home soon and are not sorry, as we have
had tough time and have seen no action.
We lived on corned beef, canned beans and
hard tack from the time we left Camp
Thomas until arrived here.