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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26
CAPT. ENGLrsH's PRAISE.
Member of General Wheelcr's Stan
Tells of Miss Jennings's work.
New YORK HeraId


Captain William E. English, of General
Joseph Wheeler's staff, who reached this
port on the transport Seneca, is st the
Hotel Imperial, having been released from
quarantine on Hoffman island.
1--WE had a bad trip up, as you know" he
said. 1.-THE wounded suffered terribly, as
there were no hospital equipments. The
doctors had to use penknives for surgi-
cal instruments. Had it not been for Miss
Jennings, the Red Cross nurse, / do not
know what the poor fellows would have
done.
mo one who has not been on the ground
can understand the hardships the men have
undergone and ! want to say do not be-
lieve there is a finer or Drawer lot of men
to-day than the soldiers who took San
tiago / speak particularly of the regulars,
though l have heard the volunteers praised
by regular officers"
Captain English spoke enthusiastically of
General Wheeler, who was carried to the
front in an ambulance on July ! and stayed
there. though he was suffering from fever
Everybody down there has malarial fever
in a mild or severe FORM he said.
Captain English was severely injured in
the first days fighting A shell exploded
near Grimes's battery, killing two men. His
horse swerved, stumbled and fell on him.
He lay for an hour under fire, and was
then carried to the rear. When transferred
to Siboney he became i'll with malaria and
dysentery, and was finally ordered home.
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BANK WRECKER WARNER.
The Noted DefauIter Identified by
Massachusetts Detectives.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. July 25.-Sheriff
Clark, of Hampshire county. Massachusetts,.
and Chief of Police Maynard. of Northamp-
ton. Mass. arrived in this city this morning
and later in the day went to the office If
Chief of Detectives Sullivan, where they
identified L. S. Williams as Lewis Warner.
the man wanted at Northampton for the
embezzlement of 100000 of the funds of the
Hampshire Savings Bank, of which he was
treasurer. Clark and Maynard were very
much moved when led into the fugitive
bankers presence, as the man before them
was now their prisoner and In disgrace,
with the penitentiary staring him in the
face, whereas, the last time they had seen
him he was one of the most popular men
in the State and one whose name was
synonymous with honesty and stability.
After asking about many of his former
friends in Northampton, Warner announced
that he was ready to go with them at any
time they stated and would not require
requisition papers. Accompanied by the
Massachusetts officers and Chief OF Detec-
tiyes Sullivan, he went over to the Police
Court, where he was presented as fugitive
identified him as the man they we're after,
and Judge Wilson ordered him turned over
to them The formal transfer will not take
place for some days yet
Chief Sullivan is now relieved from all
anxiety as to his prisoner. now that the off,
cials have identified him and the formal
transfer has been duly ordered. There Is no
danger of the prisoners getting away, as
Megsrs Clark and Maynard are taking ev-
cry step to prevent any possible trouble
that may arise. They did not walt to get ex-
tradition papers, but have telegraphed to
Governor Walcott to sand the necessary
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MAY RAISE THE COLON
LIEUTENANT HGBsON is HOPEFUL OF
SAVING THE SPANISH IRON-CLAD.
An Engineering Feat OF Large Pro-
portiOns-HOw He. Expects to Ac-
cOmplish His Undertakings.

NEW YORK, July 25.-Lieutenant Hob
son. who returned here from Washington
yesterday stated that the Merritt & Chap
man WreckiDg and Derrick Company had
consented to undertake the recovery of the
Cristobal Colon and would begin the work
as soon as possible. 1.-THE difficulty of saw
ing the Colon" he said lies in the COM
plete submergence upon her beam end of
a steamer of seven thousand tons. \, Only
short portion of her stem is clear of water,
which fills her whole interior. Her sea
valves are open and her sides are in a few
places perforated by shells. The beach
upon which she lies is exceedingly shelving.
forming part, in fact OF the mountain
which there rises out of the sea. In short,
all the conditions are present which rem
der the righting and raising of the ship an
engineering feat of large proportions. At
the same time it is simple and quite feas-
ible. No new appliances are needed, Moth
ing has to be invented; it is simply ques-
ton of getting to the spot in time with the
accepted means and methods on a sufficient
scale.''
AS to the plan for raising the Colon Lieut..
Hobson said: I'VE will run the pontoons
alongside of the Colon. submerge them and
after chains under the bottom. of the ship
have been fastened to the pontoons and
lightened the pontoons will be pumped out.
At the same time we will use air pumps in
trying to force the water out of her air
chambers and water-tight compartments II
many of these compartments are found to
be in good condition, this combined force
from the outside and the inkide will be suf-
f1cient to to raise the Colon several feet.
If they are not sufficient then air bags will
be put in her hold and inflated by COM
pressed air. Every time the ship is raised a
few feet from the bottom. she will be towed
farther in shore. so that after several easy
stages she will be high enough out of the
water to make all the necessary repairs. It
| is thought that her hull is not in leaky.
| condition, but that 1t was the opening Of
the sea valves by the Spaniards which sunk
| the ship after they saw that it was impos-
| sible to get away. If that is found to be
| the case, the Colon may be quickly towed
| to a dry dock in this country for permanent
overhauling.
II think it will be fully two weeks before
| the work Of raising the Colon can begin.
| AS to when it can be finished will depend
| largely on the smoothness of the water.
PontoonS cannot be worked in rough water.
Fortunately for us. the weather has been
propitious so far, and 1t is our hope that
it will continue until the Colon is high and
safe on the beach,"
Lieutenant Hobson went over to Glen
Ridge, N. j., this afternoon and lunched
with Mrs. Sampson, wife of Rear Admiral
Sampson.
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Landing of shafter,s Army.
= -S
Richard Harding Davis. in Scribner.


The war ships kept up their fierce search
for hidden batteries, tearing off the tin roofs
of the huts, dismantling the blockhouses,
and sending the matched ShackS into bon
fires of fame. The men in the boats pulled
harder at the oars, the steam launches
behind them, and the first convoy of five
hundred men were soon punched together
racing bow by bow for the shore. launch
turned suddenly and steered for a long pier
under the ore docks, and the wave slifted
it to the level of the pier, and half dozen
men leaped through the air and landed on
the pier head, waving their musketS above
them AT the same moment two of the
other boats We're driven through the surf
to the beach ITSELF and the men tumbled
shore of Cuba In an instant a cheer rose
family. from the shore, and more loudly
from the war ships. 1t was caught up by
every ship in the transport fleet, and was
carried for miles over the ocean. Men
waved their hats and jumped up and down,
and shrieked as though they themselves
bad been the first. to- land, and the COM
bined cheering seemed as though 1t must
surely reach to the walls of Santiago and
tell the enemy that the end was near. But
later, when, outlined against the sky, we
saw four tiny figures scaling the sheer face
of the mountain up the narrow trail to the
highest blockhouSe-they were punched to-
gethed there for "a. moment at the side of
the Spanish fort. and then thousands of feet
thrown out against the sky. and the sailors
on the men-of-War, the Cubans, and our
own soldiers in the village, the soldiers in
the long boats, and those still hanging to
the sides and ratlines OF the, troop ships,
shouted and cheered again. and every steam
whistle on the ocean for miles about
shrieked- and tootAd AID TSafsd in a pan
demonium of delight and pride and triumph.
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ing the soldiers of Spain. but we have no
desire to despoil her citizens" 1t is the
Spanish in arms the American soldiers are
after. They have nothing against the thou
sands of disarmed Spanish prisoners IN
Santiago, and they get along very well to-
gether. THE narrow, cobble- paved streets"
says a dispatch, ''are crowded from morn
ing to night by chattering groups of uni
formed Spanish soldiers and crowds of
laughing, roliicking men. belonging to Cen
eral Skaters army" These are the men
who two weeks ago were trying to shoot
holes through one another's bodies. The
law Of war made them enemies, but the
law of humanity makes them comrades.
1t is more civilized, to feed prisoners than
to torture or eat them. Even war has its
amenities
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DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA
RAILWAYS WILL SOON REACH ALL
PORTIONS OF THE EMPIRE.
Many Important Concessions Granted
to FOreigners-Selfsh Policy of
Russians and Germans.

NEW YORK, July 2.--The Tribune pub
lished the following from its correspondent
at Picking. China: "The railroad situation
in China is rapidly improving. Conserva-
tism has apparently been at last thrown
overheard, and the government is dealing
out contracts and concessions with almost
reckless hand. The only completed line
in the empire is that from Picking to Shang-
hai-Kuan, via Tien-Tsin, a distance OF
about $50 miles. but the road from Picking to
Han-Kow known as the Lu-Kow Railway,
because it connects with the Peking-Tien-
Tsin line at Lu-Kow bridge is being pushed
forward as rapidly as the rails can be fur
nished by the Han-Yang iron works at Han
Kow. The private lines SOC far authorized
are the Han-Kuang line from Han-Kow to
Canton, a valuable concession which has
been granted to the American Washburne-
Carey syndicate, of New York. Then there
is the concession granted to DR.. Yung Wing
to procure foreign capital and build
trunk line from Tien-Tsin to Shanghai. This
line will ultimately be the best business
venture in China. The latest road author
lied is that granted 10 the Russo-Chinese
bank. This road runs from Tai-Yuan-Fu.
the capital of the rich province of Shanshi.
to Shang -TingFu. on the Lu-Han line, thus
but of far more Importance than the
mere granting Of railroad concessions, as
showing the spirit of progress awakened,
is the recent Industrial concession to the
Anglo-ItaIian syndicate, represented at Pc
king by Chevalier Luzzatti. This, the
first Industrial concession to be sealed
in the Tsung-Li-Y amen with the great seal
Of the Foreign Office grants to the Anglo
Italian syndicate rights to the fmfnensa
coal and iron beds that exist in southern
and central Shanshi, with the right to build
railways and cut canals to navigable rivers.
A year ago a famous Russian traveller pub
field, which he characterized as being the
richest in iron and coal OF all sorts in the
world. The article was published in the
Kobe Chronicle of Jan. s, 1898.
THE Pacific coast VIII In a few years, II
properly encouraged, tie the market for
vast trade with China. and with hold
would give, America with England could
command the commercial control OF Chi
nese ports. If Russia and Germany are al
lowed to pursue the exclusive and selfish
policy of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, as so
far set forth in their occupation of Port
Arthur and kiao-chau, With the control OF
the exclusion of other nations american
commerce must suffer
America ssevery move. has at last owing
to their own danger from ISOLATION.
turned iD/favor of America, and one hears
but the great advantages of an Anglo Saxon
alliance. or at least an identical policy on
commercial lines that would prevent Russia
China from the rest Of the world. The
Anglo-Italian syndicate has secured the
banner mining province OF CHINA as It's
chinery and men largely from America and
England. Other provinces and other con-
cessions Will follow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

1t Is not necessary to make extended in
quiry among intelligent voters of both par
ties to discover that there is a decided SEN
timent in favor of legislation which will
recognize the primary as part of the ma
chinery of government and that it is consid-
cred desirable to put about it the
safeguards which insure the present
fairness in the management Of cleo
tons. In many counties in this
State the nominations for county officers
have been made at precinct primaries by di-
rect vote of the members of parties. So far
as heard from the result has been satisfac-
tory. Even defeated aspirants can but feel
that their supporters had a fair opportunity
to vote and that their votes were fairly
counted.
If the primaries for the selection of dele
gates were fairly conducted no delegation
can be made representative for more than
two or three offices. A delegation for in
stance. may be chosen to support a certain
aspirant for county clerk. but as large a
majority favoring a candidate for county
auditor or sheriff cannot be sure of repre-
sentation in the convention. If at the pri-
mary those who attend can vote for their
favorites direct, much more general salts
faction will be given and there will be a
much larger attendance.
The primary is. in fact. the place where
the officers are selected. Therefore, it
should, by law, be made as important as
the election. The voting should be done I'M
der protection of law. AS each party in ev-
cry precinct has its poll book, it has an al
most accurate check list for voting. A man
claiming to be resident of a precinct and
a member of the party holding the pri-
mary can vote if his name is found or he
can be challenged If there is doubt. He can
then enter the booth and vote. There can be
no unseemly shouting or crowding, since
such a primary should be held in the after
noon and evening, voting to continue a Civ
en- number of hours. With such an oppor-
tunity for fair voting. party men who rare
ly go to primaries will be as certain to go
as they are now to go to the polls on cleo
ton day.
of several States, and in all the precincts in
a few States like Massachusetts,. Such law
is now being tried in Chicago. 1t is sure to
be adopted in Indiana's larger cities ere
long Such being the case, would it not be
well for the Republican state convention to
make some declaration in favor of such
legislation?
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Washington Letter in ST Louis Globe-Dem-

Washington Letter in st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat
Persistent reports Of friction between the
United States and Germany continue. in
spite of denials of any foundation for them
put forth on the highest authority of this
government. There is no unfriendlinesS be-
tween the two governments. 1t does not
seem possible that there can be any. That
being the condition, it. is, perhaps. hardly
wise to dwell upon what would take place
if complications should come. But a very
recent incident ma be mentioned because
it helps to show why Germany will think
twice, before doing anything to provoke
trouble. Germany has furnished nearly one
half of the foreign-horn population of this
country. These people are German-Ameri-
cans. not Americana Germans. A few days
ago several of the wealthiest and most in
f1uential COMMUNICATIONS in the United
States called upon the President and
preached the subject of the loyalty of Ger
man citizens to their adopted country.
They told the President they most earnestly
hoped no rupture would come between their
native country and their adopted country.
But, Mr. President" the spokesman of
the delegation said, 1--WE are here to tell you
that. should the German government be so
foolish as to force trouble with the United
States, the Recommendations will recruit
organize and equip 100000 men without 81
of cost to the government and offer them
selves to fight for this country We come,
Mr.. President. to guarantee to you this of
fer" z sAss
The deep sincerity Of these German-Amcr-
leans was shown III their manner. If their
names could be given, their representative
capacity would be recognized by the whole
country.
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LABOUCHERE ON THE WAR.
The Journalist and Politician Both
Caustic and COngratulatOry.

BY the destruction of Cervera's fleet the
Americans have gained a magnificent vic
tory. 1t is to be hoped that it will not COM
pletely turn their heads. President McKin-
ley was forced into this war against his
own judgment. That accursed lingo spirit
which is rife among us got the better of the
hard common sense which usually charac-
terizeS the Americans. Their yellow jour-
nails howled for war and drowned all re-
Election with the noise of the journalistic
tom-tom. Congressman fell in with the craze
and did not venture to moderate it.
Throughout the country every one who
wished to earn cheaply the reputation of a
hero enlisted as volunteer, arrayed him.
self in a uniform and grit himself with
sword. Soon the war assumed a larger as
pect, and the foolish, who are largely rep
portunity should be seized to break from
all sound tradition and establish colonial
empire, not only in American waters. but
in the far East
The American Nation has always been the
object of my special admiration. Their wise
foreign policy l have again and again cited
as one that we should do well to follow.
want to see them great and powerful.
can, therefore, hardly be accused of want
of sympathy with them. 1 object to their
present course precisely as ] object to our
African expeditions and our annexation
mania; and l devoutly pray, for their own
sakes much as everybody else's that
they will take the earliest opportunity of
abandoning an insane policy If they like to
keep up the war l make no doubt that, in
the long run, they will be able to deprive
Spain of all her colonies. But cut bono?
What can it signify to them to whom the
Philippines belong? Were l an American
would not accept these islands as a gift.
Cuba is another matter. It is within what
may fairly be regarded as their sphere of
interest. In Spain there is a disposition to
agree to terms of peace. Why not, them
offer the Spaniards peace on condition that
they will clear out of Cuba? The Spanish
government cannot well offer to do so. Neu-
trail nations cannot well propose it. Let
President Mckinley make the offer He
would, of course, be abused by the yellow
press and by those who appeal to the lingo
section of Americans. But the war craze is
only temporary malady, and in a very
sway, and he would be regarded by the
great mass of his countrymen as it's ex-
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spaniard and Cuban.
June Chautauquan.

A Spaniard was born in SPAIN His son,
who was born in Cuba. is not a Spaniard,
but Cuban. If Cuban should go to Mad
all his life in the palace he would still be
Cuban, and not Quite as good as a Span
lard. If Spanard should go to Havana
life in that city or upon a plantation he
would still be q Spaniard. and enjoy a dis
tinction and social position which a Cuban
can never attain. The sons and daughters
Of a Spaniard are Cubans if they are born
in Cuba; but the sons and grandsons and
great-grandSOnS of q Cuban must always
be Cubans. no matter if they were born in
Madrid and spent their whole lives in that
city. No Cuban can ever become q Span
lard no matter what happens to him, and
from the Spanish point of view he is de-
generate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

Edward Marshall the newspaper corre-
spondent SO seriously wounded, was oper-
ated on at st. Luke's Hospital to-day. The
Spanish bullet, which has been lodged
near his spine all these weeks, is safely re-
moved and the doctors now believe that
not only will Mr.. Marshalls life be saved,
but that he will again, in the course of a
few months, be a perfectly well man. His
case is one of the most interesting in mod
eTn surgical annals, for it demonstrates the
fact that man wounded by Mauser bull
let in the spine can recover. James Creel-
man, the other New York correspondent
who was wounded, and whose injury was
supposed 10 be much less serious than Mr..
MarshalPs is likely TO be the greatest suf-
ferer in the end, for the doctors fear he
will never be able to use his right arm
again.
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AS there appears to be some uncertainty
about the application of the stamp features
of the revenue act so far as pension vouch-
ers are concerned, Pension Agent Leighty
calls attention to the proviso of the act
which excerpts pension vouchers, as follows:
Provided, That no stamps shall be re-
uuired upon any papers necessary to be
United States, for pensions. back pay,
bounty. or for property lost in the military
or naval service.
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FOR SAKE OF A WOMAN
Fight at n Festival, Five People seri-
ousIy and Others Badly Hurt.

MARTHUR, o.. July ga fight over
woman at festival last night at Elko,
mining village near here. resulted in five
people being seriously wounded and many
slightly injured. chose seriously hurt are:
William Crow. cut in seven places and will
die; Frank Trimmer, shot in leg. hand and
head; Lewis Yeager, thumb cut of; David
Anderson, stabbed and struck on head with
slungshot: Lewis Anderson. cut, bruised
about the head and face. Warrants have
been issued for the arrest of twenty-five
who participated in the drunken carousal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

The Hon. Lewis Warner, of Northampton.
Mass. now in Louisville KY, because he
was unable to account for a trifle of $4,000
intrusted to him. was probably led to seek
security in that city because he had read in
the columns of some newspaper in a rival
Ohio river city like Cincinnati that neither
railroad trains nor river steamers stopped
at Louisville
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Sigsbee, for example We have all become
more or less Injured to the bas-relief .por-
traits which advertise the Sigsbee cigar,
and several women of my acquaintance
keep their shirt waists and skirts on good
terms in the back by means of the Sigsbee
belt pin. Yesterday / came upon still an
other evidence of the esteem in which we
hold the gallant captain. 1t was displayed
on a plaster image IN the chidrens under
wear department of one of the big stores
1t underwaist for juvenile wear, and
l. was labeled THE Sigsbee."
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documents. While Warner has agreed to go
without extradition papers they say there
Is nothing to prevent him from suddenly
changing his mind, and they do not want
to take any chances that would allow
their much-sought-after prisoner to get cut
of their sight again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

The preacher who denounced the cattle
dressing Sunday exhibition as vulgar was
moderate nifhis characterization. When
1000 people goTto place on Sunday to wit
ness an exhibition of OK and sheep killing
there is field for the teaching of what
may be called refined feeling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-26

II would be well for the Board of Arbi-
tratlon to inquire into the charge that the
American Wire and Steel Company at An
derson has reduced wages 40 per cent. The
company says the men can earn as much as
before. because of the improved machinery.
Where there is such discrepancy in state
ments the public would like the facts.
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About seventy-five years ago the concert
Of powers. then called the holy alliance"
threatened % do something contrary to
American interests and desires. but Great
Britain not Joining the alliance, nothing was
done The concert of powers with Great
Britain OUT b not greatly to be feared as
far away as the Philippines.