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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16
DEFECTS IN OUR NAVY.
MIR. Roosevelt Says Several Cruisers
Need Modern GUNS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Secretary of the
Navy Long sent recommendation to Con-
gress to-day for an appropriation of $4,000
for improvements in the battery of the
cruiser Chicago. and accompanying it is a
strong report of Assistant Secretary Roose-
Welt in which he points out some weak
nesses of the navy. Mr.. Roosevelt says
1.-The Chicago is being rebuilt at a cost con-
siderably greater than her original contract
price. and says the department will be in
excusable if it turns out new ship with
old defective guns for her main battery. 1t
will be expensive to put four new guns
aboard the Chicago, but no more than six
pairs. In the event of war if any disaster
happened to one of our ships owing to her
possessing an antiquated battery. heavy
responsibility would rest on the Navy De-
partment for failing to ask for means to
meet its need. l earnestly wish we could
as soon as possible, withdraw from active
service the cruisers fitted with Slow-tire
guns and substitute ships with rapid-fire
batteries. At present the real fighting eff
cheney of ships like the Raleigh. Cincinnati
Marblehead. Montgomery and olympia
compared with foreign vessels of the same
nominal class, stands high, while the re-
verse is the case of ships like the Balti-
more. San Francisco and Yorktown
I have just been talking with Captain
Cotton, who commanded the Philadelphia
when she lay side by side of the Japanese
cruiser Naniwa at Hawaii. In event of a
fight the Naniwa's possibility of efficiency
probably would have been twice as great"
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INDIANA OBITUARY.
Adams Earl, President of First Rail.
road at Lafayette.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 15.-The death
this morning of Adams Earl, aged seventy
eight, removes one of this city's most pub
lic-spirited citizens. His demise was due to
grip and old age. He was born in Fair
field county, Ohio, April 20, 1919, and in 1887
became a resident of this county. In early
life he carried freight to New Orleans by
flatboat. Mr.. Earl was president of the first
railroad to this city, which is now part
of the Lake Erie & Western, and was also
president of the company building here to
Kankakee a line which has since become d
part of the Big Four, the latter being
owned by Mr.. Earl, Moses Fowler and Gus
tavuS Picker, and of this the deceased was
manager and builder. In 1877 Mr.. Earl Sc
cured a controlling interest through pur-
chase of the Fowler stock, and in 1879 he
disposed of this to capitalists in Boston,
For ten years he devoted himself to the
interests of the Lafayette Belt Railway
Land and Improvement Company, but sue
cess in this was impeded by the panic. he
was active in former years in mercantile
chased $4,000 acres of land in Benton coun-
ty for grazing purposes, donated $4,000 for
building a courthouse in Fowler after II
was decided to remove the county seat from
oxford. Mr.. Earl owned the Shadeland
stock farm and his Herefords took many
premiums at national exhibits.
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SHOULD HAVE A PENSION
MIR. STEELE WILL GET ONE FOR
MARY COBB, AGED NINETY-gOUR.
Miners and Day LabOrers May Cause
Trouble in Clay COunty-C. e. Ev-
erett Released ON Bail.
Special to the indianapolis journal.

KOKOMO. Ind, Jan. 15.-Mary Forbes
Cobb, of New London. this county, daugh-
ter of revolutionary soldier, celebrated
her ninety-fifth birthday this week. This
venerable woman, who is also the widow OF
veteran of the war of 1912, learned only
recently that she was entitled to a pension.
Congressman Steele heard of her, and be-
coming interested in her case, agreed to in
troduce bill in Congress for her relief. In
addition to her other honors Mrs. Cobb
claims to be the tep-great-grandmothe OF
William Jennings Bryan. She was born in
Frankfort, KY, Jan. II, 1903. Her father,
Capt. Daniel Gano, as the records show,
was an officer in the revolutionary war,
serving five years. Mr.. Steele, who has pre-
scented special bill for her relief, says that
the pension records show that there are
seven surviving widows of revolutionary
soldiers and nine daughters of revolutionary
soldiers Mrs. Cobb being the only one of
the daughters west of the Alleghenies, ex-
cept Mrs. Lovey AIdrich, of Los Angeles,
Cal. He says there are $500 widows of SOL
dierS of the war of 1872 now living.
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Buried in Rebel Soil.
e Indianapolis Journal.

special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART Ind, Jan. Is. = Commander
James S. Dodge, of the Department of In
diana, G. A. r., has received from re-
liable source information to the effect that
one mile east of Burns, Tenn, which is
thirty-eight miles west of Nashville, on the
N, c. & st. l.. Railway, are buried the re-
mains of Solomon Rubel Union soldier.
He was killed by Duvall McNairy's men in
1864, and his comrades placed a board at
his grave bearing his name, regiment and
company He belonged to an Indiana regi-
ment, but time has long since obliterated
the headboard and only small mound of
clay now marks his grave. Several other
Union soldiers were also killed near there,
but they have long since been removed to
different cemeteries Why the remains of
Solomon Rubel were not removed Is not
known. If the deceased soldier has any
relatives or friends living who can give
any information on the subject, and who
will communicate with Commander Dodge
regarding the same, steps will be taken to
have the remains removed to a proper rest
ing place. either in national cemetery or
elsewhere.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15-Acting Secre-
tary of War Meikeljohn has recommended
to Congress that the law be changed so
as to have details of officers for military
instruction made only to institutions where
there are at least one hundred students en-
rolled in the military department of the in
stitution.
To-days statement of the condition of
the treasury: Available cash balance,
1929, $40 1879; gold reserve, 1852, 419 COL.
The Senate yesterday passed a bin to pen
sion Maria Somerlat, widow of Valentine
Somerlat Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteers,
at So. The bill has yet to pass the House.
Arthur e. McPartridge, of Holton, Ind.
has been appointed a teacher at the Pine
month.
Lafayette Ellis was to-day appointed
postmaster at Ellsworth, Dubois county, In
diana vice Bridget A. Kenny, removed
Allison c. Moss has been appointed a la
borer in the federal building at Indianap-
oils at $40 per annum.
The philatelists of Washington have pro-
tested to Postmaster General Gary against
the proposed new issue of stamps comment
orative of the Omaha exposition. Their
arguments are that the stamps will serve
no useful purpose; that their issue will en-
tail expense to the government, and that
they will be gathered up by SPECTATORS
who will hold them in the future at specu-
lative prices.
The subcommittee of the Senate commit
tee on appropriations considering the urg-
day to eliminate the provision inserted by
the House requiring owners of bullion to
pay transportation on it from the assay
office to the mints.
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THE FACTIONS FIGHTING.
Day LabOrers in Mines Insist on Raise
in Wages.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL Ind, Jan. 15.-The animosity ex-
listing between the miners and day laborers
at the mines was manifested here to-day at
a mass meeting of the day men held at
Roberts Hall, presided over by James Tyre.
Among the crowd was a large number of
miners, and before the secretary was chosen
the chairman ordered all miners to leave the
hall, declaring that the meeting was ex
clusively for the day laborers. His senti-
ments were Endorsed by almost every day
laborer present, and the miners filed out,
many declaring that the action taken by the
dav men would cause serious trouble in the
ranks of the miners organization in this
locality Some declared they would not
aid the day men in gaining their point for
higher wages. The day laborerS claim that
the miners are responsible for the small
wages day men are now receiving. The OBJ
iect of the meeting was to select delegates
to go 10 the Chicago convention and in
sist on a scale being made by which the
dav laborers shall receive the price of three
tons of coal for days work instead of two
and a half tons, paid. A prominent
operator. who will attend as delegate, said
today that should the day men send dele
gates they would not be allowed seat in
the convention. That trouble of a serious
nature is brooding in the ranks of the
miners there can be no doubt, and unless a
reconciliation can be secured it may result
disastrously. AS a result of the miners
meeting here every mine in the county was
closed down to-day.
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BILLIARDS THIS WEEK.
Ives, Cation, Schaefer, SpinI<s and SUIT
ton to play at Chicago.

CHICAGO Jan. 15.-Ives and Cation will
face each other in the initial game of the
handicap billiard tournament to commence
Monday evening, at Central Music Hall. OF
the five entries, Ives and Schaefer each
play 400 points to $50 for Cation, Spinks and
Sutton. The schedule has been arranged
to bring Ives and Schaefer against the
other players in the evening games on alter
nate nights. while the shortstops will fight
each other in the afternoon. Sutton is the
local favorite for third place. The position
of referee lies between Captain A. c. Arson
and John Matthews. The veteran. Charlie
Matthews, will be marker. Schaefer is
slight favorite in the betting, partly owing
to his run of Isl in practice Friday night,
but Ives has plenty of friends, who are TAX
ing all the bets they can get at even money.
There is no chance of a match between
Schaefer and Ives at three-cushion caroms
as the former must go East as soon as the
tournament closes TO prepare for his match
with George SloSSon.
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Obituary..

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.-Mrs. James
L. Flood, wife of the millionaire mine owner,
died to-day as the result of an operation
recently performed at the California Wom-
ans Hospital. The deceased, who was only
thirty-four years DID, was a native of Kan
sas City, whittier her remains will be taken
for interment.
LANCASTER, Pa, Jan. 15.-Prof. John
H. Haldeman, who from 1869 to 1889 was
principal of the department of observation
of the State Normal School at Westfield,
Mass. is dead at Marietta, Pa, aged sixty
five years.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 15.-Wien For
ney, a well-knOwn retired editor died at
his residence in this city this evening, after
a long illness from paralysis, aged seventy
one years.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 15-Mr. John A.
Gano, a well-known citizen, formerly one
of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Com
mercal, died to-day.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-Sr Polydore de Key
SER who was lord mayor of London during
the year 1SS7-8S, is dead He was born in
1892
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. - The monthly
statement of the exports and imports is
sued by the Bureau Of Statistics shows that
the exports of domestic merchandise for
December last amounted to $l29,1S1 FAB, an
increase as compared with December, 1896
of over 100000. For the twelve months
the increase was over $93,OO0,000. The inn
ports of merchandise during December last
amounted to $51,514793, of which $24,1S4,5 S8
was free of duty. This is a falling off in
dutiable merchandise of over $S.50O.OOO. For
the twelve months the increase was about
S54500,000 The gold exports for December
last amounted to $57353S and the imports
81, 1908. For the twelve months there was
a decrease in the exports of $50, S73, 0S7 and a
decrease in the imports of $73,6S1, 1872. The
exports Of silver during the last month ag-
gregated $5,S00,271 and the imports 81, 063, 1852
The years figures show a decrease in the
silver exports of SAIL, 062 and $357,SN in the
IMPORTS
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will be produced. other dramatic bills VIII
be put on later, probably including Ca
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the treasury a recommendation for an
urgent deficiency appropriation for the
United States Courts involving over a half
million dollars. The principal itern called
for is 100000 TO establish sites and erect
United States jails in the northern, central
and southern districts of the Indian Terri
tory, at Muscogee, South McAlester and
Ardmore. respectively, and incidental pur-
parent that the buildings now utilized as
jails there are far from satisfactory and
complaints due to their utter unfitness are
constantly arising. There no buildings
in the territory possessing, even to a re-
mote extent, those qualifications which
would render them suitable for the deten-
ton and safexeeping of prisoners, according
to the attorney general, and the efforts of
the department to have properly-equipped
buildings erected by residents OF the ter
ritory have been Intellectual
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ness men Of Fort Wayne and Decatur, and
is very bitter at the statements sent broad
cast to the papers. that he was arrested
for forgery. In an interview this evening,
which he signed, he says:
The statement that / was arrested for
forgery is an absolute untruth, no such
charge ever having been made against me.
was charged with having obtained money
under false pretenses, and this charge is
q civil debt. which will be able TO prove.
This morning, when l appeared in court
by my attorney, he demanded an immedi-
ate trial and urged that he case, be taken
up next Monday morning, whicA was de-
MED. He then urged that it be taken up
the first day of the February term, and
this the prosecution refused. | was then
released. the prosecution refusing to fix any
time for trial. | was never asked to give
mortgage security. The notes are secured
by mortgage and were given to the parties
by my being DESTROYS to thus further Sc
cure them and not because they asked for
it, because they were entirely satisfied with
the notes as collateral security"
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quarrel between Boarders.

Patrick Mahoney and Luke Ward board
at "a South Senate avenue. Last night, az
10 O'Clock. they became involved in quar-
rel which resulted in the arrest of both,
Mahoney being charged with assault and
battery with intent To kill and Ward with
plain assault. Ward received a bad cash
in the chin, which necessitated the attend
ance of Police Surgeon Christian. The men
spent the evening at home in company with
al old soldier and the young daughter or
the landlady Mahoney was somewhat I'M
der the influence of liquor and resented an
imaginary insult which the old sailor paid
the young woman. Ward interfered in his
friends behalf and was cut. Ward walked
TO the police station and was locked up,
An hour later Sergeant Crane and Patrol-
men Slate and McCun arrested Mahoney.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Army Bill Debated and the Late Seth
w. MiIliI1en EuIOgized.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The House de-
voted two hours TO general debate on the
army appropriation bill and the remainder
OF the day to eulogizng the life and public
services of the late Representative Seth w.
Ailiiken of Maine, who served for fourteen
years in the lower branch of Congress.
Immediately after the reading of the jour
nal at noon Representative Star pop,
Neb.) rose to a question of privilege to deny
a publication in a local paper stating that
he had acted as attorney in the pension case
of Jackson W. Cheney. AS a representa-
tive he said, he had interested himself in
the case. but he had never acted as a pen
sion attorney in his life
On motion of Mr.. Lanham (Dem., TeX.) q
bin was passed authorizing the President to
appoint an additional district judge for the
Northern district of Texas. 1t was eX-
piained that Judge Rector, of that district,
was utterly incapacitated from performing
the duties of his office.
The House then went into committee of
the whole and began consideration of the
army appropriation bill. The bill, Chair
man Hull, of the military committee, eX-
planned, carried $2S 800. Sl039,75l less than
the estimates and $16,l46 in excess OF the
law for the current year. The increase In
the pay of the army was due to The fact
that the army was nearer it's maximum
strength than heretofore. A new provision
IN the bill required the payment or troops
by the paymaster in person.
Inc general DEBATE on the Dill was deS-
ultory and was not confined to the sub
Ject matter dealt with by the bill Mr..
Henry (Dem. Tex took occasion to de-
nounce Secretary Cages funding scheme.
Mr.. Terry Dem. Ark.) made some remarks
about the protective tariff. and Mr.. Gaines
(Dem. Tenn some on the claim of the
publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.
At o'clock the debate was suspended to
give the members opportunity to pay
tribute to the memory of tie late Repre-
sentative Millikpn of Maine Speaker Reed
occupied the chair during delivery of
the eulogies. Those who spok ere Messrs.
Burleigh, who succeeded MI. Milliken, Ding
ley, Boutele, DinsmoTe, Skinner, Mercer,
Hilborn Hicks and Little. At 1926 p. M,
as a further mark of respect, the House adj
journed.
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CHANGES FAVORED.
Majority of House Republicans Want
CiviI-Service Law modified.

O1V1I-SeFN1Cc LAW MOulue
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The canvass Of
Republican members of The House of Rep
resentatives on the question of changing the
civil-service law which has been conducted
by the Republican steering committee, is
about cor1pleted. OF the POP Republican
members in the House the canvass is said
to show that a majority varying from
eighteen to forty is favorable to a change
in the law, according to the degree of
change proposed. This last factor leads to
some difference of opinion as to the result
of the canvass. Representative Pearson, of
North Carolina, member of the corlmittee,
places the number of Republicans who can
be depended on at 115. Mr.. Evans, of Ken
lucky, another member of the committee,
places the number at 135. Those who have
made the canvass say that in a number of
cases entire state delegations are shown by
the canvass to favor change in the law,
notably North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
lucky. West Virginia and New Hampshire.
The Minnesota count shows all but one for a
change; Michigan all but two; in Pennsyl-
Vania twenty-five out of twenty-seven Re-
publican members are counted in the cam
vasS for a change in the law. Beyond COM
plotting the canvass the opposition to civil
service law is taking no active steps for the
regular civil-service committee of the House
takes action on the bill before it proposes
a modification of the law.
Chief Examiner Server, of the Civil-Serv-
ice Commission. was re-examined by the
Senate civil-service investigating commit
tee to-day His testimony was in the ma
ture of a REPUTATION of the contention that
the commission frequently had no eligible
registers from which to supply vacancies.
He agreed that the rules should be amend
ed so as to provide that eligibles not re-
ceiving appointment should be carried on
the lists longer than the present fixed limit
of one year; then these, to remain on the
list must be re-examined. Under the pres
ent law he regarded deputy collectors of in
ternal revenue as properly classified but
thought that under proper restrictions col
lectors might be permitted to make the
appointment of deputies instead of having
revenue might properly be excluded from
L. ln iiL.ati lA1ni in,
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Jan. 15.-The taxi
ing of testimony in the trial of John Nc
Intosh for killing Frank Pottmeyer, the
saloon keeper, in November, which has oc-
cupied the time of the Cass Circuit Court
all week, was concluded this evening, and
court adjourned until Monday morning. The
arguments viii occupy Monday and Tues
day. and it is expected that the case will
be given to the jury that evening. The de-
Tense succeeded in making out much bet
ter case than was expected To-day, by
consent of both sides, Judge Chase gave
Juror William Allsbaugh permission to at
tend the funeral tomorrow of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Abraham West, who died in Ko-
komo last night.
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Mr.. Heath,s view of LIQUIDS Bin.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia letter has
been addressed by First Assistant Postmas-
ter General Heath to Representative Loud
author Of the Loud bill, restricting the
amount of second-class matter to be adj
mitted to the mails. Mr. Heath says that
his own experience as a publisher leads him
to believe that the bill will work less hard
ship to legitimate publishing firms if Mr.
Loud will modify it by simply reducing the
number of sample copies of papers to be
gether The present law allows SO per cent
of a papers circulation to be mailed as
sample copies. and to cut off this privilege
altogether, Mr.. Heath says, would work
a particular hardship on the small country
publication
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-16
bogus 500 cERTIFrcATEs.
Only Eighteen Received So Far at the
Treasury Department..

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. = Consignments
of ne-hundred-dollar silver certificates are
being received daily at the Treatury De-
partment but so far the number of new
counterfeits is surprisingly small. Up TO
this time only eighteen have been reported
from all sources. One of the new counter
feits received from Cincinnati has new
feature in the numbering, which begins
with S23; all others begin SAG. The secret
service is making an effort to locate the
maker of the note. but so far with little
success. Mr.. Crane, of the firm of Crane
& Co.. which makes the distinctive paper
on which all government notes are printed,
was at the department to-day, and made
careful examination of the new counterfeits
with view, if possible, to Identifying the
make of the paper, He, however, declined
10 express an opinion on this point
A telegram received from Atlanta Ga,
states that Frank Morse and Daniel Pierce
were arrested yesterday at Mobile. Ala. for
passing counterfeit ten-dollar silver GER
tificates, s.. 800 of the spurious notes being
found in their possession. Whether any
connection between these men and the
producer Of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES certifi-
cate is suspected is not known.
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MIR. Everett out on $4,000 BAIL.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
DECATUR, Ind. Jan. DC e. Everett
the Fort Wayne politician who has been in
Jail here the past two days, charged with
obtaining money under false pretense, was
released to-day on bond. His bond calls
for $4,000, and was signed by R. S. Robert
son. .. N. Foster, John Dreibelbiss, j. W.
White w. D. Page and N. r. Leonard, of
Fort Wayne, and R. K. Erwin, of this city
The bondSmen are among the Wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of the State.
Everett and his attorney, r. S. Robertson
left for Fort Wayne this afternoon, where
the accused man will spend Sunday with
mis- family He says he is not guilty of
wrong-doing and will easily prove his inno-
Cence.
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Rev. vigus Returns to the Pulpit.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, Jan. 15.-Rev. w. J. vi
gus, for the last seven years state agent of
the American Bible Society, and who for
merly resided in this city, has resigned and
will re-enter the ministry, taking a sta
ton in the North Indiana Methodist Con-
ference Rev. Vigus was for years one of
the abest and most popular pastors of the
conference His action excites a great deal
of surprise. DR.. Vigus now lives in Indian
aDOliS