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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-23
OBITUARY.
Gen. WheelOck 6. Veazey, One of the
Founders of the G. A. II.

WASHINGTON, March 22-Wheelock G..
Veazey, of Vermont formerly a member
of the Interstate-c Commission,
died here at o'clock tonight. Mr.. Veazey
resigned from the commission about a year
ago on account of failing health.
Gen. Wheelock Graves Veazey was born in
Rockingham county, New Hampshire, Dec.
q, 1885, and there passed his early life. He
was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy
and graduated from Dartmouth. He was
admitted to the bar in Vermont in 1885,
practcing till the war broke out, when he
was made captain of a volunteer Vermont
regiment. He served with distinction at
Gettysburg in the flank assault on Pickett's
division. He was a full colonel when dis
charged. He was judge of the Supreme
Court of Vermont from 1878 till 1888, and
was one Of the founders of the G. A. r. in
that State. At the Boston encampment of
the G. A. r.. in 1890, he was elected COM
mander-in-chief. He succeeded Aldace F.
Walker on the Interstate-commerce Com
mission in 1889, serving till 1896. when he re-
signed through i'll health. He leaves q
daughter Mrs. Clifford S. Walton.
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AUXILIARY CRUISERS.
Work of the Inspection BOard-Thc
Yacht MayfiOwer.

NEW YORK, March 22-Lieutenant KEEL
ly of the board for the inspection of auxil-
larry cruisers, said to-day that the Morgan
line steamer Chalmett had been decided on
as repair ship iii case she should be re-
quired. 1t is the purpose of the board to
examine into the adaptation for naval de-
Tense purposes of all steamers plying be-
tween New York and Southern ports. The
special reason for this, it was learned is
that in case of war these steamers would
nave to abandon trading at least during the
period of hostities in Southern waters In
that case they would have to lay up and
the naval officers deem it prudent to have
them ready for equipment as auxiliaries
should their services be needed. The board
this afternoon examined the Jamestown and
the Yorktown, of the old Dominion line OF
steamships, the steamship Concha of the
Mallory line, and the El Sud, of the Morgan
line.
The yacht Mayfiower, recently acquired
by the government. will be floated into the
naVy-yard dry dock tomorrow morning
The work of altering and repairing the
vessel began to-day under the supervision
of Naval Constructor Bowles, who expects
to have everything on board in shape by
April Is. The armament it is understood
will consist of two five-inch guns, twelve
six-pounders and two torpedo tubes. In
addition there will be four of the sx-milli-
meter automatic Colt weapons lately
shipped to the yard. A nickel steel plate of
seven-eighths-inch thickness will extend
over the more vulnerable parts. The altera-
tionS Will cost about So, 600.
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Ronnd for Newport News.

FRANKFORT, KY, March Ex-Governor
Pradley, his uniformed staff, and the state
officials who had not gone ahead and many
prominent citizens awaited here their pri-
vate cars that were attached to the first
section of the special Chesapeake & Ohio
train that left Louisville at o'clock this
afternoon for the battle ship launching at
Newport News. They, with others taken on
Kentuckians who make up the mammoth
double excursion party. Both sections of
The train left here at o'clock with banners
flying bands playing, and cheering from
both the passengers and the many specta-
tors at the station. The banquet, reception,
etc., will begin soon as the Kentuckians
reach Old Point Comfort tomorrow after
noon The speech of the event, so far as
the Kentucky contingents are concerned,
will be the Governors response to the toast
Kentucky at the banquet following the
launching and christening Thursday morn
ing
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ALI ANXIOUS TO SELL.
Rush of Ship Brokers and Makers of
War Material.


LONDON, March 22.-The return of the
United States ambassador, Col. John Hay
to London from Egypt has brought to the
embassy a swarm of war munitions men
and brokers who have options on war ships
Some of them renew efforts to sell to the
United States obsolete craft at preposterous
prices. Two brokers offered one ship at
prices 915O,O00 (s75OoOO apart New con-
tracts for ammunition and guns will prob
ably be made on the return of Commander
Willard H. Brownson, United States navy
from Paris, when there will be a confer
ence of the naval authorities to discuss the
occasion Commander Brownson will report
on the condition of the ships building in
France which might be purchased by the
United States. An official said: THE United
States will not be frightened into paying
exorb1tant prices or into buying second
rate ships and guns at any price" This dis
position proves disappointing to war ma
terial firms. some of which have tried to
profit by the governments needs to extort
fictitious prices.
The first installment of the Vickers-
Maxim Companys contract for guns
amounting to G75,000 ($3S5 0O0) including
many half-inch quick ffrers, was delivered
to-day.
The United States cruiser New Orleans
formerly the Amazonas) will take on a
heavy cargo of powder, shells and guns
She will descend the river tomorrow and
load several tons of brown powder The
consignment is so large that the author
tiles will not permit it to be loaded at
GraYeSend.
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PITTSBURG. Pa, March 22.--War scares
and lighting rumors responsible for
movement which will have an independent
army of 100000 men in fighting order in the
State of Pennsylvania within six months
They will be a part of the American Rifles
a patriotic military organization, which is
strong in the West and which is devoting
every possible moment to organization and
extension. Major Robert Griffith, of Chi
cage. is in Pittsburg with orders from head
quarters to organize the State of Pennsyl-
vania. He has established the center of
operations in Pittsburg and after complet-
ing his duties here will move eastward
slowly, mastering in companies and regi-
ments Three companies have been organ
lied here with full compliments of men.
Major Griffith figures that Pennsylvania
should yield at least 100000 members for
their army The war spirit in Pittsburg is
intense. he says, and the men We're eager
to be enlisted. Applications have been iour-
ing in on him from every part of the State
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NEW STATUE FOR CHICAGO.
Proposed Memorial to Carter II. Har-
risOn. the Worlds Fair Mayor.


Chicago is to have new statue of strik-
ing design and heroic proportions, note
worthy addition to the many fine mOnu-
ments that adorn it's great parks. 1t will be
erected to commemorate the eminent civic
services of the late Mayor Carter H. Har-
rison, whose tragic death at the hands of a
Wretched assassin just at the close or the
great worlds fair of 1893 put the city in
mourning.
1t is proposed to raise by subscription the
sum of at least $4,000. Many of those in
terested in the movement believe that a
much larger amount, possibly 800 600, may
easily be secured under the plan proposed.
Certainly if all of Carter Harrison'S friends
and admirers contribute each 81 the total
subscription will far exceed even the larger
sum named. The matter is in the hands of
the best citizens of Chicago, making it GER
tain that the highest degree of success will
be attained and securing beyond perad-
venture the safe custody of the funds 10 be
subscribed by the public.
The plan under which subscriptions are
asked is as follows: Each person subscrib-
ing 81 to the memorial fund will receive a
certificate and also handsome bronze
the organization. The certificate is Il work
of art, being beautifully engraved on steel.
The portrait is the one best known to the
general public, and instantly recalls the
aforementioned features of The dead
mayor 1t is pronounced by all who have
seen it the best portrait extant of the late
Carter Harrison and is approved as such
by his son. the present mayor of Chicago.
The medal is of bronze, having the same
portrait on one side ana on the reverse an
appropriate inscription. 1t viii be valued
far beyond it's intrinsic worth a memento.
The money collected from the sale of GER
tificates will be turned over to the treas
urer Mr.. John j. Mitchell president of the
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, each week
1t has been suggested since Mayor Harri-
son was so widely known throughout the
country and the world and came in personal
contact with so many thousands of visitors
during the worlds fair, that there are
doubtless many outside of Chicago who
he Glad subscribe the memoir
ial fund. Such persons can become mem
bers of the association and secure d certifi-
cate and medal by sending 81 to the secre-
tary, Mr.. Julius j. Cohen, 254 Monroe street.
Chicago
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

At Cascade Locks, Ore, Monday night,
Lewis Gebbard, aged seventy, shot and
blew out his own brains. Gebbard had been
in i'll health it is said, of late, and i'm
agined that his wife was trying to cause
his death.
of her children were burned to death. two
miles east of Texarkana Ark. The burning
was supposed to have been accidental, but
now the woman's husband is in jail charged
with double murder on evidence presented
by one Of his children.
The assignment of the firm of Pitts, Kim
ball & Lewis, importers and retailers, to II.
A. Belcher is anonunced. The firm is. one
of the largest in Boston. The amount of as
sets and liabilities is not stated. 1t is
thought that a settlement will be effected
and that the firm will continue business.
Rev. ORION d. Taylor, a Dalles (Ore) di-
vine, has been sentenced at Saginaw, Mich,
to six years in the Jackson state prison.
The complainant, DIR. D. B. Cornell, alleged
that Taylor induced him to buy $1,000 worth
of shares in the Interstate Investment Com
pany. of Ddiles, Ore, concern which did
not exist
At Butte Mont. yesterday. on the petit
ton of Livingston Gushing, of Boston,
appointed a receiver for the American
Developing and Mining Company an action
that caused great surprise in mining circles,
as the company was supposed to be in good
condition. ai& AbNIkM
The Republicans of the Eighth Ohio dis
trict yesterday nominated A s. Lybrand
for Congress. Contrasting delegates from
two counties who were not seated, together
with eighteen delegates from another coun-
ty, declared their intention TO hold rump
convention soon and make another nominal
ton The boilers represent the opposition
TO the national administration.
immigration Commissioner North and the
special board of inquiry have refused a
landing to thirty-three out of the ninety
eight Japanese who arrived at San Fran
cisco recently by the China and the Doric.
The remaining sixty-five were allowed to
land. The unlucky thirty-three claimed to
be farmers visiting California for the pur-
pose of studying agriculture The commits
sioner was convinced that they were COO
lies
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NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
Host Important Measure of the Ses-
sion Introduced in the House.

Host Important Measure of the Ses-
sion Introduced in the House.
WASHINGTON, March 22-The naval APP
preparation bill. as reported to the House
to-day, carries a total of $S5. 6SS, O5S, an in
crease over last year of So, 764, 452, and over
the current estimate of $2,5l4,S24 For the
increase of the navy the bill allows to be
constructed by contract three sea-going
coast line battle ships designed to carry the
heaviest armor and most powerful ord
nance, displacement 11,0OO tons, with the
highest practicable speed for their class, to
cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding
5000, 600 each. one TO be named the Maine;
six torpedo boats $50 tons displacement
and six torpedo boat destroyers, about $50
tons displacement. TO cost not exceeding
S2s40.0O0, and one gunboat to take the place
Of the United States ship Michigan, to cost,
exclusive of armament, not over $780, 600, to
be built on the great lakes. One of these
sea-going battle ships is to be built on the
Pacific coast. The contracts for the con-
struction Of these vessels are to be made
within sixty days of the enactment of the
bill. Toward the construction of four tim
bered dry docks. 100000 each is allowed
each to be not less than 7@a feet long and
sufficient to meet probable future require
be located at Portsmouth. N n, Boston,
Mass, League Island, Pa, and Mare ISL
and, Cal, the total cost when completed not
70 exceed ,sS50000 each. At Algiers, La, a
dry dock is to be built, but is to be of a
double side. steel floating type. known as
the combined floating and self-docking
dock, capable of lifting a vessel OF 5000
tons displacement and twenty-seven feet
draft of water. to cost, including mornings
and wharf, $S5G.0o0. of which 100000 is ap-
pr0priated this year. The bill directs the
appointment OF board of naval officers TO
determine the desirability of locating and
constructing dry dock i'm the harbor of
Galveston, Tex, and 10 report 10 Congress
next session.
Toward the armament and arfnor OF do
nestle manufacture OF vessels, authorized
under four previous acts and the present
bill, including the completion of the ord
nance outfit for the six torpedo boat de-
stroyers and six torpedo boats. there is an
item of Sfi5S,So0 the total cost of the ar
NOR, according 20 the plans and Specifca-
tons already prepared fSr the three battle
ships authorized BY the act OF June 10. 1896.
not 10 exceed s3,zl0,0o0, including ell nickel
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other Deaths in the statc.

BEDFORD, Ind, March 22-AIiss Ida
suddenly to-day of heart failure, the result
of pneumonia, from which she had been ill
since last Sunday. She called for assist
ance to get up from the bed and died with
her arms around a girl friends neck. She
was twenty-four years old, and the daugh-
ter of prominent farmer near the city.
LEBANON, Ind, March 22-William
Bush, a weH-to-do and Well-known citizen
of Lebanon, died suddenly here to-day of
heart disease. He was seventy-four years
old, and leaves a wife and seven children
He was native of Cook county, Tennessee.
MARION, Ind, March 22.-Mrs. William
II. Anderson, the wife of a leading business
man, died to-day very suddenly of heart
disease, aged thirty-fve She was the
daughter of c. ]. Vigus, of Logansport.
GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 22.-Philip
zimmerman, died at his home in this city
to-day, aged seventy. He was well-known
and highly respected citizen.
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Emergency Contracts for Food.

NEW YORK, March Pit was an
nounced on the Produce Exchange yester-
day that the Navy Department had entered
into emergency contracts for one thousand
half barrels of pork and one thousand half
barrels of salt beef. These contracts were
in addition to the contracts for regular sup
plies for the department and the terms
We're that the pork and beef should be de-
livered at once. For two years a large part
of the food supplies for both the Spanish
and Cuban forces has been contracted for in
New York. The chief supplies are salt pork,
bacon. lard goldfish -four and beans. Will
liam B. Craigin, of Armour Il CO., said that
the latest contract he knew of was one
made last week to supply the Spanish with
800 600 pounds of bacon.
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The Chinese Loan.

LONDON, March 22.-There was no rush
here to subscribe for the Chinese loan and
it is doubtful whether the amount will be
covered A dispatch from Berlin says the
loan was largely oversubscribed there to-
day.
1t was announced from Berlin on Feb. %
that Chinese loan of $1,000, coo $3.50 900. OOO)
had been arranged with the Hong-Kong
and Shanghai Bank of London and the
German Asiatic Bank. This was confirmed
the same day by the officers in London
of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Bank.
The loan, 1t was added, was at low rate
of interest probably 31s per cent, and will
be issued below par. The security is UNDER
stood to be of two kinds, revenues hither-
to unpledged and international security in
the shape of new ports to be opened, the
port dues of which would be pledged and
further certain industrial and mining con-
cessions and security to the loan, which
it was further announced would not have
been concluded had not Germany insisted
in order to prevent Russia from obtain
ing it.
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CHINA STILL WAITING
HAS NOT YET SUBMITTED TO THE
DEMANDS OF-FRANCE.
Hurried Meeting nf tho British Cab
inet-Chinese MiIitin Protcct-
ing a Murderer.

LONDON. March 22.-rhe Picking corre-
spondent Of the Times says: China has
not yet formally replied to the French de-
mands. She Is passively awaiting further
French action. Ii Hung Chang and Chang
Yin Huan have been appointed 10 represent
China at the forthcoming conference with
NJ. Pavloh. the Russian charge d'affaires,
who has received special power. NJ. Paw
lofts intended departure from Peking has
been postponed until August"
The Times, commenting editorially on the
dispatch of it's Picking correspondent re-
CARDS the postponement of M. Pavloffs de-
parture from Picking as "tantamount to an
approval by his government of NJ. Pavloff's
peremptory methods" The Times publishes
: letter signed Shanghai to which it at
taches Importance. whose writer alleges
that Ii Hung Chang and Chang Yin Huan.
who are representing China in the negotia-
tions with NJ. Pavloff, are definitely COM
mitted to support the Russian policy, and
that Lii Hung Chang actually informed NJ.
Pavloff of all the de tails of the British pro-
posals to the loan on the day they were
confidentially submitted TO the Tsung Ii
Yamen.
There is considerable speculation as to the
fact that after a hurriedly convened Cabi-
net council yesterday, the French anbas-
sador, Baron De Courcel. arrived at the
Foreign Office and remained the unusual
time of two hours. afterward visiting the
Russian embassy. There were also fire.
quent consultations between the Duke of
Devonshire, lord president of the Council; .
Arthur j. Balfour, first lord OF the treas
TRY, government leader in the House of
Commons, and in the absence of Lord Sails
bury, acting foreign minister, and Sir
Thomas Sanderson, permanent under sec
rotary for foreign affairs.
Further kilograms from Chung King-Fu
regarding the sacking of the Methodist
medical mission in the Kiang-Pehl coun-
try show that the Chinese militia is now
there in large force and refuses to allow
the execution of the death sentence passed
upon the murderer of the student who was
killed by the rioters who destroyed the
mission, as was announced in these dis
patches on March Is. The foreign consuls
have demanded that the Tao-Tai dispense
the militia execute the murderer, arrest
the leaders of the rioters, pay 500 taels for
the property destroyed, allow the mission
to re-occupy the premises and engage to
protect the members of the mission.
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Young Hudson Released.
ial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March PA let
ter has been received from Morton Hudson,
who was under arrest at Tenencingo, Mex
leo, accused of murder, saying that he ex-
pected to be released in a few days. and it
is possible that he is now on his way home.
Former Secretary of the Navy Thompson
asked the United States minister Powell
Clayton, to request the Mexican authorities
to expedite the case, and through Senator
Fairbanks the State Department also took
up the matter. From information received
here Hudsons acquittaI depended largely on
the confession, or statement, made by the
man who died few days after the af-
fray, in which Hudson shot one man dead
and fatally wounded the other. Hudson and
his friend, Joe Powell, were on horseback,
when the two MeXicans came on them for
the purpose of robbery, as it seemed TO
them, and murder if need be. Hudson left
here several years ago to live on a ranch
in Texas. His father, Colonel r. N. Hud-
son, was a prominent resident of this city
for many years. and his widow is now visit
ing in California
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BOONE COUNTY PATRIARCH.
David A. Caldwell Celebrates His
Ninety-FOuFth Anniversary.

Ntmety-FOurth Anniversary.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Ind, March 22-David A.
Caldwell. the Oldest man in Boone county,
celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday ami
versary yesterday. A family reunion was
held and a big dinner served. Mr.. Caldwell
was injured one day last week by a fall and
was not able to take an active part in the
festivities in his honor, but he enjoyed the
occasion very much despite his helpless
condition.
David A. Caldwell was born March 81,
1904, in Nicholas county, Kentucky. He early
learned to read, write and figure" and by
reading at home gained a good common ed
ucation. He became a good mathematician
and when a young man of twenty-five
made copy of the arithmetical examples
that he had studied in Guthres arithmetic.
The copy was made in neat, old-faShioned
hand which is an excellent example of good
penmanship. This record begins with sim
pie fractions, then follows the rule of three,
the universal rule of proportion and many
examples of practice. Mr.. Caldwell was
married in Nicholas county at the age of
twenty-five, Miss Martha Cresswell being
the bride. He is the father of four children,
all born in Kentucky. After marriage MI.
Caldwell settled on farm in Nicholas
county and resided there fourteen years. IN
1S43 h moved to Indiana and settled in
Boone county, where he entered 480 acres
of land. He paid $l.20 per acre ana ABOUT
eighteen years ago he sold black walnut
tree which paid for forty acres of land AT
one time he owned 72O acres. After dividing
about five hundred acres among his grand
children he still retains one hundred acres
as the home farm. Mr.. Caldwell was one of
a family of eight children and is the only
one of them now living. He has reached a
greater age than any of his ancestors He
now has sixteen grandchildren, forty-four
great-grandchildren and four great-great-
grandsons. He is widely known over the
county and is universally beloved.
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Rev. wade at Muncie.
the Indianapolls journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March Prev. c. U.
Wade. of Wabash, was in Murcie to-day,
having come here from Marion where he
spent several days Investigating the sensa-
tional charges that have lately DETAINED the
character of Rev. J.. NJ Driver, pastor Of
the leading NJ E. C.htfreh in that town Mr..
Wade was sent there by Presiding Elder
Lewellen, and had long meetings with mem
berS of the board of trustees and congrega-
ton. His report to the conference will be
that he did not have time to make a proper
investigation of the charges before, and he
will recommend that a committee be APP
pointed with power to act. For several years
Rev. Driver was pastor of the important
charge at Fort Wayne.
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Kirby House Changes Hands.

Special 10 the IndlanapOIls JOurnaI.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 22-The Kirby Ho-
tel, recently sold by its founder, Julius A.
Heinsohn to Christopher Neipp, of Evans
vile, to-day again changed hands. Mr..
Neipp disposed of the furnishings and a
ten-year lease on the building to John j.
Dow, of Grand Fork, Oak, the consider
alton being $1,000 cash. Mr.. Neipp will re-
tire the list of April lie paid 900 for the
property but has made extensive improve
me- nts and the books show a big earning
on the investment. His idea for selling was
to secure much larger house in some city.
Recently the hotel owned by Mr.. Dow in
Grand Fork was destroyed by fire. The
travelling public will regret to learn of Mr..
Neipp's departure, as he has given Muncie
a hotel she has never had before.