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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
PANIC AMONG DANCERS.
Gallery Gives Way and Precipitates
Spectators to the Floor.

CHICAGO, Feb. "a panic among two
hundred dancers was narrowly averted last
midnight at the North Shore Hall. Thirty
spectators We're crowded into the little bal
cony watching the dance. The supports be-
came loosened and slipped back to the wall.
The balcony sank gradually, allowing the
spectators to slide topsy turvey on to the
polished floor. When the creaking and pull
ing commenced, indicating that the bal
cony was falling, the large number of per-
sons gathered underneath quickly stam-
peded towards the central portion of the
hall, leaving John Krusc behind. Krusc was
caught by the falling timbers and had his
side crushed in. AS the north end of the
balcony commenced to fall the musicians
became panicstricken and, Selling their in
struments, made a dash for the door The
dancers followed. Several police officers
stationed at the door pushed it shut and
held it against the panicstricken dancers,
thus averting a certain catastrophe in the
narrow stairway. OF the thirty persons in
the gallery, Krusc alone suffered serious in
juries All the others, however, were pain
fully bruised
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now going on. For the present it is as much
a mystery as ever whether Baron Taube
prospective daughter-in-law was responsible
for the deed
MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME.
Behind the crime, if crime has been
committed, is a story involving feudal Gus
toms which would prove motive Cham
berlain Taube had two sons, the oldest Of
whom Evert, was betrothed to Countess
Helga Skajerskjold. But Evert Taube has
been the black sheep of the family. He has
led wild life and it was well known to
relatives and friends of the family that the
younger son would, on the mothers death,
be declared heir to the entailed estates.
Through a singular clause in the act of en-
tail governing the Taube estates, females
can Inherit, and the actual possessor of the
estate may remove the entail subject to one
condition, which reads as follows
The entail can be removed a will by
either male or female pOssessor. providing
he she stand not accused and proved
guilty of capital crime"
These words of the entail furnish the
possible motive for HelgBs Skajerskjold's
accusation against Nine. Taube of having
poisoned her husband. BY the claims OF
the entail Mime. Taube being accused and
proven guilty of capital crime. as the pos
SCISSOR of the estate could not substitute
the younger for the older son, and conse-
quently Evert the Countess Skajerskjold'S
Her strange and repeated vacillations,
from accusing the Baroness Taube to ac-
cusing herself. may be attributed to a weak
mind, struggling between a desire for
wealth and a fear of committing serious
crime.
Helga Skaierskjold is a handsome, accom-
pllShed woman. about twenty-eight years
old She is highly educated and has moved
in the most exclusive circles of Stockholm
and the European capitals. Her father,
Count Skajerskjold, is well-known build
er OF railways in Sweden. Until recently
he had always been reputed an immensely
wealthy man. His house in Stockholm was
for years the center of gayety and fashion,
but suddenly a crash came. Fvom the most
luxuriouS surroundings the family for a
time experienced the most pinching poverty.
The count soon had his affairs arranged
and was again engaged in railway enter
priSeS. He was compelled to take up his
residence in the country. His house hap
pened to be near Broxvik the Taube es-
tate, and the count and his daughters (the
mother being dead were Hospitality re-
ceived by. the titled families of the neighbor-
hood The engagement of Baron Evert
Taube to Countess Helga Skajerskjold soon
followed, and was something of a surprise
at the time
No suspicion connects the count with the
daughters acts. and he has the sympathy
are socially the most delightful people. with
a personal magnetism that at once attracts
strangers Tremendous influence will no
doubt be brought to bear on King Oscar by
the aristocratic family of Sweden to obtain
royal leniency, but King Oscar has not the
reputation of being man to interfere with
justice.
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BUTTE, Mont, Feb. 6.--Information re-
ceived from Lethbridge, on the Canadian
boundary, is TO the effect that great ex-
element has been caused there by orders
received from the Dominion government
that every man Of the mounted police holds
himself in readiness. To- proceed to the
Yukon at a moments notice for temporary
duty. superintendent Dean has received no.
tice to go to Mcleod to relieve Major
Steele, who was ordered to the Yukon and
had left for that place before the arrival
of the second message. Five men were also
ordered to the Yukon and left yesterday
The orders which were received by wire by
the officers in command of the division are
said to be due to the existence of serious
trouble between the Canadian and United
States authorities in Alaska relative to the
attempt by the Americans to get provisions
into the Yukon free of duty, ostensibly for
the relief of the distressed, but in reality
for sale to the highest bidders.
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BOUND FOR THE YUKON
HUNDREDS OF GOLD SEEKERS
LEAVING PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
Many Licenses for the KIOndiIke Re-
gion Issued by the Canadian Au-
thorities at Vancouver.

VICTORIA, B. c., Feb. e-The steamer
Queen left this morning with over five hum
dred miners for the Yukon. She will be fol-
lowed tomorrow by the Danube with over
two hundred more. over one hundred min
ers' licenses for the Yukon district were
issued yesterday and almost as many to-
day by the collector of customs He has
issued over fifty daily since the licenses
arrived. A party is being organized here
to carry on dredging operations on the Hoo
talinqua river. 1t will take in a large steel
cylinder, similar to those nsed in sinking
artesian wells and will work the bars of
the river. The cylinder will be taken over
on the snow in a specially built sleigh APP
plication will be made at the next session
of the local Legislature for a charter for a
railway from Observatory inlet to Glenora,
to connect with the Teslin Lake Railway.
This will give a route from the coast TO
Damsey, all in Canadian territory.
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OFFER OF Mediation Declined.

CHICAGO, Feb 6.-The Tribune's Wash
ington special says: Premier Sagasta has
declined the third offer of friendly media
ton on the part of the United States. This
information was conveyed in a cipher mes
sage received from Minister Woodford by
President Mckinley on Friday. The mes
sage was a most unusual one. Instead of
being addressed to the secretary of state
it was addressed to the President thing
which has not happened since Consul Cen
eral Lees famous cablegrams to President
Cleveland Of nearly a year ago. This cable
gram from Woodford was not long, but re-
cited the fact that Premier Sagasta
fused to admit that Spain had reached the
end Of her rope in Cuba; that she was I'M
able to suppress the instruction; that
autonomy was a failure or that she needed
the assistance of the United States in
bringing the Cuban struggle to an end
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INDUSTRIAL BOOM AT MuNcIE.
Several Establishments Forced Il
Enlarge Their Plants.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE, Ind. Feb. 6.-To-morrow morn
ing the Muncie Wheel Company will begin
the erection of three-story brick addition
to its already big plant to enable 1t TO meet
the increased demand for it's products. The
building will be 50xl50 in dimensions and will
be fire proof.
The contract has been let by the Green
Glass Company at West Muncie for the
construction of a continuous tank in addi
ton to its factory. This will nearly double
their output of fruit jars.
The Hemingway Glass Company has con-
traeted for the erection of two continuous
tanks to double its output OF flint table
ware.
The Muncie Iron and Steel Company, es-
tablished and owned by Muncie business
men, finds its capacity entirely. too small,
and Ii Is negotiating for the purchase of
the White river rolling mill which has been
idle for two years more There is a de-
mand for the idle property from other
sources also, and the MuIIcie company may
be compelled to double up it's own plant.
The Whiteley malleable iron works has con-
tracted for a large addition TO its plant, and
another story is being added to the main
building at the Patton hollow ware works,
and the Midland Steel Company is drafting
plans for an addition to its big mills. In
creased business within the past few months
is the cause in each case. Arc electric light
plants have been added to the architectural
iron works, bent wood works, Bartlett head
now working night forces to keep pace with
orders.
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Obituary..

BOSTON, Feb 6--George Curtis. father
day at his home, in Roxbury, of paralysis.
aged eighty-one years. Mr.. Curtis made a
fortune in the lumber business, from which
he retired in 1854. Besides numerous offices
of trust in financial bodies. he served in
the aldermanic boards of the old city of
Roxbury and of Boston and in the Legis-
l2ture.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6. - Henry M. Mar
kert, a wealthy retired confectioner, aged
sixty-nine years, dropped dead tonight at
a concert of the Beethoven Maennerchor.
bers of the society, and a song of his COM
position was the first number on the pro-
gramme tonight.
DERBY, Conn. Feb. 6-Amos II. Alling,
of the firm of A. H. & c. B. AIling, wooden
manufacturers operating the Paugasett
mills which employ SEQ hands, died to-day
of cerebral hemorrhage, aged seventy-five
years.
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No CABINET CRISIS.
Rumors Concerning the Autonomous
Council Denied by Senior GalVez.

HumOFS concerning the
Council Denied by senior GalVez.
HAVANA, Feb. 6-Senor Jose Maria
Galvez. president of tho autonomist cabinet,
says there is no disagreement among its
members nor anything in the nature of
crisis. On the contrary, all the ministers
understand their programme and mission,
which he sums up as ito establish the new
regime. to prepare for the elections and to
constitute a Chamber of Deputies" Under
no conditions, declares Senior Galvez, is it
the mission of members of the Cabinet to
address the insurgents officially or to ne
gotiate for peace, unless they should have
a guarantee as to the outcome of their
efforts Nevertheless the members of the
Cabinet in their unofficial capacity, will
do all i'm their power to smooth the path
way and will contribute TO all private
efforts TO bring about favorable issue
Senior Galvez says the Cabinet is expect
ing favorable news from the province of
Santa Clara and assurance that General
Maxine Gomez retired across the trocha
into the Camaguey district. owing to lack
of support and to 1.-The conflicting opinions
that distract the insurgents in eastern
Cuba" Peace will come, he declares by
the combined action of arms and politics.,
but ii is absolutely necessary to demon
strate the efficiency OF Spanish arms at the
same time that the beneficial influences of
the new regime are being made known.
The French cruiser Dubourdieu arrived
here to-day
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Feb. 6.-The Illinois
and Minnesota building and loan associa-
tions, for which receivers have been APP
pointed by the courts of this county dur
ing the past week to attend to their In
diana affairs, have begun a fight against
the receiverships Attorney J. r. Long,
representing the National Home Building
and Loan Association and the Equitable
Building and Loan Association of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, arrived in this city last night and
will tomorrow morning ask that the re-
ceivers be dismissed. He will file a state
ment contrOverting the allegations made by
Indiana stockholders on which the receivers
were appointed and will raise questions of
Interstate law questioning the right of In
diana judges to appoint receivers for Illi-
uois concerns of this nature The Security
Building and Loan Association of Minneap-
oils will also bring action to set aside the
receiver appointed last week.
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Did Not surrender.

HAVANA, Feb. 6.-The American (vari-
ously named in the dispatches as Henry W.
Faim, Henry w. Tain and Emory Fem,
the last probably being correct, who had
served with the Cuban artillery in the
province of Santiago de Cuba, and who, It
was reported, had surreneded to the Span
ish authorities at Gibara, denies that he
surrendered lie says he was taken pris-
oner by the column of General Binares. On
its becoming known that he was an Ameri-
New York by the Ward line steamer Yucca
tan. but will not carry with him 5000, as
reported.
At Meriane to-day provisions were dis
tributed TO eight hundred persons. In each
case the recipient was given a ticket show
ing that the Gift of food was from the
United States.
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UntruthfuI Mirrors.
Philadelphla 1,imes.


No doubt the human race would consider
it short of a universal tragedy if there were
looking glasses. Yet. in spite of their
widespread use, it is an astonishing fact
that none of US have ever seen ourselves
as others see us. In the first place. the re-.
Election in the mirror does not portray our
likeness with any attempt at accuracy The
hair is wrong in tone; the eyes are not cor
rect in color. and our compilations are hope
lessly libeled by this specious household de-
ceiver. 1t is certain that if the looking
glasses spoke the truth the sale of various
complexion washes would decrease to half,
for any fair skin looks gray and pallid in
the glass, and numbers of women who have
splendid compilations ruin them by trying
to improve them, because they look bad in
the mirror. You may be certain that how
ever plain your face seems. it is by no
means so plain as it appears in the tell-tae
mirror.
Secondly you cannot assume your natural
expression while peering in the looking
glass. The eye must be in a certain posi-
tion before you can see at all, and the eye,
so far as expression is concerned, governs
the face. The consequence is that you can
see only one of your expressions in the
glass, and that expression is one of AFTER
tive examination. All the other expressions
by which your friends know you, favorable
or unfavorable, you have never seen, and
never will see.
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MAY RAIN TO-DAY.
Warmer Weather, Increasing CIOudi.
ness and Possibly Showers.

Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for
the twenty-four hours ending IL p. IN. Feb.
Warner; increasing cloudiness and posi-
bly, showers.
General Conditions Yesterday-West of the
Mississippi the barometric pressure is low.
with very high temperatures. The low
barometric area central over South Dakota
is moving eastward. High barometric
pressure and lower temperature prevailed
east of the Mississippi. Fair weather pre-
vailed everywhere.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.-For Ohio
Threatening weather. with light snow or
rain on the lakes; warmer; fresh to brisk
southeasterly winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Threatening
weather, with light rain in extreme north
ern portions; warmer; southerly winds.
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Our HUMOROUS Papers.



The success of the American comic ana
humorous papers has all come within TWEEN
ty years. Puck started about 1871. begin
ming as a German paper and quickly de-
veloping an English edition, which soon
Judge followed five Years later languished
for a time, ana finally, after changing
hands, justified It's existence. Life began
itself, and then quickly found favor and
became valuable property. The literary
side of Puck was greatly strengthened by
it's editor, but it's field, like that of Judge,
has always been broad comedy varied by
politics. Life has appealed, and very sue
and has been exceedingly useful in Develop
ing illustrators. The cheapening of the
processes of pictorial reproduction helped
all these papers, and it is doubtless largely
due TO that that they succeeded where such
predecessors as Vanity Fair and Punch
inelo came to grief and died young.
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SAGASTA'S CURT REPLY
SAYS SPAIN CANNOT FIX A DATE FOR
ENDING THE CUBAN WAR.
He Also Complains to Minister Wood
ford of FiIibustering Expeditions
starvation and Death.

LONDON, Feb. THE Madrid CORE
spondent of the Standard says: Senior Sa-
gasta's response to the official note pre-
sented yesterday Saturday by General
Woodford the United States minister COM
plains of filibustering expeditions and de-
clares that Spain cannot entertain the sug-
gestion for fixing date for her compile
ton of the pacification of Cuba. Pessmist
impressions are now current regarding the
relations between Spain and the United
States and have depressed the Madrid and
Barcelona bourses. Public feeling among all
classes is strong against America
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INDIANAPOLIS Saturday and authorized w.
T. Mace to bring suit against the forty
residents of Young America who destroyed
his saloon a week ago. Callen found the
villagers still in belligerent mood. threat
ening to repeat the violence If Mace
started up again and defying the Liquor
League to prosecute them for the work.
The mob included the most prominent resi-
dents Of Young America and they made no
attempt to disguise themselves A war is
evidently on as Secretary Callen is de-
tefmined TO stop the saloon dynamiting
that has been going on in the vicinity and
lie residents are equally determined that
no saloon shall exist in their midst. Thirty
saloons have been dynamited in the past
ten or twelve years in this section of the
State.
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standard oil STOCK Dividends.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 6.-The Enquirer
in its business columns, will say il has
leaked out from the recent annual meeting
Company for this territory that reor-
ganization plan is on the tapis, to be per-
fected in a short time, This plan con-
templates issuing stock dividends to the ex-
tent of four shares for each one share or
certificate of stock held by present holders
of stock. This will increase the face value
1t is said that the quarterly dividends of
~ per cent. are 10 be paid on this stock
thus augmented.
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DIR. Schwartz of Berlin has come to the
conclusion that marriage is the most inn
pOrtant factor in human life conducive to
longevity, as of 200 persons who attained
the age of forty i25 were married and
70 single. At sixty the proportions were
as 10 %: at seventy. " to IL. and at ninety,
bachelor or spinster could be found, nor
for the matter OF that, one married couple
all these venerable individuals being
widows or widowers 1t may be urged says
Business. that these statistics only prove the
numerical superiority of married folk. but
Dr. Schwartz declares the rate of mortality
for husbands and wives between the ages
of thirty and forty-five to be IL per cent,
whereas unwedded persons perish at the
rate of % per cent Marry early and
marry often appears to be the worthy doe
tors advice TO all who desire long life.
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If your children are we'll
but not robust, they need
SCOTS Emulsion of Cod
liver Oil.
We are constantly in re-
ceipt of reports from par
ents who give their~children
the emulsion every fall fora
month or two. Itkeeps them
we'll and strong all winter.
1t prevents their taking cold.
Your doctor will confirm
this.
The oil combined with
the hypophosphitesisa splen-
did food tonic.
SOC. and sl.o0, all druggists.
scoTT 4 BOVINE Chemists. New YotA
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Indiana Notes.

Jesse Parrish and Edward Mays We're cut
and dubbed during row at Elwood Satur-
day night.
The annual March combination sale of
harness horses by Fleming q Son. at Terre
Haute. this year will have between 26O and
$50 horses to dispose of. The consignments
include some of the best-bred horses from
noted farms.
I. N. Miller and G.. III. Wood, of the Ko-
komo Pulp and Paper Company, have TAX
en- a five years lease the plant of the
Howard Paper Company. and will put the
concern in operation % it's full capacity at
once. giving employment to forty men.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 6-Mrs.
Rhoda Eggers was granted a divorce yes
Eerday from Benson Eggers the Putnam
county young man whose marital experience
has been given wide publicity. He is not
yet of age. but has been married three
Times. The first wife secured a divorce on
account of cruel treatment, and the one
who obtained divorce here yesterday
lived with him only few weeks. They had
known each other only few days when
hey were married. A few weeks ago Eg-
gers married a Putnam county young wom-
an representing to her that the Terre Haute
wife was dead. Last week he had his last
marriage annulled in the Hendricks Coun-
~ Court. The Terre Haute wife was grant
cd $500 alimony.
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The Iron brotherhood broken Up.

DENVER, Col, Feb. 6.--According to dis
patches received here from Trinidad, Col,
Albuquerque n. NJ. and various other
points in Colorado and New Mexico. the
American Patriotic League. otherwise
known as the Iron Brotherhood, concerning
which q report was made to the Department
of Justice at Washington by w. B. Childers
United States attorney for the Territory of
New Mexico, is now practically extinct In
Ration and vicinity the organization was
broken Up by enforcing against the menu
bers the penalty for carrying firearms.
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west virginia Miners Mny secede.

MORGANTOWN. w. Va, Feb 6-The
movement among the coal miners of West
Virginia to separate themselves from the
United Mine Workers Association and
form an Independent organization is gaining
ground rapidly. More than 1000 miners and
eighty operators have Joined the independ-
ent movement up to date and these are
bringing every influence to bear upon the
miners and operators who are still i'm the
older organization to have them come in the
new. The Kanawha and New-river fields
have taken the lead in the fight against the
United Mine Workers
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Prize for an American Artist.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 6.-The Pennsyl-
vana Academy OF SIoa FINE Arts wafer FL LAP iI
James Jebus Shannon for his oil painting
entitled Babes in the Wood" Mr.. Shan
non is an American who has lived for some
years in London. where his portraits Of
women are much in request. His picture en-
titled Miss Kitty is also in the acad-
emy's exhibition and won first prize at
PittSburg this year
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wounding of his cousin. Joe Alley. by Peter
Kindrad. has caused much excitement and
some talk of a iynching The murderer is
in Jail, heavily guarded. and it is believed
the law will not be allowed to take its
course. The Alleys are prominent and both
are nephews of Captain III. J. Alley of this
city. Andrew leaves a widow and two
children.