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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The directors of the National Steel Com
pany met In Chicago yesterday and declared
the first quarterly dividend of la per cent.
on the preferred stock
The condition OF Congressman Richard p.
Bland, who is i'll at his home in Lebanon,
Mo-, was slightly better last night, the
symptoms OF paralysis being less apparent
The deaths at Vera Cruz, Mexico, from
yellow fever In May were IA out of 303
cases. The high. mortality indicates the
virulence OF the fever. The heat continues
great along the coast.
Three men were smothered to death yes
terday in cave-in at +. ID. Peters & Sons
slate quarry at Berlinville, Pa The dead
are: Robert Snyder, leaves widow and sew
children; Ammon Beers, single.
The fifth annual convention Of the Ma
tional Association of Credit Men opened at
Buffalo yesterday and will continue for
gress TO amend the bankruptcy act will be
the most important subject considered.
Three squads of Usage Indian police and
light horsemen evicted several hundred in
truders from the Usage Indian reservatio
to-day All the fences and improvements of
the intruders were destroyed and hundreds
of cattle were turned into the grain fields
President c. NJ Splitter I'm writing to the
burg. Germany, announces that the Hagen
beck animal show will return to this conn,
try for the Ohio centennial. Buffalo Bill
has secured a lease of land almost at the
gate of the grounds.
Harry Thurman, a farmer living near
London Mills. ILL.,, killed Alexander Ham,
mond. farmer whose land adjoins his with
blow OF a spade. Botn men were digging
trenches to let the water out or their fields
and dispute arose regarding the direction
the water should be turned.
III. p. Baker. of Grand Rapids, was found
dead in his room in the American House,
at Kalamazoo, Mich, yesterday He had
committed suicide by taking morphine. Ill
health is the only reason known that would
have tempted him 10 suicide Baker was a
former employee OF the National Biscuit
Company.
Seven hundred Italian laborers employed
by the East Jersey Water Company, and
working at Great Notch, near Paterson, ~.
OF them were underpaid. The strikers
marched to Little Falls and endeavored to
persuade 800 more Italians 10 strike They
refused and Superintendent Young fearing
bloodshed. told the men TO quit work
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LAKE LEVELS.
They Are Changing and Chicago Will
He Ultimately Submerged.

Chicago Letter in New York World.
That Chicago is being slowly engulfed
IN Lake Michigan by a gradual fitting OF
the earth's crust in the lake region is the
theory Prof. G. K. Gilbert advances in a
contribution to the latest volume in the Geo
logical Survey. According TO the professor.
the water is rising at the rate of nine or
ten inches in a century, and I'm about 100
years Will be flowing unjnterruptedly over
the natural watershed<that separates the
Mississippi and the great lake drainage sys-
TENS.
Prof Glberte Investigations have been
in progress several years. Official records
Of water levels at four different lake points
showed him that relatively to Sacketts
Harbor Charlotte sank 0.o61 foot in twenty
Two years. Cleveland. relatively TO Port
Colborne, 160 miles away, sank rs Inches
IN thirty-seven years. Milwaukee. as COM
pared with Port Austin go miles of. sank
Obs foot Q.646 inches) in twenty years.
In Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, says
Prof Gilbert. the general level Is rising.
At Toledo and Sandusky the average rise
is or inches a century. All over Lake
Huron the water Is falling, most conspic-
uously at the north and northeast. AT
Mackinac the rate is inches and at the
mouth of the French river 10 inches a GEN.
tury At Duluth.the water Is rising inches.
At milwaukee, 5 or 6 inches and at Chicago
q or 10 inches Duluth is built upon steep
hillsides and can creep up out OF the water
whenever she is required TO do so, but as
Chicago is built on low ground II is difficult
TO forecast her fate. Perhaps she Will have
to use stills.
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TORRID JUNE WEATHER
MANY REGISTRATIONS FROM HEAT
AND SEVERAL DEATHS.
Wave of High Temperature from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic-May
Be Cooler Tonight.

WASHINGTON, June s. II flicker of
lightning in the northwest. after an OPP
pressively hot day, was pointed out by the
Weather Bureau tonight the guarantee
Of thunderstorms that would break the sea-
sons first hot wave within twenty-four or
forty-eight hours. The maximum tempera-
ture here to-day was 96 degrees. degrees
below Washington's record for the first de-
cade in June. made In 1871 Abnormal tenn
peratures prevailed all over the Atlantic
and gulf coasts and in the Mississippi valley
The only two cool spots on the weather map
Tonight were Helena, Mont, where it was
80 degrees, and PASSPORT. Me, where 1T was
50 degrees. New York was 49, 3 degrees over
its highest record. in 1896. but this was the
only record broken on the Atlantic coast
Thunderstorms at Pittsburg and Buffalo led
the Weather Bureau to predict fairly quick
breakup OF the high Temperature.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
Funeral of the Waltz King.

VIENNA, June 6-The funeral of the late
Johann Strauss, the celebrated composer.
who died last Saturday, was great public
ceremony, the whole populace Of Vienna
rendering honor to its idol. The procession
was very long. the cortege including eight
cars Of flowers. The burgomaster Of Vienna
and the municipal authorities, with many
distinguished representatives of art, litera-
ture, music and drama, followed the hearse.
The cortege paused outside the Conserva-
toire of Music, where orations were deliv-
cred. The burgomaster made brief address
at the temporary grave. Along the whole
route of the procession the gas lamps were
lighted. The absence Of the widow and Of
Edward Strauss, the brother Of the de-
ceased, from the ceremony caused consider
able comment. The remains will be finally
inferred between the graves of Schubert and
Brahms
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PARIS. June The Matin says that the
government has taken steps to demand the
extradition Of Esterhazy. According to
Echo de Paris General Zedo will replace
General Zurlinden as military governor of
Paris
The morning papers report that at a
meeting of the Republican, Socialist and
Radical senator's and members of the Cham
Der OF Deputies last night. after lengthy
discussion. delegation was appointed to
call on M. Dupuy this "wednesday morn
ing to ascertain what Is to be the attitude
Of the government In the present situation,
which Is regarded as threatening
Eciair denies that the removal of Eur
linden Is contemplated and claims that there
Is no disagreement between Zurlinden, NJ.
Krantz and other representatives of the
government.
A dispatch to the Petit Journal from Bor-
deaux says that a royalist demonstration
occurred last night In front of the Mill
tary Club and the headquarters Of the
Eighteenth Corps. The police succeeded in
dispensing the crowds. Forty arrests were
made.
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Escaped I'm the Darkness.

OMAHA, Neb, June GA special to the
Bee from Cheyenne, Wyo., says: A courier
reached Casper tonight from the scene Of
the fight and reported that the outlaws es-
capped through the lines of the posse in the
intense darkness of last night. They stole
the horses of a freighting outfit and are now
flying for the Hole-in-the-wall. Sixty-five
men, under United States Marshal Hadsell,
took up the trail to-day and are In pursuit.
The three outlaws are Bob Taylor. of the
Hole-in-the-wall band. a Mexican and a
Casper gambler named Cavanaugh.
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OBITUARY.
Frederick o. Prince. n Democrat. Who
Was Three Times Mayor of Boston.

BOSTON, June g. - Frederick o. Prince
died to-day from lung disease
Frederick 0. Prince was born in Boston
Jan. Is. 1918, was graduated from Harvard
College in 1888 and was admitted to the
Suffolk bar in 1S40. In early life he allied
himself with the Wing party. In 1860. on
the disruption of the Whig party, he trans
ferred his allegiance to the Democratic par
ty and was elected a delegate to the Charles
ton convention or that year, and cast his lot
with the Baltimore division, which nomi-
mated stephen A Douglas for President.
He was secretary of the national Demo-
cratic committee from 1850 TO 1888. He was
elected mayor of Boston in 1876 by the DEM
ocrats and twice reelected. In 1896 he was
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, on
the gold Democratic ticket. He leaves a
widow and four sons.
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Everybody Reads Advertisements.
Record

Now and then man Is found who with
more or less boastfulness says that he
ssneyer reads the advertisements" in the
newspapers Perhaps he actually imagines
that he does not read the advertisers CARDS:
nevertheless IL is not In the nature or an
intelligent wideawake man to fail TO pc
ruse at least a portion of the advertising
columns of his morning newspaper. Even
though he may not desire to make purchases.
nor to CLEAN particular Information about
financial or commercial matters or the doings
in the stores, he is quite likely, after having
disposed of the news matter 20 mo nlmseif
intent upon those advertisements which APP
peal to the eye on account or their attrac-
tiveness of their typographical arrangement
or by the announcement OF some article or
Immediate personal need has been placed on
sale at moderate price. IL Is. In fact. sale
to assert that the man or woman who de-
votes fifteen minutes TO the reading OF
newspaper reads also some of the adver-
tisements printed therein.
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Cable Notes.

Baron Saurma Won Jeltsch. German am
bassado- to Italy, will retire in consequence
of i'll health. He will probably be succeed
ed by Count Won Wedel, general of caval-
~ and governor of Berlin.
Empress Augusta Victoria and the I'm
perial Crown Prince were present yester-
day at the unwilling of the statue of Prof.
Herman HelmholtZ. the psychologist, in
front Of the University of Berlin.
Robert Wallace. Liberal member of Par
lament for East Edinburgh, who, while
speaking during the debate on the grant to
General Kitchener, of Khartum, was seized
with cerebral paralysis is dead.
The total number of plague sufferers al
Alexandria, Egypt, is placed at fourteen
two of which are dead. Four cases have
been cured Four new cases were reported
yesterday. but no new cases have been re-
ported elsewhere.
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ACTION OF THE SENATE
RoyaIist Plot DenOunced-0ne of Lou
MaIfrnera CeuSured.

PARIS, June Sin the Senate to-day, the
president NJ. Fallieres. at the opening of
the session. declared that, in the presence
OF the scandals at Auteuil Oa Sunday, moth
ing can shake the confidence felt In the
public, and he assured President Loubet
that the warmest sympathy of the Senate
would never fail him. A double round of
applause followed these statements.
Senator Guyot, in the name of the four
Republican groups in the Senate, moved
sthat the Senate associates itself in the re-
marks of President FaIlieres and stigma
tizes as scandalous the acts of the enemies
of the republic
Senator Lecour de Grandmaison, Con-
sentative, spoke of the brutalities of the
police, protested against the arrests and
said the action of President Loubet was a
fatal error A tumult followed The senator
refused to withdraw his words, and left the
tribune, whereupon the Senate passed
vote Of censure on him.
similar 10 the statements he made In the
Chamber OF Deputies yesterday. Senator
Guyots motion was carried by a vote of 258
10 90 The result Of the vote was greeted
with shouts of 'Vive la Republiquel"
NJ Clemenceau, in the Aurore. asserts
In the prosecution CT NJ Paul Deroulede be-
fore the Court OF Assizes OF the charge of
melting the troops NJ Loubet summoned the
premier and said: Il expect to be defended.
Punish Herve or make him apologize.
Otherwise L will send a message to the
Chamber of Deputies
La Petite Republique gives details of the
Royal.st plot OF Sunday and asserts that
the Duke of Orleans has been in Paris since
Saturday. The paper says he is at the resi-
dence of Count D'Harcourt and only goes
out ar night disguised 1t asks why the
government has not yet acted.
The semi-official Tim says the friends
of Lieutenant CCronel Picquart have been
informed that IL he IS released by the civil
authorities he will not be arrested under a
warrant issued by the military authori-
ties
The government has closed the Puteau
Athletic Club which numbered among its
members Count Christiani and many others
Of those who took part in the demonstra-
ton against President Loubet at the Au-
feuil race course on Sunday.
Besides Baron De Christiana and Count
De Mon, Baron De Baulny, Baron Negro
net de Ste. Marie, Baron De Randell, Count
De Remusat Count LIE Aubigny and NM.
Louis Felix and BarriZl will be tried by
summary procedure for participation in the
disturbance at Auteuii-
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Tbe Late FranL Tbomson.

PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-Among the
messages Of coincidence received by the
family Of the late Frank Thomson, presi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany, to-day the following from Presi-
dent Mckinley, addressed to Miss Anne
Thomson: You have the heartfelt SYM
patty of Mrs Mckinley and myself in the
loss of your dear, devoted father. We share
your sorrow.
1t has been decided to hold the funeral
services at the late residence of Mr.. Thorn
son on Thursday at IL o'clock a. m. Rev.
DR.. M A. Mcconnell, of Brooklyn, a close
friend of Mr.. Thomson, has been asked to
conduct the services
The Manufacturers Club. of indianapolis.
yesterday sent the following telegram relat-
ing to the death of President Thomson, of
the Pennsylvania lines. to James ~McCrea,
first vice president Of the company:
THE members of the Manufacturers
Club of Indianapolis, route to Dayton,
having just been apprised of the sudden
death of President Frank Thomson, desire
to express at this time their heartfelt SYM
pathy and regret. Mr.. Thomson was
known personally and loved by many of'the
manufacturers of Indianapolis who appre-
ciated his great ability as a railroad man.
ager, and esteem him as man of very high
character and attainments VIII you kindly
convey to his family and associate officers
this unanimous expression of the Manu-
facturers' Club of Indianapolis"
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LONDON, June 6.-Charles Frohman has
engaged Eilaline Terriss and Seymour
Hicks for three years. They will appear at
the Criterion Theater, under Mr.. Froh-
mans management, in September. in My
Daughter an English adaptation of
the present comedy success in Paris, Ma
Bru." After the London season Hicks will
appear in New York.
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CHICAGO, June Gone death due to the
heat was reported to-day, laborer named
Bolan. and there were many prostrations.
The mercury touched 81 and the excessive
humidity made the heat almost unendura-
BILE. A severe thunder storm passed over
the city shortly after noon, blowing down
many trees and In the business section tore
away number of signs and awnings.
Michael Soukraska, laborer, Frustrated
Saturday, died in hospital tonight.
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LONDON, June 6.-Previous to play in the
sixth round OF the international chessmas-
ters' tournament. now In progress in this
city. II was announced that Teichmann had
withdrawn from the contest and that all
the games yet to be played by this player
would be scored against him. according TO
the rules OF the tournament When the
usual adjournment was made at 4:30 Tinsley
and Mason had drawn, Bird and Black
burne adjourned their games in favor Of
Blackburne. Lasker and Cohen adjourned in
favor OF Lasker Showalter had the better
game against SteInitz. and F'illsbury and
Maroczy and Lee and Tschigorin adjourned
their game in even positions. Following are
the results arrived at in the evening ses-
sion. Bird went down before Blackburne;
Cohen was beaten by Iarken: Showalter
disposed OF Steinitz; Pillsbury and Maroczy
drew and Lee lost to Tchigorin- The Amer
lean, Marshall beat Jackson in the minor
tournament
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Too Hot for Iron Workers.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., June 6.-The intense
heat of the last two days has had the effect
of materially diminishing the product Of the
local iron and steel mills of this city. The
men have suffered greatly. in many in
stances being compelled to stop work. At
the Brown-Bonnell works number of heats
were lost on Monday and Monday night and
to-day. The same Is true of Andrews and
the Valley works, also both the upper and
lower mills of the American Steel Company.
At the Ohio works of the National Steel
Company similar conditions have prevailed.
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LONG TERMS in PRISON.
Two Men Punished for Burning Sem
mole Indians at the Stake.

MUSCOGEE I. T., June Sin the United
States Court here Nelson NJ. Jones, the ex-
deputy United States marshal who is held
directly responsible for the burning of the
two Seminole Indian boys near Maude. o. T.,
in January. 1898. and was convicted Of taking
part in that crime, has been sentenced to
twenty-one years in the penitentiary at JEFF
ferson City. Mathes, another member of the
mob, was given ten years in the penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Craig who was
convicted Of killing Deputy Marshall Helm
richs. at Tahlequah, /. T., last March, was
sentenced to be hanged July %.
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BOND SALE ILLEGAL.
Decision I'm the Cincinnati Southern
Railway Case.

COLUMBUS, o., June 6.-The Supreme
Court has decided that the contract of the
city of Cincinnati and the sinking fund
commission, whereby a New York banking
house negotiated the purchase Of the $15,-
100000 refunded Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road bonds, is illegal. The trustees made
the contract privately, holding that the sale
would be advantageous to the city. George
A. Guckenberger, a taxpayer, brought suit
against the city and won in the lower
courts. whose judgment has now been af-
firmed by the Supreme Court.
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BISHOP HURST AND WIFE.
Former Deeds the Latter His Home
Step Towards Legal Separation.

WASHINGTON. June ga deed recorded
here to-day by which Bishop John F. Hurst.
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, trans
ferred, through an intermediary, to his
wife. Ella Root Hurst, their fine home on
Massachusetts avenue, in the fashionable
part of the city, caused a great deal of
comment, IT being reported that the transfer
was preliminary to a legal separation
Bishop Hurst was out of the city and his
attorney said he had nothing to say about
the matter. Mrs. Hurst has been In Europe
for two years
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Record Breaker at New York.

NEW YORK, June 6.-The record Of the
hottest June day in New York since the
establishment of the Weather Bureau was
reached to-day. From early morning when
the thermometer stood around as, until late
in the afternoon, the mercury went stead
lily up. At o'clock it reached the limit,
80. On only two June days in the past
twelve years has the temperature reached
anything like 1t did to-day. In the year
1883 and also in 1893 the maximum for June
was s. The record at the Weather Bureau
was 80 degrees; on the street ii was several
degrees warmer, and the atmosphere was
terribly oppressive.
In New York city and several of the
nearby towns there were thirty-one pros
trations. Only two cases were women, the
remainder were mostly workingmen. In
Jersey City six prostrations were recorded
one or these being woman. Long Island
City reported two, one man and one wom-
an. OF the prostrations reported in the
city seven proved fatal up to 1880 a. m.
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Secretary Hollis, which is in part follows:
In reply / am directed by the commits
sion TO call YOUR attention to the fact that
the commission at this conference is strictly
representative of the President and the sec
rotary OF state, and must receive all n
structions with reference to its action here
from the State Department in Washington
We could therefore in no case present a
memorial without such instructions. and.
besides this, we regret to say the rules and
regulations of the conference exclude from
discussion all questions of a strictly political
no frrra
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LOaseS nv Fire.

SAVANNAH, Ga, June 6.-The school
building at Bethesda Orphanage, estab-
lished by George Whitfield and John and
Charles Wesley, was destroyed by fire. 1t
is believed the fire was of incendiary origin.
The structure will be rebuilt.
BUTTE, Mont, June 6.-The machine and
blacksmith shops of the Western iron
works. together with all valuable patterns,
were destroyed by fire this morning Loss,
$4,000: insurance, $1,000.
PITTSBURG, Pa, June 6.-The keg fac
tory of Edwin Bell & Sons, of Youngstown,
o., on Seventeenth street, South Side, was
destroyed by fire last night Loss. $50, 900;
partially insured.
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''STRINDBERG
..EROENCKEI.


LONDON. June THE correspondent OF
the Daily News at The Hague says: 1T is
now confessed that the Russian arbitration
scheme was only presented hurriedly on
Russia learning that England was about TO
present scheme. Neither Russia nor
America appears anxious to press Its
scheme and the work of the arbitration
committee has mainly to do with the scheme
Of Sir Julian Pauncefote, head OF the Brit
ish delegation, which is likely to be
adopted"
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WHOLE TOWN In CONTEMPT.
All the Men Fined One Cent for sway
ing q Grand Jury.

PRINCETON. KY, June 6.-The people
Of this town have had the unusual exper-
fence of wholesale arraignment for con-
tempt of court. 1t happened that a petit
ton had been signed by all the men in
town asking the grand jury not to indict
the insurance companies and no indictments
were found. The commonweahh's attor-
ney moved to proceed against the signers
for contempt of court. After considerable
time the judge fined each cent, and the
decision was applauded by the defendants
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MUCH COOLER TONIGHT.
Continued High Temperature During
the Day-ThunderstOrm

WASHINGTON. June 6. s p. m.-Fore-
cast:
For OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the afternoon
of Wednesday and Thursday; continued
high temperature Wednesday; much cooler
at night; light TO fresh southerly winds.
For Indiana and Observation-Disclosures
in the afternoon of Wednesday ard Thurs
day; continued high temperature Wednes-
day; much cooler at night; southerly winds
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Illinois Grain Dealers.

DECATUR. ILL.,. June Sat the sixth an
nual meeting OF the Illinois Grain Dealers
Association. VIM. r. Calhoun. Decatur
increasing associations and necessity for
local organization were made. meeting
association desiring 10 show farmers that
interests OF grain men and farmers are
idert1caL