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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
JOHN P. ALTGELD ILL.
DR.. Nicholas f. Semi Says the Ex-GOv-
ernor Is a Very Sick Man.

CHICAGO, April 3o-Ex-Governor John P.
Altgeld has fought his last political battle.
according to information furnished by DIR.
Nicholas e. Sem. 1.-THE Ex-Governor is GER
tainly a very sick man. and ii seems true
beyond all question that he has fought his
last political fight" said DR.. Sem tonight.
I'm addition TO his illness, which is in itself
serious. the Ex-Governor. am sorry to say,
Is completely broken down in spirit and is
respondent to the last degree. Not that 1
want to be understood as saying that the
defeat sustained by Mr.. Altgeld at the Chi
cago election few weeks ago has wrought
this disbursement from which he is now
suffering. On the contrary. he seems to
have lost no faith in his political fortunes
or the triumph of principles with which his
name has become inseparably associated.
The chief cause of his dependency Is
his realization of the fact that his present
illness is but development of his old all
ment, locomotor ataxia. In this knowledge.
which has had an unusually depressing
effect upon him, Is the great danger. For
If the Governor could be induced to look
upon the cheerful side or life and take an
extended trip for rest and change of scene
he may be benefited. But in any case it
is clear that he can never be a strong man
or sufficiently restored to health to wage
another political fight.
His case is extremely sad. as he cannot
be persuaded TO believe there is any hope for
unless complications set in, he may hnSer
longer than anyone would expect
DIR. Sem said that Mr. Altgeld's despond-
Gently been doing. has brought on state of
physical collapse which can only be de-
scribed as complete nervous prostration.
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NEW YORK, April 30.-Differences In the
West Presbyterian Church between the pas
tor Rev. DR.. Anthony H. Evans. and the
board of trustees have resulted in the resig-
nation OF the entire board. The announce
ment of the trustees withdrawal from active
work in the church was read by the clerk
OF the session at the morning service to-day.
In the letter of resignation the trustees say
they ARE unable to understand upon what
action Of theirs the charge that the work of
the minister is hindered by the present finan-
cial management of the church and
by the influences now at work less
ening his usefulness is based, and
they cannot consent to remain officers
OF the church while such lack of confidence
exists The trustees have been unanimous
in their financial management and the re-
sponsibility for such management rests
equally upon all. They therefore severally
resigned the Office of trustee to take effect
Immediately after their election in May"
The trustees are: Z. H. Perkins, jr pres
tdent of the Importers and Traders Ma
tional Bank; Russell Sage, Henry NJ Flag
Ter, of the Standard Oil Company: Seth L.
Thomas. the clock manufacturer; Robert
Jeffray, jr., s. c. T. Dodd. lawyer; Alfred
II. Smith. a diamond dealer; w. 3 Whee-
lock, broker, and S. Newton Smith.
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Mrs Agnes Mohler. 142 North Missouri
street; became so respondent. she claimed,
over the treatment given her by her hus-
band, Rush L. Mohler, waiter at Homer
Smiths restaurant. that she tried twice yes
terday to jump into the canal. Each time
she was prevented from so doing by Charles
Moore. AS West Ohio street. Mrs. Mohler,
who is a daughter of Robert Hazellet, a
carpenter al Greensburg, Ind. says she was
married in 1895. on Christmas day. to a man
named Beason. from whom she was d.
vorced September last. On Oct. q she mar
ried Rush Mohler and they lived together
about three months. during which time she
says they had considerable trouble. Then
they separated. She said he had always
supported her. but she had been told OF all-
other love affair Of his and one which she
believed. though he denied 1t. The woman
in the case was former sweetheart; ene
said she loved Mohler very much and was
often blue. Yesterday afternoon Mohler
visited her and after he left she went 10
the home of Charles Moore. 4ls West ONO
after the meal references were made TO her
trouble and she says considerable levity
was INDUCED in at her expense. The ques-
present would do in case they wished to Kill
themselves and various methods OF SELF
destruction were discussed. Mrs. Monier
Moore said he would go with her At this
time she had no thought OF drowning ner-
self, but just as she got to the canal she
So she attempted TO throw herself into the
water, but young Moore held her. She then
went home and later again visited the
her. and two songs, Just as the Sun Went
Down" and She's More 10 BE Pitied than
Censured" were sung. and these served 70
the Moore family she WIS going home 10
sleep. They objected. however. and said
she must stay with them. Mrs Mother,
however. left the house In company with
the young man who had before kept her
from jumping in the canal. When she again
saw the water she was once more seized
made second attempt TO get away. but the
young man held her. Mrs Moore, after the
young woman had been brought back 10
her house. telephoned for the police and
she was taken TO the station. where
charge OF insanity was made. The Moore
family say she has acted in a very peculiar
manner for some time and they believe she
Is NOT mentally sound.
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lished a report from Consul Smith, at Vic
torfa. embodying copy of the placer-n1in-
ing act passed by the Legislative Assembly
of British Columbia Jan. Is last. This act
and It's passage has done much to compl-
cate the settlement, by negotiation, of the
issues over the boundary question. The con-
sui says that there has also been trouble
since the discovery of the Atlin lake gold
fields over the loosely defined boundary be-
tween British Columbia and the Northwest
Territory. At first these fields were be-
lieyed to be I'm the Northwest Territory.
Now they are declared 10 be in British Co
lumbia. The immediate result Is that a
number of American citizens are to be dis
possessed, although they hold their claims
under certificate of the gold commissioner.
Consul Smith includes in his report an in
depreciation of the laws in regard TO the
holding of claims by aliens in United States
territory. This obtained by him upon
application TO Secretary Hitchcock, of the
Department OF the Interior In substance
the secretary's opinion is that the right 10
occupy and purchase mining claims within
the United States Is reserved exclusively TO
citizens and persons who have declared In
tention, and this statement Is not modified
which declares that the act shall not be
construed to prevent aliens from acquiring
and holding mining claims and also the pro-
vision authorizing Canadian citizens to ac-
quire in Alaska the same rights enjoyed by
United States citizens in British Columbia
latter section, Secretary Hitchcock says IL
has been found impracticable thus far TO
promulgate or enforce any rules or regula-
lions to give IL effect, for the reason that,
while the Canadian law permits the leasing
of mineral land upon royalty, the United
therefore, conflict that cannot De recon-
ciled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
SHOWERS AND COOLER.


WASHINGTON April 30. D. m.-Fore-
cast for twenty-four hours:
For Ohio-Cooler on Monday. with fair
weather in southern and showers in north
ern portions; probably showers on Tues
day; brisk TO high southerly winds.
For Indina and Illinois-Showers and COOL
er on Monday; high southerly winds. Fair
on Tuesday.
Weather conditions and general forecast
During Sunday a storm of marked energy
advanced from Colorado TO the middle Mis-
souri, valley. attended by showers from the
western lake region. over the upper Mississ-
fppi and middle and lower Missouri valleys
and the middle Western States Showers
were also reported in the middle and north
ern plateau and middle and nothern Pacific
coast districts. Very high temperature pre-
vailed in the Ohio valley. with a ma xinlum
OF 70 degrees at Parkerspurg, w. Va. In
the region north of western Montana the
temperature Sunday evening was 10 degrees
below freezing.
the indications are that the Missouri val
ley storm VIII move northwestward to Lake
superior, attended by high winds ard Sc
we're squalls over the western lake region
ana oy showers and lower temperature in
the states OF the upper Mississippi valley
Fair weather will prevail in the riddle and
south Atlantic and gulf States Monday and
England and northern New York. Brisk
scutheriy winds will prevail along the At
lantic coast north of Virginia. From Vir-
Einia southwark the winds will be brisk
from east 10 northeast. Storm signals are
displayed on Lakes Michigan and Pepin.
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Comparative statement Of temperature and


; c r. K WAPPENHANS.
Local Forecast Official.
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Sherman while en- voyage was taken sick
ports viii be In ouara milne at least a day
or two longer. and meanwhile army privates
ard abie-bodied seamen must remain on
The transport Sherman brought from
Manila the remains of Col. H. c. Egbert,
of the Twenty-second United States In
fantry. who was killed in the attack on
Malinta. They will be placed I'm the
mortuary chapel of st. Pauls Church until
the arrival of the late officers family from
Philadelphia. The dead officer was a
brother-in-law of Major Field. inspector
general OF the Department of California:
The sherman also brought the remains OF
Captain Gregg, of the Fourteenth Infantry,
which will be sent to Pennsylvania for in
terment, and the body of Private Ritchie.
or the Third Artillery. who died on the yoy-
age of consumption.
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HYPHENATED HYBRID IMPOSSIBLE.
No Man Can simultaneously Maintain
True Allegiance to Two Nations.
New York Press

The Coghlan incident has been an excel
lent test OF hyphenated nationality. No man
can be loyal to both sides of the hyphen.
He may appear TO be when he foregatherS
formally to advance colonial principles un,
stripes and listens for once TO Teutonized
version of the "Star-spangled Banner" But
when the blood Is up, no matter by now
small an incident stirred, the hyphen breaks
and the man shows what he is-either a
German or an American.
The Herald has been at some pains TO Sc
cure some examples of the effect or the in
we quote. The St. Louis Westliche Post
says:
parody song on the Germans with which the
notorious kicker Coghlan amused the 'edu-
Gated rabble of New York. he is a braying
tackass and our neighbors of Belleville,
which city he audaciously calls his native
home. should at the first opportunity pull
The .Nestor OF the German-American
press" OF the same city, DIR. Emil Pretori-
Gus. darkly intimates that revenge at the
polls which we are aeeustomed 10 near
law meets with 'German-American" dis
favor.
Captain Coghlan is reckless, ignorant
and vicious. His act Is an insult TO ma
voters. who have been treated In the most
shameful manner by the Mckinley admin
istration.'
lean newspapers"
The illinois Stats Zeitung contents itself
with demanding Captain Coghlan's dismis-
sal. The American government. Il says.
Coghlan." The Morgen Journal. OF this city.
the German edition OF a print which calls
itself IAN American paper for the Amer
lean people, adopts the topioftical Euro
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY
WAGES OF PITTsBURG srREET-RAIL-
WAY EMPLOYEES ADVANCED.
Notices Of Increase Posted at Sharon
Tricks COnnellsvilIe Coke Works.

PITTSBURG, April 30.-Evidences Of good
times in and around Pittsburg shown
by the following notices of wage increases:
The Consolidated Traction Company, of
this city, to-day posted notices granting
their more than 1000 employees an advance
in wages of IL per cent, dating from to-
morrow. This advance will give the con-
ductors and motormen % cents an hour.
which is said to be the highest wages paid
by any traction company in the country.
The company's men who are employed in
the power houses, where the work is hard
and exhausting. will be granted a reduc-
ton of hours without any decrease of pay.
A dispatch from Sharon says: Notices of
increase in wages of 10 per cent, taking
effect May i. are posted al all the furnaces
In Sharon and Sharpsville to-day. Nearly
300 men will be benefited by the advance.
This Is the second voluntary advance at
the furnaces within thirty days.
Connellsville. Pa, sends this item: The
II. c. Frick Coke Company surprised and
delighted its twelve thousand employees by
posting notices this morning at all its
plants in the Connellsville coke region. an
nouncing a general advance in wages. to
take effect tomorrow. May l. Every one
of the employees of the Prick and Mcclure
plants, which are also controlled by the
Prick Company. will receive an advance
ranging from to 1914 per cent. The maxi
mum rate of increase will be paid to the
employees receiving the lowest wages and
the minimum increase will be paid TO the
employees receiving the highest wages. The
new scale will be the highest ever paid in
the Connellsville region.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
INJURED AT A FIRE.
Ore Man Fatally Hurt, Four Severely
and Two Overcome by Heat.

DAYTON, o.. April Ozone man was
fatally injured and four others severely hurt
here to-day at a fire which destroyed third
of the lumber yard of the A. Gebhardt
Lumber Company. Quilted the St. Johns
Lutheran Church and destroyed four loaded
freight cars. The injured are: Thomas
LAWYER, Matt Link, Charles Chamberlain,
Burkhardt Kunkel and John Maley. Two
firemen were overcome by heat. The fire
originated in the lumber yard. High winds
carried sparks to the roof of the church.
two blocks away. Link and Chamberlain.
who were working on the church roof. were
cut off from escape by the flames and at
tempted to slide down the lightning rod.
The rod broke when the men were thirty
feet from the ground. Lawler, Kunkel and
Maley were struck by falling timbers and
bricks. The loss is about $4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
OTIS is WARY
Concluded from First Page,

Artillery and the Twentieth Kansas of my
brigade while yet the day was young. and
by the First Montana later on. The enemys
center had been pierced
And them"
THE victorious march continued right
along day after day until Malolos was
reached. The rivers were crossed by the
infantry either by fording, swimming or on
improvised RATS or temporary bridges. The
artillery and supply trains passed the
streams on the railway bridges, which the
enemy could not burn and had been unable
to blow up for want of time because his
burning parties had been chased of prompt
Iy by our intrepid advance guard. Besides
the streams, lagoors and marshes that had
TO be crossed or fianked. thorny bamboo
thickets, dense banana forests and difficult
stretches of tangled chapparal must be pene-
trated and cleared under fire.
AT Malolos itself there was only feeble
resistance by the enemy. whose warriors
had by that time grown discouraged and
became demoralized by their repeated and
unvarying defeats. and had proved them
selves the premier sprinters OF our new
colonial possession.
Just before we entered Aguiraldo's aban-
doned capital ii was fired as al the towns
had been fired. by the rear guard Of the re-
treating enemy. My brigade marched in on
the side where the government palace is To-
Gated. and by the time the advance had
reached the public square the large building
and scores of smaller ones were enveloped
In flames and too far gone to be saved"
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BURNED TO THE GROUND
COOPERAGE ESTABLISHMENT AND
sTAvE FACTORY AT COLUMBUS.
Heavy Loss Suffered by George Schfn-
nerer. with Little Insurance.-Dry
Sunday at Terre Haute.
ecial to the Indianapolis JournaI.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
COLUMBUS, Ind. April 30.-George
Schinnerer's large cooperage establishment
and stave factory caught fire at l o'clock
this morning and the who.c building was in
flames in few minutes. The structure and
contents were destroyed. including several
car loads of newly made barrels and sea-
soned stave timber. Four surrounding
houses and three other buildings caught
from the big fire. After several hours
fight with the flames, the local fire depart
ment succeeded in getting the fire under
control. although IL was still smouldering to-
day. The cooperage establishment was one
of the largest in southern Indiana and the
total loss caused by the fire is between $15,-
900 and $4,000. with only 5000 insurance.
The fire was undoubtedly the work of in
cendiaries. 1t is said that Mr.. Schinnerer
will rebuild his plant.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01
Cable Notes.

Count Baworoski, well-known gentle
man rider, was accidentally killed Saturday
at the Alagrag races near Buda-Pesth.
Bellamy Storer the newly appointed
United States minister to Spain. will present
his credentials to the Queen Regent next
Thursday.
The Prince of Wales on Saturday re-
ceived Joseph II. Choate at Marlborough
House on his appointment as United States
ambassador to Great Britain.
serious fire broke out yesterday in
Krupps Germania dock yard, at Kiel, re-
sulting in the destruction of several store
houses and workshops and doing damage
to the value of 100000. Two German men
of-war that are in process of construction
in the yard, were saved with the utmost
difficulty
Right Rev. Henry B. Whipple. bishop of
Minnesota. preached yesterday morning at
st. >Margarets, Westminster, London. be-
fore a large and fashionable congregation,
including Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chan
cellor of the exchequer, and many other
members of the House of Commons and
parliamentary officials.
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Indiana Notes.

Company E, Observation-Disclosures
Indiana. will be given hearty welcome
home on its arrival at Jacksonville on
Tuesday.
Dewey day was observed yesterday in
Terre Haute with free band concert at the
fair grounds. where. there was large at
tendance.
Twelve hundred or more mortgage ex-
emptions were taken out in Wayne county
and IL is estimated the loss will amount to
fully half million dollars.
The body of Conrad Kraut. who jumped
from the wharfboat at Madison into the
river. Feb. 26. was discovered floating
down the river above Utica Saturday night
by William Colon and Dexter Lewis. two
fishermen.
Arrangements are practically complete for
the reception which will be given the men,
bers of Company +, One-hundred- and-sixty-
first Indiana Regiment. when they return to
Richmond on Wednesday. The city will be
profusely decorated.
The trustees and medical staff of ST.
Stephens Hospital, Richmond. will open a
training school for nurses. The object is to
equip nurses for service as public benefit.
A two-years' course will be given and
diplomas presented.
Joseph c. Ratliff, of Richmond. the Wayne
county correspondent of the Agricultural De-
partment, says the prospect for wheat in
that county has greatly improved within the
past few days and he predicts a large yield.
The prospect for fruit, as a general thing,
also seems 10 be flattering.
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HANGED BY ARKANSANS.
Willis Sees, q Negro, Taken from Jail
and Lynched by a Mob.

MEMPHIS Tenn, April Collaboration
was received in Memphis tonight that Willis
Sees, negro, aged about thirty years. was
taken from the Jail at Osceola, Ark. Sun
day morning at O'Clock and hanged in the
Jail yard by a mob of forty men. Sees was
l.. Jail on charge of barn burning. After
being suspended in midair twice the negro
confessed the crime of which he was
charged and he was then hanged. Several
houses have been burned in the neighbor-
hood Of Osceola recently. and this is given
as the reason for the mob taking the law
into its Jurisdiction.
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Fire Department Suffers.

brick building on Dover street. occupied by
a number of manufacturing firms and on
the ground floor by the Boston fire depart
ment for storage of extra apparatus. was
destroyed by fire to-day. Loss. 100000. The
fire department had a number of pieces of
valuable apparatus in the building, and two
engines and number of hose carriages in
Another portion of the building was occu-
pied by the fire-alarm branch of the fire
department. and the loss was almost COM
Gas Light Company the New England
Screw Company, Goodwin * Cummings,
manufacturers OF sofa beds and Hubbard q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01

ST. LOUIS. April 3o.-According 20 re-
German Lutheran Evangelical Synod Of the
United States and Canada, now in session
here, the synod during 1898 and the frst
and charity. Among its charges the synod
numbers charitable institutions. orphans
homes hospitals and homes for the aged.
nine educational institutions of high or
der; missions among the negroes. emigrsnts.
deaf mutes, Jews and heather in India. In
the synod there are i.621 pastors and pro-
fessors, 2.0i9 congregations 6s5 preaching
places 6967n persons. 1.61 parochia.
schools 798 school teachers and ss,7I5 school
children.
To-day many of the visiting ministers who
are delegates to the general conference
filled the pulpits of local churches of their
denomination On Monday the conference
business for which il is holding a ten-day
meeting. Among other business to be trans
acted will be the election of candidates NOM
mated TO fill different Offices and serve on
the committees of the synod.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-01

Leslie's Weekly.

The recovery of the nonagenarian pontin.
after an illness followed by an operation.
which within a day brought 1000 kilograms
to his bedside. reveals his marvellous vitality
2S3 Pontiffs, sixteen only have seen their
eighty-first year. Plus TX. Leo predeces-
SCR lived until he was ninety years old. and
was the only one Of all the Popes who sur
passed Peters quarter of century on the
papal throne. Clement XXI died in his nine
ty-third year. Paul " at ninety-three and
Gregory TX was all but a centenarian.
Lancet says that Pope Leo's example adds
another to the many instances of patriar-
chal years attained by Woodworking men,
soul according WE'LL with physique I'm
broken by excess and braced by manly ex-
ercise. have resulted in that odd age" i'm
fro
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Two Justices Illegally Appointed.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY. Ind, April 30-It has
just developed that James j. Maddox and
Philip Kearney who have been officiating
as Justices of the peace, were appointed to
office illegally and that all their decisions
have consequently been illegal. In accord
ance with an act passed by the late Legis-
lature the number of justices of the peace
one in addition thereto for each incor-
porated town and city. There were already
three justices of the peace when Maddox
and Kearney were appointed by the COM
missioners last March. Maddox is a free
silver Republican and Kearney Socialist,
and the places were given them by the
Democratic commissioners for services rem
dered during the late campaign.