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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-01
SCHEME OF SILVERITES.
Trying to Effect nm Alliance w. the
Atkinson "Aunties.v

CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-The silver Republic
ans. in conference nere on Tuesday and
Wednesday planned. it is announced, TO
ally themselves with and to make use OF
the neutrality-suspicious." agitation, especial
ly in the Eastern States, where the silver
issue does not attract. Cooperation with
Edward Atkinsons following will be
sought. The purpose Of the silver Repub-
licans is to gain, If possible. with this new
issue a foothold n Eastern States, so that
their party can more truly claim to be
national organization and thus become a
more effective whip for holding the Demo
Gratis to the Bryan and l6-to-1 line. This is
one reason why the silver Republicans
want to hold a big national convention of
two thousand or more delegates next year.
Confirmation of this plan came to-day
from Fred ]. Dubois, former senator from
Idaho. and chairman of the silver Repub-
lican executive committee There is no
place for the Republican anti-imperialists
of New England and the coast to go ex-
cept TO our party said Mr.. Dubois. 'The
assured composition of the United States
Senate for several years convinces them
that silver legislation cannot be passed for
many years yet. On anti-imperialism and
kindred questions they are at one with us.
/ am satisfied they will come to us. 1 ex-
pect TO see former Governor Boutwell,. of
Massachusetts, Edward Aatkinson and
men like them sitting as delegates to our
convention. We have planned for a big
convention of two thousand or more. Our
convention. if held at the same place and
time as the Democratic convention, will be
a powerful stimulus against any conces-
sion by that party to the forces of unright-
eousness. We have not much TO fear on
this score, however. We are pretty well
satisfied that the Democrats will reaffirm
the platform of 1896 and renominate Mr..
Bryan. This will be enough. If, however,
they should seek to evade or subordinate
the silver issue we will not be their allies.
In such case we will do what many silver
Republicans wanted TO do in 1Sy6-establish
a separte organization and nominate a
seDarate ticket.
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Col. Northcott, Lieut.. Col. Stafford
and Capt. Earle Among the Killed
I'm the Same Battle.
NEW DIVISION OF TROOPS
MORE SOLDIERS To BE SENT TO
SOUTH AFRICA AT ONCE.
Kimberley Safe on Nov. 24-Col. Ba-
den-PoweII still Holding Out
at Mafeking.

LONDON, Dec 1.-The Times publishes
the following dispatch from Frere. Natal.
dated Nov. q: '.Ladysmith was heavily
bombarded to-day"
The War Office has received the follow
ing dispatch from General Butler. dated
Pietermaritzburg. Wednesday. Nov. %:
Mitchell. telegraphist, has just made his
way out of Ladysmith to Weenen, whence
he sends the following message: On Nov. 9
we beat back the Beers with great loss to
the enemy. Our total casualties were re-
markably small. There were only eight
men killed during the siege by shells and
In AL the battles, ETC., only one hundred
men have been killed wounded. left
Ladysmith the night Of Nov. .. Since Nov.
no attempt has been made to attack
Ladysmith in force"
A dispatch from Estcourt. dated Nov. q.
says: "The Twelfth Lancers are reported
to have attacked Piet Retiefs forces at
Weenen, and to have inflicted great loss
on the Beers. General Hildyard's troops
bivouacked last night at Frere. Two Beers
have been captured One OF them, a doctor.
entered the British camp under the belief
that IL was a Boer bivouack.
|. General Joubert Is reportAd- to have re-
treated to Colenso yesterday, by way Of
Chieveley. He travelled In an omnibus
drawn by six horses. 1t is reported he is
hurrying back to oppose the British. Two
Estcourt trains arrived at Frere last even
ing. There is great rejoicing at the reopen
ing of the line. Boer prisoners report Gen
Hildyard's night attack at Cold Steel para
lyzed the burghers, whose loss was thirty
killed and over one hundred wounded
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REVOLUTION SPREADING.
Colombian Insurrection Said to BE
Gaining Strength.

KINGSTON, JGmaica, Nov. 30.-Colom-
bian advices received here by the steamer
Louisiana say the revolution is spreading
throughout the Colombian republic and
gaining great strength. Details as TO the
movements OF the Liberals are lacking
but the stsreotyped censored cable dis
patches relating TO government successes
are discredited, the fact being that the
main bodies OF the insurgents are avoid
ing action until the revolution is thorough
ly organized. Several casual bands OF re-
cruits have been dispersed and a few se-
we're reverses have been suffered on the
water, but the insurrection is not even
fully launched yet and is apparently
awaiting further important outs.-e aid
presumably Venezuelan. which IL Is said.
Is delayed owing 10 the outbreak Of tn
counter revolution there.
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ALL WELL AT MAFEKING.
Bombardment by the Beers, HOwev-
er, Continues-Failure of n Trick.

LONDON. Nov. SO-Colonel Baden Pow
ell. under date of Mafeking, Nov. 20. has
sent the following to the War Office
through General Forestier-Walker,a at Cape
Town:
''An well here. Cronte has gone with a
commando and with about twenty wagons
to Riceters, Transvaal. leaving most of the
guns here with the Marico and Lychten-
burg contingents, with orders to shell us
into submission. Bombardment and snip
ing continue. with very small results
Inc enemys sentrles drew us out Sat-
urday by making show of going away
and leaving a big gun, apparently in a
state Of being dismantled. Our scouts
found the army hidden in force. so we sat
tight.
''The enemy's ninety-four FOUNDER became
damaged. and has been replaced by anoth-
er, more efficient. 1 am daily pushing out
our advance work with good effect. The
health Of the garrison is good. No casual
ties to report"
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Mountaineers Said to Be Drilling and
Excitement Reported to he High
in whitley County.
PLANS OF THE SILvERITES
WILL TRY TO EFFECT ALLIANCE
WITH ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
Atkinson and Colleagues to BE Asked
to Attend Next COnventiOn-Bry-
and Hogg in 1000.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CORBIN, KY, Nov. So.-A secret call has
been issued for the immediate massing Of all
the state militia at Frankfort The election
returns will pass into the hands OF the three
Democratic election commissioners on Sat
urday. Three new companies of state mi
litia have just been formed in London, Cor
bin and Barbourviile and are being drilled
morning, afternoon and night. These noun
tain companies, with six hundred armed cit
liens, will leave for Frankfort tomorrow.
The nliitiamen will go without uniforms.
Wherever the news has leaked out excite
ment is high, and cool heads may be re-
CURED at tne capital 10 prevent wnat may
be an unnecessary clash.
FRANkbOR KY, Nov. 3o.-The meet
ing Of the state election commission to
canvass the vote of Nov. 9, called for Sat
urday, Dec. g. has been postponed till Mon
day, Dec. f.
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VIEWS OF REPUBLICANS.
Several Favor Change I'm Convention
Basis of Representation.

NEW YORK, Nov SO.-In support Of an
Of representation in Republican national
conventions should be changed. that paper
will tomorrow publish a number of opin-
ions received in reply to an effort to poll
the national committee upon the subject
Senator Mark Hanna and Charles r. Bray
ton. of Rhode Island, are non-committal.
Henry G. Payne, Of Wisconsin, tele-
graphs at length protesting against the
policy which allows lone Republican in
Mississippi forty times as much voice in
naming a candidate as one Republican in
the State of Illinois, He says that 1t is
opportune that this change in representa-
tion should be made at the coming Repub-
lican convention for the reason that there
will be only one candidate for the nomina-
ton. He says that it is impossible to bring
about the change when several candidates
are seeking a nomination.
Senator Scott, national committeeman for
West Virginia, favors a change. He says
that in West Virginia a county receives rep
resentation in a state convention in proper
ton to the Republican or Democratic votes
cast at the previous election. and he thinks
the same rule should apply to States repre-
seated in a national convention.
L. +. Hubbard, national committeeman for
Minnesota, says the present basis is wrong
because Minnesota, which cast l93, ,5M votes
for Mckinley, has but eighteen delegates to
a national convention, while Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and South Carolina altogether cast but
2UO.0l6 votes for Mckinley, yet they are en-
titled to an aggregate of 124 delegates.
Frederick S. Gibbs, national committee
man for New York. says that he will vote
in favor of change in the basis Of repre-
sentation at the meeting Of the national
cou1mifree
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Wolseley's announcement that a new di-
vision will be embarked without delay has
been received with the greatest satisfac-
ton. The transports will soon be returning
from the Cape. and 1t is hoped the men will
be dispatched speedily. On this point the
Morning Post says: "The sooner we can
make up our minds as to the magnitude OF
the work in hand the sooner it will be ac-
complished."
Lieutenant Colonel Stopford's death ends
a most promising career. He was the Off
Ger mainly responsible for working out the
details of the mobilization scheme.
Boer prisoners at Orange river report that
the number Of Beers killed at Belmont is be-
lieved to be 40. and at Gras Pan 400 Among
the prisoners are several with enormous red
crosses on their sleeves. 1t is reported they
fought with the artillery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-01
BRYAN AND HOGG.
Ticket That Would Please Texas
Democrats, and w. j., Too.

AITSTIN. Tex. Nov 30-While William
J. Bryan and Ex-Governor Hogg and other
politicians were making rear-end train
speeches at Elgin, near this city, this after
noin. a boom was started for Ex-Governor
James Hogg for second place on the ma
tional Democratic ticket. and Mr.. Bryan
warmly applauded the proposition.
Mr.. Bryan. accompanied by Governor Say
ers, Ex-Governor Hogg and Attorney Gen
eral Smith, left this afternoon for Wace,s
where Mr.. Bryan will speak tomorrow.
They went via Elgin, a small junction of
some five thousand inhabitants, few miles
to the south of this city, TO make the Waco
connection. Arriving at Elgin, the party
was received by almost the entire population
Of the town and perfect ovation was ten
dered them. The crowd demanded some
speechmaking. Mr.. Bryan was the first to
respond TO the clamor and addressed his
hearers for some ten or fifteen minutes He
reviewed the past war briefly and asserted
that the public did not want nor would they
tolerate the saddling OF a large standing
army on to this Nation. He spoke cheer
fully OF the campaign for 1900. He assured
his hearers that he was in Texas to recup-
crate and prepare himself for the coming
campaign. and announced that the Demo-
Gratis of the country would find him as
loyal TO the 16-to-1 theory as ever, and that
It should have precedence over everything
else If he had his way.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Bryan's address
Ex-Governor Hogg spoke briefly along the
same lines. Governor Sayers followed in a
like manner. and then the surprise was
sprung on the crowd by Attorney General
Smith. He extolled Mr.. Bryan as a great
leader and assured the audience that he
would be elected President In 1900 While
the audience was enthusiastically cheering
this staement Mr.. Smith added that he
hoped 10 see, and knew that he would see
Ex-Governor Hogg occupy the second place
on the national ticket. as he would make
an excellent running mate for Mr.. Bryan
This created great enthusiasm, and Mr..
Bryan applauded heartily with the re-
mainder OF the crowd.
Cries for Hogg brought him TO the front
again. and he announced that the honor
sought to be thrust upon him was more
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AUSTIN, Tex. Nov. 30.-William j. Bry-
ans attention having been called TO re-
port from Washington that it was hintei
there that he was inclined to favor the
nomination Of Sulzer for speaker by the
Democratic congressional contingent, ex-
pressed himself as follows In the matter:
Il have not said or written anything for
or against any candidate for speaker. /
have not taken any part in the contest, and
shall not. The Democrats in Congress are
entirely competent to settle the question of
leadership for themselves, and / have no
doubt that the caucus will make wise Sc
lection"
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FIGHT IN AN ELEVATOR.
1t Resulted I'm a Horrible Death for
One of the Participants.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Nov. so.-Andrew Wind
former member Of the Sixth Missouri
Volunteers in Cuba, engaged in a desperate
fight to-day with r. B. Harmon in an ele-
vator in the Fraternal building In which
the latter Is engineer. During the strug-
gle Wind came In contact with the lever
which controls the elevator. and IL started
upward. Wind was caught between the
ceiling OF the second floor and the car and
was horribly mangled. dying shortly after
ward Harmon is under arrest.
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Methuen's Wound May Prevent Him
Occupying the Saddle.

LONDON. Dec. I. 40 a. m.-Beyond the
report from Estcourt that firing was heard
In the direction OF Ladysmith on Monday.
there Is not a shred OF news OF any kind
from the seat OF war. a semi-officisl state
ment has been issued that Lord Methuen's
wound Is not serious. and that he is ex-
pected to be all right in the course OF
. few days. II Is certain. however. that
the wound Will prevent HIS being In the
saddle. and there Is great anxiety TO know
whether he will be compelled temporarily TO
abandon the personal direction OF affairs.
His next In command Is Colonel colville.
commanding the Guards Brigade. He has
. reputation as an excellent officer.
A. men are needed In all directions. Lord
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-01
SITUATION AT KIMBERLEY.



KIMBERLEY. Nov. "a. by way of Klok-
fontein. Nov. N.-There were few rife
shots early to-day from the direction Of
Wright's farm. but this was regarded as
merely one of the numerous Boer tricks to
draw our men out by inducing us to be-
lieve that the relieving forces are drawing
near. This afternoon the Beers blew up
two large culverts near the rifle butts, on
the railway line toward Spytfontein.
The news Of the proximity of the reliev-
ing forces greatly cheered the garrison and
the inhabitants. A few Beers were seen
to-day. but 1t is believed there are now
only small bands of the enemy around
Kimberley. lots of fifty or so, the greater
part having gone to Spytfontein, where fir
ing is believed to have been heard about
noon.
From Kafir sources comes report that
there are two large Boer laagers at Oil
fant's dam. with 15O wagons for water sup
ply. The Beers have cut the existing dam.
three miles distant, allowing the water to
run down toward their laagers into an old
dry dam on the farm. This is believed to
be the Free State base of operations on
the western border.
The official estimate places the number
of Boer shells fired during the lombard
ment Of Kimberley at about one thousand,
and ours at no fewer than six hundred. AS
the enemy's shells so frequently hit soft,
sandy ground. the explosive effect is great
ly neutralized.
All our wounded are in a very satisfac-
tory condition.
An armored train proceeded toward
Dronfield to reconnoiter. but this immedi-
ately reused the enemy's cordite guns and
the train returned after the fifth shell had
been fired.
The Beers are now firing on the reservoir
fort from Wimbledon.
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LIST OF CASUALTIES.


and Others wounded.
LONDON. Nov. sO.-It is officially an
nounced that General Methuen was among
those wounded at the battle of Modder
River. A bullet inflicted a slight wound in
the thigh. The War Office has also received
from the general commanding at Cape
Town the following list of casualties in
the same battle:
Killed
COL. II. p. NORTHCOTT. staff.
LIEUT.. COL r. STOPFORD. Second
Coldstreams.
CAPT s. EARLE, Second Coldstreams.
LIEUT.. LONG, Second Yorkshires.
Wounded
Artillery-Maj. j. w. Lindsay Captain
Farrell. Lieutenant Dunlop. Lieutenant
Furse.
Third Grenadiers-Major Count Gleichen.
Lieut.. the Hon. h. ri. Lyon.
oldstreams-Lieutenant Viscount Ache
son.
Medical Corps-Capt. G. A Moore.
Engineer Corps-Captain Won Hughes.
Third Observation-Disclosures Travers.
Scots Guards-Lieutenants ELVES and
Hill.
ancashires-Lieutenant Flint.
Second observation-disclosures Earle and
Ottley, Lieutenant Fox.
Argyll Highanders-Lieutenan Baker
Carr and Nelson.
The casualties among the officers of the
Ninth Brigade and the men of the division
have not yet been received by General Bull
ler.
Colonel Northcott participated in the
Shenbro expedition. West Africa, in 1856,
where he was desperately wounded I'm the
Zulu war, the Ashaltee expedition. and the
Karagwe expedition In 1895. for which he
was made companion OF he Bath. Re-
Gently he commanded in the northern gold
coast territories.
Lieutenant Colonel stopford had not seen
any active service.
Count Gleichen Is a relative Of the Queen.
He Is major OF the Grenadier Guards
and is the oldest son of the late Prince
Victor. OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. He took
part In the Nile expedition, I'm lSSi-S5; was
attached to Sir westrIdge Ways mission
to Morocco. 1885; did special service in the
soudan. 1896; and was attached to Mr.
Rodd's mission to Abyssinia. 1897. He was
stan captain Of the intelligence division OF
the War Office since 1895.
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ASSAULTED WITH AN AK.
Two Women and n Man Seriously In
jured by an Old Man.

BOSTON, Mass. Nov. 30-Charles G.
West, of Roxbury, was arrested here to-
day for an alleged assault on three per-
sons with an ak, this forenoon. The VIC
Tins are Emma r. Sanaine, John Barnard
and Lille Jennings. 1t is feared the
Sanaine woman and BARNARD are fatally
injured. The affair is believed to have re-
suited from a quarrel over money matters.
Barnard is seventy years of age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-01
NOVEMBER COINAGE.
Nearly Twenty Million Pieces of
Money Minted at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Nov. 30.-The to-
tai coinage at the mint during November
was S.0i6010. which represents l9,A5. .s4O
separate coins. or the gold coins. TO the
value OF si.e0S.7oo there were l07. 40 eagles.
$3.50 half eagles and l.520 quarter eagles.
In silver there was total or sl,1se. 600
coined. LIZ being half-dollar pieces. ]. sos
quarters and 2,s4o.o00 dimes. The months
coinage of nickels was valued at slf. 500
while II. .SS7.ooo pennies were made.
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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER

ture of the world. The speaker explained
that he used the word alliance. but II
mattered little whether they had an alli-
ance committed TO paper or IAN under
standing which existed in the minds of the
statesmen of the respective countries. A
determination in every case to look for
favorable motives upon the part of those
with whom friendship was desired would
be an enormous advantage to both the ma
tions concerned and others"
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LONDON. Nov. 3O.-Lord Wolseley.
speaking in London this evening, eulogized
the conduct of the British troops in South
Africa and confirmed the semi-official an
nouncement that another division Of the
Second Army Corps would be called out
This division he said would soon be on it's
way to the Cape. He expressed himself as
confident that the reserves would respond
to the call with the same obedience and
pride that had marked the response to pre-
vious calls.
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DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 3o-Jacob Schnei-
der attacked his wife with a meat ak. at
their home. in an isolated portion OF the
city, early to-day, and. after chopping her
horribly, saturated the house with kero-
sene and set fire to 1t. He perished in the
flames. but the wife was saved by her
daughter
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than he expected. that he did not want any
office and not looking for any; that he
thought the vice presidency should go 10
Western man. The ovation rendered the
quartet was most fattering. and the train
was permitted TO depart only after consid-
cradle delay.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-01-12
South Dakota Lanas.

Scotland Citizen: Land seekers are
realizing that there is no better place
to invest in real estate than in South
Dakota. The crops are almost invari-
ably as good, and the past season have
been better than the high priced lands
IN states farther east. Spectators
who have Invested in lands in this
vicinity say that they can realize a
profit on their investment from the
crop alone OF from four to six per cent,
aoove all expenses, and in addition are
Irealizinga handsome profit in the rise
IN the price of their land. But while
the lands are valuable for the specula-
TORS, they are doubly SO for the actual
settler who tills the soil for himself,
raises and cares for his herd OF cattle,
his dairy. his hogs. his poultry aud the
thousand and one little sources OF
profit that can only be secured by the
careful painstaking farmer himself #
you are seeking home, plant yourself
ion the fertile prairies of South Dakota
and YOU will make no mistake.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-01-12

Agricultural Advertising: One fool
used to be born every minute. Now
there are two, sometimes three The
business is growing and the product is
of high quality. The biggest fool OF
all fools is the Internal fool who thinks
he knows it all, whether he be on d
farm, in the factory or in the business
office. The man who does not know
that he can learn something by whet-
ting up against some one else is can
dldate for the lunatic asylum or the
Door house. A man may shut himself
up on his farm or in his Office and be
monarch Of all he surveys, but his
survey will be SO small that it will
keep him Door all his life Expansion
is the watchword of the day; and the
way to expand is to get out and expand.
ltcannot be done by sitting around
and throwing bouquets at ourselves. 1t
IS the bouquets Of others which come
our way that count. and we cannot ex-
pect others to use US for target un-
less we let them know where we are at.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1899-01-12

have not been made public, but
they are claimed to have been
reassuring. A prominent official
said of the situation in the Philip
pines: III we have any serious
trouble in connection with our
assuming authority over the is
lands, it will not be with Agui-
naldo and his ignorant followers,
but with those who are response
bic for the advice which has been
given Aguinaldo by officlous busy
bodies who are interested in try
ing to get up a little war between
the y. S. and the F'ilipinos." He
did not say who were the respon-
sible parties, but, in view Of the
general suspicion, it would not be
difficult to guess.