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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
SITUATION At BUFFALO
NO DISTURBANCES At THE DOCKS
REPORTED YESTERDAY.
Progress Made Towards a Settlement
of the Strike-Testimony Before
the Industrial Commission.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 9.-While the
strike situation remains unchanged after a
day of quietness, there is still hope for a
speedy settlement of the roubl Tonight
il was learned that the Lake Carriers Asso-
citation and Contractor Corners are willing
to make liberal concessions TO the scoopers
Tonight. at a big meeting of the grain
shovelers. held at St Bridget's Hall, Pres
ident Mcmahon made a report of the doings
of the conference committees. He stated
thai the proposition submitted by the grain
shovelers had been laid on the table by the
representatives of the Lake Carriers As
ISOLATION, and that the latter had made a
counter-proposition. The lake carriers,
Mr.. Mcmahon said, had agreed to accept
all of the terms contained in the proposition
of the grain shovelers, with the exception
of the abrogation of the contract which
Mr.. Corners had. They had agreed TO take
the entire supervision of the work out of
Mr.. Conners's hands. to let Bishop Quigley
appoint a superintendent, TO give the power
to the grain shovelers of appointing their
own boss scoopers, and they agreed to the
appointment of a local board of arbitration.
President Mcmahon announced that the
committee of the strikers had refused to ac-
cept these terms and the grain shovelers
unanimously approved of the committees
action.
The situation on the docks has not
changed. Mr.. Corners claims to have more
men at work now than at any other time
this season.
VIM. H. Kennedy, the boss scooper. who
was shot last Tuesday during a disturbance
on the docks, died this morning from his in
juries. Buck Skinner, suspected Of doing
the shooting, Is in jail,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
..ONE CONTINUOUS MISTAKE
We Have Too Many Porto
Rican R~ascaIS.

w. V. Hetlt, IN the May Atlantic.
1t is without the slightest desire to criti-
else our army and navy that L speak of
their treatment of the Porto Ricans as one
SHOWN from the first an intense desire TO
demonstrate to the natives the reality of
that golden era which awaits them under
the rule of the United States. However
laudable the motive. that was not the part
of wisdom. The error lay in ascribing too
much Importance to the native Porto Rican.
General Miles, when embarking upon his
collection OF nondescripts called the Porto
Rican Junto. By their own account, they
were political exiles and refugees. Their
more urge Mt motives for quitting the coun-
try, however, traverse a category OF offenses
in which politics played but an nsignifi-
cant part. the graver charges being man
slaughter, thieving and embezzlement. Gen.
Miles. OF course, soon saw through their
pretense of being prominent citizens, and
they found IL advisable to scatter, but not
before one of them had donned a uniform.
and employed his newly-acquired authority
for the furtherance of private ends.
The interpreters of the commission that
tation. but by odds better than that of the
army's earlier interpreters. One of those
worthies belonged TO a prominent Porto
.Rican family. had studied in the United
States, while here having become natural
Returning TO Porto Rico. he took an
active part In the politics of the island,
joining the Puros and opposing Rivera. with
his enemies. he would throw himself back
upon his American. citizenship. Some time
before the outbreak OF war he was in
formed by our vice consul in San Juan
that. II arrested. he could expect no aid
from the consulate. as he bad forfeited his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
RODMAN GUN EXPLODES.
Bursts While officers Are Testing
thu Safety Fuse.

NEW YORK. May 9.-The Gathman
safety fuse was tested by Major Heath. of
the ordnance department, at Sandy Hook
to-day. A fifteen smooth bore Rodman CUR,
charged with 100 pounds of smokeless pow
der and filled with wet sand and a case
containing so pounds of gun cotton, to which
was attached a Gathman fuse. was buried in
eighteen feet Of sand and exploded by means
of electricity. The gun was shattered, but
portions OF the gun cotton were found un-
exploded. The officers believe the test was
SUCCESSFUL:
Heretofore the rawback in discharging
gun cotton with the aid of powder has been
the danger of a premature explosion. The
Gathman fuse is made TO operate and ex-
plode the gun cotton by a system whose
success depends upon the revolving motion
OF the shell. To explode, the shell must
be fired from a gun with a rife bore, simple
conclusion not being sufficient TO do it. The
charge OF powder was an excessive one
and was for the purpose of bursting the
gun without exploding the gun cotton.
When an examination was made of a
piece of the muzzle of the gun Ii was found
that the inner side near the muzzle was
coated with phosphor bronze from the shell,
and the belief is that the shell was partly
dlslodged and at least reached the muZzle
of the gun before the shell burst. The off,
Gals who were making the test found the
pressure gauge of the gun, but 1t was so
badly twisted and bent that II was impoS-
sible to tell the force of the discharge.
dig down to the pit, where. it is believed,
a large mass of the unexploded gun cotton
will be found. 1t will be some days before
the task will be accomplished Among those
Charles O'Neil, chief ordnance officer of the
United States navy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
The Actors Life.

Rose Coghlan. clever, deep-thinkine.
bright-talking Rose Coghlan. is with US
again. Some months ago when she was ap-
pearing in a lurid melodrama at the Walnut
street Theater, she began TO talk of the
loneliness of stage life. And what she said
is worth repeating: Very often women who
ought TO know better" she said. rave to
me about the jolly companionship of the
stage, of the immense fun and never-ending
UP acting as a profession. They do not know
of the Loneliness Of il all-of the narrow.
encompassing line that imprisons US and
makes US beings apart from the great body
or men and women. as far as enjoyment and
friendly companionship is concerned The
footlights flicker, burn high. burn low, yet
We and our world stay on one side. and the
easy-going theater-loving folks on the other.
No Brahmin-like code Of caste Is more rig
orous than are those little lights that fringe
the stage. They speak their edict to US and
yond our make-believe one, with its powder
and paint. its silk and rags, We must not
relax our efforts TO enjoy II, even temper
arily. or our work will suffer. jolly, isn't It?
Jolly 10 sit alone in ones dressing room,
when not acting; to go TO ones hotel, TO
sleep. TO work. rehearse and then TO act
again. Oh. yes, its jo7y-as jolly as was
poor st. Simeon up on his pillar. We have
10 simulate joy and sorrow. tears and laugh
ter so often that we never have time TO give
our real emotions real sway. We are often
invited to teas. receptions, dances. which We
cannot attendant yet we mimic them. pre-.
tend to have t~hem-while the audience that
sits In front says, oh. how they seem TO en-
Joy life.' Jolly? On. yes, the life of ar,
actress is one continual round Of intoxi-
eating pleasure"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
SHOW TO-DAY.
Partly Cloudy and Cooler Weather
On Thursday-High Seutherly Winds.

WASHINGTON. May 8. s D. m.-Forecast
for twenty-four hours:
For Ohio-Increasing cloudiness, with
showers in western portion on Wednesday;
Thursday showers and cooler; brisk south
erly winds.
For Indiana and nlinois-Showers on
Wednesday and Wednesday night; partly
cloudy and cooler on Thursday. brisk to
high southerly winds.
Weather Conditions and General Forecast
The Atlantic coast storm has disappeared
In the direction Of Nova Scotia, and show
ers have been followed by fair weather along
the middle Atlantic and northeast coast. A
storm of marked strength is central this
evening over Manitoba. Showers and thun-
derstorms have occurred within a trough
OF low m pressure which extends
from the Northwest storm center over the
Missouri valley. Kansas and northern
Texas The temperature is above the sea-
sonal average except from the northern
Rocky mountain region TO the north Pa
cihc coast. During Wednesday showers and
thunderstOrms will occur in the upper
Mississippi and middle and lower Ohio val
leys and the western lake region, and by
Thursday the rain area Will probably be
carried over the middle Atlantic States.
High southerly winds are indicated for
Wednesday over the western lake region
and for Wednesday night over the eastern
lake region. Along the Atlantic coast the
winds will be variable Wednesday and will
shift to southerly by Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
A BLIND GUIDE.
Not Politics That Causes Lynchings I'm
the south.

Philadelphia North American.
Governor Gambler cannot befog the peo-
pie outside of Georgia, even If he can de-
lude himself. He is just as well aware as
anybody that 1t is not politics that under
lies the lynchings in that State. His state
ment that giving the negro the ballot
swelled his head and made him a bad citi-
zen is only an opinion, burt 1t Is an opinion
In the last stage of decay. Giving the negro
the ballot has not altered the character of
the white masses in the old slave States.
Chattel slavery 1rutaliZed the white people
in those States. They are no more brutal
now than they were forty years ago.
What else can be looked for in a COM
munity where one Of the most numerous
and pretentious. religious organizations,
the lynching Of Hose and Strickland was
justifiable, because of the nature Of the
crime? The Rev. Thinkield has no words
to express/his horror Of the crime of Hose.
which is well enough said. But the reverend
gentleman has no horror to express of the
mutilation, drenching with oil and the burn
ing Of Hose. Nor does he condemn the
brutal murder of Strickland. who was only
suspected of instigating a murder, and who
was believed TO be innocent by Major
Thomas. his employer.
Mr.. Thinkield was in favor of action for
the protection Of the whites rather than In
behalf Of the negroes. He may live TO learn
that the best and the only way to protect
the whites is TO condemn every breach or
law, whether the offender be white or black.
and to punish nlurderers without distinction
of race and color. His Christianity is of the
same quality as the paganism of Nero.
AS the churches South were the most i'm
placable supporters of chattel slavery, so
they seem to-day TO be the supporters of the
evil consequences of slavery. This is not
true of all the Southern churches, but II is
true of some of them. And there Is a lack
of fibre in the religion OF. the South so APP
parent that we may consider IL apart from
the religions that prevail in more advanced
communities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

comfortable. but the engines they are now
importing all nave American cabs and a
dozen other devices invented here for light
ening the work and increasing the safety
OF the men who handle tnem:.. The ma
layman only. indeed, in hat they lack the
so-called "cowcatcher." 1t is replaced by
TWO strong rods hur & from the front OF the
ing the rails. The change gives an awk-
ward and unfinished appearance to that end
OF the engine. but otherwise they look ex-
actly like those which are seen here. But
the American locomotive of to-day, hand
some as it is In comparison with its foreign
the American locomotives Of fifteen or
twenty years ago. No more does the sun
shine glitter from polished brass and steel.
and the once swelling and impressive
smokestack is now little better than a length
of stovepipe. OF course. the new engines
are good. but they are what % East
folks call dreadful plain"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
IS NOW QUIET
PEOPLE ALL WAITING ON THE JOINT
HIGH COMMISSION.
Arrival of DIR. Self at Apia-Scene
treaties by John kensit In the
Archiepiscopal Court at

APIA, Samoa, May /. via Auckland. N. H..
May 9.-Everything is quiet on the island.
operations have been suspended pending the
arrival Of the joint commissioners from San
Francisco.
After the cessation of hostilities a detach-
ment Of British soldiers visited the battlefield
of Vailima, where they recovered an Amer
lean machine gun that had been captured
by the rebels. The rebel lines at Lottopa
and Vailima were two miles long and OF
great strength. being reinforced by trenches
and rifle pits. 1t was found that several
rebels had died in the trenches from the
shock Of bursting shells, but without having
been wounded. After the armistice had
been agreed on, the rebels left the forts
singing war songs of the vanquished.
The country is being secured by British
and American soldiers in search for lead
from which the natives might make bullets.
A British planter. who has been a prisoner
of the rebels for six weeks, has arrived in
Apia. His experiences during his captivity
were frightful. Many times the rebels
threatened to behead him.
Captain Sturdee. the ranking British naval
officer here, in company with a missionary,
went through the rebel lines unmolested.
They found everything quiet pending the
arrival of the joint commissioners, who are
To arrange terms of peace. The British
third-class cruiser Royalist has sailed for
England, by way Of Sydney.
DIR: Self. the newly-appointed president OF
the Municipal Council. has arrived here. He
will remain inactive until the commissioners
reach here with instructions.
Five officers for the United States cruiser
Philadelphia have arrived here on board the
steamer Mariposa.
The United States armed collier Brutus
Will remain at Apia all this month.
An American sailor while drunk was shot
with a revolver by a marine. who was ar
resting him. The wound is not serious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

Sta in Behalf of Printers and
Granite Cutters.

WASHINGTON, May SIS. B. Donnelly,
president of the international Topographic
cal Union was before the industrial commits
sion to-day. Referring to the strike Of the
stereotypers in Chicago, last year, Mr.. Don
nelly said it was a failure because 1t did
not have the sanction of the general order.
He thought strikes were diminishing. The
witness m hat there were about
four thousand Mergenthaler machines in
use in the United States and said they had
displaced twelve thousand workmen. The
printers had accepted machinery in their
work as inevitable, but he considered them
detrimental to their business. under existing
circumstances. Mr.. Donnelly opposed the in
corporation of trades unions. because he
was afraid Of the courts. THE banking sys-
TEN seems TO permeate everything he
said. Not only legislatures move in the d.
rection indicated by the bankers. but the
courts must do the same thing"
Mr.. James Duncan, of Baltimore. secre-
tional Union, said that state arbitration had
not been satisfactory. as a rule, because
the disposition of arbitration boards was to
reduce wages where they were higher than
in other places. Mr.. Duncan complained bit
terly of what he called 1.-The accursed pad
rome system" He said that In New York
the law required the payment of 81 per day
to granite cutters for public work, but that
the padrones furnished men upon an agree
ment that they should return IS of the
amount received at the end of the week.
thus evading the law and reducing the
wages to S. per day, He also complained
that the customs officials refused to enforce
the anti-contract law as vigorously as they
should. and in this connection criticised the
executive action of President Harrison in
reducing the fine of the contractors on the
Texas state capito! from $4,000 to $500.
Mr.. Duncan criticized the United States
Senate "as a place of redress for million
aires.' mentioning the defeat of the eight
hour bill of the last session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

His Bribery Charges Resented by
Charles n. HASKELL.

TOLEDO. o., May a-Charles n. Haskell,
whom Attorney General Monnett accused
Of being a party TO offering him a bride to
quit prosecution in the Standard Oil cases.
said to-day thar he absolutely had nothing
TO do with offering a bride to any one. He
stated that he was in no way connected
with the Standard Oil Company. and over
his signature gave out the following state
ment:
Il do not know Mr.. Monnett and never
had any communication with him. direct or
indirect. i do not know Mr.. Charles B.
SqRires. his alleged briber, nor have / ever
had any communication. directly or ipdi-
recriy, with him. 1 am not now and never
was the holder Of any stock in the Stand
ard OIL Company nor of any other company
connected with il. / am not now and never
was interested in any way with said
StandasA Oil Company. / have never known
OF nor have j ever been in any way con-
nected, with any attempt to influence OF
control the action of the attorney general
OF Ohio in any proceeding against the
Standard Oil Company or in any other mat
ter l characterize and denounce as abso-
lutely false any and all statements connect
ing me In any way with the litigation or at
tempt TO influence the litigation of the State
Of Ohio against the Standard Oil Company.
i courr the fullest investigation at the
earliest possible moment and / do this in
justice to myself. my family and my
friends"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Grand Court of Foresters Of America
is in session at Tacoma. Wash.
The Fifth Immune Regiment, 600 strong.
left over the Lehigh Valley Railroad yes
terday for Camp Meade. Pa.
A portion of the international Saengerfest
building, at Cincinnati, collapsed yesterday,
but the damage was quickly repaired.
Rudyard Kipling and his family left Lake
wood yesterday for Morristown, n. j. MIR.
Kipling has almost entirely recovered his
strength.
The Hamburg-American steamer Brasilia
arrived at Halifax. yesterday from Ham
burg with / 400 immigrants. all bound TO the
Canadian Northwest.
Rev. DIR. Rose F. Alsopp, of Brooklyn,
who was recently elected general missionary
secretary of the Episcopal Church in Amer
lea, has declined the position.
Dispatches from various sources deny the
rumor that +. ID. Armour has been stricken
with apoplexy. Mr.. Armour is at Nauksin,
ive miles from Homburg, Germany.
Adolph Kufier, doing business at New
York under the name of A. Kuffler & Co.,
dealers i'm leaf tobacco. yesterday made an
assignment. Liabilities $4,000. assets $685.
Aldermen yesterday an enthusiastic resolu-
ton calling for an official reception of Ad-
miral Dewey on his arrival in that city was
adopted unanimously.
1t Is said that the Whitney-Widner-El-
kins syndicate, otherwise the METROPOLITAN
Street-railway Company, will operate the
line OF Om0 stages to be introduced
on Fifth avenue, New York.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was
hled at New York yesterday by Charles b.
Corwin. manufacturers agent. formerly a
memO of the firm of Stephens, Corwin &
s SSJ 5S @h'cn ia''e' IN june 1851 Liabilities
Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. of Cornell
University. whose name was mentioned
among the candidates for the presidency of
the University of California, said yester-
day that ne was not q candidate for the po-
sition.
Bernard W. Layton, assistant sergeant-at-
arms of the United States Senate. is lying
dangerously injured at st. Vincent's Hospi-
bowling alley. Mr.. Layton's ply ~sicians
hope the injury may not be permanent.
The funeral of Gen. Manning Z. Force
will be held at Cincinnati on Thursday and
in that city. To-day there will be simple
services at the Soldiers Home in Ssndusky,
of which General Force was commandment.
DR.. J. c. Banner. head of the department
Of geology at Stanford University, Cal.
with a party of students, left yesterday for
the purpose OF studying the coral forma-
tons along the Brazilian coast. The data
gathered by the expedition will be pub
lisned by Harvard University.
1t Is understood at the Annapolis Naval
Academy that the department is contem.
plating a change in the uniform of officers
and an order to that effect will be issued in
helmet in place of white cap, are said to be
the projected changes in the regulation
dress.
C. A. Walsh. secretary OF the Democratic
national committee. arrived at his home in
where he has been the past eighteen
months. He laughs at the story that he
cleared $4,000 to 100000. but admits he
Dawson City in June for a short stay. Mr..
Walsh still owns the Klondike Advertiser.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
Contempt Case Di.mi.,ea.

COLUMBUS. o., May 9.-The Standard
Oil Company won a point in the Supreme
Court to-day when a decision was handed
down dismissing the contempt proceedings
against Malcolm Jennings. a newspaper
man. Jennings was subpoS aaed as a witness
in the Standard Oil suits by the attorney
general who endeavored to show that the
witness was conducting a news bureau IN
the interest of the Standard Company.
When asked to give a list of papers to witch
ne furnished such matter Jennings refused
and was cited for contempt. The Supreme
Court held that the Information asked cf
the witness was not important and that it
would not tend to throw any light on the
question at issue. The court held. therefore,
that witness was not in contempt in refus-
ing to answer the question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10
JOHN KENsIT PROTESTS,
hut the ArchbisbOps Adjourn for Re-
~shmen md the Scene Ended.

LONDON. May 9.-There was a scene
during to-day's sitting of the archiepiscopal
court. which convened on yesterday for a
hearing of the charges of ritualistic prac-
tees against the Rev. Henry Westall. vicar
Of the Church of st. John, Timberhill. Nor
wich. During the proceedings John Kensir,
the noted anti-ritualist. arose from his seat
at the back of the guardroom of Lambeth
Palace, where the court is sitting, and
shouted: II wish to protest against the
holding of this court" Mr.. Kensit then be-
gan to read a written protest against the
so-called spiritual court and especially
for years have deliberately set at naught
your solemn ordination vows. and allowed
and often promoted ~well-known lawbreak-
ers in the church."
A storm of Kisses greeted the protest, and
the Archbishop of Canterbury. the Most
amid cheers and derisiye laughter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-10

Admiral Won Diedrichs has been granted
a leave of absence of three months.
The procedure for a divorce initiated last
month by Comtesse EsterhaZy was passed
at Paris yesterday by default and the final
degree will follow In July.
The Cairo correspondent of the London
Times says: General Lord Kitchener in
tends to open the Sudan to all traders on
the completion of the railroad to Khartum
and foreign goods will be admitted free of
duty"
In spite of precautionary measures, viru-
lent smallpox Is spreading in Berlin. The
disease was imported into Germany by Rus
sian laborers and has already spread to
Iserlohn. WuerSburg and Hanover. Fresh
cases are also reported at Quedlinburg,
Reitsch and Neuhaldensleben. There have
been twenty cases thus far reported.