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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
BETA THETA PI OFFICERS.
National Convention OF the College
Fraternity at Niagara.

NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y, July a.-The
Beta Theta Pi fraternity is holding its six
teenth annual convention here. So far as
business is concerned the meeting Of the
organization has been very quiet. On Satur-
day the rain kept the fraternity indoors and
there was no excitement At night a dance
occupied the time. On Sunday morning the
members of the fraternity went to Lewiston
in special train of the George Railway.
To-day and tomorrow will be devoted to
pleasure.
The Beta Theta Pi fraternity elected off,
GERS to-day as follows: President, w. A.
Hamilton, Chicago; secretary. Francis II.
Sisson, Galesburg, ILL.,; treasurer, Warren
Doakes, Indianapolis; board of trustees. j.
Cabbanna, Oak Park. ILL.,: Willis O. Robb,
New York; c. J. McDermaid. Cincinnati.
The convention officers are: President, A.
w. Mitchell. Pittsburg; first vice president.
c. j. McDermaid; second vice president,
president, B. r. Hardy, Boston; general
secretary, Frank G. Ensign, Oak Park, Ill.
A feature of the convention was the APP
pearance of the fraternity catalogue. 1t has
LOO pages and contains 1900 names of
members of fraternity.
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Du Patty De Clam Liberated.

PARIS, July 31.-Le Soir announces that
Colonel Du Patty de Clam was liberated at 3
o'clock this afternoon. He Immediately
drove to his home and retired to bed. al
leging excessive fatigue. He declined TO see
anybody. General Burger, military gov
ernor of Paris. has the power to override
the decision that there is no case against
Colonel Du Patty de Clam. but it is under
stood that he will countersign the acquittaL
Nothing is yet known of the actual grounds
Of the acquittal. but il is reported that Du
Patty de Clam was exonerated because it
was proved that he acted under direct or
ders from Generals Gonz and De Boisdef-
fire, against whom severe disciplinary meas
ures imminent. If this be confirmed it
will prove that the efforts of the general
staff to make Du Patty de Clam a scapegoat
have failed. General Roget and Major
Cuignet, who were chief witnesses against
Captain Dreyfus in the proceedings in the
Court of Cessation each maintains that he
has absolute proof Of Du Patty de CLAIMS
forgeries and intrigue. If their statements.
which 1t was believed at the time were
made to shield the general staff. be dis
credited. nothing will remain against Drey-
fus.
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Compromise by Arbitrators.

DENVER. Col. July S.-The Board Of
Arbitration to-day filed its report on the in
vestlgation Of the smelter strike. The de-
cision it reached is a compromise between
the demands of the smelter men and the
officers of the American Smelling and Re
filming Company. commonly known as the
trust The board has fixed wage schedule
on the basis of an eight-hour day for the in
side men and ten-hour day for the yard
men. The wages recommended average
about 10 per cent. higher than those offered
by the smelter managers. The question of
union or nonunioD labor is ignored and this
point is now the only obstacle in the way
of immediate reopening of the smelters.
Dennis Sheedy, manager of the Globe
smelter, after the announcement of the de-
cision of the State Board of Arbitration
published the following notice: For ten days
past the management of the Globe plant Of
the American Smelling and Refining Com
pany has offered to open its works and give
employment to eight hundred or more old
employees at a considerable advance on the
scale of wages heretofore paid. but said en-
ployes not having returned these works will
be closed indefinitely.
DENNIS SHEEDY, Manager"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
SANG "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Canadian Parliament Sympathizes
with British TransvaaI Subjects.


OTTAWA, Ont, July 31.-Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the premier, interrupted the regu-
lar business of the House of Commons to-
day to move the following resolution in re-
vaal.
THAT this House has viewed with regret
the complications which have arisen in the
Transvaal republic, of which her Majesty
Is sovereign, from the refusal to accord to
her Majesty's subjects now settled in that
region any adequate participation in its
government.
THAT this House has learned with still
greater regret that the condition of things
there existing has resulted in intolerable
oppression and has produced great and dan
gerous excitement among several classes Of
her Majesty's subjects in her South African
possessions.
That this House, representing a people
who have largely succeeded, by the adop-
ton of the principle of conceding equal po-
lation. in harmoniZing arrangements and
In producing general content with the exist
ing system Of government desires to ex-
press its sympathy with the efforts of her
MaJesty'S imperial authorities to obtain for
the subjects of her Majesty who have taken
up their abode in the Transvaal such meas
ures OF justice and political recognition as
may be found necessary to secure them in
the full possession of equal rights and lib
critics."
The premier supported the resolution and
George Z. Foster seconded 1T, In the alb
sence of Sir Charles Upper, who wrote the
premier that he approved of IL. After
adopting the resolution the whole house
rose and sang God Save the Queen"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01

WASHINGTON, July 31--Secretary Long
has taken notice of some rather personal
exchanges OF opinion between the naval bu-
reaus in the course Of official business Be
fore he left the city to-day he addressed an
Identical note to each of ~three bureaus,
construction, engineering and equipment, d.
recting attention TO certain extracts from
official letters that were not proper and
warning the bureau chiefs that comments
similar TO those contained In the extracts
were entirely unnecessary and tended to re-
tard and prevent the transaction Of bust
ness, provoking retaliation. The bureaus
are told to see TO Ii that in their communi-
cations hereafter all such criticisms and ex-
pressions of judgment on the way In which
the duties OF other bureaus are performed
and work done are omitted. They are 70
pertaining TO the matter under considera-
ton
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GOULD'S MATCH COMPANY.
Combination mt Chicago and $4,000
900 Increase in Stock.

CHICAGO, July Alan important special
meeting of the stockholders Of the Diamond
Match Company was held here to-day. OF
the total of 10000 shares Of stock 96,092
shares were represented at the meeting. 1t
was voted to increase the capital stock from
the present basis of ST. 100000 to s150OO,OOO 1t
IVES also voted to increase the number of
directors from five to seven. Edwin Gould,
of New York, and James Hopkins. of st.
Louis. were elected directors OF the 81 0OO.-
600 new stock voted 2,750,00O will be issued
Sept. Is at par to stockholders of record July
"a in the proportion Of Is per cent. of their
holdings of old stock on that date. The
remainder will be held in the treasury of
the company to be disposed OF by the board
of directors as they see Mt Although there
has been no official announcement it Is gen.
orally understood the bulk of the $4,000, 900
will be used in buying UP some competing
plants and wiping out the floating debt of
the company. Edwin Gould is the principal
owner of the Continental Match Company,
for which it is asserted he is to receive
between $4,000 and $1,0O0,000 in Diamond
Match Company stock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITIES.

Frank NJ. Martin, of Caldwell O., has
The controller of the currency has de-
clared a dividend Of per cent. In favor
Of the creditors of the insolvent national
bank Of Portsmouth, Q.
The end of the John Zeltner murder trial,
at Bowling Green, O., is a long way off.
Judge Troup, who has charge of the. case
for the State, is i'll and an adjournment
until next Monday was taken.
Rev. d. J. b. Grossman, of Philadelphia
has accepted a call TO the Rodef SchOlem
Temple of Youngstown. For the past six
years DR.. Grossman has offciated rabbi
of the Beth Israel congregation of Phila-
delphia.
The first bale of this seasons cotton crop,
from Senton, Tex, shipped by Governor
Sayers, was sold at New York yesterday
for $1,000. the money going to the flood suf-
ferers of Texas. The bale was redona ted 10
the exchange and will be sent to the Boston
exchange to be auctioned off in like man.
ner The bale will then be shipped to some
other point and will realize a good round
sum for the sufferers. The market price of
the bale is $35
In the United States Circuit Court at
Denver Judge Hallett nas denied the petit
ton for a writ of habeas corpus for James
A. Doyle, the millionaire mine owner who
Is incarcerated in the IL Paso county Jail
owing to his refusal to surrender a judg-
ment for 100000 gained in court at Council
Bluffs, Ia, against his former partner,
James Burns. in defiance of an injunction
issued by the District Court at Colorado
Springs. Doyles attorneys entered an ap-
peal.
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VILLAGE WIPED OUT BY FIRE


MALONE, n. Y. July 51--The village of
Upper Lake was almost entirely wiped out
by fire Sunday morning. Save two hotels.
the opera house. the Catholic Church and
few tenement houses on the outskirts. not a
house remains. The buildings were all OF
wood, and. there being no fire protection.
insurance rates were well-nigh prohibitive
as far as the poorer class was concerned.
Three hundred persons are left homeless
and destitute. Goods were piled into the
streets only 10 be moved again, and many
of these. together with the furniture and
bedding. were afterwards burned. Hundreds
sought shelter in the only remaining church
and at the opera house. Steps are being
taken to feed and care for them. The loss
is estimated at from $4,000 to 100000.
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SIMON BURNS'S THREAT.
VIII Submit Wage Scale and Insist
on It's Being Signed.

PITTSBURG. July a.-The special con-
vention of the Window Glass Workers AS
ISOLATION will open tomorrow and will prob
ably be held at the Hotel Schenley. 1t will
be composed of three wage committees. the
legislative board and the national officers.
A number of the delegates arrived to-day
and informally discussed the situation at
headquarters. No positive information was
given out as to what the workers will ask.
but it is certain that an advance over the
present wages will be demanded. President
Simon Burns said that no extravagant de-
mand would be made. I'VE will ask for
what we are entitled to-" said he, land
will insist that scale be paid. 1t will
be presented to the manufacturers, and II
they refuse to sign it we will have it signed
by the independent producers and keep the
combination plants closed until our terms
are granted"
The place of meeting was changed tonight
from Schenley Hotel, Pittsburg, to Green
Hotel, Philadelphia. Late this evening the
plans were changed and the delegates are
now en- route to Philadelphia.
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HIS RICHES KEPT SECRET.
The Heirs of n Broken-Down Old Man
Come In for O Fortune.

WEST CHESTER. Pa. July Silt has
just been developed that Rowland Todd, an
old man, who died In Westtown township
some time ago, in poverty. it was thought.
left an estate variously estimated at from
$50 GOO to $4,000.
Half a century ago he left for the West
and settled in Peoria. ILL.,, and few months
ago returned to Chester county, broken
down old man. to die. He was taken In by
his niece. Mrs E. Lane Scofeld, of West
town township, who attended him to the
last. After his death will was found in
which he bequeathed number of Western
farms and considerable cash to one sister
and several nephews and nieces. and subse-
quent Inquiries developed the surprising
fact that he was man OF wealth.
A little over a week ago E. Lane Scofield
accompanied by his attorney. d. Smith Tai
bot, and Register of Wills William Eachus.
left for Peoria TO probate the will. They
visited the old mans home, which he occu-
pied alone for nearly a half century, and
which was tumble-down sort Of affair.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
HARD TO HOLD EMBEZZLERS.
Treasurer Bolln, of Omaha, May Sc
cure His Release.

OMAHA. Neb., July 3l.-Associate Justice
Brown. of the United States Supreme Court,
has cited the State of Nebraska to show
cause why a writ of error should not IS
sue in the Henry Bolln embezzlement case.
Bolln was city treasurer of Omaha and
was arrested for the embezzlement of about
100000 of city funds. He was tried and
convicted in the spring of 1895. and SEN
fenced to serve nineteen years in the State
penitentiary, but owing to delays was not
sent to prison until the fall of 1897. TIE
point now made by his attorneys is that he
was tried and convicted without a prelim-
mary hearing or being indicted, which, un-
der the laws of Nebraska, is possible This
is held to be at variance with the Consti-
tuition of the United States, hence the order
of the court
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
HAD SIX WIVES.
Record OF Martin Detz, Also Suspected
of Murder.

CHICAGO, July 3i.-Martin Detz, said to
have married six women, all but two of
whom are said to be now living. was ar
rested here to-day. The police aliege that
Detz, in Wheeling, w. Va. under the name
of Henry Deesing, married woman who
later died under suspicious circumstances.
His watch and clothing were found on the
banks of the Ohio river, but the impress
sion of suicide thus given was dispelled by
his arrest here year ago for disposing Of
mortgaged goods. Before reaching Chicago
Detz married in Milwaukee Maximiliana
Sperl, a Chicago woman; Elizabeth Schmidt
and Carolina Schneider. both of Milwaukee
In this city he took to wife woman
worth $4,000. She died suddenly, willing her
property to Detz. then known as Fred Hon.
His next wife was a SOuth-side woman pos
sessed of 81, OO0 His arrest at this point cut
short his ma trimonial experiences. During
the year he has been in the Bridewell the
police have been gathering evidence against
him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
A DiSTINGUISHED LIST.
Many Notables Sailed for the Orient
Yesterday.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July g.
The steamer Empress of India sailed this
afternoon for Yokohama and HongKong.
She carried a distinguished passenger list,
including the Vanderbilt party. D. d. Mann,
the Canadian railway contractor, was also
passenger. He is going to China to look
after some railway contracts, including
some 500 miles of lines. The Hon. K.
Knakeko. a distinguished Japanese diplo-
mat, is returning home. Mr.. Nosse, for
merly Japanese consul at this port and
more recently at Chicago, is en- route to
Korea, having been appointed japanese
consular representative. Claude Lee Kun
also returned home on the Empress. He is
Kang Yu Weis private secretary, and on
arriving in China will actively engage in
propagating the reform idea of the noted
Kang, who will remain in Canada for some
little time, perfecting che organization of
the Chinese Reform League, to which be-
long most of the principal Cinnamon in this
and other coast cities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01

Some Instances Showing that IL 10
Not Generally Understood.

Hartford Courant.
Several months ago an old man wearing
old clothes and looking unkempt and dirty.
of the smaller hotels OF the city and asked
for work He had had hard luck. he said
and was willing TO do anything for an nom
est living. A small salary would not be re-
fused. He was given job. The work was
not hard and the pay was not large, but ne
got his room and board and several dollars
a week besides. The man appeared to be
good worker and at the end of the hrst
month his pay was increased. There was
a prospect Of another increase at the enc
of the second month. but before IL came he
was gone. He had renovated his wardrobe,
cleaned himself. got little money In his
nth Stick o His sudden leaving put his en-
ployer to some inconvenience, but tnat wa
nothing to him.
Quite recently young man approached the
writer Of this article and asked II he could
find him some thing to do. AS he was known
to have charged his employment several
times in year or so, IL was thought well
to make some Inquiries before putting out
much effort in his behalf. 1t was learned
that his disposition was not the most agree
able, and. besides, he regarded any request
for him to do a little work outside his usual
routine. or TO work a little more time than
usual. as an unjustifiable imposition. His
habitual attitude was one of armed watch
fulness against his employers, and while he
was competent and did his work well. he
drew the line sharply between what he
ought to do and what he thought he ought
not.
Ihe head of small department In one of
the insurance offices of the city was saying
the other day that he found the men In the
office generally unwilling to help out an
other department. than their own in case Of
rush. Sometimes one department is pushed
with work when others have considerable
leisure time. A request for little lift from
one of the leisure department would gem
orally meet with rebuff or grumblin9
compliance.
Employers have even complained that IL 10
difficult 10 get men who will take a real live
interest in the employers affairs. Tell them
| to do thing and they make excuses or stop
| to ask all sorts Of questions. instead OF
learning TO use their brains and going ahead
and doing to the best of their ability what
their hand finds to do. They say that good
| men need never be out of employment. This
may not always be so. but IL is undoubtedly
fact that the men who nearly always
| looking for work don't think much Of IL
when they find IL. The employer certainly
has right to some feeling of loyalty on the
part of his employees and to a desire on their
| part to contribute honestly ard conscien-
| tiously to the prosperity OF the business
There are, of course. many employees OF
| whom this Is true. IL there were more there
| would be fewer out OF work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
Anotber Strike Declared.

NEW YORK, July 31.-At a special meet
ing of the Brotherhood of Boiler Makers
and Iron Ship Builders. District No. 2.
Atlantic seaboard, tonight A Strike was
formally declared In all of the shops which
have refused to grant the demand for a
reduction in the hours of labor. The strike
will affect shops in Manhattan. Brooklyn,
Port Richmond, Green Point, Hoboken.
Jersey City. EliZabethport and Bayonne en-
gagged in the shipbuildng industry. 1t is
estimated by the leaders Of the strike that
more than 1900 men will fail to report for
duty in the shops tomorrow. In addition
TO these about 900 Others blacksmiths,
steam-hammer drivers, machinists and 9TH
ers will be thrown out of work by the ac-
ton OF the boiler makers and ship builders
ton. said there would be strike in seventy
five shops in New York and vicinity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01

NEWPORT. r. l., July 3.-James B.
Eustis. ex-ambassador to France. who, ac-
cording to the Paris Soir. has certain in
formation in his possession bearing on the
Dreyfus case. said he had not seen the state
ment of the Soir but that the report that
he had any special information regarding
the Dreyfus matter was entirely incorrect.
He knew about the affair only as it had
come under his observation when he was
in France. He dsclaimed without reserva-
ton the possession of any secret informa-
ton relating TO the case. Mr.. Eustis stated
however. that he has written an article
on THE Dreyfus Case and the Jewish Cues
ton in France and French and American
Democracy" which has been prepared with
great care and is to be published in the
Conservative Review for August.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
AMERICAN INVESTMENTS.
Twelve Companies Have No Less than
S1O.45O.OOO at Stake.

ASBURY PARK, N. j., July a.-John 5.
Durham, former minister to Haiti and
charge -d'affaires at Santo Domingo says:
1T is a moment in the affairs or Santo
Domingo when the United States must act
with great tact in helping the educated
leaders in their efforts TO establish an or
derby government. Anything looking like
interference with self-government on the
part of the United States, however, would
be bitterly resented. President Heureaux
was a man without any school training.
He was a cattle driver at sixteen. COM
manded a regiment of infantry at twenty
and became general of the army ten years
later. He seized the presidency by force of
his personality. His administration was an
exclusively military Dictatorship.
Hugh Kelley, of New York, has sent to
Secretary Hay at Washington a list Of
American enterprises and citizens placed in
jeopardy. The total capital OF twelve
American companies amounts to $10,45OOO:
Human rights and human life are now held
very lightly. In the event of an uprising
every material interest will suffer. Amer
lean capitalists are anxious for the United
States government to move at once before
the German or Italian governments act in
the matter. General HeureauX believed
that his country was ultimately to fall into
the hands of the United States"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
Against Use of incense I'm Church.

LONDON, July 3l.-The archbishop Of
Canterbury, the Most Rev. Frederick Tenn
pie. u. d., rendered decision to-day in the
ritual cases which he and the archbishop of
York. the Most Rev. William Dalrymple
McLagnan. ID. D.. heard in May. The arch
bishops declare that. while far from saying
the use OF incense and the carrying OF lights
Accomplishments OF divine worship they are
obliged, in accordance with the Prayer
Book, TO come TO the conclusion that these
adjuncts are neither enjoined nor permitted
by the law OF the Church of England.
Therefore. the archbishops add, though they
purely lighting purposes. they urge all the
clergy for the sake of the peace OF the
church 10 discontinue their use as part OF
the services
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
SANK LIKE A STONE.
Frank Reynolds Dropped Into q Lake
and Was Drowned.

CORY, Pa, July 31.-Frank Reynolds
fell 5000 feet to his death to-day. Reynolds
had been engaged by the Findlay's Lake
Assembly authorities to make a balloon as
cension and parachute jump. He had made
but one ascension before to-day. and had
never dropped with a parachute. When the
balloon had reached a height Of 5000 feet
and was directly over Findlay's lake Rey-
nolds dropped with the parachute. The
aeronaut's young wife shouted that Rey-
nolds could not swim and would drown.
Reynolds struck the water where the lake
is ninety feet deep. He threw up his hands
and sank like stone. The nearest boat
was 200 feet away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
Queer civir-service situation.

WASHINGTON. July 31.-A few days ago
Special Deputy Collector of Customs Dry
den and Cashier Montell. OF Baltimore, were
ordered by the Civil-service Commission 10
appear within five days for an examination.
These two men had been appointed fourteen
months ago TO the positions and since that
time had executed the duties of their re-
spective offices IN a satisfactory manner.
Collector Stone protested against this action
OF the commission, but Secretary Gage has
written a letter to the chairman, Mr.. Proc
tor. stating that II the proposed examira-
tion was to be in compliance with the order
issued by the President in 1897 Mr.. Dryden
and Mr.. Montell must obey the order. He
did not understand, however, why the ex-
animation had not been neld year or more
ago.