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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-27
FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES.
Small American LOSS i'm the Neighbour
hood of NIaIintu.

MANILA, March q, 7:4O a rl.-The Amer
leans have advanced along the line of the
Dagupan Railroad. driving the Filipinos
from Malinta and New Canayan, where
there were 1900 inhabitants. Last night the
brigades of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis and
General Hale encamped in the enemy's
trenches at New Canayan and that of Gem
eral Wheaton ut Malinta.
General Wheaton's brigade formed a juno
ton with the remainder of General Mac
Arthur's division at Malinta, and after
leaving General Wheaton there, marched
along the railroad TO New Canayan. This
place was fortified and for 800 yards from
1T there were trenches on each side of the
track. These were taken possession of by
the American troops The movement of the
Americans will be pushed i'll this direction.
The Filipinos, realizing that the railroad
is the crucial line, have constructed row
after row Of trenches running diagonally
on both sides of the track at distance of
a few hundred yards apart. This work was
designed most intelligently and has evidently
been done under the direction OF experts
1t represents an enormous amount of labor
Most of the rebel positions are protected by
thick earthworks. a majority of them topped
with stones and provided with loopholes
Some have sheet-iron roofs
The days work of the United States
troops consisted of storming the successive
trenches. The Filipinos occupying them
were completely hidden. The enemy poured
a strong fire. from every trench until they
were disturbed by a thanking volley, when
they would disappear into the woods and
jungle, only to make a stand at the next
line.
The American loss was remarkably small,
seven being reported killed and twenty-five
wounded 1t is known that the Fflpinos
were SO protected that they suffered little.
No dead insurgents were found in the
trenches. Forty prisoners were taken by the
Americans and it is estimated that the rebel
casualties numbered twenty. The insurgents
broke their guns when they were compelled
to abandon them.
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OBITUARY.
COmte Alexandra Damaze de Chau-
derby, the DipIomatist.

PARIS March 26.-Comte Alexandra
DAMAGE de Chauderdy, the celebrated
French diDlomatist, died to-day in his sew
enty-third year.
Comte Chauderdy, who was born Dec. 4,
1926. entered diplomacy in 1851 as an attache
of the French embassy in Rome. Five years
later he was appointed secretary of the en-
bassy. He held a similar post in the six
years which followed, at Weimar, Madrid,
Copenhagen and Carlsruhe, in the order
named. after which ne entered the French
Cabinet of 1862 as under secretary. In 1858
he went as French minister plenipotentiary
to Madrid. Three years later, as a represen-
tative OF the French Foreign Office. he pub
lshed series of remarkable circulars in re-
Spouse to notes addressed to the powers by
Bismarck, refuting the accusations of the
federal chancellor respecting alleged viola
tons by France of the Geneva convention.
He protested, at the same time, with great
energy, against the excuses committed in
France by the German troops.
After two years in the Chamber of Depu
ties as a representative of Lot-Eth-Garennet
he was appointed French ambassador to the
Swiss confederation, being transferred about
nine months later to Madrid. In 1881 NJ.
Gambetta nominated him French ambassa-
dor to Russia, but he did not have time 10
proceed TO St Petersburg before the Gam
beta MlniStery fell Comte Chauderdy was
made commander of the Legion of Honor
in 1876. He published several works, among
them The Political Status of the French
Nation, France Following the War Of 1870
Al, and France in 1850
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THE HANGMAN's TREE.
The One in Wayne County Has Been
Removed.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, March 26-The recent
removal of the tree near the old site of
Salisbury on which Henry Chryst was
hanged recalls the fact that Wayne county
has never had but three legal executions,
and. of course, as the law now is cannot
have another. Chryst was the first victim.
In the fall of 1915 he killed his son-in-law,
a man named Chambers. The cause of the
MURDER was Chambers's i'll treatment of his
wife. The execution took place April ], 1916,
and was witnessed by a crowd which had
assembled from all parts of the county. The
prisoner. seated on his coffin, was taken to
the scene of the execution in a wagon. Rev.
Daniel Fraley, a Methodist minister, adj
dressed the crowd from the wagon.
The second execution was that of Hamp-
shire Pitt, a negro, in 1S22 for the murder
of William Mail, also a negro. The scene
of the murder was farm about four miles
north of this city on the Fountain City
road.
The third and last execution took place
early in the eighties. The victim was Ma
thaniel Bates, who resided at Hagerstown.
His domestic relations were unpleasant and
one day on his return from work he cut
his wife's throat with a knife. Bates was
executed in the Jail yard in the presence OF
about two hundred persons.
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SUGAR BEET SEED.
Purdue Agricultural Department Will
Furnish IL to Farmers.

The following bulletin has been issued by
the Purdue University Experiment Station:
During the past year the sugar-beet in
dustry in the United States has made re-
markable progress. Eighteen large factories
were in operation and nine are in process of
construction. The greatest activity is mani
tested in Michigan, where one factory had
a successful season, and six more factories
are being built.
There is no doubt that many parts OF In
diana are as favorably situated for the
industry as is Michigan. The large bounty
offered by Michigan is at present drawing a
large amount of capital to that State. IL Is
mot likely that the Michigan bounty will re-
main at the present rate for very long
period and then probably capital will seek
the most favorable locations in Indiana.
Many farmers in Indiana are already much
interested in the matter and the results Of
many tests conducted last year are now
published and ready for distribution by the
Indiana Experiment Station. Numerous re-
quests for seed have already been received.
Since the sugar beet is a highly bred
plant it is of the utmost Importance that
only seed of the best quality should be
used in conducting experiments TO test the
adaptability OF a locality for sugar-beet
of low quality. and the use of such seed
may result in indicating that given local
ity is not capable of producing good beets,
when the real trouble is with the seed
ION account of the vital Importance Of
using seed of known quality the station has
secured through the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture supply of seed of high
grade and will distribute this so long as IL
lasts to such farmers in Indiana as wish to
try beet raising and will follow the neces-
sary methods as nearly as practicable. Seed
Will be furnished in quantities sufficient 10
plant one-eighth TO one-half acre Those
applying for seed should state how much
land will be used for beets and what kind
OF soil is available for the purpose. Full
directions will be sent with the seed Adj
dress applications To Purdue Agricultural
Experiment Station, Lafayette, Ind.
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GOOD REPORT.
ConcIuded from Firsf Parel

we're: Ollie Miller. stomach, slight; Herbert
w. Ogilbie. foot, slight; Oscar GuatafsOn,
foot, moderate; James Barrett, tibia. Sc
we're; Sergts. Frank A. Earnstberger, thigh.
severe: Hubert A. Mckenzie, finger, severe;
Corporal Thomas a. Calvin.
Fourth United States Cavalry-Troop J.:
First Sergeant Alexander H. Davidson, side,
Privates Leroy Grunhand, thigh, severe:
Harry Howe. chest severe; William Tufts
head. severe: Charles Rice. face, serious;
Samuel II. Evans. leg, slight Company 1:
Ferrier Rankin Nebinger. leg severe. Com
pany h: Private John COtter, neck slight
First Washington MISUNDERSTANDING Il:
Capt. George Il. FOrtsen, mortal: Quarter
master Sergt- William Il. CovingtOn, thigh,
severe; Privates Reginald s. Patterson,
thigh. slight; William Il. COurtner probably
mortal; Frank Penny, arm and chest, Sc
we're; Oliver ID. Ward, thumb, slight Com
pany K: William Hinchcliffe, hand Slight.
Utah Light Artillery-Company Il: Cor
7poral Harry l.. SOuther, thigh moderate
Private Parker Hall, thigh. severe.
First ColoradO-Company a: Private Ed
win F.. Pitts. breast severe. Company NJ
Malcomb III. McCoe, abdomen, severe
Charles j. Brill, thigh. severe. Company +:
Merton w. Essohm, thigh, slight.
Thirteenth MinnesOta-COmpany A: Pri-
vate Andrew Nortenson. foot and ankle
severe. Company L: Fred Eackman, thigh
severe; Leonard Porter, groin. severe: Sergt
Edward Meinness, hand. slight. Company
X: Privates John T. Wheeler. abdomen
severe; James G. MCGEE. thumb, slight
Corporal John Connolly, thigh. severe. Com.
pany l.: Corporal Harry NJ. CLOSER, abdo-
men. severe; Private Avery Grimes, jaw
severe. Company NJ: Pauliness HUM
chest, severe
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FORECAST FOR MONDAY.
stormy Weather West, but Fair i'm the
HOOsier Section.

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The storm
which was central Saturday night in the
lower lake region has reached the Maine
coast. while the Southwestern now extends
In narrow trough from Texas to South
Carolina Marked high pressure covers the
Northwest and extreme West. There have
been SHOWS and rain from Tennessee and
Ohio valley northeastward, and also In the
middle and south Atlantic States, except
Virginia Snow has continued in Wyoming
Colorado and Western Nebraska, and has
extended into Western Kansas.
The temperatures have fallen two degrees
to thirty-four degrees in the central valleys
and the entire West and Southwest. and
have risen two degrees to twenty degrees in
the east gulf and Atlantic States.
In the Pacific coast and plateau regions
fair weather has prevailed, except in Utah
where there was light snow. Rain is indi-
Gated Monday in the east gulf and south
Atlantic States and rain or snow in the
upper Ohio valley, middle Atlantic States
and southern New England. From Okla
hOma westward into New Mexico rain or
snow Is also likely, while in the western
portion OF the middle slope snow will be
followed by fair weather. 1t will be much
colder In the gulf and south Atlantic coast
except in Georgia and Florida.
FORECAST FOR THREE STATES.
For Ohio-Cloudy. probably rain in south
east portion: fresh, northerly winds.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair; northeast
erIy winds.
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GOT AWAY WITH $500, 200.
Extent of Financier SchelI's Fort
Wayne Investment Fraud.

Special To the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, March 26.-Schell,
the ex-presdent of the Schen Loan Asso-
citation, is still very sick at his residence
and is guarded by two deputy sheriffs in his
room. If he is able to be out he will have
his preliminary trial some time this week.
He will not be able TO furnish bond. In an
interview to-day he says he has turned
everything he owns over TO the association
and that he is now penniless. and that the
farmers who Endorsed notes with him are
financially ruined, but that he did not bene-
fit a cent by the money that thus real
lied, but that it all went TO the business.
The deeper the probe is forced into the
affairs of the j. +. Schell Investment Com
pany at Fort Wayne the more rOttenneSS is
revealed. The liabilities, estimated when
suspicious of the SOlVency Of the concern
were first afloat at $s5.0Io, are from
$50 TOO TO $30D.0u0 and every day the amount
all ever Allen and surrounding counties are
fiOcking into the gorgeous offices TO ascer-
tain whether payments they had made on
mortgages had been properly credited. only
10 ind that not dollar had been Endorsed
and that they have not q line 10 show that
mortgages taken and sold TO brokers by
Schell have never been placed of record. and
as the forty-five days limit required by law
has expired the mortgages are worthless as
against other liens. Vice President Harding
said yesterday the intention was TO prose-
cute Schell To the bitter end, and he quoted
some of the heaviest creditors as saying
that they will spend $25.000 10 send Schell
10 the penitentiary. Papers in scores of
suits are now being prepared
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REBELS FLEE.
Concluded from First Pageo

which had seemed mysterious and has given
rise to no little speculation. According to
a dispatch from London TO the Associated
Press on March 4, the Prince, who married
Lady Anne Saville, daughter of the Earl
of Marlborough had been lost sight of by
his friends, and an advertisement inquirinS
as To his whereabouts had appeared in the
London newspapers.
This ELECTED dispatch from Manila say
ing that the missing Prince was in the
Philippines and had been there for many
months, was present at the destruction of
MontOjos fleet and was a member of the
European Club. The dispatch asserted.
also, that his behavior had given rise to a
suspicion that he was acting as the conf
Dental agent of the German government.
1t was further alleged that before Manila
surrendered he was allowed to pass in and
out of the Spanish and insurgent lines, each
party apparently regarding him as favor
able to themselves. For a few days ii was
even asserted that he had acted as a volun-
tary aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier
General Miller.
The London Daily Mail about the same
time said it had information that Prince
Ludwig was in Iloilo in January of this
year, and, with other papers, it asked the
meaning of these mysterious movements"
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l21 TO II
s. PENNSYLVANIA ST.

once more felt some interest in life. When
at last L heard the cannon roar, and when
the wild shouts of battle penetrated into the
city, L snatched up sword and held myself
in readiness, with the firm resolution or
putting end TO my life should this last
hope vanish. When the noise of the cannon
had at length subsidized, and 1 beheld Kitch-
ener before me congratulating me on my
newly-acquired liberty, / thought i should
die. so overwhelming was my emotion
Next day 1 repaired to the tent OF one or
the officers with the intention of modifying
my disheveled appearance, and then, for
the first time after fifteen years, L hao a
mirror in my hands.
81 was curious and anxious to see the
image of myself. but on beholding my own
face L stepped back horror-stricken. When
/ had last seen myself in a looking glass
was young, active and strong, while the
image L now beheld was that OF man
withered by disease and hardships. Never
before had all my past sufferingS come 10
my mind in such painful reality. wept,
Wept like child-the first tears shed dur
ing those fifteen years.
THE day before / was made a prisoner L
saw my wife die, but my grief was too deep
to allow the relief of my tears; my child
was torn from me and died owing TO ILL
had gone through many a trial and hard
ship without ever showing any weakness,
but then, in front of that little mirror,
completely broke down. The grief for all
that i had lost seemed to be concentrated
in the sorrowful image which the mirror re-
Elected, and one look alone told me the story
of all my sufferings."
The book of Cuzzi's memoirs will be pub
lished in English and in Italian.
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May He the Wrong Man.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 26.-The re-
mains of a man supposed to be Herman
Kern, of this city, who was drowned off
the towboat Mcdonald several months ago,
were inferred to-day at Fairview Cemetery.
but his relatives are not entirely satisfied
that the right body has been buried. The
body was found near Stephensport, KY,
last week, and Tailed with description of
Kern in many respects. The clothing, how
ever, was not the same that Kern wore
when he started on the trip. and this fact
has raised doubt in the minds of Kern :
friends, especially since the relatives of
Harry Hillman, of Cincinnati, who disap-
peared two months ago, claim the body was
the latter's, the description fitting perfectly
The remains are now so badly decomp0sed
that absolute identification would be almost
an impoSSibility.
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PRESERVATION OF FORESTS.
Its Importance Is Apt to BE Realized
Too Late.
The FOreS ter.

There is but one way out of the difficulty.
The governments, both federal and state,
must apply the remedy before il shall be too
late. What is required Is reasonable for
est service by men trained for the work.
We do not advocate a cessation of the lum-
Der business at all. That lumber should be
cut il quite essential TO the well-being Of
the forest itself, but IL should be cut in
sensible and scientific manner.
Where fires are kept out OF the forests
and sheep are not permitted TO destroy the
young trees, nature is. apt to repair dam
ages by spontaneous growth. Even where
fires have destroyed the woods, a second
growth springs up, If the erosion of the soil
has not been too severe 10 permit this. What
Is desired is TO save whatever timber may
be still standing
The Danish government, since 1865 has
been engaged in planting trees on the pen
Ursula of Jutland A sandy stretch OF some
use of and a forest OF some forty miles in
breadth planted thereon. The influence of
this thirty-year-old pine forest on climate
and health has been marvellous, and the
timber has paid for its own planting during
the last ten years
When such results can be achieved by a
country OF small resources and an inhos-
pitable climate. on land so light that il was
necessary to plant mrs and jumpers mixed.
the latter being designed TO protect the
roots OF the former from being laid bare.
what may We not do in a country such as
this where conditions are so much more
favorable?
The United States has reason to look aft
the preservation Of its forests. There Is
hardly a season that we do not hear of re-
duction of most promising crops by drouth
and hot winds, and I'm many prairie states
the yield per acre has become less than II
ought 10 be-
we. of the West. should teach the irri-
gationist farmer increasingly thus:
IF you wish for an abundance of water
see to the preservation of the woods at the
sources of the rivers.
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THE DOLLAR BANQUET.
Resolution Of Undying Devotion to
Chicago Platform and Bryan.

NEW YORK, March 26-The general COM
mittee which is attempting to arrange the
preliminaries OF the one-dollar dinner to be
given in honor of Thomas Jefferson's birth
day at the Grand Central Palace on April 70.
and at which William j. Bryan is expected
to speak. met to-day. There good
deal of confusion at the meeting, there being
several hundred people present, though only
about sixty We're entitled TO be present as
members of the committee. Nothing was
accomplished at the meeting beyond the
adoption of a resolution indorsing the Chi
cago platform, but when the meeting was
over President ~ j. BouIton said that the
resolution would not be considered by the
committee on arrangements.
The committee on arrangements reported
that il had been decided TO call the banquet
The Workingmen's Jeffersonian Dinner.
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THOMASVILLE, Ga, March 26.-The
Times contains this interesting item about
one Of Senator Hanna's daughters: Miss
Ruth Hanna and her cousin, Mr.. Howard
Hanna, took a daylight start from Melrose
plantation the other morning with a view
Of catching a wildcat which had been seen
on Mr. Hannas extensive game preserves.
The young lady, who is a most accom-
plished horsewoman. and young Hanna sue
ceeded in running down the cat after an ex-
citing chase and bore it back home in tri-
umph before 10 o'clock. The cat was very
large one. and its capture by Miss Hanna
and her young cousin was feat of which
veteran sportsmen might be proud
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-27
CHAMPION TRAP SHOOTER.
Otto EbeIsisor, of New Albany. Breaks
$50 blue Rocks strnight.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE Ind. March %.-NLr.
otto Ebelsisor. OF New Albany, bears the
distinction Of being the champion tran
shooter of the world. Mr. E.belsisor recently
broke lS9 blue-rock targets straight, beating
the worlds record by five. The champion
ship was held by Rolo Heikes. OF Dayton,
who broke 1Si straight in 1897. The remark
able record by Ebelsisor made on last
Tuesday during a binding rain and wind
storm. lie was firing from under an UNI
bTella. lie has been shooting for seven
years. and at Indianapolis a few years ago
won "A handsome silver cup offered by the
Grand Hotel In 1s9s, at Lafayette. he cap
tured the state championship. During ten
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Fatal Boxing Match Between Boys.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, March 26.-Charles Nc
Coy, the seventeen-year-old son of c. j. Nc
Coy, a merchant of Center, this county, was
killed last night in front of his fathers
store by Carl Conner. another boy. They
were boxing a limited number of rounds TO
amuse themselves and crowd of villagers
and went at it without gloves. During the
fighting Conner gave Mccoy sharp blow
over the heart and the later sank to the
ground, dying in few minutes. An autopsy
revealed that a vessel near the heart had
blood to escape inwardly. The boys We're
good friends. Conner has not been arrested,
the dead boys father being satisfied that
Mccoy had long been afflicted with enlarge
ment of the heart, as the post morten
showed.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind, March 26.-Elmer Brod-
belt, the Kosciusko county man whose
heart found. to be on his right side,
last night lay for an hour and five minutes
under the " rays while photographer OBJ
tanned picture of his queerly arranged in
ternal organs. This the third attempt
to get Il photograph OF the misplaced heart
as shown by the y rays, the first two eff
forts failing. Last evening, however, a per-
feet negative was obtained and number
Of photographs will be made. The negative
shows the heart far over to the right, the
liver, which should be on the right side,
being located on the left, while the spleen
is also out of position, fight side. Local
physicians say that while there are in
stances of misplaced hearts this is the first
case on record of a liver being found on
the left side of the body.