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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-24
Hosiery Department
SPECIALS.
cHILDREN'S HOSE

100 dozen Children's Fast Black Cot
ton Hose. double knee and double soles.
a bargain at. per pair lOc., now,
per pair .............s .s's'.'s.... DC
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GOT
THE
GRIP?

The sudden Epidemic of
Grip has startled the country.
The doctors confess they have
40 sure Cure for it. and this
is seen to be true i'm the sud-
den death of Garcia and Ex-
Senator Br:ce and the alarm.
ing increase in the death rate.
But no one need De alarm
ed. There is a sure cure-a
perfect antidote. 1t has had
IS years test in thousands Of
cases and never failed That
remedy is
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BOYS HOSE

100 dozen Boys Heavy Cotton Rib
bed Hose, high spliced heels and dou-
bic soles good value at, per o.
pair, 15c.. now, per pair ....... oC
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ToRCHoN LAcES

II. per yard. COMPARE VALUE
JzC with other sales OF the week.
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''Stup on nag.
n Sleeping cars only: All parSor
cars. a Via Walpole Line.
n Except Mondays.
z Roat from Fall River.
q PETER CLARK. A. G. KENDALi>
Cen. supt. Gen. Passr. AFf
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Time tables giving full informstion
az 10 local and through train service may
De ootained at Providencs station and
stations below.
Train service from Providence.
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SWAN POINT CEMETERY,

Office. s5 North Main Street.
Omnibus 20 the Cemetery runs from
corner OF South Angel street ard Way
land avenue daily every 90 minutes
from 10 A. NJ. 10 r. NJ. and Sundays
every 20 minutes until further notice.
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BOSTON BAGS

100 Bags, just half price to ,-n
close ........................ 30
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
Fun I'm the Philippines.


A typical Yankee trick was played on The
enemy over at Paombong the other dav
There Is church over there. which Is lust
across narrow stream from the house
occupied by our extreme left outpost OF
iwenty-eigEt men from Battery II. Third
United States Artillery, who are Serving
here as Infantry. The sentry on duty on
the church side of the river conceived the
idea of tying long rope the ciapper OF
the bell in the beifry, carrying the rope over
TO his post In the road. Just as he had an
ticipated, the E'ilipinos came sneakIng down
close 10 the church the other morning an
hour or so before daylight. The sentry
heard them coming, and promptly rang the
bell In "A twinkling the Fflipinos opened on
the belfry, and that and the church are now
well dented by bullets. The outposts re-
trained from answering the fire. which was
doing no harm, but after every volley at
the belfry the sentry with the rope gave
the bell two or three frantic peals. Believ-
ing the outposts TO be still in the belfry and
sorely pressed. the insurrectos crept nearer
and poured in. as they thought. a still more
deadly fire. All this time the men OF the
outpost Kept quiet. noting Just where the
enemy were. AT daylight our soldiers opened
so brish1ly that sixty or seventy Fflipinos
found their error and hit the road brisklv
back TO their own outpost. carrying several
wounded men with them. The handy rope
has been extended 10 reach across the river
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
ANOTHER BIG TRUST.
All Compressed Air Power Companies
May he Combined.

NEW YORK, July 23.-The World to-
morrow will say: at is stated on good
authority that there is to be complete
reorganization of the various compressed
air-power companies and affiliated concerns,
and that they are all to be merged into
one central corporation, with Harry Payne
Whitney, son of William c. Whitney, as
president Of the new company. The COM
panies said to be affected are the follow
ing: The New York Autotruck Company,
capitalized at $4,000 900; American Air
power Company capital S7.000O00; Interna-
tional Air-power Company, capital s7,000,-
900; Denver and st. Louis Autotruck Com
pany, capital $500 900; Philadelphia Auto
truck Company, capital $l0.0O0,oO0; Pneu-
matte Carriage Company, General Carriage
Company. Kelly Rubber-tire Wheel Com
pany. The capitalization of the central
company, it is said, will be in the neigh
borhood of s100,O0O,OOO. When the Auto
truck Company was incorporated in January
last it was declared that within short
time the concern would have 1900 COM
pressed air trucks in operation in this city
The International Air and Power Company
which has plants at Worcester, Mass, and
Providence. was to manufacture the We
hicles used by the auto-truck company.
The American Air Power Company is owned
by William c. Whitney. Thomas Dolan. p.
A B. Widener, w. L. Elkins, Thomas L.
Ryan, A. A. Mcleod and others associated
with Mr.. Whitney in the control of the
Metropolitan Street-railway Company ard
kindred corporations. The American Air
Power Company has been experimenting for
some time on an invention to operate street.
cars with compressed air. j. II. Hoadly,
the present president of the auto-truck
company. is chief owner of the compressed
air motive system which all Of the above
named companies plan to USE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
CHINESE WANTED THE BIBLES.
hut the Missionary Found They Were
Used I'm Making Firecrackers.


Independence day reminds me-" said the
couraging and the most misunderstanding ex-
perience in my life. / had labored hard in
the work OF converting the Chinese to Chris
tianity and there was unfeigned rejoicing
among all the missions in China and the
churches In America when the demand for
Bibles on the part OF our converts culmin-
ated In orders for $1,000 Bibles in one ship
ment.
The remarkable number of new Chris
tians thus indicated. while 1t occasioned
heads of the missionary associations TO set
on foot an inquiry as to the methods en-
ployed in saving the souls of such an un-
usual number OF Celestials and the uses to
which they put the Bibles sent them.
You may know that in China the ma ior-
ity of the firecrackers with which we cele-
brate our day OF national independence are
made by the Chinese In their homes Con-
tractors for fireworks give each man a
certain amount of powder and that must
The paper used In the manufacture he
buys himself - and paper IS not a cheap
commodity in China. The powder fur
nished seldom fills the required number OF
crackers, but that does not disturb the Ce-
1estial IN the least; he turns in his quota
all the same, and the American boy In con-
sequence invariably finds in each package
of hrecrackers a few that won't go on
Il discovered that Yankee thrift had been
absorbed by the heather Chnee with much
contributing his labor toward our festival
occasions he hit upon an expedient whereby
a considerable profit accrued 10 himself In
other words. our great shipment of 81, 900
Bibles had literally gone up I'm smoke
They were TO be had for the asking and
have suffered a pang as 10 their disposal
for firecrdcker wrappers"
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rama. Operative Redfern noticed large.
oficial-looking envelope on the dresser. AS
the maid led the way into an adjoining room
Redfern fell behind his companions, vino
screened him from the view OF the maid.
and slipped the letter in his pocket without
attracting attention. The examination OF
the house being completed, he left his COM
panions at the corner and proceeded TO the
office of the United States consul. general,
explaining to him where he had been and
showed him the letter he had obtained.
Not caring to trust the missive to Ca
madam mails, he arranged with the Ameri-
can engineer OF a s0uthbound express train
to carry the letter, which he inclosed in a
larger one addressed TO me at Washington,
requesting that at the first opportunity aft
er reaching the United States the letter be
placed in the United States mail. The en-
gneer, carrying out his instructions, mailed
IL in a postal car at st. Adams, and from
that point IL was carried in the mail in the
delivered on the morning of Decoration day.
Up TO the time 1 received the letter IL had
not been opened, but was in exactly the con-
dition as when found by Redfern. / had
spent the day down the river and obtained
the letter on my return TO the city early In
the evening. i went at once 10 the Office,
opened IL. and in order to secure fts1 imme-
date translation telephoned over to the
War Department and requested Lieutenant
in the adjutant generals office 10 come over.
The lieutenant sat down on one side OF my
desk and made a running translation of the
letter. which L wrote as he read The SUBJ
stance of the letter was given to Secre-
tary Gage over the telephone that evening.
and the original with full translation.
handed TO him the following morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
SATURDAYS ATHLETIC CONTESTS.
Comments of the London Press on the
Outcome.

LONDON. July 2i-All the morning pa
pers publish editorials expressing congrat-
ulation on the athletic meet at the Queen
Club on Saturday and expressing the hope
that it will not be the last OF such con-
tests. All compliment the members Of the
American team upon their splendid perform
ance..
The Daily Graphic thinks the climate had
something to do with the result, and says:
1T is easy to believe the rumor that illness
was the cause of Harvard's record holder
In the half-mile event running far below
his form"
The Standard says: ANY hostility which
may ever have existed between the two
peoples has been owing to their ignorance
Of each other. and nothing Is better calcu-
lated TO remove 1t than such meetings as
merce create jealousies quite as often as
they remove them, while nothing but good
is likely TO result from the social approx
nation which is now springing up between
those in whose hands will be the shaping
Of the Anglo-Saxon race We trust the
meeting may take firm root as annual gath
erings."
The Daily Telegraph says: Both coun-
tries ought to be proud of their representa-
tives. Such scenes are worth going miles to
see. not solely for their own sake, but for all
they imply of keen. brotherly competition
between two sections of the Anglo-Saxon
race.
Dealing with the defeat of the much
dreaded Burke, the Daily Telegraph says
1t Is only fair to admit that he was by no
means in good trim.
The Daily Chronicle says: IF international
athletic trials were common, diplomatists
might be driven to move peace conference
TO lay an embargo on them. Jaundiced OBJ
servers on the continent who hope for a
breath Of the Anglo-American understand
ing will not find it at the Queens Club;
Harvard and Yale are shorter In the wind
than Cambridge, but Thor himself might be
jealous of Boal of Harvard"
The Times says: "Englishmen would not
have grudged the Americans their triumph
in the least degree If the fortunes had been
reversed. As 1t Is. they will feel that a
victory is a very little thing compared with
the pluck and sportsmanlike spirit displayed
| by both sides, and with the friendly rela-
| tons between the two branches of the
Anglo-Saxon race of which they trust this
match is a token"
The sporting papers are unusually en-
| thusiastic over the brilliant success of the
| meeting and much pleased at the proof that
| Englishmen are not deficient in stamina.
| The Sportsman and Sporting Life each de-
| vote nearly page to description Of the
meeting.
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Give AIger His Due.


When all is said and done there are two
tnlngS to which army officers will testify
General Alger, as secretary of war did
more 10 wipe out sectionalism by fraterniz-
ing Northern and Southern volunteer regf-
ments than any other man since the DAYS OF
the civil war. He clipped more red tape
than any other man the Army Department
has known. One OF Secretary Ayers first
rulings regarding sick soldiers was that a
captain OF company should take care of
his men and get what they needed regard
less OF rountine and regulations. Take care
OF your men first, was his rule; take care
OF the regulations afterward."
The man who has done the executive and
administrative work OF the Army DEPART
ment Is General Corbin. 1t is for the Pres.-
dent. acting with and through his secretary
or war. to adopt policies and to lay down
laws. 1t Is for the adjutant general TO carry
them out with the utmost expedition, the
s"iftest success and the mort efficient re-
suits. Directly, he creates no policies, but
ne puts them into execution, He does not
give orders as the fountain head he issues
them and sees that they are enforced In hts
work the adJutant general, by reason of his
tremendous executive ability, hts marvellous
capacity for work and his certainty OF pur-
pose, has had no superior in his department
within the memory Of Americans OF to-day.
Ignorant people have criticised him Enyi-
GUS people have hated him. Small peopIa
nave minimized him. None of them have isn-
derstood the functions of the adiutant gem
eral, none OF them have known what thew
were talking about.
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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

Miss Laura Ballard, of Terre Haute, is
visiting Miss Nellie McIfugh. on Harrison
street.
Mrs. Ada Bradford of Washington, ind.
Il in the city. visiting Mrs. STARTS, on Park
avenue.
Mrs. w. c. Franklin and daughters. of
Rankin, ILL.,, are visiting w. ID. Franklin,
No. 20l2 Broadway.
Miss Alice Short, of Newark. n. J.. is Wis
fting here with her cousin. w. n. Short, and
viii remain until Aug 20.
Miss Grace Riley, of Connersville, is visit
Ing her cousin. Miss Nellie Van Bergen, at
liz West Fifteenth street.
Mrs. Henry X. English and daughter
Edna go to Maxinkuckee this week, to be
there the rest of the season
Miss Ida and Miss Grace STARTS. of Wash
tngton. Ind, are visiting relatives and
friends in the city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. NJ Parks, of Savan-
nah, Ga, and Mrs. NJ. r. Morris. Of Au-
gusta Ga, are visiting Mrs. Edward @.
Simpson. of North Delaware street.
Prof. III. r. Dates and wife, of Potsdam,
N Y, are visiting Mrs. Dates's father, Mr..
]. z. Haskell at No. 20l4 Ash street. Mrs.
Dates was a teacher in No. 81 school of this
city for several years.
Mrs. Adam Bolton and daughter Bessie of
St. Paul, Mimi, and Misses jeanette. Inez
and Gladys Woollen. of Chicago, are guests
OF Mr.. James A. Miles and family, Hos
North Senate avenue.
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Chief NiIkie Tells How the Carran-
IA Letter Was Obtained.
Washington Special.

"
john f. Wilkie. chief of the Secret Serv-
ice, makes a statement over his signature
reciting the history of the capture OF the
famous Carranza letter, which has been the
subject of a remarkable story. related by a
man named George +. Bell, of Montreal, in
which he alleges that the letter was altered
after 1t had been seized Mr.. Wilkes mar
ration of the facts in the case best establish
the falsity of the charges, but. in addition.
he says there is absolutely no foundation
for the statements made by Bell. No deal
was entered into by the Washington office
with anyone outside the service. and no one
saw the letter until after Mr.. Wilkie had
removed ii from the envelope containing it.
Senior Quasada did not translate the letter.
and, as he says, he has never seen 1T, and
only recently met Mr.. Wilkie for the first
time.
1t is manifest that Bell depended upon
statements which have been made in the
press relative to the letter and not upon a
envelope, for instance, Is incorrect.
Following is the story of the capture by
Secret Service agents Of the letter, told in
Mr.. Wilkie 5 own language:
The story OF the capture OF the Carranza
letter is a simple one, and was merely an
incident in the operations of the American
agents of the Secret Service in Canada
Operative Redfern was one of the men
stationed in Montreal who had been looking
after the movements of Lieutenant Car
rama and Captain Du Bose. and TO whose
lot 1t fell to visit the house occupied by the
two Spanish gentlemen az No. - Upper
street In order that suspicion might not
be aroused by the visit, he secured as COM
panions an American gentleman and his
wife, who were at that time attached 10 an
American theatrical company playing I'm
Montreal Both OF these people had been
known by him for years and were known
TO be absolutely reliable. They knew he was
in the service OF the United States govern
ment and were perfectly willing 20 go with
him for the purpose of covering his move
ments. Permission 10 examine the premises
was secured from Mrs. Simpson. the agent
for the house. and together they presented
themselves about IL o'clock on the morning
OF May y.
the lady in the party presented the card
Of permission issued by the agent and a
maid escorted them first to the upper floors.
Carrsnza and Du Bose being al breakfast
on the first fisor. AS they went through the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
ALL OVER TWO CHICKENS.
Nine Borse-Thief Detectives Made q
Valiant Capture.

Eugene Gordon. 1904 Archie street. jan
flor in the Lombard building, and Fred
Morton. a barber, living on Harlan street.
were locked UP at the police station last
night and charged with petit larceny. They
are both colored and were brought in by
nine excited men. members Of the West
Newton Horse Thief Detective Association
In the buggy were two dead chickens. one
of which was shot by one of the men in
front of s. Wedders home. about eleven
miles southwest or the city. The men were
driving in a buggy and when about three
rods from Weddels house one of them shot
from the buggy. He handed the lines TO the
other and got out, ran short distance,
took off his hat, dropped 1t and then picked
IL up and ran to the buggy. Weddel found
chicken had been shot and gave chase.
Others Joined and the men were followed
into Hendricks county and there arrested
by the horse thief association and brought
back and turned over in this county to the
West Newton branch.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
AT WAR WITH CHURCH
FILIPINO PRIEST INCURS THE VICAR
GENERALS ENMITY.
Excomm unicated for Advocating the
Overthrow of Spanish Clerical Pow
er-Captain Byrne's Fight.

MANILA, July g. els p. ma Filipino
priest named Gregorie Agripay, with the
insurgents, Is trying to lead a movement
for the independence Of the church in the
Philippines from the Spanish priesthood.
He has issued proclamation declaring him
self the vicar general Of all the Filipino
priests in the districts outside of American
control on the island of Luzon, and is in
citing the priests to disobey the regua-
tions of the church and brotherhoods. The
archbishop Of the district has issued bull
letin accommodating Agripay, and this
action has increased the feeling between
the Filipinos and the church.
The archbishop threatened to excom-
municate the owners Of Spanish papers pub
fishing announcements OF Protestant and
Masonic meetings, wherein an American
paper warned him that he might be bundled
out of the island like any disturber of the
peace If he should incite religious animosi-
ties. The Dominican friars have begun the
publication of a newspaper under title of
the Libertas, for the purpose of defending
the brotherhood.
The United States transport Zealandia,
which sailed from San Francisco June "a
with four companies of the Twenty-fourth
United States Infantry, $50 recruits and a
large amount Of provisions and supplies for
the army on board, has arrived here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-24
STRANDED GOLD SEEKERS.
Suffering and Hardship of Kansans
Who Went to Alaska.

FORT SCOTT. Kan, July 23.-The men,
bers of the Sunfiower Mining Company, who
left this place for Alaska eighteen months
ago. sailing in their own steamer from San
Francisco, are stranded at st. Michaels on
their way home. The company started with
plenty of money and provisions and for two
years spent the winter on Koyokuk river,
900 miles above St. MichaeTs and 400
miles above the farthest point that could
be reached by boat. The first news from
them for many months was received to-
day, and il tells OF suffering and hardships.
All their money was spent in prospecting,
but no gold was found. There were from
one to three deaths in all the companies in
that region. Two men, became helpless from
scurvy. The doctor said only vegetable
food would save them and two companions
went ITO miles for potatoes.
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ANOTHER BIG STRIKE.
Fourteen Thousand Clothing Work.
ers May He Idle To-Day.

NEW YORK. July 23.-About $500 clothing
workers in three branches of that industry
struck to-day and a member Of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Tailors Progress
sive Union, No. IL, said tonight that 1900
will be out within twenty-four hours
Twenty-Five thousands may be on strike
within two weeks. One thousand members
of the Tailors' Progressive Union, No. IL in
sixty-two shops struck for % per cent. in
crease in wages. They have been earning
IS week and they want so. Six hundred
coat preSSerS went on strike in the after
noon. Seven hundred more will go
on strike tomorrow. They have teen
getting cents apiece for coats and want 9
cents more. The pressers press. on an aver
age, twenty coats per day Eight hundred
basters held a meeting to-day and about
three hundred men went out on strike The
basters have been working fourteen and six
teen hours day. They want the work day
shortened TO ten hours. Twelve thousand
men connected with the United Brotherhood
OF Cloak Makers will hold five hundred shop
meetings within the next two weeks for the
purpose OF formulating new wage lists II
is believed that IL will be necessary to order
strikes TO enforce the new schedule.
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COLUMBIA At BRISTOL.
The New Cup Defender Ready for Her
Steel Mast.

BRISTOL. r. l., July 23.-The new cup
defender Columbia came up from Newport
this afternoon in tow of her tender and
anchored about half mile off the Here's
hoff dock. The new steel mast is completed
and ready for stepping, but first the Co.
lumbia will be hauled out on the ways for
a short distance that her uDderbody may be
cleaned. The cradle for hauling her out
is all ready and IL Is expected that as soon
as the pine mast is taken out she will be
hauled up for cleaning. The steel mast will
not be stepped until she Is again in the
water, which Is expected TO be about
Wednesday. II is expected that the changes
In her rigging will be all completed by
Thursday or Friday and that she will be
ready to race the Defender again on Sat-
urday off Newport th
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Exodus from Dawson.
he Indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the lndianapoIls Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, July 23.-George How
er. a Wayne county boy, in Alaska, writes
to relatives as follows: The government
has given away 400 tickets to Skagway to
men who are poor and sick. TO go on first
boats up the river. They are making every
body in Dawson clean out yards around
houses. and are digging sewers 10 prevent
sickness this summer They have prevented
all sales of frozen meats, old bacon and
damaged goods. There is a stampede on for
Nome, cape about eighty miles from St
Michaefs. Everybody that can get away is
going to the new gold fields on Snake river.
Dawson City will be deserted in TWO months
IL this stampede holds out that long. | saw
Ephrfam Saurs. (Also a Wayne county boy. }
He is on his way out" The letter was writ
ten under date of June IL