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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Edward p. Smith, of Dayton: o.. who fell
down a flight of stairs al hotel in Buffalo
last Thursday, died yesterday.
Gus Rubin signed articles of agreerent to
meet Peter Maher in q twenty-rOund bout
before the Lenox Athletic Club April Is.
The Myers express bill was sent to en-
grossment by the Missouri House yester-
day. The bill cuts rates almost in half.
The fifty-third ballot for United States
senator, taken by the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature yesterday, resulted: Quay, s; jerks,
A; Dalzell, 2; Stewart, /.
The Military Athletic League opened its
third military, bike and athletic tournament
last night in Madison-square Garden, New
York, and a good-siZed crowd welcomed
the events.
The Brooklyn baseball team, in charge of
Manager Ed Hanlon. left Brooklyn yester-
day on the Clyde liner Algonquin, bound for
Charleston, ). G. They will go TO Augusta
for practice.
The nailers and nippers in the Kelley Nail
Companys factory. at Ironton. o., have
been granted increase in wages of 20 per
cent, one-half TO begin April /, the other
half two weeks later.
Hirsch Copelman recently arrested in
Chicago for grand larceny. pleaded guilty at
New York yesterday and was remanded for
sentence by Judge Newburger. Copelman
defrauded Maxburn Helms out of $1,000 in
gold brick game in 1887.
The strike of all the molders in Cleveland
threatened for yesterday, did not take place.
the foundry men granting the 10 per cent.
increase of wages demanded by the men,
to take effect June ]: The molders insist
that the advance shall take effect at once.
They went TO work to-day under protest.
Sheriff Downey. Of Pana, H.. yesterday
presented to Governor Tanner resolutions
adopted by mass meeting OF Pana citizens.
The sheriff said that he and his deputies
were now able 10 cope with the situation.
Governor Tanner directed the adjutant gen.
eral to withdraw the troops on Thursday.
At Uniontown. Pa, yesterday. Carl Nor
cross was acquitted of the charge of at
tempting 10 cause the death of his seven
year-old brother Allen by administering
poisoned candy, and discharged from GUS
tody. The alleged motive was to obtain pos
session of a $4,000 estate The defense
claimed conspiracy TO ruin Norcross
Governor Sayers, OF Texas, has vetoed the
legislative enactment authorizing the con-
solidation of the Missouri, Kansas x Texas
and the Sherman, Shreveport x Southern
Railroad companies, on the constitutional
grounds that they were parallel and COM
peting This is the second railroad consol-
idation bill he has vetoed within q week.
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betrayed me again. He took a pencil,
leaned over and slowly sharpened livery
Slowly-in silence. His friends respected ms
emotions and eft him alone-sharpening the
pencil and communing with fate
I'VE have seen that Sherman was q leader
In his youth. he so remained until the emo
so growing in power as a Legislator That
when retirement came his vas the most au-
thentic voice on the Senate floor. The jokes
about him behind his back as TO his concern
over minor personal economics. his declaring
three pairs in a poker game, his refreshing
iceberg influence in midsummer weather
were only 50 many tributes 10 pure, aus
tere Well-eoverned life. He was great
finance minister, and in the Cabinet ms M
fiuence was salutary. We owe him resump-
ton. the overthrow OF the southern carpet
baggers, and ii was against his protest ana
that of Carl SchurZ, his Cabinet associate,
that Hayes gave way to the Johnny Comes
Marching Home business. and deluged the
country with back-pay pensions
Sherman was always a concentrated
force never scattering his power nor striving
TO cover more eggs than he could hatch.
Nor did he fail in the State Department be-
cause of intellectual weakness. IL was not
his place-no more than grand opera or piano
tuning To expect from Sherman the settle
ment OF diplomacy amenities or the soothing
of the emotions of some legation secretary
who had been wrongly placed at dinner or
purring over Monroe doctrine or other diplo-
matte cobwebs. or the possession OF the least
interest in foreign or other than domesuc Ie-
lations was to overlook the very qualities
which had made him a leader. He gave the
influence of his name and authority 10 the
Mckinley administration II was sell,
denying, patriotic service. That done ana
all DONE
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WASHINGTON, March 2o.-The CORE
spondence that passed between the War
Department and the authorities in Texas re-
garding the troubles at Laredo has been
made public Telegraphing from Austin on
Sunday, Gov. Sayers said: please i'm
mediately order by wire commanding officer
of United States troops to assist mayor of
Laredo and the sheriff Of the county in
preserving peace and order at Laredo until
can get state troops at that point. very
serious riot is pending"
Adjutant General Corlin at once sent the
following to the commanding officer at Fort
Mcintosh, Laredo, Tex: "At the request of
the Governor of Texas, the secretary of war
directs that you use your forces in assist
ing the mayor of Laredo and the sheriff
of Webb county in preserving peace and
maintaining order until the arrival of state
troops. Acknowledge receipt and report sit
uation by telegraph"
Captain Ayres replied: "Have informed
mayor of Laredo of your instructions to me.
Great bitterness on part of Mexicans on this
side of the river on account of attempt to
isolate smallpox cases. MeXicanS fired on
civil officers to-day. One of the latter hurt.
Quiet at present. l believe the situation
within my control"
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ANOTHER CHANGE
Warmer Weather and Probably Rain,
Followed by Lower Temperature.

WASHINGTON, March 20, p. m.-Fore-
cast for twenty-four hours:
For Ohio-Increasing cIoudiness, with
probably rain in southern and snow or rain
IN northern portion in the afternoon or
night; warmer; winds becoming brisk east
erly.
For Indiana - Cloudy, probably rain
warmer followed by colder Tuesday night;
easterly winds.
For Illinois - Cloudy, probably rain;
warmer In eastern portion; easterly winds
becoming variable.
Weather Conditions and General Fore
cast-Another Pacific coast storm is NOV
ing across the country, and is apparently
following the course pursued by the two
storms Immediately preceding. 1t is central
tonight in Oklahoma, the pressure, how
ever, remaining quite low northwestwar1 to
the Washington coast. There have been
light local SHOWS in New England and the
extreme Northwest; elsewhere east of the
Rocky mountains generally fair weather
has prevailed. The temperatures have fallen
moderately from the lake regions eastward
and in the extreme central West. In west
ern Montana they have fallen 6 to "a de-
grees. They have risen to IA degrees from
Texas northward into Virginia. In the
Atlantic States the weather will be fair
followed by increasing cloudiness in the
middle and southern portions. In the gulf
States. the central valleys and upper lake
region cloudy weather will be general, with
rain or snow, probably reaching the east
gulf States and upper Ohio valley by Tues
day afternoon or night. Snow is also in
dicated in Wyoming, eastern Colorado and
southern Montana. The temperatures will
IoIx
region, the east gulf and south Atlantic
States. and will fall from the middle Mis-
sissippi valley westward and southwest
ward. On the Atlantic oast~the winds will
be brisk and mostly easterly Tuesday morn
ing.
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whisky at parting. Here we had the mis-
fortune 10 lose one OF our sergeants, Charles
Floyd. He was yesterday seized with a
bilious collie, and all our care and atten-
ton were ineffective TO relieve him. A little
before his death he said 10 Capt. Clark: i
am going to leave you His strength failed
as he added: L want you TO write me let
ter He died with compoSure which 1usti-
fled the high opinion we had formed Of his
firmness and good conduct. He was buried
on top Of the BLUM with the honors due TO a
brave soldier. The place of his interment
was marked by a cedar post on which his
name and the date Of his death was in
scribed About a mile beyond the place to
which we gave his name is a river about
thirty yards wide, which We called Floyd
creek
The river still bears his name. as you VIII
see by reference to the map. The bluff at
Sioux City is still called F1oyd's bluff. His
grave has been protected all these years and
has been a landmark in that country. III is
honor.
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THE WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE.
Only the Very New buildings i'm New
York Are FireprOOf.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
Now that another hotel fire attended with
loss of life has occurred, we shall hear q
great deal about firetraps and the necessity
Of renovating and making such buildings
safe. 1t is true that other hotels than the
Windsor would burn as fast once a fire got
Roadway 1t is true that the guests would
have only n chance for their lives in the
daytime. and practically none at night Yet
these buildings, aptly termed firetraps by
the department, are equipped with fire.
escapes, and in each outer room may be
first story. In the passages may be found
bottles of chemicals in racks to extinguish
flames quickly, and the staircases are prop
ery marked for exit. ln fact, everything
required by the law to protect the guests is
done, and the proprietor is more interested
than any one else in preventing fires. The
trouble, OF course. is that the buildings be-
long to a time when freproof construction
was not insisted upon or properly under
stood.
In the first shock and horror following
such a calamity as the Windsor Hotel fire
there is an impusive demand that all hotels
shall be made fireproof and the fire and
pressing information which might have been
the means of saving life. But there are
comparatively few buildings or any kind
in the city of New York that are fireproof.
and the only way to make them so would
be to condemn and rebuild. This cannot be
done, for vested interests stand in the way
and interference with them is out OF the
question. You cannot ruin property owners
in order that the city shall contain none but
nolel, ONCE ana factory DulluInsS tndI are
proof against fire In course of time human
life Will be safe in every large building in
the city, but the time is far distant. for
New York must be practically rebuilt
Thirty years ago every big hotel as
much OF a firetrap as the Windsor is known
TO have been. All the authorities can do is
TO see that laws and regulations providing
for the safety of guests complied with
and that contractors putting up new hotels
do not violate the building laws. which in
themselves nearly adequate as hui
man precaution can make them. In that re-
spect there has been great advance in the
last twenty years.
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HARRISBURG, Pa, March 2O.-In the
House tonight Mr.. Woodruff, Republican,
of Philadelphia, introduced a resolution
which was unanimously adopted. creating a
commission consisting of three senators, five
members and seven others, to be appointed
by the Governor, who is requested to invite
the Pennsylvania State Board of Taxes the
Pennsylvania Legislative Labor League, the
Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Pa
irons of Husbandry, each TO suggest a rep
resentative of their respective bodies to
proceed with all practicable diligence to ex-
anime, consider and report as TO what
changes. if any, should be made in the laws
and policy of this commonwealth relating
to combinations of capital for business pur-
poses, whether the same be known as cor
porations, trusts otherwise. The commits
sion shall be authorized to confer with COM
missions appointed in other States or acting
on behalf of the national government for
similar purposes.
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should have left your offensive statements

Snoutu nave ieIt your offensive statements
Your contention is that the Chicago plat
form applies JeffersoHian principles 10 pres
ent conditions and that because / criticised
that platform in its application to conditions
existing three years ago and then resisted
your candidacy for the presidency. therefore
my presence at the proposed dinner would
not honor the worlds greatest Democrat.
The course of events will probably prove
your understanding of the relations of indi-
vidua1 opinions to Democratic gatherings,
ana IL Is therefore not required or me now
TO diyulge in a long discourse on the rela-
lions in your politics of temporary TO per
manent questions. Or returning from the
Chicago convention / explained my course
in a public address to my constituents and
JUSTIFIED my protest on the ground that
legislation and executive action in enforcing
the Chicago platform would be an assault
on wages and savings, bring on silver mono
metallism, and impair the obligations Of
contracts. | thereafter contended wherever
j had opportunity that insistence by the
United States on the coming ratio OF 10 to
would be the grave of international bimet-
alllsm, and that If Europe opened its minis
at 15l@ and this government persisted in the
ratio of is. the result would be as in 1884
and the United States would be left with
only a subsidiary currency. i answer you
as an individual and not as committing the
organization of which / am president
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NEW YORK, March 20-W. j. Bryan has
written letter TO a local newspaper in
which he advocates cheap political ban
quets His letter concludes:
"A high price is likely TO exclude from
the banquet table all except the leaders,
while low price recognizes the sover-
eighty of the voter and brings the politi-
cal benefits of the banquet within reach
OF a larger proportion of the members of
the party. During the last few years the
tendency in Democratic circles has been to-
ward cheaper banquets Some of the Demo-
cratic banquets which have been given since
1856 have cost as much s. per plate, while
the greater number of them have ranged
from 81 to So, and the attendance has been
from 800 to 1000. Democratic principles
appeal TO the wealth-producers, rather
than to the manipulators of the markets,
and there is every reason why the voters
should come in close contact with those
who eXpound the party creed The Re-
publicans seem welded to the doctrine of
monopoly. and we can we'll afford to allow
them to monopolize the expensive political
banQuetS."
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SCREW MAKERS COMBINING.
Company to BE Organized with a Cap
ifaIiyctiou of SO. 900.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 2O.-The
Register says that a consolidation of the
screw manufacturers throughout the coun-
try, to be known as the National Screw
Company is being perfected. The company
will be capitalized at 100000. The Amer
lean Screw Company, of Providence. is the
prime mover in the combination. One of the
original members of the new trust will be
the Grilley Company, of this city. The
other companies which it is understood will
enter the combination beside the American
Screw Company are: Russell & Erwin Map
ufacturing Company New Britain, Conn
National Screw and Tack Company, Cleve-
land; Atlantic screw works, Hartford,
Conn; Reed & Prince Worcester, Mass.
Boston Screw Company, Fitchburg, Mass.
Wright x Cotton, Worcester, Mass; Column
bia Screw. Company, Pullman, ILL.,; Massa-
chusetts Screw Company, Holyoke, Mass.
Reading Screw Company, Philadelphia; p.
d +. Corbin. New Britain. Conn; Charles
Parker Company, Meriden, Conn; Union
Screw Company, Cleveland.
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Belmont Hits Back

NEW YORK, March 20.-Perry Belmont
tonight gave out letter in reply to one
received during the day from Col. William
]. Bryan. Mr.. Belmont says, in part:
Il have just received your letter of the
18th inst in which you describe those who
declared in 1896 that your election to the
presidency on the Chicago platform would
endanger the Nations welfare the Re
publican allies who masquerade as Demo-
Gratis between campaigns in order TO give
more potency 10 their betrayal of Democrat
ic principles election day" Mr.. Bel
mont then goes on to say that before an
swering "the unwarranted letter" he had
instituted a suit against n New York news
paper on account of an alleged libel in
which he was characterized as "a higher
priced man than the fiOater who sells his
vote for two dollars on election day." and
continues: Your purpose TO be equally
defamatory is obvious. Your skill in the
use of words forbids the plea that in your
letter YOU misused them through ignorance.
The design is plain, and were IL not that you
have interviewer in your abuse reference to
my opinions upon public questions as OPP
posed TO your own, TO the Democratic Club
OF which / am president, and to its pro-
posed celebration OF Jefferson's birthday,
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Monument to an Explorer.
Washington Special

One of the last acts of the late Congress
to authorize the secretary of war TO
erect at the expense of 5000 a fitting mOnu-
ment over the remains of Sergeant Charles
Floyd, member of the Lewis and Clark
expedition. who died Aug. -, 1904, near the
present site Of Sioux City. Ia, and was the
first soldier to lay down his life within the
Louisiana purchase.
Sergeant Floyd was a Kentuckian, a SOL
der in the First Regiment of Infantry OF
the regular army, of which Captain Clark
was an officer, and the latter, writing of
him, said: His father is a man much
respected. tho possest of moderate wealth. -
In the diary OF Lewis and Clark under date
of Aug. 10 IL is recorded that after a CON
ference with an Indian warrior named
Stageaunja, which i'm English means Grear
Blue Eye. who begged us to give them
whisky. the Indians mounted their horses
and left US, having received canister OF
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Dc.PiCrCC'S
GOIdcnMcdiCdI
Discovery.

It builds up the weak places and fortifes
the system against the onslaughts Of
disease. II helps the appetite, assists
digestion, is an aid TO the proper assirni-
lation of food, and cleanses the blood
of all its impurities. II is a strictly
temperance medicine, containing not an
atom of whisky or alcohol in any form.
Your medicine is the best have ever taken"
writes Mrs. Jennie Dinguan. OF Vanburen. Kali
kaska Co. Mich. Last spring had a bad
cough; got 50 bad had 10 be in bed all the time.
My husband thought ! had consumption. He
wanted me TO get doctor. but told him il IL
consumption they could not help me. We
thought would try DIR. Piercc's Golden Mcdi-
cal Discovery and before had taken one bottle
the cough stopped and have since had no sigus
ofjts returning
For the most obstinate forms of con-
stipation and biliousness, use DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. Their action is prompt
yet comfortable: their effect is perrna-
nent. Insist that the druggist does not
give YOU something else.
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LEADERS WERE COWARDLY.
American Tells Why the Nicaragua
Revolution Was Unsuccessful.

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 90. II. Cut
ting, formerly of Boston, has arrived here
from Nicaragua. He was a lieutenant of
Rama Rifles in the recent Nicaraguan revo-
luton under General Reyes. Cutting says
the revolution would certainly have sue
ceeded but for the arrant cowardice of
Reyes and other leaders. Had we had only
500 Americans, we would have gone through
Zelaya'S forces like molasses out of a
garnet window" said Cutting but our
leaders were too cowardly to fight. They
showed the white feather at the first ap-
proach of danger" Cutting says the tax
alton in Nicaragua is unbearable ard the
American mine owners and operators think
another revolution is but matter of time.
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Other Deaths.

BOSTON, March 90 - Charles Everett
Clark. one of the most extensive builders in
the United States, died at his home in
Somerviile to-day, aged sxty-three years.
He was proprietor of one of the largest
stock farms in the country, at Burlington,
Kan. He was member OF the st. Louis
and Chicago athletic clubs.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 20.-Warren
Green, consul TO Yokohama under Cleve-
lands first administration. and son of the
late President Green, of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, died to-day at the
Norton Infirmary, in this city, of pneu-
monia.
NEW YORK, March 20. - Moses Gage
day. aged ninety years. In his earlier life
he developed the ice industry and one
of the organizers of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company.
the artist, is dead
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National strawboard Company.

CHICAGO, March 20.-The prospectus of
the organization of the National Strawboard
Company under the laws of New Jersey was
issued to-day. 1t is capitalized al 900,
equally common and preferred, the latter
per cent, cumulative, s., 100000 of each class
to be issued now, reserving working cap
ital Of 100000. The company will control 90
per cent. of the strawboard business, the
rest being supplied by the American Straw
board Company. An agreement exists be-
tween the two companies whereby the en-
tire business win be divided equally and all
differences in output will be settled in cash
on the tenth day of each month. The Sc
Stock Exchange.
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TRENTON, N. j., March 20.-Articles Of
incorporation Of the National Salt Company,
with capital of s12OOO.0OO were filed to-day
with the secretary Of state. The company
is authorized to produce and deal in salt.
The stock is divided into s5,00O,00O of pre-
ferred and 100000 of common, the pre-
ferred to bear per cent. noncumuative
dividends. The incorporators are Samuel b.
Lawrence, Henry c. Everdell and John Il.
Summerfield. of New York; George c. Spen-
Ger, of Brooklyn, ard James Hunt, of Jer-
sey City.
Articles were also filed for the Boston
and Seven Devils Copper Company. capital
s., 100000. The company is authorized to
mine. smelt and deal in copper and other
metals. The incorporators are Gurden +.
Howe, Eric A. Knudsen. John Murray Mar
shall, Kenneth X. McLaren, Henry w.
Meen, +. B. Hyde, Thomas l. Steadfast, all
of Jersey City
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Victory for the Turk.

DULUTH. Mimi. March 20-Hali AdaIi
defeated Duncan Mcmillan, of st. Paul,
and Hjalmar Lundin, the Swedish strong
man in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling
match tonight. The match was witnessed
by 5000 people. The Turk was TO throw
both men in 80 minutes. He threw Lundin
in 1879 and IL minutes. During the last
bout Mcmillan succeeded in reaching the
Turks back twice and he is credited with
having been the first man that ever got
q half Nelson on the Oriental wonder
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Movements of steamers.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 2O.-Arrived:
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, from New
York.
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.-Arrivedf
Naesland from Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL. March 20-Arrived: Bowie,
from New York.
HAMBURG, March 2O.-Sailed: Patria. for
New York.
GIBRALTAR, March 2O-Sailed: Ems. for
New York.
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PITISBURGi, March N.-The American
Steel and Wire Company has made another
advance of Is cents keg in the price of
nails. Small lots are now quoted at $3.50 a
keg in the price, or $40 a ton This is an
advance since December of $23 ton. Besse-
mer pig iron is also higher selling at 1885,
Steel billets sold in small lots to-day at So
per ton, and $50 is now asked