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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-20

TOLEDO, o., May 19.-Indignant citizens
OF Northville, Mich, to-day drove Thomas
him. Evans was accused OF misusing his
children and his neighbors had a rope
around his neck and he was twice pulled
up. On promise to leave the city he was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-20
CARS PEACE CONGRESS
DELEGATES SPEND FRIDAY IN AR.
RANGING A PROGRAMME.
Committees to BE Named To-day
Americans and British to Insist on
Permanent Court of Arbitration.

THE HAGUE, May 19.-The chiefs Of the
different delegations to the peace conference
met to-day under the presidency of the pres
ident of the conference. M. De Staal, the
Russian ambassador to Great Britain, for
the purpose of discussing the business to be
transacted tomorrow.
The meeting at which Andrew d. White,
head OF the United States delegation. and
Sir Julian Pauncefote. head of the British
delegation, were present, resulted in an
agreement to appoint three committees 10
deal with the respective groups Of questions
proposed for discussion - namely, d!sarma-
ment, laws of warfare and mediation and
arbitration With view Of facilitating the
appointment of the committees 1t was agreed
that each chief delegate should nominate
those of his own delegation whom II might
be desired to appoint to the respective COM
mittees, so that each nation should be rep
resented upon all. Probably the committees
will meet next Tuesday or Wednesday to or
ganize and to arrange their procedure.
The opinion Of majority of the delegates
seems to be that the general scheme to be
presented to the conference tomorrow has
been conceived in a broad and liberal spirit,
and the result Of this mornings meeting OF
the delegations chiefs Is regarded as DEM
onstrating the good viii and conciliatoriness
of all the delegates, as well as a common
desire to facilitate the labors of the confer
ence. Perfect harmony had prevailed thus
far regarding all questions brought for
ward. At to-morrow's session NJ. De Staal
will read the replies Of Emperor Nicholas
and Queen Wilhelmina TO the dispatches
sent to their Majesties at the opening OF
the conference. after which he, will deliver
an important speech on the work OF the
conference and will propose the adoption OF
a general scheme arranged this-morning
The various delegations met this afternoon
to assign their members to the grand divi-
sional committees To-morrow's sessions and
all subsequent sessions will be secret.
Queen Wilhelmina and the Queens mother
will arrive here on Tuesday evening and
will be received in great state. Her Majesty
will give a grand soiree on Wednesday in
honor Of the delegates to the peace confer.
ence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-20
ALGER,s STATEMENT.
No Order Issued by Brooke Counter.
manded-President's Instructions.

WARRINGTON, May l9.-"It Is The sheer
est nonsense" said Secretary Alger to-day.
In commenting on the published story that
the President or himself had countermanded
any order made by General Brooke relative
to tho disarmament OF the Cuban troops.
The status Of the case. in brief. Is as fol-
lows: The President canvassed very thor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-20
Twenty-second Infantry-May IS, Company
L. Corporal Henry E Langford,

Twenty-second Infantry-May 5. Sergeant
Peter Cosgrove. arm, slight: Privates Carl
Carlson. abdomen. moderate: Company l.,
Simon Shueter, abdomen. severe.
Thirteenth Minnesota-May 10, Company
A, Private William Tew, thigh, slight.
Second Oregon-Company l. Pvt. Frank
Butts thigh, slight
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-20
General Otis's Casualty List.

WASHINGTON. May 19.-General Otiss
last casualty list follows:
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
Local Taxation for Schools.

MT. Stallings is represented as advocat- ing better educational system in the state. He does this on the stump as part of his canvass for the democratic gubernatorial nomination. He makes this part of his programme. He pledges himself, if elected, to better the public schools of the state. If Mir. stalitngs means what he says if he has studied the subject beyond mere glittering generalties-he knows there is only one way to materially improve the education system, namely, through the adptfon of constitutional amendment permitting each locality be it a school dis trict, a beat or a county, to say how much it shall be taxed for school purposes. The state has voted to education all it can af- ford to vote. The state has done nobly. But the state appropriation will never give Alabama such schools as other states possess-wlll never materially reduce illit- eracy-unless it be supplemented with local taxation.
 All limitations upon taxation are renec-
  suits to the people They say, in so many words, You need restraint and guardian ship. You are incapable of managing your own pocketbooks. You are babies in the sight of the law, to be curbed and confined by constitutional rails." Not over five states out of forty-five have such limita- tiapS and the criielest mart of the limita- tions in the five states consists in restraints upon support of the schools of the people. It is these limitations that have made Ala bama, next to North Carolina, the most illiterate state in the union.
 Now, if MT Stallings is ready to advo- cate the right of local-taxation for schools, he is on solid ground. He is heart and soua in favor of better schools. But if when interrogated he evades this issue and contents himself with generalities, then he is simply playing politics, and he contains within himself no help for the people in this great and all-important matter. Let him be interrogated when he next addresses the people. Put this question to him: "win you favor to the extent of your op- portunities, in office or out of office, a con- stitutional amendment that will permit in localities desiring it local taxation for school purposes?" Let his answer be for warded to The Age-Herald, and he shall have credit in these columns for all it is worth.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
WHAT NEXT?

From the Tuscaloosa Times.
 The Washington Star says that Colonel Bankhead has gone to Saratoga to attend a meeting of leading democrats who are anti-Bryan; but there is no explanation made why a lot of silver leaders-whfch these men are we'll known to be-are cau- cusing against Bryan.
 The facts are that there Is a clique Of office fends in this state who are deter mined to hame-string Bankhead if they can. He is too big man for them, and knowing that they cannot meet him in the open, they are pulling his coat tail as he turns the corners. This is their creed: ''The offices all belong to the gang, and we are the gang"
 If Bankhead goes to the Morris hotel In Birmingham, the gang narrates that he is there plotting against Morgan for the sen- ate or against Mars Joe Johnston for a third term. If he Is seen talking with Colonel Tomlinson, the word goes out that he is combining with him: and if he hap pens to spend an hour or two with Dr.. Cunningham-his friend of a hfetime-it Is telegraphed abroad that he is putting the doctor in the field as a candidate for gov- ernor. These small politicians lose sight of the fact that Colonel Bankhead is today one of the most prominent and influential silver democrats in America.
 He Is too much of a silver man and too much of a Bryan advocate for us, but be is built that way, and that way he will stand until the democratic heads in an- other direction, if it ever will. 31
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CROKER RETURNS AN ANTI
 IMPERTALTST PRATSTNG BRYAN

drive any good democrat away from the party.
 '.The democratic party should not split on the silver question. Congress can be trusted to settle the ratio in good time.
 "wIiIiam J. Ssryan's great strength lies In hIs sympathy and knowledge of the plain American people. He understands and feels for the toiler, and the toiler understands and trnsts him. consider him one of the great est men this country has produced.
 Tn New York city the democratic party was never stronger. All the cheap talk about machine politics has been swept away We will carry everything before us at the fall elections.
 '"The people are beginning to appreciate that every good public improvement in New York, including good streets, under- ground telegraph wires, the great Croton aqueduct, new parks, low taxes and pleas ure piers for the people, are the direct re- suits of machine politics.
 'I fail to see anything which has been accomplished by the so-called reformers while they have been in power within the last fifteen years.
 ''These men have many foolish notions. They forget that business house is a ma- chine, church is a machine, bank is a machine, and the more perfect the machine the more good 1t can accomplish.
 "Disgruntled office-seekers use the word tions of both parties and to create preju-
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The Close and Interesting Elections.

A considerable number of states hold elections this year, but the really interest," ing elections will be confined to Kentucky, Maryland. Nebraska and New York. In the two last named states minor state officers only will be elected-in Nebraska only a judge. and in New York part of the leg islature and some lesser state officials, but still much interest Is taken in the two elections.
 In Maryland and Kentucky governors are to be chosen, and the contests in these two border states are not very dissimilar. Both were securely democratic up to 1895. In that year each elected a republican governor. and in the succeeding presiden- tial election each remained republican, al- though Kentucky was so close that one democratic elector was saved from the wreck. In 1897 Kentucky went back to de- mocracy but Maryland did not. The lat- ter state was still in revolt against Mr. Germans supremacy as a leader, and the gold democrats assisted the revolt. But Baltimore city went democratic last year, and the democrats now feel sanguine of re- gaining control of the state. In Kentucky the democrats have selected a young and very capable leader in State Senator Goebel, of Covington, and he will make an aggressive and warm campaign. It is be- lieved that both states will be securely landed next November in the democratic column.
 In Nebraska, a state that is normally edly wage a desperate battle on the GUS tomary Hannatic lines. They win go into the contest loaded down with u dst money. But all Nebraskans feel a natural pride in MT. Bryan. and good judges say the re- pubicans will again be beaten in the state. In New York no one can see far probable. It is a populous and very un- certain state, containing a variety of ele- ments in race, politics and independency that cannot be counted or depended upon. When the votes are counted we will know how New York has gone, and not before although, unlike Nebraska, the Empire state Is nominally democratic. The | chances of democratic success in all four | are in fact pretty good and if the de- mocracy should carry all four. the republi- cans would be nearly scared out of their boots.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
Dreyfus Meets His fccusers.

Saturday was an eventful day in France. It was not eventful because the govern ment had concluded to gather in the opera bouffe revolutionists led by Paul Derouede. The arrest of a dozen or more youthful imperialists and and-Semitists. masque- rading under the name of the League of Patriots, does not matter much. The gov ernment has not been and is not endan- gered by the Patriots, and the arrests on Saturday simply go to show that the pres ent government, including the gallant de Gallifet will not stand much nonsense or trifing. It is ready to crush Deroulede and all other clowns in the political circus of France It knows what is going on, and Saturdays action is evidence only of what it would do if a serious task were be- fore 1t.
 Saturday was eventful in France, be- cause the witnesses who were to estab- fish the guilt of Captain Dreyfus, appeared in court, and had nothing to offer. M. de la Roche-vernet. attache of the French embassy at Berlin, was first called, and his evidence as to the cipher dispatch sent 10 the Italian government concerning Captain Dreyfus' arrest, showed that 1t had been falsifed at the ministry of war. Not d word of his evidence hurt Captain Dreyfus, and yet he was the witness whs was to cover the Dreyfusites with confus- ion and shame.
 M. Casimer-Perier, ex-president of the re- public, was next called. He really talked about himself, and his connection with the Dreyfus case instead of the case itself.
 Then came General Mercier, who orated four weary hours. His speech was type. written, and It went on without incident and without valuable testimony. It was speech. not testimony. Not few fact was brought out, and if he had not near the close of his speech aroused Capt Dreyfu. to angry interruptions, his entire effort would scarcely have merited notice. His dcnunciation of and manner towards Capt Dreyfus aroused, however, the anger of tho entire audience, and protection was needed as he passed through it. There were nc sensational developments. There were nc developments of any kind, and it i: scarcely probable that the enemies Of the
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brave prisoner of Devils Island have a particle of new evidence. and all of the old evidence was upset long ago. The ae- quittal of Captain Dreyfus Is now well as- sured. The disgrace of General Mercier and his fellow eonspirators should also be well assured, but as to that 1t Is well not to be oyer-confdent. The assassination of Lawyer Labori, chief counsel of Capt. Dreyfus. will not at this late day change to show the fierce malignty of the anti- Dreyfusites.
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dice against the politicians. I believe It Is the duty of every man in this country to become politician. It is his highest duty.
 .Tn New York city every year there are 10000 men who disfranchise themselves by neglecting to vote, and these men, I say. should be treated as aliens. They shirk their duty and then set pp loud cry against machine politicians"
 The last question disposed of by MT. Croker was as to the proposed alliance be- tween the United States and Great Britain. He said:
 'I am absolutely opposed to it. Nothing could be worse than forming the habit of relying on the friendship of England. We have nothing to gain by it and everything to lose"
 MT. Croker refused to discuss the ac- ton of William Waldorf Astor in becom- ing a subject of Great Britain.
 "I suppose you have heard of Judge Van Wyck's boom for the presidency" MT. Croker was asked.
 "No. That's news. don't care to dis cuss that matter now:"  near Harodsburg, Ky. Hamp Smith is ar- ranging to make similar purchase.
 Hon. Grattan B. Grove has returncd s-om Chicago.
 Hon. William H. Skaggs is in Chicago. Alex T. London has gone to Atlantic City on legal business. Mir. Morton Kirke Moore has returned to Birmingham, after an absence of sev- eral weeks
 Daniel Pratt, of Prattville. the bearer of name famous in Alabama's industrial de- velopment, is in town.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
IRON AND STEEL EXPANSION

The increase in value of iron and steel exports from the United States for the fiscal year 1899 over that of 1898 was almost equal to the value of all the iron and steel exports of 1890 From s25, POS in 1890 our exports of iron and steel rose to S93, TIE, ,951 in the fiscal year ending June 90, 1S99 In other words, the value of these exports was nearly quadrupled between 1890 and 1899, and nearly triple between 1895 and 1899. When the decrease in prices in the past de- cade is considered it will be appreciated that the export tonnage of iron and steel and their manufactures, in the recently ended fiscal year, was much more than four times that of 1890. Of the total increase of $4S, ,O00 in exports of strictly manufactured articles, in 1889. as compared with 1S9S iron and steel and their manufactures contribut- ed nearly $23,000, GOO, almost one-half. The above statements give in a few words the story of the marvellous expansion of the export trade of the United States in iron and steel.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
The West Indian Hurricane.

The recent hurricane from the West In- dies was first heard from in the morning of August ' at Guadeloupe in the Leeward islands, near the coast of South America. It reached and devastated Porto Rico Au- gust 8. It skrted Santo Domingo August 10 at night, and on the following day it was felt at Nassau, where it was headed for the Florida coast. Since then it's track has remained underlined Whether 1t re- curved and went to sea, or whether 1t was toned down to simply breezy weather, is a matter of conjecture. High winds prevail ed on Saturday and Sunday along the American coast. but whether or no they were caused by the West Indian traveller is not known.
 Porto Rico was the chief sufferer from this early August hurricane, although the islands of Guadeloupe, St. Thomas and
 St. Criox were visited by it and severely
 damaged. Full reports from the three last
 named islands have not been received. West Indian hurricanes are yearly occur rences, but the island of Porto Rico has 
 probably never been so swept and dam- aged as it was by the one that has just oc- cured. In the storm of 1867 six thousand
 lives were lost, but it is believed that when full reports are received 1t will be
 shown that even more lives were sacrificed
 in the recent storm.
 Relief for the people of Ponce and of other towns in Porto Rico will be pushed forward. The government has already or dered there transport laden with sup plies. and the appeals of the suffering will | no doubt meet with warm response from l the people.
 The weather bureau will In time doubt | less be able to give the islands in our pos- session warning of the coming of such storms, but at present the service is im-
 perfect. And after all it is impossible to
 move everybody and everything out of q tornado's track. The city of Ponce could
 not have escaped destruction, no matter
 how excellent the weather service might have been. The bureau can perhaps save | shipping, and lessen the danger to life; l it cannot stay the terrible force that
 travels hundreds of miles leaving victims along it's entire track.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
REELECTIONs OF A BACHELoR.

From the New York Press.
 One excuse makes a lie and two make perjury.
 The more children a woman has the less she seems to learn about human nature.
 When woman asks a man whom her baby looks like she can't help blushing and looking guilty. After the wedding knot is tied by the minister it tansles itself into lot more that are worse than the first
 Some women show their appreciation of their husbands by dangling them before other women like child dangles a piece of meat before a puppy. --
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FASHION AT NARRAGANsETr

From the New York Journal.
 There Is fashion at the Pier which dis counts all the old bathing dress tattle. It is the way in which the women wear their gowns. Very few of the women have the regulation underclothing, but instead have a suit of silk tights. The gown is worn as tight as possible, and it fits over the hips like a kid glove. I saw no less than twelve of these gowns at the Casino, and I am old-fashioned, and must say that think they are downright indecent. They were vulgar and they are not pretty.
The age-herald., 1899-08-15
WOMAN
From the London

From the London Judy.
 When girl gets married the women in- quire ''how her mother took it." as though 1t was a funeral.
 A wedding isn't perfectly satisfactory to Birmingham. the gang narrates that he Is abuse somebody afterward for spending so much.
 A woman has few friends who do not wonder when her engagement is announce ed, if she used hypnotism.
 The world is getting easier for the women. They can buy everything cooked, everything ready-made, and men are be- coming more subdued every day.
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New York. August 14.-(speciall Richard CrOker has changed his ideas on two impOr- taat national eu usstions. Before starting r E 'rora MT. Croker was known as an imperi . He saiS that the American flag sf ould Lot be hauled down from the possessions acquired during the Spanish war. He was also opposed to William Jennings Bryan as a candidate for president In 1900.
 Yesterday Croker declared in strong terms for Bryan, and praised him one of the greatest men In the country. In an interview he denounced President Mckinley and ex- pressed strong gantI-lmperiaIlstic views.
 Whom Richard Croker was asked last eve ming what induced him to change his mind, he said:
 "I will explain nothing. My views have been stated plainly and fairly"
 Here are some of MT. Croker's utterances:
 '"Fhe republican party has clearly shown its unfitness to be in control of the na- ippines has been turned into a partisan scheme to elect President Mckinley to a second term. The administration has pur- posely dragged out the struggle and is spending millions of the peoples money without making any serious effort to bring the war to close this year.
 '"The people are beginning to see through this. They are paying the war taxes, and they know what this means.
 "The presidential election takes place next year. and the republican managers of the Mckinley campaign are openly making
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The Falkville Chronicle charges camdi- dates for congress s7 and candidates for county offices $5, for announcements, but state offices. As the last-named crop is to be large one, the Chronicles tariff clearly should be revised.