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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Banking and Currency Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ct is probable
the banking and currency bill reported to
the House will be withdrawn, leaving no
measure of that character on the calendar.
An animated discussion has arisen among
the members of the banking and currency
committee as to the right of this measure
to have a place on the calendar. Chairman
Walker holds that the action in reporting
the bill was irregular. and it was his pur-
pose to-day TO ask the permission OF the
House to withdraw it, This move promises
to meet with spirited opposition from other
members of the committee. On the advice
of the speaker the matter was deferred with
a view of having Representative McCleary,
one of the authors of the measure, volun-
tarly withdraw it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

BERLIN. Jan. 6--Letters received here
to-day from Kiao-Chou, the German forth
fed settlement in the province of Shan
Tung China. give details of an outrage
upon Father Stenz, the German Catholic
missionary, on Nov. last. The missionary
was about TO leave Tie-Tau. province Of
Shan-Tung owing 10 the anti-Chrigtian
feeling. Finding himself confronted by
crowds of Chinese, who were clamoring for
the destruction of the Christians. he took
refuge in hut; but he was dragged out
his clothes were torn from his back he was
struck with sticks and pricked with knives
and lances and his beard torn out. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
THE CATANIA is SAFE.
At ST. MichaeTS with Her SmOkestack
Gone and Boats Carried Away.

LONDON, Jan. 6.-The Tweedie Trading
Companys steamer Catania, Captain Fur
long, from Glasgow ON Dec II for New
York, which was spoken on Dec. 29 in dis
tress in latitude 4S north and longitude 3S
west by the Atlantic Transport Company's
steamer NIesaba, which arrived here on
jan I, has reached st. MichaeIs with her
smokestack gone. boats carried away and
decks swept by waves. The Mesaba after
standing by the Catania for twenty-five
hours. could not find her on the morning of
Dec. 81 and proceeded for London.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
TROUBLE IN SAMOA.
Supporters of Mataafa Refused to
Abide by Result of Election.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand Jan. 6.-The
following advices, dated Dee. IS, have just
been received here from Apia, Samoan
islands:
AT the opening of the proceedings for the
William Chambers produced draft of an
agreement for signature by the representa-
tives of MaletOa and Mataafa, the rival can
didates. to abide by his decision The
MaHetoans readily signed it, but the Ma
taafans refused. The chief justice having
been threatened with assassination. the
United States and British consuls issued q
proclamation that their governments would
protect him. 1t is reported that, in the event
of trouble, the British and German war ships
will act INDEPENDENTLY"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
a. B. HILTON BANKRUPT.
His Liabilities Are $2,539,9O7 and His
Assets Are Valued at $500.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6-Albert B. Hilton,
who formerly carried on a large dry goods
business on Broadway and now real es-
tate broker, filed a petition in bankruptcy
to-day. The schedules include the names of
about ten thousand creditors, most all for
small amounts. The total liabilities are
81, $50, 9O7, all unsecured. He has no assets
except clothing, valued at $500, for which
he claims exemption. Mr.. Hilton made an
assignment Aug %, 1896. to George N.
Wright, whose schedules showed liabilities,
81 Sl,o6 nominal assets of ST. S42 Up 10
April 20, 1895 the assignee had realized
1896. S26 from the assets. The assignee has
paid off a portion of the liabilities, but the
estate was not sufficient to pay all the liza
blitieS in full.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

WASHINGTON. Pa, Jan. 6.-The Hotel
Main and the Levins building adjoining IN
which were Neeson q Jones tailoring es-
adjustment and A. NJ Browns dry goods
store, We're destroyed by fire to-day. Loss
100000; insurance $4,000 The fire started i'm
the rear of the Hotel Main and burned so
rapidly that many of the occupants narrow
ly escaped
LIMA, O., Jan. 6--The Lima paper mills
We're almost totally destroyed by fire early
to-day. The plant was the property of ths
American Strawboard Company The loss
is $l25, co., insurance, $4,000
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury SHOWS:
Available cash balance, 1921, 715, 1858; gold re-
serve, $243, 479, 629.
The Vice President and Mrs. Hobart gave
a dinner. followed by a very small recep-
ton, last evening, at which the guests of
honor were the President and Mrs. Mckin-
ley.
Representative Hay of Virginia who
drafted the substitute army bill reported by
the Democrats of the House military COM
mittee, has received from the War Depart
ment a partial estimate showing that the
pay of officers and men under the substi
tute bill would be SIS coo OO0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

PEKING, Jan. 6.-The United States min
ister here, Edwin Fl. Conger acting upon
instructions from Washington, vigorously
protested yesterday against the extension of
the French or any other powers exclusive
concession at Shanghai, but he urged the
extension of the existing settlements on an
international basis.
The British minister here. Sir Claude NJ.
Macdonald, formally protested against the
mining and railroad regulations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
DIVERSE VIEWS.


and everywhere until day is reached when
the love Of money will no longer scar the
national conscience and hypocrisy no longer
hide the hideous features of avarice behind
the mask of philanthropy"
While Colonel Bryan was received with
most enthusiastic demonstrations there was
3 scene of pandemonium when he closed,
shortly before j o'clock. The men jumped
on their chairs and some 10 the tables
and kept up the loud cheering and waving
OF linen for "A long time. Colonel Bryan :
closing climax was on the trusts as the
benehciaries or expansion. The favored
class ne said, would get az that came back
and the taxpayers and common people
would pay for the armies and the colonial
government.
Among the others responding 10 toasts
were General T. y. Finley, Otway ]. Cos
grove, Judge J. r. Taryin and Congressman
Laentz and hegn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
WORLDS Fair Tower Gone.

V-HIcdBO RecOrd.
Wocdlawns landmark is no more. Tho
high tower of the Tower Hotel is in tho
hands Of a wrecking company The hotel
as built in 1898 by Fred Green at a cost
of $4,000. The tower. which was $50 feet
high, cost $1,000. The owners expected to
make a fortune by giving people a bird s.
eye view Of the fair at q quarter a head
but the receipts were only $500 The tower
was sold to wTeckers for S105, just one-ffth
of the cost Of the iron. The receiver expects
to put the building in shape so that ii can
be used as an apartment house.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
SLAMMED INSANITY.
Murderer Forced to Admit He Tricked
a Chicago Jury.

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-Bruno Puhan who
murdered Mrs. Nellie Armlin, but escaped
the gallows because the jury did not believe
him mentally bright, has acknowledged in
the Joliet Penitentiary that he slammed in
sanity at the time of his trial. The prison
physicians believed the prisoner, who was
given life sentence, was shamming and
they applied several tests. one of which was
the application of electricity. After three
days experience under test Puhan is said
to have surrendered and admitted the de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Free-Trnde Petition from Porto Rico.

WASHINGTON, Jan. "a petition has
been received by the Senate from the Ameri-
can Association of Porto Rica asking for
the establishment Of free-trade relations be-
tween that island and the United States
and the abrogation of the tariff established
by the military authorities and also for the
retirement of the Porto Rican currency and
the substitution of the money of the United
States. The petitioners represent that the
present tariff system discriminateS against
the interests of American citizens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Two Gas ExpIoSions.

TOLEDO. o., Jan 6-An acetylene gas
explosion to-day at Pemberville resulted in
the death Of Gustav Kiel. prominent mer-
chant and serious injury TO Joshua Smith.
The building was wrecked
At Medina. o.. this morning, an explosion
of gas resulted in the wreclking of the store
of r. T. Edwards and serious injuries were
suffered by the proprietor. Bert Eddy and
HI FspmminptOu
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
The Prince May speak Later.

LONDON, Jan. THE Brussels CORE
spondent of the Daily Telegraph, who has
secured an interview with Prince Victor
Napoleon, says the prince firmly declined to
discuss politics or the Dreyfus affair, re-
marking: when the time comes for me to
speak / shall do so in the only way beft-
ting prince and the chief of a great party.
l shall say what is necessary and sign nay
words with the glorious name l am proud
to bear-Nanoleon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

LONDON, Jan. 6.-The Rome correspond
ent of the Daily Chronicle says: Arch
bishop Ireland is coming here in connection
with the publication of a papal letter on
Catholics in Cuba and the Philippines. The
Vatican hopes that the good relations eX-
listing between the archbishop and President
Mckinley will contribute to the benefit of
the Catholics there"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
GORDON MEMORIAL COLLEGES.
Foundation stone of the Structure
Laid at khartum.

CAIRO, JAN 6.-The British diplomatic
agent in Egypt, Viscount Cromer, laid the
foundation stone at Khartum, yesterday of
the Gordon Memorial College, i'll the name
of Queen Victoria, and in the presence of
the sirdar, General Lord Kitchener of Khar-
tUm. the British officers and the native
sheikhs. The British agent, in a speech cut
lining the aims of the college, announced
that it would be wholly undenominationa,
ard that the instruction, so far as possible,
would be conducted in the Arabic language.
He added that the object of the college
was not to create a race of Angiicized Su-
danese, but to train their minds. The
speech which was translated into Arabic,
was we'll received by the native audience.
The ceremony concluded with God Save the
Queen"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Morements of Stenmer..

NEW YORK, Jan. 6. - Arrived: Trave,
from Bremen Sailed: Rotterdam, for Rot
teTdam.
COPENHAGEN. Jan. ARRIVED: Thing
Valla, from New York
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 6--Arrived: Etru-
ria. from New York.
GLASGOW Jan. &. - Arrived: Assyrian,
from New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
ALLEGED SWINDLERS.
Five Men Charged with FrauduIentIy
Promoting COrncOb Factories.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.-Inspector Williams, of
the postofIice secret service, has gone to
Philadelphia to bring Henry Ringbeck to
St. Louis for trial on the charge of using
the United States mails for fraudulent pur-
poses. He is the leader of a gang of five
men, all of whom are now under arrest
VINO are charged with traudulently promot-
all over the country. particularly in Mis-
souri,, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, South
Carolina and Louisiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

BERLIN, Jan. 6.-The decision of the
Bundesrath that it is competent to deal with
the Lippe-Detmold succession dispute, is
based on the professional opinion of Prof.
Kekule Won Stradonitz, which differs from
the majority The whole matter will form
the subject of a resolution in the Reichstag,
and the Freissinnige party will force the
government to define how far the Bundles
the sovereign rights of each state of the
German empire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
WILL SUCCEED ABBOTT.
Rev. DIR. Hills to BE Called to Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE advisory COM
mttee of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, to-
night. after hearing the report of the sub
committee chosen to select a pastor to sue
coed DR.. Lyman Abbott, unanimously rec
commended that the Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills. ID. D.. of Chicago, be called to the
pastorate DR. Hills has been preaching for
the past four years at Central Music Hail.
Chicapn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
GiIIett Did Not Meet His wife.

Ell PASO. Tex, jan 6-AIrs. Grant G.
Gillett wife of the Kansas cattle plunger,
arrived in FL PasO to-day. accompanied by
young man supposed to be Mrs. Gilletts
brother He registered the party at the
Pierson Hotel as c. II. Bronson. wife, child
and maid Gilett did not meet his wife
here or in Juarez. where the party took the
Mexican Central this afternoon for Chihua-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
potter MAY succeed HitchcocIs.

NEW YORK Jan. "a dispatch to the
Herald from Washington says: THE Presi-
cent has practically selected William Pot
ter of Philadelphia. for ambassador to Rus
STA. Dr. Potter was formerly minister to
Italy having been stationed at Rome during
the Harrison administration. His record
during that period has been carefully exam
ined by the President and Secretary Hay,
and both feel confident that he will satisfac-
torily I'LL the ST. Petersburg post.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.--Gen John Eaton
has sailed for Porto Rico to undertake the
supervision of education in the island. As
superintendent OF freedmen under General
Grant he organized schools in several
States and was for sixteen years United
States commissioner Of education. lie Was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Several impor-
tant retirements in the army viii occur dur
ing the current year. Brigadier General
Stanton, paymaster general, will retire on
the @0th inst: Brigadier General Flagler,
chief of ordnance, June "a; Brigadier Cen
eraI Sumner in August next, and Brigader
General Shafter Oct 16
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Another Indication of Prosperity.

Totals. United States. 81 767 SS9, $40 Inc. %
Totals outside New York. GO, 40S, $50 Inc. s.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Richard BarthoIdt III.

ST. LOUIS Jan. 6-Congressman Richard
Bartholdt is seriously i'll at his home in this
city as the result of an attack of grip. Mr..
Bartholdt, while on his way to a train for
the national capital was taken i'll and COM
PEELED to return home
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

PARIS Jan. 6.-Mr. George Dambmann,
an American who is prominent in Franco
American business circles here, has been
decorated by the minister of foreign affairs
NJ Delcasse, with the cross of the Legion
of Honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Chinese threatened to fay him alive. On
the following day his prosecutors prepared
to hang him by the wrists Finally man
DARN interfered in his behalf but compelled
him to leave the district with a promise
rever to return
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

Stanford was called ON to deposit a special
bond of $4,000 as guarantee for proper
distribution. After small donations TO nieces
and nephews and other relatives the residue
22,321 cash in bank All will now be dis
tributed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
State omcer win Not Pay War TAX.

DIES MONIES. Ia, Jan. 6.-Milton Rem
ley, attorney general for Iowa, to-day re-
fused To pay the 50-cent war revenue tax
on his official bond he holds that the fed
eTal government has no right TO tax a state
Dstcer and proposes to make a test case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
AT THE TOP NOTCH.
Bank CIearings This Week Reached a
TnfnI OF &1.7Rz SID. Or

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The following table
piled by Bradstreet, shows the bank cearings at
the principal cities FOR The week ended Jan. ).
with the percentage of increase and decrease, as
compared with the corresponding week last year:
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consulted in shaping the educational sys-
Chile and other South American countries
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Death of a Former FgiahOp,

TORONTO, Jan 6.-Right Rev. f. Sulli-
van d. d., rector of St James Anglican
Cathedral and formerly bishop of the do
cese of Algoma, died this morning.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
Rir Esfntc Rendy for nlstrIhntIon.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6.--The decree Of
distribution in the estate Of Leland Stan
ford was filed in Probate Court to-day The
estate was appraised at $l50o0,oo0 Mrs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY


Take Laxative Bromo-Q uinine Tablets. All drug
gists refund the money II It fails 20 cure 25c.
The genuine has l.. p, Q. on each tablet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

NEW YORK. Jan. 6-Figures complied at
Appraiser Walkmans office show the i'm
ports of precious stones at this port fer the
years Of 1896. 1897 and 1895 as follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07

These figures represent the foreign values.
BY far the greater amount of stones import
ed, in value, were diamonds.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-12
PENSION sMINnLEs.
Kind of claims the Commissioncr Has
to Deal with.
Phlladelphla Press.

lullduelpnld iItSSs
An Illustration OF the kind of claims
Pension Commissioner Evans has to con-
tend with will make clear the reason certain
pension "attorneys' are opposed to him.
One OF these attorneys secured a pension
many years ago for the widow of a soldier
killed in battle in 1862. She obtained large
sum in back pay and continued to draw the
pension up to 1875. II was then discovered
that the dead soldier had been divorced from
his wife for good reasons in 1885, some year s
before the war began Her pension was at
once stopped though no effort was made TO
recover the thousands OF dollars which she
had practically filched from the treasury by
the aid of pension attorney.
From 1875 to 1898 nothing more was heard
or the case But last year a notorious
pension attorney in Washington, by some
method not easily understood, had the
divorce decree of 1858 annulled That was
done thirty-six years after the death Of the
soldier who obtained the divorce and forty
years after the divorce was granted. The
attorney then filed a claim for ba. k pension
for the alleged widow from the time the
pension had been cut off In 1875. The sum
amounted to several thousand dollars. and
under our loose pension laws the amount
had to be paid, and the widow" IS now OF
lne pension Tolls.
Comm ssioner Evans did his best to protect
the treasury from being robbed in that way,
but he was unsuccessful. lie did succeed,
however, in winning the undying enmi.? OF
the rascally attorney who put through the
job, and who, no doubt, obtained the largest
percentage of the ''swag.'' That attorney
has been the most active agent in working
up" opposition to Commissioner Evans in
Grand Army camps In this work he has had
the assistance of some more men of his ilk
who have run up against the rugged honesty
of Commissioner Evans.
No sane man supposes that pension at
torneys in Washington grow rich out of the
SO fee allowed them by law for looking
after pension case 1t is the "swag' in
claims like the one mentioned which enables
them to become "fnanciers." And it is Just
that class of claims that Commissioner
Evans has been fighting. Hence this effort
by that class of attorneys" to discredit the
commissioner. There are honest pension at
torneys, but they are not the men who in
stigated the attack on Mr.. Evans. The "at-
torney" system-many of the pension at
torneys are not lawyers, and have never been
admitted to the bar--is altogether wrong
Commissioner Evans is right in seeking to
save the old veterans and the widows and
orphans from the eXactions of pension at
tOrneys
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-12

good OF their people but for our own pront
III II won't nay us TO take them, We don't
want them" The syndicates and combines
which have urged this country into mn
perialism, for their own proht, are wise In
their generation. They want to make 1t pay
them and TO get profit which they VIII lead
the people to think is for the nation they
must own labor and coin Its sweat under the
lash.
England and the United States, Allied to
subjugate the black man, Joining in hypo'
critical snivel about the white mans bur-
den," which consists in making Black man
do his work and whipping him for refusing,
are led to the practical restoration Of
slavery.
1t is quite startling that when men in the
military service spst on the constitution and
condemned 1t as unworthy OF discussion and
the pulpit denounced the Declaration OF In.
dependence as "a damnable lie," instantly
all the furies OF human greed and selfish
ness were let loose and the man hunter and
slave catcher was not ashamed to bawl the
righteousness Of his calling.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-12
AWAKENING OF THE WEST.
Marked Activity in Agriculture, Min
ing and Industrial Lines.

Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Once more the great west is awake. The
years of idleness and depression that fol-
lowed inevitably upon the unnatural booms
OF few years ago have given way to a
healthiness of growth and development that
will yet make of the Transmississippi sec
tion the empire that Napoleon predicted
when he threw down his pen after signing
the Louisiana treaty.
Mines that had been filled with water for
many month have been pumped out and
are in operation again. Mills that had been
idle are once more humming with machin-
cry and alive with the men and women who
are making their livings there. Towns that
had lost all hope are awake. Men who
thought ten years ago that the west was
with none of the initiation that caused all OF
the trouble in the late SOS and the
early '90's.
Lands in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa. Kansas,
Nebraska and every other western state are
In demand at prices that are pleasing to the
holders, who have been grudgng paying
taxes with no return for good many years.
Farmers who have been disgusted and dis
couraged in turn are beginning to find life
worth living.
In looking about for a reason for the
changed conditions, there are those who say
that the prosperity of the west is due to the
war with Spain-the demand for superfluous
men, the demand for food products and for
the other necessities Of an active campaign
with large army. The best authorities
admit no such thing, however. The revival
of industry in the west is attributed solely
to the fact that the depression was unnat-
ural, resulting, in its turn, from an unnat-
ural boom ten or fifteen years ago
Just as soon as a section, rich in all of
the elements in the bestowal of a kindly
nature, had recovered from the effects of a
foolish fever of speculation, prosperity was
with it again. The west and the east, as
well as the north and the south, are to-
gether for prosperity and advancement, for
continued unity and national greatness.