The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-21

1000: and a careful estimate shows that all
of the manufacturing establishments in
oluded in the localities TO be withdrawn
from the enumerators can be visited. and
returns from them secured. within the
brief space OF thirty days, by the employ
ment or ZOO special agents, who will be
paid by the day. The compensation which
Ii Is proposed To allow them Is 81 per day,
except In special cases, but it can in no
instance exceed Sc. In the collection OF the
manufacturing statistics the director pro-
poses TO utilize far as possible the or
ganization created for the general enumera-
ton by placing the supervisor of census OF
the proper district in charge, by grouping
the localities withdrawn, and by employing
the best of the enumerators for an addi-
tional month as special agents."
Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn, of the
War Department. received to-day from
Colonel T. H. Bliss. of the Commissary
Department. in charge Of the custom-house
service in Cuba, a report on the case of
Collector Jesse NJ Smith, at Gibara, who
was shot on the 9Th instant. by Cuban
named Cannidaty. editor of Las Cla-
rides, a newspaper published at Gibara,
and who died last night. Colonel Bliss
says that on the 9th inst, he received tel
egram from Collector Smith, giving an
account of his trouble with the Cuban ed
in the left thigh yesterday afternoon by
editor Of local paper in encounter re-
Sulting from personal insults and lies pub
lished by him in regard TO management
of custom house. / was unarmed at the
time, and diSarmed him after being shot.
Was operated on, and doctor thinks L
will be able TO return to my duties in
about three weeks, meanwhile the inter-
prefer is managing the affairs Of the GUS
tom house."
In his telegram to the War Department
announcing the death Of Smith, which
is dated Havana, Jan. 20, Colonel Bliss
said that Smiths leg was amputated Jan.
49, and he died the following evening. Col.
Bliss asked If he should send the remains
TO the United States. Assistant Secretary
Meikeljohn replied to him by telegraph
to-day saying that the remains of a
civilian could not be brought to this coun-
try at public expense. Smith served in the
Second United States Volunteer Infantry,
was mustered out June %, 1899, and re-
sided at New Orleans.
The secretary of the treasury and Mrs.
Gage entertained at a Cabinet dinner to-
night in honor of the President and Mrs.
Mckinley. Covers were laid for twenty,
the company including, in addition TO the
guests OF honor, the secretary of state and
Mrs. Hay, the secretary OF war and Mrs.
Root, the attorney general, the postmaster
general and Mrs. Charles Emory Smith,
the interior and Mrs. Hitchcock, former
postmaster general and Mrs Gary, the sec
rotary of agriculture, Colonel and Mrs.
Herrick, of Cleveland, and Mrs. Sheridan.
The fund for the Mcclellan monument,
which 1t is proposed to erect in Washing
ton, now amounts to about $4,000, and the
committee in charge will ask Congress for
SO, 900 for the pedestal. 1t is hoped to have
the ceremonies attending the laying of the
cornerstone at the time of the reunion of
the Society of the Army of the Potomac in
Washington in 1901.
Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the Navi-
cation Bureau, will leave Washington Mon
day for San Diego. Cal. under instructions
from Secretary Long to confer with Adj
miral KautZ respecting conditions in
Samoa, and particularly at Page Page,
where the Navy Department is erecting a
coaling station. ts
1t Is said the State Department has re-
ceiyed assurances from Costa Rica and
Nicaragua that they are willing to lease
territory to the United States for one hun
dred or two hundred years. If necessary, for
the construction of the Nicaragua canal.
This assurance removes any doubt that
may have existed as to the arrangement of
treaty between the United States and
Costa Rica and Nicaragua by which the alb
solute control of the canal shall be vested
in the United States. The State Depart
ment. it is said. will proceed to make the
formal treaty with Nicaragua and Costa
Rica as soon as the bill has been passed by
Congress, but in the meantime ii Is said
that there will be further exchange of notes
discussing the treaty between the govern
ments in advance of the actual passage of
the bill and its signature by the President.
1t was stated to-day at the department that
Nicaragua had consented to arbitrate its
difficulties with the Maritime company,
which hopes that it's concession, while 1t
nominally expired Oct. Is last, is still in
force. under certain clauses of the agree
nent. While this matter is admitted to ar
bitration, ii was stated at the department
that 1t would not have any effect of delay
on the negotiations between the United
States and the two Central American re-
publics.
Quartermaster General Ludington is in
formed that the transport Mcclellan ar
rived at New York to-day from Santiago
with the remains of seventy-six soldiers
who died from yellow fever in Santiago
province last summer and spring and a
cargo of 375 metallic caskets for the Philip
pines. These caskets were sent to Santiago
when there was a large force of troops
there, and are no longer needed in Cuba.