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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
REPULSE OF B0L0MEN
FIVE THOUSAND ATTACK THE
AMERICAN GARRISON AT DAROGA,
But Are Driven Away After Burning
Much of the TOwn-Otfs Reports
Conditions Improving.

MANILA, Feb. 15.-Insurgent forces esti-
mated to number 5000 soldiers, mostly Bolo-
men, attacked the American garrison in the
convent at Daroga, in the province of AL
bay, during the night of Feb. s. They were
repulsed, however, after they had burned
much of the town. One lieutenant wounded
was the only loss sustained by the Ameri-
cans.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The adjutant
general received a cable message to-day
from General Otis, giving a brief outline OF
the progress of military operations in the
Philippines since his last report of several
days ago, announcing the opening of the
hemp ports in southern Luzon. The dis
patch follows:
Bates left to-day with two regiments
and a battery of artillery on transports for
San Miguel bay, province of Camarines
Sur. to move on Neueva Caceras and towns
In that section. The road east from Anti
monan through the province of Tayabas is
not practicable for troops. The insurgents
in Camarines show considerable activity,
and make attacks on our troops along the
southeastern coast of Luzon island. 1t is
reported that they hold several hundred
Spanish and a few American prisoners in
the vicinity of Neueva Caceras.
kobbe, with two regiments, occupied the
southeastern extremity of Luzon from
Tobacco on the north to Donsol on the
south; also all important points of the
islands of ~Catanduanes, Samar and&.eyte.
1.-THE conditions throughout the Philip
pines are gradually improving. All coasting
vessels are now engaged in transporting
merchandise and products. The ladrone
element Is troublesome in all of the Islands
and keeps troops very actively engaged"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
Kentuckian Wants Information.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Representative
Wheeler, of Kentucky, to-day introduced In
the House the following resolution:
Whereas, Charles L. Macrum, late con-
sui of the government of the United States
al Pretoria in the Transvaal Republic. over
his own signature, charges when this mail
(his) was finally forwarded TO me after
Colonel Stowe. the American consul general
had the humiliation. as the representative
of the American government of sitting in
my office at Pretoria and looking on en-
velopes bearing the official seal of the
American government opened and officially
sealed with q sticker, notifying me that the
contents had been read by the censor at
Durham and,
Whereas, He further states in the same
article, when 1 accepted my post as consul
1 knew nothing of any secret alliance be-
tween America and Great Britain there
fore be Ii
Resolved. BY the House that the secre-
tary of state is directed to inform the
House of Representatives If said Charles T..
Macrum as consul of the American gov
eminent informed the State Department
read by the British censor at Durham and
If so what steps, if any, have been taken
to obtain an explanation and apology from
the British government.
Section 2. He is further directed to IN
form the House of Representatives what
truth there is in the charge that a secret
alliance exists between the republic of the
United States and the empire of Great
Britain"
The speaker referred the resolution to the
foreign affair committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
A well-known washington correspondent,

A well-known Washington correspondent
recalls the fact that when Senator Jones.
one of the many incidents which show the
able orator and the ablest champion of free
coinage of silver. His speech on the cur
rency bill a few days ago was announced
in advance, yet only those senators who
ten. and about one hundred sight-seers lis
tened in the gallery, coming and going. If
Mr.. Jones should speak on expansion he
would have an audience, but the public has
no interest in the silver question. There
are those who do not realize the fact.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
TO MISS ANTHONY.
Birthday Fluctuations by the Femi-
nine knights of Suffrage.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-Several thou
sand people. Including the delegates to the
National American Woman's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, which has just concluded its an
nual session here, assembled at the Lafay-
cite Opera House to-day to do homage to
Susan b. Anthony. the veteran worker in
behalf of the enfranchisemen of women,
who, to-day, celebrated the eightieth ami
versary of her birth. Grouped on the plat
form were the national officers of the as
ISOLATION and all the pioneers in the equal
The stage decorations consisted of the
four-starred flag uf the suffragists. palms
and cut flowers. There was a long pro-
gramme. replete throughout with stirring
tributes to Miss Anthony's great career.
while tears and applause mingled as the
voices of the speakers rang through the
theater, ~recounting the hardships and
struggles, and at last the browning
achievements of the veteran wom-
passed in single file across the stage,
each depositing a rose in Miss Anthony's
lap as they passed her. one for each year
of her life. Addresses conveying greetings
from various state associations and other
bodies were made. the speaker including
Mrs. Humphrey Gaffney, of the National
Council of Women, OF Illinois; Mrs. May
Wright Sewan. of Indianapolis. president
of the international Council of Women;
the Rev. Ida c. Hutton. from the ministry:
Diana Hirschler. the law: Lillian H. Hol-
lister. representing the business women;
CoralIe Franklin Cook, the colored woman:
Ellen Powell Thompson. the District of
Columbia Equal Suffrage Association. and
the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch the greetings OF
the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Representative Bartholdt, of Missouri, in
his assault in the House Wednesday upon
cratic Legislature has fixed upon st. Louis,
took occasion to say a word about Ger
mans in the United States. He declared
that the political managers who imagined
German vote in Milwaukee by being nomi-
mated there assumed that that class of
voters are tickle and the victims of preju-
dice. Such an assumption is an insult to a
most intelligent class of voters. AS a body
and cannot be deluGed into the support of
a candidate who stands for silver mono
metallism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

it was done without authority, and he
should have remained there TO investigate
the matter and secure an apology instead
of coming home to make a long-range
statement months after the occurrence in
an effort to embroil his own government
with a friendly power. An official state
ment of the fact by him at the time would
doubtless have elected a prompt apology
from the British authorities. but a state
ment from him as a private citizen, removed
from office for INSTRUMENTATION, Is quite a
different thing. Mr.. Macrum will not sue
coed In making himself an international
issue. though Democrats, nti-administra-
ton men and Boer sympathizers In the
United States will probably try to make
political capital out of his statement.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
sENATE,s INDISPENSABLE ACTION.

Silver. so far as money is concerned. is
no longer a precious metal. Its only use Is
as token money. its coined value main
tanned by its being directly or indirectly
redeemable in gold. At one time in the
worlds history copper was a large part of
the worlds money, both because the guam
tity was limited and because 1t gave a cur
rency suited to the low wages and the
general poverty of the mass of the people.
AS the conditions of the masses improved
there was no use for a coin of the value Of
a quarter or a half of a cent Copper. as a
metal. became more abundant and cheaper
as the better facilities for mining were
world and the low price and abundance of
silver, due to the application of capital
and machinery to its production. have
put silver out Of the place Ii once occupied
as money. 1t may, for a time. be the full
money of nations like China, but all of the
nations that are powers use gold as an in
~ternational money. For all the purposes of
money there is an abundance of gold. The
annual output is increasing so rapidly
that the probability is in the direction of
the worlds money.
Such being the conditions and prospects
there is no discussion of international BIZ
metallism in Europe, because all the ma
lions now understand that it is unneces-
sary. Such being the case, the action of
the Senate in leaving a door open to the
adoption of international bimetallism is in
defensible. Ten years ago, when the an
nual output of gold was one-third the pres
ent yield of the mines. there was good
ground for an agreement in favor of inter-
national bimetallism. With all the condi-
lions changed, there can be no sound ar
gument in favor of such a proposition.
More silver will be used as money than
ever, because it is well adapted to small
transactions, and it will be a limited legal
tender, but its coinage on equal terms with
gold will never be. Furthermore, no nation
has less use for silver with full interna-
the annual trace balances are in our favor
| at the rate of hundreds of millions annu-
| ally.
20 the friends of sound money in this
/ country. irrespective of party, the action
of the Senate in leaving an open door fol
bimetallism has no valid excuse. 1t looks
Ike trifiing. Let the House stand for the
gold standard as an accomplished fact In
] the worlds progress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The decision OF Judge Taft in the matter
of the minor state officers of Kentucky Is
of Nevada. has spoken on the silver ques-
necessity of an impartial judiciary. Judge
Taft is doubtless I'm sympathy with the Re
pubiicans. He certainty denounced "the
frauds under the form Of law" which the
case presents. but under the law and the
Constitution there was no ground for inter-
ference. and he 50 declared. If he were in
the position Of the Kentucky judges who
Of the Goebel law he would make a deci-
sion that would sweep away that infamy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
WOMAN
Darnfng Needle Driven Into the Gen.
ter of Her Heart.

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. 15.-Mrs. William
j. Garland, wife of a saloon keeper in
Phoebus, was found murdered this morn
ing in her bed by her husband when the
latter awoke. An autopsy developed the
fact that she had been stabbed just below
the left breast with a darning needle, and
so skillfully was it lone that the needle
struck the heart in the center causing in
slant death. The husband reported the
murder and he was arrested, charged Wit
the crime. He protested his innocence. He
is wealthy and is not known to la quar-
relied with his wife.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
Soldiers Tortured to Death.

BOSTON, Feb. ia dispatch to the
Globe. from Iloilo, says: Three Massa-
chusetts soldiers of the Twenty-sixth Regi-
ment, United States Volunteers, lave been
tortured to death by insurgents. The men
were Dennis Hayes, William Dugan and
Michael Tracey, p~rivates of Company F,
under Capt. William NJ. Tutherly. They re-
manned behind the column at Balinag, last
November, to get a tuba, and refused to
the corporal sent by Captain
Tutherly to bring them along. They were
captured by the insurgents hanging on the
rear of the column and were cruelty tor
tured and murdered by the rebels in the
public plaza at Balinag, the action being
c-ountenanced by the Spanish priest. The
padre has since left his parish for the
mountains. When the men remained be-
hind they had with them their full equip
ment of arms and ammunition, which was
captured"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Ex-consul Macrum tries to make much
OF the fact. and so will lingo politicians.
that he was instructed. shortly after the
Rrifish-Boer war began. TO look after
British interests as well as American. 1t
Is a common occurrence. in case Of war.
for the consul OF a neutral power 20 look
after the interests OF one of the bellig-
erents whose consulates nave been closed.
British consuls In Cuba did this for Us at
the beginning of the war with Spain. and
n some Instances were very useful to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

1t is possible that responsible senators
when Senator Allen has the floor to pre-
vent. his repeating his joke of passing a
pro-Boer resolution all by himself. 1t is a
measureless infiction to listen to Allen,
should be able to see that he does not stop
to pass Boer resolutions, since the tempta-
ton may come to him to pass 16-to-1 bills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

fict with the assurances that foodstuffs
with hostile intention are not ~contraband
of war unless intended as supplies for the
enemy's forces, and inadmissible from the
view of the United States" Replying TO
this point. Mr.. Choate said that Lord Sails
bury had disclaimed the purpose indicated.
The correspondence closes with a notice
from Mr.. Choate to Mr.. Hay OF Feb. 9. to
the effect that the American goods on the
Mashona had been placed at the disposal
of the American consul general at Cape
Town
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The opposition to the ship-subsidy bill
Is directed against the proposition to
pay a bounty to shipbuilders when 1t is
given out hat American shipbuilders can
make ships at as low cost as any builders
IN the world. The obstacle to the growth
OF an American marine is not now, as
years ago, the greater cost of construc-
ton but the greater cost of sailing Ameri-
can ships. 1t Is now suggested in some
quarters that a premium should be placed
on merchandise carried in American ships.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
What's the News.

o what is the news from Dekel's drift
Or the news from Slingersfontein?
Or Koodoosberg in line?
Is Majesndie or Jacobsdal
Sta held by the Brits or Beers?
Has Potgieter's been captured yet
BY the men of wiles and lures?
Has Butler quite recovered from
That day at Spion kop-
o tell me! Are the British
Or the Dutchmen still on top?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

ance. 1884, 61, SO2; gold reserve, $zzl,oSS,osL-
The Republican members Of the House
on merchant marine and fish
cries held a conference to-day witt a view
of securing cooperation on the shipping
subsidy bill. Their views took form in a
series of amendments OF the following
points: First, outgoing ships shall carry a
certain amount OF export cargo. and sub
sidy shall not be paid TO fast passenger or
other ships unless this export cargo is car
ried; second. American ships, in order to be
eligible to subsidy, shall not be above ff-
teen years old, and. IL foreign built, shall
not be above ten years old; third. reducing
curing thai plans of ships which are to re-
ceive subsidy shall be passed on by the sec
rotary of the navy In order TO establish
rating. There was no agreement on the
foregoing, but those who favor the changes
consider them pending and say they will
be insisted upon.
Governor Merriam. director Of the CEN
sus. to-day appointed Charles F. Martin. of
Denver. secretary of the National Live
Stock Association. as special agent in
charge Of taking a classified census OF
live stock for the eleventh census. Mr..
Martin was sworn in to-day. The head
which embraces all the range country. will
be established in Denver and active work
will be commenced at once. This Will be
the hrst time in the history of the country
that q classified census OF live stock Will
nave been taken. TIL association began
the agitation OF the matter a year ago. and
through the assistance OF Hon. l. G. Pow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

WASHINGTON, Feb. ia large box
filled with roses and other flowers was re-
ceived at the Navy Department to-day
from Mrs. Shillington, of Chicago, with the
request that the flowers be placed on the
graves of the victims of the Maine disaster
at the Arlington Cemetery. To-day is the
second anniversary OF the destruction Of
the Maine in the harbor Of Havana. Mrs.
Slillington's son was a member of the crew
of the Maine and lost his life on that occa-
sion. The flowers were turned over TO Col.
True, the depot quartermaster, and he per-
sonally undertook the work OF placing them
upon the graves of the Maine dead.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, in
Chicago. which was almost destroyed by
fire Wednesday evening. had two pastors
once well known in this city-Rev. Thomas
NJ. Eddy and Rev. j. II. Bayliss. The
fire broke out during a prayer meeting.
and the loss on the church and it's furnish
ings was SIS. 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Americans. Such instructions are issued
to consuls by a'friendiy power as a matter
of international comfy. Maerum seems
to think 1t was an exceptional thing in his
ease and alludes to it as evidence OF "a
secret alliance between America and Great
Britain" This shows his ignorance of in
ternational usages.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
wnrships on CuIebra Island.

ST. THOMAS, ID. w. l.. Feb. 1.-THE
United States armored cruiser New York,
the battleship Texas. the gunboat Machias.
the auxiliary gunboat Vixen and the COL
lier Caesar are off Culebra island, survey
ing and exercising.
Landsnan Rhodes. Of the auxiliary crui-
ser Dixie. who died OF typhus. was buried
here to-day with naval and military
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The Senate committee on foreign rela-
lions has reported favorably a bill giving
the United States jurisdiction, in cases
where the rights of a citizen or subject of
a foreign country nave been violated.
The bill is intended to cover such cases
az the Italian lynchings In louisiana.
where the national government. under ex-
listing law. could not interfere to bring the
offenders to justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

For thy roses naught / cared,
When all others with me shared;
Give me, as alone we stand,
Thistle last one in thy hand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Republican members of Congress who
are in doubt as to their duty regarding
free trade with Puerto Rico may get a
suggestion from President McKinley's
last message. in which he said: ''Our
plain duty Is to abolish all customs tar.
IFS between the United States and Puerto
Rico and give her products free access
TO our markets."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The advocates OF woman suffrage begin
ut the wrong end when they go first to
Congress with their cause. 1t will be easy
work in Congress when a majority of the
women shall be won over to their views,
women do not want to vote no progress
will be made.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
A Vine That Won't Irvine.

what an unhappy expression young
Highly has"
"All his life he has looked forward to the
time when his mother would lean on him
In her declining years; but she has got to
be one of these new women and won't
lean"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the %following places:
NEW RK-As House and Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
CHIcAGo-PaImer House, p. o. News Co, 21i
Dearborn street
cINCINNATIJ. r Hawley & Co.. 14 Vine
street.
LOUIsvILLELC. T. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co, 256 Fourth avenue.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbiti
House and Willard's Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

Few people ave an adequate idea of the
large amount for which regular life insur-
ance policies are written in late years, but
the statement OF State Auditor Hart. in a
recent address, that si0,oOO,000 of new life
Insurance policies are written in Indiana
every year win convey an impression of
the present extent Of a business that many
thought was finished a few years ago.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

NEW AJRK, Feb. B.-Mrs Rachel b.
Crane, of Peekskill. n. Y, has given 49,
900 TO the Home Mission Board OF the
Presbyterian Church, and $4,000 10 Its For
eign Mission Board. The Seamen's Bank
for Savings holds a mortgage on the Pres
byterian building, corner of Twentieth
street and Fifth avenue. and the 100000
will reduce the banks claim by that
amount.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
VICTIM OF FOUL PLAY.
Mrs. Chickering Does Not Think Her
Husband Was Accidentally Killed

WATERFOWL. n. Y. Feb. 1.-THE
Standard prints a lengthy statement signed
by Mrs. Charles a. chickering. vfdow
of Representative chickering. who was
killed In New York on Tuesday by falling
from a fourth-story window OF the Grand
Union Hotel. DIR. H.. H. cramer and j. s.
Mitchell, Mr.. Chickering's private secre-
tary. In which il Is stated they believe Mr..
Chickering was the victim Of foul play
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
Comforts of Life.

Niece-Just think. Aunt Minerva, the
British have been locked up in Ladysmith
ever since last November.
Aunt Minerva-Poor things! 1 hope they
have had plenty to eat and to read.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

However the new campaign begun by
Lord Roberts may turn out 1t is evident
the successful organization Of his plans
ly to the secrecy with which they were
made. It took the British about as long
as 1t did - at the beginning Of the spanish
wal to discover that the way to keep mill
tary secrets Is to keep them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The Hon. Tom L. Johnson and Golden
Rule Jones were about the only men who
have been successful in a large sense in
business affairs attending the antitrust
conference. Both attained their success by
-1.opoffoa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The TrOnhy.

Early to bed and to rise, 1 say.
Saves fuel at night to burn next day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
Man and Millinery.

Jack, what hat did Cousin Louise have
on when you met hcr?"
'Oh. it was as big as a bushel basket.
and looked like a three-story omelet."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

The chances are that most Of the stall
wart young Irishmen who sailed from
New York yesterday for South Africa
to nurse sick and wounded Beers will don
uniforms when they get there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
Enrthauake I'm Perm.

LIMA, Peru, Feb. 15.-At SIS a. II. to-
day a severe earthquake shock. vLich
caused great alarm. was felt in his sec
ton. In the course of the day the River
Rimac flooded It's banks I'm the outskirts or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

BOSTON, Feb. B.-Dr. d. K Pearsons.
of Chicago. has made an offer TO the Con-
gregational Educational Society 10 give
SIS. coo to the general treasury. provided the
society will secure $4,000 additional from
friends of its work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16

II looks as IL the Board Of Public Safety
would succeed in convicting itself and
Mayor Taggart of appointing some very
unit men on the police force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-16
woman Gives $4,000 to the U. of r.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb B--Provost Har-
rison OF the University OF Pennsylvania.
to-day announced that a gift on $50 has
been made 20 the university by Mrs.
Thomas Mexican, Of this city.