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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
GEN. MALBAR DEFIANT.
He Refuses Major Parker's Courteous
Request to Surrender.

He Refuses Major Parker's Courteous
Request to Surrender.
NEW YORK, May A.-The Evening Post
prints the text of letters between Major
j. II. Parker, of the Thirty-ninth Infan-
try, U. s. A. and Gen. Miguel Malbar, Of
the Filipino revolutionary army. The corre-
spondence was cabled to Montreal. Major
Parker wrote to Gen. Malbar. asking him
and his men to surrender and promising
them good treatment. Gen. Malbar sent
the following reply on May IL:
"Sir-I acknowledge receipt of your graf
flying letter, and thank you heartily for
what you express therein. In reply to the
same have the pleasure 10 signify 10 the
good and punctilious Major Parker and to
his government that Malbar is fully aware
of the majors valor, of his strength, OF
the discipline and power of his army and
of the utter scarcity of our own. But, as
Malbar is no more than an atom, mere
subordinate of his government and of Gen.
erals Aguinaldo and Torias. and no more
than a poor soldier who has to obey the
order of his country, although he is aware
that all the desire of America towards the
Philippines is good and for their prosper
ity, he cannot do more than what his coun-
try commands and imposes on him.
81 and all the forces under my command
are witnesses before the whole world of the
valor of the American blood, of the honor
and discipline of their army, of the superb
ority of their artillery and of the humanity
and chivalry of her Nation. But the same
facts cause us to hope greatly that when
the American people, and that when the de-
scendants of Washington, deceived by GER
tain Filipinos who misinformed them that
the people like annexation, be acquainted
with the fact that for every soldier they
lose on the battlefield the Filipinos lose
one hundred, their very power and great
ness will compel them to give us the indie
pendence which has been announced since
the first coming of the powerful fleet of the
United States for the honor and glory OF
the American people. / must also signify
to you that till the moment when our
scarce bullets shall meet for the last time
the Overwhelming numbers of those of your
powerful army our shots demand not the
death of any American, but the freedom of
a people who for three hundred years have
dragged the chain of slavery. They fought
side by side with the Americans during the
late Spanish-American war because since
then, until the present moment, none of
the Filipinos ignore the fact that our
future and independence depend upon the
great American nation.
with regard to my houses and other
properties which you say In your letter are
I'm your hands by your superior force 1 will
say that you may dispose of them privately
and friendly / beg of you, for the general
knowledge of the civilized world, to COM
municate this answer to your government
at Washington, and to signify at the same
time that the American prisoners who are
i'm my power are treated as best can. /
only expect a resolution of my superiors in
order to return them.
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HARvEYIZED STEEL.


NEW YORK, May H-A special to the
World from Washington says: Senator
Chandler was asked for further explana-
ton of his charges in the Senate that the
Harvey armor patent is a fraud and that
Krupp armor is without superior merit.
He gave the story of the Harvey patent
as follows: Mr.. Harvey nine years ago
offered some especially hardened tool steel
to Captain Folger, then an ordnance officer
of the navy, who suggested that he ex-
pertinent in applying the hardening process
TO armor All that Mr.. Harvey did at his
own expense was to get little plate three
feet square and four inches thick, and he
brought Ii i'm contact with charcoal fire
Commander Folger, who thereupon. at the
expense of the Navy Department, went
on with the experiment. He ordered from
the Creusot works plate six feet by eight
feet by ten and a half inches. and down
here at the navy yard he went on and
supercarburized the plate. Mr. Harvey be-
ing present and giving directions. Then
Mr. Harvey applied for patent. This
was in April. 1891 The claim was dis
allowed. II after that repeatedly dis
allowed. Eugene A. Byrnes. the examiner.
on June IL, 1891, and on June 20. 1892. Sec
rotary Tracy wrote a letter to the Patent
Office asking TO have the Harvey patent
expedited. That expedition took place and
at last the two examiners-in-chief,R r. J.. B.
Clarke and S. w. Stocking, on appeal from
the primary examiner. allowed the patent
which was issued Sept. %. 1891. So the
monopoly had been created Any one can
judge whether IL was created by Mr. Har-
vey or by Commander Folger. Among the
reasons given by the Patent Office for re-
jecting the patent was the assertion that
there is no invention adding 10 the car
buried process disclosed by Harvey and
Mcdonald. the well-known step of harden
ing by chilling employed by Sperry and
Howell
Taking up the subject of Krupp armor
Mr.. Chandler said that when Congress
fixed the maximum price for armor at
$500 the combined companies of the world
found IL necessary TO resort to some new
method of making the plate in order to
avoid coming down In the price of their
products The companies then invented
this new Krupp armor,' added the senator
which Is nothing In the world but an
aryncr into the face Of which carbon u
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the frightened muscles would leave the i'm
preston upon the cold steel. Others
crowded together and looked dumbly from
face to face, like cattle foregathered to the
shambles.
1.-The blow had stunned them. To them
Cronte was something more than a man;
he was an ideal: what the great Corsican
was to the French soldiery after the battle
of Austerlitz, so Cronje was to these rude
farmers. He was their brain center, their
rallying point. Had Paul Kruger betrayed
them to their foes for the sake of British
gold they would not have felt the shock
as they felt this one mans surrender If
Cronje had loved his country half well
as his country loved him, he would have
marched right on the point of British
bayonet on that morning so disastrous to
the Boer arms, and have yielded up his
life in order that the memory of his name
might have remained a watchword on
the lips and in the hearts of his gallant
yeoman soldiery. When the crash came,
when the Beers knew for certainty that
Cronje had yielded, they felt that their idol
was shattered He had been to them as a
god fashioned out of marble; they found
him at last to be only a man made out of
mud, and when he fell the Cape Dutch
cause and the Orange Free State fell with
him. When he laid down his arms he
launched a thunderbolt into the Boer camp
which wrecked il forever"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS
HE EXPLAINS THE AUSTRALIAN
COMMONWEALTH MEASURE.
objection to Clause "A Because Ii
Abolishes the Imperial Veto
Peerages for Councillors.

LONDON May 1.-THE secretary of state
for the colonies. Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
arose in a well-filled House to-day to intro
duce the Australian commonwealth bill.
which he described as a great and impor-
tant step toward the organization of the
British empire. Continuing, Mr.. Chamber
lain said it would make Australia an in
dissoluble federal commonwealth, united
for the most important functions of gov
eminent, with intercolonial free trade,
common tariff for all the colonies and
common control of the national defense.
Such a commonwealth, the secretary de-
clared, was as much to Great Britains in
terest as to Australians. What was good for
Australia was clearly good for the whole
empire. The empire rejoiced at this great
free progressive movement, which was a
monument to legislative competency and
worthy of all the great labor that had been
expended upon 1T.
After explaining the difference between
the Australian proposals and the Canadian
Constitution, Mr.. Chamberlain pointed out
that as foreign countries were concerned
in the new Constitution 1t was important
that measures that might involve the i'm
sponsibilities should be interpreted by a
tribunal in which all the parties had full
confidence, and the government could not
consent to Clause "a. relating to the APP
peal Court, because 1t meant the abolition
of the imperial veto, would be pretudicial
to the unity of the empire and might lead
to a conflict Of authority between the pro-
posed high court and the Privy Council
There was by no means, he pointed out,
unanimity on the subject in Australia, and
the government would ask the House 10
amend the bill SO as to retain the power
of the countries to appeal The govern
ment, he added. proposed to introduce in
the House of Lords forthwith scheme TO
appoint for seven years representative
each Of Canada, South Africa, Australia
and India to be members of the Privy
Council. and who would act as lords of APP
peal Life peerages would be conferred
on them so that they would continue TO
sit In the House of Lords. although they
would not act as judges after their term
of service had expired They would be
paid the same as lords of appeal and at
the cost of the imperial government.
During the course of his speech Mr..
Chamberlain said the new Constitution,
although in important respects unlike any
now existing. more closely resembled the
Constitution of the United States than any
other. State rights throughout Were jeal-
ously preserved. In Australia the Senate
would be elected by the same electorate as
the Legislature, and the members of both
bodies would receive the same salary.
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SUIT AGAINST SUGAR TRUST.
Stakeholder Says 1t Is Squandering
Surplus I'm Restraining Trade.

s TRENTON, N. j.. May 1.-THE papers in
the suit of Robert j. Trimble against the
American Sugar Refining Company were
filed in the Court of Chancery to-day
Trfmble. who is a stakeholder charges
that the company has more than a million
dollars of surplus and this Surplus is now
being used TO depress the price of sugar
and to force Arbuckle Brothers. independ-
ent refiners, into a combination with the
American Sugar Refining Company, TO IL
legally restrain trade.
The bill prays for an injunction and asks
that the American Sugar Refining Com
pany be compelled to exhibit it's books and
show what surplus II has and what Is be-
Ing done with IT,
y subpoena will he issued and the Amerf-
can Sugar Refining Company has thirty
days I'm which 10 file It's answer.
In the absence to-day of President III O.
Havemeyer. the other officials of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company were not in
clined 10 discuss the merits OF the demand
for an accounting made to-day by Robert
j. Trimble, stockholder. before the New
Jersey Court OF Chanccry. The substance Of
Mr.. Trimble's complaint is that the officers
Of the American Sugar Refining Company
are dissipating its large surplus In main
tanning their fight against the Arbuckles
and other Independent sugar reflners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
BoERs wErT WHEN cRoNJE FELL.
Scenes at Burghersdorp When the
News Reached the LANCER.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
LONDON, May 5--The Daily News COR
respondent. A. G. Hales, who was taken
prisoner by the Beers and returned nv
them 10 General Gatacre, sends his paper
an account of how the Beers received the
news OF cronjes surrender. He was at
Burghersdorp when the news came through.
He writes: When the news came. the
folks would not believe IT, They would
Just as soon have believed that the sun
could fall from the heavens and leave the
earth I'm darkness as that Cronje. the iron
willed. tiger-hearted Cronje could throw
down his arms. Had the news come that
he had made mad rush at our guns and
persisted with all his men around him. they
night have believed it--believec IL and
wept. and even as they wept. they would
have sworn TO avenge him. But they would
not. they could not. and they did not. be-
heye that he. the man I'm whom they had
placed their faith, had surrendered with
thousands OF his men,
But at last the truth became known:
some who had escaped from Cronie's
lager brought In the fateful news. and
then the stolid-looking fighting men broke
down. They wept like boys Great rugged
bearded men dashed their rifles on the
ground and spurned them with their boots
whilst down their sun and wiud-tanned
faces the tears poured readily. Others took
the news sadly, with chins dropping on
their chests, with hard set faces, white
with passionate pain too deep for words;
they stood leaning upon their rifles with
hands hard gripped until one could think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
Cable Notes.

Russia has shipped 100000 coolies from
China TO Manchuria 10 construct the rail-
way 10 Port Arthur.
The German government will ask the
Reichstag to Increase the postal appropri-
alton by 100000 marks. with a view OF en-
larging Geographic facilities with England
So far there have been twenty cases OF
the bubonic plague at Port Said OF this
number thirteen patients have died. four
treatment.
AS an experiment a volunteer corps be-
longing to the national German bicyclists
carried dispatches from Strasburg 10 Ber-
lin. The distance. which is $50 kilometers,
was covered in twenty-three hours
While the police were searching at VIA
gapatam, capital OF the district OF The same
name, in the presidency of Madras. India.
for the murderers of two constables. they
were attacked by mob. They fired upon
the asssilants. killing eleven and wounding
sixteen others.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15

CAMBRIDGE. England. May 1.-THE
Duke of Devonshire as chancellor OF the
University of Cambridge conferred the de-
gree of Doctor OF Laws on the King OF
Sweden and Norway to-day amid much en-
thusiasm. The public orator lauded the
King as a musician, poet. orator and his
torian who had recently made public the
avowai of his conviction OF the justice OF
Great Britain's cause in South Africa King
Oscar showed great appreciation OF his re-
ception and continually bowed his acknowi-
edgments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
Famine and ChoIern.

Lord Curzon of Kedleston, has telegraphed
to the secretary Of state for India, Lord
George Hamilton. saying: THE decline in
the number Of persons demanding relief in
Bombay and elsewhere is probably due to
the outbreak OF cholera. which has broken
up many OF the relief camps and has enor-
mousiy Increased our famine officers diff
culties. Otherwise the situation is I'M
altered"
BOMBAY. May 14-Louis Klopsch, of
New York, publisher OF the Christian Her
aid. has arrived here and is starting on
committee three laos Of rupees, about
s145.5oo. for distribution among the famine
sufferers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15

WASHINGTON. May 14-An opinion was
rendered to-day in the Supreme Court in
the case of the County Commissioners of
Muskingum County, Ohio. VS.. the United
States The case involved the right to
construct an obstructive bridge over a
navigable stream. and has attracted some
attention. the penalty being both fine and
Imprisonment. In this case the commits
sioners built a bridge over the Muskingum
river, and when the canal, alongside the
stream was raised by the United States.
the bridge became an obstruction. The
opinion was handed down by Justice Har-
Ian and he held that as the commission
ers had no money with which to remodel
the bridge and no power 10 raise the
money they could not be held liable under
the law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
TROUBLE IN AFRICA.
Germans Have Seized Part Of the Con-
40 Free State Territory.

LONDON, May 14-Lionel Decle. who is
conducting a cape-to-Cairo expedition.
fitted out by the London Telegraph. sends
by wire and steamer from Uvila. north of
Lake Tanganyika, the following: 1.-THE
situation here is critical. The Germans
have forcibly seized all the Congo Free
State territory UP to Rusizi river, occu-
pying 5000 square miles of Congo territory
with 1000 soldiers. fifteen officers and can
non. The Belgian officer withdrew from
his station, under threat of instant at
tack The Germans burned the station.
Their officers acted on instructions from
Berlin"
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BROWNSVILLE, Fla. May 14-Near
Weeks turpentine camp. in this county.
to-day, were found the decomposed bodies
of two negroes tied together. They are the
bodies of the men who were arrested at
the camp on May charged with killing
John Clemands. a white man, from am
bush. The negroes were placed in charge
of deputies to be brought to the Jail at this
place. but instead were taken into the
scrub and shot TO death
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Omcer Dismissed.

WASHINGTON, May 4--A cablegram
was received at the War Department this
morning from General Macarthur, dated at
Manila yesterday. stating that Robert b.
Cramer First Lieutenant of the Thirty
fourth Regiment, u. s. V. Infantry, had
been sentenced to dismissal from the mill
tary service by a court-martial and that he
(Gen. McArthur) had approved that sem
tence April 8, to take effect April 80. Cen
eral Macarthur did not state the reasons
for the court-martial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15

ROME. May H-Mount Vesuvius is again
in state OF eruption, and spectators are
forbidden TO approach within a certain dis
lance. Signor Matteucci. professor of geol-
ogy in the University OF Naples who is
devoting himself to a study of volcanic
action had a narrow escape. He had re-
ceived a special permit 10 approach the
crater and was bruised and burned by a
shower of incandescent stones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
FILIPINO lNCENDIARIES
ONE KILLED AND ANOTHER WOUND
ED BY GUARDS AT MANILA.
Attempt to Burn Hay Stored ON the
River Front-A Rebel General
Who Declines to Surrender.

MANILA, May 14.-Seven Filipinos made
an attempt to-day to burn a quantity Of
hay stored near the quartermaster's store
house on the river front. The guards killed
one of them and wounded another. The
others escaped
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LAW IS VALID.
.oNc1JyDED FROM FIRST PAGE)

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
the amount of the legacy received and not
the volume of the estate out of which it
is paid. A legacy of $4,000 or under Is ex-
empt no matter what the size of the
tate out of which 1t is paid. A legacy over
10000 in value pays a rate determined by
the amount of the legacy and the kinship
of the legatee''
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15

WASHINGTON. May H.--In the case of
George II. Earle. receiver of the Chest
nut-street National Bank. OF Philadelphia.
VS.. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
the Supreme Court reversed the decision
of the Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania
The opinion was to the effect that the
failure Of bank does not deprive cred
itor OF his lien on bank, but that he mus
apply to the controller for relief.
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Emperor william Play. mt War.

BERLIN, May H.-Emperor William ar
ranged picturesque attack upon the two
new forts at Metz. leading himself and
leaving 10 the Bavarian General Won Lich-
tenstein the defense. Count Won Haesler
was deputed to criticise the whole engage
ment All the artillery and cavalry, with
two battalions Of each infantry regiment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15

BERLIN. May 4.-Political circles ia
Germany are much displeased at the re-
ply OF Emperor Francis Joseph to the adj
dresses of Herr Jaworski and Herr Szilia-
CYL, presidents of the Austrian and Hun
garian delegations. respectively. The pas
sage in which the Austro-H Hungarian ruler
declared a steady entente with Russia on
the subjects of Oriental questions neces-
sary and that in which he referred to such
an entente as a good complement to the
alliance with Germany.
are particularly criticised. Emperor Will
liam and the German Foreign Office had
not expected such an emphatic bid for
Russian favor so soon after the return OF
Emperor Joseph from Berlin.
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composing the garrison, were under the
Kaiser. During the fight two battalions OF
engineers threw a bridge across the Mo-
zelle. His Majesty has invited all the de-
scendants of Carl Ernst Won Weber. the
composer, to attend the magnificent gala
performance OF the opera "Oberon, In
which drawings from the Sultan. showing
the interior of the harem, will be utilized
in making up the scenery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-15
Received by the Princess of wales.

LONDON, May 1.-THE Princess OF
Wales to-day held a drawing room at
Buckingham Palace I'm behalf of the Queen.
There was a large attendance. The Ameri-
cans presented were Mrs. Wheaton, wife OF
General Frank Wheaton: Mrs. Wheaton.
Mrs. Frank Newell and Miss Newell, OF
Massachusetts.
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driven two or three times as far as II is
into the face OF Harvey armor The
about. The so-called secret is no secret
at ALL"
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of blacklisting and provides methods OF
obtaining Information concerning the same
Corporations are directed to keep record
of employees and every employe is emitted
to see his record The bill prohibits black
listing of employees and officers OF corpor-
alton convicted of blacklisting any person
are to be punished by imprisonment not less
than two nor more than ten years.
The President to-day committed the SEN
tence of Joseph wilkins convicted at Phil
adelphia for frauds against the oleomargar-
inc law. The sentence. which would have
expired on May %, is commuted to expire
to-day. 1t is stated that Wilkins served
seventeen days in Jail while awaiting trial,
which, by the Presidents action, is made
a part Of his term of service.
The President to-day sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Army, promo
ton (regulars). Captain William W. Nc
Cammen, Fourth Infantry. to be major;
promotion (volunteers), First Lieutenant p.
w. Dawson. Twenty-second Infantry, TO be
assistant quartermaster. with rank Of cap
tain.
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PhySiCian'S Outfits.
Emergency Satchels, Medicine Cases, In
strument Sets, Operating Gowns and Cush-
ions. Physicians Pocket Knives, with
Spatula. and all other suitable articles.
Bath Cabinets.
VIM. III. ARMSTRONG a. CO.,
- Surgical Instrument Makers
ga and 22s S. Meridian street. Indianapolis Ind.
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MUST WAIT ANOTHER WEEK.

No Opinion Handed Down In the Ken
lucky Governorship Case.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE Supreme
Court to-day adjourned for a week with
out announcing decision of the Kentucky
governorship case.