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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

Postal Telegraph Company testified that
on the morning OF the assassination he sent
a number OF kilograms to commanders or
two Kentucky regiments. which only said:
all right. and were signed by AdJt.-Gen.
Collier. more conclusive evidence
could be asked of a conspiracy to murder
in which the leading Republican officials OF
Kentucky were implicated? A right
Everything had been arranged. The assas-
sin had his rifle loaded and his place of
concealment arranged. The agreed p-o-
gramme was ready TO be carried out. The
militia was notified TO be ready. There
would be popular indignation and bayonets
would be necessary TO protect the assassins
until their pardons could be issued by Tay-
Tor. "All right" Be ready TO play your
part. The crime will be committed to-day.
This damning evidence of conspiracy has
but one parallel. and that is I'm the cele-
brated case of Bardell against Pickwick
for breach of promise of marriage. In
opening that case Sergeant Buzfuz, after
citing other evidences of the defendants
systematic villainy." said:
And now. gentlemen. but one word more.
Two letters have passed between these
p~arties-letters which are admitted to be
in the handwriting of the defendant. Let
me read the first: "Garraway's, IL O'Clock.
Dear Mrs. B.. Chops and tomato-sauce
~st+D tAA@cA NAAOBos y Co 49," eAh1
tomato-saucei Gentlemen. is the happi-
ness of a sensitive and confiding female
to be trified away by such shallow articles
as these? The next has no date, whatever,
which Is in itself suspicious. Dear Mrs.
B. shall not be home until tomorrow.
Slow coach" And then follows this very
remarkable expression: Don't trouble
yourself about a warming-pan." Why,
gentlemen. who does trouble himself about
n warming-pan? Why is Mrs.
Bardell so earnestly entreated not to
agitate herself about this w~arming-pan. un-
less Ii is. as / assert 1T to be, a mere cover
for hidden fire-a mere substitute for some
endearing word of promise. agreeable to a
p-reconcerted system of correspondence,
artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view
TO his contemplated desertion, and which
l am not in a condition to explain?
If one may compare tragedy with comedy.
the startling evidence of a conspiracy to
murder found in the dispatch, "all right"
is only equaled by the overwhelming proof
of systematic villainy concealed in ''chops
and Omato-sauce."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

ed with shops where this native gin was
sold. and one Of the first things General
Otis did was to suppress them. Adjutant
General Corbin has received a letter from
Chaplain c. c. Pierce. who has been in the
Philippines more than a year, in which he
says:
When 1 first saw Manila the streets
were practically lined with little nipa huts.
perhaps about twelve feet square, in which
the natives were selling. at a merely nomi-
nal price. not only fruit and tobacco, but
also native gin. These gin shacks' should
certainly be included in the number of
drinking places existing at the beginning,
and their number was very large. The.
character of this native drink was so fiery
and villainous that its effect upon such %
our men as used II was deplorable. 1t be-
came my duty to bury two soldiers who
never recovered from the effect of drinking
it, One OF them had been in the service
about eighteen years. and received from
his officers, in personal conversation with
me. a commendation so f1attering with re-
gard to his character for sobriety and sol
dierly honor that il might be coveted by
any man. He had never been a drunkard,
but this native poison was so virulent in
its effect that he became maddened. and
fingered In his delirium a whole week, not
having recovered his reason at the time
of his death. Our authorities set to work
to restrict this traffic by a system which
finally resulted in its prohibition.
The writer says further that while he
does not use liquor nor advocate it's use,
he can testify that the substitution of regi-
mental canteens. in which only beer is sold,
for the Filipino ''gin shacks" resulted in a
very perceptible Improvement among the
troops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The arrest of c. +. w. Nicely. of Muncie,
on the charge of embezzling a large sum
in connection with the postal service in
Cuba. has caused something of a shock
throughout the country. and especially
among his friends in this State. For per-
sonal as well as public reasons Mr.. Nee
US friends will hope that he may be COM
pletely INDICATED from the charge. but this
can only be done by a thorough investi-
CATION OF the matter. There must be no
whitewashing OF any person or covering up
Of facts. The relation OF the United States
government to the government and people
of Cuba is one so peculiarly of trust and
honor that there must be no faint of fraud
or dishonesty In any OF our official trans
actions there. In the present circumstances
official dishonesty in Cuba would be even
worse than in the United States. 1t Is not
pleasant TO learn that Mr.. Neely's printing
establishment In Muncie has been filing
large government contracts for blanks and
stationery used by the postoffices In Cuba.
and in the coming investigation that mat
ter should be looked into as we'll as the
main charge.
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EFFORTS TO pEBRYANrzE BRYAN.

One of the mind readers who has been
sending dispatches from South Bend says
that Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Shively talked
about the silver issue and that the latter
expressed the hope that 1t would not be
made prominent. to which Mr.. Bryan gave
his assent. This is probably the handiwork
of the same fake-maker who sent out the
canard which connected Mr.. Shivcly with
the candidacy for Vice President. 1t Is the
hope of a large portion of the Democratic
managers in this State who shouted 16 to 1
and labeled themselves 16 to ! in 1896 that
the silver issue may be pushed to the rear
of the Democratic platform. Hence these
stories of Mr.. Bryan's assent. Mr.. Bryan
has given no such assent. AT Toledo, last
week. he repeated in the most positive
terms the statement he has made many
times during the past few months. that the
Chicago platform in its fullness is to be
reafirmed, and that the free and indepen-
dent coinage of silver will be a leading
issue until 1t shall be adopted. 1t is a
Democratic doctrine. he declared. and cam
not be ignoredA In one of his recent
speeches Mr.. Bryan maintained that the
fact that the Senate is Republican cannot
affect the issue. because the Senate is not,
he claimed. indefinitely lost. and with his
election the free silver gains in hat body
would be considerable by the elections of
against silver in the present Senate is not
over seven, safe and sure. If Mr.. Bryan
should be elected President it is very GER
tain that enough States which elect sena-
tors next January would go with him to
change the political complexion of that
body.
Just now a desperate effort is being made
to induce Mr.. Bryan to consent to a dec
laration in favor of bimetallism instead of
his 16 to 1. 1t is not now probable that he
will consent. The Baltimore Sun says the
nomination of Mr.. Bryan need not imply
the Endorsement of Organism. That is,
the Kansas City convention can make a
nonsilver platform, the Sun says, nominate
Mr.. Bryan, and then, while making him
the party candidate, distinctly %repudiate
his pet heresy. In the same article, the
! Sun declares that the denomination of Mr..
Mckinley will be a distinct Endorsement
of McKinleyism, while the denomination OF
Mr.. Bryan can be so made as to %repudiate
Organism. The Baltimore paper. which
has never been guilty of righteousness,
puts the reputation of Organism by the
| nomination of Mr.. Bryan as a solemn
| proposition. Cattle can be d%ehorned; but
it does not seem possible to debryanize
| Mr.. Bryan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
NAVAL BILL CONSIDERED.
House Proposition Concerning Naval
Cadets Stricken Out.

WASHINGTON, May S.-The Senate to-
day concluded consideration OF the naval
appropriation bill with the exception OF
that section relating to armor and arma-
ment. This went over until Tomorrow,
when 1t Will be considered in secret legisIa-
tive session. The debate on the naval bill
was practically confined to the paragraph
relating TO the commissioning of naval
cadets. The committee amendment strik-
ing out the proposition in the House bill
which sought to commission the cadets at
the expiration of the four years terri az
the Naval Academy. abolishing the pre-
liminary two years at sea. was carried after
a warm debate. The vote follows:
Yeas-Aliison. Bard. Bate. Berry. Bur-
rows, Chandler. Cockrell, Davis. Depew.
Frye. GalIinger, Hale, Hanna, Hansbrough.
Nevada. Kean. Lodge. Mcbride. McCum-
Der. McEnery, Martin. Nelson, Penrose.
Perkins. Platt of Connecticut. Pritchard,
Rawlins. Ross, Seweil. Shoup, Simon.
Spooner. Teller. Thurston. Tillman. Vest.
WeIlington-40
N~ays-Cafery. Clay, Deboe, Fairbanks,
Foraker. Kenney, Kyle. Money. Morgan,
Pettus. Stewart, Turley-I2.
When the Senate met to-day a bin. re-
ported b. Mr.. Allison from the finance COM
mittee TO reimburse certain revenue collec-
tors for internal revenue stamps charged
against them, but not accounted for. aggre-
eating In amount $s.573. was passed Among
the districts and amounts are the follow
ing: Terre Haute. Ind, $es6; Burlington.
Ia. 1000; st. Paul. MINI. $3.50: Chillicothe.
o., s1.O4S: Cleveland. O.. $3.50: Pittsburg. Ia.
500; Birmingham, Ala, 800.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

All the strikes are either for more pay or
less hours, and that means that they are
the best possible evidence OF prosperity.
-Terre Haute Tribune.
Five hundred dollars of the stock of the
Farmers Bank of this city sold for 5000
Wednesday-20 per cent. premium. Another
prosperity item.-Rockport Journal
There will be no mansion for General
Otis, but those who know anything of the
work he has done must admit that he has
earned distinction by the hardest kin Of
work.-Marion News.
With a view to having both candidates for
Governor from Anderson. a movement has
been ~inaugurated there TO make Capt. w.
r. Myers the Democratic candidate for
Governor.-South Bend Times.
Tom watson-he was one of Bryan's kite
tails four years ago-announces that he
is politically dead and calls upo all peo-
ME to recognize that fact. He must think
Americans don't know q political corpse
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The strike Of street-railroad employees at
St. Louis developed very suddenly and
reached the violent stage almost immedi-
ately. The large number of men on strike
shadow serious trouble. The demands of
the men are unreasonable and dictatorial,
amounting almost to the exclusion of the
company from the management of it's prop
erty. The tendency OF such demands and
the strikes based upon them is to intimi-
date capital. unsettle confidence and hurt
business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
Method Of Bal1otinE Changed-Laymen
Barred from Annual Conference.

CHICAGO. May S.-The chief matter ~
Importance before the General Conference
to-day was the report of the commission
on the organic law of the church. This
commission was appointed by the General
Conference in 1896 and was made up of two
bishops, six ministers and three laymen.
among whom were the leading constitu-
tional authorities in the church. 1t has had
several protracted sessions, in which. ac-
cording to it's secretary. the Rev. c.. w.
Smith. Of Pittsburg. every question bearing
on the subject was submitted to the most
careful scrutiny.
The real work Of the commission was to
decide on what is the organic law of the
church-or, in other words, what is the con-
stitution. 1t seems strange that a great
church could have permitted almost a GEN.
fury to pass without deciding so vital a
question. But it should be
that the Methodist Episcopal Church was
organized under the direct authority of
John Wesley, who gave it its doctrines and
rules. To these nave been added from time
TO time such legislation as seemed to be
needed to interpret and carry out their
spirit. The constitution has therefore been
a growing one whose limits have never
been clearly define The movement for
determining precisely what these limits are
began in 1855.
The report names as the organic law
of the church the articles of religion. the
general rules as they appeared I'm the Dis
cipline in 1905 and ali that legislation which
appears under the head of THE General
Conference" II is the opinion of Bishop
Merrill, the eldest constitutional authority
In the church, that this report Is the most
important matter which will come before
the General Conference at this session.
Only the first paragraphs Of the report
were considered by the conference to-day.
One Of these served to show the sentiment
relative TO lay representation In the annual
conference. 1t Is clear that this will be re-
sisted by the ministry.
The report OF the special committee. con-
hrming the action OF the General Confer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

Joseph Flory. prospective Republican
nominee for Governor in Missouri, is a ma
tive of this State, having been born In
Cass county. He began active life as brake
man on a freight train, and served in that
capacity in this State till 1882. when he
went to Missouri, where. in 1894. he was
elected railroad and warehouse commits
sioner for the State. He is one Of two Re-
publicans elected to a state Office in Mis-
souri, in twenty-five years and is exceed
ingly popular. Mr.. Flory married his pres
ent wife in Lafayette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
FOOtnOtes.

When a man goes into politics 1t seems to give
his past life insomnia.
The easiest way to achieve happiness Is to re-
nounce all designs on it,
AS a rule, the abused mother-in-law can
make better strawberry short cake than her
daughter.
Maternal affection is often part humbug;
there are mothers who won't let their small
boys have a kitten.
III IL were not for house cleaning In April and
May the whole world would go deranged trying
to write spring poetry.
For the first few weeks the average woman
waters her garden like mad: after that she for
gets to water 1t at all.
As soon as a married man gets a comfortable
home built he begins to worry his wife by talk
ing about selling II.
Labor is noble; but of two ancestors people
generally brag most on the one who enjoyed life
on money he did not have to earn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The action of the House in increasing
the appropriation for arming and equipping
the militia from 100000 to 100000 will be
gratifying to all who believe in maintain
ing an effective militia, and especially to
the officers of the National Guard. With
this Increased appropriation the militia of
all the States can be equipped with modern
rifles instead of the old ~Springfields now
In use. and with other modern equipments.
1t is thought the appropriation may be
still further increased by the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The Merchants Association of New York
will this year extend its plan of buyers
excursions to that city for the fall trade.
so as to include Cuba and Porto Rico mer-
chants in the invitations, which will be
sent out in Spanish. AS the invitation in
cludes half-fare rates quite a number of
merchants are expected from both islands.
Thus trade follows the flag. and m
will become an important factor in Amer
fcanizing our new possessions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

Mr.. James McAllister, of this city. de-
serves the thanks Of all good citizens for
his determined efforts to bring to justice
marriage of his daughter at Jeffersonville.
AS far as that phase of the case is con-
cerned. Mr.. McAllister has no more interest
than any other citizen in bringing the law
breakers TO justice. and in his efforts to
MORT
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
A. M. e.
Color Line Brought tn Attention Of
Delegates, but No Action Taken.

COLUMBUS, o., May S.-The quadrennial
General A. NJ. E. Conference got down to
were conducted by Rev. r. +. Hurley. of
Detroit, after which Bishop Turner made
an announcement of historical Importance,
showing the church TO nave been founded
Sept. Is, 1876, instead of 1Sl6. as commonly
supposed.
The color line was brought up by reports
of discrimination I'm local restaurants and
barber shops and an effort was made TO
adopt resolutions. but the matter was
finally smoothed over without action being
taken. An attempt to take up the revision
of the Discipline was unsuccessful, owing
to the fact that no had been ap-
pointed on the subject. Committees on
episcopacy, finance and boundaries were
appointed, appointment of the latter being
taken out of the hands OF the bishops.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

One of the inspiring sights at the middle
of-the-road Populist convention at Cincin-
natl is that of the husband of a woman
editor. nursing and amusing the baby
while the mother works vigorously for the
establishment of a oman' rights plank
in the platform. Large artillery and d.
minutive minnows! What rights does a
woman want, when she has a husband
that permits her to edit a paper and then
attend a national convention as nursemaid
while his better two-thirds Hobbies the
menf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
The Way Things Do.

We've got five pounds of moth balls in the
house"
How did that happenT
''Oh. everybody forgot to get any; ana then
We all got them at once"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The anxiety OF our Prohibition friends TO
protect the inhabitants OF our new pos
sessions from debasement by American
intoxicants seems to assume that they have
none OF their own. AS a matter of fact
there Is no nation or people hat has not.
and the Fllipinos are no exception. They
have a native gin which is SAID. to be worse
I'm It's effects than any American distilled
liquor. and. Of course. vastly worse than
ufIdsr beverages Ike beer. When our
fcek possessien Of Manila II abound
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The temperance of Aguinaldo in the
flesh and with some followers will give new
life and zest TO military operations in the
Philippines. Our forces will soon have him
question of time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
Two of the Same.

do you believe that man is 1882
Nav; men who have an ambition to be con
sidered old are as unreliable as women VIII
want to be thought young"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

COLUMBUS. o.. May S-Six men blew
open the safe OF the Farmers Bank. at
Sunbury, twenty miles north OF here al
3 a. M. and in doing so blew out the entire
rear wall Of the building. The safe as well
as the building was wrecked. but the poiss
OF the explosion aroused the people and
the robbers fed empty-handed, They had
three horses and carriages 70 enable them
TO escape A posse Is In pursuit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

One New York paper vociferously asserts
the genuineness of the inscription of Ephe-
sus detailing the alleged Christ-Abgarus
correspondence, and another announces the
foundation in fact of the Homeri legend Of
Theseus and the Minotaur. This struggle
after live news is what imparts such a glad
strenuousness to life in New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The willingness of the Democratic press
to liam the u~nspeakable Turk for that
100000 missionary bill has been diverted.
and they now are Tanning" Populists who
refuse to fuse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House and Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
CHICAGO-Palmer House. p. o. News Co.. 27
Dearborn street.
CINCINNATI. r. Hawiey & Co., If Vine
street.
LOU1SvTLLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., Z6 Fourth avenue.
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WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggc House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

San Francisco Chronicle.
So long as a Democrat Is sure 10 be
elected a United States senator from Ala
bama, we are glad to note that John T..
Morgan will probably be the nan. He Is
one of the few men I'm recent times who
could be a statesman and a Democrat at
the same time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
The Indiana Idea.
a Gazette.

Now that rural mail delivery has proved
a success IL is proposed to name the coun-
try roads. The farmers in Indiana have
already expressed their willingness to name
their farms and post the names I'm conspicu-
Gus places at the roadside near their homes.
The plan is a good one and should be
adorfed everywhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

If Mr.. Shively should receive the vice
presidential nomination his November ex-
periences will be in the nature of a vicari-
Gus atonement for Mayor Taggart's guber-
material aspirations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

A pessimist will not undertake
A beauteous garden bed to make.
Because ahead his fancy speeds
And worries DER the tug with weeds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
A snub from the Kitchen.

s'well. another cook gone"
What was the trouble?"
.'she said she would degenerate II she stayed
with people who entertain as seldom as we do
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

In view of the rugnors of wrong-doing in
Cuba 1T is appropriate to recall General
Grants remark: Let no guilty man es-
cane"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09
Home Occupation.

do you sympathize with the British or with
the Boers?'
I'm sympathizing with Kentucky Repub-
licans Just now.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The Governor of Illinois is showing a dis
position to exercise his name on the senior
senator from that State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-09

The news from Naples indicates that
vesuvius could no longer brook the rivalry
of Webster Davis.
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.

Checkers-and "Bobs'' has moved.
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Great Fronci, Disasters.

Twenty-Five thousand French prison CTS were taken by the German troops at the battle of Sedan, in the Franco German war. on the 3fst of August, 1870, while on the following day, as the result of the German victory, other 83,- 600 French soldiers surrendered, to- gether with TO mitrailleuses, 400 field pieces and 150 fortress guns. About 14,900 French wounded were found 1y- ing on the battlefield ,and about 5000 escaped into Belgium and laid down their arms. On the 27th of October, in the same year, Marshal Bazaine, after fighting and suffering several defeat IS ia the neighborhood of Metz, surren. dered with his army, including Mar. shals Canrobert and Le Boeuf, 66 gem erals. about 5000 officers, and 173,000 men, including the Imperial Guard, 400 pieces of artillery. 100 mitrailleBses
 ind 5 eaeIes or standards.