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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-19
OBITUARY.
Henry Walter webb, Long Connected
with the New York Central Road.

NEW YORK, June 1S.-Henry Walter
Webb died to-day at his residence at Scar
borough-on-the-Hudson aged forty-seven
years. He was a son of the late General
James Watson Webb and brother of DR.. w.
Seward Webb, and was a director In the
Wagner Palace Car Company, the Buffalo
Erie Basin Railroad Company. the National
City Bank and the Oswego e. Rome Rail-
road Company and trustee of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. Webb was i'll less than half an hour.
he had been perilously i'll many times dur
ing the last few months. For long time
Mr.. Webb had been suffering from tuber-
culosis, but recently he had been improving
and gaining in strength and flesh. and his
condition was most hopeful. This morning
he arose feeling we'll He dressed and had
breakfast. and then spent a good portion
of the morning walking about the grounds.
At 12:15 he entered the library from the
grounds. and complained of feeling faint.
A physician was summoned, and reached
the house within few minutes At that
time Mr.. Webb was still conscious, but the
end was plainly in sight. Twenty minutes
after the doctor arrived the patient was
dead. He was conscious most of the time.
As assistant to President Depew, of the
New York Central. in 1891, Mr.. Webb de-
feated the great strike of the knights of
Labor. He planned and l,uilt the Adiron-
dacks & ST. Lawrence road, giving the Gen.
trail route of its own to Montreal. and
managed the deal for the acquisition of
the Rome WATERFOWL & Cgdensburg road.
Owing to ill health he was compelled to
retire from business in 1897. Since thec he
had been an invalid
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AN OLD WOMAN'S ANTICS.


Last night an old woman. clad in a low
necked, loose-fitting blue calico dress.
adorned with a coarse checked Bingham
apron and wearing a sunbonnet of the pio-
neer style, came into the Union Station
and was soon the center OF attraction for a
large crowd. She walked down the main
corridor with the heavy stride of a man.
and on entering the northeast waiting
room emitted a Rough Rider yell that sent
the other occupants scurrying hither and
thither for their baggage and looking for
places of safety. She carried two small
market baskets IN her hands, and these
she frantically waved in emphasis OF
her loud declamations. Train-caller Gil
bert tried TO quiet her, but 10 no purpose,
and Patrolman Schaefer was called.
The gazed at the helmet of the policeman
with indifference and yelled I'm defiance at
his most earnest entreaties. Her bonnet
had now fallen on her back, letting her
frazzled gray locks wander at random and
leaving her toothless mouth more clearly
revealed. She Dragged that she was sew
enty years old and her wrinkled face was
enough 10 bear out The statement. The
patrol wagon was finally called and she
was taken 10 the police station. where she
gave her name Button" Crane, but
refused to tell where she came from. Be-
fore entering the wagon she insisted on
giving a few ''choice steps," and this she
did with the agility OF a youthful ragtime
dancer.
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DETROIT. Mich. June 1s.-Daniel j.
Campau. Michigan member of the Demo-
cratic national committee, who returned
to-day from Kansas City. where he has
been in conference with the other members
of the subcommittee on arrangements. said
neon: 1.-THE Kansas City convention will
declare for bimetallism with the silver
coinage ratio to be fixed al 10 to l. and we
shall oppose the issuing OF paper money by
banks.
I'VE shall point out policy for handling
The Philippine islands which will be op-
posed to the present policy of the Repub-
lIcans. We shall strongly declare for the
establishment OF an independent govern
there the right TO govern themselves and
rave the government OF tho United States
say 10 all other nations Keep your hands
OF these islands and this people
AS to the vice presidency. Democratic
sentiment does not seem TO have crystal
iized on any particular candidate ss yet In
the West i heard the name OF Ex-Governor
rhively very prominently mentioned. and
Representative Lentz. OF Ohio. is also be-
iax favorabiy talked Of particularly on
sceovnt OF his popularity with the Ger
mans. No. the name OF Rear Admiral
echicy Is not seriously considered in this
connection us FAR as can learn"
Asked re TO whether he might be made
csuiirtn7n of The national Democratic COM
nsittce- Mr. Campau said: IF Senator
JoneS's health VIII permit land he Is look
irg well now nc will manage the coming
campaign for the Democrats He has
heart trouble
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APPLETONS' REORGANIZATION.
plan on which the Company Is to
Take Over It's Business.

NEW YORK. June 1s.-The reorganiza-
ton committee of d. Appleton g. Co. to-
day announced it's plan for the reorganiza-
ton and continuation of that firms bust
ness. The assets comprise the business Of
d. Appleton & Co., the lands and printing
establishment of the Appleton Manufacture
ing Company IS per cent. of the capital
stock Of the A. ]. johnson Company town.
ing the Johnson Universal Encyclopedia
The combined value of the assets Is 49,
,7S7 and of the liabilities N,3s5.696.
The plan of reorganization provides for
the unifying of the title and ownership of
the three business establishments into the
corporation of d. Appleton & Co.
The capitalization Of the new company
more than one-half of these notes to be
delivered to creditors, in addition to rs per
cent. cash. $3.50 900 in syndicate notes rum
ming for a short period and sold TO the un-
derwritIng syndicate for the cash purposes
of the plan; 100000 capital stock. of which
$1,000 will be delivered TO present stock
holders of d. Appleton & Co. on full pay
menr of the new obligations, in the mean
time to be held In trust by trustees.
General creditors paid rs per cent.
in cash and 20 per cent. in the per
cent. negotiable mortgage notes. The pre-
ferred obligations, such as wages, taxes.
interest on mortgage, royalties, etc,
amounting to Stresses, are to be paid in full.
The cash working capital will be $4,000
and is to be provided. 1t is thought w. Fl.
Appleton will be made president of the re-
organized company.
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GOLD FROM CAPE NOME.


VANCOUVER, B. c., June 1s.-That the
gold fields Of Cape Nome are richer and
more productive and has yet been reported
is the story brought down by the steamer
Alpha, which has arrived from the north
From single claim worked by twenty
men in the employ Of Jack Brady $4,000
was taken out in one week and the same
claim PANIED out $4,000 within the month.
AS an earnest of Cape Nome's golden pro-
ductivenes the Alpha brought down two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold
dust. There were five passengers or board
and the dust belonged to four of them
Unusual interest has followed the Alpha's
trip not only because she was the first
steamer to sail for Cape Nome, but more
especially on account of international COM
plications, the Alpha being a Canadian boat
and Nome being a SUPPORT of entry. But
the skipper had no trouble with the Gus
toms regulations He sailed from Van
couver. April 5. clearing for ST. Michaels
He says he was menaced with icebergS
as he approached st. Michaels that he pro-
ceeded to Nome, landing 153 passengers and
their supplies on the beach on May Is, and
sailing for Vancouver on May so The peo-
pie of Nome had been anxiously awaiting
the arrival of the steamer and a guessing
contest with s., 900 prize had been arranged
for the naming of the first vessel from the
south. The gold producing area of Nome
seems much greater than was at first sup
posed and all over the country men are re-
ported to be washing out Is to 20 cents to
the pan in gold
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and maintained a balance of rivalry
between them as to prevent any one or
them from attacking her. In Bismarck
or a Francis Joseph We consider that con-
summate genius. Why should We esteem IL
less highly when IL Is practiced by an al
mond eyed Monaghan? Again. in the last
desperate extremity, when alien aggression
has become most formidable and menacing
and her tactful quiescence before IL has
aroused distrust and diSaffection among
her own subjects and provoked revolt
against her and the dynasty. what does
she do? With consummate skill she trans
forms the anti-dynastic movement into an
anti-foreign movement with herself as its
rallytng point and rouses the popular en-
thusiasm Of the Chinese millions in sup
port of the dynasty u has not been
reused before I'm this generation. In Louise
OF Prussia the world applauds and reveres
such tactics. But in Tsu Hsi of China?
or course, the Chinese are heathens and
all that. And they have acted very badly
toward our missionaries and travellers and
traders. But history is by no means silent
on the subject of the imposition Of the
opium trade, and of legislation dictated
from the Sand Lots, and OF the Rock
Springs massacre. and of a thousand other
abominable outrages inflicted upon those
benighted heather by civilized Christians.
Perhaps IL was all for their good. Eels are
much more useful after they are skinned
than before, but that fact seldom reconciles
them TO the skinning. The simple fact is
that the Occidental powers = England,
France. Russia and the United States
have for many years been treating China
and the Chinese very badly-as badly from
the Chinese point of view. the Chinese
have treated the strangers who have, un-
invited intruded themselves within their
gates. We have heard some of the most
eminent and experienced American mis-
sionaries TO China. at the time of some of
the worst Chinese anti-mission riots, de-
clare that they did not wonder bit at
the conduct of the Chinese, and. on the
ground of the natural lex talionis. did not
greatly blame them.
We are going on. however. to coerce Chi
into submission to our ways. We are
all agreed that IL is our right and duty 10
do so. We cannot permit that vast empire
to be shut against us. There is too vast
prospect OF profit in the development OF Its
resources and in the sale of our goods TO
it's inhabitants. Why, IL China were
well supplied with railroads as the United
States il would have at least 100000 miles,
We have simply got to go in and build
those roads and make 30 per cent. divi-
dends on their stock IL IL takes all the
smokeless powder I'm the world TO do IT.
and justice il is TO approve and urgently
promote such campaign against China,
which Is, should be, independent a
sovereign state as there is I'm the world,
and at the same time 10 cavil at the sup
preston of instruction and brigandage in
the Philippines, which, by every principle
Of international law and natural morals.
subject to our sovereignty and TO con-
troll which Is legally and morally our duty
as well as our right.
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CENSUS OF PORTO RICO
POPULATION Is NINE-TENTHs THAT
OF MARYLAND IN 1890.
Area About Three Times That Of Long
IsIand-The Urban Population
Is Comparatively Small.

WASHINGTON, June 1s--Inspector Gen.
eral j. +. Sanger. director CT the census
of Porto Rico, has issued bulletin No. /.
giving itemized statements of the popula-
ton of the island. according TO the census
taken Oct. Is last. The population of the
island, as shown by that census, was $685.
243. about nine-tenths of the population of
the State of Maryland in 1880. From 1860
to 1877 the percentage of increase in Porto
Rico was 14.24: from 1877 to 1857 it was ga
per cent. and from 1887 to 1899 was 1870
per cent. The present rate of increase is
about the same as that of Ohio, Tennes-
see or the Carolinas during the decade of
1850 and 1890. Among the sixty-nine munich
pal districts into which the departments
are divided seven decreased in population
between 1887 and 1899. AS all of them lie
on the coast. the bulletin says. the coast
districts. as whole, may have grown more
slowly than the interior of the island.
The of the island. including the
adjacent and dependent islands of Vieques,
Culebra. Mona and Muertos, measured in
connection with the census, is $500 square
miles, but owing to the imperfect sur
veys on which maps of Porto Rico are
based there must be a considerable error in
determinate margin of possible error in
any such measurement. The island is about
three times the size of Long island. There
are 2604 persons TO the square mile, the
density of population being about the same
as In Observation-Disclosures that in New
York and thrice that in Ohio. Ii is more
than seven times that of Cuba. The
least settled district has fifty-eight per-
IONS TO The square mile.
The people of the island are in the main
rural community, San Juan, with g, 04S,
and Ponce. with 1882 being the only cities
exceeding 5000 Inhabitants. The total pop
ulation contained In cities exceeding 5000
Inhabitants is only 81 per cent of the
whole populations much smaller proper
ton than In Cuba, where the corresponding
figures are 81 per cent, and in the
United States, where the corresponding pro-
portion in 1890 was 292 per cent. There
are in the island fifty-seven towns having
q population of loo or more, the total
urban population under this definition num-
bering 2oS, 792, CT zl.4 per cent. of the total.
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spection bill at this session, but after a
few more sittings will adjourn until fall
without action.
After grounding twice on the way from
Stettin. the new Hamburg-American line
steamer Deutschland arrived at Hamburg
yesterday. She starts on the initial trip
TO New York July 5.
The annual yacht race from Dover to
Heligoland for the German Emperor's cup
which was started from the former place
on SATURDAY, with ten yachts competing
has been won by the Fiona. The Fiona is
a cutter of eighty tons and is owned by
III. VI. Raft
A dispatch from the French Congo dis
trict announces that Chief Samory. who
for long time was the most redoubtable
opponent of the French in West Africa.
and who was captured in 1898 by French
expedition. has just died at Libreville.
where he was transported after his cap
ture.
The national commissioners began their
inspection of American exhibits at the
Paris exposition yesterday. They visited
the sections of mines, metallurgy, textiles,
electricity, chemical industries. civil en-
cheering, transportation, liberal arts and
education. They expressed satisfaction at
the installations and exhibits
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.


BLOOMINGTON, Ill, June 1s-Fire this
block and is still raging. The loss so far
is nearly 100000. The fire started in the
Model laundry. The losers. UP to this
hour, as far as obtained, are: Model laun-
dry. George Brown & Co.. furniture; r.
Thompson & Co., furniture; Myers Mil
Ter, hardware; Dixnall & Co., clothing:
Cooper. Jackman & Co., crockery; Greene
& Co., saddlery, and the postoffice build
ing.
The fire at this writing is not under con-
troll 1t is said that the insurance will aver
age $4,000 to each Of the above firms. No
fatalities are thus far reported.
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SAYS HE KILLED GOEBEL.
Writer of Anonymous Letter Mailed
at Fort Worth, Tex.

FRANKFORT. KY, June 1S.-William
Culton. who is in Jail urder indictment as
an accessory to the murder of William
Goebel, has received an anonymous letter
postmarked Fort Worth, Tex, in which
the writer says:
81 am sorry you are in trouble. I killed
Goebel. He knew / would do 1t. Ten min
utes after the shooting i watched the
crowd in the Statehouse yard from the
Fort hill. / went to Georgetown and took
a train. landing at Cincinnati next day.
At Kansas City I got scared and went to
Oklahoma before coming here. 1 am on
ranch cut here and those who know me
in Kentucky would not know me I'm Texas"
CuIton says ordinarily he would regard
IL as the work of crank. but the style
Of the letter. the good penmanship etc.,
make ii a mystery. He has turned the let
ter over to his counsel
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SAKS Sc COMPANY

boy ran for his pistol and shot his father
twice. The father died last night and the
son was held for murder.
The third annual conference OF the
Board of Foreign Missions of the Pres
byterian Church was held in New York
yesterday Papers were read by Miss Ella
c. Parsons on ''Women's Work" by the
Rev. T. f. Fleetwood on Lessons from
Thirty Years Experience as a Secretary"
and by the Rev. A. n. Halsey on 1.-The
Missionary and His Books
The case of Thomas Permission and others
against Ira w. Upshaw, which involves
the ownership Of 100000 worth Of property
in st. Louis, was decided yesterday by
present possessors of the property are its
owners and that their title was properly
acquired The case is one of the numerous
suits that have grown out of the old Solo
mon P. Sublette estate.
The Denver Times has changed hands
a controlling interest having been pur-
chased by Charles f. Hasbrook and asso-
ciates. Plans for the erection of a new
Times will be equipped with new presses
and other additions TO Its plant. The new
management announces that the Times
will be conducted as a Republican news
paper.
strong combination of the transporta-
ton companies doing business in Alaska
and the Northwest Territory has been
formed. The White Pass & Yukon Rail-
way company mas practically ABSORBED the
Canadian Development Company and the
John Irving Navigation Company. The
management Of the three big companies
has been brought under one control, which
will be from general headquarters at Skag-
way.
The blowing off of sixty feet of the top
of a large granite butte near the Cush-
ing Railroad camps, on the Sherman hill
cutoff grade. In Wyoming, occurred with
out accident. The shot was composed of
ten thousand pounds of black powder.
Four thousand cubic yards of hard gran
lite were blown of. shattered and rolled
down into Dale creek valley below. At
least one more large shot will be needed
10 complete the work. About $1,000 expense
was saved by the shot.
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QUIET TO DULLNEss.
st. Louis Strike Situation Has Devel-
oped No New Features.

ST. LOUIS, June 1-To-day was by far
the most uneventful in the history of the
street-railway strike. This was owing to
the discontinuance of all negotiations tend
ing toward a settlement and the absence
Of trouble along the numerous routes Of
the Transit Company.
A slight stir was caused during the day
by Sheriff Pohlman, who proposed that the
posse comitatus, comprising $500 citizens,
be discharged. At a conference of police
and posse officials, however, ii was decided
that conditions would not yet warrant the
dispersal Of the body. The coroner's in
quest to-day brought out nothing of Inn
portance.
Dynamite was exploded tonight in vari-
GUS parts of the city. Several cars were
disabled, but no one was injured.
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WASHINGTON. June 1s.-A special meet
ing of the General Assembly Of the Knights
of Labor, called by order of Acting Cen
eral Master Workman ]. d. Chamberlain,
began here to-day. Mr.. Chamberlain occu-
pied the chair and Mr.. Hayes acted as sec
rotary. The meeting had hardly settled
down to business when policeman entered
the hall and arrested Messrs. Parsons,
OKeefe and Conner. of the executive
board and Martin, Haley, DAILY and Arm
strong on warrant sworn out by an en-
ploye of Mr.. Hays, charging them with
malicious trespass. They were released on
bail and will be given hearing in the
Police Court next Monday. The supporters
of Mr. Hayes then barricaded the door
and proceeded with the meeting.
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As I'm All Other Cases the Trouble
There Has Its ssOther Side."

Writer in New York Tribune
Well, now that we are all agreed upon
the Chinese question-as we all are, war
for wars sake men. and peace at any price
men, little Americans and imperialist ex-
pansionists, Anglophobes and Anglophiles,
all fully agreed that the Boxers must be
exterminated that the dowager Empress
is compound of Messalina. Bloody Mary
and Catherine of Russia, who must be de-
posed If not put to death; that the Chinese
government is wholly inefficient and cor
rupt, and must be radically shaken up by
unlimited outside powers, and in brief that
men with pigtails and bias cut eyes have
no rights that men with short hair and
stralght-cut eyes are bound to respect
now that We are all so perfectly agreed up
on these Things, from our own superior and
infallible point of view, suppose we try
for a moment 10 look at the subject from
the point of view of those very low-born
unworthy and altogether disgraceful peo-
pie, the Chinese themselves. We may not
be able TO do IL perfectly. Our initiative
faculties are not as highly developed as
those OF the yellow folk whom we so much
contemn. But at least we may try
In the first place, we shall have to con-
slider the dowager Empress to be a particu-
larry patriotic and astute sovereign. For
patriotism is love of country. and protec-
ton OF IL and its institutions against for
eign assaults, whether open or insidious
There can be no doubt that Tsu Hsi loves
China. according 10 her lights. and is try
ing. and has for years been trying. at no
matter what cost, to defend the empire
against alien aggression. From her and
her peoples point of view. Industrial COM
mercial. social and religious aggression is
just as full OF menaces military agrees
sion, and is just as much to be resisted. So
she opposes il all consistently and persist
emily Perhaps she has erred In so doing.
Perhaps she has been blind to the best in
terests of China. Perhaps she has been
foolish in resisting an Irresistible power.
Perhaps IL would have been far better for
her and for China IL she had let China be
Americanized or Europeanized or Russian
lied. Those, however. were matters for
her and not for outsiders TO Judge Neither
America nor Europe, nor even Russia, Is
fond of having outsiders dictate it's domes-
tic policy And. at worst, is IL an unpar-
donabie fault for a patriot TO make such
mistakes through excess of patriotic zeal?
Then many of the worlds most honored
patriots were grievous sinners.
We must also. as we have said deem her
astute In statesmanship in spite of imputa-
tfons or mistakes. For years she has been
menaced by foreign powers. any one of
them too strong for her TO withstand. She
has played them the one against the other
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MAJOR EDMUNDS DEAD.
Victim of Yellow Fever at Havana
General Situation liz Very Good.

HAVANA, June 1s.-Major Frank H. Ed
munds. of General Lees staff, died to-day
Of yellow fever. Mrs. Edmunds is reported
to be much better. The town OF Quema-
dos has been quarantined against the bar
racks. and no soldier is allowed to enter.
The doctors are satisfied with the sit
uation in Havana. where only few cases
have developed. This. regarding the fact
that the rainy season has set in, is remark
able. The city has already experienced
heavier fall OF rain this season than
throughout ali last year.
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PRINCESS ROBBED.
Fifty Thousand Dollars Worth of
Jewels stolen from a Russian.

LONDON, June 1S-Princess Radziwill.
of Russia. was robbed of jewelry worth
$1,000 at her hotel on June II. Among the
jewels were her historic rope of $50 pearls,
each weighing twenty-five grains, and a
bracelet of emeralds. the gift of the Ameer
of Afghanistan. The princess was about
to start for Paris, but while at luncheon
she left the jewels in their cases, locked in
a wardrobe. On her return she found them
missing. All the efforts of the Scotland
Yard detectives have thus far proved I'M
awaiting. Fortunately. most of her dia-
monds were in safe at Coutts's bank.