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BRIDE MISSING.
Land Agent of the Union Pacific Look
ing for His Young Wife.

CHICAGO. Aug. 22.-The Chronicle to-
morrow will say: 'Three weeks ago the
marriage of E. III. Andrus, land agent of
the Union Pacific Railroad system, and
Miss Martha Salisbury, of Kansas City,
took place. and now Mr.. Andrus is look
ing for his bride. On their wedding trip to
Mackinac island they passed through Chi
cago. From here they went to Rock Falls,
one hundred miles distant, where a visit
was made to a family named Wheeler. Mr..
Wheeler is in the land department of the
Union Pacific. Mr.. Andrus left his bride
there while he went West on a business
trip. Last Sunday he sent a telegram from
Kansas City to Mr.. Wheeler which read.
Keep Martha another week Mr.. Wheeler
wired back that Mrs. Andrus had left a
few days before, saying she was going to
Chicago. She has no friends or relatives
in this city, save a brother. who has not
heard from her since she left here in COM
pany with her husband for Rock Falls.
While Mrs. Andrus is just twenty years of
age, her husband is considerably older and
has been married before. She is said to
be of a dreamy, fatalistic temperament,
while he is a practical business man.
Friends of the couple are greatly worried,
knowing that she is at times respondent"
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RADICALS IN CONTROL.
kokOmO Is Enforcing the Saloon Laws
with InfexibIe

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, Aug. 22.-The so-called
Radicals" are now firmly in the saddle in
the city government. The Police Board is
compelling a strict observance of the sa-
loon laws. and the town is absolutely dry
on Sunday and after IL o'clock at night.
The recent action of the Counc in passing
q resolution demanding that the Police
Board release its clutch on the saloons and
gambling houses. and permit violations of
the law, has stirred up the temperance
and law and order element, and as the re-
suit of a mass meeting called by the min
listers OF the city. a Good Citizens League
is being organized. Resolutions condemn
ing the Council were passed, and a strong
stand was taken in support OF the Police
Board.
There was some talk by the citizens of
abolishing the Police Board, but not
enough councilmen were found to vote for
that proposition, and the Liberals" have,
for the present. at least. subsidized. Rep
resentative and ex-Mayor A. b. Kirkpat-
rick presided over the citizens mass meet
ing and is at the head of the Good Citizens
League.
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PLOT TO KIDNAP NELLY
REMARKABLE ALLEGATION By I'll
ALLEGED EMDEZZLER'S LAWYER.
He Says the Government Had Planned
to Put Prisoner Aboard Ship 10
Avoid Habeas Corpus Writ.

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-Now that the at
torneys for Charles F. w. Nicely, formerly
Cuban agent for the Postoffice Department,
have filed an appeal to the United States
Supreme Court, and as their client cannot
be taken TO Cuba pending the appeal IL is
learned from Neely's petition for a writ OF
habeas corpus that his counsel has sworn
that he believed the United States govern
ment had made arrangements for the plac-
ing of the petitioner on board an army
transport for immediate transportation to
Cuba as soon as the necessary order for
extradition had been signed and the ac-
cused man secured and placed aboard ship.
This plan, counsel asserted, was TO pre-
vent the petitioners from applying for a
writ of habeas corpus.
United States District Attorney Burnet
is absent, but Assistant District Attorney
Platt, when asked IL the report was true,
said that the United States Supreme Court
would convene in October and that the
Nicely case was at a standstin until that
time. He would not either affirm or deny
the reported government plan to rush Nicely
outside the three-mile limit.
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MISSIONARY QUOTES SCRIPTURE.
Message That Tells of Safety Of Amer
leans in China.

BOSTON, Aug. 22.-The American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions re-
ceived to-day a cablegram from Che-Foo
as follows: psalm cxxiv. z. Picking and
Tung-Chow missionaries. also Chaplains
Smiths, Wickoffs, saved"
The passage of Scripture alluded to is:
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the
snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken
and We are escaped"
The Picking missionaries are: The Rev.
W. S. Ament, the Rev. c. Z. Ewing, wife
and two children; Miss Ada Haven. Miss
Nellie Russell, Mrs. j. l.. Mater. The Tung-
Chow missionaries who had taken refuge
at Picking are: Miss Mary Z. Andrews,
Miss Jane G. Evans, Miss Abbie G.. Chaplin,
the Rev. Chauncey Goodrich. y. d., wife
and three children; James H. Ingram, NJ.
D., wife and two children: Miss Luella
Miner. the Rev. K. @. Tewksbury, wife and
two children; the Rev. Howard S. Gait and
wife. The Pamg-Chuan missionaries who
were at the annual meeting and took refuge
at Picking are: The Rev. Arthur III. Smith,
ID. D., and wife: the Misses E. Gertrude
and H. Grace Wickoff. Lin-Ching mission
aries under the same conditions are: The
Rev. L. NJ. Chaplin, wife and two children.
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STILL MUCH CONFUSED.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The Chinese
situation is still confused. Dispatches were
received to-day from both General Chaffee
and Minister Conger that were not made
public. 1t is believed that all four cities
comprising Picking are occupied by the
allies, and that the Empress dowager and
the Emperor, accompanied by all the men,
bers of the various government depart
ments centered at Picking, have gone to
Singan-Fu, in the province of Shen-Si,
three hundred miles southeast of Picking.
It would be incorrect to assume that the
Empress dowager and the Emperor are no
longer the heads of the Chinese govern
ment because they have left the capital.
They are still recognized as China's rulers
by the Chinese viceroys in all the prov
inces: by the minister abroad. and the Chi
nese people. Under the circumstances 1t
is difficult to understand on what ground
the powers can ignore them if they seek.
through themselves directly. or indirectly
through duly authorized representatives, to
com to an agreement with the powers as
to the future maintenance of peace and
order and the protection of foreigners
throughout the empire. 1t Is expected, or
course, that the Chinese government, who
ever may be its representative, would con-
fer ample power on some one, probably Ii
Hung Chang, to conduct the necessary ne
gotiations. Whether that power has al
ready been conferred upon Ii the President
does not know, and before he will author
lie negotiations on the part of the United
States he must be convinced that Ii or
some one else representing the responsible
government of China has full authority to
act for that government. Care must be
exercised to prevent the Chinese, who are
skilled in the arts of subterfuge and du-
plicity, from trucking our representative.
The only alternative to the course outlined
would be for the powers to set up a Chi
nese government in opposition to the Man
chu dynasty and protect and maintain it in
power, a task that might prove impossible
and would be pretty certain to be inter-
minable. This course would only be pur-
sued if the Manchu rulers should prove in
tractable and refuse to come to terms for
the future. 1t is not anticipated, how
ever, that they will be so perverse and stiff
necked as this.
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Movements of Steamers,

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 22.-Arrived
Lain, from New York, for Bremen; st.
Paul, from New York.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Teu-
tonic, from New York. for Liverpool; New
England, from Boston. for Liverpool.
Sailed: I~vernia, from Liverpool, for Bos-
ton.
C~HERBOURG, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Graf
Waldersee. from New York, for Hamburg.
Sailed: Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, from
Bremen and Southampton, for New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Majestic.
from Liverpool. Sailed: St. Louis. for
Southampton; Noordland. for Antwerp;
Germanic, for Liverpool.
ANTWERP, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Switzer-
land, from Philadelphia.
LONDON, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Marquette,
from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Ultonia,
from Boston. Sailed: Cupid. for New York.
BOULOGNE, Aug. 22.-Arrived: Amster-
Gam, from New York, for Rotterdam.
YOKOHAMA, Aug. ~22.-Saiied: Victoria.
from Hong-kong, for Tacoma.
MOVILLE, Aug. 22.-Sailed: Montfort.
from Liverpool. for Montreal.
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TRIBUTE TO SECRETARY HAY.
Policy of the United States Defended
ny n German Paper.

BERLIN. Aug. 22-The semi-oficial Ber-
liner Post I'm a long leading article defends
the policy of the United States In China
against suspicious cast upon IL by certain
German papers that go upon the theory
that Washington is pursuing separate aims.
After .reciting the history of Secretary
Hays success in getting declarations from
the powers in favor of the 'open door.
the Post says thu this is calculated TO
remove all false interpretations OF Ameri-
can policy. 1t then goes on to say: Those
Americans are TO blame for this mistrust
OF the policy of the United States who de-
mand that President Mckinley shall come
forward as the protector Of the Chinese
empire and declare, urbi ct orbi, that the
United States will regard as an unfriendly
act any further seizures of Chinese terri
tory, thus establishing an American pro-
tectorate over China"
The papers demand more earnestly than
ever the Immediate calling of the Reichstag
In special session. The Deutsche Tages
Zeitung argues against the claim that 1t Is
necessary TO wait until the Chinese situa-
ton has cleared up, and demands that the
Reichstag be convened and informed re-
garding Germany's China policy. adding
that this should already be so definitely
fixed that it can be communicated to the
representatives of a waiting people"
The military authorities at Hamburg
have decided to omit the Sedan celebra-
ton on the ground that it would be mop
perfume at a moment when German and
French troops are fighting shoulder TO
Bhoulder in the brotherhood of arms. A
number OF Rhine cities. as well as Han
bver, will omit The celebration for the same
reason.
The German War Office has received a
dispatch from Taku, dated Aug. 10, saying
the advance of the German battalion was
delayed by violent rains 1t reached Pc
king Aug. II. Yang-Tsun, it is added. was
still threatened by the Chinese troops on
the imperial canal.
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CHARGE OF DYNAMITE.
1t Is Used to Wreck n Toulouse on
the Burlington Pike.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, Aug. 22.-The north
dollhouse. on the Burlington turnpike. was
destroyed with dynamite last midnight.
About twenty or thirty men were in the
party of raiders. They went about their
work carefully, and made a thorough job
of IL.
The moi began to gather early in the
evening. and at IL o'clock pickets were
posted on the roads leading TO the gate,
who turned back all travellers. A minute
or two before midnight four shots were
fired at brief intervals as a signal, and just
at IL an explosion wrecked the house. The
report was heard for miles.
No attempt was made to investigate I'M
til this morning. when officials of the road
found that the building had been shattered
as completely as If struck by a tornado.
The explosive had been placed in the CEN
ter. beneath the floor. and the four walls
were blown out and the roof had fallen in.
The guards had been removed from the
property last night. for the first time in
a week. the company being led TO believe
that an armistice would be observed until
the county passed upon the purchase prop
csition. No toll had been collected this
week. and both keepers had removed. in
compliance with white cap notices.
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HE SWALLOWED POISON
JAMES COwGER, OF RUsHvILLE,
KILLED HIMSELF LAST NIGHT.
Prepared Himself for Burial-Daby
T~rampIed to Death by Horses mt
Fontnnet-Two Lively Fires.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE. Ind. Aug. 22.-James r.
Cowger, ffty-two years old, died this even
ing as the result of a dose of morphine,
taken with suicidal intent. He entered Eli
mans barber shop a few minutes before
taking the poison and remarked to Charles
Gilman: Give me a hav like you would
a dead man. and trim me up in shape for a
coffin because ! am going to kill myself"
The barber thought Cowger was joking,
hut complied with his request. Cowger then
walked home. took the morphine and asked
his wife to arrange his death-bed
He handed his wife 10 cents and told her
TO get some morphine and they would Ego
together" She gave the alarm as soon as
she could recover from her fright, but ii
was too late to save her husband Family
troubles, caused by dissipation, were the
cause of the suicide.
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AT LAKE.


WARSAW. Ind. Aug. 22-Directors of
the winona Assembly met to-day, selecting
the following executive committee: Thomas
Kane. Chicago; y. n. Dukes. Peru. Ind. /;
Z. F. Yarnell, Z. a. X. Hackett. Charles
II. Worden. Fort Wayne, Ind; Henry w.
Johnson. South Bend. Ind: W. p. Kane.
Charlottesville. Ind, and Fremont Good
win. Williamsport, Ind
To meet the entire expense of the ma
tional foreign mission conference held last
week W. s. Hubbard. a prominent citizen
OF indianapolis. presented 10 the assem-
bly, 500. The Dwight L. Moody memorial
building. the donor being the Rev. j. Will
bur Chapman. of New York, will be dedi-
Gated tomorrow. 1t is a summer home for
ministers receiving salaries of less than
Loo yearly.
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VERDICT IN HERRICK CASE.
COroner's Jury Exoncrates His Wild
Ow from Charge of Poisoning.

CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-The coroner's jury
to-day endered a verdict in the case of
Edward p. Herrick, the aged commission
merchant, whose death twelve days ago
was surrounded with considerable mystery.
The verdict exonerates Mrs. Herrick, wife
of the dead man, from the charges of pois-
oning which were made by Mr.. Herrick's
son and daughter by a previous marriage,
and the cause of death is attributed TO
hardening of the muscles of the heart.
An expert chemist had discovered arsenic
in the stomach of the deaceased, but the
jury upheld DR.. Joseph Springer, the cor
oner's physician, in his contention that the
poison found was not in sufficient quantity
to cause death.
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REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
Reply to Lii Hung Chang-Messages
from Remey, Chafee and ConEer.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-After a long
conference at the White House to-day the
reply Of the United States to the appli-
cation of Ii Hung Chang for the appoint
ment of peace commissioners was COM
pleted and a copy of the reply sent to the
Chinese minister. Mr.. WI, to be forwarded
to Earl Ii. The State Department made
definite announcement that the reply had
been conveyed to Mr.. WI. but added to its
official utterance that the correspondence
would not be made public Until tomorrow
morning. A copy Of the reply was sent to
ether governments represented in China.
The American reply is chiefly character
lied by its firm tone and its brevity. Its
keynote is the Presidents attitude as laid
down in the American note of July 3. and
there is the s~trictest adherence to the
points enunciated at that time. While the
document is open to the construction of
being a rejection of Ii Hung Chang's
proposition for immediate negotiations, yet
it is stated by those who have read the an
swer with care, and have had a part in its
preparation, that rejection is probably too
strong a term to apply to it. The United
States places itself in the position of being
Ca1 AZ H pAtPCA NA1ht " ldht up peace
negotiations, but in the present unsettled
condition of affairs in the empire, the lack
of knowledge as to who are the responsible
rulers and what constitutes the actual Chi
nese government. it is made clear that the
time has not arrived for pursuing the nego-
tiations proposed. The formal courtesy of
diplomatic procedure is preserved. but at
the same time the entire tenor of the docu-
ment is one of force and hrmness. The
government Of the United States takes the
position that negotiations are impossible
with a government which cannot prevent
hostilities against the forces of the powers
which were sent TO the Chinese capital 10
save the ENJOYS. As long as attacks are
made on the troops OF this and other gov
ernments. such as have followed the occu-
patton Of Picking. and the attacks In the VI
cinity OF Tien-Tsin. ii Is deemed that the
Chinese government Is either unwilling or
anable TO prevent these hostilities, and for
this reason negotiations must be deferred.
It y stated. however. that the reply Il :
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-The first cable
grams which have come TO the mission
boards in this city from Peking since COM
munication was cut off two months ago, ar
rived to-day. One OF them was received
by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions. II came from the Rev. DIR. Wherry,
of Picking, and was dated from Che-Foo,
where il is supposed TO have been sent via
Tien-Tsin. 1t follows: "Mackey and some
converts marvelously saved. Property
mission, private, totally destroyed. Wire
friends"
Robert E. Speer. one OF the secretaries
of the board, commented on this as follows:
There is much doubt as 20 the meaning
of the message. The most hopeful inter-
probation is that IL refers TO Pao-Ting-Fu,
and that some converts may be a mistake
for SimcoxeS."
The Rev. DR.. A. b. Leonard OF the
Methodist Missionary Society, also received
a cablegram from Peking. II was as fol-
lows: Picking relieved. All member mis-
sion safe. Well" There were eighteen
members OF the Methodist mission in Pc
king during the siege.
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ARRESTED IN BELGIUM.
Hartford City Glass Workers COM
PEELED to Enter the Army.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Aug. 22.-Hector
Desgains, the chief preceptor of L. A. 300
here, is in jail in Belgium. Desgains is one
of the best known glass workers in the
gas belt. About three months ago he left
this city with a party of glass workers TO
attend the Paris exposition and visit Bel
GUM. At Charleroi he was arrested by an
officer of King Leopold's army and de-
tanned to serve three years in the Belgian
army. Desgains was born in Belgium and
when a boy came to America to escape
serving in the army. He secured a passport
from the secretary of state and felt salts
fled that he would be safe from interference
on the part of the Belgian authorities.
1t is said there is no treaty stipulation
which will prevent the Belgian government
from siezing citizens of the United States
born in Belgium who return to that coun-
try. Arthur Corneille, a Matthews Bel
gian, who went under similar circum-
stances and in the same party, was also APP
pretended and is held. The affair has
created a big sensation here among the Bel
gian and French glassworkers.
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who had been imprisoned in the palace.
Two hundred Japanese were killed or
wounded.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Mail
says that the walls Of Picking sere blown
up with dynamite. Fears are entertained
lest the communication OF the allies in
Peking with Tien-Tsin should have been
cut. is the Chinese forces are reported in
the neighborhood of Pei-Tsang.
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SITUATION Is PROMISING.
Madison County Canvassed with Care
No Democratic Money to Wager.

Madison County Canvassed with Care
No Democratic Money to Wager.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. 22.-The Madison
county Republican central committee was
in special session in Anderson yesterday
and went over the political situation with
great care. The reports from the various
townships and precincts are promising for
Republican success and the announcement
Is made with great confidence that the Re-
publican tickets will sweep the county by
substantial and increased majorities. State
Chairman Hernly, Representative Cromer
and Col. W.. T.. Durbin were present at the
conference and made encouraging speeches
to the committeeman and emphasized the
necessity of thorough organization.
Local Republicans are offering good odds
in betting, but are nding no takers.
George Lewis. a wealthy farmer, has posted
$500 and is offering premiums TO men who
will round up some Democratic money, but
without success to date.
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JUST MISSED A WRECK.
Knfckerbocker Express stopped in
the Nick of Time Near Muncie.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Aug. 22.-The Knicker-
booker express, east bound, on the Big
our Railroad had an exciting experience
at 9 o'clock tonight eight miles west of
Muncie. An hour late, the train was max
ing sixty miles an hour when Engineer
Jacob Caskey noticed a man ahead striking
matches. He reversed the engine and was
within ten feet of a well-digging wagon
weighing fifteen tons when the train
stopped.
The wagon had broken down on the rail-
road crossing. and only for a few matches
in the drivers pocket an accident would
have occurred. With long ropes and a
pulley the big locomotive pulled the rigging
from the track after an hours work. With
no word from the train there were grave
apprehensions in Muncie and among Big
Four officials.
Following close behind the Knickerbocker
was an excursion train, which stopped on
seeing the signals of the fast train.
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CHICAGO DOCTOR ARRESTED.
He Smashed and Furniture
i'm the Cedar Lake MOnOn Depot.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CROWN POINT, Ind, Aug. 22.-Dr.
Webb. of Chicago, a summer boarder at
the Sigler House. at Cedar Lake, in this
county, was taken from a Monon train.
to-day, while en- route to his home, by
Sheriff Lawrence. and placed under ar
rest for malicious trespass at Cedar Lake
Webb made a demand of the operator
there to stop a fast train which is not
scheduled to stop, and on being refused,
created a disturbance in the Monon Depot.
He smashed the windows and broke the
furniture. and threatened Operator Ford.
Ford wired the sheriff concerning Webb's
attack On him. but in the meantime Webb
took the next train and was intercepted
by Sheriff Lawrence at He
was placed in Jail here tonight, and the
State has filed a case against him for the
September term of the Criminal Court.
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CALENA. Kan. Aug. PA severe wind
storm struck this section at 5 o'clock this
evening. doing much damage throughout
the mining district. Among the damaged
mills are the Miller Hollaw Milling Com
pany, complete wreck OF the steam holster.
derrick and 200 feet tramway; Newson x
Teelers. steam holster and tramway. Two
mills OF Holbert Crow and the James
Murphy, and the Bernard Milling Com
pany also suffered heavily. The Republi-
can wigwam, just completed. and which
Was TO have been dedicated tonight, was
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Wires working to Picking.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.-The War De-
partment received notice to-day from the
Great Northern Company that the cable
between Che-Foo and Taku is open for
business and that messages may now be
accepted for Tien-Tsin, TO which point
there is a military line. The signal Office
of the War Department has been notified
that the military line TO Picking is in oper-
alton, but owing 10 the lack OF poles and
other adverse conditions. IL probably will
be subject TO a good deal of interruption.
1t is thought at the department, however.
that these new lines should assist ma
terially in getting prompt news from Pc
king to the outside world.