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E. LIVERPOOL. May 31.-Arrived: Teutonic,
from New York; Lancastrian. from Bos-
ton: New England, from Boston, via
Queenstown. Sailed: Dominion, from
Montreal.
QUEENSTOWN, May 31.-Arrived: New
England. from Boston. for Liverpool.
Sailed: Pennland, from Liverpool, for Phil
adelphia: Oceanic. from Liverpool. for New
York.
NEW YORK. May 31.-Sailed: La Tou-
raine. for Havre: Fuerst Bismarck. for
Hamburg. via Plymouth and C~herbourg;
Bremen, for Bremen. via Cherbourg.
LAS PALMAS. Canary Islands. May 2s.-
Arrived: Volumnia. from San Francisco,
via Valparaiso. etc, for Hamburg.
ROTTERDAM. May sO.-Arrived: Mas
dam. from New York: (31stl Sailed: Spaarn-
dam. for New York, via B~oulogne.
PLYMOUTH. May 31.-Arrived: Auguste
Victoria. from New York, for Hamburg.
and proceeded.
LONDON. May 31.-Arrived: Menominee,
from New York. Sailed: Manitou. for New
York.
YOKOHAMA, May 2.-Sailed: Duke of
Fife, from Hong-Kong, for Tacoma.
BREMEN. May 3.-Arrived: Kaiserin
Marie Theresa, from New York.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-Arrived:
Netherlands, from Antwerp.
BOSTON,. May 3.-Arrived: Saxonia
new, from Liverpool.
GLASGOW. May 31.-Arrived: Hibernian.
from Boston.
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VOICED THEIR INDIGNATION.
Fort Wayne Citizens "Get After" the
SchOO Board with Vigor.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE. Ind, May S1.-The I'M
usual event of an indignation meeting filled
the Temple Theater tonight. the purpose
being to express condemnation of the
School Board In Its failure to continue JUS
tin N. Study at the head of the city schools.
The meeting was hastily arranged this
morning by the ladies who are the moving
spirits in the Woman's III League. Judge
r. s. Taylor agreed to preside. but found a
prior conflicting engagement at the last
moment, and F. H. Mcdonald was chosen.
Speeches condemning the board and eulo-
giving the work of Superintendent Study
were made by Rabbi Cohn. d. N. Foster.
Robert C. Bell. Thomas E.. Ellison. DR.. A.
E. Bulson. DR.. w. H. Myers, the Rev. DR..
Parr, the Rev. DR.. Moffat. Charles Nc
Culloch, Samuel NJ. Foster and others.
Plain words were spoken. and the presi-
dent Of the board, Geogre e. Feltz, was
charged with prevarication. personal bias
and willful disregard of the welfare of the
Boswell, was derided as a weak and plant
tool. The gallery was filled with students
from the High School. who rang Boswell
into their class yells as under the name of
ME Too
Miss Mary E. Stevens spoke for the
teachers. defending Mr.. Study from charges
contained in the so-called reasons advanced
by Feltz for effecting a change. One of
these reasons was lack of industry, while
another was overworking the teachers by
holding too many meetings. Resolutions
voicing the prevailing sentiment were
adopted by a rising vote, which was unani-
NOUS.
Study's successor to-day signed a two
years contract.
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BURNED AT SEA.
Ship Hindoostan Destroyed
Crew I'm the Boats Nine Days.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 31.-News was
brought here to-day of the loss at sea by
fire of the Chilean ship Hindoostan. which
sailed from this city Feb. s for Valparaiso
with a cargo OF lumber. All the crew
reached land safely. The news was brought
by the brig Galilee. which arrived to-day
from Tahiti. She had as passengers Capt.
Welsh and four of the lost Hindoostan's
crew. Captain Welsh gives the following
particulars of the loss of his vessel and
subsequent experience of the crew:
ION March s. when we were in latitude
s:4s south, longitude l23 west, I found the
ship to be on fire under the main hatch be-
meath the donkey engine. 1t was 4 o'clock
in the morning when the fire was discov-
cred. and at 10 a. m. we had to abandon the
ship. / and twelve men took one boat. and
the first mate and the eight remaining
members of the crew took the other. After
being in the boats nine lays and twenty
hours, and travelling $50 miles. we landed on
the island of HIvo. one of the Marquesas
group. We stayed there nineteen days, and
were then taken by the steamer Southern
Cross to Tahiti. where the crew took pas
sage on the Galilee."
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slump in Oil Is Having n Bad Effect
ON

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
MONTPELIER, Ind, May S1.-The con-
tinued slump in the price of crude oil is
having a terrible depressing effect upon oil
operations in all the oil fields. The price
had been put up just long enough to cause
a lively leasing of territory and liberal in
vestments by Eastern capital in developed
territory. and operators were busy putting
down new wells. Within the last thirty
days the market has fallen off % cents a
barrel, with a continued downward tenden-
cy that can only be stopped by the will of
the Standard Oil Company.
The worst feature of the case, so far as
new operations are concerned, is that the
drilling of wells remains at the top notch.
Operators say 1t costs three times as much
now to put down a well as ii did the last
time oil was down to it's present figures,
and unless the prices of supplies are re-
duced new operations will be entirely sus-
pended, with the exception of places where
wells must be completed to comply with
the conditions of leases.
Pipe and other tools used in the opera
tons are the chief items of expense which
will have to be reduced. The price of
cordage has declined from 1914 cents a
pound to Is cents a pound in P~ittsburg. but
in this field the price remains at I71a cents.
The same cordage can be bought in CAL
ifornia at the same price as in Pittsburg
or Philadelphia, and there are no reasons
why the producers here cannot purchase at
the same figures.
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WHIST TOURNAMENT.
silver Loving Cups Valued at $3.50,
Won by the Chicago Team.

CHICAGO. May 31.-The Interstate Whist
Tournament and Carnival. given under the
auspices of the Chicago Whist Association,
began this afternoon. Well-known whist
players from all over the United States are
here In attendance upon the games. The
interest aroused by the open progressive
pair match was so great as 10 attract 1O4
players. and they were divided into two
sections. Section A sat at twenty-one ia
bles. and Section b occupied eleven.
The event was open TO all. The winners
OF the gold-enam eled prize buttons for the
best pairs were: Section A, Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. w. Ingersoll. l. s.. Gibbs and s. L.
Torde. II. r. Templeton and W. j. Walker.
Section b. j. w. Brown and j. II. Baugh-
man. j. II. Baldwin and w. II. Wilson. In
the interstate teams OF twelve the Chicago
Whist Association won a sensational VIC
tory against competing teams from Michi-
gan. Wisconsin and Ohio, and was awarded
the prize-a solid silver loving cup. valued
at ec6Q.
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CORIN0 CAPTURED


WASHINGTON. May yL-The following
dispatch was received at the War Depart
ment to-day from General Macarthur at
Manila:
Small surrenders continue I'm the de-
partment of northern Luzon. Corino. the
fugitive governor Of Benguef. a rich. active
friend OF Aguinaldo. was captured yester-
day near Cabayan; important While scout
ing near San Miguel de Mayumo. Luzon.
May % Capt Charles ID. Roberts. Privates
John A. Mcintyre and Lyel w Ackens
were captured. Sergt. John Gailen. Prf-
Yates Joseph McCurt n John A Green
killed and George Ringer wounded I'm the
thigh, all OF Company I. Thirty-hfth Regi-
ment United States volunteers"
MANILA, May 3l.-A number OF rifles
have been surrendered at Guayapo and
more are expected. Generals Grant and
Funston have sent detachments I'm pursuit
of the insurgents who rushed the town OF
San Miguel de Mayomo. near here. Tues
day. killing I'VE Americans. wounding seven
and capturing Captain Roberts, of the
Thirty-ffth Infantry. and two enlisted
men.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART, Ind, May 31.-Hiram Wick
ham. a Shipshewana youth who was sem
fenced to the Elkhart s%toneyard by the Cir
cult Court on a plea of guilty TO the charge
OF burglary. and who escaped from the
Elkhart jail and was recaptured after sew
eral weeks at Joliet, Ill, again escaped
this morning by crawling out of a window,
the bars to which he broke two weeks ago.
He was detected in time on that occasion,
but because of a controversy between the
police commissioners and the Council COM
mittee as to which body should order the
repairs the grating had not been fixed and
the window sash was only slightly
strengthened.
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BOSTON SUFFERS BY FIRE.


BOSTON, Mass. May 31-Fire in the FIVE
story department store Of the Pitts-Kim-
ball Company, adjoining the Park Theater
on Washington street, did damage esti-
mated at nearly $3.50. 900 tonight. The stock
of the Pitts-Kimball Company was prac-
tically ruined. The adjoining buildings suf-
fered some. The Park Theater also suf-
fered. The shoe. drug and music Depart
ments. IL appears, were each conducted
separately, so that the losses therein will
not fall Upon the tts-kimb Company.
f.. r. Elton, proprietor OF the drug depart
ment, places his loss at $4,000: Gilbert ~.
Ware. who conducted the shoe department.
Loses $4,000, and G. Setchell, of the music
department. has a loss of $4,000. The Pitts
Kimball Company's loss will probably be
$780, 600 TO $125, 600. Loss on buildings, $4,000.
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Search for an Old Soldier.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO. Ind, May 3L-Noah Whistler,
trustee of Erwin township, Howard county,
has offered a reward Of $50 for the recov-
cry of Squire Ridgeway. a veteran of the
civil war, who disappeared May q by es-
Gaping from the Insane Asylum at Indian
apolis. where he had for twenty years been
an inmate. Mr.. Whistler, who is Ridge
ways guardian, also offers S25 for informa-
ton leading to recovery. The missing man,
for whom the town of .Ridgeway was
named, is of prominent family. He was a
member of Company G., One-hundred-and-
forty-seventh Indiana. The adjutant gen.
eral and G.. A. X. posts all over the State
have taken up the matter in the hope of
finding the wanderer.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL, Ind, May 31.-Frank
Emery, a teamster of this place. killed a
snake yesterday. two miles north of here.
which measured six feet and four inches
In length and as large in circumference
as a mans arm above the elbow. Emery
was driving along the road with a long,
handle shovel in the wagon, when the
snake came out of a wheat field, stopped
at the edge of the road, raised its head as
If for battle. With one strike of the shovel
Emery severed the snakes head. 1t is of
an unknown kind, supposed to have es-
capped from some show.
The Journal correspondent appended to
his communication an affidavit to the effect
that 1.-The above is no fake snake story,
but actual facts" so the Journal prints the
story and the voucher, but declines to
accept personal responsibility
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GRADUATES AT CRAwFoRDsvILLE.
Exercises Held Last Night-Reception
Tonight and Hop Monday.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSvILLE. Ind, May 81
The graduating exercises of the city high
school class was held this evening at
Music Hall. The members of the class
were William V. Under. John T. Maxwell,
Frances Chamberlain, Mabel Houlehan,
Sallie Mcintyre. Charlotte Schlemmer,
Jesse Talbot, Ida Whitaker, Vivian Boil
yard, Frank Winter, Ernest Stout. Ralph
Cox. Floyd Stubbins, Charles Zook, John
Oliver and Earl Johnson. The exercises
were interspersed with songs by members
OF the other high school classes.
The class reception will be given Friday
evening, and the hop Monday evening. Pro-
Of the city schools.
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Oficers Who Investigated the Price

Ofhcers Who investigated the Price
Case at Terre Haute.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 31.-Edward
Price, the brother of Lizzie Price. the
eighteen-year-old girl whose body was
found in a pond the first of the week and
who mysteriously insisted that he could
give testimony which would prove his sis
ter to have been murdered. was summoned
to appear before the grand jury to-day,
but at the last moment he told the coroner
that he did not have trustworthy informa-
ton. While he still believed his sister had
not committed suicide, his evidence was not
sufficient 10 implicate any one.
Prosecutor Beal and Detective Dwyer
agree with the coroner that il was a case
of suicide. The coroner says she was alive
when her body fell I'm the water because the
lungs were full of water, and that there
were no injuries on the body or head which
would have rendered her unconscious at
the time she might have been thrown into
the pond. The girl had suffered from
typhoid fever n 1t is thought she was
temporarily insane.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. May 31.-Henry
C. Paul. president of the Fort Wayne Gas
Company. and G. Max Hoffman,, general
superintendent of the concern. were here
yesterday and decided on the location of
two large pump stations. One will be To-
Gated on the Renner stock farm. in Lick
ing township, three and one-half miles
northwest of this city, and The other near
the Station A." in Jackson township. four
miles west of here. Each station will have
a capacity of 4S,0O0.O 900 cubic feet, and will
represent an expenditure of 500, 600.
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Corn 1. the Latest sunerer.


Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, May 3I.-Farmers
throughout eastern Indiana, so per cent. of
whom have plowed up their wheat fields
and planted them with corn, are again dis
turbed. The constant rain for the last fif-
teen lays is causing the corn to rot, and
the cutworm is doing great damage. Some
fields have not yet been planted, and the
Indications are that these, with those which
must be replanted. will be caught by early
frosts. The outlook for crops is most dis.
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TO SUCCEED


DUBUQUE. Ia. May 31.-A letter re-
ceived yesterday by a local priest from a
Rome correspondent says that Archbishop
Keane. late rector of the Catholic Univer-
sity at Washington. has been appointed to
succeed the late John Hennessy as arch
bishop of Dubuque. The papal bill Gre
ating Keane archbishop of Dubuque has
been sent TO him for acceptance or rejec-
f4nn
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELWOOD, Ind, May 31.-A party of
small boys engaged in celebrating Deco
ration day in this city last night filled a
tin can with powder. screwed on the top
and placed ii on a fire built in the street.
The can exploded and a flying piece of tin
struck James Oldham. aged ten, on the
calf of the leg. severing the arteries, and
cutting to the bone He will be crippled
for life. ever If blood poisoning does not
set in, as the physicians fear may happen.
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TO RAISE SUGAR BETS
VAST TRACTS OF INDIANA LAND ARE
BEING TURNED OVER.
New Kankakee Valley Industry-Terre
Haute Girl a Sufcfde-Boy In
jured by Explosion mt Elwood.
snecia1 tn the Indiananolis .Ionrnal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
CROWN POINT, Ind. May 31--Arrange-
ments nave been completed by William r.
Shelby. George w. Cass and others, OF
Chicago, owners of 10000 acres of Kankakee
valley land. TIA this county, under the name
CT the Lake Agricultural Company, to
build an immense sugar-beet factory at
Shelby, on the Kankakee river.
1t was announced to-day that the stock.
amounting to 100000. has all been sub
scribed, and men are busy planting hum
dreds of acres of beets. Experiments have
proved that this soil is particularly adapt
ed TO the culture of sugar beets, and In
this way the waste land can be utilized.
II is reported here that Nelson Morris, of
Chicago. and John Brown, of this city.
who own 10000 acres each, will engag in
beet raising also.
Shelby and Cass are president and gen.
eral manager, respectively. of the Lake
Agricultural Company, the large tract hav-
ing fallen into their hands from the late
Gen. Charles w. Cass, president of the
Fort Wayne Railroad.
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william Cullen Brewster.

NEW YORK, May 31-William Cullen
Brewster. a ~well-known banker. is dead at
his home, in this city. aged seventy-two.
He studied law in Cincinnati. where he was
admitted to the bar. Later he moved to
Iowa. He was at the time of his death
president of the Fifth-avenue Safe Deposit
and a director of the Second Ma
tional Bank and many other financial in
situations of this city. Interment will be
in the family burial grounds i'm Ohio.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, May 31.-Morris Engess,
known also as John Morris. died this MORN
ing from heart disease, induced partly by
alcoholism and partly by a blow on the
side, delivered by Charles Garner last mid
night, who gave himself up as soon as he
heard of Morris's death. He said Morris
accosted him. while drunk. and struck him,
and that he struck his assailant In the eff
fort to get away from him. Garner has
been detained by the police, but no charge
has been filed against him.
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OBITUARY.
Thomas e. MincO, Theatrical Manager
and Once-Famous Clown.

NEW YORK, May a~.-Thomas z. Miaco.
a theatrical manager. who. in his younger
days, was a famous clown, died in a New
York hospital tonight from injuries re-
'ceived by falling from a stairway in the
Morton House, On Tuesday. He was fifty
nine years old. Mr.. Miaco was owner of the
following theaters: The Trocado, Phila-
delphia; Trocado, Chicago; the Dewey,
Minneapolis; the Star, in st. Paul, and
Trocado, Omaha. He was also manager and
proprietor of several travelling burlesque
companies.
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Fine Well in Jay County.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PORTLAND, Ind, May u.-An oil we'll
on the Adair farm. near Polling. was put
TO pumping yesterday. and is developing
into one'of the best in the field. In the
first two and one-half hours the we'll made
271a barrels. this making the production
equal to go barrels daily. This makes il
one of the very best in the field.
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surrendered At wfnche.ter.
ecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, Ind, May 31.-wfliam
Norman. who shot and probably mortally
wounded Charles Stevens at Bartonia yes
terday. is now In tail here awaiting the re-
suit of the shooting. He came here with
his attorney, Martin B. Trainor. from
Greenviile. o.. and surrendered TO she off,
GERS. Physicians Of Union City to-day sue
cessfully probed Stevens's wound and re-
moved the ball. but they cannot at this
time determine II the shot will prove fatal.
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Local Ob.ervations ON Thur.dnx.


C. F. r.
Local Forecast Oncial.
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No Paid Department at Seymour.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
SEYMOUR. Ind, May 31.-The City
Council tonight Indemnity postponed an
ordinance granting to Leslie & Moore a
twenty-years franchise of the streets for
an electric street car line. The parties nave
been granted a fifty-years franchise by
the County Commissioners over the roads
of the county. The Council also refused to
pass an ordinance to put In an electric fire
alarm system and a paid fire department.
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, the Indianapolis JournaI.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
CROWN POINT, Ind, May 31.-Former
Senator ]. Kopelke. of this city, after con-
sulting his friends throughout the State,
has announced his candidacy for Lieu
tenant Governor before the Democratic
convention at indianapolis next Wednes-
day.
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for hours looking at one spot. Mental col
lapse is also indicated by the irritable dis
position the prisoner Is developing. When
aroused from his apparent stupor he wants
to quarrel. He had a row to-day with the
attorneys his wife engaged to defend him
and finally dismissed them. The Hon.
Frank B. Posey probably will defend the
prisoner. The coroner will render his YER
dict In the morning. and IL is understood
will charge Keith with being the murderer
of Miss Kifer.
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Epworth League District Meeting.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VERNON, Ind. May Sl-The session of
the Epworth League of the subdistrict. Of
the Seymour district, consisting Of the
counties of Scott, Jackson and Jennings,
is being held at the NJ. Z. Church, here,
to-day and tomorrow. DIR. Baxter. pre-
siding elder. of Seymour, is assisting in the
session.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 31.-Much of
the equipment and material is being re-
moved from the northern mill to the south
ern mill, both of which are owned by the
Republic Iron and Steel Company. This is
taken to mean that the northern mill is not
to be operated again. The southern mill is
a modern mill and can be operated at an
advantage possessed by only a few of the
mills in the trust. 1t is also said that much
of the work now done at the Central Iron
and Steel Company's mill. in Brazil, will
be transferred to the mill here.
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Thresher Trust Plans.
lie Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, May 31.-A meeting
was held here tonight which it is thought
indicates a movement to renew the negotia-
lions for a thresher trust, which has been
in contemplation for several months. but
which for various reasons failed to ma
terialize. although options were secured on
try. These options expired Jan. / last. The
meeting tonight was between A. A. Nc
Kahn, of Indianapolis, promoter of the COM
bination. and representatives Of the two
local companies.
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While Sergeant Giblin was passing Ken
lucky avenue and West street carly this
morning he saw a colored man with a large
bag. He found IL contained a dozen or
name as Jesse Waldron. and. as he could
not satisfactorily account for HIS possess
sion Of the poultry at such an hour ana
place. he was sent 70 police headquarters
= charged with petit larceny.
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J. PLUvIUs STILL ANGRY.
Will Continue to Flood Indiana To-
Day and Possibly To-Morrow.

WASHINGTON. May s1.-Forecast for
Friday and Saturday:
For O~hio-Showers Friday: Saturday
partly cloudy. possibly showers: winds
mostly fresh southerly.
For nlinois-Showers and thunderstorm
on Friday Saturday partly cloudy. possibly
showers; winds mostly fresh easterly.
For Indiana-Showers on Friday: Satur-
day partly cloudy, possibly showers; winds
mostly fresh southerly.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, Ind, May 31.-This
morning, at the home of Thomas Ashton,
while his son and two boys named Miller
and Barnes. all about eight years old. were
playing soldier" the Barnes boy leveled
a shotgun at young Miller and pulled the
trigger. The gun was discharged and the
Miller boys shoulder was shattered.