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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

WEST POINT. n. ", July 17.-Fffty
members of the two companies of the en-
gineer's corps stationed at Willet's Point
reported to Major Goethal here to-day for
duty. They have been sent here TO bring
Company L up TO its full strength-l5O
men. The company Will leave here next
Monday for San Francisco and go from
there TO China. Company L is the star
company of the battalion and served
through the Santiago campaign. The COM
pany commanders are Captain linn. of
Pennsylvania; First Lieut.. j. p. Javey, OF
Georgia, and Second Lieut.. John r. Stat
terry, OF Ohio. The last named graduated
last month from the Military Academy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Hull wants an Extra session.

CHICAGO, July 17.-Representative J. A.
T. Hull, of Iowa, chairman of the House
committee on military affairs and author
of the Hull military bill. is at the Audi
torium for the summer as a member of the
Republican national congressional commit
tee. OF the Chinese crisis he said:
II believe there should be an extra ses-
sion of Congress. / believe the American
people will not shirk their duty. They are
strong and the are not cowardly. They
will not permit Russia, Germany, England
and France TO bear the brunt of the battle
and themselves to come in after all is over
TO claim a choice in the settlement. Amer
lea has its own citizens 20 protect; it's own
minister has been murdered; its own COM
mercial interests in China are at stake.
Perhaps, as an Iowan, a citizen of the
State in which Conger was loved and hon
ored, 1 feel more intensely thar do Amer
leans in generals: but / do not believe it.
TT adjutant general of Iowa tells me
Iowa can raise two regiments in twenty
four hours. General Wheeler tells me the
whole South is aflame and that they cry
out TO be allowed 10 go to China.
IAN extra session OF Congress may be
needed TO give the Nation the power TO
exert it's force in China Under the pres
ent law. unless there is a declaration of
war by Congress. the President has not
the power 10 raise volunteers.
II believe china has deliberately planned
the whole movement. / think she has been
arming herself against the world ever since
The Japanese war. We know she bought
100000 German Mausers. and 1t appears she
has also Krupps and Creusots. The arms
we have been believing were sent TO Hong
Kong for secret shipment into the Philip
pines / feel certain were destined for
China herself"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Transport Sail. for China.

SAN FRANCISCO. July H.-The trans
port Sumner. bearing a detachment OF
troops, surgeons and hospital assistants.
sailed to-day for Nagasaki. where IL is
believed further orders will be received
directing the vessel to proceed TO Taku,
China. At least two officers who sailed on
the transport are under direct orders 70
join the forces under the command Of Brig
adler General Chaffee, at TAX These are
Major William Stephenson, surgeon in the
regular army. and Second Lieutenant Jo-
seph A. Barr. Sixth Cavalry.
The transport California sailed for the
Philippines to-day with stores.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
THOUSANDS OF MISSIONARIES.
The Rev. s. I. Woodbridge Says They
Are i'm Great Danger.

SAN FRANCISCO, July ia passenger
on the Coptic from China to-day was the
Rev. S. /. Woodbridge. a Presbyterian mis-
the Yang-Tse river. for the past fifteen
years. He was accompanied by his wife
and children. The whole city was greatly
excited and on the verge of an uprising
when Woodbridge left Chin-Kiang on June
10. In fact, a day had been fixed for the
destruction of all property owned by the
foreigners and the foreigners themselves.
There are literally thousands of mis-
sionaries in the great valley of the Yang
Use river and farther on i'm the Interior
said Woodbridge. Just before l left Chin
Kiang / telegraphed TO 200 Presbyterian
missionaries to wait no longer. but to get
down to Shanghai as quickly as possible.
The fate of all the Yang-Tse country hangs
on the words of two viceroys. One of them
is Chen Chi Tung. at Han-Kow. The other
is Lieu Kun Yih. at Marking. If these
men waiver an uprising of terrible proper
tons will result among the millions in that
thickly populated portion of the empire.
'Dr. Worth. a grandson of Governor
Worth. of North Carolina. had a house and
hospital at Kiang-Yin and was ordered
by the natives TO leave, as his property
was to be burned. IL he remaised he was
to be murdered.
American Consul Martin telegraphed for
a gunboat just before 1 left Chin-Kiang.
but II is not likely that one could be sent
to him. as all the vessels had gone on 10
Taku. This leaves the situation very bad
to hin-Kiang."
The Rev. Robert Coltman. n Presbv-
TARTAN rnfNfafap aud HE IA - 49,
and w l.. Ireland and \. Mathese, min
ing engineers, We're other arrivals on the
Coptic direct from Tien-Tsin. Mr.. Colt
man left behind him in Picking a son and
his wife and their six children. The aged
couple left Picking May s. Minister Con-
ger dined with them and their son the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
BY STORM AND FLOOD
AT LEAST ELEVEN PERSONS
DROWNED NEAR COLEMAN, TEX.
Sixteen Inches of Rain Fell i'm a Single
Hour-Many Other Lives Are Be-
Hcved to Have Been Lost.

COLEMAN. Tex, July 1.-THE number of
dead caused by yesterdays cloudburst may
never be known. Eleven persons are known
TO have persisted in the rush of waters.
and II Is believed that several campers in
the valley below Coleman were caught in
the flow and swept away.
The known Dead
NJ. PATE.
MRS. NJ. PATE.
BERTHE ATE.
LIZZIE PATE.
j. n. CHEEK.
MRS J. n. CHEEK.
ANNIE BROWN.
IVEY BROWN.
j. o. STACEY.
JOSEPH s. PATH.
JOHN ENLISSTINE.
1t is almost certain that others have been
drowned. and for miles along the creeks
below the town hundreds of people are en-
gagged in a search for bodies.
The rivers and creeks around Coleman
have been on a rampage for several days,
owing to excessively heavy rains. Early
yesterday morning Hoard's creek began to
rise at a rapid rate. and within an hour
the entire valley below the town was over
spread by the encroaching waters. Rain
descended i'm torrents. and before several
people could realize their danger they were
caught in the food and swept away. Seven
miles north of Coleman sixteen inches of
rain fell in less than an hours time.
Mr.. Cheek and his wife were visitors
from Milan county. Texas. Eight of the
flood victims were buried here to-day. The
town has suffered severe property damage,
and business Is temporarily suspended.
The floods and storms have caused a dis
astrous rise in the Medina and Guadaloupe
rivers. those streams having overlooked
their banks and done great damage to
crops.
Samuel Bell. a son of a prominent citizen
of San Antonio, who was with a fishing
party on the Medina river. was drowned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, July T.-In a let
ter to a personal friend In Huntsville, Sem
ator John T. Morgan. of Alabama, gives
his opinion on the Chinese questions as
follows:
we have reached the point where ex-
pansion divides itself into a question of
influences guaranteed by treaty and a ques-
ton Of occupancy. Expansion by occupancy
stops at the border. yet expansion by in
1uence has occurred in China under the
commandment Go We into all the world
etc., and we are compelled to support it
with all our power and at great expense
without the hope of reward in land or
money.
"The situation there is too serious to be
managed by the President without the aid
Of Congress, and I am expecting a called
session of Congress-"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Ho Vow Expect. His Passports.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. July I.-Ho Vow.
the imperial consul general of the Chinese
empire. is officially preparing to receive
passports for himself and his attaches. In
an interview he said: 81 understand that
Minister WI. at Washington. is ready to
leave at any time. ] have not as yet re-
ceived definite orders. from him."
Continuing Ho Vow added: 9TH Chinese
i'm this State are TO a man, heart and soul
against the Boxers and the awful crime
they are committing against humanity. I
have Just attended a meeting of the lead
ing Chinese merchants of San Francisco,
at which IL was decided that they would
Immediately close their business here. II
necessary and offer their services 20 the
United States as volunteers TO go 10 China
and fight under the Chinese flag with the
allied powers"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Said to BE Misleading.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-At the Chinese
legation IL is said officially that the state
ments in Consul General Vows interview
are misleading. So far as the legation Of
dcials here are informed no preparations
are being made for the receipt OF passports
by Chinese officials in this country. Ger
tainly, no orders. definite or indefinite. up
on the subject have BEEN issued. IL is said.
by Minister WI. Legation officials dis
claim any knowledge of the statements Of
fact may by Consul Ho.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

NEW YORK, July 17.-One hundred ma
rines were called upon for active service in
China at the Brooklyn navy yard to-day.
To a man they expressed a willingness and
a desire to go. These marines, with de-
tachments from Boston, Washington and
Norfolk, will leave here for San Fran
cisco on July &c. The Brooklyn men will be
In charge of Lieut.. III. I. Matthews and T..
b.. Beckstrom. Many of them nave seen
service in Cuba.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
Howard willing to Surrender.

MIDDLESBORO. Ky, July T1.-Berry
Howard has written a letter to r. c.. Ford
in which he states that he is anxious TO
surrender to the authorities, and will do so
any day If the commonwealth will grant
him bond. He further says he is prepared
To give bond In any sum from $4,000 to 500
600. He says his business interests would
be ruined If he had to lie in Jail for sew
eral months.
Howard is charged with completely i'm
the murder of Senator Goebel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

OF the Department of the Lakes, has re-
ceived orders to forward TO San Francisco
the two battalions of United States in
fantry which are on their way here from
Cuba, their ultimate destination being Chi
ma or the Philippines. The troops will
reach New York Thursday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
NEAR THE KOREAN FRONTIER.
Boxers Destroy a Mission Station Near
an American Concession.

an American concession.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE secretary
of state has received a dispatch from Mr..
Allen, the American minister in Korea,
saying that the Boxers, on Saturday, July
IA, destroyed a Catholic mission three miles
from the Korean boundary and fifty miles
from the American mines.
1t is believed at the State Department
that the American mines referred to are
the gold mines concessions in Ping-Yang,
the most northern province of Korea and
one which abuts on Manchuria. While the
dispatch is not explicit, ii is thought that
the disturbance occurred on the Manchu-
rian side of the border and therefore more
than fifty miles from the nearest American
settlement. 1t probably means an extern
sion of the northern Boxer movement and
portends additional trouble for Russia, in
keeping open her lines of communication
in Manchuria, and northward from Port
Arthur.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

WILLIAMS. Ariz., July I7.-News reached
here to-day of the death OF j. NJ. Meneck.
aged hfty. upon the desert of southern
Utah Meueck left here June "a. in COM
pany with four others. for southern Utah
In quest OF "A far-famed lost copper mine.
lie was a representative of the Smithsoni-
an institution. and was making a careful
study OF that section Of the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

six guns each. cne-pounders of the same
make. with a thousand rounds of ammuni-
ton for each gun. also have been ordered
in England. TO be shipped TO this country
at the earliest possible moment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
MORE HOPEFUL.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)

month. should go forward next Sunday, in
command of Major. Randolph Dickens.
A cablegram to Admiral Remey, calling
for some additional information upon which
to act. was formulated at the Cabinet meet
ing and dispatched at once.
Another meeting of the Cabinet may be
held tomorrow. 1t is the present intention
of the President TO return to Canton Thurs
day evening. unless his presence here is
deemed necessary at that time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

COPENHAGEN. July 1.-THE Danish
mission station at Fung-Kwang-Tung, or
the peninsula of Liao-Tung. has been de-
stroyed. The missionaries escaped to Che
mulpo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

WASHINGTON. July i7.-The State De-
partment has builetined the following:
''rhe secretary OF state has received a dis
patch from Consul Mcwade. at Canton. in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

ocratic politicians here oppose the calling
OF an extra legislative session this fall TO
2nn4r
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18

Time flies and 50 do diseases Of the skin when
that iacomparable puriier OF the cuticie ana
oeantfner OF the complexion. Cleans sulphur
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biotches. sores and bruises. and the like Are
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-18
U.efuI Articles for InyaIids.

Reclining and Rolling Chairs for parlor and
ytreet, Carrying Chairs. Wheeled Couches, Food
Ererilizers and Desiccators. Feeding and Spit
Cups, Electric Belts, Insoles and Batteries.
Bath Cabinets.
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O. and ZIG s. Meridian street Indianapolis. Ind.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-11
Havoc Wrought by a Beer Bottle.

Farmers in cur extreme northwest
ern states have been greatly puzzled
over the origin of fires occurring. upon
their prairies far remote from locomo-
tive sparks. in sections not visited by
In iians and at seasons of the year
when there were no hunters in the
country. They have carefully traced
back the progress of these fires until in
each case they have found the flames
proceeded from point in the grass
where lay castaway beer bottle, itself
the focal point of all the trouble. The
spherical glass in the bottom had acted
as a powerful concentrating prism and
through this the suns rays had fred
the dry plain. Thus the traffic which
corrupts politics endangers rural pros-
perity. On the whole will not some
body rise up to tell us what class in the
community the brewery does benefit
and how?
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-11

to be that to find a halfway decent
sort of tout was a task few cared to
undertake. Everybody waszpess.mistic
pressing an opinion said:
give been listening to you folks tell
your experiences, and when you say
that there isn't an honest tout I want
to tell you of little experience had
with one of those fellows last week.
and I'm sure that when 1 get through
you will say as l do, that there is a
good one to be found now and then.
I'd been playing in the hardest kind of
luck all day. and when it came time for
the fifth race had no great trouble in
counting my roll, which amounted to
just $3.50. picked out long shot as
a last hope, and went around In quest
of the best odds. Soon l ran across a
book that was laying 10 to 1 to win,
and A to a place, and / was about to
hand up my bet of So to win and So for
q look-in, when an arm was thrust
over my shoulder and voice exclaim-
ed: Five straight and place. and the
owner Of the arm mentioned the name
of the very horse l had intended to
play. The bookmaker took the money.
Then, before 1 could open my mouth.
he put down the odds. 1 said was in
line, and he should have taken my bet
first, and it was tough to be shut out
that way when fellow was down to
his last few dollars, but 1t wasn't any
use.
"Just then the man who'd got ahead
of me said: Say, can understand just
how you feel, and I'll take you on for a
place bet, at least This struck me as
being kind proposition, and we settled
that he should take my whole S. for a
place at to 1. He hurried away from
me as soon as he got my five. and then
it occurred to me that maybe was up
against it, for had recognized my kind
friend as one of the best-known touts at
the big tracks. The horse had picked
won the race, and with little hope of
ever seeing the fellow again 1 went
over to the free field to find him. l
couldn't, and was on my way back to
the grand stand calling myself q
chump, when heard some one yelling
at me and saw one of the bookmakers
beckoning. walked over to him. and
he was the man who had shut me out
on the bet was going to make.
Amt you the man that made bet
with fellow here while ago on so
and so for placer he said. answered
that I was. and he told me that he had
something that was left by man for
me. You can imagine my surprise when
he handed me out $25 with the explana-
ton that my friend was in hurry and
could not wait, so had left the money
for me. AS l counted the money
thought hard, and since then l take
credit for having discovered the first
honest tout any of us has ever known"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-11
Fresh Views Of Life.

Much might be said on the wisdom
of taking constantly fresh view oi
life. 1t is one of the moral uses of the
night that it gives the world anew to
us every morning, and of sleep that it
makes life daily recreation
God is thus all the while presenting the
cup of life afresh to our lips. Thus.
after night of peaceful sleep, we be-
hold the world as new and fresh and
wonderful as it was on the first morn
ing of creation when God pronounced
it Every good,' And sleep itself is a
divine alchemy that gives us ourselves
with our primitive energy OF body and
mind
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-11
No Political Bosses in England.

The British voter knows nothing Of
delegates, conventions or party mana
gers. He walks into the polling booth
Fand votes directly for the man of his
choice. 1t Is true that both the Con-
servative (now the UnionisD and the
Liberal parties have paid official who
is supposed to undertake general super
vision Of party interests in the elector-
ate throughout the kingdom. He Is
generally consulted by constituencies
in the selection Of a candidate. What
he tenders in response is advice, not in
struction. Nothing is calculated more
quickly to put up the back of con-
stituency than any movement having
the appearance of dictation from Lon
dom
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-11
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A sheet of water one inch thick and
one acre in area weighs 101 tons.
An old Danish galley was recently
dug up in England, while an excava-
ton was being made. Its timbers
are of oak and elm and they are well
preserved The vessel is assigned to
the time of Alfred the Great, which
old. An antique sword and some bones
of animals now extinct in England
were also found.
Some of the vast changes which the
face of the earth has undergone are
indicated by the recent discovery In the
small lakes scattered among the ex-
tinct volcanoes of Auvergne in France
of the survival of certain forms Of ma
rine animals. Salt plains exist there
whose deposits were formed before vol
canic forces upheaved the surrounding
rocks and created mountain peaks and
craters.
1t has been asserted that insects are
particularly attracted by the colors of
certain flowers. Felix Plateau, after
investigating the conduct of insects In
their visits to various flowers, con-
cludes that while they may perceive
colors and thus be enabled to distin-
guish, at a distance, between flowers
and leaves, yet they show no prefer
ences among the different colors. Blue,
red, yellow, white are Indifferent to
them. He thinks that the odor OF flow
ers affects insects more than their col
ors do.
The experiments of the French grape
growers in Algeria have shown that
too much sunshine Is unfavorable for
the making of good wine. In the more
temperate climate of France grapes
possess a proper proportion Of sugar
to acid for wine making, but the hot
Algerian sunshine induces so active an
assimilation by the vines that the
quantity Of acid Is reduced and that of
sugar Is increased. In consequence,
the wine makers of Algeria are driven
to many devices for improving the fla
vor and lasting quality of their wines.
X-rays have been subjected to
novel purpose In Calcutta. A thief was
supposed to have stolen diamond
worth 10000 rupees and to have effec-
tually secreted 1t on his person by
swallowing it. Expert thieves in India
temporarily secrete small yaluables of
this description in the throat. 1t is
called "pouching," and the thieves un-
dergo special training in order to rem
der them proficient in the art. The
plan Is simple. A small piece of lead
is attached to a thread, and this the
neophyte swallows, then by the action
of his tongue he guides the lead to
the orifice of the sac in the throat. The
pupil is prevented from completely
swallowing the lead by the piece Of
thread which the teacher holds. When
the man has become skillful in this act
of swallowing, the leaden pellet is coat
ed with lime, which has the effect of
enlarging the sac so that it becomes
capable of retaining large articles. In
the case of Calcutta the Roentgen rays
revealed the presence of some obstacle
| in the throat, but its precise identity
| could not be gathered.