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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-07
R ICA DELUDED
FRIGHTENED INTO LOSING FAITH IN
VALUE OF THEIR MONEY
Introduction of the American Dollar
Made the Occasion of a General
Increase i'm Prices.
,or-respoDsence Of The Associated Press.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Aug. To-day
marks the beginning OF a general raising
of prices throughout the island. caused by
a misunderstanding of the exchange OF
currency. Until a week ago II was be-
lieved that after Aug. 1 no more Porto Ri
can silver would be exchanged, although
the notice of the indefinite extension of
time was published far and wide. Still the
idea prevails that hereafter the peso will
be of no value. Yesterday the banks were
crowded after hours. Through a combina-
ton of the traders throughout the island
foodstuffs and other necessities rose In
price. With a very large numbe ii was
moving day-a day for fitting from ex-
cessively increased rents TO cheaper lodg-
ings. 1t was also a day on which money
that usually bought breakfast and dinner
bought breakfast alone. Eggs. that here
tofore were bought for 2 or 3 centavos, cost
10 centavos; the carbon for boiling these
eggs, instead of costing 10 centayos. costs
% centavos. The cost of every other arti-
Gle of food was raised in about the same
proportion. The wall OF complaint was
general Houses, which have rented for so
pesos $500, are now supposed TO bring $50.
Furnished rooms at 10 pesos ($6) now bring
$40. The iaborer. who has been getting a
peso a 0ay tbU centSD, now uemdnOS Sl- Inc
boatmen who ply across the bay, hereto
fore getting 10 c~entavos. to-day ask IL
cents. And so it is right down the line.
According TO. circulars which were distrib-
uted about town yesterday, all carpenters
and masons who belong to the socialistic
union will go on strike to-day and demand
So per day. 1t was commonly reported also
that all laborers were TO strike to-day for
the same amount in American money for
merly pafd them in pesos.
This raise in nPippS iS the result of a
gradual increase, a centavo or so at a
is evident that a combination exists, as the
asking tho same prices. and the increase
is uniform about town among the stores
selling staples. Several instances were
brought to the attention of the newspa-
pers where purchasers were told that, COM
mencing with to-day, all prices will be
American money. There were few country
produce vendors in town yesterday, and il
is currently reported that the merchants
nave gone out into the country and bought
up all available stock. thus controlling the
market and leaving them free to ask their
own prices.
According to kilograms received i'm this
city from many interior towns the shops
are closed and the peso is refused in pay
ment for goods. The more ignorant of the
people believe that the dollar tomorrow
will be of no more value than the peso-in
other words, that the dollar. which has al
ways been worth 166 centavos. will de-
teriorate in value So centavos. 1t is feared
riots and bloodshed will result before the
matter Is adjusted.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The provision
ing OF Germany's naval forces for the China
campaign has been greatly inteTfered with
by the scarcity OF canned meats In the en-
pire. according 10 a report TO the State
Department from United States Consul
Hugh Pitcairn at Hamburg. The naval au-
thorities at Kiel. he says, are compelled 10
buy canned meats at a high price In foreign
countries because of the inability OF Ger
many 10 supply home demands. Consul
Pitcairn transmits an article published
In a Denmark newspaper telling OF
an order for 10000 pounds Of
sausage placed by the German
government at Slagelse. for use on the
Chinese squadron. He also sends an article
published I'm a Hamburg newspaper giving
further evidence of the straits TO which
Germany has been brought in supplying
her ships crews bound for Chinese waters
with meat. American canned meats. the
latter article says. have been largely used
IN supplying the Germany navy. The army.
1t states. is supplied by two large meat
preserving plants at Spandau and Mainz.
ard there is an urgent necessity for Great
ing new plants and extending the old ones
TO such a degree that the provisioning OF
both the army and the navy can be ac-
complished by the home industry alone.
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out of a diseased or enfeebled condition
of the delicate female orgars. When
these conditions are removed, and vital
ity and elasticity given TO the organs of
motherhood, it frequently follows that
the home is gladdened by the coming of
a healthy, happy infant.
There Is no other medicine that will
do as much for women as DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. 1t dries up disa-
greeable drains, allays inflammation,
heals liberation, cures female weak
ness, and establishes the delicate wom-
anly organs in a state Of perfect health
and vigor.
There is no alcohol, opium or other
narcotic in "Favorite Prescription"
Any sick woman may consult DR.. r.
V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y, by letter,
free. Every letter is held as strictly
private and sacredly confidential.
"Ihad been a sufferer from uterine trouble for
about three years, having two miscarriages IN
that time. and the doctors that consulted said I
would have to 90 through an operation before I
could give birth to living children" writes Mrs.
Blanche T. Evans. of Parsons, Luzerne Co. Pa.
when about to give up in despair I saw the
advertisement of DR.. Pierce's medicine and
thought / would give IL a trial as a last resort. I
bought a bottle OF DR.. Picrce's Favorite Pre-
scription. and after taking il felt better than I
bad for years. After taking four and a half bot
four months old and has not had a day Of sick
ness. cannot say too much in praise OF DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription"
DIR. Pierce's Pellets are a boon to
women of constipated habit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-07
CIRCUS "TERRoRs" CAPTURED.
Twelve TroubIcmukers Captured by
Minnesota MiIitiamen.

DULUTH. Mimi. Aug. Zone hundred
militiamen left here last night for Cloquet.
MINI. to effect the capture OF the circus
crowd who have been terrorizing the small
towns in northern Minnesota. The militia
men arrived there during the night. and
when the circus train pulled IN quietly sur
rounded II and waited for daylight. The
circus people knew nothing OF their pres
snce until to-day. Twelve or the circus
men wanted by tho sherins of Cass and
Hubbard counties for assault were picked
out and taken 10 Cass Lake. The men
made no resistance. doc" Baker, OF
Texas. who Is believed TO be the leader OF
the gang. was not found so far as known
here. The twelve men taken into custody
will have their trial at Cass Lake. The
militiamen returned 10 Dulut to-day.
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Copy Of Statement Of the Condition
OF THE
UNITED STATES
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
On the 3Oth day of June, 1900.

1t is located at No. 4s Pine street. In
New York.
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JOHN MILTON GAAR.
Aged Richmond Banker Is Seriously
Hl-POssibility of Recovery.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND. Ind, Aug. 6.-The friends
of John Milton Gaar are much alarmed
over the condition of his health, which is
anything but good. He is suffering from a
complication of troubles, and his advanced
age~-seventy-six y~ears-makes his recovery
a matter of some doubt. Mr.. Gaar is one
of the best known and wealthiest residents
of eastern indian He is the president
of both the Second National Bank and the
Gaar, Scott * Co. thresher works, the own
er of a large amount of real estate and is
interested in numerous other enterprises,
the Richmond Natural Gas Company being
one.
DR.. T. Henry Davis, the attending physi-
and timate that recovery is not impossi-
BILE.
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Victor B. Fay.

PINE BLUFF, Ark, Aug. 6.-victor b.
Fay, of Washington City. connected with
the United States bureau of forestry, died
at the Truelock Hotel here to-day. He
was with a party from the bureau who
came here to make a working plan for the
Sawyer and Austin timber tract near here.
Included in the party were a number of
Harvard. Yale and Cornell students. Fay
was a Harvard man. Exposure in the
woods and lack of good water caused
typhoid fever from which he died.
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Indiana Notes.

The State Camp of the Patriotic Order,
Sons of America, whose headquarters Is
in Charlottesville, will be held In Indian
apolis Tuesday, Aug. IA.
Fires are lighted in the window glass
trusts factories in Fairmount. and notices
have been sent out to the men to he ready
for work Monday, Sept. 3.
William NJ. Moss, who has edited the
Bloomfield Democrat for more than twenty
years, has sold the property to James r.
Barron, of Troy. o., for $500.
p. K. Sherman, the Oldest business man
of Sullivan. is seriously i'll at his home in
that city. He is the senior partner of the
dry goods house of Sherman & Son.
Men employed on the streets of Wabash
refused to go to work, yesterday, on ac-
count of the severe heat. The temperature,
Sunday n Monday, was 50 degrees In the
shade.
The Fountain county Republican con-
vention will be held at Covington Satur-
day, Aug. IL. The Hon. c.. b. Lands the
Hon. w. L. Taylor and Chairman Hernly
are on the list of speakers. -,
In a free-for-all fight at Redkey Sat
urday night Noah Turner received four
knife wounds. and may die. Gimp" Rob-
erts had his throat badly slashed, but the
knife missed the juglar vein, and he may
recover.
A. d. Scott. of Sullivan. secretary of the
Indiana Bituminous Miners Association,
has resigned to become the manager of a
large mine at rdrnuIH, " va VIII
be succeeded as secretary by p. II. Penna.
of Linton.
The annual reunion of the Fort anil
of Indiana will be held near Knightstown,
Saturday, Aug. IL. F. o. Fort, of Green
field, is secretary. and Captain John Fort.
of Indianapolis, is president. About two
hundred members of the family will be
present.
The Consumers Fuel Supply Company,
of Anderson. supplying the Philadelphia
Quartz Company. the Columbia Encaustic
Tile Company, Wilkie Refrigerator Com
pany and the Meridian and Pennsylvania
glass factories, as we'll as the residents of
the south part of Anderson, have notified
their consumers that gas meters will be
used on their line this season.
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SAILORS ON STRIKE.
Joining the Suckers and Bunker Men
of La Bretagne at Havre.

HAvRE. Aug. 6.-The strike among the
stokers and bunker men Of the French line
steamer La Bretagne. which was scheduled
to sail for New York Saturday, and. which
has been delayed here by the trouble, is
assuming great proportions. The sailors
are now joining in the movement. Some
disturbances have occurred, but nothing
serious in that direction has happened.
Arrangements have been made by NJ.
Waldeck-Rosseau, the premier, and NJ. De
Lanessan. the minister of marine, for the
sailing of La Bretagne at 5 o'clock to-mor-
row morning. Two warships lying along
side the liner have supplied the necessary
fremen.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
REDKEY, Ind, Aug. 6.-This morning
at $3.50 o'clock the big twelve-inch steam
line at the Ohio and Indiana Gas Company's
pumping station burst while being re-
paired, and hurled to the ground Peter
Farver and Jack Mound, who were repair
ing a leak, seriously scalding both men,
but it is thought not fatally. The side of
the building was blown out and the foun-
dation of two of the big boilers badly
wrecked. Quite a number of the employees
narrowly escaped serious injury from fly
ing brick.
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BOYCOTT PROPOSED.
People Asked Not to Patronixc the
Canadian Pacific Railway.

WINNIPEG. Man, Aug. 6.-The strikers
met to-day and passed resolutions asking
citizens not to patronize the Canadian Pa
Cific trains, excursions, etc. A committee
was also appointed to wait on the caterers
whose annual excursion to Rat Portage,
requiring five trains, is to be held Thursday
next, asking that it be Cancelled. Other
railway orders are expressing strong feel
ing in favor of the strikers and all have
recently held secret meetings. The COM
I&ny has issued a circular stating its side
@. the case. This was sent to provincial
Joints and will not be made public until
tomorrow. Officials are silent.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Arrived: Mar
cuette. from London; Tauric. from Liver
pool. Sailed: Montserrat, for Cadiz, BARGE
Iona and Genoa.
YOKOHAMA. Aug. ARRIVED: Nippon
Maru. from San Francisco, via Honolulu
for Hong-Kong.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. e.-Sailed: Koeni-
gin Luise. from Bremen for New York.
BREMEN. Aug. 6.-Arrived: Friedrich
der Crosse, from New York.
ANTWERP. Aug. 6.-Arrived: South
wark. from New York.
NAPLES, Aug. 6.-Sailed: Kaiser VIII
helm III, for New York.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 6.-Sailed: Servia,
for New York.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 6.-Overtures
rave been made to the American Window
Glass Company by representatives OF the
Standard for the oil holdings and gas
leases in Madison county, now the prop
erty of the American Window Glass Com.
pany. The latter corporation holds very
valuable property in the immediate vicinity
or Alexandria and includes the Peck farm
end that OF Antoine Lutz. both of which
ave developed some remarkable oil pro-
ducers. Ii is also believed that j. c. Nc
lowell. who purchased the Marion gas
plant for the Standard. has secured an
option on the Fort Wayne Gas COMPANY.
which operates in Anderson for the big oil
trust.
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Transport Mcpherson Not Injured.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-The War De-
partment was informed to-day that the
transport MCPHERSON, with the Fifth In
fantry aboard, en- route for New York from
Cuba, ran agrouua at Second Fortune
island. near Nassau. West Indies, on the
I'd instant. The Mcpherson was got afoat
again on Aug. 4 without having sustained
any serious injury and proceeded on her
homeward way. She is expected in port at
New York next Thursday. The Fifth In
fantry Will probably be sent to China.
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Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. CIV. H. Bauch-
man, who says his home is in Allentown.
Pa, was arrested here Saturday night. and
has been detained by the officers. To-day
IL was learned that he is a professional
confidence man. A score of Anderson busi-
ness men and citizens were swindled by
him. He posed as a contractor for the Big
Four. He also is wanted in a number OF
other cities in Indiana and Ohio. Bauch-
man has beat the hotels in nearly all the
Indiana gas belt cities. and will be prose
cuted to the end.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL, Ind, Aug. 6.-John Tolle,
the fifteen-year-old son of Farmer William
III. Tolle, living two miles in the country,
was seriously. If not fatally. injured here
yesterday evening while a bystander at a
game of baseball being played between two
home teams, being struck in the eye with
a foul ball knocked by John Weber. His
injuries were dressed, and he was taken
to his home in an unconscious condition.
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INDIANA
Alexander Thomson. for Many Year,
Treasurer of Wabash College.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CRAWFORDSYILLE, Ind, Aug. O.
Alexander Thomson, a prominent resident
of this city, died last night. He was born
at Springfield. o., Jan. Is, 1872. and was a
graduate of Miami University at Oxford, o.
He came to this city in 1895. where he has
since resided. He clerked for a time. and
was in the county clerks office for several
years. finally being admitted to the bar.
In 1874 he was elected a trustee of Wabash
College. and served until a year ago, when
he retired on account of his health. He
was the treasurer. of Wabash College for
twenty-one years. The only child surviv-
ing is the Rev. Edwin Peck Thomson, of
Springfield, o. The funeral will be held
Wednesday afternoon.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, Aug. 6-The report Of
Expert Accountant w. A. Crafts, who has
been going over the books of the various
officers in this county makes a showing Of
$4,000 due the county by ex-Clerk Edmund
Johnson. In connection with his report.
however. Mr.. GRATIS explains that the diff
struction put upon the fee and salary law.
The questions involved are now before the
Supreme Court of the State for decision.
There is no possible chance for the count
to lose a cent.
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wealthy Man cIubbed to Death.

NEW YORK. Aug. 6.-From the effects
Of a beating. which he had received this
morning In coney island. Joseph Kerrigan.
. wealthy cattle dealer OF Gravesend. died
tonight I'm the Kings County Hospital.
He was found lying near the trolley-car
tracks. He had hardly q stitch OF clothing
on him and his body was covered with cuts
end bruises A bloodstained club was w.
Ing az his side. His head was cut. his face
6iscoIored and he had been robbed.
unmarried
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Cash on hand and I'm the hands OF
agents or other persons ........... $1,632.H
Bonds owned by the company.
bearing interest at the rate OF
u. per cent, secured as follows:
United States bonds ................. los. 10000
bonds -. lo7.s7.s
Railroad stocks and bonds........-. fS,SO0.o
Loans on bonds and mortgages OF
real estate, worth double the
amount for which the same is
mortgaged. and free from any
prior incumbrance ................ 2S8, 10000
Debts otherwise secured ---........ 3.s9l.09
Debts for premiums .............-.... 12f.417.W
-
Total assets .y42. 9ll.39
LIABILITIES.
Losses adjusted and not due........ &.137.52
Losses unadjusted ................ 32.03S-34
Losses in suspense, waiting for
further proof ...............-. 6.347.38
All other claims against the COM
pany ........... ..............~..... 5S.2Ss.a
Amount necessary TO reinsure out
standing risks ..................... 23lOss.1o
Total liabilities .S3S. sS0.4
The greatest amount in any one risk.
$4,000.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MARION, Ind, Aug. 6.-R. E. Mansfield,
United States consul to Zanzibar. arrived in
Marion to-day. He is IN a sixty days
leave of absence, and will spend some time
at his home in this city. Mr.. Mansfield left
Marion In May. 1899, for Zanzibar. He spent
several months travelling in Europe last
year, and returning by way of Europe
visited the Paris exposition. He says that
he does not have any definite arrangements
made for spending the time during his
short leave of absence, but he probably will
devote most of his time to politics..
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Puddlers, wage Scale signed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Aug. 1.-THE Ohio
Falls Iron Company, at a conference with
the wage committee of Owen Lodge.
Analgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers, tonight signed the pudding
scale, of Sc. 121a a ton, ard the mills will
begin operations Wednesday morning with
the full force of 300 men. The works have
been closed for several days. The scale is
higher than that of last year.
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ASLEEP ON THE TRACK
YOUNG MAN WHO LIVED NEAR
WISDFALL KILLED By CARS.
Young Man Drowned Near Eikhart-
windle Arrested at Anderson
Alexander Thomson Dead.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
WINDFALL. Ind. Aug. 6.-Marion Ellis
residing at Hemlock. formerly of this place
thirty years of ege, was instantly killed
this morning by being struck by a passen-
ger train on the p, c., c. & st. l.. road al
a public highway crossing three miles NORTH
of this place. The young man had beer
working in the tin-plate mill at Elwood
and started to walk home. lie sat dowr
on the track at the crossing. and 1t is sup
posed had fallen asleep, as he made nc
effort TO arise from the track until the trair
was within a few feet of him. Both his
legs, both arms and his neck were broken.
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head OF the central government he said ii
was administered By Prince Tua IN the
rame Of the Emperor.
Count BuciOw. the German foreign minis
ter. has abandoned his usual summer vaca-
zion or the Semnering. and viii go, In
stead, TO, a short stay to the Island OF
Nordaraey in the North sea. conducting
Fore1Sn Office business meanwhile through
ciDher messages.
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ON THE UPPER YANG-TsE.
French Consul mt Chung-king Says
the situation Is Serious.

PARIS. Aug. 6.--The French consul at
Chung-King ~telegraphs under date of Aug.
5 that the situation is becoming more
serious on the upper Yang-Tse Kiang. The
English consul, he says, has left with the
custom house staff and the French consul
intends TO leave with his Japanese col
league. The mail service has been stopped.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PARAMOUNT. Ind, Aug. 6.-The adj
vance guard of race horse men. jockeys.
tent shows and exhibitors are beginning 20
arrive on the fair grounds. Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday give promise of be-
ing the three best days the fair organiza-
ton has ever had. The exhibits far out
number any previous show and there are
more horses to enter the races than ever.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Aug. 6.-The City
Council tonight passed an ordinance grant
ing the New Albany Street-railway Com
pany a thirty-year franchise. for which the
city is to receive $500 a year. A number
of the stockholders of the present COM
pany, which is now in charge of Louis
Hartman as receiver, compose the new
company.
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Blake to Chart the Diamond.

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 6.-The United
States coast survey steamer Blake reached
Town Point. near Norfolk. to-day and is
preparing for her dangerous work off Cape
Hattcras. This Is TO find the best anchor
age ground for the Diamond Shoals light
ship, which guards the most dangerous
point on the Atlantic coast. The Blake will
skirt the outer shoals and chart
them.
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TOLEDO, o., Aug. 6.-Dennis Coughlin,
the wealthiest man in northwestern Ohio,
died at his home in Toledo tonight, after
a lingering illness. He owned many of the
large business blocks in the city and was
a stockholder in many banks, besides being
the owner Of large brewery interests. He
was a native of Ireland and was about
eighty years of age. 1t is estimated tina
his wealth amounted to $4,000. 900.
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SYRACUSE, N. Y, Aug. 6.-Sweet's Steel
Company has made a cut in wages averag-
ing about II per cent. Depression in the
steel market was given as the cause. The
men had a conference with w. a. Sweet.
president of the company, to-day, but no
agreement was reached, and most of the
men refused to work.