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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26

CHICAGO, Feb. 25-Swedish- Americans
who fought In the civil and Spanish-Ameri-
can wars. both in the army and navy, held
a meeting here to-day and perfected an
organization to be known as the Swedish
American Veterans Association. Ernest
@. Dahl was elected president. The gath
ering was representative of every branch
of the service and included gray-haired
war of the rebellion, sailors who fought
with Dewey, others who participated in the
naval battle off Santiago. members of regi-
ments which took part in the storming of
Manila and many soldiers who had seen
service in Cuba. The bulk of the present
membership is from Young's cavalry and
the First, Second and Seventh Illinois in
fantry regiments
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WILL VISIT EUROPE.
Cardinal Gibbons to Make Another
Trip Across the Atlantic.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-The Post to-mor-
row will say: Cardinal Gibbons is pre-
pairing to vacate the archdiocese Temporal
rily, with a view of visiting Rome and
other points in Europe. This visit will be
the fifth which the cardinal has made since
October, 1869, year and two months after
his conservation in Baltimore as the titular
bishop of North Carolina. The present
visit of the cardinal will be memorable in
religious annals, for at the dedication and
solemn opening of the new cathedral of
Westminster, England, on June %. Cardi-
nal Gibbons has been invited by Cardinal
Herbert Vaughan to preach the inaugural
sermon. In order to sing pontifical mass
at the Baltimore cathedral on Easter Sun
day he will not leave until after Easter
which will give him ample time to reach
Rome for the approaching canonization
of Jean Baptiste LaSalle, founder of the
Christian Brothers, on May "a. Bishop AL
fred Curtis. vicar general of this archdio-
cese. will administer its affairs in his alb
Sence."
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Scenes I'm and About Manila.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HAGERSTOWN. Ind, Feb. 25.-A letter
from James Hanley, Company B. Fortieth
United States Volunteers. now at San
PHILIPPE. Philippine islands. contains
some novel descriptions OF GUS
toms and scenes in and about Manila.
After describing the position of the regi-
ment. the letter says: lone of our out
posts Is right on the Pasig river There
is firing along the line almost all the time
Shots are exchanged almost day and night
and we the natives almost any
time. We are right close To where Law
ton was killed. There Is fighting every
day on our right and left and there is
hardly night that some one on the out
posts Is not shot or cut up with bolos
The Pasig river Is navigable for
forty miles above Manila. You can ride all
over Manila on street cars for cents.
but a man can walk faster than the cars
go. The cars are drawn by ponies not
much larger than a big dog The peo-
pie carry almost everything on their heads
/ saw a woman going TO market with a
hog. that would weigh l5o pounds. on her
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 25.-The Hi
bernian Benevolent Society of this city to-
day adopted resolutions OF sympathy with
the Beers in their war with Great Britain.
The expression concludes:
Resolved, That while We hope every
moral support possible will be offered by
the people of America to their brethren
of the South African republics in their
heroic struggle, We urge upon President
Mckinley and his Cabinet the necessity for
the strictest construction of the neutrality
laws against England so that the power
of the American Republic may not, even
by silence which may be misrepresented
or misunderstood. be thrown into the scale
against the people of our sister republics
of South Africa"
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 25.-Constable
Meyers, at Ehrmandale, was arrested for
opening letter addressed to another man
and United States Commissioner Higgins
has set the preliminary hearing for March
3. Meyers IS a miner, as well as constable,
and recently caused the arrest of a number
of miners accused of disorderly conduct.
The other miners then demanded his dis
charge by the company and the demand
being refused they went on a strike. Now
they have found new method of fighting
him.
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Lacking I'm knowledge.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The secretary of the State Boerd OF
Health of In iiana, who is quoted as saying
that the bubonic plague will reach Indiana
in two years. talks lot of nonsense, and
as an alarmist has zeal. but not according
to knowledge. The bubonic plague may
get into the United States but 4: is not
likely. Ii is being kept ol.t Of northern
/: hose who know most about II talk least
Ike the Indiana official. He should talk
the matter over with Surgeon General Wy
man and othsr sxperts before he gives out
such interviews In the future, rs they are
foolish and may make many doubt The
value of the equipped efforts at prevention
now In operation at all pJr.s OF tho Cniied
States. and successfully. toa.
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Clock in a Mastodon's vertebra.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, Feb. 25.-Henry
Gwinn, farmer near here. is the owner
of a unique clock. The clock itself is a
commonplace round-faced affair of mod
ern manufacture. but the frame in which
IL Is set is supposed to be thousands of
years old. 1t is vertebra of a mastodon
and is one of the largest specimens known.
The centrum has been sawed out TO admit
the clock and Notwithstanding the clock
is eight inches across the face there Is a
good margin surrounding 1t. The BON is
well preserved. 1t was found by workmen
digging a ditch several years ago. Other
bones belonging to the same animal were
found at the time, but the workmen
claimed them and they were scattered Mr.
Gwinn has one of the ribs. 1t is over four
feet long
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STRIKE is SPREADING.
About 5000 More Men at Chicago Or
dered to Quit Work.

CHICAGO. Feb. 25.-It Is said that sew
eral thousand more men will be thrown
out of work during the week and the tie
M Of the building industry OF the city will
be further complicated by the action taken
by the meeting OF the Building Material
Trades Council to-day. Its decision that
the delivery of brick from all yards in this
county to buildings under construction by
the united contractors where nonunion
men were employed be stopped will make
idle 1000 brickmakers. and the order ex-
tending the strike of the machinists TO
other trades will call out at least 1900
others.
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Tip" in New York Press.

A good deal has been said and written
about the Heaths, of Ohio, and their con-
nection with the Seventh National Bank
They are charged with laudable desire to
make ii the New York depository for pub
lie and private funds In Ohio | hope they
will succeed. There are no better fellows
Perry 3. Heath, first assistant postmaster
general, is sort of G.. b. NJ. Harvey man
in that he has been successful in whatever
he undertook. When he was Washington
correspondent for the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette none ranked him in brilliancy
OF style or In news getting. He was popu-
lar with all kinds of congressman and a
prime favorite among men of his craft
To-day he has the brightest. happiest, sun
NEST face In Washington and his spirits
are as sparkling as a Gridiron roast. Let's
get him here for exhilaration.
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George Work.

NEW YORK, Feb 25-George Work the
clubman and pigeon shot, died to-day at
Dovos-Platz, Switzerland. of consumption,
aged forty-two years. His two sisters.
Mrs. Burke-Roche and Mrs. Cooper-Hewitt,
were with him when he died. He held the
amateur pigeon shooting record, having
killed ninety-eight out of one hundred birds
in A match against Brewer. a professional
His reputation as a wing shot was inter-
national. He had taken part in contests
in England, France and Monte Carlo. He
being the owner of the sloop Katrina.
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People are talking foolishly about the
stationary character of Boer civilization.
They say that nothing like il has occurred
in modern times, that a people should be
just what their fathers were one hundred
and fifty or two hundred years ago. On the
contrary, such persistence is quite COM
mon, in a remote territory connected with
the perpetuation of native language in
the midst of an alien population. IL
would be impossible for anyone TO regard
IL as an unusual phenomenon who has
travelled extensively or soiourned awhile in
the interior parts of the French section OF
Canada. BY going there one can see peas
ant France better, as IL was, than I'm most
parts of France itself. liz surprises us that
more travellers for pleasure and Informal
ton do not isolate themselves for a few
weeks in that region.
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CRONJE STILL IN TRAP.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGl

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
large numbers. Fifty officers and men have
been dispatched to Walfisch bay, where it
is reported that Boer munitions are being
landed.
1t is said that about so per cent. of the
first five squadrons of Brabant's horse
have taken their discharges, having COM
pleted their engagement for three months.
Various reasons are given.
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Butter arrested for Theft.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-James Rooney,
young butler employed by Charles A.
Spaulding, a wealthy ST. Louis theater
owner at 1909 Rhode Island avenue. was
arrested tonight charged with stealing
more than $1,000 worth of silverware and
bric-a-brac from the house OF his employer
He confessed the theft, which covers a
period of more than year. All the prop
erty which had been disposed of at pawn
shops was recovered.
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from Lieutenant Colonel Otter, at Paarde-
berg. dated Kimberley. Feb. e. stating that
the following men of his command were
wounded on the 10Th inst: C Company.
Private r. Kidner. Tenth Royal Grena-
diers; ]. Holland. Toronto: F Company.
Private w. Downing, Sixty-second St.
John Fusileers: III Company, Private A.
Parker, Sixty-eight Kings County Bat
talon: Private Adams, Twenty-seventh
Fusileers. Missing after the engagement
Of Paardeberg on the 18th. have since re-
ported.
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VANCOUVER. B. c., Feb. 25.-The steam
er Clutch arrived this morning from Skag-
way after the toughest trip it ever expert
enced. There were five feet of ice on it's
decks Friday morning Mountainous seas
rolled over it's bows and swept nearly
from end to end of the steamer. Ice was
even over its pilot house. and the whistle
pipes, which run halfway UP the funnel,
were shrouded in ice. The weather was
frightfully cold. and for two days passage
ways across the decks had to be cut with
axes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26
Wood Cutter. Scarce.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Feb. 2.-Labor
agents here say there is scarcity of Ia
Dor such as has not been known for years.
1t Is almost impossible to get men for work
in the northern woods. At Fort Benton,
Mont, the Great Northern Railroad is
building a cutoff, and IL has been found
impossible to supply all the men wanted on
the work
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Richard Croker on Clutches.

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Richard Croker
has been compelled to defer his return to
America until the latter part of May. A
message from him to-day said that the
wound recently received by him when
thrown from a horse at Vantage, was still
giving him a deal of trouble. His physician
had directed him to avoid all exertion and
worriment. The Tammany chief is still on
crutches. but is hopeful of laying them
aside within few weeks. 1t had been ex-
pected that Mr.. Croker would return here
early in April
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26
store Damaged by Fire.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHARLOTTESVILLE Ind, Feb 25.-Fire
damaged the Star shoe store last midnight
to the amount of several hundred dollars.
The stock belonged to A. b. Metz and the
building to p. c. Somerville. The fire was
caused by an overheated stove. Insured in
the Merchants for $1,000: German of In
diana, for $500 and Greenwich for 1900.
The stock was valued at $1,000.
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Kansas City Journal.

The airing of the Carnegie profits has
brought the old-time free-trade editor to
the front once more with his trenchant
pen and exploded dogmas. The Standard
Oil Company declared a dividend of 20 per
cent few days ago, but the old-time free
trade editor saw nothing significant In the
fact, oil being on the free list. He is the
same illogical and narrow sighted old soph-
list that he was in the days when protection
was an issue and the tariff was alleged TO
be tax. Happily, he does not rise up Oft
en- to divert our minds from living ques-
tons.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW, Ind, Feb. 25.-The case of
William Shaw, of Elkhart, against the
Lake Shore Railroad Company, has been
on trial here during the past week. The
jury disagreed and was discharged to-day
after being out forty-five hours. The
ages, he having been injured while work.
ing for the company. This is the third
trial and the jury disagreed in each case.
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Edward Kearney.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-Edward Kearney,
a well-known sportsman and Tammany
politician, is dead at Palm Beach, Fla,
aged sixty-nine years. He was prominent
in the horse and carriage trade.
Mr.. Kearney was president of the Sara
toga Racing Association. During the
Franco-Prussian war he secured contracts
to furnish beef to the French army and
made a great fortune out of the trans
action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26

GAMBLER, o., Feb. 25.-The Students
Missionary Association of the Protestant
Episcopal Church has selected for the place
of its next annual convention the Theologi-
cal Seminary at Philadelphia. The execu-
tive committee for the ensuing year is TO
be John w. Wood, of New York; Silas Nc
Bee, of Sewanee, Tenn. and r. L. Pad
dock. of Virginia. c. w. Owen of Trinity
University. Toronto, was elected vice pres
ident. while the president and secretary
are to be chosen by the Philadelphia chap
ter of the association.
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Cant. b. G.. Cook.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, Feb. 25.-B. E.
Cook, who as captain Of New York
militia did escort duty to General Lafay-
cite on his trip up the Hudson river in
1894, died to-day. aged ninety-seven years.
He the father of Captain Frank A.
Cook, commander Of the cruiser Brooklyn
during the late war. His grandson, Frank
T.. Cook, is a surgeon on the gunboat Will
mington, and another grandson is at An
napoliS. 4ss
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status when she pointed out that the plural
wives often supported the husband. This
is a missionary charge which has never
been refuted. Polygamy in certain centers
in Mormondom, IL has been said. meant
that man who needed workers on the
farm secured the extra number by mar
riage, and so was enabled TO live the
patriarchal life in comparative ease. sup
ported by the labor of his helpmeets. The
degradation Of such civilization needs NO
comment
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CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Dr. A r. Wright.
of Buffalo, n. Y, is dead at st. Joseph S
Hospital in Chicago. He arrived here
Thursday to consult DR.. Nicholas Sem
about his illness. After entering the hos
pital DR.. Wright failed to rally because
of his age. seventy-four years. DR.. Wright
was one of the foremost homeopathic physi-
clans of America. In 1898 he was chosen
president of the American Institute of
HOmeODathS
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Feb. 2.-F. M. Wachtell has
decided to take charge of Muncie's inter-
ests, and this insuxes the Indiana State
Baseball League for the coming season,
composed of Anderson, Marion. Kokomo,
Wabash, Logansport and Muncie. The sea-
son will begin May 1.
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Boston Transcript.

Down in eastern Maine they having
q good old-fashioned winter, and people
who talk too much about the weather are
Immediately thrown into snowdrift. In
Somerset county the people are digging out
the Somerset Railroad, which is their short
line, and say they will clear IL of ice and
snow IL IL takes all winter. Skowhegan is
snowbound and Bingham is isolated. To-
day Skowhegan is the ice-cream garden
spot OF America: but the people recall the
piquant local versions of their great towns
man. Artemus Wards. sayings and retain
their cheerfulness.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, Feb "a large and en-
thusiastic pro-Boer meeting was held in
Muncie this afternoon in the Hibern!an
Society Hall. Resolutions We're drafted ex-
pressing sympathy with the Beers, and the
stand of Senator Mason, of Illinois, was
commended Father Schmidt, of st. Law
renee Catholic Church. and others made
enthusiastic speeches condemning the
course of England. Within the next few
days $500 will have been subscribed to the
fund started at the meeting to be used in
the BOer HOSPITALS.
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POPULAR In KENTUCKY.


from Clerk Goodwin.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind. Feb. 5-On
Monday Frank Carr will succeed William
Goodwin as clerk of the Clark Circuit
Court. During his four years term, Mr.
Goodwin has not only made an efficient
and popular officer. but he has made a
most unique acquaintanceship which ex-
tends over several States. In hundreds of
mountain cabins in Kentucky, his name.
attached to certificates hanging on the
walls, is proudly displayed by husbands
and wives, as proof that they were made
one in the famous Indiana gretna green.
No night has ever been too cold, or the
weather too disagreable to prevent Mr..
Goodwin crawling out Of warm bed to
Issue a marriage license to some trembling
eioping couple The number of licenses he
has issued will average 100 month. or
In the four years, 1850. He has thus been
primarily instrumental in making happy
or unhappy. as the case may be. $500 souls.
AS the clerk of this county is working
under the fee and salary law. the revenue
from all marriage licenses makes certain
the amount of his salary. This revenue
alone Is more than enough to pay the sal
airy of the clerk. his deputy and then turn
a handsome sum annually into the county
treasury. In addition, the clerk sells a
handsome certificate to the clippers, for
81 each. This Is prepared at his expense
and the increase goes to him. While his
certificate is not absolutely necessary. 80
per cent. Of the clippers purchase 1t. Re-
Gently suit was filed by the prosecuting
attorney against Mr.. Goodwin to compel
him to pay this money into the treasury,
but the court held that 1t belongs to the
clerk. Mr.. Goodwin could now move to
Kentucky. and run for Governor and COM
mand a airport which from standpoints
of numbers and enthusiasm. would doubt
less land him a winner. He has to-day
more babies in Kentucky named after him.
than Mckinley, Bryan, Taylor and Goebel
combined. On every hand Mr.. Goodwin,
who is Republican, has been termed ''the
best clerk the county has ever had" He
viii be succeeded by Frank Carr. a popular
young Democrat.
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Led by Free Staters.

LONDON, Feb. 26.-The Standard has the
following from Cape Town, dated Satur-
day: 1.-THE Boer force occupying Prieska
consists of 40 rebels. led by Free Staters.
A proclamation has been read annexing
the Prieska district to the Free State. and
all loyal British have been given eight days
to quit the place. l am assured by refu-
gees from Prieska that unless troops are
speedily sent there the whole northwestern
district will rise
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. 25.-Lycur-
gis F. Latin. of Chicago, the wealthy gum
powder manufacturer, died to-day unexpec-
tedly at the Chamberlain Hotel. Old Point
Comfort. He arrived here from Chicago
several days ago and was expecting his son
tomorrow. The hotel officials will give out
no information about the cause of his
death until his sons arrival. Mr.. Latin
was of the principal stockholders in
the Hampton Roads Hotel Company, own
ers of the Chamberlain Hotel
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Indiana Obituary.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 25.-August
Busch, one of the oldest merchants of the
city and prominent In German circles, died
suddenly to-day of apoplexy. He leaves
a wife and two children, Mrs. Joseph New
hart and William Busch.
Charles w. Lamb, brother of Hon. John
Z. Lamb, former member of Congress, died
yesterday evening. at the age of forty
three years He had been i'll for long
time, but until a week ago, was able to
be at the Office of the sheriff. where he was
office deputy. He was very well known
throughout the city and much liked. He
leaves a wife, but no children.
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Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
Just as cavalry was supposed to be going
out of date IL appears TO be one OF the most
valuable agents of military success. The
old use of cavalry was TO attack infantry
and ride it down by rush and flight. The
new cavalry is practically mounted in
fantry which simply uses the horses to
move rapidly. The old cavalry charge is
over. but the day OF the mounted infantry
has appeared.
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FORREST CITY, Ark, Feb. 25.-Frank
Hogan and Charles Norris, prisoners at the
station house here. were burned to death
at o'clock this morning. The fire is sup
posed 20 have been started by the men
I'm an attempt to keep warm. The men
were imprisoned yesterday for minor Of
lenses. and little Is known Of them except
that Norris was an Arkansas lumberman
and Hogan a bricklayer, supposed to have
come from ST. Paul, MINI.
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DAYTON, o., Feb. 25.-Rev. Edward
Lorenz. editor of the German periodicals
of the United Brethren Church. and for
more than forty years prominent minis
ter In that denomination. is dead as a re-
suit of a rupture of blood vessel in his
brain, occasioned by a paroxysm Of cough
ing He had charge of the missionary work
in Germany for a number of years and
occupied pulpits in Cleveland. Toledo, Gin
cinnati and other cities.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb 25.-The Terre
Haute Trotting Association has decided
to give a big meeting fourth of July week.
All the purses have not been definitely de-
cided on, but one for S.. 900 will be given for
2:25 trot. 1t is the intention of the
ISOLATION to make bid for the best horses
in the country for the meeting.