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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-29

WASHINGTON. June Standardization
officials are quite concerned over Chinese
advices to the effect that members of the
foreign legation in Picking are not at ITEM
Tsin with Admiral Seymour's relief col
umn- The dispatches of the last two days.
indicating that they were with the admiral
a few miles from Tien-Tsin had allayed. in
a measure. the tension existing here as to
their safety. but as no word had come from
Minister Conger. the confidence temporari-
~ felt is giving way again 20 fear that all
may not be we'll with them. 1t is believed
here that Mr.. Conger would have taken the
very first opportunity TO communicate with
his government, and that the fact that he
had not done so up to a late hour tonight.
the officials say. is strong ground for be-
iieving hat he may not be in Tien-Tsin,
although to-day's dispatches report the re-
lief column there. This fact is considered
c~onfrmatory of the latest intimations that
the legation representatives are still in
Picking. and some fears are entertained for
them II still in the Chinese capital
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Methodist Bishop Explains His Re-
cent U~ttcrances.

DENVER. Col. June 2S.-Bishop Earl
Cranston. of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, says that disconnected sentences
from his recent sermon on the situation
in China which had been published
throughout the couRtry had caused misap-
prehension OF his view. He adds: when I
said that the Outstanding of China would
be worth any cost. I was speaking speci-
fically Of voluntary missionary sacrifices
on the part of the church and. in answer to
the question suggested by the present per-
lis OF our missionaries in that country
whether the ends sought were worth the
COST said 1 abhorred the idea of making
Christians by force of arms, even were il
possible TO do so. Continuing my remarks
as to the perils of our people shut up in
Peking and Tein-Tsip, the insignificant
number of Americans in the relief column
ana the diplomatic hesitation az Wash
inSton as 10 the use OF troops, instead OF
marines, 1 said that i'm such an emergency
L would destroy all the red tape in the
world and set aside any treaty. mean
ing, OF course, and that is imperative, such
as that by which China guarantees protec-
non TO both missionaries and native Chris
tians, In order TO place America in the fore
front with England. That meant the rescue
of imperiled life, not a bloody propaganda.
AS to the open door for Christianity as well
IS commerce, | hold that Russia is the
power that threatens great interests. /
contend that, apart from a crisis like the
present, schools are better than warships
TO overcome Chinese prejudices against for
cigners and believing that under a just and
enlightened policy on the part Of the civ
.'ized nations China will work out a high
destiny for herself. / oppose any division of
the empire"
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Indiana

KOKOMO, Ind, June 2.-The Rev. Henry
Y. Wooten, a prominent minister in early
day Quarkerism in Indiana, died at his
hone in this city to-day Of heart trouble.
aged sixty-eight years. Mr.. Wooten was a
pioneer resident, coming here when koko-
mo was an Indian village and undergoing
the hardships incident to that period. VI
late years, owing to feeble health, he was
unable to engage actively in religious work.
Several weeks ago he suffered a stroke or
paralysis, from which he apparently re-
covered. but later heart trouble developed.
resulting in his death. His widow and one
PENDLETON, Ind, June 2S.-Allen Luz
kins. seventy-nine years old. a well-to-do
farmer, died suddenly of heart disease at
Swain, in this city. He has been a lifelong
member of the Friends Society and was
one of the best known men in the county.
Three children survive.
ANDERSON, Ind, June Chichester Rod
ifer, a ~ll-kno young man OF Anderson,
employed as bookkeeper in one of the large
manufacturing industries of the city, was
found dead in his bed this morning by his
wife. Consumptio was the cause The
body will be taken to Hamilton, his former
home, for interment.
MUNCIE, Ind, June 2S.-William Y. Will
liams, aged lightweight years and for
sixty-four years a resident of Delaware
county, died to-day of paralysis, having
suffered the stroke last week. He left a
large estate and a large family.
SULLIVAN, Ind, June 2s.-Mrs. Wash
Wright died to-day of paralysis. She was
the sister of County Superintendent Rich
ard Park.
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wARLIKE MOVE BY RUSSIA.
Secret Orders to Prepare for MobiIixa-
ti0n-MissiOnaries I'm Peril.

Secret Orders to Prepare for MobiIixa-
tiOn-MissiOnaries I'm Peril.
BERLIN, June 2s.-The vorwaertz says:
From an absolutely reliable source we
hear the Russian War Ministry has sent
to all the military and civil authorities in
Russia Geographic secret orders to prepare
everything for mobilization. The orders
bear the date of June is and 49,"
The Cologne Volks Zeitung has received
a cablegram saying that the situation in
the mission districts in the southern part
of the province of ~Shan-rung is now ex-
tremely threatening. Pro-Vicar Freinde-
metz telegraphs from Zeining, on the
Grand canal, that the missionaries are
without protection and that their lives are
in great danger. According to the same pa
Catholics and twenty-five Catholic mission
aries and one hundred Protestant mission
aries. The Volks Zeitung expresses aston
m that none of these people has been
able to send news TO the coast.
General Won Hanneken. formerly mill
tary Instructor in the Chinese army, re-
plying TO a statement in the English press
that the Taku forts were built by German
engineers. says they were built by Chinese
mechanics and afterward remodeled by
Americans.
The Vorwaerts complains that the Ger
man government is taking all the various
steps in China without consulting the
Reichstag, which is now adjourned, where
as, the British and French ~parlianents
are In session and the governments of Lon
upon the progress of events. Ii adds: 1T is
high time that our people recognized the
danger threatening them and that they
called the government to strict account"
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CHICAGO. June 2S.-"The Building
Trades Council will pass out of existence.
practically. tomorrow night. 1t will adj
journ sine die and the end of Chicago's
great industrial war. which has kept thou
sands Of men idle for more than five
months, will have been reached"
This was the assertion made to-day by
a leading official of the council. and before
night ii was accepted generally as true
that a proposition looking to quasi DISCO
luton of the central body would be made
at tomorrow nights meeting n a con-
sensus of opinion was that it would be ac-
cepted. This, the latest turn in affairs. Is
largely the result of the action OF the
Bricklayers' Union in Withdrawing from
the council.
Work was resumed to-day by the brick
layers and on several OF the
building operations which have been tied
UP for weeks, and affairs in the building
industry began TO assume such activity as
TO indicate that the strike Is practically
over. Men in other trades also applied
to the contractors
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LONG, BLOODY CONFLICT.


VANCOUVER. B. c.. June 2s.-Generai
Stahl. of the imperial German army, who
has been Investigating conditions in the
Orient, under a special commission from
the German government. has arrived here
on his way home. on being asked II he
thought the Boxers would be quickly sup
pressed. he said that. in his opinion. the
powers had started in on a long. bloody
conflict. In the end, the Boxers would be
disbanded. but the sacrifice of life would
be appalling, for the movement was spread
ing like wildfre throughout China's vast
territory. The south was also about TO take
up arms and his information was hat the
uprising In the south was very grave and
of great dimensions The southern Boxers
would join the north and vast mobs OF
fanatics would have 10 be commended with.
They would be insuficiently armed at FIRST,
but enormous quantities OF arms were be-
ing constantly smuggled to them. and. ow-
Ing TO the countless hordes of fanatics and
the vast territory covered. they could. for
some time. defy the whole world. General
Stahl added that the hostility between ia
pan and Russia was a serious complication
IN the present crisis. az II would interfere
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No Missionaries Murdered.

CHICAGO, June 2S.-It having been re-
ported that at least one Methodist mission
airy in China had been murdered by the
Boxers and that others ~unaccounted for
had been probably massacred. DR.. Ed
wards. editor Of the Northwestern Chris
tan Advocate, of Chicago, cabled Rev.
Frederic Brown. Methodist missionary at
Che-Foo. asking FOR the names of all Meth
odist missionaries who had been muir
dered. DR.. Edwards to-day received the
following reply: II am very glad to state
that none has been reported. Hopkins and
Mrs. King nave had a very narrow es-
are missionaries at Tsun-Hua. Mrs. King
and her husband. Rev. Harry z. King, are
missionaries at Picking.
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tin workers representatives would not adj
NIT that they had asked for an advance
over the prevailing rate of wages, but from
other sources II was learned that advances
averaging about 6 per cent. all around had
been demanded.
For the Amalgamated Association there
were present at the conference President I.
j. Shafer. Secretary John Williams and
Assistant President Thomas Mansell. or
Pittsburg; John Chappell. of New Castle.
Pa; Charles Williams. Washington, Pa;
John w. Marshall. Elwood City, Pa; w.
II. Davis. Granite City, ILL.,: David Rees.
Pittsburg. Fl. III. Evans. Cambridge. o.; j..
l.. Doyle, Middletown, Ind; Walter Lar
kins. Wheeling, w. Va, and Glenn Jarvis.
Anderson. Ind. Negotiations for the Tin
plate Company were conducted by Vice
President Warner Arms. w. r. Leeds and
some of the district superintendent.
A we ask for" said Secretary Williams
at the conclusion of to-day's conference.
lis a conservative schedule. The tin-plate
company shows every disposition TO treat
US fairly, and We believe that neither side
Will have cause to complain"
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Indiana Notes.

Harold Bosworth. a nine-year-old boy of
Portland, was drowned in Little
river yesterday while swimming with some
companions.
Walter Cox, the telegraph lineman whose
blow with a chair eliminated in the death
of William Crothers. has surrendered to
the authorities at Terre Haute.
A four-room brick schoolhouse will be
erected at Wilkinson at a cost of 81, PCS.
Benton Steele, of Warrington, secured the
contract over three competitors.
Arrangements have been completed at
Anderson for the state encampment of the
Modern Woodmen, to be held there Aug.
81. w. ]. Bryan has promised to attend.
1t has been announced at Madison that
former Governor Taylor, of Kentucky. and
former Secretary of State Finley, of the
same State. will take the stump this fall for
the Republican ticket in Indiana.
Anthony A.. d. Langhim, a young attor-
ney of Warsaw, has disappeared from
home. and as he was last seen near tho
shores of Winona lake. fears that he COM
mitted suicide are entertained. He was mar
ried only last winter.
Friends at Richmond of Daniel G.. Reed
are much exercised over a report which
has come from Paris that he has married
Clarice Agnew, the actress. Mr.. Reed
formerly lived at Richmond, and is the
president of the Steel Trust.
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TRYING TO BLOCK PROGRESS.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, une 2.-The suit of John
Fudge VS.. the Town of Albany was begun
in the Circuit Court before Judge Letter
to-day. Several months ago the Town
Board contracted with the Seckner Con-
tracing Company. of Chicago, to put in a
modern water-works and street-light plant.
The contract has been completed by the
company, and 1T is now ready to turn the
property over to the town. The vote on
the proposition carried by a good major
ity, but there is a large element of tax
payers who oppose the purchase of the
plant or even the renting of the electric
street arclights, claiming that II is a
luxury which the town cannot now afford.
Mr.. Fudge, backed by a strong element of
taxpayers, some time ago secured a tenn
porary restraining order preventing the
Town Board from making the purchase,
and he now seeks a perpetual order from
the court, and will seek to show that the
town now has the lawful limit of indebted
ness-namely, more than 1900, or the 2
per cent. allowed by law--and that the ad-
ditional bonds cannot be fioated lawfully.
On the other hand, the argument is made
that recent fires in the business center of
the town have wiped out more property
than would have been required to pay for
the water works.
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Local ob.ervatIon. ON Thur.aax.

Bar. Their. R.H. Wind. Pre-. W'ther.
"a MISE a 50 S'west. goo Cloudy.
Up. m..2s.s0 IS 81 invest. 900 PtCTdy.
Maximum temperature. 90: minimum tenn
perature. "a
Following is a comparative statement of
the mean temperature and total precipita-
ton for June IS:
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
PORTLAND. Ind, June 2S.-While last
nights rainstorm was in progress. light
ming struck the Catholic Church. on East
Walnut street, Kidding the spire and then
descending and tearing away much of the
Notwithstanding on the sides. as well as
knocking off the plastering in the interior.
The church is almost a wreck. Several la
dies who occupied chairs on their verandas
in the neighborhood were shocked by the
bolt and some were stunned. A barn be-
longing to ex-County Treasurer John I.
Hanlin was also struck, a good portion of
one side being torn out This was in Noble
township. Two men who took refuge In II
from the storm escaped injury.
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the safety of the foreigners in the

Insure the safety Of the foreigners in the
town
The War Department received the follow
fng undated cablegram from General Mac
Arthur this morning:
Transport left Manila at $50 on the
morning Of June q, with Colonel Liscum in
command. T~hirty-nine officers. f.27f men,"
The Ninth Infantry should reach Taku
about Wednesday next. the Fourth of July.
The War Department had already antici-
pated Admiral Kempff's suggestion rela-
tise TO lsnding the troops at Taku instead
of Che-Foo.
a. significant piece Of Information fur
nished by the Navy Department is the re-
port OF the sailing of the Scindia to-day
from Gibraltar for Cardiff for a cargo of
Welsh coal. which she is to carry back
20 Manila or China The ship was on her
way home from Manila via the Mediter-
ranean route
: Quartermaster General Ludington re-
ceived a cable message to-day from Colonel
Miller, quartermaster at Manila. saying
that the transport Port Albert. which ac-
companies the Logan to Taku. carried nine
teen wagons. four ambulances and one de-
livery wagon. with four mules for each
vehicle and forage for thirty days. This
cargo comprises the transportation outfit
OF the Ninth Infantry and Is expected TO be
delivered at Taku a few hours after the
arrival Of the troops on the Logan.
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SPECIAL SESSION IMPROBABLE.
Mckinley, Fairbanks, Davis, Hit Do
Not Think Congress VIII BE Called.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June Ex-senator Fair
banks. of Indiana, Senator Davis, of Min
nesota, chairman of the foreign relations
committee. and Representative Hit, of IL
linois, chairman of foreign affairs commit
tee, were at the White House to-day con-
ferring with the President concerning the
Chinese situation and the probability of his
calling a special session of Congress 10
deal with IT. When they emerged from the
presidential presence all of them concurred
in the same ~story-that in the Presidents
opinion and In their own the situation was
clearing and the probabilities are against
calling a special session. OF course, they
as well as the President recognize the pos
sibility that affairs i'm the Celestial empire
may take such a turn as to make a special
session imperative. but they believe it is
improbable that they will do so. The lack
of accurate and authentic information from
Minister Conger and from Picking is the
doubtful factor In the case. Yet enough is
known to warrant the belief now that the
worst is over and hat war, in the interna-
tional sense. will not ensue. Up to date
there has been rioting on a huge scale and
there has been genuine fighting, but these
things alone do not amount to war. On the
other hand. war may be precipitated. but
everything has been done that can be lone
oy his government to meet such an I'm
fortunate condition and to enable the gov
eminent to protect it's own citizens until
Congress could be summoned TO take such
additional steps as might prove necessary.
30 confident was Senator Davis that there
would be no special session that he an
nounced his intention to 60 TO Minnesota
and take a rest, and I'm making this an
nouncement he added significantly that he
did not expect to return before next De-
cember.
Senator Fairbanks went to New York
after his interview with the President to
confer with Governor Roosevelt and other
Republican leaders touching the pending
campaign.
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NEW REMoNsTRANCE RULING.
ank Power of Attorney Knocked
Out by Judge Biggs nj Warsaw.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WARSAW, Ind, June 2S.-In the Circuit
Court here to-day Judge Biggs made a
decision in the case of an applicant for a
liquor license. ruling out a remonstrance
signed by an attorney for a majority of
the legal voters by power OF attorney, the
case in point being a power of attorney
given to Capt. S. j. North by the majority
Of the legal voters of Leesburg. which gave
him power to sign their names to any re-
monstrance against an applicant for Ii
cense.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has de-
cided that a blanket remonstrance is not
good. but must be directed against a par
ticular- applicant. Judge Biggs, therefore,
decided that a general power of attorney
to sign all circumstances would not be
valid. as IL would amount 10 the same
thing. Opposite decisions la been given,
but this is the first time this decision has
been made. The case will be carried to the
Supreme Court.
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NEW YORK, June 2S.-Two cables were
received by the Presbyterian Board of For
eign Missions this morning. The first. from
Shanghai. read: "Wei-Hen destroyed. For
eigners escaped" The Presbyterian board
had $4,000 worth Of property in Wei-Hen.
and this is now all gone. DR.. Fairies was
one of the missionaries there and he es-
capped with the others.
The other cable came from Che-Foo and
stated: "Lobenstein at Shanghai: Fenns at
Peking." Rev. l.. c.. Lobenstein was sta
toned at Nankin. and IL would appear as
ii he had to make his escape TO Shanghai.
The cable also stated: mo word has been
received from Peking or Pao-Ting-Fu,"
and "Wei-Hen mission burned: mission
aries safe"
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JAPANESE TO REFINE OIL.


PHILADELPHIA. June 2S.-when the
British ship Hudson leaves this port for
Japan. within a few days. she will carry
an oil refining plant. the first ever shipped
to that country. The cargo. which is now
being placed on the vessel, will also In
clude tanks and the necessary apparatus
for the discharge Of the oil into vessels
and cars. The refinery will be located at
either Kobe or Yokohama. The work OF
running the refinery and developing the
newly discovered fields will be under the
direction of skilled Americans, their SUBJ
ordinates being Japanese. Development
of oil in Japan, IL is said. Is likely to re-
strict the demand from the United States,
watch amounts to many millions Of gallons
every year. Eleven large sailing vessels
are now under charter to load In Philadel-
phia for Tioga.
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SAFE.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)

men wounded. This message, 1t was ex-
planned. was brought by a servant In the
employ of the legations. who was thorough
ly trustworthy. He added that the damage
done to the foreign settlement as Tien-Tsin
was comparatively slight. except in the
case of the French and British conces-
sions, which had suffered severely. The
British casualties were four men killed and
fifty wounded, including six officers. Mr..
Broderick also said the government had
no news of the legations.
In the House of Lords to-day the premier.
Lord Salisbury, referring to the relief of
Vice Admiral Seymour, said he knew
nothing of the position of Sir Claude Mac
Donald. the British minister to China, CT
Of the members of the other legations in
the country. He thought. however. there
was ground for hoping that no violence had
been done them, but even that, he added,
could only be stated alphabetically.
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CoIored Club Organized.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind. June 2s.-The colored
voters of Anderson are falling into line for
the campaign for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Last night a club was organized here with
fifty members. Clubs will be organized in
every town in the county. Gurley Brewer,
of Indianapolis. was one of the leading
spirits in the movement. There is much en-
thusiasm among the colored citizens over
the Republican nominees and platform.
and they will make a vigorous fight for
Republican success at the polls in Novem-
Der.
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SCALE NOT YET FIXED.


NEW YORK, June 2s.-The annual con-
ference between representatives of the
Amalgamated Association of Steel and Iron
Workers and officials of the American Tin
plate Company took place at the local
office of the latter corporation to-day. The
purpose of the conference was to fix a
scale OF wages for the 5000 tin workers
of the association for the ensuing year.
Although the conference lasted until late In
the day. no definite conclusion was reached
and an adjournment was taken until to-
morrow. Both sides declared that the dis
cussion a been entirely harmonious. The
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NEW YORK. June 2s.-The following ca
BILE was received at the Methodist Episco-
pal board to-day, dated Che-Foo. June Is.
from the Rev. Mr.. Brown. one of it's mis-
sionaries in the Tien-Tsin district:
Mission destroyed by fire. About 160
killed. / think there is a serious risk for
foreigners. Will return in a few days to
Tien-Tsin. Shall 1 return home? Will you
permit"
BY the mission is meant the mission at
Tien-Tsin. but just how much of that mis-
sion is destroyed the home board does not
know what to infer. The mission there is
in three compounds, as they are called.
One compound is composed Of two mis-
sions and a church, another of a mission
and a school, and a third of a mission, a
hospital and a school. In all. the property
of the Methodist Episcopal board there is
valued at something more than $500
The Rev. DR.. A. B. Leonard. secretary
of the Missionary Society. said: "Presum-
ably those killed were natives, but il is not
clear even that they were native Chris
tians. Many of them may have been Box
ers or Chinese soldiers" DIR. Leonard
thinks none of the Methodist missionaries
were among the killed. or DR.. Brown
would certainly have mentioned the fact.