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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-19
GOOD ROADS CONVENTION.
1t VIII Consider the Tramp Question
as Related to Highways.

CHICAGO, Nov 1S.-At the National
Good Roads Improvement convention.
which opens a weeks meeting tomorrow,
in Central Music Hall. an effort will be
made to settle the tramp question by COM
polling Migrants throughout the country
to work at the improvement of the high
ways of the different States. Resolutions
are to be adopted bearing on the SUBJ
ject. uniform bill for presentation to the
Legislature of the different States is TO be
drafted. and committee to press the
matter before Congress will be named.
In addition to the consideration of the
tramp question, applied TO the i'm
provement of the roads, the convention
will effect a national organization of the
different forces which have worked for
highway Improvement, and an era OF un-
precedented activity in internal improve
ments is looked for as result of such
action The automobile, bike and driving
clubs throughout the United States and
all other clubs and organizations inter-
ested in the question will be amalgamated
into one body, and the promoters of the
national organization expect great results
from the concentration of effort and
power.
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WIRELESS TELEPHONE.
Successful Experiment Made with 1t
in Northern Minnesota.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 1s.-An experiment
in wireless telephoning, which tried
at Powderhorn lake this afternoon,
proved a decided success. and may take
the place of the old system OF wires. The
originator Of the idea is j. c. Kelsey, who
is in charge of the switchboard at the
Northwestern Telephone Exchange Com
pany's building, and with him were five
other employees of the company.
The method is a very simple one. On
either side of the lake they strung wire
about one hundred feet in length, the two
being parallel. They were above the
ground and fastened with grounding pins
to insure better induction. An ordinary
local telephone transmitter and receiver
were attached to either wire. When the
transmitting circuit is cut in it induces the
current into the receiving circuit and when
the receiving circuit is cut in ii induces the
circuit into the transmitting circuit. IN
this way the advantage of both circuits IS
secured without the use of wire, and
result the conversation can be carried on
much more easily and with better results
The wires TO which the instruments were
attached run parallel, and there were two
currents in operation all the time. The
one going from end of the wire to
the other and the second flowing to its
affinity, as it were. that is the parable!
wire. The use OF the system is not con-
fined to water. 1t is available on land,
ii good grounding facilities can be secured
The experimenters say they could easily
converse a distance of twenty miles, even
with the crude instruments used to-day.
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BLOODTHIRsTY PREACHER.
He InvOkes the Mosaic Creed Against
the CeIestiaIs

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Dr. W. A. p
Martin, president of the New Imperial
University in Picking, to-day gave out an
open letter, the caption of which is Jus
tice to China which he calls the question
of the hour for the whole world DR. Mar
TIN takes exception TO some recently printed
newspaper articles which advise modera-
ton In the treatment of the Chinese He
says, IN effect, If the ruling powers in
China were of Chinese strain there might
be some excuse for moderation but he calls
the Empress dowager "a Tartar usurper
who follows the traditions of the Grand
Khan and treats ambassadors with con-
tumely."
AS TO the plea that China be treated as n
Self-respecting power, DIR. Martin saws.
What kind of self-respect was il for the
Empress dowager on the 18th of June be-
lore Baron Won ketteler was killed, to send
a secret edict to all her viceroys 'exter-
inmate foreigners, kill the native Chris
tiany What sort of self-respect was shown
by Prince Tuan, father of the heir appar-
ent In making himself the patron Of a
body of cut-throats? What self-resnect
was shown by Prince Chuan as niIifsrv
governor In setting a price on the heads
OF foreigners-'sixty taels for the head of
a man, fifty for the head OF 2 woman All
thirty for the head of child?
DR.. Martin further saws: .'The readiest
road TO peace and order is he restoratio1
OF the young Emperor. AS for his fvr,n-
meal aunt. and her bloodstained cltoue
no penalty can be too severe To- miller a.,
them. When the Dowager and Prince 'Tnan
put 10 death four ministers In the foreign
board for the crime OF pleading for praee
are the allles TOO severe il they insist on
the exile OF. one and the execution OF the
Other?'' - 'A0
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PLENTY OF FIGHTING.
oNCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PACED
ties of rice and stores. with ammunition,
were destroyed Fifty Filpinos were killed
and many others wounded The insurgents
carried off their dead. The American losses
were eleven privates and one officer
wounded and one Maccabebe killed.
Lieutenant Frederick w. Alstaeter of the
engineers, who was captured by the in
surgents in Luzon last September, has
sent with the permission of mis- captors, a
letter to Manila asking for food, money
and clothing. which will be forwarded to
him by native runner. His health is
broken and his release probematical.
General Macarthur has gone to Subig
bay with Admiral Remey the United
States crusier Brooklyn for the purpose of
examining the locality. IT is probable that
1,SOU marines now in Philippine waters viii
be used to relieve certain army posts. rem
dering the relieved soldiers available for
other and more urgent duties. Ii is under
stood that General Macarthur is consid-
ering the question of establishing more
marines in the vicinity of Subig. He is
expected 10 return here tomorrow.
Although news and commercial messages
between Manila and points in America and
Europe are not subject to censorship all
messages between the philippines and the
Orient are censored as heretofore.
For the purpose of maintaining the ex-
listing ratio of two Mexican silver dollars
TO one gold. arbitrarily fixed by General
Macarthur last August To be maintained
until such time the Philippine Commits
sion should consider the date had arrived
for establishing a gold medium I'm the Phil
sion. introduced bill which has been
passed by the commission providing for a
charge of 10 per cent. on all Mexican silver
coin exported from the Philippines. The
demand of China for Mexican currency
has caused expectation. and threatened
arrangement of business In the Philippines.
The commission passed the bill because. in
view or existing circumstances. II seemed
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SLIDING SCALE TARIFF
Proposed i'm Germany n Protection
Against American Goods.

BERLIN, Nov. 1S.-Count Kanitz, DR..
Lieber and other prominent members Of the
Reichstag have given notice of bill to
amend the tariff law by empowering
levy, under imperial decree and with the
approval of the Bundesrath, of al valorem
duties on dutiable goods from countries
where German goods are subjected to SINH
lar levies, provided that the terms of exist
ing treaties are not thereby violated.
By the provisions of the bill additional
duties may be levied in the same man.
ner, up to 200 per cent. of the tariff law,
of the ad valorem duty on goods from coun-
tries treating German ships German
goods less favorably than other nations,
while duty-free goods, in similar circum-
stances, may be subjected to a duty not
exceeding 40 per cent. of their value. The
decree would cease at any time If the
Reichstag withheld its assent.
The proposal has provoked a lively dis
cussion in the press. While the signers do
not include all the national Liberal and
Centrist members, they do represent about
half of the membership of the Reichstag
and ii is highly probable that the bill will
attract enough support from the other Sec
lions of the house to insure a majority.
One leading journal, commenting the
proposal, say: that 'it means, In a certain
sense, a declaration of a tariff war against
the United States"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-19
CONDITIONS in HAWAI-
GOOD PROGRESS SHOWN IN En-
PRESIDENT DOLE'S REPORT.
Race Is Not Dying Out Had Been
Supposed-Land Holding Statistics
Needs as to Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The decrease
of the Hawaiian race has been steadily
growing less rapid for the past several
decades, especially the female population.
according to the annual report of ex-Presi-
dent Sanford b. Dole, Governor of Hawaii.
The increase of part Hawaiians tends to
keep down the number of the pure Ha-
waiians. While the figures show race
progress the census reports to surviv-
ing children are discouraging. In both the
censuses of 1890 and 1896 the pure Hawaiian
percentage of survivors was the lowest
of all nationalities represented in the
islands. An encouraging outlook for the
Hawaiians exists in the fact that out of
6,327 owners of real estate in 1896 1896 were
pure Hawaiians and 722 part Hawaiians.
The facts are significant as showing the
ownership of holdings by so large num-
Der of pure Hawaiians and the evident
tendency of the race to acquire homesteads.
The ex-President reports that there is rea-
son to expect that annexation is going TO
influence Hawaiian character very favor
ably through the changed conditions eff
fected. Their ola dependence on their chiefs
has ceased and they are forced to rely
more on themselves, and their footing with
the white men in the future will be equal.
The political privileges they enjoy in COM
mon with other American citizens, he says,
will tend to educate them in public af-
fairs. The total valuation of real and per-
sonal property in Hawaii subject TO
ad valorem assessment in 1900 is S97, 491 ,5S4.
The receipts from taxes are estimated at
8, 341, 600.
The commerce of Hawaii is shown for
the period between Jan. 1 and June IA,
1900, as follows Imports, $40, 6S3,516; ex
ports, S14, 40i, 1886; customs revenues, 1884,
S97. With the exception of the production
of sugar, rice, firewood, fertilizers and live
stock and the promotion of irrigation the
development of the natural resources of the
Hawaiian islands is stated to have scarce
ly begun.
Recommendations are submitted for
legislation thoroughly revising the Ha-
waiian corporation laws in view of some
deficiencies and questionable features in
the same and new conditions since an
nexation; legislation for appointment of
various commissioners for the protection
of food fishes; providing for education of
children unable to pass the required med
ical EXAMINATIONS for irrigation legisa-
ton and for a general act covering munich
pal systems.
The report says the present aggregate
area of the public lands is approximately
1,77213 acres, valued at sS,569,S00
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-19
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
Young Man of Pound Gap, Va, Fatally
wounded by Bandits.

POUND GAP, Va, Nov. 1S-As George
Haddum, aged twenty-six, son of DIR. Mile
Haddum, was passing through a ravine in
the Cumberland mountains he was fired
upon two shots taking effect, inflicting
fatal wounds. Haddum, when found, had
crawled from the roadside and was I'M
conscious from loss OF blood.
After regaining consciousness he said
that he was riding along the road near
the dark ravine above Rocky Fork, when
suddenly he heard a swapping of brush a
few rods from the roadside, and, turning,
perceived three masked men, heavily
armed. The firing began at once. He be-
lieves he knows one of the men. His ply
sicians fear he cannot survive. He has
a young wife, bride Of two weeks.
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Imperial Troops Are Busy.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
TIEN-TSIN, Oct. 21.-Reports from all
directions in Chilli province indicate that
the imperial troops are at least making
a show of furnishing and dispensing the
Boxers 1t is said in reliable Chinese cir
cles that this movement, which was Prom
ised by Ii Hung Chang on his return from
the south, would assume larger and more
general proportions if the authorities were
sure of security from attacks on imperial
troops by the allied forces. This fear was
well grounded, as was shown by the re-
ported attack of body of French on an
imperial force of 1000 troops which were
operating to the south i'm the direction of
Pao-Ting-Fu. AS cabled the Associated
Press the British column of the Pao-Ting-
Flu expedition, commanded by Gen. Lorne
Campbell, found small body of imperial
troops at Wen-Au-Hsien, about fifty miles
southwest of here. These men on being
interrogated asserted that they had been
sent out from Pa-Chou to dispense the Box
ers and had severely punished several viii
lagos and killed more than two hundred
Boxers. While returning to Pa-Chou they
met column of French who fired on them
and dispersed them. General Campbell
took their arms and horses and released
them. AT number of villages scouting
parties have found the heads of Boxers on
the walls.
Advices from Ping-Tu state that 5000
men of Yuans force have killed a large
number of Boxers, and there is scarcely a
market town but whose walls are adorned
with the CHASTITY evidence of punishment.
At Ptng-Tu city it is stated that among
the victims of Yuans troops were num-
Der of mere lads whom the soldiers tried
TO spare. Their fanaticism, however led
them TO resist the troops and they were
put 10 death. Repeated evidence of the
earnestness of the Chinese authorities i'm
TINS direction are having an effect, and
there Is rather general belief that if as
surance could be obtained that the i'm
perial troops will not suffer molestation by
me aliies they are amply able TO quell any
local disturbances in the north
yuan troops have also been active in
southwest Wu-Ting-Fu, where Ii is said
that early i'm the summer an entir. com
munity of native Christians, numbering
ABOUT lzO persons, We're massacred by Box
ers. Yuan dispatched a force to that re-
gion recently and IL is reported they found
lhe perpetrators OIL the outrage, killing
seventy of them.
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EXPORTS FOR OCTOBER
THEIR WONDERFUL INCREASE OVER
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS.
The Figures for the Past Ten Months
Are Equally neutrality-suspicious.
Made with Previous Years.
necial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-October eX-
ports have broken all monthly records in
the history of the commerce of the United
States, and the ten months of 1900 ended
with October also breaking the record of
exports for the corresponding period of
preceding years, and give assurance that
the calendar year 1900 will show the largest
exports in the history of our foreign COM
merce. The total exports during the month
of October, as shown by the records of
the Treasury Bureau of Statistics. were
s163, 093, 597, practically double the ex-
ports of October, 1894. when they were
$50. 653. 121. The total for the ten. months
ended with October is 81, 194, ,2O5, or prac-
tically double that of the ten months ended
with October, 1894. Exports exceeded i'm
ports during the ten months ended with
October by practically $5o0,0OO0O0 or, TO
be exact, s499, 667, 1886; while in the cor
responding ten months of 1894 imports ex-
ceeded exports by sS6, 663, 500. The year 1900
will, for the first time in the history Of
our commerce, show an export of more
than 500, 900. 900 value in every month of
the year, while for the first time single
month-October, 19Oo-passes the s15O.OOO.OOO
line, as already stated, $16S, 093, 597. against
the highest preceding record of s134 Isl, Us
which was made in March last
Agriculture, mining and manufactures
have jointly contributed to this enormous
increase in our export business. The de-
tails of the tenth month of the year, Octo-
Der, have not yet been completed, but those
for the nine months ended with September
show that agricultural exports are $50 00O, 600
greater in 1900 than in 1899; manu-
features, s60,000000 greater products of
the mine $7,000,000 in excess of the cor
responding months of the preceding year.
and products of the forest S5,0000O0 greater
than in the nine months of 1889. 1t is es-
pecially I'm raw cotton and manufactured
iron and steel, however, that the greatest
growth is shown. Exports of cotton in the
single month of October amounted to
over 800. 00O0 900. against SOS 900 in Octo-
Der. 1899, $50, 000, 900 in October, 1898, and
1872 100000 in October. 1897 Manufactures
of iron and steel show for the nine months
ended with September October details not
yet being available), s97, 313, 900. against
&c. 569, 200 in the corresponding month of
1899, $59 990, 665 in the corresponding month
of $685. and $45, 500. 1884 in the corresponding
month of 1897 having thus more than
doubled in three years time.
The following table shows the exports
in each month of the year 1900, comparing
the same with those of the corresponding
months of 1894:
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obligatory TO provide. SO far possible.
by legislation a stable and ample currency
for the protection Of business.
Capt. Bowman H McCala. of the United
States cruiser Newark. is undergoing trial
by court-martial convened by Admiral
Remy- He is charged with Irrational and
bad management and lack Of discipline on
board the cruiser. The trial is the result
of a letter written by Lieutenant Com
mander Colwell 10 Admiral Remy. The
witnesses are being examined on board the
Newark, and the courts decision will be
afficially sent to Washington.
The body of Baron Dumarias, the French
man who was killed by the insurgents
while within their lines last year, where
he had gone to intercede with Aguinaldo
for the release of the Spanish prisoners,
has been recovered and buried in Manila.
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MIGHT MEAN WITHDRAW
IF PORTO RICAN TARIFF BILL Is
ADJUDGED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Ii Might Cause the Nation to Crafty
ing Philippine Sovereignty.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Representative
George III. Ray, chairman of the House
committee on judiciary who was one of
the leaders in the fight for the Porto Rican
tariff bill. said. while in this city to-day,
that until the test case brought to deter
mine the constitutionality of the Porto Ri
can tariff was decided by the United States
Supreme Court there would be no tariff
legislation by Congress for the Philippines
''That decision" he said, will show us
where we stand. and we can then proceed
intelligently. If the court sustains the
Republican contention that Porto Rico is
not a part of the United States, but terri
tory belonging to the United States. and
that, therefore, the constitutional provi-
sion for uniform taxation throughout the
United States does not apply to Porto Rico,
of course the same will hold good with re-
gard to the Philippines. We can then
frame a tariff bill for the Philippines which
will provide the necessary revenue for the
government of the Philippines on progress
sive lines, and so afford the necessary pro-
lection to our own manufactures and la
bor.''
What If the decision of the court should
be that the Porto Rican tariff is unconsu-
tutional, and that Porto Rico is a part of
the United States?"
IF such should be the decision of the
court it might necessitate our having to
give up the Philippines. We are bound to
the open-door policy in the Philippines
That means that the products of all na-
tons can come into the Philippines the
same basis own. If we cannot raise
a tariff against Philippine products coming
into the United States then our labor would
10 COmnetftiOn
labor of the Orient. If that condition
should come about we might feel that our
interest would demand our withdrawal
from the Philippines
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c. +. X. WAPPENHANS.
Local Forecast Official.
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GREAT MARKETS OPENED.
Effect of Transsiberian Railway on
Commerce of America.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-wiliiam Mitchell
Bunker. honorary commissioner of foreign
commerce of tho San Francisco Chamber
OF Commerce, arrived in this city to-day
On the N,nbria with lis wife. he had a
80 200 mile trip through Siberia and Europe
without the slightest accident and never
missed a connection. Mrs. Bunker is The
first woman of foreign birth who crossed
the Russian empire fror east 70 west.
After describing mis- long journey Mr..
Bunker said tonight: ''In Europe 7 made
a study of the conditiC rs bearing on the
Russian Asiatic trade. My conclusions are
entirely in favor OF the United States. and
especially of the Pacinc coast. The Trans
siberian Railway has given this country a
large market for food stuffs and other
supplies. and this market will keep pace
with the increasing colonization Of eastern
Siberia
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MARRIED IN HASTE.


DETROIT, Nov. 1S.-Mrs. Hattie +. Nor
ton, OF Detroit. married Charles r.. Holmes.
o. San Francisco. i'm Windsor, Ont. Satur-
day evening. Late this afternoon Mrs.
Holmes raised an alarm in the Manning
Hotel and sent messengers looking for her
husband. He could not he found. Then
she examined the lining OF her skirt. where
she had secreted s7o0. The money was
missing.
Mrs. Holmes said she had known her
husband but two weeks. having become ac-
quainted with him through matrimonial
paper. After being married Saturday even
ing at the house of the Rev ID. III. Hind
they retired, first drinking some wine or
dered by her husband. She SAYS she be-
lieves she was drugged. DR. A. Soper. who
was called to attend her, said she was un-
der the influence Of a drug. The $780, Mrs.
holmes says, was drawn from the bank 10y
her at the suggestion of Holmes. The
police are looking for the absent man.
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WEATHER FORECAST.
Rain and Colder To-day, with Fair
and Cold To-Morrow.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.-Forecast for
Monday and Tuesday:
For Ohio-Rain in southern portion Mon
day: rain. probably turning to snow, in
northern portion; much colder: Tuesday,
fair; winds becoming brisk. northerly.
For Lower Aichigan-Rain turning INTO
snow in southern portion. Monday; much
colder; Tuesday. fair: brisk to high north
erly winds.
For Indiana-Rain and much colder, Mon
day; Tuesday, fair; winds becoming fresh
to brisk northerly.
For Kentucky-Rain; much colder Mon
day; Tuesday, fair; winds becoming north
erly.
For Illinois-Rain: much colder, Monday,
possibly turning into snow near Lake
Michigan: Tuesday. fair; brisk to high
northerly winds.