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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

There are 1872 election districts in New
York county, Manhattan and Bronx
BorOughs, and in only thirtysix of them
at last years presidential election was
the total in excess of the established
legal limit of 600.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

The editor of Burke's Peerage, Lon
don. says that he receives more In
quiries about questions of precedence
from the United States than he does
from England
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

The authorities of the Norwegian
Childrcn's Home in Chicago. have re-
fused to accept a gift of 800 because
the money was raised by a concert
where there was dancing and where
liquor was sold.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Fifty-eight thousand dollars worth of
Hawaiian stamps We're burned by the
postal department at Washington.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Lubbock is about to exercise it's right
as a free city to issue a coinage of it's
own. The city arms will take the place
of the Kaiser's haed on one face of the
German coins. The last Lubbock coins
We're struck 100 years ago, in 1901.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

No less than 100000 homes are held
free of debt by Southern negroes. They
have been established at an average
value of $14O, 100000. The holdings of
personally by the race are probably
worth more than the realty.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Eearl Roberts will have to pay, in one
way and another, something like $4,000
greater part of this, of course will be
the cost of the coronet, but the charge
is swelled by fees of all sorts.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Edward Conrad, a railroad gateman,
of Alleghaney. Pa. suffered an injury
some years ago. which made it neces-
sary to amputate one of his legs. Since
then he has had five accidents. in each
of which his artificial leg was cut off.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Three congressman now in Washing
ton have found it necessary. on account
of the similarity of their names, to hold
sort of clearing house for their mail
every morning. They are Messrs. Rob-
inson. of Indiana: Robertson, of LOuiSi-
ana; and Robertson of Nevada
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Berren county, Mich. the record
of 1900, claims to be the greatest peach
growing section in the world. The num-
Der of acres cultivated last year was
1853. and the total yield of peaches was
14O, 1872 bushels. being more than half
the entire Michigan crop.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02

Cultivating ordinary honey bees in a
modern apartment house has been ac-
cOmpliShed in Chicago. One enterprise
ing Individual has found that the bee
keeps just as busy storing away nectar
in a home on the third floor as in Il
hollow tree in the woods
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
FEAR YANKEE INFLUENCE
FRIENDS OF BARTOLOME MAsO AP-
PEAL TO ROOSEVELT.
Want Americans in Cuba to BE Strict
Iy Impartial i'm the Approach
Ing Election.

HAVANA. Nov. 26-That part of the Ma
tional party which is supporting General
Bartolome Maso, the Democratic candidate
for the presidency of Cuba, has voted to
send a cablegram to President Roosevelt
asking the latter to recommend that the
representatives of the United States in
Cuba observe the strictest impartiality i'm
the approaching election for a Cuban Pres
ident. This communication reads as fol-
lows: I'VE make this request because GER
tain official elements are trying to secure
the election of Senior Tomas Estrada Palma
0he Nationalist candidate) by stating he
is the candidate favored by the govern
ment at Washington"
Senior Palma has renounced his Ameri-
can citizenship through power of at
torney given by him to Secretary of State
Tamayo This morning Senor Tamayo ac-
companied by General Emelio Nunez and
General MaXimo Gomez, appeared in court
and made this formal announcement.
General Gomez in an open letetr to the
Cuban people advises all Cubans TO vote
for Senor Palma, and says if they fail TO
recognize PalmaS intelligence and ability
to fill the office of President. he does not
feel called on to stump the country in
Palma's behalf General Gomez expresses
much for Cuba should receive the unani-
nous Endorsement of the Cuban people
without the necessity of any campaigning
among the masses.
The followers of General Maso are elated
over the refusal of General Gomez to
this was the great card of the latters sup
pOrterS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
MAY CAUSE TROUBLE.
Captain Perry's Refusal TO Permit
COIOmbians to Use Trains.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 26.-The reported
action of Captain Perry, the naval officer
in command of the United States forces on
the isthmus, in declining to permit any of
the Colombian or rebel troops to make use
of the railway may raise an interesting
question 1t is understood here that the
Colombian government feels that it has the
decided right to use this railway 10 for
ward government troops. This right is
based on the fact that the road is on land
over which Colombia has sovereignty. and
is operated under a government concession,
Colombia retaining an interest in the road
to the extent of $3.50, 900 per year. More
over the Colombian authorities say the
rebels have not had their belligerent rights
recognized by this or any other govern
ment, so that they have no status as
carrying on warfare.
Commander McCrea to-day acknowledged
the receipt of the Navy Departments in
structions sent Yesterday, advising him OF
the course which he is to pursue in the
present situation on the isthmus. 1t was
impossible for the Navy Department Off
cials to decipher the greater portion of
the disptach and it was returned to him
for repetition.
A brief dispatch came to the Navy De-
partment this evening from Captain Perry,
of the Iowa, now at Panama. The captain
simply stated that he in communica-
ton with Commander Delano. of the gun
boat Marietta, stationed on the Colon side
of the isthmus. which fact leads the au-
thorities to believe that the telegraphic
connection between the two places con-
tinues uninterrupted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
TOM L. JOHNSON'S PETITION.
He Wants Railways Assessed on Mar.
ket Value OF Securities

COLUMBUS. o., Nov. 26.-The Supreme
Court to-day allowed the motion Of Mayor
Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleveland, for leave
TO file petition in mandamus against the
State Board of Equalization of Railways
compelling ii TO re-assess the railroad prop
erty of the State at a valuation based upon
the market value of its securities. The pc
tition was filed Immediately following the
courts consent The petition, in effect
asks the court TO cOnstrue the statute to
mean that the Board of Railway Equaliza-
ton has the power to increase the valua-
tion of railroads for the purpose of taxa
tiOn over and above the grand total as fixed
by the county auditors.
Attorney General Sheets will file a de-
murrer to Mayor Johnson's petition and
this will bring the case TO a hearing on it's
merits. The case will be heard. or sub
mitted on briefs, in time 10 be disposed of
before the court takes the holiday recess.
JOhnson's contention is that the railways
of Ohio. which are on duplicate for $117.-
coo, 600 in round numbers. are only appraised
at about % per cent of their actual value
while real estate in Ohio is appraised at
about 60 per cent OF its true value John
son wants railroad valuations increased
so as TO bring them up to a 80 per cent
basis This would place them on the dupli-
cate for about $356. 100000. instead of about
Sll1, coo coo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
SWEPT HER IN % THE SEA.
Wife of DIR. McNeaI Washed on the
Steamer BeIgenIand.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.-Captain Hill,
of the steamship Belgenland, which reached
her dock from Liverpool to-day, reports
that when the steamship was abreast Nam
tucket on Sunday Mrs. H. McNeal, wife of
Dr. McNeal, Of Ann Arbor Mich, was
washed overheard and drowned. There was
a heavy running at the time Of the
accident DR.. McNeal. who was on deck
watching the storm, went to his Stateroom
and called his wife to come on deck and
view a passing steamship. The couple had
been standing together for only a few min
utes wnen immense wave swept over
the Belgenland carrying the unfortunate
woman overheard. Her body was not seen
after II had been carried away by the
wave.
When DR.. McNeai dsembarked from the
Belgenland he was almost overcome with
grief. He said that on Sunday he had
called his wife to the deck to watch the
sea which had become turbulent owing
10 the storm and elso to see another liner
that was passing I'm an instant" said
DIR. McNeal. and before any assistance
could be rendered my wife was thrown
overheard by huge wave striking the
steamship"
Dr. and Mrs. McNeal had been travelling
in Europe for some months. The doctor
left this city at noon for his home at
Ann Arbor. Mrs. McNeal was a graduate
in medicine Of the Michigan University.
She was thirty-nine years of age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
Decisive Engagement Probably Will
Be Fought ut Monkey Hill Gem
etery This Morning.
TRAINS ARE MOVING AGAIN
MARINES FOR THE BATTLESHIP
IOWA ABLE TO REACH PANAMA.
Arrival at Colon of n BeIated Train
Under Guard of American
BIuejackets.

COLON, Colombia, Nov. 26, 4:tO p. m.-
Communication with Panama was again
interrupted to-day, but was restored late
this afternoon. There has been fighting at
Barbacao, and, as General Alban is now
maching on Colon, it is taken for granted
the Liberals were defeated.
An overdue passenger train from Panama
with a marine guard on board arrived here
late this afternoon. The train brings news
to the effect that General Alban, with
about three hundred government troops,
has crossed Barbacao bridge and is con-
tinuing his march to Colon. He is now at
Tavernilla, where he is resting The Lib
eral forces continue to retreat before him.
They explain their retreat by saying they
have no ammunition. All of the fighting
to-day occurred at Barbacao bridge. Pas
sengers by the delayed train assert that
fully one hundred conservatives were killed
and wounded during the fighting there and
that the Liberal losses were insignificant.
The Liberals are now approaching Gatun
station (about five miles from Colon), and
it is believed decisive engagement prob
ably will be fought tonight or tomorrow
morning at Monkey Hill Cemetery, distant
one mile from the limits of Colon.
Trains which left here this afternoon for
Panama with marines for the battleship
Iowa and the passengers from the steamer
Orizaba delayed in transit. but
reached Panama safely.
Reports current here that General Pinzon
had bOmbarded Portobello have been
found, upon investigation, to be unreliable
and not authentic
The gunboat General Pinzon appeared in
Colon harbor this morning. Her comman-
der said there were only one hundred men
of the original six hundred troops carried
by the vessel now on board the gunboat.
The others had been landed at Porto Bello,
about ten miles distant from Colon. The
presumption is that the five hundred men
are marching overland to join the govern
ment forces under General Alban, now ad-
vancing on Colon.
The Liberals retreated from Emperador
owing to lack of ammunition. They esti-
mate having lost sixty men in killed and
wounded al Emperador, and that among
the number were Colonel Cyas, but they
claim that the government loss was over
$50 men in killed and wounded.
The armored train which went over the
railroad yesterday, having on board Capt.
Perry of the Iowa, and machine guns and
flying the American flag, was sent as a
administrative force and will not be con-
tinued daily. Passenger trains, however,
will still carry a guard. Transit across the
isthmus is open.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
RATHBUN CASE SURPRISE
JEFFERSONVILLE SUSPECT IDENTI-
FLED AS EDWARD A. TALBERT.
Said to Have Committed a FeIOnious
Assault at HaughvfIIe-StOry of His
Alleged Former Wife.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind, Nov. 26.-Sur-
prises are coming thick and fast in the
Rathbun case, and the latest is the state
ment made late this afternoon by Miss
Lille Stanley, a well-known young woman
of this city, that she married Rathbun in
this city on Sept S. 1900. under the name Of
Edward a. Talbert. The ceremony was
performed by Justice Nixon. Miss Stanley
AYERS that she and Rathbun lived together
for week, when he deserted her, and she
had not seen him from that day until this
afternoon. when she identified him at the
jail Rathbun denies that he ever saw the
woman, and also denies that he ever in
the city before the day he brought the
tramp Goodman here, three weeks ago. On
the other hand, Miss Stanley is sure that
Rathbun and Talbert are one and the
same man. Miss Stanley or Mrs. Talbert
was given a divorce in the Circuit Court at
the last term.
According to Miss Stanley's story Rath-
bun or Talbert served term in the Re-
formatOry under the name of Talbert for
assault and battery with intent to kill,
committed at Haughville, a suburb of In
dianapons 1t was after he was released
on parole and was driving a hack for a
local liveryman that she became acquainted
with him, and after brief courtship they
were married. DR.. Sharp, of the Reforma-
tory, was seen this evening but would not
entirely confirm Miss Stanley's story How
ever, the Bertillon measurement will be
taken of Rathbun tomorrow and compared
with the measurement of the Talbert who
served the term, in an effort to ascertain
positively If he is the same man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
RETURN OF CONGRESSMEN
THEY TELL OF THEIR EXPERIENCE
on THE TRANSPORT WARREN.
Mr. Mercer Says the American Vessel
Was Crowded Ashore by Jap
anese Steamer.

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 26-Among the
passengers on the steamer Doric. released
from quarantine to-day, were Congressman
gentlemen have been to the Philippines and
will report on the condition of affairs at
the next meeting of Congress. They were
on the Sheridan when she got into trouble
and were later transferred to the Warren.
which went ashore.
Congressman Mercer said: 1.-THE Warren
was in charge of the pilot when the acci-
dent happened, and had it not been for the
presence of mind of Captain Barneson L
don't know where we would have landed.
AS it was, the transport struck with a
force that brought us all up standing. A
Japanese steamer was making the passage
through the inland sea at the same time
we were. She kept crowding us, and in
spite of danger signals and all kinds of
blasts took no notice but held on her way.
Finally 1t came to a question of going
ashore or going full speed ahead and MAX
ing rush to get through. Then the cap
tain took charge of the ship, and, accept
ing the chances, made rush to get off the
lee shore. He succeeded, but the vessel
struck a submerged rock and had a small
hole knocked in the hull besides having
several plates lOosened. The pilot wanted
to take her to the nearest port, but Capt.
Barneson knew his ship and carried her to
Kobe where repairs could be made The
pumps were kept going during the run, but
at no time was there danger.
There was no trouble at all in the navi-
cation of the Warren and L think both mas
ter and pilot were blameless. Furthermore
| think Captain BarnesOn acted like a
skilled seaman, and L don't think anybody
in our merchant marine wants anything
better than that said about him.
Congressman Weeks. of Michigan, and
De Almond, of Missouri, will arrive here
on the transport Hancock next week
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
EIoped with Young Indianapolis
Woman and Was Married in His
Home City.
THEN DISAPPEARED AGAIN
AND Is SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE TO
THE NEW YORK METROPOLIS.
Said to he PrecociOus, with a PEN
chant for Purchasing Boilers and
Mechanical Appliances.

CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-Into five weeks of
the seventeen years of his life Henry H.
Henley, son of Attorney ]. E. Henley,
5C37 Grand Boulevard. has, 1t is said.
crowded a disappearance from the Uni
versity of Indiana, visit to Indianapolis,
elopement with a young woman of that
city TO Chicago, marriage, and a second
disappearance-this time presumably to
New York.
For all of these statements the father of
the young man is authority. with the ex-
planation that his son frequently has In
tervals when impulse drives him to en-
barrassing acts The peculiar caprices of
Young Henley became public to-day when
the father sought the aid of the police in
locating the missing boy. The present dis
appearance brought to a sudden end
honeymoon of several days spent with his
bride at the Palmer House. The wife, ac-
cording to her husbands father, has
turned to her home in Indianapolis. heart
sick and in tears.
Henley had an apparently uncomfortable
desire to buy things Among the pur-
chases delivered at the door Of his rooms
in the university town were boilers and
mechanical appliances of various kinds.
oOHltllllto TIE Dlll W dS IluCH
as $500 but his father settled the ac-
accounts.
Henley Is said to be a precocious youth.
He was graduated from Chicago high
school at the age of fourteen. In school
he showed a remarkable aptness in the
study of electrical engineering and me-
chanics. When he was sent to the Uni
versity the liking for this study took
intensely practical turn. That Is the rea-
son he wanted a working laboratory of his
own and bought 1t at the expense Of his
father.
Henry has great inventive genius" said
Attorney Henley. 'He is a phenomenon
in some ways, and If he ever gets over the
trouble that seems to afflict him and acts
normally, 1 believe he will be a great in
ventor"
Henley gave out the impression that he
was going to New York. but his father
thinks that he has not left Chicago. The
elder Henley has not learned positively the
identity of the girl whom his son married
but says she is the daughter of promi-
nent Indianapolis man whose home. he be-
lives, is on North West street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
NEW RAILWAY SYSTEM.
IL Is Made Up Of Most OF the Baltimore
~ Ohio Lines.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 26.-The creation of
a new system will be the feature of the
new financial arrangements of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad. The newly created
system will be known as the Baltimore &
Ohio-Pittsburg. Lake Erie * West Virginia
system. 1t will. as indicated by its title
be made up of the lines of the Baltimore
& Ohio extending from the great lakes
10 the coal fields of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. This plan will bring to-
gether into a compact system about 900
miles of railroad. The lines TO be included
are as follows:
Pittsburg x Western system.
Pittsburg Cleveland & Toledo.
Pittsburg. PainesviIle * Fairport
Cleveland Terminal * Valley.
Cleveland. Lorain * Wheeling.
Ohio River system.
West Virginia Short-line.
Lines composing Pittsburg & Middle
Junction division.
Central Ohio.
Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark
Newark. Somerset & StraitsViIle.
Baltimore & Ohio holdings in the Pitts
burg Junction Railroad
West Virginia * Pittsburg.
MOnongahela River Railroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
VALUE OF THE RICE ESTATE.
Texas MiIlionaire's Personal and Real
Property Worth $4,000 900.

NEW YORK. Nov. 26.-The inventory Of
John p. OBrien. temporary administrator
of the estate OF millionaire William Marsh
Rice. has just been filed. 1t shows that the
personal estate OF the aged financier, whom
Lawyer Albert T. Patrick is accused OF
having murdered, has a total value Of So
354 629.35. Aside from trif1ing household
goods all this is in stocks and bonds and
actual cash, and is deposited in various
banks and trust companies of New York.
In addition. counsel for the administrator
said to-day that Mr.. Rice had over 81 600. 600
worth Of property in Texas, mostly real
estate which will swell the total value of
the estate to S6,OO0,000 One OF the assets is
the certified check for $l35.000 drawn TO the
order of Albert 7. Patrick, which first
aroused suspicion to the nature OF Pat
rick's dealings with Rice, and another is
check for John r. Potts, trustee, on the
Chatham National Bank. being the pro-
ceedings of a check for $4,000 purporting to
be drawn by William NJ. Rice 10 the order
of Albert T. Patrick and certified and paid
by the Fifth-avenue Trust Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
ORTMAN'S DISCOVERY.
Original Location and Situation of the
Two Ancient Continents

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Dr. A. E. Ortman,
of Princeton University, Princeton, n. j..
has made a discovery as to the original
location and situation of the continents
The discovery adds to the evidences OF the
correctness of Won Ibering and Hedleys
theory, which is that formerly there existed
only two main continents known TO scien-
lists as Archhelenos and Archinolos He
did this by noting the geographical distri-
button OF the fresh-water crayfish The
continents on which the crayfish are found
must originally have been connected. form
ing one main continent, and the place
where the fish do not occur must have
formed another continent. Archhenlenos is
the name given by scientists TO the cOnti-
nent on which the crayfsh did not occur
and consisted of what is now India Africa
and tropical America. The other continent
called Archinolos. consisted of the southern
part OF South America, Australia, the Ant
arctic regions and the eastern part of Asia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
CONCENTRATION OF BOERS.
Preacher from south Africa Tells of
British Collection Camps.

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The Rev. Herman
d. Van Broeckhuysen, Boer preacher. ac-
dressed a meeting of Boer sympathizers
here tonight. He declared the Beers
would never surrender. and then devoted
most of the remainder of his talk to a de-
scription of the collection camps. He said:
There are thirty-four of these camps
along the line of the railroad They are
surrounded with barbed wire fences. ten
feet high. and outside Of those fences
armed British soldiers guard The
women and children sleep on the bare
ground. i'm tents or open barracks. They
are allowed One-half pound of meat one
quarter of an ounce of coffee, two ounces
OF sugar and a little salt every day. They
are practically living skeletons. In Eng
land and Wales the average death rate is
eighteen in a thousand. In these camps
in South Africa the death rate was 264 in
a thousand, while the death rate among
the children was 433 in a thousand. Unless
some remedy is effected there Will be no
children left
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-27
JOE LARK ACQUITTED.
He Was Accused of n Crime for which
Innocent Men Were Lynched.

SPRINGFIELD. Mo. Nov. 26.-Joe Lark.
colored, charged with the murder Of Miss
Gazelle Wild in Pierce City some months
ago, was acquitted to-day in the Circuit
Court at Mount Vernon. Miss Wild. a
respectable young white woman. was as
saulted and murdered and her body thrown
under "A railroad bridge. When her body
was found the excitement became so intense
that all negroes were forced 10 fee for
their lives. one negro shot down in
the streets, another was lynched and "A
third was fatally wounded as he fed from
his house, 10 which the lynchers had ap-
piled the torch. All OF them were innocent
Lark was barely spirited away 20 Spring
field in time TO save his life. The Identity
OF the murderer was never learned