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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-21
Eighteen Hundred CameIs Purchased
for Count Won Waldersee's Ex-
peditiOn to Si-Ngan-Fu.
NOTE TO FOREIGN ENJOYS
CHINA WILLING TO ACCEPT THE
TERMS OF THE POWERS.
Reply Said to Have Been FavOrably
Observation-Disclosures Question
Finally Disposed OF.

PEKING, Feb. 20-The foreign ENJOYS
this morning received an unofficial COM
munication from the Chinese plenip0ten-
tiaries Offering to agree to all the terms
of the powers. The Chinese desired, how
ever, to save the lives of Chao Shu Chiao
and Ying Men, but they were informed
that the ministers insisted on the former
demands. A complete surrender is ex-
pected tomorrow. Meanwhile extensive
preparations are being made for the ex-
pedition planned by Count Won Waldersee.
The Germans have purchased 1,S00 camels
for transport purposes.
A representative of the Associated Press
was informed by the foreign ministers to-
day that they think the gravity OF the
situation over. but 1t is expected that diff
culties viii now arise among themselves
when some of the governments send their
indemnity claims, and particularly is there
uneasiness regarding the attitude of Ger
many that her claims must be paid In cash
before the evacuation takes place. The
other ministers resent this, saying it will
be impossible for China to pay, as China
has not a large reserve and the customs
receipts 60 to pay dividends on former
loans, and it is improbable that she could
borrow a sum of any magnitude. United
States Minister Conger estimates the total
demands upon China at 500 600.
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NOT CoNTRABAND OF WAR.


LONDON, Feb. 20.-The reported determi-
nation OF the House OF Representatives at
Washington to inquire into the question
whether the United States has broken the
treaty OF 1872 by permitting the expectation
of horses. mules and other supplies to the
British forces in South Africa creates more
academic interest than practical concern
In the government departments here. A
representative of the Associated Press
brought the dispatch on the subject to
the notice of the Foreign Office and War
Office. The officials of the latter regarded
the possible effects of any future action
port, as about all the mules AMI horses re-
quired for South Africa had already been
secured.
During the course of the inquiries made
by the Associated Press representative the
interesting opinion was expressed that the
end OF the war as an active campaign was
now in sight, and that within a few months
assume that stage which for four years has
marked the war I'm Burmah, which wore
itself out without attracting particular at
tention In Great Britain or elsewhere. This
opinion was expressed by no less an au-
thority than the under secretary OF state
for the Foreign Office. Lord Cranborne In
whose province such matters as the re-
ported congressional action properly be-
longs He produced from the files OF the
Foreign Office copy Of the treaty. where
Il has peacefully reposed since the days
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PHIPPS HAS SOLD OUT.
Got the Same Terms as Mr.. Carnegie
-Mnnufacturers Anxious.

PITTSBURG, Feb. e0-Henry Phipps, of
the Carnegie Steel Company. was at his
office to-day. having returned from New
York last night. but he declined 10 talk
on the proposed consolidation OF steel in
terests. Ex-Secretary Lovejoy also refused
TO discuss the DEAL but said that Mr. Frick
would be home the latter part OF this week
This is regarded as an intimation that the
work of completing the combination will
not be through before Friday or Saturday
gentleman near to Mr.. Phipps and well
authorized TO speak says Mr.. Phipps has
sold out OF the Carnegie Company entirely
on the same basis Mr.. Carnegie He
confirmed the report that Mr.. Schwab
would be president OF the new combina-
ton. with Mr.. Frick as chairman OF the
board OF directors.
Manufacturers are anxious 10 have the
announcement made. as they believe Il will
help the market. Prices are advancing
slowly ON all steel products. but Inquiries
are slower this week than they have been
on account Of the proposed steel combIna-
tfolA.
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LONDON, Feb. Plat their last meet
ing," says the Peking correspondent of the
Morning Post, wiring yesterday, ''the for
eign ENJOYS agreed to a compromise. They
propose to permit the imperial court to
commute the sentences of decapitation in
the cases of Prince Tuan, Duke Ian and
General Tung Flu Hsiang to life imprison-
nient and will agree to the following pun
ishmepts: Prince Chwang to be strangled,
Yu Hsien to be decapitated, Choa Shu
Chiao and Ying Nien to be permitted t.
strangle themselves and Chi Hsin and Hsu
Cheng WI to be beheaded in Peking. II
the court advances no new obstacles ths
negotiations first point of the de-
nands of the powers may be considered
closed"
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LONDON, Feb 2l.-A dispatch to the
Reuter- Telegram Company from Picking,
dated yesterday, says: THE Chinese have
yielded on the question of punishments and
1t is announced the demand of the powers
will be fully complied with. The reply Of
the court has not yet been communicated
to the legations, but it is known to have
been received by Prince Ching and Ii Hung
Chang and it will probably be communi-
Gated tomorrow"
DIR. Morrison, wiring to the Times from
Peking yesterday, also says the court has
yielded and that raison d'etre for the
military expedition has ceased to exist.
Commenting on the latest advices, the
Times says: There cannot be any reason
able doubt that the sudden surrender of
the Chinese court was due to fears inspired
by Count Won Waldersee's order. The les
will not be lost the allies, should
the Chinese resort again to their tradi-
tional tactics of evasion and delay
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PLANS OF KING EDWARD
HIS VISIT TO EMPRESS FREDERICK'S
SICK BED WILL BE RRAxATE.
Queen Alexandra VIII Not Accompany
Him-Win Make Trip to
Ireland i'm the Spring.

LONDON, Feb. 20-The announcement Of
the date Saturday of King Edwards de-
parture for Friederichshoff, near Cronberg,
has revived the stories that his trip will be
extended to Berlin, to repay Emperor Will
lam's visit to England at the time Of
Queen victoria's death and that he viii go
thence to Denmark. At present, however,
his Majesty has no intention of so doing.
He will merely pay a strictly private visit
of few days TO the dowager Empress
Frederick. He will not be accompanied by
the Queen. 1t is probable that at the end
OF March King Edward and Queen Alex
andra will go to Copenhagen, whence King
Edward will visit Prince Henry of Prussia.
a. kiel
1t is semi-officially announced in Ireland
that King Edward will carry out in the
course Of the spring the engagements he
made when Prince of Wales for visiting
Ireland He will be entertained by three
peers and will be officially received at Bel
fast, Dublin and Waterford. There will not
be, however. a repetition Of the festive
scenes at Dublin which were enacted
when the Queen occupied the vice regal
lodge. The King will be Lord Londonderry 8
guest in the north and will De entertained
by the Duke OF Devonshire at Lismore
castle. 1t will be, mainly restful journey
and there will not be any important social
functions. but the lord lieutenants coun-
ties, through which ne passes, will provide
guards Of honor and there will be civic
reception, at least in Belfast. These plans.
while subject to change in consequence OF
the health of the Empress dowager Fred
er.ck and the arrangement for the corona
ton during the summer, are already unGer
consideration among the officials at belfast.
Dublin and Waterford
While the current report that the ag-
gregate sum of the British civil list will
rot be changed in the new reign is prob
ably correct, IL does not follow that the
court OF Edward VII will not have more
money TO spend than Queen Victoria S
court. The civil list is capable of consid-
eVable manipulation. Queen Victoria had
smaller aggregate than King William
". but the civil list was relieved from
various charges and she had a larger
amount available for the maintenance OF
the royal household. The revision of ,nc
civil list will yield similar results for the
Kings benefit, without a larger appropria-
ton for the general expenditures OF the
court. Queen Alexandras allowances will be
largely increased and there will not be any
opposition by the Commons TO the pro
posals for her benefit. The annuities for the
Duke of Cornwall will be equal in amount
to those received by his father as Prince
of Wales
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De Wet Again Roaming Freely over
the Veldt, and Britons Wondering
Where He VIII Next Appear.
MULES ARE NOT CoNTRABAND
BRITAIN MAY PURCHASE ALL SHE
WANTS In THIS COUNTRY.
Beers Also Have the Privilege of Buy
ing Good American "kfckers"
IL They Pay the Price.

LONDON, Feb. 20.-A special dispatch
from Pretoria says the Beers at Kip riv-
er, Feb. is, derailed a train containing
General Kitchener's baggage. The train
was preceded by another. on which the
oommander-in-chief was passenger An
armored train drove off the Beers, but the
latter secured the contents of the train de-
rallied This was Lord Kitchener's second
narrow escape from capture and it calls
out newspaper warnings as to the danger
of his rapid fittings by train from place
to place. 1t is considered better for him
to remain in Pretoria than to risk upset
ting his carefully elaborated plan of cam
paign. AS Lord Kitchener is now back
in Pretoria. the inference is that General
Dc Wet has again escaped from the sup
posed Gordon. There is no further news
of General Frenchs pursuit of Comman-
oant General Botha in eastern Transvaal
Grave anxiety is felt for the fate of
Smith-Dorrien's column, which has not
been heard of since Feb. 6, when 1t lost
twenty-four killed and forty-six wounded
in heavy engagement with Commandant
Botha, at Bothaville. The officer in COM
mand at wonderfontein. the nearest post
on the railway to the scene of the engage
Iueut, reports tudI ne mas no news Oh
Smith-Dorrien, who has about $500 men
under him.
Lord Kitchener has returned to Pre-
toria, leaving the chase after De Wet in
the hands Of Knox. De Wet has completely
fooled Kitchener. He thought he had the
Boer general surrounded near De Aar,
Cape Colony, but found out he was mis-
taken, and is wondering now where De Wet
will be heard from next. A raid upon Cape
Town. while appearing impossible at this
distance, is said to be actually feared
Kitchener wired yesterday that De Wet
Is moving north and is now west of Hope
town, but will probably double back to the
southwest, where troops are awaiting to
catch him.
A train was derailed by the Beers near
Jalbosch and looted by natives. Two cars
were ordered out and the Beers fired on
them, killing two persons and wounding
many.
Statements emanate from both Pretoria
and Brussels that Mr.. Kruger contemplates
returning TO South Africa. 1t is said that
he has just finished writing a memorial on
the war which will be sent TO the European
governments and to President Mckinley.
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THINK 1T is A BLUFF.
Brit0ns Believe Waldersee Is Trying
to Bulldoze Chinese

LONDON, Feb. 20.-It was learned by
representative of the Associated Press that
the British government tonight Is with
out any further official explanation Of
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee's ac-
tion In planning an extensive expedition in
China The government expects to receive
tomorrow advices from Berlin officially
setting forth the motive for the recent or
ders issued by the commander-in-chief of
the international forces In China. In fact
such explanation has been asked for in or
der that the Cabinet at Fridays meeting
may have some satisfactory basis for it's
deliberations on the Chinese question.
However, it is pretty well unofficially un-
derstood in Downing street that Won Wal
dersee's action was purely due TO desire
to bluff the Chinese. The action of the
British members of Parliament and papers,
especially the London Times. in calling il a
bluff, causes the greatest chagrin and has
given rise to the feeling that it is impossi-
BILE to meet Chinese fnesse with similar
weapons.
1.-The concert of the powers" said an off,
cial TO the representative Of the Asso-
ciated Press, 'is so unwieldy and is COM
posed of so many different sections and
subsections that diplomacy is out Of the
question. If every move made is subject
to similar treatment as this last, we shall
he driven to settle the Chinese difficulty by
pure brute force not at all. 1t does not
REQUIRE any great degree of deduction to
assume that Lord Salisbury, in spite of his
professed ignorance and the secrecy at
Berlin, was fairly we'll informed as TO the
true inwardness of Count Won Waldersee' $
recent orders"
Answering a memorial of the Interna-
tional Arbitration and Peace Association,
Lord Salisbury's secretary writes that he
has been directed to say that his Majesty S
government considers the British forces in
China 'have not exhibited any severity in
excess of that rendered necessary by the
atrocious proceedings Of the Chinese gov
eminent"
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IN THE TRUE KANSAS WAY
THREE SALOONS SMASHED IN CAR
TER HARRIsON's WINDY CITY.
Mrs. Smith Objected to Liquor Being
Sold Her Husband-Rows in
Other Places.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2O.-Three saloons in this
city, tonight, were damaged by admirers
of the methods of Mrs. Carrie Nation. The
total damage suffered by the three proprie-
tors will amount to several hundred dol
lars. The smashing was done in each in
stance by a different person. and neces-
sarily so, as the police gathered in the
smashers with great promptitude and
locked them up. The saloons damaged
were those Of:
Peter Pelligrine, Twenty~fourth and
State streets. plate-glass door broken by
Mrs. Agnes Breen Smith; damage. $50.
The Berghoff, State and Adams streets.
plate-glass door and window broken by
Frank Owens; damage. $500.
Charles Vietzen, 279 South Clark street,
plate-glass door and glassware broken by
James Clab; damage. $780,
Mrs. Smith declared that her husband,
who had been drinking to excess, had pro-
cured the liquor at Pelligrine's place, de-
spite her request to the proprietor that he
cease selling it to him. Her husband was
intoxicated tonight, she said, and she
went once more to the saloon and de-
manded that he be no longer supplied with
whisky. The saloon keeper put her out.
she said, and in the struggle the glass was
broken. Pelligrine declares that he never
sold liquor to the woman's husband, and
when he told her so tonight she threat
ened him with hat pin. He put her out
and she came back with brick and a few
other missiles and hurled them around gen.
orally, smashing his plate-glass door. After
throwing the brick Mrs. Smith was ar
rested and locked up at the Harrison-street
police station.
The affairs in the Berghoff and in Charles
Vietzens saloon were Independent of Mrs.
Smiths crusade. They were both the re-
suit of disagreements between bartenders
and obstreperous customers. After being
elected from the Berghoff Frank Owens
came back with a few things to throw.
and before the police gathered him in he
had covered the floor with broken glass.
James Clab was sailor. and being full of
noise and liquor was elected from vietzen's
saloon. He came back with a stick and
pounded everything he could reach, glass
ware. mirrors and heads. He was arrested
only after desperate fight.
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sheriR Spirits the Alleged Rapist
Away to the Relief of Mrs. Nation,
Who Also Was I'm the Jail.
END OF PETER BERGMAN
ARKANSAS NEGRO Is HANGED FOR
KICKING A YOUNG GIRL.
Another Negro Is Strung Up Five
Times i'm Effort to Extort Confess
sion-Another Kansas Case.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 2O.-The vigilance
OF officers was all that saved Slick Slater.
white, aged twenty-seven years, from
1ynching tonight. He will yet be lynched
IL he can be found. Slater assaulted sew
enteen-year-oId Lottie Gerberick Monday
evening, and was captured by Topeka Of
fcers the next day in Carbondale, twenty
miles from here. The officers kept the fact
OF the. capture quiet and placed Slater In
the county jail here. This afternoon 1t
became known that he was here. and i'm
uediately the men at the Santa Fe shops,
where the girls father. George Gerberick.
IS employed. decided that he should be
lynched. They sen. committee TO watch
the Jail. while they arranged details for
the expected lynching.
BY o'clock a mob of 1000 men was
around the county jail demanding the pris-
oner- A brigade of sturdy Santa Fe boiler
makers, armed with heavy sledge hammers,
stood ready to make short work of the Jail
3n case the demands were not granted
Sheriff Cook told the crowd that the pris-
oner had been removed, and offered to
let committee search the Jail. Ten men.
headed by Gerberick, made a thorough
search. Slater could not be found, and the
men so reported. This failed to satisfy the
mob and twice they started to break in the
jail doors.
1t developed that early in the afternoon
the sheriff, In anticipation Of trouble, or.
dered deputy to get Slater out of town.
The deputy drove to Hoyt with Slater and
entered north-bound Rock Island train
with him. 1t is thought here tonight that
the man Is now in jail at Atchison. The
Santa Fe shopmen are determined to lynch
Slater when he is brought back here for
trial. and TO this end have appointed q
large vigilance committee to be constantly
On the lookout for him. The Santa BE
shopmen have a record for lynching, hav-
ing strung UP John Oliphant here twelve
years ago for assault.
The county Jail, which the lynching party
visited in search OF Slater, is the same In
which Mrs. Nation is confined Mrs. Ma
ticn was much alarmed at the course of the
evenings events. but fear for herself did
not once enter her mind apparently.
The Law Enforcement Army met at the
First Christian Church tonight, and on
hearing of the projected attack on the Jail
sent a message to Sheriff Cook. saying that
300 Of the members Of the organization
would Immediately be on the spot to help
protect the Jail from the fury OF the mob.
This evidence of loyalty on the part of her
followers highly pleased Mrs. Nation, and
she expressed her praise OF them in un-
measured terms. Mrs. Nation said tha.
the action OF the law enforcement people
proved that they were just what they
claimed to be-people anxious for the en-
forcement OF law and who would not endure
the thought of lynching being perpetrated
here in Topeka.
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STRUNG UP FIVE TIMES.
Attempt to Extort Confession from a
Tennessee Negro.

DYERSBURG. Tenn. Feb. 2O-A mob
took Bebee Montgomery from the jail here
last night and swung him up to the limb
OF the famous Mike lynching tree" FIVE
times. letting him down each time he was
hauled up 10 make him confess his COM
plicity I'm the assault with Fred King upon
Alice Arnold. The negro denied his guilt
Finally the mob carried him back TO the
jail, more dead than alive, and de-
Iivered him TO the jailer. The mob
was led by an organized vigilance
committee. The mob decided not TO lynch
Montgomery until the third guilty negro Is
found. whom King implicated in his con-
fessicAs. This negro is being sought for by
detectives. The vigilance committee swears
when he Is found the two will be lynched
together There is hardly any doubt that
Montgomery will be iynched this week. In
his confession King said that they had
slated i've OF the best known young women
OF Dyersburg for assault. and this horri-
bic plan is causing the spirit Of vengeance
among the citizens a number of negroes
were whipped out OF Dyersburg last night.
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WICHITA. Kan, Feb. 2O.-Sherin Gano
OF Medicine Ledge, has fed to Anthony
with Professor Hamlin to prevent him
fiom being lynched- Hamlin. who is a
country school teacher, twenty-five years
OF age. is charged with criminally assault
ing a nine!Tear-old girl named Greaver.
Hamlin boarded at the home OF the Greav-
ers. who are influential. and the girl was
his pupil. 1t Is thought that the mob.
which Is made up OF Barber county
farmers. may follow Hamlin to Anthony.
IN which event they will surely get hin,
as the Harper county jail is a weak struc-
ture.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The answer of
the State Department to the House resolu-
tion calling for a statement of its reasons
for allowing United States ports to be used
for forwarding American horses and other
supplies to the British army In South Afri-
ca. privilege not enjoyed by the Beers,
will point to well-established section of
international law warranting neutral ma
tions in selling supplies to beiligerents,
though these supplies may properly be
seized by a belligerent. 1t also will be
shown that no obstacle was interposed by
the United States government to the pur-
chase of horses and mules by the Beers,
who. presumably. did not do so because
they were unable to land them in South
Africa.
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FURTHER IDENTIFIED.
Charges of Kidnapping and Robbery
Placed Against Callahan.

OMAHA. Neb., Feb. 20.-Chief of Police
Donahue has investigated the Murtagh
clew In connection with the Callahan ar
rest and announces that he is satisfied that
neither Murtagh nor his sons have any
guilty knowledge of the Cudahy kidnapping
Charges Of kidnapping and robbery were
to-day formally filed against Callahan by
County Attorney Shields.
This afternoon Joseph Milander, a sa-
loon keeper Of Sarpy Mills. five miles south
OF the city. identified Callahan as a man
who was around his place last August,
about the time that his watch was stolen.
The watch proves to be the one traded to
Daniel Burris for a horse and buggy short
ly before the abduction. Burris had also
identified Callahan as the man who traded
him the watch. Beyond this there has
been no new developments in the case to-
day and Chief Donahue said tonight that
he did not expect any at present.