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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19

SHAMOKIN. Pa. March 1S.-Secretary
George Hartlein, of district No. 8. of the
United Mine Workers. and who will vote
at the forthcoming caucus of the national
and executive boards to decide on a course
TO pursue if the operators do not meet
the miners representatives. returned from
Iiazleton to-day. In an interview he said:
IL think there will be a strike. Although
the sentiment of the convention was against
a strike, the men demand recognition OF
their union. The operators suggestion to
Incorporate the union would render the
orgahization ineffective. 1t could then be
controlled by the operators, sued for con-
spiracy and rendered a dead organization.
No labor union is Incorporated
Miles DOugherty, district organizer, said
that If the operators refuse to meet the
men they will cause one of the greatest
strikes that ever took place among min
ers. at win be a tight to the bitter end. .
he declared. The operators don't have
10 meet the men before April /. If they
say they will confer with the miners at
any time later and give them a guar
antee to that effect the strike will not be
declared April /. When the order for a
strike comes every colliery in the region
will be closed. The men are a unit on
the subject"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
OBITUARY.
Mark =. Brewer, of Michigan, Civil
Service Commissioners.

WASHINGTON. March S.
Brewer, of Michigan, a member of the
Civil-service Commission. died here to-
night, from a complication of diseases.
Mr.. Brewer had been at home. sick, for
the last ten days, although for some time
past his health has been poor. He was
~sixty-four years of age. and left a widow.
The funeral will be held at Pontiac, Mich.
Thursday.
Marx s. Brewer was ,.e son of a Michi-
gan pioneer, and was bred in the State
when living there meant hardship and
struggle. Until he was twenty he lived
on the family farm, and at hat age he
went 10 Rome to finish his education. Mr..
Brewer began TIE study of law I'm 1861.
with w. l.. Weber. of East Saginaw. and
after he was qualified TO practice he went
&c Pontiac, Mich. and entered into part
nership with VI. r.. Crofoot. He was State
senator in 1872, and in 1876 he was elected
to Congress TO represent the Sixth district
of Michigan. He was in Congress until
1o.4. In June o. that year he was appoint
ed consul general at Berlin. In 1856 Mr..
Brewer was again elected to Congress, and
ran 1.20 votes ahead of his ticket. He was
appointed civil-service commissioners in
January. 1898.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
CRIMES OF ALL DEGREES.

John Kirk. or DietZ. who was arrested at
Lexington, ILL.,, charged with the assault
on Matte Craig. at Fairbury. yesterday.
pleaded guilty. at Pontiac, TO the charge
of horse-stealing and was admitted to bail
i'm the sum of $1,000. The charge of assault
was not developed. The popular excitement
is over and no trouble is now anticipated.
Three hundred coal miners Of West Pine
vile. Ky. gathered Sunday night 10 lynch
Deputy Sheriff Mccoy. of Middlesboro. who
killed Vance Howard. cousin of Berry
Howard. the GOebel suspect. who IS under
Indictment. The miners learned that 4
strong guard was around the Jail and dis
banded Mccoy killed Howard on a night
passenger train.
Albert Bateman was shot and killed last
night by two desperadoes in the store of
Swartz * Co. at Red Rock, q. T. The
desperadOes were rObbing the store when
Mr.. Bateman. who is the manager of the
Foster lumber Company's yard at that
point. stepped i'm and opened fire ON them,
xounding one in the arm. Both the rob-
bers returned the fire and Bateman fell
dead. The robbers secured $3.50 and escaped.
Cashier Johnson. of the First Nationes
Bank. of-Niles Mich, was bound over TO
the United States grand jury at Column
bus. o., yesterday in the sum of $4,000. IA
default of which he was taken to Jail
10 await an order of removal TO Niles. He
does not deny his guilt. but refuses to dis.
since he has been arrested he is glad
OF IL and will so back and stand the con-
sequences.
Albert James. a shoemaker. and Samuel
Hunter. a miner. Quarreled. at Jacksonville.
O.. last night. The latter shot at James
five times. two bullets taking effect In the
lungs. While in the thrOes OF death. James
threw himself upon his assailant and. with
a shOeknife. cut a terrible cash around
Hunters neck. James expired Immediately.
No arteries were severed In Hunters neck.
but the wound Is dangerous and his recov-
cry is uncertain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
B AND INDUSTRY.

1t is reported that a new telephone com-
pany.. composed of American capitalists,
will shortly be granted a charter for opera
ton in the City of Mexico.
The Chase-Robeson Merchants American
linen and Metacomet cotton mills at Fall
River, Mass, operating $4,000 spindles,
were stopped yesterday in pursuance of
the agreement TO curtail production.
The American Leather Company has
closed a deal by which it comes into pos
session of the tannery of the Virginia Tan
ming and Exchange Company, one of the
largest tanneries in the South, near Bris-
tol,- Tenn.
The first carload of exhibits from South
ern California left Los Angeles yesterday
for the exposition at Buf-
falo. This car includes a typical selection
of California products. Another car will
be forwarded in a few days.
An advance in the prices OF merchant
wrought iron pipe is to be made this
week. 1t is understood the new prices will
be announced on or before Monday, March
%, and that these prices will show an adj
vance over the rates prevailing since Sept.
l of at least 5 per cent.
The machinists and boiler makers en-
ployed at the Burlington, Cedar Rapids x
Northern shops in Iowa Falls have gone
on a strike. This action follows that of
the union men at Cedar Rapids, and 1t is
reported 1t will be followed by the men
at other division points
The American Tin Can Company, yester-
day. closed a deal for the plant of the
Youngstown. o., Speciality Manufacturing
Company. 1t is said 10 be the purpose of
the combine" to move factories from
Cleveland, Conneaut and other nearby
cities TO Youngstown.
The officers who remain i'm the employ of
the Manhattan Oil Company. at Lima,
which has been absorbed by the Standard
Oil Company, have received notice that
their services will be dispensed with on
May l. The Manhattan's big refinery at
Welker will be taken down and the ma
terial distributed to other points.
A dispatch from Burlington, Ia, SAYS:
Inquiry at the offices of the Chicago. Bur
lingtOn * Quincy Railroad here elected
an absolute denial of the sensational sto-
ries TO the effect hat j. j. Hill or the
Morgan-Harriman syndicate had secured
control of the Burlington system. 1t was
stated that they would have TO purchase
$50. 100000. worth of the stock to secure II.
and that there is but $4,000 shares floating
on the market. the rest of the shares being
held by people who would require consid-
erably more than the market price 10 sell. ."
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TANNED BY STIFF WIND
FIRE AT ST. LOUIS THAT WAS DIFF
FICULT TO PROMPTLY CONTROL.
Two Square Blocks burned Over-Thc
Anheuscr-Busch Company a Suf-
f-erer-TotaI Loss 100000.

ST. LOUIS. March 1S.-Fire to-day de-
stroyed the ice storage plant OF the An
heuser-Busch Brewing Company. the re-
pair shop of the American Car and Foun-
dry Company. together with a number of
box cars. the factory of Stules & Co. pickle
manufacturers five rooming houses. and
a number of small sheds. The total loss
is estimated at sl0O. 600. the greater part
of which is covered by insurance. Two
men. employees of the American Car and
Foundry Company. were injured, but not
seriously. The burned district embraced
two square blocks. bounded by Zepp, Utah,
First and KOsciuskO streets.
The fire started in one of the Anheuser-
Busch ice houses. all of which are en-
nected. a spark from a passing switch
engine is credited with having ignited
straw in the loft. While the fire was in
progress a stiff southeast wind blew across
the river from the Illinois side, tanning
the flames and making the work of fremen
an exceedingly difficult one. Piles of lum-
Der adjacent to the storage house quick
~ ignited. causing a heat which was in
tense. Several valuable buildings. which
escaped damage, were seriously threatened.
by far the greater danger attached to
DullulngS more remOte from the scene o.
destruction, but in the direct line of the
wind. For miles the river levee is frontec
with lumber yards, while on the railroad
tracks, with their numerous switches, were
scores of cars, many of them loaded with
lumber and other infammable material.
The high wind lifted burning embers and
carried them for blocks TO the north
west. terrorizing residents. and several
times the department was compelled TO
divide its forces in answer ~ reports u
the igniting of fires elsewhere. No build
ings not in the immediate path or the
flames suffered damage, however. although
suticus residents and business men as far
away as six blocks from the scene removed
goods and furnishings from dwellings and
stores, in a fear that the fire would de-
velop into u widespread conhagration
Following is a liSt ~(eStirated) OF the loss
es: Anheuser-Busch, Ice storage plant,
So. 600; American Car and Foundry Com
pany's car shed, $4,000; fifty box cars be-
longing TO the Aforementioned and William
]. Lemp Brewing Companies, $4,000; Stules
x Co, plant, $1,000; five rooming houses,
$4,000.
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SCHOOL LAWS.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PACED

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PACED
in the insurgent forces, a native was seized,
bound and made to sit down while "a sol
der held lis head and with a knife cut
his throat" The murderer was condemned
10 be hanged.
Most of the other cases were cases of
murder of innocent Filipinos by alleged
soldiers and officers OF the insurgent army,
several of whom are described as motor
ious bandits and outlaws. The most afro
cious case, according TO the records, is
that of Eusebio Rojas, styling himself a
lieutenant of infantry in the insursent
forces under the command of A~lejandrino,
an outlaw, who claimed 10 exercise sum-
mary power over the lives and property
or the natives who did not bear arms
against the United States and who con-
ceived 1t TO be his duty to rob and MUIR
der peaceful and law-abiding people liv-
ing within his sO-called military Jurishic-
ton. Going in ordinary dress and taking
with him a few followers. he secretly seized
his unsuspecting neighbours. a man at a
time, and taking them into the forest, he
proceeded in two instances TO bury them
alive. The witnesses in this case, some
OF whom testified that they were COM
PEELED to dig the graves of the waiting
victims, related horrible details of the man
ner in which men, in the full vigor of life.
were suffocated under the mass of earth
thrown upon them. Rojas denied MS re-
sponsibility for the murder OF the men
buried alive, but concluded by saying: All
my actions have been In pursuance TO the
order OF my superior officer" This man
was ordered to be hanged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
TO ACCEPT CARNEGIE'S GIFT.
New York City Has Asked the LegisIa-
ture for an Enabling Act.

NEW YORK, March 1S.-Mayor Van
Wyck, Controller Coler, Corporation Coun-
sci Whalen, Deputy Controller Levy and
George l.. Rives held an extended con-
ference yesterday regarding the gift of
S.. 100000 by Andrew Carnegie for public
libraries i'm this city. After the conference
Mr.. Coler said: Mr.. Rives. Mr.. Levy and
Mr.. Whalen have been appointed a commit
tee 10 draft an enabling act TO be presented
TO the Legislature at once. This will be
hurried to a conclusion, and / believe the
arrangements will be completed within a
year. The arrangements will be left In the
hands of Mr.. Carnegie and the directors of
the New York Public Library and the
Brooklyn Public Library. / think these
gentlemen will be able to handle the ques-
ton in a broad-minded manner"
ALBANY, n. Y, March 1S.-Assembly-
man Price tonight introduced "A bill to
enable New York city to accept the offer
of Andrew Carnegie to give $5,200.O00 for
public library purposes. The bill author
ICES the city to receive donations OF money,
sites, buildings, books or property and to
enter into agreements with the donor or his
legal representative. The city is authorized
to acquire sites for any extension of the
public library system made necessary by
donations or requests. For the purpose of
meeting the expenses of acquiring such
sites the controller of the city is authorized
to issue corporate stock.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
ROBBERY AND A THREAT
TRAY OF DIAMONDS WORTH $4,000
STOLEN FROM A JEWELER.
Letter from the Thieves Stating that
a Boy Would BE Kidnapped If
$1,000 Were Not Paid.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 1S.-A theft
of $1,000 worth of diamonds from Edwards
q Sloan, wholesale jewellers, and a threat
to kidnap the young son of George II. Ed
wards unless $1,000 was paid Immediately
for the return Of the gems, is a story with
which the local detectives are wrestling.
The boy is being guarded closely. The
theft, according 10 the detectives. oc-
CURED last Monday evening. The gems
disappeared mysteriOusly from the firm 5
storerooms. and all efforts TO trace them
have proved unavailing. On the following
morning Mr.. Edwards received a letter
containing a proposition TO return the dia-
monds upon the payment of s., 600. The let
ter stipulated that the money, in so bills.
be wrapped in a package and left at mid
night Wednesday at Fortieth and MCGEE
streets, In the southern part of the city.
The letter expressly stated that the pack
age should be sent out by William Dear
duff, one of the firms clerks. and closed
by threatening TO kidnap Mr.. Edwards's
son il the money was not forthcoming. Mr..
Edwards Immediately had his son taken
out of school, and he has since been guard
ed at the Edwards home. Wednesday night
Dearduf, with a package of waste paper,
went alone to the corner designated. In
his story to the detectives Dearduf says
he was met by two men, one of whom de-
manded a package and then commented:
Now you turn back and don't look
back and don't say a word for twenty
four hours The next day Dearduff re-
ported that he had found the missing tray
in the basement of the building in which
the storeroom is located. Later he reported
that while working in the basement some
one had stabbed him in the back. The
wound is trining. He could not give a de-
Scription OF his assailant. The detectives
are still working on the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.

Catcher mcfarland has signed to. plav
with the Philadelphia National League.
AT the National Sporting Club In London.
last night. Harry Harris, of Chicago, de-
feated "Pedlar' Palmer. of England. on
points In a fifteen-round boxing contest.
AT Sheboygan. Wis. last night Perry
Queenan, of Milwaukee, knocked out Nor
ris Jacobs Young Sandow), of Kansas
bout.
Muncie and Racine. Wis, played the
fourth league game of polo last night be-
fore a big crowd. and the visitors won-2 to
1. The total score to date is: Racine. g.;
Muncie. 5.
President Brush. of the Cincinnati Base
ball Club. has received by mail the con-
tract of Shortstop Corcoran. making the
club practically complete. Breitenstein and
Irwin nave not been heard from.
The basket ball team of Fond Du Lac.
Wis, was defeated by the M. w. A. i've
Of independence. Mo, last night by a score
of % to Il. This was the first game of a
series 10 decide the championship OF the
United States.
Burton Downing. of the Garden city
Wheel Club. has broken the world five
mile amateur straight-away. road record.
over the Gilroy (Cal.) course. His time
was S:4S. The record OF 9:0l was ormerly
held by Blunt Smith.
Beaumont Pittsburg middle fielder. has
renewed his allegiance TO his old club. and
the team is now complete. with the excep-
ton Of thinner and Phillippi. and their
signed contracts are expected before the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
TELEGRAPHIC MISCELLANY

Rev. Louis Albert Banks. ID. d.. pastor
of the First Methodist Church of Cleve-
land, has accepted a call TO the Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church.. O~ne-hundred-
a~nd-fourth street, New York city.
Florian Monk, of Sheboygan. Wis. and
his brother-in-law, Joseph Shecker, OF
Manitowoc. were drowned yesterday by the
sinking Of their fishing boat. Monk was
thirty-five years old and Shecker seventeen.
The following ballot was taken on United
States senator by the Nebraska Legislature
yesterday: Allen. fusion, a.: Hitchcock,
fusion, AZ; D. l.. Thompson. 81; Crounse,
Z; Currie, IL; Meiklejohn, %; Hinshaw. L;
Kosewater. II; scattering, IL.
The Rt. Rev. Travers Lewis. Protestant
Episcopal bishop Of the diocese o. Ontario,
and living at Kingston, Ont, is seriously M
at the Hotel Empire. New York. Of heart
disease and rheumatism. Bishop Lewis
went 10 New York about six weeks ago.
A terrific rainstorm visited Wichita.
Kan, last night. bringing with IL heavy
hail. Rain and hail are reported general
throughout western Kansas and Okla
homa. The rain was badly needed. but the
hail. probably. has done considerable dam
age
Orders have gone out from the New York
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty ia
Children that the society agents rlust a.
rest all children under twelve years ~
age found on Broadway between Thirtietli
and Forty-second streets. in the central
part Of the so-callec .TenderlOin" d!stri =.
after 9 o'clock AT night.
In a petition hled in Common Pleas Cour.
at Cleveland John ID. Rockefeller asks that
the Weddell House. one OF the Oldest and
best known hotels in the city. be sold 10
satisfy a mortgage held by him against the
Weddeil estate for 100000. OF the latter
sum il Is stated 1851 900 is due and unpaid.
The mortgage was given In 1884.
William Casey. aged fifty years. was in
stantly killed and his son Charles and
John Casey and N. ID. Casey. and an I'M
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19

18th inst, when the team will leave for
Hot Strings.

IlOl oDi ihSS-
Australian Billy Edwards was knocked
out in the fifth round of his fight with
Mike Donovan. of Rochester. last night.
at Wheeling, w. Va. edwards was out
olassed entirely. and went down five times
in the last round, which lasted two minutes
and forty-five seconds.
The oxford and Cambridge boat crews
Yesterday began their first full week work
over the Putney-Mortlake course. preparing
for the annual race between these two
universities, which is to be decided Satur-
day, March 30. The weather was bitterly
cold and a northeaster was blowing.
Ora C. Morningstar, at Maurice Days
hall. New York. last night, defeated the
veteran Tom Gallagher by the score of 300
to 15O. The former pupil of Wizard
inning. Galagher's best effort was In the
fifteenth inning. and netted % points.
Thomas w. Lawson. of Boston, has ac-
cepted the offer of Mr.. Scanell, owner of
The Abbott, for a race for the sum of
$25. O00." He also suggests conditions agree
able to him. The statement, which Is OF
considerable length. reviews the refusal
of Mr.. Scanell to match The Abbott against
Boralma.
Thomas Williams, president of the Cali
fornia Jockey Club, has secured control of
the Ingleside and Tanforan tracks. Ingle-
side will remain idle. owing to the veto of
the mayor of San Francisco, but the Tan
foran and Emoryville tracks will run in
alienation, each track to race for thirty
DAYS. Ii is said the consideration In the
deal was 5000, 600.
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known man were seriously injured by the
collapse of a bridge across the Cotton
wood river, a few miles east of Cashion,
o. T., yesterday. The bridge was a new
steel structure thirty-five feet above the
water.
DIR. Henry +. Fisher, the attending physi-
clan, and members of the family OF MIS-.
Joseph Cabus, who died suddenly at New
York Sunday night, said yesterday that
death had not been caused by Mrs. Cabus's
pet dog, as was reported. but by an epi-
leptic fit. DR.. Fisher said: The wound
the dog made was slight and only a little
blood flowed
Signor Marconi. the inventor of wire
less biography, in an interview at New
York. announced that so far as known 200
miles constituted the present limits OF wire
less biography. He said that he would
not say that il was impossible 10 fash
signals TO Mars. but that he would pre-
fer 10 see IT done before attempting TO dis
cuss the proposition.
A burial service for the late Fernando
Yznaga, the banker, was held yesterday in
the Little Church Around the Corner. AT
New York. The remains are i'm a receiv-
ing vault in Woodland Cemetery. Rev.
George Clark HOughton. pastor Of the
church, oficiated, reading the Episcopal
burial service. Mr.. Yznaga's mother was
present with his sisters. the Duchess OF
Manchester and Lady Lister-Kaye. as well
as Sir Lister-Kaye and H. b. Holm. Fred
erick Edey. Mr.. Yznaga's partner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
FAT TRAVELLERS
Live ON Grnpc-Nuts.

When one looks at commercial travellers.
round. smooth and well kept. II Is hard TO
believe that any OF them nave 10 be par
ticular about the selection OF food, but
many of them do nevertheless. and their
care In this respect is one cause of their
healthy appearance.
Frank w. Clarke. who travels for Ar
buckle Bros. says that he began using
Grape-Nuts Food when he found IL on a
hotel menu. and ever since that time has
eaten Grape-Nuts from one TO three times
a day, carrying a package IN his grip. so
he could have il whenever the hotels did
not serve IL.
He says: About eight years ago dys-
pepsia got hold of me and gradually
weakened my stomach so that II would
not take all kinds OF food. 1 had TO droo
a number of articles, which is a hard thing
for a travelling man 10 DO. Then the ques-
ton was. What could 7 get 10 eat that
would not distress me- When / found
Grapc-Nuts Food IL solved the problem.
has gradually gotten well SO that / feel In
fine shape
'.The proof Of the pudding is In the. eat
ing. Grape-Nuts Is Drcdigcsted IN its
manufacture. and can be easily assimiiatcl
BY the weakest kind Of a stomach. while N
the same time IL contains the most power
fi elements OF nourishment. strong In the
elements OF phosphate OF potash. which.
united with albumen. go 10 make the gray
matter in the nerve cells and brain. people
that are not properly n0urished can solve
the problem by using Grape-Nuts food.
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EDICT OF THE MINERS
STRIKE WILL BE ORDERED IF Or
ORATORS DO NOT RELENT.
President Mitchell to Visit New York
and Urge the Holding of a
Joint Conference.

SCRANTON, March 1S.-President
Mitchell tonight stated that if it becomes
necessary to order a strike in the anthra-
cite region the new law passed at the In
dianapOlis convention regarding the con-
sent of all the districts presidents being
necessary before a strike could be or
dered, does not apply in this instance. He
said it only applies TO a general strike, and
that the strike of the anthracite miners
would be considered local. Mr.. Mitchell
said it is probable that within the next
few days he will go 10 New York in an
cndeavor to bring about a conference. In
this connection be said: 1.-The matter Is
entirely in the hands of the board. They
will exert every effort TO bring about a
meeting between the operators and the
men. If their efforts are unsuccessful then
the resolution adopted at the conven-
ton will be carried out. After the meet
ing tomorrow we have a statement 10
give out. Further than that / have nothin,
&c say"