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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
LABOR, TRADE, INDUSTRY.


Thomas NJ. Rasin, of New York, filed a
petition in bankruptcy yesterday. showing
liabilities of $20S,OO and assets consisting of
$lO in cash.
a strike of the street car employees is in
progress at Madrid, Spain. No'cars are
running and the police are guarding the
property of the company.
The contract for the steel structure of
the new East river bridge. at New York.
will be awarded to the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, of Philadelphia, which bids
81, 1913, 400.
The oil company charters filed at the
Texas capital yesterday numbered nine.
including one company with a capital of
s.. 600, OoO, two with 81. 900 capital each and
three with half a million each. The aggre-
gate capital of the nine companies is $S,-
$4,000.
Contractor McDonald's efforts to induce
Porto Ricans TO emigrate to Ecuador have
been unsuccessful. The chartered steamer
Catania has arrived at Colon with only
ninety-six Porto Ricans on board. Her fu-
ture trips on the same errand have been
abandoned.
A verbal agreement has been reached
whereby the Phoenix Insurance Company
of Hartford Will reinsure the outstanding
business of the Citizens Insurance Com
pany of Pittsburg. Pa. The latter comps
ny's business in 1900 amounted to $4,000 in
premiums, emanating from a dozen States.
The New York Tribune says word has
been received in Wall street that ]. Pier
pont Morgan has just disposed of a big
block of United States Steel stock in Lon
don. The exact amount could not be ascer-
tanned. but is reported TO be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. 600. Another block OF
about the same size will follow, it is said.
Ii is stated at Marinette. Wis, that the
Weirhauser syndicate has acquired 70.000
acres Of yellow pine land in Sabine and
Vernon counties, Louisiana. The consider
| alton was about $3.50. coo. Isaac Stephenson
and the estate of A. c. Brown, of Marti-
nette. were the principal owners. This deal
also includes a section OF pine land owned
by Mr.. Stephenson Individually.
Dealings on the New York Stock Elk
change will be discontinued hereafter III
the share certificates OF the Federal Steel
Company, the National Steel Company, the
National Tube Company, the American
Steel and Wire Company. the American
Tin Plate Company and the American Steel
Hoop Company, the exchange authorities
having ordered them stricken from the list
The directors OF the Pressed Steel Car
Company have declared the regular quar-
terly dividend on the preferred stock of IL.
per cent. the transfer books closing Nav
/. 1901. and reopening May %, 1901. and a
second quarterly dividend Of l per cent. on
the common stock. the transfer books clos
ing May 5 and reopening May %. The
statement given out by the company
showed an increase Of 40 per cent. in the
company's output of cars.
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DEMANDS OF EMPLOYEES
ILLINOIS CENTRAL MACHINISTS PRE-
SENT THEIR GRIEVANCES.
Representatives of Eight Railways
binev of Clothing Manufacturers.

CHICAGO. April 5.-Four allied trades,
representing the entire system of eight rail-
roads, are holding meetings in Chicago with
a view of making demands for new agree
ments, which will include higher wages,
fewer hours, recognition of standard def
~nitions. and which will define clearly the
rights of apprentices. The trades repre-
scented at the conference, which is being
held in the name of the international Asso-
citation of Machinists, are: Machinists, boil
er makers. blacksmiths and painters. AL
though the leaders in the movement will
not disclose the names of all the roads in
volved, it is stated that they are the fol-
lowing: Illinois Central. Wisconsin Central,
Great Western, Alton, Eastern Illinois,
Burlington, Northwestern and Louisville &
Nashville.
To-day a committee representing the ma
chinists of the entire Illinois Central sys-
tenn called upon w. Renshaw, superintend-
ent of machinery, and presented an agree
ment containing twenty-siX articles and
calling for a nine-hour day and a scale
with a minimum of 80 cents per hour. The
present maximum is 80 cents and the mimi
mum % cents, with a ten-hour day. Mr..
Renshaw received the agreement and
stated that he would read ii carefully and
give his decision tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
Crimes of Various Degrees.

Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged at
Uniontown. Pa. yesterday. He walked to
the scaffold unfiinchingly. Hayes killed
William Lowden near Dunbar in July 1899.
Count Leopold Demelville. also known as
Leopold Frauquem, who was arrested in
New York a few days ago on a request
from Chicago, where he was indicted for
bigamy. was yesterday turned over to the
Chicago police.
c.. E. Fitzgerald, a cigar maker of Bloom
ngton ILL.,, yesterday went into the hard
ware store of Harpman & Son. in Havana.
ILL.,, and asked TO be shown reviewers. He
loaded one, placed 1t to his head and fired.
He died in a few minutes.
The office OF the McMinn Citizen. of Ath-
ems. Ga. was raided Wednesday night. pre-
sumably by -anti-temperance people. The
editor. Walter Flanagan, during the recent
temperance fight in Athens, published
strong editorials and news items in behalf
Of temperance. The presses were over
turned, the type scattered and some dumped
into a stream of water in front of his
building.
Assistant Postmaster General Charles II.
Drexel. of Tarpon Springs, Fla, has been
arrested. 1t was reported that the safe
had been blown open with dynamite and
$1,000 taken. Inspectors Berry and Banner
man, after Investigating, charge Drexel
with being short in his accounts to the
extent of 81. 900. and with having dynamited
the safe to cover his guilt. His mother is
postmistress and his father is employed III
the Postoffice Department at Washington.
United states Secret Service Agen HaZen
has arrested George Taylor Mcdonnell in
San Francisco on the charge of having in
his possession appliances for making coun-
terfeit money. 1t is charged that Melon
nell has promoted a scheme TO flood China
and the Hawaiian Islands with counterfeit
dollars made from Mexican coins. The Sc
cret service officials claim that Mcdonnell
was implicated with the Bidwells In rob-
bling the Bank of England of s., 900, 900 by
means of forged checks in 1873.
The defense Of Prof. Eastman continued
to score points at law on the government
in the trial at Cambridge, Mass, yester-
day, the court holding to it's opinion yes.
terday that declarations made by Richard
! Grogan. jr., while he was dying. were not
competent as evidence where the accusa-
ton was of murder. The court went fur
Their to-day by ruling as incompetent other
statements that witnesses heard from
Grogan's lips which appeared to be re-
plies to Eastman's denials of other than
accidental ShnOfing
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SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

Consul General Holloway's views regard
ing social conditions in Russia are cred
table 10 him as a temporary resident OF
the country enjoying the protection of the
government and seeing the best side of ev-
erything. They are somewhat novel. how
ever. i'm that they traverse not only the re-
cent press dispatches, which, he says are
principally fakes and rot but the cur
rent history of the last twenty years or
more and the statements of many writer's
who have made a study of the subject. Mr..
Holloway says he is convinced that Amer
lean newspapers print more misinforma-
ton about Russia than all the other coun-
tries of the world put together. Perhaps
hat is so. They print more foreign news
than the Newspapers of other countries do.
and. perhaps. some misinformation creeps
in. No person would expect to find in any
European paper a truthful report of politi-
cal conspiracies or social revolutionary
conditions in Russia. The absolutists. mon
archists and press censors of Europe all
stand together.
The gist of Mr.. Holloway's statement is
l0dI There = ely = lOhANANbA
in Russia, that Nihilism does not prevail
10 any appreciate extent among the stu
dents. that the Car is really in no danger
of his life, and that mo well-informed
person here seems 10 have the slightest
fear of any serious trouble with either the
| students or the Nihilists." A standing army,
with a peace strength of 100000 men and &c.
900 officers (see American Cyclopedia for
1900. which is recruited every year by about
$4,000 young men. who are drafted for
service at the age of twenty. ought 10 be
able to preserve domestic peace. especially
with the aid Of a swarming police in every
city. town and village. Mr.. Holloway's adj
mission tina 1.-The police seem to be advised
OF disloyal and prepared for
any emergency that may occur indicates
that they are not paid to sleep on their
posts.
Unless contemporaneous history for the
last twenty-five years and the cumulative
testimony Of many writer's are at fault.
present social conditions I'm Russia have
been correctly stated by the Journal.
though 1t does not vouch for the accuracy
Of particular statements in the dispatches.
The general condition is that while the
Car is personally an able. amiable, we'll
meaning and peace-loving man who Is try
ing 10 do the best he can for his people un-
der difficult conditions. there exists among
the people widespread and deepseated dis
! content and that Nihilism has extended its
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organization among all classes. including
not merely the lower and middle. but. to a
considerable extent. among the nobility,
the army. the navy and the students. The
evidence of this is cumulative and over
whelming. No doubt there are many happy
and contented people in Russia st. Peters
burg is a gay and pleasure-loving city. The
ruling class is always happy. But the fact
remains that beneath the surface there is a
surging mass of revolutionary agitation
which the most autocratic government in
the world can hardly hold down. That
Nihilism pervades every class is shown by
the thousands of arrests made for many
years past. including a large number of Of
fcers of the army and navy. This is not
rot" 1t is history, as stated by the Amer
lean Cyclopedia year after year, since 1884.
In 1899. during the course of a few weeks.
more than three thousand students were
exiled 10 Siberia because they protested
against an order forbidding them to form
associations or clubs of any kind. Another
authority. Current History, for 1894. says:
Following up clews obtained last year as
u "a 'GNANe - ~
ciety of revolutionary tendencies. the Rus
sian police have. during May and June. ar
rested hundreds of suspected parties, many
of them students and women, but many of
them also government officials" In Sep
TENDER, 1896. the same authority said:
"Nihilism is now said to be more active
throughout Russia than at any time since
the ccination af Alovao1or II -
March. 1881. and extra precautions are at
all times taken TO guard the life of the
Gar" In December, 1898, the same authori-
~ said: "A vast Socialistic conspiracy was
discovered in November among the stu
dents at Warsaw, Kieff and Wilma. Five
hundred were arrested. eighty exiled to ST.
IBERIA and two hundred expelled from the
universities" Many other authorities could
be quoted in the same line. Within a few
days Count Tolstoi has been exiled from
Russia. a few years ago he was the gov
ernment's trusted superintendent of public
instruction. He is exiled because the infu-
ence of his teachings is feared. Even these
facts do not prove that all of the Russian
people are Nihilists, any more than evil
ue"'es ol coh'entme4t ana prosperity In
some circles prove that they are all con-
tented and prosperous. The truth is, and it
is very palpable, that the Russian govern
ment, as it now exists. is honeycombed and
undermined with an organization which de-
mands death to Czarism, If not to the Car.
An American consul general in st. Peters,
burg could hardly be expected TO know
these facts, and if he DID he ought not to
expose them. Nevertheless, they are sus-
tanned by current history, and the dis
patches which give a mild intimation of a
far more serious condition than appears on
the surface cannot safely be characterized
as fakes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

Memories of the most brilliant incident
in recent American history are revived by
argument in the United States Circuit
Cours at Washington in the claim of Ad.
miral Dewey and the officers and men un-
Ger him for prize money growing out Of the
battle of Manila bay. The value OF the
property for which prize money is claimed
is about 100000, and the plaintiffs claim
cne-half of that amount. Bounty money
has already been awarded to Admiral
Dewey and the officers and men of his
squadron in the sum of about $500. 600 fox
the vessels of the Spanish squadron which
were sunk and destroyed at Manila, but the
present claim covers other values. The
whole naval prize money system involves
a disagreeable mingling of mercenary with
patriotic motives. and is all the more in
defensible because it has no parallel
in the army. AS a general rule in time of
war the army captures a great deal more
property than the navy does, but there is
no prize money for army officers.
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VIII Justify His statements.

LONDON, April 2.-Counsel for Arthur
IS. Markham. NJ. p, have notified the law
yers representing Wernher. Belt * Co. that
Mr.. Markham is prepared 10 justify pub
licly the statements which he made last
month in the House of Commons 10 the
effect that the Transvaal concessions COM
mission was made up OF persons affiliated
with several of the great South African
companies and characterized Mr.. Belts
firm as nothing more or less than a gang
OF common thieves and swindlers' as soon
as the suit brought against him by Wern-
her, Belt * Co. was Withdrawn, thus al
fording the basis for a suit which would
rot be stopped by the immunities afforded
by a speech in Parliament. Wernher, Belt
* Co. will withdraw the suit brought
against Mr.. Markham for Islander.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

The New York Herald. which has the
most ample facilities for obtaining accurate
ormat from distant lands. sharply as
sails the English press and Anglomaniacs
in this country for disappearing the ac-
ton of Russia in china The Herald claims
that Russia has acted in the interest Of
peace I'm China. and that the assaults of
the British press upon Russia's designs
have tended to delay the adjustment of the
complications in the East. There is good
reason TO believe that the Herald is not far
from right. AT any rate, Russia has treat
ed the United States with consideration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Baptist Missionary Society Holds Its
Last Session at Muncie.
n the TndiananoIis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE. Ind, April 2.-The feature OF
the last days session of the Baptist Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Society of the
West, to-day, was the election of officers
Mrs. \. NJ. Bacon, of Chicago, who has
been the corresponding secretary since the
birth of the organization thirty years ago,
retires. She was elected advisory secretary,
an honorary position. The new officers are
as follows:
President, Mrs. John +. Scott, Evanston,
H.; vice president, Mrs. j. II. Randall:
foreign secretary, Mrs. +. Clatworthy,
Evanston; home secretary. Miss Julia A.
Austin; recording secretary, Mrs. F. CT.
Cressey. Dayton. o.: treasurer, Mrs. Matil-
da T. Klein State vice presidents for Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois are, respectively, Mrs.
l.. T.. Scoield, Mrs. O. j. Dearborn ard
Mrs. b. a Greene. New executive board
members are: Mesdames Jesse Cox, e. Nj.
Gardner, J. i. Gillette. r. E. Manning of
Anderson, Albert Russell, c. j. kurtz and
anna Holden; and Miss Elizabeth Church,
Mrs. c. II. Strawbridge and Miss Annie
Beach. The place of the next meeting will
be chosen by the executive committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina.
seems to have enlisted for the war in the
fight for progressive Democracy. In a pub
lished interview he goes as far as to say
that, "If the tariff question were not now
removed from politics, at least for a while,
1 should support the Administrations tariff
policy in large part" Recalling his fight
in the Senate in 1891. when he opposed the
doctrine Of free raw materials, he says:
.south Carolinians now realize keenly that
their interests will be enhanced by the
expansion policy now being developed by
President Mckinley and his advisers, as
they fully appreciate that my contention
for protection four years ago has been am
ply justified by the rapid increase of manu-
features i'm our State"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

The Memphis Appeal. in an editorial on
The Negro Problem" says a good word
for the colored man. In less than half a
century he has accumulated more than a
billion dollars worth of property, has
thirteen million dollars worth of church
property and has destroyed 10 per cent. OF
the illiteracy of the race since he ceased
to be a slave. He is making as good prog
ress toward civilization as did the white
man years ago. AS for the predicted battle
between the whites and the blacks for the
loaf" the Appeal says il will never come;
the menace of the future Is the menace OF
the past, the ~loafers. 1.-The negro is q
necessity to the South says the Appeal,
land the South will care for him." Such
recognition Of the value of the negro must
be helpful.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
Clothing Manufacturers Combine.

CHICAGO, April 25.-Chicago manufac-
turers of clothing representing an aggre-
gate capital of from SIS, 100000 to $20. 200, 600
met to-day and decided to form an associa-
ton which will combine with similar bodies
throughout the United States. The step
was taken as the result of a visit of East
ern delegates, who for years lave been try
ing TO effect a combination of all the large
manufacturing houses in the country.
While the leaders in the so-called associa-
ton deny that any efforts to regulate prices
are contemplated, the combination will be
more powerful and will represent more cap
ital than almost any of the recognized
trusts. Already the New York association
has a total capital Of upward of 500, 100000,
and with the factories of six other Eastern
cities in the union another 100000 600 is
added.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

LONDON, April 25.-Replying to-day TO a
numerous and influential deputation repre-
senting coal owners, miners, shippers and
merchants, to protest against
the export duty on coal. the chancellor OF
the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach.
declared that while he had no intention OF
dropping the coal tax, the representations
of the deputation would be carefully con-
had already admitted that there ought to
be some exemption in the case of existing
contracts, and suggested that those inter-
ested appoint a small committee to discuss
the question with himself and the custom
authorities. On the second reading of the
budget bill he ought to be in a position 10
announce the terms upon which exemption
would be given.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26
MONEY PANIC IN JAPAN
OVER TWENTY BANKS HAVE sUs-
PENDED PAYMENT RECENTLY.
Situation Strained and 9th
err Failures Expectcd-Gen-
eraI Foreign News.

YOKOHAMA. April 25-Over twenty
banks have suspended payment at Osaka
and in southern and central provinces.
The Bank of Japan has assisted them. but
further trouble is ~apprehended. \ hnan-
cial panic prevails.
NEW YORK. April ga. NJ. Townsend.
local manager of the Hong-Kong and
Shanghai Banking Company. was asked
for information to-day with reference to
the failure of banks at Osaka lie replied:
wv have no advice regarding these fall
ures. They don't directly affect foreign
trade. as they are only small native banks.
The financial position is strained and such
failures are expected"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

1t would have been impolite, not to
speak OF bad politics. fer the admiaistra-
ton not TO have given the Cuban COM
m.ssioncrs 20 Wa shington q cordial recep-
ton. Under the circumstances. n coming
there as strangers. they were entitled ia
particularly hospi,able treatment. PrHsi-
dent Mckinley did exactly the proper
thlnz In entertaining them 4 the White
House. aid it would be very small To at
tribute improper motives to his action.
The President of the United states must be
a gentleman
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

MEXICO CITY. April 25.-The fuel ques-
ton is always one OF great Importance
here. and during the past twenty-five years
"A number of companies have made futile
attempts 10 utilize peat, which IS found in
large quantities in the valley OF Mexico.
Now VIM. A. Stern. of Philadelphia. has
acquired all property rights in the peat
beds as well as concessions for laying cleo
trio wires from the peat beds TO this and
nearby cities. Mr.. Stern left last night
for Philadelphia TO complete the details OF a
plant TO generate electricity by burning
peat. This is a matter of vital Importance
10 Mexican industries, as coal costs here
an average OF $40 per ton. while the guam
tity OF peat equivalent In heating value TO
a ton of coal can be delivered for s..
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

Representative Babcock. OF Wisconsin,
who has spent some time in the West, says
manufacturers very generally favor his
policy Of cutting down the duties on iron,
steel and other merchandise which can now
be made cheaper in the United States than
elsewhere. If such duties enable producers
to ask more for their products than they
sell them for abroad there is good reason
for the proposed reduction of duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

Professional Accountants who have been
examining ne municipal books Of Chicago
report hat may be characterized as amaz-
ing. The books have never been audited;
half a million OF taxes have been charged
OF yearly without Investigation; uncertifcd
vouchers are constantly paid; clerical errors
involving hundreds OF thousands OF dollars
stand uncorreeted. and BOOKS Of record
rave been destroyed 10 hide bIunders. A
discrepancy OF four millions of dollars was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-26

4 man who had stolen two hogs I'm Okla
homa, valued at Ss022. was taken before a
Justice for conviction, being caught in pos
session of the swine. \ theft of property
valued at $50 sends a man convicted thereof
to the p%enitentiary. The justice. however.
did not think that the present population
of the growing Territory warrants the
sending OF citizens to prison for a term OF
years. consequently he hit upon "a novel
device OF helping the culprit out by deduct
IL. from the value OF the hogs where taken
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"BlacIx Jack" Not Reprfeved.

CLAYTON, n. NJ, April 25.-A mes
sage was received here last night by the
sheriff of this county. signed Otero, say
ing that President Mckinley had granted
Thomas Ketchum, alias BLACK Jack who
is to be hanged here Friday night, the
26th of April, a respite until the 18th day
of May. 1901. An inquiry addressed to the
Governor developed the fact that 1t was
a forgery. The Governor denies having
sent any message to the sheriff here. The
sheriff has doubled his force since the
false telegram was received.