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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-20
RURAL MAIL SERVICE
TWO IMPORTANT ORDERS ISSUED
By THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.
One Is to Prevent Duplication of
Service and the other Limits Pri-
vate Enterprises of Carriers.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Postmaster
General Smith to-day issued two orders of
Importance TO the rural mail service
throughout the country. One is designed to
avoid the duplication of service in some
sections by both star and rural free de-
livery service and the other limits the pri-
vate enterprises in which carriers may en-
gage while performing their official duties.
The first order is as follows: BOX de-
livery by star route carriers will not here
after be permitted over such portions of
star routes as may have IN operation the
rural free delivery service; provided. how
ever, that an additional and supplemental
box delivery may be performed by star
route carriers when shown to be necessary
and practicable and not involving the de-
partments in any additional expenditure.
In those States I'm which the star route
box delivery is now in operation the rural
free delivery service will not hereafter be
established over any road which must con-
tinue to be traversed as a part of a star
route. except i'm special and unavoidable
cases in which cases the star route box de-
livery will be abandoned.
The other order says: Hereafter rural
letter carriers shall not act as agents,
statesmen or solicitors for express compa-
nies. letter box manufacturers, wholesale
houses, corporations or firms, nor engage
I'm any business or avocation which would
interfere with the proper performance of
their official duties. But they may act as
news agents, sell newspapers or periodicals
on their own account or accept and collect
subscriptions for the same. This order is
not intended TO prohibit carriers from per-
forming various private commissions for
the accommodation of the patrons on their
routes so long as IL does not interfere with
the regular and prompt performance of
their duties -
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Objectionable Chapter of the Book
Said to Contain an Unwarranted
Attack on SchIey.
GENERAL FELIX AGNUS WROTH
SENT A TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT
MKINLEY, YESTERDAY,
Denouncing the History and the
"Navy Department Clique"-State-
ment from the Author.

WASHINGTON. July 19.-The secretary
of the navy has decided that the third
volume of McLays history of the Spanish
American war shall not be used as a text
book at the Naval Academy unless the
obnoxious language il contains in charac-
terizng the action of Rear Admiral Schley
is eliminated. The secretary says that 1t
would be manifestly improper TO have a
history containing such Incorporate lam
guage as a textbook for the cadets. He
will inform both Commander Wainwright,
VINO is in command of the Naval Academy,
and Mr.. McLay. the author of the history.
of his decision. In this connection the sec
retary says that the proofs OF the entire
volume were not submitted to him by the
historian. He received cnly the proofs of
the third chapter. that relating to the
mobilization of the fleets, which contained
a summary OF the orders which he, as sec
rotary OF the navy. had issued in making
the naval preparations for the war. That
chapter was satisfactory, and he returned
it to Mr. McLay with an indication of mis-
approval. He says he never saw the ac-
count of the battle of Santiago and the
criticisms of Rear Admiral Schley unIll
after the book was published. Mr.. McLay
was appointed to his present position in
the New York navy yard Aug. %, 1900 haV-
ing been transferred from the lighthouse
service.
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WANTS TO SELL AN IDEA
RABBIT sIGMUND PREY. OF WABASH,
MAKES A PROPOSITION.
Thinks He Can Send a Letter to Eu-
rope i'm Two Days-TwO New
Indiana Postmasters.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-Mail communi
cation with Europe in two days is what
Rabbi Prey, of Wabash, Ind. assures the
postmaster general he can bring about. of
course for a consideration. A brief let
ter setting forth his claim received
this morning. The time was when a state
ment of this character would not have
met with consideration and it's author
would have been set down as crank.
mild or dangerous, as the case might be.
Not so ir this dawning year of the TWEEN
tieth century, which has received from
the nineteenth the marvels of steam and
electricity. a courteous reply has been
dispatched TO Rabbi Prey, requesting de-
tails to his claimed discovery. His let
ter. mailed at Wabash follows
Esteemed Sir-I take the liberty to in
form you that | have scheme to convey
the mail to Europe within two days.
should like to submit the idea TO the gov
ernment, and If it can be carried through,
ask some compensation.
RABBI SIGMUND PREY"
First Lieutenant Arthur NJ. Line, assist
ant surgeon United States army, recently
appointed. will proceed from Marion to
Fort Sheridan for temporary duty.
The President to-day appointed William
l.. Bryan postmaster at Boonville and
Homer Havens at Rushville. These are
the home towns, respectively, of Repre-
sentatives Hemenway and Watson. and the
aPpointees are their personal selections
Boonvile is an office of the third and
Rushvlle of the second class, with sal
aries, respectively, of $500 and 1920
The First National Bank, of Cincinnati
has been approved as reserve agent for
the Franklin County National Bank, of
Brookville.
Civil-service examinations will be held
at Indianapolis Sept. q and Oct. %. Evans
Vile, Oct. p, and Fort Wayne, oct n and
%. for positions in the departmental serv-
ice al Washington.
DR.. w. +. Phillips has been designated
a member of the civil-service board for
the postoffice at North Vernon, and Edwin
NJ Voss and Frank c. Duncan. to similar
positions at Bloomington
local Democratic paper this afternoon
published a story that Pension Commits
sioner Evans would be appointed Cover
nor of Porto Rico. vice Allen. resigned.
This would be a suitable position for
promotion for Evans If General Sickels
had not made il Impossible
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PITTSBURG, Pa, July l9.-President
Shaffer was shown the statement of Mr..
Arms concerning the nonunion mills. and.
In reply, said.
''Nr. Arms agreed TO sign the scale for
Saultsburg and the old Meadow mill. at
ScOttdale. bOth nOnuniOn mills, as did the
other representatives OF the United States
Steel Corporation. Mr.. Arms is reported to
have said that he would sign for Monessen.
/ do not believe that Mr.. Arms ever said
that to the public. for he never made any
me privately. But | know he agreed TO sign
for two mills. II he is willing to sign for
two, why not ALP This definition of the
wage agreement is correct, whether il comes
from Mr.. Arms or not. | stated TO the
representatives OF the United States Steel
ed the men OF Lindsay & McCutcheons and
Painters mills. and agreed TO prove that
/ represented them by stating that they
were at work at that time, because / in
sisted that they continue work in the hope
Of reaching settlement. and If they. the
representatives Of the company, doubted my
statement. / would prove IL by closing those
mills almost Immediately. The men OF
those mills are showing now, by ceasing
work. that they wish the scale TO be signed.
This is also true OF the men at Clark's mill,
and the likelihood is that If a settlement is
posed nonuniOn mills will indicate their de-
sire to have the scale signed.
1T Is true that the scale was signed for
the mills of the American Tin-plate Com
pany excepting MOnessen We told Mr..
Arms we desired the scale signed for that
mill, and after discussion Mr.. Arms and
his associates entered into the following
agreement with the Amalgamated AssOcia-
ton this agreement being condition upon
VUNII.NU r.D On PAGE ,, col. p
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TRYING TO BE POLITICIANS.
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough to
Entertain Unionist Leaders,

LONDON, July 1e-The Duke of Marl-
borough is about to appear in a new role
There will be held at Blenheim Palace, the
Cuke's seat in Woodstock. Oxford, Aug. TO-
one of the largest political demonstrations
of recent times. Its object is to celebrate
the Unionist victory in the elections. Mr.
Balfour and Mr.. Chamberlain will make
addresses and the Duke of Marlborough
Will preside. The Duchess of Marlborough
will entertain this great throng at luncheon
in a huge tent especially erected on the
grounds. All the Unionist members of
the House of Commons will he present. A
distinguished house party will follow sew
eral of the most prominent persons re-
naming until the end of the week. Among
the features of the fete will be a recital on
the celebrated organ in the long library,
boating and rendering of band music during
the entire day. The Duke of Marlborough
said: mo significance is attached to this
fete so far as l am concerned. / did some
thing similar five years ago, only on i
smaller scale. | thought this would pe
good for the Unionist party, effectually
prove it's cohesion and also give the leaders
a chance of personally thanking their
agents and workers, so L asked them all
to come to Blenheim."
The Duke of Marlborough Is not going TO
the United States, and has not the faintest
idea of succeeding Lord Mfnto as governor
general of Canada; he says both reports
are unfOunded.
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Nothing to Indicate that the Liberal
ImperiaIists VIII Desert Their
PrO.Boer Party.
PROBABLE FAKE FROM PARIS
ROYALISTs SAID TO BE PLOTTING TO
OVERTHROW REPUBLIC.
Alleged Conspiracy to Make Prince
Louis Napoleon Emperor of
France-Marlborough Plans.

LONDON, July 19.-Speaking at the City
Liberal Club this afternoon Lord Rosebery
said that his recent manifesto. In which
he declared that the Liberal party could
not exist under the present conditions, had
been followed by such an extraordinary
hullabaloo that he felt convinced he had
expressed in this manifesto the clear and
exact truth in respect to the situation, and
not one of his allegations had been dis
proved or challenged. Lord Rosebery said
he wrote the manifesto because after the
meetings in Queens Hall and at the Reform
Club unless some clear repudiation of the
statement regarding the war was made it
was impossible for the Liberal party to
continue to exist as sound force. appeal
ing to the highest sympathies of the coun-
try. On the question of the war his lord
ship said his starting point was that in
spite of the Jameson raid and in spite of
the South African committee the Beers
had invaded the dominions of the late
Queen, and from that moment, although
he had criticised the methods of the gov
ernment, yet on the main issue, to carry
the war to a triumphant close, 1T would
have his warmest support.
The dinner given tonight by Herbert II.
Asquith, NJ. p, TO thirty Liberal members
of the House of Commons and $40 other
public men. which has Jeen looked forward
TO for a month as an event that might re-
suit in the organized secession of the Lib
eral imperialists. was quiet and even
dreary affair. Mr.. Asquith's speech has
been spoiled by the incIlsa-.s of Ins week.
especially by Lord 2Ossbnry letter to the
City Liberal Club and by his speech later
before that body. Mr. As4sIith spoke with
Difference of Sir Henry Campbell Banner e
man. but did not mention Lord Fose berry
He reaffirmed in moderate phrases his pro-
test against the Liberal party Identifying
itself with the prO-i3oer group, declaring
that Liberals must recoguize the empire
and its needs and than go in for domestic
reforms. The speech IL generally regarded
as not in any way altering .he situation OF
the Liberals.
Lord Roseberys allusion before the City
Liberal Club to-day 20 plowing his furrow
Is considered cryptic. not a.: seeming 10
mean his possible re-entrance upon the
responsibility of party leadership al a later
period.
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represented. This year the American Tin
plate Company entered into an agreement
for one year from July /. bat Mr.. Shahef
violated that agreement by calling out the
men on a sympathetic strike when they had
no grievances"
J. Pierpont Morgan gave positive denial
to-day 20 the rumor OF this morning that
the strike had been settled. He made this
statement to the Associated Press: There
Is not a word of truth In II. There has been
no settlement and there can be no COM
promise. The position OF the operating
companies Is perfectly simple and well un-
derstood. and so far as l am concerned,
has my entire approval"
President Schwab, OF the United States
Steel Corporation. declined to-day to dis
cuss for publication the strike, policy
which he has preserved since the strike
began. His declination was communicated
through his secretary.
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AGNUS TO THE PRESIDENT.
He Denounces the Book and the "Navy
Department Clique"

BALTIMORE, July 19.-Gen. Felix Agnus.
publisher Of the Baltimore American, has
telegraphed the following to President Me-
Kinley at Canton:
"McLay's history of the navy is the
standard in use at the Naval Academy.
In the third volume. just issued, the his
torian charges Rear Admiral Schley with
being a coward. liar, "A caitiff, an incom-
petent and insubordinate. In an Interview
in the American this morning McLay the
historian. who is a Navy Department clerk
classed as a laborer and attached to the
Brooklyn navy yard. says that proofs OF
this third volume, which should have told
annals. were submitted to Secretary Long
and Admiral Sampson and approved by
them in advance of publication; also that
Long put him i'm his present position
after he had read and approved this
scurrilous attack upon Admiral Schley.
These proofs were also submitted to 4 =
miral Dewey, who refused to read theL-.
If aught were needed to convince any
fair-minded man that a clique In the
duce the hero OF Santiago, and that the
conspiracy was carried into execution while
that brave and gallant officer was suffering
expatriation on the fever-infested coasts
of South America, this should furnish it.
VIII you, Mr.. President, in view of all
this, sit quietly by and permit these con-
spirators TO continue their diabOlical work
Every justice loving American appeals to
you 10 intervene in the name and for the
the time. which no man ever was. the best
thing is 20 find out as soon as possible
that you are wrong, and right yourself i'm
mediately.'
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HARVARD STUDENT KILLED.
Mistaken for a burglar by His Friend
and CIassmate and Shot.

BRATTLEBORO. VT, July 19.-Awaken-
ing between and o'clock this morning
10 find himself in the grasp of man.
Morton Starr Cressy, a Harvard Law
School student, who is spending the sum-
ner here struggled until free, and snatch
ing a revolver from bureau, fired four
shots at his assailant. On lighting his lamp
he was horrifed 10 find that he had shot
his friend and classmate, Sidney Bristol,
of Battle Creek, Mich, who came here
yesterday "A canvasser, and was in
vited by Cressy to stay over night at the
house of his grandmother. Mrs Starr. in
this city. Bristol lived only long enough
TO gasp. You have shot your friend" !"
l. is believed Bristol, while In a nightmare,
took hold of Cressy. Cressy said he
thought he was being attacked by bur
glar and fired as soon as he was free
The young men were each about twenty
four years of age. They graduated from
Yale in 1900. and entered the Harvard
Law School last fall
The Cressy family is very we'll known
being both wealthy and prominent Mr..
Starr died some years ago. Young Cressy.
of late, has been visitor here Cressy has
not been arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-20
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
New System Successfully Tested by
the Inventors mt Chicago

CHICAGO. July ia public test was
given tonight to a new system of wire
less telegraphy. The inventors are Prof.
Clarence L. Freeman, associate professor
OF electrical engineering at the Armour In
stitute, Lee Deforest, graduate of Yale,
and Edwin H. Smythe, telephone engineer
for the Western Electric Company. Pro-
fessor Freeman is the inventor of the
sender, and Messrs. Deforest and Smythe
invented the receiver. or responder. The
test between Armour Institute and
Auditorium tower, a distance of four miles
through the heart of the city, and the in
strument worked perfectly. The Freeman
sender differs from the Marconi sender in
that il uses no induction coil, but a con-
denser of special construction: the Defor-
est-Smythe responder does away with the
Marconi coherer and its attendant relay
and decohering apparatus and uses but one
instrument aside from the battery and re-
ceiver. Either an ordinary telephone re-
ceiver or a Morse sOunder is used. The
Improvement is in the speed. which in the
new system is limited only by the ability of
the operators.
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M'LAY'S STATEMENT.
He Says the Facts VIII Not he Altered.
Because They Are Correct.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Edgar s. McLay
replied to the criticism which has been
made upon his historical works dealing
with Admiral Schley and the navy during
the Spanish war. He said in part:
Il did not appreciate at the time l wrote
the book that the terms were immoderate
and incorporate 1t is only recently that
ii has met with adverse criticism 1t is
my intention to revise that portion of
the work that deals with the battle Of
Santiago. But 1 shall not alter the facts,
for they are correct. | must first be assured
that they are in error. The proofs were
submitted 10 the officers who took part in
che battle of Santiago we'll as to Secre-
tary Long. and received their approval.
L should explain that only those portions
of the book were submitted to each officer
that related to him personally or to the
part he took i'm the battle The proofs sub
mitted to Mr. Long dealt with that part
of the war that concerned him. L have
never had any animus against Admiral
Schlsy, and l wrote as l did because L
believed IL to be the truth"
McLay is an employe at the Brooklyn
navy yard
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TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT.
Notary Public Sent an Ohio GirI-Or-
der Temporarily stayed.

PORTSMOUTH, O., July ls.-Miss Monie
Frye refused 10 answer questions while
dispositions were being taken before Notary
Cecil $. Miller. this afternoon ard he or
dered her committed TO jail for contempt
This is the first time a notary ever sent any
person to jail here for contempt Miss
Frye's attorney Instituted habeas corpus
proceedings and secured a stay until Mon
day. Miss Frye sued the estate OF William
Nee a wealthy hermit. for so 0oQ. She
claims Nee agreed 10 marry her and gave
her a note for $4,000 10 show he was in
earnest He died before they could be mar
rled and she has sued on the note. The
defense sought her deposition before
notary, when the trouble occurred.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-20
FRIARS Will REMAIN
ROMAN CATHOLIC AUTHORITIES
WILL NOT WITHDRAW THEM.
Their Reinstatement in the Philip
pines, However, Is Retarded by
Antngonism of the People.

MANILA, July 19.-The Roman Catholic
authorities say they have no intention of
Withdrawing the friars from the Philip
pines and affirm that the friars will be
accepted by the masses of the Filipinos as
their spiritual advisers when they are as
sured the friars will no longer exercise tenn
poral authority. The clerics bitterly charge
the leaders of the Federal party them
selves Catholics, with melting the people
against the clergy. They also say they
would be willing TO substitute American for
Spanish friars except for difficulties aris-
ing from the Americans ignorance of Span
ish and native dialects. The warm and
anita gonistic receptions given the friars by
the people in the provinces IS retarding the
experiment of reinstating them.
Adjutant General Corh!n and his party
are inspecting the military posts along the
Manila-Dagupan Railroad.
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LONDON. July 19-After the trial and
conviction of Earl Russell the Countess
Russell was found at Bray and said: Il
am sorry for poor. Frank. That Mollie
Cooke is a dreadful woman. Think Of her
bearing my title, Just fancy poor Frank
going 10 prison in this terrible heat IL is
rot true that l am going 70 marry a
Maidenhead curate. | hope TO return 70
the stage in the autumn. and am seeking
an American engagement"
Lady Scott, the countess's mother. took
another view OF the case. ''The sentence
Is ridiculous" said she. 1T should have
been five years. Just ina gine, Only three
months, when l served six months on ac-
count OF the charge of alleged libel he
brought against me, That broke my poor
child's heart. / hope soon To see her hap
PLY married. and then we may go 10
America TO live
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WOMAN KILLS HER BABE.
Accidentally shoots Ii While Defend
ing Herself from Indians.

PHOENIX, A. T., July 19.-While- de-
Tending herself against drunken Indians
Mrs. ]. Irving accidentally sent a bullet
through the brain OF her babe, which was
playing on the floor. The tragedy hap
pened last night in a settlers cabin on the
Maricopa reservation. about forty miles
south of this city. "Maricopa Jim," an In
dian, accompanied by several young bucks,
all of them drunk, attempted to assault
Mrs Irving. After the shooting she es-
capped from the cabin and, under shadow
of darkness. ran to the cabin of another
trader, who gave the alarm. An armed
force of settlers returned TO the scene Of
the tragedy, but the Indians had disap-
peared. 1t is presumed they fed TO the
mountains. A posse is in pursuit. There are
about one thousand Indians on this reser-
walton. Most of them say they are not in
sympathy with "Maricopa JIM, and they
promise to assist the whites in bringing
the guilty Indians to justice.
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TWO KILLED, OTHERS HURT.
Result of a Collision of Trains on the
Louisville ~ Nashville Road.

EVANSVILLE. Ind. July l9.-Two freight
trains on the Louisville & Nashville collid-
ed at Norton. Ky. last night. killing two
men. fatally injuring two, seriously in
juring one and slightly injuring two. The
accident was due to a conflict of train
orders The dead are: f. NJ. Corbett,
brakeman; Cleveland Harrison. a tramp.
The fatally injured are two tramps. names
not known. Samuel Ingram, brakeman, of
Eastwood. had both legs broken. Engin-
GERS James McGrath and William Porter
were slightly injured. The remains OF Cor
bett were sent TO his home at Nashville.
Traffic was resumed to-day.
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ALLEGED ROYALIST PLOT.


LONDON, July 19.-The Pail Mall Ga
zette publishes communication from its
Paris correspondent giving details of an
alleged conspiracy to overthrow the French
republic and install Prince Louis Napoleon
as Emperor. The correspondent is assured
that Sept. ii. on which date the Car in
tends to promote Prince Louis to a full
generalShip in the Russian army, has been
selected the occasion for demonstra-
tion to support the claims of this prince.
who is such close friend of their Russian
ally, by all the elements opposed TO the
present regime. The names OF NJ. DerOu-
lede the Marquis de Lur Saluces and NJ
Marcel-Habert are mentioned as the lead
ing spirits of the movement. and several
high functionaries of the present govern
ment are alleged to be assisting the move
ment with funds.