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Probably One id and Fifty
Manned or Badly Burned. Some
of Whom VIII Die.
COUNT TOLSTOT's PROTEST
LETTER TO THE GEAR THAT MADE
A DEEP IMPRESSION.
Disorders i'm Russia Reported
to Have Croker Out Again
Uprising of AIgerians.

FRANKFORT, April a6.-Berlin estimates
OF the killed at Griesheim now put the
number between twenty-five and eighty.
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that
no fewer than $50 were manned or burned.
the injuries in several cases promising to
prove fatal. The first estimates of the
casualties were too high, because frag-
ments Of bodies were counted as each rep
%resenting individuals. Herr Lang. the
manager of the works, and four chemists
are among the injured. The effects of the
first two explosions are described as fear
full. An immense cloud of wreckage was
thrown by the former into the air. plung-
ing the whole district into darkness. which
was followed, on the latter explosion. by
an outbreak of flames in many quarters.
Scarcely a house in Griesheim escaped
without shattered windows, while in many
cases walls and doors were burst ~aSunder.
A number of children who were hurled by
the explosion into the River Main were
drowned before the rescuers could reach
them. Several firemen are among the vic
tins. A special with relief firemen and adj
ditional doctors and nurses was sent TO
the scene of the disaster this morning. A
number who il was feared had perlsneu
reported themselves this morning.
During the panic this morning a num-
Der of women and children were thrown
down and trampled under foot. The dan
ger of fresh explosions necessarily relarus
the dra wing up of a correct death roll
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ALREADY

III the organization Of civil government in
the Philippine islands is going on wisely,
as is said. and which no doubt is true. it Is
with the statement that pretty soon, there
fore. we shall be able to consider the ques-
ton of the ultimate fate of the islands. We
might well suppose that there was uncer-
tainty as to the fate or destiny of the
islands if wise civil government was not
being organized. This is what shapes des-
tiny and ends uncertainty as TO the fate
OF the islands as the work proceeds. and in
the end there arises nothing TO consider.
II is hardly supposable that when the Ma
ton has accomplished the work now pro-
ceeding so admirably it will abandon it's
sovereignty and run away. 1t did not do
that with any of its former acquisitions. II
is worse than idle TO burden ourselves with
questions of territorial status or statehood.
If we have found IL wise to hold former ac-
questions over half a century under terri
tOrial status We could hold them and any
others a century or two if found neces-
sary. Call it colony or by any other
name. the just forms of government en-
anating from our organic law will doubtless
prevail. We have no other resource for
civil government. Scan the horizon as we
may, and there are no signs anywhere OF
a desire to have any different kind than
that laid down in our organic law for New
Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Porto Rico or
the Philippine islands.
If anybody has an idea that this Nation
will establish our form of government in
the Philippines and then wholly sever all
relations with them he may as well dismiss
it. The people of this Nation believe in our
kind of government, in a civilization strong
enough to desire others to enjoy it, and
especially to see that peoples that come
under our sovereignty adopt it and be-
come strong enough by our amending con-
tact to maintain it forever. Governments
are not organized for the purpose of ending
a rebellion, nor for a generation or a hun
dred generations. but for all time and till
better is evolved. Ours is the best we know.
and there is nothing to do now but to pro-
coed to perpetuate it on every soil where
we have rightful sovereignty.
X is well TO be rid OF our sense OF pro-
vincialism and to realize that the Nation
has permanently expanded beyond its sea-
coasts; that while il goes nowhere in ag-
gressive conquest, it has faith in its insti-
tutions for any people who come under our
sovereignty in natural order. and that the
ultimate fate OF such acquisitions and peo-
pies is already written in the experiences
OF more than a century of beneficent gov
eminent.
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COUNT TOLsTOr's LETTER.
An Appeal That Led to the NOvelists
ExpulsiOn from Russia.

BERLIN, April 26.-The National Zeituns
to-day prints Russian special correspond
ence which contains another version of the
letter of Count Leo Tolstoi of April 10, adj
dressed to the Car and Cabinet. The letter
protested against the system Of forcibly
suppressing intellectual and political prog
ress and counseled the liberation or the
peasants from despotic treatment, the re-
moval of all barriers of enlightenment ana
the free profession of any faith. The let
ter concludes: This appeal have /. Leo
.TOlstOi. written. not as a personal cOnNlc-
ton. but as the conviction OF millions be-
longing to Russian intelligence The cor
RESPONDENT asserts that the letter has made
the deepest impression throughout Russia
The Cologne Volks Zeitung prints a st.
Petersburg special which says the unlver-
sity situation has suddenly grown worse.
From Moscow word has been given TO per-
sist in passive opposition until all the sem
fenced students have been pardoned.
The NorwaertS publishes a JOINT protest
from the prOletariat TO the world, bearing
the signature of the leaders of the Socialist
movement, including those of the United
states. dated from Brussels, against the
brutalities of Czarlsm.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 26.-During the
Easter celebrations scenes OF riot ana dls-
order occurred in the town of Tagaurog, on
the Sea of Azof. Incidents of drunken VIC.
DAYS. Apparently, however, the disturb
ances did not arise from political causes.
In Ekaterinoslay riots occurred at the
same time. and the authorities have sus-
pended public gatherings in the town FOR
three months.
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join bands Of brigands. who plumber the
population in various districts with I'M
punity."
There is now said 20 be no truth in the
report that an attempt has been made upon
the life of King Charles OF Roumauia- a
on the ground floor OF the palace. but he
was promptly arrested and has been placed
in an asylum.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from
ConstantinOple asserts that on last Tuesday
night a band OF criminals at SalOnica. ii
European Turkey. removed all the gas taps
from the lights on the principal streets or
the city in order 10 cause an explosion and
create a panic.
All the daily papers I'm Paris contain three
columns OF a passionate appeal 10 French
men TO build the Panama canal. 1t is an
obvious advertisement. signed b. the ergi-
neer. Philippe Bunauvariila, well known
IN the United States. who himself con-
tributes 100000. The appeal is based on pa
tr.otic and practical grounds
The Austrian government has submitted
10 the Reichsrath a bill authorizing the
construction OF four canals In the Danube,
Noidau, Elbe and Nistula districts. The
work OF construction is TO begin in 1904 and
will be completed in 1924. Two hundred and
hIty million kroner. at 4 per cent, are TO
De borrowed before 1902, and further funds
Tor the construction OF these four canals
VIII be borrowed when necessary.
The London managers of the Yokohama
specie Bank and the HOng-kOng ard
Shanghai Banking Corporation say they do
not fear anything serious will develop from
the bank failures in Japan. They say the
majority of the banks involved are very
small concerns, with a capital OF no more
than $4,000 or E6.o00 apiece. They are more
than banks. and apparently only the Japan
csc themselves are involved.
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TUBERCULOSIS CURED
New Serum Discovered by an Argcn-
tine Army Surgeon.

NEW YORK. April pa dispatch to the
Herald from Buenos Ayres says: DIR. Car
los l.. Villar, an Argentine army surgeon,
has just published a report OF the treat
ment of fifty cases of tuberculosis with his
serum at the military hospital i'm this city.
The treatment extended from Dec. >, 1900,
to April 20. 1901. Tuberculosis in the early
stage, says DR.. Nillar, was cured within
forty days. Patients whose cases were
he reports, were all cured within ninety
days. OF those patients whose cases were
far advanced all were cured except those
who could offer very little resistance 10
the disease. DR.. Nillar did not divulSe
TO be a yellow fiuid. Hypodermic injections
are made. varying in quantity every sec
ond, third, fourth or fifth day, according
TO individual cases"
DR.. George +. Shrady, of New York city,
in an interview published In the Herald
commenting upon the dispatch said that
the medical profession did not place much
confidence in the serum treatment of tu-
berculosis. The medical profession now
holds" he said, after centuries of expert
berculoSiS is a change TO dry, pure air.
The impression that men are not cured
of consumption is a prevalent and an
erroneous one. There have been thousands
of cures. The disease may be cured IL
nature is able to throw off the solid mat
and exercise build up the natural powers
of resistance. The fact that DIR. Nillar
does not give the formula of his remedy
would prejudice the medical profession
against it, A remedy designed 10 benefit
the human race Should be as free as air Oh
wafer
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BIG SEIZURE OF GAME.
Over 20 Quail, Grouse and Ducks
COnfscated at Chicago.

CHICAGO. April 26.-State Game Commits
sioner III. w. Loveday. acting under United
States government authority, has made
what is believed to be the greatest seizure OF
game birds on record. More than 22,Oo0 quail
grouse and ducks have been confiscated
because they were shipped in violation Of
the federal law known as the Lacey act.
Suits are to be instituted against forty
eight men, charged with the shipment of
the game into Illinois contrary TO law
The seizures and the suits are the results
of the game commissioners work in con-
nection with II. S. Palmer. assistant CHIEF
OF the biological survey in Washington, and
who has charge of the enforcement of the
Lacey law. OF the total number of birds
seized over 2l,000 were quail. There were
about 200 prairie chickens taken, and less
that fifty each of ruff1ed grouse and ducks.
~ few live song birds were taken by the
authorities at the same time that the game
was seized.
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LABOR, TRADE, INDUSTRY.

The directors of the United States De-
bcnture Company, al a meeting IN Clncin-
natl yesterday, DECIDED TO ask permission
Of the court TO wind up It's business and 10
distribute its assets II is said 10 be able
TO pay in full the amounts received from
certificate holders.
a special bulletin n striking miners in
the Fifth Ohio district has been issued by
officials In charge OF the strike requesting
them TO lend every possible assistance TO
prevent loss to outside mine property from
landslides caused by high waters. Every
mine in Belmont county Will suffer heavily.
and the loss will probably reach 10000
No decision was reached at yesterdays
conference between Illinois Central officials
and the committee OF the National Assoc
citation OF Machinists which presented the
associations demands TO the company's
superintendent of machinery, William Rem
shaw. The conference lasted several hours,
and an adjournment was taken Till to-day.
The London Saturday Review will say. to-
morrow. that the expansion of the German
navy is more IN preparation Tor the con-
test with the United States than with
Great Britain. because the readiest causes
for future naval conflicts Will be found in
the struggle for the partition or the ex-
ploitation Of the great South American con-
tinent.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says: At a
meeting in this city. on May 3. a movement
will be started for the organization of the
central labor council OF the United States.
which Is aimed TO be an amalgamation OF
all the labor unions OF the country. with
central headquarters. the object being 20
secure cooperation among all branches Of
labor and 10 operate especially against the
great trusts
The eaumo Tex. oil Exchange yes
terday posted the statement that the
Standard oil Company had purchased the
railroad terminals. wharVes and shipping
facilities at Port Arthur and $4,000 acres OF
land surrounding the port. Port Arthur Is
the nearest deep-watcr port 10 the Beau
mont oil field. and by controlling this out
let the Standard oil Company can control
every barrel OF oil taken from the Beau
mont field.
President l.. II. Thomas. OF the Pattern
Makers League OF America. was IN Pitts
burg yesterday comforting with other labor
leaders on the proposed general Organiza-
ton OF pattern makers. boiler makers. cleo
t~ricians. etc. 20 be formed al "a conVea-
ton 10 be held ~ st. Louis in July The
unions that will enter the new association
are all pledged 20 assist the machinists in
securing the nine-hour work day on May
~. President Thomas Is confident the or
ganization will start with a membership
OF at least 10000.
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ASKED TO ExpEL FOREIGNERS.
Appeal TO Chinese i'm Peking-Mcmor-
ia1 to the Throne.

PEKING. April 26.-The Chinese are Won
dering IL the imperial commission. appoint
ed by an edict issued April %. to inquire
fully into the questions of reforms, really
means the relinquishing of absolute power
by the court. or whether. il is merely the
formation of "A privy council.
Notices in Chinese were placarded during
the night calling on patriotic Cinnamon TO
rise May Is and expel all foreigners.
Yung La Ting. the censor of Chilli prov
ince. has memorialized the throne to return
&C. Picking as soon as possible. in order TO
pacify the people. who are looking eagerly
westward for their Emperor's return. The
censor IS certain there is no danger. and
II the Emperor is doubtful, he can return
az far as ka-Fung-Fu. where he can better
examine the conditions and arrange for the
foreign evacuation. But. he adds. an early
date for ais Majesty's return should imme-
diately be issued.
The sixteen Krupp guns and sixty-seven
carts of ammunition captured by the Brit
ish near Shang-Hai-Kwang are in excellent
condition. An Indian native officer. who
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R I

The latest figures show that the Black
sea and Baltic ship canal has become self
sustaining, with a clear profit of 100000
marks. Since 1897 the canal receipts have
more than doubled.
]. B.. Hodson. head accountant Of the
Montana Mining Company, operating the
famous Drunlommon mine. has committed
suicide at Santa Barbara, Cal, by shoot
ing himself. Poor health was the cause.
Three men were seriously injured by an
explosion at the Swan coal shaft near
Pittsburg. Kan, yesterday. The injured
are Charles Brown, Thomas Burns and
Thomas Norton. Brown will probably die.
A dispatch from Cadiz states that the new
Dutch steamer Carolina. from Amsterdam
for the Dutch East Indies, had grounded,
backed off into deep water and foundered.
All on board were saved and landed at
Cadiz.
The British ship Dovenoy Hall. ia days
out from Liverpool with a general cargo.
has arrived at San Francisco. During the
VOYAGE two sailors died and were buried
at sea. A third fell overheard and was
Jrowned.
The United States Steel Company sent out
its first ships from Duluth yesterday--four
whaleback barges, two each TO Two Harbors
and Ashland. They were taken down by
tugs. as the engineers still refuse to handle
the corporations steamships
Arrivals from Dawson give details OF the
discovery of a fabulously rich second bed
rock on the famous Eldorado creek of the
Klondike. Pans taken from the new strike
have yielded as high as $50 in many in
stances. and one day two men took out
dirt that contained 5000.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Sobraon, which left Shanghai homeward
bound April %. went ashore on ~Tong-Ying
i'm a dense fog on April "a. Her mails and
messengers were landed by Chinese junks
AT Foo-Chow. The Sobraon was launched
in 1900. She is i'm "A critical condition and
probably will go TO pieces.
The t-hree-masted schooner Emma G.
Knowles, Captain Rogers. from Charleston.
<. c. for Fall River. which was discovered
caYsized Thursday off Atlantic city. passed
hereford lifesaving station at 9 o'clock YES
to-day morning in tow OF an unknown
tug. heading for the Delaware b~reakwater
No tidings of the crew have been received.
His Majesty's ship Icarus has returned
to Victoria, Il. c.. from "A cruise through
the South seas. during which she visited all
the American and British islands. Her
officers say there was much talk at Tahiti
over the action of officers of the French
cruiser Protet. who carried of a number
OF native girls and took them on a trip on
the vessel.
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WILL RAISE Il MAINE.
Contractor Chamberlain Says the Bat.
tIeship Is Not Badly Damaged.

CHICAGO. April 26.-Newton +. Cham
berlain, who is engaged in raising the
wreck of the battleship Maine, in Havana
harbor. and who has just returned from
Cuba on a short business trip, said to-
day: w expect to have the Maine afioat
and ready for business again some time
next fall. she was not so badly damaged
when she was sunk as is generally sup
posed, and repairs can be easily accom-
plished. We ind" continued Mr.. Cham-
beriain. that the Maine has not sunk one
inch deeper since l made an examination
of her two years ago. She lies perfectly
level, and IL is just thirty-seVen feet and
six inches to solid bottom from both bow
to stern. In order TO float the vessel We
shall first build a dam all around IL ana
pump out the water. When the water has
been removed from the wreck the hole in
her bow will be repaired. Then when the
water is turned in again she will rise 10
the surface and will be towed into the Ha-
vana docks for a complete o~verhauling.'
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A Pole Instead of a German.

PARIS, April 26.-The spy who has been
arrested here on a charge of having COM
municated to Herr Krupp the secret of the
manufacture of guns at the Commentry
arms factory is a Pole named lovanOvitz.
He was a head waiter at the Hotel
Chatham. in Paris. During an absence last
winter he went TO Commentry, where, IT is
alleged, he suborned a number of workmen
of the Commentry arms factory into be-
traying for Herr Krupp the secret process
of manufacturing a certain metal employed
for cannon and shells in the Commentry
factory. Four OF the factory workmen
have been arrested. Much interest is dis
played in the Poles arrest. but there is no
excitement over it, as the divulged secrets
are industrial and do not concern the state.
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-KITCHENER'S P
Several Parties of Beers Forced to
Surrender After Fighting.

LONDON. April 26.-The War Office has
received the following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener. at Pretoria:
"Since yesterday the columns report the
Boer losses to be u killed. 20 wounded. AZ
captured and az surrendered In addition
to the foregoing. Lieutenant Reid, with
twenty bushmen, captured. southeast of
Commissie drift. ELEPHANTS river. Com
mandant Schroeder and forty-one Beers.
together with a Maxim. Reds men crept
up and surrounded the men before dawn
and opened fire. the Beers Immediately sur
rendering
In a later message. forwarding advices
from General Kitchener. his brother. the
cOmmander-in-chief says: General Kitch-
ener reports from Paarde Platz four Beers
killed. $50 taken prisoners and 5000 cattle,
5000 sheep and many wagons captured"
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Cable Notes.

The London St9tist says the applications
for the British war loan aggregate gao,
100000.
Evalyn Il. Baldwin. who is 10 lead the
American (Zeigler) arctic expedition, Is In
Germany.
An anti-clerical demonstration was dis
persed by the Lisbon police yesterday. The
figure of a Jesuit was burned in eflgy by
the mob. who INDUCED In anti-Jesuit cries.
NJ. Delcasse. the French minister of for
eign affairs. who arrived in St. Petersburg,
April -. had d long interview. yesterday.
with II. Witte, the Russian minister OF
finance
A dispatch 20 the London Daily Mail from
81. Petersburg says that the Car and
Czarina will privately visit England and
LONDON during the coming season. They
will attend the Glasgow exposition.
.'Wholesale desertions are now occurring
In the Turkish army" says Die lnforma-
ton. of Vienna. lowing 70 restitution and
military negligence. Most OF the deserters
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In 1881, a year of general business ac-
t.vity, the sale of postage stamps was 81
cents per capita. In 1890, another prosper
Gus year, the sale of stamps was 90 cents
per capita In 1900 the outlay for postage
stamps was 1913 per capita. That is, in
twenty years the sale of postage stamps On
the basis of population has doubled. In
the realm of statistics there can be found
few facts which so briefly, yet so conclu-
sively, tell the story of the country's prog
ress as these figures indicating the greater
use of the mails.
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food in the Ohio river and its tributar-
les. They say the warnings have saved
millions OF dollars worth Of property and
probably many lives. The praise is we'll
deserved. People who sheer at the predic-
tions of the Weather Bureau as always
wrong etc. do not know what they are
talking about. The predictions are right
in a great majority Of instances, and are
Of immense value to a great many large
interests. No branch OF the government
service better deserves liberal support
than the Weather Bureau.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-27
BLOW AT LOAN ROKE
ssignmen of Unearned Salaries as
Security Is Not Lawful

CHICAGO, April 26.-The assignment OF
unearned wages as security for money
loans was declared unlawful to-day by
Judge Dunno. To uphold such assign
ments, the court said. would be to nullify
the thirteenth amendment Of the federal
Constitution. which declares against slav-
cry and involuntary seryitude. The deci-
Ion is an amplification of Judge unne
former ruling that public employees, be-
cause of their positions, have no right TO
mortgage their unearned salaries. In this
decision he extends his original holding to
all persons working on salary. The deci-
sion practically makes il impossible for a
broker who loans his money in this way
to secure the collection in the courts
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RERIIN. April 26.-Emperor William,
who. in COMPANY with Crown Prince Fred
erick, attended the inaugural kommer of
the Students Union in Beethoven Hall, at
Bonn. last night. at which he presided, re-
NAMED in the presidential chair until 1
o'clock this morning. According to custom.
the inauguration of a new member of the
union is attended with cries of fuchs fox.)
This was done to the crown prince. where
upon the Emperor laughingly ciapped the
crown prince on the back and was greatly
amused at the jocular illusions made upon
the occasion.
Emperor William and the crown prince
are looking pale after the banquet and cele-
brations of last night. The crown prince
to-day took his first lesson in exercise with
the students swords. He wore plain civil
ian dress.