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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
LOST BAGGAGE.
Steamship COmpany's Liability Sus-
tanned by United States Judge.
Dringfeld Mass.) Republican.

SpflnR1elu lAdSS.) hepuDIcdn.
We Americans travel abroad so generally
in these days of personally conducted tours
that there is a wider interest in the ras-
~calities Of transit than there used to be,
though they are not a new thing. Miss Lii
liam French, Of Boston,. delivered a trunk TO
the Dominion steamship line on the steam
er New England last April. When the
steamer reached Liverpool the trunk was
missing, but was forwarded some days
after, empty. The United States District
Court at Boston has now ordered judgment
for Miss French, damages to be assessed
lshe sued to recover Sl,5OO, and Judge
Lowell was severe upon the company, find
ing that the trunk was broken open and
rified by the cOmpanyS servants, that this
fact was known TO the managers, and that
the discourteOuS letters of the Liverpool
officials Of the company confirmed the con-
clusion Of the court. Judge Lowell said:
According to the English law common
carriers may exempt themselves by ex-
press contract from responsibility ror losses
occasioned by the negligence of their serv-
ants. BY the law of this country as laid
down i'm the opinions of the Supreme Court,
such an express contract is contrary TO
public policy. and consequently void. 1t
if any limitation which seeks to protect a
company, not from the negligence, but from
the theft or conversion of its servants is
consistent with public policy"
The court further held that the limitation
10 a small sum in the usual clause cannot
be valid unless il is reasonable, and the
reasonable limit is the value ordinarily
carried by a passenger. This is a wholesome
decision, and other passengers than Miss
French should he grateful to her for her
assertion. at much personal inconvenience
and trouble. of the right of a passenger TO
travellers suffer such spoliation rather than
make "A fuss.
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A HYGIENIC JOINT"
Boston Has Developed a New Type OF
~cstauran

Roswell Field, in Chicago Post.
The young gentleman from Indiana who
immortaliZed himself at the shrine of Con-
cord philosophy last winter has turned up
for his summer jaunt. He has come TO me
brimful of enthusiasm over what he calls
told you that here in Boston we have two
distinct types of restaurant-the petit
lunch and the petite luncheon" AS well
as / can make il out the petit lunch is mas
culine in its name and in its patronage,
while the petite luncheon is a feminine lair,
much patrOnized by women photographers
and other ladies Of the shops and offices. l
may be wrong, but 1t seems plausible.
Be all this as 1t may, my young friend
has evinced a gentlemanly discrimination
in favor of the petite luncheon, and during
the last foray he shocked the sensibilitieS
of the attendant fairy by ordering a lob
ster salad, roll and a glass of milk.
w are not permitted to serve lobster
and milk" calculated the lady sprite.
"Why nOt?' inquired the young man. us
it a general order or solicitude for me per-
sonally?'
THE combination is poisonous" replied
the sprite.
Now tradition has satisfactorily estab-
liShed the law that Bosom refuses to serve
bread with one fishball, but the objection is
~pecuniary rather than hygienic, and the
fact that restaurants hereabouts are guard
ing against intestinal troubles and rescu-
ing their patrons from the follieS of UNI
scrupulous appetites is likely to excite the
applause of the scientific world. Not long
ago a waiter in one of the restaurants cor
rected the spelling of a gentleman with
whom l was dining. in returning his order
orders are to be corrected and harmOniZed.
restaurant diet will be as secure as a hos
pital. Thus civilization on it's luminous
wings scars phOeniX-like in Boston.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
INJUNCTION DISREGARDED.
Striking Machinists Did Not Heed
Judge Kohlsnat's Warning.

CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-The striking ma
chinists of the Allis-Chalmers plant, who
are affected by the injunction issued by
Judge Kohlsaat. ordering them to desist
from picketing the plant, are preparing TO
fight the order. At the headquarters of
their union to-day the leaders were in con-
ference most Of the day, and arrangements
were made for the employment of an attor-
ney to take charge of the case. Arguments
will be heard next Wednesday on a motion
to make permanent the temporary injunc-
ton. The pickets continued on guard all
to-day and tonight. and no arrests We're
made. They were more cautious, however,
in approaching the men, and confined them
selves to a mild form Of moral suasion."
Although the injunction is sweeping in its
character, the strikers feel confident that
quenceS.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 24.-The
Frisco road to-day announced the appoint
ment of Z. +. Dix as general agent of the
freight and passenger departments at Fort
Scott, and w. c. Smith as general agent
Of the freight and passenger departments
at Springfield. Mr.. Dix has been agent for
the Memphis Sc Fort Scott for several
years, and Mr.. Smith has been agent for
the Frisco at Springfield for some time.
To-day saw the passing OF the executive
office OF the Memphis and the general pas
senger department. All Of the records and
fixtures of Mr.. Winchells office were
shipped to St. Louis tonight. The office
of X. X. Hammond, now superintendent OF
maintenance, and the telegraph depart
ment. under superintendent of Telegraph
Sprague, will be moved to Springfield be-
tween Sept. 1 and 10. The traffic and ac-
counting departments will be moved to st.
Louis as soon as room can be provided for
them, which may not be much before Oct. l.
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Yesterdays Temperatures.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

NEW YORK. Aug. 24-Arrived; Rotter-
dam. from Boulogne and Rotterdam;
L'Aquitaine. from Havre: Etruria; from
Liverpool Sailed. Maasdam. FOR Rotter-
dam, via BOulogne, Minnehaha and Mani
tau. for London; Lucania. for Liverpool;
Phoenicis, for Hamburg Furnesia. for
Glasgow.
SOUTHAMPTON. Aug. 2i-Arrived: Koe-
nistn Louise. from New York. Tor Bremen.
HAMBURG. Aug. 2i-Arrived: Auguste
Victoria. from New York. Tor Bremen.
QUEENSTOWN. Aug. 24.-Arrived: Um-
bria. from New York. for Liverpool.
GREENOCK. Aus. 24-Sailed: City of
Rome. for New York. via Neville.
CHERBOURG. Aug. 24-Sailed: st. Louis.
from Southampton. for New York.
LIVERPOOL. Aug. 4-Sailed: Bowie and
Campania. for New York.
GENOA. Aug. 2-Arrived: Werra. from
New York, Via Naples.
HAVRE Aug. "A. - Sailed: La Cham
payne. for New York
LONDON. Aug. 2t-sailed: Minneapo-
Ifs. for New York.
ANTWERP. Aug. A--sailed: yaderland.
for New York.
GLASGOW. Aug. sL-Arrived: Assyrian.
from Boston.
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RumOrcd Consolidation.

". @. Nicholas. in New York Telegraph.
Renewed rumors of an impending alliance
between Western Union and the Postal and
Bell companies vexed the street yesterday.
The scheme is an old one, and discussion OF
its probabilities has been going on intermit-
tingly for several months. Each time the
revived reports are met with official denials
and the leaders of the several interests
seem very anxious to be believed. The Bell
and lately a denial by the Gould interests
took the form of an inspired statement
that. while the telephone party might find
IL advantageous TO enter upon an alliance
such as suggested. the telegraph companies
thought differently.
Put differently and more brutaLy, the tel
ephone companies had nothing TO lose and
everything TO gain by the deal. Conse-
auently, the latest batch OF talk relates 70 a
union between the telegraph companies and
leaves out OF consideration the hello end
of the game. There are those In the street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
Flour Rates Shaded.

KANSAS CITY. Aug. 24-The Times to-
morrow will say: Following the declara-
ton of the santa Fe that competitive lines
were secretly making a rate of Z cents on
wheat from Kansas City to Chicago. 1t is
now said that flour is being hauled between
the rivers at a cent off. So far this month
the Alton, the Wabash and the Burlington
carried practically all the flour out
OF Kansas City. The charge of a cut in
flour rates is probably true and again dem
onstrates the farcical nature of rate agree
ments. 1t will undoubtedly be only a short
time until rates on all classes of traffic,
both east and west bound, will be slashed
to the usual basis.
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COLUMBIA, S. c., Aug. 24.-Trouble has
occurred between the operatives and Off
Gals in the w. b. Smith Whaley mills,
comprising the CRANKY Richland, Capital
City and Olympia mills. which employ some
3.e00 operatives. An order was posted in the
mills TO the effect that all employees would
be required TO work six hours overtime to-
day and next Saturday in order to make up
for the time lost on Labor day, which will
be observed as a holiday. The order fur
Their stated that all refusing to make up
the time would be suspended for one week.
Between 300 and 400 operatives refused to
return to work after noon to-day. The
union met tonight and advised the men TO
return to work Monday morning and if
they were not allowed TO the union would
then take action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
sICkROOM ETIQUETTE.
How to Dress and What to Do When
COnvaIescent.
Ledger Monthly.

Ledger Monthly.
When calling on a convalescent wear
some simple gown. not black, and a hat
or ornament Of any kind that jingles.
Leave your furs and umbrella I'm some
other room, and if the day is cold be care
full to remain outside the sick room until
the temperature of the house has modified
the chill of the open air still clinging to
ones dress after first coming indoors. This
touch of cold is very trying. especially 10 a
neuralgia patient, who is painfully sensi-
tive to any slight change of atmosphere.
Never sit on the bed, but choose q
straight chair and place 1t at a convenient
angle for the patient to see without strain.
Choose pleasant, friendly subjects for talk.
Sometimes the sick one will suggest what
she wants TO hear about after her long
separation from the world. 1t is always
safe TO wait for such a lead, that is, if
conversation is permitted. If the case is
still of such a character as TO forbid this
it will be wise TO restrict topics TO imper-
sOnal subjects.
Do not speak OF a wonderful appearance
OF health after such an attack, because in
the first stage one does not like to come
out of such an ordeal looking robust, or
even fairly well. 1t is better TO modify ex-
preSsions of congratulation to a few we'll
chosen hints as to the recovery. Whatever
happens never contradict a patient. Re
member she is unreasonable, the real wom-
an is not present, and a visitor can afford
to bide her time for a final settlement I'M
til they both stand on equal grounds.
The last and most important reserve is
never to ask about the appetite and things
to eat unless the nurse has first been con-
suited. The bare hint of a dainty will
arouse a craving that two or three DAYS
acute misery will follow the denial to graf
ify il because of the danger. Illness leaves
every one childish and feeble, and ii is
merciless to excite a mind already drained
by disease for lack of a little p~recaution.
First see the nurse, then go ahead.
IL these few practical suggestions are OBJ
served and the visit is restricted to twenty
minutes duration, at the longest, a cheer
full caller will be welcome to both nurse
and convalescent, and the occasion will be
a comfort and a distraction from the in
tolerable routine of a sick room that is so
fercely resented with the first dawn of
health and a possible return TO the accus-
toned place i'm the world.
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ANOTHER PEACE RUMoR.
Mitchell May Represent the Civic Fed
e~raffon as Mediator.

pITTSBURG, Aug. IA new peace
story coming from a high labor authority
Is TO the effect that the Civic Federation
will undertake 20 bring about a settlement
OF the strike and that John Mitchell. ma
tional president OF the Miners. Union, Will
be the mouyhpiece. 1t is known that MI.
Mitchell has declined TO encourage a sym
pathetic strike Of the miners, but he has
offered every aid possible 10 the Amalga-
mated Association. The gentleman who
tells the story says President Mitchell will
return to this city within a day or so.
when active steps will be taken. Joseph
Bishop. secretary of the Ohio State Arbi~
tration Board, arrived here this evening.
and his presence lends color TO the report.
To-day the Amalgamated Association
succeeded in forming a new lodge among
the Orkme at the Duquesne plant or the
Carnegie Company. and one II the new
members. not knowing he was talking 10 a
newspaper man. iuOiScreetly made the
statement hat a strike had been ordered
AZ that plant to begin at once. His YER
sion Is that the men when they left the
plant tonight are not TO return Sunday
night. No specific confirmation of the
story can be had tonight.
Mayor Black. OF McKeesport, IL is said.
Ewore in twenty-five prominent strikers to-
night 10 serve as extra policemen. This
action was taken because superintendent
William PitcOck. Of the Demmler tin plate
works, notified the mayor to-day that the
mill would be started on Monday morning
and police protection was desired.
A telegram from Wellsville tonight says:
Interest was for a time transferred to
East Liverpool this afternoon, where
Homer Thompson, jr., one of the men who
went back to work in the rondale mill.
was arrested on a charge OF carrying con-
ceaief weapons and fined $500 by the
mayor OF that city. After ne had been re-
leased he was met at the depot by a mob.
who gave him a frightful beating. When
the train arrived J. Z. Mcdonald, a prom
fnent attorney of that city. assisted
Thompson on 10 the train, and when he
returned to the depot platform was set
upon by n crowd of union potters and run
up Broadway 20 his office with a crowd OF
800 men following behind on the dead run
shouting derisively at him. The miners
employed in the mines of the American
Tin Plate Company at Irondale came out
on strike to-day rather than mine coal to
be used in operating the mill nonunion.
The strikers claim all the skilled workmen
employed in the Irondale plant this after
noon promises hat they would work no
more If they were taken back into the as
ISOLATION. This the strikers promised, and
II Is hardly prObable that mill will work
on Monday unless new men are imported
to Opprate it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
Another Effort mt south Chicago.

CHICAGO. Aug. 24-In a public meeting
tomorrow the steel workers of South Chi
cago will be appealed TO once more to join
I'm the general strike against the United
States Steel Corporation. Not only will
Assistant Secretary Tighe appeal 10 them.
but also many leaders Of organized labor
in other trades. To refute all rumors that
the Joliet and Milwaukee steel workers are
planning to break the strike and go back
TO work. "A dozen delegates from those
places Will be at the meeting TO assure the
South Chicago men of the loyalty of the
other Western lodges to the Amalgamated
Association and to plead that the recall
citrantS shall Join them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
CANNING FACTORY IN RUINS.
locomotive and Box Car Plunged
Through the Building,

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Aug. PA North
western Railway engine and box car
plunged through the GAINESVILLE canning
factory plant this evening, and the build
ing. just finished at a cost of $4,000. is
now in ruins. Thirty thousand tin cans
were smashed and all the costly special
machinery. engine and boilers were
crushed. The loss will reach over 100000.
The plant was Just finished and was 10 go
To work Monday.
The engineer and fireman had left the
engine and car on a grading one hundred
yards from the building for a few minutes.
The locomotive and car suddenly started
down the grade, jumped the track and
went through one side of the building. Nc
one was injured.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Aug. 24-John-
son Brothers & Taught nave deposited a
bond with the State National Bank of this
city that they Will construct a railroad
from this city to Acme, Tex, POP miles, on
the survey that was made for the Oklaho-
ma City & Western Railway, and that the
actual construction shall before
Dec. l. 1t is understood here that the road
when completed will be sold 10 the highest
bidder of three, the Santa Fe, the Frisco
or the Rock Island. The new line will run
from this city direct to Chickasha, thence
to Lawton and then will skirt the south
side of the Wichita mountains to Acme,
Tex.
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OBITUARY.
Mrs. Susan Field, Widow of Justice
stephen j.. Field.

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 2i.-Mrs. Susan
Field. widow of the late Stephen j.. Field,
of the United States Supreme Court, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. George f.
Whitney, this afternoon.
Mrs. Fields death was due to heart
trouble. Mrs. Field was nearly seventy
years of age and a native OF Louisville, Ky.
Soon after the death of her husband, two
years ago, Mrs. Field came to this coast to
reside with her sister, Mrs. Whitney. Mrs.
Field had been I'll for some time, but her
condition was not considered serious until
a few days ago. when kilograms were sent
to relatives TO prepare for the worst. Mrs.
Condit-Smith, of Washington, a sister, is
now on her way TO this city. Another sis
ter, Mrs. Andrew McCreery, is in Europe.
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VIII Not BE Permitted to Return.

AKRON, o.. Aug. 24.-Superintendent
Sheldon, of the Stirling Company, of Bar
berton, late this afternoon served notice
by placards that the five hundred member
of the Federation of Labor employed by
the company and now locked out because
they struck last Wednesday Will not be
being closely guarded. The company is
rushed with orders for the boilers for the
battleships now building at Cramps ship
yards in Philadelphia. and the trouble is
working a great hardship upon company
and men alike.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
Result of Naval Boiler Test.

LONDON, Aug. 24-The Admiralty has
issued a highly technical record of the
boiler-testing race between the cruiser
Hyacinth, fitted with water-tube boilers,
and the cruiser Minerva, having cylin-
drical. or Scotch. boilers. Rear Admiral
Sir William Domville, chairman of the
boiler committee" refrained from ex-
pressing any opinion. but he points out
that the Hyacinth's coal consumption was
$50 tons and that of the Minerva was 45l
tons. The maximum horse power developed
during a certain two hours run was 500
for the Minerva and 10000 for the Hya-
cinth without the latter perceptibly gain
ing on the Minerva. The radius of action.
so far as coal was concerned. at 1000 horse
power was for the Hyacinth 1880 miles
and for the Minerva 5000 miles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
Kirk ID. Armour Seriously Ill.

KANSAS CITY Aug. 24.-Kirk b. Ar
mour, nephew of the late Philip ID. Armour
and head of the vast Armour enterprises in
Kansas City, is seriously i'll at Watkins
Glen. y. Y. according 10 adviceS received
by his relatives here to-day. Mr.. Armour
has been in precarious health for eighteen
months. and has not been able TO attend
10 business. bat he has spent his time at
various health resorts. His mother re-
ceived a telegram this afternoon saying
that Mr.. ArmOur's illness had taken an
unfavorable turn. and that an effort would
be made TO bring him home at once.
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CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 25.-The Leader
tomorrow will say: Private advices re-
ceived by Cleveland railroad men yesterday
from the East make the statement that
Charles NJ. Hays, the retiring president of
the Southern Pacific. is TO be taken by j.
u. Morgan x Co. as the railroad expert
of that house. In this MIR. Hays follows
the example OF Samuel Spencer, who had
the same position prior to accepting the
presidency of the Southern Railway. The
advices state that Mr.. Hays will be taken
in by Mr.. Morgan preparatory to making
him president of some of the railroad COM
binations which Mr.. Morgan has now eff
fected."
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CLEVELAND, o., Aug. PAP. M. Arthur,
grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, said when his at
tention was called to reference to his or
ganization: MIR. Shaffer has told the truth.
] have never received a letter from him or
any one else connected with the Amalga-
mated Association"
When asked about prObabl action of the
EEOish engineers, MIR. Arthur added: 9TH
policy OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers, when others are in conflict with
their employers, is one of nOninterference-
strictly neutral. This is our position"
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Did Not Swim Across the Channel.

LONDON. Aug. 24.-To-day, the ami
versary of Captain Webb's swim from
Dover to Calais, France, the once famous
cyclist, Mr.. Holbein. left Dover for Cape
Gris-nez, whence he attempted to win
back TO Dover. He was apparently in ex-
Cellent form and entered the water at 4:l5
p. m. He was by a tug and a
small boat. The sea was choppy. Hol-
bein, who has lone some of his best cy-
cling at night, said he rather preferred
night swimming and that he would take
only eighteen hours TO cross the channel.
The sea became so rough, however. he
abandoned the attempt after being in the
water two hours.
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TO BE SOLD OCT. 8.
Pittsburg a. Western Railway to BE
Disposed of Mt Auction.

YOUNGSTOWN, o., Aug. 24-The United
States Circuit Court has ordered the sale
of the Pittsburg & Western Railroad, to
take place at Allegheny City Oct. 9 at noon.
The foreclosure is for mortgages held by
the Pittsburg. New Castle & Lake Erie
Company amounting to $219, 900. Il. II. Nevin
Trust Company, OF New York, 10 secure
100000 bonds. The sale will include the
leases held by the Pittsburg 81 Western on
other lines
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-25
Britons and Germans.

DOVER, Eng, Aug. 24.-The mayor Of
Dover presided at a brilliant banquet given
in the municipal building tonight to the
officers of the German cruiser Stein. En-
thusiastic toasts to King Edward and En-
peror William were proposed and drunk.
The secretary of the German embassy, in
proposing ''the British army and navy"
expressed the belief that if occasion arose
the British and German forces would be
found working loYally together.
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Two Strikes settled.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 2i.-The
strike Of the structural iron workers, in
volving 250 men. has been settled. The en-
ployers agree to give the men a nine-hour
~work-day inside the shops and an eight
hour day for outside work. with no reduc-
tion in pay. The demands of the union
were for a shorter work-day and the en-
ployers conceded the demands in full.
The painters strike has been settled by
arbitration in favor of the strikers, who
will return TO work on Monday. They are
TO receive $3.50 a day for eight hours work.
over 500 men were out.