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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
BLACK MAN KILLED.
Shot After He Had wounded a Defec-
tive aud "a Policeman.

MOBILE. Ala, March 31.-Detective Ed
Morris and Policeman John Bressingham
to-day attempted TO arrest two negroes sus-
pected of the murder of a marshal at
Gulfport. Miss. One negro. named Davis,
resisted and shot Morris and Bressingham,
probably fatally. He in turn was killed.
The other negro was captured.
The negroes were convicts who had es-
capped from Jenkins & Co.'S camp near
Monroevlle, Ala. and arrived here this
morning Davis diverted the attention OF
the convict guard and seized his rifle. Then
he overcame another guard and obtained
his pistol He and three other conv'cts
then escaped and came TO Mobile. Davis
had the rifle in his hand when apprehended
by the detectives and two policemen, Bress-
ingham and McGrath, but the pistol was
concealed. Davis opened fire, and there
a sharp interchange between him and
Norris at arms length. n bullet fired by
Bressingham killed Davis. Bressingham
was shot in the right lung and Morris in
seven places. the most serious being in the
face and in the lower abdomen. The negro
also was hit seven times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
STATUE OF JOHN A. LOGAN.
Dedicatory Ceremonies 10 BE Held in
Iowa Circle on April %.

WASHINGTON, March 31.-Arrange-
ments for the ceremonies attending the un-
yelling of the statute of General John A.
Logan, in Iowa Circle. April 9, have been
completed by Colonel Theodore a Bing-
ham, superintendent of public buildings
and grounds. on account of the few regu-
lar troops available for use in connection
with the unveiling ceremonies, only a pro-
visional regiment of the district National
Guard under Colonel NJ. Emmett Urel a
light battery of artillery and two COM
panies of marines will participate. Colonel
Guenther win be in command Of the mill
tary.
General Granville S. Dodge. the presiding
officer. will open the exercises, after which
Rev Frank w Bristol, of MetropoIitan n
NJ. +. Church. will deliver the invocation.
This will be followed by the presentation
of the sculptor. Mr.. Franklin Simmons. and
the mveilng of the statue by Master John
Tucker. a grandson. President Mckinley
will make short address. after which
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew. OF New York,
will deliver the Grafton. Benediction viii
bring the ceremonies TO close.
Many veteran organizations will take
part in the ceremonies and IL is expected
delegations viii be present from the So
ciety of the Army OF the Tennessee. the
Army OF the Cumberland and the Loyal
Legion.
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Last Attempt Was Made Against the
Advice of Others. and He Per-
fshed in the smoke.
TWENTY-FIVE MEN OVERCOME
BUT ADMIRAL REMEY REPORTS
THAT ALL WILL RECOVER.
Message from the Navy Department to
Mrs. Roper Expressing Sympa-
thy and Appreciation

WASHINGTON. March 31-The Navy De-
partrnent early this morning received
cabIegram from Admiral Remy at Cavite.
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic station.
giving a brief account of fire in the sail
room of the gunboat Petrol and Of the death
of the commanding officer. Lieutenant Com
mander Jesse Minis Roper, as the result OF
an heroic effort to rescue the men below.
The dispatch shows that twenty-five other
officers and men were Frustrated. but all
are recovering. Admiral Remy's dispatch
fellows:
Fire was discovered in the sail room of
the Petrol at o'clock this morning, Roper
commanding. After going below once he
went again, against advice. and attempted
10 rescue the men below. He suffocated.
dying at 7:45 a. m. Twenty-Five other Of
fcers and men were prostrated. but all are
recovering The fire is out. Damage i'm
material VIII send Ropers 5 remains by the
Buffalo"
The department at once sent telegram
to Mr.. H. F. Fay, the brother-in-law of
lieutenant Commander Roper, at 70 Mon
mouth street, Longwood, Mass, asking that
he inform Mrs. Roper of the news. The fol-
lowing expression of sympathy and appre-
citation is also made:
with this sad news, the departn ~nt
sends to Mrs. Roper deep sympathy in the
great loss she has sustained and the highest
appreciation Of the gallantry and self-sacri-
fee with which Lieutenant Commander Ro-
per gave his life for his fellow 1t was
a heroic DEATH"
be sent home, is now used for the transpor-
tatlon of troops and is about to return to
the United States by the way of the Medi-
terranean.
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FELL FROM TABLE ROCK
TRIO OF ACCIDENTS 200 FEET UP
BREAK NECK MOUNTAIN.
Little Girl Slipped. Mother Tried to
Save Her and Fell, and Another
Child Went Over, Too.

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, March 3l.-Be-
tween and 6 o'clock this evening Mrs.
Daniel Patterson, wife OF a mechanic, her
twelve-year-old daughter and Nellie Chase,
aged fourteen, all living in Cold Spring,
went for a walk. They stopped on Table
rock. half way up Break Neck mountain,
TO watch the foret fires burning on Crow S
Nest mountain across the river. Suddenly
the Patterson child slipped and fell over
the cliff. The mother sprang forward TO
save the child and also fell over the rock.
Nellie Chase became greatly excited as
she saw her friends go over and she too
fell after them.
Table rock is two hundred feet above
tide water and the side OF the mountain
under it is very steep. Nellie Chase fell
i'm the branches of a large tree and was un-
injured. The Patterson girl was found a
few feet away with broken arm and a
cut and bruised body. Mrs. Patterson was
found farther down the mountain dead.
She had fallen at least one hundred feet
and was dashed to death on the rocky side
of the hill
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MISSIONARIES SCORED.
Their Conduct i'm China Condemned by
by DIR. William j. Tucker.

BOSTON. March S1.-President William
j. Tucker, of Dartmouth College, took the
Christian Church TO task for its part in the
Chinese troubles during a lenten sermon
at the Old South Church this evening. His
strongest sentences were these: THE very
apostles sent forth by the church have
shown that they do not know how to keep
the Ten Commandments. In China il looks
as though the gospel suspended as
well as the law. The Christian Church has
been set back. nobody knows how far, by
the behavior of the missionaries in China. "
His subject was THE College Graduate
and the Church" He asked what attrac-
tiveness the church has been for the stu
dents i'm these days of great material
wealth. He answered it by saying that the
need was a plain matter of fact morality
The last century was one of missionary
activity yet at it's close its work was dis
credited. 1t is time of moral confusion
also. We must expect the failure of
Christendom To support Christianity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
WHISKY MAY BE DEARER.
Kentucky Bourbons, Ii Is Said, MAY
Rise to $1.25 a Gallon.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. March 3l-Edson
Bradley. president OF the Kentucky Dis
ulleries and Warehouse Company; 6. NJ.
Rice. president of the DistiIling Company
of America: A w. Krech and c. c. Dem
ing. of New York, and William +. Har-
rity. Of Philadelphia. the latter three mem
bers of the executive committee OF the
Distilling Company Of America spent to-
day in Louisville. having come from Peoria,
H., on a tour Of inspection OF the prop
erty belonging TO the Kentucky Distilleries
and Warehouse Company. Tomorrow they
will go 10 Frankfort and they will return
TO the East Tuesday night. To-morrow
the party will inspect the distilIeries bore
owned by the Kentucky Distilleries and
Warehouse Company. Their visit has no
other significance. said Edison Bradley to-
day.
Mr.. Bradley was asked to account for the
sensa ationsl advance in the prices Of whisky
held by Eis company. Prices advanced. I"
he replied. because the conditions OF the
market warranted it. / anticipate a furth-
er advance in all fine whiskies IT will not
surprise me 10 see some Kentucky oour-
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CLUBBED BY A BURGLAR.
Woman's Skull Crushed In In Her
Daughters Presence.

PITTSBURG. Pa, March 31.-AIrs. Ann
Ward. aged sixty years, is lying in crit
ical condition from the effects of brutal
treatment by three masked burglars at
her home. Thirty-eighth and Carson
streets this morning. Mrs. Ward and her
daughter were awakened by the presence
of the burglars at their bedside. each wom-
an finding a revolver pointed directly at
her head Mrs Ward undertook TO resist
the burglars, and while the daughter was
held in subjection by one OF the men, an
other beat the mother into Inconsistencies
with a short club literally crushing in her
skull. The husband and son of Mrs. Ward
were sleeping the third floor. having
in their possession about 1920. the booty
the burglars evidently were after. Being
awakened by the noise. Ward and his son
FASTENED to the floor below, but the burg
lars had made good their escape, leaving no
clue as to their identity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
NO APPALACHIAN PARK.
Governor McMiIlin Opposes the Ces-
sion of Tennessee Territory.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, March 31.-IIon r.
w. Austin, United States marshal. who has
been in Nashville working for the passage
of the bill to cede mountain lands of East
Tennessee for national Appalachian park
says Governor McMillin is opposing the bill
and will veto IL il it passes. The bill has
passed the lower house. and Mr. Austin be-
lieves it will pass the Senate. but with the
Governors influence against it he fears
the measure will be defeated. The bill pro-
poses ceding many thousand acres of
mountain lands Of East Tennessee counties
for the national park. The greater part of
the proposed park, which will contain
about two million acres. will lie in North
Carolina.
Mr.. Austin says Governor McMillin op-
poses the Appalachian park bill because in
his opinion. the State Of Tennessee would
be required TO cede too much territory TO
the authority OF the United States, as fully
one-fourth of the proposed park would be
inside the boundaries OF this state
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
Prominent Government Contraetar,
Bakery Proprietors and Many
Other Persons i'm Custody.
SALE OF SUPPLIES ALLEGED
FLOUR, BACON, ETC, IN POSSESSION
or UAAUTHORIzED PERSONS. -
Nothing Known at the Washington
War Department Concerning the
Alleged Exposure.

MANILA. March Sl.-Interest in the cap
ture and fate of Aguinaldo is well-nish
overshadowed in Manila by sensational de-
velapmenss. present and prospective. Of
frauas in the conmissary department.
How widely these extend has not yet been
ascertained. but enough is already known
to justify the belief that they are far
reaching.
Capt. Frederick J. Barrows, OF the Thir-
tieth Volunteer Infantry. auartermaster OF
the Department of Southern Luzon. to-
gether with seven commissary sergeants.
several civilian clerks. a prominent govern
ment contractor. the assistant manager
of the Hotel Oriente. the proprietors OF
three of the largest bakeries in Manila. a
number of storekeepers and other persons
have been arrested.
The investigation has scarcely begun. but
thousands OF sacks Of flour. a quantity OF
bacon and wagon loads Of other goods. all
bearing government marks. have been
lOuliu III Niit pDcScSNtou ol uilduluoIlLtu
persons. 1t is alleged that the contractor
in questioa who has been doing business
approximating 100000 per month. has spent
huge sums IN entertaining officers. A prom
inent commissary officer is accused OF Lead,
ing a scandalously immoral life.
1t is asserted that large quantities Of
stores have been lost or stolen in transit
and also that there Is a shortage in the
commissary department @
New scandals are developed daily. Illicit
transactions have been traced back TO June,
1900. and it is possible that there are others
of earlier date.
The exorbitant tariff on provisions makes
the surreptitious sale OF commissary sup
plies immensely profitable.
1t is understood that other United States
officers may be arrested.
Lieut.. Philip X. Sweet. of the Forty
sixth Volunteer Infantry. is prosecuting
the investigation under the direction OF
Colonel Wilder, chief of police.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
SALISBURY is BETTER
PHYSICIANS SAY HIS LORDSHIP'S
CONDITION is IMPROVING.
May Soon Recover Sufficiently from
His Attack of Influenza to Go
to the Riviera.

LONDON, April 1.-The following bulletin
regarding the condition of the premier
was issued last evening:
Lord Salisbury was attacked with in
fiuenza March %. The illness has run the
normal course and has been attended by
the usual prostration. The temperature,
however, has been almost normal for the
last two days and his lordship's strength
is improved, with increasing power of TAX
ing food. Ii is hoped he will be able short
ly to get a change to the SOUTH which he
had been contemplating at the time of the
attack"
The bulletin was signed by Douglas Pow
ell and Fl. r. Walker
Inquiries yesterday afternoon at the resi-
dence of Lord Salisbury elected the in
formation that he getting on we'll
and was much stronger None Of the pri-
vate secretaries and no other person in
authority was accessible, but the foregoing
statement had been prepared for callers.
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Russian Ministers So Alarmed They
Are Reported to BE Wearing
Steel Cuirasses.
AN EXILED PRINCE SPEAKS
NIHILIST KROPOTKIN DISCUSSES
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANARCHIsM.
AmassinE of Great Fortunes, He
tiOn of His Ideas.

LONDON. April 1.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says:
"A revolutionary committee composed of
seventy-two members has been arrested
after a desperate defense. the revolution
lists firing at the police. Two secret revolu-
tionary printing presses were seized in con-
nection with the arrest. Altogether 5000
arrests have been made. 1t is reported that
some of the ministers now wear steel
cuirasses''
ST. PETERSBURG. April 1.-Peter Kar-
povich, the assassin OF NJ. Bogolepoff.
Russian minister of public instruction, has
been sentenced to twenty years penal SER
vitude, with a loss of civil rights. The an
nouncement that he had been sentenced to
life Imprisonment in a fortress was erro-
neous.
The ministry of education is considering.
as a means of diminishing the number OF
university students, proposal to admit
any one qualihed to enter the universities
TO examination for university diplomas.
whether they ever attended the universities
or not. This, however, would hardly be a
satisfactory solution of the difficulties
which result from restrictions of university
freedom.
Sixty-nine students Who were arrested
during the recent riots, have been re-
leased.
1t is reported that severe riots have oc-
Cured during the last few days at Kieff,
but were quelled by the military authori-
ties. No further particulars are available.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
WAR SPIRIT in JAPAN
RUSsIA'S DESIGNS on MANCHURIA
STRONGLY RESENTED.
Cabinet Is Pacific, but National En-
tiusiasm Great-Treaty May BE
Signed This Month.

LONDON. April 1.-"There is reason to
believe" says the St Petersburg ccrre-
spondent of the Daily MAIL that the Man
churian convention between Russia and
China will be ratified in April"
Japan has made direct representations
to St. Petersburg against the Manchurian
convention" says a dispatch to the Times
from Toxic, dated Saturday, but the re-
suit is not yet known. Japanese public
opinion is very strong on the subject The
Cabinet is prudent and pacific but i'm
pressed by the national enthusiasm which
is certain to become uncomfortable If there
is any undue yielding. The result of the
issue of the first instsllment of the Seoul
Fu-San Railway loan testfies to the ex-
tent of the patriotic enthusiasm. The
amount was covered many times over with
subscriptions from remote rural districts,
in spite of the extreme lightness of the
money market"
The Yokohama correspondent of the
Daily Mail who records various indications
of preparations for war on the part of
Japan, says: Interviews have appeared
with prominent statesmen, all breathing
the war spirit and expressing the general
opinion that it is impossible to allow Rus
sia free hand in Manchuria. This is the
gravest crisis from the point of view of
Japan, since her war with China
According TO a dispatch from st. Peters
burg TO the Daily Mail. the Koreans at Sa-
Mau, a frontier town, recently repulsed
an attack by two hundred armed Chinese
The st. Petersburg Novosti. unlike most
Russian journals, processes to see no oc-
casion for rivalry between Great Britain
and Russia and China. 'The legend of
Anglo-Russian enmity,' ii says. rests
upon a crude misunderstanding. Russia's
natural spheres do not touch. England's in
the Yang-Tse valley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
KITCHENER'S REPORTS.
Capture of Beers by French An
nounced-Leyds Tells OF n Boycott.

LONDON. April 1.-The War once has
received advices from Lord Kitchener,
dated Pretoria. March 30. reporting the
capture of seventy-two Beers in Orange
River Colony and officially announcing that
General French has taken hfty-one prison
ers and received the surrender of ninety
three. Beers, as already announced in
press dispatches. Lord Kitchener also re-
ports the recent wrecking of trains at sew
eral points.
The Amsterdam correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: "Dr. Leyds and his col
leagues have sent a private notification to
Mr.. Chamberlain warning him that a pow
erful combination of European and Amer
lean merchants intends to boycott English
goods systematically until independence is
granted TO the Beers.
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CLOSE TO THE MAGAZINE.


CAvITE, March 31.-At o'clock this
room OF the United States yunboat Petrel
Lieutenant Commander Jesse Sims Roper
commanding. The sailroom is small COM
partment adjoining the magazine. The
heat was intense. the smoke suffocating
and the flames difficult . extinguish.
Lieutenant Commander Roper was the
first to descend into the hold. but he was
forced TO return to the deck. Others then
went down. Seaman Patrick Toner was
prostrated and about to perish when Lieu
tenant Commander Roper endeavored to
rescue him and was sufrocated in the at
tempt.
Lieut.. Josiah slutts Mexican and Cadet
Lewis suffered severely in bringing the
body of Lieutenant Commander Roper to
the deck. Twenty-Five of the crew were
prostrated. Toner. Evans, Flaherty, Lar
sen. Kesser. Cahey. Burton. Smith, SulIi-
van and Forsboon seriously. but all will
recover
The contents OF the sailroom were de-
stroyed. but the damage to the gunboat
was slight. The origin Of the fire has not
been ascertained. Possibly it was a case
of spontaneous combustion.
The death of Lieutenant Commander
Roper is greatly deplored. His body Will
be sent to the United States April by
the Buffalo
Jesse Minis Roper was born i'm Missouri
and entered the naval service June % lSGS
He was commissioned 10 the rank held b.
him at the time of his death on March 8
1893. and ordered 10 command the Petrol
Nov Is. 1899. The Petrol was one of the
vessels under Admiral Dewey at the battle
CT Manila bay. when she was in charge OF
Lieutenant Commander Z. T. Wood. rae
latter officer came home shortly after and
Lieutenant Commander Roper succeeded
hlm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
SUICIDE DUE TO GRIEF.
FIorian Irner Hangs Himself at the
Grave of His Wife.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 31.-The body
of Florian Irner, a saloon keeper aged forty
years, was found hanging on a tree over
his wife's grave in Elmwood Cemetery in
this city to-day. The man committed sui
eide from grief over his wife's death, which
occurred less than year ago The limb
upon which he hung himself was so low
that his feet touched the ground when his
body was fully extended He held his feet
up and died with his knees bent. Persons
who first saw him thought he was in an
attitude of prayer on his wife's grave, and,
not wishing TO disturb him, did not venture
close enough to discover the rope, bat later
some of the cemetery attendants found the
body Irner had tried TO kill himself twice
before.
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WASHINGTON. March sl.-It was said
at both the White House and War Depart
ment tonight that absolutely nothing had
been received by the government regard
ing the alleged unearthing OF crooked work
or the part of army quartermasters and
others in Luzon and the arrest Of num-
Der of persons in and out of the army for
stealing property OF the government or re-
ceiving stolen government property. Gen.
Corbin said. furthermore. that the govern
ment had no intimation OF any sort that
such developments might be expected. He
was inclined for this reason TO think the
frauds against the government could hard
ly be so serious as reported. though admit
ting this opinion was based wholly on the
lack Of advices from the government Capt.
Barrows, he said. was not the regular quar-
termaster for southern Luzon. and must
have been acting quartermaster there at
the time of the arrests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-01
ANOTHER BIG TRUST.
Pacific Coast Fishing and Packing In
dustries May BE Combined.

SAN FRANCISCO. March s1.-The Call
says: "A thirty y-million-dollar syndicate
deal is pending in San Francisco. and with
it's successful contamination the entire fish
ing and packing industry on the Pacific
coast Will be controlled by one big corpora
ton. The principal shareholders in the
synulcate. should the deal be closed. in
clude the well-known New York financiers,
J. Pierpont Morgan. August Belmont. J.
Seligman and the presidents OF several
large banking houses in New York city.
Representatives of the Eastern capitalists
have secured options on a large majority
OF the canning plants. and the syndicate te
will be able TO control the entire salmon
industry with the exception OF that con-
trolled BY the Alaska Packers Association
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Five Thousand Dollars I'm Bills Taken
from an Express Package.

COLUMBIA, s. c., March G.-Last
Thursday the Bank of Columbia, Of this
city. forwarded to the Bank OF Commerce.
Of New York. 5000 in paper money. When
the package arrived at its destination
Saturday it was discovered the money had
been removed and brown paper substituted.
The package was put up by bank official
in the presence of the president Colonel W.
G. Chids. and another official carried the
package to the express Office. The COlum-
bia Bank officials declare the bank is not
10 blame.
Captain o. NJ. Sadler, general superin-
tendent of the Southern Express Company.
is at work on the case. The alleged theft
Is reported TO have been clever. and the
package bore no evidence of having been
tampered with.
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BOUND FOR rHE PHILIPPINES.
Sailing Days of Transports from San
Francisco TO the far East.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 3i.-The animal
transport Arab sailed to-day for the Phil
ippines with 670 horses FOR the cavalry al
ready on the way TO MaEila- Tomorrow
the Buford viii sail with te'o troops oe
the FIRST squadron OF the Fifteenth Cav
airy one company of the Tenth Infan-
try and the depot battalion OF the FIFTH
Infantry. The Fitzpatrick. scheduled to
sail next Friday. will carry the Third hat
TALON Of the Eleventh Infantry and two
companies OF 1he FIRST Infantry. On the
10th tie transport Ohio WI sail and on
the sth the Aztec Il expected to sat away.
or Aprr s the togan win probably de-