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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-26

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-26

ONE MORE WEEK.
Only one more week in which to get
goods at half price at L. B. Kerr &
Co.'S, Queen street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
ROGERS MURDER TRIAL.
Deathbed Statement of MiIburn Baty
Admitted as Evidence.

Social TO the indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, April 3.-In the
trial OF Charles Rogers, for the murder of
his wife's stepfather. Milburn Baty, the
State to-day introduced testimony 10 prove
that Rogers bought the revolver and cart
ridges on the Saturday before the Sunday
or the tragedy in a way that indicated a
purpose TO do a good deal Of shooting.
The State has said it will prove that he
had said ne intended TO kill all Of the fam
lily. and that ne even gave the hour when
ne would do so. naming from 8 to 600 u. m,
as that would be the time when the police
men would be at roll call and he would
have a better chance to escape
Several witnesses testified TO the identity
of the dying statement signed by Baty, and
the court admitted IL as evidence. In this
statement Baty says that Rogers went 10
his house about 4 o'clock on the afternoon
of March 10. Mrs. Rogers had been there
several weeks. having left her husband for
the second time. Until 8 o'clock Rogers
pleaded with his wife to return to him and
then asked TO be permitted TO take one OF
the children. This was refused. lie then
drew his revolver and as she ran from the
room he shot her in the back. Baty, VINO
was the only other person in the room ex-
Tense of Mrs. Rogers and rogers snot MN
while he was trying 10 take the weapon
from the Infatuated man.
When Rogers gave himself up at ponce
headquarters there were only three empty
shells. but the State says IL will prove that
he fired five shots in all and that ne went
10 n ~neighbor's house and changed the CON
tents of the chambers of his revolver 10
make IL appear as II only three shots had
been fired
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04

The service. with the old wagons. began
on Monday and has been very satisfactory.
Beard Sterrett. of New Albany. allowed
his head to come in collision with the top
of a door as he was driving under a shed
on Tuesday and suffered fatal injuries. his
spinal column being broken.
The annual theological institute of the
Wesleyan Methodist Church Will be held
at Wabash on April 3 to Is. The Ohio and
Indiana districts will be represented Dy
more than one hundred ministers.
The Rebekah degree staff of Falls Lodge.
OF PendietOn. conferred the degree on three
candidates at Wilkinson Tuesday night
Refreshments We're served after the work.
There were many visiting Rebekahs.
Edward Smith. a Monon employee at
Bloomington. and Miss Lizzie Stolts, a
paralytic and lifelong invalid. eloped Tues
DAY night and were married by a justice or
the peace while they were sitting In their
carriage. from which the bride could not
alight.
Andrew Carnegie's secretary, James
Bertram, has written to President jay, OF
the Marion School Board. that the $4,000
promised to Marion would be forthcoming
in such installments as are made necessary
by the progress made in the erection or the
building
A Christian. reform convention will be
held at the Church of the German Baptist
Brethren in Huntington on April 10 and 10.
The Rev. +. y. Williams. of Huntington, is
secretary. An elaborate programme or pa
pers, addresses and discussions has Deeh
prepared.
Three ex-ofHcials OF Boone county paid
small sums into the county treasury at
Lebanon yesterday on claims against them
for fees said to be illegally withheld. The
men and the amounts We're: Ex-Snerll
Alexander Hull. $40. 2S: ex-Sherif John M.
Troutman, s42. 20; ex-Treasurer w. H Stew
art. 500.
The Terre Haute City Council has
adopted a resolution for the appointment
of a committee TO take up the subject Oh a
municipal water works plant. The commit
tee is instructed TO make an investigation
of the subject of municipal ownership OF
water works and to report the conditions
on which Terre Haute could acquire a
plant. The present contract Will expire In
1907.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
E MISCELLANY.

NJ. Delcasse. the French minister of for
eign affairs. is expected at st. Petersburg
about April %.
The physicians in attendance rave dis
covered a fresh abscess in the throat of NJ.
Waldeck-Rousseau, the French premier.
Yesterdays Spanish Cabinet council ap-
proved the basis of a treaty of peace and
friendship between Spain and the Uni.ed
States.
The Spanish minister of war. General
Weyler. has ordered the exclusion of nuns
from the military hospital at Madrid until
the budget shall ave provided funds per-
hitting them TO return.
The British Foreign Office has received a
note from the French government express
ing i'm a friendly spirit Frances desire that
Portugal should resume negotiations with
her foreign bOndhOlders.
The new German imperial 3 per cent. loan
of 300. 600. 600 marks was offered yesterday.
The directors of the Imperial Bank last
evening estimated that the subscriptions
amount TO over 49,. 100000 marks.
Famine and typhus are raging through
out the governments OF kherson and Bes-
sarabia and portions of the governments Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04

Kieff and Taurida. in Russia. The mortal
ity is 30 per cent. of the entire population.
Emperor William entertained at luncheon
yesterday Herr Truppel, the new governor
OF kiao-Chou, n Captain lans, or the
German gunboat Iltis. who so greatly dis
tinGuished himself i'm the fighting at the
Iaku forts.
Charles kid" Mccoy left New York to-
night for Saratoga. where he will prepare
himself for the proposed match between
himself and Peter Maher. Mccoy states
that if Maher does not sign either Sharkey
or Jeffries will be acceptable.
The directors of the new blind asylum
at Wusterhausen. near Berlin. have given
commissions for portraits of Emperor VIII
liam and Empress Augusta Victoria TO be
hung in the Institution. The portrait OF
the Empress will represent her as st. Eliza
beth.
The authorities of Leicester. England,
yesterday began the prosecution of sixty
thousand defaulters under the vaccination
acts. Six test cases had been started. but
all had been withdrawn for various causes.
Leicestershire is a hotbed of anti-vaccina-
tiOniSts.
Several plague corpses have been found
In the streets and houses az Cape IoWh,
indicating efforts TO conceal. contact with
the disease. The total number or deaths
from the plague is lG7, including twenty
two Europeans. There have been 35 cases
of the plague.
An important question was rised yester-
day in the Kings Bench Court at London
by a Photographic company which OBJECTS
to tax commissioners levying an income tax
OF 10000 on an American company IN
which a British company holds most OF the
shares. The court granted a mandamus
calling on the commissioners TO show cause
why they should not be prohibited from
assessing the tax.
The Macedonian Congress has been con-
voked for April 10 at Sofia. Several agents
of the Macedonian committee have been
imprisoned by order of the Bulgarian MIN
lister of the interior, General Petroff, In
connection with agitation on the frontier.
"A number of Bulgarian officers nave re
signed rather than obey the order OF the
minister of war forbidding military men to
retain membership in the Macedonian So
~cieties.
The London Statist will say next Satur-
day: THE action of Mr.. Gage,
secretary of the United states
treasury. in buying bonds. was prob
ably influenced by his desire to pre-
vent any acute pressure for money In New
| York, at a time when the German loan was
on the point of issue and when a british
loan of ECO 600, 600 has to be financed Ihere
is little doubt that, were money IN New
York TO become stringent, IT would nave a
very adverse effect upon the British and
German money markets, as II would mean
that instead of further amounts or Amerl-
can money being employed In London and
Berlin and facilitating the issue OF loans,
| a portion of hat already here 10 Amerl-
can credit might be called in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
SAID TO BE ARBITRARY
RAILWAYS SEVERELY CRITICISED
BY A NEW YORK MERCHANT.
Accused of Discrimination i'm C1assi-
ications Testimony Before
Industrial Commission.

WASHINGTON, April 81. NJ. Langley.
representing the Merchants Association of
New York, to-day testified before the in
dustrial commission that it was utterly
useless for the Interstate-commerce Com
mission TO attempt to govern freight CLASH
fcation rates. The railroads.. Mr.. Langley
stated, exercise a power that amounts to
arbitrary taxation. and in making these
classifcations, which really amount TO rate
making. the merchants have no representa-
ton. The changes, he said, in territory
south of the Ohio and east of the Missis-
sippi amounted to an advance of about
two-thirds in 200 items Of classification,
and a complaint he had made was dis
missed by the road as too general, despite
the wholesale nature of the advance. He
cited a large number of instances of al
legged discrimination between carload and
less than carload rates, which he claimed
to be unjustiiable. There were two classes
of discrimination, he said, namely, arbi-
trary change in classification and in broken
bulk, the latter being the difference be-
tween rates on carload lots and fractions
thereof. The merchants contend that in
the latter the roads are not governed by
the cost of handling. The merchants IN
the Southern States. he contended, can dis
tribute in their respective States goods on
the old freight basis, while a merchant
outside is subjected to the advanced CLASH
.~ication. This failure to recognize the gen.
eral classification rates on interstate bust
ness is with a view, he said, OF building up
the jobbing interests of the particular
State.
The witness said there are three classes
Of rates in the Southern territory that are
higher than the highest rates in the trunk
line territory. This higher tariff for the
South may be due partly, he said. 10 lack
of as good railroad facilities in the South
as elsewhere. and also to the light return
traffic from the South. The witness re-
garded the discrimination as also of a sec
tional nature and detrimental to the South.
He commended that the roads were afraid
to make direct new rates, but that they
accomplished the same end by shifting
items of freight from one class to another.
''In other words he said. "by manipula-
ton for the benefit of certain interests"
The protest of the merchants is not pri-
marily that the rates are advanced, but
that the advances are made unequally and
add burdens TO the small dealers. Mr..
Langley referred to the system of impor-
tation of freight at stations and the four
points by importers employed by the roads
and railroad associations. and charged that
rates are often cut by the importers 'look-
ing the other way" in importing freight of
the larger and more powerful shippers.
This right to open freight co~nsignments.
the witness said. was assumed by the
roads and the merchants did not object.
Objection, he stated, would not result to
their interests.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
Chicago Council Republican.

CHICAGO, April 3.-The new Chicago
City Council. which probably will be called
upon TO decide the question of the extension
of the street-railway franchises and other
public grants worth many millions IS Re-
publican by a majority of ten votes. AS a
result of yesterdays election, the Council
will be made up of thirty-nine Republicans,
twenty-nine Democrats, two Independent
Republicans and two Independent Demo-
Gratis. This makes a total of seventy-two,
or two more than are provided for by law,
the angle being caused by the recent ward
redistricting and the consequent shifting
of two hold-over aldermen in the Second
and Twenty-first wards. The new Council
and the courts will be called upon to de-
eide the problem. According to leaders of
both parties, the Council probably Will be
organized on nOnpartisan lines. This will
be in accordance with the policy Of Mayor
Harrison and of the Municipal Voters
League. a nonpartisan organization which
has been prominent in recent local cam
paigns.
w. J. Bryan to-day congratulated Carter
Harrison on his election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
MARINE AND NAVAL NOTES.

The French minister Of marine, NJ. De
Lanessen. has ordered the construction OF
twenty additional submarine boats.
The Russian cruiser Variag. in Hampton
Roads, had a trying time during a gale
Tuesday night. but outrode the storm. A
ccal barge alongside the cruiser foundered
and sank.
The United States Naval Board of Con-
struction yesterday made plans for bring
ing home the Brutus. which has been sta
toned at Guam, and her overhauling for
use hereafter as a naval collier.
The steamer Empress of Japan, which ar
rived at Victoria, b. c., Tuesday. had the
most valuable consignment of silk ever
brought in one steamer from a China port.
she having loaded 1860 cases. valued at
over 100000 taels, at Shanghai.
A bill to incorporate the St. Lawrence
Lloyds. to do ocean marine insurance. with
a proposed capital of $5,OO0.000. passed the
banking and committee at OF
tawa. Ont, yesterday. The clause permit
ting the company to receive government
bonuses WAS stricken out.
The Allan line steamer BuenCs Ayrian,
which passed Tory island, on the north
coast OF Ireland, yesterday morning, sig
nailed that she was short of coal, but that
the ship was all right. The Buenos Ayrian
sailed from Philadelphia March IL for Glas-
gov, and some apprehension had been felt
regarding her safety.
Neither the big White Star liner Oceanic.
from New York, nor the American liner
Waesiand. from Philadelphia, was able to
COMMUNICABLE Will SntIt Wntn lntN dITlNtu
off Queenstown yesterday. Owing TO the
gale which prevailed they were compelled
10 proceed on their way TO Liverpool with
out landing any mail or passengers.
Rear Admiral Bartlett j. Cromwell, who
gees TO relieve Rear Admiral Schley as
commander of the South Atlantic squadron.
has sailed for Europe on the steamer St.
Louis. He was accompanied by Lieutenant
Jay H. Sypher. his flag officer. On the ar
rival of the St. Louis at Southampton they
will sail on a Royal Mail steamship to
Montevideo. where the squadron row is.
The Alaska Steamship Association de-
cided upOn summer rates between Puget
sound points and Skagway, as follows:
First class. SIS: second class. SIG. The
through rate from Puget sound points TO
Dawson was not definitely settled. but IL
was generally conceded that the following
figures would probably be adopted: First
class. S105: first class continuous trip. 500:
second class. $50.
The new Chicago transatlantic steamship
Northwestern viii sail on its first trip from
Chicago to Hamburg. Germany. on April
"a. 4 cargo OF agricultural implements and
miscellaneous freight will be carried on the
first trip. Ii Is expected the entire voyage
down the axes, the ST. Lawrence and
across the Atlantic will take only twenty
two days. The boat and its sister ship will
make regular trips TO Hamburg after
April "a.
ment yesterday assigns the Scorpion in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04

OMAHA, Neb.. April 3.-A cablegram re-
ceived to-day announces the death from
consumption yesterday at Nashua. Bahama
islands of Capt. William Fl. Marsh, pres
ident of the Union National Bank of this
city. and treasurer OF the Omaha Street
railway Company. Captain Marsh was
~slxty-nine years old and one of the largest
hnanciers in the State. He leaves four
sons, all business men of this city.
NEW YORK, April 3.-Vincenzo Polio
dori. publisher and editor of the Italian
newspapers Ell Progresso and Christofero
Colombo, of this city. died to-day at his
home in Stapleton. Staten island, aged
hfty-eight years.
OMAHA, Neb., April 3.-William r.
Learn. Judge of the Police Court of Omaha,
suffered a stroke of apopiexy this after
noon, from which he died a few moments
after he had adjourned court.
LONDON, April 3.-Douglas Gordon Nc
Rae, editor of the Financial Times, died
to-day in Switzerland. He was born in
1861.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
WOMAN in A NEW ROLE
Mrs. POTTER PALMER TAKING A
HAND IN WARD POLITICS.
In Entertains the Workers Who Put
Her Son i'm the Chicago COun-
cil-EIection Results.

April 3.-Mrs. Potter Palmer.
assisted by her sons, A~lderman-elect
Honore Palmer and Potter Palmer. jr.,
entertained the precinct captains of the
Twenty-first ward and officers and men,
bers of the Tuscurora Club at the Palmer
mansion in Lake Shore drive tonight. At
the door of the salon Mrs. Palmer stood
between her two sons and greeted the 217
men who helped to make her boy an alder
man of Chicago. The footmen at the door
called the names in sentorian tones, and
as each visitor passed she shook his hand
and presented her sons, ~pronouncing the
names of her guests as though she had
personal acquaintance with every politi-
clan. high and low, of the Twenty-frst
ward. After speeches by Mayor Harrison
and others refreshments were served.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
OIL WELL ABLAZE.
Mud, Water and Stones Shooting Up
ward sixty Feet from the Pipe.

= BEAUMONT. Tex, April "A disastrous
fire is in progress in the oil fields. Hey
woods well struck a heavy flow of gas to-
night, and ii caught fire from a torch in
the hands OF workmen. The flame shot in
the air high above the derrick and con-
tinues to burn. The derrick was destroyed
and all the machinery greatly damaged.
An attempt is being made tonight to ex-
tinguish the fire. This we'll is $50 feet from
the Hamill we'll. which developed the same
gas feature a few days ago. Water, mud
and rock are shooting out OF the pipe sixty
feet high, and contact with the flames
makes q cloud of steam.
Another oil well was developed here this
afternoon. 1t is on land leased by the G..
NJ. GuffeY COMPANY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
Aged Petitioner for n Divorce.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. April BIN the
Monroe Circuit Court to-day Mrs. Mollie
Fisher. aged eighty. appeared and asked
for "A divorce from her husband. William
Fisher. aged e%ighty-one. Both were so
feeble that they went TO the witness stand
with difficulty, and the father said he had
ago because a son. then twenty-five years
old, had treated him cruelty and abused
him, and the mother took the sons part.
The old man had gone TO the home of a
daughter and now lives with her. The
wife asked for a separation and $1,000 all
mony. Judge Martin refused 10 take ac-
ton and said that the trouble would soon
be settled forever by the great Master, as
both were on the verge OF eternity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
CONDITIONS IN THE BALKANS.
Situation Full of Danger for the Peace
of Southern Europe.

ODESSA, April At is asserted here that
the Russian political agent in Bulgaria
has sent TO st. Petersburg a verv pessimis-
tic report regarding the situation in the
Balkans, declaring that the Bulgarian gov
eminent is quite incapable of coping eff
fectively with the agitation of the Mace
0onian committed and that there is con-
slant danger of some untoward incident
leading to a coniagration. The report en-
phasizes the ominous fact that Turkey will
listen TO no foreign intervention with re-
gard to Macedonia because anv concession
of Macedonian territory would lead TO n
holy war. 1t declares that the only thing
Is for Russia to help Bulgaria suppress the
Macedonian committees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04

TOPEKA, Kan, April 3.-The municipal
elections in Kansas this year have been of
much more than the usual interest. Mrs.
Nations crusade and the subsequent wide
spread revival of interest in the enforce
ment of prohibition combined to make the
city elections the battleields upon which.
in a large measure, would depend the ultl-
mate fate of the prohibition law. The re-
suits OF the various elections over the
State yesterday serve to show that the pro-
hibitory sentiment is still in the ascend
ency.
Colonel j. w. f. Hughes, the Republican
candidate for mayor, who was defeated
yesterday by A. w. Parker, Democrat. by
eleven votes, announces that he Will at
once institute contest proceedings. Colonel
Hughes alleges frauds in the Russian vote.
About 20 Russians voted for Parker on
both the Democratic and Citizens ticket,
not knowing any better, and this. Hughes )
managers claim, will defeat Parker.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
Part of "a Big system.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PERU. Ind. April 3.-The Fort Wayne &
Wabash Electric Railway, just incorpo-
rated by A. y. Dukes. r. A. Edwards and
other gentlemen of Peru, as mentioned in
the Journal. is TO be a portion of the cleo
trio line TO run between Fort Wayne and
Lafayette over the old Erie canal tow
path. A. y. Dukes, the Peru capitalist.
owns the towpath from Fort Wayne to
Wabash. and has Incorporated separately.
He is a joint owner from Wabash to La
fayette. and a second Incorporation Will be
made to complete the line. 1t will be ready
for contractors in a few weeks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-04
DAILY CRIMINAL RECORD.

III. c. Henderson, the self-accused Cudahy
kidnaper, yesterday pleaded guilty at Dali
las, Tex, TO a charge of theft and was sem
fenced TO two years In the penitentiary.
The police at Helena. Mont, yesterday
arrested the proprietors of three gambling
houses and eleven proprietors of nickel-in-
the-slOt machines. These are the first ar
rests under the new anti-gambling laws.
IL is now said that Nicholas Rowein. a
Kirksville. Ill. manufactures, who was
found dead on the street Monday night
and who was supposed to have died of
heart disease, was really robbed and muir
dered. SO far no clew to the criminals has
been found.
In a quarrel over a land boundary Il. p.
Caldwell. a prominent land owner near
Manchester, Ill, was struck on the head
this afternoon by L. N. Swartwood. a neigh
Dor. dying a few hours afterward. The
sheriff of Scott county, with bloOdhounds,
is pursuing Swartwood.
Robert HAYDEN Moulton. the Southerner,
who shot two theatrical managers while
trying TO shoot May Buckley, the actress.
in a rathskellar two weeks ago, is in a
pitiable mental state i'm Bellevue Hospital,
New York. He does not realize where he
is. and apparently does not recognize any
one except his mother.
The case of ex-Attorney General Fred a.
Maynard. of Michigan, who was indicted
by the late grand jury of Ingham county,
on a charge OF classifying pay rolls in his
office. was thrown out OF court by Judge
Weist, at Lansing, yesterday, on the ground
that the Indictment should have been
brought for fraud in order TO hold.
The last delay in the extradition proceed
ings against the three alleged bank robbers.
Fred Lee Rice. Frank Rutledge and
Thomas Jones. was overcome yesterday
when the mandate of the Supreme Court
was filed in the United States District
Court at Chicago and the prisoners were
turned over TO the officers from Toronto.
Ont. The detectives with the prisoners
left last night for Canada.
4 light occurred between City Marshal
McBeth. of Gillett. Col. and two masked
''hOld-ups.' i'm which Albert Tilsdale, one
of the "hold-ups." was killed. his compan-
ion. whose name is unknown, wounded, and
McBeth slightly injured. The two men.
after holding up a saloon. retreated to the
door while firing their revOlvers. McBeth
heard the firing and ran through the back
door Of the saloon and began firing. The
robbers returned the fire. which lasted sew
eral minutes. Tilsdale was shot through the
body and died shortly afterward. His part
ner escaped with a ball i'm his shoulder.