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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
ROPES AS FIRE ESCAPES.
They Are n Very Unsafe Reliance for
Such Uses.
New Orleans Times Democrat.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
Strange how people pin their faith 10
rope as a means OF escape from burning
buildings remarked an officer of the fire
Hundreds of travelling men
carry a coil of light rope habitually in one
OF their trunks, and feel as safe on The
upper floors of hotels they know are mere
death traps. A drummer of my acquaint-
ance who weighs fully 200 pounds, and who
has taken no exercise whatever for the last
twenty years, has a sample case with "A
special compartment, containing fifty yards
of silk life line, extremely light and strons.
DO vol really think you could slide down
on that IN case of fire?' / asked him., when
he showed me the arrangement. why
not? he replied, It's been tested to three
times my weight The only difficulty that
occurred to him was the breaking of the
lines. That he would have no trouble
hanging to it on the way down he took for
granted. Now, as a matter of fact" con-
tinued the speaker, "a rope Is the very
worst fire escape imaginable. To begin
that the chances are two TO one tina IT
will catch on fire and be destroyed before
IL can be used. The windows of nearly all
buildings are arranged I'm straight vertical
lnes-one directly above the other-and a
rope thrown out Of an upper story would
necessarily cross every easement on the
way down. The probabilities are that sonc
or all of them would be spOuting flame.
and the rope would last about as long as
a piece of pack-thread. But, assuming
the coast TO be clear, n rope would be al
TlDSl uStltSS - any DOQy Dul a trained klm-
rast. The average man would find il phys
ically impossible to let himself down hand
over hand, and. if he attempted to slide,
his palms would be fayed. and he would
let go voluntarily before he went thirty
feet. Gloves or clothes are of no advan-
tage, as VIZ have proven by tests in the
department.. If they are thick enough 10
prevent abrasion they will also prevent one
from obtaining sufficient purchase TO east
the descent. The only thing Of any value
in that respect is a handkerchief topped
loosely about the rope and then tied firmly
by both ends TO the wrist. The loop Will
hind slightly in the descent and act as j
brake. That is something, by the way.
that has never been in print, and it Is
We'll worth remembering. Getting a hltch
or two of the rope around ones leg is OF
no use whatever. unless somebody has
held OF the lower end and Is keeping it
taut. Altogether the rope escape Is a deiu-
sion and a snare. and L wish the fact were
generally understood. because the conf
dence that Is reposed in it makes people
careless OF other and proper precautions"
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thorities to suppress vice in the city for the
sake OF the young people who are growing
up surrounded by il. The speeches were
in accord with the resolutions.
R. A. Pearson, first assistant in the dairy
division of the Department of Agriculture,
has left for Porto Rico with instructions
to establish agencies there for American
dairy products. He has taken quantities
OF these products with him. and will re-
duction. He will visit Cuba. Haiti and San
Domingo also. The determination OF the
department., il is announced, is To establish
markets everywhere in the Caribbean sea
Tor American dairy products
Charles Friedman, twenty-three years
old, o. Brooklyn. was arrested last night,
charged with the murder Of his daughter
jessie, sixteen months old, and the prob
ably fatal wounding of his daughter Helen,
three years old. 1t is aneged that while
in a temporary fit of insanity Friedman
Jessie on the head; then picking up the
clock he hurled il at the other child. The
latter was taken to a hospital, and IL Is
stated has slight chance for recovery.
Jared Smith. who has been in charge of
the offices of seed and plant introduction in
the Department of Agriculture, has been d1-
rected to start in a few days for Honolulu
to establish an agricultural experiment sta
ton there. AS director his first work VIII
be to teach the Hawaiian people how to
grow garden truck. Most of the vegetables
from San Francisco. They Will be taught
also the value of dairy COWS among poor
families. butter and cheese makirIg, the
forage plants most economically produced
for Hawaiian consumption and the value
of poor families raising chickens and pigs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
TRANSPORT FROM MANILA.
of the KiIpatrick with 4OO
Sick Soldiers on Board.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1.-THE trans
port Fitzpatrick. with 400 sick soldiers, has
arrived from Manila. Four privates died
on the voyage. The dead are: Sergeant
William Sexton. late of Troop NJ, Eleventh
Cavalry; Private Robert Emmett, late of
Company /, Forty-seventh Volunteer In
fantry; Private John W.. Woodall, late of
Company d, Twenty-seventh Volunteer In
fantry; Private Marcy Ramsey. late of
Company L, Thirty-ninth Volunteer In
fantry.
Troops f and G., Sixth Cavalry, stationed
at the Preside, and Company III, Seventh
Infantry, stationed at Alcatraz, have been
ordered to sail for Manila by the first
transport available. They are expected to
embark on the Hancock, which is sched-
uled to sail March %. One squadron Of
the Sixth Cavalry is in the Philippines
and the other is in China. The two troops
which are now ordered 10 the front formed
the home squadron. Two ~squadrons of
the Fifth Cavalry and two troops of the
Fifteenth Cavalry are to sail on the Meade
tomorrow. The Pennsylvania, which is
also scheduled to sail tomorrow, will carry
seven companies of the Tenth Infantry.
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TELEGRAPH MISCELLANY.

There is much excitement in the Clemson
CA. To district over a reported gold find.
The strike is claimed 10 be a rich one.
Hon. +. @. Larimore, a member of the
North Dakota Legislature, and a famous
bonanza farmer. is critically i'll with grip.
Adelbert s. Hay. United states Consul at
Pretoria, arrived at New York last night
on the steamer New York. He refused to
talk concerning the South African situation.
Robert c. Hill, VINO Saturday night shot
"Lige" Taylor at Mount Vernon, H., has
given himself up. Taylor's wound is con-
sidered fatal. Hill is said TO have resented
TaylOr's attentions TO his divorced wife.
The citizens relief committee. organized
citation. of New York. for the relief of
the Texas hurricane sufferers. has issued
its final report, showing that Sl64, 247.14 was
collected and disbursed.
The cruiser Philadelphia has returned to
San Diego, Cal, from her cruise in South
American waters. going as far south as
Valparaiso. IL is expected the battleship
Iowa will sail for Pug Sound on Tuesday.
She Will go into the dry dock at Bremen
ton.
The Prohibitionists of Denver nave NOM
mated a ticket composed entirely of wom-
en- for the city offices to be filed at the
election on April 2 next. Their candidate
for mayor is Mrs. y. a. Hawley, president
or the State Women's Christian Temper
ance Union.
United States immigration Inspector
Lawn arrested fourteen Japanese who ar
rived at Seattle from Victoria. b. c.. by
steamer. The japanese will be reshipped
10 British Columbia. The inspector says
that this is the first step toward stem
ming the recent strong tide of japanese
r6uper labor.
Paul +. knefel and Robert Caladine. ar
rested at Chicago for supposed completely
in the theft OF $4,000 worth of revenue
stamps from the Office Of the internal rev.
enue collector at Peoria. H., were dis
charged when they appeared for hearing
before United States Commissioner Foote.
Revenue Agent McGinnis was the COM
plainant; but he presented no evidence 10
sustain his charge.
In respon TO a summons from a COM
mittee OF over one hundred women, repre-
senting some fifty societies. a mass meeting
was held in Carnegie Hall, New York. yes
terday. "A set of resolutions was adopted
which protests against the 'illegal licensing
of vice by official ~blackmail: against the
imposition OF fines for the punishment Of
vicious conduct" and calling on the au-
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ARE GROWING
TOUCH THE BILLION AND A
HALE MARK THIS YEAR.
Shipments abroad Also Continue TO
Show n Large Excess Over Value
OF Articles Imported.

Special to The indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 1L-Exports from
the United States continue TO increase, and
the fiscal year of 1901 seems destined not
only to break all records, but perhaps
touch the Observation-Disclosures line:
For the twelve months ending with Feb
ruary the total is 81, 490, 1874. $50, and for the
eight months of the fiscal year is S1,0l5,-
1884. Thus the record presented by
the February statement of the Treasury
Bureau of Statistics at least suggests a
billion and a half record for the fiscal year
1901, since the twelve months ending with
February are less than l 100000 o below that
sum, and the eight months of the fiscal
year are SIS, OOO,O 900 above the proportion
which eight months of the twelve included
in the fiscal year would be called upon to
furnish of a 81, 500. OOO, 900 total.
No eight months period in the history of
our export trade shows as large a total of
exports as the eight months ending with
February, 1901. The total exports during
that period are, as above indicated, s1,0l5.-
1S5. S74. against 1919. 47S, All in the correspond
ing months of last year, and $500, 666,S'S in
eight months of the fiscal year 1896, having
thus increased more than 80 per cent in
five years.
The favorable balance Of trade, or ex-
cess of exports over imports, shows an
even greater increase. being 1892, 224, 9O4 for
the eight months ending with February,
against 1864, 2l9,S in the same months of
the preceding fiscal year, and SCI ,472,O40 in
eight months of the fiscal year 1896. No
eight months period in the history of our
export trade has shown as large exports
or as large an excess of exports over i'm
ports as that ending with February, 1901.
and no twelve months period ending with
February shows as large exports or as
large an excess of exports over imports
as does the twelve months period ending
with February, 1901.
On the import side the figures are also
satisfactory. The imports of February,
1901. are nearly $1,000, 600 less than those of
February, 1900, and those for the eight
months ending with February are $32,000,-
900 below those of the corresponding
months of the preceding year. while those
of the twelve months ending with Feb
ruary 1901, are also slightly below the
twelve months ending with February, 1900.
The total imports in the eight months end
ing with February were $522, $50. $50. against
$685.. 253, 574 in the eight months of the pre-
ceding fiscal year. and $5il ,l94,S33 in the
eight months ending with February, 1896.
Thus the imports of the eight months
period show in the five years = decrease Of
about 5000 900. while the exports show an
increase OF over $400. 900, 600, comparing the
eight months ending with February, 1901,
with the eight months ending with Feb
ruary, 1896.
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Indiana Notes.

Fountain City has organized a fire de-
partment. q. G. Williams is chief en-
gineer.
A beautiful. lfe-size bust OF Beethoven
was dedicated at Garfield school build
ing. Richmond, last Saturday.
The graduates of the Centervilie High
School have organized an alumni assOcia-
ton. with Rosa Shank president. There are
ifty-three members.
Rev. Luke Woodland. of Wayne county.
who. a year ago, took the pastorate Of
the Friends Church. at Poplar Ridge, y.
Y, has agreed 10 stay there another year.
DIR. Robert Twinas. OF Stevens county.
Kan. formerly a Richmond physician. has
been fatally attacked by a cancer that
is eating its way 90 the optic nerve. He
will go To Waynesville. O., TO spend his re-
naming days
Simeon Bryant is under arrest al Sey-
mour charged with stealing clover seed
from Senator Louis Schneck's farm. John
Leach, a junk dealer. is charged with be-
ing "A confederate. The police are looking
for Clayton Hamilton. who was with Bry-
ant.
The funeral OF Claude b. Meador, a men,
Der OF the freshman class of DE PAW Uni
versity. whose death occurred after q short
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
Power of Mind Over Matter.
Detroit Free Press.

When a man is we'll established socially
and financially, if he has a wholesome
mind, he rather enjoys telling about times
and experiences when luck was not all COM
yes. gentlemen" admitted one of this
class of citizens 10 a party of friends the
other day. Il prevented one of the biggest
riots in that old Ohio town of mine that
could be brewed by angry men and wom-
en-. They were armed with all kinds of
weapons, had a rope, and meant grim bust
ness"
'And YOU. all alone. checked them?,
Precisely, and I'll just state in passing
that no one military company in the State
could have accomplished the result. / was
mayor of the town. The Common Council
passed an ordinance under which all the
manufacturing institutions in the place
must cut the time OF their employees to
eight hours "a day without a reduction IN
pay. They had no more legal right 10 do
this than 10 say that the laboring citizens
should have full pay for doing nothing, SO
l promptly vetoed the measure.
That's where the riot came in. An anvil
was fired of on the common 10 collect a
crowd, inflammatory speeches were made.
the women urged the men on and they
were marching DANGEROUSLY to my house to
wreck IL and make me the principal in A
'necktie party when a couple of friends
rushed in 10 warn me that / must run
for Il.
uprising and prevent this disgrace 70 our
beautiful city. I'm not the manner OF man
10 stand meekly by while my house is bat
tered down. and /. as chief magistrate. am
swung from a limb. They expostulated in
vain. When the rowling mob appeared I
stepped boldly out upon the Veranda. raised
my hand TO secure silence and said:
Ladies and gentlemen. am convinced
OF the error Of my ways. i shall withdraw
that veto the first thing in the morning.
IL worked like magic; grand triumph Of
mind over brute passion. or something of
that sort. / could have been mayor for life
down there had wanted to-"
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a plea for 1eniency is hardly serious COM
Ing from a power whose troops last sum-
mer were guilty OF reprisals upon the Chi
nese scarcely less ferocious than the acts
Of the Boxers themselves. Russia's action
is only applicable as the fuiihlment of a
private compact with Ii Hung Chang to
throw the concert overheard in return for
concessions securing her separate inter-
ests."
DR.. Morrison proceeds 10 protest ener-
geticaily against any further sacrifices Of
their interest on the part Of the powers
to secure an outward union OF action. He
thinks that even France can hardly follow
her ally IN this Instance. Commenting up
ON the Manchurian convention as giving
Russia a privileged position at Kashgar
and Yarkand. he says: Russian railway
enterprises in China means military occu-
patton. and Russia. once installed in Chi
nese Turkestan. will turn the whole posi-
ton which Great Britain has tOijed TO rem
der ~impregnable on the northwest frontier
OF India"
In the course OF a later telegram, DR..
Morrison says: "Chinese officials say they
nave been informed from St. Petersburg
that Russia abandons her claims to ex-
elusive rights in Mongolia and Turkestan,
and consents to modify the stringency OF
her control of the civil administration Of
Manchuria. agreeing that the convention
shall be published as soon as it is signed in
St. Petersburg a fortnight hence. This is
the first check inflicted upon Russian
diplomacy in China since Lord Salisbury
was cajoled into the withdrawal of the
British troops from Port Arthur in 1895.
a.
the situation by convincing the Chinese
that there still exist International combina-
lions capable OF maintaining the equilib-
rium of the far East"
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illness. took place to-day. His parents. at
McComb. Ill, were not notified OF his SICK
ness, and the telegram announcing his
death was a shock to them. The body was
taken TO his former home for interment.
Many Of the glass blowers and help
ers OF the Hays glass factory, at Terre
Haute which has shut down., have gone
TO Anderson and Dunkirk To work. The
combination in the flint glass trade has
been In trouble. with the result that prices
were demOralized. and the factory at Terre
Haute was closed until there should DE
better trade conditions.
Raymond Gard. a son of Gresham Gard.
a farmer living near KnightstOwn, Is
charged with forging a note for $40, with
the names of Ellison Williams and his son,
Charles Il. Williams, as securities. He
presented the note TO the Citizens State
Bank. requesting a loan of the amount
named for ten months. The cashier de-
tected the forgery, and young Gard fed
The STANDARD Manufacturing Company.
at Cambridge City. has been re~organiZed
and put on a solid business basis, largely
through the efforts of Richmond men.
The officers are: Sharon Jones, Richmond.
president: y. b. Myrick, jr, Richmond,
vice president; w. T.. Noble, Richmond.
ex-clerk Of the Supreme Court, secretary
and treasurer; Bent Wilson, Cambridge
City, general manager; w. II. Bryan, Ohio,
superintendent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18

HARPSWELL, Me-, March Rev.
Elijah Kellogg, author and preacher, whose
fame rested on his books for boys and his
composition "Spartacus to the Gladiators,"
which nearly every schoolboy has learned
at some time, died at his home to-day in
his eighty-elghth year. A constitution
weakened by advancing years could not
throw off the effects of bronchial pneu-
monia, from which he suffered for some
DAYS.
NORFOLK, March 17.-Henry ID. Van
Wyck died of pneumonia at the Atlantic
Hotel to-day. Mr.. Van Wyck came to Nor
folk about twenty-five years ago from
Fishkill, n. Y. He was owner of Van
Wycks Academy of Music here, one of the
finest theaters in the South. He leaves an
estate valued at about half a million do.-
lars.
CHICAGO, March 17.-George Hunt, at
torney general of the State of Illinois from
1854 TO 1892, and a veteran of the civil war,
died tonight at his home in Riverside.
Mr.. Hunt secured the conviction of the
Chicago Haymarket rioters in the United
States Supreme Court.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March T.-Mrs.
Anna R.. Ives. widowed mother of the late
Frank G. Ives, the famous billiardist. died
at Z O'Clock tonight at her home in this
city, aged fifty-five years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
PIRATES COME TO GRIEF.
Italian Cruiser Rakes a Chinese Junk
with Machine GUNS.

TACOMA, Wash, March 17.-Oriental
mail advices give details of a sharp ignt
last month between an Italian cruiser and
a large junk loaded with forty pirates
which was caught overhauling a small
trading junk, a portion of whose crew
and passengers had been killed and in
Jured before the cruiser reached the scene.
The fight occurred on the coast of Tai
Chou, near Ohe-Kiang. The cruiser opened
fire with machine guns as soon as she
got within range of the pirates junk and
bore down so swiftly that only eleven out
of the forty were left alive when the
cruiser towed the junk into Ning-Po, where
the live pirates were delivered TO the gov
ernor for punishment. The governor of
Ning-Po gave the officers and crew of the
cruiser a handsome present of cattle and
fresh vegetables. Six of the pirates were
executed the next day and the others were
TO be beheaded later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-18
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.

The spring meeting of the Washington
Jockey Club at Benning's race track will
begin March %, and continue until April IL.
Harvard and Yale nave challenged Ok
ford and Cambridge for a regular set of
track games, to be held in New York, dur
ing the early part of July.
Owing to the veto by Mayor Phelan of
the ordinance permitting the reopening of
the lnSleside track the San Francisco
Jockey Club has announced that racing
Will be resumed at Tanforan.
Yesterday was the last day of the lawn
tennis tournament at Monte Carlo. and a
number of minor contests were decided.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hillyard and the brothers
Doherty carried everything before them
throughout the tournament. All the play
ers went TO Nice, where they will play
to-day. The prizes will be distributed in
the afternoon.
Chairman Lawrence A. Young. of the
Western Jockey Club, has given out a
recently adopted by the Western Jockey
Club will go into effect on Monday, March
IS The first track to operate under its
rules and come within the jurisdiction of
the Western Jockey Club will be the new
Louisiana Jockey Club, of New Orleans"
Terry McGovern, f~eatherweight champion
puglllst, who is matched to fight Oscar
Gardner before the Twentieth Century
Club at San Francisco on April 80. said at
New York yesterday that it is his inten-
ton TO meet all Corners as soon as ne gets
10 the Pac1hc coast. He prefers Frank
EInc' Oh BUFFALO,, or Tom Haggerty, the
Australian champion, just as soon as posi-
Bile after his bout with Gardner has been
decided.
John j. Scannell, owner of The Abbott,
has issued an answer TO Thomas w. Law
sons proposition for a race between The
Abbot and BOralma. Mr.. Scannell will ac-
cept the challenge if the owner OF Boralma
VIII eliminate the unheard-of and unusual
conditions; that the added money or gate
receipts-which he says he will guarantee
TO reach $25,M0-shall be given to Boston
Charities designated solely by him whether
or not his horse wins. Mr.. Scannell pre-
charity If he wins it. Mr.. LAWSON declined
the proposition.
1t has been found necessary to make
several changes in the Earlham College
football schedule. The games with Witten-
berg University have been declared off and
others substituted. One game has been
secured with the University of Kentucky,
which will make an Indiana tour. The
schedule is now as follows: April 13. Miami
University at Richmond; April 20, Earlham
at Eastern Indiana Normal University,
Muncie; April "a Butler College at Rich
mond; May 4. field day; May IL, Earlham-
Miami field day; May Is, Kentucky Univer-
sity at Richmond; May %. Spiceland Acad-
envy at Richmond;l June l, Earlham at
Miami.
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SPRING SHOWERS TODAY.
Warmer. increasing CIoudiness and
Occasional Rnin-To-Morrow Fair.

WASHINGTON. March I.-Forecast for
Monday and Tuesday:
Eor Ohio-Increasing cloudiness and rain
on Monday; warmer; e~asterly winds. fresh
TO brisk OF the lake. Tuesday fair in west
ern. occasional rain. probably turning into
snow in eastern portion.
For Illinois-Increasing cloudiness and
rain on Monday; warmer in central and
northern portions; east TO south winds,
fresh 20 brisk on the lake. Tuesday fair.
For misunderstanding cloudiness, oc-
casional rain and warmer on Monday:
winds generally southeasterly fresh to
brisk on the lake. Tuesday fair.
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WOMEN BURNED
HATTIE KING PROBABLY FATALLY,
MOTHER = SISTER SEVERELY.
Caused by an Explosion of
$25,O 900 from Andrew Carnegie.
to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MONTEZUMA, March II. Miss Hat
tie King. of this city. probably was fatally
burned this evening by the explosion of a
can of kerosene and the resulting fire.
She was building a fire in the stove, and
while pouring the oil from the can the ex-
pfosion occurred. Her clothes caught fire
and were burned from her body. At IL
O'Clock tonight she was not expected TO
live. Three doctors attended her and her
mother and older sister, both of whom
were also burned. Mrs. King was burned
about the face and her other daughter had
her hands terribly burned while trying to
put out the fire i'm Miss Hattie Kings
clothing.
Miss King Is enc Of the best-known young
women here. Her family is one of consid-
cradle prominence, and her father is "a
railroad contractor.