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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
MONEY FOR A TROLLEY LINE.
Road Between New York and Phila-
deIphia to BE Completed.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 12.-The Union Trust
Company. of this city. closed the under
writing syndicate to-day for an interurban
trolley line which will fill link in the
long-distance trolley railway between New
York and Philadelphia. The money was
largely oversubscribed by Baltimore Phil
adelphia and New York capitalists. The
underwriting covers an issue of $500 900 of
first mortgage 5 per cent. bonds of the
Philadelphia, Bristol & Trenton Electric
Railway Company. The trolley line will run
from TOrresdale, a suburb of Philadelphia
via Bristol, Pa, to Trenton, y. J., dis
tance of twenty-five miles. 1t is now in
operation 10 Bristol. and will be completed
to Trenton and be ready for operation by
Dec. l. The line runs through the manu-
featuring belt along the Pennsylvania
Railroad between Torresdale and Trenton,
and touches number of small towns. The
company will have capital stock of 81,
600 600 and an authorized bond issue of ST.
100000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Surviving Government Soldiers, In
Guiding Eight Generals and Thirty
Two COIoneIs, Taken Prisoners.
MANY KILLED ON BOTH SIDES
INOFFENsIvE WOMEN AND chill
DREN MALTREATED AND SLAIN.
United States Cruiser Cincinnati Now
Probably at the scene-Minister
BOwen's Adyices.

PORT OF SPAIN, Island of Trinidad
Aug. 12--Advices received here by boat
show that Barcelona. Venezuela. has been
captured by insurgents, that the city has
been sacked and that reign of terror pre-
walls. There was desperate fighting on
Sunday. Aug. 3. and on the following
Wednesday the revolutionists entered the
city They kept up continuous firing day
and night. destroying houses. one by one.
TO reach the center of the city. At midnight
on Thursday two-thirds Of the city was in
the power of the revolutionists. On Friday
the government strongholds were carried
and the last survivors of the government
officers tried TO escape by the river to the
sea, but failing in this. they made one last
stand, after which, at noon last Saturday,
they surrendered to the revolutionary COM
manders. Generals Francisco. Monegas and
Platero. Among those taken prisoners are
Martin Marcano. president of the state of
Barcelona. and commander of the govern
ment troops, eight generals and thirty-two
colonies. The dead on both sides num-
bered 167.
All houses in the city were sacked and
in some instances inoffensive women and
children were maltreated and killed. All
stores were pilIaged. especially those be-
longing TO foreigners. and the French cable
Office was robbed. The American. Italian
and Dutch consulates were pillaged and
the consuls have asked for men-of-war to
protect life and property. United States
Minister Bowen at Caracas has cabled the
United States cruiser Cincinnati to go to
Barcelona without delay and to take pro-
visions. The Topeka is anchored at Porto
Cabello. the Marietta is on the Orinoco, the
German warship Fake is at Curacao and
the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan and
the British cruiser Pallazare at Laguayra
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
BISHOP O'GORMAN RETURNS.
He Has N Present and Letter from the
Pope for the President

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived to-day on the steamer
Hohenzollern from Naples were the Rt
Rev. Thomas O'Gorman. Bishop O'Gor-
man said he brought letter from Cardinal
Rampolla 10 Secretary Hay. also a present
and letter from the supreme pontif TO
President Roosevelt The bishop said: Il
shall probably go TO Oyster Bay 10 see
the President first and then TO Washing
ton 10 Mr.. Hay. The Pope was in
remarkable health and spirits when / saw
him last. Up 10 the time OF my departure
from Rome the question of the appoint
ment of a successor 70 the late Archbishop
Corrigan had not come up for considera-
tion. but II was the concensus of opinion
that Bishop Farley Will be selected"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
NEW TELEGRAPH LINES.


NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-In anticipation OF
an early surrender to the Postal Telegraph
Company OF the telegraph offices and wires
along the lines of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has many construction and repair
gangs at work in the territory affected.
They are building new lines. repairing old
ones and endeavoring 10 establish new
connections as far west as Buffalo The
route TO the West, says the Press to-
day. Will be by way of the Reading, the
Beech Creek and the Buffalo. Rochester *
Pittsburg railroads into Pittsburg and by
the last-named railroad into Buffalo. There
are twenty-five wires between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg and sxty-five wires between
Philadelphia and New York which will
have to be taken down before Dec. / and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Sold for S5,OOO.O0O.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 12.-The Jour-
nal says: THE Milwaukee Harvester Com
pany of this city has been sold TO an East
ern syndicate for $50OO,c0O cash. The deal
was consummated through a prominent
firm of local attorneys and the transfer
made. The designations of the officers Of the
old companies were received and accepted
and the works will be in the possession of
the new officers within a few days. Just
who the Eastern capitalists are could not
be asoertained. but 1t is thought they are
representatives of trust. The informa-
tion to the deal is authoritative. The
output of the Milwaukee Harvester Com
pany for the year just ended was 10000 ma
chimes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
PLUNGED INTO THE RIVER.
Freight Train Wrecked, Two Men
Killed and Another Injured.

ELIZABETH, y. j., Aug PA freight
train on the Long Branch division of the
Central of New Jersey Railroad plunged
through an open drawbridge into the
Elizabeth river to-day. Eight cars are piled
on top of the locomotive, which lies on
the bottom of the river. Two men lost
their lives. They were Patrick Mansfield,
of Plainfeld brakeman. and Fireman
Webster, of BayOnne. Engineer r. G..
Beany of EliZabethport, jumped from his
cab breaking his leg and receiving inter-
nal injuries.
The train consisted of an engine and
twenty freight cars. The second car is
said to be loaded with dynamite. Eight
cars, including the one loaded with dyna-
mite, piled on top of the engine, which
lies in the mud twenty feet under the sur
face The danger signals were set against
the train. but Engineer Beany says the
brakes would not work and he was unable
TO stop. The road is blockaded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Cable Conditions Unsatisfactory.

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-G. W. Clapperton.
traffic manager for the Commercial Pacihc
Gable Company. says. according TO the
Times. that the company is not satisfied
with the conditions imposed in the memo
randum made public Saturday by President
Roosevelt regarding the laying OF the cable
between San Francisco. the Philippines
and China and adds that a reply 10 the
Presidents terms would be made in few
days. One of the chief points over whicn
the company is dissatisfied is that, refer
ring to the control of the line by the gov
Crnment in time Of war or when war Is
threatened. because in the terms submit
ted by the President no compensation Is
provided for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

most representative gatherings of the fra
ternity he had ever seen. The meeting of
the Grand Lodge was held in Assembly
Hail this afternoon. and after the annual
report of Grand Exalted Ruler Pickett had
been delivered and other reports presented,
the election of grand officers for the ensu-
ing year was taken up. This resulted as
follows: Grand exalted ruler, George +.
Cronk. of Omaha: grand leading knight w.
B. Nrock, Lexington, Ky; grand loyal
knight. Judge A II. Pickens Denver: grand
lecturng knight Joseph e Henning. An
deTson, Ind. grand secretary, George
Reynolds Saginaw. Mich. grand treasurer.
F; S: Orris, Meadyille. Pa; grand tyler,
Charles Kaufman. Hoboken. n. j.; grand
trustee j. u. O Shea, Boston.
Grand Exalted Ruler Pickett took strong
grounds against the growing practice of
holding street carnivals and fairs. These
enterprises he said, were more productive
of harm than good TO the order. and he rec
commended that they. either be regu-
lated or abandoned. In closing he said:
The portals Of Elkdom are thrown wide
10 all applicants. 1t draws no distinc-
tons In the republicanism of our gov
eminent and democracy of our ideas, all
are equal. Our order is constructive and
not destructive. The spirit of iconoclasm
dwells not within it's circles 1t moests
no temple, desecrates no altar, profanes no
sanctuary 1t rObs no man of his faith,
attacks no creed, criticses no sect 1t
shadows no dawn, darkens no hope. sad
denS no love. II does not seek TO supplant
the church or usurp its functions. Its re-
ship, its golden rule the love of fellow
men, which embraces and includes within
itself the best. the noblest the truest i'm
pulses IF the human heart"
The report of the secretary showed the
order to be in exceedingly prosperous con-
dition. An increase in membership of about
26.G0 during the past year was shown,
bringing the total up to about 125, ,000 The
number of Elk lodges in the United States
was reported at sos, an increase of eighty
five during the year. This without effort to
increase either the membership or number
of lodges The treasurers report showed
the organization TO be prosperous finan-
cially.
An adjourned session of the Grand Lodge
was held this evening. at which number
of minor reports were heard and other rou-
tine business disposed of. At tomorrow
afternoons meeting of the Grand Lodge the
most interesting fight of the reunion will
take place, when the question of the next
annual meeting place will be decided Sara
toga Springs and Baltimore are fighting for
the honor, and the result cannot be fore
caSted.
Visiting Elks not members of the Grand
Lodge, spent the day in sightseeing. Thou
sands journeyed TO Saltair and bathed in
the brine of that inland sea- while other
pleasure resorts were congested with the
numbers that visited them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
"Good Enough to Print"

CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-The story of the
absorption of the Mccormick Reaper and
Mower Company, of this city, by the Inter-
national Harvester Company could not be
confirmed tonight, as both Harold F..
Mccormick and Cyrus Mccormick are in
New York. None of the subordinary officers
of the company would confirm the report,
neither would they deny it. one of them
who declined 10 allow his name to be used
said: II will not talk of the story at all,
but 1 guess 1t is good enough to print"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
SHIP PLANTS PAID FOR.
Companies Which Have Been Pur-
chased by the Syndicate.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-The Trust Com
pany of the Republic to-day completed the
payments for all the shipbuilding plants
held under the options of the United States
Shipbuilding Company, including the Beth
lehem Steel Company, Union iron works,
San Francisco; Bath iron works and Hyde
Windlass Company, Bath, Me-; Eastern
Shipbuilding Company, New London,
Conn; the Hart & Hollingsworth Compa-
ny, Wilmington, Del; Crescent shipyards,
Elizabeth. n. j.; Samuel L. Moore & Son
Co, Elizabeth. n. j.. and the Canada Man.
ufacturing Company, Carteret, n. J. This
consummates the transaction, and the busi-
ness organization will begin at once by
concentrating in different yards different
types of vessels and introducing economies
which are expected to result in increased
profits over those of the Independent COM
panies before they were brought together.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
WORK OF OUTLAWS.
Twenty Houses Occupied by Chinese
Burned and Occupants Robbed.

BOISE. Idaho. Aug. 12.-News has been
received here Of an outrage committed last
Friday by outlaws at Mormon basin. I'm the
Malheur country. in eastern Oregon. There
was a settlement known as Chinatown. oc-
cupied by Chinese placer miners. The out
laws set fire TO the houses occupied by the
Chinese. The latter gathered up their
money and rushed out only 10 be met by
the robbers. who knocked them down and
relieved them OF their treasure. Twenty
two. houses were burned. Information is
meagTe and IL is not known whether there
were any fatalities.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
BLOCKADE INEFFECTIVE.
Commander McCrea's Messages from
Cape Haitien to Navy Department.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.-The Navy De-
pa-tnent to-day received two cablegrams
from Commander McCrea of the gunboat
Machias, dated Cape Haitien, Aug. y. in
which he reports that the attempted block
ade Of the port by the revoIutionists Il in
effective. In the first dispatch ne SAID. !.
"Have decided blockade spasmodic. there
fore ineffective Have notified consul
VIII protect innocent, neutral commerce -
In the second dispatch which came later
he said: Consider blockade abandoned
absent"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
SITE FOR ARMY POST.
Six Hundred and Forty Acres on the
boundary of Chicknmauga Park.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. 12.-The
board of army officers. composed of Major
Schuyler, of the Second cavalry. Major
Jefferson Kean. of the Medical department,
and Captain H J. Slocum. of the Quarter
masters department, detailed to select a To-
cation for a permanent army post adjoining
Chickamauga Park, have completed their
work and will return to Washington prob
ably tonight to make their report to the
secretary of war. 1t is unofficially learned
that the site chosen ia $40 acres along the
northern boundary of Chickamauga Park,
and that this ground will be used for the
necessary buildings. the parade ground TO
be selected inside the park.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
DIR. Benton Succeeds DIR. baldwin.

NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-The Rev. stephen
q. Benton. OF Fan River. Mass. presiding
elder OF the New Bedford district New
England Southern Conference Methodist
Episcopal Church. was to-day elected re-
cording secretary OF the board OF managers
of the Missionary Society. Methodist Epis-
copal Church, 10 succeed the late Rev. DIR
g. T. Baldwin. Dr. Benton has been secre-
tary of this conference for many years and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Germans Know Nothing.

BERLIN. Aug. 12-At the Foreign Office
II is said to-day that the German govern
ment knows nothing of the reported inten-
tion TO land German marines at Porto Ca
belio. Venezuela, and if the United States
had sent a vessel TO land marines there il
must be for other reasons than the re-
ported German landing. Commanders Of
German war vessels IL Is said. would not
go beyond their discretion If they found
II necessary 10 land u force 10 protect
German interests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Conference over wage Grievance.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
BEDFORD. Ind, Aug. l2-State Labor
Commissioner Mccormack is working hard
TO adjust wage matters between the stone
companies and their employees. meeting
of the quarry owners and the grievance
committee of the strikers was held in this
city tonight, and an effort was made 10
settle the trouble on the basis of 17izc an
hour for the sawyers, with full pay for
the noon hour. The result Of the meeting
is not known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
The WashingtOn- Baltimore Line.

BALTIMORE. Aug. ia mortgage was
filed to-day for 100000 by the Baltimore.
Washington & Annapolis Electric Railway
Company in favor Of the Federal Trust
Company. of Cleveland. o. The mortgage
is to guarantee an issue of bonds for the
completion of the road. which will connect
Baltimore with the National Capitol by
,ll
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

has been a member Of several Methodist
general conferences; was for eight years
secretary Of the general book committee OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has
been a member Of the board of managers
Of the Missionary Society since 1892.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13
Grand Duke Boris En- Route East

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 12.-Grand Duke
Boris, cousin Of the Emperor of Russia.
and party left here to-day for Chicago.
The duke will visit President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay. The meeting will be an in
formal one. During the stay OF the party
in California many places of interest were
visited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-13

replaced by an equal number OF wires
along the new routes. The new connection
with this city was begun last week.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11
A OF MINES.

There is pending In congress a bill to
create a department of mines and min
ing and there will doubtless be a strong
pressure from the mining interests of
the west to have 1t passed. The Denver
Republican, voicing the sentiment of
ing industry covers the entire union and
represents the interest, the welfare
and the hopes of millions of men and
women" 1t declares that second only
is the cornerstone of the nations pros
perity and wealth. Through the produc-
ton of its iron and coal mines the United
States has become, the chief manufac.
turer of steel and steel products in the
world and its supremacy In foreign
markets would never have been achieved
had it not been for the wealth which
nature stored in the mines whether OF
coal, iron, silver or gold"
All Of which must be admitted and II
must also be confessed that it offers
a quite plausible argument in behalf OF
the proposed department, to be presided
over by a member Of the cabinet. Per
haps such a department would be Of
no real benefit to the mining industry
but IL this were urged the natural reply
would be that a like view was pretty
general when the Agricultural depart
ment was created, yet no one nov
seriously questions that it has done
much to advance agriculture. The de
sire to multiply executive department.
has become in the last few years prett!
strong and it is to be said that among
the propositions of this kind that for
department Of mines is not the leas
m%eritorious.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11

In battle every regiment carries a flag
and the soldier who does not stand by his
colors during an engagement is derelict
in duty and subject TO severe punishment.
In politics party discipline should pre-
vail, for the party cannot be successful or
its principles triumphant unless every man
stands by his colors and supports the or
ganizstion. II the report now current be
true that the democratic party Of this state
is to make a systematic effort to swallow
up the populist party and destroy its or
ganization, it stands every p~opulist in hand
to stand by his party colors and repel the
attempt. There is no reason why the pop
ulist party should be merged into the lem
ocratic party, which, we have reason to be-
lieve, is to soon pass under the domination
Of eastern influences. AS a party we have
twice supported Mr.. Bryan for the presl-
dency because he is an exceptionally able,
competent and pure mar and we have CO.
operated with his wing of the democratic
party on certain lines. Doubtless we would
do so again, but this should not be con-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11
JEFrERsoyIAp roLpERoL.

A local socialist labor paper has taken
up the Jefersonian refrain in this
fashion:
Mr.. Jefferson vent before the people
with the idea that all men are created equal
and should be so considered by law. He
could see no difference between a bod car
rier and printing pressman. The ink on
the latter's hands appeared just as black
as the mortar on the hands Of the other.
In fact, with both Of them stripped Of their
clothes. Thomas Jefferson was unable to
distinguish between the political toad eater
and a king.
This sounds very plausible, but does
not stand the test of reason. Thomas
Jefferson did not hold a patent, by right
OF discovery, on the idea that all men
are created equal. The natural rights
Of man were proclaimed through the
golden rule thirty centuries before
Thomas Jefferson was dreamed of.
They were reiterated by Jean Jacques
Rousseau In his famous work. "The So
cial Compact" and Jefferson absorbed
ence.
While nobody pretends to c%ontrovert
the principle of the equality and inner
ent rights of man as the higher law, all
rational people admit that there is
a difference In the mental and
physical capacity of men, almost as
great as there is in the mental
and physical capacity of the elephant
and the whale. These animals are
classed in zoology as mammals, but the
elephant was never guilty of swallow
ing Jonah and then throwing him up on
the sandy beach Of Nineveh.
The equal right of men to life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness does not
necessarily imply their right to the same
wage any more than their right to eat
the same quantity of food and wear the
same clothing.
All men are created equal in law and
have equal responsibility under the
law, but the halt, the dumb, the lame
and the blind are not equal to the task
of performing the work of men endowed
with the fullest enjoyment of their fac
ulties. Hence, deplorable as 1t may be
they are unable to cope with them in
earning a livelihood.
Under the law all men have a right t.
live except men who have committed
murder, and all men have a right to bt
free except individuals who have com
mitted minor crimes. Yet this denia.
Of life and liberty does not in any way
violate the Declaration Of Independence
All men have, a natural right to pursue
happiness and be happy, but few mel
are happy, in fact, because they make
themselves miserable and all other PEG
pie miserable with whom they come il
contact. But that does not in any way
conflict with the Je~fersonian declara
| tion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11
NOTES.

France will come to the ST. Louis expo
sition to get some idea Of what Napoleon's
ambition cost her.
Marshal Hepner, one Of the men who
helped to capture Jen Davis, Is living at
present in Chiffon, Wis.
II John D.. Rockefeller were a gambler,
how Monte Carlo would welcome the ad-
vent Of a man with an income OF S2,OOO,O 600
a month.
Contractor Mcdonald Of the New York
subway is queer. Who ever heard OF a con-
tractor more prompt than be in announcing
his readiness to pay all damages for such
a disaster as that dynamite explosion?
Cololel S. A. Houston Of Lawrence, Kan,
has secured half a bushel OF acorns from
the Mckinley farm in Ohio. His idea is to
give them to people who will plant them
and grow living monuments to the mar
tyred president.
p. D.. Gwaltnsy Of smithheld, Va. known
as "the peanut king" owns the largest pea
nut farm in the world. He was In the con-
| federate army and after the surrender at
AppomAttox began the work which has
| earned him the nickname quoted.
Edward Kent OF Colorado. who has beer
appointed by President Roosevelt to bG
| chief Justice OF Arizona, is a son OF thu
famous old whig candidate for the gov
emorship OF Maine. and whose campaign
called forth the stirring political cry
I"Hel bent for GoVsT1eT Kent"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11

there. "The whole truth Of the matter
is" said the professor, Alaska has been
neglected. People In the states do not
know the wealth to be found there. We
have shown that in the interior there
are extensive areas OF land which can
be readily put under cultivation and by
experiments have proven that It is pos
sible to grow all hardy early-maturing
grains"
Alaska is a very valuable part Of our
domain and nothing should be done
that might interfere with its develop
ment. 1t is quite true that the territory
has not received the consideration its
resources entitle it t and it should here
after get better treatment. So far as
the existing land offices are concerned
there appears to be no sound reason
why they should not be continued.