The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-12-21

OF yincennes, who is in the consular service
at Cairo. Mr.. Smith has been very III IN
the hospital at Cairo, AMI his people have
been much distressed about him, as they
had no recent Information about his con-
dition. This afternoons cablegram was TO
the effect that he is Improving and VIII
recover. The consular department was In
structed to telegraph hts family at VIM
cennes- The State Department has given
instructions that the sick man be removed
20 Nice as soon as IL can be safely done.
Senator Beveridge left for Indianapolis
this morning and will arrive tomorrow at
$50 a. m. Before leaving Washington he
called on the President and the appraiser
ship appointment was referred to. Presi-
dent Roosevelt announced that the appoint
ment Of an Indiana man is out of the ques-
ton. 1t Is understood the appointment mas
been agreed upon and that the name Is
withheld.
One soldier OF the civil war, bent nearly
double with disease contracted in the line
Of duty. has refused a pension Of $l2 a
month granted by the government. John
~ Daley. Of Topeka, Kan, filed papers
for a pension, and when the bureau wrote
him a favorable reply he declined TO accept
the money. saying his purpose in appealing
TO the records OF the department to
establish his rightful identity as a soldier
OF the Fourteenth Indiana Infantry. lie
said the fact had been questioned, and he
wanted to prove it in the most effective
way.
Solicitor Penfield, Of the State Depart
ment. expects to leave for Indiana on
Tuesday for the holidays, in the event that
matters that are now demanding a con-
siderable part of the departments attention
have quieted down sufficiently 10 permit a
vacation
Representative Robinson, of Indiana, was
to-day urged to attend Jacksonan ban
quet at Omaha on Jan. and make a
speech. he said he would be unable TO at
tend.
The Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators
Association has asked the Indiana delega-
tion in Congress to use its efforts in bring
ing about treaty of reciprocity between
the United States and Canada, whereby
the bituminous coal OF each country shall
be admitted free OF duty into the territory
Of each other.N
The last day or two there has been an
exodus OF Indiana people from Washing
ton. Albert w. Wishard, solicitor of inter-
nal revenue. started for home this after
noon, and Representative Miers also took
the train for Indiana. Messrs. Cromer
Griffith and Zener will start tomorrow.
Miss Mabel Cromer, Mr.. Cromers secre-
tary, Will also leave for her home at Mum
Gle tomorrow. Mr., and Mrs. George w.
Steele will not go back for the holidays.
Their daughter, Mrs. Meta Belknap. who
Is in Chicago, will join them here early
next week. Major Steele will go back to
Indiana i'm January for a few days.
Jesse F. Solomon and wife, of Indian
apolis are at the Willard.
James w. Murphy, the young man who
acts as Mr.. Overstreets private secretary,
was born and reared in the District of
Columbia. Il feel like a man without a
country" he said the other day. Its a
strange condition we people of the District
enjoy-never being allowed to vote or make
our own laws. A prominent English jurist
had US sized up about right a few years
ago. He come over here to visit an uncle
of mine and after his return home he de-
ciced TO write a book on America and it's
customs. remember one thing he said
was something like this: las paradoxical
as Ii may seem, Washington, while it is
the capital OF the United States, is not in
the United States-it is in the District of
Columbia" C. A G.