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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-03
Will MAKE A PRECEDENT
IMMIGRATION BOARD is SOLVING A
NEW PROBLEM.
"Lotus-Buds" Still Detained at the
Ellis Island Statfon-No Action
Taken at Sundays Session.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The board of spe-
cial inquiry at Ellis island adjourned to-day
without taking up the case of the eleven
Cuban children who came here Saturday
on the Ward line steamer Orizaba, destined
for Point Iona, Cal, to be educated and
cared for at the farm" of the Universal
of Mrs. Katherine Tingler. The children
are detained on the island, and Dr. Ger
trude Van Holt, in whose charge they came
from Santiago, Is with them.
Commissioner Williams said to-day that
the case of the children opens up an i'm
portant and interesting question which
probably will be used to establish a prece-
dent for the guidance of the department
in the matter of the admission of Cuban
children to this country for the purpose
of education. The technical point on which
the children will be deported, If the board
decides to debar them, he says, will be
that they are liable TO become public
charge The theory on which this is based
is that the children are brought here as
objects of charity. the institution to which
they are going being in way bound to
support them, If for any reason the man.
ayers thereof should see fit at any time to
turn them loose on the community.
No one appeared al Ellis island to-day
to produce any testimony before the board
on either side of the question, and the
board did not take I'D the matter because
the stenographic report of the evidence
taken Saturday was not yet in shape.
Whatever the boards final ruling is Com
missioner Williams is confident that an ap-
peal will be taken first TO him and then to
the Treasury Department in Washington
in order to make this a test case and es-
tabliSh precedent.
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TROUBLE AT THE POLLS
CINCINNATI DEMOCRATS ARE EX-
PECTING A VERY WARM TIME.
They Ask for Federal Interference-
Fewer Charges of Fraud than
UsuaI-Congressfona Forecast.

CINCINNATI, Nov. 2.-Intense feeling
developed to-day among prominent Demo-
cratic workers who are Mclean men be-
cause none of the funds collected by the
Democratic candidates who are Johnson
men had been turned over to the Hamilton
county committee. The organization has
been ignored by both the state and local
Democratic candidates, and the indications
are that there will be trouble at the polls.
The Democratic candidates to-day pre-
pared paper for an application in the Su-
perior Court tomorrow to prevent certain
persons voting. IT is claimed in one of the
counts that $50 colored men are registered
from the Silver Moon boarding house on
the river front and that a careful canvass
shows only 127 residing there. The Demo-
tervention of United States District Attor-
ney Bundy. but he would not apply for
marshals unless fraud in registration was
proved or proceedings were instituted under
the fifteenth amendment.
There are fewer charges of fraud this
year throughout the State than usual and
with the exception Of the close fights for
other doubtful districts there is a notable
lack of enthusiasm. The registration fell
short of last year, and il is generally be-
lieved that many more than usual of those
who are registered will not vote. There
is no doubt about the Republican state
ticket, and the only doubt rests two or
three of the congressional districts. The
seventeen Republicans and four Demo-
Gratis. The Republicans say they will gain
one or two and the Democrats claim a gain
of three congressman.
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Expressions Secured.

The Journal yesterday asked many of the
leading manufacturers for expressions as
to the present plenitude of employment
and industrial activity. Their replies were:
d. NJ Parry, president Parry Manufac-
turing Company-Our business is good
chronically good we nave become so useo
else We are having large share of the
general prosperity The volume OF business
is greatly increasing and we are employing
more men and paying higher wages than
ever before Our pay roll includes between
l. 700 and l. 500 men, and the wages are IA to
Is per cent higher than at any time In our
business We have Just competed a new
is 400 by 80 feet and we will build others
with the ultimate object of moving our
plant to this site. The new plant now rep
resents an increase in our facilities which
is needed We see nothing that is likely to
interrupt our good prospects.
Albert Liober. president indianapolis
Brewing Company-The beer business Is in
a way a barometer of the workingman' s
prosperity. Beer is his luxury, and when
he has to curtail expenses he does Ii with
the luxuries, and consequently our business
feels il instantly. Judging by our business
for the past year his prosperity is i'm
measurable. We have had to decline s40O.
600 worth of business. Our volume
amounted TO about $4,000 barrels, which
was an increase of 600O0 barrels over the
preceding year. We have sold all we could
make and have just approved plans for the
Increase of our capacity one-third. so that
we may meet the demand. There is every
reason to believe that this demand will con-
tinue indefinitely; at least / can see MOTH
ing to reduce the present prosperity. We
are now employing about 1000 men. the
greatest number i'm the history OF the COM
pany. and in the last three years the wages
have increased about % per cent. and the
hours OF labor have been reduced
BIGGEST MONTH IN HISTORY.
Thomas B. Laycock. president Of the T.
B. Laycock Manufacturing Company-"we
are very busy October. just passed. has
been the largest single month in our busi-
ness. We are employing the largest num-
ber of people In our hiatory-about $50
There has been big increase in our busi-
ness for the past year. should say about
10 per cent. We are unable to handle the
business that n offered to u and We ars
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in DANGER OF LYNCHINC
KENTUCKIAN WHO BEAT HIS LIT
TIE son TO DEATH.
He Was Suspected Also of Having
Killed His Oldest Daughter, but
She Escaped His Vengeance.

INEZ, KY, Nov 2.-Pleasant Sprading,
held for killing his four-year-old son is
threatened with lynching. For time it was
believed also that he had killed his fifteen
year-old daughter. Sprading's family con-
sisted OF his wife, three daughters and son.
With HIS daughters and boy the father was
herding sheep last Friday. The boy was
unable ito keep up with the others. The
father placed him on a stone beside
spring, telling him to wait until his return.
The boz, becoming tired of sitting still, be-
gan to peel the loose bark off tree that
overhupg the spring. Presently the father
returned. and. noticing the bark on the
ground asked the boy who had done it.
The bey replied that he had. II would
rather have you dead than raise you to
destroy everything on the farm" is the
reply tire father is said to have made, and
it is charged, he picked up a stone and
struck she boy on the head, knocking him
down. Then, IL is alleged, he kicked the
PROSTATE child in the head until he had
threatened them with like fate if they
ever toad what had occurred. Afterward
he weIft home and said the boy. while
chasing sheep. had run against tree and
killed himself.
Becoming alarmed, he took his oldest
daughter and went to the mountains. His
wife hired neighbors TO bury the body OF
the child, and then went to the home of
Judge =. Hensley. She told him of the
death Of her son. and said she suspected
her husband, who told her he was going
into tho mountain woods to hunt squirrels,
and added that at different times he had
Threatened to kill the whole family. The
Judge took her, with her two younger
daughters, to his home and presented the
case t0 the grand jury. One Of the little
girls told. the jury that her father had
kicked the boy TO death.
Soon Afterward a sheriff's posse captured
Sprading in the mountains, but his eldest
daughtsr was not with him. The posse re-
mained out TO search for her and he is held
on the charge of murder.
Spradsng's missing daughter turned up
later, barefooted and ragged, after her es-
cape fr5m her father in the mountains. She
was Immediately taken before the grand
Jury AID testified as 10 how her father
killed the boy threatened her life and that
of her mother. She testified that he would
have Drained them heretofore but for the
interference of neighbors. Sprading will be
given & speedy trial. The jail is strongly
guardeI.
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HENDERSON NAILS A LIE.
Says Reports that He Opposes Bird.
sails Election Are False.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-'I think Ii would be
the worst political calamity that could be-
fall Iowa should my successor, Judge
Birdsall, in the Third Iowa district. be de-
feated in next Tuesdays election
This statement was made by David B.
Henderson, speaker of the House of Rep
resentatiyes who arrived In Chicago to-
day from the East and learned that state
ments had been published asserting that he
was opposed to the election OF Judge Bird
sail Continuing, Speaker Henderson said
There is absolutely no foundation for
such a story. Did not the delegates, who
nominated me last summer. nominate my
gates were all my friends and friends
of Judge Birdsall When Judge Birdsall
was nominated in my place | appealed to
all my friends to do everything in their
power to elect him. They took me at my
word and have worked just as hard for
Judge Birdsall as they would have worked
for me had / remained in the race. In
truth in the matter / have sent telegra m
to a newspaper in Dubuque which truth
fully states MY position in the matter
Speaker Hendersons telegram follows:
81 have just learned that claims are made
by Democratic journals that / am opposed
false, absolutely false, and is not only un-
just to Judge Birdsall, but still more so to
me and TO my home and to my friends.
Judge Birdsalls county has ever been true
TO me in conventions and at the polls. l ap-
peal TO my friends in every county to do
all in their power for his election and to
vote for him, which / am coming home es-
pecially TO do. Ii is for the interest of the
district the State and the Nation that he
be elected"
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The Porte Refuses to Permit Arch
geological Researches Near the
S0-Called Tomb of Abraham.
FINANCIAL DEPRESSION ABROAD
BOTH LONDON AND BERLIN EXHIBIT
SIGNS OF DISTRESS.
New Director for the Chinese Mint
Ravages Of Cholera I'm the Holy
Land-Other Foreign News.

SHANGHAI, Nov 2-In reply to a re-
quest made on him by the American Cham
ber of Commerce here. John Barrett, COM
missioner of the St. Louis exposition for
Asia and Australia, has made statement
on the subject of American trade in China.
Mr.. Barrett says the present is a critical
time In the history of American trade in
China, and that the future, with its vast
trade possibilities, depends on the negotia-
ton Of a new American-Chinese treaty.
Mr.. Barrett says that American merchants
In China are unanimously opposed to the
adoption in such a treaty of certain pro-
visions Of the new British Chinese treaty,
and that they regard the vital point of
this treaty, the abolition of the likin,
TO be futile. The commissioner says he
favors the abolition of the likin In prin-
ciple, but that he doubts whether the Brit
ish treaty will become effective. owing to
the opposition to 1t of German, French and
japanese merchants. He says the United
States treaty commissioners are carefully
preparing treaty which contains a COM
promise on the likin provision of the
British treaty.
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VICTIMS TORN TO PIECES
CHICAGO ASSASSIN BLOWS UP A
HOUSE WITH DYNAMITE.
Man and His Daughter Fairly OBJ
Iiterated-Woman Badly Injured
and Seven Children Hurt.

CHICAGO, Nov. "A dynamite bomb,
the weapon of an assassin, blew up the
home of Joseph Kordeck in Chicago
Heights to-day, killing two members of the
family outright and injuring several 9TH
ers The house was set on fire and burned,
while that of a neighbor caught fire and
was also destroyed.
The Dead
blown off.
LUCY KoRDECK( aged two years. body
blown TO pieces.
The Injured
MRS. LUCY KORDECK. flesh blown off
right side, injured internally; may die.
Seven children who escaped were injured,
but not seriously.
The explosion occurred while the family
was asleep. The father and mother, with
the daughter Lucy, occupied room in the
front of the cottage. On the other side
were rooms occupied by the rest of the
family. The cottage stood two feet from
the ground on wooden posts The bomb was
nlaced under the room occupied by the
narents and the impact of the explosion
tore a hole in the floor. blew the bed to
nieees dismembered kordeck and scat
tered into 1rdSmeHtS the DOds VI Lucy WIZ
Was sleeping with her parents. Pieces of
Hesh the size of a mans hand were the
largest remnants of the child's body that
could be found. The force OF the explosion
u-as directly upward and tore a piece of
f,esh from Mrs Kordeck's side and blew her
through a window. The noise aroused the
rest of the family and they mad hardly
time to escape from the flames, which soon
destroyed the cottage. Kordeck's body. torn
to shreds. was found in the debris after the
fire. Is =.
xordeck house. who was paying attention
to one of Kordeck's daughters. has been ar
rested charged with the crime. The kor-
ssI. iii Vas 70 have married another man
neYf week Smith declares he is innocent.
nut neighbors declared that he made threats
- them that IL the girl refused to be his
- ~ he would blow up the entire family
with dynamite. Smith was absent from
ris room at the time of the explosion. His
rnommate. Thomas Kobilinskt. claims that
cynith returned TO his room greatly excited
Shortly after the explosion.
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BAD FIRE AT ST. PIERRE
CAPITAL OF MIQUELON SUFFERS A
LOSS OF FULLY $5OO,OOO.
No Loss of Life, but All the Govern
ment Buildings Are Gone-Absence
OF Wind Saves the Town.

ST. JOHNS. N. F., Nov. 2.-The town of
st. Pierre, Miquelon, has been devastated
by fire. A destructive confiagration start
ed last night and swept the main portion
of the town. The Governors house, the
government buildings. the courthouse, the
building occupied by the Ministry of Ma
rine, the Roman Catholic Cathedral. the
Presbytsry, the schools and number Of
other buildings were destroyed. 1t has not
yet been learned how the fire originated.
There was no wind last night, else the
entire town would probably have been COM
pletely abliterated. Even ii is the ex-
tent of the disaster is very far-reaching.
and the. financial loss probably will reach
half a million dollars. There was no loss
of life or serious accident.
The rapid spread of the fire was due to
the trifIsng water supply and TO the fact
that ST. Pierre has no adequate fire-fight-
ing appliances.
The town of st. Pierre has been partly
burned down three times before-in 1866,
1867 and. 1879.
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MONTCLAIR, N. J., Nov. 2.-Samuel H.
Edgar. until recently second vice president
Of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. is
dead at a sanatorium at Caldwell,
near here. Mr.. Edgar had been
prominent in Louisville & Nashville
affairs for the last twenty years. For
almost all of that time he had been the
treasurer Of the corporation, having been
chosen vice president only toward the
termination of his connection with the road.
The physicians say his illness, which was
nervous prostra ton, was brought on by
overwork. Mr.. Edgar was born in Philadel-
phia hfty-seyen years ago. The body will
be sent to Louisville for burial
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ENGINEER LOST CONTROL.
Freight Wreck Followed, Causing the
Death of One Man.

SCHENECTADY, n. Y, Nov. "A
freight brakeman was killed and a freight
conductor slightly injured in a rear-end
collision between two freight trains west
OF this city on the New York Central to-
night. The first train was running on
schedule time and the second on caution or
ders. The engineer of the second train
lost control and crashed into the forward
train. He and the fireman saved their lives
by Jumping. Tne locomotive of the second
train was derailed as was the caboose and
three freight cars. The wreckage covered
all four tracks and suspended traffic for
several hours.
The injured conductor, Anthony McCor-
mick, of Albany. was In the caboose OF the
forward train. The brakeman top
OF a freight car and was crushed to death
I'm the wreckage.
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week and particularly iron. This decline.
however. was partly checked on Wednesday
by the remarks OF a Silesian magnate, who
was more cheerful regarding prospects. The
money market showed a greater demand
for the monthly settlement than was ex-
pected. Considerable demand still existed
yesterday, call money reaching Az per cent,
but later relapsing TO 4.
LONDON Nov 2-The plentifulness of
money which characterised the October
market has been succeeded by conditions
compelling heavy borrowing from the bank
at 4 per cent. in order to meet stock ex-
change settlements and month-end obliga-
tions An increase in government disburse-
ments is anticipated this week. This will
enable borrowers 10 hquidate some OF their
indebtedness The bank meanwhile has re-
gained control of the money market, and
the hardening of London discount rates has
not affected continental exchange.
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CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.
Chairman Babcock Claims n Repub-
Hcan Majority of Twenty.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The following
statement of the result OF the congression-
al elections throughout the country was
made last night by Chairman 'Babcock. of
the Republican congressional committee:
1.-The next House OF Representatives will
contain at least 204 Republicans That is
a majority of 20 for the Republicans. That
is INV minimum estimate do not see how
our majority can possibly fall below that
figure. We may have majority of at
least 10 more have $4,000 In cash here to
wager that the Republicans will control
the next House.
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NEW HIGH ART SCHOOL.
1t Is Opened by Emperor william at
CharlOttenburg.

CHARLOTTENBURG, Prussia, Nov. g.
The new building for the high school of
plastic and graphic arts and music was in
augurated here to-day in the presence Of a
number of ministers and professors. En-
peror William and the Empress attended
the ceremonies.
His Majesty delivered felicitous address
in which he sketched the history Of the
institution and alluded to the encourage
ment and protection it had always received
from his predecessors, notably from his
father, Emperor Frederick, and his gifted
and art-loving consort. The Emperor ex-
horted both the masters and the pupils Of
the high school to guard and preserve the
ideals of art indicated by tradition and the
immutable laws of beauty, harmony and
aesthetics.
Speeches were also made by DR.. Studt,
Prussian minister of instruction, and Prof.
Anton Weiner Joseph Joachim played at a
concert in the evening and the students of
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One Passenger Badly Hurt and
Twelve Others Slightly Injured i'm
Wreck In Mississippi.
BAD SMASHUP IN NEW YORK
FREIGHTs COLLIDE ON THE CEN
TRIAL NEAR SCHENECTADY.
Brakeman Killed and Conductor In
5ured-Other Sunday Accidents
the Railroads.

, ELGIN, ILL.,, Nov. Frank and Louis
Schuette and Charles and James woodrich
were killed early to-day at Algonquin. ILL.,.
where the milk express on the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway struck their car
riage on the crossing of the main street
of the village All were killed instantly
except Louis Schuette, who died at a
hospital
All lived at Algonquin except James
Woodrich. whose home was at Milbourne
City, Wis. The young men had started to
drive TO Dundee before daylight, and did
not see the train on account of the dark
ness and the cover of their buggy.
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TRAIN BROKE IN TWO.
Caused "A Small Wreck the New
York Central Near Utica.

UTICA. n. Y. Nov. 2.-To-day at Rock
cut. on the New York Central Railroad,
west-bound freight train broke in two as
result Of a defective air brake. Two empty
coal jumped the track and were
thrown on track No. 2. Train No. 26, the
Twentieth Century limited. came along at
this time and crashed into the two cars.
The coal cars and pilot house of the loco
motive of the flyer were wrecked and
freight locomotive had to be substituted
Some of the windows of the coaches were
broken, but no one was hurt. The wrecked
cars were set on fire and destroyed. Owing
to the dense fog IL impossible for the
engineer Of the flyer to see the cars on the
track
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PREDIcEs BIG VICTORY.
Senator Fairtfsnk Compliments MANI
ayers and Eseviews the Campaign.

Senator Charles w Fairbanks arrived
home yesterday2morning from South Bend.
where ne madef two speeches on Saturday
night. He addr,3sed gathering OF Poland-
ers in the interasts OF Representative Brick
and the Repuxican ticket and spoke az
Turner Hall la1er in the evening. Robert
A Brown. cleri3o the Supreme and Appel
late Courts. ESQ addressed the Turner
Hall meeting. ;ald returned yesterday with
Senator Fairbs ks.
Tonight al Aokomo Senator Fairbanks
will address a Injecting and return TO the
city early to-mxrrow- He is much grat'ied
with the succe4 OF his meetings this cams
paign. and. ta2ing into consideration the
interest that 3as been shcwn in all the
meetings. presfcts a substantial victory
sor the RepubScans tomorrow
Concerning t{e work that has been -
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Plan for Arbitration.

LILLE, Nov. "A meeting was held here
to-day by delegates of the coal companies
and the striking coal miners in the Depart
ment du Nord. Failing to come to an
agreement, ii was decided to refer the
question of an increase in the miners
wages to arbitration. The representatives
of the companies said their principals were
prepared to make pension proposals similar
to those advanced by the coal companies in
the Pas de Calais district, but the miners
having persisted in their demand for arbi-
tration the companies reserved their PEN
sion proposals until after the decision Of
the arbitrators is made known.
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PEKING, Nov. 2.-The efforts made by
Sir Ernest Satow, the British minister here,
have resulted in the publication of edict
ordering the decapitation of the Chinese
military official who refused protection to
the British missionaries, Bruce and Lewis.
who were killed at Chen-Chow. Ho-Nan
province on Aug. Is by a mob, and the
punishment of other officials implicated in
the crime.
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FOREIGN FINANCES.
both London and Berlin Show a De-
pressed State Of Affairs.

BERLIN. Nov. 2.-The Boerse began the
week under the influence of the gloomy re-
marks of Herr Baare. director of the Bo-
chum Gusstahl Company, who. at the an
nual meeting of the company. held Oct. Is,
said the German iron industry was ap-
preaching a serious period OF Its existence
and that there existed danger Of the disso-
luton OF the steel rail syndicate, in which
event there would begin price war be-
tween everybody In the business. These ut-
terances depressed all industrial shares this
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Trainmen Killed by Explosion.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 2-Three trainmen
were almost instantly killed to-day by the
explosion of boiler of Baltimore * Ohio
locomotive at Halethorpe. Traffic was de-
layed about three hours by the accident.
Those who were killed were: Engineer Z.
w. Biggs Fireman .. w. Hunt and Brake
man q. .. Stalling.