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Gen. Won PIessen Not Authorized to
Invite COrbin and Others when He
Was I'm the United States.
AN ODD MISUNDERSTANDING
THAT Is SAID TO HAVE CAUSED PRE-
NATURE APPOINTMENTS.
RumPus Over Prince Henry's Refusal
TO Meet "A German Delegation at
Dublin Last Week.

BERLIN, May A-An odd misunder-
standing has arisen from a conversation
which Adjutant General Won Plessen had
miral Prince Henry OF Prussia visited
Washington. General Won Plessen said.
courteously: I'VE should be delighted to
have you see our maneuvers."
General Corbin replied: II should GER
tainly be much pleased 10 60"
General Corbin's impression as it now
appears was that this was an invitation
for the September maneuvers General
Won Plessen seems to have thought nothing
more of it until an announcement was re-
ceived from the United States that Gener-
ais Corbin. Wood and Young would be
designated to attend the maneuvers. This
newspaper paragraph was followed by
cabled statement that the War Depart
ment on May 10 had formally given these
officers leave to attend Invitation to the
maneuvers is Emperor Williams preroga-
tive and the foreign military officers are
his personal guests. The custom always
has been for his Majesty 70 pay the travel
ing expenses Of the invited officers in Ger
many, and he lodges, mounts and enter
tains them. Naturally General Won Pies
sen cannot invite any one to be the EN-
peror's guest. though quite properly he can
suggest this. 1t is understood that Won
Plessen since the publication of the War
Departments action has done so, and En-
perOr William doubtless will be quite ready
TO act on the suggestion. But the invita-
lions are not yet sent. The regular time
for issuing invitations is the end of June
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-25
DIR. C. 1. FLETCHERS LECTURE.
Talks About Martinique to an Audi
ence at the Grand Opera House.

The interest that attaches to the Island
of Martinique accounted for the large au-
dience that found enjoyment and instruc
ton in the illustrated lecture given by DR..
c. 1. Fletcher last evening at the Grand
Opera House DR.. Fletcher was one OF a
small party that visited a number of the
islands of the lesser Antilles in the spring
of 1898, and he collected several hundred
photographs. The greater part OF his time
he spent in Martinique, in the towns OF
ST. Pierre and Fort de France and in the
interior, and the photographs which he OBJ
tanned give good idea of the manners and
characteristics of the natives.
After showing the exact location OF the
Island of Martinique and the territory
devastated by the recent outbreak of Mont
PeTee by means Of map, DR.. Fletcher
carried his audience in imagination with
him through the towns and luxuriantly
grown country OF the island. The natives
and their dress, the narrow streets,
the Spanish-looking, substantial buildings.
glimpseS of carnival, coolies at work in
the cane fields, women washing clothes IN
mountain streams, views of pretty villas
tucked away in a forest of palms, and
dozens of other pictures, ciear-cut and in
teresting were shown by the doctor There
were so many things Of interest" he said,
that my only regret was / did not have
ten thousand plates. ! would have taken
beautiful spot of earth l have ever seen"
The interest of the audience was concen-
trated on his pictures of Mont Pelee. The
doctor related the incidents Of his journey
TO the crater OF the volcano. telling how
the natives were frightened out OF their
wits when they were asked 10 guide him.
and saying that they refused to go near the
mountain. After a long and somewhat
dangerous ascent he approached the top
of the volcano. and by crawling out on
mountain spur managed TO get TO a position
where a photograph OF the crater could be
obtained. The picture shown by Dr.
Fletcher is that Of crater pouring out fire
and smoke.
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Notes of the Churches.

Major Robert Anderson Post. G. A r.,
will attend memorial services al Fletcher-
place Church at 1920 O'Clock this morning.
The members Of the post will assemble at
the hall at 8 o'clock 70 go 10 the church.
Members of the Woman's Home Missions
airy Society Of the Hall-place NJ r. Church
will hold their monthly meeting and mite
box opening Tuesday afternoon at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. J. Pearson, 81 North Della
ware street.
This morning at 1870 o'clock the young
people OF the Irvington NJ. r. Church will
hold memorial service in the church on
Layman avenue. The pastor. the Rev Mr..
RObb Earring. and =. " Cooper will make
addresses. The church has been decorated.
Miss Florence Ben Oliel. OF Ann Arbor
Mich, viii speak this morning al the Ne
mortal Presbyterian Church Her topic will
be THE Covenant OF Water. Bread and
Blood" Miss Oliel spent a number OF years
in Jerusalem, where her father was a mis-
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ALLEGED SWINDLERS.
Participants in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Fraud Said to Have Been Located.

NEW YORK, May 24.-Surrounded with
great secrecy. application is said TO have
been made before United States Commits
sioner Shields in this city by French Con-
sui Bruwaert for extradition papers bear
ing the names OF the participants in the
recent enormous alleged Humbert-Craw-
ford swindles in Paris and London, by
which the perpetrators are alleged 10 have
netted nearly $12,O00,0OO.
While the sleuths of two continents have
been watching every port of arrival and
departure since the fiasco which exposed
the affair occurred in Paris not the slight
est trace of the participants is known to
have been secured. The air of excitement
about the French consulate. where several
clerks and representatives of a law firm
were engaged for hours in drawing up the
papers. leads TO the belief that definite
knowledge has been secured as TO the hid
ing place of the alleged swindlers.
In its inception the plot 10 borrow money
on the estate of New York fictitious
millionaire was one OF the bOldest on rec
ord Its operation extended over a period
of twenty years. during which those par
Elephants lived in such a lavish manner
that II is not believed they carried away
much of their gains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-25
BARON JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE.
Capable Lawyer who Was Called from
Legal Fields to Diplomatic Work.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The Rt. Hon.
Lord Julian Pauncefote, of Preston. G. c.
b, G.. c. NJ. G., the first ambassador to
the United States and dean of the dipo-
matte corps in Washington. was born in
Munich. Bavaria. on Sept. 10, 1S2S. and was
the issue of one OF the most ancient of
British families, whose history is founded
IN the Doomsday book. Educated as a
lawyer, he was called TO the bar OF the
Middle Temple in 1852. joined the Oxford
circuit and also practiced as a convey
ANGER. His governmental service began in
Hong-Kong as attorney general in 1867, and
after much valuable colonial experience he
came 10 Washington in 1889. first as minis
ter and afterward as first ambassador, sue
ceeding Lord Sackville-West. His services
here were one unbroken record of success
full diplomacy. The Boring sea negotiations
were among his earliest works OF i'm
portance. and it was his familiarity with
that difficult subject that led to his selec-
ton by the Foreign Office for the post at
Washington The arbitration treaty ne
gotiated with Secretary Olney was the
forerunner of the great work accomplished
at The Hague, and IL may be said that it
embodied some OF the most important prin-
ciples OF the great general convention regu-
lating arbitration afterwards framed by
The Hague conference. Then came a num-
Der OF reciprocity treaties and arrange
ments involving a vast amount of study
and work. all OF which were perfected as
far as the executive branch Of our govern
ment could cooperate with Lord Paunee-
fote. Soon after Secretary Hay assumed
office Lord Pauncefote began the task
which he himself regarded as the greatest
accomplishment OF his busy life. namely.
10 forever set at rest the questions grow
ing out OF the old Clayton Bulwer treaty,
and he entered with energy again upon
negotiations, the result of which the
framing Of the HayPauncefote treaty re-
Gently ratified. For these valuable services
the British government did Lord Paunee-
fote the honor to three times extend the
term OF his service at Washington. which
otherwise would have ceased when he at
tanned the age of seventy. In March re-
ports came from England that the am
bassador was 10 be relieved of his post
here and that Mr.. Littleton had been chosen
as his successor. but these were promptly
denied, and IL was made apparent that
Lord Pauncefote's tenure at Washington
lay entirely WITHIN his own wishes. and,
moreover. that the British government pre-
ferred that he should not quit the post
where he had rendered such splendid sew
ice The son of a commoner Robert
Pauncefote, OF Worcestershire. he was
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THE NEWS IN LONDON.
British officials Deeply Affected-COm-
mcnts of the Press.

LONDON, May 24-The news of the
death of Lord Pauncefote, the British am
bassador at Washington. this morning, was
conveyed by a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press TO the British Foreign Office
and the American embassy. The British
officials were deeply shocked and expressed
sympathy with the widow AMI a realization
Of the loss which both countries have sus-
tanned The Foreign Office representatives
were particularly affected. as. apparently.
they had no idea the ambassadors condi-
ton had been critical.
The empire loses one of its first diplo-
matists,' is the Westminster Gazettes
comment on the death of Lord Pauncefote.
He filled many posts, and always with
success" continues the Westminster Ga
zette. His stay in Washington was pro-
longed because there was no one in the
diplomatic service to replace him who was
anything like his status, influence or power
for good. AS the representative of Great
Britain in the United States at the time of
the Venezuelan dispute in particular IL will
be remembered with what tact and Judg-
ment he handled a situation which, in less
skillful hands, might have led to the most
deplorable results
History will probably do justice to the
tactful, conciliatory methods by which Lord
Pauncefote seconded the efforts of Lord
ment." continues the st. James Gazette. in
relation TO the same decidedly strained
situation.
The Pail Mall Gazette refers to the bril-
liant ambassadors adroit, tactful steering
through difficult straits. when the circuIn-
stances of Sackviles recall did not tend
TO smooth the path of his successor, and
when there were several awkward matters
between the United States and Great Brit
ain which required judicious handling" and
says: He was practical and businesslike,
had a great knowledge of foreign affairs
and an equally inOrdinate capacity for hard
work"
All the afternoon newspapers contain
long, sympathetic sketches of the career OF
Lord Pauncefote.
King Edward and the Marquis OF Lans-
downe, secretary Of state for foreign af-
fairs, both sent cablegrams of coincidence
TO Lord Pauncefote's family Immediately
on the receipt at the Foreign Office of the
notice of the death of the Ambassador.
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PRINCE HENRY CRITICISED.
Germans in Dublin Offended Because
He Did Not Receive Them.

LONDON. May A.-The visit of Prince
Henry Of Prussia TO Dublin and his refusal
10 receive a deputation OF Germans created
a rumpus, il is said, which shows no signs
OF abating. The addresses Of the Germans
included the signatures of Count Won Stol-
berg and two well-known German artists.
while the professor of German at Trinity
College. Dublin. acted as chairman.
One OF the members of the delegation is
quoted as saying: "One would naturally
have expected that, as in New York, one
OF the first thoughts OF the prince and his
captains would have been TO shake hands
with cOuntrymen dOmiCiled in ireland"
The Irish Times. the government organ,
expresses the hope that some satisfactory
explanation Will be forthcoming. for ION
the face of Ii the princes treatment of his
fellOw-countrymen compares very unfavOr-
ably with the almost undignifed AHA bility
ne displayed during his visit 10 the United
States.
In one thing Prince Henry ingratiated
himself with the Irish. He bought bright
green jaunting and sailed away with
Il on his flagship.
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tory Following are the graduates: Celia
Lawrence, j. Harold Axtell. Bessie NJ
Baird, Edna Baker, Anna Bailey, Leila
Bimel, Art w. Bergman, Kitty Braden,
Kathryn L. HUMPHREYS Esther F. Grif-
fifth, Isa Current, Orville yesterday. Nellie
Fleming, A. j. Glenn Forty, Harvey r.
Burns, John Kile, Harlan +. Young, Omer
Mcfarland, Roy r. Milligan, Fred Perdieu
Mary E. Ramsey, Charles Shewalter, Mary
Stephenson, Louise X Timmonds, Bessie
NJ. Simmons, John I. Shook, Jessie Smith,
Rufus Smith, Otho S. f. Smith, Maude
Tate, Jessie b. Wilson.
ment exercises of the Fortville High Schol
were held at the opera house last evening
before a large gathering. The invocation
was by the Rev G.. II. Myers and the class
address by Prof Sherman Davis. of Bloom
igton. The valedictory was by Walter 7.
Lunsford. Following are the graduates
Fanchion Schumacher, Iona Cumins, Cozie
George, Lillian Fausset, Clara Whelchel
Maud Jackson, Nellie Brown, Vada Rich
ards, Walter T. Lunsford, Guy Hiday,
Wickliffe Denton, AlOnzo Van Laningham,
Harry Bently.
MORRISTOWN. Ind, May 24-The eight
zenith annual commencement of the Nor
riStown public schools was held last night.
Prof. w. E Henry, state librarian, deliv-
cred the address, and the diplomas We're
presented by f. A. Cotton. There We're fif-
teen graduates in the class as follows: o..
f. Thayer, Margaret L. Bassett. Loretta
p Butler, Cassie X. Bankert, Edwin T..
Wolf, Hattie z. May. Mary L. Bassett,
Kate E. Logan, Gertrude Z. Ash Nettie E.
Lunsford, Pearl Clary, Mabel Morris, Clara
Arnold and Sarah II. Chadwick.
PENDLETON, Ind, May A.-The COM
mencement exercises of the eighth-grade
schools Of Pendleton were held in the /. O.
o. F. Hall here tonight. There were four
teen graduates-Maggie Walker, Forrest
Shaul Morris Kinnard, Maude Knight,
Grace McCarty, Frank Hardy, Ray Taylor,
Ruth Patterson. DIN Clark. Wesley Sbep-
herd, Mollie Burdsall, Carrie Brattain,
School commencement will be held next
Friday evening.
ROCKVILLE. Ind. May 24.-The largest
class in the history of the local high
school was graduated on Friday night. IL
consisted of eleven members as follows
Lee McCanless, Frank Rush, Owen Swain,
Mabel McMurtry, Catherine Collins, Daisy
Fisher Grace Fisher, Elizabeth BrittOn.
Trillie Meyer, Anna Marshall and NetJie
Seybold. The entire week was given over
to exercises and entertainments in connec-
ton with the close of the school year.
which has been unusually successful.
MUNCIE. Ind. May 24.-On Monday even
ing. June 2 in the Normal City Methodist
Church the graduating exercises of Center
township schools Nos. 4. s. 10 and 10 will be
held. The Rev. c. NJ. Carter. pastor OF the
First Baptist Church of this city. will de-
liver the class address. The diplomas will
A. Van Mater. There Will be ten graduates.
The commencement programme viii be one
Of considerable interest.
ALEXANDRIA. Ind, May 24-The COM
menceu1ent exercises OF the Alexandria
High School were held last night al the
opera house. The graduating class con-
sisted OF ten students.
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BLOOMINGTON MAN WINS
SOUTHERN INDIANA ORATORICAL
CONTEST A GREAT SUCCESS.
Honors in Music and Medals for Ath-
Ietes-State High school Com
mencements-Other school Notes.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON. Ind, May 4-The ora
torical and musical department OF the
Southern Indiana High School Association
did not close last night until almost mid
night and resulted in a victory in oratory
for Bloomington. Prof. Hale Bradt, pres
ident of the association, presided. The con-
tests resulted:
In oratory, Clifford Gunnerson. of Bloom
ington, first; Miss Verne Gossard, of
Orleans, second.
In vocal music first honOrs were won by
Miss Hazel Simmons, of Bloomington; sec
Ond, by Miss Leah Messck, of Bedford. In
violin, James Mckinley, of Bedford won the
honor, there being no second. Male solo,
Mr.. Bryant, of Bloomington, there being no
opposition. The piano honors were given
TO Miss Susie Huffines of Bedford.
The medals in athletics were presented by
DR.. Swain TO the victOrs and the banner
was also presented by him 10 Bloomington
and accepted on the part of the High School
by Professor Beck.
Clifford Gunnerson, the successful orator
is about eighteen years old and is in the
senior class of the High School. 1t is his
intention 10 take a degree in Chicago Uni
Versity after graduating from Indiana. Mr..
Gunnerson was in part coached in oratory
by Willis Tyler the cOlored student who
won oratorical honors in the state contest
at Indianapolis last year.
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SPADES PLACE PAGODA.
Lit VIII be Dedicated Next Thursday
Eyenfng-speeches and Music.

The pagoda in Spades Place, presented TO
the city by NJ II. Spades and recently
completed. will be dedicated next Thurs
day evening The members OF the Board
OF Park Commissioners and J. Clyde
Power. superintendent Of parks, who has
mad in hand the construction OF the pa
CODA, will be present. The Indiana polls
Military Band will furnish the music for
the occasion. Councilman Harry r. Neg
lev will serve as chairman of the dedica-
ton meeting. and Thomas A Daily and
Ira Holmes will deliver the principal
speeches.
the Spades Place neighbOrhOod TO make
the occasion notable one The park viii
be Illuminated with 5000 Chinese lanterns,
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and fireworks will be used TO add 10 this
gayety Of the exercises. II the evening is
fair it is expected that several thousand
people Will be present at the dedication.
The new pagoda, which is Of stone. adds
greatly TO the appearance Of the neighbour
mood, and the citizens are proud OF Mr..
Spadess gift and the energy Of the Park
Commissioners.
During the season three Sunday after
noon concerts Will be provided by the
Park Board. ard three will be given at the
expense Of Mr.. Spades. To reach Spades
Place take an East Tenth-street car. get
off at Windsor and walk three blocks
north, or take A Brightwood car. get of at
south
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Action in other Cities.

CHICAGO, May 24-Chicago British
Americans will pay public tribute to the
memory of the late Lord Pauncefote. Many
of the local consuls have sent messages
of coincidence TO members of his family.
Special meetings of different British-Ameri-
can organizations in this city will be called
to consider a plan to join in a public dem
onstration and 10 send tributes 10 Wash
ington.
OTTAWA, Ont, May 24-The news of the
death of Lord Pauncefote was received here
with profound regret The secretary of
state to-day sent a telegram of sympathy
to Lady PauncefOte.
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Rector in the stocks.

LONDON, May 24.-The strange sight was
seen this week OF the rector of a Lincoln
shire parish sitting in the stocks. This
reversion to the ancient form of punish
ment was not due TO any offense committed
by the clergyman, but TO a local custom,
dating centuries back, by which certain
tolls can be obviated by undergoing this
ordeal Rather than pay. the rector of
COrby. accompanied by the church warden
and chairman Of the parish council, pub
Hcly put his feet in the stocks. Sir J. Il.
Stone Conservative member Of Parliament
for East Birmingham. and president of
the National Records Association. after
ward voluntarily underwent the same ex-
perfeDCe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-25
CATHOLIC PRELATEs DEAD.
Archbishop Simar and the PapnI Nun
clio mt The Hague Conference.

COLOGNE, May 2i.-Most Rev. Hubert
Theophilus Sirnar. d. D., archbishop of Co
logne, died last night.
ROME, May A.-Monsignor Tarnasse,
who was papal nuncio at The Hague at the
time OF the peace congress and who LETT
the legation as a protest against the eX
clusion of a representative of the Pope
from the congress, is edad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-25
Count ToIstoi Again Ill.

LONDON. May 24-The agent in Eng
land of Count Tolstoi, the Russian novel
ist and reformer, telegraphed to the AS
ISOLATED Press to-day confirming the re-
port that Tolstoi is again i'll. He is suffer-
ing from typhoid fever. His temperature
is 102 and his mind is lucid.
ST. PETERSBURG, May PA telegram
from Yalta, Crimea, announces that Count
Tolstoi's condition has suddenly become
worse
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STATE FUNERAL.


last tribute to the deceased.
STATE FUNERAL.
The late Lord Pauncefote will have
state funeral, for that is demanded by all
precedents. Mr.. Raikes, the secretary and
charge of the British embassy, called on
Assistant Secretay Hill to advise with him
respecting the funeral arrangements and
finally these were intrusted to DR.. ]. Hill
in their official features. A tentative ar
rangement has been made which must be
approved by Lady Pauncefote before be-
ing put into execution. In brief, this pro-
vides that the remains of the late ambas-
sador shall be taken from the embassy
at 1:45 next Wednesday to st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, where he worshiped. At the
church services will be held at u o'clock,
probably conducted by Rev. DR.. Mackay-
Smith, now coadjutor bishop of Philadel-
ph1a, but recently rector at st. Johns.
The honorary pallbearers will consist of
the five ambassadors in Washington, Mr..
Won Holleben, NJ. Cambon, Count Cassini,
Senior AspiroZ and Signor Mayor Des-
planches, Secretary of State Hay, Senator
Fry, president pro tenn Of the Senate, and
Speaker Henderson, of the House of Rep
resentatives. After the church services the
remains will be conveyed TO Rock Creek
Cemetery, escorted by a military process
sion. the details of which have not been
yet arranged, and be placed in temporary
receiving vault. At first il was understood
the remains would be permanently inferred
mere, but the wishes of the family were
otherwise, and it is the present intention
to have them conveyed TO England TO the
ancestral nome at Preston, when the
Pauncefote family returns TO England. 1t
will be determined before that time wheth-
er a United States warship shall carry the
remains to England There is ample prece-
dent for a tender of this kind. and it doubt
less will be made.
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BERLIN. May 24--The Saxon govern
ment is prosecuting a Leipsic publisher
named Diedrichs for blasphemy and de-
flaming churchly Institutions through the
publication OF Count Tolstoi's answer to
the Holy Synod's accommodation. The
indictment also includes the translator, Di-
rector Lowenfeld, of the Schiller Theater,
Berlin. The prosecution has aroused in
dignation and caused a movement looking
70 the abolition of the blasphemy law.
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BuIgarians killed by Turks.

CONSTANTINOPLE May PA band of
sixty Bulgarian revolutionists engaged in
raiding the neighborhood of Malesh Pla-
nina, Roumania, came in contact with
detachment of Turkish troops May 20.
Sharp lighting ensued, during which six
wounded. The Turks also suffered some
casualties