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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-16
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Before the Century Club Tuesday even
ing, Alexander s.. Mitchell Will read
paper on Some English Poetesses."
At the Mayfiower Church vesper service.
at o'clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. w. NJ.
Tippy, OF the Broadway M. z. Church. viii
speak, and Mr.. Oliver Isensee Will sing.
Byron Lodge, No. los, Knights Of Pythias,
of Hope. Ind, viii celebrate its twentieth
anniversary with appropriate ceremonies
on Thursday, May q, at the Monrovian
Church in that town.
Warren Davenport. a c., H & D. brake
man, living at 1l04 East Washington street,
reported to the police that two men held
him up and robbed him OF a gold watch last
night. He was unable to tell how or where
IL was done.
An agreement has been made between
the Retail Grocers' Association and the
millers of the city by which the wholesale
dealers in -four viii hereafter refuse 10 sell
at retail prices The past experience has
been that the retailer has lost money with
out the consumer gaining anything and the
new arrangement will stop this and also
put all brands OF -four on an equal basis
for trade.
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TRADE. INDUSTRY, FINANCE.

Levin & Co., department store operators
at Lake Lind: Mich. have assigned The
debts outstanding are 5000
The Standard OH Company OF New Jer-
sey, has declared dividend for the quar-
ter OF 81 share. For the corresponding
quarter Of last year the dividend declared
was $40 a share.
Henry c. Everdell, representing the re-
organization committee, has purchased the
entire assets of the Asphalt Company OF
America and the National Asphalt Com
pany, paying therefor s6.0o6,00. The sale
took place in Jersey City.
Application has been made In the New
Jersey Chancery Court at Trenton for the
appointment Of receiver for the Ameri-
can Stave Machine Company President
David Gordon, the petitioner, alleges that
the business is conducted at loss
The Manchester Cotton Spinners Associa-
ton has recommended 10 the trade that all
mills be closed for a week at the Whit
days and Saturdays until further notice,
owing to demoralized conditions. A vote
will be taken.
The Consolidated Gems Gold Mining Com
pany, capital s., 900. was incorporated at
pany are 10 mine and prepare for market
minerals of all kinds incorporates:
Charles A. Greene, all OF East Orange
N. j.
A New York attorney has made the an
nouncement that Joseph Letter, who figured
in the wheat corner of 1897 and 1885 has
made proposal 10 his creditors to settle
their claims against him for twenty cents
on the dollar. IL is Understood that Letters
father will guarantee that this proposal
will be carried out
James Z. Doyle was given a verdict FOR
81 800 damages against the Standard OIL
Company and c. Il. Gilman at Lexington.
KY. for conspiring, to injure the business
of Doyle, who represented rival COM
pany, by pronouncing his oil not up TO
standard proof. Gilman was an oil in
spector for the city.
The appellate division of the New York
city Supreme Court has confirmed the re-
port of the commissioners that the tunnel
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
across Manhattan island ought TO be con-
structed and operated. The board Of alder
men had already approved the enterprise
Work can now be begun.
The Southern cotton spinners in session
at Charlotte, N C, were addressed by H.
]. Weber. OF the u. S. Department Of
president of the New England Cotton Man
ufacturers' Association. The association has
changed its name TO the American Cotton
Manufacturers Association.
The appeal set for Friday as 10 the ad-
instability of certain testimony In the
Commission of the complaint against the
coal carrying railroads from w. A Hearst
was not heard. Clarence j. Shearn, or
counsel for the complainant. said he can
not say when ii can be argued
Efforts are being made at Pittsburg TO
effect the combination Of a large number
of independent river coal operators. with
wha companies are included In the plan
The new company would own ffty-one
steamers and Isl barges, and would mine
coal from 5l,20 acres of land.
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TO REMIT GRAIN DUTIES
NOT INTENDED FOR PROTECTIVE
MEASURE, SAYS BALFOUR.
No Change In the British Policy
Claims Grain Tax Has Divided the
Great Political Parties.

LONDON. May 15-Premier Balfour. ac-
companied by the chancellor of the ex-
chequer. Mr.. Richie, to-day received
large and influential deputation of unionist
members of the House Of Commons. headed
by Mr.. Chaselin. former president of the
Board Of Agriculture; members of the
House of Lords and delegates from theh
Chamber of Commerce and of Agriculture,
who protested against the remission of
the grain duty.
Balfour made long argument In reply to
the representations of the deputation, but
did not give the slightest indication of
conceding the demands. Without the
slightest intention on the part of the gov
eminent, he said, the tax had accidentally
given some protection to the millers, thus
indirectly and unexpectedly helping the
farmers. but the government must not be
blamed for renting the tax. 1t was never
intended to be a protective measure. Pro-
lection, he said, could not be introduced
silently, as If by accident, and without a
broad public Endorsement of such a change
in the national policy.
The premier contended that Immediately
1t became clear that the grain tax divided
the two political parties of this country, it
also became clear that the tax could not
be a permanent part of the fiscal system
He did not intend to say that the present
system was necessarily permanent New
conditions had arisen since the old free
trade policy was adopted and he could
imagine circumstances under which Great
Britain by way of retaliation would no
longer consent to be made passive target
for other countries living under different
conditions. He believed in universal free
trade, but at present every country ex-
cept Great Britain was protected. Great
Britain had gained greatly thereby In many
ways.
Mr.. Balfour concluded with saying he
would welcome a closer fiscal union Of
the motherland and the colonies. The
movement, however, would become ex-
tremely difficult to carry out and must
come from the heart, conscience and in
tellect of the great masses of the people.
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RECENT ARMY ORDERS.
New Assignments to and Releases
from Omcfal Duty.

WASHINGTON, May 15-First Lieuten-
ant Frederick L. Buck. Artillery Corps, at
Fort Getty, S. c., has been ordered to as
sumo charge of the construction work at
that post, Vice Captain Leo F. Foster,
Artillery Corps, relieved.
Captain Clarence p. Townsley. Artillery
Corps, quaItermaster, has been ordered to
this city for consultation with the acting
quartermaster general of the army.
First Lieutenant Thomas H. Jackson,
Corps of Engineers. has been relieved from
duty as quartermaster and commissary of
the post of Washington barracks, District
of Columbia, and of Companies L and NJ
Third Battalion of Engineers. Sept. IA. 1908.
and assigned to duty with Company L.
Third Battalion of Engineers.
First Lieutenant Charles A. Curtis.
United States army, has, upon his own APP
plication. been detailed as professor Of
military science and tactics at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis
Captain Ralph Harrison. Second Cavalry,
has been relieved from duty at st. Louis
Mo-, and ordered to join his regiment at
Leaves of absence have been granted the
following: First Lieutenant Thomas H.
Jackson. Corps Of Engineers. for one month
Signal Corps, Fort Myer, Va, for one
month, and Captain David B. Case, COM
miSSary, for one month.
Lieutenant Colonel T. e. Wilcox, deputy
surgeon general. has been ordered to visit
posts in Alaska and make a sanitary and
medical inspection.
Captain Kensey j. Hampton, quarter
master, has been relieved from duty in
the office of the Quartermaster general of
the army and ordered TO San Francisco.
Cal, in time to take the transport to sail
from that place June 1. 1903. for the Philip
pine islands, where he will report In per-
son for assignment to duty
Captain Edgar Russell. Signal Corps, has
been ordered to New York city on official
business pertaining to the Signal Corps of
the army, and upon completion of this duty
will return to his proper station In this
city.
Major Benjamin P. Runkle, United
States army, at his own request, has been
relieved by the secretary of war from duty
at the Peekskill Military Academy, Peek
SKILL N. Y.
Captain Aston Hamilton, Artillery Corps.
has been relieved from duty at the United
States Military Academy and ordered to
join his proper station.
First Lieutenant Charles NJ Wessen.
Eighth Cavalry, has been ordered to duty
at the United States Military Academy,
West Point n. Y.
Leaves of absence have been granted the
following: Second Lieutenant MARI O'Con-
nor. Tenth Cavalry, for three months. and
Captain Lincoln c. Andrews, Fifteenth
Cavalry, extension, so as to include June
30, 1903.
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TO FIGHT LABOR AGGRESSION.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
with any of their employees by violence,
threats, or personal injury; from ordering,
directing. or melting any other person to
threaten assault, or by the use of profan-
ity or vile epithets to intimidate any en-
ployes; from following the employees to
their homes or other places for the pur-
pose of intimidation and from publishing
any orders. statements, rules or directions
joining, under pain of personal violence or
other persecution, any employees from con-
tinuing in the service of compliments. !"
Judge Hallet refused to grant the injunc-
ton without a hearing. The attorneys
for the defendants stated that they had not
had time to examine the bill of complaint
and asked for further time They promised
In the meantime to do nothing in conflict
with the terms of the injunction asked for.
The judge then granted a continuance to
next Wednesday.
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Machinists Elect Omcers.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 1.-THE In
ternational Association of Machinists to-
day resumed the work of electing officers,
and completed the ticket as follows: Sec
ond vice president, Arthur w. Holmes, To-
ronto, Canada; third vice president, John
D. Buckalew, Little Rock, Ark; fourth
vice president, Thomas L. Wilson, Omaha:
fifth vice president, George Mulberry, Chi
cago; sixth vice president, NJ. Robinson,
Atlanta; seventh vice president, Walter
Ames, Chica go; editor of official journal d.
Douglas Wilson, Birmingham, Ala; general
secretary and treasurer, George Preston,
Detroit; executive board. Hugh Doran,
Chicago; James Reynolds, Cleveland; NJ. L.
Ford, New York; E. L. Tucker, Washing
ington was selected the official head
quarters.
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LAZY COFFEE.


Another Name for the SLOPPY" Sort.
Postum Coffee Is not made like ordinary
coffee for II takes at least Is minutes
cooking 10 bring out the heavy food value
OF Postum. II requires some effort for tho-s
things which are really worth while-mak-
ing Postum requires a little care.
The grocer is In a position TO hear OF
those lazy one who will not take the trouble
TO make Postum correctly. 81 am well ac-
ouainted indeed with Postum" says a gro
Ger OF Camden. ~. j.. .'for I meet II not
only at my breakfast table. but I am also
associated with IL daily in my business
Coffee drinking jsed 10 AFFECT my nerves
and stomach. but since we have been using
Postum in our family in place OF coffee the
bloated feeling after eating has disap-
peared and my head is now clear and stoTn-
ach and nerves ali right We all feel better
in every way and ind Postum just as salts
factory 10 our palates.
81 have met customers who complained
that Postum was not good. but we Always
found this due 20 the fact that they tried 10
make IL a. they used 20 make coffee OF
course we set them right by pointing out
the reasons, telling them they must bon
Postum Is or % minutes after boiling COM
mences. then they get fine. choice and de-
licious Postum" Name furnished by Poet-
Hm Co Battle Creek. Mich.
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AMERICAN FAMILY LIFE.
English Families Large I'm Spite of
Primogeniture Law.

Family life cannot be satisfactorily ex-
perienced without a family. What is the
effect of the law OF primogeniture upon fam
lilies, family life, and, incidentally. upon
population? In England. where primogeni-
ture still obtains, families are large. In
America, where Ii does not obtain, families
are criticised In being so small (among the
natfve-born) to make observers uneasy
about the future of the race. In France,
where the division of property among all
the children is largely prescribed by laws
which leave testators a very limited dis
erection, the population Is dwindling at a
rate that is thought to threaten disaster.
One reason given for the small size of
French families is this compulsory division
of all estates. Where properties are small
and there are several children the divided
estate affords none Of them home, and
inheritance taxes eat up large part OF
what Is handed down. Where parents wish
their home to stay in the family the temp
tation Is strong to raise but one child The
English law, with all the hardshps IL in
wolves, was at least made for the perpetual
ton Of family homes. and Incidentally IL
seems to have made for the perpetuation of
family stocks. Englishmen have rarely re-
Trained from raising younger sons for fear
feared rather a dearth OF heirs than a
dearth of Unbeatable property. They have
never had the special inducement to raise
one child and no more. which Is said 10 be
When family estate goes all I'm one parcel
some. at least, OF the responsibilities OF it's
former owner are apt to go with IL. Where
an estate Is divided each participant may
more reasonably be expected TO look ous for
himself. Moreover. the condition Of a
younger son, with no expectations. is doubt
less often more stimulating than that of a
coheir with a prospect OF inheriting just
enough property to keep him from. actual
want. English younger sons have cert .inly
been a tremendous force in the spread and
development of the British empire. and En-
glish heirs have at least perpetuatedl En-
glish family homes. Primogeniture Is not
and doubtless never will be, desired n, this
country, but with all Its drawbacks there Is
something to be said for It
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OBITUARY.

Capt. w. F. Norton, Louisville
Banker, at San Diego, Cal.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 15.-Captain w.
F. Norton, a banker of Louisville. KY,
died at Coronado beach early this morning
He came to San Diego about six months
ago suffering from paralysis, which was
the cause of his death. One of the hand
soonest cottages on the beach now in pro-
cess of construction was designed by him
as his home. He had been known for deeds
of charity, his desire to give assistance to
worthy young working people and to young
married couples being almost a fad with
him.
Captain Norton was never married and
was fifty-three years old. Relatives from
Los Angeles and Louisville were with him
at the time of his death. He left an estate
of several millions The remains will be
taken to Los Angeles for cremation and
the ashes will be conveyed to Louisville by
DR.. j. A. Sweeney, who has been constant
ly in attendance.
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A CLOSED INCIDENT.
Sale Of Rice to Refugees in the Philip
pine Camps.

pine lamps.
WASHINGTON, May i5-Gen. ]. F.
Franklin Bell. who recently returned from
the Philippines. had a long conference with
Secretary Root to-day. General Bell has
been assigned to command the Military
School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
The sale Of rice during the campaign in
Batangas, and which recently has been the
subject of comment on account of the crit
icism in the report Of General Miles. was
not mentioned during the conference to-
day. Secretary Root considers the whole
rice transaction a closed incident. He has
been cognizant of all the facts for some
time, and regards the action of General
Bell as one of military necessity and holds
that General Bell would have been remiss
in his duty had he not acted as he did. The
secretary also says that the action was
not unprecedented, has been charged
but was similar to the action taken in
Porto Rico after that island was swept by
the hurricane.
The secretary found. when the rice mat
ter was first investigated by the DEPART
ment, that ii had the approval of the Of
ficers in command and of the civil author
tiles in the Philippines.
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, May 15.-Pre-
mier Irvine announced in the Legislative
Assembly to-day that he had received let
Association declaring the strike on and
submitting Internationally. The president
OF the Engine Drivers Association, In an
interview said the surrender was due to the
drastic measure of the strike bill whlcn
was sure OF adoption and increased the
number of men returned to work. 1t was
only fair, therefore. to place the others on
the same level
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Feu from a scaKold.

Frank wimble. "a North Senate avenue.
fell from a scaffold at the corner Of Ritter
avenue and Washington street yesterday
afternoon, and suffered several severe scalp
wounds. He is a carpenter. and was on
a scaffold at work on house that was be-
ing constructed. when one OF the supports
gave way and he fell TO the ground. DIR.
Thompson was called and took several
stitches in the mans head. He was then
taken TO his home in a carriage.
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have the Newport artillery and the New
port company of naval reserves called out.
While matters looked threatening for a
couple of hours, the danger from actual
hand-to-hand conflict between the police
and the tracklayers was not great, Tor the
reason that the fifty workmen were scared
by overwhelming numbers, fully 5000 per-
sons. the greater number being men, stand
ing ready to back up Mayor Doyle and the
police. Tonight the City Council made
permanent the mayors order forbidding
the Old Colony Railway Company to lay
the track
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Striker. Claim Gains.

MOBILE, Ala, May 15-The Mobile &
Ohio strike leaders to-day claim TO have
gained point in the fact that the en-
gineers have refused to haul freight and
passenger trains unless the trains are in
charge Of competent men. A freight train
on this account. The railroad people deny
this and say trains are going through.
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TWO STRIKES ENDED.
In One the Men Yield and in the Other
They Are Successful.

CHICAGO, May 15.-Six thousand strik-
ers, after an idleness which closed the
Deering works Of the International Har-
vester Company for nearly three weeks, re-
turned to work to-day in pursuance Of q
settlement reached yesterday. when, by a
vote of SIS to 395, the organized portion OF
the Deermg employees voted to accept the
terms of settlement offered by the COM
pany.
MOUNT VERNON, n. Y, May 15.-The
Italian laborers at work on the Union Elec-
trio Railway here have won a victory the
demands which led to their strike several
days ago having been conceded by the firm
The strikers demanded an eight-hour day
at the same pay they had received for ter
hours, $780, and this has been granted
Other contractors will also now concede
the demands of their men.
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IN A STATE OF RIOT.


NEWPORT, r. l.. May 15.-Mayor Doyle
to-day declared the city of Newport to be
in a state Of riot as the climax of trouble
between the police stationed on Broadway
and a gang Of tracklayers employed by the
Old Colony Street-railway. who intended IN
do so.
The riot call yeas sounded by fire bells
the fire department was placed in read
mess to help the police and Mayor DovIe
as the commanding officer, arranged to
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VIII he n Candidate.

Floyd A. Woods. OF this city. win be .
candidate for reelection as member OF
the Republican State committee from the
Seventh district. Mr. Woods himself has
nothing TO say concerning his plans, but
his friends insist that he will be candi-
date and they have begun working I'm his
behalf
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the ship answered her rudder readily She
covered over seven and one-half miles in
twenty-five minutes. Part of the course
was against brisk wind. A slight acct
dent to the ventilator did not interrupt the
success of the trip.
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EFFORT TO OPERATE LAUNDRIEs.
Strikers Had Pickets ON Guard and
Movement Was UnsucceasfuI

CHICAGO, May 15.-Failing to break
deadlock with the Laundry Workers Union
by efforts to secure arbitration. Chicago
laundry owners whose plants have been
tied UP for two weeks by a strike. to-day
undertook to operate the laundries BY a
concerted movement a score of laundries
opened for business.
Pickets from the Laundry Workers
Union were on guard. however, and girls
who started to work were stopped and
told to go home. Many obeyed. Engineers
and firemen refused to take their posts
Drivers of laundry wagons all over the
city were prepared TO prevent the delivery
of work from any of the establishments
which had not signed the union agreement
TO work exclusively with union hands,
The result was that of eleven big steam
washing and ironing establishments which
started the movement to break the strike
only two were reported running tonight
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washington Notes.
the Indiananolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. May 15.-Theo Jones has
been appointed regular carrier and John ].
Jones substitute on the rural route at Fair
mount, Ind.
THE National Bank of North America of
Chicago, has been approved as a reserve
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Ancient Lanamark.. BAN.

Ancient Landmarks Lodge. No. sls. F.
and A. NJ, celebrated its thirty-ninth an
niversary last night with ball at the
Denison. There were between three and
four hundred. guests. including members
of the lodge and their wives, daughters and
women friends. A buffet supper was
served
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Panama Guerrilla Executed.

PANAMA. May 15.--yictoriano Lorenzo
the Indian chief who was leader OF guer-
rillas during the recent revolution and
who was sentenced 10 death by a court.
rlartial yesterday on various charges OF
having committed serious crimes while in
the field, was executed by shooting here
Itis afternoon.
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SUPPRESSED sEDITIoUs PLAY.

Party Of Americans Routed the Actors
I'm q Manila Theater.
MANILA. May ia party of Americans
stormed the stage Of the Libertad Theater
last night and stopped a seditious play.
The piece, which is historical, has a cli-
max in which the heroine throws the Amer
lean flag to the ground and raises the
standard of Katipunan, q secret society,"
When THIS scene was reached score OF
actors and smashed the furniture. The
audience fed.
Colonel Tolentino, former insurgent.
who wrote the play. will probabaly be pros
ecuted.
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TERRE HAUTE. Ind. May 16-Six fires
were discovered in the business part of
Terre Haute between midnight and In
fire department succeeded I'm controlling ali
before any great damage was done The
fires all were evidently of incendiary origin