The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Who is controller of Florida ?-Inquirer.
A. c. Groom.
On what claim was the Nobel prize award
ed Theodore Mommsen?-C. +. r.
For his achievements in the field of liter
allure.
Please quote Hoyle on euchre A and b
are partners; A orders B up; can go
alone?-G. c. c.
He can.
Will you print the names of the president
of the Argentine republic and of the United
States representative to the same?-M. S.
Julio A. Roca and William p Lord. re-
spectively.
What is the weight of a cube of gold
six inches on a side? 2. What is the aver
age weight of locomotive, and what is
its horsepower?-J. n. II.
If pure, 21S7.S3 ounces. 2. Not far from
seventy-five tons and 1000 horsepower.
Is there a society for the registration of
goats i'm the United States? If so, where,
and Nance.
Yes. the American Angora Goat Breed
ers' Association, w. T. McIntire, secre-
tary. 227 Live Stock Exchange. Kansas
City, Mo.
address of Radcliffe, Byrn Mawr, Ran
dolph- Macon, and Leland Stamford. jr,
colleges?-P. l. p.
Cambridge, Mass; Bryn Mawr, Pa;
Lynchburg. Va: Palo Alto. CAL. in the
order named.
Please tell me where Company L. Tenth
United States Infantry is; has it left the
Philippines? 2. How long can they keep
a soldier after his time expires IN. A. +.
The regiment is still in the Philippines.
but will return within few months. 2. His
discharge must come as soon as his time
expires.
c. r. B.: The battleship Oregon now is
attached to the Pacific station of the navy,
and recently was reported as at Yokohama
]. F. c.: The Twenty-fifth Company of
Coast Artillery is at Manila. Mrs. S.. Both
the Fourteenth and Twenty-fifth Batteries
of Field Artillery are at Manila.
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VIII you state the dates, names and
highest ATTITUDES reached by the three polar
expeditions that went fartheSt north?-
Basel.
Highest. 1888 degrees, by Captain Cagni.
of the Duke D'Abruzzi expedition, April,
1900; next. S614 DR.. Nansen. April. 1895; and
then S4.17, Commander Peary. April, 1902.
this last the highest in the Western hemi-
sphere.
Did William Jennings Bryan receive a
plurality in the popular vote? 2. Is 1t pos
sibe for candidate for President to have
a plurality OF the popular vote, and for
his opponent to be elected?-P0litician.
No; the Mckinley electors had a plur-
atty of over 100000 in 1896, and of nearly
$4,000 in 1900. q Certainly; no longer ago
than 1883, the Cleveland electors had a
plurality of $4,000, yet Mr.. Cleveland's cleo
toral votes were but 16S to Benjamin Har-
rison's 1885,.
How did the deaths from disease COM
pare with those from gushot in the civil
war?-H. r.
Taking the figures Of the adjutant gener-
ais Office for the Northern armies, the
Confederate records being incomplete. as
about two to one. These figures were.
killed in battle, 6705S; died of wounds,
4SOl2; of disease, 199. 100: other causes. such
as accidents, murder and deaths in mill
tary prisons, 40,154
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Who was Crispus Attucks?' Was he
killed in the Boston massacre?-Rodney.
A mulatto, or half-breed Indian, about
fifty years old, resident of birmingham.
He was conspicuous in the crowd that was
annoying the British soldiers, and fell dead
at the first fire. When these soldiers were
tried John Adams defended them and de-
clared that Attacks had tried to be 'the
hero of the night" and with having brought
on the conflict. Others said he deserved
praise for courage and that he was leaning
quietly on his stick when killed The SOL
diers were acquitted, but Attacks and the
others killed were buried with parade and
ceremony, and in 1855 Boston put up a
monument to him.
NV dictionary informs me of man in
France with an iron mask that has always
remained mystery; please tell what you
can about it?-F. c. Mem.
This mans identity has never been salts
factorily established. He was closely con-
fined from 1879 to 1903. when he died in the
Bastile and was buried under the name of
Marchiali. He was treated with difference,
but was not permitted to remove his mask
under penalty Of immediate death. His
mask is said to have been, not iron, but
black velvet reinforced by whalebone and
secured behind his head by springs or a
paddock. A dozen of more or less notable
men of that period have, at one time or
another, been identified as this prisoner. a
formidable amount of research having been
expended on some of these theories, par
ticularly by NJ. Jung. a French officer, who
published his hypothesis in 1879
Where was Gen. George II. Thomas born? ?
Q What did he do before and after the civil
war and where did he die? 3. In the block
ade of Rio de Janeiro by Da Cana, where
did he get his warships, and under what
auspices was he acting &c. B.
In Southampton county. Virginia 2 He
graduated at West Point. and till the be-
ginning of the war was in the army, serv-
ing part of the time instructor at the
Military Academy. After the war he re-
manned in the army. commanding in sue
cession the Department Of Tennessee, the